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Speaker 1: and away we go. Welcome to Daily Variety, your daily

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Speaker 1: dose of news and analysis for entertainment industry insiders. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: July seventeenth, twenty twenty five. I'm your host, Cynthia Littleton,

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Speaker 1: and I am co editor in chief of Variety alongside

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Speaker 1: I'm coming to you today from a hotel in West Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: where Variety is hosting its annual Sports and Entertainment breakfast.

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Speaker 1: We have a great lineup that includes Diplo, ESPN's Mina Kimes,

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Speaker 1: in today's Daily Variety episode. I'll give you my report

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Speaker 1: on the esp Awards. I found the SP's to be

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Speaker 1: a great night, minus about twenty minutes from host Shane Gillis.

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Speaker 1: consumers as it launches its standalone ESPN streaming app later

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Speaker 1: this fall. From there, we will wish Disneyland a happy

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Speaker 1: seventieth birthday. I talked to my Variety colleagues Jazz Tanke

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Speaker 1: and Carol Horst about their deep dive into the world

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Speaker 1: of Walt Disney imagineering and how their great work is

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Speaker 1: here are a few headlines. Just in this morning that

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Speaker 1: series adaptation of Assassin's Creed. That's a nearly twenty year

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Speaker 1: The rave reviews are rolling in, including one from Variety

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Speaker 1: Chief music critic Chris Willman rip Connie Francis, What a voice.

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Speaker 1: All these stories are on Variety dot com right now.

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Speaker 1: Check them out. Now. We turned to conversations with Variety

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Speaker 1: with my late night thoughts on mingling with Sports Royalty

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Speaker 1: at last night's sb Awards. The sp Awards turned into

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Speaker 1: I ran into ESPN chief Jimmy Petero as I was

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Speaker 1: the tough job of doing their research at Disneyland. Jazz

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Speaker 1: about Disneyland. Truly one of the happiest places on earth

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Speaker 1: for many Variety staffers, and Disneyland is turning seventy and

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Speaker 2: The origin story this began. I was scrolling through Disney

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Speaker 2: Yes, And it just so happened that Disneyland was turning

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Speaker 3: I talked to David Lightbody, who's head of Disney Live

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Speaker 1: this great package once again, Jazz. You collected stories and

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Speaker 1: Fun fact, the Styx nix hick picks headline ran ninety

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Speaker 1: This episode was written and reported by me Cynthia Littleton,

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