The world is my express you across all my desire.
Jesus blessed me with his future and I'm protected with fire.
So raise your fist and March around.
Just don't take what you need. Rochelle and Perry, those
committed and smother the rest in green.
Throw with me until tomorrow. I'll try and get through your
grave. I'm deep inside your shoulders.
I must swear you in my name. Yes, my friends, that is Rage
Against the Machine. And I'm Michael Moore.
You're listening to Rumble with Michael Moore.
This is my podcast, and we're going to We'll take a few
moments tonight as Rage was just inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame a little over a month ago, and the acceptance
speech given by Rage's guitarist Tom Morello was one of the
greatest things I've ever heard, given in front of a microphone
or from a stage. And I want to share it with you.
So we'll get to that in just a couple of minutes.
In the meantime, I just want to let you know that I've been
working on something here and hopefully I'll I'll have it
ready in the next week or two. It's about what we've all been
filled with, sorrow over and anger and rage.
And that's what's going on in Gaza, a mass slaughter of, as
I'm recording this, over 17,000 people, possibly upwards to half
of them children. It happened and is happening at
the hands of the Israeli army. Israeli citizens on October 7th
were met with a slaughter in southern Israel by militants
from Hamas Palestinian group, who is committed to removing the
2.3 million Gazans from the large outdoor prison that has
been created there by the Israeli government.
It's it's been a shocking thing to see.
It's been a very sad thing to witness and it needs to stop.
The slaughter needs to stop. Hamas does not need to kill
anyone else and the Israeli army does not need to try to wipe out
the Palestinian people. This is just madness.
So I've been working on something.
I've been trying to figure this out on my own, trying to come up
with what we should do, what we can do, how we can bring this
hate and the slaughter to an end.
I think a lot of you I hope will appreciate the thinking that I'm
putting together on this. And and to sort of answer the
everyday what we're watching on the news, the sort of weird PR
campaign that's going on, on one end watching the president of
our country, our country don't as the bank sends billions of
dollars to Israel every year. The idea of that, I think there
in the early years was to try and support and be there for the
people that had faced their own slaughter.
Mass executions of the Holocaust back in the 1930s and 40s and
when the war was over. A desire amongst good people in
the world to help the survivors of that madness somewhere we,
everyone, others, lost our way once again and now it's just
it's just this what we're watching every night on the
television. So I hope you will look forward
to this. It should be coming together
here and like I said in the next week or so here on this podcast
and also on my sub stack. If you're not signed up for my
sub stack, it's free and just go to michaelmoore.com.
You can sign up for it. No paywall.
It's it's all free. So do that if you can, but I'll
be letting you know about what's coming here in the next week or
so and we'll see maybe if I have a a good idea or two that can
bring the slaughter to an end and to stand up for the people
who have not that many people standing up for them these days.
So I hope you join with me in in doing that.
What we're going to do today on the podcast is to play the
acceptance speech from lead guitarist Tom Morello of Rage
Against the Machine as Rage was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame a little over a month ago.
I really want you to to listen to this.
It blew me away as I watched him there on the stage say the
things that don't usually get said, speak directly to the
people, the hard working people, the barely working people, the
working poor of this country, of the world.
Very few people take their side and this band has done that for
so many years. They have had some reunion
concerts, you know, I think we all hope that they will get back
together again someday. I became very good friends with
them. I admired them greatly.
They were inspiring to me. I ended up doing AI don't know,
two or three music videos for them.
Sleep Now in the Fire and testify and it's they were great
to work with. You can Google them or get them
on YouTube and watch them if you'd like.
But man, brave, bold, brash, you know, take no prisoner's
attitude to stand up and fight. Corporate America, to stand up
and fight the the military industrial complex to fight
racism and hatred, all forms of bigotry.
They just put it right out there.
And you know, those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, you
know, we had our protest music as it was called back then, but
there hasn't really been a lot of that in subsequent
generations. There's been some of it and some
of it has been outstanding. But Rage Against the Machine
Wow, 4 albums. That's it.
Four studio albums. Rage Against the Machine, Their
first one. Evil Empire, The Battle of Los
Angeles and Renegades. Man, the the, the unbelievable
work on just those albums. And then they're great tours.
They're live tours. The ones I attended were just
mind blowing. One time they asked me to come
up, I was in Detroit to introduce them on the stage
before they came out. Oh man, to walk out on a stage
and there's like at least 2530 thousand people there and all
the ones on the floor in a giant mosh pit and all kinds of stuff
being thrown at the stage. It was, it was something I have
never seen and have not seen since.
And I got to I got to I was asked to speak at the counter
inaugural, the protest against Trump's election the day after
his inauguration in January of 2017 where everybody wore the
pink hats and the I couldn't, you know, I'm standing on that
stage down by the Capitol looking up to the Washington
Monument. I can't even see where the crowd
ends, meaning there had I know that the Earth is round, so at
some point it does start to curve.
Well at every point it curves, right?
It's a it's a ball. So I really felt like can I not
see the horizon anymore because there's just so many, you know
there are 1,000,000 plus people at that.
So I have. I have had the privilege of
seeing what that looks like, But 30,000 people at a Rage Against
the Machine concert is its own thing.
And I was lucky to be able to be part of that, lucky to be able
to make these music videos for them.
They're good souls. They're still with us.
They're still making their own music.
And I can't wait to hear more of it.
So to all of you who are part of this band, Zach de la Roca, the
incredible vocalist and lyricist, Brad Wilk the drummer,
Tim Cummerford a bass player, and Tom Morello, the guitarist.
I hope you guys all know what an inspiration you've been to so
many people. And we don't want your voices to
ever go silent. So please, a humble plea from
all of us to keep that going, to keep testifying.
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I think it's time we we turn this over to Mr., Tom Morello,
league guitar player and overall great guy, guru of the band.
And again, this was just an amazing thing at the Barclays
Center just a little over a month ago when Rage Against the
Machine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Tom Morello was there to accept the honor and to share it with
all his fans. So without any further ado,
let's turn this over to Tom Morello from Rage Against the
Machine. My name my name is Tom Morello
and I'm 1/4 of Rage Against the Machine.
I am deeply grateful for the musical chemistry I've had the
good fortune to share with Brad Wilk, Tim Comerford, and Zac de
La Rocha. Like most bands, we have
differing perspectives on a lot of things, including about being
inducted into the Rock Hall. My perspective is that tonight
is a great opportunity to celebrate the music and the
mission of the band. To celebrate with the 5th member
of the band and that is Rage Against the Machines.
Incredible fans, you're the reason we are here, and the best
way to celebrate this music is for you to carry on that mission
and that message. The lesson I've learned from
RAGE fans is that music can change the world.
Daily, I hear from fans who have been affected by our music and
in turn, have affected the world in significant ways.
Organizers, activists, public defenders, teachers, the
presidents of Chile and Finland have all spent time in our mosh
pit. When protest music is done
right, you can hear a new world emerging in the songs, skewering
the oppressors of the day and hinting that there might be more
to life than what was handed to us.
Can music change the world? The whole fucking aim is to
change the world, or at a bare minimum, to stir up a shit load
of trouble. When Rage started, we rehearsed
deep in the San Fernando Valley. This guy passed by our place
regularly and one day asked what are you guys doing in there.
We said we're a band. He asked to hear us and we said
sure. He came in, sat down.
This is the first guy to ever hear the music of Rage Against
the Machine. We played him a couple songs.
After we finished, we asked him what he thought.
He paused, stood up and said, Your music makes me want to
fight. Throughout history, the spark of
rebellion has come from unexpected quarters.
Authors, economists, carpenters. But as Salvador Allende said,
there is no revolution without songs.
So who's to say what musicians might or might not be able to
achieve with revolutionary intent when the bouncing crowd
makes the Richter scale shape? Personally, I'd like to thank my
wife Denise and my kids who remind me daily that the world
is worth fighting for. And thanks to all the musicians
and change makers who helped shape the band's collective
vision. Rage has also been fortunate to
have so many talented Co workers and Co conspirators who have
believed in the band. From Michael Goldstone, the guy
who signed us and insisted the first radio single be an
unedited song featuring 17 cuss words to the greatest guitar
tech of all time. Slim Richardson, thank you and
thanks and deep appreciation to the hundreds of others, from
those who put up Flyers to those who have moved mountains to
amplify the message and the music.
But I hear in the music is this, that the world is not going to
change itself. But throughout history, those
who have changed the world in progressive, radical, or even
revolutionary ways did not have any more money, power, courage,
intelligence, or creativity than anyone watching tonight.
The world's changed by average, everyday, ordinary people who
have had enough and are willing to stand up for a country and a
planet that is more humane, peaceful, and just.
And that, and that is what I'm here to celebrate tonight, fans
often ask, but what can I do? Well, let's start with these
three things. One, dream big and don't settle.
Two, aim for the world you really want without compromise
or apology. And three, don't wait for us.
Rage is not here, But you are. The job we set out to do is not
over. Now you're the ones that must
testify. If you've got a boss, join a
union. If you're a student, start an
underground paper. If you're an anarchist, throw a
brick. If you're a soldier or a cop,
follow your conscience, not your orders.
If you're bummed out you didn't get to see Rage Against the
Machine, then form your own band and let's hear what you have to
say. If you're a human being, stand
up for your planet before it's too late.
So tomorrow. So tomorrow, crank up some rage
and head out and confront injustice wherever it rears its
ugly head. It's time to change the world,
brothers and sisters, Or at a bare minimum, to stir up a shit
load of trouble. And finally, and finally, a
special thanks. A special thanks to my mom, Mary
Morello, a retired public high school teacher, a proud Rage
Against the Machine fan and a lifelong radical who turned 100
years old a couple of weeks ago. She's watching at home tonight.
But she asked me to tell you this history, like music is not
something that happens. It's something you make.
Thank you very much. Wow.
Powerful man. Oh man, was that just amazing?
Share that with your friends, people you work with, people you
go to school with. That just was one of the best
speeches I've I've ever heard. It was just amazing.
And as I said, Tom's been a friend for a long time, a good
soul, a great leader, and an overall shit kicker and fighter.
For the good I we, all of us, thank you, Tom and Brad and Tim
and Zach for giving us that great decade of Rage Against the
Machine. For what you've gone on to do
since then, in your various endeavours, with Audioslave,
with Tom and the Night Watchmen and Zach, with your solo work,
your poetry, your activism, everything.
All of you have done what you've stood and fought for.
It's been inspiring. And I know, like Tom said here
in his speech, his main hope is that one or two or twenty of you
listening to this right now decide that it's your time.
It's your time to have your voice heard, to not be afraid.
I I can't tell you how much I endorse this message and my
sincere hope that you don't just sit back and say, oh, well, I
mean, I would never get to have my music or my voice or my movie
or whatever heard or seen. I mean, I'm just me.
I'm just sitting here and Wilmette IL No, no, I'm going to
tell you, that's the big lie. They want you to believe that
you have no real power, that you have no ability or means by
which to reach. Thousands or millions of other
people, you do. You hold it right now in your
hands. And I want to personally
encourage you to make that voice heard.
Do it. All right.
I hear the band playing. So I guess that's my cue.
Thank you, everybody, for listening to the show.
Thank you to my Executive Producer and editor Angela
Vargos, to all the people who've helped me on this podcast, and
to all of you who listen to it. Much much appreciation.
Let's go out now once again with Rage Against the Machine.
Take care, everyone. None.
A band called The Machine Rages on or Rage Against the Machine.
That band is anti family and it's pro terrorists.