1 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,200 Hello everybody. This is Michael Moore's podcast. 2 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:19,760 I'm filling in for Michael Moore today. 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,240 This is the other Michael Moore, Not the one that does the 4 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:28,760 podcast every week but me, the other Michael Moore who you know 5 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:35,680 is usually watching The Bachelorette Vanderpump Rules. 6 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:41,200 So I just want to thank the real Mike for letting me take over on 7 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,960 today's episode. You know, before we get started, 8 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,000 let me just it's some good news this week and you know, because 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,800 both Mike and I, the other Mike grew up in Flint, MI. 10 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,720 I guess I'm I'm supposed to say I was born in Flint, MI and then 11 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:04,040 my mom and dad got married and then they moved out to this 12 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:09,480 village about 6 miles outside of Flint, that my mom's, I don't 13 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,400 know, great grandparents. They moved to Michigan in, I 14 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,840 don't know, something like 1834. Before it was the state, there 15 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,880 were like six families there. It was mostly Native Americans 16 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,600 and they came across this lake. Lake Nepesing is what it's 17 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,360 called, checked in with the the native people and said, hey, you 18 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,720 know, would you mind if we just set up camp here And they said, 19 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:42,640 no, no, no, no problem, first mistake, OK, no, my, I mean my 20 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,800 family and the other five families were all, they're all 21 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,000 good people. And in fact, once they gave the 22 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,800 Indians typhoid or or whatever disease white people brought to 23 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,280 this continent, the other five white families did not want to 24 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,840 help. They want to get near the 25 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,800 Indians with their typhoid because they they got the 26 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,320 typhoid for some reason. The white people didn't have it 27 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,720 or they had the the virus or I mean I don't know the story. 28 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,600 This is all science back in the early 1800s. 29 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,800 Suffice it to say the poor native people, you know, half 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,480 the tribe came down with it there on the other side of the 31 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,240 lake. They let the white people camp 32 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,200 out on the on the southern shore of the lake. 33 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,680 So my, my great, great grandfather was like, you know, 34 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,280 we've got to figure out a way to help them. 35 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,320 You know, a lot of them are dying, you know, I mean, you 36 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,200 don't see 1800s. They didn't have much medicine 37 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,600 or anything, but they did, they did have some kind of medical 38 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,080 training. One of them did, actually. 39 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,120 The one of them was, it was my great grandfather. 40 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,080 And he said, why don't we load up a canoe and we'll signal them 41 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,600 to come, you know, one of them to come meet us in their canoe 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,360 and and we'll take a bunch of food and supplies and things to 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,960 help them. And so that's what that's what 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,240 my great grandfather did. And they helped nurse a lot of 45 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,720 the native people back to from their sickness number did die. 46 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:13,360 But the ones that didn't, well, they thought of my great 47 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,120 grandfather as someone very special to them for the rest of 48 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:22,280 his life because he was willing to risk his life to go help them 49 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,680 and to feed them. You know, the stories that I was 50 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,240 told as a child and all through my life and the research I've 51 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,720 done. And and then I was on that PBS 52 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,080 show, Finding Your Roots. And Henry Louis Gates and his 53 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,720 people at Harvard did this incredible research, found out 54 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,520 all these things about the various branches of my family. 55 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,040 And that was. That was one of the. 56 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,280 Stories. And of course, you know, my 57 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,640 uncle was in the great Flint sit down strike that founded the UAW 58 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:01,520 back in 193637. And my grandmother was in the 59 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,160 UAW, worked in the factory during World War 2 when all the 60 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,680 factories were converted to making planes and guns and 61 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,080 grenades and all that stuff. Instead of making spark plugs, I 62 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,640 think she made grenades there in Flint. 63 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,079 But you know, that's the family I grew up in. 64 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,800 They're all UAW members on my on my dad's side. 65 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,560 And we are the children of my parents. 66 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,240 We're all beneficiaries of what the union did immediately. 67 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,880 In the 1930s, our fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers were 68 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,160 paid a a living wage from the defeat of General Motors. 69 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,440 In 1937 they got out the first industrial contract for auto 70 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,600 Workers Union and all through growing up, you know, we had 71 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,320 completely free medical care and never heard the word deductible 72 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:01,200 or co-pay, none of that stuff. We went to the dentist for free. 73 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,080 We went to the eye doctor and got glasses for free on and on 74 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:12,000 and on thanks to the union. And then you know, parents and 75 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,680 grandparents were able to save some money. 76 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,480 Anybody wanted to go to college, could afford to go. 77 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,240 I never heard the word student loan to go to the University of 78 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,800 Michigan. And it's not just Michigan. 79 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,080 University of California was essentially free. 80 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,080 SUNY schools in New York were free. 81 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,280 University of Michigan. I don't know. 82 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,480 What was it like, 100 bucks? It was an amazing time to grow 83 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,920 up, but only because of the courage of our grandmothers, 84 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:45,960 Mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles all fought, fought hard, 85 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:50,720 risked their lives, fought General Motors, fought Ford, or 86 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,000 as we say, Michigan. Ford's. 87 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,160 It's a little colloquial thing to don't ever ask us why the 88 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,800 name of the company is Ford, but we always call it Ford's. 89 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,720 Yeah, no, I work over at Ford's. I never knew it was the wrong 90 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,080 way to say it till I was an adult and then people from other 91 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,000 parts of the country. Why do you guys say Ford's 92 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,080 'cause it's plural. And they they make more than one 93 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,000 car. 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The Good news this week is once 142 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:34,200 again the UAW has defeated for like the first time ever a 143 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,680 foreign car company. They all go from from all these 144 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,480 liberal progressive European countries, you know, for the 145 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,400 people. But they when they build their 146 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,720 cars in America, they build them down South where they can pay 147 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,480 people shit where there are no unions. 148 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,240 And that's the way it's been for it foof 4 decades or more. 149 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:02,640 This is where Toyota goes. Mercedes, Nissan, Volkswagen go 150 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,320 down the whole list of them. They all do it with non union 151 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:12,760 labor and then they sell their their cars to, you know, good 152 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,640 minded liberals who like to drive a really safe Subaru. 153 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:21,440 But what happened, as you know from past podcasts, is that last 154 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:26,600 year finally one of the most progressive candidates to run 155 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,200 for the office of president of the UAW ran. 156 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,760 And one based on the fact that in the previous election that 157 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,400 finally the rank and file the average workers would be able to 158 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,000 vote in a direct popular vote for who would be president of 159 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,440 the UAW. Before that you had to get 160 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,040 elected to go to a UAW convention, you know often held 161 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:56,240 in Florida or Las Vegas or you know usually some non union 162 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,720 state which I used to convince myself to think, well that's 163 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,640 good, that's where they should go because they got to convince 164 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,200 the them to join the union. But it was really just a lot, a 165 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,040 lot of times the union hacks basically running, getting 166 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,440 elected, they would go and then they would appoint who the 167 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,440 president would be. Now, I will say this, as far as 168 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,440 most of the unions go, UAW usually had good people there, 169 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,360 good people running things, trying to run things. 170 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:29,040 Not great people necessarily, but good people who, you know, 171 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,400 would eventually cave into what General Motors or Fords wanted 172 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:38,080 and then and go along and the workers would get some kind of 173 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,600 mediocre contract. And over the years, all the 174 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,080 things that my family and other families fought for in the 30s 175 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:51,000 and 40s and 50s eventually evaporated. 176 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,160 And all of a sudden we learned words like deductible and 177 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,080 co-pay. Jeez. 178 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:03,880 And so I and others supported over the years the left wing 179 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,960 essentially of the UAW to get first of all, everybody gets to 180 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,840 vote for president and then let's elect a president that's 181 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:17,400 going to fight for the workers. And we finally got that. 182 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,160 We finally got that a year or so ago. 183 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:29,920 The individual's name is Sean Fain, Shawn Fain, FAIN. 184 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:36,480 And he, on his first day gave a speech that put them all on 185 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,920 notice. Here we come. 186 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,840 Everything you've made us give back over the years, We want it 187 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,840 back. We're getting it back. 188 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:52,400 And get ready, Rich Fox. We're coming. 189 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:01,680 And as you I'm sure remember this past summer, boom, UAW goes 190 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:08,200 on strike, won't go back until there's at least a 20 or 25% pay 191 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,160 increase. Boom. 192 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,000 And and all the other things that were lost over the years, 193 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,360 they didn't get it all back in one strike. 194 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,040 That's probably going to take another strike or two. 195 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,200 That's OK. We're patient. 196 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,600 Not really. This new leadership of the UAW 197 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:35,800 is on fire and this past week the president of the UAW Sean 198 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:42,200 fame issues essentially A proclamation or I don't want to 199 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:47,760 use violent imagery, but he decided to fire the warning shot 200 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,080 over the bow and what he said was this. 201 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,000 We at the UAW are not just concerned about auto workers or 202 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,960 the members of our union. We are going to lead. 203 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,640 We are going to lead the movement for all working people 204 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,360 and we will join with all other unions who want to be a real 205 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,560 union. And we will fight for all 206 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:17,400 working people, all genders, races, creeds, colors. 207 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,560 The caste system that's been set up, we're going to tear it down 208 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,840 the two tier system and President Obama stepped in to 209 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,000 save General Motors and Chrysler. 210 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:40,080 Save them. Except in the in the saving. 211 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,400 You know that back. You know Obama and and Biden, He 212 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,280 used to run on the slogan about, you know, vote for us. 213 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,600 We saved Flint. We saved Detroit. 214 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,800 You didn't. With all due respect, you did 215 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,920 not save Detroit or Flint. They're still in need of saving. 216 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:02,160 What you saved was General Motors. 217 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,000 And there's still a General Motors. 218 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:08,680 And what you saved is Chrysler. And now there's still a 219 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,000 Chrysler, except it's called Stalantis or some other. 220 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,280 You know one of those fake names that you pay branding companies 221 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,760 $10 million to come up with? Something called Verizon. 222 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,480 We've said Verizon for so long now, have you actually 223 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,440 forgotten? It's not a word. 224 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,360 Remember when you first heard it? 225 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,920 Oh, Horizon. Oh, yeah, I know. 226 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:32,760 We had a bookstore where I lived. 227 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,640 Horizon Books. No, not Horizon. 228 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,120 Verizon. What's a Verizon? 229 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,080 It doesn't matter. It's just they paid billions of 230 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,760 dollars for somebody to come up with that. 231 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,840 OK, well, anyways, the new UAW under the new leadership 232 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,120 announced their commitment over the next four years. 233 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,240 You know back when I was born over a third of the country 234 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:05,040 belonged to a union, which is a lot considering the South was 235 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,920 still part of the country 1/3 when I was born. 236 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:16,080 It got down to something like 11% here in the last few years. 237 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,680 But that's if you count public employees. 238 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,040 Cut the teachers and the the people that plow your the snow 239 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,960 on your street and cut them. All of it I'm talking about now 240 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:32,240 for the private companies, the engine of America, it got down 241 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,400 to 8 or 9%. That's all that that had a union 242 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:42,200 contract that guaranteed the healthcare the two to four week 243 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,160 vacation. Well I'm I'm thinking back to 244 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,640 when I was a kid. My dad they all had four weeks 245 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:52,480 off when I was a kid, all the women and men who worked for the 246 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:59,440 UAW and so they basically they said we're done giving in. 247 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:08,920 Obama got the union at that time, the UAW of 2009, to agree 248 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,920 to where the older workers who've been there for a while 249 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:17,839 could keep their portion, I should say of their their pay in 250 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:23,720 the 20 to $25 range. By the way, when you the media, 251 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,520 which is always on the side of the large corporations which 252 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,880 owned the media always will tell you that these workers are 253 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:34,200 getting like 38 or $40.00 an hour and they put in all these 254 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,240 other things, it's not their actual take home pay. 255 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,840 It's not even their gross pay. They add any little benefit they 256 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,440 get like if suddenly now it's, you know Martin Luther King Day 257 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,600 is a holiday. They they they they count that 258 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,760 as a as not into their pay, but it's a cost to General Motors 259 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:59,280 because these are paid holidays. And so they they have people 260 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,560 thinking that these auto workers are making a ton of money. 261 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,720 They're making better than if you're working at Chipotle. 262 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,840 That's the best you can say. But when they won the strike 263 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,560 this summer against General Motors and Stalantis Chrysler, 264 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:22,000 not Fords Ford's decided that they they didn't think it was 265 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,480 right. And I don't know I I, I, I 266 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,720 probably should know the story better. 267 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,640 But you know they were we're in the 4th generation now of the 268 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:32,440 Ford family that you know starting with Henry Ford back in 269 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,320 the early 1900s and then it it went to his son, then it went to 270 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,960 his grandson and then went to his great grand right. 271 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:46,960 Now we're in the great or great great grandson era and what that 272 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,640 has given us is I think the the great grandson was a Buddhist 273 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,520 and he turned the the roof of the Ford headquarters there in 274 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:02,920 Dearborn, MI into a a green like jungle, just beautiful lush 275 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,960 thing that would cover the roof, would keep in the the heat it 276 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,240 would be an energy saver. Looks really nice too. 277 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,160 So we got that out of the great grandson Ford and and a lot of 278 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,480 his Buddhist thinking. A lot of the way to treat people 279 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,520 was it was anyways, by the time it got around to GM going belly 280 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,800 up and Chrysler going belly up, they didn't go belly up. 281 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,640 They were the number one American car seller. 282 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,280 They made cars that people wanted. 283 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,320 They stopped believing in planned obsolescence, which was 284 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,560 the the way that it always used to work. 285 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,120 Planned obsolescence mean they built cars that were supposed to 286 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:46,280 fall apart in three or four years so that you, the people 287 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,200 would just keep buying another another car. 288 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,240 So they stopped that under the Buddhist regime that was running 289 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:59,840 Ford, and they started making cars starting with a Ford Taurus 290 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:05,760 that actually lasted 6-7, sometimes close to 10 years. 291 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,480 And all the nabobs over at General Motors and Chrysler, 292 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,040 they're going. Why are they doing that? 293 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,600 How are they going to make any money? 294 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,360 And if you got to get, you got to get people to buy a car every 295 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:21,120 three or four years, it's car. Car's got to fall apart. 296 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,440 Typical, you know, American thinking, American car thinking. 297 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,360 Except here's what happened. A new generation was growing up 298 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,120 and the the parents that were buying Fords, all of a sudden 299 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:38,240 it's like the car worked. The glove box didn't always fall 300 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,680 down when you came to a stop, things like that. 301 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,040 You didn't have to keep replacing the little light bulb 302 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,360 in the overhead light when you open the door of the car, stuff 303 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,960 like that. You know, the muffler didn't 304 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,040 fall off. And what happened is, is that 305 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,840 when when the consumer buys something and it doesn't fall 306 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,960 apart and it lasts the next time they're ready to buy a car, what 307 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,320 do you think they're thinking? This was really boring. 308 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,520 We never were in the repair shop or whatever. 309 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,320 Let's go back to General Motors. I I kind of missed Mr. 310 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:16,920 Goodwrench. No, that's not what happened. 311 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,760 What happened is after buying that first Fords, they buy a 312 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,960 second one the next time they buy essentially that the next 313 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,120 generation that's growing up there, they still buy Fords 314 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:36,760 because the thing isn't going to fall apart and it took general. 315 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,320 Motors and Chrysler. So long to figure that out and 316 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,760 only when the Germans then stepped in. 317 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,000 Germans came to Detroit and bought Chrysler. 318 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,440 Mercedes-Benz bought Chrysler. Daimler. 319 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,560 Benz is the name of the corporation. 320 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,360 And all of a sudden they started telling the the people there 321 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:01,000 that were running Chrysler, you can't be making these mini vans 322 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,080 that every time you hit a bump in the road, your head hits the 323 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,720 ceiling. We're going to put some Mercedes 324 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,600 shock absorbers and we're going to put some. 325 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,920 We're going to build the chassis of this so that it at least 326 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,520 feels like a Mercedes. And all of a sudden it became 327 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,920 the number one minivan, the the Dodge Caravan and the the Town 328 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,120 and Country. Why? 329 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,680 Because people were happy that they hadn't bought a piece of 330 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,440 shit. And then they started buying 331 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,200 more of them. And then Chrysler was able to 332 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,200 somehow almost escape bankruptcy. 333 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,120 Not quite. OK, This is a long way of saying 334 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:45,920 the good news that not only did the UAW win new contracts to get 335 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,680 rid of the old ones that Obama set up again, the two tier 336 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,760 system where the old workers were still making over $20.00 an 337 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,600 hour. But anybody, any new hires that 338 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,560 started during the Obama administration, they could only 339 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,200 make 10 to $12.00 an hour. So auto workers were making 10 340 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,480 to $12.00 an hour. That's not a living wage. 341 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,960 So you're working as an auto worker, you're a union member 342 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:17,160 and you can't pay all the bills. So the progressives within the 343 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,880 UAW fought and fought, got more elections, won more elections 344 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,000 within the locals. And eventually in a year or so 345 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:29,080 ago, we ended up with Sean Fain as the president of the UAW. 346 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:37,880 And a whole new era began immediately announcing they 347 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,560 weren't going to settle for anything. 348 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,240 They wanted the old stuff back that they gave up to save 349 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,960 General Motors and Chrysler, and they won. 350 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,640 They won less, they won less. Summer. 351 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:56,280 All three of them, including Fords, decided to make it all 352 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,160 right. And when that was over, they 353 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,920 said, now we're going to go South in the US and we're going 354 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,480 to unionize these auto plants, foreign automakers, You have 355 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:13,240 been warned. And last week, Volkswagen in 356 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,240 Chattanooga, TN, the workers there for the first time ever 357 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:26,800 voted in the union. And now all the others, Nissan, 358 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,640 Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, all the other workers in the other 359 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,760 factories down South are like, wait a minute, we want this to 360 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,960 what, a 20% raise? They're all in now. 361 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,520 They're all going to be fighting for this. 362 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:45,560 And then just here before the weekend, there is a Mercedes 363 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:51,720 truck plant down South. They already had had a union, 364 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,320 but they got skunked again back in the day, back around O Eight 365 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,000 O 9, and they announced they were going on strike. 366 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:08,920 And boom, all of a sudden they got what the new UAW was getting 367 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,400 the other workers, two UAW victories, both of them down 368 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,640 South, both of them within a week of each other and you could 369 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,320 see what's happening. And so a few days ago, Sean 370 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,600 Fain, President of the UAW, asked all other unions to join 371 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:34,240 with him in what will be a four year campaign, A four year 372 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,320 movement to organize and unionize the United States of 373 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,000 America. To give every worker the chance 374 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,160 to be paid not just a living wage, but a good wage. 375 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,800 A great wage where you could enjoy life, where your kids 376 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,760 don't have to worry about going to college, where we're going to 377 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,680 have true universal healthcare, where everybody is covered for 378 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,720 everything. None of this Plan B shit. 379 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,320 The real deal, just like they have in every other democracy, 380 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,160 that is what they have announced and they have asked that all 381 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:20,360 unions, if they're in the middle of doing new contracts, now do 382 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:25,320 that. Those contracts must must have 383 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:33,640 an end date of April 30th, 2028, four years from now, because 384 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:45,600 they have called for May 1, May Day, May 1, 2028 as the day as 385 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,680 the goal date. There are new contracts not just 386 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:56,280 for union members now, but all workers should have a right to 387 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:01,160 join a union and have that union fight on their behalf for better 388 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:09,240 wages, better benefits, safer working conditions and that this 389 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,960 is a four year mission. Talk about thinking long term 390 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,720 and it's already started. I mean, it literally just 391 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,360 started before the weekend started, you know with this, 392 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:23,760 with this latest victory, it will continue this year. 393 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,360 Don't forget the victories before the auto workers. 394 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:36,440 This past year, the Teamsters put UPS up to the wall and they 395 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,480 got what the workers wanted. The you've all the UPS, truck 396 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:46,720 drivers, the unions for what I the what I do for a living. 397 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:55,120 We went on strike, the writers, the actors, and held out until 398 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,320 we got what we thought was a fair contract. 399 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,880 Largest strike ever in Hollywood, longest. 400 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,400 Nobody was giving in. Everybody now finally sees the 401 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,520 writing. It's not just on the wall. 402 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,880 They've smeared it all over our faces. 403 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:25,560 And we are happy to be part of leading, leading this movement. 404 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,160 So that those of you listening to me who aren't being paid what 405 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,960 you should be paid, who don't have the great health coverage, 406 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:41,280 who don't have a pension if you're under 35, look, look it 407 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:49,120 up, pension, PENSION. That's what we and our fathers 408 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,400 and our grandmothers and our aunts and our uncles, that's 409 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,000 what they all had and have to this day. 410 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Ask any teacher in any blue state. 411 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,360 Actually, it's really to tell you the truth is National 412 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,960 Education Association and the the other teachers union had 413 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,840 great contracts and continue to have them. 414 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,360 And they include things like a pension so that you don't have 415 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,360 to work yourself to the bone so you don't even get to the age of 416 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,000 retirement because you're so wasted. 417 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,200 You've got 11 spinal problem, one disease problem after 418 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,360 another, working all those years, whether it's in a 419 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,840 factory, in a school, whether it's in the sewage plan of your 420 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:43,240 town. 30 and out. I remember. 421 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,040 That's my my dad, whole family, they were all fighting for that 422 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,640 when I was a kid, 30 and out. Meaning you work 30 years. 423 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,520 That's enough. Standing on a factory floor 424 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,320 breathing in all that crap, doing all that hard labor. 30 425 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,640 now, which means if you got a job at General Motors at 18, 426 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,040 your retirement age was 48 and my dad took it. 427 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,680 He took the retirement because he was in World War 2. 428 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,760 It he actually was probably I think in his early 50s by the 429 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:21,680 time he officially retired. But none the less he got to 430 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:28,600 enjoy his His years from being 50 plus years old till when he 431 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:36,160 passed away just before he turned 93, got to do things he 432 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:41,880 wanted to do. He got to volunteer for the all 433 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,560 the things that the Catholic Church he belonged to did for 434 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:51,560 the poor, all that stuff. Enjoy life, enjoy his children 435 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,520 and his grandchildren. Same thing for my mom. 436 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:59,240 Same thing. She was a a clerk, so she didn't 437 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,360 have a union. But here's the thing that 438 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,080 happens in a town when the union comes in and one of the big 439 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:11,600 employers gets to all the workers there, they go on strike 440 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,760 or they they, they sign enough union cards and there's a union, 441 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,200 their wages go up. The other places, even the, the 442 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,720 local, you know, public institutions, they cannot, 443 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,200 they've got to be able to match what the workers are getting at 444 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,440 the union place. Otherwise people are all going 445 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,560 to want to go to the union place and then you don't have enough 446 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,080 workers. So even though you may not get 447 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,000 the union at your place, you get the union pretty close to the 448 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,400 union wages. When you live in a town like 449 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,440 that and the union movement spreads, I mean, I've talked to 450 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,280 you about this before, how I remember one of the dads, he was 451 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,360 a bagger, grocery bagger. In other words, he stood at the 452 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,680 end of the, you know, thing when they on the belt, food's moving 453 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,360 through the cash registers, punching it all in says, you 454 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,240 know, that'll be $21.00 for this week's groceries. 455 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,480 I know I come from a different planet, different time, but but 456 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,720 then there's then there's there's a there's a man or a 457 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,560 woman with an apron at the end of the thing, putting all the 458 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,400 groceries in. Very smart fashion by the way. 459 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:23,080 In the bag so nothing gets crushed and and puts it all in 460 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,960 your in your thing so you can wheel it out. 461 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,680 That was a union job in Flint, MI, if you got your groceries at 462 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,120 Hamadi's. Which was a a local. 463 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:39,280 Arab, Palestinian, Lebanese run business, as many of our great 464 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,800 local businesses were in southeastern Michigan. 465 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:49,600 Thank you Arab Americans, Muslim Americans for you know, helping 466 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:54,240 give us the middle class life that we had in Michigan and and 467 00:32:54,240 --> 00:33:01,320 to some extent some people still have not all that bagger. 468 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:08,400 That grocery bagger got a union wage with health benefits with 469 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,840 retirement pension. Can you believe this, young 470 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,560 people? I'm telling you that I'm going 471 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,440 to say it again, a pert The person who bagged the groceries, 472 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:27,880 got two to four weeks vacation, got medical care, dental, all 473 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:33,680 this stuff. And and it wasn't just the 474 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,800 grocery baggers, it was the the night time janitors waxing the 475 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:43,600 floors. It was the dry cleaners, all the 476 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,080 people sucking, all those fumes, working dry, cleaning people's 477 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,640 clothes. They were union. 478 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,000 I'm just going down the street where I lived on, just thinking 479 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,280 of different people that work there. 480 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,240 And I'm thinking the only people. 481 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,560 And we and we. I lived on a dirt St. 482 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,120 There wasn't even pavement on this street. 483 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:10,400 And and God, just thinking back to just how how the class system 484 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,719 worked, especially in a union town. 485 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,560 OK, so maybe it took another decade before we got pavement on 486 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,280 the streets. But on our dirt St. lived a 487 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:28,440 whole bunch of factory workers. But also there were three public 488 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:33,639 school teachers. The Presbyterian minister, a 489 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:37,040 doctor, an osteopathic Dr. lived on our street. 490 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,159 Great guy. You know any of us kids? 491 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,920 Broken arm. We didn't have to go to his 492 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,199 office or the hospital. He was just down the street. 493 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:57,120 And he was there to help. The man living next on one side 494 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,960 of us I think drove truck worked it at one of the maybe, I think 495 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,560 we don't know one of the the steel fitting places in Flint. 496 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,000 Can I mention the postmaster lived down our street? 497 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,560 The postmaster for the town lived on our dirt St. in a in a 498 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,560 little two, maybe two-bedroom, 3 bedroom, maybe. 499 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,840 Little ranch was called a ranch house. 500 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,000 Trust me, it didn't look like a ranch. 501 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,120 Oh, they were. They were such good people. 502 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:31,320 All these good people I grew up with and everybody, everybody 503 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,720 lived the middle class life. Everybody took a vacation. 504 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,280 Every one of them. The kids went to college. 505 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,400 Student loan. What the fuck was that? 506 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,440 I'm not kidding. I'm not making this up. 507 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,280 Young people, you've been had, you've been snookered, you've 508 00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:00,880 been bamboozled, and it's so morally wrong that you didn't 509 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,160 and haven't been able to have what your parents had or your 510 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,120 grandparents had. And that's what Sean Fain and 511 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,880 the UAW announced this week. They're sick of it, too. 512 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,520 They're sick of it not just for their own auto workers. 513 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,080 They're sick of it for everybody. 514 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:19,640 And now the fight begins. Four years, Union America. 515 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,120 Wow. Why do I think we have a great 516 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:30,920 chance of this happening? Because you listening to me 517 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:37,920 right now, and the people, you know have had it, and the young 518 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,640 people, they don't need me to tell them how they've been 519 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,240 bamboozled. They know it and that's why 520 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:48,160 they're in the streets. That's why they're on the 521 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,880 college campuses. That's why there's tents going 522 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,880 up everywhere. You haven't seen anything yet. 523 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,360 And all the lies, the media and everybody trying to tell people 524 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:10,200 about these demonstrations, oh man, it's not working, is it? 525 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,360 They interviewed this this college student and they find 526 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,240 that one college student. I I'm fearing for my life. 527 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:24,040 I I I've spent all week here on campus running for my life. 528 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:32,320 Are you serious? Yes, it's all it's all hate. 529 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,360 And it's anti-Semitism. Wait, wait, wait, wait, what? 530 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,040 What? Which part is anti-Semitism? 531 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,520 Well, there, you know, it says Free Palace. 532 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,680 I got to read the signs everywhere. 533 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,200 I got to read these signs. They're in my. 534 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:50,280 Face free Palestine? Yeah, which means free A group 535 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:56,040 of people, the Palestinians, who are part of one of the original 536 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,560 Semitic tribes, Semites. What's anti-Semitic about trying 537 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,000 to free Semites? What? 538 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,080 What? What do you? 539 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,120 I don't know. It says from the river to the 540 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,840 sea. Yeah, that's what it says here 541 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,760 in the United States Constitution, except we got a 542 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:21,440 bunch of rivers in the middle, so it says from sea to shining 543 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,200 sea. Is that anti-Semitic? 544 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,000 The only anti thing it is, is I guess it's anti native people. 545 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,560 But you know, we had a nice long genocide that took care of that. 546 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,280 Because remember, never forget we are the O GS of genocide. 547 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:45,600 And so now all these hundreds of years later, to see good people 548 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,960 or people we thought were good people committing a genocide 549 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,360 against the Semitic people, the Palestinians. 550 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,440 You know, I love when I have this conversation with people 551 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,600 who I'm trying to just bring a lie, still haven't given up on 552 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,640 them. I hate it. 553 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:11,920 They've given up on themselves. They believe that it's OK to 554 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:17,560 steal land and to have a a system where some people are 555 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,720 free and the others live in an open air prison. 556 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,640 But I try to. I try to get this through and 557 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,160 I'm like, Oh, no, don't you see? If you believe in democracy, 558 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,160 that's the way to go, where everybody has a fair and equal 559 00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:42,160 chance at everything, except if you form a theocracy that says 560 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:49,040 one religion gets the special privilege and the others, Well, 561 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,160 to listen to the worst of what I've had to listen to in recent 562 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:57,480 months, the others don't exist. Michael, why do you say? 563 00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:58,840 Why do you call them Palestinians? 564 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,080 There's no such thing. There's no such thing as a 565 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,760 Palestinian. There's no such thing as a 566 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,880 Palestine. That's all made-up. 567 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,240 So where do you get your what? What's what backs your deed to 568 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:16,080 this land? Well, it's in the Bible. 569 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:22,360 Oh, I see. So that's not made-up, really. 570 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,920 You know, even some of the most religious people I I know and 571 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:35,080 respect will tell you that that book is a series of stories, 572 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:45,200 allegories, parables to try to speak to the larger truths about 573 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,360 that we should not take each other's lives, that we should 574 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,760 respect and love each other, that we don't steal from others 575 00:40:54,760 --> 00:41:00,360 and we don't lie and we're not envious of other people and what 576 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:06,200 they have. It's kind of the basis of most 577 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:10,440 religions, really. And take care of the poor, like 578 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,040 in all religions. It's like at the top of the list 579 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,160 what we all have to do to make sure that those who are the have 580 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:24,960 nots get to have more. That's what it's really supposed 581 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,160 to be about, right? And everybody should have that, 582 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,480 whether it's from the river to the sea, from the mountain to 583 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,800 the desert, from the ocean to the other ocean, whatever it is. 584 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:46,080 I am so proud of the students who have been demonstrating, who 585 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,080 have been building these encampments on the campuses, 586 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,160 standing up for others. What's in it for you? 587 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:57,480 What's in it for you at at Columbia, where the University 588 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:03,440 of Michigan or Cal Poly Humboldt to? 589 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,040 That used to be Cal State. Where'd they get a Poly? 590 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,640 I don't know. Don't get into it. 591 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,280 I'm just saying this is going on now at hundreds of campuses in 592 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:18,440 the US and around the world. It's so powerful. 593 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,680 It's so inspiring. It's so amazing. 594 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:26,400 And the love. The love that I have witnessed 595 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,720 that these encampments that just just the the thing I saw the 596 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:34,760 other day where the the, you know, this thing has been set up 597 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:40,040 in support of people in Gaza, in support of the Palestinians. 598 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,120 And a group of Jewish students showed up and wanted to be part 599 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,480 of it, wanted to support the people in Gaza. 600 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,680 And they were welcomed into the encampment by the Palestinian 601 00:42:52,680 --> 00:43:00,280 students. And and by the next day, each 602 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,200 night at these encampments, they show a movie outside. 603 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,840 They they they've got music going. 604 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,600 It's really kind of it's a very nice thing. 605 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:13,160 It's very well organized. They pick up the litter. 606 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,880 You know, it's just it's a very it's very cool parents, you'd be 607 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:21,240 proud of them. But here, what I saw the other 608 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:26,600 night was in the entertainment part of the night time 609 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,120 activities. A group of Palestinian Arab 610 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:40,200 students were putting on a Jewish folk dance to welcome the 611 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,280 Jewish students who had joined the encampment to stop Netanyahu 612 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:49,800 and Biden from this war. Let me just say that again. 613 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:56,640 Arab students learning a a little Jewish folk dance to let 614 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,600 them know how much they appreciated the Jewish support 615 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,560 for what they were doing. And it's not just one place. 616 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,280 I just, that's just one thing I saw. 617 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:09,760 There's so much love and compassion and kindness and 618 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,240 empathy going on here amongst our kids. 619 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,080 You know, parents, boomers should be very proud of these 620 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,880 these last really two generations, now close to 621 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:26,800 entering a third generation that we've raised and what we taught 622 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,520 them and how to be in this world and the world we all want to 623 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,920 live in. I don't know. 624 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,840 I'm just so I'm just so threatened by all this hate 625 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,200 there I'm. I have to run across. 626 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,240 I'm running for my life across. Campus. 627 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,840 Stop it. Stop it. 628 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:52,320 OK, first of all, leave the acting to those who are either 629 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,960 there at school training to be actors or other professionals, 630 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:01,400 or in my case, in union members, SAG members. 631 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,840 Stop the lying. Stop the fakery. 632 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,320 Stop the killing. Stop your endorsement of the 633 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,080 killing. All of us, The vast majority of 634 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,720 Americans are for peace. The vast majority of Americans 635 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,440 don't like this war, Don't want Biden sending them more arms. 636 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,320 And last week, what did he do? Send them billions of dollars of 637 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,920 more armaments? What is wrong with you, Joe? 638 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,560 I in my life have never seen a A president, even Trump, doesn't 639 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:40,800 purposely try to lose. Why are you attempting to lose 640 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,560 the election? Why are you telling these young 641 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:51,040 people no sense vote for me, 'cause I'm for war. 642 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,400 I know you're I those of you who listen to me every week here. 643 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,840 So you're like, Mike, you've been on this now since October. 644 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,240 I know I'm not going to stop either. 645 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:09,880 I'm not going to stop until somebody who works in the 646 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,080 executive branch tells me and I you don't have to give your 647 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,480 name. I know enough of you anyways. 648 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,120 You're going to tell me privately that the students, the 649 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,480 kids, everybody they've gotten, they've gotten through to Joe 650 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,480 Biden. Now he's now he's trying to 651 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,400 figure a way out. There's no nothing to figure 652 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,520 out. Pull the plug and then beg for 653 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,320 forgiveness. This went on too long. 654 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:40,200 You know it, Mr. Biden, and we cannot afford Trump back in the 655 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,400 White House. And you will be remembered in 656 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:51,240 history as the person who gave Trump a second term, The vast 657 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:56,720 majority of those who are under the age of 30, they oppose you 658 00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:59,560 on this, and they're not going to vote for Trump. 659 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,200 Don't worry about that. Worry about the fact that 660 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:03,880 they're just not going to vote at all. 661 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,400 Worry that they'll stay home or worry that they'll show up to 662 00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,800 vote. And they'll do what I and others 663 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:15,200 are encouraging them to do. Please vote for Congress and 664 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,960 Senate. Build a Democratic wall. 665 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:22,720 If Trump should win, build that wall around him so that he can't 666 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:24,360 get anything passed for four years. 667 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:26,600 How sad. We have to lose 4 years of our 668 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,080 lives and all that should go toward creating a better world, 669 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,760 a better society, saving the planet from its environmental 670 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,680 catastrophe that we're in the middle of. 671 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:43,640 We're going to have to, like, just fight Trump because Because 672 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:50,400 you, Joe, you told us you had an ironclad commitment to Benjamin 673 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,680 Netanyahu and that was worth it. That was worth it to destroy our 674 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:01,120 country. You should maybe talk to some of 675 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,680 the Jewish members of your staff, people that work in the 676 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,400 White House, the executive branch, the various cabinet 677 00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,760 ministries there in DC I've spoken to a number of them. 678 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,120 A number of them were also Jewish and who hate what you're 679 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,360 doing. You should talk to them. 680 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:25,240 You're listening to the wrong people or you're listening to a 681 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,720 a thing in your head that those of us who grew up in post war 682 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:34,040 America, we'd do anything to help our Jewish brothers and 683 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,120 sisters to make sure they never had to suffer again like they 684 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,400 had to suffer in the 20th century. 685 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,600 Everyone was on board except for the few haters and bigots. 686 00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,960 Everybody was on board to protect the Jewish people on 687 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:53,320 this planet. And out of that came perhaps a 688 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,800 well-intentioned idea, but one that hurt millions of others of 689 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:02,760 people, took their land, made them live as second class 690 00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:12,560 citizens and now 34,000 dead in just six months, 70% of them 691 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,440 women, children and old people. I paid for that. 692 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,320 You paid for that. We've all paid for that. 693 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,640 And if there's any justice in the universe, if we ever have to 694 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:30,840 answer to anyone or anything, what's our answer going to be? 695 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,720 I know I had to pay my taxes April 15th. 696 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:42,480 OK, let me tell you something. That's not going to fly. 697 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,640 All of us have a responsibility. All of us should take some 698 00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,120 inspiration from our young people. 699 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,120 And you don't have to go to the campus and support them, just 700 00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,400 you're they're doing fine. They've got this figured out. 701 00:49:56,240 --> 00:50:00,520 They're not going away and they're not going to vote. 702 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:02,960 They're not going to vote. A lot of them are not going to 703 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:09,040 vote for a president who funded and armed this whole thing. 704 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,280 Get that through your thick skull. 705 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,680 You've did so much good in your first three years. 706 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,640 You're the most progressive Democrat that's ever sat in the 707 00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,560 White House, at least since FDR, certainly in my lifetime. 708 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,080 And there's been good people that have done good things. 709 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:35,760 Obama and Jimmy Carter Kennedy, you know, I mean, there's, you 710 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,760 know, we can make a list, but nothing like what Joe Biden has 711 00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:45,240 done. And yet, like Lyndon Johnson, 712 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:48,480 who gave us the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act and 713 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:53,840 Medicare and Medicaid and what's he remembered for sending 60,000 714 00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,920 American kids to their death in Vietnam, which then also then 715 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:06,560 created the deaths of well over 2 million Vietnamese killed by 716 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:10,920 the United States of America killed by the policies of Lyndon 717 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:19,480 Johnson and then Richard Dixon. OK, they're telling me my time 718 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:25,240 is up. I just want to thank everybody 719 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,680 for being involved. Caring. 720 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,840 Don't despair. That's the That is their biggest 721 00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,880 weapon against us. Have us despairing. 722 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:41,760 Have us feeling so defeated. We are not. 723 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,120 We are the majority. Act like it. 724 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,640 Let Biden know how you feel. Let your representatives know 725 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,720 how you feel. If you have young people in your 726 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,840 family, if you have college students in your family, be 727 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,680 supportive. Give them what they need. 728 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,920 We are lucky to have them. Oh, man, we are so lucky. 729 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:12,040 Thanks, everybody. Don't forget to go online and 730 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,400 figure out how you can get people that you work with to 731 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,480 sign a union card. That's the first step to sign up 732 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,520 to have a vote, a democratic vote where you work. 733 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,000 Because this isn't democracy, right? 734 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,640 Yeah. And you could still do this. 735 00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,080 It's not too late. Trump's not back yet. 736 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,800 Join the UAW or join along with them in organizing and 737 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,840 unionizing every worker in this country. 738 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:49,200 Thanks to my Executive producer, Angela Vargos. 739 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,520 Thanks to all of you who listen to this podcast. 740 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,920 I'll talk to you soon. Be well. 741 00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:56,440 Thanks the.