Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
“You said, quote, "One reason to doubt it—it being Disney+—is, I think, Disney may be underestimating just how much content people need to stay satiated.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Oh God, when? From the end of Acquired's 2019 Disney+ episode, in which we were incredibly excited about Disney+. I mean, it was so exciting back then. But you did say one thing at the end of the episode. You said, quote, "One reason to doubt it—it being Disney+—is, I think, Disney may be underestimating just how much content people need to stay satiated. It's a beautiful and amazing thing to have access to the entire back catalog of all these really storied franchises. But am I going to pay $7 a month to keep an option available to go watch those things? No, if I ever want to rewatch a Star Wars movie, I'll just reactivate my subscription at a given time. They really do need to aggressively turn on a firehose of content here." Oh, man.…
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