4.3 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yo, Rob Harvilla from 60 Songs That Explain the 90s here to inform you that we are back with 30 more songs because the 90s were super long and had a ton of rad music. |
0:10.7 | Please join us every Wednesday for more 60 songs that explain the 90s only on Spotify. |
0:18.0 | All right, it is Thursday, June 9th, and we are coming at you with the emergency pod that we know you wanted. |
0:25.4 | We're talking all things Disney today. |
0:27.4 | If you haven't seen the news, there was a major shakeup at the Walt Disney Company. |
0:32.0 | The number two executive, for most parts, the head of all TV and streaming content peter rice was fired today |
0:40.7 | abruptly fired it was not a you know layoff it was not a you know leaving to do another job |
0:47.3 | or spend time with the family this was a absolute firing and it's a big deal in content circles because this guy is in charge of everything |
0:56.6 | from Hulu to ABC to ABC news, anything in television and streaming. This guy had a role in |
1:05.3 | creating it. So we're going to get into it today. We're going to talk to Alex Sherman, who is a media |
1:10.5 | reporter at |
1:11.2 | CNBC and follows Disney very closely. He's been working the phones today. I've been talking to people. |
1:16.5 | People keep reaching out to me, you know, the agents and the filmmakers who have known this guy, |
1:21.8 | Peter Rice, for decades. He was a Fox companies who worked for the Murdox forever. People are pissed, |
1:28.6 | and it's a big deal. |
1:36.1 | And it really is a interesting insight into how the CEO of Disney Bob Chepak is managing this super big, sprawling, iconic company. |
1:39.5 | So we're going to get into all that today. |
1:41.4 | And Alex has some interesting insights. |
1:43.7 | I'm Matt Bellany and this is the town. |
1:49.9 | All right, we are here with Alex Sherman. Alex is a media and entertainment reporter with |
1:54.9 | CNBC and Alex, big news today. We had a shocker. |
2:01.3 | I don't use that term lightly, but this was a shocker. |
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