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And it kind of shows that Meyer and Staggs have had the worst possible luck here.

Because you have to realize, Staggs, when he left Disney in 2015, the big story at the time was Disney had just gone all in on something we've discussed before called Maker Studios.

Maker Studios, Disney spent about $650 million to acquire, and it was going to be a bunch of influencers who were going to provide Disney content.

And it all blew up because some of the talent they bet on, we're not going to get into names here, but let's just say they turned out to be controversial figures.

And just on top of that, it was too early in the game for that.

It goes deeper than that.

I met Enon Kreese when he was running a company called Maker Studios.

Oh, my gosh.

Back in the YouTube MCN days, for any of your ancient watchers and listeners.

And what he did for, he's joining Skydance as co-CEO.

He was previously at Maker Studios and Endemol.

He joined Mattel in early 2018 and promised a quote-unquote transformation for the company.

Just a few months later, he launched an expansive overhaul, slashing 22% of his workforce and restructuring it for a tech-forward future.

money that way but you know for them saying that you know youtube's just like basically not worth the time it's funny because ahead of um the new uh sure vision quest show they're putting the wandavision episodes on youtube so people can watch them for free

yeah that's you know so it's like pick a lane here disney disney was so hot to get its its uh mouse mouse covered meat hooks into um i don't know what the hell that means mouse giant mouse gloves into youtube that they bought maker studios like 10 years ago and they're trying

to get people that are creators to work with them now with their stuff right across you know the disney platforms

so what which is it you know what i'm saying like they're trying desperately to i think it's sour grapes i think they know they can't win at youtube so they'll be like well we don't really think youtube is worth it anyway we're gonna go do something more premium well

Also, by the way, I'd like to point out, if you read Yanan Kreese's resume, I don't remember it off the top of my head, but this guy has worked at some major places.

I think he worked at Maker Studios.

Remember that name in the earlier days of YouTube? Like...

This guy has an incredible resume.

He also was the head of Indemol.

He was the head of Maker Studios for a while, which was a big name in the online space.

He's moving over from Mattel to be co-CEO with David Ellison.

And the big thing in my mind that I think means will happen, if you'll remember a few weeks ago, we talked about the fact that Warner Brothers was dragging their feet on signing a deal for a Barbie sequel because they weren't sure about the budget and they didn't have a full idea of what the script is this guy was the head of Mattel when Barbie was made at Warner Brothers so he officially was the one who partnered with Mattel to make that movie so it wouldn't shock me if one of the absolute first things that we see out of this merger is that they will announce that they have budgeted and greenlit the sequel for the Barbie movie because that would be big splashy news it would be a sign of just like hey look we just took over and we're already making this big move i would be shocked if that wasn't something that was announced uh basically as soon as the deal is signed i it actually wouldn't surprise me if the day they signed the deal they're not like okay this merger is officially closed and by the way as our first act of business we're announcing that we greenlit barbie 2 with greta gerwig And Margot Robbie and everybody, we're going to pay them and we're going to make the movie because people will, I think a lot of people will be excited about that.

No, you go.

I was going to say my trauma connection and introduction was actually my first job in L.A. working for Maker Studios, which is now Disney Digital.

One of my coworkers starred in Tromeo and Juliet.

No,

I have spent my entire career making YouTube videos.

originally at this place called Maker Studios where I met someone named Kasim G. Kasim G is a longtime host and he does man on the street style interviews.

But we started doing these specials where we did the first one on Sasquatch and we went out looking for Sasquatch.

It was a good time.