So, today on the podcast, we continue our monthly series of news stories.

Last week we had one long article that focused on how universal was using its two, soon-to-be-opened

regional parks as a way of expanding its audience and likely taking some market share away from Disney.

Today, we return to our news anthology format with six stories.

We cover the American resorts.

We explain how Disney typically uses discounts at their resort to expand their audience during

times of economic uncertainty.

We'll take a look at what is and what is not opening at the resorts as planned this summer.

We'll look at the streaming service and will discuss what is and what is not working well

with the Disney experiment of releasing 250% more big-budget family

films from its core studios compared to the number they released last year.

That is, we've got a lot to cover.

During this period now, when Disney is moving toward a difficult

economic outlook. But before I get to all of that, I need to thank another group of band camp

subscribers. We're an ad-free listener-supported podcast. I am grateful for each and every person who supports us by

joining our bandcamp site, but today, an extra note of gratitude is going out to new subscribers,

Larry, Mary, Brad, Josh,i Gori, and J.W. Thanks to each of you for supporting all we do here.

And now let's get into the show. This week in our first segment, we'll start out by taking a look at the company as a whole and then move on to other topics.

Specifically, we'll look at what's working well for the Disney company overall and more pointedly where

the company is facing some serious problems.

Also how some of these problems are creating large discounts for consumers.

It's probably no surprise that the Disney stock is again down under $100 per share.

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