Welcome to Marvelous Disney, the podcast that discusses the most recent doings at one of the

more dynamic divisions of the Walt Disney Company, which is of course Marvel Entertainment.

This is Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the amazing Aaron Adams and I,

are recording this week's episode on Thursday, November 17th. One week out from Turkey Day,

and we certainly know what the Walt Disney Company is thankful for this year. Aaron,

I don't know if you paid attention to last week's earnings call at Disney, which revealed that

that the mouse had failed to meet Wall Street's expectations in certain revenue sections,

which then caused the Disney stock price to drop by 12%, which then forced Bob Chapeck to reveal

that the company would both be instituting a hiring freeze and a round of company-wide layoffs.

Now, before you go any further on that, was Wall Street aware of the rest of what was going on

with all of Wall Street, like the entirety of the world is down 40 to 50% on almost everything,

because stock market ain't been playing its game very well lately. I'll true, I'll true, but we've

talked about David Zazlab, the CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, and how he's been trying to figure

out how to get rid of the $40 billion worth of debt that his company was settled with when the

LL Time Warner situation. And we have neglected to talk about the $70 billion that Bob Chapeck was

saddled with when Bob Eiger decided to buy Fox. Oh, is that why blood sacrifice keeps showing up

in this Google search history? He's looking for any answer, anything. That man is. That man is.

What's the pig worth? Is it worth more than a goat? It is a scary time at Disney right now,

which is why they, but don't worry, Black Panther is coming to save us. And so what kind of forever

opens this past weekend in North America sells $181 million worth of tickets. Biggest

O'Matts stick opening for the month of November of all time. Only Dr. Strangelo Multiverse of Badness,

which I get in Marvel Studios, release, set out in theaters in May of this year, had a better,

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