Ellen Jacoby: Casting Director Extraordinaire (and backgammon player) - #2976
The Tom Barnard Podcast
Complete Disaster Network
4.1 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
She's been on film sets across the country. She's been partially in the space shuttle. She's even been to the Pompano Beach dump. This is the life one leads as a casting director. And now that Sora is winding down and Disney isn't putting a billion dollars into replacing actors with AI, it would appear the position is safe. Everybody wins.
Topics:
Sora AI being shut down
People quitting CNN
Savanna Guthrie on Today
Iowa
Ellen's career
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tom Bernard Family Podcast with |
| 0:08.2 | co-host Catherine Brandt. |
| 0:10.3 | Andy Brant Bernard. |
| 0:11.8 | And Kristen Burt. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, baby. |
| 0:14.0 | We got it all the way through. |
| 0:14.9 | It was wonderful. |
| 0:16.1 | Kristen Bird Entertainment, |
| 0:17.1 | is brought you by North American Banking Company. |
| 0:18.9 | Go to nabanko.com to learn more. |
| 0:20.6 | Remember FDIC equal housing housing lender so what's the latest |
| 0:25.3 | Disney what is happening with disney that's do we feel like there is like a disaster like every |
| 0:32.1 | other week with disney i don't know what happened what happened okay so remember last week we're |
| 0:37.1 | talking about the bachelorette they're dealing with all of this. The new CEO is there, Josh DeMorrow. That's been what he's been dealing with. Well, yesterday, Open AI revealed that they are shutting down their SORA app. Now, if you remember a couple of months ago, do you remember this, Andy? |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, yeah. We talked about Disney licensing some of their characters to the SORA AI app. |
| 1:01.3 | Yep. Yeah. They weren't going to be able to use the voices, but they were going to be using, obviously, the character likeness. |
| 1:07.9 | Disney had made a deal with them where they were investing $1 billion into this company. |
| 1:14.4 | Now, the good news is that money had not been swapped because the deal hadn't been finalized. |
| 1:18.8 | So thank God for that, that they had didn't lose a billion dollars on this deal. |
| 1:23.3 | But they had no clue until yesterday when Open AI was like, hey, we're going to shut down the app. |
| 1:29.5 | So they found out right around the same time what we all did. |
| 1:33.3 | And I think the big question is, where was Bob Eiger in all of this? |
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