Bob Iger

And we ultimately have to portray them, one, as villains, because I think people love stories about good and evil, particularly good triumphing over evil.

But telling stories where you actually explain what is driving that villain to be so damn nasty.

I grew up in a town called Oceanside, but I lived in Brooklyn, New York originally.

Right.

And that's where we had a very small black and white television.

Right.

And that's where I experienced Walt Disney and Disneyland for the first time.

Yeah.

In a program that ABC carried on its network.

Well, Walt was, as we know, not only a great storyteller, but one of the all-time great salesmen of his time.

We forget that, that, you know, another aspect of Walt's talent was his salesmanship.

And he decided that not only to raise the money, but also to sell the product, he should have a television program.

So he licensed to ABC, a program that essentially told the story of building Disneyland.

And so here I was as a three, four, five-year-old watching on a small black and white TV.

Walt not only talked about building Disneyland, but watching it on the program actually rise from the ground in Orange County, California.

And I remember it being incredibly aspirational, and I think actually it served that purpose to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people around the world.

Seeing it, which seemed like something that never existed before, a form of entertainment that he really invented.

It wasn't, and I can't wait to show it to you because it is not an amusement park at all.

It's a concept unto itself.

an experiment and a project that could so easily have gone wrong i mean that is expressive of cojones yes yes of an order that he repeatedly displayed throughout his career yes and look i admire so much about walt i'd say one of the things i admire the most is his guts i won't use the term that you used because i'm a disney guy i'm more g-rated than perhaps you guys are