0123123 Yes 123 This is what I do before each Broadway show.
So they they provide all these people for you.
When you have a while, you're on Broadway.
That's where I was. I was on Broadway made by
Broadway. Debut in my 60s and and they so
they you know they provide you with security.
They give you a driver, pick you up at your apartment, make sure
you're there on time. You get your dressing room, the
dressing room has a nice comfortable couch or cot or you
can take a little nap before you go out on stage.
All these little perks but one is the voice instructor and.
I said, well, what do I need a voice instructor for him?
I'm not doing a musical. No, no, no, no.
You're going to do 100 shows, and the goal is to not miss a
single night. So how do you do 100 shows in a
row and still have a voice after the 20th show?
So I had this wonderful individual who taught me a few
tricks. So the most important thing you
can do to strengthen your voice. Preserve it is to do what we as
humans kind of, I don't know, I guess naturally do.
When we're in the shower, you just sing, you know, it's the
safe space for all of us to sing because nobody can hear us,
basically. And he said the best thing you
can do is just sing for 10 minutes in the shower.
I said, well, what do I sing? Whatever you want to sing,
Whatever comes in your head. So I did that.
I did. I did that.
Everyone. And I think I would.
I mean, I'm I'm probably prone to sing in the shower anyways,
but I I would just start singing, you know, do a deer, a
female deer ray, a drop of golden sun.
Yeah, so that's my that's my Broadway intonation.
Me, a name I call myself. Far a long, long way to run.
And it seemed to work, because I never lost my voice.
I never missed a single one of the hundred shows that I did in
this limited run at the Belasco Theater.
What was it? W 44th St. between Broadway and
6th Ave. It was a great experience.
I had a lot of fun and I didn't have to cancel a single show my
last night on the way home, the driver said to me.
Wow, this has been a great run. I think you might be the only
person I've driven here in 20 some years that never took a
night off, never missed a show, and didn't get sick.
I said really? Wow, did I make a mistake?
Maybe I should have taken a break, but I don't know.
I had such a blast doing it. The crowds were great.
I made-up things that we would just go do with the audience.
I tell them at the end of the show here, I've got 4 double
Decker buses sitting out on the street.
Anybody wants to go over to Trump Tower with me?
You're welcome. Come other nights, I would just
make a deal with some of the food carts on the street.
Say, hey, you know the hot dog cart.
Can you be here? Like when my show is getting
out, I want to give everybody who's come to the show a free
hot dog. And I get in the cart with them
and help make the hot dogs and people come out.
Everybody got a free hot dog. I got to talk to the audience in
that way. It's different.
Called up Ben and Jerry's is hey, can you bring an ice cream
card over? Geez, we did that three or four
nights. I think during the 100 day run.
I got to serve them up. It's a lot of fun.
It's a great experience. I can't wait to do it again
actually, but I just got a bunch of little things I want to talk
to you about, so won't be long. I'm still on strike.
Not from the podcast, not from my substack.
But I'm a member of the Writers Guild.
I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild, SAG.
I'm a member of the Director's Guild.
But the Director's Guild is not on strike.
So I'm I'm on a double strike from working on any film or
television work, essentially. For whatever reason, there's an
exemption right now if you. Are writing or acting in
commercials, that's allowed. If you're on a soap opera,
that's allowed. If you do reality TV, that's
allowed. If you're in the news department
and you're doing news or nonfiction, that's for the news
department. That's allowed, But everything
else is not. And vast, vast majority of the
members, all of us in both unions, voted in favor of the
strike. You know, just the chatter I'm
hearing is that it's not going to be over for some time.
So the studios and the networks are assume losing a lot of
money. Writers and actors are not being
paid. Now, of course, you know, the
top actors there, don't worry about them.
They'd be the first to tell you they're all in support of the
strike. But they, you know, they make
millions of dollars per movie or TV series or whatever, but it's
for everybody else. There's so much writing that
goes on in TV and in film, and of course there's all kinds of
actors, not just the big stars, but people have just a few lines
or they're in the TV drama and they they're on a one episode
and they're there for only one day of filming.
So the unions are just trying to create a balance here between
the streamers and the old school studios and TV networks so that
there's just some equity here. And so that they're covered.
You know, these, they're really guilds.
They're not really the kind of union I grew up with my family
being UAW members, United Auto Workers.
You know, if you're in Screen Actors Guild or the Writers
Guild, the Directors Guild, they all have different rules and
different ways They calculate when you're covered by the
health insurance and when you're not, what you get a pension for,
what you don't get a pension for.
When I was growing up with the auto Workers Union, it was just
you're an auto worker and that's it, You're in the union.
And you stay in the union. And then my, my father lived
till almost 93 years old. He was able to retire after 30
years and live the next 40 years of his life with his union
pension and his union health insurance.
They took care of all their workers in the guilds, the
actors and the writers, directors, everybody.
They're all trying to do the same thing.
So right now I'd say it doesn't look very good.
I think a lot of the senses within the unions, nobody's
going to have a job for the rest of this year.
So that's not good news. It's not good news for us.
It's not good news for you. You're probably missing some of
your favorite shows on TV. Some of the networks banked a
number of episodes or new series or whatever there.
Trying to get by with right now, but you know they're going to
run out of the good stuff pretty soon.
You're not going to have fall TV shows to watch.
So that's the update on the the strikes.
Speaking of auto workers, the UAW begins their negotiations
for new contracts with General Motors and Ford and Chrysler.
Chrysler, which is called something outside.
I don't even understand what the name means.
It's like Spectrum or Verizon. Where I don't know what those
mean, but at least I know. I know Spectrum and Verizon.
I don't know the new name for Chrysler.
Still on to something like that. But I I want to take a minute
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And then I'm going to come back and I'm going to just quickly go
over a bunch of things with you regarding what's happening in
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Okay on to the few things I wanted to discuss today.
Let's start with Maui. It's so, so sad to see what's
going on and it right away. You're starting to think this
has been going on now for days and days and where is the
Calvary? Where is the where is the aid?
Where are the ships heading from the West Coast to Hawaii to help
them what is going on? Look, I'm in the dark as much as
you are about this, I. Watch TV and read the newspaper,
but something doesn't seem right.
Seems like a huge screw up from the beginning in terms of no
sirens going off, no alerts going out to people, everybody
trapped. As I'm recording this, there's
over 100 now that have been killed and there's close to 1000
people missing. Now granted, I'm sure the
majority of them are missing because.
Well, people can't find family and friends and loved ones
because the cell towers are out, the electricity's out, It's
impossible to communicate and find anybody.
And so people are living in this horrific panic day after day
after day, and it's, I just really feel for everybody out
there in Maui. The reasons for this I've
started to do some reading about this and decisions that have
been made, environmental decisions that have been made
again. I'm sorry I keep hounding on
this, but where are our environmental leaders?
Where are the environmentalists of old?
You know, the hardcore fight for the planet, Save the whales?
You know, they're now getting backing from hedge funds and and
corporate America and Wall Street and everybody's green.
Oh, look how green we are. You know, and if you just dig a
little bit into this and, you know, I've talked about this
before and you've read things I've written, and hopefully you
saw Jeff Gibbs's film that I executive produced called Planet
of the Humans. If you haven't watched this
film, we have really screwed up on so many levels.
What an awful summer this has been for this planet, and so
much time has been lost. We're fighting fights that
should have been fought and won 50 or 60 years ago.
And yet we're still, we're still trying to get the same things.
Can somebody get some more solar panels, put up some more
windmills? We're so far beyond that in
terms of us, the planet being saved, way beyond that.
And yet every politician, now at least every, you know,
Democratic politician but. Even some of the Republicans
have figured out, Oh yeah, if I look green, if I sound green, I
support green. That's what the people want, of
course, it's what the people want.
The vast majority of Americans want stronger environmental
laws. They want, they want us to be
moving forward to stop the onslaught that we're right in
the middle of the Paris Accords. You know, we want to get the
stuff fixed by 20502050. It's 2023 and we're already in
collapse. And yet you still have our
environmental leaders out there as they're now like paid
spokespeople for various industries that are trying to
make money off the so-called green technology.
And you see that some of the largest investors in this green
technology are the oil and gas companies.
I mean because they know their time is up eventually.
They ask fossil fuels the reason why they're called fossil fuels
is they're they're from fossils from long ago.
And we can only drain so much of the energy we need from that.
We've known that for a long time.
The oil and gas companies have known that.
And so they try to get on the bandwagon.
They try to get the federal money or the federal tax breaks
or carbon offsets, all this crap that is not going to save us.
And smart people know this. Great environmental writers and
researchers, investigative reporters, have been telling us
now these things for years. And for some reason, we're not
listening to them or we're getting distracted by the things
that are. Yes, they're good things to do.
We should all do them, but we should have done them in the
1970s, not the twenty 20s. And Maui?
Oh my God. Apparently the Fire Chief for
Maui wasn't there on the day that started.
And the day after. The head of their emergency
whatever that state office. Every state has what emergency
manager and not there for some reason a lot of questions are
being asked. A lot of people in Maui are very
upset and they were left to die. And the rescue response from the
rest of us, the Americans, you know, they're Americans too, you
know, and they're like. Why are we being treated like
Puerto Rico? Oh, wait a minute.
Puerto Ricans are Americans too? Yeah, but yeah, but they're not
a state, right? Hawaii is a state.
But this is all part of the bullshit, because you can look
at any place in America that needs help, and the help doesn't
arrive. I've only been to Maui once.
Wow. Beautiful place.
Wonderful people. But it is a very it's not what
you think it is this island. And I can't speak for the other
Hawaiian islands because I haven't I I've been to Oahu,
that's it. But Maui, there's like, I don't
know. I mean, I, it seemed like there
were like two or three highways that were paved and I was there
and what was that, 20? 13 I mean it was it was mostly
dirt roads, dirt paths. It's jungle.
It's mountains. I mean real jungle, real
jungles, real mountains. And driving on this Mountain Rd.
which was really just going around in circles with the the
car almost hanging off the edge. I guess they're probably used to
driving if you live there. But as someone not from there,
it was pretty scary, frankly. But it was, you know, it was a
wonderful time and again, like I said, the people, the food,
everything. It's wonderful.
But I could see how there's like in terms of ingress and egress
in and out. There's not a lot of choices if
you're trying to run from a fire watching people jump into the
ocean. Just so that they wouldn't catch
on fire. Wow.
And apparently nobody in charge thought this out.
People have been taking boats from the other islands in in the
Hawaiian islands. You know, just grabbing boats
and volunteers and food and water and and just trying to
make their way to Maui to help them out.
People in Maui. We're saying tonight that the
help from the government has been next to nothing but the
volunteers that have come from other parts of the state,
They're very grateful, but they have literally lost everything.
I mean, whole areas, villages, towns are just in hashes.
They're going to find a lot more than 100 dead people, That's
what they're saying. The bodies are charred.
The bodies themselves have turned to ash.
It's the worst wildfire disaster in the last 100 years for all 50
states in this country. And again, everything just seems
very slow to move. No sense of urgency.
Nobody in charge. Nobody had a plan.
Well, you know, there's various places you can go online.
Just, you know, type in help for Maui and if you can help, please
do. But I think we should also let
our elected representatives know that we, we who don't live in
Hawaii, expect massive help immediately right now.
Not another day to be wasted. Won't take much of our time to
make a phone call or two to drop an e-mail to an elected
representative in Congress and demand that this receive
immediate attention. And someone from a a city in
Michigan where the governor allowed the water to be poisoned
and did nothing about it for a very long time.
Help didn't come for a long time.
And then when the help came, it wasn't enough and it still isn't
enough and people still are not drinking the water in Flint.
So I've seen what this country will allow to have happen to an
important city. A city where the the American
car was born. The hometown of General Motors,
where the middle class was created thanks to the unions,
thanks to the unions fighting and creating unions before they
didn't even exist. So that people would be paid a
decent wage, where they would have job security, where they
would have healthcare. All of that, thanks to the
unions and then everybody followed along after Flint in
the 1930s, after our strike was successful, Hundreds of strikes
across the whole country over the next few years to unionize,
to get a fair shake. But when Flint was poisoned, I
know everybody felt bad. I know a lot of people donated
tons of bottles of water, which doesn't fix the situation.
The average American needs uses 80 gallons of water a day for
all all the reasons we use water.
And there's no amount of plastic water bottles could be shipped
to Flint to so that people could do their laundry or take a
shower or take care of their dogs and cats and everything
else that uses water. So I know how, I know in a way
what the people of Maui are feeling like right now and and
I'm sure they're hoping that the cavalry is coming, but well,
we'll see. That's why all the rest of us
have a responsibility to demand action now and to give what we
can to those agencies that will really get the money and the
help through to the people there.
Oh, just a few other things here that I want to talk to you
about. I know this is kind of a sad way
to start things here today, but we did get some good news from
Ohio this week. Very rare for a Michigander to
say there's good news from Ohio. But but last Tuesday, the
Republicans in Ohio were trying to rig the vote for this
November's election because on the ballot in November there is
a ballot proposal to make abortion legal and they're going
to put it in the Ohio State constitution.
And this freaked all the crazies out, all the religious fanatics
who believe a fertilized egg is a is a human being.
And so they wanted to change the rules before the November
election so that when the majority of Ohioans vote to make
abortion legal, which is what they're going to do, every poll
shows that upwards to close to 60% of people in Ohio want
abortion legal and in the state constitution.
So that appears what's that's what's going to happen in
November. So to prevent that from
happening they wanted to pass a new law by setting up a special
election in the middle of the summer in August.
This law was going to, if it passed last week, was going to
require that nothing could get into the state constitution
unless they had 60% of the people voting for it.
And the turnout last week was about as large as it is in the
midterm election. In the off year election in like
it was last year in 2022 that many people showed up for a a a
off off year election for a special ballot proposal.
The polls were packed and the result The right wingers were
sent packing. The majority of people in Ohio
voted 57% to stop them from saying that the new majority in
order to put something in the constitution is 60% of the votes
instead of 50 that lost. It's going to stay 5050% + 1
vote. It's 57% of people in Ohio.
That means a number of Republicans showed up to vote in
the middle of August to say no, you're not going to change the
rules like this. And you're not going to endorse
what the Supreme Court did last summer by taking women's rights
away from them. 57% in favor of not changing the law and
therefore supporting abortion being legal, which will be
officially decided at the November election. 57% for that,
43% in favor of the Christian Right cuckoo campaign that still
exists so that the government controls the reproductive rights
of women. 57 to 43, That's a 14% difference. 14% landslide in
favor of women, in favor of science, in favor of democracy
in a state known as Ohio. OH, I OOHIO Wow.
There's your good news for the week, my friends.
And that's what the Republicans have in front of them for next
year's presidential election. And This is why I will keep
saying that if we do our work and if we get out the vote and
if we show up ourselves, they are not going to be in charge.
They're not going to get the White House back.
And we're going to get the House back in our hands.
And we're going to keep the Senate and we're going to start
doing the things that we should be doing.
And the Democrats are going to have to do what the people want
them to do, not be a bunch of namby pamby.
I don't know. We don't want to upset too many
people. Yeah, well, we're upset.
We, the people have been upset. We're the majority, The majority
who believe in women's rights, The majority who believe we
don't have enough gun control laws, The majority who believe
that the extinction crisis that we're in the middle of on this
planet is real. We are the majority go down any
one of the issues. The majority agree with me and
you and people listening to this, and if you don't agree
with me or you that get on board.
History is happening right now, and this is some heavy stuff by
friends, but if we do our job, if we get the right candidates
running and we get out the vote, the bad guys are not going to be
running the show any longer. And we have one sign after
another showing us that the people are voting on our side.
I mean, when you think about this, over the last year since
the Supreme Court got rid of Roe V Wade, states like Kentucky,
Montana, Michigan, and others have voted in favor of abortion
being legal. You should be buoyed by this.
The American people have changed.
Or more likely, each year 4,000,017 year olds turn 18.
And the younger generation, they don't go for this shit anymore.
Pumpkin on people, on their rights, taking the rights away,
All of that. No.
We've raised a couple of generations of young people that
know what's what when it comes to this planet, when it comes to
bigotry and misogyny and white supremacy and everything else.
And these kids, 4 million every year, 4,000,017 year olds turn
18 and about an about another 4 million, sadly, of elderly
people pass away the largest demographic for the Republican
Party over 65 years old, and we want them to live as long as
possible. Don't don't hear me wrong here,
but I'm just stating what the demographic facts are.
You think about this since Obama was elected by a record turnout
of young people. You know, again, I'll I'll just
give you this fact. Obama only won one white
demographic, only one group of white people, and that was young
white people 18 to 35. He won it with a huge majority
and that put him over the top young people.
And since 2008, you've heard me say this before, 2008 was what,
15 years ago? So that's 4 million new voters
every year that turn 18. And so 4 * 50.
That is 60 million young people that have become voters now.
Yes, all of them don't vote most Americans.
A lot of elections don't vote at all.
And yes, historically, young people vote at a lesser rate.
But that has been changing every election since Obama's election.
It gets better and better and better and more and more and
more young people show up to vote.
There are 60 million in just 15 years.
So in other words, they're all, they're all between the ages of
18, and 3360 million came a voting age in this time period.
And you can see what they've done and what they continue to
do. And the only way the Republicans
can win is through gerrymandering, through racism,
through trying to stifle the vote, oppress the vote, suppress
it. That's the only way now they can
pull off some of the the few victories they get to have Now.
They know their days are numbered.
They know the demographics, too. They're not all stupid.
They know that sometime in the in the twenty 30s or early
twenty 40s, the majority of this country will not be white.
Let's think about that. I mean, already there's a number
of states that are not white majority states, starting with,
of all places, Texas, Texas, 60% of Texas is not white, 60%.
That means 60% of Texas is Hispanic, black, Native
American, Asian. That's the majority of Texas.
Now 40%. Just 40% of Texas is white.
And there are similar stories and demographics that have
already happened in California, New Mexico, Hawaii.
I think we have about 1/2 a dozen states that are considered
the not white majority states. And every year it seems like
another state or two gets added to that.
And that's the way it's going to be.
And they know the only way the the party of white people, the
white privilege white supremacy party, they still call
themselves Republicans. It's the only way they can win,
redraw the maps, gerrymander, the vote.
And if that's really all you've got in your bag of tricks, it's
not going to last. So very hopeful news from Ohio
this week, what seems to be what we're told is a deep RedState.
But you know, if the Democrats got busy and if they really ran
the right candidates recruited the right people that are going
to fight for the people, they'd win more elections.
Stop sending me emails telling me I've got to give $10 by
midnight tonight. Oh man, when does the stop
these? You know I'm talking about,
right? The candidates emails, Democrats
telling us how they're going to lose, how awful it is.
The polls show the Republicans way ahead.
Why are they trying to instill this kind of fear while I know
why they want to raise money? Because we have an election
system based on having to raise 10s of millions of dollars.
We need to vote for people that are going to change that going
to end that system and a system where 50 votes plus one is the
majority. All right, I want to wrap it up
here. I just wanted to just point out
a couple of other things here. I didn't get to Hunter Biden.
I can't believe this is still on the news and another awful week
for the Biden family here, but we'll talk about that next week.
We're all sitting on pins and needles waiting to see what the
District Attorney is going to do in Fulton County, Georgia this
week. Doesn't look good for Trump.
I'll say that. So the 4th indictment coming up,
Get ready Donald, what is your strategy here?
I wrote a sub stack about this last week if you have a chance
to read. If you haven't read it, I'll
I'll put a link here to it. And finally, I'm going to write
something about this at some point here, but one of the best
films I've seen in the last number of years is Barbie.
I know folks, some of you have not seen it yet.
You're thinking this is some movie about a doll.
It is not a movie about a doll. This is one of the funniest, one
of the best satires I I think has ever been made.
And I'm certain you'll agree if you go see this movie, what this
movie has to say about us, our society, about capitalism, about
fascism, about corporate America and yes, the patriarchy.
You know why, it's still a patriarchy though.
Sorry guys, I got to talk to you for just a few minutes here.
Mike, why are you talking about this?
Because it's still a patriarchy. It's a gender apartheid.
The majority gender. Women, who are 51 or 52% of the
population, have a minority of the power.
They don't hold the majority of the power. 29% of Congress are
women, 71% are men. Men make up 48 or 49% of the
population. Or the minority gender.
When the minority controls the majority, what do we call it
folks? What do you call a country where
the minority race is in charge of the majority race, calls all
the shots, owns all the wealth, holds the vast majority of seats
when they shouldn't? It's called apartheid, and this
is gender apartheid. And yes, it took a movie using a
bunch of dolls to tell this story.
A story that we're still struggling with.
A story where 14 months ago, a male dominated Supreme Court
said they would now from now on be in charge of what women can
do with their bodies. And until we fix that, my
friends, it's so fundamental, isn't it?
Go see this movie. So I swear to just if all you
need is a great laugh this summer.
Go for that reason. But you're going to, you're
going to get hit with so many other bonuses watching this film
and dies. Yes, Go and take your sons.
This film has a great message. Thank you Greta Gerwig for
cowriting and directing this incredible movie.
And I'll have more to say about this.
Yeah. I just, I don't want to give a
lot of spoiler alerts, but I think a lot of you have seen it
by now. And the rest of you should try
to see in the next couple of weeks because I'm going to.
I'm going to spoil it all. OK, my friends, thank you for
listening to me today. Let's not forget about the
people in Maui. Let's thank the people of Ohio
for what they did this week. And let's get busy.
Get busy to get busy because we've got a hell of a year ahead
of us here. I'd like to thank my executive
producer, Angela Vargo. She also edits this podcast.
She does a gazillion other things, too in our our little
operation And all of you for listening and being part of
this. I'm Michael Moore, and this is.
Rumble Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
La La La La la. I don't know this song.
These are a few. Of my favorite things, when the
dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply
remember my favorite things. And then I don't feel so bad.
My apologies, everyone. Thanks.
Talk to you next week.