RIHC: Disney's Legacy, with Bob Iger

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What’s the first question people at Disney ask themselves when they have a great idea? How does Bob Iger view his legacy, and does he think Walt Disney would approve of his record? How did Bob first get into The Rest Is History? And who is his dream dinner party guest from history? Watch Tom and Dominic's tour of Disneyland with Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPaOpifZ-M In this special bonus episode, Tom and Dominic are joined by Friend of the Show Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company. They delve into Walt's legacy, the 70th anniversary of Disneyland, and Bob's time at the helm of the worlds of Mickey House, Snow White and Luke Skywalker… _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Social Producer: Harry Baldwin Video Editor: Harry Swan Assistant Producer: Aaliyah Akude Producer: Tabby Syrett Senior Producer: Theo Young-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to The Rest is History. For weekly bonus episodes, add free listening,
0:05.3	early access to series and membership of our much-loved chat community, go to therestishistory.com
0:12.0	and join the club. That is, the rest is history.com.
0:31.4	Hello, everybody. welcome to this very special Rest Is History bonus episode with the head of Disney Bob Eiger.
0:37.5	Now Tom, normally our bonus episodes are only for members of our much-loved Restis History Club.
0:39.8	But this is one is a little bit different, isn't it?
0:42.4	Yeah, so this week we've done two episodes on Disney.
0:45.9	We looked at the man himself and we looked at Disneyland.
0:48.6	And also, of course, if you're a member of the club,
0:52.6	you would have got to listen to the Coda to our epic series on Nelson,
0:55.5	where we talked about what happened to Lady Emma Hamilton after Nelson's death. But in this special bonus episode, we are with Bob Eiger, and we are
1:02.3	discussing with him Walt Disney's legacy with the man who now runs Disney. So a very unusual
1:09.5	bonus episode for us, a bonus bonus episode, in fact.
1:12.4	Hope you enjoy it.
1:16.3	So Bob, here we are.
1:17.8	Amazing setting, stage one here at Burbank.
1:20.6	And we've just come from Walt's office, which you showed us.
1:25.0	And you're one of, I guess really three people in the majority of Disney's
1:30.5	history who've run the company. And I mean, no offense, but you're not going to be running it
1:37.3	forever. No offense taken. That's good. I hope I'm not. So what do you think, you know,
1:43.3	we've talked a lot about Wool's legacy, but what do you think
1:45.0	your legacy will be when you look back on your time as the kind of custodian of this amazing,
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