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Some thoughts on Bob Gurr, his impact on Disneyland and the power of Celebrity.

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Celebrity can come from anywhere.

I am Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Now, what am I holding up here?

I'm going to tell you about that in just a moment. But first, we're going to talk about a little thing called celebrity, and how anybody can have it. It can be developed from anywhere. And I talk about all of that in my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, you can go get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

Number four, the fourth way, it's all about being somebody and you go check that out.

Now, what does being somebody mean?

I'm going to give you an example.

Now, I've been following this gentleman for many years, I among other things that I have a fascination with one of the things is, is all things that are directly related to Walt Disney, which I've brought up before, not the company, but the man himself. And one of the things that was very specific to Walt Disney was a place called Disneyland, first one in Anaheim, California.

And all the people that helped put that together because they, it wasn't one guy that put it together. It wasn't just Walt Disney that put it together.

It was a whole string of geniuses, that all got picked out and put in this place, many of them doing the things that they were doing there for the first time ever, okay, for some reason, Walt had a way of being able to pick people out of where they thought they were supposed to be, and putting them in something completely different.

So there was one gentleman in a very young age, his name was Bob Gurr. And he was put in charge of developing Abraham Lincoln, the robot that was there. A whole bunch of the early audio animatronics like for the Tiki Room, and all these other things.

If you haven't got to see these things before you got to make a trip to Disneyland once they reopen, filming this in 2020. And we're still dealing with the COVID crisis. So a lot of these things are closed down, Anaheim, disneyland is closed down. But one of the things I've done is I've followed him, but he's one of those last surviving people that helped create what Disneyland is today. And he's the same age that my my grandfather was who died earlier this year. They were both born in 31. So currently is 89.

And it's one of these things where you It's funny how you could see people of similar age, and how they went off and did different things with their life. My grandfather went join the family, ranching and farming business ended up splitting off and doing his own having his own Ranch, cattle ranch.

Over the years, Bob Gurr went and went through all these different odd jobs and ended up working for Walt Disney and doing a whole bunch of crazy wild things in Disneyland. One of the things he ended up putting together was something called the peoplemover doesn't even exist in Disneyland anymore. There's a new iteration, new word iteration over in Walt Disney World in in Orlando, Florida.

This is a signed copy of one of the posters. Now this isn't original posters, a reprint poster of the people mover that they used to have at Disneyland, which was a ride I got to I got to go on as a kid and it was just very straightforward.