Valuetainment - October 13, 2020


Why Disney World is Open but Disneyland is Closed - COVID Aftermath


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15 minutes

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193.74583

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3,007

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256


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So recently, Disneyland laid off 28,000 employees in Southern California.
00:00:03.600 Everybody looked at Bob Iger, the executive chairman of the board.
00:00:06.840 How dare you lay off 28,000 people in Disney?
00:00:09.440 These are people that need jobs.
00:00:10.800 They're feeding their families, their kids.
00:00:12.560 But what if I told you it wasn't Disney's fault?
00:00:15.080 What if I told you it was Governor Newsom who laid off 28,000 people?
00:00:19.360 Because today, we're going to measure two parks.
00:00:22.220 One is Disneyland, based out of California.
00:00:25.260 The other one is Disney World, based out of Florida.
00:00:27.640 Florida, both same company, two different states.
00:00:30.980 What kind of decisions were made simply based on politics?
00:00:39.520 You know, a lot of times, capitalism gets a black eye.
00:00:41.720 All these people that all they care about is money.
00:00:43.740 You know, they let people go.
00:00:45.240 They have no feelings.
00:00:46.440 They're cold-blooded people.
00:00:47.840 These capitalists, they don't really care about the families that are working very hard.
00:00:51.840 But many times, they're forced to make decisions.
00:00:54.520 Because for me, I say, never judge politicians.
00:00:58.240 I don't sit there and say, Barack Obama this, Donald Trump this, Bush this, Clinton this,
00:01:04.020 Newsom this, DeSantis this.
00:01:05.940 But always judge politicians' policies.
00:01:09.900 One more time.
00:01:10.760 Never judge politicians, but always judge your policies.
00:01:14.000 Because what do their policies produce?
00:01:16.780 We got California.
00:01:18.140 We got Florida here.
00:01:19.060 Disneyland is in Orange County, California.
00:01:20.940 Disney World is in Orange County, Florida, right?
00:01:24.040 It's funny.
00:01:24.480 Orange County, Orange County.
00:01:25.620 This one's Orlando.
00:01:26.980 This one's Orange County.
00:01:28.320 Southern California, Santa Ana, Anaheim area, right?
00:01:30.940 Okay.
00:01:31.340 The governor of California is Governor Gavin Newsom.
00:01:34.200 The governor of Florida is Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:01:37.160 California is over-regulation friendly.
00:01:40.500 They're all about over-regulating.
00:01:42.080 So when the COVID happened, they're like, no, we got to over-regulate.
00:01:45.260 You can't go out.
00:01:45.860 You can't go to restaurants.
00:01:46.620 Close down restaurants.
00:01:47.260 If the top's not open, you can't go out there and eat.
00:01:49.320 Regulation, regulation, regulation.
00:01:51.400 Florida is business friendly.
00:01:53.340 They're like, listen, we got to figure out a way to make sure these businesses last.
00:01:56.100 Because if they don't, we're going to have a big problem here.
00:01:59.080 So what happens to Disneyland in California?
00:02:01.920 They closed on March 14th.
00:02:04.400 Disney World closed on March 15th.
00:02:06.560 They closed one day after.
00:02:07.700 Remember, same CEO, Bob Chapek, I believe is the CEO's name.
00:02:12.000 Same CEO, same everything, but two separate states.
00:02:14.820 Two separate states, same CEO, right?
00:02:16.860 They closed on the 14th.
00:02:17.960 They closed on the 15th.
00:02:19.840 They're still closed.
00:02:21.480 200 days later, Disneyland in California is still closed till today.
00:02:26.360 I believe Disneyland started in July 17, 1955.
00:02:30.320 If I'm not going to say, yeah, July 17, 1955.
00:02:32.480 Do you know since 1955?
00:02:34.640 That's 65 years ago.
00:02:37.000 Do you know how many days total Disneyland's ever been closed in 65 years?
00:02:44.280 You ready?
00:02:45.340 Five days.
00:02:46.300 Let me say this one more time.
00:02:47.340 Only five days have they ever been closed since 1955.
00:02:52.560 Now they've been closed over 200 days under the leadership of Governor Newsom.
00:02:57.660 These guys, Disney World officially opened up.
00:03:01.240 Magic Kingdom opened up July 11th.
00:03:03.300 Animal Kingdom opened up July 11th as well.
00:03:06.200 Epcot and Hollywood Studios opened up July 15th.
00:03:09.300 Let's continue.
00:03:10.020 So now watch this.
00:03:10.680 This is very important for people to understand the optics of what a Disneyland or a Disney
00:03:15.200 World does to your state if you're the governor.
00:03:16.920 Ready Disneyland.
00:03:17.760 There was a study done back in 2018 by Cal State Fullerton, funded by Disney, but Cal State
00:03:23.600 Fullerton did the study.
00:03:24.660 And they came up with a conclusion that in 2018 alone, Disneyland generated $8.5 billion
00:03:31.800 of economic activity plus 78,000 jobs.
00:03:37.700 Let me say this one more time.
00:03:39.040 Disneyland has 78,000 employees in the state of California that work for them and created
00:03:43.760 $8.5 billion of economic activity.
00:03:46.440 Now watch this.
00:03:47.420 This is just one dimensional, right?
00:03:49.160 We don't look at how many vendors, partners, other people that are making money.
00:03:54.040 So it's not just 78,000 jobs.
00:03:55.440 That's probably 300,000 jobs that we're talking about that people are making money off of this.
00:04:00.500 But this is 78,000 employees working for them.
00:04:02.800 Forget about the contract with Pepsi, Coca-Cola, drinks, bread, all this stuff that's being delivered.
00:04:07.320 Nope.
00:04:08.040 That's just Disney what they're doing for the state of California, not Florida.
00:04:10.740 Watch this.
00:04:11.200 The CFO of Florida, Chief Economist Officer of Florida, does an audit and says Disney World
00:04:18.420 alone has 77,000 jobs created in the state of Florida and their sales revenue tax, sales
00:04:27.140 tax revenue that came to the state of Florida alone is $700 million.
00:04:31.180 Let me say this one more time.
00:04:32.420 Just the sales revenue from taxes, from sales tax is $700 million.
00:04:37.120 Can you imagine if you're the governor of Florida, you're saying, man, we love Disney World.
00:04:41.260 If you're the governor of California, man, we love Disneyland.
00:04:43.800 Don't you want to make sure these things stick around, but not Governor Newsom?
00:04:47.440 Watch what Newsom did on October 1st.
00:04:49.240 On October 1st, this is just a few weeks ago, California Governor Newsom announced that they
00:04:55.100 will not be opening any theme parks.
00:04:57.460 They're not going to be opening any theme parks.
00:04:59.400 Two hours after he announced this, Bob Iger, the former 15-year CEO of Disney, now the current
00:05:06.140 Executive Chairman of the Board, resigns from their economic team that had put together
00:05:11.540 the task force, resigns two hours later, and then Disney announces they're letting go of
00:05:16.700 28,000 jobs in the state of California, Disney.
00:05:22.400 Some people say, Disney, Bob Iger, such greedy people.
00:05:25.160 Nope.
00:05:25.740 It was a byproduct of the governor.
00:05:28.440 Governor is the reason why they had to let go of 20,000 people.
00:05:31.980 By the way, people have to realize this, Bob Iger is not a Republican.
00:05:35.040 Bob Iger is a Democrat.
00:05:36.200 If you read his book, Bob Iger, at the end of his book, when he sits down, I believe,
00:05:39.980 with the leader of Fox at the time, and they were getting ready to buy Fox, and the Fox
00:05:44.100 leader, I think it's Murdoch, I don't know which one it is, Murdoch asks him, do you have
00:05:47.480 any plans of running for office?
00:05:48.700 And he was actually thinking about running for office.
00:05:50.900 He said, I don't have any plans of running for office.
00:05:53.160 Bob Iger is a Democrat because of his family, his mom and dad.
00:05:55.960 He was a Democrat because of his parents.
00:05:57.560 He's loyal to his parents' policies, and he stuck to it.
00:06:00.540 Two Democrats go ahead, take it ahead.
00:06:03.260 Newsom, Democrat.
00:06:04.780 Iger, Democrat.
00:06:05.900 Wait a minute.
00:06:06.400 What are you doing?
00:06:07.080 You put me to create jobs and make sure California moves ahead, but you're making this thing keep
00:06:11.520 going?
00:06:12.180 What do I, I can't keep paying these people a policy.
00:06:14.620 Income, boom.
00:06:15.520 28,000 people get fired two hours after the announcement that's made.
00:06:19.160 So that's these guys.
00:06:19.900 Now watch what Newsom said.
00:06:20.940 Here's what Newsom said about Bob Iger and Bob Chapek's decision from Disney.
00:06:25.480 Newsom said, there's disagreements in terms of opening a major theme park.
00:06:32.080 We're going to be led by health first framework, and we're going to be stubborn about it.
00:06:39.660 When he said, we have differences with me and Bob Iger.
00:06:42.440 Can you imagine?
00:06:43.200 We're going to be stubborn about it.
00:06:46.020 28,000 people lost a job because of Bob Iger, not because of Governor Newsom.
00:06:51.200 Now some people may say, well, Pat, what are you trying to say?
00:06:54.660 Should they open it up?
00:06:56.220 Should they leave it open?
00:06:57.720 Should they bring the jobs back?
00:06:59.160 Here's what you have to understand with these two stories right here, okay?
00:07:01.400 Both states that we're talking about.
00:07:03.360 They did another research here saying the fact that 87 million people around the world
00:07:07.820 come to Disney World every year.
00:07:10.040 In 2019, it was 87 million people.
00:07:12.300 The same number is close to here.
00:07:13.840 Can you imagine how these two brands, the kind of money and the kind of people they're attracting
00:07:18.080 to their states?
00:07:19.100 There was one entrepreneur who owns a pizza shop in both of these cities, in Orlando by
00:07:27.060 Disney World and in Anaheim by Disneyland named Daryl Maliki.
00:07:31.360 Daryl Maliki owns pizza shops.
00:07:33.320 He says his pizza shop near Disneyland is down 90%.
00:07:38.060 His pizza shop near Disney World is only down 30%.
00:07:42.500 This one is staying open.
00:07:44.220 This one's about to close down.
00:07:45.440 He's making no money.
00:07:46.280 He's frustrated saying, listen, I understand protecting the people out there, but you got
00:07:50.300 to give us an opportunity to survive as business owners as well.
00:07:53.300 This whole thing I shared with you, the article was written by Wall Street Journal.
00:07:56.380 We're going to put the link below for you to read.
00:07:58.300 But when you watch this here, I will tell you if I'm Bob Iger, if I'm the executive chairman
00:08:04.200 of, say, Disney, and I'm sitting there saying, huh, recently we just saw NBA come out and
00:08:11.220 say, Black Lives Matter, BLM everywhere, on the floor, everywhere it says BLM, BLM, BLM,
00:08:16.940 advertisement after advertisement after advertisement, vote, vote, vote.
00:08:21.640 And NBA is known as predominantly push everything to one side.
00:08:27.060 NBA's not necessarily Republican.
00:08:29.080 They're very Democratic.
00:08:30.700 You can't go, I've never seen a player in the NBA being able to get away with wearing
00:08:34.680 a MAGA hat.
00:08:35.600 I've never seen it.
00:08:36.460 If you're in the NBA, you have to be on one side.
00:08:38.840 If you're in the NFL, at least a Brady can say, I'm friends with Trump and get criticized
00:08:42.700 for it.
00:08:43.100 But he is, you know, and MLB, same thing.
00:08:45.880 But in NBA, it's all one-sided, right?
00:08:47.740 So viewership drops 64%.
00:08:49.500 People are now watching the finals.
00:08:51.360 But do you know what's the interesting thing about the NBA?
00:08:53.920 Huh.
00:08:54.320 Watch this here.
00:08:55.700 Do you know which state the NBA decided to have their playoffs, which state they put the
00:09:04.860 bubble in?
00:09:05.720 Did they put it in Anaheim, California, very left-driven state?
00:09:10.240 Or did they put it in Orlando?
00:09:12.600 Huh.
00:09:13.380 Why did they put it in Orlando?
00:09:14.880 Orlando, oh, because Orlando is not like Newsom, over-regulate.
00:09:20.860 Orlando said, you can come and do the NBA playoffs here.
00:09:25.260 Can you imagine if the NBA wanted to do that here?
00:09:28.600 The amount of regulation.
00:09:30.320 So all the policies that they support are policies of Newsom, yet they create the NBA league in
00:09:37.300 the state of Florida because it's more business-friendly.
00:09:41.580 And the NBA is a business.
00:09:43.280 As they're trying to get their business going, they can't do it in the state of California,
00:09:46.960 but they can do it in the state of Florida.
00:09:48.880 As a person who's a registered independent, myself, I voted for Clintons, and I voted on
00:09:54.800 the right.
00:09:55.540 And I voted on both sides of policies for myself.
00:09:58.620 I see things on one side that needs to be rearranged, and I see things on one side.
00:10:02.480 But if there's one thing I'm not a fan of, it's contradiction and hypocrisy.
00:10:06.320 And you see a lot of that in the state of California.
00:10:09.140 I've lived there for 24 years.
00:10:10.840 Here's some feedback.
00:10:11.680 If anybody from Bob Iger's campus watching this, if some of you guys decide to tweet
00:10:15.800 this at Bob Iger, I've read his book.
00:10:17.280 I've recommended it.
00:10:19.120 I think everybody in the world needs to read his book.
00:10:21.760 Anybody and everybody.
00:10:22.820 If you've not read his book, you need to read it.
00:10:24.180 We'll put the link below as well for his book if you haven't read it yet.
00:10:26.700 But I will tell you this.
00:10:27.540 If I'm Bob Iger, if I'm Disney, and I'm watching this, and I'm sick of what the politics and
00:10:34.700 the policies of California are producing, because you've got to judge policies.
00:10:40.120 Policies, 28,000 jobs.
00:10:42.760 Policies, park open.
00:10:44.740 87 million people around the world come to Orlando.
00:10:47.580 Imagine what that does to the city of Orlando.
00:10:49.380 If you want a simple shop over there, a hotel, a restaurant, you don't think that benefits
00:10:53.080 you, that benefits you.
00:10:54.700 But if Bob Iger, and anybody from the Disney's campus watching this, you know what my recommendation
00:10:59.200 is to you, Mr. Bob Iger, or Bob J. Pick, or any one of you guys.
00:11:03.000 Here's my recommendation to you.
00:11:04.800 There is a state right next to you.
00:11:07.500 I think it's called Nevada.
00:11:09.940 And Nevada just got the Oakland Raiders, L.A. Raiders.
00:11:13.380 When I think about Raiders, I think about Oakland or L.A.
00:11:15.760 I don't think about any other state, but the Raiders went to Nevada.
00:11:19.640 And they're going to be attracting a lot of players.
00:11:21.840 I don't know how well they're going to do this season.
00:11:23.360 I like their coach, but they're probably going to end up doing very well.
00:11:26.100 You know why?
00:11:27.040 No taxes.
00:11:28.740 So what if a Disneyland makes a massive announcement saying, we're spending a few billion dollars
00:11:35.060 building a park, there's a lot of land over there in Vegas, you buy a couple thousand
00:11:40.760 acres of land, you decide you're building a Disneyland in Vegas, coming out five years
00:11:46.060 from now, and you launch it, no taxes, you get tax break, you negotiate all the stuff
00:11:51.120 for 20 years for what you want to do.
00:11:53.520 Vegas is a tourist city.
00:11:55.800 Vegas is becoming a kind of place now families are going to it.
00:11:58.660 It's not just a place that only young party people go to it.
00:12:01.600 And now you've got a Disneyland over there, and you don't pay taxes, and regulation
00:12:05.040 is going to be on your side.
00:12:06.200 I tell you one thing, Governor Newsom, you just better hope Disney doesn't hear this
00:12:10.940 message.
00:12:11.380 And you better hope Disney doesn't buy into this message, because if they do, you're
00:12:16.480 about to lose Disneyland due to your policies that keep pushing business people out.
00:12:21.740 That's what happened to the state of California, a state I love.
00:12:24.820 I love the state of California, but I cannot stand the policies that are being pushed in
00:12:29.400 the state of California, where it's getting all these people that at a time like this,
00:12:33.020 when you're going through crisis, you know what, sometimes I've got my two boys sitting
00:12:36.260 right here next to me.
00:12:37.300 I've got my seven-year-old, what's your name?
00:12:39.500 And I've got my eight-year-old, what's their name?
00:12:41.860 Ah, these guys, we went to L.A. to go to Universal Studios.
00:12:46.140 They just want to go to Universal Studios.
00:12:48.540 At times like this, kids just want to go to a park.
00:12:51.100 You mean to tell me you couldn't come up with a better policy to have more hand sanitizers
00:12:56.100 and testing and measurements to allow people to go to a park?
00:12:59.520 You mean to tell me you couldn't do something like that?
00:13:01.500 You mean to tell me you can't say, well, listen, we can open up Disneyland, but when you come
00:13:05.000 in, extra measures.
00:13:06.400 Maybe you have to get tested for COVID within whatever time.
00:13:09.360 Consumers would spend the money to get tested to go do it.
00:13:12.320 We would spend the money because we need entertainment for our kids.
00:13:15.640 And you're saying no to it.
00:13:17.060 Is it politics you're playing?
00:13:18.920 Are you making policies that are good for families?
00:13:21.060 So what's more important to you, Governor Newsom, policies or families?
00:13:25.000 What is it?
00:13:25.480 Make up your mind.
00:13:26.540 Because if it's truly families, you're losing your own people.
00:13:30.240 Bob Iger is a Democrat.
00:13:32.160 Bob Iger was a fan of Obama.
00:13:34.320 Bob Iger was somebody that's helped a lot of people on your side out.
00:13:37.160 And you're losing a person like that.
00:13:38.500 Two hours later, he resigns.
00:13:39.680 That's the wrong kind of person to lose in the state of California.
00:13:42.520 I hope that somebody from Vegas, Nevada, if I'm the governor of Nevada, making one phone
00:13:47.660 call.
00:13:48.400 Hey, Bob, can we talk?
00:13:49.720 Yes.
00:13:49.980 Can we get you another Bob on the call?
00:13:51.560 Both of you.
00:13:52.000 Yes.
00:13:53.120 How much longer do you want to be bullied by politicians in the state of California?
00:13:56.700 Do you think this is going to change anytime soon?
00:13:58.900 No.
00:13:59.240 Well, why don't we look at Vegas?
00:14:00.980 Come and take a look to see what we can do.
00:14:02.680 Look at Raiders.
00:14:03.320 Go talk to the Raiders on there.
00:14:04.400 See if they're happy.
00:14:05.540 Why don't we make something work over here for you?
00:14:07.600 No state taxes.
00:14:09.080 No crazy regulation.
00:14:10.380 What do you want to do?
00:14:11.000 Let's make this work.
00:14:12.040 Oh, if that even happens.
00:14:14.580 If you ever see this announcement happen that Disneyland is considering a move to Vegas,
00:14:19.280 don't forget this video when it was shot.
00:14:21.480 If that ever happens, I hope this message goes to the right people because California
00:14:26.600 keeps bullying business owners.
00:14:28.000 And eventually, if you lose your number one employer, you already lost your number one
00:14:32.660 podcaster in the world.
00:14:34.060 You already lost your number one innovator, visionary in the world.
00:14:38.480 You know what his name is.
00:14:39.920 And if you lose your number one employer, you cannot keep number ones.
00:14:44.220 You become a country, an estate.
00:14:46.420 Essentially, it's a country, fifth biggest economy.
00:14:48.360 You can only keep yes people.
00:14:50.740 You can't keep leaders like a Joe, like an Elon, and a Bob.
00:14:55.020 If you lose the third one, which is Disney World, massive exit is around the corner.
00:15:00.740 So look, if you're watching and say, Pat, I totally disagree with you.
00:15:03.400 Great.
00:15:03.600 I want to hear from you.
00:15:04.300 Comment below.
00:15:05.080 Pat, I fully agree with you.
00:15:06.480 Comment below.
00:15:06.980 Send me a tweet.
00:15:07.560 Let me know if you disagree or agree.
00:15:09.020 I'm not really worried if you agree with me.
00:15:10.920 I want to hear your argument for both sides.
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00:15:30.420 Take care.
00:15:30.960 Bye-bye.