Hi everyone, it's Amy Polar, and I'm launching a new podcast called Good Hang.

In preparation for that, I asked some of my friends to send in some videos and give me some advice.

Just be yourself and the guests will come.

Don't be the celebrity that this is their like six things they're doing.

I love true crime and cooking podcasts. Is there any way you could combine the two? Well, everyone has an opinion

and a podcast. So, join me for good hang. It's rough out there. We're just trying to lighten it

up a little. It is Tuesday, April 15th. What does it mean these days to be a media mogul? Used to be, that was the pinnacle of success

in Hollywood. Being a studio head was great, but the studio heads have bosses. And the CEOs, the heads

of the whole company, that was where the real power and influence was. In 2025, it's not so great

at the top. Relatively speaking, of course, the money is still there,

of course. But all these media companies are in existential crisis for all the reasons we talk

about on the show. TV is dying. Movie theaters are dying. The hold on young people's attention

is going away. The real power in media is at the platform level, the tech giants that now

dictate how so many of us spend our free time.

The whole concept of a media mogul is a very 20th century construct.

That's why our guy, David Zasloff, the CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, is such an interesting

character. He's been a career suit, a lawyer turned TV executive under Jack Welch when

GE owned NBC, and then managing discovery

communications with a tight fist. Until 2022, when he was given the keys to the Warner Brothers

studio and HBO via his benefactor John Malone's merger of Discovery in Warner Brothers, which

itself was kind of a Hail Mary plan to save Discovery from the death spiral of the

TV business. Now it's three years later, the Warner Discovery stock is down 55% from where it

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