1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,100 Hello everyone. This is Rumble with Michael 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:11,500 Moore and I am Michael Moore. Welcome everyone wonderful to 3 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:17,100 have you with me here today, I just I just watched a Belfast 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,800 again in honor of st. Patrick's Day tomorrow is such a 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,400 powerful movie about a Protestant family, back at the 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:31,200 beginning of the troubles. 1969 Protestant family, living 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:37,300 essentially in a Catholic neighborhood And and how 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:43,200 everyone for many, many years saw themselves, mainly as Irish 9 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:48,000 and not not so much as a Catholic, or Protestant, or 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,800 whatever, but because of the way that the British government ran 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,100 Northern Ireland. The way that the Catholic 12 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:59,000 citizens were kept in permanent to second-class citizenship. 13 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:04,000 And, and then finally, in August of Nine. 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,300 The British soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters Catholic 15 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:14,600 protesters and killed a number of them, including a number of 16 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,300 children and all hell broke loose after that. 17 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:22,200 And so Kenneth Branagh, the director and writer and producer 18 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,100 who started it? Really in in the air, I started 19 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,500 it went with his first film. I think it was first of all, 20 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:33,900 first big film Henry, the fifth nineteen, this 1989 Fine. 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,100 So it was Spike, had do the right thing. 22 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:42,700 Brenda had Henry, the fifth, Steven soderbergh's, first film 23 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:47,900 sex, lies and videotape. I think it was the first we saw 24 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:54,500 Denzel Washington in glory. It was really, it was an amazing 25 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:55,400 year. I'm leaving out a lot. 26 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,900 Paul mazursky these enemies a love story. 27 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,200 It's I'm just aren't trying to do this from memory now but 28 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,900 there were so many things. A cusp They answered Drugstore. 29 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:10,300 Cowboy and every Festival we were at Denzel was there at the 30 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:13,000 next Festival? We'd all see each other and Gus 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,900 Van Sant and Matt Dillon, and the others from Drugstore 32 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:22,000 Cowboy. Wow, was such an exciting moment 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,200 in time. They have my first film out 34 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,000 there and I was just nobody from Flint Michigan. 35 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,400 And I, of course, it never made a film before and didn't go to 36 00:02:32,408 --> 00:02:35,200 film School. At least I didn't think I knew 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,400 what I was doing, but it turned out sometimes it's helpful. 38 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,700 Not to know what you're doing and it became Roger and me and 39 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:46,700 so and so to see, you know, get branded filling. 40 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:50,300 All these years later now, his new film Belfast. 41 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:57,700 Great filmmaker and it is so powerful. 42 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,300 And I know, I guess it's hard, it's hard for me because of, you 43 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:04,500 know, most my family. My ancestors are Irish and and I 44 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:07,000 know all these stories and all the stories have been passed 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,100 down and how they had to suffer and survive and get by, how many 46 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:15,900 my, my first. You should be my great. 47 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:18,400 Great. Great. 48 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:24,400 If not great, great, aunts came from Cork in the 1880s. 49 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,200 We still have the our family's loved the boat ticket with the 50 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,500 three sisters. They were the first to come 51 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,900 came, got jobs came to Michigan. I don't know if they pass 52 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:39,300 through Canada or whatever, but they came to Michigan, and they 53 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:42,800 got jobs and sent money back, and so others in the family 54 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,100 could come over. And it's a you know and here I 55 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:54,600 am grateful to all who came before me grateful to those who 56 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,700 suffered grateful to those who suffered discrimination here in 57 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:04,400 the US. No Irish need apply taken off 58 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,400 the boat in New York Harbor and the 1860s and enforced into the 59 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,200 army. Not go and settle a life here 60 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,399 but go fight. And died in a war for a country 61 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,399 that they'd only been in for an hour or two. 62 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:24,000 If, you know, if you're Irish, you know, all these stories 63 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:28,400 you're not, you know, your people. 64 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:33,400 However, they got here, be it in Chains, be it, they were the 65 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:38,300 first ones here, we're all the other, all the other ethnic 66 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:42,500 groups that have come here over the years to try to make it. 67 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,000 Everyone has their story and Or he's. 68 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:53,700 So these were these were mine and and I've held them close and 69 00:04:53,700 --> 00:05:02,000 I remind myself of it and the empathy that I need to have as a 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,500 grandchild of immigrants it into stand. 71 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:12,500 For those who are now being punished, who are now being 72 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:16,800 discriminated against never to lose sight of of the fact that 73 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,400 that except for the, the First Peoples, the native people who 74 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:27,100 are here already and the, and those who were brought Heroes as 75 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:32,700 enslaved, human beings, the rest of us, all came, we're all 76 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:37,700 descendants of immigrants. And it is stunning to see the 77 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:41,400 behavior of our fellow Americans, when it comes to the 78 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,500 treatment of immigrants and I'll tell you, it's even more 79 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:47,100 profoundly. Stunning to see, my fellow Irish 80 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:54,700 Americans, the the level of some of bigotry, Not just to new 81 00:05:54,700 --> 00:06:00,200 immigrants, but to people of color, it's really shameful and 82 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:07,100 embarrassing. And and those who live in 83 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:11,600 Ireland, and those who are Irish, they they know what four 84 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:17,000 years, the people in Europe, in other countries, called the 85 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,200 Irish I'm not going to say the word, you know what the word is, 86 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,100 they were considered that of Europe. 87 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:31,200 And so if anybody should have empathy toward immigrants and 88 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,400 and toward people of color in this country, it should be us, 89 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:39,400 the Irish, the Irish Americans. And of course, all my Irish 90 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,400 friends, I do have that and have fought for that and stand up for 91 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,000 that and fight racism and bigotry in all that. 92 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:55,300 But so so many more Don't. Saturday night, I was asked to 93 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:02,200 be a presenter on the Irish Academy Awards in Dublin and it 94 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:04,800 it's called. And the official name is the 95 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,400 Irish film and television Awards, or the Irish film & 96 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,500 television Academy Awards. I just hate guys. 97 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,000 It's okay. Just call it Academy Awards. 98 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,100 It mean, we don't mind, you know, it's not like, it's kind 99 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,800 of cool because I've been to the, I've been to the Irish 100 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,000 Oscars. I've been to bafta with the 101 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:31,100 British Oscars. I bend the French Oscars is 102 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,600 called the same as ours and I won. 103 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,600 I won that best documentary. I didn't, I didn't get that. 104 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:43,900 I won best foreign film. And I was up against Steven 105 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:49,300 Soderbergh, that Year, Steven Spielberg, and I forgot another 106 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,700 filmmaker to you and and we won. And we were stunned. 107 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:57,400 You know, I went up on the stage to accept the award was given to 108 00:07:57,407 --> 00:07:59,700 me, my French actress Isabelle, who bear? 109 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:06,100 And wow, I was just, um, You know I spoke a little French 110 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,400 awful don't ever try that. I've done it a couple times, I 111 00:08:09,407 --> 00:08:11,600 mean, I'd there they appreciate it. 112 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,600 I mean, well, when I do that but they, you know they're like. 113 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:22,600 Okay my God thank you for trying but it's it I think that year 114 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,800 was actually the year of cheese. That's right. 115 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:28,300 That was the actually, it was the month. 116 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:33,000 Before we invaded in bombed and killed civilians in Iraq. 117 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:36,700 A war. Of course eventually lost big 118 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:41,299 loser once again but um probably going to mention that here in a 119 00:08:41,308 --> 00:08:43,700 little bit because I want to talk about it as it relates to 120 00:08:43,708 --> 00:08:45,400 what's going on with Ukraine right now. 121 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:50,400 But my thanks to the people at the Irish Academy for having me 122 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,700 present the best Irish documentary award best Irish 123 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:59,400 documentary, the year and and I and I got to speak. 124 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,000 A tiny bit of Irish are Nate our native tongue which is not 125 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,300 English. And I think I pulled that part 126 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:07,900 off. I didn't hear from anybody 127 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:15,400 because we average will be the first make commentary and 128 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:19,700 anybody who's up on their high horse thinking that they could. 129 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:22,500 Oh, oh, so you can speak Irish numbers tomorrow. 130 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,900 But no, it's so but st. Patrick's Day I'm recording this 131 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:32,300 on. I need, I don't know, whatever 132 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:35,100 the day before st. Patrick's Day, I guess we're 133 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:40,900 sort of the day before, always loved this day, not for the 134 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:42,500 parades and that for the drinking. 135 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:50,200 But for my gratitude, My gratitude for knowing that 136 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:55,100 sometimes my sense of humor, your sense of humor is what 137 00:09:55,700 --> 00:10:04,300 saves us from utter friggin Despair, and we've needed it. 138 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,600 These last couple of years more than ever, but the best part 139 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:16,400 about seeing Belfast today, Is that two years ago today was the 140 00:10:16,408 --> 00:10:20,200 last time I entered a movie theater to watch a movie. 141 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:26,100 And today, I called up the person who went to the movies 142 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:30,100 with two years ago today and I said, if you've been to the 143 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:35,400 movies yet, in these two years of the pandemic and I know me 144 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,900 neither, let's let's do it. Let's just do it. 145 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:44,600 We're good, we're good. We're, we're triply vaccinated. 146 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,600 We've got good n95, masks, let's just go do it. 147 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:54,100 What do you want to see? I want to see Belfast. 148 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:59,100 It looks like a like just the look of it, the cinematography 149 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:02,400 just black and white beautiful. I want to see that I want to see 150 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,700 the theater and, you know, you can go on a mini feeders out and 151 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:07,800 see how many seats have been sold and where they've been 152 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,700 sold. And so, this theater had 150 153 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:15,600 seats and 138 of them were empty. 154 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:22,800 So talk about social distancing, it felt safe, and I'd already 155 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,700 talked to people at AMC about, They're filtering systems in the 156 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:27,900 things they've done during the pandemic. 157 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:29,300 It's not what I did at my theaters. 158 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:36,000 I went Whole Hog on big, new filters are exchanged fresh air, 159 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:40,200 new fresh air in there every, you know, 10 or 15 minutes just 160 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,400 to make it as safe as possible. They don't do that in the, you 161 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,100 know, the multiplexes, but they have done many things to make it 162 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:50,700 safe. And so, it felt safe. 163 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,500 And so we went to the movies, we went to the movies and salt 164 00:11:54,500 --> 00:12:02,900 Belfast, and, Wow. I was in tears. 165 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,300 The final scene. It just hit too close to home. 166 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:13,400 And so, thank you, Kenneth Branagh, for making this 167 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,100 incredible movie. It is nominated as best picture 168 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:18,700 and I think a whole bunch of other nominations this year, for 169 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:22,700 the Oscars, not the Irish Oscars, the American Oscars. 170 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:30,300 And but it was also personally, uplifting for me to get out and 171 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:36,500 to go to one of my maybe my favorite place. you know, my 172 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:41,700 real church that I used to go to Two, three times a week. 173 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:49,100 And now I have a con in two years if you could be in here in 174 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:53,800 the podcast room right now and just see me how how uplifted I 175 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:59,200 am and How glad I am to be alive. 176 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,600 And how sorry I am to all those who've had to suffer or who've 177 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:10,600 lost loved ones, nearly a million Americans gone well over 178 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,700 6 million worldwide. So, You know I think that's also 179 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:21,200 part of the Irish in us how much we care and how much we don't 180 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:27,700 forget the suffering of others. So here I am reinvented. 181 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:35,500 In the movies. And Ready to go. 182 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,000 As I'm recording this, just a few hours before president. 183 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:48,600 Solinsky from Ukraine, is going to be on a big screen wife 184 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:53,000 inside the House of Representatives were both. 185 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:57,000 Houses of Congress. Will hear a talk from him? 186 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:00,900 I'm sure it'll be a powerful and emotional moment. 187 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:09,000 Everyone I know is behind him, but I have some things to say 188 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,700 he's going to make certain requests of us in the morning. 189 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:21,900 That I want to suggest we pause and think about it first. 190 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:30,400 That will be the next. 30 minutes or less of what I have 191 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,600 to say. It won't be long. 192 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,100 Now before we get to that, let me just thank our main 193 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,000 underwriter. Thank you, of course, to Anchor, 194 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,800 but thank you to this wonderful organization that has started to 195 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:47,200 underwrite my podcast recently and I'm very grateful to them 196 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:52,500 and I like most of you, I'm sure have had a lot of time to think 197 00:14:52,508 --> 00:14:56,900 here over the past couple of years and that time has Has made 198 00:14:56,900 --> 00:15:02,200 me hmm. Curious curious in a way where a 199 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,600 lot of the junk food TV, and so-called content. 200 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,300 Hmm, can't really scratch the itch, you know, this feeling 201 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,300 right. That's why when you find 202 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:16,400 something. Especially during this pandemic. 203 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:21,500 That is like, wow, it it just kind of gives you a bit of a, 204 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,600 bit of a rush. 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I feel I feel that there are 252 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:18,100 people. That are trying to take us to 253 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:24,000 war. And I'm not talking about people 254 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,200 like Putin, I mean and if you've listened to my podcast and you 255 00:19:27,208 --> 00:19:31,500 were at my things online and whatever my sub stack, you know 256 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:41,100 exactly how I feel about mr. Putin and you know exactly how I 257 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:47,200 feel about the Ukrainian people and as someone who years ago 258 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:54,900 traveled both with in what was then the USSR Soviet Union, and 259 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,200 someone who myself who then came back and travelled in what was 260 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:08,600 the new Russia? And twice was present when mr. 261 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:14,600 Putin long before he was president of Russia where he was 262 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,700 present where I was present. Our paths weirdly crossed. 263 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,800 So, my feelings about all of this about what he's done. 264 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:31,800 About the sad and tragic place that the Ukrainian people are 265 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,900 in, none of that has changed in these last few weeks. 266 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:45,500 But here's what has changed. What has changed is there are 267 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:49,700 those Who are trying to take us to war. 268 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:57,500 And, I mean, they're trying really, really hard and some of 269 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:03,300 it is very effective. The media. 270 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:15,300 Our politicians. Are corporations who stand to 271 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:18,200 make millions billions off of War. 272 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:24,900 And you know what? I've been through this enough in 273 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:29,500 my lifetime that I'm hip to it. I know when I'm being 274 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,100 manipulated. And I wanted to take a few 275 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:38,600 minutes in this podcast here today, it's a, this won't be 276 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,400 long. I just I just I want to express 277 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:49,500 my dissatisfaction with the manipulation that is going on, 278 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:56,200 so that I somewhere in my heart will eventually say any day now, 279 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:00,600 We have to go there. We have to go to Ukraine. 280 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:06,100 We have to go to war. And you know, also, if you know 281 00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:11,500 me, I will fight that feeling every inch of the way. 282 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Because we are not going to war. As I've said before we we are 283 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,300 such. We have such a bad history of 284 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:28,100 warmongering. We've done good things. 285 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:30,500 We've in the past there have been some times where we've gone 286 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:34,100 and supported and protected people and all of that. 287 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:37,600 But generally, that's not us, generally, that's not us. 288 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:44,800 We had we are violent people. So we founded the country. 289 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:49,800 Based on E genocide elect many acts. 290 00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:57,100 To remove permanently, the people who were here first. 291 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:05,700 And then our second Original Sin, That of bringing slaves 292 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,400 here through acts of violence. Killing a lot of them hanging, a 293 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,300 lot of them. But we needed to build the new 294 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:17,100 country and we needed free labor, and so boom. 295 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,900 Millions of slaves. And deaths. 296 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:30,200 And what is my our responsibility to protect the 297 00:23:30,208 --> 00:23:34,200 people here and around the world because we all live on the same 298 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,600 planet. We all share that planet. 299 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:46,500 So But our actions since World War Two. have been pretty sad 300 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:52,800 and Despicable and wrong, whether it was Korea, Vietnam 301 00:23:54,300 --> 00:24:00,900 Cambodia, Laos, you go down the whole list of things that we did 302 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:08,000 invading, the Dominican Republic, all the all the other, 303 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,800 the wars after Vietnam or started, you know, mainly by 304 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:20,900 Reagan with, you know, Panama and and then the first Iraq war 305 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:29,600 under Bush the first And then, the grotesque invasion of Iraq. 306 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:36,800 In 2003. And before that going into 307 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,300 Afghanistan, without really a clue of event. 308 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,000 Let's go to war, let's go to war. 309 00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:45,300 Let's all hop on our horses and go to war. 310 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,400 That's just always seems to be the first thought. 311 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:53,100 How's that worked out for us? How'd that work out for the 312 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,700 Afghan people? How'd it work out for the Iraqi 313 00:24:56,700 --> 00:25:03,300 people? So after these two colossal 314 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,900 mistakes, I wrote a thing, basically saying that we have to 315 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:14,700 go to the timeout room, we Americans, we are not allowed to 316 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:18,300 go to war anymore. If there is a justifiable reason 317 00:25:18,300 --> 00:25:20,700 to help others who are being attacked, whatever, there's 318 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,200 things we can do. And we've seen that in this case 319 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,700 here, with Ukraine with sanctions with defense. 320 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:32,300 Of armaments. There's things we can do, but we 321 00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:38,400 can't go there. We must not go anywhere because 322 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,900 of our behavior in these last 20 years, we have to stay in the 323 00:25:43,908 --> 00:25:46,700 timeout room. And it's how I filled this week, 324 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,300 but I'll tell you, I have to turn the TV off. 325 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,900 Are you, are you feeling the same way that you can't watch 326 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:55,900 the news anymore? I mean, I literally have had to 327 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:58,300 stop. I'll maybe once a day, I'll 328 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:03,400 check. In just to see, what kind of BS 329 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,900 is being shoved, down the throats, or the ears, or the 330 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:13,400 eyes of the American people. in every day, if you notice us, it 331 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,700 just gets more and more and more and the story they want to tell 332 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,500 The sad story, The sadder the better. 333 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:28,000 Showing the Ukrainian cities being bombed. 334 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:35,300 Showing people dead in the streets showing the children 335 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:43,900 awful awful awful. In your heart breaks. and if you 336 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:50,600 care, if you give a damn Your brain goes, I should be doing 337 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,300 something, we should be doing something. 338 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:55,900 This has to stop. This guy's crazy. 339 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,200 Of course, that's part of the debate, isn't it? 340 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:08,400 Putin isn't completely stupid. He knows we like the bait of 341 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,100 War. And it doesn't take much. 342 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,100 To get us active. And to get us violent. 343 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:24,900 And to show up. Thousands and thousands and 344 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:30,300 thousands of miles away. He's doing something on his 345 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:32,800 doorstep. He's doing something to a 346 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,600 country that used to be part of Russia. 347 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,700 He is that he's, you know. It's it's it's again just 348 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:45,100 imagine if he had sent Russian troops to Mexico or Canada here 349 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,600 in the last month, where would we be then? 350 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,700 Probably not in the timeout room, right? 351 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,500 Yeah. But he knows us. 352 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,000 He's got her number. Most of the world has her 353 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:06,300 number. And what I am when I want to say 354 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:17,100 here today on this episode is I am begging you To resist. 355 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,700 Not resist, Putin, the Ukrainian people are doing a great job of 356 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,700 that. I mean, how many, how many weeks 357 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:27,000 have gone by, where we still are watching. 358 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,800 That one, that one piece of footage of the Russian tanks and 359 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,900 trucks on that one road. And like every other day it gets 360 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:39,600 bigger, Ellis has five miles long and then it was ten miles 361 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,800 long. Then it was 40 miles long. 362 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:45,000 Okay. Well, why is that? 363 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,600 It might be because actually the Ukrainian people are doing what 364 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,800 we would do, if that if that line of tanks are whatever, if 365 00:28:54,800 --> 00:29:00,400 it wasn't a convoy of trucks of trump supporting Canadians, that 366 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,100 such a thing coming across the Ambassador Bridge in. 367 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:10,700 But what if what if it was Russian tanks and and all 368 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:15,900 whatnot, what would we do? We'd have to probably say 369 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:20,200 goodbye to the Ambassador Bridge for one thing but of course you 370 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,600 know that's not what's going on here and what we're seeing every 371 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:31,500 day is this kind of uptick in more footage more photos more 372 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,000 and there's one last night I don't know. 373 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,400 I tuned in to one of the networks and they showed a 374 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,200 missile coming into a parking lot and blow up. 375 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,500 I don't know like I think I went back and paused it and counted 376 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:51,800 seven seven and nine cars and it is awful course, you know, but 377 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,300 they made it sound like this happen today. 378 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,900 And I'm thinking, dude, you showed me this like three weeks 379 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:00,000 ago. What is going on here? 380 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,300 What is going on and the president zelinski? 381 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,900 Fellow satirist and of course, as you know, a couple weeks ago, 382 00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:14,300 I offered to, you know, conduct any negotiations on his behalf 383 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:19,300 to get this thing to stop, but he is he's taking this position. 384 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:24,800 Now that that we are responsible to, we have to fly airplanes, 385 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:28,500 and shoot down, Russian planes, that are flying over Ukraine. 386 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,800 We need a no-fly zone. It has to be enforced by our air 387 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,300 force, or we give planes to the polls, or I don't know. 388 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:38,800 Each day. There's a new method, but it's 389 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:45,800 all about shutting down the airspace. but, First of all, 390 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,800 we're not going to do that. I don't know how to say this to 391 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,000 president solinsky into the arena Ukrainian people, but let 392 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,600 me I'm just we're not doing that that would start such a massive 393 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,600 war with Putin with Russia. You've got two countries that 394 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,800 have thousands of nuclear missiles pointed at each other. 395 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:11,200 And we are not going to do that, not even for Ukraine. 396 00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:17,000 And they may be hard to hear if you're Ukrainian, if you're 397 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,300 president solinsky. But we are not going to risk the 398 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:28,800 destruction of the world. For well for anything, frankly. 399 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:36,800 That I know is a bitter pill to swallow, but there are other 400 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:40,600 people Europeans European countries, neighbors of Ukraine. 401 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,000 There are others because it is their neighborhood and because 402 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,700 they don't have our record of just willfully. 403 00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:51,000 Randomly invading other countries and killing your 404 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,900 people bombing. Civilian populations. 405 00:31:53,900 --> 00:32:01,600 Like we've done in Iraq, there are people that can help Not us. 406 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:07,900 Because we're afraid it's because we've behaved badly. 407 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,300 And so we're not allowed to. Especially not when there are 408 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:17,100 others who can help. And let me tell you who's 409 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:19,400 helping. I think let me just offer a good 410 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:24,900 guess here. If you watched Putin's crazed 411 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,600 speech. From that table of his on the 412 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,200 day. He decided to go to war. 413 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:38,000 I think we ran at least an hour. You saw that I never, I never 414 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,900 thought Putin was like just outright batshit crazy, but 415 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:46,100 there he was saying stuff that I'm like, dude. 416 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:50,100 You know, even though I don't agree with you but at least I've 417 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:56,200 thought you had a brain and and I think you I hoped you knew 418 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,400 what was best for your people and to keep them out of war and 419 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,100 all that. But man but here's the thing, 420 00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,900 you've got to go back and watch this a couple days later. 421 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:10,100 He televised a meeting with his top generals about the war and 422 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:12,600 again he's that one of those hundred foot long tables or it's 423 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:13,800 not that long but you know what I'm saying? 424 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,300 It looks like it's you know it looks like Like, you know, he's 425 00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:19,600 at one end of the table of Moscow and the people down at 426 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:24,200 the other end of the table are in Minsk, but they would cut 427 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:29,000 away to the generals, like close-ups two shots and the 428 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,400 generals were like looking each other out of the sides of their 429 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,400 eyes or they were looking down at their papers and trying to 430 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,800 pretend they were shuffling them around. 431 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,900 Or if I could have put subtitles under the looks of those 432 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:47,700 generals faces, it would have said, this guy is fucking nuts. 433 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,700 That is the look on their faces, you'll see it. 434 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:54,800 If you if you go back and look at it they're there. 435 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,900 They looked embarrassed. They looked like they were 436 00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:00,300 trying to look communicate with each other because I couldn't 437 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:03,400 say anything. Like what do we do? 438 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:08,600 I don't know what do we do? We back we must do something. 439 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,600 Yes, you must do something because he he is going to get 440 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:19,699 your soldiers killed. So between that and then a week 441 00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:25,500 or so ago, the various oligarchs, the uber wealthy in 442 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,600 Russia. People that were have, been made 443 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,199 wealthy essentially by Putin, and his crimes and his, his 444 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:37,000 dishonesty. And but they started coming out 445 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 publicly against the war, saying it was wrong. 446 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,800 We need to end this, stop it. Like like the top three or four 447 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,900 of the richest ones in Russia were saying publicly to Putin 448 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:53,900 stopped. And I have felt pretty much 449 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,400 since last week and again, I don't know if this will happen, 450 00:34:56,900 --> 00:35:00,500 but I think what may stop him and what may stop, this war are 451 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:03,000 the people who enjoyed their wealthy. 452 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,400 Criminal life in Russia with their billions of dollars that 453 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,600 he made available to them. They probably don't want that 454 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,300 way of life to end. In a war like, this could make 455 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:20,800 that come to a close. So they want to stay Rich, live 456 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,700 rich, and, and the generals and the soldiers they want to live 457 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:29,300 And they don't want to fight for something. 458 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:35,700 They don't believe in. And I thought, well you know 459 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:40,100 what, that is going to that is going to bring, we won't have to 460 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,000 really do anything. I think you're maybe in the next 461 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,900 few weeks. The generals. 462 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,300 And the rich are going to put a stop to this. 463 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,700 Your they're going to convince them to stop or come up with an 464 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:57,900 idea to save face. Or there may not be a Vladimir 465 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000 Putin, any longer something will happen. 466 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:06,800 That's that's my, just a wild idea in my head that may be 467 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,200 true. And you know, me, if you've been 468 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,800 with me for a number of decades, you know that sometimes when I 469 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,500 have these crazy ideas, it's actually what is the truth and 470 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:22,800 what will happen. So maybe not, I could be wrong. 471 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:32,200 But but we jumping into this war and tugging on our heartstrings 472 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:38,100 and, and today, a documentary filmmaker and American, Brent, 473 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:43,100 ran out, and into another reporter for Fox News killed 474 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:49,300 there, and it's a good way to get Americans again to get 475 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:52,900 behind a war. Now, they're killing us, they've 476 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:57,100 killed American journalists. They're killing Americans. 477 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,800 Did you hear me? They're killing Americans? 478 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:09,700 Like Mike. Mike Mike, Mike, Mike And I'm 479 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:14,000 here to say that while I'm very sad about that. 480 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:21,700 And I will remember all. Who have perished in this war be 481 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:28,600 there Americans or not? The solution is not form or to 482 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:34,900 perish. And president solinsky the 483 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,300 there's not going to be a no-fly zone that the United States is 484 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:41,400 going to operate. We are not going to send in our 485 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,200 jet fighters and our bomber planes. 486 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,000 It's just not going to happen. And for those of you listening 487 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,900 to this, who are thinking, yeah but Mike, no no, there's no, 488 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:58,100 yeah, but we have not earned. The privilege of coming to the 489 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:06,200 aid of others who are dying. We have not earned the privilege 490 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:13,200 of that act. Because of our Behavior because 491 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:18,200 of how many civilians we killed in Iraq. 492 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:21,100 The numbers vary, it's all over the place. 493 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,800 We killed a hundred thousand civilians. 494 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,700 We've killed over the years and this dates back to when Clinton 495 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:32,000 was President nearly a million araki's. 496 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,500 Someday the UN somebody will sort out the exact number but, 497 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,800 you know, it's bad. And for what? 498 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:46,300 We wanted to protect our oil that was under there ground 499 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,600 because of all the lies we were told by Colin Powell. 500 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,800 I'm sorry, I don't speak ill of the Dead. 501 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,900 I rode with them on an Amtrak train one time and it had a nice 502 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,100 conversation. I thought it was nice. 503 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:05,600 I'm not sure also sure he did but but listen, We were lied to, 504 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,500 we were sent to war. Between Afghanistan and Iraq. 505 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,000 What do we have, six seven, eight thousand dead American 506 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,300 soldiers. I'm sorry, I don't know the 507 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:26,900 exact number right now. You know, and if there's if 508 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:31,100 there's 7,000 of them that's 14,000 parents lost a child, 509 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,900 it's thousands of husbands and wives. 510 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,300 Who lost a loved one? I don't know how many thousands 511 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:43,300 of kids no longer have a dad or a mom because of our Insanity. 512 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,700 So know, President solinsky. We're not coming. 513 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,400 I know that's hard to hear and we will help. 514 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:59,300 We are helping. In every other way possible. 515 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,000 And we will support your neighbors who I know, want to 516 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:08,200 help you. But all of this, you know, the 517 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,600 bombing yesterday that was just 10 15 miles from the Polish 518 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,800 border in Ukraine. And they all got on TV, all the 519 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,000 politicians, all the ex-generals, all the pundits. 520 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:29,500 Last night and today the Russians bombed, a base that was 521 00:40:29,500 --> 00:40:31,400 just a few miles from the Polish border. 522 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:36,500 In all, we've had to listen to today is Putin. 523 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:43,800 We told you You touch any, any acre of land, bomb? 524 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:49,100 It kill, its people, whatever of a NATO country, we're coming in 525 00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:51,000 all of us. One for all and all for one. 526 00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:55,100 Can you did this just a few miles from the Polish border? 527 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,000 We're ready. We're right. 528 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,800 Do that again? And have one of those missiles. 529 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,000 Go astray and coming to Poland. We're coming after you. 530 00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:14,900 That is been the drumbeat today. And I have to tell you 531 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:18,200 something. No we're not. 532 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:24,300 We're not coming. I know people don't want me to 533 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,100 say this all out. Because we want to stop him. 534 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:34,400 He has to be stopped. But the ukrainians seem to be 535 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,200 doing such a good job, you know, they have the third largest army 536 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,200 in Europe. The way, that's another way 537 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,900 they've tried to pull at our heartstrings, look at how bad it 538 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,900 is for the ukrainians, although they all they've got our rakes 539 00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:49,200 and shovels. No, they don't. 540 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:53,800 We we and others have fun to them to the Max. 541 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,600 And we have sent them so many missiles in armaments and tanks 542 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,200 and things. There are well-trained. 543 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,100 Army were one of the countries who've helped to train them. 544 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,000 I'm just saying we're being manipulated. 545 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,800 And and who amongst you? I want to ask you. 546 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,500 I mean, I know some of you disagree with me on this, but 547 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:21,400 who amongst you believes that because of NATO that were in 548 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:27,400 NATO, That we have to jump in if a missile hits Poland. 549 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:31,500 Don't say that like of course, we do know. 550 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:36,000 We don't not us. Yes, others have to Europe has 551 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:44,300 to but us. By the way, first of all, as far 552 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:48,400 as Europe goes, we've already jumped in more than once to help 553 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:52,600 and have lost hundreds of thousands of Americans. 554 00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,500 To help. To bring an end to Hitler. 555 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:05,500 Which means I can't let that moment go by without reminding 556 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:13,600 you that those who gave the most in WWII, were the Russians were 557 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:19,500 the Soviets. Nearly 25 million killed in 558 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:21,900 World War. Two Russians Soviets. 559 00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:32,300 To stop Hitler. Without the Soviet Union, a lot 560 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:34,000 of people will say it will tell you. 561 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:41,100 So historians will tell you that the Russians had to really take 562 00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:45,200 it on the chin and if they hadn't We may not have won that 563 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,800 war. They became such a distraction 564 00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:56,800 to the sick mind of Hitler. And also because this all this 565 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,800 Eastern Europe and that brushing all that contains so many Jewish 566 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,800 men, women and children. The idea of just going there for 567 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:12,000 Hitler was just like you know breaking open a pinata. 568 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,100 How Falls all the people that he wants to execute and kill? 569 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:24,100 They had to fight and fight a vicious fight, and lost so many 570 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:28,400 millions of people. And we lost a few hundred 571 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,900 thousand. And so it's not like we haven't 572 00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:37,000 done this and it's not like we necessarily wouldn't do it again 573 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,900 under the proper circumstances. But right now, We just ended the 574 00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:49,500 Afghanistan war. This past year and Iraq went on 575 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:52,700 for so long. We are not allowed to do this 576 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:57,200 President solinsky and the whole thing about that, we have some 577 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,600 responsibility or that we should feel guilty about this or 578 00:44:59,607 --> 00:45:01,800 whatever. Well, let us feel guilty. 579 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:06,200 I do feel guilty. I wish that we could protect 580 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,600 this entire planet in more ways than one, not just when it comes 581 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:14,900 to war. But we are a miserable failure 582 00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:21,200 at that and you cannot ask us. To do that, which we really have 583 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,400 not been successful in doing since World War Two. 584 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,800 And to the media, stop it. Stop it. 585 00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:37,100 All these stories, every day, every night. 586 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,400 What are you trying to do? All the stories you've got 587 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,100 reporters at the train stations and showing them awful situation 588 00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:50,100 with a million or two million refugees. 589 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:56,400 It's, it is awful. We don't need you manipulating 590 00:45:57,100 --> 00:45:59,500 the truth. The truth is hard enough. 591 00:45:59,900 --> 00:46:06,100 We all feel it. How many of those ukrainians, by 592 00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:11,900 the way, if we put on planes to come here, move them here. 593 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,900 The people that have had the leaf, I don't know the exact 594 00:46:17,900 --> 00:46:19,800 number, but I'll tell you it ain't many. 595 00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:29,300 Refugees in America foreigners. No, that's that us. 596 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:36,600 That's not US unless you can prove to the Republicans that 597 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:38,900 should bring them here. They'll vote for republicans. 598 00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:41,800 That's how it worked under Reagan. 599 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,600 And before him with the Cubans and Vietnamese, anybody, anybody 600 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:53,000 who would pledge their loyalty, To the Republicans that would 601 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,600 increase their votes. In those places in the country 602 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,600 where they were brought talk about manipulation talk about 603 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,900 using them. But no. 604 00:47:05,100 --> 00:47:08,900 This can happen, my friends and I don't want to belabor this 605 00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:12,900 really any longer. I just I want to I want to say 606 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:18,200 that I am opposed to any form of War when it involves the United 607 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:23,900 States of America. I want the news media to tell 608 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:28,600 the truth. And to tell the actual, the 609 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,000 actual political story that's going on. 610 00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:38,000 I want to hear what's being done in Russia with the Russian 611 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,900 people. What they're planning to do to 612 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:44,200 get rid of Putin, to take them out, to stop him, I want to know 613 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,600 what's the military doing? That would be real reporting, 614 00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,900 wouldn't it? What are they oligarchs doing? 615 00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:54,800 I just I see the 10 looker just lost the Chelsea football team 616 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,300 there in England. You know a lot of I've lost 617 00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:00,300 their Yachts. This is serious stuff. 618 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,400 I want to know more about that because that may lead to the end 619 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,900 of this more than anything else. So what I'm asking for to all of 620 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:13,600 you who are listening to rumble is, first of all, I hope I've 621 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:18,300 earned your trust over the years from the various movies. 622 00:48:18,300 --> 00:48:23,000 I've made about the various lies we've been told and in the 623 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,100 various movements. We've all joined over these 624 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:28,800 years to fight against what is done in our name. 625 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:33,000 And with our tax dollars, I'm asking you to join with me. 626 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:36,800 Contact your representatives right to the White House 627 00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:41,800 whitehouse.gov and tell them that we are opposed to war. 628 00:48:42,500 --> 00:48:47,000 War is not the answer, especially not in American War. 629 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,300 It's been what. Now 70? 630 00:48:55,700 --> 00:49:02,000 What 77 years? Since we've been useful. 631 00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:11,100 In that regard, it's not now. To all of you who are parents 632 00:49:11,100 --> 00:49:16,100 out there. And you have a teenager. 633 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:25,100 Boy, or girl. Are you willing to sacrifice 634 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:33,500 them? You would you give up their life 635 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:40,800 tonight so that we can save heave Look at your children 636 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,700 right now and I don't care what age. 637 00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:48,500 They're five there 10, 15, 20. Just say to yourself, you know, 638 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,500 little Jason here. Yeah he's a good kid. 639 00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:53,800 Love them. Love them to death. 640 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:57,000 Key part is death though. I'd be willing for him to die. 641 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:04,900 To get Odessa back. You can't do it. 642 00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:12,600 Can you there are things that all of us would be willing to 643 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:17,400 give our lives for and I think the number one thing that each 644 00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:22,800 of us would be willing to give our lives for would be to keep 645 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:27,500 our children alive. That's why we're not letting 646 00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:34,000 them go off to war. And you cannot sit there and you 647 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,400 listen to me and say, well, no, I think we should, we should be 648 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:38,900 in there. We should go into him, we should 649 00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:43,700 know no fly and all we should do that because of course, your 650 00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:49,200 kids are not in the military. So let's somebody else's child 651 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:55,600 died. Let your neighbors child. 652 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,100 What's your cousin's? Child died. 653 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,400 So we can get back, the Chernobyl nuclear plant. 654 00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:09,700 Can you say that? Or let's just be more honest 655 00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:15,900 here, let the children of the poor and the working class. 656 00:51:16,300 --> 00:51:19,500 Let them die. I give them up. 657 00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:27,900 Really let the children of black Americans and brown Americans. 658 00:51:28,300 --> 00:51:32,000 Let them die. That's who's going to die by the 659 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,300 way, you know that I didn't need to say that. 660 00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:38,600 I really white people, my friends, please come on, let's 661 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:43,000 be honest. No American dies. 662 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,000 We are smart people, we have smart people, we can help in 663 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:54,200 some ingenious ways to bring this to an end to stop Putin. 664 00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,400 But we're not participating in World War 3 and we need to say 665 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,600 that loud and clear. You need to write to your 666 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,700 representatives. Your senators. 667 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,900 Biden. No World War 3. 668 00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:16,400 Nothing that would ignite a war like that. 669 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:23,700 No Americans in Ukraine. No Americans in Russia. 670 00:52:27,900 --> 00:52:32,300 NATO. That's such an old idea. 671 00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:35,400 It should have gone down as soon as the Berlin Wall came down 672 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,200 cold war was over. Why is there still an 80? 673 00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:41,300 We have to make our voices heard right now. 674 00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:46,400 It won't take long. Call your representative or your 675 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:51,700 Senator, you know, the Capitol Hill switchboard number by now 676 00:52:52,700 --> 00:53:03,700 202. 2 2 4 3, 1 to 1. If it's busy, try 200 to 225 677 00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:10,100 3121. It's open pretty much 24 hours 678 00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:15,100 of the day, a human will answer. Call them and tell them. 679 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:21,100 No Americans in Ukraine or Russia and no American support 680 00:53:21,100 --> 00:53:25,000 of NATO. There are other ways to stop 681 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,400 Putin. Let's be smart, let's employ 682 00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:33,600 those methods. And let's support the Ukrainian 683 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:38,200 people in every way that we can. I will put on this platform page 684 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,800 here, a link, or two. If you want to send money to 685 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:46,900 help the refugee situation. There's a number of ways to help 686 00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:50,300 the Ukrainian people and we should all do that. 687 00:53:53,400 --> 00:54:00,500 But we will not be barging in with our guns and our tanks in 688 00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:06,000 our planes. And if Biden changes his mind 689 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,700 and if he decides to do that or if he decides to get all up on 690 00:54:08,700 --> 00:54:13,500 his NATO horse, then we have got to get into the streets and we 691 00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:17,000 have got to let them know. No no this is not the way. 692 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,300 To end the killing of the people in Ukraine. 693 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,600 So please call your Senators, your representatives call the 694 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,000 White House right to the White House. 695 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,500 Let them know and president solinsky we're here for you and 696 00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:38,400 every other way and you don't really want us there. 697 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,500 That's like the dumbest thing to do to let us. 698 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,500 Metal in this thing and mess it up, even more. 699 00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:53,600 I'm hoping those of you who are listening to me are agreeing 700 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,900 with us. If you don't agree, I respect 701 00:54:55,900 --> 00:54:56,900 you. I understand. 702 00:54:57,900 --> 00:54:59,600 I'm just saying we should try the other way. 703 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,100 It hasn't worked. We lost the Iraqi War. 704 00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:07,000 We lost the Afghanistan war. We lost the Vietnam War. 705 00:55:09,100 --> 00:55:13,100 That's just the truth hard to swallow when we've got. 706 00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:15,100 We're number one written all over her chest. 707 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:20,800 That's the truth. I'm open to hearing any ideas 708 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:24,300 that you have. You who are listening any, let's 709 00:55:24,300 --> 00:55:27,700 hear some smart ideas. I'll talk about it here and 710 00:55:27,700 --> 00:55:33,600 Rumble ways that we can help that don't involve us showing 711 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,800 up. Unannounced. 712 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,200 Thanks so much for listening to this today. 713 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,500 And I would love to hear your feedback, but please don't sit. 714 00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:53,000 Don't sit this one out. We need to be active. 715 00:55:55,900 --> 00:56:00,900 And media Cheese's. Find a different storyline. 716 00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:06,700 Please. Please. 717 00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,800 That's it for me today here on Rumble with Michael Moore. 718 00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,900 I'm Michael Moore. I'd like to thank our executive 719 00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:20,100 producer, bezel Hamden, our producer and editor. 720 00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:24,200 Angela Vargas are other editor and sound engineer, Nick quads, 721 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,600 and our Jack of all the traits Donald orenstein. 722 00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:32,600 Thanks to everybody. Who else to me with this 723 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,800 podcast? Thanks to all of you who listen 724 00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,800 and we'll talk soon here. I'm Michael Moore. 725 00:56:39,300 --> 00:56:40,600 And have a good day.