Josh D'Amaro

Disney volunteers gathered Friday to pack meals for charity.

Joining, joining them are Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, Deborah O'Connell, Kevin Martinez, and ABC News President Almen Kara Mamedic.

The, um, annual service honors the unity that followed the 9/11 attacks.

Yeah, a, a great program.

Okay, people, here we go.

This is the letter that we got from Jonas Damaro.

Hi, Vanessa and Beth, listener.

What? No, is he not even called Damaro? He's just Jonas.

All right.

Hi, Vanessa and Beth, listener since 2024 and first time writing in.

So it had, it had Bob Iger, uh, then Bob Chapek took over, right, uh, February 2020, right when the COVID-19 crisis started to hit.

Bob Iger came back two years later, and now Josh D'Amaro became the new CEO this year.

When you have four CEOs, I know it's three CEOs, but I'm calling it four CEO tenures because Bob Iger, you know, he, he, he got, he gets them all again.

He gets to come back a second time.

Yes.

You know, Josh D'Amaro, and be like, "Josh, come with me for the day-

Yes

... with my family.

Succession was very messy, right? Bob Chapek, that was kinda messy.

Um, uh, there was another, uh, CFO, Tom Staggs, before that, and I think Josh D'Amaro is the right person now.

Um, I think they landed on it.

And, you know, why, why was it so messy there? Probably a combination of forces.

You want to talk about layoffs? Layoffs.

Amid ongoing layoffs with the elimination of 1,000 roles announced in April, followed by around... of job cuts in july disney chief executive officer josh damaro and chief financial officer hugh johnson were not laid off um told investors earlier this month that more may be coming.

Now, why would they tell that to investors? Because investors like to hear it.

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So that, I mean, likely the Magic, I guess it could be the Wonder, um, is gonna come back through the Panama Canal.

I don't think we yet know what Josh D'Amaro's announcement exactly means in terms of two ships sailing on the West Coast.

We don't think that's not-

Well, wait.

Uh, and it features- ... interviews and segments with different people that run different segments of Disney.

So there's Bob Iger, they talk to J- James Cameron, Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, Jennifer Lee, Pete Docter, Dave Filoni, Jared Bush, and Josh D'Amaro.

Um, so it's basically about how the worlds that they've built in their universes have made it back into the parks and are, the TV shows and movies are now influencing the parks and vice versa.

So it's, it's interesting.

I don't, the way it looked in the little piece of concept art they showed us, I almost wonder, are we just getting a new one?

That's what I, like, I texted my friend, I'll be honest, like, one of my fellow, like, Disney park nerd friends and was like, we're replacing the Yeti.

Because, like, I was like, you have to ride it now because he was a cast member and then he's still never ridden Expedition Everest.

And I was like, you have to go now.

So I don't know if that means she's going to be an animatronic or possibly we'll just get a bunch of screens.

We'll figure that out.

Yeah, so that's Avengers Infinity Defense, and also we got an update on Stark Flight Lab, which is the more kid-friendly ride coming to the land, which is going to be using the KUKA arm technology, very famously used at Universal in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, and also Monsters Unchained.

Yes, which if you know Jake and I, you know we love Monsters Unchained.