Episode 126: Walt Disney and the Disney Company (Part 1)

In our final episode of the decade we run down the 2nd largest media conglomerate in the world, the Walt Disney Company. In this first of three parts we start with Walt Disney's birth in Chicago in 1901 and continue all the way up to his company introducing another death star as if its an original plot device. Along the way we learn about a man and an empire that has abused copyright law, bought the US government wholesale to change said copyright law, flirted with Nazism, busted unions, snitched to Joseph McCarthy, and offered family cruises to Jeffrey Epstein's private island. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that former Disney chairman Richard Cook was on the flight logs. Check our patreon for Parts 2 & 3. Here's the referenced Paste article about Walt's Nazi links: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney.html