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December 14, 2023 51 mins
Part of our mission with Making Media is to highlight great content across the internet. Today, we're sharing our favorite pieces of media from the past year and to help us sift through the deluge of content, we have a special returning guest - media aficionado Web Barr. Web is a multiple-time Webby Award and Communication Arts-winning producer at National Geographic magazine, he was Head of Content at Meet Cute, and is currently building something new in the media industry called Hi Barr. He is one of the best curators of content we know. We each select one book or article, one film or TV show, and one non-Colossus podcast. Please enjoy this yearly media roundup with Web Barr and make sure to check out his newsletter and new podcast. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Making Media is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Making Media, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @ReustleMatt | @domcooke | @MakingMediaPod | @JoinColossus  Show Notes: (00:00:23) - First question (00:00:33) - Discussion on Hi Barr Weekly Letter Up to 11 (00:02:02) - Web's Favorite Article of the Year (00:03:53) - Discussion on the Art Market and Gagosian's Influence (00:05:39) - Reflections on the New Yorker's Journalism (00:09:31) - Dom's Book Pick of the Year (00:11:26) - Learning from the Restaurant Business (00:14:52) - The Wager: A Book Recommendation (00:18:56) - Favorite Movie of the Year: Oppenheimer (00:22:10) - TV Show Review: All the Light We Cannot See (00:26:44) - Movie Review: The Killer (00:30:13) - Favorite Comedy Movie Discussion (00:30:49) - Webb's Favorite Podcast: Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton (00:33:05) - The Power of Rick Rubin's Podcast (00:39:39) - Dom's Favorite Podcast: Hodinkee's Talking Watches (00:41:06) - The Uniqueness of Hodinkee's Talking Watches (00:47:51) - The Challenge of Growing Podcasts (00:49:26) - Blank Check Podcast. Wrapping Up the Year's Recommendations
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