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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Walt Disney doesn't want to expand, he wants to build his masterpiece.
He doesn't want to sell more popcorn, he wants to defeat communism.
He doesn't want Disneyland East, he is driven to build EPCOT.
Far from the adult binge drinking paradise we know in Orlando today, the original idea of EPCOT is a planned community that requires massive land acquisition and never-before-seen government permissions. And by the way, you need to do it in secret.
Walt Disney's quest for total control just might be... the World's Greatest Con.
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0:00.0 | Imagine you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
0:16.1 | without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiawestcoast.co. Oveanti West Coast. |
0:25.0 | Feel good travel. |
0:28.0 | This is World's greatest con. |
0:35.0 | I'm Brian Brushwood. |
0:37.0 | So let's talk about some of the weird things humans will do to establish and protect a legacy. |
0:49.8 | We've recorded all of these episodes from a constantly evolving 7.5 acre production facility |
0:56.2 | that I bought just over five years ago in a completely dilapidated state. |
1:02.7 | Probably not the smartest strategy. |
1:05.2 | But I bought the property first. |
1:09.6 | And I just kept walking in circles, asking it, |
1:14.9 | what do you want to be? |
1:18.6 | This broken down yoga martial arts studio that has its own AC unit it could be a podcast studio with |
1:26.6 | multiple sets a place to transmit live to the world. That field over there? Why is it there a 2,000 square foot sound |
1:39.1 | stage with modular pieces so that we could shoot YouTube videos we can make it into a |
1:44.1 | black box theater we could have total control of the environment and we could |
1:48.4 | live stream everything but all of that that's front. That's where traffic makes noise. That's where simple, |
1:56.4 | hard-edged buildings are. There's a weird soaking pool. From back in the days when this used to be a nudist colony, |
2:06.0 | once you cross that equator, things get different |
2:11.0 | because you begin to walk down and I have the thought this is the barrier |
2:18.0 | from the profane into the sacred. You walk down 150 feet and all of the traffic noise goes away. |
2:28.8 | There's a beautiful pond, sometimes full, sometimes not, but what if it could be full all the time? |
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