From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Before he co-created the hit show Empire, writer Danny Strong won accolades for two HBO movies based on real events.

So when he wanted to make a series about the opioid epidemic based on the book Doapsic, he thought he'd be met with open arms.

I was going around these pitches, like I'm'm coming back to my nonfiction roots, like recount

and game chains, and I've got a best-selling book, and no one cares.

You know, no one cares.

Recount, cute, 14 years ago, you know, yeah.

Hollywood is so cold, but Dobsick eventually found a home on Hulu.

Strong tells us about falling down the Sackler family rabbit hole

while researching Purdue Pharma and its deadly drug, OxyContin.

But first, eBanter.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, Matt, I've spent a lot of time lately reporting on the state of play at the top of Disney. As you know, I wrote a long story about

this. You know, you read it. Let's talk about this.

The long goodbye of Bob Eiger, the executive chairman now Disney.

Bob Chappick was named as CEO in February 2020.

He had been running theme parks and resorts.

Very abruptly, as you will recall, Bob Eiger said, you know what?

I'm stepping back as CEO and

it's Bob Chepic, effective immediately. Everybody freaked out and thought something terrible was

going on with Bob Eiger. We are told that is not what happened. But it's been, I would say,

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