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03:47:16 · Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal
[03:47:16] S0: Great, great book. All of that is linked in the show notes. And a few people to thank in particular. [03:47:22] S1: Yes. [03:47:23] S0: David, what you got? [03:47:24] S1: Yes. Research. Thank you as well. Speaking of books for the show, first and foremost to Warren Littlefield, NBC executive, responsible for the decision to officially pick up Seinfeld. Warren spent a a great amount of time with us, which was wonderful. He also wrote a fantastic oral history memoir of his time at NBC called Top of the Rock, which is well worth reading about Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Cheers, all all the great stuff from NBC from this era. Famously, right after Seinfeld ended, Warren got fired at NBC and went on to have an amazing second career as a producer. So he executive produced Fargo, The Handmaid's Tale, Dopesick, and now The Testaments, which is doing incredibly well. So great to talk to him. Alec Berg, Dave Mandel, and Jeff Schafer, three of the writers behind some of the most legendary episodes on Seinfeld, especially the second half of the show, to Jeremy Zimmer, former head of the UTA talent agency, to Michael Lynton, former chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to our friend Ravi Nandan at a twenty four, and Brian McAndrews, longtime television executive, first at ABC Capital Cities and then at Disney. And to our friend Jeremy Jaffaun for helping inspire this episode with his original recommendation that I made a carve out on our last episode of Jerry Seinfeld's movie comedian.
03:48:54 · Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal
[03:48:54] S0: Thank you, Jeremy. I've got a couple. One to Arvind Navaratnam at Worldly Partners for his great mini study this episode on Seinfeld, is linked in the show notes. And then also to good friend of the show, Danny Passman, an entertainment lawyer who has spent his whole career around deals in this industry. If you like this episode, go check out other episodes on TV and entertainment. Taylor Swift, Oprah way back in the day. More recently, much higher quality episode because we got better over time. Disney part one and part two. Yep. And, for a tie in on Coca Cola. [03:49:31] S1: That's [03:49:31] S0: right. You can visit library.acquire.fm to get access to all the visuals associated with this episode, charts, tables, and illustrations. You can join the email list at acquired dot f m slash email. That's where we will send out behind the scenes photos from research, episode corrections, and vote on future episode topics. And come talk about this episode with us and the whole community in Slack after you listen. Acquired.fm/slack. [03:49:55] S1: With that listeners, we'll see you next time. [03:49:58] S0: We'll see you next time.