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Let all acquaintance be 
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Never brought it one. 
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for God, for the sake of All 
Blacks, For All Blacks sign my 

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tears. 
For all black, Sign Wednesday a 

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couple. 
Well, happy New Year everyone. 

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This is Michael Moore. 
This is my podcast Rumble with 

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Michael Moore and I was thinking
about what to say to you today 

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tonight. 
Or maybe it's already turned 

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into New Year's Day. 
Or it's New Year's Week. 

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This was some year, folks. 
This was a crazy year. 

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And yet I have. 
A lot of crazy, weird optimism 

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about the coming year, which 
means it could all go to hell in

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a handbasket, as far as I know. 
I mean, none of us know we don't

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have a crystal ball. 
But I thought I would just end 

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the year with a just a quick 
recap of what we've been 

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through, but what we may not 
have to go through in the coming

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year. 
In other words, we may find 

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ourselves a bit surprised by the
way things could turn around. 

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I know, I know, a lot of you are
not hopeful and you feel 

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helpless. 
And I don't blame you because 

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there is at least a portion of 
every single day I feel that 

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way. 
But usually by the end of most 

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days I have the sense. 
Of maybe. 

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Just maybe. 
We can turn this around. 

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It doesn't have to be this way. 
We don't have to be this way to 

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each other. 
We could wake up. 

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We could realize the job that we
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can actually accomplish it. 
You know, I have never been 

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drunk. 
That's the God's honest truth. 

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I'm not bragging about that. 
I'm not saying that I've been a 

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good boy. 
I don't know why this thought 

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came into my head today. 
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alcohol is often involved on 
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And thinking about how I've 
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weird, right? 
I mean, was I never young? 

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Did I not live a life? 
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Am I not Irish? 
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the taste of most alcohol. 
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I and I've been on that maybe 
that borderline where I begin to

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see like, Oh yeah, I get this. 
This is kind of like things that

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are slowing down. 
I see. 

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I feel a little less afraid. 
Maybe I'll say what I've been 

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wanting to say, but I've never 
said and now I'm going to say 

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it. 
So yeah, I've. 

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I've been sort of there, you 
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the line is and I know that I've
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been able to last long enough, 
whether it's a beer or whether 

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it's liquor or whatever, I just 
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sips or that first glass or the 
first bottle or whatever without

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just feeling like, damn, I hate 
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That's really all it is. 
And I'm saying this knowing that

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a number of you listening to 
this either have a serious 

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problem with this. 
It's alcohol or there are people

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in your family who do, or loved 
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There are people that may have 
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Haven't I just described every 
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your family or your extended 
family or your extended 

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community or your friends and 
neighbors and Co workers and 

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classmates, and we've all 
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a lot of grief. 
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about this, and I certainly 
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person who says, hell, I've I 
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Look at this you know. 
It's like all the rest of us. 

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We've had COVID or those. 
Of you who have had it. 

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what we've kind of all been 
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there is, there is probably I 
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population that never got it and
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Reason. 
Science doesn't know yet and we 

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we don't need them in the room 
bragging about it or like they 

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have some special gene or some 
gift that they haven't received.

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COVID by the way, if you are one
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to tell everybody that you've 
never had COVID and isn't that 

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amazing. 
We're all just looking at you 

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going, you know, with our kind 
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doing a mind melt and going You 
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next week will be wrecked. 
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I just, I think maybe it is time

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that I get drunk. 
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dumps. 
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this year that we've had or what
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I just have thought about that 
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Not that the alcohol would help,
but I think, I think maybe I 

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should just throw caution to the
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Get drunk tonight, don't get 
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do anything that's caused harm 
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But just, you know, just kind of
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wake up in the morning feeling 
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The more I think about this, the
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do this. 
This is not how you're going to 

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spend New Year's Eve. 
But I'm just at that point, my 

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friends. 
I really have reached a point. 

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And I think a lot of you have 
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enough. 
Yes, I'm talking about you, 

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Trump. 
And yes, I'm talking to you, the

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Israeli army. 
Shame, shame on you. 

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And I'm talking about a whole 
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And I'm just going to get it off
my chest here on this podcast 

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and then I'm going to close with
some bright, happy news and and 

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hope. 
That may or may not come true in

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the next 12 months, but I'll 
give you reason enough to 

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continue marching forward here. 
But first, let me thank the 

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underwriters of today's episode 
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They're long time supporters of 

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voice. 
So what we've learned in 2023 

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but maybe haven't quite grasped.
I'm sure you've heard, you know,

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all these end of the year, 
broadcast, podcast stories in 

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the paper, whatever. 
Where they do the year wrap up 

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and they say, here's what 
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So we know already a lot of the 
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repeating here by me, but I I 
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can get to the place where I 
want us to grasp what has 

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happened because I want us to 
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So there's a great headline in 
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day before talking about how 
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record. 
You know, temperature wise, the 

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warming of the the planet is at 
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We're already so far beyond a 
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And here we are, really just 
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return where we won't be. 
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We won't be able to stop it. 
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have to pivot and start finding 
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that we've caused. 
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page of the Times was I don't I 
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supposed to be the hottest year 
on record but dot dot dot this 

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hot. 
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and and then the story was about
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What the, you know, the damage 
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Earth. 
It was really a lot worse than 

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how bad we thought it was going 
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Do you get the? 
Feeling that it's like everybody

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kind of knows this now and then 
we just move on to the next 

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thing we have to do that day or 
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really nothing really is being 
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Don't you have that feeling too?
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Yeah, we see all the stories and
all the alternative energy stuff

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and this and that and whatever. 
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there are now, and look at all 
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Every year, right? 
More and more of these stories 

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and all these corporations have 
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lithium battery this and the 
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whatever. 
Every year we get these stories.

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Every day we get these stories. 
And yet, at the end of the year,

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we have a headline that says not
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that large swaths of ice are 
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year long, it's mind boggling. 
I think we all feel collectively

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helpless that there's nothing we
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We've been snookered by 
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made millions from all the 
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all the crap, all the lobbyists,
all the everything, and got us 

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thinking that. 
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happening and while they may 
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think we call them good things 
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And the results are it's worse 
every single year and you've 

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heard me say this over and over 
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You know, I mean, I'm at an age 
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teenager, but I was there at the
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like what's happened since then.
I mean, some good things did 

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You know, we had the 

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Environmental Protection Agency 
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The Clean Air Act was passed. 
Clean Water Act. 

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I'm not saying nothing's 
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the number one issue, the 
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the middle of, and I'm not 
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whales and all the other things 
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I'm talking about this species, 
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this to their home and it hasn't
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say, wow, not only has it not 
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know, 50 years, it's actually 
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There are a number of things you
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I know you're already thinking 
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have made some progress in some 
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care about in this life. 
But not this, not this. 

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And we fool ourselves and we try
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We try to, you know, And this, 
this year, 2023, will go down, 

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I'm sure, as one of those 
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have tried to turn things 
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the wrong people. 
The wrong people were leading us

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on this issue. 
I'm not talking about the 

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assholes from the oil and gas 
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work on a daily basis to wreck 
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I'm talking about some of our 
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around the word liberal people 
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as those who are fighting the 
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They've wasted a lot of energy, 
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They've preyed upon our hopes, 
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we're smart enough to figure 
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That has not happened and I 
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I'm just one of those people IA 
lot of you, I'm sure the same 

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way you know bullshit. 
When you hear it, immediately 

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you know it. 
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realize, wow, I have been 
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here. 
I didn't realize it at first. 

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They seem like good people. 
They had good ideas. 

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Yes, this will save Planet 
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My friends, my friends. 
We are going to have to take the

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reins of this in our own hands 
to turn this around. 

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And I will continue to make this
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out the ways that we can do that
as individuals and collectively 

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in our neighborhoods and our 
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And how to do it politically on 
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By not listening to the BS 
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those who are calling themselves
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movement when all they've done 
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Street, corporate America, 
capitalism. 

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Because there's money there to 
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And then there windmills and 
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credits. 
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Yeah. 
What do you do about a good idea

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once you realize it isn't a good
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In fact, it's maybe the 
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It's a really bad idea. 
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good people that you respect 
continue to promote the bad idea

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under the guise of it being a 
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Wow. 
I know. 

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It's a heavy thought, right? 
Because you kind of have a a 

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kind of a a human responsibility
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Stop the lies, stop the BS, and 
stop leading us by the nose down

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the wrong Rd. 
In 2019, I helped my friend Jeff

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Gibbs, who directed an 
incredible documentary that over

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20 million of you have seen now.
It's amazing. 

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You can still see anybody wants 
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They could see it for free on my
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I'll put a link up if you want 
to go see. 

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It's called Planet of the 
Humans. 

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I'm sure many of you have 
already seen it. 

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The whole professional corporate
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movement attacked Jeff and me 
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this because we wanted to tell 
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LED down the wrong path. 
And that there's something far 

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more radical that we need to do 
to save this planet and there's 

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no time left. 
I know there's a lot of things 

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going on in the world right now.
There's a lot we need to to deal

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with. 
But why didn't? 

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Why am I making this the number 
one thing to talk about on our 

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year end show? 
Because is there anything really

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that's higher? 
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Our very lives on this very 
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And like I've said before, I 
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figure out how to survive us. 
It's us who aren't going to make

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it or if we do make it in our 
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this off for a 50 to 100 years, 
we're going to be living a 

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miserable, miserable existence. 
And we're going to leave this 

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place to our children and 
grandchildren and great 

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grandchildren. 
And they're going to wonder, who

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the hell were these people? 
What's the answer? 

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What's the note we're going to 
leave behind in the bottle? 

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What's the video that we can put
in one of those things? 

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You know the time capsule thing 
you bury and people open it up 

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100 years later and we're going 
to have to leave not just the 

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video but also the machine, 
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machines we're using today so 
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What would we say? 
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Were we doing? 
While the Earth was crashing. 

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extinction. 
And I'll keep saying it, and 

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I'll keep trying to think of a 
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some good. 
Real good. 

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Not phony, baloney crap baloney 
good. 

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I'm not talking about little 
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to show that we love the Earth. 
I'm talking about real, serious,

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hardcore work that we all have 
to do and politically what we 

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have to do to make this happen. 
And I'm committed to that. 

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And I can't sit here today and 
tell you exactly everything and 

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every step and how we're going 
to do this. 

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But I'll tell you this much, I 
don't miss a day where I don't 

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think about what it is we should
be doing, how to turn this 

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around, how to stop being on the
road that we're on, the 

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so-called Green Rd. that has 
made it worse every single year.

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Some people don't want to hear 
me say that, and I'm sorry. 

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I should have been screaming it 
a lot louder a long time ago. 

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I know you're thinking, Mike, 
what happened to the Happy New 

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Year show? 
We're getting there. 

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We're getting there. 
I just we can't leave 2023 and 

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not talk about how this has been
the worst year ever for climate 

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on this planet. 
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said many times, part of our 
problem is that we keep calling 

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it the problem climate. 
We keep wrapping it around this 

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one word or this one idea. 
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it's about who we are and how we
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Just like when we talk about 
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partially right when they say 
guns don't kill people, people 

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kill people because a gun cannot
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It needs a human being. 
So yes, the guns are a problem 

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and we need to do something 
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to that in a second here. 
But doesn't it imply that we 

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need to do something about 
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Why are we especially we as 
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Why are we such a violent 
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Why don't other countries have 
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each other? 
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Investigating. 
And so the other headline of the

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last day of the year here is 
we've had more mass shootings 

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this year than any previous year
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general. 
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homicides, and especially 
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Why is it the number one cause 
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Guns. 
Gun violence? 

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This is so upsetting and so 
immoral. 

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And so. 
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Why don't the Canadians kill 
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The way we do with guns or any 
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And yes, just about every 
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moment of gun violence. 
Somebody will kill a lot of 

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people in the Czech Republic, 
but to them it's so shocking 

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because it's so rare, because it
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here it happens every single 
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The Gun Violence Archive said 
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652 mass shootings this year 
652. 

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Unbelievable. 
And they happen everywhere. 

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They have it in schools, 
obviously. 

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They happen at work. 
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and churches and synagogues. 
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people live, where most murders 
are amongst people who know each

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other, not some stranger, not 
somebody randomly breaking into 

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your house. 
We kill the people we know and 

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love. 
Well, I made a whole movie about

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this, explaining how I think we 
ended up like this, but I've had

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20 years to think about about 
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Columbine, and I have a lot more
thoughts now and a lot, a lot of

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new ideas of what I think we can
do. 

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I'm not going to discuss that on
this episode today, but I will 

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say that it's something that I 
have personally to myself 

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committed to doing this year, 
that I should share these ideas 

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on how we can decrease gun 
violence in this country. 

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I think some pretty shocking and
shocking only because they might

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just be that simple. 
If we did XY or Z, we could 

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immediately bring this down. 
So that's a piece of because I 

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looked to 2024 that maybe I'll 
be able to do all the stuff 

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about our democracy this year. 
A former president this year was

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arrested in at least one case, 
mugshot, fingerprinted, and told

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that he was being put on trial 
for trying to destroy our 

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democracy, for trying to 
overthrow our democracy, for 

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trying to overthrow an election.
He's now facing 91 felony 

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counts, and he is the front 
runner candidate for the 

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Republican Party, for president 
of the United States. 

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The front runner, the one that 
millions of people want back in 

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the White House. 
And if you believe the polls, 

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which I don't, and I encourage 
you not to, he's ahead of Biden.

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They're telling us he has a 
better chance than Biden of 

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winning the election this year. 
While that should be enough to 

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make you want to jump off the 
couch, head out the door and do 

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something, anything to make sure
that never happens, 2023 will be

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remembered as the year when, for
the first time ever, a president

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or a former president was 
indicted on felony counts and 

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faced multiple years in prison. 
But again, the piece of this 

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that doesn't. 
That doesn't make me want to get

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drunk tonight. 
Is that? 

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And you don't brace yourself, 
because I know a lot of you are 

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very afraid. 
And I have been trying to talk 

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to you about Trump in the sense 
2015, when I first tried to warn

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you about how this was going to 
go down. 

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But. 
By last year, By 2022, when we 

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had our midterm elections. 
Enough of you. 

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Were listening to me by then 
when I told you that there was 

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not going to be a red wave, the 
Republicans were not going to 

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have some massive takeover of 
this country and that turned out

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to be true. 
But that was because many of you

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got your friends and neighbors 
and family out to vote and not a

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presidential year in a in a 
midterm off year election. 

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And you did that and you did it 
in spite of the fact that the 

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media and all the pundits and 
everybody. 

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I was telling you that the 
Republicans were going to have 

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the the early stories where they
were going to take over 50 some 

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seats in the House of 
Representatives on any given 

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day. 
Here's how much they control the

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House right now. 
And and you know, and as you 

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know, they don't do anything. 
They've really passed nothing. 

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They can't get anything done. 
They can't even get somebody to 

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run their own House, a 
Republican. 

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But they are on any given day it
only takes 4 Republicans. 

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This is like this. 435 members 
of the House, but on any given 

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day of just four don't show up 
or they're sick or they decide, 

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you know what, I'm not going 
along with all these nutters 

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here that are running the show. 
My party not going to do it if 

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just 4 Republicans out of how 
many other 221 in the House? 

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Change their mind or decide to 
run as a Democrat because they 

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want to make sure they get re 
elected this year or quit or die

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because you know a lot of them 
are old, just four, and all of a

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sudden the Democrats have 
control. 

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It's that close. 
So they haven't been able to do 

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too much damage in the house 
because they don't really have 

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any kind of a strong majority. 
They they have a razor thin 

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majority and very hard to work 
like that with that many people.

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You can see already how they 
they haven't gotten along with 

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each other. 
So, so I want to say to you that

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I need you to enter 2024 with 
this sense and a belief that 

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Trump is not returning to the 
Oval. 

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Office, that's not going to 
happen. 

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And these Republicans, they've 
cooked their goose. 

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You've seen it already in in 
these off off year elections in 

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00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,200
2023, every time there's been an
abortion question on the ballot,

451
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,920
especially in red states, the 
voters have come out in large 

452
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:23,600
numbers to keep abortion legal 
time after time. 

453
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,200
In Ohio, in Kentucky, in 
Montana. 

454
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,960
These are not, you know, 
so-called liberal places. 

455
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,080
They may not have many liberals,
but they have women. 

456
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,840
Women live in the states. 
Women are the majority gender. 

457
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:50,120
And nobody, nobody I know, 
regardless of what political 

458
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,440
stripe they are, likes the 
government telling them what 

459
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,840
they can do or not do with their
bodies when it when it affects 

460
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,360
not the government. 
But it affects them, their 

461
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,960
lives, their family, who they 
want to be, how they want to 

462
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:14,520
live it really basic things. 
And the Republicans have taken 

463
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,560
the the side against women. 
They are now the anti women 

464
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,840
party. 
They are now the we, the 

465
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,000
Republican Party, want to 
control what you could do with 

466
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,480
your reproductive organs. 
How creepy. 

467
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,239
Does that sound? 
It's madness. 

468
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,600
And what I don't understand for 
the life of me is the 

469
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,360
Republicans after even the all 
these elections this year and 

470
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:42,960
the special elections for 
people. 

471
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,600
I mean, Democrats have been 
winning these special elections 

472
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,800
throughout the country, in state
by state all year long. 

473
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:54,960
You'd think some Republican 
would say, yeah, I don't, I 

474
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,680
don't think we're going to, I 
don't think we're going to win 

475
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,960
in 2024 if we keep telling women
we want our hands on their 

476
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,760
bodies. 
I don't know. 

477
00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:06,600
I don't think that's a good 
position to take. 

478
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,640
I think some of them, I think 
have got that, but they, they 

479
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,000
don't know how to stop the 
runaway train with Trump as the 

480
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,600
conductor. 
We're going to throw a number of

481
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,880
them out in November. 
They know it. 

482
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,680
They know it. 
And I don't know what Trump 

483
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,520
knows. 
But Trump's not coming back. 

484
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,520
And that's because young people,
they don't like any of this. 

485
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,760
They don't want the government 
pushing women around, abusing 

486
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,240
women like this, taking away 
their rights. 

487
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,360
They're angry about it. 
They're going to show up and 

488
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,120
vote. 
And if you put together the 

489
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,760
young voters that are going to 
turn out the black and Hispanic 

490
00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,640
voters, Asian voters, all the 
the the minority groups that are

491
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:07,880
going to vote in November, 
youth, women, people of color, 

492
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,280
that's your majority right 
there. 

493
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:17,600
That's your majority. 
I'll say it again, White men may

494
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:22,360
look like they're in charge, and
they are, to a great extent, 

495
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:37,000
still mucking up the world. 
But they since World War 2, the 

496
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,320
only Democrats that have ever 
been elected to the White House 

497
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:47,400
by winning the white male vote 
was Lyndon Johnson in the 

498
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,640
landslide of 64. 
Barely a year after President 

499
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:58,000
Kennedy's assassination, he got 
the white male vote, and the 

500
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,560
only other time was Bill 
Clinton's second election. 

501
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,680
That's it. 
Every other Democrat that's been

502
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:13,960
elected to the White House, from
John F Kennedy to Jimmy Carter 

503
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:23,040
to Bill Clinton in his first 
term, to Barack Obama and to Joe

504
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,320
Biden, every single one of those
presidents I just named got 

505
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:32,280
elected to the White House by 
losing the white male vote. 

506
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,880
I know you're saying yourself 
that's not possible. 

507
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,480
Even though I've said it now for
what, the last 15 years? 

508
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,040
I just want to keep saying it, 
folks, because they look scary. 

509
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:51,200
They are scary, but their bark 
is their bark, and they are not 

510
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,360
the majority of this country 
anymore. 

511
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,800
White men are not the majority. 
And they certainly, when it 

512
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,480
comes to voting, women vote by a
higher percentage than men do. 

513
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:08,160
And white men? 
It hasn't mattered whether the 

514
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,360
majority of white men voted 
against Barack Obama twice. 

515
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,440
They voted against Biden in 
2020. 

516
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,600
They voted against Kennedy and 
Carter. 

517
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,360
Didn't matter. 
All those Democrats were elected

518
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:30,440
by getting an amazing percentage
of women, people of color, and 

519
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:35,880
especially young people to vote.
And that's what's going to 

520
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,360
happen this year. 
That's what's going to happen. 

521
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,600
And if Trump doesn't know it, 
well, then he's just the fool we

522
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,640
think he is. 
But, but if we get out and work,

523
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,000
we could do a lot of damage to 
really put an end to the white 

524
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,560
supremacy patriarchy that still 
runs too much of this country. 

525
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:06,640
And yes, we have to talk about 
Biden and his the war crimes 

526
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,840
that are being committed in our 
name with our money right now. 

527
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,880
And this is one of the saddest 
things that has happened here 

528
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,760
this year in these last what is 
it now, 2 1/2, almost three 

529
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:26,560
months since the heinous 
massacre of Israelis on October 

530
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,680
7th? 
And the response to that has 

531
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:36,480
been to commit atrocity upon 
atrocity, carpet bombing the 

532
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:44,520
civilians of Gaza, 70% of all 
the dead are either children, 

533
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:51,800
women or the elderly. 
That's their targeted attacks on

534
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,680
the people who committed the 
massacre on October 7th. 

535
00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:00,280
There's been no targeting. 
This has been an excuse to wipe 

536
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,680
out a group of people, to either
wipe them out or move them out. 

537
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,160
And you have to call it what it 
is. 

538
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:14,800
And let me tell you something 
you know you're right to want to

539
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,640
support. 
Our Jewish brothers and sisters,

540
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:22,040
because they have been the 
victims of mass slaughter upon 

541
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:28,080
mass slaughter, not just in the 
last century but for thousands 

542
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:33,240
of years. 
And you're right to stand up for

543
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,720
them, But the best way, the best
way. 

544
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,480
And I set this back When we 
invaded Iraq. 

545
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,880
People were all upset that 
Canada wouldn't join us in our 

546
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,080
invasion. 
France wouldn't join us. 

547
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:51,400
Our allies, right? 
People were mad, especially at 

548
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,360
the French for some reason. 
I'm not quite sure why. 

549
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,800
Freedom Fries. 
Remember that? 

550
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,760
Mad at them for what? 
That's the thing your best 

551
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,760
friend does. 
That's why you need a best 

552
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,560
friend like a Canada or a France
'cause it's You're only your 

553
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,080
best friend that can. 
Tell you you're fucking up. 

554
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,840
You're doing something wrong. 
This is a war crime. 

555
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,760
This is a crime against humanity
invading on a country that had 

556
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,680
nothing to do with 9/11 and 
killing its people. 

557
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,360
That's what they told us. 
We didn't want to hear it. 

558
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,960
And if if you want to, and I 
hope you do, support our Jewish 

559
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,360
brothers and sisters around this
world, one of the best things, 

560
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,600
and this is what all the the 
Jewish peace groups have been 

561
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,960
saying in Israel and in here in 
this country, the best thing you

562
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,720
could do to help protect us is 
to stop this madness, stop this 

563
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:56,600
killing, stop the genocide, stop
Netanyahu, help us. 

564
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,400
Throw him out. 
Can't we can't do much about 

565
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,800
throwing him out. 
Well, there is one thing we 

566
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,960
could do. 
Stop bankrolling him. 

567
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:13,000
Billions upon billions of 
dollars of our tax dollars going

568
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:18,080
to help, help, hurt, not help 
hurt. 

569
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,480
This country, this country, the 
country of Israel. 

570
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,920
The I'm not the first one to say
this, am I? 

571
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,200
Or is it? 
The people are afraid to say it 

572
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,480
because really, I think if you 
love Israel. 

573
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,040
Is this what you think Israel 
should be doing in your name? 

574
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,040
My name with our money? 
Really. 

575
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,240
I don't think you think that. 
I know, deep down, you don't 

576
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:53,360
think that. 
I know you see how horribly 

577
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,640
wrong this has gone? 
That those hostages are still 

578
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,760
being held, if they aren't 
already dead from all the 

579
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:08,890
bombing we've done. 
Here's what I don't do if you if

580
00:43:08,890 --> 00:43:11,770
you kidnap my grandmother and 
hold her hostage. 

581
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,360
And you're in some house or some
place or wherever you're at. 

582
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,960
I do not want the United States 
Air Force to bomb that house. 

583
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:27,640
I do not want to put her life in
risk because I'm trying to stay 

584
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,440
in office. 
I'm trying to avoid, as 

585
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,600
Netanyahu is, his felony 
indictments, his court trials 

586
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,680
that were supposed to have taken
place at by the end of this year

587
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,080
and now he's got an excuse to 
declare a semi martial law. 

588
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,880
All this stuff is off the table 
now. 

589
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:52,840
All the fact that that he was 
perhaps on his way to prison and

590
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,880
right now even 82% of the Jewish
the the Israeli citizens want 

591
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,760
him removed. 
Large numbers of Jewish citizens

592
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,840
of this country want him 
removed. 

593
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:05,640
First of all, he didn't protect 
them. 

594
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,960
We send all that money there to 
protect the people. 

595
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,600
And he pulled the army back. 
He sent them off to the West 

596
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,200
Bank to help the settlers, sent 
them up to the Lebanese border. 

597
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,840
Where were they that day? 
Where was the army? 

598
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,440
Where were the police? 
Where was? 

599
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,560
Why were people hiding for 14 
hours? 

600
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,160
Well, I'm not the only one. 
To ask you that. 

601
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,640
The Israeli citizens are asking 
that Israeli newspapers have 

602
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,880
done a great job investigating 
what was really going on. 

603
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,080
The truth is coming out and and 
hopefully Netanyahu will be 

604
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:50,120
gone. 
But I have to stop here on this 

605
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,920
last day of the year and 
entering the first day of the 

606
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,480
new year and ask what are we 
going to do about this? 

607
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:03,200
Because we've lost Biden. 
He's all Huggy Wuggy. 

608
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,560
You're running over there 
hugging Netanyahu. 

609
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,240
All this, this. 
Let's send more money. 

610
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,320
Let's send more bombs. 
Let's send whatever support we 

611
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,160
can. 
The the support is not 

612
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,920
supporting these Israeli people 
who, you know, have a right to 

613
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,880
live like everybody else does in
this planet. 

614
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:33,640
He's guaranteeing more killing 
of Israelis, more killing. 

615
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:47,240
And I don't know what I am. 
I know he's doing all these back

616
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,960
channel things. 
I know he doesn't like 

617
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,040
Netanyahu. 
I know all the things I think 

618
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,120
that we've learned about this 
and he's trying to control them.

619
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,200
But he hasn't done a very good 
job of that. 

620
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,680
There's close to 22,000 dead 
people, dead Palestinians, 

621
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:14,640
civilians, children. 
And it's being done in your 

622
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,880
name, my friends, and my name 
with your tax dollars and mine. 

623
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,720
And I am so distraught about 
this. 

624
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,040
And I know many of you are, too.
And I know, I mean those of us 

625
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:37,040
who joined Jewish Voice for 
peace, if you haven't joined 

626
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:42,400
them, you should Jewish Voice 
for Peace and support them 

627
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,000
these. 
This is a worldwide organization

628
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,680
but it's mostly started here in 
this country, started in 

629
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,000
California a number of years 
ago. 

630
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,040
You know and they what they are,
they are they are Jews reaching 

631
00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:01,960
out to us, non Jews asking us to
please join them in stopping the

632
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,920
slaughter, the madness, the 
apartheid, all of that. 

633
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,640
And I think we have a 
responsibility to do that 

634
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:20,600
because this can't go on. 
This has to stop. 

635
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,480
We're entering this new year 
with blood on our hands. 

636
00:47:30,610 --> 00:47:39,880
Biden, President Biden, please. 
You are really the only person 

637
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,840
that has the power to stop it. 
Because if you shut the bank 

638
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,120
down, where? 
The bank, by the way, or the 

639
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:54,200
bank for all this, close the 
tower window at the bank. 

640
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,280
And that's going to be pretty 
much the end of that for a 

641
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:06,100
while. 
This has to be done. 

642
00:48:07,780 --> 00:48:10,060
There can be no equivocation 
about this. 

643
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:19,680
The ceasefire has to. 
Happen now and don't don't cloud

644
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,600
the issue with what about them? 
What about Hamas? 

645
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:29,400
What about, you know, they did 
their atrocity and I hope those 

646
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:35,080
who participated in it will be 
found, not killed. 

647
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:40,760
Found and brought to justice. 
That's what civilized people do.

648
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,760
In fact, that's what we did at 
the end of World War 2 with the 

649
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,160
Nazis. 
We just didn't walk up to each 

650
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,320
one of the leaders of the whole 
thing and put a bullet in their 

651
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,640
head. 
They actually got a trial. 

652
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,440
Not a show trial, a real trial. 
They got to have their own 

653
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,200
lawyers. 
The whole thing was televised. 

654
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:07,200
They got to say the most 
outrageous things from the 

655
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:13,440
witness stand about why they 
thought Jews were not human and 

656
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,360
why they had every moral right 
to exterminate 6 million of 

657
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:25,200
them. 
They got a trial, These Hamas 

658
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,400
people who went in there and did
what they did on October 7th 

659
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:36,520
there, there's there's no effort
to capture them because we're 

660
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,400
too busy killing their families 
because, you know, that's what 

661
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,920
you do when somebody commits an 
atrocity. 

662
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,080
You go, you know, it's like, 
let's say somebody you know from

663
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:53,520
the Bronx broke into my 
apartment building here and, you

664
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,760
know, killed by family, killed 
by neighbors, killed by friends.

665
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,520
You know, there's hundreds in 
this apartment building killed 

666
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,880
by this team of people from the 
Bronx. 

667
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,040
Well, you know what we have to 
do then? 

668
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,120
If something like that happened,
we have to go and bomb the 

669
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,120
Bronx. 
We have to go and kill the 

670
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,360
family members of these people, 
their friends, their neighbors, 

671
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,840
anybody, anybody. 
Looks like they might be from 

672
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,120
the Bronx. 
Mow them down. 

673
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,160
Why? 
Well, because some people from 

674
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:33,640
the Bronx killed a bunch of 
people here in this apartment 

675
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:37,960
building. 
Who would think like that? 

676
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,160
Who would propose that? 
What is the difference between 

677
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:47,200
that and what is going on right 
now that you and I are running? 

678
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,840
We are the puppet masters, My 
friends. 

679
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,960
Don't put your head in the sand 
on this. 

680
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,320
And I know we, we are like, 
powerless as individuals to do 

681
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:02,120
anything about this today. 
But how many of you are going to

682
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,000
live with yourselves and 
tolerate this going on 

683
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:13,680
throughout 2024-2025? 
How many more dead children can 

684
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,960
you handle seeing on TV? 
I bet you don't even watch it 

685
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:17,280
anymore. 
Turn it off. 

686
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,320
Stay away from it. 
It's gross. 

687
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,160
It's awful. 
It's sickening. 

688
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:34,520
But they had to die. 
They had to die because some 

689
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,480
people of this much larger group
of people, the Palestinians, 

690
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,280
some of them committed an 
atrocity. 

691
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:48,680
Instead of going and finding and
arresting those who committed 

692
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,440
the atrocity, let's just kill 
every one of them and anyone 

693
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:57,800
that looks like them. 
This is sick. 

694
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,200
You know it. 
I know it. 

695
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,160
And millions of Israelis, they 
may not be the majority, but 

696
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,760
there are 1,000,000 who agree 
with what I just said. 

697
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:23,920
And millions of Jews in this 
country are working hard to turn

698
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,520
this thing around to stop the 
massacre. 

699
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:31,800
But we don't have the power, do 
we? 

700
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:39,960
And I hate the cynicism of the 
Democratic Party leaders, and 

701
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,960
especially of Biden thinking 
because, well, what are we going

702
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,440
to do this year? 
Not vote for Biden. 

703
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:47,600
Vote for Trump. 
That's our choice. 

704
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,400
No, nobody is voting for Trump 
that voted for Biden in the last

705
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,520
election, right? 
Let's just say that right out 

706
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,120
loud. 
Nobody's voting for Trump. 

707
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:58,400
So then what are you going to 
do? 

708
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:06,080
You know a symbolic vote for 3rd
party candidate makes you feel 

709
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:07,360
good. 
Get the anger out. 

710
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:15,120
That'll teach him. 
I mean, please tell me there's 

711
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:25,720
an adult way to reign Biden in 
to make him stop this as opposed

712
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:30,520
to the 13 year old way of of. 
And you're going to pay for 

713
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,360
this, Joe Biden. 
You're going to pay for. 

714
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:38,840
This you'll see. 
I I did that so well because the

715
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,400
13 year old of me is feels 
exactly that way, because that 

716
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:50,440
is what I want to tell him. 
But if I'm allowed to be my 

717
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:57,600
mature self for a minute or two,
we have to stop this, my 

718
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:04,960
friends, And for this being 
maybe the biggest, biggest 

719
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:14,080
catastrophe of 2023, how do we 
dare let it continue into 2024? 

720
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,960
No, right? 
And I know, yes, we have a lot 

721
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,920
to do. 
Hottest year ever. 

722
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:28,040
More mass shootings than ever in
this country. 

723
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:35,760
Everything else. 
The fact that that that Roe V 

724
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:41,520
Wade now gone still hasn't been 
made the law of the land. 

725
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,440
How the rich this year got even 
more rich. 

726
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:55,040
The gap between those who have 9
slices of the pie and then the 

727
00:54:55,040 --> 00:55:01,240
10th slice, everybody's left to 
fight over so many things we 

728
00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:03,680
need to fix. 
They're still trying to ban 

729
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:13,560
books in schools and libraries, 
but this was the year also when 

730
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:19,800
unions rose up, when workers 
rose up and demanded things that

731
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:24,920
they got. 
And that's just one of a number 

732
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:32,160
of examples I could give you 
here that that tells me that 

733
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:37,800
people are are willing to stand 
up and fight to make things 

734
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,800
better. 
There are still so many good 

735
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:49,040
people, I honestly. 
Believe that in the next year or

736
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:55,000
two that Roe, Roe V Wade, that 
decision about legal abortion 

737
00:55:56,240 --> 00:56:02,640
will be a federal law. 
And like I said, I believe that 

738
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,560
Trump will not return to the 
White House. 

739
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,920
I believe we'll find new 
environmental leaders to get us 

740
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:18,760
on the right path. 
And I have such hope and faith 

741
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:23,600
the the future is already here, 
and that future is young, it's 

742
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,000
majority female, and it's of 
color. 

743
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,560
And the people who belong to 
these three groups will lead the

744
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,520
way in turning this around. 
And those of us who aren't part 

745
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,920
of those three groups need to be
their helpers. 

746
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:48,760
Supporters do what they need us 
to do and whenever they try. 

747
00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:52,960
They, the people in charge, try 
to distract us with things like.

748
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,160
The. 
Hordes of immigrants are coming 

749
00:56:55,160 --> 00:57:01,760
across the border. 
You know, sometimes we have to 

750
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,360
really get radical in our 
thinking here. 

751
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,360
I would like to say to that stop
running those stories showing 

752
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:15,360
all these people on the road 
coming through Central America, 

753
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:22,040
trying to get into the USI say 
welcome, welcome, welcome, 

754
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:26,520
fellow Catholics. 
That's who they are, By the way,

755
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,840
I know that there's a certain 
group of people in this country 

756
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:35,240
like to call them illegals. 
They look like they're mostly 

757
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,080
people from heavily Catholic 
countries. 

758
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:42,840
So I say to this Christian 
nation of ours, why are you 

759
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:48,160
punking on them? 
Why are you punking on thousands

760
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,560
of Catholics desperate to get to
this country? 

761
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,240
Because they'd like to work 
here. 

762
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,760
They'd like to work and raise a 
family. 

763
00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:00,360
You tell me what the crime is in
that there are 11 point. 2 

764
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,240
million job openings in this 
country. 

765
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,840
In other words, there are over 
11,000,000 jobs that we can't 

766
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,280
fill because we don't have 
enough people. 

767
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:16,280
They just started a, what they 
call a Friday schedule now on 

768
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,000
the subway in New York City, 
where they're going to run less 

769
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:24,960
trains on Fridays, in large part
because they don't have enough 

770
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,880
subway conductors, they don't 
have enough people to work in 

771
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:32,920
the MTA system here. 
I mean, you've seen it no matter

772
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:38,200
where you live, you know, in the
little town, you know where my 

773
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,600
apartment is and where I live 
half the time. 

774
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:46,240
And in Northern Michigan, you go
to the diner or the restaurant 

775
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,080
and it's close. 
It's got a close sign on it. 

776
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,920
Why is it got a close sign? 
Well, they're only open be able 

777
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,880
to be open four days a week now 
or five days because there's 

778
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,320
nobody to cook the food, there's
no fry cooks, there's no, 

779
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,840
there's nobody to wait the 
tables on and on and on. 

780
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:07,200
They've had to tell the school 
kids last year in my town that 

781
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,800
they can only take the bus to 
school every other day because 

782
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,960
they can't find bus drivers. 
They don't have bus drivers. 

783
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,760
So they've told the parents on 
alternate days, you're just 

784
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,560
going to have to get your kids 
to school every other day. 

785
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,320
We'll have a bus pick them up, 
but we don't have enough bus 

786
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:31,800
drivers to run school buses 
every school day of the year. 

787
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,440
I'm not telling you anything you
don't know, right? 

788
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,200
You do live here. 
You do live in these towns or 

789
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,400
these cities. 
This is the. 

790
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:47,320
America we have now where we are
missing or lacking 11 million 

791
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,560
people to be part of the 
workforce. 

792
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:55,240
And before, when we had the 
Industrial Revolution and the 

793
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,200
invention of the automobile and 
factories and this and that, 

794
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,440
whatever. 
At the end of the 1800s and 

795
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,600
early 1900s, what did we do? 
We flung open the doors. 

796
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:08,280
We had a thing called Ellis 
Island. 

797
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,680
It was just like. 
Come, bring everybody. 

798
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:11,920
Come on. 
We need help. 

799
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,400
We need workers. 
Yeah, I know. 

800
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,600
I know. 
We had slavery for a few 100 

801
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:22,040
years, But you know. 
That was a great deal, by the 

802
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,160
way, right folks? 
Nikki Haley, come on, tell us 

803
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,280
all about it. 
You see, slavery, the 

804
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:37,200
enslavement of human beings, was
about being able to build this 

805
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,600
into the the richest economy in 
the world. 

806
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:47,400
And we got our start by and not.
Having to pay labor, this 

807
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,680
country was built on the backs 
of slaves. 

808
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:54,360
The economy was built on the 
backs of enslaved human beings. 

809
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:05,600
And then and then you had, we 
had to start paying people. 

810
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,000
Everybody got paid. 
If you work, you get paid. 

811
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:18,520
But we didn't see immigrants 
then after that, in the late 

812
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:24,080
1800s, early 1900s, as a threat,
something to fear, something to 

813
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:28,440
be angry about, no. 
We were like. 

814
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,680
Oh my God, Thank you for coming 
to America. 

815
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,240
What? 
You can't speak English? 

816
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,280
No problem. 
We'll we'll make sure you learn 

817
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,960
the language here. 
You need this, You need food, 

818
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,560
You need some kind of shelter. 
You know, tenements were built, 

819
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:50,200
public housing was built, food 
was made cheap. 

820
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,440
Things were done so that people 
could live here, work here, 

821
01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:10,320
raise families, live a life. 
So stop with the distractions. 

822
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,880
I don't want to hear this 
anymore about all these hordes, 

823
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:19,120
caravans, caravans of it, of 
illegals making their way to 

824
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,280
America. 
Please come to America. 

825
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:26,240
Please help us. 
I want to go down the street. 

826
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:31,840
And get a hamburger at Bubba's. 
I need Bubba's open. 

827
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,440
I want everybody to have a job. 
I want them to have a good wage.

828
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:39,840
I want them to have safe working
conditions. 

829
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,440
I want them to have full 
universal healthcare. 

830
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:47,400
We can afford all this, do all 
this, and if you got more people

831
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,560
working and paying taxes, you 
got more money, and you make the

832
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,360
rich pay the taxes that they 
haven't been paying for the past

833
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:59,360
number of umpteen years, this is
all going to change. 

834
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,320
That's the positive thing I want
to leave you with, folks. 

835
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,280
It's all going to change. 
Why? 

836
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:07,440
Because women aren't going to 
take it. 

837
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:09,440
Because young people aren't 
going to take it. 

838
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:15,400
Because black and Hispanic and 
Asian and Native American people

839
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:23,680
aren't going to take it. 
Thank God and let the white men,

840
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,320
the pundits, let them all 
grumble about it. 

841
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,480
Let Fox News do whatever they 
do. 

842
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,320
They'll never be the majority in
this country. 

843
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,080
Not going to happen. 
I know some of you don't believe

844
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:40,760
that. 
I know some of you are scared. 

845
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:43,760
They're scary. 
I get it. 

846
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,440
But there's more of us than 
there are of them. 

847
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,600
There have been. 
It has been that way for a long 

848
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,720
time, and it will continue to be
that way. 

849
01:03:57,400 --> 01:04:01,960
And As for the people of Gaza 
tonight, at the end of this 

850
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:08,360
year, I just want to say that 
I'm. 

851
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:17,320
Sorry, I really am sorry. 
What happened on October 7th was

852
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,720
that morning. 
I woke up to that that news and 

853
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:30,400
I just broke down. 
But it wasn't long before. 

854
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:35,520
It wasn't just those 1200 dead. 
It was a a mass murder taking 

855
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:41,080
place that wasn't going to 
create peace. 

856
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,360
It wasn't going to fix the 
situation. 

857
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:51,080
Those babies, the babies that 
were in the incubators that they

858
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:55,400
just had laid on some metal tray
because the incubators had lost 

859
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,400
the electricity because the 
Israelis shut it all. 

860
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:01,080
Down. 
There was no water. 

861
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,400
They couldn't do operations. 
They couldn't do anything. 

862
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,760
And yet they've been trying to 
do them without all of that. 

863
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:17,430
And it's been done in my name, 
and it hasn't protected or saved

864
01:05:17,430 --> 01:05:20,350
a single one of my Jewish 
brothers and sisters. 

865
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:26,030
It has made them more scared and
more endangered. 

866
01:05:29,870 --> 01:05:33,880
And for this, all these babies 
had to die and are still dying. 

867
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:41,400
As I say this, whatever has to 
be done, must be done to stop 

868
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:49,480
this, to stop our president, our
Congress, to help our Jewish 

869
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:55,160
friends stop it in Israel. 
And to stop the lobbying here 

870
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:03,760
and the lying here. 
This is a rotten way to feel 

871
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:09,080
ending a year like this and 
having the the legitimate hope I

872
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,720
do have for the year ahead of 
us. 

873
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,080
I know you've been listening to 
this long enough and thinking, 

874
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,240
Mike, you told us at the 
beginning you were going to get 

875
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:25,160
drunk for the first time. 
I've probably now have made the 

876
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,480
case for why there should be no 
alcohol around me at. 

877
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:29,960
At all at this. 
Point. 

878
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:47,240
But I am, I am sorry to all the 
children of Gaza, to their 

879
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:51,120
parents, to their grandparents, 
to all the people who are 

880
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:56,800
suffering tonight. 
Be a lot easier to maybe deal 

881
01:06:56,800 --> 01:07:04,560
with it in my head if I wasn't 
funding it, but I am. 

882
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,440
And you are those of you who are
Americans listening to this? 

883
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:29,660
No more, no more. 
I really care deeply about this 

884
01:07:29,660 --> 01:07:32,380
planet, the people who inhabit 
it. 

885
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,400
No matter who you are, no matter
how much we disagree with each 

886
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:45,480
other, no matter what. 
This is not the world I thought 

887
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:51,560
I'd be living in all these years
later, I thought. 

888
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,320
I and my generation, we knew 
what we had to do. 

889
01:07:55,600 --> 01:08:06,120
We figured it out. 
We knew what the big Lie was and

890
01:08:06,120 --> 01:08:10,320
we were going to take care of 
business and we've done some 

891
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:15,240
good things but nowhere nowhere 
near enough. 

892
01:08:17,359 --> 01:08:21,800
So over these next days and 
weeks, months on this podcast 

893
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:27,600
and on my sub stack column, I'm 
going to propose a number of 

894
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:30,520
things that we can do. 
Real things. 

895
01:08:31,319 --> 01:08:34,359
No BS. 
The real stuff that we have to 

896
01:08:34,359 --> 01:08:37,600
do and we can do it. 
We've pulled it off before, we 

897
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,640
can do it again. 
We just got a ratchet it up my 

898
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:50,680
friends, time is running out. 
Thanks for everything you shared

899
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:54,439
with me over this past year. 
I enjoy reading your comments 

900
01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:57,600
and your the emails you send me 
to my address. 

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:01,120
I read all my mail, so you sent 
it to me at 

902
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:06,600
mike@michaelmoore.com. 
I listen to your voicemails. 

903
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:11,560
I thank you for all of that. 
I I thank you for sharing these 

904
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:15,359
podcasts and these sub stack 
essays with your friends and 

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01:09:15,359 --> 01:09:17,600
family. 
I appreciate all that. 

906
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:22,160
I know I'm not alone. 
That's a good feeling. 

907
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:24,359
It sucks to feel like you're 
alone. 

908
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:29,439
I'm far from that, my friends. 
Oh my God, the gratitude I have.

909
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:37,800
So, yes, I do have hope only 
because I've seen the results of

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this, and I hope that you've 
seen the results of the work 

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you've done. 
I appreciate it. 

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01:09:45,319 --> 01:09:49,439
I pay attention and I've learned
a lot from many of you who've 

913
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:53,319
been active in so many things. 
So keep that up. 

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Get five or six other people 
with you involved this year. 

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01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:05,920
Stay tuned to this to my 
podcast, to my Sub Stack column.

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It's all free. 
No paywalls. 

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I know that together we're going
to make some powerful things 

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happen this year. 
We're going to fix a lot of the 

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,960
disastrous things that we did in
2023. 

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01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:27,040
I know this, and I thank you for
in your own way, making that 

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:30,720
commitment with me tonight as we
enter this New Year. 

922
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,920
I'm not kidding. 
I really do think that when I 

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talked to you a year from now on
this particular night, we're 

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going to look back and see we 
did some amazing things, things 

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that we didn't even think were 
possible because the world 

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looked like such a shitty place.
And then it got a little better.

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And it just took a few people. 
It didn't take billions. 1000 

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people can do an immense. 
Amount of good. 

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01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:11,280
That group of 1000 people, well,
we each know at least 10 people 

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01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,840
and all of a sudden it's 10,000 
and then that 10,000, it becomes

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100,000. 
That's how it works. 

932
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:23,080
It has to start small. 
I know I sound like I need a 

933
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,240
Kleenex here. 
Sorry about this. 

934
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:32,760
Just give me a SEC here. 
Oh geez, we can cut. 

935
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:40,760
That out. 
My thanks to my executive 

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,880
producer and editor. 
Speaking of cutting things out, 

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01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:50,040
Angela Vargos, thank you so much
for your help in this this year.

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01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:55,400
Thanks to all my friends who 
participate help what we do, 

939
01:11:56,520 --> 01:12:00,880
especially to those of you who 
are already working with me on 

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01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:05,120
our our plans for what's coming 
up in 2024 of. 

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What we hope to do? 
To get out there to the rest of 

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you. 
So more on that later. 

943
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:16,720
What am I looking for here? 
A bottle of Guinness. 

944
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,840
Oh, don't do it, Mike. 
No, Mike. 

945
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,040
No. 
Yes, I must. 

946
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:31,240
I must. 
I think we should crank up the 

947
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:36,400
New Year's music here and say a 
a fond farewell. 

948
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:41,680
Not so fond to 2023. 
Let's take a look at 2024. 

949
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,200
It's coming right at us right 
now. 

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:44,800
It's staring us right in the 
face. 

951
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,880
It's daring us. 
It's got our number. 

952
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:52,280
It thinks we don't know what to 
do. 

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01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,360
We know what to do. 
We're going to do it. 

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01:12:56,520 --> 01:13:00,000
I'll leave it at that. 
Bless all of you. 

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01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:06,560
Much love for me and I look 
forward to doing everything I 

956
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,200
can with you in this coming 
year. 

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01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,600
Peace, everyone. 
Be well. 

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01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:35,000
Should old acquaintance be 
forgot and days of old things? 

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01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:45,600
And here's a hand, my trusty 
friend, that gives a hand to 

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01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:53,840
thine. 
We'll take a cup of kindness yet

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01:13:54,040 --> 01:14:19,920
for all, my dear, We'll take a 
cup of kindness yet for all 

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01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:28,880
lands. 
I should old acquaintance be for

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01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:39,240
God, and never brought to mind 
should old acquaintance. 

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01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,400
Be. 
For God.