David Zaslav's Flop Era
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
David Zaslav is having the worst summer ever. He was heckled by thousands of graduates during his Boston University commencement address, publically shamed for holding a hunger games style gala in france, and had to fire his best friend! Oh and to top it all off, all of the workers he extracts his wealth from are on strike. Why doesn't anyone want to work anymore!!
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Hosts: Becca Platsky (Becca@nitetoast.com) Adam Platsky (Adam@nitetoast.com)
Produced by: Michael Albanese @bigmanmike
Timestamps:
6:30 - Corporate Gossip #1: With friends like David Zaslav, who needs enemies? Zas fires his pain sponge, Chris Licht, on their morning walk in Central Park under the apocalyptic orange-haze of the Canadian Wildfires.
15:00 - Corporate Gossip #2: In the year 2023 - the same year that CEOs have pissed away $44bn on a social media app, killed 5 people in an ill fated trip to the Titanic, and challenged each other to a cage match, David Zaslav is STILL in the running for dumbest CEO of the year…
27:00 - Corporate Gossip #3: I think David Zaslav is just here for the zipline
40:15 - Corporate Gossip #4: C'mon guys, don't strike, I had plans this summer! I was gonna hang out!
52:45 - Corporate Gossip #5: You can't keep getting away with this Zaslav *shakes fist in air*
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the corporate gossip podcast. Before we start, a couple of notes. First, we |
| 0:06.9 | recorded this episode before the writer's strike ended on September 26th. So you're going to want to |
| 0:12.0 | stay tuned at the end of the episode for an update on the story. Next, my favorite thing. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanking the people who bought us coffee this week. Only one this week, Brandon. |
| 0:22.3 | I thank you, Brandon. |
| 0:24.0 | If you want to support the podcast and get a shout out, you can do so by clicking the |
| 0:29.4 | Buy Me a Coffee link in our show notes. |
| 0:32.5 | And don't forget to rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. |
| 0:42.2 | Get ready with me while I tell you about David Zaslov's Flop Girl Summer. |
| 0:47.4 | It was supposed to be the best summer ever for Zazlov. |
| 0:51.1 | May marked his one-year anniversary of being appointed CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, |
| 0:56.1 | which in turn had made him one of the biggest boss boys in Hollywood. He's in control of over |
| 1:02.1 | 100 entertainment assets across the globe, including HBO, TBS, TNT, T-CM, CNN, HLM, |
| 1:09.1 | Cartoon Network, Animal Planet, TLC, HGTV, and more. |
| 1:14.0 | His private jet had just touched down in New York City from Las Vegas Cinemicon, |
| 1:18.4 | where he shared a stage with Oprah and was photographed on the red carpet with Steven Spielberg. |
| 1:24.0 | He had just announced a new streaming service with the best name ever, Max. |
| 1:29.3 | And to top it all off, last year's paycheck just hit the bank, a quarter of a billion dollars in salary and stock options. |
| 1:37.3 | It's giving Robert Barron Sheik. |
| 1:39.3 | And he was ready to celebrate. |
| 1:42.3 | First, a star-studded, opulent shindig at the Kahn's film festival. |
| 1:48.0 | This would be his coming-out party as a Hollywood hot shot. |
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