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radio show. I'm Chris Ellin joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio

Jason Moser from MDP and Supernova Simon Erickson and from Motley Fool Hidden Jam's chief

investment officer Andy Cross. Good to see you as always gentlemen.

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Tom Stags has worked for the Walt Disney company for more than 25 years and was widely seen

as the heir apparent to become CEO when Bob Eiger steps down in two years. But that is now

over. According to the New York Times, Eiger met with Tom Stags in mid-March and told

him that the board of directors would be widening the search for the next CEO and Stags Simon

decided to leave the company in early May.

So now Disney's got to find not just someone to be the next CEO in a couple of years. They

got to find a chief operating officer.

And how do you replace Bob Eiger, right Chris? I mean, this is a guy that's a ledger. Helled

to the chief, great chief executive officer for Disney for the last decade.

Share price is almost quadrupled under his tenure and he's always been kind of thought of

as the media juggernaut that is Disney, the acquisitions of Lucasfilm and Marvel and

companies like this. But I think the transition, when and if this ever happens, is going to

have to be from, hey, we've got a great media empire. We made some great acquisitions

out there. I think the next phase for Disney is going to be digital distribution out there.

You've got Netflix and Amazon that are broadcasting pretty good content over the internet now.

And I think that Disney's got, they have that content. And I think that they're a step

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