If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme, when you wish upon a star, as dreamers do.

While these are the lyrics of Ned Washington's When You Wish Upon a Star, which were first heard in the 1940 classic movie Pinocchio,

the man responsible for you knowing this melody is none other than Walt Disney.

I have changed the opening sentence of today's episode more times than I care to count.

Not because I'm indecisive, but because of the countless words of wisdom,

Mr. Disney shared along his unbelievably challenging career

from newspaper salesman to the legendary archon that we know him today.

Growing up, Walsh's father was not the cuddling type, to put it politely.

Stern, disciplined, and not really fond of fun time,

Walt's youth was anything but magical kingdoms and fairy tales.

When he was nine years old, his feet hit the floor every morning at 3.30,

along with his older brother Roy to help their father deliver newspapers throughout Kansas City.

The other boys helping Walt's dad were paid $3 a week.

Walt and his brother, not so much, not a single nickel.

Roy, eventually being fed up with the circumstances, and who could blame them,

left home after two years and found

work on a farm.

But as Richard Shirkle wrote in his most fascinating book, The Disney Version, the Life,

Times, Art, and Commerce of Walt Disney, which is a tremendous read, by the way, he states,

a childhood grounding on hard economic bedrock can be invaluable to a man who spends his

adult life in a highly speculative enterprise like show business, with its sudden, often

shocking, ups and downs. Shookle went on to say, it teaches one how

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