From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

I literally was proud driving around.

I thought, yeah, man, this is great.

I've done great.

And then to find out, you know, the plants were dying as I drove by.

It was very dismayed.

As the proud owner of Volkswagen Diesel Car,

prolific documentary, Alex Gibney, was horrified to learn that he'd been scammed.

The supposedly environment-friendly vehicles were pollution machines.

That inspired Gibney to direct the first entry in the new Netflix series, Dirty Money.

Each episode examines a different example of financial corruption.

From the Volkswagen Emissions scandal to payday lending to the many

failed business ventures of a certain reality TV host who now occupies the White House.

Gibney talks about plotting out the making of dirty money and his recent foray into directing

scripted television. But first on the news banter, Disney's Day of Listening and the

fate of John Lasseter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my companion in banter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, this past week, Disney had a day of listening at Disney Animation Studios. That's

what it was called. And this is a group with a bunch of human resources professionals to discuss

workplace concerns, to facilitate a discussion of workplace concerns. And this comes, as you know,

as John Lasseter, the head of Pixar and Disney animation, has been put on what they're calling at

Disney a sabbatical. This is a leave. This was associated with conduct that was not proper. He wrote a

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