From Disney To Semiconductors, Consolidation Is Crushing American Culture
Federalist Radio Hour
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how companies such as Disney are using their accumulated power to crush American culture.
You can find Stoller's book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/9781501182891
You can find Stoller's Substack here: https://mattstoller.substack.com/
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| 0:00.0 | We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist. |
| 0:22.7 | As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com. |
| 0:25.9 | Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST. |
| 0:27.9 | Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well. |
| 0:31.3 | Today I'm excited to be joined by Matt Stolar, who is the author of Goliath, |
| 0:36.1 | which is a book you should absolutely check out if you haven't yet. |
| 0:38.9 | And has a fantastic sub-stack that you should make sure to subscribe to as well, |
| 0:43.1 | called The Big Matt. |
| 0:44.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:45.9 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, of course. |
| 0:47.8 | I mean, you've been writing about consolidation actually in an industry. |
| 0:52.2 | A lot of people are suddenly noticing there's a ton of consolidation in it. |
| 0:56.2 | And I feel like thanks across the board, whether it's meat packing or Hollywood, |
| 1:00.1 | but I want to start with Hollywood because as we're recording this, |
| 1:03.6 | there's suddenly an interest on the right on Disney's record of consolidation |
| 1:09.7 | and Disney's monopoly status and all of the protection that Disney has been afforded |
| 1:13.7 | by the government in many different ways. |
| 1:16.1 | But Matt, can you actually just tell us or walk us through how Bob Eiger took Disney |
| 1:22.6 | and made it into what it is today? |
| 1:24.7 | A lot of people might not know that Disney actually owns everything from the history channel to GoPro. |
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