0:00

Oh, one, two, three, one, two, three.

0:07

Yes, one, two, three.

0:13

This is what I do before

0:18

each Broadway show. So

0:22

they provide all these people for you

0:24

when you have a… Well,

0:25

you're on Broadway. That's where I was. I was on

0:27

Broadway, made my Broadway debut

0:30

in my 60s. And

0:33

so they provide you

0:35

with security. They give you a driver,

0:37

pick you up at your apartment, make

0:40

sure you're there on time. Get

0:42

your dressing room. The dressing room has

0:44

a nice, comfortable

0:46

couch or cot where

0:48

you can take a little nap before you go

0:50

out on stage. All

0:53

these little perks. But

0:55

one is the voice instructor. And

0:57

I said, well, what do I need a voice

1:00

instructor for? I'm not doing a musical.

1:02

No, no, no, no. You're going to do a hundred shows.

1:07

And the goal is to not miss a single night.

1:10

So how do you do a hundred shows in a row and

1:13

still have a voice after

1:15

the 20th show? So

1:18

I had this wonderful individual

1:20

who taught me a few tricks.

1:23

He said the most important thing you can do

1:26

to strengthen your voice, preserve

1:28

it, is to do what

1:30

we as humans kind of, I don't

1:33

know, I guess naturally do when

1:35

we're in the shower, you just sing.

1:38

You know, it's the safe space for all of us to sing

1:40

because nobody can hear us basically.

1:44

And he said the best thing you can do is just sing

1:46

for 10 minutes in the shower. I

1:49

said, well, what do I sing? Whatever you want to sing,

1:51

whatever comes in your head. So

1:53

I did that. I did that every morning. And

1:56

I think I will, I mean, I'm probably prone

1:58

to sing in the shower anyways, but I would.

3:59

of four nights, I think during

4:01

the hundred day run. I

4:04

got to serve them up. It's a lot of

4:06

fun. It's a great experience.

4:09

I can't wait to do it again, actually. But,

4:13

um, I just got a bunch

4:15

of little things I want to talk to you about. This

4:17

won't be long. I'm still

4:19

on strike. Not

4:21

from the podcast, not from my sub

4:23

stack, but I'm a member of the writer's guild.

4:26

I'm a member of the screen actors' guild SAG.

4:30

I'm a member of the director's guild,

4:32

but the director's guild is not on strike.

4:35

So I'm, uh, I'm on a double strike from

4:38

working on any film or television

4:41

work, essentially. For whatever

4:44

reason, there's an exemption right now. If

4:46

you are writing

4:49

or acting in commercials, that's allowed.

4:52

If you're on a soap opera, that's allowed. If you

4:54

do reality TV, that's

4:56

allowed. If you're in the news department

4:58

and you're doing news or nonfiction,

5:00

that's for the news department, that's

5:03

allowed,

5:05

but everything else is not. And

5:08

vast, vast majority of

5:10

the members, all of us in both unions

5:13

voted in favor of the strike.

5:16

You know, just the chatter I'm

5:18

hearing is that it's not going to be over

5:20

for some time. So the

5:22

studios and the networks are, I would assume,

5:24

losing a lot of money.

5:26

Writers and actors are not being paid.

5:29

Now, of course, you know, the top actors there,

5:31

don't worry about them. They'd be the first to tell

5:33

you they're all in support of the strike, but

5:35

they,

5:37

you know, they make millions of dollars per

5:39

movie or TV series or whatever,

5:42

but

5:43

it's for everybody else. And

5:45

there's so much writing that goes on in TV and

5:47

in film. And

5:49

of course, there's all kinds of actors. Not

5:53

just the big stars, but people have

5:55

just a few lines or they're in a TV

5:58

drama and they they're on a. one

6:00

episode and they're there for only one day of

6:02

filming. So the

6:05

unions are just trying to create a balance

6:07

here between the streamers and the old

6:09

school studios and TV

6:11

networks so that there's just some equity

6:14

here and so that they're covered.

6:16

You know, these they're really guilds. They're

6:18

not really the kind of union I grew up

6:20

with my

6:21

family being UAW members,

6:23

united auto workers.

6:25

You know, if you're in screen actors guild or the writers

6:28

guild, the directors guild,

6:30

they all have different rules and different ways they

6:32

calculate when you're covered by the health insurance

6:34

and when you're not, what you get a pension

6:37

for, what you don't get a pension for.

6:39

When I was growing up with the auto workers union, it

6:41

was just you're an auto worker and that's it, you're

6:43

in the union

6:45

and you stay in the union and my

6:47

father lived to almost 93 years old.

6:51

He was able to retire after 30 years

6:54

and lived the next 40 years of

6:56

his life with his

6:59

union pension and his union health

7:02

insurance. They

7:04

took care of all their

7:06

workers and

7:08

the guilds, the actors

7:10

and the writers, directors, everybody, they're

7:13

all trying to do the same thing.

7:15

So right now I'd say it doesn't

7:17

look very good. I think

7:20

a lot of the senses within

7:22

the unions, nobody's

7:24

going to have a job for the rest of this year. So

7:28

that's not good news. It's not good news for us.

7:30

It's not good news for you. You're

7:33

probably missing some of your favorite shows on

7:35

TV.

7:37

Some of the networks banked a number of episodes

7:40

or new series or whatever they're

7:42

trying to get by with right now. But you know, they're going

7:45

to run out of the good stuff pretty soon. You're

7:48

not going to have fall TV shows to watch. So that's

7:52

the update on the

7:54

strikes. Speaking of auto

7:56

workers, UAW begins their negotiation. for

8:00

new contracts with General Motors and Ford

8:03

and Chrysler. Chrysler, which is called

8:05

something else now, I don't even understand what the name

8:08

means.

8:09

It's like Spectrum or

8:11

Verizon, where I don't know what those

8:13

mean, but at least I know Spectrum

8:16

and Verizon, I don't know. The new name

8:18

for Chrysler, Stellantis, something

8:21

like that. But

8:24

I want to take a minute here to thank my underwriters

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Okay,

11:35

on to the few things I wanted to discuss

11:38

today.

11:40

Let's start with Maui. It's so, so

11:44

sad to see what's going on. And

11:46

right away, you're starting to think this has been going on now

11:48

for days and days. And

11:51

where

11:52

is the cavalry? Where is the aid? Where

11:56

are the ships heading from the

11:58

West Coast to Hawaii help

12:00

them. What is going on?

12:04

Look, I'm in the dark as much as you are about

12:06

this. I watch TV and

12:08

read the newspaper, but something

12:11

doesn't seem right. Seems like

12:13

a huge screw up from the beginning in

12:15

terms of no sirens going off, no

12:18

alerts going out to people. Everybody

12:21

trapped as

12:24

I'm recording this, there's over a hundred now

12:26

that have been killed and

12:28

there's close to a thousand people missing.

12:32

Now granted, I'm sure

12:34

the majority of them are missing because well,

12:36

people can't find family and friends

12:38

and loved ones because the cell towers

12:41

are out, the electricity's out. It's

12:43

impossible to communicate and find anybody.

12:46

And so people are living in this horrific

12:48

panic day after day after day. And

12:51

it's, I just really feel for everybody

12:53

out there in Maui, the

12:56

reasons for this. I've started to do

12:58

some reading about this. And

13:01

decisions that have been made, environmental decisions

13:03

that have been made again, I'm

13:05

sorry, I keep hounding on this, but where

13:08

are our environmental

13:10

leaders?

13:12

Where are the environmentalists of old, you

13:15

know, the hardcore fight for the planet,

13:19

save the whales. You

13:21

know, they're now getting

13:24

backing from hedge funds and, and

13:27

corporate America and wall street and everybody's

13:29

green. Oh, look how green we are.

13:33

You know, and if you just dig a little bit into this, and

13:35

you know, I've talked about this before and you've

13:38

read things I've written and hopefully

13:41

you saw Jeff Gibbs's film that

13:43

I executive produced called Planet of

13:45

the Humans. If you haven't watched

13:48

this film,

13:49

we have really screwed up

13:52

on so many levels. What an awful

13:54

summer this has been for

13:57

this planet. So

14:00

much time has been lost. We're

14:02

fighting fights that should have been fought and

14:04

won 50 or 60 years ago. And

14:09

yet we're still trying to get the

14:11

same things. Can somebody get some more solar

14:13

panels? Put up some more

14:15

windmills? We're so far beyond

14:18

that in terms of us, the planet

14:20

being saved. Way

14:24

beyond that. And

14:26

yet every politician now, at least every

14:28

democratic politician, but even

14:31

some of the Republicans have figured out, oh yeah,

14:33

if I look green, if I sound green, I

14:35

support green, that's what

14:37

the people want. Of course, that's what the people want. The

14:40

vast majority of Americans want stronger

14:42

environmental laws. They want

14:45

us to be moving forward to

14:47

stop the onslaught that we're right in the middle

14:49

of.

14:50

The Paris Accords, we all need to get this stuff

14:53

fixed by 2050. 2050 is 2023, and

14:57

we're already in collapse.

14:59

And yet you still have our environmental leaders

15:01

out there as they're now like paid

15:03

spokespeople for

15:06

various industries that

15:08

are trying to make money off the so-called

15:11

green technology. And you see

15:13

some of the largest investors in this green technology

15:16

are the oil and gas companies. I mean,

15:18

because they know their time is up. Eventually they

15:20

ask fossil fuels. The reason why they're

15:22

called fossil fuels is they're

15:24

from fossils from long ago.

15:28

And we can only drain

15:31

so much of the energy we need from

15:33

that.

15:34

We've known that for a long time. The oil and gas companies

15:36

have known that.

15:38

And so they try to get on the bandwagon. They try

15:40

to get the federal money or the federal

15:42

tax breaks or carbon offsets,

15:44

all this crap that is not

15:47

going to save us. And smart

15:49

people know this.

15:51

Great environmental writers and

15:53

researchers, investigative reporters have

15:55

been telling this now these things for

15:57

years. And

15:59

For some reason, we're not listening

16:02

to them or we're getting distracted

16:05

by the things that are, yes, they're good things to

16:07

do, we should all do them, but we should

16:09

have done them in the 1970s, not the 2020s.

16:11

And

16:16

Maui, oh my God.

16:20

Apparently the fire chief for Maui wasn't

16:22

there on the day this started and

16:24

the day after, the head of their

16:27

emergency, whatever that state office,

16:29

every state has one emergency manager

16:32

and not there for some

16:34

reason. A

16:36

lot of questions are being asked, a lot of people

16:38

in Maui are very upset and

16:41

they were left to die. And

16:45

the rescue response

16:47

from the rest of us, the Americans, they're

16:50

Americans too.

16:53

And they're like, why are we being treated like

16:55

Puerto Rico? Oh, wait a minute,

16:57

Puerto Ricans are Americans too.

17:00

Yeah, but they're not a state, right? Hawaii

17:03

is a state. But

17:06

this is all part of the bullshit because you

17:09

can look at any place in America that needs

17:11

help and the help doesn't

17:14

arrive.

17:18

I've only been to Maui once.

17:21

Wow, beautiful place, wonderful

17:23

people. But it is

17:26

a very, it's not what you think it is, this

17:30

island. And

17:32

I can't speak for the other Hawaiian islands because

17:34

I haven't, I've been

17:36

to Oahu, that's it. But

17:40

Maui, there's like,

17:43

I don't know. I mean, it

17:45

seemed like there were like two or three highways that were paved.

17:49

And I was there in what was that, 2013. I

17:54

mean, it was mostly dirt roads,

17:57

dirt paths, its jungle. It's

18:00

mountains. I mean real jungle real

18:03

jungles real mountains and

18:07

Driving on this mountain road, which

18:09

was really just going around in circles with

18:11

the the car almost

18:13

hanging off the edge. I

18:16

Guess they're probably used to driving if

18:19

you live there, but as

18:21

someone not from there, it was pretty scary

18:23

frankly But

18:26

it was you know, it was a wonderful

18:28

time And again, like I said the

18:30

people the food everything is wonderful

18:34

But I could see how There's

18:36

like in terms of ingress

18:38

and egress in and out

18:41

There's not a lot of choices If

18:43

you're trying to run from a fire Watching

18:46

people jump into the ocean

18:50

To so that they wouldn't catch on fire

18:52

Wow

18:56

And apparently nobody in charge thought this

18:58

out

19:00

People have been taking boats from the other islands

19:03

and in the Hawaiian islands you

19:05

know just grabbing boats and volunteers

19:08

and food and water and and

19:10

just trying to make their way to Maui to

19:13

Help them out

19:17

People in Maui

19:19

were saying tonight that

19:21

the help from the government

19:23

Has been

19:25

next to nothing

19:27

But the volunteers that have come from other

19:29

parts of the state

19:31

They're very grateful But

19:34

they have literally lost everything. I

19:37

Mean whole areas villages towns

19:40

are just in hashes

19:43

They're gonna find a lot more than a hundred dead

19:46

people that's what they're saying

19:50

The bodies are charred

19:51

the bodies themselves have turned to ash

19:57

It's the worst wildfire

19:59

design disaster in the last 100 years

20:02

for all 50 states in

20:04

this country.

20:07

And again,

20:08

everything just seems very slow

20:10

to move, no sense of urgency,

20:13

nobody in charge,

20:15

nobody had a plan.

20:22

Well, you know, there's various

20:25

places you can go online, just,

20:27

you know, type in help from Maui

20:30

and if you can help,

20:32

please do.

20:33

But I think

20:35

we should also let our elected representatives

20:38

know that we, we who don't live

20:40

in Hawaii expect massive

20:43

help immediately right now. Not

20:46

another day to be wasted.

20:51

Won't take much of our time to

20:53

make a phone call or two

20:55

to drop an email to an elected

20:58

representative in Congress

21:01

and demand that this receive

21:03

immediate attention. As

21:07

someone from a city

21:09

in Michigan,

21:12

where the governor allowed the water

21:14

to be poisoned

21:15

and did nothing about it for

21:18

a very long time,

21:20

help didn't come for a long time. And then

21:22

when the help came, it wasn't enough. And it still

21:25

isn't enough. And people still are

21:28

not drinking the water in Flint.

21:32

So

21:34

I've seen what this country will

21:36

allow to have happen

21:37

to an important city, a

21:40

city where the American car

21:43

was born,

21:44

the hometown of General Motors,

21:49

where the middle class was created, thanks

21:51

to the unions, thanks to the

21:53

unions fighting and creating

21:56

unions before they didn't even exist. So

21:59

the people. would be paid a decent wage,

22:04

where they would have job security, where they would have

22:06

health care, all of that thanks

22:09

to the unions. And

22:12

then everybody followed along after Flint

22:16

in the 1930s, after

22:18

our strike was successful,

22:21

hundreds of strikes across the whole

22:23

country

22:24

over the next few years

22:27

to unionize to get a fair

22:29

shake. But

22:33

when Flint was poisoned,

22:37

I know everybody felt bad. I

22:40

know a lot of people donated tons

22:44

of bottles of water, which doesn't

22:47

fix the situation. The

22:50

average American needs uses 80

22:53

gallons of water a day for

22:55

all all the reasons we use water.

22:59

And there's no amount of plastic water

23:01

bottles could be shipped to Flint to

23:04

let people could do their laundry

23:06

or take a shower

23:11

or take care of their dogs and cats

23:13

and everything else that uses water.

23:16

So

23:18

I know, I know in a way what the people

23:20

of Maui are feeling like right now. And and

23:23

I'm sure they're hoping

23:25

that the cavalry is coming.

23:29

But, well,

23:35

we'll see. That's why all

23:37

the rest of us have a responsibility to demand

23:40

action now and to give

23:42

what we can to those agencies

23:44

that will really get the money and the help through to

23:46

the people there.

23:51

Oh, just

23:53

a few other things here that

23:55

I want to talk to you about. I know this is

23:57

kind of a

23:59

sad way to start.

23:59

things here today, but

24:02

we did get some good

24:04

news from Ohio this week.

24:08

Very rare for a Michigander to

24:10

say there's good news from Ohio, but

24:17

last Tuesday the

24:20

Republicans in Ohio were trying

24:23

to rig the vote for

24:25

this November's election because on the ballot

24:27

in November there is

24:30

a ballot proposal to make

24:32

abortion

24:33

legal and they're

24:36

gonna put it in the Ohio State

24:38

Constitution and this freaked

24:41

all the crazies out,

24:43

all the religious fanatics

24:45

who believe a fertilized egg is a human

24:48

being and so they

24:52

wanted to change the rules before

24:54

the November election

24:56

so that when the majority

24:58

of Ohioans vote to

25:01

make abortion legal, which is what they're

25:03

going to do, every poll shows it upwards

25:06

to close to 60% of people in Ohio

25:09

want abortion legal and

25:12

in the state constitution.

25:14

So that appears what's that's what's going to happen

25:16

in November. So to prevent that

25:18

from happening

25:20

they wanted to pass a new law by

25:22

setting up a special election in the middle

25:25

of the summer in August.

25:27

This law was going to, if it passed last

25:30

week, was going to require that

25:33

nothing could get into the state constitution unless

25:36

they had 60% of the

25:38

people voting for it and

25:41

the turnout last

25:44

week was about

25:47

as large as it is in

25:49

the midterm election in the off-year election

25:51

and like it was last year in 2022.

25:53

That many people showed up for

25:58

a off-off year. election

26:01

for a special ballot proposal, the

26:04

polls were packed. And

26:07

the result, the right wingers

26:10

were sent packing.

26:12

The majority of people in Ohio

26:15

voted 57% to

26:20

stop them from saying

26:22

that the new majority in order to put

26:25

something in the Constitution is 60%

26:27

of the votes instead of 50.

26:29

That lost.

26:31

It's going to stay 50, 50% plus one vote.

26:35

57% of people in Ohio. That

26:39

means a number of Republicans showed

26:42

up to vote in the middle of August to

26:45

say, no, you're not going to change the

26:48

rules like this. And you're

26:50

not going to endorse what

26:52

the Supreme Court did last summer

26:55

by taking women's rights away from

26:57

them. 57% in

26:59

favor

27:03

of not changing the law and

27:05

therefore

27:08

supporting

27:11

abortion be illegal,

27:13

which will be officially decided at the

27:16

November election. 57% for that, 43% in favor

27:18

of the Christian right

27:25

Cuckoo campaign that still

27:27

exists

27:28

so that the government controls the reproductive

27:31

rights of women.

27:32

57 to 43, that's a 14% difference. 14% landslide

27:42

in favor of women, in favor of science,

27:45

in favor of democracy. In

27:49

a state known as Ohio,

27:56

O H I O O H I

28:01

owe. Wow.

28:09

There's your good news for the week, my

28:11

friends.

28:13

And that's what the Republicans

28:15

have in front of them for next year's

28:18

presidential election. And this

28:20

is why I will keep saying that if we do our

28:22

work

28:23

and if we get out the vote and

28:25

if we show up ourselves,

28:29

they are not going

28:31

to be in charge. They're

28:34

not going to get the White House back.

28:37

And we're going to get

28:40

the House back in our hands

28:44

and we're going to keep the Senate and

28:48

we're going to start doing the things that we should be doing.

28:51

And the Democrats are going to have to do what the people

28:53

want them to do. That

28:56

be a bunch of namby-pamby.

28:59

I don't know. We don't want to

29:01

upset too many people. Yeah,

29:04

well, we're upset. We

29:07

the people have been upset. We're the majority. The

29:10

majority who believe in women's

29:12

rights. The majority who believe we

29:15

don't have enough gun control laws.

29:18

The majority who believe that the

29:20

extinction crisis that we're in the middle of

29:22

on this planet is real. We

29:25

are the majority. Go down any one of the issues.

29:28

The majority agree with me and

29:30

you and

29:31

people listening to this. And if you don't agree

29:33

with me or you that

29:35

get on board, history

29:40

is happening right now. And

29:43

this is some heavy stuff by friends. But

29:46

if we do our job,

29:49

if we get the right candidates running,

29:51

we get out the vote,

29:54

the bad guys are not going to be running the show

29:56

any longer.

29:59

one sign after another showing

30:02

us that the people are voting

30:04

on our side. I mean, when you

30:06

think about this over the last year since the Supreme

30:09

Court got rid of Roe v. Wade, states

30:12

like Kentucky, Montana,

30:16

Michigan,

30:18

and others have voted in

30:21

favor of abortion being legal. You

30:27

should be buoyed by this. The

30:30

American people have changed. Or

30:35

more likely,

30:36

each year, four million seventeen-year-olds

30:39

turn eighteen, and the younger

30:41

generation, they don't go for this

30:43

shit anymore.

30:45

Pumpkin on people and their

30:47

rights, taking the rights away, all of that. No, we've

30:51

raised a couple of generations of young people that

30:54

know

30:56

what's what when it comes

30:58

to this planet,

31:00

when it comes to bigotry and

31:02

misogyny and white

31:04

supremacy and everything else.

31:07

And these kids,

31:09

four million every year,

31:11

four million seventeen-year-olds turn

31:13

eighteen, and

31:16

about about another four million, sadly,

31:19

of elderly people pass

31:22

away.

31:23

The largest demographic for the Republican Party,

31:25

over 65 years old. And we

31:28

want them to live as long as possible. Don't hear

31:30

me wrong here, but I'm just stating what

31:32

the demographic facts are.

31:35

You think about this, since Obama

31:38

was elected by a record

31:40

turnout of young people.

31:43

You know, again, I'll just give you this fact.

31:46

Obama only won one white

31:49

demographic, only one group

31:52

of white people, and that was young white people,

31:55

eighteen to thirty-five.

31:57

He won it with a huge majority.

32:01

and that put them over the top.

32:06

Young people. And

32:09

since 2008,

32:11

you've heard me say this before,

32:13

2008 was what, 15 years ago? So

32:16

that's four million

32:18

new voters every year that turn 18.

32:23

And so four times 15, that

32:26

is 60 million young

32:29

people that had become

32:32

voters. Now, yes, all of them

32:34

don't vote. Most Americans, a lot of them elections

32:36

don't vote at all. And

32:39

yes, historically young people vote

32:41

at a

32:43

lesser rate,

32:44

but that has been changing every election

32:46

since Obama's

32:48

election. It gets

32:50

better and better and better and more and more

32:52

and more young people show up to vote.

32:55

There are 60 million

32:57

in just 15 years.

33:00

So in other words, they're

33:02

all between the ages of 18 and 33.

33:09

60 million came

33:12

a voting age in this time period.

33:15

And you can see what they've done and what they continue

33:17

to do. And

33:20

the only way the Republicans can win is

33:22

through gerrymandering, through racism,

33:25

through trying to stifle the

33:27

vote, oppress the vote, suppress it.

33:29

That's the only way now they can pull off some

33:32

of the few victories they get to have

33:34

now. They know their days are numbered.

33:38

They know the demographics too. They're not all

33:40

stupid.

33:42

They know that sometime in the 2030s or early 2040s, the

33:47

majority of this country will not be white.

33:52

Let's think about that. I mean, already

33:54

there's a number of states that are not white

33:57

majority states,

33:59

starting with. of all places Texas Texas 60%

34:01

of Texas

34:03

is not

34:05

white 60% that means 60% of Texas is

34:15

Hispanic black

34:18

Native American Asian

34:23

that's the majority of Texas now 40% just 40%

34:28

of Texas is white and

34:33

there are similar stories and

34:35

demographics that have already happened in

34:38

California

34:41

New Mexico Hawaii

34:48

I think we have about a half a dozen states now that

34:50

are considered the not white majority

34:53

states and every year it seems

34:55

like another state or two gets added to that

34:59

and that's the way it's going to be

35:01

and they know the only way the

35:03

party of white people

35:05

the white privilege white

35:07

supremacy party they

35:09

still call themselves Republicans it's

35:13

the only way they can win redraw

35:15

the maps gerrymander the vote

35:21

and if that's really all you've got in

35:23

your bag of tricks it's not going to last

35:28

so very hopeful news

35:31

from Ohio this week what

35:35

seems to be what we're told is a deep

35:37

red state but you know

35:39

if the Democrats got busy and if they really ran

35:41

the right candidates

35:44

recruited the right people

35:46

that are gonna fight for the people

35:48

they'd win more elections

35:52

stop sending me emails

35:56

telling me I've got to give $10 by

35:58

midnight tonight Oh

36:01

man, when does this stop?

36:04

These, you know, I'm talking about, right? The candidates, emails,

36:07

Democrats,

36:08

telling us how they're gonna lose, how

36:10

awful it is.

36:12

The polls show the Republicans way ahead. Why

36:15

are they trying to instill this kind of fear?

36:17

Well, I know why they wanna raise money because

36:20

we have an election system based on having

36:22

to raise tens of millions of dollars.

36:27

We need to vote for people that are gonna change that. We're

36:30

not gonna end that system and

36:32

a system where 50 votes plus

36:35

one is the majority. All

36:39

right, I'm gonna wrap it up here.

36:42

I just wanted to

36:45

just point out a couple of other things. Here,

36:48

I didn't get to Hunter Biden. I can't

36:50

believe this is still on the news and

36:52

another awful week for the Biden family

36:54

here,

36:55

but we'll talk about that

36:58

next week. We're all

37:01

sitting on pins and needles waiting to see what

37:03

the district attorney is

37:05

going to do in Fulton County, Georgia this week.

37:08

Doesn't look good for Trump. I'll

37:10

say that. So

37:13

the

37:14

fourth indictment coming up.

37:17

Get ready, Donald.

37:20

What is your strategy here?

37:24

I wrote a sub-stack about this last

37:27

week. If you have a chance to read it, if you haven't read

37:29

it, I'll put a link here

37:31

to it.

37:34

And finally, I'm gonna

37:37

write something about this at some point here, but one

37:40

of the best films I've seen in the last

37:43

number of years is Barbie.

37:45

I know, folks, some of you have not seen

37:47

it yet. You're thinking this is some movie about a doll.

37:50

It is not a movie about a doll.

37:53

This is one

37:55

of the funniest,

37:57

one of the best satires.

37:59

I think has ever been made. And

38:04

I'm certain you'll agree if you go see this movie,

38:06

what this movie has to say about us,

38:09

our society, about capitalism,

38:12

about fascism, about corporate

38:14

America,

38:15

and yes, the patriarchy.

38:18

You know why it's still a patriarchy though? Sorry

38:21

guys, I gotta talk to you for just a few minutes here.

38:24

Mike, why are you talking about this? Because

38:27

it's

38:28

still a patriarchy.

38:31

It's gender apartheid.

38:34

The majority gender women who

38:37

are 51 or 52% of the population

38:41

have a minority of the power.

38:44

They don't hold a majority of the power. 29% of

38:47

Congress are women. 71% are

38:52

men. Men

38:54

make up 48 or 49% of the population where

38:57

the minority gender.

38:59

When the minority controls the majority,

39:04

what do we call it folks? What

39:06

do you call a country where the minority race

39:11

is in charge of the majority race,

39:14

calls all the shots, owns

39:17

all the wealth, holds

39:20

the vast majority of seats when they

39:22

shouldn't.

39:26

It's called apartheid

39:28

and this is gender apartheid. And

39:32

yes, it took a movie using

39:34

a bunch of dolls to

39:38

tell this story, a

39:40

story that we're still struggling with, a

39:44

story where 14 months ago,

39:47

a male dominated Supreme court

39:51

said they would now, from now on

39:53

be in charge

39:55

of what women can do with their bodies.

39:59

And until we fix that, my friends,

40:02

it's so fundamental, isn't it? Go

40:05

see this movie. So I swear to God, just

40:08

if all you need is a great laugh this summer,

40:10

go for that reason. But

40:13

you're gonna get hit with so

40:16

many other bonuses

40:18

watching this film.

40:20

And guys, yes, go and

40:23

take your sons.

40:26

This film has a great message.

40:28

Thank you, Greta Gerwig,

40:30

for co-writing and directing

40:32

this incredible movie.

40:35

And I'll have more to say about this here.

40:38

I don't wanna give a lot of spoiler alerts, but

40:41

I think a lot of you have seen it by now, and the rest

40:43

of you should try to see it in the next couple of weeks, because

40:46

I'm

40:46

gonna spoil it all. Okay,

40:50

my friends, thank you for listening to me today.

40:53

Let's not forget about the people of Maui.

40:56

Let's thank the people of Ohio for

40:58

what they did this week, and

41:00

let's get busy, get

41:03

busy to get busy, because we've

41:05

got a hell of a year ahead of us here.

41:08

I'd like to thank my executive producer, Angela

41:11

Vargos. She also edits this podcast. She

41:13

does a gazillion other things too

41:15

in

41:16

our little operation.

41:18

And all of you for listening and being part of

41:20

this. I'm Michael Moore, and

41:23

this is Rumble. Raindrops

41:28

on roses and whiskers

41:30

on kittens. La,

41:33

la, la, la, la, I don't know this song.

41:37

These are a few of my

41:39

favorite things. When

41:43

the dog bites, when

41:45

the bee stings, when

41:48

I'm feeling sad.

41:52

I simply remember my

41:55

favorite things. And

41:58

then I don't feel it.

42:07

My apologies, everyone. Thanks. Talk

42:09

to you next week.