Glenn Beck sits down with former Disney artist and founder of Politozoid, Bob Arvin, to discuss his time at Disney and why they don't make movies like Toy Story anymore. Also, Bob talks about why Disney doesn't allow LGBTQ characters in their films.
00:02:33.520Well, honestly, when I started about 12 years ago, I did put my name on there and I was doing some publicity on it.
00:02:43.380I always just branded it as colitozoid and never really took that on as my own, you know, moniker.
00:02:49.440But as things progressed, I mean, I took a little bit of a break because we had funding during the 2010 election cycle that lasted about a year and a half.
00:03:01.460And after that, we weren't able to get additional funding.
00:03:04.380So I went back to just doing client work and the world changed.
00:03:08.380And especially when I jumped out, you know, during the Trump administration and did the piece, Shift Hits the Fan.
00:03:17.340And once once so great shared by Donald Trump, Shift Hits the Fan, people get nasty, nasty.
00:04:11.220Others I'm working with now on projects.
00:04:15.220And, you know, so I've been able to get a little more of a line on kind of how this developed.
00:04:22.380But I really think the turning point was the passing of Roy E. Disney, who was Walt's nephew in 2009.
00:04:31.000And I had heard a rumor when I was at Disney in the late 90s that there was a film in development called Wildlife.
00:04:43.140And a few of the artists that I reached out to yesterday, when I knew I was going to be on your show, were able to confirm what I had heard.
00:04:51.960And this film, it was going to be one of the first, you know, this was only a couple of years after Toy Story.
00:06:57.880I've spoken to several that still work for the company in one capacity or another.
00:07:03.840And they are afraid to deviate in any way, shape, or form.
00:07:10.020I mean, there's, you know, some hardcore conservatives that I know that work there that HR will quiz them on gender pronouns.
00:07:17.400And if they don't say the prescribed answers, you know, you're probably not going to continue working there.
00:07:23.080So, it's entirely possible that it's, you know, that the Disney company is like a, you know, exactly like what's happening in our own country.
00:07:34.240It's like a small active minority is steering the ship.
00:07:39.320And the majority are afraid to speak out or only now just kind of waking up to what's going on and trying to figure out what can be done.
00:07:48.780We're talking to Bob Arvin, former Disney artist and founder and creative director of Politozoid, which you've probably seen many of these digitized cartoons.
00:08:01.140And they're fantastic and rare because they're done with real skill and they kind of hold up the right point of view, if you will.
00:08:15.100And you just don't see that very often, Bob, the the impact on our society.
00:08:22.740I mean, right now we're fighting this stuff in our schools, but I think Disney will have a much bigger impact than schools will even have.
00:08:31.940And I don't see parents standing up to Disney like they're standing up to the to the school boards.
00:08:39.080Well, I think before people kind of had, you know, an inkling that some of this might have been going on, but it was still kind of hidden.
00:08:49.460And so you were still willing to subscribe to Disney Plus and go to the parks and then, you know, and still pretend like you're going to Waltz Park from the past.
00:09:00.460But now it's like, you know, with the footage that just came out this week, there's no doubt about the agenda and what's going on.
00:09:11.120And I don't it's those people in the footage are living in a bubble.
00:09:17.100It's like they're all just kind of, you know, in a little circle, saying all the same things, encouraging each other to do and say the same things.
00:09:26.380And they don't know their core audience.
00:09:29.920They are abandoning their core audience in favor of this agenda.
00:09:33.860And what they're going to do, they will if they don't destroy it, it will be damaged for a generation.
00:09:49.380I would go down to the park just to listen to the piano player on Main Street while everybody else was in line to ride the rides.
00:09:56.460But now, you know, it's like Disney doesn't even want the Southern California residents because they can, you know, they can really build the tourists coming from out of town for thousands of dollars.
00:10:08.500Whereas, you know, those of us in Southern California are like, where's our discount?
00:10:13.840Well, I will tell you that for a long time, you know, you would put up with it and, you know, you'd put up because it was it seemed like it just became all about the money.
00:12:06.360Because they knew that that was the one and only studio in Hollywood that upheld traditional American values and made family entertainment.
00:18:07.520So, I initially was very skeptical when I heard, you know, World Economic Forum reset until I started hearing other independent news reporting on what's kind of going on.
00:18:17.480And so, with that being said, like, I went searching through their website and I found some really bizarre stuff that's just very blatantly open.
00:18:25.000You know, the one and a half degrees temperature in the world.
00:18:36.040Yesterday, I watched your special while I was on the treadmill and the Build Back Better that's across the world from Joe Biden to that goofy-haired guy in England to New Zealand.
00:19:20.880So my question to you both, with the convention of states that's kind of looming, is it possible that we can get ahead of this?
00:19:31.320I personally don't, but I also look back, what would our founding fathers think of what our nation has been doing to its own citizens abroad, and what would their actions be?
00:19:44.120I keep coming back to one thing, and you mentioned it many, many months ago, saying I'm not ready to give up on this nation yet.
00:19:50.300But all the indicators are pointing towards a national divorce, and it sounds bizarre, but I swore an oath to the Constitution and all the documents that were set forth to build the world's greatest superpower.
00:20:03.180But at what point is enough enough to be like, you know what, this is no longer working.
00:20:08.580We need to bring what our federal government, what was supposed to be a small, small, very small item, which has now become this massive entity.
00:20:18.160And what point do we get back to that of like, you know what, no, no more.
00:20:22.260Bring it back to the states where we're no longer worrying about the woke CEOs that are in California having influence over Florida.
00:20:30.480Yeah, exactly. I will tell you, we can beat it, but we are running out of time.
00:20:36.860And, you know, you mentioned the convention of states.
00:20:40.240That is probably the best thing we could do.
00:20:43.780If we got together and got the, what do we have now, 22?