I have mentioned that I love you all, right? My gods, you have boundless energy....
OK let me here lay out in pixels what our basic marketing strategy.
We hit Disney with the pitch a week before the shutdown on the infinitesimally small chance they MIGHT have moved to delay the shutdown.
Knowing this probably would not happen, we used that timeframe anyway as a chance to get 3 weeks of activity in before Christmas news overwhelmed everything else, and to give the Disney Dragon a chance to open one eye and notice something before---
---everything stopped two weeks before Christmas. If you have ever worked in a big business whose main function is not affected by Christmas, you know that two weeks before Christmas, as everyone takes vacation time, everything stops. Same for one week after Christmas. And if your business IS tied in with Christmas, it is worse.
So realistically we do not expect to hear ANYTHING until a week into the new year.
Brian knows some people in the upper echelons of Disney Interactive. He is going to put a bug in their ears to (1) find out if they know anything and (2) let them know quietly this is not some crazy fan idea, this really is a viable opportunity and he backs it.
So, step one for me, remind Larry to contact Darren first to find out if we have ANY chance. I do not want to waste your time on something he knows is going to get shut down at Google. One I know that, I know where we need to take it from there.
Everyone good with this?