Hey everyone, John Hyleman here and welcome to Hell in High Water.

My podcast for the recount about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon with

Big Ups my pal Rizza, the presiding genius behind the sound of Uten clan and producer of

our dope theme music.

This week we are taking an unscheduled and unexpected detour off of the main highway

this podcast normally burles down because as interested as we are, pretty much all the

time around Hell in High Water HQ in politics, culture and their intersection.

At this particular moment, the keynide sharp-minded and so-versited crew that makes this show and

their shiftless aimless usually be dragiled and always bourbon-addled boss, that would

be me.

We're in complete and total alignment about our mutual obsession with a slightly different

point of intersection.

The place where business, technology, culture and politics come crashing together.

In particular, we are riveted by the splashy headlines involving two iconic American media

companies, one old, one new, both with truly global reach and influence but each suddenly

caught up in a swirl of events and buffeted by forces that neither truly understands let

alone has a clue how to master.

One of the companies in question, of course, is Disney, which after a stunning spasm of

corporate fecklessness, hypocrisy and sheer incompetence in handling its response to Florida's

so-called, don't say gay bill, is now suffering the egregious public humiliation of being

turned into a punching bag by Ron DeSantis.

The other company, also of course, is Twitter, which just yesterday shocked the world by

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