Josh D'Amaro

We are also joined by our own Indiana disruptor, the Sultan of Saki.

What's up, Josh?

Man, I was going to make a disrupting joke and you ruined it.

That's what we do here.

Anyway, before we get into the review of Behind the Castle Walls, there are a couple of other news items as well.

Everybody in the industry is talking about an unfortunate death over at Six Flags over Georgia on their Goliath roller coaster.

Josh, you're probably the most knowledgeable roller coaster expert on the show.

This is a B&M hyper coaster.

So if you haven't turned your address in, submitted your survey, please do that.

yes everything supply chain related is still effed up years after the pandemic go figure i have no idea uh let's let's talk about this so it does feel like disney's desperate for cash just all the way around it feels like they're desperate for cash and i think this is a movie that was greenlit before obviously before damaro came in before they started this whole pivot and it's been

a while since they announced it and they've changed it a couple times or they changed at least once since they announced it so

i i think they're just trying to flush it out of the system and then going forward tomorrow is going to work with his character ai army he hired and put these movies out at like you know 50 million or under each i mean that's that's what it feels i don't

because it'd be chaos because it'd be chaos

but if you email josh.damaro at disney.com maybe he can send you an answer so there

you go you could

yeah you

No, I don't disagree with you on that, but definitely probably won't ever happen.

Once again, that's

josh.damaro at disney.com.

So anyway.

You know, it's got great, great principles and stuff in there, but for any Disney fan, it's an enjoyable leadership read.

So when I saw this question, I was thinking, "Oh, geez, who would I pick?" And I was trying to think of leaders, and I didn't wanna pick Josh D'Amaro 'cause I was like, "I don't know," like, "that seems new and we don't know how he's gonna do necessarily yet as CEO," but I kinda liked him.

You know, it was there somebody else, like, that, that's not as obvious maybe.

And I landed on Matt Ouimet, who was brought in, I wanna say he was brought in in, like, 2004, so very close to the 50th anniversary of Disneyland f- as the president of the Disneyland Resort.

That, but unfortunately, he kinda did what a lot of Disneyland Resort presidents do, is he was there for two or three years, and then I don't remember if he moved somewhere else in the company and then left or if he just left from this.

But it was one of those situations where he was doing so good you just wanted him to stay.

And as Josh D'Amaro was the president of Disneyland Resort, it was the same situation.

You kinda wanted him to stay, but then he left to, you know, be promoted or whatever.

So it's a matter of use this to help you create these goals.

So, uh, that was put out, I believe there's a matter of like Josh D'Amaro was kind of giving the guidance to like, "Yes, make this." And, and I could see this and, and then this doesn't seem that like harmful, right? It doesn't seem like we'd even make this a news item.

It's just like if there was a tool that says, "Hey, use autocorrect on your performance review to make it more efficient or better," we would not give a problem.

Right, or like Grammarly-

And I mean, we were just talking on the last episode about Chapec's version of events and how they were looking at, you know, operational efficiencies and ways to make the company better.

And, you know, Michael Eisner, I believe, is the one that wanted the company to run as all of these independent entities.

And now Josh D'Amaro is saying, "We are one."

Yeah.

Um, we're gonna d- we're gonna discuss and debate it here.

But I do think that, um, it is worth, it is worth noting that we had, we had, um, you know, another article by the same, uh, journalist caught our eye this week because it talked about Disney's Star Wars strategy, uh, and it didn't even mention Epic, which was really surprising, uh, surprising given Josh D'Amaro, Dis- uh, Disney's new CEO, has had a very public stance on the idea that Disney is key not only to gaming, but more broadly in technology.

So we're gonna play that video, um, again just to remind people of this link between Disney, uh, and Epic Games.

Underpinning all of this is technology.