298: ‘I’m Expecting Led Zeppelin IV’, With Special Guest MG Siegler

MG Siegler returns to the show to talk about Apple Watch, the future of premium TV and movies, and a preview of next week’s “Hi, Speed” Apple event.

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Links:

• MG on Apple Watch Series 6, and why he swapped Graphite stainless steel for blue aluminum.
• MG on App Clips and the Clip demo of the game Phoenix 2.
• “Apple, Influence, and Ive” — Ben Clymer’s 2018 profile of Jony Ive for Hodinkee.
• The seminal 2018 town hall meeting led by John Stankey, the longtime AT&T executive who now oversees HBO, that foreshadowed HBO’s decline.
• Christopher Nolan’s work on the 2018 50th anniversary “unrestored” print of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Nolan’s ill-advised decision to force Tenet into theaters amidst the COVID pandemic.
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — perhaps the best film in a great series, directed by Brad Bird.
• Cary Joji Fukunaga — director of the astounding first season of True Detective and the upcoming No Time to Die James Bond film.
• Michael Clayton — quietly great movie by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney.
• DisneyQuest, the aborted urban entertainment center in Philly that Disney never built in the late 1990s.
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. — 1948 Supreme Court antitrust case that resulted in movie studios being banned from owning theaters.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.