David Rosenthal

Yep. So in the wake of all that, in 1984, Roy E. Disney decides enough is enough. Together with the Bass brothers, the new 25% shareholders, Roy and his business partner Stanley Gold, who's also on the Disney board with him, they gang up and they finally force out Ron Miller as CEO, who again is Roy's cousin by marriage, married to Walt's daughter. And they do this via dramatic boardroom coup that happens on September 7th, 1984. And then over a period of just 14 days, because Disney now, like, is without a leader, is in double crisis here. And then Michael quickly brings in his number two from Paramount, Jeffrey Katzenberg, to run the film studios.

Yep. And the way they did it was this famous strategy that they called the singles and doubles strategy. The idea was they would keep their production costs low. Like, do we have the stars?

Marceline's gonna grow. So Marceline was, like, basically a Disney movie. There's orchards and ponds and animals and farmhouses. But that's getting ahead of ourselves. So while the family's living there, Uncle Robert's wife, Walt's Aunt Maggie, every time that they would come visit Marceline to check up on their real estate investments, she would bring Walt gifts. And one year, when Walt is probably 6 or 7 years old, Aunt Maggie brings him a Big Chief drawing tablet and pencil set, and Walt is enraptured. He starts sketching all the time, drawing, sketching everything he can see. And as the legend goes, one day Walt's retired neighbor asked the young boy to draw him a picture of his favorite horse. And the neighbor loves what Walt draws so much that he pays him a nickel for it and he hangs it in a frame in his house. And Walt, his mind is blown. Young Walt, he's like, my hobby, my art, it can make me money. Now, whatever the exact truth of that story is, there is no doubt that somewhere in Marceline, in prepubesc