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In this episode, Masie & Stuart arrive in a galaxy far far away to complete their tribunal of JJ Abram's by covering Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Unearthing over a decade of mixed (mostly negative) feelings about this sequel trilogy, our hosts find that while they are still compelled by the characters and their actors' performances, there are many early signs of the confused, aimless direction future sequel entries would take. Listen as our hosts discuss the film's awkward copy and pasting from the structure and character arcs of A New Hope and eventually devolve into a full dissection of the Walt Disney Corporation and it's many baffling executive and creative decisions with this trilogy.   Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cinema_bones Follow Us on Social Media @ Cinema_Bones on Instagram and Letterboxd for podcast updates.   Additional Reading/Sources: Jenny Nicholson's Star Wars Hotel Review Disney Plus Wrongful Death Lawsuit

A critical but often overlooked chapter in American labor history, the animator's strike that shook the Walt Disney Corporation in 1941 was part of a wave of labor struggle in World War II era Hollywood. Jake S. Friedman's book The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age chronicles the strike in colorful detail, and includes plenty of eye-popping images of the strike's particularly cartoonish aesthetic. Friedman joins me for a conversation about his book, the strike, and the wider history of the Disney project, which shifted dramatically in the wake of the rebellion by its key artists. From communist infiltrators to mafia-connected union leaders, this is a fascinating picture of the intersection of art, industrial capitalism, and pop culture.  For more on the book, including lots of great images from the strike: https://www.thedisneyrevolt.com/ Our previous episode on World War II era Disney history:   https://www.patreon.com/posts/trap-tv-brick-to-75566223 Subscribe to Nostalgia Trap for bonus episodes, News Trap updates, and much more:  patreon.com/nostalgiatrap   

We're taking the summer off and will be republishing some of our favorite episodes from the archives through August. This episode originally aired April 13, 2022. — Robert A.M. Stern is an architect, teacher, and writer. He is the founder of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016, hosted the PBS series Pride of Place in 1986, and served on the board of directors for the Walt Disney Corporation from 1992 to 2003. He's the author, most recently, of Between Memory and Invention: My Life in Architecture. In this conversation, Mr. Stern talks about his early interest in architecture history and the possibilities of an alternate career as a historian or curator, how leading Yale changed how he thought about architecture, and why the architecture discourse isn't as interesting to him anymore. (Oh, and we also talk about martinis!) — Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/212-robert-a-m-stern. 
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OA1060 This week Matt breaks down four very different legal actions:  1. Donald Trump is suing the United States--yes, the same United States that he is running to be the President of--for $100 million based on the FBI's alleged violation of the Florida common law tort of “intrusion upon seclusion” in executing a valid search warrant on Mar-A-Lago two years ago. Is Trump just spiking the legal football after his big win in front of federal judge Aileen Cannon in Jack Smith's documents case, or is there actually something worth talking about here? 2. Is the Walt Disney Corporation actually arguing that signing up for a 30-day trial of its Disney+ streaming service protects them from the tragically fatal consequences of negligence at a restaurant in its Disney Springs shopping center? Could that really be a thing that licensed attorneys wrote down, printed, reviewed, signed, and filed with a court? We consider what might be one of the most bizarrely evil defenses ever raised in a wrongful death suit. 3. Soul singer Isaac Hayes's family has joined the dozens of artists who have spoken out against their music being used at Trump rallies, issuing a cease-and-desist letter to the campaign alleging that it has used  Hayes's song “Hold On! I'm Coming” at least 134 times even after being asked to stop. To what extent do artists have “moral rights” under US intellectual property law, and what alternatives are available to them when they don't? We  riffing on a particularly interesting failure to harmonize copyright and antitrust law. 4. French authorities have announced that they will investigate claims of cyberbullying against Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, a ciswoman from Algeria who was harassed online by J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and many more of the world's finest people with completely baseless claims that she was not a biological woman. We debate the merits of this uniquely European approach to criminalizing speech and marvel at the unmatched powers of TERF ideology to rot the human brain (and soul). Hayes Enterprises cease and desist letter (8/11/2024) BMI's “Political Entity Licensing Terms”  “License to Rock,” Leah Scholnick, Cardozo Law Review (4/7/2022) Doctor dies after eating dinner at Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant at Disney Springs, lawsuit alleges | FOX 10 Phoenix (2/26/24)(includes full text of plaintiff's complaint)

Nation of Animation Presents:Steamboat Willie, the iconic cartoon that launched Disney's empire, has entered the public domain. He's also been MURDERED! Ryan and Brooke, lifelong cartoon fans with unfulfilling day jobs, take it upon themselves to solve this unsolvable case of mouseslaughter – and their investigation will take them into a sordid, strange world of two-dimensional two-timing, cartoonish corruption, and monochrome mystery.They'll encounter public domain figures with a potential axe to grind with Steamboat Willie, from Captain Pete to Tigger to the mythical Hercules himself. What happens to a character when they enter the public domain? What does it mean to be an intellectual property? And how could any of this be worth killing someone over? The answers may shake Ryan and Brooke's faith in cartoons, authorship, and the public domain itself.The Murder of Steamboat Willie is a Nation of Animation production, and is not produced, endorsed, licensed, or approved by the Walt Disney Corporation. All established characters depicted therein are in the public domain.Written and Directed by Ryan Stevens and Brooke-Erin Smith.Produced by Danny MendozaRyan and “Mike” were played by Ryan StevensBrooke was played by Brooke-Erin SmithNewscaster was played by Madison HillCaptain Pete was played by Makela YepezTigger was played by Freddie PowersDisney Lawyer was played Kelsea WoodsPinnocchio was played by John FloydPeter Pan was played by Clare RollingerHercules was played by David KepnerAdditional voices for the Disney adults were provided by Jordan “Old Bean” Smith-Bowers and Hayden BowersOriginal music composed by Mitch McAndrew. You can find his work on bandcamp and Spotify as Dogcatcher.Original art by Urvashi Lele.Additional music and sounds include“Dances and Dames” by Kevin Macleod licensed under a Creative Commons attribution license and sourced from http://FreeMusicArchive.org.This show is a part of Atlanta Fringe Audio: Listen to other festival shows here: https://atlantafringe.org/fringe-audio/If you like the show, don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe. Follow our bluesky @nationofanimation and our Instagram and Twitter @cartoonbookclub, and follow our hosts @thebrookesmith and @ryanwithcheese on Twitter&brookeerinsmith.comryangstevens.com&Support secret projects on Venmo @nationofanimationThis podcast is a part of Audio Mint. If you want to follow us, check us out on Instagram(@audiomintchi) or on Facebook, at Audio Mint. If you wanna support us even more, check out our Patreon by searching Audio Mint on the app or the website!

There was so much to talk about—this is the longest Ground Truths podcast yet. Hope you'll find it as thought-provoking as I did!Transcript, with audio and external links, edited by Jessica Nguyen, Producer for Ground TruthsVideo and audio tech support by Sinjun Balabanoff, Scripps ResearchEric Topol (00:00:05):This is Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I am delighted to have with me Holden Thorp, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Science journals. We're going to talk about Science, not just the magazine journal, but also science in general. This is especially appropriate today because Holden was just recognized by STAT as one of the leaders for 2024 because of his extraordinary efforts to promote science integrity, so welcome Holden.Holden Thorp (00:00:36):Thanks Eric, and if I remember correctly, you were recognized by STAT in 2022, so it's an honor to join a group that you're in anytime, that's for sure, and great to be on here with you.Eric Topol (00:00:47):Well, that's really kind to you. Let's start off, I think with the journal, because I know that consumes a lot of your efforts and you have five journals within science.Holden Thorp (00:01:02):Oh, we have six.Eric Topol (00:01:03):Oh six, I'm sorry, six. There's Science, the original, and then five others. Can you tell us what it's like to oversee all these journals?Overseeing the Science JournalsHolden Thorp (00:01:16):Yeah, we're a relatively small family compared to our commercial competitors. I know you had Magdalena [Skipper]on and Nature has I think almost ninety journals, so six is pretty small. In addition to Science, which most people are familiar with, we have Science Advances, which also covers all areas of science and is larger and is a gold open access journal and also is overseen by academic editors, not professional editors. All of our other journals are overseen by professional editors. And then the other four are relatively small and specialized areas, and probably people who listen to you and follow you would know about Science Translational Medicine, Science Immunology, Science Signaling and then we also have a journal, Science Robotics which is something I knew nothing about and I learned a lot. I've learned a lot about robotics and the culture of people who work there interacting with them.Holden Thorp (00:02:22):So we have a relatively small family. There's only 160 people who work for me, which is manageable. I mean that sounds like a lot, but in my previous jobs I was a provost and a chancellor, and I had tens of thousands of people, so it's really fun for me to have a group where I at least have met everybody who works for me. We're an outstanding set of journals, so we attract an outstanding group of professionals who do all the things that are involved in all this, and it's really, really fun to work with them. At Science, we don't just do research papers, although that's a big, and probably for your listeners the biggest part of what we do. But we also have a news and commentary section and the news section is 30 full-time and many freelancers around the world really running the biggest general news operation for science that there is. And then in the commentary section, which you're a regular contributor for us in expert voices, we attempt to be the best place in the world for scientists to talk to each other. All three of those missions are just really, really fun for me. It's the best job I've ever had, and it's one I hope to do for many years into the future.Eric Topol (00:03:55):Well, it's extraordinary because in the four and a half years I think it's been since you took the helm, you've changed the face of Science in many ways. Of course, I think the other distinction from the Nature Journals is that it's a nonprofit entity, which shows it isn't like you're trying to proliferate to all sorts of added journals, but in addition, what you've done, at least the science advisor and the science news and all these things that come out on a daily basis is quite extraordinary as we saw throughout the pandemic. I mean, just reporting that was unparalleled from, as you say, all points around the world about really critically relevant topics. Obviously it extends well beyond the concerns of the pandemic. It has a lot of different functions, but what I think you have done two major things, Holden. One is you medicalized it to some extent.Eric Topol (00:04:55):A lot of people saw the journal, particularly Science per se, as a truly basic science journal. Not so much applied in a medical sphere, but these days there's more and more that would be particularly relevant to the practice of medicine, so that's one thing. And the other thing I wanted you to comment on is you're not afraid to speak out and as opposed to many other prior editors who I followed throughout my career at Science, there were pretty much the politically correct type and they weren't going to really express themselves, which you are particularly not afraid of. Maybe you could comment about if you do perceive this medicalization of science to some extent, and also your sense of being able to express yourself freely.Capturing the Breakthroughs in Structural BiologyHolden Thorp (00:05:48):Yeah, well, you're kind to say both of those things are certainly things we have worked at. I mean, I do come from a background, even though I'm trained as a chemist, most of what I did towards the latter end of my career, I mean, I did very basic biochemistry when I was a researcher, but the last part of my research career I worked in on development of a drug called Vivjoa, which is an alternative to the fluconazole family that doesn't have the same toxicity and is currently on the market for chronic yeast infection and hopefully some other things in the future when we can get some more clinical trials done.Holden Thorp (00:06:35):And I've hung around biotech startups and drug development, so it is part of the business that I knew. I think the pandemic really gave us an opening because Valda Vinson, who's now the Executive Editor and runs all of life sciences for us and policies for the journal, she was so well known in structural biology that most of the first important structures in Covid, including the spike protein, all came to us. I mean, I remember crystal clear February of 2020, she came in my office and she said, I got the structure of the spike protein. And I said, great, what's the spike protein? Turned out later became the most famous protein in the world, at least temporarily. Insulin may be back to being the most famous protein now, but spike protein was up there. And then that kind of cascaded into all the main protease and many of the structures that we got.Holden Thorp (00:07:45):And we seized on that for sure, to kind of broaden our focus. We had the Regeneron antibodies, we had the Paxlovid paper, and all of that kind of opened doors for us. And we've also, now we have two clinical editors at Science, Priscilla Kelly and Yevgeniya Nusinovich, and then the Insights section, somebody that you work with closely, Gemma Alderton, she is very fluent in clinical matters. And then of course we've had Science Translational Medicine and we seek continue to strengthen that. Science Immunology was very much boosted by Covid and actually Science Immunology is now, I think probably if you care about impact factors, the second highest specialized immunology journal after Immunity. I've put some emphasis on it for sure, but I think the pandemic also really helped us. As far as me speaking out, a lot of people maybe don't remember, but Don Kennedy, who was the editor in the early 2000s who had been the Stanford president, he was similarly outspoken.Confronting ControversiesHolden Thorp (00:09:15):It's funny, sometimes people who disagree with me say, well, Don Kennedy would never say anything like that. And then I can dig up something that Don Kennedy said that's just as aggressive as what I might've said. But you're right, Bruce Alberts was very focused on education, and each one of us has had our own different way of doing things. When Alan Leshner hired me and Sudip Parikh reinforced this when he came on, I mean, he wanted me to liven up the editorial page. He explicitly told me to do that. I may have done more of it than he was expecting, but Alan and Sudip both still remain very supportive of that. I couldn't do what I do without them and also couldn't do it without Lisa Chong, who makes all my words sound so much better than they are when I start. And yeah, it kind of fed on itself.Holden Thorp (00:10:21):It started with the pandemic. I think there was an inflection when Trump first said that Covid was just the flu, and when he said some really ridiculous things about the vaccine, and that's where it started. I guess my philosophy was I was thinking about people who, they've got a spouse at home whose job might be disrupted. They got children they've got who are out of school, and somehow they managed to get themselves to the lab to work on our vaccine or some other aspect of the pandemic to try to help the world. What would those people want their journal to say when they came home and turned the news on and saw all these politicians saying all this ridiculous stuff? That was really the sort of mantra that I had in my head, and that kind of drove it. And now I think we've sort of established the fact that it's okay to comment on things that are going on in the world. We're editorially independent, Sudip and the AAAS board, treat us as being editorially independent. I don't take that for granted and it's a privilege to, as I sometimes tell people, my apartment's four blocks from the White House, sometimes I'm over there typing things that they don't like. And that tradition is still alive in this country, at least for the time being, and I try to make the most of it.Eric Topol (00:12:11):Well, and especially as you already touched on Holden, when there's a time when the intersection of politics and science really came to a head and still we're dealing with that, and that's why it's been so essential to get your views as the leader of such an important journal that is publishing some of the leading science in the world on a weekly basis. Now, one of the things I do want to get into this other track that you also alluded to. You went from a chemist, and you eventually rose to Dean and chancellor of University of North Carolina (UNC) and also the provost of Washington University, two of our best institutions academically in the country. I would imagine your parents who were both UNC grads would've been especially proud of you being the chancellor.Holden Thorp (00:13:05):It's true. Yeah. Unfortunately, my father wasn't there to see it, but my mother, as I always tell people, my mother very much enjoyed being the queen mother of her alma mater.On Stanford University's President ResignationEric Topol (00:13:16):Yeah, I would think so, oh my goodness. That gives you another perspective that's unique having been in the senior management of two really prestigious institutions, and this past year a lot has been going on in higher education, and you have again come to the fore about that. Let's just first discuss the Stanford debacle, the president there. Could you kind of give us synopsis, you did some really important writing about that, and what are your thoughts looking back on the student who happens to be Peter Baker's and Susan's son, two incredible journalists at the New York Times and New Yorker, who broke the story at the Stanford Daily as a student, and then it led to eventually the President's resignation. So, what were your thoughts about that?Holden Thorp (00:14:16):Yeah, so it's a complicated and sad story in some ways, but it's also fascinating and very instructive. Two of the papers were in Science, two of the three main ones, the other one was in Cell. And we had made an error along the way because Marc had sent a correction in which for some reason never got posted. We searched every email server we had everything we had trying to find exactly what happened, but we think we have a website run by humans and there was something that happened when the corrections were transmitted into our operations group, and they didn't end up on the website. So, one of the things I had to do was to say repeatedly to every reporter who wanted to ask me, including some Pulitzer Prize winners, that we had looked everywhere and couldn't find any reason why somebody would've intentionally stopped those corrections from posting.Holden Thorp (00:15:36):And one thing about it was I didn't want, Marc had enough problems, he didn't need to be blamed for the fact that we botched that. So I think people were maybe impressed that we just came out and admitted we made a mistake, but that's really what this area needs. And those things happened before I became the editor in chief, but I was satisfied that where that error happened was done by people who had no idea who Marc Tessier-Lavigne even was, but because of all that, and because we had to decide what to do with these papers, I talked to him extensively at the beginning of this, maybe as much as anybody, now that I look back on it. And I think that for him, the error that happened is very common one. You have a PI with a big lab.Holden Thorp (00:16:33):There are many, many incentives for his coworkers and yours to want to get high profile publications. And what we see is mostly at the end when you kind of know what's happening, some corners get cut doing all the controls and all of the last things that have to be done to go into the paper. And someone in his lab did that, and he didn't notice when the jails were sent in. The committee that investigated it later found something that I was certain at the beginning was going to be true, which is he didn't have any direct involvement in and making the problematic images or know that they were there. Every time we see one of these, that's almost always the story.Holden Thorp (00:17:32):And if he hadn't been the president of Stanford, he probably would've, I mean, a couple of the papers that were attracted might even could have been just big corrections. That's another topic we can talk about in terms of whether that's the right thing to do but because he was the president of Stanford, it triggered all these things at the university, which made the story much, much more complicated. And it is similar to what we see in a lot of these, that it's the institution that does the most to make these things bigger than they need to be. And in this case, the first thing was that young Theo Baker who I've talked on the phone extensively with, and I just had a long lunch with him in Palo Alto a couple weeks ago, it's the first time we ever met in person. He's finishing up his book, which has been optioned for a movie, and I've told him that I want Mark Hamill to play me in the movie because I don't know if you saw this last thing he did, Fall of the House of Usher but he was a very funny curmudgeonly.Holden Thorp (00:18:46):And so, I think he would be a lot like me dealing with Theo, but Theo did great work. Did everything that Theo write add up precisely. I mean, he was teaching himself a lot of this biochemistry as he went along, so you could always find little holes in it, but the general strokes of what he had were correct. And in my opinion, and Marc would've been better served by talking to Theo and answering his questions or talking to other reporters who are covering this and there are many excellent ones. This is something I learned the hard way when I was at North Carolina. It's always better for the President to just face the music and answer the questions instead of doing what they did, which is stand up this long and complicated investigation. And when the institutions do these long investigations, the outcome is always unsatisfying for everybody because the investigation, it found precisely what I think anybody who understands our world would've expected that Marc didn't know about the fraud directly, but that he could have done more to create a culture in his laboratory where these things were picked up, whether that's making his lab smaller or him having fewer other things to do, or precisely what it is, people could speculate.Managing a Crisis at a UniversityHolden Thorp (00:20:37):But of course, that's what always happens in these. So the report produced exactly what any reporter who's covered this their whole lives would've expected it to produce, but the people who don't know the intimate details of how this works, were not satisfied by that. And he ended up having to step down and we'll never know what would've happened if instead of doing all of that, he just said, wow, I really screwed this up. I'm responsible for the fact that these images are in here and I'm going to do everything I can to straighten it out. I'd be happy to take your questions. That's always what I encourage people to do because I was in a similar situation at North Carolina with a scandal involved in athletics and an academic department, and we did umpteen investigations instead of me just saying, hey, everybody, we cheated for 30 years. It started when I was in middle school, but I'm still going to try to clean it up and I'll be happy to answer your questions. And instead, we get lawyers and PR people and all these carefully worded statements, and it's all prolonged. And we see that in every research integrity matter we deal with and there are a lot of other things in higher education that are being weighed down by all of that right now.Eric Topol (00:22:06):Yeah. One of the things that is typical when a university faces a crisis, and we're going to get into a couple others in a moment, is that they get a PR firm, and the PR firm says, just say you're going to do an investigation because that'll just pull it out of the news, take it out of the news. It doesn't work that way. And what's amazing is that the universities pay a lot of money to these PR companies for crisis management. And being forthright may indeed be the answer, but that doesn't happen as best as we can see. I think you're suggesting a new path that might be not just relevant, but the way to get this on the right course quickly.Holden Thorp (00:22:58):Just on that, there's a person in that PR space who I really like. There are a few of them that are really good, and he's the person who helped me the most. And he used to refer doing the investigation as putting it on the credit card.Eric Topol (00:23:16):Yeah. Yeah, exactly.Holden Thorp (00:23:17):Okay, because you still have to pay the credit card bill after you charge something.Eric Topol (00:23:25):Yeah, better to write a check.Holden Thorp (00:23:27):It's better to write a check. Yes, because that 18% interest can add up pretty quickly.Resignations of the Presidents at Harvard and PennEric Topol (00:23:32):I like that metaphor entirely appropriate. That's a good one. Now, in the midst of all this, there's been two other leading institutions besides Stanford where the president resigned for different reasons, at least in part one was at Harvard and one at Penn. And this is just a crisis in our top universities in the country. I mean three of the very top universities. So, could you comment about the differences at Harvard and Penn related to what we just discussed at Stanford?Holden Thorp (00:24:09):Yeah, so I don't know Claudine Gay, but I've exchanged emails with her, and I do know Liz Magill and I know Sally Kornbluth even better. Our kids went to middle school together because she was at Duke. And I think Sally is in good shape, and she did a little bit better in the hearings because I think she was a little more forthcoming than Liz and Dr. Gay were but I think also Liz was in a pretty weakened state already when she went in there. And I think that what happened that day, and it was a devastating day for higher education. I cleared my calendar, and I watched the whole thing and I couldn't sleep that night. And it was, I thought, oh my goodness, my way of making a living has just taken a death blow. I just felt so much compassion for the three of them, two of whom I knew, one of whom I could imagine having been through similar things myself.Holden Thorp (00:25:20):And I think what my take on the whole thing about free speech and the war and all this stuff is that higher education has got a problem, which is that we have promised to deliver a product that we can't really deliver, and that is to provide individualized experiences for students. So, I'm back on the faculty now at GW. I have 16 people in my class, I know every single one of them. I was teaching during the fall, last fall. I teach on Monday nights, which Yom Kippur was on a Monday night, which was before October 7th. And so, I knew precisely how many Jewish kids I had in my class because they had to make up class for that Monday night.Holden Thorp (00:26:18):I was basically able to talk to each one of them and make sure. And then GW is a very liberal university, so I had a whole bunch that were all the way on the other side also. I was just able to talk to each of them and make sure they had what they needed from the university. But the institutions don't really have luxury. They don't have somebody who's been doing this for 35 years teaching 16 people who can make sure they're getting what they need, but they write letters to all their students saying, you're going to join a diverse student body where we're going to give you a chance to express yourself and explore everything, but there's too many of them to actually deliver that. And none of them want to say that out loud. And so, what happens in a situation like this?Holden Thorp (00:27:19):And everybody says, well, don't send out the statements, don't send out the statements, but how else are you going to communicate with all those people? I mean, because the truth is education is a hands-on individualized deal. And so, the students who are experiencing antisemitism at Harvard or Penn or anywhere else, were feeling distress. And the university wasn't doing what they promised and attending to that, and similarly to the students who wanted to express themselves in the other direction. And so, what really needs to happen is that universities need to put more emphasis on what goes on in the classroom so that these students are getting the attention that they've been promised. But universities are trying to do a lot of research and you're at a place that's got a little simpler mission but some of these big complicated ones are doing urban development and they're trying to win athletics competitions, and they're running hotels and fire departments and police departments, and it's really hard to do all and multi, multi-billion dollar investment vehicles.Holden Thorp (00:28:47):It's really hard to do all that and keep the welfare of a bunch of teenagers up at the top of the list. And so, I think really what we need around this topic in general is a reckoning about this very point. Now as far as how to gotten through the hearing a little better, I mean what they said was technically correct, no question about that. But where they struggled was in saying things that would cause them to admit that they had failed at doing what they promised for the people who are feeling distressed. And again, that's kind of my mantra on all these things, whether it's student affairs or research integrity or anything else, the universities have made massive commitments to do probably more things than they can, and rather than fessing up to that, they just bury the whole thing in legalistic bureaucracy, and it's time for us to cut through a lot of that stuff.Eric Topol (00:30:09):I couldn't agree more on that.Holden Thorp (00:30:10):And in Claudine's case, I think the plagiarism thing, I wrote a piece in the Chronicle that just kind of tried to remind people that the kinds of plagiarism that she was punished for, in my opinion, too much of a punishment is stuff that we routinely pick up now with authenticate and other tools in scholarly publishing, and people just get a report that says, hey, maybe you want to reward this, and that's it. If it doesn't change the academic content of the paper, we hardly ever even pay attention to that. She was being subjected to a modern tool that didn't exist when she wrote the stuff that she wrote. And it's same thing with image analysis, right? When Marc Tessier-Lavigne made his papers, Elisabeth Bik wasn't studying images, and we didn't have proof fig and image twin to pick these things up, so we're taking today's tools and applying them to something that's 20 years old that was produced when those tools didn't exist. You can debate whether that matters or not, but in my opinion it does.Generative A.I. and Publishing ScienceEric Topol (00:31:31):Yeah, that's bringing us to the next topic I wanted to get into you with, which is AI. You've already mentioned about the AI detection of image, which we used to rely on Elisabeth as a human to do that, and now it can be done through AI.Holden Thorp (00:31:51):Well, it doesn't get everything, so I keep telling Elisabeth she doesn't have to worry about being put out of business.Eric Topol (00:31:58):But then there's also, as you said about text detection, and then there's also, as you've written in Science, the overall submission of papers where a GPT may have had significant input to the writing, not just to check the spelling or check minor things. And so, I want to get your views because this is a moving target of course. I mean, it's just the capabilities of AI have just been outpacing, I think a lot of expectations. Where do you see the intersection of AI and Science publishing now? Because as you said, it changes the ground rules for picking up even minor unintended errors or self-plagiarism or whatever, and now it changes the whole landscape considerably.Holden Thorp (00:32:54):Yeah. So, I think you said the most important thing, which is that it's a moving target, and you've been writing about this for medicine for longer than just about anybody, so you've been watching that moving target. We started off with a very restrictive stance, and the reason we did that was because we knew it would keep moving. And so, we wanted to start from the most restrictive possible place and then sort of titrate in the things that we allowed because we didn't want to go through the same thing we went through with Photoshop when it first came along. Like all these altered images that we keep talking about by far the most papers that surface are from the period between when Photoshop became a tool and when we finally had sort of a consensus as a community in terms of what was okay and what wasn't okay to do with your gels when you process the images.Holden Thorp (00:33:55):And we didn't want the same thing with words where we allowed people to use ChatGPT to write, and then a few years later decided, oh, this thing wasn't permissible, and then we have to go back and re-litigate all those papers. We didn't want to do that again. So, we started off with a pretty restrictive stance, which we've loosened once and we'll probably loosen more as we see how things evolve. What we keep looking for is for entities that don't have a financial interest to issue guidelines, so if it's another journal, especially a commercial journal that makes money on the papers, well, you can imagine that these tools are going to give us even more papers. And for a lot of these entities that charge by the paper, they have a financial incentive for people to use ChatGPT to write papers. We look for societies and coalitions of academics who have come together and said these things are okay.Holden Thorp (00:35:04):And the first one of those was when we decided that it was okay, for example, if you are not an English speaker natively to have ChatGPT work on your pros. Now there are lots of people who disagree about that ChatGPT is good at that. That's a separate matter, but we felt we got to a point, I forgot when it was a couple months ago, where we could amend our policies and say that we were going to be more tolerant of text that had been done by ChatGPT. As long as the people who signed the author forms realize that if it makes one of these hallucinating errors that it makes and it gets into the paper that's on them, whether that actually saves you time or not, I don't know.Holden Thorp (00:36:03):I also have my doubts about that, but that's kind of where we're going. We're watching these things as they go. We're still very restrictive on images and there was this debacle in this Frontiers paper a couple of weeks ago with a ridiculous image that got through. So right now, we're still not allowing illustrations that were generated by the visual counterparts of ChatGPT. Will we loosen that in the future? Maybe, as things evolve, so when we did our first amendment, some of the reporters, they're just doing their jobs saying, well, you can't make your mind up about this. And I'm like, no, you don't want us to make up our mind once and for all. And by the way, science is something that changes over time also. So, we're watching this develop and we expect everybody jokes about how we spend too much time talking about this, but I think everybody's gotten to the point now where they're realizing we're going to talk about it for years to come.Eric Topol (00:37:17):Oh my goodness, yes because we're talking about truth versus fake and this is big stuff. I mean, it affects whether it's the elections, whether it's every sector of our lives are affected by this. And obviously publishing in the leading peer review journal, it couldn't be more important as to get this right and to adjust, as you said, as more evidence, performance and other issues are addressed systematically. That does get me to self-correcting science, something else you've written about, which is kind of self-correcting as to how we will understand the use of large language models and generative AI. But this, you get into science in many different ways, whether it's through the celebrity idea, how it has to adapt and correct that there's a miscue from the public about when evolves and it's actually that science. So maybe you could kind of give us your perspective about you are continuing to reassess what is science as we'll get into more about that in a moment. Where are you at right now on that?Holden Thorp (00:38:40):Yeah, so my general sort of shtick about science is to remind people that it's done by human beings. Human beings who have all different kinds of different brains who come from different backgrounds, who have all the human foibles that you see in any other profession. And I think that unfortunately a lot of, and we brought some of this on ourselves, we've kind of taken on an air of infallibility from time to time or as having the final answer when, if you go back just to the simplest Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn early writings in the philosophy of science, it's crystal clear that science is something that evolves. It's something done by sometimes thousands or even hundreds of thousands of millions of people depending on the topic. And it's not the contributions of any individual person hardly ever.Holden Thorp (00:39:54):But yet we continue to give Nobel prizes and hold up various individual scientific figures as being representative. They're usually representative of many, many people. And it's a process that continues to change. And as always point out, if you want to get a paper in science, it's not good to say, hey, here's something everybody thought and we tested it and it's still correct. That's usually not a good way to get a science paper. The right thing to do is to say, hey, the W boson might weigh more than we expected it to, or it turns out that evolution occurs in ways that we didn't expect, or that's how you get a science paper and that's how you get on the cover of Science. Those are the things that we look for, things that change the way people think about science. And so that's what we're all actively looking for, but yet we sometimes portray to the public that we always have everything completely figured out, and the journalists sometimes don't help us because they like to write crisp stories that people can get something out of. And we like to go on TV and say, hey, I got the answer.Holden Thorp (00:41:23):Don't wear a mask. Do wear a mask. This is how much the temperature is going to go up next year. Oh, we refined our, and it turns out it's another 10th of a degree this way or that way. I mean, that's what makes what we do interesting and embedded in that is also human error, right? Because we make errors in interpretation. We might see a set of data that we think mean one thing, but then somebody else will do something that helps us interpret it another way. In my opinion, that's certainly not misconduct. We hardly ever publish corrections or retractions over interpretation. We just publish more papers about that unless it's some very egregious thing. And then we also have greed and ambition and ego and lots of other things that cause people to make intentional errors that get most of the attention. And we have errors that are unintentional, but still may relate to fundamental data in the paper.Holden Thorp (00:42:36):So when you put all this together, the answer isn't to try to catch everything because there's no way in the world we're going to catch everything and we wouldn't want to, even if we could for some of it, because as John Maddox, who ran my competitor journal for many years in a brilliant way at Nature, someone once asked him how many papers in Nature were wrong? And he said, all of them, because all of them are going to be replaced by new information. And so, what we'd be better off trying to convince the public that this is how science works, which is much harder than just going to them with facts. I mean, that takes a lot of work and doing a better job of telling each other that it's okay when we have to change the record because the biggest thing that erodes trust in science is not the fact that we make mistakes, is that when it turns into a drama over whether we are going to correct the record or not, that's what all these, the Stanford case is probably the biggest in people's minds. But if you look at, we've had this behavioral economic stuff at Harvard, I have this superconductivity at Rochester, Dana Farber's having a big event right now. All of these things don't have to be this dramatic if we would do a better job of collaborating with each other on maintaining an accurate scientific record rather than letting ambition and greed and ego get in the way of all of it.Who Is A Scientist?Eric Topol (00:44:21):Well, you got some important threads in there. The one thing I just would also comment on is my favorite thing in Science is challenging dogma because there's so much dogma, and that's obviously part of what you were getting into and many other aspects as well. But that's the story of Science, that nothing stands. If it does, then you're not doing a good job of really interrogating and following up on whatever is accepted at any particular moment in time. But your writings, whether it's in Science and editorials or science forever, your Substack, which are always insightful but I think one of the most recent ones was about, who is a scientist? And I really love that one because I'll let you explain. There are some people who have a very narrow view and others who see it quite differently. And maybe you could summarize it.Holden Thorp (00:45:23):Well, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at the AAAS meeting that included Keith Yamamoto, who was our outgoing president, Willie May, who was our incoming president, Peggy Hamburg, who ran the FDA and many, many other things. Kaye Husbands Fealing who was a social scientist, and Michael Crow, who was the president of Arizona State. These are all extraordinary people. And I just asked him a simple question, so who was the scientist? Because I think one thing that I see in my work, and you probably see in the communication work and writing that you do, that not all of our colleagues who work in the laboratory think that the rest of this stuff is science.Holden Thorp (00:46:17):And the place that breaks my heart the most is when somebody says, one of our professional editors isn't qualified to reject their paper because they don't have their own lab. Alright, well you've interacted with a lot of our editors, they read more papers than either one of us. They know more about what's going on in these papers than anybody. They are absolute scholars in every sense of the word and if someone thinks they're not scientists, I don't know who a scientist is. And so, then you can extend that to science communicators. I mean, those are obviously the problems we've been talking about, the people we need the most great teachers. If someone's a great science teacher and they have a PhD and they worked in lab and they're teaching at a university, are they still a scientist even if they don't have a lab anymore?Holden Thorp (00:47:11):So in my opinion, an expansive definition of this is the best because we want all these people to be contributing. In fact, many of the problems we have aren't because we're not good in the laboratory. We seem to be able to do a good job generating that. It's more about all these other pieces that we're not nearly as good at. And part of what we need to do is value the people who are good at those things, so I pose this to the panel, and I hope people go on and watch the video. It is worth watching. Keith Yamamoto was in the group that said, it's only if you're doing and planning research that you're a scientist. He knew he was going to be outnumbered before we went out there. We talked about that. I said, Keith, you're my boss. If you don't want me to ask that question, I won't. But to his credit, he wanted to talk about this and then Michael Crow was probably the furthest on the other side who said, what makes humans different from other species is that we're all scientists. We all seek to explain things. So somewhere in the middle and the others were kind of scattered around the middle, although I would say closer to Michael than they were to Keith.Holden Thorp (00:48:33):But I think this is important for us to work out because we want everybody who contributes to the scientific enterprise to feel valued. And if they would feel more valued if we called them scientists, that suits me but it doesn't suit all of our academic colleagues apparently.Eric Topol (00:48:54):Well, I mean, I think just to weigh in a bit on that, I'm a big proponent of citizen scientists, and we've seen how it has transformed projects like folded for structural biology and so many things, All of Us program that's ongoing right now to try to get a million participants, at least half of whom are underrepresented to be citizen scientists learning about themselves through their genome and other layers of data. And that I think may help us to fight the misinformation, disinformation, the people that do their own research with a purpose that can be sometimes nefarious. The last type of topic I wanted to get to with you was the University of Florida and the state of Florida and the Surgeon General there. And again, we are kind of circling back to a few things that we've discussed today about higher education institutions as well as politics and I wonder if we get some comments about that scenario.What's Happening in Florida?Holden Thorp (00:49:59):Yeah. Well, I'm coming to you from Orlando, Florida where I have a home that I've had ever since I moved to a cold climate, and I spent the whole pandemic down here. I observed a lot of things going on in the state of Florida firsthand. And I think in a way it's two different worlds because Florida does make a massive investment in higher education more than many other states and that has really not changed that much under Governor DeSantis despite his performative views that seem to be to the contrary. And so, I think it's important to acknowledge that Florida State and Florida and UCF and USF, these are excellent places and many of them have thrived in terms of their budgets even in this weird climate, but the political performance is very much in the other direction. This is where the Stop WOKE Act happened. This is where, again, I live in Orlando. This is a company town that Ron DeSantis decided to take on the Walt Disney Corporation is the second biggest city in Orlando, and it's a company town, and he took on the employer.Holden Thorp (00:51:32):It doesn't make a whole lot of political sense, but I think it was all part of his national political ambitions. And down at the base of this was this all strange anti-vax stuff. Now I got my first vaccines down here. I went to public places that were organized by the Army Corps of Engineers that were at public properties. It was at a community college here in Orlando, was extremely well organized. I had no problem. I was there 10 minutes, got my vaccines. It was extremely well organized but at the same time, the guys on TV saying the vaccine's not any good. And he hires this person, Joseph Ladapo, to be his Surgeon General, who I think we would both say is an anti-vaxxer. I mean he just recently said that you didn't need to get a measles vaccine and then in the last couple of days said, if you're unvaccinated and you have measles, you don't have to quarantine for 21 days. Now really would be disastrous if measles came back. You know a lot more about that than I do but I'm a generation that had a measles vaccine and never worried about measles.Holden Thorp (00:52:59):So the part of it that I worry about the most is that this person, the Surgeon General, also has a faculty appointment at the University of Florida. And you can see how he got it because his academic resume has been circulated as a result of all of Florida's public records laws and he has a very strong, credible resume that would probably cause him to get tenure at a lot of places. The medical faculty at Florida have tried to assert themselves and say, we really need to distance ourselves from him, but the administration at the University of Florida has not really engaged them. Now, I did ask them last week about the measles thing. I was going to write about it again, and I wrote to them and I said, if you guys aren't going to say anything about what he is saying about the measles, then I'm going to have another editorial.Holden Thorp (00:54:05):And they sent me a statement, which I posted that you probably saw that they still didn't condemn him personally, but they did say that measles vaccination was very important, and it was a fairly direct statement. I don't know if that will portend more stronger words from the University of Florida. Maybe now that their president is somebody who's close to the governor, they'll feel a little more comfortable saying things like that. But I think the bigger issue for all of us is when we have academic colleagues who say things that we know are scientifically invalid, and this always gets to the whole free speech thing, but in my opinion, free speech, it is within free speech to say, yes, all these things about vaccines are true, but I still don't think people should be compelled to get vaccinated. That's an opinion. That's fine. But what's not an opinion is to say that vaccines are unsafe if they've been tested over and over again and proven to be effective.Academic FreedomHolden Thorp (00:55:24):That's not an opinion. And I personally don't think that that deserves certainly to be weighted equally with the totality of medical evidence. I think that it's within bounds for academic colleagues and even institutions to call out their colleagues who are not expressing an opinion, but are challenging scientific facts without doing experiments and submitting papers and having lots of people look at it and doing all the stuff that we require in order to change scientific consensus. And this happens in climate change in a very parallel way. I mean, it's an opinion to say the climate is changing, humans are causing it, but I still don't think we should have government regulations about carbon. I think we should wait for the private sector to solve it, or I don't think it's going to have as bad of an effect as people say. Those are policy debates that you can have.Holden Thorp (00:56:28):But alleging that climate scientists are falsifying their projection somehow when they're not is in my opinion, not covered by free speech. And I think the best evidence we had of this is this recent verdict with Michael Mann, where it was the people who were criticizing him were found to be defamatory when they said that he committed research fraud. They could say he's exaggerating the threat. They could say they could dislike his style. He does have a very bombastic style. They can say all kinds of things about their opinions about him personally but if you accuse him of committing research fraud, and the paper that was in question was one of the most highly litigated papers of all time. It's been investigated more times than you can count. That's not something that's protected by free speech because it's defamatory to say that, and the jury found that. I think we have a lot of work to do to get within our own world, our colleagues, to get their arms around these two forms of debate.Eric Topol (00:57:51):Right. Well, I think this is, again, another really important point you're making during the pandemic parallel to the Michael Mann climate change case is that leading universities, as we recently reviewed in a podcast with Jonathan Howard, who wrote a book about this leading universities like Stanford, UCSF, Johns Hopkins and many others, didn't come out about the people that were doing things, saying things that were truly potential public harm. Not like you're saying, expressing an opinion with the truth, but rather negating evidence that was important to keep people protected from Covid. This is a problem which is thematic in our discussion I think Holden, is that universities have to get with it. They have to be able to help not put things on the credit card, be very transparent, direct quick respond, and not hide behind worried about social media or journalists or whatever else. This has been an incredible discussion, Holden, I got into even more than I thought we would.Eric Topol (00:59:15):You're a phenom to defend the whole science landscape that is challenging right now. I think you would agree for many reasons that we've discussed, and it affects education in a very dramatic, serious way. I want to thank you all that you're doing at Science with your team there to lead the charge and stand up for things and not being afraid to stimulate some controversies here and there. It's good for the field. And so, I hope I didn't miss anything and this exhaustive, this is the longest podcast I've done on Ground Truths, I want you to know that.Holden Thorp (00:59:59):Well, I'm flattered by that because you've had some great people on, that's for sure. And thank you for all you're doing, not just in science, but to spread the word about all these things and bring people together. It means a lot to all of us.Eric Topol (01:00:15):Oh, much appreciated. And we'll convene again soon to discuss so many dimensions of what we just have been reviewing and new ones to come. Thanks very much.Holden Thorp (01:00:25):Okay. Always good talking to you.*******************************************************Thanks for listening or reading this episode of GT.Please share if you found this podcast informative.Ground Truths is open-access. All content (newsletters and podcasts) is free.All proceeds from voluntary paid subscriptions support Scripps Research and have provided major funding for our summer internship program. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe

On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel's guest is Chad Stender, Managing Partner at SeventySix Capital. Stender is a Managing Partner at SeventySix Capital, which invests in startup sports media & entertainment companies. Stender worked in professional sports, was an entrepreneur, and has been a venture capitalist for over a decade. Stender focuses on deal sourcing and leads finance, operations and investor relations for the fund. He is on the Board of FORTË, Lucra Sports, Quintar, Showroom and ZATAP. Stender was on the Board of Vigtory that was acquired by fuboTV. In addition, DraftKings acquired SeventySix Capital's sports betting network portfolio company VSiN and Cosm acquired C360. Stender was awarded the 2018 Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and the 2018 Southern New Jersey Business People's 40 Under 40. Prior to SeventySix Capital, Stender worked for the Philadelphia Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor, led a sports accessory startup and interned for the Philadelphia 76ers and The Walt Disney Corporation. He currently sits on the boards of Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, Challah for Hunger, Tribe 12 and is an advisor to New Leaders Council Fellows. Stender is a graduate of James Madison University and received his master's degree from East Stroudsburg University. Chad Stender Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-stender-9b293112/ X: https://twitter.com/chadstender Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chadstender/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chad.stender.9

It's not you, it's Mickey. Super7 and the Walt Disney Corporation agree to go their separate ways, leaving collectors wondering about the future of lines like The Simpsons Ultimates. Plus, NECA opens their vault, giving fans a second chance to pay third party prices. And, Turtles of Grayskull debut to ooze and awes. Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix. It's The Reluctant Adult Podcast. Email TheReluctantAdultPodcast@gmail.com Save 10% and get Free Shipping on in-stock items on Entertainment Earth https://ee.toys/TOYPOD TikTok @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Instagram @TheReluctantAdultPodcast Twitter @Reluctant_Pod Facebook Toy Sale Boat YouTube The Reluctant Adult Podcast Paul's Amazon Wishlist Bill's Amazon Wishlist

Zach, Amin and Mayes are teaming up with the best and brightest stars to represent their country (but really the Walt Disney Corporation) in the Junior Goodwill Games. So grab your gear and let's go play some schoolyard puck! Join the Count The Dings Patreon for exclusive Rewatchingtons, Ad-Free Episodes, extended cold opens and more at www.patreon.com/CountTheDings Cinephobe is now on Youtube! Subscribe and check out CT5s on Video. Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify.   Follow Cinephobe on Twitter, Instagram & Threads: CTD @countthedings IG: @cinephobepod Threads: @cinephobepod  Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Threads: @talkhoops   Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Threads: @darthamin   Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle Threads: @cornpuzzle   Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zach, Amin and Mayes are teaming up with the best and brightest stars to represent their country (but really the Walt Disney Corporation) in the Junior Goodwill Games. So grab your gear and let's go play some schoolyard puck! Join the Count The Dings Patreon for exclusive Rewatchingtons, Ad-Free Episodes, extended cold opens and more at www.patreon.com/CountTheDings Cinephobe is now on Youtube! Subscribe and check out CT5s on Video. Subscribe to Cinephobe! Then Rate 5 Stars on Apple or Spotify.   Follow Cinephobe on Twitter, Instagram & Threads: CTD @countthedings IG: @cinephobepod Threads: @cinephobepod  Zach Harper @talkhoops IG: @talkhoops Threads: @talkhoops   Amin Elhassan @darthamin IG: @darthamin Threads: @darthamin   Anthony Mayes @cornpuzzle IG: @cornpuzzle Threads: @cornpuzzle   Email: cinephobepodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a double shot of media business takes, with conversations about the Walt Disney Corporation and Fox News, with references to “Succession” in both. First, CNBC's Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) joins Vox's Peter Kafka to talk about Disney's strategy, or lack thereof. What does it want to do with ESPN? ABC? Marvel? Star Wars? And although it plans to buy the remaining third of Hulu… what the hell does it want to do with Hulu? Plus, he gives us some hot goss about the Bobs (Iger and Chapek), and which Bob is most to blame for Disney's troubles. Then, media reporter Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) joins us to talk about his SECOND book about Fox News, “Network of Lies.” What's the real story behind Tucker Carlson's departure? And what will Lachlan Murdoch do once his dad formally leaves the company? Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PARTY PLEASER: Melvin is joined by Shirleon yet again to discuss Haunted Mansion (2015), a movie that has literally no correlation to The Haunted Mansion or Haunted Mansion (2023)! Yes, this movie was picked solely because it shares a name with the other movies. We think that's kind of funny! But don't worry; there are more similarities between this haunted mansion and the Disney Haunted Mansion, too! Tune in to find out!Topics:(PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 40-minutes discussing watching habits, from things we enjoy the most, things we emotionally connect with, and things we avoid or are learning we dislike (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)The available video quality for the film is low-res and includes frequent stuttering that impacts the viewing experience. Melvin wonders if it was merely cheaper to license and distribute a lower quality version from a foreign market.The lead character Ella is a particularly strong female lead, despite also being "The Special".Haunted Mansion (2015) is a Filipino movie and both Melvin & Shirleon reflected on how the language of the film would alternate between Filipino and English.Melvin & Shirleon discuss the aesthetics of this haunted mansion. Unlike both Disney movies, this mansion is a real location.The two discuss a translation in the subtitles that left both of them shocked, but learn it stands for a ghost-type from the Philippines.Melvin likes Teen Drama movies, but the film is titled and primarily tagged as a horror movie, and he laments the films general lack of horror during its first hour.Melvin realizes that note-taking for a movie is a great way to find scenes that can easily be cut.It takes until 01:07:00 before the movie introduces the threat of violence, and it both works for and against the film as a whole.Recommendations:A Clockwork Reader Film And TV Journal by Hannah AzerangNo One Will Save You (2023) (Movie) Support the showSupport on Patreon for Unique Perks! Early access to uncut episodes Vote on a movie/show we review One-time reward of two Cinematic Doctrine Stickers Social Links: Threads Website Instagram Facebook Group

Return to Oz is a dark kiddie fantasy from the Walt Disney Corporation, when they were doing dark kiddie fantasies for some reason. Of course, dark fantasy is what we all think of when we think of Oz, riiiiiiiiiiiight? Ben loves this movie. Listen to the episode. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In today's Main attraction we're discussing the future of Disney Parks and More. With the completion of Tron Lightcycle run, park goers can still look forward to the completion of Moana Journey of Water, Communicore Hall in EPCOT, and Tiana's Bayou Adventure but what lies on the horizon for Disney Parks, and what does the future hold for Walt Disney Corporation? ~Don't forget to book your next magical vacation with our preferred travel partner, Sara Solberg! Email her at sarasolberg@d2travel.com for more information.~If you've dreamt of living near the magic of Disney World Victor Nawrocki can find the home for you. You can search home, watch youtube videos or contact Victor by visiting disneyatyourdoorstep.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dislife-podcast/support

In today's Main attraction we're discussing the future of Disney Parks and More. With the completion of Tron Lightcycle run, park goers can still look forward to the completion of Moana Journey of Water, Communicore Hall in EPCOT, and Tiana's Bayou Adventure but what lies on the horizon for Disney Parks, and what does the future hold for Walt Disney Corporation? ~Don't forget to book your next magical vacation with our preferred travel partner, Sara Solberg! Email her at sarasolberg@d2travel.com for more information.~If you've dreamt of living near the magic of Disney World Victor Nawrocki can find the home for you. You can search home, watch youtube videos or contact Victor by visiting disneyatyourdoorstep.com

Today's headlines: Fox News settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in the largest-ever libel case settlement in US history, without admitting guilt or apologizing. An 84-year-old man in Missouri was charged with felonies for shooting a Black teenager who accidentally rang his doorbell, sparking protests. Oklahoma county officials were caught on audio discussing hiring hitmen to kill reporters and making racist remarks, potentially facing felony charges. President Biden signed an executive order to reform the child care and long-term care system, and proposed $600 billion in spending for child care and early education in the 2024 budget. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Walt Disney Corporation continued their feud over inspections and taxes, while Disney announced a Pride Nite event. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Independent: Dominion wins $787m from Fox as election lies lawsuit settled NY Times: Man Accused of Shooting Ralph Yarl Turns Himself In AP News: Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal NBC News:  Biden issues executive order to make child and home care cheaper Vanity Fair: Disney Sees Ron DeSantis's Prison-Complex Threat and Raises Him a “Pride Nite” Extravaganza Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz

In the late 1980s, the Walt Disney Corporation decided to start work on what it hoped would be the next signature ride at Disney World. The ride would be like nothing park guests had ever seen - a horror ride. Heinz is one of the most reliable giants in the condiment industry. But what about that time it changed the color of ketchup?The movie ends, but people still sit there. Where did post-credit scenes come from why is Marvel so good at it?_Sources:https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/577298/extraterrorestrial-alien-encounter-scariest-walt-disney-world-ridehttps://kristashein.medium.com/heinz-ez-squirt-a-reflection-on-failed-assumptions-6f5c372b7976https://www.vox.com/22893634/marvel-post-credits-scene-historyhttp://www.commutethepodcast.comFollow Commute:Instagram - instagram.com/commutethepodcast/Twitter - @PodcastCommuteFacebook - facebook.com/commutethepodcast

Did you know that in the 1990s, the Walt Disney Corporation built a suburban town in Florida? Celebration, FL, was an experiment in New Urbanism constructed (in the Disney style) to recall an idyllic American past that never existed to begin with. The schools, municipal buildings, restaurants, storefronts, homes, landscaping, churches and everything else were all tightly controlled by Disney. Wanna guess how that turned out?We've all heard about Florida Man, but what about Florida Woman? Join us weekly as we explore the humid landscape, absurd crimes, bizarre history, and beautiful fucking maniacs that make up our country's weirdest state.You can follow us on Instagram at:@FloridaWoman.PodEmail us at FloridaWoman.Pod@Gmail.comHelp the show by becoming a patron today! patreon.com/floridawomanpodFlorida Woman theme song is My Heart Is Open by So Sensitive Band from their debut album Bedroom Drama. You can find them on Spotify, BandCamp, Apple Music, or wherever you listen! Follow them on Instagram at @sosensitivebandSOURCES: https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/north-america/the-creepy-history-of-disneys-perfect-town/news-story/8b9a034e93ddb074b5fbdbb286f83806https://yourmileagemayvary.net/2022/02/19/celebration-florida-the-not-so-perfect-town-that-disney-built/https://insidethemagic.net/2020/12/golden-oak-disney-world-kc1mmb/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/13/celebration-death-of-a-dreamhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/celebration-florida-how-disneys-community-of-tomorrow-became-a-total-nightmarehttps://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/90dc4c6c715e0ecd94586f3a9d6cc9e1

This week the guys watch Pinocchio TWICE. One made by a master of wonder and beauty, Guillermo Del Toro, and another by the Walt Disney Corporation. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio(2022) Directed by Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson. Starring Gregory Mann, Ewan McGregor and David Bradley. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od2NW1sfRdA Pinocchio(2022) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Tom Hanks, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV_0pYoCssc Twitter: @DoubledFeature Instagram: DoubledFeature Email: DoubledFeaturePodcast@Gmail.com Dan's Twitter: @DannyJenkem Dan's Letterboxd: @DannyJenkem Max's Twitter: @Mac_Dead Max's Letterboxd: @Mac_Dead Executive Producer: Koolaid --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/doubledfeature/message

It's the seventeenth annual iFanboy All Media Year End Roundup! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and special guest Ron Richards (who was battling a cold) discuss some of what they enjoyed in media in this, the weird year that was 2022. Movies, television, music, books, games, and comics -- it's all here! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard's opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Note: Timecodes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 02:41:08 Movies: 00:02:06 - Top Gun: Maverick 00:04:36 - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 00:07:43 - Don't Worry Darling 00:09:32 - Everything Everywhere All At Once 00:11:57 - The Fabelmans 00:14:32 - The Outfit 00:16:01 - Armageddon Time 00:18:27 - The Banshees of Inisherin 00:20:15 - Bullet Train 00:22:21 - See How They Run 00:23:54 - Devotion 00:28:06 - Moonfall 00:29:27 - Confess, Fletch 00:32:32 - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story 00:37:11 - Hustle Television: 00:39:17 - Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty 00:42:08 - Only Murders in the Building 00:44:02 - The Crown 00:45:46 - The Bear 00:49:37 - The Offer 00:53:47 - The Good Fight 00:56:06 - The Gilded Age 00:58:35 - The Vow 01:00:25 - Yellowstone / 1883 01:03:43 - For All Mankind 01:05:01 - Better Things 01:07:09 - Atlanta 01:09:29 - The Sandman 01:11:41 - Welcome to Wrexham 01:16:48 - Reservation Dogs Books: 01:20:52 - "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald 01:23:05 - "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 01:25:36 - "The Devil May Dance: A Novel" by Jake Tapper 01:27:10 - "Leviathan Falls" by James S.A. Corey 01:29:06 - "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Raddon Keefe 01:32:11 - "Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City" by K.J. Parker 01:34:33 - "Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers" by James Andrew Miller 01:37:13 - "The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down" by Colin Woodard 01:39:01 - "Five Decembers" by James Kestrel 01:40:09 - "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough 01:41:52 - "Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies" by Derek DelGaudio 01:43:17 - "Cinema Speculation" by Quentin Tarantino 01:44:43 - "Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks" by Chris Herring Music: 01:47:12 - "Plosivs" by Plosivs 01:49:01 - Bob Dylan at The Hollywood Pantages Theatre 01:50:49 - The Wedding Present Singles01:53:18 - Sunny Day Real Estate at House of Blues 01:55:56 - Jackson Browne at The Santa Barbara Bowl 01:57:12 - "Repair and Reward" by Lincoln 01:59:30 - First Six Dischord Records 02:00:48 - "A Light for Attracting Attention" by The Smile and live at Roadrunner 02:03:06 - "Autofiction" by Suede and live at Kings Theatre 02:08:03 - Bleached at Lodge Room 02:09:39 - Weird Al Yankovic at Chevalier Theatre Games: 02:12:20 - Marvel SNAP 02:19:42 - Return to Monkey Island 02:20:27 - Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag, and Origins 02:21:39 - Kingdom Rush, Frontiers, Origins, and Vengeance 02:23:17 - NBA 2K22 Comics: 02:25:36 - The Human Target 02:26:46 - Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow 02:27:36 - Batman/Superman: World's Finest 02:28:29 - That Texas Blood 02:29:19 - Do A Powerbomb! 02:30:01 - Eight Billion Genies 02:30:48 - She-Hulk 02:31:33 - Fantastic Four 02:32:22 - Nightwing 02:33:11 - DC vs. Vampires Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons - Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch - Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got TWELVE designs! For More From Ron Richards: • Visit Marvel.com! • Watch All About Android! • If you're into pinball, check out Scorbit! Music: "Jingle Bells" Frank Sinatra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the latest episode of The Florida Project – the podcast where Disney fans celebrate Walt Disney World and all things Disney! In this episode, we'll discuss some nonsense in small topics, Michael will give the latest news, Will will take us on a trip down Main Tweet USA, and then we'll talk about the new Disney CEO, the return of Bob Iger and ours and our listeners hopes for the future of Walt Disney World!   All of that and more is coming up in this week's episode of The Florida Project!-- Recorded on December 2, 2022Small TopicsBob Iger is out sick for the day and they've made you CEO of the Walt Disney Corporation while he's out of the office. What change would you make during your reign that would make an impact on the guest experience but wouldn't be noticed by Bob when he gets back?Have you watched a Christmas movie this season? If so, what was the first one you watched, what was the last one you watched, and what is next on your list for this year?One's gotta go: Hot Chocolate, Fancy Coffees, EggnogNewsMajor Changes Coming to Disney Park Pass and Park Hopping in 2023Closing Date Announced for Splash Mountain at Walt Disney WorldDisney's Magnolia Golf Course to Reopen at Walt Disney WorldMain Tweet U.S.A.Universal Orlando Escape RoomsDiscussion TopicThe Return of Bob Iger as Disney CEOUpcoming EpisodesTBD until 2023PlugsJason: @Schmuck00Will: @ThyWillBDunnMichael: @MichaelMcDuckSite: http://www.tfppodcast.comTwitter: @tfp_podcastInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/tfppodcastPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/tfppodcastThanks for listening.  Tell a friend.  Driver, we're clear...Support the show

In a surprise late-night announcement the Walt Disney Corporation has ousted the beleaguered CEO Bob Chapek after a short tenure as the CEO of the company. The past 24 hours have been filled with Dizzying news, and in today's podcast, our news team will be discussing what know so far and sharing new developments in a bonus podcast today.

Spiritual Expert - Patty Pobanz is a native of Southern California. Having formerly worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox and the Walt Disney Corporation, Patty became a successful businesswoman on her own terms; opening a women's fitness centre and also becoming a respected Wellness Consultant and Life Coach Speaker. Patty still speaks at many seminars each year, helping people to prevent disease and stay healthy through good nutrition and fitness, as well as her talks coaching people on surviving adversity. A self-confessed "42 years young!" Patty still has ties with the Disney Corporation - as a frequent visitor to Disneyland where she, her two children and her boyfriend often go on family days out, which Patty describes as one of her "favorite things to do." Patty has a degree in business from Pierce College, she lives in Valencia, California with her family and Labradors Racer and Rocky. She is also currently working on a further two books.

On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Guy Remond, Co-founder and Partner at EHE Capital. Headquartered in Altrincham, England, EHE Capital Limited is a highly efficient tech-led private equity organisation with a genuine focus on supporting entrepreneurs through their companies' high growth stage through to a successful conclusion. They also provide qualified, high-quality deal flow for investors, private equity, and venture capital organisations.  Guy's working career began in retail, where he enjoyed an eleven-year stint in various managerial positions. Following this, he followed his passion for anything technical and branched out on his own into the technical world. In 2001 he was a founding member and CEO of Cake Solutions Limited, and over the next 16 years, he directly oversaw the development of the business from a small start-up to that of an international, multi-million-pound company respected as being at the cutting edge of engineering and process in the open-source software development world.  After being recognised in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and being viewed as one of the most unique, forward-thinking, and fast-growth companies in the industry, Cake Solutions Limited was acquired by a multinational corporation, and the business was subsequently rebranded as Disney Streaming Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company owned by The Walt Disney Corporation. As a creative and widely experienced individual with a keen focus on personal development, company culture, and process improvement, Guy has invested in a number of companies and is actively working with these companies in a non-executive director or chairman role, helping them to fulfill the leadership's drive to a successful outcome.  Guy is building two new organisations with his business partners Gary Fletcher and Dave Zumpano.  In addition to his working commitments, Guy dedicates time to charitable activities. For well over a decade, he has worked with Variety - the Children's Charity in a number of voluntary roles, currently acting as the Chairman for the North West region in the UK and more recently as a Trustee for the organisation. Guy shares his background and gives insight into starting a business in the area of private equity. He describes some of the opportunities and challenges and how he differs from his competitors. Visit EHE Capital at , on LinkedIn at , and on Twitter at . Reach out to Guy at and gremond@guidr.legal, and on LinkedIn at .  _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

Lee Kitchen has 32 years of experience at the Walt Disney Corporation across multiple roles, including Innovation Catalyst. In that role, Lee trained groups within Disney on the design thinking process, and he conducted many ideas sessions across the company. He branched out from Disney five years ago to found his business, Magical Dude Consulting. Lee delivered the opening keynote at the 2022 Leading Reliability conference in Clearwater, Florida, where he spoke about the elements of success when it comes to new idea development. Lee recently spoke with Editor in Chief Thomas Wilk about how to foster greater creativity with your team.

The Bill Simmons Podcast is, by its own description, "the most downloaded sports podcast of all time." This week, it hits its 1,000th episode. Bill Simmons began his career as a Boston sportswriter and went on to found ESPN's sports and pop culture blog Grantland. After ESPN shut down the site, Simmons started the Ringer — which he sold to Spotify in 2020. In this wide-ranging conversation, Recode's Peter Kafka talks to Simmons about how he became a podcasting pioneer, and when he realized nerditry about the NBA and Game of Thrones could both live under the same roof. Simmons also reflects on what he learned from his time as an employee of The Walt Disney Corporation and how things are different at Spotify. Plus, he reveals the number one dream guest he'd love to have on his show. Featuring: Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons), Founder of The Ringer Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dwayne Johnsons most beloved role as an animated Polynesian demigod - if, that is, you are a nine-year-old girl or the father of one. But did Hemal like it? In a bit of a departure from our usual fare, this week were looking at an animated film. But for many Americans (ie - nine-year-old girls and their parents), this may very well be the movie The Rock is best known for. Released in 2016 by everyones favorite multinational entertainment conglomerate, the Walt Disney Corporation, Moana tells the story of a plucky young girl venturing into the forbidden and dangerous seas of a fictional Polynesian ocean world to save her beloved island village from a mysterious corruption. In another departure, unable to rely on his mighty physical presence to do the heavy lifting for him, The Rock is forced to bring depth, charm, and interiority to a lovable but flawed character through voice acting. Who knew? In addition to Dwayne Johnsons vocal talents in the role of Maui - who antagonizes but eventually befriends and aids our young hero, Moana - the movie also features some absolute best-in-class musical numbers from Lin Manuel Miranda.

This last month the Walt Disney Corporation has been the perfect example of bending a knee to woke activists, and as a result has found itself in a losing battle. While catering to a noisy agenda, they have abandoned their customers, their stockholders and even their common sense. The “Parental Rights in Education” bill, which is in the center of the controversy, has been passed in Florida, and it was not accomplished by politicians, but by parents! Dr. Jonny applauds parents for pushing back because family will always be at the center of every cultural change!

Thursday on the NewsHour, the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine and welcome refugees, as world leaders consider war crimes against Russia as the fight between the two countries wages on. The White House announces a new strategy to combat rising fatalities from drug overdoses. Strategists from both sides of the aisle discuss what their parties need to do to win midterm elections this year. And Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill puts the beloved Walt Disney Corporation in an uncomfortable position. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Robert A.M. Stern is an architect, teacher, and writer. He is the founder of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016, hosted the PBS series Pride of Place in 1986, and served on the board of directors for the Walt Disney Corporation from 1992 to 2003. He's the author, most recently, of Between Memory and Invention: My Life in Architecture. In this conversation, Mr. Stern talks about his early interest in architecture history and the possibilities of an alternate career as a historian or curator, how leading Yale changed how he thought about architecture, and why the architecture discourse isn't as interesting to him anymore. (Oh, and we also talk about martinis! Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/212-robert-a-m-stern. — If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon and get bonus content, transcripts, and our monthly newsletter! www.patreon.com/surfacepodcast

The Walt Disney Corporation has been vocal in its opposition to Florida's Parental Rights in Education Bill, but recently leaked videos from a meeting about the bill shows the degree to which sexuality and gender theory have become an obsession for those working behind the scenes at the house of mouse. Buck has reacts to the bombshell videos and speaks to the First TV's Rob Smith about Disney's woke corporate agenda. Plus, the U.S. border patrol chief warned this week that the country is on track to pass a staggering one million migrant encounters for the first half of this year. Buck speaks to Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian about the coming wave.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Walt Disney Corporation has been vocal in its opposition to Florida's Parental Rights in Education Bill, but recently leaked videos from a meeting about the bill shows the degree to which sexuality and gender theory have become an obsession for those working behind the scenes at the house of mouse. Buck has reacts to the bombshell videos and speaks to the First TV's Rob Smith about Disney's woke corporate agenda. Plus, the U.S. border patrol chief warned this week that the country is on track to pass a staggering one million migrant encounters for the first half of this year. Buck speaks to Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian about the coming wave. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the War in Ukraine losing public support, according to a litany of new polling and a concerted, confounding media effort to push the conflict to the back burner, an old nemesis of the American People makes a creeping return to center stage. Charlie unpacks the advent of a new COVID variant, seemingly emerging from China…again, and the baggage it carries with it. All of that, PLUS—a disturbing look into The Walt Disney Corporation's odious capitulation to the Alphabet Mafia as the so-called “Don't Say Gay” Bill in Florida sends the storied American entertainment icon into a frenzy fueled in-part by predators in the park's midst.   Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/support See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"We don't talk about Bruno...no...no...no"...but Autistics and neurospicy folks in general sure do! In this really special episode of The Neurodivergent Polyamorist Podcast, we got silly, talked all about how Encanto is officially our new favourite Disney movie, and what it has to teach us about breaking cycles, generational trauma, neurodiversity, and mental health. Plus, we rambled a lot, burst into spontaneous song on more than one occasion, and talked over each other constantly. Because would you honestly expect anything less from us? So join us for this one if you can - we had a TON of fun making it, and we hope you have just as much fun listening to it! Encanto and all related trademarks are the property of the Walt Disney Corporation, all rights reserved.

"Everybody has unique abilities, and you must hone in on what you're really good at." - Guy Remond.‍Guy Remond is an experienced individual with over 20 years in tech, software and consulting, advisory industries, founder, director, investor, and advisor. Guy's working career began in retail where he enjoyed an 11-year stint in various managerial positions. Following this, he followed his passion for anything technical and branched out on his own, into the technical world.In 2001, he was a founding member and CEO of Cake Solutions Limited, and over the next 16 years, he directly oversaw the development of the business from a small startup to that of an international multi-million-pound company respected as a cutting edge of engineering and process in the open-source software development world.After being recognized in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, and being viewed as one of the most unique, forward-thinking, and fast-growth companies in the industry, Cake Solutions Limited was acquired by a multinational corporation. And the business was subsequently rebranded as Disney Streaming Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company owned by The Walt Disney Corporation. As a creative and widely experienced individual with a keen focus on personal development, company culture, and process. improvement, Guy has invested in a number of companies and is actively working with these companies in a non-executive director or chairman role, helping them to fulfill the leadership's drive to a successful outcome. Guy is building two new organizations with his business partners, Gary Fletcher and Dave Zupano.EHE Capital Limited is a highly efficient, tech-led private equity organization with a genuine focus on supporting entrepreneurs through their companies' high growth stage through to be a successful conclusion. EHE capital also provides qualified, high-quality deal flow for investors, private equity, and venture capital organizations.Guidr LLC is a legal document platform whose moonshot is to be the largest legal entity in the world that does not employ any lawyers. Guidr LLC is digitizing, democratizing, and demonetizing legal services, helping smaller law firms compete in the digital era.In addition to his working commitments, Guy dedicates time to charitable activities. For well over a decade, he has worked with Variety, the children's charity in a number of voluntary roles, currently acting as the Chairman for the Northwest Region in the UK and more recently as a trustee for the organization.Please enjoy! Click here to subscribe to The Sell My Business Podcast to save time and effort. SELECTED LINKS FOR THIS EPISODEehe.capitalguidr.legalguyremond[at]gmail[dot]comThe Deep Wealth ExperienceFREE Deep Wealth eBook on Why You Suck At Selling Your Business And What You Can Do About It (Today)Book Your FREE Deep Wealth Strategy Call‍Did you enjoy this episode of The Sell My Business Podcast? Please leave a review. Reviews help me reach new listeners, grow the show, and continue to create content that you'll enjoy.Please click here to leave a review on The Sell My Business Podcast. This podcast is brought to you by Deep Wealth. Your liquidity event is the most important financial transaction of your life. You have one chance to get it right, and you better make it count. But unfortunately, up to 90% of liquidity events fail. Think about all that time, money and effort wasted. Of the "successful" liqui

Guy Remond - Non Executive Director, Investor & Entrepreneur An experienced individual with over 20 years in the tech, software & consulting/advisory industries, as a founder, director, investor and advisor. Brief Profile: Guy's working career began in retail where he enjoyed an eleven-year stint in various managerial positions. Following this, he followed his passion for anything technical and branched out on his own into the technical world. In 2001 he was a founding member and CEO of Cake Solutions Limited and over the next 16 years, he directly oversaw the development of the business from a small start-up to that of an international, multi-million-pound company respected as being at the cutting edge of engineering and process in the open-source software development world. After being recognised in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and being viewed as one of the most unique, forward-thinking and fast-growth companies in the industry Cake Solutions Limited was acquired by a multinational corporation and the business was subsequently rebranded as Disney Streaming Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company owned by The Walt Disney Corporation. As a creative and widely experienced individual with a keen focus on personal development, company culture and process improvement, Guy has invested in a number of companies and is actively working with these companies in a non-executive director or chairman role, helping them to fulfil the leadership's drive to a successful outcome. Guy is building two new organisations with his business partners Gary Fletcher and Dave Zumpano. EHE Capital Limited is a highly efficient tech-led Private Equity organisation with a genuine focus on supporting entrepreneurs through their companies high growth stage through to a successful conclusion. We also provide qualified, high-quality deal flow for investors, private equity and venture capital organisations. Guidr LLC is a legal document platform whose moonshot is to be the largest legal entity in the world that does not employ any lawyers. We are digitising, democratising and demonetising legal services, helping smaller law firms compete in the digital era. In addition to his working commitments, Guy dedicates time to charitable activities. For well over a decade he has worked with Variety - the Children's Charity in a number of voluntary roles, currently acting as the Chairman for the North West region in the UK and more recently as a Trustee for the organisation. “There is going to be more change in the next 10 years than there has been in the last 50. Any businesses that are not tech led or tech driven in the next 10 years that don't adopt AI won't be around, they will just disappear. All future businesses have to be tech led and they have to understand how artificial intelligence is going to affect that business and they then have to be on top of that and ahead of the curve and that will give them a fighting chance ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-mwr

As George wraps up his Star Wars saga with three more films, he feels the time is right to retire and sell Lucasfilm. But the Walt Disney Corporation takes his beloved franchise in a controversial new direction.To listen to Business Movers ad-free, join Wondery+ in the Wondery App. Click here to download the app: https://wondery.app.link/businessmoversSupport us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's the sixteenth annual iFanboy All Media Year End Roundup! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and special guest Ron Richards discuss some of what they enjoyed in media in this, the weird year that was 2021. Movies, television, music, books, and comics — it's all here! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard's opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Note: Timecodes are subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Running Time: 02:28:20 Movies: 00:02:32 – Licorice Pizza 00:05:52 – The French Dispatch 00:08:13 – Stillwater 00:10:27 – Dune 00:13:43 – No Time to Die 00:15:27 – Together Together 00:17:52 – The Sparks Brothers 00:21:20 – Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself 00:23:06 – The Mitchells vs. The Machines 00:24:40 – Annette 00:26:48 – tick, tick… BOOM! 00:29:33 – The Harder They Fall 00:32:22 – Zola 00:35:55 – The Fast Saga 00:39:07 – The current state of the movies Television: 00:40:26 – Only Murders in the Building 00:42:47 – Ted Lasso 00:43:39 – Swagger 00:46:25 – Scenes from a Marriage 00:47:52 – Billons 00:49:17 – Mare of Easttown 00:50:46 – Gossip Girl 00:54:27 – Lupin 00:56:15 – Foundation 00:58:27 – The Expanse 01:02:02 – DC's Legends of Tomorrow 01:04:11 – Dopesick 01:10:18 – The Beatles: Get Back 01:17:20 – Yellowstone 01:18:42 – Succession Books: 01:28:13 – “Termination Shock: A Novel” by Neal Stephenson 01:32:04 – “Project Hail Mary: A Novel” by Andy Weir 01:34:11 – “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel” by Quentin Tarantino 01:36:14 – “The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles” by Gary Krist 01:37:55 – “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)” by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling 01:40:32 – “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood” by Sam Wasson 01:41:52 – “The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery” by Simon Worrall 01:43:01 – “Truman” by David McCullough 01:45:49 – “Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas” by Glenn Kenny 01:47:29 – “The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel” by Richard Osman 01:48:50 – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz 01:51:17 – “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” by John le Carré Music: 01:52:48 – “Distant Populations” – Quicksand 01:54:50 – “El Camino 10th Anniversary” – The Black Keys 01:56:14 – “Drives Out East” – Koyo 01:57:20 – Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real at the El Rey in Los Angeles 01:58:59 – The “Distortion” Sets – Bob Mould 02:02:27 – My Bloody Valentine Reissues 02:06:22 – “Hit the Breaks” – PLOSIVS 02:07:10 – “Glow On” – Turnstile Comics: 02:08:30 – The mini-series is back! 02:09:15 – Nightwing 02:10:22 – Fantastic Four 02:11:11 – Beta Ray Bill 02:11:56 – King in Black: Thunderbolts 02:13:28 – Rorschach 02:14:31 – Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow 02:15:32 – Haha 02:16:56 – Karmen 02:18:02 – Maestro: War and Pax 02:19:17 – Kang The Conquerer Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got TWELVE designs! For More Ron Richards… • Watch All About Android! • If you're into pinball, check out Scorbit! Music: “It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” Slowey and The Boats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Florida Supreme Court has partnered with the Bar to declare November “Legal Professionalism Month” and is asking members to rededicate themselves to the highest ideals of professionalism and civility in all they do.  To close out the month and as reference going forward, we thought we'd discuss how to navigate the new normal as it pertains to our virtual or socially distanced workplace interactions with colleagues and clients. In today's episode hosts Christine Bilbrey and Karla Eckardt are joined by Mr. Manners himself, Thomas Farley, to discuss all our modern professional etiquette dilemmas.Thomas P. Farley is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, syndicated columnist, and TV commentator. His clients have included the United States Department of Commerce, the Estée Lauder Companies, JPMorgan Chase, the Walt Disney Corporation, Bank of America, the American Automobile Association (AAA), the U.S. Army, Viacom, Toyota, and UPS. Thomas is a regular and popular guest on the NBC Today show, where he fields questions on modern-day manners issues. In 2017, he debuted “Manners on the Move,” a special multi-part Today show series that examined incivility in America. His syndicated weekly column, “Ask Mister Manners,” appears in Tribune publications throughout the United States. His insights appear regularly in other media as well, including the Rachael Ray show, Inside Edition, Dr. Oz, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wired and Money magazines, USA Today, CNN, VH1, and ABC. Thomas is a graduate of New York's Fordham University. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and he edited the anthology “Modern Manners: The Thinking Person's Guide to Social Graces.”This podcast has been approved by The Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Department for 1 hour of General CLE credit including 1 hour of Professionalism CLE credit. Course #5680.REFERENCED RESOURCES:Thomas P. Farley - Mister MannersWorkshopsAsk Mr. MannersThe Florida Bar's Henry Latimer Center for ProfessionalismLegal Professionalism in the Electronic AgeBest Practices for Professional Electronic Communication

Join Brian, Justin, Brett Weaver, and int "Dual Core" "int Greaty" eighty in the Green Room: conspiracies about the Walt Disney Corporation, the ways the Iron Lady farted, Christ's crucifix barker, a 20-year-old 1-star review, Shatner did an incredible achievement by going into """space,""" college house party vibes,  Plus, some Bryce talk: the best strats for race day and the introduction of Bruce Castillo. Check out Dual Core online: http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/ Get a bonus episode every week only at https://www.patreon.com/greatnight and enjoy the preshow and postshow in all the public feeds! Email us! GreatNightPod@gmail.com

Join Brian, Justin, Brett Weaver, and int "Dual Core" "int Greaty" eighty in the Green Room: conspiracies about the Walt Disney Corporation, the ways the Iron Lady farted, Christ's crucifix barker, a 20-year-old 1-star review, Shatner did an incredible achievement by going into """space,""" college house party vibes,  Plus, some Bryce talk: the best strats for race day and the introduction of Bruce Castillo. Check out Dual Core online: http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/ Get a bonus episode every week only at https://www.patreon.com/greatnight and enjoy the preshow and postshow in all the public feeds! Email us! GreatNightPod@gmail.com

•Two major leftist organizations launched ads targeting AT&T, condemning it for contributing to the campaigns of Texas Republican lawmakers who sponsored S.B. 8, the law that bans abortions after 6 weeks gestation when doctors can detect a "fetal heartbeat." The organizations also plan to hit the Walt Disney Corporation, and NBC-Universal over donations those companies made to Republicans sponsoring a similar abortion bill in Florida.• •Former Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub shared some constructive criticism on Wednesday for President Biden and his administration.• --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salisburyobserver/message

FIRST 24:15 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict AFTER 24:15 it's a full spoiler review Let's be honest, The Suicide Squad is James Gunn's middle finger to the Walt Disney Corporation.  Ian and Liam are here to run through their first feelings on the kinda sequel, kinda reboot that is The Suicide Squad.  Was Idris Elba better than Will Smith?  How good was John Cena?  Does James Gunn start to get predictable? If this loses its shirt at the box office, will WB order a 3rd? Is Harley Quinn's characterisation comparable to Birds of Prey?  What's the only sequel to this film we'd want to see? We answer all these questions and more in our "See It or Skip It" review of The Suicide Squad and then we tell you whether you should SEE IT or SKIP IT.

Spiritual Expert - Patty Pobanz is a native of Southern California. Having formerly worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox and the Walt Disney Corporation, Patty became a successful businesswoman on her own terms; opening a women's fitness centre and also becoming a respected Wellness Consultant and Life Coach Speaker. Patty still speaks at many seminars each year, helping people to prevent disease and stay healthy through good nutrition and fitness, as well as her talks coaching people on surviving adversity. A self-confessed "42 years young!" Patty still has ties with the Disney Corporation - as a frequent visitor to Disneyland where she, her two children and her boyfriend often go on family days out, which Patty describes as one of her "favorite things to do." Patty has a degree in business from Pierce College, she lives in Valencia, California with her family and Labradors Racer and Rocky. She is also currently working on a further two books.

Spiritual Expert - Patty Pobanz is a native of Southern California. Having formerly worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox and the Walt Disney Corporation, Patty became a successful businesswoman on her own terms; opening a women's fitness centre and also becoming a respected Wellness Consultant and Life Coach Speaker. Patty still speaks at many seminars each year, helping people to prevent disease and stay healthy through good nutrition and fitness, as well as her talks coaching people on surviving adversity. A self-confessed "42 years young!" Patty still has ties with the Disney Corporation - as a frequent visitor to Disneyland where she, her two children and her boyfriend often go on family days out, which Patty describes as one of her "favorite things to do." Patty has a degree in business from Pierce College, she lives in Valencia, California with her family and Labradors Racer and Rocky. She is also currently working on a further two books.

The Walt Disney Corporation's Games division is apparently signaling that it's open licensing its characters and settings to a broader group of game developers. In a conversation with IGN's Rebekah Valentine, Disney SVP of Walt Disney Games Sean Shoptaw & VP of Disney & Pixar Games Luigi Priore dropped some tantalizing comments both about unannounced upcoming titles, but also what kinds of developers the company is open to partnering with in the coming years. Their comments seem to indicate the company is actively interested in fielding pitches from indie developers to make games using its characters, alongside larger triple-A licensors like Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Sources: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/383614/Disney_is_apparently_interested_in_indie_devs_using_its_IP.php Article Author June 16, 2021 | By Bryant Francis --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pixel-sultan/support

In this episode, a humiliated Walt Disney Corporation scrubbed its bizarre critical race theory-based employee indoctrination materials from the Internet after a think tank scholar exposed them.

In this episode we talk about the beginning of the Walt Disney Corporation. We talk about how Walt Disney was deep in debt before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs started a river of cash. We also talk about the films subsequent to that all the way to Pinocchio in 1940. Recorded in 2019Thanks for listening!

Melissa Kilby is the Co-Executive Director of Girl Up, a leadership development program working to achieve gender equality for all girls everywhere. Melissa co-leads this initiative, hosted at the UN Foundation, that inspires, convenes, trains and connects girls globally, helping to position them as leaders and changemakers. Since joining in September 2011, Melissa has helped Girl Up raise over $15 million dollars to support a robust girl’s leadership program and the work of Girl Up’s United Nations partners. Melissa works with corporations such as The Walt Disney Corporation, Caterpillar, Johnson&Johnson, Oath, and others, as well as manages the grant-making and investments to UN agencies including UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, and UN Women. She has traveled to Guatemala, Ethiopia, Malawi, and India to meet girls directly benefiting from the fundraising efforts of Girl Up supporters. Under Melissa’s leadership, Girl Up has grown into a global gender equality movement of more than 700,000 supporters and impacted the lives of more than 65,000 girls around the world. I found this conversation to be enlightening, I was really curious about the concept of global female equality and had a lot of questions about cultural differences. Melissa helped me find new perspectives and had a lot of stories to share So without further ado, Melissa Kilby Resoruces: https://unfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-people/melissa-kilby/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-hillebrenner-kilby-a439426/ https://www.ted.com/talks/melissa_kilby_teenage_girls_will_change_the_world_4_ways_they_are_leading_the_way https://girlup.org/about

In the Before Times of Yore, podcaster/producer/comic Spencer Blair chats about his mostly-improvised hosting set at Strip Joker. We discuss his improv background, how he got into hosting/producing shows all over Chicago, the internal dynamics of Strip Joker, and being terrifyingly confident onstage, all before we dive into the set. Spencer can be found on the podcasts 'Desks & Dayjobs' as well as 'Please Make This', and is currently a co-producer of Strip Joker.   Timestamps:   01:00 – Hosting Set @ Strip Joker Mentions of Martin Felshman, Rachel Relman, ‘A Dog’s Journey’, Lexipro 10:36 – “When did you realize comedy was a thing you could do?” Mentions of Comedy Sportz, Imposter Syndrome 12:33 – “Maybe you should stop trying so hard” Mentions of Scott Duff, Le Aboav 14:03 – The Funny Friend 15:05 – “I went to a small, Christian university” Mentions of Orange County, Improv Groups; Improvcivable, Improv Shmimprov, Disney Cruises, The Walt Disney Corporation 17:30 – “Doing the Chicago thing” Mentions of iO, Second City 18:41 – “I’ve never consistently mic’ed” Mentions of Hobart Thompson, The Chill As Fuck Show, Droday, Dewayne Perkins, Michelle Wolfe, Brooklyn Nine-Nine 21:25 – Stand-Up vs. Improv Mentions of The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Second City 23:10 –The Chill As Fuck Show and Strip Joker Mentions of Brittany Meyer, Le Aboav, Strip Joker Deluxe, Scott Duff, Uptown Underground, That Dude Jeff, Sunny Grissom 27:57 – “The trick is being terrifyingly confident onstage” 29:09 – “The Scientific Method, but applied to humor” Mentions of Samantha Berkman, Kink-Shaming 30:54 – Getting into the Set 30:55 – Ad Libs 31:22 – “Are you as horny as I am?” Mentions of Body Positivity, Sex Positivity 32:10 – “I don’t write comedy down” Mentions of Tad Walters, Kirkwood 34:00 – “Everybody’s gay dad” 34:58 – Seasonal Depression Mentions of Lexapro, SSRI, Edging 38:29 – “A hot guy and his boyfriend” 40:37 – Coming Down from Lexapro Mention of Grindr, Christmas 43:18 – Gay Dating Apps 44:00 – Crying at a Movie Poster Mention of Johnny Rockets, ‘Homeward Bound’ 48:30 – Losing the Audience 50:10 – The Oppressor in the Safe Space 52:16 – “Two white guys unpacking it on a podcast” Mention of Casey Larwood 521:54 – Self Awareness 53:23 – Spencer Shaved His Legs 54:27 – Wrapping It Up 57:25 – “I’m definitely more comfortable with queer comedy” 59:40 – Advice for Aspiring Comedians 1:00:25 – “The reason we do open mics is to see, meet, and network with people” 1:02:49 – Asshole with Great Jokes

In these outtakes from Devin Middleton's episode, we talk about the various reactions of Star wars fans to his set, accountability in the stand-up comedy scene, how the Walt Disney Corporation is destroying public domain, the X-Men comics, and a discussion of queer coding in the Dragonball Z series leads to the foundation of his next project.   Timestamps:   01:45 – “How many times have you done this bit?” 01:45 – “How many times have you done this bit?” 03:05 –Recording ‘The Haggard Unicorn’ 03:45 – “What inspired you to do an analysis of the Star Wars movies?” Mentions of Artisan Culture Club, ‘The Wire’, Patton Oswalt 05:51 – “The Sith and Jedi are street gangs” Mentions of Crips, Bloods, The Walt Disney Corporation 07:46 – Star Wars fans Mentions of Stephen Colbert, JRR Tolkien, ‘The Silmarillion’ 08:58 – Lando is *the* Black Person in the Original Trilogy 09:48 – “One person told me that seeing this piece changed the way they thought of doing comedy” 10:16 – “This could be a sketch” 11:15 – “Comedians should have some solidarity” / “We’re used to being burned” Mentions of Bill Cosby, Louie CK, Sexism, “All Lives Matter” 12:56 – Real-Time Accountability in the Comedy Scene 14:51 – The Duality of Stand-Up Comedians 16:05 – The Walt Disney Corporation Has Destroyed Public Domain Mentions of Mickey Mouse, Sherlock Holmes, Death of the Author, The Mandalorian 18:00 – The X-Men Franchise Mentions of Marvel, Fox, Marvel Comics, Public Domain, The Fast and The Furious 19:42 – “If I may make a suggestion… Dragon Ball Z” Mentions of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, ‘The Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, Netflix, Manga 21:38 – Queer Characters in Dragon Ball Z Mentions of Freeza, Buu, 17 22:25 – “Every black character is actually a green character” 23:31 – How Capitalism Abuses Manga Authors Mention of Akira Toriyama [implied], Japan, Netflix 24:45 – James Earl Jones Narrates ‘The Bible’ Mention of Barnes & Noble

We close out the year, again, by taking a look at Wonder Woman 1984, the highly anticipated sequel to the the 2017 smash-hit starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. Conor Kilpatrick welcomes special guests Ron Richards and Ryan Haupt to break it all down. (Disclaimer: Ron Richard’s opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 00:37:38 Music: "Winter Wonderland Willie Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the fifteenth annual iFanboy All Media Year End Roundup! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and special guest Ron Richards discuss some of what they enjoyed in media in this, the weird year that was 2020. Movies, television, music, games, books, podcasts, and comics — it’s all here! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard’s opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 02:39:20 Movies: 00:02:31 – Mank 00:09:05 – Greyhound 00:10:48 – Palm Springs 00:12:55 – On The Rocks 00:15:32 – The Banker 00:17:06 – Bad Education 00:19:09 – The Trial of the Chicago 7 00:22:29 – The Gentlemen 00:25:10 – Impractical Jokers: The Movie 00:28:11 – John Lewis: Good Trouble 00:30:25 – The Social Dilemma 00:33:05 – Class Action Park 00:35:38 – The King of Staten Island 00:38:57 – Hamilton 00:44:41 – Sound of Metal Television: 00:47:36 – The Crown 00:51:43 – Fargo 00:56:33 – The Mandalorian 01:00:52 – Star Trek: Picard 01:02:32 – The Right Stuff 01:06:37 – High Fidelity 01:08:12 – Ted Lasso 01:10:36 – What We Do in the Shadows 01:12:11 – Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet 01:14:13 – Perry Mason 01:16:59 – The Good Lord Bird 01:20:41 – Devs 01:22:47 – Survivor 01:24:32 – The Reagans 01:27:40 – Jeopardy Games: 01:35:31 – Forza Horizon 4 01:36:28 – Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla Books: 01:37:40 – Ron read NO books this year 01:38:32 – “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe 01:40:11 – “Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires” by Selwyn Raab 01:43:47 – “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich” by Norman Ohler 01:46:33 – “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz” by Erik Larson 01:48:18 – “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood” by Sam Wasson 01:50:14 – “Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion” by Bad Religion with Jim Ruland 01:52:40 – “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow 01:55:02 – “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” by Robert A. Caro 01:58:09 – “The Long Goodbye” by Raymond Chandler 01:59:52 – “The Whites” by Richard Price Music: 02:01:12 – Josh and Ron bought A LOT of vinyl 02:03:53 – “Blue Hearts” by Bob Mould 02:05:58 – Ben Gibbard’s livestream shows 02:07:23 – Virtual Concerts 02:09:55 – Silversun Pickups at House of Blues: Boston 02:12:03 – “Paint My Memory” by Somerset Thrower Podcasts: 02:13:25 – “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” with Conan O’Brien, Sona Movsesian, and Matt Gourley 02:17:21 – “Alan Partridge: From the Oasthouse” with Alan Partridge 02:19:00 – “Chameleon: Hollywood Con Queen” with Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis 02:21:00 – “Deep Cover: The Drug Wars” with Josh Halpern Comics: 02:22:06 – DCeased (Dead Planet, Unkillables, Hope at World’s End) 02:23:16 – Dragon Hoops 02:23:50 – Fantastic Four 02:24:31 – Doctor Doom 02:25:25 – Strange Adventures 02:26:19 – Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen 02:27:05 – Marvels (X and Snapshots) 02:27:58 – Middlewest 02:29:01 – John Constantine: Hellblazer 02:30:01 – Hawkeye: Freefall Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons – Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch – Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We’ve got seven designs! For More Ron… Watch All About Android! If you’re into pinball, check out Scorbit! Music: “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” Charley Pride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We sit down with Bob Iger, Executive Chairman of the Walt Disney Corporation. Bob has been employed within the same company for 46 years. First at ABC television, rising the ranks within their sports, before eventually making his way to Disney, where he became CEO in 2005. Bob has built on Disney's rich history of storytelling innovation with the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox . He also created an ambitious direct to consumer strategy that leveraged to Disney's unparalleled creative content across new platforms like Disney+ and ESPN+. We chat about his early career, how he helped evolve Disney to what it is today and what wisdom he wants to impart to the next generation. ** This episode is sponsored by Bixby Coffee Roasters. Hosted by Miles Fisher **

Before you take off...Want to see future episode highlights? You can add me on Linkedin here.Until you went public and found liquidity, you can't say you're company has been a success. Focus on execution and don't get too confident. Here are the main talking points:  What companies always need to keep an eye on in-between their capital raises What's SeventySix Capital methodology in helping companies they invest in How should you spend the money after the raise About Chad:Chad is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist. He oversees business operations, investments, finance and administration at SeventySix Capital. Chad also runs our internship program, which currently has over 100 alumni to-date. He works with the partners of SeventySix Capital to support them with investor relations, fundraising and company investments. Chad was awarded the 2018 Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and the 2018 Southern New Jersey Business People's 40 Under 40.Prior to SeventySix Capital, Chad worked for the Philadelphia Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor, led a sports accessory startup and interned for the Philadelphia 76ers and The Walt Disney Corporation. He currently sits on the boards of Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, Challah for Hunger, Tribe 12 and is an advisor to New Leaders Council Fellows. Chad is a graduate of James Madison University and received his master's degree from East Stroudsburg University.

Spiritual Expert - Patty Pobanz is a native of Southern California. Having formerly worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox and the Walt Disney Corporation, Patty became a successful businesswoman on her own terms; opening a women's fitness centre and also becoming a respected Wellness Consultant and Life Coach Speaker. Patty still speaks at many seminars each year, helping people to prevent disease and stay healthy through good nutrition and fitness, as well as her talks coaching people on surviving adversity. A self-confessed "42 years young!" Patty still has ties with the Disney Corporation - as a frequent visitor to Disneyland where she, her two children and her boyfriend often go on family days out, which Patty describes as one of her "favorite things to do." Patty has a degree in business from Pierce College, she lives in Valencia, California with her family and Labradors Racer and Rocky. She is also currently working on a further two books.

Chad is known as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and connector. He oversees business operations, investments, finance and administration at SeventySix Capital. Chad also runs our internship program, which currently has over 100 alumni to-date. He works with the partners of SeventySix Capital to support them with investor relations, fundraising and company investments. Chad was awarded the 2018 Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 and the 2018 Southern New Jersey Business People's 40 Under 40. Prior to SeventySix Capital, Chad worked for the Philadelphia Flyers, Comcast-Spectacor, led a sports accessory startup and interned for the Philadelphia 76ers and The Walt Disney Corporation. He currently sits on the boards of Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, Challah for Hunger, Tribe 12 and is an advisor to New Leaders Council Fellows. Chad is a graduate of James Madison University and received his master's degree from East Stroudsburg University. LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2qeOsu7 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2DJoiHX --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/athleteevolved/support

RUNTIME: 01:48:16 SHOW NOTES: GAME  – Name That Partially Nude Character TOPIC – The Walt Disney Corporation (would Walt be proud?) LISTENER QUESTIONS – 6 questions including a fuck, marry, kill, Disney edition. The post Ep76 – The Soul of The Walt Disney Corporation appeared first on VictorMoranLive.com.

Co-conspirators Avalon and Connor discuss several different conspiracies that surround The Walt Disney Corporation.

The cult classic A GOOFY MOVIE is a Disney movie that often gets overlooked. Dr. Nehemiah Mabry considers it his favorite movie, and says as a father, his perspective has definitely changed over time.Check out the article we reference by Jordan Calhoun.All clips and music belong to the Walt Disney Corporation.Theme by J-Mac of Fourth Quarter Entertainment.Have an idea for an episode or just want to get in touch? Shoot us an email at hello@filmnutspodcast.com.Support the showGet in touch by emailing filmnutspodcast@gmail.com or following us on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok @filmnutspodcast.The Film Nuts Podcast on YoutubeJoin The Nut House Discord community!Support The Film Nuts Podcast on Patreon!

In this episode, Robyn focuses her spotlight on Jaime Konzelman, founder of Finding My Fire based in Las Vegas.  Jaime is a corporate renegade with a one-of-a-kind perspective on defining success on her own terms. A born deal maker, Jaime has brokered $100 million+  enterprise-level IT Services deals. She has worked for global brands like Atos, Acxiom, MGM Resorts, and the Walt Disney Corporation. As a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and Harvard trained leadership trainer, she helps burnt out entrepreneurs and executives to find their fire, so that they can have it all – a life full of passion and purpose built on realizing their deepest desires. When she's not helping clients you can find her training for triathlons and spending time with her wife and three Labradors – Kona, Kaimana, and Sir Winston. Listen as Jaime shares her unique background and how she realized her hidden gifts that were paving the path towards her success in the most unexpected yet powerful ways.  She believes one of our greatest gifts is to be able to change the outcome of our own life story and she openly talks about how she has done this for herself in a compelling story full of vulnerability and audacity. "The fire is already in you. My job is simply to fan the flames."   Her Mantra:  "Trying times are training for greatness." ~ Jaime K.  To learn more about Jaime:Website:  www.findingmyfire.comInstagram: @jaimekonzelman

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we share memories around Star Wars race weekends and runDisney. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 write out your memory and email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com record your memory on your phone and email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com  find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we share memories around Star Wars race weekends and runDisney. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we share memories around food, dining, or snack at Disney. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we share rainy day Disney memories. We're all going through uncertainty around us. There is so much we cannot control, and sometimes that brings anxiety. Today, I try to show you how at Disney, even when we can't control what's going on around us, we can control our response. I'm not saying that a rainy day at Disney is anywhere near the level of COVID, but just wanted to share a little bit of Disney magic today. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we have memories of Birthday Magic, Crossing the line, Bad Jaffar, and 50s Prime Time Cafe, and more! To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we have memories of feeding friendly squirrels in Fanasyland (say that five times fast), the upside down part of Pirates of the Caribbean, a Goofy Goodnight, and more! To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today I share why it's been so long since the podcast has been active, why this is the perfect time to start again, and what to expect from here on out. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we have memories of grad night, Jedis, and Tigga! To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

From Toronto, Gordon Reid, President and Chief Executive Officer at Goodreid Investment Counsel examines retail stocks. From Philadelphia, analyst Adam Choppin, Investment Officer at FIS Group appraises the investment potential of India. From Hollywood, correspondent Sharrie Williams looks at the potential impact of legislative changes on the Walt Disney Corporation and their financial implications. Gavin Graham explains defensive investing in a period of slowing growth.

Go to https://NordVPN.com/nerdsoup or use code NERDSOUP to get 70% off a 3-year plan plus 1 additional month free. The Soup Gang discusses the recent breaking news that Bob Iger would be stepping down as CEO of The Walt Disney Corporation. Plus, Star Wars gets a reboot, sort of?TOPICS!:57 - Introduction5:21 - Bob Iger steps down as CEO of Disney11:26 - Star Wars High Republic Series Announced 17:58 - James Mangold Rumored to Direct Indian Jones 5 22:21 - Targon Egerton, Scarlett Johansson & Chris Evans In Talks For Little Shop of Horrors Remake26:24 - Behind the scenes look at Pattinson’s Batman 30:08 - What's Trending36:00 - Fan QuestionsFOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, SOUNDCLOUD, ITUNES, SPOTIFY & FACEBOOK!PATREON - www.patreon.com/nerdsoupTWITTER! - twitter.com/NerdSoupAaron Twitter: @nerdsoupmonkeyTeddy Twitter: @TeddyNerdSoupNash Twitter: @AnthonyJQNashINSTAGRAM - www.instagram.com/nerdsoup4u/SOUNDCLOUD! - @thenerdsouppodcastITUNES! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...FACEBOOK! - www.facebook.com/NerdSoup4u/)SPOTIFY! - open.spotify.com/show/22s4vzJRepFYdypykSE1mt

The timing of Disney's announcement that Bob Iger was stepping down from the CEO role flies in the face of everything we know about Bob Iger. Iger is meticulous in planning and process-oriented. To announce a CEO change intra-quarter does not make sense from a timing standpoint. It suggests an outside catalyst in our view. Our best guess would be that Apple reached out to negotiate an acquisition of the Walt Disney Corporation, specifically the direct-to-consumer and content-related assets. See our related TEK2day article entitled "Disney’s Sudden CEO Change – What Does It Foreshadow?" here: https://tek2day.com/2020/02/25/disneys-sudden-ceo-change-what-does-it-foreshadow/

Gavin discusses the increasing battle for streaming dollars between Netflix, the Walt Disney Corporation and other companies with Hollywood correspondent Sharrie Williams. He also discusses major banks that have performed well in recent years and some that have not.

Our semi annual holiday tradition continues! It’s time to gather around the fire and talk about the final chapter of the Star Wars (Skywalker) Saga — Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker! Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick welcome back special guest Ron Richards to break down the last step in a 42 year journey. (Disclaimer: Ron Richard’s opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 00:56:15 Music: “Fanfare and Prologue” John Williams and “Victory Celebration/End Title” John Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the fourteenth annual iFanboy All Media Year End Roundup! Conor Kilpatrick, Josh Flanagan, and special guest Ron Richards discuss some of what they enjoyed in media in 2019. Movies, television, music, books, podcasts, and comics -- it's all here! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard's opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 02:52:50 Movies: 00:02:35 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 00:09:02 - Parasite 00:12:44 - Dolemite is My Name 00:15:58 - The Irishman 00:23:46 - The Farewell 00:25:29 - Rocketman 00:27:49 - Ford v Ferrari 00:33:50 - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 00:36:32 - Yesterday 00:40:09 - Booksmart 00:43:32 - Late Night 00:45:23 - The Current War 00:49:35 - Knives Out 00:54:52 - Downton Abbey 00:57:35 - Josh's Kids Movie Roundup Television: 01:00:37 - Chernobyl 01:05:38 - The Crown 01:08:06 - The Boys 01:10:47 - The Deuce 01:14:07 - Succession 01:16:18 - The Righteous Gemstones 01:18:43 - The Mandalorian 01:21:13 - Good Omens 01:23:11 - For All Mankind 01:25:49 - The Orville 01:28:41 - The Good Place 01:29:31 - Wu-Tang: An American Saga 01:32:25 - The Imagineering Story 01:35:41 - Yellowstone 01:37:01 - Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns Music: 01:43:24 - Bad Religion, "Age of Unreason" / Age of Unreason Tour 01:45:32 - Adult Magic, "Adult Magic" 01:47:15 - Superchunk, Acoustic Foolish Tour 01:49:35 - Reunions 01:56:37 - Conor Goes to Shows! 01:59:23 - Mike Watt 02:01:08 - Vinyl... just in general 02:02:40 - Camp Fuzz Books: 02:07:23 - "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson 02:11:32 - "The Cobweb: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George 02:12:39 - "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland 02:14:38 - "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann 02:16:21 - "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe 02:18:46 - "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen 02:20:09 - "Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc." by Jeff Tweedy 02:22:05 - "All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire" by Jonathan Abrams 02:23:37 - "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond 02:26:51 - "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler 02:28:29 - "Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion" by Ian Winwood Podcasts: 02:30:52 - "The Chernobyl Podcast" with Peter Segal and Craig Mazin 02:32:01 - "Dolly Parton's America" with Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee 02:32:57 - "Patient Zero" with Taylor Quimby and New Hampshire Public Radio 02:34:35 - Pinball Podcasts 02:36:00 - Audible Originals 02:38:35 - "Revisionist History" with Malcolm Gladwell Comics: 02:39:27 - Batman: Universe 02:40:04 - Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen 02:40:44 - Superman: Up in the Sky 02:41:23 - Red Sonja 02:42:07 - Criminal 02:42:41 - DCeased 02:43:39 - Fantastic Four 02:44:22 - Crowded 02:45:19 - The Lone Ranger 02:46:08 - Old Man Quill Brought To You By: • iFanboy Patrons - Become one today for as little as $3/month! Or make a one time donation of any amount! • iFanboy T-Shirts and Merch - Show your iFanboy pride with a t-shirt or other great merchandise on Threadless! We've got seven designs! Music: "A Willie Nice Christmas (feat. Willie Nelson)" Kacey Musgraves   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features highlights from the recent webcast “3 Steps to People-Centricity: How Your CU Can Deeply Engage with Members, Potential Members, and Employees,” and featured Lauren Leland Brand from sponsor Medallia, and Rob Maretsky, from Partners Federal Credit Union, which services members of the Walt Disney Corporation.  To view the full presentation on demand, click here: https://www.cutimes.com/2019/06/24/3-steps-to-engage-credit-union-members-potential-members-and-employees/

This week on End Credits, we court controversy. We dig into arguably the most controversial pick for Best Picture in the last 20 years, and ask if it might be too much to expect a road move to solve racism. Yup, we're reviewing Green Book, and we're talking about the last days of a movie studio, another Simpsons squabble, the trailer for *that* Disney movie, and whether or not it's okay to be okay. This Wednesday, March 20, at 2 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Vince Masson will discuss: The End. This week marks the end of 20th Century Fox as its own Hollywood studio, and the beginning of its time as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation. While a lot of the focus has been on what will happen to your favourite franchises, there could be as many as 10,000 people out of a job, and fewer movies being made in a given year with Disney controlling nearly half of the market. We'll consider the bigger implications of this change. Stark Raving Bad. The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean took the bold step of pulling one of his most signature episodes of the series from syndication, the one that guest-starred Michael Jackson. In the wake of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, Jean said he suspected that the episode might have been used by Jackson to lure some of his alleged victims though he has no proof. But really, how much of Jackson's legacy can be erased from pop culture? Oh Kay, Captain, My Captain. Captain Marvel is a box office smash, but many critics have noted that they're not as bowled over by the film as they would like it to be. It's entertaining enough, sure, but it doesn't exactly re-invent the wheel. This prompts the question: Is it okay that Captain Marvel is just okay? Many cultural commentators hope so because the demand for perfection has been holding female-led films back. We'll talk about this new debate. Arabian Blights. Disney has created something of a cottage industry doing live-action versions of their big animated hits, but they may have met their match in Aladdin. While at first there was concern that the film wouldn't be culturally sensitive enough, now the concern is whether the movie looks too impossibly silly to overcome. From Will Smith's not-so-blue Genie, to a less-than-threatening looking Jafar, we'll look at all the way we're concerned with Aladdin. REVIEW: Green Book (2018). It was the Academy Award winner for Best Picture this year, and it's been the subject of a great deal of controversy because of it. The inspired-by-true-events tale of Dr. Donald Shirley, and his 1962 tour through the South while being driven by Tony Lip, a low level enforcer for the New York mob, certainly seemed to be a crowd-pleaser, and it has three Oscars, but are people judging the movie for what it is, or what it isn't?  We'll bring a critical eye to Green Book and consider if the blowback has been overblown. End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 2 pm.

Here is a lion! Welcome to Pride Rock, the glamorous, regal, iconic site of this week's movie musical, Disney's epic AF "The Lion King." Featuring a cast of what feels like 50 famous actors, this 90s nostalgia trip is one helluva ride into the Pridelands, as young Simba must face his destiny after his father meets a tragic fate at the paws of his scheming, fabulous uncle Scar.  Podcast cover art: David Taylor Twitter: @bwaybabies Facebook: Facebook.com/broadwaybabiespodcast Film (only available for purchase): iTunes | Amazon Cast recording: iTunes | Amazon Music | Spotify Music: "The Circle of Life," performed by Carmen Twillie and Lebo M. "I Just Can't Wait to be King," by Jason Weaver, Rowan Atkinson and Laura Williams "Be Prepared," by Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin and Jim Cummings "Hakuna Matata," by Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver and Joseph Williams "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" by Joseph Williams, Sally Dworsky, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella and Kristle Edwards "King of Pride Rock/Circle of Life (reprise)," composed by Hans Zimmer, featuring Lebo M. Music by Elton John; lyrics by Tim Rice; arranged by Hans Zimmer. All music is owned under copyright by the Walt Disney Records, under the Walt Disney Corporation. This music is used under fair use doctrine for comment, criticism and educational purposes. Show Notes The teaser trailer for the “live” remake came out JUST after we recorded this. Go watch it NOW. Disney’s official making-of featurette of “The Lion King” released on its 1995 VHS, hosted by the late Robert Guillaime (the voice of Rafiki). There are lot of behind-the-scenes clips of the actual recordings, performances and animations, as well as the live animals used to model the characters. Here’s another, more recent, much better filmed documentary about the making of the film and its legacy since — reuniting the original animation team, some of its actors and its directors, as well as discussing the Broadway musical and interviewing Julie Taymor. This YouTuber animated over a minute of the Broadway musical’s song “The Madness of King Scar,” with Scar going all creepy-Frollo on Adult Nala, apparently based on a scene removed from the film. We wonder why… Here’s the AFI’s top 10 Animated Films. It’s a bit...skewed. This article from Grantland explains why “The Lion King” has a perfect first scene. Because magic. Simple movie magic.

You asked... and asked and asked and asked. So here it is. Josh Flanagan calls on former co-host Ron Richards to talk about the surprise global hit, Venom! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard's opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 00:17:00 Music: "My Best Friend" Kiefer Sutherland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our continuing coverage of Disney's Frozen, we tackle the complex concept of Love (ah yes, capital "L" Love) and how Frozen actually examines it from a lot of different angles. Pastor Robin introduces some tough questions you might hear from your kids while watching, and we even suggest some interesting sequel ideas!  This episode gears us up towards our Disney Princess Wrap-Up next week, where we take on the lifestyle empire that is the Walt Disney Corporation. 

Paul Rudd? Morrissey jokes? Conor Kilpatrick had no choice put to pull the emergency chord and bring in former co-host Ron Richards to talk about Ant-Man and The Wasp! (Disclaimer: Ron Richard's opinions are his own and do not represent Marvel Entertainment or the Walt Disney Corporation.) Running Time: 00:26:42 Music: "Everyday is Like Sunday" Morrissey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After years of delays, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has finally flown, sending a test payload of a Tesla Roadster with a mannequin called Starman to interplanetary space. With the launch, it becomes the most powerful rocket in the world. Jake, along with Anthony from the Main Engine Cut Off podcast, travelled to Florida to watch the launch from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site and returns to talk about the history, development and future of this fantastic launch vehicle. We Discuss SpaceX, Falcon Heavy and BFR SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy Rocket James Corden talks SpaceX on the Late Late Show Launch of STS-114, Return to Flight Early SpaceX Press Release, announcing Falcon 9 Heavy (2005) Space.com article (by past guest Leonard David) covering the SpaceX announcement Official Falcon Heavy Press Conference (2011) The Original Falcon Heavy Animation (2011) Robert Zubrin adapts Mars Direct Red Dragon Discovery-class Mission Proposal The first announced delay Delay Tracking Chart from Reddit ViaSat trades in launch for Ariane Musk talks at ISS R&D about development difficulties Post-Launch Press Conference Making Life Interplanetary SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Video Jake and Anthony reaction video of the launch Other Coverage of Falcon Heavy Episode 31: The Interplanetary Business Case (feat. Chantelle Dubois) Off-Nominal Podcast 5: The Volume of Anti-Starmanism Get the Falcon Heavy T-Shirt from our Shop TWENTYSEVEN T-Shirt for Men and Women Follow Jake & WeMartians Website (www.wemartians.com) Patreon (www.patreon.com/wemartians) WeMartians Shop (shop.wemartians.com) Twitter (@we_martians) Facebook (@wemartians) Instagram (@wemartians) Jake’s Twitter (@JakeOnOrbit) WeMartians music is “RetroFuture” and “On My Way” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional clips from the Walt Disney Corporation, RCA Records, CBS & SpaceX used under Fair Use. Clips from NASA used under public domain.

Welcome to Memories of the Magic! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today we have memories of the Contemporary Resort through many decades, Disney superfan memories, balloons, lost wallets, lighting the tree and Main Street, a Disney engagement, a very special daughter-father memory and more. Contemporary resort and Disney superfan memories To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! 

Memories of the Magic The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. This is a very special Halloween episode!! This episode includes possible ghosts and spooky stories at Disney, memories of Mickey's Not So Scary, and sharing audio from the Disney copyright Halloween audio - Chilling, Thrilling Sounds from the Haunted House, Donald Duck's Trick or Treat, and the Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion. Happy Halloween! To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day!

Memories of the Magic The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. Today's memories are two very special interviews from two wonderful ladies - Stacey and Kiki.  Listen as Stacey and Kiki both share some unforgettable family experiences, and make sure you listen to the very end of Kikis memories to hear how we can spread that pixie dust as guests in a very touching memory. To share your memory call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory, call (407)986-0682 or email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com.   Find us online at www.memoriesofthemagic.com or www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory, call (407)986-0682 or email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com.   Find us online at www.memoriesofthemagic.com or www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory, call (407)986-0682 or email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com.   Find us online at www.memoriesofthemagic.com or www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory, call (407)986-0682 or email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com.   Find us online at www.memoriesofthemagic.com or www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories! The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory, call (407)986-0682 or email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com.   Find us online at www.memoriesofthemagic.com or www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories!

Memories of the Magic - Memory 003 The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. In today's memories, we have a grandma who is tricked in to riding Space Mountain, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, a resort check-in, Stitch sneezing on food, and two memories - from Stacey and Ana. Coming up we will have some more interviews and two weeks of spooky Halloween memories! To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day!

Memory 001: A SUPER special interview with Brian LeBlanc The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic To see Brian’s blog and read the Miracle on Main Street post - http://abitofbriansbrilliance.com/2017/03/01/miracle-on-main-street-usa/ http://www.abitofbriansbrilliance.com This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day!

Memories of the Magic - Memory 000: Intro to Memories of the Magic Memories of the Magic is the place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online at www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day!

Memories of the Magic - Memory 002 The place to share your fondest Disney memories, whether it's a memory of The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, runDisney, Disney Springs,the Disney Cruise Line, and more. To share your memory: call (407) 494-1285 email michael@memoriesofthemagic.com find us online www.facebook.com/memoriesofthemagic This podcast is in no way affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to the Walt Disney Corporation, Disney, runDisney or any Disney property or affiliate.  This is a fan podcast created by a Disney fan for Disney fans. Thank you for listening, have a magical day!  

Paul and Hugh have returned to discuss Moon Knight volume 1 #2 and Moon Knight volume 5  #4 Moon Knight, Werewolf by Night and all related characters and concepts are owned solely by Marvel Comics and the Walt Disney Corporation. The material  presented here is a fancast and G33kpod makes no claims to the properties discussed. The above presented artwork is by Sal Otero Opening theme is: Covert Spy from http://www.purple-planet.com Closing Theme is: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Leave us feedback on Itunes, Twitter: @g33kpod and Facebook : Facebook.com/g33kpod or via email: contribute@g33kpod.com

Paul and Hugh have returned to discuss Moon Knight volume 1 #1 and Moon Knight volume 5  #3 Moon Knight, Werewolf by Night and all related characters and concepts are owned solely by Marvel Comics and the Walt Disney Corporation. The material  presented here is a fancast and G33kpod makes no claims to the properties discussed. The above presented artwork is by Sal Otero Opening theme is: Covert Spy from http://www.purple-planet.com Closing Theme is: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Leave us feedback on Itunes, Twitter: @g33kpod and Facebook : Facebook.com/g33kpod or via email: contribute@g33kpod.com

With Lucasfilm, and all things Star Wars, now owned by The Walt Disney Corporation it should be no surprise that Disney is the place to look for Star Wars collectibles! The 2014 Star Wars Weekends have been announced and there are tons of new exclusives, including Vinylmations Series 4, a lanyard replicating the Medal of Yavin, and much more! Marjorie and Arnie run down the cool new items available only at the Disney World theme park this summer! For Hasbro figure collectors Disney is the place to be as well--the Disney Store in your local mall. The newest Black Series Star Wars figures have been spotted at this retail chain, along with new Star Wars shirts and other merchandise. With a review of James S.A. Corey's new Star Wars novel Honor Among Thieves, a look back at Star Wars musical soundtracks on CD, and a look at the new auctions straight from Steve Sansweet's Rancho Obi-Wan, it's all in this week's Star Wars Action News!

With Lucasfilm, and all things Star Wars, now owned by The Walt Disney Corporation it should be no surprise that Disney is the place to look for Star Wars collectibles! The 2014 Star Wars Weekends have been announced and there are tons of new exclusives, including Vinylmations Series 4, a lanyard replicating the Medal of Yavin, and much more! Marjorie and Arnie run down the cool new items available only at the Disney World theme park this summer! For Hasbro figure collectors Disney is the place to be as well--the Disney Store in your local mall. The newest Black Series Star Wars figures have been spotted at this retail chain, along with new Star Wars shirts and other merchandise. With a review of James S.A. Corey's new Star Wars novel Honor Among Thieves, a look back at Star Wars musical soundtracks on CD, and a look at the new auctions straight from Steve Sansweet's Rancho Obi-Wan, it's all in this week's Star Wars Action News!

In 2063, humans make first contact with an alien species.  In 2161, the United Federation of Planets is formed.  In 2372, the Walt Disney Corporation's copyright on Mickey Mouse runs out.  Recorded October 30th, 2011.

Charles Poliquin is one of the most accomplished strength coaches in the world. He has designed workouts for Olympic medalists in 17 different sports, world record holders in 10 different sports, and professional athletes in the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, and UK Premier League. He has lectured or consulted for a variety of high-profile organizations such as the U.S. Secret Service, Walt Disney Corporation and the World Swimming Congress. The SMARTER Team Training Audio Interview Series has been developed to share insights from some of the best in the industry. Stay tuned for more insights, tips, drills, and techniques to come from STT. Be sure to share the STT Audio Interview Series with coaches, trainers, parents, and athletes too. Visit STT at http://www.SMARTERTeamTraining.com . Listen to STT on iTunes at http://tinyurl.com/sttonitunes . Join STT on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SMARTERTeamTraining . Subscribe to STT on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/SMARTERTeamTraining . And follow us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/SMARTERTeam . SMARTER Team Training has been developed to focus on athlete and team development, performance, and education. By incorporating the SMARTER Team Training programs into your year round athletic development program, you will decrease your injury potential, increase individual athleticism, and maximize your team training time.

Andy Bird, President of Walt Disney International, discusses the development of international operations and branding of Walt Disney Corporation. He discusses the importance of changing the way the company thinks internally and how it operates throughout the world. (Part 1 of 2)

Andy Bird, President of Walt Disney International, discusses the development of international operations and branding of Walt Disney Corporation. He discusses the importance of changing the way the company thinks internally and how it operates throughout the world. (Part 1 of 2)