So on the podcast this week, we start out our news and analysis story for March 26.

We have three stories this week. Our feature story is about the now likely paramount purchase of Warner Brothers

and what this change-up means for Disney. This is a nuanced story about Hollywood in the 21st century. For the

last three months, most people in the film industry, including Disney's board of directors,

surely believed that Netflix would acquire Warner Brothers, which would have forced a tech-centered

evolution of Hollywood. In short, this meant

that Disney should further develop other areas than film such as the parks, where it had market

dominance and focus less moving forward on battling Netflix for market share in streaming,

as Netflix would clearly be the industry

leader. This also meant that with Netflix in Hollywood, the model for theatrical distribution

would also probably change a lot, meaning that Disney might have been incentivized to pull back from theatrical releases as

digital distribution would likely increase. Now that Netflix is no longer buying Warner Brothers,

and Warner Brothers is going to another traditional studio, specifically Paramount, which is also invested in the current

theatrical model.

What does this mean for Disney, especially after Disney just promoted Josh DeMorrow's CEO,

which clearly signaled a parks-centered forward-moving strategy for the company, which may have been a strategy

partially arrived at with the assumption that Netflix would acquire Warner Brothers.

Our second story is about an unusual trend of guests getting naked in Universal and Disney theme parks.

And then we'll close out this week's episode with talk about the Cocoa Boat Ride at DCA,

which like other projects is moving very quickly into construction, in part to ensure

that the project isn't canceled or reduced.

And so, if you're ready, let's jump into this week's stories.

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