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♪tender ambient music♪

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[Sam VO] Disneyland was not
like anywhere else on Earth.

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My parents would
save all year long,

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and we had one
yearly trip to the park.

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You had to have the Peter
Pan hat with the feather.

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We would go in
and we'd, you know,

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have our little bit of money.

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I mean, it was magic from the
minute you got onto the tram.

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♪♪♪

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It was just...happy.

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When I started
working at the park,

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the employees were
so happy to be there.

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[cheers and applause]

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You were proud to be a part
of this magnificent place.

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And they were proud of you.

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♪♪♪

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That's year one.

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Everybody's always
thrilled to get that.

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That's Steamboat
Willie. [chuckles]

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[Abigail] Vanna White it.

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[laughter]

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The second one is five years.

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10 years...

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to 20.

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And...

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40.

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Financially, you know,
they're not worth anything,

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they're just...

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little pieces of pot metal.

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But when you've earned them,
when you've worked hard and

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you've given all
those years to a company,

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to be recognized with
that, it really means a lot.

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And...

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it means that the
company appreciated you.

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Or at least it did.

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[mechanical whirring]

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♪sparse curious music♪

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[Abigail VO] Growing up,
Disneyland was like a home

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away from home for my family.

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That's me and my
brand new red coat.

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We called
Disneyland "the park."

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We went to the park all
the time to see my grandpa,

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Roy Disney, who,
along with his brother,

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started the Walt Disney
Company almost a century ago.

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They were kind of like
Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket

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-- sort of id and superego.

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Walt would go off and
do some crazy thing,

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and then Roy would figure
out where the money was gonna

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come from.

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♪♪♪

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I'm really proud of what my
grandfather and great-uncle

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did.

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They brought so much
joy into the world.

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I was raised on their story.

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It was a story
about bootstraps,

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about rags to riches,
about the American Dream.

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[Walt VO] It's said that --
somebody told me and I heard

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one time -- that you could
make one dollar a day for a

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long time, and you support
the family on a dollar a day.

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[Flora VO]
What's a dollar a day?

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Seven dollars a week.

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♪♪♪

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[Abigail VO] By mid-century,
their enterprise would help

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create the largest middleclass
the world had ever seen.

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♪♪♪

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Only later would I come to see
that there was so much more to

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the story.

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♪♪♪

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When you're a little kid, you
can't really understand that

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you're growing up in something
at all unusual or unfair.

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The only metaphor I can think
of is if you're a goldfish,

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you don't really know
how to describe water.

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But then one day, you realize
your family is a very big and

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complicated deal.

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And you get trained from
childhood not to speak badly

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ever in public about the
family or the business.

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And I didn't.

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For a long time.

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♪♪♪

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[street noises]

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[woman VO] We're
delighted to welcome producer,

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philanthropist, and social
activist Abigail Disney.

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You compare the dynamics of
wealth to that of addiction.

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[Abigail VO] I'm sorry, this
is radical: too much money --

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there is such a thing.

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If you have a billion dollars
and you wanna send your kid to

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school, congratulations, you
can send them to school for

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20,000 years.

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[man VO] Abigail, why do
you wanna pay more taxes?

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[Abigail VO] We do not have
a society structured around

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fairness right now, and
the proof is in the pudding.

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[Abigail VO] Having the last
name "Disney" is like having a

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weird superpower
you didn't ask for.

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For years, I've tried
to do my best with it.

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But I have to confess: even
though I knew things were far

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from perfect at
the family business,

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it's always felt so impossible
to speak out because of the

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inevitable repercussions.

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My dad went to battle over
the direction of the company

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twice.

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And I saw the way he got
threatened with lawsuits and

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torn to shreds in the media.

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Anybody would think twice
about getting involved.

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[dog barks]

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But then, one day,
out of the blue,

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I got a message from
a guy named Ralph,

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who worked at Disneyland.

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♪pensive ambient music♪

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He told me that he and his
fellow cast members -- as

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Disney calls them -- were
fighting for better pay,

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and he asked me for my help.

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Even though I have no
role at the company,

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I felt like I had
to go to Anaheim.

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♪♪♪

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[little girl chattering]

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[Ralph] Oh, oh,
there she goes.

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[Trina] Go play!

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[chuckles]

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Ready...

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set...

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[girl] Go!

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[Trina] No, I
didn't say "Go!"

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[laughter]

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-I won!
-[Trina] You cheat!

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-[chuckles]
-[Trina] Opal, come on over!

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-Are you having fun yet?
-[Trina] Come on!

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Turn around, turn around.

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[Ralph] Oh, here we go.

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[Trina] You two can race.

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[Abigail] Somebody's
a princess, you told me.

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Who's the princess?

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[Ralph] They're
all three princesses.

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They're all-- oh,
okay, okay. [chuckles]

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[Ralph] We-- we have...

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MacKallien is the one that is
the princess of all the lands.

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[Trina] MacKayla,
our six-year-old,

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she is the
princess of the sky--

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-[McKayla] The sky!
-The sky!

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[Trina] And then
MacKallien, our youngest--

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[MacKallien] I'm the
mermaid princess!

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[Trina] She's the
mermaid princess.

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[Ralph] And she's the
princess of all the seas, yes.

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[Abigail] You've
divided it up nicely.

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[Ralph] Yes.

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You guys met at Disney?

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And you met each other?

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[Trina] Yes, he saw
me in the parking lot,

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and I said, "Do you wanna eat
inside the park or outside the

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park?"
He said, "Inside the park."

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And we've been
together ever since.

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[Abigail] So it was an
inside-the-park home run.

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Pretty much.

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[Ralph] Pretty much.

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[chuckling] Go, Kenzie.

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[Ralph] [chuckling] Do
you see your daughter?

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[Trina] Go.

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[Ralph VO] At the
time when we first met,

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I had this idea that we would
move out and have our family

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and everything.

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[Ralph] [laughs]

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[woman] Yay, Trin!

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That's the way to do it!

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Get 'im!

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[laughter]

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[Ralph VO] Unfortunately, the
economy does not...allow that.

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We live with my mother-in-law.

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We're lucky enough to do that.

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♪sensitive ambient music♪

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[Trina VO] I've always wanted
to have a house of my own,

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always dreamed of one.

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But I would settle even
to have an apartment.

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♪♪♪

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It would be nice to just
have it where I can...

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show my kids that I
can do things on my own,

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and not have to
rely on my parents.

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[Trina] You want Mommy
to come down with you?

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Mm-hm.

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[sighs]

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Even with both of
us working full-time,

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we still fall
below poverty level.

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[Trina VO] We try to do as
much as we can that doesn't

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require any kind of money.

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[girls] Trick or treat!

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[Trina VO] We make
15 dollars an hour.

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And for people
who work at night,

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we only get 75
cents an hour extra.

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But for working
the hours we work,

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with the lack of sleep, I
don't think 75 cents is

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enough.

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♪♪♪

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[Ralph VO] Third shift
starts at 11:30 to about eight

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o'clock in the morning.

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It's very physical work.

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We're the people who do
the pixie dust at night.

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You scrub the kitchens,
the floor, the toilets.

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And I'm proud of what I
do, I'm very proud of it.

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And that type of thing you'll
find throughout all the parks.

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The people who
tend to work there

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want to provide the best.

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[indistinct chatter]

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I go into work every day
because this is a place where

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magic is made, you know?

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We don't want those memories
of the first time we were at

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Disney when we
were 10 years old,

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and the walking down Main
Street and it feeling just

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so-- such
incredible joy and magic,

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you don't want
that to not exist.

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For the first time
in over 60 years,

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the union started talking and
we all found out that we were

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all struggling with
basically the same issues.

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[woman] Right.

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[woman] None of us were ever
supposed to talk about how

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much money we made.

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I worked two jobs for
eight years to make ends meet.

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[Ellie] Yeah,
like, I, myself,

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am actually a student.

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It's really expensive.

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I wanna be a
teacher but, um...

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I have two jobs.

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I don't just work at Disney,
I also work at Knott's Berry

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Farm.

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[woman] Oh!

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[person hisses]

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[laughter]

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[chuckling] I work for
the mouse and the dog.

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[laughter]

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Disney is an industry
leader in terms of,

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like, theme parks, right?

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And the same things that are
happening at Disney are also

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happening at
Knott's Berry Farm.

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We've had cast members
that have to make a decision

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between medication or food.

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And these are essential things
that you can't make choices

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like that.

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By a show of hands, how many
of you have someone you know

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that works at Disney
that's on food stamps.

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Wow.

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How many of you know somebody
who works at Disney who's

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slept in their car in
the last couple of years.

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How many of you know somebody
who have gone without medical

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care because they
can't afford it.

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[woman] [laughs]

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[woman] I do!

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[woman] [laughing] I know!

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[Abigail] How many of
y'all have children?

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[Artemis] I am somebody
who doesn't have kids.

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I don't have the finances to
take care of a child in the

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way that I would like to.

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It's affected my ability
to family plan and to look

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towards my future as
far as my personal life.

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And it's not-- you know, this
is not where I thought I'd be

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at 33.

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[woman] Aw, don't cry.

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[woman] Aww.

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[man] You can
borrow our kids.

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[laughter]

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[Artemis VO] Everybody thinks
that we can all just bootstrap

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it and move up.

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♪pensive ambient music♪

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If you're doing that job to
the best of your ability,

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it should be treated
like a proper job.

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I think I should be able to
pay my bills on my custodial

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job.

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But, you know, I've always
had somewhat unstable housing.

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I ended up living in my
van for a few months.

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Right now, I'm renting
a room from a friend,

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but she's planning to retire,
so I don't know what my

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housing
situation's gonna look like.

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I look at the housing nearby
and it's very much out of my

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price range.

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A studio apartment
would take, like,

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80 percent of my
take-home pay a month,

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and, like, a one-bedroom
apartment would be more than I

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make in a month.

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I am not finding anything in
the Anaheim/Orange County area

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that's in my price range.

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♪tribal drums
and chanting♪

00:14:26.199 --> 00:14:30.536
[chanting in
foreign language]

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[man over
megaphone] All right!

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[Artemis VO] I don't want
anybody to have to deal with

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the same stress
that I deal with,

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and I know
everybody around me does.

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That's why I started getting
more involved with the union.

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My co-workers are my family.

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[cheers and applause]

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[man through megaphone]
So I don't know about you,

00:14:54.727 --> 00:14:56.729
brothers and sisters,
but I'm ready to fight!

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Are you ready to fight?!

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[crowd] Yeah!

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Show them what
democracy looks like!

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[crowd] This is what
democracy looks like!

00:15:04.570 --> 00:15:05.738
[Ellie] No justice!

00:15:05.738 --> 00:15:07.073
[crowd] No peace!

00:15:07.073 --> 00:15:08.241
No justice!

00:15:08.241 --> 00:15:09.742
[crowd] No peace!

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[Ellie VO] I am 26 years old.

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I do school part-time
and I do work part-time.

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For the longest
time, I did feel...

00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:25.591
[sighs] kind of like a
failure, to be quite honest.

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I thought that by now, I
would've moved out from my

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parents' house, but now,
it's just-- it's a little more

00:15:35.935 --> 00:15:37.436
like...

00:15:37.436 --> 00:15:41.607
anger, because [sighs] I
realize it's not just me,

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it's, like, so many of us.

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♪drums beating♪

00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:53.953
[Peter VO] In 2018, all the
unions of Disneyland organized

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a campaign to do battle with
the company over their wages

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and working conditions.

00:16:01.627 --> 00:16:04.797
Disney was under an enormous
amount of public pressure,

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and so they reluctantly agreed
to adopt a 15-dollar minimum

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wage.

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But most experts say that a
living wage in Anaheim is

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closer to 24 dollars an hour.

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And so the unions felt
that they were being, um...

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can I say "screwed?"

00:16:26.485 --> 00:16:27.653
-[Abigail] Yeah.
-Okay.

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[Abigail] [chuckles]

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And so the unions and the
employees at Disneyland asked

00:16:32.158 --> 00:16:36.162
me and my
colleague to do a survey.

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We were shocked
by what we found.

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One out of every 10 full-time
workers was homeless at some

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point in the
previous two years.

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And two-thirds didn't have
enough money to pay for food.

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At the same time, in 2018,

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Disney's CEO Bob Iger made

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$65 million in one year.

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[man VO] Iger's package was
1,424 times the median salary

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of a Disney employee.

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[Abigail VO] That's
2,000 times the salary

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of a custodian.

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In other words, a custodian
would have to work for 2,000

00:17:18.371 --> 00:17:22.708
years to make what
Bob Iger makes in one.

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[Peter VO] The Disney Company
is ground zero of the widening

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inequality in America.

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But there's a myth that
Disney's prosperity will

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trickle down to
ordinary people.

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The city council and the mayor
of Anaheim have believed that

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if Disneyland does well,
then Anaheim does well.

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[Norberto VO] Anaheim's
a tale of two cities...

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You have the resort district.

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This is where
Disneyland's at,

00:18:01.914 --> 00:18:05.251
this is where
the stadium is at.

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Then, you get the
south part of the town,

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you have many of the
working-class communities.

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When you go around
through the streets,

00:18:12.758 --> 00:18:15.928
you see infrastructure
that's not updated,

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you know, you
see gang problems.

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When we first started covering
Anaheim for Voice of OC,

00:18:24.937 --> 00:18:28.107
the big argument was that all
of the money in Anaheim was

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spent on the
northern part of the town.

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The south part of the town
does not get the investment.

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The only investment
it gets is police.

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[Jose VO] One of
the things, for me,

00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:53.799
in being on Council is how
quickly I learned about-- the

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focus is so much on tourism
and making sure that the

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children of the
tourists are happy--

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-[Abigail VO] Mm-hm.
-[Jose VO] Right?

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In the happiest
place on Earth,

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and they forget about--
or don't even consider;

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they're just indifferent
to the lives of the actual

00:19:04.810 --> 00:19:07.646
children who live in Anaheim.

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We've seen a void in policies
that really are centered

00:19:10.983 --> 00:19:13.486
around people and the
lives that they lead here in

00:19:13.486 --> 00:19:17.323
Anaheim, versus policies that
continue to give tax breaks

00:19:17.323 --> 00:19:20.493
and more money to those
who already have much.

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♪curious ambient music♪

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[Abigail VO] So tell us the
legend of the parking lot,

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'cause it's crazy to me.

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[Jose VO] Yeah, so in
1996, the city took on

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a $500 million bond.

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Part of that bond was to
build a parking lot for the

00:19:42.348 --> 00:19:44.183
Disney resort.

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♪♪♪

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The city then leased it to
Disney for a dollar a year.

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Disney would keep all of the
revenue -- all of the revenue.

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If they fill up
300 days a year,

00:20:00.032 --> 00:20:03.702
it's 10,000 cars, $25 a car,

00:20:03.702 --> 00:20:07.206
that's $65 million
in pure revenue.

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So basically,
it's a business...

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that they spent no
capital creating.

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[Jose] Correct.

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The corporation
should not be

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looking to get
public dollars

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to do its private business,
to grow its business.

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It's not a start-up company.

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And even then, Walt Disney
didn't ask for public dollars

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when he was starting up.

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[Abigail VO] And yet, in
the two decades leading up to

00:20:35.401 --> 00:20:39.572
2018, Disney had gotten the
city of Anaheim to cough up a

00:20:39.572 --> 00:20:44.243
billion dollars in the form
of subsidies and tax breaks.

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[Norberto VO] These deals
moved through without a lot of

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opposition,
without a lot of debate.

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You know, there's dark
money of Disney influencing,

00:20:54.253 --> 00:20:57.089
through a series of
resort-related PACs,

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and controlling governance
of the city council.

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So here's a story
from four years ago.

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"For another meeting that
went into the wee hours,

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the Anaheim City Council
narrowly approves a tax shield

00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:09.935
for Disneyland that
effectively strips residents

00:21:09.935 --> 00:21:12.605
of their power to tax
admission to the mega-resort

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for up to 45 years.

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[Abigail] So they were
protected against a tax that

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didn't exist yet.

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They were protected
against the idea of

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a tax for 45 years.

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Yeah, exactly right.

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[Abigail VO]
Everything Disney was doing,

00:21:34.293 --> 00:21:36.795
from skirting taxes
to stiffing workers,

00:21:36.795 --> 00:21:41.634
was happening at almost
every big company in America.

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I came home to my privileged
life feeling complicit.

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Everything I had came from
inheriting company shares.

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I had no role or
influence at Disney,

00:21:56.482 --> 00:21:58.817
and I felt like I
wanted to do something,

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but I had no idea
where to start.

00:22:04.490 --> 00:22:06.659
My father always
told me, "First,

00:22:06.659 --> 00:22:08.994
you try quietly."

00:22:08.994 --> 00:22:11.163
Maybe this
wouldn't go anywhere,

00:22:11.163 --> 00:22:15.000
but I thought writing Bob
Iger was at least worth a try.

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"Dear Bob, there is a painful
irony in the idea that someone

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working at the happiest
place on Earth is sleeping

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in his car.

00:22:25.678 --> 00:22:28.180
These issues are
real and painful,

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and don't represent who Disney
is as a company and who you

00:22:32.017 --> 00:22:34.353
are as a man.

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What if Disney chose to pay
people well and give them job

00:22:37.022 --> 00:22:39.191
security?

00:22:39.191 --> 00:22:42.194
What if you chose to lead?"

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[whispering] Send.

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[sighs]

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Is there a way to, like, sit
with Bob and talk about it?

00:22:52.371 --> 00:22:53.372
Do you think?

00:22:53.372 --> 00:22:54.707
I don't think Bob's
gonna meet with you, honey.

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Yeah. [laughs]
I figured as well.

00:22:56.375 --> 00:22:58.043
-Even if I asked him.
-[Abigail] Yeah, yeah.

00:22:58.043 --> 00:22:59.712
-And he likes me.
-Yeah. [laughs]

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No, he's not
gonna meet with you.

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I always knew him to
be a good guy but,

00:23:03.215 --> 00:23:06.218
um-- but he just
needs to kinda wake up.

00:23:06.218 --> 00:23:07.386
[Abigail] Yeah.

00:23:07.386 --> 00:23:08.887
Smell the roses, and yes,
I'll probably not stay friends

00:23:08.887 --> 00:23:10.889
with him if he ever
hears me say that. [laughs]

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My issue is not that
he's not a nice person.

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[Susan] Right.

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My issue is that
nice isn't enough, you know?

00:23:19.398 --> 00:23:21.567
And you know, honestly,
it's not all Bob's fault.

00:23:21.567 --> 00:23:24.069
He's just doing what Wall
Street tells him to do.

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[Susan] It's the
culture that's wrong.

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You know, and if tomorrow,
he went out and said,

00:23:27.406 --> 00:23:29.408
"Give everybody 24
dollars an hour,"

00:23:29.408 --> 00:23:31.410
the share price
would plummet, you know?

00:23:31.410 --> 00:23:33.245
He'd get punished for
it, he'd lose his job.

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So it's not
exactly one CEO or...

00:23:36.415 --> 00:23:37.750
This is a culture-wide thing.

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Well, Bob can rationalize it
because he's brought so much

00:23:40.753 --> 00:23:44.757
"value to the company," in the
sense of stockholder value,

00:23:44.757 --> 00:23:46.425
and we have
benefited from that,

00:23:46.425 --> 00:23:49.428
and they pay dividends out,
and we benefit from that.

00:23:49.428 --> 00:23:50.929
Yeah.

00:23:50.929 --> 00:23:53.098
But it's
prioritizing the wrong thing.

00:23:53.098 --> 00:23:54.933
It's not prioritizing people.

00:23:54.933 --> 00:23:56.435
[Abigail] Yeah.

00:23:56.435 --> 00:24:00.439
And it's-- that's the
core problem right there.

00:24:01.607 --> 00:24:02.608
That's Grandpa.

00:24:02.608 --> 00:24:04.276
[Abigail] Yeah.

00:24:04.276 --> 00:24:06.945
You know, Grandma told
me I was his favorite.

00:24:06.945 --> 00:24:08.113
Did you ever hear that?

00:24:08.113 --> 00:24:10.115
-That's just not true.
-[laughs]

00:24:10.115 --> 00:24:11.784
There's no way that's true,
'cause I thought I was his

00:24:11.784 --> 00:24:13.619
favorite.
[chuckles]

00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:15.954
[laughs]

00:24:16.622 --> 00:24:18.791
It's just hard for me to
imagine -- and correct me if

00:24:18.791 --> 00:24:23.796
I'm wrong -- but I cannot see
him taking $66 million home

00:24:24.129 --> 00:24:27.466
for a year's work in
the same year when,

00:24:27.466 --> 00:24:30.803
at the same company,
people can't afford food.

00:24:30.803 --> 00:24:31.970
I don't see that happening.

00:24:31.970 --> 00:24:33.472
[Susan] That would
never have happened.

00:24:33.472 --> 00:24:35.307
That would never
have happened.

00:24:35.307 --> 00:24:36.308
It was a different time.

00:24:36.308 --> 00:24:38.811
Now, it's about money.

00:24:38.811 --> 00:24:40.312
-Greed is good.
-Greed is good.

00:24:40.312 --> 00:24:41.647
Yeah.

00:24:41.647 --> 00:24:44.983
I mean, Ayn Rand was one of
the people who kind of came up

00:24:44.983 --> 00:24:46.318
with the idea
that greed was good.

00:24:46.318 --> 00:24:47.653
[Susan] Mm-hm.

00:24:47.653 --> 00:24:50.322
And she was seen
as a fruitcake!

00:24:50.322 --> 00:24:51.323
A nut!

00:24:51.323 --> 00:24:52.491
An outlier!

00:24:52.491 --> 00:24:54.159
Well, maybe that's
how they look at you, honey.

00:24:54.159 --> 00:24:56.328
[laughs]

00:24:57.162 --> 00:25:00.332
[dog barks, phone buzzes]

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[Abigail VO] When
Bob Iger wrote back,

00:25:03.001 --> 00:25:06.505
he acknowledged the problems
his workers were having.

00:25:06.505 --> 00:25:09.842
But he suggested that the
government was failing them,

00:25:09.842 --> 00:25:12.010
and that simply
increasing their pay wouldn't

00:25:12.010 --> 00:25:14.346
solve their problems.

00:25:14.346 --> 00:25:16.348
He referred me to
the head of HR,

00:25:16.348 --> 00:25:18.517
who told me about the
company's free education

00:25:18.517 --> 00:25:20.686
program...

00:25:20.686 --> 00:25:24.857
which is nice, but it
doesn't pay the rent.

00:25:25.524 --> 00:25:28.026
It was exasperating.

00:25:31.363 --> 00:25:32.865
[Eamon] What's up?

00:25:32.865 --> 00:25:35.534
Iger put me in touch
with the head of HR there,

00:25:35.534 --> 00:25:39.204
and she was very
nice and very helpful, and...

00:25:39.204 --> 00:25:41.874
I don't know if they don't
understand what I'm getting at

00:25:41.874 --> 00:25:43.709
or if they don't
wanna understand

00:25:43.709 --> 00:25:46.712
what I'm getting at...

00:25:46.712 --> 00:25:49.715
but it was clear I
wasn't getting anywhere.

00:25:49.715 --> 00:25:53.385
So I don't know what
direction this is gonna go in.

00:25:53.385 --> 00:25:55.220
So you, you
want higher taxes.

00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:56.388
[Abigail] I do, I do.

00:25:56.388 --> 00:25:58.223
I think that at least the
wealthy need to be paying

00:25:58.223 --> 00:25:59.558
higher taxes.

00:25:59.558 --> 00:26:00.559
And what does
that mean to you,

00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:02.227
when you say "higher taxes?"

00:26:02.227 --> 00:26:04.730
[Abigail VO] So after
months of feeling paralyzed,

00:26:04.730 --> 00:26:08.066
there I was doing a live
segment about taxing the rich

00:26:08.066 --> 00:26:10.903
when I got an
unexpected question.

00:26:10.903 --> 00:26:12.237
[man] And then the other
question I was gonna ask you

00:26:12.237 --> 00:26:14.072
is there's a Disney
shareholder meeting today,

00:26:14.072 --> 00:26:15.240
as it happens.

00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.743
Do you think that
Bob Iger's overpaid?

00:26:17.743 --> 00:26:20.412
I think that CEOs, in
general, are paid far too much.

00:26:20.412 --> 00:26:21.580
[man] I imagine you have
a lot of Disney stock, right?

00:26:21.580 --> 00:26:22.915
I'm not gonna come
out and say that,

00:26:22.915 --> 00:26:27.586
but I will say that if your
CEO salary is at the 700,

00:26:27.586 --> 00:26:30.923
600, 500 times your
median worker's paid,

00:26:30.923 --> 00:26:34.092
then there is nobody on
Earth-- Jesus Christ himself

00:26:34.092 --> 00:26:37.262
isn't worth 500 times
his median worker's paid.

00:26:37.262 --> 00:26:40.265
♪tense ambient music♪

00:26:40.265 --> 00:26:42.267
[whistle]

00:26:44.770 --> 00:26:46.772
[whistle]

00:26:48.607 --> 00:26:51.109
[whistle]

00:26:53.278 --> 00:26:56.281
[typing]

00:26:56.281 --> 00:26:58.450
[whistle]

00:26:58.450 --> 00:27:00.619
[whistle]

00:27:00.619 --> 00:27:01.954
[whistle]

00:27:01.954 --> 00:27:03.956
[multiple whistles]

00:27:03.956 --> 00:27:05.958
[Abigail VO]
Clearly, I'd struck a nerve.

00:27:05.958 --> 00:27:08.627
[whistle]

00:27:09.795 --> 00:27:11.964
[whistle]

00:27:13.632 --> 00:27:16.301
[man VO] She dove deeper into
her remarks Sunday in nearly

00:27:16.301 --> 00:27:18.136
two-dozen tweets.

00:27:18.136 --> 00:27:19.638
[woman VO]
Abigail Disney wrote,

00:27:19.638 --> 00:27:22.975
"It's time to call out Disney
and anyone else rich off their

00:27:22.975 --> 00:27:25.143
workers' backs.

00:27:25.143 --> 00:27:26.979
[man VO] Disney is
testifying before Congress

00:27:26.979 --> 00:27:29.648
today over CEO pay.

00:27:29.648 --> 00:27:31.984
[woman VO] This topic of
income inequality is really

00:27:31.984 --> 00:27:34.820
heating up on Capitol Hill.

00:27:39.491 --> 00:27:43.328
My mother's voice is
working overtime right now...

00:27:43.328 --> 00:27:45.330
telling me to sit up
straight and asking me

00:27:45.330 --> 00:27:48.000
who I think I am.

00:27:49.835 --> 00:27:52.170
It's sort of like, um, "You
need to feel awful about what

00:27:52.170 --> 00:27:54.339
you're doing, but if you're
gonna feel awful about what

00:27:54.339 --> 00:27:57.175
you're doing, you should
at least sit up straight."

00:27:57.175 --> 00:28:00.012
-[woman] Okay, perfect.
-[Abigail] [sighs] Okay.

00:28:02.681 --> 00:28:04.349
I am so nervous.

00:28:04.349 --> 00:28:05.350
[Susan] What?

00:28:05.350 --> 00:28:06.518
I'm so nervous right now.

00:28:06.518 --> 00:28:08.020
I know, breathe.

00:28:08.020 --> 00:28:10.022
[Abigail] Did I ever
show you this ring?

00:28:10.022 --> 00:28:11.690
-Do you know what it is?
-No.

00:28:11.690 --> 00:28:12.691
Oh, it's bananas.

00:28:12.691 --> 00:28:13.692
-No?
-No.

00:28:13.692 --> 00:28:15.360
-What is it?
-It's a clitoris.

00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:17.529
-[Susan] It's a clitoris.
-[Abigail] [laughs]

00:28:17.529 --> 00:28:19.698
I gotta tell you,
when I wear this,

00:28:19.698 --> 00:28:21.700
it's always the
men who say, "Wow,

00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:23.035
that's a beautiful ring."

00:28:23.035 --> 00:28:25.370
[laughs]

00:28:25.370 --> 00:28:26.705
That's deeply disturbing.

00:28:26.705 --> 00:28:29.041
And I just-- I love it! [laughs]

00:28:29.041 --> 00:28:31.376
And so I like to wear it to
the most patriarchal places.

00:28:31.376 --> 00:28:33.211
-And point it right at 'em.
-Yeah.

00:28:33.211 --> 00:28:34.379
[Susan]
[whispering] Fight the power.

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:36.214
It did look like
bananas at first.

00:28:36.214 --> 00:28:38.050
[both laugh]

00:28:38.050 --> 00:28:40.052
Thank you so much.

00:28:40.052 --> 00:28:41.553
[Susan] Okay.

00:28:41.553 --> 00:28:42.888
Here we go, girls.

00:28:42.888 --> 00:28:44.556
-[Abigail] All right.
-[Susan] Let's do it.

00:28:44.556 --> 00:28:47.225
[Abigail] Let's do it.

00:28:52.564 --> 00:28:55.067
The Committee
will come to order.

00:28:55.067 --> 00:28:58.070
The hearing is entitled
"Promoting Economic Growth: A

00:28:58.070 --> 00:29:00.572
Review of Proposals to
Strengthen the Rights and

00:29:00.572 --> 00:29:03.241
Protections of Workers,"
and I now recognize the--

00:29:03.241 --> 00:29:05.911
No, Madame Chair, I have
a parliamentarian inquiry.

00:29:05.911 --> 00:29:07.579
[Maloney] Okay.

00:29:07.579 --> 00:29:10.749
I'd like to know the
purpose of the filming.

00:29:10.749 --> 00:29:12.084
It's highly unusual.

00:29:12.084 --> 00:29:15.420
Is this a for-profit or
not-for-profit entity?

00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:16.922
It might be a
for-profit entity,

00:29:16.922 --> 00:29:19.591
but I've certainly never seen
a profit on any of it but, um--

00:29:19.591 --> 00:29:21.093
[laughter]

00:29:21.093 --> 00:29:23.428
[Wagner] Reclaiming my time,
I don't believe this is a--

00:29:23.428 --> 00:29:24.596
I don't believe...

00:29:24.596 --> 00:29:26.264
[Abigail VO] The objections
to my having a film crew

00:29:26.264 --> 00:29:29.267
present came
seemingly out of the blue,

00:29:29.267 --> 00:29:32.104
though I would later learn
that a Disney lobbyist had

00:29:32.104 --> 00:29:34.940
been working behind the scenes
pressuring both sides to

00:29:34.940 --> 00:29:36.775
prevent me from speaking.

00:29:36.775 --> 00:29:39.444
Move to adjourn.

00:29:39.778 --> 00:29:42.948
[Maloney] All those in
favor of the move to adjourn,

00:29:42.948 --> 00:29:44.116
say "Aye."

00:29:44.116 --> 00:29:45.450
[multiple] Aye.

00:29:45.450 --> 00:29:47.953
All those opposed, say "Nay."

00:29:47.953 --> 00:29:49.955
[Sherman & Maloney] Nay.

00:29:49.955 --> 00:29:53.792
In the opinion of the
Chair, the nays have it.

00:29:53.792 --> 00:29:56.962
Dr Disney, you
are now recognized.

00:29:56.962 --> 00:29:58.964
Thank you.

00:29:58.964 --> 00:30:01.633
Today, I hope to raise some
simple questions about CEO

00:30:01.633 --> 00:30:04.136
compensation.

00:30:04.136 --> 00:30:07.806
Does a CEO's pay have any
relationship to what his hotel

00:30:07.806 --> 00:30:10.308
maids and janitors get?

00:30:10.308 --> 00:30:13.645
Do the people who spend a
lifetime at the lowest inch of

00:30:13.645 --> 00:30:17.983
the wage spectrum deserve
the dignity of a living wage?

00:30:17.983 --> 00:30:21.820
This is a moral issue.

00:30:21.820 --> 00:30:23.822
The burden is not
just on Disney,

00:30:23.822 --> 00:30:26.825
and Disney is a long way
from being the worst offender.

00:30:26.825 --> 00:30:29.661
Disney could tomorrow raise
the salaries of all of its

00:30:29.661 --> 00:30:31.496
workers to a living wage.

00:30:31.496 --> 00:30:33.832
It was possible to do
this when my great-uncle and

00:30:33.832 --> 00:30:37.669
grandfather built the
company, it's possible now.

00:30:37.669 --> 00:30:40.505
People made this
problem, and by people,

00:30:40.505 --> 00:30:41.673
it can be fixed.

00:30:41.673 --> 00:30:44.342
Thank you.

00:30:45.010 --> 00:30:50.015
[applause]

00:30:50.182 --> 00:30:53.351
[Maloney] The gentleman from
Indiana is now recognized.

00:30:53.351 --> 00:30:57.189
Well, Dr Disney, I heard you
several times say what CEO pay

00:30:57.189 --> 00:30:59.858
should be, what
living wage should be,

00:30:59.858 --> 00:31:03.361
up and down the
spectrum, sea to shining sea.

00:31:03.361 --> 00:31:05.530
That is-- we have a
definition of that.

00:31:05.530 --> 00:31:07.032
That is Socialism.

00:31:07.032 --> 00:31:08.200
Here we go with Socialism.

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:09.367
[Hollingsworth] We
know what that is.

00:31:09.367 --> 00:31:11.536
[Abigail] This idea that
a company exists solely to

00:31:11.536 --> 00:31:14.873
maximize profits,
that is simply not true.

00:31:14.873 --> 00:31:18.376
Companies have moral
obligations to their employees.

00:31:18.376 --> 00:31:20.212
[Davidson] If you don't
wanna call this "Socialism,"

00:31:20.212 --> 00:31:22.214
I suppose you can
call it "Marxism,"

00:31:22.214 --> 00:31:23.548
"neo-Marxism."

00:31:23.548 --> 00:31:27.385
It certainly isn't the path
that made our country the

00:31:27.385 --> 00:31:29.888
world's land of opportunity.

00:31:29.888 --> 00:31:32.891
The reality is the
entire American workforce is

00:31:32.891 --> 00:31:36.394
benefiting from this
era of prosperity.

00:32:00.585 --> 00:32:02.420
[Ralph] Where do you
want the, uh, yellow onions?

00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:03.922
Next to the reds?

00:32:03.922 --> 00:32:06.925
[Trina] Right
next to the red.

00:32:10.428 --> 00:32:13.265
We got up at four
o'clock this morning.

00:32:13.265 --> 00:32:16.768
I haven't been feeling
good, and Ralph was up

00:32:16.768 --> 00:32:19.437
for over 24 hours.

00:32:19.437 --> 00:32:22.107
He worked the night
before, he got off work,

00:32:22.107 --> 00:32:24.442
and he went over
to the food bank.

00:32:24.442 --> 00:32:28.113
Sometimes, we feel
like we miss our kids, whatnot.

00:32:28.780 --> 00:32:33.118
But at the same time, we also
want our kids to know exactly

00:32:33.118 --> 00:32:37.289
what it's like to give.

00:32:37.956 --> 00:32:39.124
Here, Ellie.

00:32:39.124 --> 00:32:40.125
[Ralph] We have
one more over there, too.

00:32:40.125 --> 00:32:41.626
I'm gonna hand you
the stuff over here.

00:32:41.626 --> 00:32:44.129
Okay, sounds good.

00:32:44.129 --> 00:32:45.297
[Trina] Did you
wash the apples?

00:32:45.297 --> 00:32:46.631
[Ralph] Si.

00:32:46.631 --> 00:32:47.799
[Trina] Thank you.

00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:49.801
[Ralph] Snow White, I
always wash the apples.

00:32:49.801 --> 00:32:52.971
[Trina] No, you don't.

00:32:55.140 --> 00:32:57.976
[woman VO] The Disney Company
did respond to Abigail Disney.

00:32:57.976 --> 00:33:00.645
[woman VO] Disney fired back
with their own statement...

00:33:00.645 --> 00:33:02.480
[man VO] Saying
her statements are,

00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.984
quote, "unfair and libelous."

00:33:05.984 --> 00:33:07.652
[man VO] "We
strongly disagree with this

00:33:07.652 --> 00:33:10.655
characterization of our
employees and their experience

00:33:10.655 --> 00:33:13.325
at Disney."

00:33:13.325 --> 00:33:15.994
My colleague asked Bob Iger
about that massive pay gap,

00:33:15.994 --> 00:33:18.496
and he said, "It's not an
issue I want to address" but

00:33:18.496 --> 00:33:20.665
believes the interest of the
employees have been served,

00:33:20.665 --> 00:33:23.335
quote, "very well."

00:33:23.335 --> 00:33:26.338
♪melancholy music♪

00:33:26.338 --> 00:33:27.505
[Trina] January,
February, March,

00:33:27.505 --> 00:33:30.342
we'll be having
this once a month.

00:33:31.676 --> 00:33:35.013
[Abigail VO] To be clear,
2019 was one of Disney's

00:33:35.013 --> 00:33:38.350
most profitable years ever,

00:33:38.350 --> 00:33:41.853
as it was for many
American companies.

00:33:41.853 --> 00:33:45.857
And yet, food banks across
the country were struggling to

00:33:45.857 --> 00:33:49.694
keep up with demand.

00:33:49.694 --> 00:33:52.030
The business
narrative had come totally

00:33:52.030 --> 00:33:54.866
unmoored from reality.

00:33:54.866 --> 00:33:57.202
Abigail Disney, she's
missing the big story,

00:33:57.202 --> 00:34:00.038
Liz, which is we are reducing
income inequality through

00:34:00.038 --> 00:34:02.707
free-market capitalism
and through the tax cuts,

00:34:02.707 --> 00:34:05.210
more investment by businesses,
a tight labor market.

00:34:05.210 --> 00:34:07.379
That's the best
thing you can do for,

00:34:07.379 --> 00:34:09.047
you know,
working-class Americans,

00:34:09.047 --> 00:34:11.216
'cause we all want-- look, we
all want Americans to climb

00:34:11.216 --> 00:34:13.218
the economic ladder.

00:34:13.218 --> 00:34:16.721
♪♪♪

00:34:21.393 --> 00:34:22.727
So lemme ask you
about this: okay,

00:34:22.727 --> 00:34:25.563
here I am, hacking away at
trying to make a difference at

00:34:25.563 --> 00:34:28.233
this company, partly because
I think Disney's like a

00:34:28.233 --> 00:34:30.068
bellwether company.

00:34:30.068 --> 00:34:32.237
Their power is so immense,

00:34:32.237 --> 00:34:35.073
but they're being
stalled by fear...

00:34:35.073 --> 00:34:37.742
and conformity
and-- well, and greed.

00:34:37.742 --> 00:34:39.577
I mean, am I wrong
about that: if they change,

00:34:39.577 --> 00:34:41.413
there will be those
that follow behind?

00:34:41.413 --> 00:34:43.081
No, you're gonna need Disney,
but you're gonna need one or

00:34:43.081 --> 00:34:45.583
two other companies of
people running them with a

00:34:45.583 --> 00:34:46.584
conscience.

00:34:46.584 --> 00:34:49.587
But you've gotta get
that first cog moved.

00:34:49.587 --> 00:34:51.256
[Abigail] Yeah, exactly.

00:34:51.256 --> 00:34:52.257
So what's the strategy?

00:34:52.257 --> 00:34:53.591
What am I missing?

00:34:53.591 --> 00:34:56.428
What do I need to do?

00:34:56.428 --> 00:34:57.762
Make a movie about it?

00:34:57.762 --> 00:35:00.598
[both laugh]

00:35:00.598 --> 00:35:02.600
There's that.

00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:05.937
♪curious ambient music♪

00:35:05.937 --> 00:35:08.273
[Abigail VO]
Well, that was meta.

00:35:08.273 --> 00:35:10.609
But I did grow up steeped in
the power of stories to change

00:35:10.609 --> 00:35:13.111
the world.

00:35:13.611 --> 00:35:17.115
My family is itself a story.

00:35:17.115 --> 00:35:19.784
One that's invoked constantly
as the embodiment of the

00:35:19.784 --> 00:35:22.454
American Dream.

00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:28.460
But an unexamined story
is a dangerous thing.

00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:33.131
That American story about
rising on your own teaches us

00:35:33.131 --> 00:35:36.134
all to believe that if
you work hard enough,

00:35:36.134 --> 00:35:38.470
anything is possible.

00:35:38.470 --> 00:35:41.806
♪♪♪

00:35:42.307 --> 00:35:44.809
Climbing the economic ladder.

00:35:44.809 --> 00:35:46.478
It's as if race
doesn't matter,

00:35:46.478 --> 00:35:49.814
gender, disability,
or anything else.

00:35:49.814 --> 00:35:52.650
It's magical thinking, and you
can hear it in the language we

00:35:52.650 --> 00:35:53.985
use.

00:35:53.985 --> 00:35:55.820
"Shooting the moon."

00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:58.490
"Reaching for the brass ring."

00:35:58.490 --> 00:36:01.826
"Pulling on your
own bootstraps."

00:36:01.826 --> 00:36:04.496
I mean, think about it; you
can't pick yourself up by

00:36:04.496 --> 00:36:06.331
anything on yourself.

00:36:06.331 --> 00:36:09.501
It's physics!

00:36:09.834 --> 00:36:13.338
But the language is
always about rising.

00:36:13.338 --> 00:36:15.673
Rising on your own.

00:36:15.673 --> 00:36:18.676
♪♪♪

00:36:19.678 --> 00:36:24.015
My grandfather and great-uncle
did not rise alone.

00:36:24.015 --> 00:36:28.353
♪♪♪

00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:33.191
In the '50s, '60s, and '70s, a
full-time worker at Disneyland

00:36:33.191 --> 00:36:37.529
could afford a modest
middle-class life: a house,

00:36:37.529 --> 00:36:41.866
food in the fridge, a car, and
the ability to raise a family.

00:36:41.866 --> 00:36:45.870
♪♪♪

00:36:45.870 --> 00:36:48.540
[Sam VO] I never intended to
make a career out of Disney.

00:36:48.540 --> 00:36:50.708
Never.
It was a summer job.

00:36:50.708 --> 00:36:53.545
But you could
advance in the company,

00:36:53.545 --> 00:36:56.548
and if they realized that you
were really happy there and

00:36:56.548 --> 00:36:59.384
worked well, then you
got quite the raise,

00:36:59.384 --> 00:37:00.718
'cause I remember
all of a sudden,

00:37:00.718 --> 00:37:03.555
I was making
pretty good money.

00:37:03.555 --> 00:37:07.225
Roy talked about how he hoped
that some of us would go on to

00:37:07.225 --> 00:37:11.563
stay with the
company, and he meant it!

00:37:12.063 --> 00:37:13.898
Roy Disney, we
call him "Roy,"

00:37:13.898 --> 00:37:16.067
and they'll correct you
every time if you call him "Mr

00:37:16.067 --> 00:37:19.070
Disney" or Mr Tatum," and
that-- doesn't that make you

00:37:19.070 --> 00:37:22.240
feel good?
It does me. [chuckles]

00:37:26.911 --> 00:37:29.914
[Abigail VO] I remember
him as a pretty regular guy,

00:37:29.914 --> 00:37:32.917
who lived a no-frills
lifestyle by today's CEO

00:37:32.917 --> 00:37:34.919
standards.

00:37:36.254 --> 00:37:41.259
In fact, in 1967, his pay --
including stock options --

00:37:41.426 --> 00:37:45.930
was just 78 times his
lowest worker's pay...

00:37:45.930 --> 00:37:50.768
which was typical
for a CEO of his time.

00:37:51.102 --> 00:37:54.439
So what was different then?

00:37:55.440 --> 00:38:00.445
Why didn't executives in the
1950s and '60s give themselves

00:38:01.279 --> 00:38:06.284
the kind of tremendous,
tremendous salaries and

00:38:06.784 --> 00:38:11.122
bonuses and stock
options and everything?

00:38:11.122 --> 00:38:13.458
You just didn't do it.

00:38:13.458 --> 00:38:15.794
There was a certain ethics.

00:38:15.794 --> 00:38:18.630
There was a
certain way you behave.

00:38:20.131 --> 00:38:23.468
Is it overly romantic for me
to think of my grandfather as

00:38:23.468 --> 00:38:25.470
someone who...

00:38:25.470 --> 00:38:27.639
you know, thought about
his employees as important

00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:31.142
partners and-- and wanted to
make sure that people could

00:38:31.142 --> 00:38:33.311
raise families on
their salaries?

00:38:33.311 --> 00:38:36.147
[Rebecca] I don't think
it's overly romantic at all.

00:38:36.147 --> 00:38:38.483
You know, the motto of the
Harvard Business School used

00:38:38.483 --> 00:38:42.487
to be: "Making a
decent profit decently."

00:38:42.487 --> 00:38:44.489
-Really?
-[Rebecca] [laughing] Yeah.

00:38:44.489 --> 00:38:46.324
And that wasn't that unusual.

00:38:46.324 --> 00:38:50.495
It wasn't a crazy idea that
business was in service to

00:38:50.495 --> 00:38:52.497
society.

00:38:54.666 --> 00:38:57.835
[Abigail VO] So the economic
situation we're currently in...

00:38:57.835 --> 00:39:01.172
I think a lot of people assume
is just what happens, right?

00:39:01.172 --> 00:39:02.340
[Heather VO] Yeah, people
think the economy is like the

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:03.675
weather.

00:39:03.675 --> 00:39:06.010
The economy is
not the weather,

00:39:06.010 --> 00:39:08.179
it's not a set of
uncontrollable forces that we

00:39:08.179 --> 00:39:10.682
just have to sort of try to
protect ourselves from as much

00:39:10.682 --> 00:39:12.684
as possible.

00:39:12.684 --> 00:39:16.020
People set the
rules for capitalism.

00:39:16.521 --> 00:39:18.690
[Abigail VO] Greed's
been with us forever,

00:39:18.690 --> 00:39:21.526
and there have always been
businessmen setting the rules

00:39:21.526 --> 00:39:26.030
to favor themselves, so
what was holding them back?

00:39:26.864 --> 00:39:28.533
[Heather VO] In the
middle of the 20th century,

00:39:28.533 --> 00:39:32.704
norms and laws set a different
standard and understanding in

00:39:32.704 --> 00:39:35.206
terms of what
Americans expected.

00:39:35.206 --> 00:39:39.043
That basically was a social
contract between business,

00:39:39.043 --> 00:39:40.545
government, and
labor that said,

00:39:40.545 --> 00:39:41.546
"You know what?

00:39:41.546 --> 00:39:45.717
We're all gonna do our part
to ensure that we all have a

00:39:45.717 --> 00:39:48.052
pretty decent
standard of living."

00:39:48.052 --> 00:39:53.057
And you had really strong
labor unions that gave workers

00:39:53.725 --> 00:39:57.395
a real voice in the conditions
of their work and of the

00:39:57.395 --> 00:40:00.899
business practices and
business strategies.

00:40:00.899 --> 00:40:03.735
♪whimsical string music♪

00:40:03.735 --> 00:40:07.238
It wasn't just the generosity
of the CEOs that made

00:40:07.238 --> 00:40:10.742
capitalism a
little more humane,

00:40:10.742 --> 00:40:14.078
it was that the labor
movement fought a fight,

00:40:14.078 --> 00:40:16.581
and the government backed
them up with worker laws --

00:40:16.581 --> 00:40:19.417
workers' rights laws.

00:40:19.417 --> 00:40:22.754
[Abigail VO] Those laws, in
addition to mid-century norms,

00:40:22.754 --> 00:40:26.758
are what kept my grandfather
and other CEOs in check.

00:40:27.258 --> 00:40:29.427
I remember talk around
the dinner table about the

00:40:29.427 --> 00:40:32.430
notorious strike
way back in 1941,

00:40:32.430 --> 00:40:34.932
when nearly ever worker
walked off the job to protest

00:40:34.932 --> 00:40:37.268
unfair pay.

00:40:37.268 --> 00:40:40.438
Grandpa and Uncle Walt didn't
like being told what to do by

00:40:40.438 --> 00:40:43.775
anyone, but they
didn't have a choice.

00:40:44.609 --> 00:40:47.946
[Neal VO] Walt did
everything he possibly could,

00:40:47.946 --> 00:40:52.450
but unions were
incredibly powerful.

00:40:52.450 --> 00:40:55.787
And so Walt Disney
had to capitulate.

00:40:55.787 --> 00:41:00.625
In terms of how employees
were treated more often and

00:41:00.625 --> 00:41:05.463
how companies did not feel
required to take out every

00:41:05.463 --> 00:41:09.300
last possible
penny like Scrooge,

00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:11.302
it was different.

00:41:11.302 --> 00:41:13.805
You know, in the
1950s and '60s and '70s,

00:41:13.805 --> 00:41:16.975
tax rates on corporations were
high -- higher than they've

00:41:16.975 --> 00:41:18.643
been in 50 years.

00:41:18.643 --> 00:41:20.645
And yet it worked out.

00:41:20.645 --> 00:41:23.648
It built up all
kinds of things.

00:41:25.316 --> 00:41:27.318
The interstate highways, they
were brand new and they were

00:41:27.318 --> 00:41:28.820
wonderful and it
was fantastic!

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:31.656
And, of course, it funneled
all those hundreds and

00:41:31.656 --> 00:41:36.661
thousands and millions
of people to Disneyland.

00:41:36.828 --> 00:41:38.663
[man VO] This is Disneyland.

00:41:38.663 --> 00:41:41.499
Since its opening, 50 million
people -- or over one-fourth

00:41:41.499 --> 00:41:44.168
of America's
population -- have come here.

00:41:44.168 --> 00:41:46.838
And in 10 years, almost one
billion dollars have been

00:41:46.838 --> 00:41:50.341
spent, all because of tourist
money generated by a unique

00:41:50.341 --> 00:41:54.846
recreation industry in
this vast Orange County area.

00:41:54.846 --> 00:41:57.849
♪curious string music♪

00:41:57.849 --> 00:41:59.684
[Abigail VO] It sure seemed
like money was trickling down

00:41:59.684 --> 00:42:02.019
then...

00:42:02.019 --> 00:42:05.189
even as companies were making
profits and the economy was

00:42:05.189 --> 00:42:08.025
going gangbusters.

00:42:08.860 --> 00:42:12.029
[Heather VO] You had the
big hallmarks we think of as

00:42:12.029 --> 00:42:15.867
middle-class life,
paid for by tax dollars.

00:42:15.867 --> 00:42:19.036
Things like
massively-subsidized housing,

00:42:19.036 --> 00:42:22.874
the ability for someone on a
working-class income to get

00:42:22.874 --> 00:42:26.544
into home ownership
without a downpayment.

00:42:26.544 --> 00:42:28.713
And the government
subsidized healthcare,

00:42:28.713 --> 00:42:31.048
free college.

00:42:31.048 --> 00:42:33.217
It was the creation of the
greatest middleclass the world

00:42:33.217 --> 00:42:34.719
had ever seen, the
highest standard of living

00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.221
in the world.

00:42:37.221 --> 00:42:42.226
The American Dream was a gift
of the American government.

00:42:45.730 --> 00:42:48.566
[ambient laughter]

00:42:48.566 --> 00:42:53.237
♪slow melancholy strings♪

00:42:53.571 --> 00:42:56.741
But it was largely
for whites only.

00:42:56.741 --> 00:42:59.744
♪♪♪

00:43:02.747 --> 00:43:05.249
So everything about the
collective social contract

00:43:05.249 --> 00:43:07.084
that built what we call "the
middleclass" in the United

00:43:07.084 --> 00:43:08.920
States was racialized.

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:10.588
[Heather] Yes.

00:43:10.588 --> 00:43:13.257
♪♪♪

00:43:13.257 --> 00:43:15.426
[Abigail VO] Like
so many white people,

00:43:15.426 --> 00:43:18.095
growing up, I hadn't
been taught that government

00:43:18.095 --> 00:43:21.599
policies had actively stacked
the deck against people of

00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:25.937
color by limiting access to
all those on-ramps to the

00:43:25.937 --> 00:43:28.105
American Dream.

00:43:28.105 --> 00:43:30.775
♪♪♪

00:43:33.277 --> 00:43:36.948
In the United
States, we so often...

00:43:36.948 --> 00:43:39.116
don't want to see...

00:43:39.116 --> 00:43:41.118
the harm, the exploitation...

00:43:41.118 --> 00:43:44.789
-[Abigail] Uh-huh.
-The power.

00:43:44.789 --> 00:43:47.458
It's-- that's the
Disneyfication of American

00:43:47.458 --> 00:43:50.461
history and of
our American story.

00:43:50.461 --> 00:43:52.463
♪♪♪

00:43:52.463 --> 00:43:54.966
[Walt VO] To all who
come to this happy place,

00:43:54.966 --> 00:43:56.634
welcome.

00:43:56.634 --> 00:43:59.971
Disneyland is your land.

00:43:59.971 --> 00:44:02.640
♪upbeat folk
music and clapping♪

00:44:02.640 --> 00:44:04.976
[man VO] And
there's Aunt Jemima!

00:44:04.976 --> 00:44:08.479
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

00:44:08.479 --> 00:44:10.982
[Abigail VO] It's painful,
and it took me a long time to

00:44:10.982 --> 00:44:14.485
fully comprehend the role that
my family -- the people that I

00:44:14.485 --> 00:44:17.655
loved -- played in
perpetuating centuries-old

00:44:17.655 --> 00:44:21.325
myths and stories that
made this racist system seem

00:44:21.325 --> 00:44:25.663
perfectly natural
and completely benign.

00:44:25.663 --> 00:44:29.000
♪♪♪

00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:38.009
[Heather VO] You know, our
original economic model in

00:44:38.009 --> 00:44:40.678
this country was
stolen land, stolen people,

00:44:40.678 --> 00:44:43.014
and stolen labor.

00:44:45.182 --> 00:44:50.187
It's an economy in which white
men are sitting at the top of

00:44:50.354 --> 00:44:53.190
a hierarchy.

00:44:53.691 --> 00:44:58.696
That's really our founding
myth: the idea that some

00:44:58.696 --> 00:45:03.200
people and groups of people
are simply better than others.

00:45:04.201 --> 00:45:05.536
[man VO] Here I am,
down here on Main Street.

00:45:05.536 --> 00:45:07.705
I've got my whole family
with me -- my lovely wife,

00:45:07.705 --> 00:45:10.541
Mary, and my
daughter, Melinda, and Bob.

00:45:10.541 --> 00:45:12.043
You know, this
is a Main Street,

00:45:12.043 --> 00:45:14.045
ladies and gentlemen, just
like my grandma used to tell

00:45:14.045 --> 00:45:16.213
me about back in
Joplin, Missouri.

00:45:16.213 --> 00:45:19.550
♪♪♪

00:45:19.550 --> 00:45:21.552
When he created
those amusement parks,

00:45:21.552 --> 00:45:24.555
Walt Disney created not
only a false reality,

00:45:24.555 --> 00:45:27.892
but he also
changed reality itself.

00:45:27.892 --> 00:45:31.395
[train horn]

00:45:32.563 --> 00:45:36.400
As Disneyland was being built,
Walt was very conscious of

00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.070
creating that berm
around the park.

00:45:39.070 --> 00:45:42.573
And the idea of creating that
berm was that reality was out

00:45:42.573 --> 00:45:44.241
there...

00:45:44.241 --> 00:45:46.577
and it didn't invade here.

00:45:46.577 --> 00:45:51.582
[commotion]

00:45:53.918 --> 00:45:56.754
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

00:45:56.754 --> 00:45:58.255
[Abigail VO] But
outside the berm,

00:45:58.255 --> 00:46:02.426
it was getting harder and
harder to ignore reality.

00:46:03.094 --> 00:46:05.262
[Heather VO] People of
color were suddenly saying,

00:46:05.262 --> 00:46:07.264
"We want a seat at the table.

00:46:07.264 --> 00:46:09.934
We've been contributing to
this great American engine of

00:46:09.934 --> 00:46:13.938
prosperity and we
want our shot too."

00:46:13.938 --> 00:46:17.775
♪♪♪

00:46:18.609 --> 00:46:22.113
When the Civil Rights Movement
and the gains in the courts

00:46:22.113 --> 00:46:25.449
empowered Black Americans, the
federal government switched

00:46:25.449 --> 00:46:28.119
from being the enforcer of
the racial hierarchy to the

00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.621
up-ender of the
racial hierarchy.

00:46:30.621 --> 00:46:34.458
♪♪♪

00:46:38.295 --> 00:46:41.298
And millions of Americans --
white Americans -- who had

00:46:41.298 --> 00:46:44.468
been taught to disdain and
distrust Black Americans felt

00:46:44.468 --> 00:46:47.805
betrayed by that government.

00:46:47.805 --> 00:46:50.307
[indistinct
overlapping shouting]

00:46:50.307 --> 00:46:53.144
[Abigail VO] The sense of
betrayal white Americans felt

00:46:53.144 --> 00:46:57.815
planted a deep seed of
mistrust in the government...

00:46:57.815 --> 00:47:01.152
which would only expand across
the political spectrum as

00:47:01.152 --> 00:47:04.321
unrest continued
into the 1970s.

00:47:04.321 --> 00:47:06.824
[indistinct shouting]

00:47:06.824 --> 00:47:08.492
[Kurt VO] All kinds of people
weren't so crazy about the

00:47:08.492 --> 00:47:11.162
government for a
lot of reasons.

00:47:11.162 --> 00:47:13.330
There was all this talk of
revolution and Socialism and

00:47:13.330 --> 00:47:16.333
everything else.

00:47:16.333 --> 00:47:21.338
So many CEOs and rich people
who wanted to maximize their

00:47:21.672 --> 00:47:23.340
wealth and power
thought, like,

00:47:23.340 --> 00:47:26.343
"My God, are the guillotines
gonna come for us?"

00:47:26.343 --> 00:47:28.345
Some of 'em thought that.

00:47:28.345 --> 00:47:30.514
And they thought, "We gotta
get together and stop this or

00:47:30.514 --> 00:47:33.517
we're gonna be washed
away, and the anti-business

00:47:33.517 --> 00:47:36.353
sentiment is just
gonna ruin us."

00:47:36.353 --> 00:47:38.355
[crowd shouting indistinctly]

00:47:38.355 --> 00:47:40.191
[Abigail VO] The business
class may have been fearful,

00:47:40.191 --> 00:47:43.194
but in all this upheaval,
they saw an opportunity to use

00:47:43.194 --> 00:47:47.865
white fear and insecurity to
sell a new economic story.

00:47:49.033 --> 00:47:52.203
[Heather VO] They began to
see that white Americans would

00:47:52.203 --> 00:47:56.207
turn away from government
and unions and towards the

00:47:56.207 --> 00:47:58.709
quote-unquote "free market."

00:47:58.709 --> 00:48:02.213
And that's when we began to
see the business class really

00:48:02.213 --> 00:48:04.882
organized, with a
message that said,

00:48:04.882 --> 00:48:08.385
basically, "Turn your back on
the formula that created your

00:48:08.385 --> 00:48:11.889
own middleclass prosperity."

00:48:13.057 --> 00:48:17.895
And what we see today is we
have an economy that always

00:48:17.895 --> 00:48:20.898
existed for Black
and brown people,

00:48:20.898 --> 00:48:24.235
and yet now, it's existing
for nearly the majority of

00:48:24.235 --> 00:48:27.238
American workers.

00:48:28.572 --> 00:48:32.743
If you build into any system a
belief in a hierarchy of human

00:48:32.743 --> 00:48:35.746
value that gives permission
to exploitation of anyone,

00:48:35.746 --> 00:48:40.751
ultimately, that system
will sort of swallow us all.

00:48:48.759 --> 00:48:53.264
♪tense ambient music♪

00:49:07.444 --> 00:49:09.613
[man VO] All across America,
tourist attractions are

00:49:09.613 --> 00:49:12.116
shutting down.

00:49:12.116 --> 00:49:13.617
[man VO]
Disneyland in California,

00:49:13.617 --> 00:49:17.288
closing because of
the coronavirus.

00:49:17.288 --> 00:49:19.290
[woman VO] They are
proceeding with the closure of

00:49:19.290 --> 00:49:22.293
these parks.

00:49:23.127 --> 00:49:26.463
[man on radio]
Here's what's new at 2:05.

00:49:26.463 --> 00:49:31.135
Disney will furlough 30,000 of
its workers in Anaheim alone.

00:49:31.135 --> 00:49:33.971
An additional 43,000...

00:49:34.638 --> 00:49:37.141
[man VO] What the company
is asking them to do is to

00:49:37.141 --> 00:49:41.312
certainly apply for state
benefits in the interim.

00:49:42.646 --> 00:49:45.316
[Abigail VO] With no
clarity about whether or when

00:49:45.316 --> 00:49:48.986
permanent layoffs would come,
cast members wondered how long

00:49:48.986 --> 00:49:52.656
their unemployment
benefits would hold out.

00:49:55.326 --> 00:49:58.162
To try to keep things
fun and interesting,

00:49:58.162 --> 00:50:00.331
we are in our tent
camping in the front yard.

00:50:00.331 --> 00:50:01.832
[chuckles]

00:50:01.832 --> 00:50:03.000
[girl] Cold!

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:04.168
[Ralph] It can't
be cold, honey.

00:50:04.168 --> 00:50:05.669
Mommy just got
it off the grill.

00:50:05.669 --> 00:50:07.504
It is cold!

00:50:07.504 --> 00:50:09.506
Feel it!

00:50:09.506 --> 00:50:11.175
[Ralph] Okay, I'll find
a way to heat it back up.

00:50:11.175 --> 00:50:13.177
How dare you?!

00:50:13.177 --> 00:50:15.179
[girl] How dare you?!

00:50:15.179 --> 00:50:17.181
How dare you?!

00:50:17.181 --> 00:50:21.685
[giggling]

00:50:21.685 --> 00:50:24.188
[giggles] It's raining!

00:50:24.188 --> 00:50:26.190
[laughs]

00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:27.524
[Ralph] You
like camping, huh?

00:50:27.524 --> 00:50:28.859
Mm-hm, in the rain!

00:50:28.859 --> 00:50:30.194
[Ralph] In the rain! [chuckles]

00:50:30.194 --> 00:50:32.863
I like it.

00:50:34.365 --> 00:50:36.700
It's good to see everybody!

00:50:36.700 --> 00:50:38.369
[Trina] There you go!

00:50:38.369 --> 00:50:41.205
[Abigail] So
how's everybody doing?

00:50:41.205 --> 00:50:43.040
It's the same day
it's always been.

00:50:43.040 --> 00:50:44.541
Tomorrow, I'll let you
know about tomorrow.

00:50:44.541 --> 00:50:47.211
And after that, I'll let you
know about the day after that.

00:50:47.211 --> 00:50:50.214
You gotta roll
with the punches.

00:50:51.215 --> 00:50:55.052
People say, you know, "We're
worried about the future."

00:50:55.052 --> 00:50:57.221
It's kinda hard to get worried
about something that you never

00:50:57.221 --> 00:51:00.724
had an opportunity to
have in the first place.

00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:04.895
[Ralph] We're coming here
to Michael's high school and

00:51:04.895 --> 00:51:08.899
seeing if we can pick
up food for everybody.

00:51:08.899 --> 00:51:11.068
-[man] Four.
-[woman] Four?

00:51:11.068 --> 00:51:13.404
-[Ralph] You like her mask?
-[girls] Yeah!

00:51:13.404 --> 00:51:14.905
It's so pretty!

00:51:14.905 --> 00:51:17.574
-[woman] Thank you!
-[Ralph] [chuckles]

00:51:18.242 --> 00:51:19.910
[Ralph VO] Just worried about
today and tomorrow and being

00:51:19.910 --> 00:51:23.080
able to just do
the basic stuff.

00:51:23.080 --> 00:51:25.749
We live day by day.

00:51:26.750 --> 00:51:30.254
[sponge scraping on dish]

00:51:34.758 --> 00:51:36.760
[Ellie VO] It's been
difficult because of the

00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.930
pandemic.

00:51:39.930 --> 00:51:42.266
I don't know
what's gonna happen,

00:51:42.266 --> 00:51:46.437
and, uh, I feel like
I'm way off course.

00:51:46.770 --> 00:51:49.106
I wanna graduate.

00:51:49.106 --> 00:51:52.276
[sighs] Hopefully, I
get to do that some day.

00:51:52.276 --> 00:51:54.445
But the way things
are going right now...

00:51:54.445 --> 00:51:56.447
[sighs]
it's not looking so good.

00:51:56.447 --> 00:51:58.949
[chuckles]

00:52:00.451 --> 00:52:02.286
I don't know if I'll
ever be able to...

00:52:02.286 --> 00:52:05.789
move out [sniffles] from...

00:52:05.956 --> 00:52:07.624
my parents' home. [sniffles]

00:52:07.624 --> 00:52:09.960
You know?

00:52:10.794 --> 00:52:12.796
[Ellie] I'll
just never move out.

00:52:12.796 --> 00:52:13.964
[woman] Yeah.

00:52:13.964 --> 00:52:16.967
[laughs] Are you
okay with that?

00:52:17.801 --> 00:52:20.804
I just feel sad about it.

00:52:20.804 --> 00:52:23.974
I feel sad that I
can't even help.

00:52:23.974 --> 00:52:26.143
-[Ellie] Yeah.
-Because I need help.

00:52:26.143 --> 00:52:28.979
[both laugh]

00:52:30.314 --> 00:52:32.816
[Ellie] It'll work out.

00:52:39.823 --> 00:52:41.492
[cat meows]

00:52:41.492 --> 00:52:44.328
[Artemis] I
know, baby, I know.

00:52:44.328 --> 00:52:47.498
My poor cats are so confused.

00:52:47.998 --> 00:52:50.334
[Artemis VO] Right now, I'm
going to stay with a friend

00:52:50.334 --> 00:52:55.172
because we had a pipe
back up in my house.

00:52:55.172 --> 00:52:59.009
They literally have to
rip out a bunch of walls.

00:52:59.843 --> 00:53:03.347
My roommate is letting
me borrow the truck.

00:53:03.347 --> 00:53:05.182
When you're in my
financial situation,

00:53:05.182 --> 00:53:09.520
you can't afford to have
any emergencies at all.

00:53:10.854 --> 00:53:13.690
I am fortunate that I have
people helping me out and I

00:53:13.690 --> 00:53:16.860
have a place to
stay with my cats.

00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:27.204
I grew up in a very
unsteady financial home.

00:53:27.871 --> 00:53:30.541
And every time we
ended up moving,

00:53:30.541 --> 00:53:33.710
we'd lose something emotional.

00:53:35.379 --> 00:53:37.047
[voice cracking] I
used to have my mom's ID,

00:53:37.047 --> 00:53:39.383
which was my only
picture of her.

00:53:39.383 --> 00:53:40.717
[sniffles]

00:53:40.717 --> 00:53:43.220
And I can't find that anymore.

00:53:43.220 --> 00:53:46.390
So I-- I kind of tend to
associate moving with,

00:53:46.390 --> 00:53:50.561
um, losing things that
are important to me.

00:53:57.234 --> 00:54:01.405
You know, I'm kind of pushing
that feeling to one side and

00:54:01.405 --> 00:54:04.908
doing my best to move forward.

00:54:06.076 --> 00:54:11.081
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

00:54:14.251 --> 00:54:16.920
[Artemis] [softly]
Hey, baby, want to look?

00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.422
What do you think?

00:54:18.422 --> 00:54:19.923
[cat meows]

00:54:19.923 --> 00:54:21.925
Yeah?

00:54:21.925 --> 00:54:23.760
[man VO] CEO Bob Iger
announced this week he would

00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:27.431
forgo his entire salary
because of the crisis.

00:54:29.433 --> 00:54:32.436
[Abigail VO] Early on, Bob
Iger and top executives made a

00:54:32.436 --> 00:54:36.273
big show of giving
up their salaries.

00:54:37.441 --> 00:54:40.444
But it was just a matter of
months before the Disney board

00:54:40.444 --> 00:54:44.114
would quietly
restore them fully.

00:54:44.615 --> 00:54:47.618
[Artemis VO] Look at the $3
million check Bob Iger gave

00:54:47.618 --> 00:54:49.453
back for his salary.

00:54:49.453 --> 00:54:52.623
My first thought was "But
what about his stock options?

00:54:52.623 --> 00:54:54.791
What about his-- all
those other things?"

00:54:54.791 --> 00:54:56.960
We all know that that's not
where the majority of his

00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:59.630
money comes from.

00:55:00.464 --> 00:55:03.967
They were never at risk
of losing their homes.

00:55:05.636 --> 00:55:07.971
[woman VO] Dow Jones
Industrial Average soared

00:55:07.971 --> 00:55:10.474
358 points.

00:55:10.474 --> 00:55:15.312
[woman VO] It was the best
August for the Dow since 1984.

00:55:15.312 --> 00:55:17.814
♪tense ambient music♪

00:55:17.814 --> 00:55:20.317
[Abigail VO] In fact, as
workers were struggling,

00:55:20.317 --> 00:55:24.655
the 1% was better off
than it had ever been.

00:55:24.988 --> 00:55:27.824
In 2020, as the
pandemic raged,

00:55:27.824 --> 00:55:31.828
sales of super-yachts
were up 46 percent.

00:55:31.828 --> 00:55:34.831
♪♪♪

00:55:34.831 --> 00:55:38.001
When did this become normal?

00:55:40.671 --> 00:55:44.508
What happened to the way my
grandfather did business?

00:55:45.175 --> 00:55:48.345
He died in 1971,
and within a decade,

00:55:48.345 --> 00:55:51.682
the country's personality
had completely changed.

00:55:51.682 --> 00:55:53.517
[pop]

00:55:55.018 --> 00:55:56.853
[honk]

00:55:56.853 --> 00:55:58.522
♪♪♪

00:55:58.522 --> 00:56:00.524
[Kurt VO] It didn't
just change magically,

00:56:00.524 --> 00:56:04.528
it changed because powerful
people changed those norms and

00:56:04.528 --> 00:56:07.364
changed those values and
put aside the values that had

00:56:07.364 --> 00:56:11.201
operated for decades and
decades in this country.

00:56:11.868 --> 00:56:13.537
I use the word
"confederacy" a lot,

00:56:13.537 --> 00:56:16.707
but all of these
people -- corporate CEOs,

00:56:16.707 --> 00:56:20.544
uh, intellectual
zealots, uh...

00:56:20.544 --> 00:56:23.714
just plain
rich people --

00:56:23.714 --> 00:56:27.384
they worked together during
the '70s and '80s to change this

00:56:27.384 --> 00:56:31.221
system and this culture
into one that really is about

00:56:31.221 --> 00:56:34.224
serving the rich guys
and the business guys.

00:56:34.224 --> 00:56:36.059
[cash register dings]

00:56:36.059 --> 00:56:38.562
[Abigail VO] In 1971,
business leaders at the

00:56:38.562 --> 00:56:41.732
Chamber of Commerce asked
Virginia tobacco lawyer and

00:56:41.732 --> 00:56:44.901
future Supreme Court Justice
Lewis Powell to come up with a

00:56:44.901 --> 00:56:48.071
plan to put business
firmly in the driver's seat.

00:56:48.071 --> 00:56:50.407
[typing]

00:56:50.407 --> 00:56:55.412
[Kurt VO] They began this
campaign to change minds.

00:56:55.746 --> 00:56:56.913
Government is not
only not the answer,

00:56:56.913 --> 00:56:58.749
government is bad.

00:56:58.749 --> 00:57:01.418
Government is incompetent,
government's corrupt.

00:57:01.418 --> 00:57:04.087
Government can't do anything;
get out of the way and let

00:57:04.087 --> 00:57:06.089
business and Wall
Street do everything.

00:57:06.089 --> 00:57:07.257
[cash register ding]

00:57:07.257 --> 00:57:09.593
All that mattered is profit.

00:57:09.593 --> 00:57:13.430
[Heather VO] They created a
road map for an idealogical

00:57:13.430 --> 00:57:16.933
takeover of American life,
from how business should

00:57:16.933 --> 00:57:20.437
organize and lobby and
contribute to politicians,

00:57:20.437 --> 00:57:24.107
to how they need to go into
the universities to make sure

00:57:24.107 --> 00:57:27.778
that young people were
understanding the dangers of

00:57:27.778 --> 00:57:31.281
labor unions and
government regulation.

00:57:31.281 --> 00:57:32.783
[Kurt VO] "We gotta
set up these think tanks,

00:57:32.783 --> 00:57:35.285
we gotta create some media."

00:57:35.285 --> 00:57:38.622
And this super-free market,
"Profits for all that matter"

00:57:38.622 --> 00:57:42.793
idea was sold to
the American people.

00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:45.629
In any event, I'm not
in favor of fairness,

00:57:45.629 --> 00:57:47.297
I'm in favor of freedom!

00:57:47.297 --> 00:57:50.300
And freedom is not fairness.

00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:52.636
[applause]

00:57:52.636 --> 00:57:55.972
Milton Friedman was a
celebrity economist arguing

00:57:55.972 --> 00:57:59.976
corporations have no
responsibility whatsoever

00:57:59.976 --> 00:58:03.480
beyond profits, full
stop, end of story.

00:58:05.315 --> 00:58:08.819
Milton Friedman said a
corporation is a machine for

00:58:08.819 --> 00:58:12.489
making money for investors and
maximizing shareholder value

00:58:12.489 --> 00:58:15.158
would make
everyone rich and free.

00:58:15.158 --> 00:58:17.661
You don't have to
worry about anything else,

00:58:17.661 --> 00:58:21.164
all you have to do is put
your head down and make money.

00:58:21.498 --> 00:58:24.334
Did you ever have a moment
of doubt on whether greed's a

00:58:24.334 --> 00:58:26.169
good idea to run on?

00:58:26.169 --> 00:58:29.339
Well, first of all, tell me:
is there some society you know

00:58:29.339 --> 00:58:31.842
that doesn't run on greed?

00:58:31.842 --> 00:58:33.844
The world runs...

00:58:33.844 --> 00:58:37.681
on individuals pursuing
their separate interests.

00:58:38.014 --> 00:58:39.349
[Kurt VO] Milton
Friedman thought,

00:58:39.349 --> 00:58:43.019
"Greed is good, and that's
what makes America great."

00:58:43.019 --> 00:58:46.523
Of course, that idea is a
mischaracterization of our

00:58:46.523 --> 00:58:49.860
economic system for
more than a century.

00:58:51.361 --> 00:58:54.698
They just re-wrote the story.

00:58:55.198 --> 00:58:59.202
[Abigail VO] And suddenly,
that story was everywhere,

00:58:59.202 --> 00:59:02.372
even on morning television.

00:59:03.039 --> 00:59:06.376
What made it so easy for so
many Americans to believe that

00:59:06.376 --> 00:59:09.546
the government
was their enemy?

00:59:10.380 --> 00:59:13.550
On the one hand, up front
is the free market story,

00:59:13.550 --> 00:59:16.219
and on the side is
the dog whistle.

00:59:16.219 --> 00:59:19.055
[cheers and applause]

00:59:19.389 --> 00:59:21.558
[Reagan VO] In Chicago, they
found a woman who holds the

00:59:21.558 --> 00:59:22.893
record.

00:59:22.893 --> 00:59:25.896
She used 80 names, 30
addresses to collect food

00:59:25.896 --> 00:59:30.066
stamps, social
security, as well as welfare.

00:59:30.567 --> 00:59:34.404
I've always felt the nine
most terrifying words in the

00:59:34.404 --> 00:59:37.741
English language are: "I'm
from the government and I'm

00:59:37.741 --> 00:59:39.075
here to help."

00:59:39.075 --> 00:59:42.245
[cheers and applause]

00:59:42.245 --> 00:59:45.415
[Heather VO] Reagan was able
to win large majorities of

00:59:45.415 --> 00:59:49.252
working- and middle-class
white people by campaigning

00:59:49.252 --> 00:59:51.588
against the government itself.

00:59:52.589 --> 00:59:55.926
The emotional logic was
"Government is on the side of

00:59:55.926 --> 00:59:58.428
these lazy Black people
who don't want to work.

00:59:58.428 --> 01:00:00.096
You are better than that.

01:00:00.096 --> 01:00:01.097
You are one of us.

01:00:01.097 --> 01:00:03.934
You, too, can be rich."

01:00:05.435 --> 01:00:08.605
And he marketed
it extremely well.

01:00:08.605 --> 01:00:10.607
[cheers and applause]

01:00:10.607 --> 01:00:14.945
♪ominous music♪

01:00:15.111 --> 01:00:17.447
[Reagan] My friends, thank
you again for the gift of this

01:00:17.447 --> 01:00:20.116
magnificent parade.

01:00:20.116 --> 01:00:23.286
Tomorrow evening, I will
address the nation about a

01:00:23.286 --> 01:00:28.124
dramatic proposal to reform
our tax system to launch a new

01:00:28.124 --> 01:00:31.795
American revolution and
expand our economic freedom.

01:00:31.795 --> 01:00:35.632
[cheers and applause]

01:00:36.967 --> 01:00:40.637
[Heather VO] It became known
as "trickle-down economics" --

01:00:40.637 --> 01:00:44.808
if the rich get richer,
then it'll help everybody.

01:00:45.642 --> 01:00:49.646
Of course, the result was
a set of policy changes...

01:00:49.646 --> 01:00:54.317
slashing tax rates on
millionaires and corporations,

01:00:54.317 --> 01:00:57.487
gutting social spending that
really helped working-class

01:00:57.487 --> 01:01:02.492
families, and then, of
course, attacking unions.

01:01:02.492 --> 01:01:07.497
It really signaled the end of
the reign of organized labor

01:01:08.164 --> 01:01:11.668
in the country as a way for
millions of workers to demand

01:01:11.668 --> 01:01:15.338
an equal slice of the pie
they spent all day baking.

01:01:19.009 --> 01:01:21.011
[Abigail VO] The changes that
came with this free market

01:01:21.011 --> 01:01:24.514
ideology were
reflected inside of Disney,

01:01:24.514 --> 01:01:28.184
after my father helped bring
in a new CEO and corporate

01:01:28.184 --> 01:01:31.354
priorities
drastically changed.

01:01:32.856 --> 01:01:34.858
[man VO] Management wants
the workers to give up some of

01:01:34.858 --> 01:01:37.861
what they already have, asking
a three-year wage freeze and

01:01:37.861 --> 01:01:40.530
some cuts in benefits.

01:01:40.530 --> 01:01:42.866
[woman VO] Workers say they
cannot accept a two-year wage

01:01:42.866 --> 01:01:45.035
freeze, and they say
they cannot understand the

01:01:45.035 --> 01:01:48.204
company's attitude
towards its employees.

01:01:48.204 --> 01:01:49.706
The morale has
been really down,

01:01:49.706 --> 01:01:51.875
and I honestly can say I don't
think it'll ever be the same

01:01:51.875 --> 01:01:54.044
out there.

01:01:54.044 --> 01:01:56.546
[woman VO] Disneyland will
open this morning as usual,

01:01:56.546 --> 01:01:59.883
with or without
its union employees.

01:02:00.550 --> 01:02:02.719
[Sam VO] They discovered they
didn't have to spend so much

01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:06.723
money on people that they no
longer appreciated anyway.

01:02:07.557 --> 01:02:10.560
I was appalled at what
they were telling me,

01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:12.228
and I just thought,
"Well, this isn't the

01:02:12.228 --> 01:02:14.898
company I knew."

01:02:16.232 --> 01:02:19.235
It was part and parcel of
this treating workers and

01:02:19.235 --> 01:02:22.238
employees more
and more like...

01:02:22.238 --> 01:02:26.076
cogs, like
something less than people.

01:02:27.911 --> 01:02:31.581
Around this same time, the
average CEO went from being

01:02:31.581 --> 01:02:34.417
paid 60 times the
average worker to 100,

01:02:34.417 --> 01:02:37.420
to 200, to 300, to 600
times, in some cases.

01:02:37.420 --> 01:02:42.425
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

01:02:43.426 --> 01:02:47.097
And that's just
because it was decided

01:02:47.097 --> 01:02:49.599
that they could
get away with it.

01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:52.268
[trading bell]

01:02:52.268 --> 01:02:55.271
[commotion]

01:02:55.271 --> 01:02:58.274
[Abigail VO] The "they" in
this case was Wall Street,

01:02:58.274 --> 01:03:00.944
where a lot of things were
suddenly possible on what

01:03:00.944 --> 01:03:03.446
would become the proving
ground for the free market

01:03:03.446 --> 01:03:05.782
ideology.

01:03:06.783 --> 01:03:09.285
You know, I think of it
as the asshole-ification of

01:03:09.285 --> 01:03:10.453
America.

01:03:10.453 --> 01:03:11.788
[laughs] Totally!

01:03:11.788 --> 01:03:16.126
A word I-- yes, indeed, it
is the asshole-ification of

01:03:16.126 --> 01:03:17.293
America.

01:03:17.293 --> 01:03:19.462
♪ominous ambient music♪

01:03:19.462 --> 01:03:23.466
[cheers and applause]

01:03:28.138 --> 01:03:29.973
This...

01:03:29.973 --> 01:03:32.308
This is a great
view from up here.

01:03:32.308 --> 01:03:34.978
[cheers and applause]

01:03:34.978 --> 01:03:38.314
♪♪♪

01:03:38.314 --> 01:03:41.317
[Abigail VO] You bet it was
a great view from up there.

01:03:41.317 --> 01:03:43.987
And for the next four decades,
Wall Street and corporate

01:03:43.987 --> 01:03:48.491
America would spend billions
lobbying to dismantle almost

01:03:48.491 --> 01:03:51.828
every law and regulation
keeping them in check,

01:03:51.828 --> 01:03:55.999
stacking the deck further and
further against Main Street.

01:03:55.999 --> 01:03:59.169
Rather than trickle down,
money has flowed relentlessly

01:03:59.169 --> 01:04:02.839
up to people like me.

01:04:03.006 --> 01:04:04.340
Well, you know,
trickling down always,

01:04:04.340 --> 01:04:07.010
to me, sounded
like urine, right? [laughs]

01:04:07.010 --> 01:04:08.845
[laughing] I mean,
that's what trickles, right?

01:04:08.845 --> 01:04:10.013
In our lives.

01:04:10.013 --> 01:04:11.848
[Abigail] Yeah,
exactly, exactly.

01:04:11.848 --> 01:04:14.184
Do you know that there was
a version of trickle-down

01:04:14.184 --> 01:04:19.189
economics in the 1890s that
was described as the "Horse

01:04:19.189 --> 01:04:20.857
and Sparrow Theory?"

01:04:20.857 --> 01:04:24.861
If the horse eats enough oats,
they make their way through

01:04:24.861 --> 01:04:28.198
the horse, and the
sparrow gets 'em.

01:04:28.198 --> 01:04:30.700
[sparrow] Ooh!

01:04:31.034 --> 01:04:33.369
[Abigail VO] And yet, that
trickle-down story just will

01:04:33.369 --> 01:04:35.538
not die...

01:04:35.538 --> 01:04:38.208
no matter how much it stinks.

01:04:38.208 --> 01:04:42.212
[sparrow eating]

01:04:53.723 --> 01:04:58.728
♪sparse ambient music♪

01:05:00.230 --> 01:05:01.898
[man VO] Big
announcement from Disney,

01:05:01.898 --> 01:05:06.069
and not a good one
for Disney employees.

01:05:06.069 --> 01:05:09.405
Today, Disney announced that
it will be laying off about

01:05:09.405 --> 01:05:12.742
28,000 domestic employees.

01:05:12.742 --> 01:05:15.745
♪♪♪

01:05:21.584 --> 01:05:24.087
[Trina VO]
"Dear cast member...

01:05:24.087 --> 01:05:27.757
The COVID-19 pandemic has
had a significant impact on

01:05:27.757 --> 01:05:30.760
our businesses.

01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.097
We have made the very
difficult decision to reduce

01:05:34.097 --> 01:05:36.599
our workforce."

01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:40.270
♪♪♪

01:05:44.274 --> 01:05:45.775
[voice cracking]
It makes me scared.

01:05:45.775 --> 01:05:47.110
[sniffles]

01:05:47.110 --> 01:05:51.781
Knowing that that many
people lost their jobs now...

01:05:52.448 --> 01:05:54.617
and I might end up losing
mine somewhere down the line,

01:05:54.617 --> 01:05:57.287
and I don't wanna lose it.

01:05:57.287 --> 01:06:00.123
[distant bell dinging]

01:06:00.957 --> 01:06:02.625
[Ralph] It's
the ice cream guy.

01:06:02.625 --> 01:06:03.793
Glad the kids aren't here.

01:06:03.793 --> 01:06:06.129
[laughs]

01:06:06.129 --> 01:06:07.630
See?
I know how to make you smile.

01:06:07.630 --> 01:06:10.967
-[Trina] [sighs]
-Took me a second.

01:06:13.136 --> 01:06:15.138
You know, been
through rough times before,

01:06:15.138 --> 01:06:17.640
this is just a
different format.

01:06:17.640 --> 01:06:18.975
Don't worry about
it, I got this.

01:06:18.975 --> 01:06:20.476
[laughs]

01:06:20.476 --> 01:06:22.145
-I got this!
-We just laugh...

01:06:22.145 --> 01:06:23.646
When I say the
words "I got this,"

01:06:23.646 --> 01:06:26.149
it means "I ain't got a
clue what I'm gonna do,

01:06:26.149 --> 01:06:28.484
but I gotta think
of something fast,

01:06:28.484 --> 01:06:29.986
'cause this shit is sinking.

01:06:29.986 --> 01:06:32.322
It's like the Titanic
and another-- like,

01:06:32.322 --> 01:06:33.823
the icebergs are
ganging up and they're,

01:06:33.823 --> 01:06:35.158
like, attacking the boat now.

01:06:35.158 --> 01:06:37.994
[laughs]

01:06:45.168 --> 01:06:48.171
[woman VO] The color of the
day is green on Wall Street.

01:06:48.171 --> 01:06:51.507
All three major indices
closed at record high levels.

01:06:51.507 --> 01:06:52.675
As stocks continue...

01:06:52.675 --> 01:06:55.511
[Abigail VO] No matter how
bad things got for workers,

01:06:55.511 --> 01:06:58.514
Wall Street
continued to ride high.

01:06:58.514 --> 01:07:00.850
Disney could not have written
a better comeback story.

01:07:00.850 --> 01:07:02.852
The stock back at
all-time highs.

01:07:02.852 --> 01:07:06.189
Disney+ up big over
the Christmas holiday.

01:07:06.189 --> 01:07:08.691
[woman VO] Fans rejoiced over
upcoming Star Wars and Marvel

01:07:08.691 --> 01:07:13.363
movies, and
stockholders celebrated too.

01:07:13.696 --> 01:07:15.031
Well, most of them.

01:07:15.031 --> 01:07:17.367
Abigail Disney had a
different reaction.

01:07:17.367 --> 01:07:20.370
Her take was that share prices
were divorced from what was

01:07:20.370 --> 01:07:22.705
happening to the
company's workers,

01:07:22.705 --> 01:07:25.208
and she called that "a
complete moral breakdown of

01:07:25.208 --> 01:07:27.543
this entire system."

01:07:27.543 --> 01:07:30.880
[Abigail VO] I don't believe
the company and the magic can

01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:34.384
survive this kind of
corporate behavior.

01:07:34.384 --> 01:07:35.718
[woman VO] I think you
see this more broadly,

01:07:35.718 --> 01:07:38.554
not as a Disney problem and
emblematic of the problem in

01:07:38.554 --> 01:07:41.224
boardrooms and corporate
cultures across this country.

01:07:41.224 --> 01:07:43.393
[Abigail VO] I'm saying, like,
just-- it's time to do it

01:07:43.393 --> 01:07:45.728
differently, and I don't care
what the business school says.

01:07:45.728 --> 01:07:49.065
There's a certain level below
which you cannot go in the

01:07:49.065 --> 01:07:52.402
name of human decency.

01:07:54.070 --> 01:07:59.075
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

01:08:16.426 --> 01:08:18.094
[man] You guys are
ready to move up.

01:08:18.094 --> 01:08:19.429
Merry Christmas and
stay safe, all right?

01:08:19.429 --> 01:08:22.098
[woman] Merry
Christmas, thank you!

01:08:22.098 --> 01:08:24.767
[Ralph] Have a
merry Christmas, now.

01:08:24.767 --> 01:08:27.437
♪♪♪

01:08:27.437 --> 01:08:31.107
They just told me that there
are over 300 people in this

01:08:31.107 --> 01:08:34.277
line, and I believe it.

01:08:35.445 --> 01:08:37.780
The line pretty much
wraps around this entire

01:08:37.780 --> 01:08:40.450
neighborhood.

01:08:40.450 --> 01:08:43.119
All of us need this help.

01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:46.289
♪♪♪

01:08:48.624 --> 01:08:50.293
[Artemis] [sighs] All right.

01:08:50.293 --> 01:08:51.627
[woman] All
right, here you go.

01:08:51.627 --> 01:08:54.464
This time, we got wipes.

01:08:55.631 --> 01:08:57.800
[Ralph] I hear you've
been real good boys.

01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:00.303
-[boy] Really?!
-[Ralph] That's what I heard.

01:09:00.803 --> 01:09:02.638
[woman] You're
on the Nice list, aren't you?

01:09:02.638 --> 01:09:04.140
[Ralph] You're
on the Nice list?

01:09:04.140 --> 01:09:05.975
Yeah?
[chuckles]

01:09:05.975 --> 01:09:08.811
[boy] Remember the
PS5 and the Switch!

01:09:08.811 --> 01:09:11.314
[Ralph] [laughs]

01:09:11.314 --> 01:09:13.149
Ho ho ho!

01:09:13.149 --> 01:09:15.318
[laughs]

01:09:15.318 --> 01:09:20.323
♪♪♪

01:09:21.824 --> 01:09:24.827
[Artemis VO] I just read
an article about Bob Iger.

01:09:24.827 --> 01:09:26.996
He literally became a
billionaire right before the

01:09:26.996 --> 01:09:29.499
holidays.

01:09:29.499 --> 01:09:32.001
So he got a
wonderful Christmas present,

01:09:32.001 --> 01:09:35.505
while everybody else was
being handed pink slips.

01:09:35.838 --> 01:09:38.508
That doesn't make sense.

01:09:47.517 --> 01:09:52.522
When we have a
pandemic, as we've had,

01:09:53.022 --> 01:09:56.859
where almost 60 new
billionaires were minted,

01:09:56.859 --> 01:09:58.861
where the billionaire class
increased their wealth by

01:09:58.861 --> 01:10:02.532
almost 50 percent, while tens
of millions of people went

01:10:02.532 --> 01:10:07.537
without, this inequality
economy is one that honestly

01:10:08.037 --> 01:10:11.374
looks a lot more like the
Gilded Age and the plantation

01:10:11.374 --> 01:10:15.711
economy than the one that we
associate with the American

01:10:15.711 --> 01:10:17.380
Dream.

01:10:17.380 --> 01:10:21.718
♪mellow ambient music♪

01:10:41.070 --> 01:10:42.738
[woman VO] Well, the happiest
place on Earth is giving

01:10:42.738 --> 01:10:45.241
people a big
reason to smile today.

01:10:45.241 --> 01:10:48.411
Disneyland is back open after
being shut down for more than

01:10:48.411 --> 01:10:50.913
a year!

01:10:50.913 --> 01:10:52.248
[woman VO] For the city
of Anaheim this morning,

01:10:52.248 --> 01:10:55.585
reopening, it's a big step
toward economic recovery.

01:10:55.585 --> 01:10:58.421
For the fans, it's
just a day of excitement.

01:11:00.089 --> 01:11:01.758
[Abigail VO] As
the park reopened,

01:11:01.758 --> 01:11:04.594
Ellie, Artemis, Ralph, and
Trina were all called back

01:11:04.594 --> 01:11:06.596
to work.

01:11:07.096 --> 01:11:10.767
[crowd] Shoulder to shoulder
against corporate greed!

01:11:10.767 --> 01:11:14.270
[Abigail VO] But many cast
members were not brought back.

01:11:15.938 --> 01:11:18.775
[Artemis VO] A bunch of
my crew is still laid off.

01:11:18.775 --> 01:11:22.445
There are still so many
messed up things happening.

01:11:22.445 --> 01:11:25.781
[crowd] Shoulder to shoulder
against corporate greed!

01:11:25.781 --> 01:11:29.118
Should to shoulder,
more respect and dignity.

01:11:29.118 --> 01:11:30.286
[woman over megaphone] How
much are those little ears,

01:11:30.286 --> 01:11:31.454
the Mickey Mouse ears?!

01:11:31.454 --> 01:11:32.955
[crowd] 30!

01:11:32.955 --> 01:11:33.956
[woman over
megaphone] 30 dollars!

01:11:33.956 --> 01:11:35.791
And how much are
Disney workers making?

01:11:35.791 --> 01:11:36.959
[crowd] 15.

01:11:36.959 --> 01:11:37.960
[woman over
megaphone] 15 bucks!

01:11:37.960 --> 01:11:39.128
How about somebody with...

01:11:39.128 --> 01:11:42.131
[Ellie VO] Our
workload has increased,

01:11:42.131 --> 01:11:43.966
our wages are the same.

01:11:43.966 --> 01:11:45.802
[honking]

01:11:45.802 --> 01:11:47.637
It's just a
never-ending fight.

01:11:47.637 --> 01:11:50.640
[honking]

01:11:51.474 --> 01:11:54.811
[voice wavering] I don't have
love for the company anymore.

01:11:55.645 --> 01:11:57.980
[Ellie] Hey, everyone,
I'm a Disney cast member,

01:11:57.980 --> 01:11:59.649
I'm a custodian!

01:11:59.649 --> 01:12:01.984
I really wanted to quote Walt
Disney for you guys right

01:12:01.984 --> 01:12:02.985
now!

01:12:02.985 --> 01:12:05.821
"You can design and create and
build the most wonderful place

01:12:05.821 --> 01:12:08.658
in the world, but it takes
people to make the dream

01:12:08.658 --> 01:12:09.992
a reality!"

01:12:09.992 --> 01:12:11.494
[cheering]

01:12:11.494 --> 01:12:12.662
[woman] Thank you!

01:12:12.662 --> 01:12:14.664
Well said, Ellie!

01:12:14.664 --> 01:12:17.500
[Ellie] Okay, gracias,
thank you for coming out.

01:12:25.675 --> 01:12:29.345
After my time with the union,
I've come to really appreciate

01:12:29.345 --> 01:12:32.181
the work that they do.

01:12:32.181 --> 01:12:35.017
[Abigail] I hear you're
going back to college!

01:12:35.017 --> 01:12:36.686
So what are you gonna study?

01:12:36.686 --> 01:12:38.354
Labor studies.

01:12:38.354 --> 01:12:40.189
I...
[chuckles]

01:12:40.189 --> 01:12:42.358
That makes me really
happy to hear you say that.

01:12:42.358 --> 01:12:45.361
I mean, it makes me
really happy to imagine you...

01:12:45.361 --> 01:12:48.030
doing that,
[laughing] I can't tell you.

01:12:48.030 --> 01:12:51.867
I have this new passion
growing within me now with

01:12:51.867 --> 01:12:56.872
working alongside unions
and building power for

01:12:56.872 --> 01:13:00.543
working-class people like me.

01:13:04.213 --> 01:13:06.382
[Abigail VO] Meanwhile,
after months of searching and

01:13:06.382 --> 01:13:09.885
saving, Artemis was able
to find a place within her

01:13:09.885 --> 01:13:12.555
price range.

01:13:14.724 --> 01:13:16.892
[Artemis] Before, I was
only living like a 10-,

01:13:16.892 --> 01:13:19.896
15-minute drive from work, but
now it takes about two hours.

01:13:19.896 --> 01:13:22.064
Or if I ride the bus...

01:13:22.064 --> 01:13:24.233
Yeah.

01:13:24.734 --> 01:13:26.235
[Abigail] It
feels good in here; it's light.

01:13:26.235 --> 01:13:27.570
-[Artemis] Yeah.
-[Abigail] You have light.

01:13:27.570 --> 01:13:28.738
[Artemis] Yes.

01:13:28.738 --> 01:13:30.573
[Abigail] And
you have, Keanu, which--

01:13:30.573 --> 01:13:32.408
He's very beautiful,
he keeps me company.

01:13:32.408 --> 01:13:35.578
[Abigail] [laughs]

01:13:35.578 --> 01:13:38.581
So when did you
start back at Disney,

01:13:38.581 --> 01:13:40.916
and how are you
feeling about that now?

01:13:40.916 --> 01:13:44.253
When I first got back, like,
it was really nice to just be

01:13:44.253 --> 01:13:47.757
working, but I've been getting
more and more frustrated the

01:13:47.757 --> 01:13:50.760
last couple of months just
thinking about this job that

01:13:50.760 --> 01:13:53.596
was supposed to pay my bills
while I focused on the things

01:13:53.596 --> 01:13:56.098
that are supposed to be what
life is about -- about the

01:13:56.098 --> 01:13:58.267
things that make me joy.

01:13:58.267 --> 01:14:01.103
You know, I haven't focused
on any of those things because

01:14:01.103 --> 01:14:04.607
I've been so focused on the
fact that I couldn't survive

01:14:04.607 --> 01:14:06.108
on this job.

01:14:06.108 --> 01:14:07.610
You got a second job?

01:14:07.610 --> 01:14:10.446
[Artemis] Yes, yes, I got
a job at a school district

01:14:10.446 --> 01:14:12.281
working as a sub-custodian.

01:14:12.281 --> 01:14:14.450
It's kind of a foot in the
door to potentially become

01:14:14.450 --> 01:14:16.118
full-time at a
school district.

01:14:16.118 --> 01:14:18.788
[Abigail] So you're laying
the groundwork to leave.

01:14:18.788 --> 01:14:20.956
Potentially, yeah.

01:14:20.956 --> 01:14:23.125
[Abigail] So is that
something that you've been

01:14:23.125 --> 01:14:25.127
thinking about
for a long time?

01:14:25.127 --> 01:14:27.630
[sighs]

01:14:27.630 --> 01:14:29.632
It's something I probably
should have been thinking

01:14:29.632 --> 01:14:32.301
about for a long time.

01:14:32.802 --> 01:14:35.972
I had a five-year plan
when I went into Disney,

01:14:35.972 --> 01:14:39.809
to be done with college
and onto the next thing.

01:14:39.809 --> 01:14:44.647
And that didn't work out;
it's nine years later now.

01:14:46.315 --> 01:14:49.985
And it's just been frustrating
because I was brought up with

01:14:49.985 --> 01:14:53.823
the idea that I'm
healthy, I'm intelligent,

01:14:53.823 --> 01:14:56.826
if I put in the work, I'm
gonna be okay and I'm gonna be

01:14:56.826 --> 01:15:00.996
able to make money and
take care of myself.

01:15:01.664 --> 01:15:06.669
But I don't think that it's as
true as a lot of people say.

01:15:06.669 --> 01:15:11.674
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

01:15:21.517 --> 01:15:26.188
[Roy VO] Far and wide, the
reputation of Disneyland...

01:15:26.188 --> 01:15:31.193
stands out primarily
for the courtesy...

01:15:32.027 --> 01:15:36.699
and the cleanliness and the
friendliness of the place.

01:15:38.534 --> 01:15:42.037
I've always said, in
my end of the work,

01:15:42.037 --> 01:15:45.207
that it takes people
to run a business.

01:15:46.375 --> 01:15:49.879
You people have been the heart
and the running soul of this

01:15:49.879 --> 01:15:52.381
business.

01:15:52.882 --> 01:15:56.385
And we
appreciate it to no end.

01:15:56.385 --> 01:15:59.722
♪♪♪

01:16:00.890 --> 01:16:04.393
And we say congratulations to
you for doing the grand job

01:16:04.393 --> 01:16:06.061
that you have done.

01:16:06.061 --> 01:16:07.730
Thank you.

01:16:07.730 --> 01:16:09.398
[applause]

01:16:09.398 --> 01:16:13.235
♪♪♪

01:16:15.738 --> 01:16:19.074
[Rebecca VO] Humans are
meaning-making creatures.

01:16:19.074 --> 01:16:22.745
The idea of the economy was
to give us the resources we

01:16:22.745 --> 01:16:25.080
needed so that then, we could
tell the stories and build the

01:16:25.080 --> 01:16:28.751
relationships and have
the meaning that we needed.

01:16:28.751 --> 01:16:32.755
We've let the search for
daily bread and for things

01:16:32.755 --> 01:16:36.425
completely overwhelm...

01:16:36.425 --> 01:16:40.262
what our ancestors
called our "souls."

01:16:40.262 --> 01:16:43.599
♪♪♪

01:17:07.289 --> 01:17:09.291
[Abigail VO] It's
really good to see you guys.

01:17:09.291 --> 01:17:11.293
It's been a
hella-long time, huh?

01:17:11.293 --> 01:17:12.294
Yeah.

01:17:12.294 --> 01:17:13.629
I mean, it's been a
year and something,

01:17:13.629 --> 01:17:16.799
but it feels so
much longer than that.

01:17:16.966 --> 01:17:19.134
It feels like
five to 10 years.

01:17:19.134 --> 01:17:20.803
Well, you look
like Father Time now,

01:17:20.803 --> 01:17:22.638
so that works.
[laughter]

01:17:22.638 --> 01:17:24.640
[Ralph] I feel more
comfortable this way.

01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:28.143
So Ralph, rumor has it
you're not going back.

01:17:28.143 --> 01:17:29.812
[Ralph] No.

01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:32.648
[Trina] Tomorrow is his
official last day at the

01:17:32.648 --> 01:17:34.316
-company.
-[Abigail] Wow.

01:17:34.817 --> 01:17:37.486
[Ralph] It's not
an easy decision.

01:17:37.486 --> 01:17:39.488
I mean, it's...

01:17:40.489 --> 01:17:44.159
it's more like moving onto
a different and new chapter

01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:46.996
that'll be hopefully more
beneficial for our family

01:17:46.996 --> 01:17:51.500
overall, and leaving a chapter
behind that really I'd like to

01:17:51.500 --> 01:17:52.835
forget I read.

01:17:52.835 --> 01:17:54.503
[laughter]

01:17:54.503 --> 01:17:56.171
I mean, there were
some highlights but...

01:17:56.171 --> 01:17:58.841
[Abigail] Tell me
why you're leaving.

01:17:58.841 --> 01:18:00.509
Um... [sighs]

01:18:00.509 --> 01:18:03.012
Right now, it's-- I'm
getting at that age,

01:18:03.012 --> 01:18:05.514
it's wearing on me, it's a lot
of physical work that we were

01:18:05.514 --> 01:18:09.018
doing for not a lot
of financial reward,

01:18:09.018 --> 01:18:11.687
and that's taken its toll.

01:18:12.688 --> 01:18:14.690
[Abigail] So what's next?

01:18:14.690 --> 01:18:16.859
What are your options?

01:18:18.527 --> 01:18:21.363
See, uh, where life takes us.

01:18:24.366 --> 01:18:25.701
[girl] Happy birthday, Dad!

01:18:25.701 --> 01:18:28.037
[chuckles]

01:18:28.037 --> 01:18:29.872
-Happy birthday, baby.
-[girl] Thank you, Daddy.

01:18:29.872 --> 01:18:31.540
[Ralph] 'Cause I know you
get everything good when this

01:18:31.540 --> 01:18:34.043
happens; you get cake...

01:18:34.043 --> 01:18:36.545
-[girl] Yes.
-[chuckling] Yes. [laughs]

01:18:37.046 --> 01:18:38.881
Oh, those can't be for
me, that's much too old.

01:18:38.881 --> 01:18:40.716
-[laughs]
-[Trina] Happy birthday.

01:18:40.716 --> 01:18:43.052
-Yes. [chuckles]
-Surprise.

01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:46.722
All right, here we go, we're
all gonna try to block the

01:18:46.722 --> 01:18:47.556
wind.

01:18:47.556 --> 01:18:50.893
♪Happy Birthday, dear Daddy♪

01:18:50.893 --> 01:18:55.064
♪Happy birthday to you♪

01:18:55.397 --> 01:18:56.899
[Abigail VO] If you
could tell Disney anything,

01:18:56.899 --> 01:18:59.235
what would you tell them?

01:19:01.236 --> 01:19:03.572
We'd like to be
able to have a home.

01:19:03.572 --> 01:19:08.077
♪tender ambient music♪

01:19:09.244 --> 01:19:11.080
[laughter]

01:19:11.080 --> 01:19:12.915
Got a little help there, huh?

01:19:12.915 --> 01:19:14.249
-Who wants one first?
-I want cake!

01:19:14.249 --> 01:19:15.751
-[girl] Me!
-Me!

01:19:15.751 --> 01:19:16.919
Me!

01:19:16.919 --> 01:19:18.420
[Ralph] Is that good cake?

01:19:18.420 --> 01:19:19.588
Yeah?

01:19:20.756 --> 01:19:24.426
[girls giggling]

01:19:24.426 --> 01:19:28.931
♪♪♪

01:19:28.931 --> 01:19:30.599
[girl] [giggles]
Come back here!

01:19:30.933 --> 01:19:34.436
[Trina] One, two,
go, Daddy, get 'em!

01:19:35.104 --> 01:19:36.605
[Ralph] Ahh!

01:19:36.605 --> 01:19:38.273
[chuckles]

01:19:38.273 --> 01:19:39.608
[girl] Whoo!

01:19:43.278 --> 01:19:45.781
[girl] Woo, that
was tough, Mom!

01:19:45.781 --> 01:19:47.282
[Trina] [laughing] Let's go.

01:19:47.282 --> 01:19:52.287
♪♪♪

01:19:58.127 --> 01:20:03.132
♪suspenseful
ambient music♪

01:20:06.635 --> 01:20:08.637
[Abigail VO] "Dear Bobs...

01:20:08.637 --> 01:20:13.142
Yeah, this is for both of you:
Bob Iger and Disney's new CEO,

01:20:13.142 --> 01:20:14.810
Bob Chapek.

01:20:15.144 --> 01:20:17.146
You didn't seem to
understand my email,

01:20:17.146 --> 01:20:19.481
so I made this film.

01:20:20.482 --> 01:20:22.651
This is for you and
for all the Toms,

01:20:22.651 --> 01:20:25.654
Dicks, Harrys, and Marys
running Wall Street and

01:20:25.654 --> 01:20:29.658
corporate American, because
this isn't just a Disney

01:20:29.658 --> 01:20:33.329
story, it's the story of
nearly half of American

01:20:33.329 --> 01:20:37.332
full-time workers who
can't make ends meet.

01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:41.837
These problems are the result
of a complicated system that

01:20:41.837 --> 01:20:44.173
constrains us all.

01:20:44.673 --> 01:20:49.678
It may not be our fault,
but it is our responsibility,

01:20:50.179 --> 01:20:54.349
and you and I both know that
with imagination and courage,

01:20:54.349 --> 01:20:56.518
it can be changed.

01:20:58.854 --> 01:21:02.191
Maybe I sound a
little too Disney,

01:21:02.191 --> 01:21:05.861
but trust me, I'm not alone.

01:21:07.029 --> 01:21:09.198
To be continued."

01:21:09.531 --> 01:21:14.536
♪melancholy
ambient music♪

01:21:21.251 --> 01:21:24.713
♪As I walk through♪

01:21:25.214 --> 01:21:29.384
♪This wicked world♪

01:21:30.135 --> 01:21:35.140
♪Searching for light in
the darkness of insanity♪

01:21:38.727 --> 01:21:42.397
♪I ask myself♪

01:21:43.607 --> 01:21:47.945
♪Is all hope lost?♪

01:21:47.945 --> 01:21:52.950
♪Is there only pain
and hatred and misery?♪

01:21:57.121 --> 01:22:02.126
♪Oh, each time I
feel like this inside♪

01:22:02.918 --> 01:22:06.421
♪There's one
thing I wanna know♪

01:22:06.421 --> 01:22:11.427
♪Oh, what's so funny 'bout
peace, love, and understanding?♪

01:22:13.095 --> 01:22:15.013
♪Oh♪

01:22:15.013 --> 01:22:20.018
♪Tell me, what's so funny 'bout
peace, love, and understanding?♪

01:22:26.650 --> 01:22:28.277
♪Ooh♪

01:22:30.112 --> 01:22:32.447
♪I wanna know♪

01:22:33.115 --> 01:22:35.659
♪Oh♪

01:22:36.952 --> 01:22:39.329
♪As I walk on♪

01:22:40.289 --> 01:22:43.167
♪Through troubled times♪

01:22:44.126 --> 01:22:49.131
♪Because my spirit's so
downhearted sometimes♪

01:22:50.132 --> 01:22:52.968
♪So where are
the strong?♪

01:22:53.468 --> 01:22:57.306
♪And who are
the trusted?♪

01:22:57.306 --> 01:23:00.976
♪And where is
the harmony?♪

01:23:00.976 --> 01:23:04.521
♪Sweet harmony♪

01:23:04.521 --> 01:23:08.400
♪'Cause each time I
feel it slippin' away♪

01:23:08.400 --> 01:23:11.987
♪It just makes
me wanna cry♪

01:23:11.987 --> 01:23:16.992
♪What's so funny 'bout peace,
love, and understanding?♪

01:23:17.159 --> 01:23:18.702
♪Oh♪

01:23:18.702 --> 01:23:23.707
♪What's so funny 'bout peace,
love, and understanding?♪

01:23:24.166 --> 01:23:25.584
♪Mmm♪

01:23:25.584 --> 01:23:30.589
♪What's so funny 'bout peace,
love, and understanding?♪

01:23:34.009 --> 01:23:37.346
♪Peace, love, and
understanding♪

01:23:37.346 --> 01:23:40.015
♪What's so funny 'bout♪

01:23:40.766 --> 01:23:43.393
♪Peace, love?♪

01:23:44.061 --> 01:23:49.066
♪What's so funny
'bout understanding?♪

01:23:50.776 --> 01:23:53.528
♪Peace and love♪

01:23:53.528 --> 01:23:57.282
♪Oh, what's so
funny 'bout♪

01:23:57.282 --> 01:23:59.451
♪Oh, peace♪

01:23:59.451 --> 01:24:03.872
♪Oh, love♪

01:24:04.539 --> 01:24:07.709
♪Peace and love♪

01:24:08.043 --> 01:24:10.712
♪What's so funny 'bout♪

01:24:10.712 --> 01:24:13.215
♪What's so funny 'bout♪

01:24:13.215 --> 01:24:17.594
♪Ohh♪

01:24:23.100 --> 01:24:28.105
♪tender ambient music♪