Disney way back when and by way back when I mean in the in the you know late
aughts right 2019 they announced that Bob Iger who'd been the CEO of Disney for
a long time and had been you know considered one of the most successful
CEOs of Disney up to that point who had been in charge of the acquisition of
Marvel the acquisition of Lucasfilm putting Kevin Feige into his position at
the head of the MCU you know the real the real blow-up of the MCU things like
that he was stepping down a CEO and Bob Chapec who had been the head of the
Parks Division prior to to that was coming in to be the new CEO and then he
did and then COVID happened and then Chapec lost his mind suffice it to say
the Chapec era at Disney was nothing if not fraught with problems he changed
kind of the whole thing he added another layer of middle management in the film
division and things like that and so he was unceremoniously removed by the
Disney board while he was at a concert reportedly they texted him and said
you're fired and in firing Bob Chapec they said hey Bob Iger come on back we
need you to step in a CEO and get us out of this this freaking rut I'm in now a
lot of people like well there wasn't a meeting in probably it takes it takes
time okay a lot of things early in Chapec's thing he wasn't Chapec's fault
because when you come CEO it takes more than a day and a half in order for them
to in order for them to do anything so then Chapec came in and and we spent
after even after Chapec was fired we spent the next 12 18 months basically at
Disney living through the problems that Chapec created excuse me while he was
CEO well Bob Iger has been extended has believed in 2026 it it takes time for
them to find a new CEO it's not one of those things that happens just overnight
here you go here's a new CEO doesn't happen like that so so they're on the
search for a new CEO for Disney right now yes it was the battle with Bob's
thank you Chad here's the problem one of the people they are looking at according
to both the Wall Street Journal and IGN is Andrew Wilson the CEO of EA so so
here's here's what I'm gonna say no Bob Bob watching the show please God God do
not hire the CEO of EA okay EA is universally fucking hated hated despised in
the video game community okay literally despised nobody likes EA EA is
profitable EA makes money EA makes money in spite of the bonehead ridiculous
crap that EA pumps out I'm looking at you Madden okay I oh my god I can't even
begin to talk about how much I hate this right I absolutely hate this idea is is
he the one chess as if he's the one that started video I know he didn't start
video game micro transactions I am sure he was instrumental in making sure they
became fucking priority number one for EA I can't I can't even begin in his
latest thing apex I just likely won't be getting a sequel and is in his eyes by
research Jesus Christ he likes golf all right first off I don't trust it I
immediately stopped trusting people who like golf okay and if you want to know
why go watch go watch Carl and sing on golf he's been at EA for 20 years he was
the head of EA sports again Madden and FIFA because Lord knows those have been
great great products here's ultimately what I want excuse me not in this please
don't bring a tech guy into this and don't bring a video game look you need
somebody with organizational experience and things like that who's gonna let the
studios do what they need to do because when the creatives are put in charge of
being creative they're going to have the greatest amount of success okay they
are okay I will point to the the mentally crap that happened when Chateau
Peck was there and how that affected Marvel so terribly by taking away Kevin
Feige's power to run the studio the way that it needed to be run just no don't
what no okay I don't want a tech guy in there I don't want this and and here's
the other thing right these guys have got to it really had seemed like this
year Disney had figured out their problem
Chateau Peck's making a mistake pushing everything straight to streaming here's
the thing Disney you've learned this streaming and tech is not is not where
you're gonna make your bones okay you have in fact let's let's double check
this real fast but if I'm if I'm not missing my mistake before I do this
Disney is the top two grossing movies of the year so far right worldwide box
office oh I'm right in Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine okay you have
the two top grossing box office why because you didn't push them straight to
streaming you didn't rely on the tech side you did a traditional old-fashioned
full-length theatrical run you let those movies build word of mouth you let those
movies be good movies that the creators made but not only that you left them in
theaters and gave people time to go see them you didn't do with these other
studios are doing and programming people to go and fuck it I'll just wait for
streaming no you need to keep them in the theaters and look you've made almost
I think that's just over to know sorry three my mistake three billion dollars
three billion dollars in box office okay by leaving them in there okay leave
them in things I don't trust a guy especially from EA I don't trust anybody
from the video game industry because that industry is an absolute 100% motherfucking
dumpster fire okay talk to anybody who works in that industry and they will tell
you it's a fucking dumpster fire you don't want to bring that mentality of how
you treat your talent how you treat your employees the the the higher pump out
games fire higher pump out game fire you don't you don't want that mentality at
your studios that's not how you make good product okay so please God anybody but
this guy okay supposedly have two other they have two other external candidates
and they went to 2026 augers on 2026 they will probably have the new CEO start
sometime I would guess middle of next year to give them time to get their feet
underneath them right to take over a company you have to understand Disney's
a massive corporation somebody in the things that don't bring anyone from
Hasbro has rose not big enough of a company it's just not they're not they
would never bring in like somebody from Hasbro they just they don't have it's
it's you're talking about orders of magnitude difference you know Hasbro does
like eight billion a year what is Disney doing revenue this year what did they do
last year eighty eight point nine billion dollars Disney yeah Disney
Disney's too big for somebody like Hasbro last quarter maybe twenty three
point six bill one six billion twenty five so they're at sixty forty five
plus they're at sixty eight billion right now so are there any actual Disney
family members still involve chat ass there are people from the Disney family
who are on the board and they have large chunks of stock still what's her name
Abigail is very involved you'll see her stuff come up you'll see Abigail
Disney's name come up when they talk about board members stuff so yes
yeah there's there's people from from the Disney family who still exert
influence they're not involved in the business but they exert influence over
what's going on there again not this guy please not this fucking guy okay I
don't want to see anybody from Techland I don't I don't want to see anybody from
from video games the only person from tech who I would say maybe and who
wouldn't take the job would be Tim Cook from Apple he might be able to do it I
think he could do it there's been rumors about an Apple Disney merger for a
long time I wonder if given the political climate that they might try it in
the next couple of years Apple and Disney have a long history together they
have a long a long running history together so I'd be curious to see if
those rumors finally come to fruition I won't be surprised if they don't but I
also won't be surprised if they do is there anyone who would I want to see a
CEO of Disney I'll be honest it's probably nobody I've ever heard of I
would love to see them grab one of the former studio heads but I just Disney
such a monster of a company because it's the parks it's the cruise lines it's
the movies you know it's it's everything that they do it's so massive I can't
think of anybody off the top of my head that I would like to see a CEO I can
definitely tell you I don't want the CEO of EA Bob Bob please no please no