Listening to this morning’s Disney earnings reveal, it was easy to flash back to the same call exactly two years ago, the day Bob Chapek committed C.E.O. suicide. Remember the infamous Oogie Boogie Bash debacle? When Chapek, already under fire for myriad mishandlings, cheerily boasted about the “phenomenal” success of Halloween parties at Disneyland rather than address the shocking $1.5 billion quarterly loss in streaming, about double the year before? As Chapek rambled, the stock tanked, those of us on the call cringed with embarrassment, and Disney executives soon started talking to the board about bringing Bob Iger back.
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