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If you've been following my videos for the
last couple of weeks you will know that I am at

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Disney World.

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It's not that they've sponsored me or anything, it is
just where I happen to be on holiday.

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Now, I've been avoiding Disney trivia

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because, you know, it's a little bit
boring after a while but

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there's something that my
cameraman for the week, Dan W,

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-- Hello!
-- told me that I didn't really believe at first,

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but he assures me it's true, I've looked it up, which is, well...

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Dan, where are we currently standing?
DAN: We're at the Reedy Creek Improvement District. It's

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Walt Disney World's own private
municipality.

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TOM: Yeah. Essentially, Disney World has private cities

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granted to them by the state of Florida
because they lobbied a long time ago when

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they were buying all the land here and buying the space.

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They have all sorts of powers: they apply for
planning permission

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from themselves, they have the ability
to build all sorts of things, to

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be immune from laws of the neighboring
areas that they would otherwise

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be beholden to. Not only that, they have eminent domain,

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as well, which means that they can seize small
amounts of land from around their borders

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for their own municipality if they need it for
the public good.

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And the startling thing is this: Dan, what
they technically have permission to build?

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DAN: They have planning permission from
themselves to build their own nuclear

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power station. It's in the legislation
from the 1960s still.

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TOM: Now, that's because way back
when they were actually planning to build a proper city here.

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And, while they've never actually built that
nuke plant – they have a small

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oil-fired plant somewhere on property – 
they had their own

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runway briefly, they had all sorts of things. 
There was gonna be a massive city here and then

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Walt Disney died, and what we are left with
is the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow,

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or EPCOT. But you never know, one day there might well be a nuclear power plant here

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That is something

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you might not have known.

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