#269: Hollywood, the NBA, China and Bitcoin with Chris Fenton

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Fenton, author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Businesses, to discuss:

- Chinese propaganda in Hollywood

- China + the NBA

- How interconnected are the US and Chinese markets?

- What is needed to combat the CCP at the business level?

- much more

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Check out Feeding the Dragon

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is a freaks at your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:06.3	Interesting ending to this one. We got cut off abruptly on Zoom,
0:11.1	considering the discussion we had, and revolved around China.
0:19.7	Sat down with Chris Fenton author of feeding the dragon
0:23.6	which is a book we didn't get to pitch the book at the end so i got to pitch it here feeding the
0:27.3	dragon it's a book about his experience uh interacting with china uh as part uh working in hollywood and
0:34.7	and how late propaganda was was fit into some movies.
0:42.1	And beyond that, we talk about what happened with the NBA in the fall of 2019 when Daryl
0:48.4	Morrie came out and supported the people of Hong Kong vocally on Twitter and got a lot of backlash from the members
0:57.1	of the NBA due to the fact that the NBA has a considerable considerable revenue streams coming
1:06.7	out of China. I think it's a fascinating story.
1:11.6	Chris is an interesting perspective.
1:13.6	And this is like what you like to see from individuals.
1:16.6	They contemplate of and think about what they do, their career path.
1:19.6	I think Chris is an incredible example of that.
1:22.6	You can find him on Twitter.
1:24.6	Go follow him at the Dragon Feeder on Twitter. I'm going to link to it in the show
1:29.8	notes. I'm going to link to his book in the show notes feeding the dragon and sign the trillion
1:34.8	dollar dilemma facing Hollywood, the NBA in American businesses. I think it's a very important
1:39.7	conversation. Again, it was cut off multiple times throughout our conversation.
1:45.2	In the middle, there's a bit of a glitch.
1:46.6	I don't have time to edit it.
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