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This is Michael Moore and you're
listening to rumble. 

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Michael Moore has been running 
around for decades promoting 

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policy that would wreck the 
economy and that was Rush 

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Limbaugh who passed away this 
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I can't think of anybody who did
more elevating. 

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The hate elevating, the racism 
misogyny. 

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Go down the list, over the past 
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that. 
I think a lot of you have 

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parents relatives People that 
time, uh, listen to him like a 

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religious experience everyday 
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p.m., he had a lot to say and 
did have an tremendous 

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brainwashing effect on a lot of 
people improved Trump learned 

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this, the best. 
Trump probably considered him a 

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mentor. 
Learned, that best way to get 

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ahead is to lie. 
I I was a favourite topic of 

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Russia's for all those years. 
Starting really, almost really 

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big. 
He'd be 30 years ago with my 

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first, film, Roger, and me, and 
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keep his his rants about me 
because they thought they'd make

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a nice archive someday, but then
it just got to be so many I gave

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up on the project. 
So just I was a recurring 

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character. 
On The Rush Limbaugh. 

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Show don't let my daughter's 
give you a few examples. 

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The this one here that you just 
the beginning of what you heard.

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Just now I believe is this last.
This past year, his last bit of 

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talking about me and II saw him 
play another, 20 seconds of 

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that. 
You can only take so much of the

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some We're not gonna do the 
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We had I got some important 
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let's just go back. 
We'll give you a little bit of a

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rush. 
Through The Years here I 

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promised you'd like just a 
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Let's listen to the rest from 
2020 Rush Limbaugh. 

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Talking about me, we're find out
just exactly how blockheaded, 

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the people on the left are that 
we're dealing with and it were 

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going about dealing with them in
the entirely Rhine wrong way. 

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We can't deal with them 
logically because they're not, 

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they're not using Any semblance 
of mental acuity to arrive at 

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whatever, they believe, they are
strictly, recipients of 

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propaganda and that's it. 
They can't tell you why. 

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They think what they think when 
you challenge them, that's when 

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the insult start aimed at you, 
you're racist. 

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You're a bigot. 
You know what you're talking 

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about. 
They can't defend what they 

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believe, unless they have had 
some propaganda. 

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They think the different they 
using logic on them as a waste 

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time. 
If you're debating among Twitter

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for Had it. 
It's a total waste of time. 

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You're not even on the same 
wavelength with these people 

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because they're not using 
thought, they're not using any 

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brain activity whatsoever other 
than memorization of propaganda.

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The next one is rushed talking 
about myself and Jesse Jackson. 

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This comes from your 2011 Rush 
Limbaugh. 

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The all these guys who keep 
calling for civil war and 

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revolution, Jesse Jackson 
Michael Moore. 

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They've Better. 
Remember all they've got fire 

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hoses. 
They can't compete with us. 

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Their fire hoses. 
Not going to intimidate us. 

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That's right. 
We only have hoses. 

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Jesse Jackson and me. 
Fire, fire hose has Wan hoses. 

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What kind of hoses did he say? 
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history will show that his side 
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fascist. 
I've always been the ones with 

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the fire hoses hosing, down the 
defenseless of this last ones 

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from also from 2011 Rush talking
about my fight. 

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For the people in Wisconsin, 
every hard-working American 

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family. 
I know is led by a long-haired, 

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maggot-infested, Michael Moore 
fan, bused in, from out of state

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to raise holy hell, shutting 
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building while chanting. 
This is what democracy looks 

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like. 
The left is imploding. 

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We see it in front of our eyes. 
We're seeing it around the world

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and there you go. 
I guess that's our tribute. 

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Dude, to wash Limbaugh, I don't 
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I think he made it quite clear 
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life. 
I'm sure his family and his 

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friends miss him and we won't. 
But that's the worst I'm going 

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to say about it at this point. 
I feel bad for this country that

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we have so many tens of 
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That bought into this. 
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really on some level. 
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encouraged you know, the way 
that stupidity Was fomented, you

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know, before you get to the hate
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ignorant of them or of the 
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for all or whatever. 
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place where people could go to 
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ignorant. 
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grew. 
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ignorant in order for them to 
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Phase of their mission is fear 
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you don't know. 
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A group of people, you don't 
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ism, then you become afraid of 
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certain level and then phase 3 
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Then you hate them. 
And that boils and boils and fed

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every day at noon, noon to 3:00.
It's fed and fed fed on Fox 

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News. 
It's fed on all these and then 

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finally phase for occurs, from 
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violence, and we got an awful 
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When for the first time, ever 
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Capital. 
The first time, ever our own 

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citizens, tried to attempt a 
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leads to fear, fear leads to 
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That's the equation. 
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Have to deal with. 
And the stupider that people can

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become the better, the better 
that those in power can 

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manipulate them and can control 
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you can't get more stupid than 
the state of Texas. 

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I meme. 
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What? 
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Texas but it is the result of 
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Who I don't think are so stupid.
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they've always been doing is to 
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stupid by having a shitty 
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things, like trying to control 
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Texas, you know the story. 
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That that because Texas by so 
many textbooks. 

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No, textbook publishing company 
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without getting the approval of 
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and their book committee, their 
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So if they don't like something,
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And if it doesn't come out then,
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They don't buy the books, they 
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chunk, maybe 10 15, Percent of 
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Company out the window, they're 
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So for decades now they go to 
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First they get approval of 
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whole country and then the rest 
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wants their students to read. 
Do you know this look look the 

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story up, we should do, we shoot
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Maybe a lot of people don't know
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I was on the board of education 
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So I I've heard this the known 
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And that's how you help increase
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So because we the rest, the 
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What Texas wants us to read the 
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helped by this in doubling down,
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Now, I need to say this because 
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As I watched this happen with 
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it's just like you are the 
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Republicans. 
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a state that you support the 
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change is a hoax. 
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And you reward them by 
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again your state representatives
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Senate? 
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Right. 
We all saw the pictures of Ted 

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Cruz, trying to sneak off to 
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He got there but then the word 
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It he wasn't going to stay 
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suffer. 
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along with himself down to go 
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of came out and then he had to 
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taking the kids down there 
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their friends, come right back. 
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The next day. 
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stupid enough at least in Texas.
Maybe he thought that was right.

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Yeah, they would be stupid 
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He was just doing it for the 
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But I want to say this because 
as angry, as I could continue to

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be about the state of Texas, in 
the politicians, it gives us, 

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you need to know something. 
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something about Texas, just like
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that was the old Georgia. 
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Georgia in the last decade or 
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African-American. 
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place. 
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understand about Texas, is we 
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Now, were whites are no longer 
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You can probably guess them, 
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Hawaii, obviously this one New 
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probably figure that out because
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state, New Mexico. 
California, this pasture. 

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White people became the 
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thought of that, right? 
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image of these don't mess with 
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hats and all this kind of 
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But the truth is, is that 57 
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black or Asian? 
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57 percent. 
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I mean, white white, white 
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That's it. 
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sprinkle in some voter 
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to help create a situation where
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and re-elected and people like 
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gives us not one, but two 
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you can understand why a state 
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And stupidity gets to be this 
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But it's because the people of 
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But they hold the power 
demographically 57% announce and

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this is what why people are so 
upset. 

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A lot of white people I should 
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you've got always got a good 
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Progressive. 
Citizens, even in especially in 

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a place like Texas. but, White 
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And so as long as black and 
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lowest rungs of the economic 
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Don't have access to the 
healthcare that white people 

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have are still being paid. 
A minimum wage, that is not a 

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living wage as long as, as all 
of that occurs, then black and 

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brown people don't have the 
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People continue to do the stupid
shit like like not in case their

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electrical power stations, in 
any kind of cement, or Or 

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anything to protect it from the 
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in a snowstorm. 
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I mean when you see a state 
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majority of the people that are 
are voting in the majority of 

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its politicians. 
Say, climate change is a hoax. 

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And they get hit by Hurricane 
after Hurricane or in this case,

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zero degree weather, as it was 
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In even way down in Houston, I 
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degrees. 
Over and over, they get hit by 

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the weather and they don't even 
want to consider what might be 

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going on. 
You almost want to say okay, you

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want to live that way. 
Have at it? 

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Good luck. 
See. 

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You don't want to be a except 
they have children. 

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It's our moral responsibility to
protect them and we know that 

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the poorest people in Texas are 
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things that happen, like what 
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The people that are black and 
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hardest. 
So, we have to have huge 

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compassion. 
If I were Biden. 

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I get on a plane and go down 
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I've seen the situation here, 
we're gonna do everything we can

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to help you, and then we're 
gonna have to fix some things. 

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Even if your stupid leaders 
don't want them fixed your 

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stupid racist leaders. 
Sorry, we're going to fix it for

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you watch. 
Texas, turn blue in the next 

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election. 
If Biden, in the by 

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demonstration does Because 
they've had the shit kicked out 

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of them this week. 
It's just awful. 

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I saw the trucks pulling up with
those water bottles. 

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I can Flint, you know, pulling 
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water. 
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water needs electricity got to 
help the pumps. 

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Need electricity to pump the 
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You know, all the Fox News going
off on solar in the wind and all

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this. 
Well, yeah, I you need to say to

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people that you can't transmit 
the wind in the Solar if you 

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don't have electricity or some 
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powering and backing up the wind
and the solar doesn't work 

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without it. 
You have to use fossil fuel, 

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everybody should know that by 
now. 

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It doesn't just happen on its 
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So, Texas, depending on which 
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it's about half Natural Gas. 
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between coal and nuclear. 
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time but I'm just giving you the
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So 75% of solar and wind did go 
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windmills froze or whatever but 
because they they need the 

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backup of the electric plants, 
to produce the electricity, to 

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help maintain them, transmit, 
the energy. 

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And as a backup, if the wind 
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has to kick in If the sun 
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Sun hasn't been shining this 
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So they have to have the backup 
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So so obviously yes, solar and 
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because they also on when can't 
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that's we've talked about this a
lot on this before. 

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And I'm sorry that otherwise 
good people, but who have taken 

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too many grants and too much 
money from the wealthy, from 

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Wall Street from the energy 
companies. 

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They've Sold the country. 
Sadly of the wrong bill of goods

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when it comes to our environment
and protecting our environment. 

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And we're that much farther 
behind now and saving planet 

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Earth. 
I shouldn't say saving planet 

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Earth because I think the Earth 
in the battle between the Earth 

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and the humans, I'm afraid the 
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lose the Earth has a has a way 
now for quite a few, quite a few

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years about lasting anything 
that would try to hurt it. 

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But stupidity rained. 
And this Texas, Remember the 

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Alamo the independence were, 
we're not even a state, you 

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know, they don't call themselves
a state, their Republic. 

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It's called The Republic of 
Texas. 

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Like they've never really, 
really wanted to be part of this

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even after stealing so much from
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somewhere along the line they 
got they were in the part of the

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United States. 
Long enough to have slaves. 

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Be a slave state be part of the 
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And and in this case with 
energy, they decided that have 

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their own grid. 
So there's the East Coast grid 

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and there's a West Coast grid. 
That's how the electric 

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situation works in this country 
except for Texas. 

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They did they hate the federal 
government? 

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They don't want, they don't 
really like the idea of the 

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United States and so they wanted
their own Republic of Texas grid

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and they got it for just about 
the entire State little piece of

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the Panhandle. 
That's not part of it. 

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There's a little piece of Far 
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And then there's El Paso, 
they're all part of either the 

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west or east coast grids except 
the bulk of Texas is not and so 

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when you go down you have no 
interdependence e with the other

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grids. 
That's the end of you and the 

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News came out. 
Here. 

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I think last night it was they 
were talking about they were 

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actually just seconds, maybe 
minutes away from losing the 

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entire grid. 
If that happened, it would take 

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them at least a half of year to 
rebuild, which means there would

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be no electricity for six 
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be an addition to, a whole bunch
of other things. 

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No water in your home. 
And that my friends would have 

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created a climate e of 
proportions. 

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We don't even want to think 
about the human body cannot go 

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without water for more than 4 
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That's it. 
That's how we're constructed. 

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We can go without food for 
almost 40 days. 

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But water for days. 
And then we start the body 

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starts to shut down. 
I've talked about this a long 

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time ago here in a long time. 
I'm in a we've only been doing 

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this for a little over a year 
that the Grid's. 

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The two big grids, the east and 
west coast grid. 

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I talked about the solar storm 
that happened in 1859, I'm sure 

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you remember the story in 1859, 
a solar storm, got through our 

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atmosphere and as a result, well
we didn't have electricity. 

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Then there were where there were
no electrical lines or whatever,

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but we did have the Telegraph 
and that did. 

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But the principles of 
conductivity and it fried, it 

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fry the telegraph system. 
And the country, it took a while

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to rebuild it, but they rebuilt 
it. 

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We've been due for one of these 
solar storms to get through our 

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atmosphere. 
Now, for some time, scientists 

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have tried to warn us about a 
nobody wants to talk about it. 

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Republicans don't want to spend 
any money on infrastructure so 

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they don't want to pay the money
that we need. 

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We need a backup grid across the
whole country. 

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For if the, if the Grid goes 
down, we have a backup to turn 

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on because again that's solar 
storm that fried the telegraph 

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system in 1859 if that got 
through. 

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Now it would fry it could fry 
the East Coast, the whole East 

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Coast grid could go and they 
they predict scientists that it 

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would take about a year and a 
half to rebuild, you're going to

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go a year and a half of that. 
Water going to go a year and a 

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half of any electricity with the
inability to charge your phone. 

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Phone. 
Go on the computer. 

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Do your work get to work. 
Let your car. 

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We're going to plug it into. 
This is such a serious problem, 

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though. 
Is this lat you almost sound 

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like you know the sky is falling
when you talk about things like 

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this. 
It's right in there with the 

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people who are trying to warn us
that the oceans are dying that 

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large swaths of the ocean. 
Don't have fish in it. 

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Don't have fish that we can eat.
There are all these things you 

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know that are in the on-deck 
circle and we've got a taste of 

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it from the pandemic and so we 
know just how bad things can get

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when we're not ready. 
And Texas was not ready. 

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Didn't believe? 
It could happen. 

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Didn't believe in climate 
change. 

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So therefore, why would they try
to protect their substations? 

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Where the electricity is sent 
from neighborhood to 

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Neighborhood. 
Why would they do that? 

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Why would they do anything to 
make sure the natural gas 

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pipelines are protected from the
freeze in the ground? 

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Why would you do it? 
Because there's no climate 

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problem. 
People are paying a serious 

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serious price for the stupidity 
this week, and from the 

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political philosophies of the 
Republican party in Texas, which

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is against regulation. 
So there is no regulation of any

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of this. 
They're against the federal 

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government because they don't 
want some government DC telling 

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them what to do. 
Over. 

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They'll take our help now. 
Yeah. 

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I almost, I don't know, this 
just sounds like you don't want 

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to condition anything on 
anything because again, kids are

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in danger. 
Poor people are in danger But 

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you really don't you really just
want to say to these Texas 

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politicians. 
Yeah, we'll help you but You're 

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going to have to change. 
You're either in the country or 

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not and we're on this together 
or we're not and you can go your

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separate ways, the Republic of 
Texas, we don't need you. 

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Don't worry. 
There won't be a civil war. 

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And all the black and brown and 
poor people who want to get the 

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hell away from, you will be more
than welcome in the other 49 

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states. 
Maybe 46 days. 

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And you can keep your Houston 
Astros and they're cheating ways

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to, by the way, just have to get
that out there and your bushes W

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wo W he seems so so, so sweet 
and Charming now doesn't he? 

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We're going to pay for his Wars.
These for the rest of my life, 

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many of your lives. 
Trillions. 

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Hundreds of thousands of dead 
iraqi's. 

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Thousands of our own troops. 
Thanks to the man from Texas who

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executed more than any other 
governor. 

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Death penalty man, George w-- 
Bush. 

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And while he was President for 
those eight years, he banned 

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stem cell research. 
So, which means he banned using 

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stem cells because some of those
cells came from fetuses that had

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were known, didn't make it to 
birth either because of 

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miscarriage or abortion, and so 
the stem cells, help scientists 

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deal with disease. 
And epidemics and things. 

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That's how that's how they it's 
one of the ways. 

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They, they find out how the 
human body works and what you 

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can do to give it some sort of 
inoculation or or treatment or 

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whatever. 
Eight years, we lost eight years

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of Science and helping People's 
Health because of bushes stem 

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cell ban I'm not going to go 
down the list. 

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Any longer you get the idea? 
We know what Texas is we know 

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what we have to deal with, and 
we know what the children and 

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the poor and the black, and the 
brown have to deal with in 

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Texas. 
So I'd like to figure Texas out 

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and do figure out what to do 
about them. 

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I think we're going to have a 
lot of Texans on our side after 

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this. 
I think the light bulb went off 

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in a lot of people's heads and 
ultimately as you know my 

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friends we have to deal with an 
economic system. 

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That is unjust, it's unfair and 
it's not Democratic they call it

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capitalism, I call it greed, it 
has to be ended. 

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And don't, don't worry, I know. 
Remember you've been made stupid

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so we don't teach economics and 
our Public Schools. 

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What, you know what capitalism 
means these days? 

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What socialism is what? 
Communism is all these terms, 

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get thrown around nobody really 
knows what it is. yes without 

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capitalism, you will still earn,
you have the potential to earn a

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very good wage and also making 
sure that there will be a safety

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net in case a day comes when you
can earn that wage You'll be 

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able to start a business, you'll
be able to come up with a great 

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invention. 
It's good for all of us, all 

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that stuff. 
In a Social Democratic state. 

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Until we have that other words, 
a state a government where we, 

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the people truly do control the 
government. 

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Until we get rid of the 
Electoral College were once that

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happens, we the people decide 
who the president is and that's 

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that. 
Sometimes it'll be somebody. 

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I like sometimes. 
It'll be sorry. 

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I don't like, but it doesn't 
matter. 

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The majority of Americans 
decided. 

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This is what they wanted to be 
wanted to be president, I'd 

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States. 
Okay that's a call to democracy.

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What we have now is not a full 
complete democracy, we get rid 

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of that things like Texas have 
less of a chance of happening. 

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Because the people not the 
prophets will make the decision.

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The profit motive will not be in
charge. 

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We, the people will be, I'm 
sorry. 

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The people of Texas. 
Probably many of them can't even

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listen to what I'm saying, right
now. 

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I'm sorry. 
I'm sorry. 

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What's been done to you? 
I think I can speak for most 

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people listening to this that we
care deeply that we've been 

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crushed. 
Witnessing what has happened to 

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you that we will do, whatever 
needs to be done. 

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To stop the madness. 
And the stupidity in Texas, And 

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this Republican party so many so
many crimes against the people. 

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It's don't worry my friends. 
This it will come to an end. 

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People will rise up, they won't 
tolerate this that when they're 

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freezing to death in their homes
that when their kids have 

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nothing to eat and that when 
they're shipping shipping and 

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trucks with water bottles, like 
it did for Flint. 

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Once you privatize The new very 
basic needs this is they tried 

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to do in Flint, they tried to 
make a profit off of water which

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resulted in making the people 
drink from the river and Poison 

453
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,700
every single person in the city 
and especially the lead 

454
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:41,100
poisoning of the children, 
10,000-plus with permanent brain

455
00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:43,800
damage because we wanted to make
a profit because they want to 

456
00:30:43,808 --> 00:30:47,400
privatize the water system. 
They want they want to privatize

457
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:54,400
the Grid in Texas this The end. 
And by the way, those water 

458
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,700
bottles, you see them Trucking 
in. 

459
00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:57,300
Let me just, I just just so you 
understand. 

460
00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:00,900
The Flint math, you can look 
this up, the average American 

461
00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:06,300
human uses about 70 to 80 
gallons of water a day for all 

462
00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:09,700
the uses, we use water for from 
taking a shower, to cooking 

463
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,300
drinking water, brushing your 
teeth, doing your laundry for 

464
00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:18,300
the dog and the cat, you know, 
it's add it all up about 70, 80 

465
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:21,600
gallons a day, For human in the 
United States. 

466
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,000
So let's just give the people 
in, Flint, 50 gallons a day. 

467
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,200
It's easier to do the math and 
plus, you know, they're from 

468
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,100
Flint a lead. 50 gallons, 50 
gallons. 

469
00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:31,500
I'll do the math, for, you know,
those water bottles of the ones,

470
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:35,000
mostly, there's 16 ounces of 
average one that you drink water

471
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,600
out of, you know, pull and 
spraying her, whatever, 16 ounce

472
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,000
bottle, okay? 
So how do you get to 50 gallons?

473
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:46,400
All right, so there's eight of 
those 8 times 16 now. 

474
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:52,900
So now you've got a gallon Right
now times 50, you do it, you got

475
00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:55,900
it. 
It's about 400 water bottles a 

476
00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:59,500
day per person. 
Nobody in Flint, ever got that. 

477
00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:03,400
And that's why taking a shower 
went to once a month, and that 

478
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:04,700
was. 
So if you could get somebody in 

479
00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:09,600
a friend or a neighbor or maybe 
a relative that lived in in Ann 

480
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,100
Arbor or Lansing or Grand 
Rapids, you drive there to get a

481
00:32:12,108 --> 00:32:16,500
shower, get the kids, a shower, 
you didn't do laundry, you had 

482
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,800
to go somewhere for that. 
Or you could do it in the poison

483
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,300
water. 
If you wanted to the suffering, 

484
00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:26,700
this is going on in Flint for 
almost seven years, the 

485
00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:29,300
suffering. 
And they're saying that. 

486
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:33,600
The water has so many pipes, 
broke from the fries in Texas, 

487
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,200
it will be months. 
Before they have the water back 

488
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:43,300
up and running, there are not 
enough water bottles in all the 

489
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:48,100
world to ship to Texas so that 
each human in Texas, can have 

490
00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:50,900
400 water bottles a day of 
water. 

491
00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:56,600
We're better than this. 
Many of us, most of us are 

492
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,700
smarter than this. 
The enforced stupidity and 

493
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:05,100
ignorance must be brought to an 
end. 

494
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,300
And no better time to do that 
than now in the month or two. 

495
00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:16,800
After the idiot president. 
Was removed from office. 

496
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,800
I want to give a shout out here 
before we go on to our 

497
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,100
underwriter signal wire. 
It's a new video Communications 

498
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,900
technology that's designed by a 
couple of brilliant software 

499
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:34,000
developers who just happen to be
from Michigan. 

500
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,200
If you're working remotely these
days, whether it's yourself with

501
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,300
a team, you know, it's a 
struggle to keep everyone 

502
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:44,700
connected using the existing 
video communication tools. 

503
00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,600
I think you. 
Which ones I'm talking about. 

504
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,700
The reason for this is because 
these other tools to have these 

505
00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:55,600
meetings online, they were 
designed for occasional 

506
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,100
scheduled meetings, not to 
replace the daily face-to-face 

507
00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:03,800
interactions. 
That you have constantly all day

508
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,000
long. 
With the people that you work 

509
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,800
with signal wire though is 
different, not only is it an 

510
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,800
alternative to old video tools. 
It's an online alternative to 

511
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,400
the physical off. 
Office itself signal wire 

512
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,300
features, always available video
rooms. 

513
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,400
It's great for Creative types 
for writer rooms film studios. 

514
00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:28,900
You know, whatever you're doing.
It's a great way to sort of set 

515
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:34,699
up an organize, your work life 
and Signal wire has better audio

516
00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:39,100
and video quality, and is more 
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517
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So go to Signal wire.com siga, 

518
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519
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520
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free 30-day trial. 
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521
00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:56,600
days. 
See, if you like I think you're 

522
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,300
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523
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524
00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:08,500
And once again, I thank the good
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525
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,200
I thank you for supporting this 
podcast here on Rumble. 

526
00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:16,900
In other news, we haven't talked
about covid for a while and I 

527
00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:21,000
don't want to belabor this too 
much here today but man. 

528
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,200
Oh man. 
So we hit the half a million 

529
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,000
Mark of deaths here, overnight. 
What can you say about that a 

530
00:35:29,008 --> 00:35:32,300
half a million dead Americans? 
My entire mother of the world 

531
00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:34,500
though. 
They half a million dead here. 

532
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:37,600
No action was taken. 
When it was needed. 

533
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,100
No preparation was done. 
Even though for years, we were 

534
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:43,700
told, this could happen 
something like this could 

535
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:47,400
happen. 
And now we're being told it will

536
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,500
happen again. 
There will be future pandemics 

537
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:52,200
in the future. 
Could be next year or the year 

538
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,700
after that. 
What are we going to do? 

539
00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,500
To give science and whatever 
else needs the money and the 

540
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:02,600
help. 
To protect our citizens. 

541
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,300
The mutations, you know, they 
talk about the UK variant or the

542
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:12,000
South African variant. 
The Brazilian listen, that is 

543
00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:15,300
stopped. 
It's almost you got to stop 

544
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:19,200
watching the news. 
There was at least a dozen. 

545
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,900
Now, what they're calling 
homegrown variance, that means 

546
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,300
mutations, that have taken place
right here in the United States 

547
00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:32,000
right here, right now. 
Will the vaccines everybody's 

548
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,700
getting? 
Will it protect them from these 

549
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
somewhat maybe? 
Yes. 

550
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:38,200
No, we don't know, is the 
answer? 

551
00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:42,000
We will know. 
And if we find out that they 

552
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,200
don't, we then we all got to 
line up for another shot and 

553
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:50,000
then another shot after that, my
friends, this is why Biden is 

554
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,200
trying to make this job one. 
And put this as the top priority

555
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,300
and we don't want to hear from a
single goddamn Republican 

556
00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:00,100
getting in his way, trying to 
stop this. 

557
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,900
These people who told us this 
was a hoax for a year and 

558
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:09,000
supported this past president. 
In his, even though he knew. 

559
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,700
And he told Bob Woodward, and 
there's tape of this, can we 

560
00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:15,700
just roll the tape again of what
he told? 

561
00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:18,500
Bob Woodward nine, ten months 
ago. 

562
00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:20,800
This thing is a killer. 
If it gets you, you're the wrong

563
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,900
person. 
You don't have a chance. 

564
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,000
Yes, yes, exactly. 
Now, the minded require, this is

565
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,400
a Scourge and the plague. 
There you go. 

566
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:40,400
See you Trump new. 
And did nothing Nero fiddled 

567
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,700
while Rome burned. 
And now we lost a half a million

568
00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:48,400
Americans. 
More will die. 

569
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,500
Many more? 
The doctors are all saying that 

570
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:54,400
these next three months of 
March, April and May maybe our 

571
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,300
deadliest months yet. 
I don't like hearing this. 

572
00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:01,500
I don't like having to say it to
you. 

573
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,200
I don't like saying it out loud.
You probably already know this. 

574
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,400
There is nothing more important 
right now than fixing, this 

575
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:14,800
problem, and fixing it now. 
What part of this do I have 

576
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,600
wrong? 
What part of this are you 

577
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:23,000
willing to tolerate any longer? 
And you know, for our part, we 

578
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,700
all have to quit. 
Kidding ourselves here. 

579
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,300
Just because we have these 
little Peaks and valleys in The 

580
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:31,000
Valleys at, you know, there's 
less people being hospitalized 

581
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,300
and less people being tested 
positive. 

582
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,800
Then we start to feel better, we
can't feel better. 

583
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000
I know, you want to feel better.
I want to feel better, I hate 

584
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,700
this. 
I know we're all going a little 

585
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
batshit crazy over this, but my 
friends. 

586
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,800
When they say double up on the 
mass now, that's what they're 

587
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:50,700
trying. 
They're trying to tell us 

588
00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:51,500
something. 
You know what, they're trying to

589
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:58,000
tell us double up on the masks. 
The Masks, the hand-washing and 

590
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,400
the social distancing, are the 
three, most important things we 

591
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,800
can do. 
On some level more important 

592
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,000
than the vaccination though that
has to happen every single 

593
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,400
teacher to the front of the 
line. 

594
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,100
Every single teacher has to be 
vaccinated. 

595
00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:19,300
If I had kids of school and 
school age, I would not have 

596
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,800
them go to school unless the 
teachers were vaccinated. 

597
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,400
And as soon as kids can be 
vaccine or at least teenagers, 

598
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:29,600
they should get it too. 
Please, anti-vaxxers don't write

599
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,200
me. 
I I'm sorry, you've confused an 

600
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,500
apple with an orange here. 
I don't know what to say. 

601
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,700
Everybody needs to get 
vaccinated as soon as possible. 

602
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,500
Well, Mike, I can't believe you 
just said that. 

603
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:54,500
You drank the Kool-Aid. 
My friends, everybody. 

604
00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:59,700
This is criminal that we don't 
have enough doses that Trump had

605
00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:03,200
no system setup to get those 
doses put in arms. 

606
00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:05,600
I know. 
Biden is doing the best he can 

607
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,900
do. 
He's our he's doubled since he 

608
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:10,300
took office. 
The number of doses being given 

609
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,900
the people per day, they took 
office or something like 800 

610
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,700
thousand doses going into 
American Arms. 

611
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:22,300
Now it's, it's 1.7 million, so 
that's good. 

612
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:25,300
Still not enough. 
You know, we should try to get 

613
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:27,300
everybody vaccinated in 100 
days. 

614
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:30,300
That's three million doses, a 
day now to the people listening 

615
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:34,100
to this in other countries, 
you're so good to me and thank 

616
00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:36,300
you for listening to this 
podcast. 

617
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:38,600
And, you know, that I have to 
spend a lot of time. 

618
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,900
Encouraging my fellow citizens 
to do certain things. 

619
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,400
You know, as I'm aware, you're 
aware, you write to me. 

620
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,700
So, you know what American does 
America, does you see you write 

621
00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:57,700
to me and you say, you know, 
what America does affects the 

622
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:02,600
rest of the world? 
I know, I know, we know Trying 

623
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,900
to fix it. 
You have to do, you can do. 

624
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:07,600
And we have to help you do it 
too. 

625
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,900
That's who we supposedly used to
be, right? 

626
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:14,400
We not only helped ourselves. 
We hoped we helped everybody 

627
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:15,900
else. 
At least. 

628
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:18,900
He said we did. 
Did we think we did? 

629
00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:20,300
I don't know. 
Maybe not. 

630
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,300
But right now everybody is in 
the boat together. 

631
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,800
And we my friends Americans. 
We have to fix this right now. 

632
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,800
We have to insist that Biden and
company that they be in charge 

633
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,600
of these factories to create the
doses. 

634
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,400
The government has to run this 
program, not a private 

635
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,600
profit-making Corporation. 
I'm not saying that you have to 

636
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,100
work for free week, the 
government can pay them just 

637
00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:52,100
like the government paid General
Motors during World War Two to 

638
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,800
build the tanks, and the planes 
and whatever. 

639
00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:00,000
But still, you can't leave the 
decision making power to them. 

640
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:09,200
We have to do this, we the 
people have to be in charge of 

641
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,300
the vaccinations of beating 
covid. 

642
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,900
In each of us, have to wear 
those masks. 

643
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,700
Each of us, we cannot be meeting
with people. 

644
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:26,300
We can't be in groups of people 
unless other people that live 

645
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:30,800
with us under the same roof And 
we all know that's how this 

646
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,100
works. 
Even I just thought, geez, I 

647
00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:38,400
hurt this is awful story. 
Here this week. 

648
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,800
Of. 
You know, that this couple they 

649
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,300
wanted to get married. 
They were tired of putting it 

650
00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:52,700
off, they put it off for a year 
and so they decided to have a 

651
00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:59,100
wedding with just themselves. 
Both sets of parents and the 

652
00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:03,000
just the one bridesmaid in in 
1s, ma'am. 

653
00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:09,100
And they had it at, I think it 
was the bride's house. 

654
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:15,200
It's the bride had to work. 
Wasn't able to like a lot of 

655
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,900
people work from home. 
Forced to go into work. 

656
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:28,200
Weeks Later her husband, her new
husband's father was dead. 

657
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,800
Everybody else. 
Nobody else worked. 

658
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,300
Nobody else went anywhere. 
Everybody else. 

659
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:35,700
Had been sort of staying to 
themselves except except she had

660
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:39,400
to work. 
She did not have covid at the 

661
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:44,400
time but she did have it. 
And they determined that's how 

662
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,700
the groom's father got it. 
It is son's wedding and died. 

663
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:53,900
Now I know and I know because 
I'm just like all the rest of 

664
00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:56,900
you you have this, this thing, 
you know, at least it's family, 

665
00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:59,500
we're not going to we're not 
infect each other all family. 

666
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,700
We've all we all. 
I'm pretty careful and you know 

667
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,400
Gracie here the you know she had
to work but she's very careful 

668
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,600
at work and kept her distance 
from people and did everything. 

669
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:17,400
None. 
Then it kills her father-in-law.

670
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,700
At the wedding company happened 
at the wedding. 

671
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,700
I traced it back to figure this 
out of course, but they tested 

672
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:30,100
her them violent, she added. 
Nobody else died. 

673
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:34,400
But there was never enough. 
Was it worth the wedding? 

674
00:44:35,100 --> 00:44:38,100
Was it worth having the wedding?
I guess? 

675
00:44:38,100 --> 00:44:42,800
So, because you're in love, you 
want to be married you were 

676
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,500
going to do it. 
Last June. 

677
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,000
Put it off and you put it off, 
you put it off and it's like, 

678
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,400
come on. 
We don't know anybody that's 

679
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,100
died of this. 
Do we know, okay. 

680
00:44:56,100 --> 00:45:01,400
And then, boom. 
Unless you live with the people,

681
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:06,800
you're around us, they live in 
the same house, issue. and 

682
00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:11,500
unless everyone in that house, 
Stays home and it's the one 

683
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,800
thing the Chinese figured out 
after will Honda the number, 

684
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:20,000
they said was it 70% of people 
who died in China or in Wuhan 

685
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:25,700
were killed by family members. 
Who picked it up outside the 

686
00:45:25,700 --> 00:45:28,900
house. 
And, and then, it may even after

687
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:30,700
they met were told, the first, 
they had covid. 

688
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:33,600
This is before the Chinese, you 
know, so quickly build some 

689
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,600
covid, hospitals and boarding 
houses and hotels or whatever, 

690
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,800
just for covid people. 
You know, they test them for 

691
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:45,500
covid-19, I got to go back home,
stay in your bedroom, you know, 

692
00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:47,800
for 14 days and you'll get 
through covid. 

693
00:45:49,700 --> 00:45:52,900
Well, people went home and they 
infected each other. 

694
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,600
And that's what's caused a lot 
of what we're doing here because

695
00:45:57,900 --> 00:46:00,100
well, this is my lifelong 
friend. 

696
00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:03,100
I'm with here. 
What could go wrong? 

697
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:09,100
These are my nieces and nephews 
visiting from across the state. 

698
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,700
We're all family. 
What could go wrong? 

699
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:18,400
Ignorance. 
My friends, we're all guilty of 

700
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,000
it. 
We need to be smarter. 

701
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:26,200
When you look on the list of 
countries and all this, we kind 

702
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:31,500
of look like the dumb country. 
That's getting so many people 

703
00:46:31,500 --> 00:46:38,200
sick and so many people dying. 
Come on, come on. 

704
00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:45,700
Enough of this. 
We've got some serious things in

705
00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,300
front of us and we need to make 
plans for now, not stick our 

706
00:46:48,300 --> 00:46:50,600
heads in the sand. 
Mike, don't tell me the bad 

707
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,400
news. 
Yes, I'm sorry. 

708
00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:56,300
I'm not telling it to you so 
that you'll get depressed. 

709
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:01,000
I'm telling it to you. 
So that you and I and everybody 

710
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,700
else will demand that the 
government, put everything 

711
00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:09,000
possible into this. 
To, what do we do about these 

712
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,600
mutations? 
What are we doing to protect 

713
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,400
ourselves from the next 
pandemic? 

714
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:16,300
Eric. 
That's our job as Citizens. 

715
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,900
That's all I'm asking you to do.
Is that a lot? 

716
00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:22,700
I know. 
But it's so depressing. 

717
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:28,800
Yes, you're right. 
It is depressing. 

718
00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:39,900
It's very depressing. 
But that can't be paralyzed us. 

719
00:47:41,300 --> 00:47:45,700
If you sink into your despair. 
You're finished. 

720
00:47:46,300 --> 00:47:52,300
We're all finished. 
Action is the antidote to 

721
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:54,600
despair. 
Action. 

722
00:47:55,900 --> 00:48:01,500
Is the antidote in a democracy, 
especially action action. 

723
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,800
Is what saves us? 
Thank you, Georgia. 

724
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:10,200
You prove that to us. 
You showed us what action can 

725
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,700
do. 
To the 81 82 million Americans 

726
00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:16,400
that came out and voted for 
Biden. 

727
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,800
You showed us what action can 
do, it can Crush. 

728
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,000
A malignant narcissist and a 
fascist. 

729
00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:31,200
Thank you for taking action. 
And when it comes to these 

730
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,400
mutations, when it comes to the 
next pandemic, that's on its way

731
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:41,000
action in our brains, not our 
stupidity, our brains, we'll 

732
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:47,200
figure out what we need to do. 
And we will stop it, or we will 

733
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:51,200
contain it. 
We will have a plan this time. 

734
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,200
That's the country. 
I want to live in. 

735
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,500
Not an idiot Nation. 
Nation of people who've got a 

736
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:08,100
brain and want to use it. 
Am I asking for too much? 

737
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,600
Yes. 
And we have to hold our hand out

738
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,400
to Texas. 
We have to help them because 

739
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,200
there's going to be just enough 
Texans now. 

740
00:49:18,500 --> 00:49:20,300
To say I'm tired of living this 
way. 

741
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,200
I'm tired. 
But I'm not giving up and I know

742
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:52,800
you're not going to either. 
This is probably a good time to 

743
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:57,000
thank our other underwriter for 
this episode, HBO documentary 

744
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,600
films and for their outstanding 
documentary from this year 

745
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,900
called, Welcome to chechnya. 
I'm sure some of you have seen 

746
00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:09,300
this film already. 
If you have an iron, Courage you

747
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:12,000
to see it. 
It was directed by one of our 

748
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:16,500
great documentary filmmakers, 
David Prince, David France was 

749
00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:21,100
nominated for the Academy Award 
for his incredible film, how to 

750
00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:27,400
survive a plague an important 
documentary on the movement to 

751
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:32,600
bring about the containment of 
AIDS and HIV. 

752
00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:36,500
It didn't happen on its own. 
It only happened through citizen

753
00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:38,700
action. 
And I mean, hardcore, Or citizen

754
00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:42,400
action, how to survive a play, 
which was also edited by one of 

755
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,200
my editors, T, Woody Richmond. 
Who was one of the editors of 

756
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:50,200
mine on Bowling for Columbine in
Fahrenheit 9/11, David France. 

757
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,000
Also made another great 
documentary, the death and life 

758
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,800
of Marsha P Johnson this film 
right now. 

759
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,400
Welcome to chechnya has just 
been shortlisted for the Oscars 

760
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,300
this year. 
The upcoming Oscars this in 

761
00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:06,200
April and it's one of 15 films 
of the 230 qualified 

762
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:09,500
documentaries this year. 
David's film is one of the 15 

763
00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:12,500
and rightly so these films of 
David. 

764
00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:15,700
So I just want to say they hid 
been at the Forefront of 

765
00:51:15,700 --> 00:51:21,700
exposing bigotry and our society
of especially anti lgbtq 

766
00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:27,400
bigotry, championing the rights 
and freedoms of the community in

767
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:32,100
America and around the world. 
And that's exactly what he has 

768
00:51:32,100 --> 00:51:34,500
accomplished. 
Now, again in this new film, 

769
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:37,400
which I urge you all to see, 
welcome to chechnya. 

770
00:51:38,100 --> 00:51:41,100
It's a film about a group of 
activists who risk their lives 

771
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,800
to confront, the ongoing 
persecution in the repressive, 

772
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:49,200
Russian Republic of chechnya. 
I don't want to give too much 

773
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,900
away here about the film because
so many of its subjects, 

774
00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:56,100
actually are still in danger in 
this film. 

775
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,600
He uses a, what? 
A sort of a pioneering deep fake

776
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,800
technology to digitally mask, 
the faces of those. 

777
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,400
You see in the film, but not in 
the old old school way, but also

778
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:12,800
Of these volunteers who are in 
chechnya trying to end the 

779
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,600
madness. 
And in this the way he does 

780
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,800
this, he preserves their 
Humanity while protecting their 

781
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,800
anonymity. 
Welcome to chechnya. 

782
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,600
His, it's been winning Awards 
all year. 

783
00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,400
It premiered, at Sundance a big 
hit last year at Sundance. 

784
00:52:25,500 --> 00:52:27,900
It won the special jury prize 
for editing. 

785
00:52:28,300 --> 00:52:30,500
And by the way, it was edited by
another one. 

786
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:35,400
My editors, Tyler walk and Tyler
was one of the editors of where 

787
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,700
to invade next. 
David's film walk. 

788
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,600
Chechnya was also the winner of 
the courage Under Fire award at 

789
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,100
the international documentary 
Association awards, it won the 

790
00:52:45,100 --> 00:52:47,300
producing award. 
It DOC NYC. 

791
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:51,800
Incredible Film Festival here in
New York City and it won for 

792
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,900
prizes including the audience 
award at the Berlin Film 

793
00:52:55,900 --> 00:52:59,400
Festival. 
It's now available on HBO, mix, 

794
00:53:00,300 --> 00:53:03,200
and I'll have a link to it right
here and a description right 

795
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,700
here on my podcast website, I 
want to thank again HBO. 

796
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,100
He films for supporting this 
podcast, for supporting my 

797
00:53:11,100 --> 00:53:15,700
voice, and for supporting such 
powerful films as welcome to 

798
00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:29,100
chechnya. 
An old friend of mine passed 

799
00:53:29,100 --> 00:53:33,000
away this week. 
Name was Jim Ridgeway James Rich

800
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,200
way. 
You may have heard of him. 

801
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,700
He was a political writer 
investigative. 

802
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,300
Order for the Village Voice for 
over 30 years. 

803
00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:45,600
He started his journalism back 
in the 50s when he was writing 

804
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,600
for the new Republic. 
He was the leave. 

805
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,500
The first person to write about 
Ralph Nader. 

806
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,000
He came across this this lawyer 
who was doing this investigation

807
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,800
at General Motors and this car 
this very, very unsafe car. 

808
00:53:58,900 --> 00:54:01,500
The General Motors built and he 
did a story on Ralph Nader in 

809
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:05,500
the new Republican. 
A year later Ralph wrote, his 

810
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:09,500
first book unsafe at any speed. 
And boom, that was the end of 

811
00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:13,200
that car Ridgeway then through 
his investigative reporting 

812
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:17,100
discovered, the General Motors 
had hired spies that followed 

813
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,300
Nader and violated his privacy 
wrote that story. 

814
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:25,500
That resulted in General Motors,
having to apologize to Nader in 

815
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:30,800
having to pay later and 
out-of-court settlement as a 

816
00:54:30,808 --> 00:54:34,400
result of them interfering with 
his life. 

817
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,400
That's that was the beginning 
and near the beginning of Jim 

818
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,800
Ridgeway. 
Some journalism career, I first 

819
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:46,300
met him when I was at my office 
in Flint one day and knock on 

820
00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:50,700
the door and I go to open it. 
And he introduces himself as Jim

821
00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:57,800
Ridgeway and I read The Village 
Voice of the postmaster told me 

822
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,700
in town that. 
You know, there's there's only 

823
00:55:01,700 --> 00:55:05,800
like two people here in Flint 
that read the that get the 

824
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,600
Village Voice sent to them and 
you're one of them. 

825
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:12,700
I should have asked I probably 
because I believe in privacy so 

826
00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:14,900
I didn't ask who the other 
person was and maybe my life 

827
00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:21,000
would have been down a whole 
different road but there he was 

828
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:22,700
Jim Ridgeway at the door and so 
cool. 

829
00:55:22,700 --> 00:55:25,500
Yes. 
Clow with, why are you in Flint?

830
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,400
He said, well, I'm doing a story
on the rise. 

831
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:32,500
This is not, this is in the 80s.
This is when the first big round

832
00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:34,900
of layoffs started taking place 
at General Motors. 

833
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,700
I'm going to do a story on how 
the Klan and the neo-nazis and 

834
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:44,100
these white supremacists are 
taking advantage of the, what 

835
00:55:44,100 --> 00:55:47,600
was then the 29 percent 
employment rate in Flint? 

836
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:52,900
Twenty nine percent unemployment
and they were convincing. 

837
00:55:52,900 --> 00:55:56,000
A lot of people, a lot of white 
people to join their groups. 

838
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,400
And so he wanted to do a story 
on that. 

839
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,900
And he and this other this 
filmmaker were thinking of 

840
00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:04,000
coming and doing a documentary 
on of their income coming to 

841
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,100
Flint and They had heard that 
the all these white supremacist 

842
00:56:08,100 --> 00:56:11,700
groups wanted to have like a 
big, big national gathering just

843
00:56:11,700 --> 00:56:15,300
outside of Flint. 
And they were thinking of 

844
00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:18,700
filming and, and did I know 
anything about these groups? 

845
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:20,900
And I subbed, I know a lot about
them. 

846
00:56:21,500 --> 00:56:26,000
I've interviewed them, I've gone
to their their places where they

847
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:31,800
worship and He said, wow can I 
can you show me a, you know, 

848
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,600
some back issues or whatever 
your newspaper paper that I 

849
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:39,500
started called the Flint boys? 
And I said, yeah, sure and I 

850
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,700
gave him some bad copies of 
stories. 

851
00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:47,500
I done on the local white 
supremacist and he, he said that

852
00:56:47,508 --> 00:56:49,300
word, you know, we're probably 
going to want to get back in 

853
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:52,400
touch with you and they did. 
And the other is that his 

854
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,200
partner was Kevin Rafferty 
filmmaker and documentary 

855
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,400
filmmaker. 
I spoke of number of months ago 

856
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,700
because he also passed it away 
this year and so they asked me 

857
00:57:02,707 --> 00:57:05,200
if I would help them and come 
with them on the shoot, it's the

858
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,800
first time I'd been on a movie 
shoot and wow, I was like, 

859
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,800
really so impressed with their 
work and everything they were 

860
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:13,800
doing. 
And then but by the end of the 

861
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,600
first day they were, they were 
kind of rattled by the by these 

862
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:23,000
Clan guys, Nazis. 
And they said, you know, you 

863
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,100
know, because you're kind of 
from here. 

864
00:57:24,100 --> 00:57:25,900
Would you mind like doing the 
interviews? 

865
00:57:26,100 --> 00:57:28,600
Like will give you a questions 
and you'll have your own butt? 

866
00:57:29,500 --> 00:57:31,200
Yeah, sure. 
I'm not afraid of these guys. 

867
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,600
It's no problem. 
So the first time I like, did 

868
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:37,900
anything like this on camera. 
This is 1980, 85 86. 

869
00:57:38,700 --> 00:57:42,200
And if you watch the film is 
called blood in the face, which 

870
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:46,200
is a something from the Bible 
that says, you can essentially 

871
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,800
is how they white people are 
identified. 

872
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:53,100
Because if, if you touch the 
skin, pinch it slap it, whatever

873
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,400
it turns red. 
You see the blood Whereas in 

874
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,300
their, in their, in their 
religion, of how they viewed 

875
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,400
this, that people of color don't
show blood is easily. 

876
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,300
So, blood in the face is the 
name of the documentary if you 

877
00:58:06,308 --> 00:58:12,300
want to look it up and you'll 
see a very young me sitting in 

878
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:17,500
Breaking Bread, Lisa Nazis, and 
Clan types, and and then getting

879
00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:24,600
in their face. 
And I can see, once I saw the 

880
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,100
film, I thought we I now I know 
why they didn't want to 

881
00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:31,700
interview these guys themselves 
because it looks, it didn't feel

882
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:35,900
scary in the moment but I when 
you see the film and it will 

883
00:58:35,900 --> 00:58:40,600
look somewhat scary that I 
rattled the white supremacists 

884
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,800
in the way that I did. 
But it also gave me an idea that

885
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,400
maybe I should think about 
making a movie. 

886
00:58:46,100 --> 00:58:49,600
That, that is the great gift of 
Jim Ridgeway and Kevin Rafferty 

887
00:58:50,300 --> 00:58:53,800
that they had me be part of 
their film. 

888
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,600
I learned how to do it 
essentially quick learner. 

889
00:58:57,700 --> 00:59:03,200
I think I hope and a year later,
I was making Roger and me for 

890
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,900
the next three years, basically,
trying to teach myself, but 

891
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:11,900
Kevin mostly and Jim somewhat 
also teaching me in whenever I 

892
00:59:11,900 --> 00:59:15,700
needed to go to d.c., you know, 
it's where Jim lived. 

893
00:59:15,900 --> 00:59:18,700
Where he did his reporting, he 
was the Washington bureau chief 

894
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,700
for the Village Voice. 
And so I spent time with him, 

895
00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:28,400
his wife, Pat some David such 
good people and I Jim was a 

896
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,900
person that was critically 
responsible for I can trace the 

897
00:59:31,908 --> 00:59:36,500
line from this microphone that 
I'm speaking into all the way 

898
00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:40,300
back to Kevin refereeing James 
Rich way. 

899
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:48,000
And Jim died this week at the 
age of 84, the times had a nice 

900
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,100
will bitch worried about him in 
the worky. 

901
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,100
The last 10 years of his life. 
He spent on trying to get rid of

902
00:59:53,100 --> 00:59:58,200
solitary confinement, which the 
UN and all human rights groups, 

903
00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:03,100
is they have to have declared a 
to be a crime to be a human 

904
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:06,600
rights violation. 
He lived his whole life like 

905
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,700
this. 
I haven't seen him a number of 

906
01:00:09,700 --> 01:00:12,500
years, makes me feel bad, but I 
you know that list I told you 

907
01:00:12,500 --> 01:00:15,600
about how I've been, I made a 
list of people in their 80s and 

908
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:19,900
90s that I know that. 
I each week I call one of them 

909
01:00:20,100 --> 01:00:21,400
to checking. 
In how you doing? 

910
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,300
Staying in touch, during this 
pandemic, I've had some great 

911
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:28,800
conversations and Jim was on the
list, but I hadn't gotten to 

912
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:33,400
him. 
And I felt so bad when I It was 

913
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:34,400
in the time. 
It's how I found out. 

914
01:00:34,408 --> 01:00:38,200
I was in the times on their 
their website. 

915
01:00:38,300 --> 01:00:46,100
There it was and Actually, 
Basile her producer here, send 

916
01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:47,900
me the link. 
And that's, it's really open to 

917
01:00:47,908 --> 01:00:49,400
popped up on my screen. 
That's why. 

918
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:54,100
It's all of you is dead. 
So many people have died this 

919
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:56,700
year. 
I mean it's just people, I know.

920
01:00:56,700 --> 01:00:59,700
But people, you know people, we 
all know. 

921
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,400
I don't know, as I have said 
about Kevin. 

922
01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:10,900
About Terrence McNally about. 
Hey, Karen. 

923
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:18,300
They all live, they all live on.
I'm not talking about heaven or 

924
01:01:19,100 --> 01:01:21,500
whatever, however you whatever 
you believe or whatever. 

925
01:01:21,500 --> 01:01:27,100
It's But they live on in us, the
effect they had on us what they 

926
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:30,100
did for us the love, they gave 
us the inspiration. 

927
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:35,100
They gave us whatever. 
It was whatever we do for the 

928
01:01:35,100 --> 01:01:39,600
rest of today or tomorrow. 
There's a little tiny piece of 

929
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:44,300
them in US. 
I know, I know that for a fact 

930
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:47,300
about Jim Ridgeway because I'm 
doing it right now. 

931
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:51,800
I'm talking about the things 
that he wrote about. 

932
01:01:52,700 --> 01:01:56,300
They wrote about for 60 plus 
years. 

933
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:02,900
Of his journalism. 
So it was sad to learn this this

934
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:07,200
week and I am grateful for his 
friendship. 

935
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:09,100
I'm grateful for his 
inspiration. 

936
01:02:09,500 --> 01:02:11,900
I'm grateful for him knocking on
my door that day and Flint 

937
01:02:11,900 --> 01:02:14,800
because I don't know I might I 
might be doing something else 

938
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,800
right now. 
I wonder sometimes. 

939
01:02:19,500 --> 01:02:22,100
You probably have the same 
things that happened in your 

940
01:02:22,100 --> 01:02:25,100
life. 
One little decision in one small

941
01:02:25,100 --> 01:02:28,600
day. 
And everything changed. 

942
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,100
You didn't know it at the time 
but when you look back now that 

943
01:02:33,100 --> 01:02:39,500
person you met Book, you read. 
That child who is suffering. 

944
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:45,000
Whatever it was something in you
clicked and you became a 

945
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:50,800
different, a better person. 
And so to that extent, Jim 

946
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:54,400
Ridgeway lives on As will you an
asshole? 

947
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:59,400
I And all the 500,000 half a 
million who have died this year.

948
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,000
Let's make sure they didn't die 
in vain. 

949
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,400
Let's make sure every single one
of them what they gave us lives 

950
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:14,900
on and how we act, what we do. 
yes, how we fought everything, 

951
01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:21,300
what we do for Texas and the 
Texans That way death isn't 

952
01:03:21,300 --> 01:03:25,600
death. 
Maybe that's what the the 

953
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:30,500
Hebrews traveling through the 
desert for 40 years or the early

954
01:03:30,500 --> 01:03:36,400
Christians or the whatever 
Buddhist all had, the sense that

955
01:03:36,900 --> 01:03:41,300
this wasn't really the end that 
there was a life after death. 

956
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,400
And so, you know, maybe, I don't
know. 

957
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,400
They came up with this idea. 
They wrote it in the book. 

958
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:53,500
But what I do know is that it 
does it does go on after us if 

959
01:03:53,900 --> 01:03:56,900
especially if we've lived a 
life. 

960
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,700
Where we gave? 
Where we sacrificed. 

961
01:04:03,500 --> 01:04:08,500
Where we did something. 
Then we live. 

962
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:17,500
We live on. 
Thanks so much for listening to 

963
01:04:17,500 --> 01:04:26,600
this episode. 
Wow, we began with the death of 

964
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:34,500
Rush Limbaugh. 
The deaths of Texans victims of 

965
01:04:34,500 --> 01:04:42,000
ignorance and stupidity of those
in power covid, the dead and the

966
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:43,900
dying that we continue to live 
with. 

967
01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:46,900
And my good friend, Jim 
Ridgeway. 

968
01:04:49,300 --> 01:04:53,100
I'm okay. 
I am just reflecting. 

969
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,100
On the importance of all of 
this. 

970
01:04:56,900 --> 01:05:00,600
In the good, good, the canoe, 
the good. 

971
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:05,300
I believe that, I believe it cuz
I'm going to get up from this 

972
01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:08,100
chair and do something. 
I hope you do. 

973
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,200
My thanks to our executive 
producer, bezel Hamden, our 

974
01:05:13,300 --> 01:05:16,900
editor and sound engineer. 
Nick wants all the people who 

975
01:05:16,900 --> 01:05:20,900
listen to him support the show. 
Send me an email here. 

976
01:05:20,900 --> 01:05:23,600
Mike, Mike more.com, if you want
I read all my email. 

977
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,300
Leave me a voice message here. 
There's a link right here on the

978
01:05:26,300 --> 01:05:29,800
podcast page. 
Tell people to listen to this 

979
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:34,100
shared. 
It's all free and I'm grateful 

980
01:05:35,300 --> 01:05:40,200
grateful to all of you who 
participated in this with me and

981
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,200
Michael Moore. 
And this is rumba. 

982
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:03,400
I can't feel you anymore. 
I can't even touch that, but 

983
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:09,600
still here at time, I crawled 
past your door. 

984
01:07:09,700 --> 01:07:34,600
I've been wishing 
I've been double-crossed. 

985
01:07:45,900 --> 01:07:47,700
Separated you from me.