You know, I had it right and I know you've had it too.
There's just only so much. Most of us can take. and when
you reach that point, what do you do?
What do you do? That's just on this side of
legal. Because not only do we love our
country and we love the planet we live on and we love our
friends and our family and our fellow Americans and our fellow
citizens of this world. To say that we love has to imply
that we give a shit. We care enough to to do the
right thing to undo the wrong thing.
That's where I'm at and you're with me right now.
I'm my very first podcast, it's called Rumble with Michael Moore
and it's just what the name implies.
This isn't a podcast to come to to just have the same old, same
old thing, rehashed and help you confirm whatever your belief
system is. This is the place to come if you
want to join me in the Rebellion.
We are here to revolt. We are here to not take it
anymore. And there's a way to do this.
I know that there's a way to do this.
Where we fix, what's wrong? And we create these things that
we've never really had. And I don't think it's rocket
science and I don't think it has to take a long time.
I think we could all just decide to do it.
Not everybody is going to join in some of them.
We don't want to join in with us but I think the majority of our
fellow citizens are are ready to rumble are ready to get involved
to do whatever they can and their daily lives, especially
between now and next November, I know I am.
I was thinking about back when I was 9 years old.
And I sat and I watched a man as he was shot and killed.
I was laying on our living room floor.
My mother was vacuuming. And there I sat, and I watched a
guy named Jack Ruby. But a handgun at point-blank
range into the stomach. Of a mr.
Lee Oswald Ruby pulled the trigger, and ended Oswald's
life, right then. And there live on TV.
For all to see. As my mother continued, the
back-and-forth of the vacuum on the living room, carpet ice
cream, they killed him. She couldn't hear me.
So I yanked, the vacuum plug out of the socket and I pointed at
the TV look, But there was nothing to see because, well, it
was over. It was over in an instant.
And instant replay hadn't yet been invented.
Now, even though I was 9, I was very aware that I was not
watching a movie. And I wasn't being entertained
by a shoot-'em-up piece of fiction at a Saturday afternoon,
matinee. I had just watched a man die.
And for the next month, I had nightmare after nightmare.
And the daytime was no better. The Catholics in our town had
lost their only ever Catholic President and the adults were so
grief-stricken. Knowing that well, we were never
going to have another Catholic President and there hasn't been
to this day everybody. I remember everybody in town.
Everybody Church everybody in our Catholic school that
December. Moving at a snail's pace.
Heads down. No holiday cheer.
No baby. Jesus around to pull us out of
our Calamity that we were facing here. in the climate, he's that
would come in the years ahead in part because of this this event
My parents were Working Class People.
My dad was a factory worker. My mom was a secretary and that
December. They were worried about me.
worried that I had been affected by, what I had witnessed sitting
there watching TV, that Sunday afternoon, So for whatever
reason, they decided that my one and only Christmas present that
month would be a professional-grade 30-pound reel
to reel tape recorder. They got it from Sears.
It was a Sears silvertone. It used magnetic recording tape.
It have a square microphone. It was not portable.
But it came in a case, with a handle and I could with some
effort, lug it around like a small piece of luggage.
Well, I loved this present. I immediately started recording
everything, everything and soon. Forgot about that man on TV with
a gun in his stomach. And the Grimace on his face as
he fell dying to the floor of an underground Dallas garage.
I practice with this tape recorder.
I started recording my thoughts into it.
I started recording my sister's thoughts.
Such as they were. My sisters.
Had a lot of thoughts, six weeks.
After I got my tape recorder, The Beatles came to America.
And there they were an Ed Sullivan, my parents, let us
watch it. They didn't particularly care
for the Beatles. They didn't like the hair, but
we got to watch it. And I have my tape recorder
there. And I just Started recording
everything, I started recording, whatever was going on and it was
kind of a bit of a crazy time between Kennedy's assassination,
in November. Now, the Beatles were here in
February and the next month, of course, st.
Patrick's Day, for whatever reason, I decided to perform on
the stage at the st. Patrick's Day event at our at
our Catholic school, and I went up on the stage, and I did this
thing called McNamara's band. I sang the song.
I was dressed. I don't know what I was dressed
as some kind of Not a leprechaun but I don't know whatever.
Whatever I thought looked Irish. My grandparents had a little
Irish Kane called The Chalet lie.
So remember there's actually home video of this if I can find
it. I'll I'll post it here.
One of these days. Maybe I'll find it by st.
Patrick's Day. How about that?
And you can see me as a fourth grader.
Literally doing some kind of Irish Dance with a cane and
singing. By that point, I, my parents had
to know that I was touched in some way that this was not going
to be a normal child. And then six weeks after
performing on the stage, I decide.
You know what I want to do, I want to, I want to, I want to
publish an edit my own newspaper.
We didn't have a school paper. It's, I mean, only in fourth
grade and I decided to start this paper called Saint the st.
John's eagle. It was the name of our sports
team. Our mascot was the eagle Saint
John's Catholic school and so I started the eagle and after only
two or three issues it was shut down by the school
administration in part because my sports reporter have been too
critical of our football team or 8th grade, seventh grade
football team, and that was the end of my paper.
And then 12 weeks after that, that's summer right there in the
first August. Just 12 weeks after my newspaper
being shut down. The president of the United
States. Lyndon Johnson.
Came on TV from the Oval Office looked into the camera and lied
to the American people. He said that that one of our our
ships off the coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, the ship
was called the USS Maddox. I've been attacked by North
Vietnamese gunboats. And that wasn't true.
The whole series of events between these two or three days,
Was essentially made up. By the Pentagon, by the National
Security operation. And Johnson got a resolution
that passed in Congress to essentially begin the Vietnam
War to send eventually a half a million troops to Vietnam.
And awful awful, awful things started by a lie.
Much like the Iraq War. In 2003, everybody being told to
be weapons of mass destruction there.
That Iraq had something to do with 9/11.
All a lie. All the president of the United
States looking straight into our eyes and telling us that this
was true when it was anything. But so there was Lyndon Johnson
on TV and there, I was with my tape recorder in the living
room, holding up the little square microphone and tape
recording it. I had to record everything.
And I kept doing that through the rest of elementary school.
I started three more newspapers between them in eighth grade.
And of course, each one of them was was shut down.
I was commissioned to write the Christmas play in eighth grade.
And once the parish priest saw the rehearsal, he shut that
down. I mean, this was like 11 case of
being censored after another and you probably sensing a pattern
here with me, right? And of course, I was trying to
record all of this at the same time.
Something in me thought that that that microphone and and
putting down this audio which is all I hadn't have home camera on
video or I'll course I wasn't video Back Then movies.
And have any of that. I just had sound.
I have my voice. I have my sister's voices.
I had my family, my grandparents, I recorded
everything. I had my grandmother read poems
into the microphone. I had the neighborhood kids
over. We'd sit around the dining room
table, we record. I don't know what the hell I was
doing recording. You know, just whatever it is 9
and 10 and 11 year olds talk about.
Get it down, Hold the microphone up, get a close enough to the so
that will hear it. And if I was running out of
tape, you could slow this speed of the tape down so that it
would last just a little bit longer.
The quality wouldn't be as good, but you you get more out of the
tape. But the problem with that and I
thought about this at the time is that when I'm recording all
of this, but I can't really share it with anybody.
I can play it for my parents at home.
I can listen to it, but who else can hear it?
Nobody, what was I going to do? Go to the local radio station.
Hey, Hey hey, I'm nine years old play this on the radio.
There was no way to reach people outside of your own small,
little group of family and friends.
That's the way it was until the last decade or so.
When we could take our voices and share them with each other
without having to go through the middle, man.
So here we are today. With this podcast.
And I'm now able to talk to God knows how many of you.
I mean, those of you learned about this today from my social
media or Well, there's almost 10 million of you who follow me on
Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, or the other stuff.
So I have no idea as I sit here right now, how many of you are
are out there? But I know you're there.
In a 9 and 10 years old. I obviously I couldn't I
couldn't do that. There was no means to do that.
You had to own a radio station had to own a TV station.
Who could do that, only the wealthy, only those with money,
whether they were those in town for the local stuff for
Nationwide the networks, No means to talk to each other.
Unless it went through the filter in the approval of those,
who would Grant any of us, a show, or a moment or whatever,
on the radio on TV in the paper, not anymore.
Huge mistake. If anybody empowers listening,
huge mistake to allow us to talk to each other because you know
what, we're going to end up doing with this.
We're not just going to take pictures of our food. we're not
just going to play pranks on each other, we're not going to
we're not going to just sit here and blow up because we can we
can do it anonymously even This device that I'm speaking into.
The device that you're listening to me through right now, no
network executive, having any say as to what I can say or what
you can hear. Nobody controls you, and I right
now and you know, it's not just right now.
It's every day you're already doing this with yourself, you're
doing with your friends, you're doing it with whatever community
group or citizen action thing, whatever you might be involved
in. Maybe you're just evolved with a
few people. You're doing something with
this. Whatever it is.
We are free. We are free to do this until
we're not. At some point.
They're going to have to figure out.
They've got to shut this thing down.
Because too many of us have risen up and said that's enough,
that's enough. We're not going to take this
anymore and that is that is going to be the blessing and
curse of all of this, isn't it? That we will be able to
organize. We will be able to communicate,
we will be able to run this country.
We the People number that we the people wow.
The few people that really do, run the country who do own the
country. That this is not what they want
to hear. If any of them happen to
accidentally run across this podcast that are listening to it
right now. Well they're not worried to be
honest, the reason they're not worried is that they know that
they've dumbed down the country Enough and their minds at least,
they think that they made us all stupid enough to not figure out
how to actually pull it together.
And take this country back and have it in our hands.
They're also trusting that they put enough so-called
entertainment out there and other things to numb our minds.
So that that were just in some fog.
Constantly, confused about what's going on.
So many things being told to us solve it's real.
So it's not real. Now we can no longer tell the
difference. That's just the way they like
it. And I think they're convinced
that no matter whatever Michael Moore saying to them right now
or anybody else. They're like.
Yeah, right. People are going to get up off
the off the couch and go do something, right.
That's exactly how they think. That's their bet.
At least their bet is that it's safe to have somebody like me
with a podcast encouraging people to organize and rally and
non-violently take over that, which is ours.
They're so convinced that's not going to happen that they could
just throw back another martini right now.
Let's there listening to this laughing their ass off.
Right right. Yeah that's what the people are
going to do. Mike.
Yeah, yeah, they're going to just rise up with you.
Bring down the man of course this is their fatal flaw the
fact that they don't know that that it's already happening.
That too many people, especially too many young people are
already. Too aware of how the whole thing
has been fixed fixed against them.
Fixed in favor of the few against the many and that enough
people have already figured this out and are already acting on
it. They have no idea what's coming
and then it'll be too late because we will have already
done our duty as Citizens. To be involved to educate
ourselves to share with each other.
So best that, they think that none of this really matters is
that they aren't aware of just how organized in a sense.
We already are. A lot of people have been saying
to me lately. The I run into him on the
street. Hey, or we, are you making a
movie? What's your next movie?
You can have a movie for the election year.
And so folks, here's the big news.
I've turned down making the next movie this coming year.
I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do a TV show.
I'm not going to do any of the normal things I've done because
this is not a normal time, you know, to make a movie, It Takes
a year, sometimes two years sometimes longer.
I don't have a year or two to make a movie even if I got it
done really fast and I had it done.
So it came out in next October say before the election that's
not enough time making a movie or getting a series on TV right
now. I feel like I'm in this spot
where I'm sure many of you feel this way too.
If you could if you could pay the bills What would you do for
the next, you know, 11 months, you be doing everything you
could to bring down Donald Trump to stop things to stop the
madness. That's what you'd be doing.
Some of you already are doing ma'am, you know, during World
War, Two, baseball players, sports stars, quit, they just
quit baseball in the NFL, whatever and they went and they
join the Army, or the Marines or the Air Force and the Army Air
Force And went over there to contribute.
Film directors did that Frank Capra.
John Ford. Stopped making films and offer
their services to join the Army and go and provide help by
filming what was happening. Creating a propaganda films for
back home for you know whatever the cause needed.
That's what they were willing to do.
Not stay in Hollywood and make movies and make money but to go
out there and defeat fascism. This is the, this is the sort of
space. We all have to be in right now
and I for myself, it's not about making the next movie.
It's about what can I do as a citizen and what could I do with
this? Both the skills that I have and
also the fact that I have this audience, what can I do to help?
Defeat Trump but not just defeat Trump.
Defeat that which gave us Trump find some way to get rid of the
system. The thing That gave us, Donald J
Trump. That allowed that to even
happen. What do we got to do to make
sure that never happens? Again, we'll get rid of trump.
But what about post Trump? How do we make sure this never
happens? Again?
I want to spend every waking moment on this.
I want to do, whatever I can to help the cause of righting the
ship here. And in trying to create the
America we've never had I want to save the America we've never
had when I think about this country.
I think well yes. But when you say this country
have we as it ever been, what we said it was going to be what we
hoped it would be. It isn't it isn't as long as we
have the income disparity that we have right now.
As long as women don't have equal power aren't allowed to
make what men make you didn't go down the whole list of these
things. The fact that parents can't
raise their children in a sane way like they do in other
democracies. Weathers child care provided
where you never have to worry about your health care where
you'd wear. If you want to go to college, it
doesn't make you go broke. All of this, we need to fix all
of this. We need to create that which
we've never had if we have that, that will do more to prevent the
next Donald Trump than anything else.
But making a movie, You know, I'm very proud of the films I've
done and I'm glad that you've seen them.
Those of you who've seen them but you know I make a film about
gun violence and Bowling for Columbine.
What do we have? What do we have today?
What's going on today? Who got shot today.
What mass shooting was there yesterday?
What will happen tomorrow? This hasn't fixed the problem,
making a movie. I'm not, I'm not going, I'm not
putting down the fact of making the movie, I know.
I know the movies had great impact.
I know it's helped to educate a, a couple of generations of young
people as they've come up through school, and the teachers
show them, these movies. I'm so grateful for that.
But it's not really a victory until we fix this problem.
Same thing with Healthcare made a movie about them and maybe we
could say well that helped to contribute to the public support
behind behind Obamacare and that's great.
But that's, that's not the whole answer.
That's not exactly what we need to really fix this problem.
We're still under the Yoke of Capitalism a desire to still be
at War. All these years later, all these
things that I've tried in my films to talk about and to show
people. I mean, if you haven't seen them
go, see them. You can there.
Most of them are available I think, on Amazon, or Netflix or
certainly iTunes, a lot of them are, you know, there's pirated
versions of them online, you can go see those, you know, but
Right now, as we sit here in December of 2019, getting ready
to enter a new year. A new decade, we can't let this
continue. So I'm all into to do what I can
do to stop this and to create thing that we need, and I'm
doing this, this is my work this year, this podcast Rumble, but
not just the podcast. This is just the first step of
of what I'm going to create online.
Digitally a new media. So that we have a means by which
to communicate with each other. To think about what's going on
to talk about it and to act 2 act politically.
I'll tell you more about that in the coming weeks, this is the
first piece of it to put out a weekly podcast.
Rumble with Michael Moore. And I don't know.
We never know, right? But I have a really strong faith
and belief that there's enough of us out there that can make
this happen. So I want to do this podcast
with you, I want you to be part of it.
I'm going to do it for you. I will give you information I
will give you help. I'll hold your hand if you need
that because we're all feeling a certain sense of Despair right
now. But we're all in this together,
we're all in the same boat. I know what it feels like for
you right now. I feel the same thing.
I feel the same despair, but we can't let that run us.
We can't let that be the, the, the organizing factor of Our
Lives. So we're going to join together
and let Rumble, let this podcast be a place where we can come
together. Each week, we'll do this.
There may be some weeks where because of something that
happens in the news or something that Trump does or whatever we
need to get on something immediately, I'm forming the
emergency podcast system and what will happen on those days
is you'll get a special alert that within the hour I'll be
posting an emergency podcast to discuss.
What just happened, what's going on?
What should we do about it? Where are we coming together?
What's happening in your community?
Work it where you can find out what's happening in your town in
your neighborhood? So, that's going to be the
essence of this podcast once a week.
The occasional emergency broadcast, when we need to have
it. And I thought, what I do in
these first couple of weeks, Is try to do one maybe every day,
maybe not. But just in these first couple
weeks I'm going to I'm going to do a number of a number of these
in part because I've never done them before.
So I need I need a bit of spring training here but also in part
because the year is ending. The impeachment is happening.
It looks like in the next 48 hours.
And I think we need to be with each other right now.
So look for this each day here between now and New Year's Eve.
Again, some days I may be off recording something or whatever,
but, but this this is what I'm doing.
This is my job. This is how I've decided to
spend the next year or so I'll make my next movie.
Don't worry, I promise, I'm not retiring.
I'm I'm going to continue to make movies, but right now it's
all hands on deck. Right now it's everybody off the
bench, everybody including myself, has to be in the middle
of this in the thick of it. And I don't think we have any
other choice. The way this podcast is going to
work is that I'll be coming to you through this microphone and
sharing with you, my take on things, how I see what's
happening as the issues come up as the events come up.
I will have a take on it. That's different than the
traditional media. Sometimes it'll be different
than the traditional liberal way of looking at things.
It might be different from the Democratic party way of looking
at things. I am the guy that told you that
Trump was going to win and he was going to win by winning
Michigan Wisconsin in Pennsylvania, I ever wanted to
be more wrong in my life than when I publicly stated that but
I was so worried that Trump was going to win and I live in
Michigan and I'm like hi, yeah, yeah, this is going to this is
just going to be awful. And people laughed.
When you know, they booed and want to hear it, it's no way.
People are going to like this clown.
And I did what I could do. I even went out and made a quick
documentary, got it up on iTunes and cheese.
It was seen by quite a few people, but when people say that
to me about, you know, where's the exit election year, film
this year? I tell them while I'm I've got
three election year films. I've been making already in
there, already out from the last few years.
You can watch any of their all about this election where to
invade next. Where do invade next is
essentially a film that shows what this country could be, if
we just follow the example of the Canadians or the Europeans
of the Japanese, the Australians, Etc.
You know, they live a better life, they live a safer life of
a happier, life slightly more equal, not perfect societies at
all. But that's what that film was
about. Really if, if anything it was
Kind of unintentional. It is a visual show of
everything that Bernie says. With this country could be a lot
of what Elizabeth Warren says, is contained in that film, where
to invade next in 2016, I made a film called Michael Morin.
Trump land. I went to an Ohio town that was
mostly Republican Town invited them all in one night.
To talk to me, I would talk to them and I was trying to
convince them that, you know, there was a way to vote for
Hillary. Free and you don't have to, you
know, if you want if you hate Hillary you can keep hating her
and you can also vote for and it was.
It's quite an interesting film, Michael Morin Trump, land and
then and then last year I made a film called Fahrenheit, 11 9 and
it is One of my proudest achievements, frankly not only
distills the sense of how we got Trump, but it does all the other
things that I think we need to be talking about, in addition,
to removing Trump, we have to remove that which gave us Trump,
as I said earlier. So that's what that film is.
Fahrenheit, eleven nine, eleven nine, being November 9th of 2016
is when it was announced that he was the next president of the
United States. If you have a chance to see this
film, I know it's available just about everywhere, it's on
iTunes. If you have Prime it's free make
that your 2020 election year film from Michael Moore.
It's still every bit as relevant.
Some 12 months later here and this podcast this podcast is
going to be not just me I'll have guests.
It's, I'll do interviews, will have people around the table
will mix it up a bit. We're going to come up with some
new ideas. I'm going to not be in my little
podcast Studio that I built in the guest bedroom here at my
apartment. I'll send you some pictures here
eventually but it's not bad. It's certainly doesn't look like
a guest bedroom anymore. It's a really nice little
podcast Studio that my friends and family built with me here.
And we'll come out of here but will be will do things outside
of here. We'll do things on the street.
Will do things will go to where the Republicans are, we will
challenge them, we will defeat them and you can be with me
while we're doing this. We're going to have some fun
doing this. This is, you know, I don't want
anybody to lose their sense of humor during the malays.
So tune in for that if you need a few laps, will give you those.
But I'm also going to be talking to some very interesting people.
People meet you may not have heard of people I've run across
really good thinkers people that have that have got some really
new and fresh ideas of how we can structure this country.
How can we how we can be toward each other?
There's going to be some fascinating conversations.
I've already got a couple in the can one of them is I'm not going
to tell you who it is, but it's one of our, our greatest actors.
One of the greatest actors of all time sat with me for an hour
and a half the other day and we had a very interesting
conversation, you'll hear that probably sometime this week.
I also have a conversation. I just recorded with one of our
great filmmakers this year who's made one of the best films of
the year. And we talked about that and how
this film relates to what we're all going through right now.
So they'll be comedians. They'll be all kinds of people.
I think you're really going to love this podcast.
I hope you do. I want you to give me your
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I'll give you, I'll give you some real things that you can
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where you say to yourself, she's why.
I know I hate this whole thing, but what can I do?
Stick with me here I'll give you something to do.
And I'll do it with you. Well, do this together?
So, I hope you've enjoyed this. This first podcast of mine.
Very first time, I've done this. I'm looking forward to doing it
every week. Let me know what you think.
Listen, we're going to make it that much.
I can say, I can't make any really any other promises or
guarantees. We're in, we're in the fight of
our lives right now, you know it, you know, it.
You feel it? I feel it.
But that doesn't mean that we're not going to win and we're not
going to create a better world. I've always believed this that
that there's more good in this world than not.
And that that most people know, the difference, most people have
a conscience. Yes, there are many that we're
never going to be able to bring along, but will be good to them.
Will be kind to them. And when we finally have
Universal true, Universal Health, Care for everybody, will
have it for them to and will let make sure their kids.
If they want to go to college, don't have to go into debt for
the rest of our lives. We'll do it for them.
I'll do it for everybody. Doesn't matter what your
political stripe is. We're going to create a better
country. Thanks for being with me.
Those of you all these years
while my work. It means so much to me.
I'm excited about doing this and See you soon.
In fact, perhaps even tomorrow this is Michael Moore signing
off Rumble with Michael Moore.