I'm going to show you how great I am.

This is our fighting power.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello and welcome to how to take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. Welcome to Walt Disney

Part 2. On the last episode, we covered Walt's childhood, his rise as an animator, and the founding of

his first few companies. To recap where we had left off, Walt Disney had just taken a business

trip to New York, where he had hoped to renegotiate the deal for his very popular Oswald

the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, and instead he came away finding out that his distributor, Mince, had hired

out all his animators, owned his intellectual property, and basically took the company out from under

Walt. On the train out from under Walt.

On the train ride back, Walt comes up with this idea for a plucky little mouse who eventually becomes Mickey Mouse, who we all know today. So we'll pick up from there. We'll cover the rest of

his life and his many achievements. And look, I just wanted to reemphasize why we're talking about

Walt Disney. It's more than just that he's a great businessman or that he got wealthy or because of the company

he founded.

More than any other person on earth, he is responsible for popular culture over the last 75 years.

If you just look at the company today, they're responsible for so much of culture,

of storytelling, of not just movies, but TV, entertainment, theme parks. The list goes on and

on, even though much of that comes from companies that have since been acquired, such as Pixar,

Marvel, Star Wars, all of these brands still adhere to the conventions that Walt

Disney set up, his style of telling stories, his optimism, his hero's journey, and not only that,

but the business models that he set up to inform the modern media landscape. So in many ways,

the world that we live in is Walt Disney's world. He created it all those years ago. The other thing I'll say is this.

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