Billy Corgan

At some point, you come into odds with your partners.

because they don't agree with the way you're making the decisions, but they're also not personally invested in dealing with the day-to-day business.

So there's always this weird tension that exists in my world between, let's call it the business drive, the artistic drive, and where they merge and where they don't converge.

So, you know, obviously this is a huge part of your family story, your grandfather leaving Disney, going off on his own, ultimately coming back.

I'm curious...

Did they have some personal relationship in the time that your grandfather was away from Disney?

Or was it until he came back that they kind of made peace?

Somebody could spin that as a bit or, you know, you didn't work and now you got to come back to me.

Another person could see it as like, well, they had this really beautiful relationship.

They rekindled their artistic partnership.

And part of the story that I read was, and I kind of know it cursory in a cursory way, is that your grandfather said, look, I really am more interested in the technical innovation side of this equation.

And he goes on and becomes a significant contributor to the success of Disney from 1940 on.

So I think that's a cool story.

But again, it's how those stories play within the family.

That's what fascinates me.

It might seem a strange tact, but...

So,

In your understanding of the story, when does the first sort of like, he really, because there's a quote in the Disneyland Handcrafted where, I think it's Diane Disney, she's talking and she's saying, you know, my whole childhood, my father was talking about this idea of a theme park.

But is there a sort of an official year where it's like it becomes a possible reality?

Did he get turned down?