Valuetainment - ＂Everybody Knew＂ – Bob Iger's Desire of Becoming The President of US

00:00:00.000 Have you ever read the book Right of a Lifetime?

00:00:01.780 Yeah, of course.

00:00:02.280 Okay, do you remember in Right of a Lifetime when he says

00:00:04.320 he's sitting with Rupert Murdoch while they're doing the Fox deal?

00:00:07.960 I think it was Rupert or Ailes.

00:00:09.100 I think it's Rupert Murdoch.

00:00:10.240 He's sitting there.

00:00:11.620 And then questions are being asked about what he's going to be doing.

00:00:14.880 Hey, you know, Bob, have you ever thought about running for president?

00:00:17.480 Oh, no, I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.

00:00:20.020 Did you ever think maybe at that time he was, like,

00:00:22.300 thinking about running for office and then he's like,

00:00:24.240 no, I'm just going to go back to Disney?

00:00:25.980 Because he's got the personality to be able to run for president.

00:00:28.520 And he had aspirations at one point.

00:00:31.340 I think if he had any reason to believe he could be president,

00:00:35.780 I'd still have that job.

00:00:41.140 Remember, he wanted to bring an NFL team to Los Angeles.

00:00:44.400 That didn't work out.

00:00:46.920 He clearly had aspirations to be president.

00:00:51.340 For whatever reason, that didn't work out.

00:00:53.340 and, you know, oh, I think I want that Disney job.

00:01:01.240 Got it.

00:01:01.960 That's my hypothesis.

00:01:02.840 So it's a possibility that the moment he maybe realized

00:01:08.440 that President's job may not be a job for him at that time,

00:01:11.760 let me go back and get my Disney job back.

00:01:14.700 Possibility.

00:01:15.560 Certainly looks like a possibility, doesn't it?

00:01:18.340 And did people at Disney know that he had aspirations of being a president?

00:01:21.240 Was that a known thing or no?

00:01:22.980 Everybody knew.

00:01:23.840 Everybody knew.

00:01:24.980 Yeah, everybody knew.

00:01:25.880 Since then, like 20 years, 15 years, 10 years?

00:01:29.520 10 years, 15 years.

00:01:30.320 Meaning, like, did they know in 2010?

00:01:32.040 No, no, no, no, no.

00:01:33.140 Did they know in 2000?

00:01:33.380 This was sort of a later revelation.

00:01:37.800 And it was kind of like Bob's going to make a run at it.

00:01:40.380 Well, not that he's going to, but he had interest in it.

00:01:43.680 Of being it.

00:01:44.200 By the way, he would have been a heavy.

00:01:45.260 I would have loved to have seen him, how he would have campaigned for it,

00:01:47.340 because it would have been interesting.

00:01:48.880 Do you have any idea on why he didn't, why he didn't pursue it?

00:01:52.620 Uh, there are, uh, hypotheses out there.

00:02:00.340 You know, you have to have support of the party, I guess, is one assumption.

00:02:06.660 Well, he had, he had relationships with Emmanuel and, uh, not Ari, the other one, uh,

00:02:13.040 Rom from, uh, Rom, Rom, yeah, from Illinois, right?

00:02:15.600 Because, uh, he was a player with, uh, uh, with, what do you call it?

00:02:19.860 with Obama, and

00:02:21.600 Bob was a pretty connected guy

00:02:23.780 to a lot of the guys. Oh, yeah. Very connected.

00:02:26.080 I'm surprised you're saying he may have

00:02:27.760 not had the support from the party.

00:02:29.880 Well, I'm saying that is one reason

00:02:31.640 why maybe he never chose

00:02:33.780 to go forward.

00:02:39.180 Hmm, man.

00:02:41.600 Was he a perfectionist? Is he a guy that's a

00:02:43.680 perfectionist? Like, he won't take risks that the odds

00:02:45.740 are not fully in his favor?

00:02:47.720 No. He will take the risks?

00:02:49.480 Yeah, he'll take the risk.

00:02:50.260 He did Pixar.

00:02:51.200 I'm so curious he didn't take the risk.

00:02:52.120 He did Marvel.

00:02:52.640 He did Lucas.

00:02:53.440 Those could have gone belly up.

00:02:55.360 Who in the history of this business has done more deals than him?

00:02:58.360 The size of the deals?

00:02:59.140 Nobody.

00:02:59.580 He's the goat of the deal-making in the media space.

00:03:02.300 I don't know if anybody's done these deals.

00:03:03.820 Correct.

00:03:04.100 You know, some of the things, every time you would look at him,

00:03:07.800 there's no way he can close this deal,

00:03:09.140 and he would keep closing and closing and closing.

00:03:11.300 So if the political thing would have gone a little bit more,

00:03:17.500 Bob Chapek is still the CEO of Disney today.

00:03:22.760 I think part of the dynamic was that some of the things he thought he would do

00:03:28.700 after retirement never came to fruition.

00:03:31.960 It's a football thing.

00:03:33.280 Yeah.

00:03:33.660 Bring the team.

00:03:34.580 Yeah.

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Valuetainment - October 02, 2026

＂Everybody Knew＂ – Bob Iger's Desire of Becoming The President of US

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