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MOORE
I was kind of a strange child.
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My parents knew early on that something
must have been wrong with me.
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I crawled backwards until I was 2...
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but had Kennedy's inaugural address
memorized by the time I was 6.
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It all began when my mother didn't
show up for my first birthday party...
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because she was off having my sister.
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My dad tried to cheer me up
by letting me eat the whole cake.
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I knew then
there had to be more to life than this.
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- Pat!
- Pat!
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Pat Boone!
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Here he comes
Here he comes, swingin' a tune
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Here he comes, here he comes
Pat Boone
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Talk to me baby
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Whisper in my ear
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When I was a kid, I thought only
three people worked for General Motors:
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Pat Boone, Dinah Shore and my dad.
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Our hometown of Flint, Michigan,
was the birthplace of General Motors...
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the largest corporation in the world.
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There were more auto factories and auto
workers here than in any other city on Earth.
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We built Cadillacs, Buicks,
and Fisher bodies...
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GM trucks, Chevrolets,
and AC spark plugs.
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We enjoyed a prosperity that working people
around the world had never seen before.
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And the city was grateful to the company.
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With the whole city rocking,
Flint, Michigan throws a birthday party.
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It's for the people of General Motors
on their 50th anniversary.
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Pat Boone celebrates with a song.
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The promise of the future is the keynote
set by GM president, Harlow Curtis.
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From the world of TV
comes Sergeant Garcia...
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and the swordsman known as Zorro.
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But the big hit of the parade...
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is the lively marching
of the Elks junior drill team.
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The citizens of Flint,
birthplace of General Motors...
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also see the radiant Miss America.
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This was Flint as I remember it,
where every day was a great day.
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Oh, it's a great day, all right.
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A salute to Mr. and Mrs. America.
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Teamwork, teamwork
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The nation's secret was teamwork
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And those doubters and scowlers
Said this is as far as you'll get
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GM answered You ain't seen
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Nothing yet
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MOORE'.
My dad worked on the assembly line...
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at GM's AC Spark Plug
in Flint for 33 years.
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In fact, as I grew older, I discovered
that my entire family had worked for GM:
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Grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters,
aunts, uncles, cousins. Everyone but me.
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My uncle Laverne was in something called
the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike.
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Just hours before the year's end in 1936...
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he and thousands of other GM workers
took over the Flint factories...
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and barricaded themselves inside,
refusing to budge for 44 days.
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The National Guard was called in,
and the eyes of the world were on Flint.
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On February 11th, 1937,
General Motors gave in...
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and the UAW was born.
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The GM employee
has made great advances.
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And it is our wish
that he continue to prosper.
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Most of our employees,
even those who at times cause problems...
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are conscientious
and hardworking men and women.
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Men and women to whose imagination,
ingenuity, energy and dedication...
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our country owes
its industrial leadership in the world.
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Well that all sounded fine and good,
but the assembly line wasn't for me.
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My heroes were the Flint people
who had escaped the life in the factory...
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and got out of Flint,
like the guys in Grand Funk Railroad...
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Casey Kasem, the women who married
Zubin Mehta and Don Knotts...
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and perhaps Flint's
most famous native son, Bob Eubanks...
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host of TV's hit show
The Newlywed Game.
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I figured if Bob Eubanks
could make it out of here, so could I.
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After 10 years of editing
my own paper in Flint...
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a California millionaire called
and asked me to be the editor...
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of his muckraking magazine
in San Francisco.
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It didn't take me long
to figure out what to do.
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The final issue of the Michigan Voice
is being printed.
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Ten years after he started the magazine,
Michael Moore is moving on to San Francisco.
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Well, what would you do?
I mean, this was San Francisco.
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But San Francisco was on the other side
of the world from Flint.
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Everyone there had a job,
yet no one seemed to be working.
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The cafes were filled with people
at 3 in the afternoon.
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I was told there's one restaurant
for every 44 people in San Francisco...
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but most of them
seemed to be dessert places.
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Trying to get a simple cup of coffee
became a nightmare for me.
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Espresso, double espresso,
cappuccino, double cappuccino...
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latte, double latte,
mocha, double mocha...
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caffe con panna, macchiato,
double macchiato...
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uh, caffe Nance, or house mend.
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MOORE
I was feeling a bit disoriented...
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living in a town
that didn't carry any nondairy creamer.
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I went in to work and announced...
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that I was going to give a monthly
column to a Flint auto worker.
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The owner instead told me to run
an investigative report on herbal teas.
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Let's put that auto worker on the cover.
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The owner wasn't amused and declared
that California and I were a mismatch...
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just before he offered me
my free U-Haul back to Michigan.
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- Hello, Dad.
- Hello, son.
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- It's been a long time.
- It sure has.
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- Where's Mom?
- In the kitchen.
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Why, your hands are filthy!
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- Go upstairs and wash them.
- Okay, Mom.
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Okay, so my homecoming
wasn't quite like that.
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In fact, I wasn't back in Flint more than
a few days when the bad news hit.
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This is the CBS Evening News,
Dan Rather reporting.
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Good evening.
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General Motors confirmed it today.
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It is going to close plants
employing almost 30,000 workers.
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Today we are announcing the closing...
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of 11 of our older plants.
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While Detroit and Pontiac
will certainly be hurt by the shutdowns...
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the effect on Flint
is absolutely devastating.
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MOORE'.
Heh, devastating wasn't the half of it.
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Maybe I got this wrong...
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but I thought companies lay off people
when they've hit hard times.
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GM was the richest company
in the world...
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and it was closing factories
when it was making profits in the billions.
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We do not have any plan
to cut our workforce by 80,000.
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That was kind of a
what-happens-if type of thing.
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MOORE
So this was GM chairman Roger Smith.
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First, close 11 factories in the U.S...
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then open 11 in Mexico,
where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour.
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Then use the money you saved by building cars
in Mexico to take over other companies...
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preferably high-tech firms
and weapons manufacturers.
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Next, tell the union you're broke...
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and they happily agree to give back
a couple billion dollars in wage cuts.
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You then take that money from workers...
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and eliminate their jobs
by building more foreign factories.
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Heh, Roger Smith was a true genius.
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I think our employees
have got a new emphasis on job security...
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and certainly we want to try
and help them with that.
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MOORE
What do you have to say to Smith?
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Boy, it's gonna be rough.
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I can't mention it on television.
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This was to be the first
of many layoffs in Flint...
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the final day for the GM truck plant.
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I think most of you are aware...
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that this is the first
major plant closing...
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to take place in Flint.
Let me rephrase that.
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This is not a plant closing.
It's a loss of one product line.
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My friends and I decided to pose
as a TV crew from Toledo...
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to sneak inside the factory.
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I wasn't exactly sure
what a TV crew from Toledo looked like...
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but apparently the ruse worked, as we
filmed the last truck going down the line.
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What's everybody so happy about?
We just lost our jobs.
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Everybody's applauding.
They just lost their jobs.
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We're trying impress upon the employees
that are being laid off...
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that there is nothing
out there for them...
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to depend upon for the future.
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The best thing Michigan can do
and General Motors can do...
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is get rid of Roger Smith
and them other son of a bitches.
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MOORE'.
That seemed to be the general consensus...
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as I talked to many GM workers
about their chairman, Roger Smith.
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What would you tell Roger Smith
if you could talk to him?
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Oh, Roger Smith? I'd tell him to retire.
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He can't look an auto worker
in the eye, because...
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- He should be feeling guilty.
- Most people are hungry. He's not.
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I'd tell old Roger Smith
to get off his big bucks...
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and start giving some of it
back to its workers.
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I'm sick and tired of these damn fat cats.
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I could say a few choice words,
but I'm a lady and I was raised a lady...
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so I won't say what I
really feel, but, urn...
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I could use some very unsavory language
as far as the fat cats.
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Fire Roger Smith! Fire Roger Smith!
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There were those
who had a different opinion in Flint...
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like Tom Kay,
a spokesman and lobbyist for GM.
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I'm sure that Roger Smith...
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has a social conscience
as strong as anybody else in the country.
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Because a guy is an automobile executive
does not make him inhuman.
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I've talked to enough of them.
I know what their concerns are.
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He has as much concern
about these people as you do or as I do...
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and nobody likes to see anybody laid off
or put in a hardship situation.
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- Have you ever talked to Roger Smith?
- Sure. Yeah.
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- How do you find him to be?
- I never...
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A very warm man. I have, uh...
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MOORE".
A warm man?
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Did I have Roger Smith judged all wrong...
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simply because he was eliminating
30,000 jobs from my hometown?
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I decided to find out.
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I wrote. I phoned. I faxed. I tried
every means of communication available...
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but nothing seemed to get me
any closer to Roger.
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I was left with no choice.
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I got in the car and drove
about an hour south of Flint to Detroit...
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to the world headquarters
of General Motors.
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To convince Roger Smith
to spend a day with me in Flint...
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and meet some of the people
who were losing their jobs.
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Everybody in?
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- Can I help you gentlemen?
- Yes, we're going to the 14th floor.
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- Do you have an appointment?
- Uh, no, we don't.
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- I think you need an appointment.
- To go up there?
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- Yes.
- Oh. Um...
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- Well, how can we make one?
- You want to step out...
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- Firstly, anything above...
- We came down from Flint.
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Anything above the first level here
is private property. That's off-limits.
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This is all off-limits.
It's a security area.
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MOORE
This is? All right.
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- Listen, who did you want to talk to?
- Roger Smith.
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- I want to talk to Roger Smith.
- I'll get a PR man and we'll see what we can do.
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- What kind of movie are you making?
- It's a documentary on Flint.
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Okay. On the labor problems?
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Yeah. The whole situation,
the plant shutdowns, the layoffs.
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We will try to have someone contact
you as soon as someone's available.
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- All right, I'd appreciate it.
- Have you got some credentials?
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- Where they can get in touch with you?
- What's your name?
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- Herb Slaughter. I'll give you a business card.
- My name's Michael Moore.
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And, uh...
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Let's see, I've got a
frequent-flier card...
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Visa...
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I was having a hard time finding
my business card, because I don't have any.
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So I gave Mr. Slaughter my discount pass
to Chuck E. Cheese...
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but he said that wouldn't get me in
to see Mr. Smith.
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So I headed back to Flint for further
guidance from GM lobbyist Tom Kay.
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General Motors wouldn't be doing
anybody any service if it goes bankrupt.
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It has to do what it has to do...
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in order to stay competitive
in today's economic climate.
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MOORE
Even if that means eliminating 18,000 jobs?
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Even if it means eliminating 20,000 jobs.
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- Or 30,000?
- Whatever.
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MOORE
How about all the jobs here in Flint?
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It could feasibly happen.
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Good evening, everyone, I'm Sue Zelenko.
Bill Harris has the night off.
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It was where the UAW was born.
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And tonight, 3,000 people are trying
to figure out what to do with their lives.
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Nobody was ready for the plant shutdowns...
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least of all, the 1350 workers.
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The last truck chassis
headed down the line.
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Virtually all the 3400 people here
are now on layoff.
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Larry Elliot was at the plant today...
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as that last car was making its way
down the assembly line.
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Will this plant build engines
if the rush back to small cars occurs?
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The answer is no.
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In Flint, Joe Weaver,
Channel 2 Eyewitness News.
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MOORE'.
More factories had closed...
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and I began to see the effect
this was having on my friends.
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Ben was the auto worker
who I'd put on the cover...
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of that magazine out in San Francisco.
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He'd been laid off
five times in five years from GM.
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Expecting to be laid off again, he cracked one
night while working on the assembly line.
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He was now shooting hoop
at the local mental health center.
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I couldn't take it. I
told the guy next to me:
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"Tell the foreman I'm sick to my stomach.
I don't give a shit what you tell him."
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I grabbed my coat and I flew out the door,
passed the guards...
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jumped into my car,
got onto Bristol Road...
237
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and was flying toward my apartment.
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I turned on the radio,
hoping that might cheer me up.
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I got, like, tears coming out of my eyes.
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And I strike right into the middle
of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys.
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And I'm thinking, "What a horrible song...
242
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to have to hear
in the midst of this panic attack."
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A song that I'd usually
get a groove going with.
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So I'm trying to sing the lyrics,
and I've got an apple in my throat.
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Maybe if we wish
and hope and think and pray
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It might come true
247
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You know, and I'm trying
to rationalize with those lyrics...
248
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trying to think, "Wouldn't it be nice?"
And it just wasn't working.
249
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Some disturbing news today
from the Genesee County Health Department.
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It announced the rat population in Flint...
251
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has now surpassed
the human population by 50,000.
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Health officials say that's due
to the massive numbers of people leaving...
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and the city cutting back
to twice-monthly garbage collection...
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due to budget constraints.
255
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Just when things
were beginning to look bleak...
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Ronald Reagan arrived in Flint...
257
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and took a dozen unemployed workers
out for a pizza.
258
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He told them he'd come up with a great idea.
If they tried it, they'd all be working again.
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He suggested that maybe some of us...
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could find better jobs elsewhere...
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like in Texas, or in
the southern states.
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And that's when I spoke up...
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because I have a son, a home.
264
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I'm trying to do it by myself. I can't just
pull up stakes and take off by myself.
265
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We don't hold public office,
we're nobody special...
266
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but he wanted our opinions
and our views.
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It was at a level I could understand,
and I liked his ideas about...
268
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Well, the ideas that he voiced to us.
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None of Reagan's luncheon guests got
back into the factory in the ensuing years.
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And the only bright spot
to come out of the whole affair...
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was the individual who borrowed
the restaurant's cash register...
272
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on the way out the door.
273
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Meanwhile, the more fortunate in Flint...
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were holding their annual
Great Gatsby Party...
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at the home
of one of GM's founding families.
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To show they weren't totally insensitive
to the plight of others...
277
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they hired local people
to be human statues at the party.
278
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MOORE So, what's it like
here in Flint these days?
279
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Things are tough here
for the people that are laid off.
280
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There's still people working.
281
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I don't think it's as bad
as people may believe.
282
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We started something,
and we're gonna finish it.
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- We're gonna be the leaders.
- What did we start?
284
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We started the industrial revolution...
285
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an art form that's never been created
in the history of mankind.
286
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- What was that industrial revolution?
- The cars. Steel.
287
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It took off from there.
We invented the wheel again.
288
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We're off again and we're running.
289
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So, what advice do you have
for those having a rough go of it?
290
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Get up in the morning
and go do something.
291
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Start yourself. Get your own motor going.
There's things to do out there.
292
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I don't think it's real fair
to just pick on the very negative things...
293
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and publicize them...
294
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and not pick up
any of the really good aspects about Flint.
295
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What are some of those
good aspects of Flint?
296
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- The ballet. Your kids were involved in it.
- Ballet. Hockey. It's a great place to live.
297
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Sheriff's department. Anybody home?
298
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Sheriff's department. Anybody home?
299
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Hello?
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MOORE I had found one man
in Flint with a secure job:
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Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross.
302
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I treat a person
the way I would like to be treated.
303
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You know, like, I explain to them
that I got a job to do.
304
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The court issued the order, not me.
305
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If you can make peace
with your landlord, good.
306
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If you can't, you got a problem.
307
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Out here, I've put out some good people.
308
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You have a lot of people in this town
paying $800 to $900 a month house note.
309
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That's a lot of money
to try to pay on unemployment.
310
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Some of these people
just don't want to leave...
311
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especially, you know, older people.
Some of them have retired from the shop.
312
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Taxes catch a lot of them, too.
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So, yeah, if things go down,
they close up some plants here...
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this town is gonna be a rough place.
315
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MOORE'.
I continued my search for Roger.
316
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I scoured the neighborhoods
of Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Woods...
317
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Grosse Pointe Farms,
Grosse Pointe Park...
318
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Grosse Pointe Shores,
and Bloomfield Hills.
319
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I tried in vain to locate his house...
320
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but the name Smith
was a common one among these people.
321
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,091
I then read that Roger was going to be
at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club.
322
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I decided to drop in on the affair.
323
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- Roger Smith.
- I haven't seen him.
324
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- You haven't seen him here yet?
- Just a moment.
325
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- Are you calling him?
- Who, Roger Smith?
326
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,362
You want me to call Roger Smith?
327
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,048
Ha-ha-ha. No, I'm trying to get the manager
to see if anybody knows anything about him.
328
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I'm sure he said the Grosse Pointe.
I mean it wasn't him...
329
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Who, his office?
330
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- Why don't we call his office and find out?
- We could do that.
331
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I have a television crew down here
with Michael Moore.
332
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He's supposed to meet Roger Smith
at noon. I have no information.
333
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,404
How often does Mr. Smith
come here for lunch or dinner?
334
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Last time I saw him here
was for Sportsmen's Night.
335
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- Yeah? What's that?
- It's a wild game dinner.
336
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MOORE Yeah.
337
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- You go out and shoot your own animal?
- Pardon me?
338
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You go and shoot your animals,
bring them here to eat, or...?
339
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- Some of the stuff is donated.
- Yeah.
340
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,686
Yeah. There are foods like rattlesnake...
341
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Let me think of some real exotic foods.
342
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Alligator.
343
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- You eat this stuff here?
- Roast beef.
344
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- That sounds better.
- Ha-ha-ha.
345
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I obviously had the wrong yacht club,
because Roger was nowhere to be found.
346
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I didn't have more time to waste here,
because back in Flint, at the county fair...
347
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thousands of people were being
entertained by the diving donkeys...
348
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anxiously awaiting
the return of our boyhood hero...
349
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as he made his triumphant return
home to Flint.
350
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From Genesee County Fair,
the newlywed capital of the world...
351
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here come the newlyweds!
352
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A big hand. Hey, this is your part...
353
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Here they come.
354
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,728
Yes, W's The Newlywed Game...
355
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and these are
our newlywed couples for today.
356
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Now let's all meet the host and star
of The Newlywed Game:
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Bob Eubanks!
358
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Hey! Hello, everybody. Welcome.
How nice of you to come out here today.
359
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Welcome to the opening of...
Hi, Mom. How are you doing?
360
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You devil, you! Ha, ha.
361
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,966
What about questions like:
362
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"How heavy are your wife's breasts?"
363
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,451
I'd never ask that. I'd say,
"How much does your wife's chest weigh?"
364
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,729
But there's a lot of difference
in that question you just asked...
365
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,481
A hell of a lot of difference.
That's where I think we get a bad rap.
366
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,484
People like yourself
will quote a question like that.
367
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I wouldn't ask that question for anything in the world.
I wouldn't even say "breasts."
368
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First question. These are easy questions.
369
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Ladies, how much did your husband say
your chest weighs?
370
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- Gladys, how much would you say?
- Two pounds.
371
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Two pounds!
He said six-and-a-half ounces.
372
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Yeah. I said, "Both of them."
He said, "That is both of them."
373
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I said, "I'm sorry."
He said, "Not as sorry as I am."
374
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,851
Bob was right. He didn't use that word
"breasts" and I considered apologizing...
375
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,806
for implying that his show wasn't wholesome
entertainment for the entire family.
376
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,446
Heh. You know why
Jewish women don't get AIDS?
377
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Because they marry assholes,
they don't screw them. Pardon me. Ha, ha.
378
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Ladies and gentlemen,
that's all for this afternoon.
379
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If I made you smile one time, it's good for me.
I had a good time. I hope you had a good time.
380
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Until next time.
We'll be back every night.
381
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I'm Bob Eubanks.
So long, everybody. See you then.
382
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,084
Bob Eubanks!
383
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,881
I was born here in Flint,
but I don't know anything about it.
384
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I can only tell you this about this town:
385
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That it's pretty.
386
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,449
The people are nice.
387
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,049
I don't know much about the economy, but I can
take you to some places around the U.S...
388
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,444
a hell of a lot worse off than Flint, Michigan.
I don't think it's such a bad town.
389
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With 30,000 jobs now eliminated, the
city decided to turn to that one event...
390
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the big parade...
391
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this time honoring the surviving
Flint Sit-Down Strikers.
392
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The highlight of the parade
was Miss Michigan, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko.
393
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,770
Passing by the dozens of boarded-up stores
and hundreds of jobless Flint citizens...
394
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,969
she was an inspiring
sight to all present.
395
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,287
MOORE
How do you feel about the economy in Flint?
396
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,329
The factories all shutting down?
397
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,007
This isn't my interview yet.
This is my time for enjoyment.
398
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,608
All kinds of important people
showed up to march in the parade...
399
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,849
like the governor of Michigan,
James Blanchard.
400
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,768
How do you feel about General Motors
closing up these factories in Flint?
401
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,651
Oh, it's, uh, tragic. Tragic.
402
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,041
Do you think
we need another sit-down strike here?
403
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,851
I don't know that that'll do any good.
That's the problem.
404
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,527
Is this a great time for a parade?
405
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,250
I think so, too. Let's have a fun time!
406
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,844
Give your life to Jesus today.
Give your life to Jesus.
407
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,203
Jesus Christ loves you.
Give your life to Jesus, sir.
408
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:53,285
Tell your viewers they need Jesus!
Give your life to Jesus.
409
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,205
How could you have a parade
for the founders of your union...
410
00:26:56,360 --> 00:27:01,048
without inviting the current president
of the United Auto Workers, Owen Bieber?
411
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,090
I don't know that
we need another sit-down strike per se.
412
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,609
A sit-down strike today
would not, uh, necessarily resemble...
413
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:09,807
or, uh...
414
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:15,649
Or be able to bring about the same thing
that it did in 1970... Er, 1937.
415
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:20,044
The union is getting weaker. Weaker.
We're losing power.
416
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,848
Why? Because there's too many union guys...
Too many guys in the union...
417
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,210
that are friends with management.
Friends with management.
418
00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:33,251
Some plants that are announced
to be closed obviously are gonna be closed.
419
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,890
There is, you know...
420
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:39,250
We have to accept the reality
that they're just not going to remain open.
421
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,846
I think, though, that
with the spirit here...
422
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,124
Flint will continue not only to survive,
but will continue to grow.
423
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,808
Some people know what time it is.
Some people don't.
424
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,206
Miss Michigan,
could we talk to you for one second?
425
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,802
Your face looks familiar. Was this
when you caught me on the road?
426
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:07,602
Yes, back in the parade. How does
it feel driving through Flint today...
427
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,128
and so many people being laid off,
so many plants being shut down?
428
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,001
- How does it feel? I feel like
a big supporter. MOORE: Of?
429
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,687
- Does it matter of what?
- A supporter of General Motors?
430
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,487
Of just being here for the people.
Is it the parade?
431
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,804
When you pass stores that are
boarded-up and people that are laid off...
432
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,043
how does that make you feel
just on a personal level?
433
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,481
A little sad.
Of course, I'm for, um, employment...
434
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,680
and working in Michigan.
And, hopefully, it's just temporarily.
435
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,448
So I just keep my fingers crossed
that they'll be back and working soon.
436
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,010
I'm trying to stay neutral.
I'm going to Miss America in two weeks.
437
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,010
- I don't want to... Ha, ha.
- It's a great day for a parade.
438
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,891
Oh, it's beautiful. I
can't believe the crowd.
439
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,923
It's the largest parade I've been in...
440
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,970
and I've been in
probably over 20 since June.
441
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,842
It's wonderful. I love coming back to Flint.
It's my third trip here, and I love it.
442
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,684
MOORE
Any message to the people of Flint?
443
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,367
Just keep your fingers crossed for me
as I go for the gold in two weeks...
444
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,645
and hopefully bring back a crown for
Flint and the rest of the Michigan state.
445
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,485
MOORE'.
Two weeks later, she got her wish.
446
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,929
Our new Miss America...
447
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,811
Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss Michigan!
448
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,686
There she is
449
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,209
Miss America
450
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,929
This is probably number 15
I've been here and evicted someone.
451
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,731
- From this house?
- From this house, yes.
452
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,403
Daryl? Sheriff's department.
453
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,602
Sheriff's department.
454
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,209
You better get your clothes on.
We're here to put you out.
455
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,328
We're here to put you out.
456
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,762
So you better get your clothes on.
457
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,170
- Here to do what?
- Evict you from the house right now.
458
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,691
People stay up all night and sleep all day.
459
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,530
Deputy Fred seemed
especially busy these days.
460
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,286
After doing 24 evictions in one day...
461
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,246
he arrived to evict a woman
who was a month behind in her rent.
462
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,647
She quickly got the landlord on the phone.
463
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,849
After telling him that
a film crew had arrived with the sheriff...
464
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,244
the landlord told Fred
not to evict the woman and her children.
465
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,889
It had leaked so much,
this whole area was bulging down.
466
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,687
My oldest son, I moved his bed, because
I was scared the ceiling would fall.
467
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,531
But nobody was there at the time it fell.
468
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,082
It needed to be painted outside.
The aluminum siding outside, I put on.
469
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,447
I paid for it and had it put on.
470
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,046
See my new siding? It does look better.
471
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,205
You put that on since last time
I was here. You've spent a lot of money.
472
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,091
Well...
473
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,527
It looked like
the raggediest house on the block.
474
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,570
These houses look nice
and I was embarrassed about it.
475
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,611
The deal was pretty good,
so I worked with it.
476
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,165
- What's gonna happen to her?
- End up putting her out...
477
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,642
unless her new husband
comes up with the money.
478
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,361
I can't imagine somebody getting married
to someone as poor as you.
479
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:47,003
It gets kind of rough.
Put two poor people in the same house...
480
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,847
I always tell women, "You can be poor
by yourself, you don't need help."
481
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,447
And she just got some help being poor.
482
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,961
Three days later,
Fred put the woman and her kids out.
483
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,649
- Hi, can I help you?
- We're looking for Roger Smith.
484
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,802
And we're wondering
if he was here right now.
485
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,806
I have no idea whether he's here or not,
but you are gonna have to leave the club.
486
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,008
- Why's that?
- It's a private club.
487
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,886
- Do you know if he's been here today?
- To my knowledge, he has not.
488
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,129
- Does he come here often?
- I really don't know.
489
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,045
- Is he a member here?
- He is a member.
490
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,202
MOORE
But you don't know if he's been here?
491
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,887
We don't keep track of our membership.
You will have to leave the club, sir.
492
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,122
- It is a private building.
- You'd know...
493
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,727
- We're gonna have to ask you to leave.
- I want to find out...
494
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,726
I'm sorry, you'll have to leave the club.
Call General Motors. Check with them.
495
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,962
We have called General Motors.
We can't get in there.
496
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,841
If you can't get in there, you can't
get in here either. Would you mind leaving?
497
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,848
- We could just wait.
- No, you can't.
498
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,243
They say you must leave the building, sir.
You have to step outside.
499
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,890
All right.
500
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,766
Well, We'll, uh...
501
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,651
We'll come back.
502
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,446
I'll be right here.
I'm going to escort you outside.
503
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,045
Okay.
504
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,005
You may wait outside.
505
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,162
If he comes in,
you can interview him outside.
506
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,970
You may not interview him in the club.
507
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,043
You don't remember the last time
he was here?
508
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,680
- That doesn't mean anything. Sorry.
- The chairman of GM?
509
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,643
No, that does not impress me. Sorry.
510
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,240
It doesn't impress you?
The chairman of General Motors?
511
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,001
The chairman of General Motors is just
another member of our organization.
512
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,848
He's an important individual, but no more
important than any member of our club.
513
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,402
I wasn't having much success
bringing Roger to Flint.
514
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,365
The mayor, though, was having better luck
with an even higher authority.
515
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,641
He paid TV evangelist
Robert Schuller $20, 000. ..
516
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,282
To come to Flint and rid the city
of its unemployment plague.
517
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,524
Tough times don't last,
but tough people do.
518
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,930
Thousands filled the city's
hockey arena to hear his message of hope.
519
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,128
Pull your way out of poverty!
520
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,841
You're not going to pull your way
from poverty to prosperity...
521
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,403
until you realize you have to be
humble enough to say, "I need help."
522
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,648
By then what happens is
you can turn your hurt into a halo.
523
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,370
The sorrow becomes a servant.
524
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,124
Just because you've got problems...
525
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,365
is no excuse to be unhappy.
526
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,649
MOORE'.
Maybe Reverend Schuller was right.
527
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,849
Things could be worse,
and there was much to be thankful for...
528
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,923
like the Star Theater of Flint...
529
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,090
funded with GM money
to provide entertainment and escape...
530
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,208
during Flint's hard times.
531
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,891
Buick City, this is called, you know.
532
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,122
Rednecks, hardhat automotive workers.
533
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,804
We bring Broadway
and the theater to them...
534
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,010
in this beautiful edifice. But that
takes money, time, effort, energy. Wow.
535
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,051
Bobby Vinton opened our season. It was
90 percent sold out. It was a big hit.
536
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,565
He has very much charisma.
537
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,451
Came into the audience,
spent about 10, 15 minutes...
538
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,080
fussing with the ladies, kissing,
and the this and the that.
539
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,362
They loved him.
He got standing ovations every night.
540
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,887
Peggy Lee came.
She was not the greatest big hit.
541
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,771
But she had her cult
from all the surrounding areas.
542
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,322
Her cult who love her. Love her.
Those who came absolutely love her.
543
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,882
Standing ovations, bravos, cheers.
They were crazy about her.
544
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,560
Last year, Mitzi Gaynor,
we had her here and her show.
545
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:56,246
She brings 10 wonderful
boy dancers with her.
546
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,802
She makes 14 changes. Sixteen.
The boys make 14.
547
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:03,248
When they're on, she's off.
She's on, they're off, changing costumes.
548
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,368
One production number after another.
549
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:06,601
You'd be surprised.
550
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,242
Some of those hardhat factory workers
on the assembly line say, "Hey!"
551
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:15,167
They present their badge or identification,
so they can come at a half-price ticket...
552
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,130
to keep them coming
when they're having hard times.
553
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,322
We're singing joy to the world
554
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,290
Oh, all the boys and girls, now
555
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,283
MOORE'.
Long before she sold orange juice...
556
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,570
Anita Bryant sold spark plugs
for General Motors' AC division.
557
00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,690
She used to perform in Flint
for General Motors when I was a child.
558
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,326
I remember her carrying around
a giant spark plug...
559
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,881
and singing You'll Never Walk Alone.
560
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,120
Now she was back in Flint,
offering her advice to the unemployed.
561
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,250
Opportunities are still in Flint,
Michigan. They're still in America.
562
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,448
So hang in there. Take one day at a time.
563
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,120
Go forward and be positive about life.
564
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,604
Don't feel regretful or guilty
about the past, or worry about the future.
565
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,364
You have today. Today's a new day.
566
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,761
It's an opportunity for you
to look about you...
567
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,925
and look at the positive within yourself
and within your community.
568
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,641
Take a look at yourself and you will look
569
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,531
At others differently
570
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,289
When you're hand in the hand of the man
From Galilee
571
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,966
I read something interesting.
Margaret Thatcher says:
572
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,691
"Cheer up, America.
You live in a great country.
573
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,247
You're a free country.
You have a great president.
574
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,769
Not everything's perfect, but cheer up,
because you live in a free America."
575
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,888
So we live in a free society.
576
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,931
Today is a new day, an opportunity
to do something with yourself.
577
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:41,802
Um, if nothing else,
thank God for the sunshine...
578
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,486
and for the fact
that you're not starving to death.
579
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,008
Go out and do something with your hands.
Urn, I don't know.
580
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:53,525
See the USA in your Chevrolet
581
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,160
America's asking you to come
582
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,608
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
583
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,366
America's the greatest land of all
584
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,524
Flint is bedrock America.
585
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:07,927
People here don't quit,
and they don't give up.
586
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,880
They know there've been lots of good
times in the past, and there's more...
587
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,204
um, of good, productive time ahead.
588
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:20,126
You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
589
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,646
MOORE".
It was like I was reliving my childhood.
590
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,121
First Anita,
and now "Mr. Chevrolet" himself.
591
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,563
Pat Boone had arrived in Flint
just when we needed him.
592
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:32,963
I look the same.
I liked you the moment I saw you.
593
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,847
More people identified me with Chevrolet...
594
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,089
than any other sponsor,
and any other spokesman.
595
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,608
Since my family was getting bigger every
year, we were having a baby a year...
596
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,970
I needed a station wagon.
So each year that I worked for Chevrolet...
597
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,124
I had a Corvette
and a station wagon to use.
598
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,410
That strengthened my feeling that this
was a great sponsor and a great product...
599
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,446
which I could wholeheartedly endorse
on television, and did.
600
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,922
Hey, take a look at
Chevrolet's '58 Corvette.
601
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,764
Oh, what a beauty.
602
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,925
I own and drive one of these things myself.
I can vouch for them.
603
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,765
The sweetest-handling baby
on the road today.
604
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,642
Chevrolet's completely new in style.
It's the longest, too.
605
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,044
Have you ever met Roger Smith,
the chairman of General Motors?
606
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,282
I haven't. At least, I don't think I have.
607
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,091
If I had, it would have been
before he was chairman...
608
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:29,164
years ago, during my involvement.
I don't think we've met.
609
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,049
MOORE
So you don't know much about him?
610
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,762
I don't know much about him. He seems to
be a very optimistic, can-do kind of guy.
611
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,684
- Yeah.
- He's not a quitter.
612
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,763
- Yeah.
- Ha-ha-ha.
613
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,329
I would rather have a Buick. See you later.
614
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,608
MOORE Who's to blame for
what's happened in Flint?
615
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,967
I don't think it's anybody's fault.
616
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,450
In a free society,
in a capitalistic, democratic society...
617
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,888
things just do change.
There are shifts and trends.
618
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,806
I'm sure General Motors
doesn't have any desire...
619
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,851
to either close down a plant
or put people out of work.
620
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,810
The key becomes the attitude.
621
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,850
Folks wind up saying, "it was
the best thing that happened to me...
622
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,483
when my job at the plant phased out.
I was only gonna go so far at the plant.
623
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,689
Now I've got my own business,
whatever it is."
624
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,002
It's maybe no accident...
625
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,602
that the Amway business, for one,
is in aid of Michigan...
626
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:45,607
offering anybody, for very little money,
a chance to start earning dollars...
627
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,525
having their own store in their home.
628
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,451
If you have a dream, and you
go after your dream, you can do it.
629
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,123
If you do it full-time,
you can really make good money.
630
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,521
You can make a lot of money off of these.
631
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,571
Janet was one of hundreds of
Flint citizens who had taken Pat's advice.
632
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:09,722
Although her husband
was still working at GM...
633
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,805
she'd seen many of her friends laid off,
and didn't want to take any chances.
634
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,203
She'd been the founder and host
of Flint's feminist radio show.
635
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,442
But now she was a distributor for Amway.
636
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,443
Color is my main love.
637
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,686
I got color-analyzed myself a couple of
years prior to learning color consulting.
638
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,650
As soon as I found out
what season I was...
639
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,323
it really changed my outlook. I went
around draping everyone with my eyes.
640
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,563
I really wanted to get into this business.
It was very exciting to me.
641
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,481
About 80 percent of the world's population
is winter or summer.
642
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:46,368
Blacks, Jews, Italians
most often are winters.
643
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,004
I start out with the orange and pink drape.
644
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,323
The reason why is because what I'd
like to do is put you into a family:
645
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,482
The warm family or the cool family.
646
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,770
People who are warm
have a yellow undertone to their skin.
647
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,527
And the orange drape
brings the yellow undertone out...
648
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,489
and makes them look really good.
649
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,803
If you put orange
on someone who has a blue undertone...
650
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,368
which would be the pink family,
or the cool family...
651
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,445
then what's going to happen to their
face is they're going to get real pale...
652
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,045
or they're gonna look real tired.
653
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,806
Or they might get a lot of ruddiness
come out on their face.
654
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,931
So I like to put what I think
is the wrong color on you first.
655
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,242
Then I can compare it to the right color.
656
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,724
That way it will really improve
how you look.
657
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,124
Okay. What usually happens
is what I'm seeing happen to her...
658
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,971
is she gets jaundiced
when you put orange on her.
659
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,363
She turns yellow, looks
a little bit sickly.
660
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:47,447
You might not even see it that much now,
but let's compare it to the pink.
661
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,491
I get a small commission
on every account.
662
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,321
Join up and find out. Ha-ha-ha.
It's good!
663
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,006
Three months after we attended
Janet's Amway meeting...
664
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,766
she phoned me in a panic
and asked that we please come back...
665
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,524
as she'd made a terrible mistake.
666
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,651
I've very recently learned
that I am not an autumn.
667
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,168
I was color-analyzed
by someone in the IMS line...
668
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,522
who are the people
who taught me to do colors.
669
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,126
And I've discovered
that I am another season.
670
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,443
It's a warm season, like autumn,
but it's spring instead.
671
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,366
So the colors that I wear
are basically the same color family...
672
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,171
but they're lighter and brighter.
673
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,051
It's really a shock to me,
because I am out there...
674
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,249
color-analyzing women all the time.
Little did I know...
675
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:44,042
that I was not the season
that I was telling people I was. I was...
676
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,250
I felt sorry for Janet.
So to cheer her up, I let her do my colors.
677
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,370
And as it turned out,
we were the same season.
678
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,005
There were other ways to survive in Flint.
679
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:58,889
Taco Bell was one.
680
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,884
The local Taco Bell
was retraining laid-off auto workers...
681
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,566
to assemble tacos and chicken fajitas.
682
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:07,963
The local paper said
this was to be their dream job.
683
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,322
But when I stopped by to see
how they were doing...
684
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,724
the manager told me
why all the ex-GM workers had been fired.
685
00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,326
A lot of them say
this is a lot of hard work...
686
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,565
because assembly work, some of it's easy.
It depends on what you make it.
687
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,206
At Taco Bell, every day's a new day.
688
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,761
Every time you turn around,
it's a different challenge.
689
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,890
- Just a Taco Light.
- One Taco Light.
690
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,088
Would you like any Cinnamon Crispas?
691
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:36,083
Yeah, you make it sound so good.
692
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:37,446
Dining here today?
693
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,170
Fast food is one of the most
stressful environments...
694
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,328
because of the demands on you.
695
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,001
Fast food does demand a fast pace...
696
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,124
because we want to
present a food item...
697
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,250
within so many seconds, if we can do it.
698
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:57,611
The transaction from assembly work
and the fast pace at Taco Bell...
699
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,446
Some of them
just couldn't develop that speed.
700
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,251
There has been a number of small
manufacturing companies...
701
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,448
that have done very well.
702
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,884
One I like to look at is Helmac Co.
Are you familiar with them?
703
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:12,849
They invented a lint roller.
704
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,651
Now they ship lint rollers
all over the world...
705
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,249
and have a very profitable,
nice business operating.
706
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,490
Uh, maybe there's a...
707
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:28,562
- There's all kinds of opportunities...
- Torn, wait a minute. Tom.
708
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:32,247
Lint rollers?
That's the solution to an auto industry...
709
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:33,481
That's an example.
710
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,849
A giant auto industry
that had its birthplace here in Flint?
711
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,123
And lint rollers are gonna pull us
out of this depression?
712
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,442
There's as much opportunity here...
713
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,685
as when Billy Durant started
the motor company on Water Street.
714
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,171
Maybe more opportunities.
715
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,085
- You believe that?
- Yes, I do. Absolutely.
716
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,683
Hi. I saw the sign down on the street...
717
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,286
that said you're selling
rabbits and bunnies here?
718
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,329
- Yeah.
- Uh, for sale?
719
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:18,925
You want pets or meat?
720
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:20,241
Uh, pets or meat?
721
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:25,406
You mean I can buy the bunnies
to have as a pet...
722
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,325
or I can buy them for...?
723
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,006
Meat. They're already dressed
and cleaned.
724
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,562
I butcher the babies
when the babies reach 4 or 5 months old.
725
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:36,051
That's good. Ha, ha.
726
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,567
If you butcher the older ones,
like these guys...
727
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,564
- ...then they're stewers. They're not fryers.
- Mm-hm.
728
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,644
A lot of people like fryers
better than they do the stewers.
729
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,407
- That makes sense.
- So I keep my own personal stock.
730
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,929
Then when my babies get 4 or 5
months old, and I have 15 to 20 babies...
731
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:55,242
you've got to get rid of them some way.
732
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,246
If they don't sell as pets,
you got to get rid of them as meat.
733
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:01,563
Them guys are all meat.
734
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,691
See, they start doing this to each other.
735
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:05,927
MOORE What's that?
736
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,323
Peeing on each other,
stuff like that, when they get older.
737
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,485
If you don't have separate cages for them,
then they start fighting.
738
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,160
Then the males castrate the other males.
739
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,761
They do. They chew their balls right off.
Then you have a bloody mess.
740
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,129
That's why you got to butcher them
when they get a certain age...
741
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,527
or you have a heck of a mess. Heh.
742
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,330
I'm on social security.
743
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,927
The only other income
I have is my rabbits...
744
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,805
for groceries, bills, and my dogs.
745
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:37,928
I also raise Doberman pinschers.
746
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,964
Because sometimes
I only make $10 to $15 a week...
747
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,682
but that's better than nothing. At least
I can buy $10 to $15 worth of groceries.
748
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,123
Because you only get paid once a month
from social security...
749
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,204
and that... Heh, that's not very much.
750
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,044
It's really popular.
A lot of people come down here.
751
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,804
Usually some people come down.
752
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,806
They're only open on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
753
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,849
Saturday and Sunday, they're closed.
754
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,207
On the holidays, they get...
755
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,285
like, a dollar bonus,
two dollar bonus here and there.
756
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:22,367
If you're doing this every day,
isn't your arm filled with needle marks?
757
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,330
- They only keep it in one certain spot.
- Yeah.
758
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,689
- You keep it right there. Doesn't look bad.
- So it doesn't look bad.
759
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,566
I take some rubbing alcohol
to get the scar tissue to heal up.
760
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,000
MOORE Can we see it?
761
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:35,491
Uh, heh.
762
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:37,603
I only do it in my right arm.
763
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,204
It's not so bad.
764
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,807
They only do it in a certain place,
in a certain spot. Right here.
765
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,010
It's right here.
766
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,164
They don't track it up.
They only do it in two places.
767
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,686
No! Oh, my baby!
768
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,285
Oh, God!
769
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,681
Flint is known for its principal industry.
770
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,844
But it's quickly gaining notoriety
as a major crime center.
771
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,691
It's a record year
for homicides in the vehicle city.
772
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,248
According to the FBI, Flint now has
the highest violent crime rate in America.
773
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,880
Crime rate is one of the highest...
774
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,725
The problem is there
aren't enough jail cells...
775
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,405
for all the criminals.
776
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,729
- I got it.
- I don't think that target would live.
777
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,928
I got two out of the ring there.
778
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,765
- You got three out the ring.
- Yes, sir.
779
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,881
Where is my third one? Here's two.
780
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,448
Here's two here.
Where's the third one out of the ring?
781
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:47,329
Okay, that one's out of the ring.
782
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,006
Your biggest problem is your barrel length.
783
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,961
We usually tell them that probably
their best protection for home...
784
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,090
is the shotgun. Short-barreled shotgun.
785
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,207
- Why is that?
- Well, it's easy to handle...
786
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,044
and if you do have to shoot,
you're not liable to miss.
787
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,244
And when they hear that, uh, pump gun...
788
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,411
when you rack that,
there's no other sound like it.
789
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,642
Usually you don't have to fire it.
790
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,521
They get moving pretty fast.
They'll move away.
791
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,400
- They don't like the sound.
- Oh, yes.
792
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,045
They know exactly what you have.
793
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,487
You don't have to say,
"I have a gun in my hand."
794
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,120
They know what it'll do,
it'll really tear them up.
795
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,210
With higher unemployment
creating more crime in Flint...
796
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,126
General Motors and the United Auto
Workers' union came up with a novel idea:
797
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:43,968
Train the ex-auto workers to be prison
guards and give them jobs in the jails...
798
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,691
now filling up
with their former line mates.
799
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,810
It's sad in a way
to see somebody that you know...
800
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,611
or had done something with
on the outside being in jail...
801
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,525
or sent them to prison
or something like that.
802
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,285
But I guess it's, you know...
The theory goes, you play, you pay.
803
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,169
And you get over it.
804
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,482
I have a possibility to move on.
805
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,803
That's what this 160-hour program
was all about.
806
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,528
I have a certificate now, stating that
I can apply anywhere in the United States.
807
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,648
Money's not an object right now.
808
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,322
If I can improve myself, morally,
the money will come later.
809
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,484
It's almost half
of what I was making at General Motors...
810
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,843
- but I like the work better.
- You'll do what?
811
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,047
It's not as hot.
812
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,682
You don't scare me by saying that.
I'll screw your fucking ass!
813
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,491
I don't care what you think!
I'll screw you!
814
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,769
You'll cope with me in a few days,
I'm telling you that now!
815
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,571
You don't scare me! I know my rights!
816
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:42,644
- I went to school, okay?
- What's going on?
817
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,407
Someone in a heated discussion
down there, I guess.
818
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,605
I'm going to jump you!
I'll get you, man!
819
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,404
... a staff member is
a violation of that rule.
820
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,040
I don't respect you!
821
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,204
When you give me respect, I'll respect you.
822
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,240
- Take it easy.
- I know my rights!
823
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:12,041
I really don't know the answer.
I feel sorry for people...
824
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:16,884
but you can't help them. I mean,
you have such a good welfare program.
825
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,607
So they just don't want to work.
826
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,367
I don't think so. I really don't know.
I obviously don't know.
827
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,521
- Good shot.
- That's nice.
828
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:32,641
All four of us have always lived in Flint
and gone to school here.
829
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,205
We just love it so.
830
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:41,564
- What do you love about it?
- I personally love our friends.
831
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,444
And, um...
832
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,650
And we like our club, and we like...
833
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:49,844
all the stores and...
834
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,691
you know, what's left of them. Ha, ha.
835
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,128
I think everybody should try to, uh...
836
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,961
find another job, or do something else
in training, or something like that.
837
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,006
MOORE You think a lot of
people are just being lazy?
838
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:10,725
I think some of them.
839
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:15,408
A lot of them,
they take the easy way out, I think.
840
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,807
Judge issued the order to vacate the house.
841
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,564
- Right now?
- Yes, ma'am.
842
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,650
Okay, that's what we'll do.
I'll go get a truck.
843
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,087
- Today?
- Right now.
844
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:35,129
Can't you wait until we get a truck?
845
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,045
You can get the truck,
but they got a crew on the way here.
846
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:42,125
They stopped at the store to get a pop.
I would get dressed if I was you.
847
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,164
We got to vacate the house.
848
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,882
We're doing more evictions,
more repossessions, and everything...
849
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,162
way behind, trying to catch up.
850
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:57,008
A lot of these people bought school clothes
and then didn't pay the rent.
851
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,401
The system's got to change...
852
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,281
because if they didn't have enough money
to pay rent and buy clothes...
853
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,488
they're in trouble anyway.
854
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:11,166
I've put out some of my best friends,
but it's nothing personal, you know.
855
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,010
They know me, they know what I do, so...
856
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,800
If they're lucky enough to draw me...
857
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,122
at least they got somebody to talk to.
858
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:22,725
What?
859
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,004
What?
860
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,409
What?
861
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,286
These people couldn't find a truck.
They called two or three different places.
862
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,966
They called U-Haul...
863
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,249
and they said all their trucks
was out for today.
864
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,246
They called Ryder Truck, and they said
all of theirs were out for today.
865
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:55,530
A gentleman came by, we hauled him
down, and he didn't want to get involved.
866
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,002
So now I assume they're on the phone,
trying to get a trailer...
867
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,209
from Mark's Trailer Rental
up on Carpenter Road.
868
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,971
MOORE
Why are all the trucks being rented here?
869
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,805
Heh, people are probably moving.
870
00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:15,131
With GM closing,
there are so many people leaving town.
871
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,760
We've handled
over 82,000 address changes.
872
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,811
We're having a lot of people
just abandon their house sometimes.
873
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,968
Thank God we're getting
new equipment here.
874
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,409
We're getting new higher-tech computers
that will be able to process more mail.
875
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,803
And I don't foresee this job evaporating.
876
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,247
I feel we're secure in forwarding mail.
877
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,882
Usually we see somebody every day
that we know...
878
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,247
that's moved on, left town.
879
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,920
A lot of people are going to look
for work elsewhere.
880
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:47,449
My husband's currently laid off, and we're
giving some thought to it ourselves.
881
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,648
GM layoff.
882
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,440
We have been having so many trucks...
883
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,807
go one-way to places like Florida...
884
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,645
and places south of here.
885
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,289
We have a very hard time
keeping trucks in the Flint area.
886
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,970
It's expected we'll get some
of our fleet back towards midsummer...
887
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,808
but with the layoffs coming heavier...
888
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,363
it's going to be very hard
to keep a truck around here.
889
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,484
MOORE'. I continued to dog
Roger all over the country.
890
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,166
From Detroit to Chicago...
891
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,891
to Washington, D.C., to New York City.
892
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,562
I followed a trail of three-martini lunches
in pursuit of the chairman.
893
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,486
I finally found Roger at the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City...
894
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,883
where he was getting an award
for the car of the year.
895
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,482
We weren't in the hotel five minutes...
896
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,120
when GM security recognized
one of our crew members...
897
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,329
as a relative of their arch nemesis,
Ralph Nader.
898
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,129
They called in the New York City police
who carried him out...
899
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,568
chair and all,
down to precinct headquarters.
900
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,844
As soon as I could, I headed down
to Detroit to Roger's office...
901
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,686
where I was determined this time
to get onto the 14th floor.
902
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,205
Excuse me.
903
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,444
Excuse me.
904
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,561
- Uh, where are you guys going?
- We're going up to the 14th floor.
905
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,690
- Do you have an appointment?
- We're going to see Roger Smith.
906
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,009
No, you're not. You're not gonna get
on one of those elevators.
907
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:39,289
- Why's that?
- You don't have an appointment, you're not.
908
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,807
- Can we go up and make an appointment?
- No.
909
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,007
Why?
910
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,524
I need Tony or Denise.
911
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,961
- The reason to talk to Roger Smith would be?
- Michael Moore.
912
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,930
No, what's your reason
for seeing Roger Smith?
913
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,243
- Excuse me. I need to see you.
- We're making a film...
914
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,523
MOORE
I quickly sized up the situation.
915
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,570
Three guards in the booth,
plus the one with the corsage...
916
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,324
a dozen security cameras...
917
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,405
and four new cars with inflated
sticker prices parked in the lobby.
918
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,690
If I made a run for it up to Roger's office,
what's the worst that could happen to me?
919
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,162
Before I could fully explore
the consequences of such an action...
920
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,927
my escorts to the 14th
floor finally arrived.
921
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,606
- Mr. Smith is not in at the present time.
- Mm-hm.
922
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:33,209
We'd be happy to take your request under
advisement, as we would all appointments.
923
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:37,610
That's what I've been told before. I've
called, written, and I've been here before.
924
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,603
- Have you written?
- Yes, I've written.
925
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,604
- To whom?
- Um, to Roger Smith...
926
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,651
General Motors building,
Grand Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
927
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,167
John, how about we have a letter
sent to your office?
928
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:51,641
Why don't you do that?
Why don't you send a letter to us...
929
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,644
and we will be happy to,
as I say, take it under advisement...
930
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,127
just as we do all requests
to see the chairman.
931
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,489
It's just that I've been waiting for
about a year now to get this.
932
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,570
You know, it's been under advisement
for a long time.
933
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,849
What I'd like to do
is just go up to the 14th floor...
934
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,128
and set up an appointment
with his secretary.
935
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,282
That would be impossible.
936
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,564
Obviously,
I was getting the big blow-off once again.
937
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,845
Meanwhile, things weren't getting
much better back in Flint.
938
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,843
More jobs had been eliminated.
939
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,243
The city had become
the unemployment capital of the country.
940
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,770
The visits from the stars
and the creation of new jobs...
941
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,605
had failed to pull Flint
out of its depression.
942
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,330
Just when it appeared
that all hope was lost...
943
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,201
the city fathers came up
with one last great idea.
944
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,887
You don't usually think of tourist
attraction when you think of Flint...
945
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,611
but people here in Flint
would like to change that.
946
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:48,684
And they're willing to go
to some pretty extreme lengths.
947
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:53,528
Flint officials would like to see
the local tourist economy explode.
948
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:57,487
Flint's Convention and Tourism
Bureau president...
949
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:01,804
says visitors should take advantage
of Flint's convenient location.
950
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,201
Millions of travelers pass by our doorstep.
951
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,806
Now, with this active
and aggressive promotion...
952
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:12,046
we'll be able to draw them into our city
and experience what we have to offer.
953
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:17,285
As pan' of the plan
to attract tourism and conventions...
954
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:22,207
the city spent $13 million in tax funds
to build a Hyatt Regency Hotel.
955
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:28,566
Although most people in Flint were now
too poor to afford a room at the Hyatt...
956
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,927
the hotel allowed the public
on opening day...
957
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,606
to come and ride the
city's only escalator.
958
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,560
We put a luxury hotel
in the heart of our city...
959
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,883
just like other cities
with their luxury hotels...
960
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,044
with everything from the fountains
and high ceilings...
961
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:47,245
the atrium lobby, to the large windows,
the large plants.
962
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:48,970
The quality is there...
963
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:53,723
what you would find
in Chicago, or Atlanta, or San Francisco.
964
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:57,925
We've got some great facilities,
as far as places to stay...
965
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,971
interesting places to see, museums.
966
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:06,091
And it's a nice community to visit.
967
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,161
Meet Mr. and Mrs. Roberts.
968
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:22,408
They're two of the thousands of people...
969
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,769
who decide to spend some time
in Genesee County each year.
970
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,321
There's the sign. We're almost there.
971
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,484
I can hardly wait to see some of the places
in the brochures.
972
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,246
- Let's pull off and fill up first.
- Okay.
973
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,971
- You from out of town?
- Yeah, we're on vacation.
974
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,122
Welcome to Flint. You staying here?
975
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,123
Yeah, we are. Lots to do, huh?
976
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:45,126
Oh, sure, there's lots of attractions here.
Have you seen Crossroads Village?
977
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,251
See how a little hospitality, from
the start, can really make a difference?
978
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,449
Suggesting things to see and do
builds our own image...
979
01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:55,803
and it creates
positive word-of-mouth endorsements...
980
01:01:55,960 --> 01:02:00,409
the most inexpensive, yet most valuable
type of advertising there is.
981
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,803
Our New Spark Will Surprise You."
982
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,485
Capturing a lot of enthusiasm.
983
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,486
Letting people know there are some new
and surprising things in the Flint area.
984
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:14,362
This is our visitors' log book.
I see West Germany here, Australia.
985
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:18,286
Jackie, what are some of the things
that visitors ask us?
986
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,602
First off, "Where is the bathroom?"
987
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:23,650
Heh, that's the question I get asked most.
988
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,605
Then, "What is there to
do in Flint?" basically.
989
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:32,689
The city had a hard time attracting
major conventions to the Hyatt.
990
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:36,890
It had to settle for groups like the
Michigan Ready Mix Concrete Association...
991
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,850
and the statewide organization
of Scrabble players.
992
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,846
On this last game,
I made a seven-letter word, "partier."
993
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,048
P-A-R-T-I-E-R.
994
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,525
So we looked in the Scrabble bible,
which is this dictionary...
995
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:52,569
and it isn't allowed there.
996
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,088
They allow "partied," P-A-R-T-I-E-D...
997
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,290
and "parties," P-A-R-T-I-E-S...
998
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,842
but no "partier."
So don't claim you are one ever. Heh.
999
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,001
MOORE'.
Flint's leaders needed more tourists.
1000
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,323
They hired the company that built
New York's South Street Seaport...
1001
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,370
to come to Flint
and create Water Street Pavilion.
1002
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,571
We took a four-square-block area,
tore it down...
1003
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,041
and built this new facility...
1004
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,409
which is a lot of glass and steel,
as well as plants...
1005
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:29,248
and, uh, different colors
to make it festive, fun and exciting.
1006
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,562
Also, a major parking ramp...
1007
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,202
and some other facilities
connected with the building.
1008
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,001
It's more than just another building
in downtown Flint.
1009
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:43,768
I like the color and the excitement of it.
It's very good for tourism in our area.
1010
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,407
A major stop for the bus tours
that come to our area.
1011
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:52,771
They can pull up, park the bus,
and unload 40 senior citizens or so.
1012
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:57,608
Water Street brings a fun atmosphere
that comes with a festival marketplace...
1013
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,923
much like other festival marketplaces
around the country.
1014
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:05,445
But the crowning jewel in Flint's
plan to attract tourists was Auto World...
1015
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,525
hailed by city officials
as the world's largest indoor theme park.
1016
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,331
Today is the first day...
1017
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,244
of the rebirth...
1018
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,846
of the great city of Flint.
1019
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,244
The governor had reason
to be excited. Donny and Marie had come...
1020
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:23,402
to celebrate the
opening of Auto World...
1021
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:26,131
constructed at a cost
of over $100 million...
1022
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,807
and dedicated to the belief
that the automobile made America great.
1023
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:36,520
I paid my $8.95 and saw something
I hadn't seen in a long time...
1024
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,326
downtown Flint, rebuilt
exactly to scale...
1025
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,682
under the glass-enclosed dome
of Auto World...
1026
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,287
to look just like it used to
before the factory closings.
1027
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:48,807
They predicted
a million tourists would come...
1028
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,566
to ride the world's only
indoor Ferris wheel...
1029
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,644
to gaze at the world's
largest car engine...
1030
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,566
and to meet the official sponsors
of the American dream.
1031
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:02,164
My favorite was the exhibit sponsored
by General Motors.
1032
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:06,962
A puppet auto worker singing a love song to
the robot replacing him on the assembly line.
1033
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,043
The song was called "Me and My Buddy."
1034
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:13,171
Me and my buddy
1035
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,641
We make our dreams come true!
1036
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,644
Auto World will make
a major contribution...
1037
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,691
to our important
tourism and travel industry.
1038
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,923
It's not only a contribution to that,
but as the mayor said:
1039
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,165
"To jobs for our people,
our children, our neighbors."
1040
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,929
MOORE'. Well, the million
tourists never came to Flint.
1041
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,845
The Hyatt went bankrupt
and was put up for sale.
1042
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:42,688
Water Street Pavilion saw
most of its stores go out of business.
1043
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:45,722
And, only six months after opening...
1044
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,049
Auto World closed due
to a lack of visitors.
1045
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,806
I guess it was like
expecting a million people a year...
1046
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:58,444
to go to New Jersey to Chemical World,
or to Valdez, Alaska, to Exxon World.
1047
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:02,565
Some people just don't like to celebrate
human tragedy while on vacation.
1048
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,605
It started to get looking like Toronto...
1049
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,206
upper middle-class
black and white people...
1050
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,641
and everybody was dressed nice.
1051
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,441
We thought it would be
the entertainment center of the county...
1052
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,410
in all truth.
That may be naive, but that was my goal.
1053
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,324
Let's make it the entertainment center.
1054
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,041
Let's make it so that everybody
wants to be in downtown Flint.
1055
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,601
We're going to have entertainment,
we're gonna have art.
1056
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:28,923
It's going to be very cultural,
it's going to be very upbeat.
1057
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:32,084
Somebody said something to me,
and maybe it's true.
1058
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,289
They said, "Look, Maxine...
1059
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:40,803
you can't make Palm Beach
out of the Bowery.
1060
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,361
You want to make Palm Beach,
you gotta go to Palm Beach."
1061
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,766
Half of Flint was now receiving
some form of government welfare.
1062
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,767
Meanwhile, Roger Smith
gave himself a $2,000,000 raise.
1063
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,084
GM lobbyist Tom Kay tried to explain.
1064
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,726
I don't understand your connection,
that by saying...
1065
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,930
because General Motors was born here,
it owes more to this community.
1066
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:04,929
- I don't agree with that.
- Why not?
1067
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:08,124
Because I just don't agree with it.
I believe it's a corporation.
1068
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:12,490
It's in business to make a profit.
It does what it has to do to make a profit.
1069
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,803
That's the nature of corporations
or companies.
1070
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:20,284
It's why people take their own money
and invest it in a business...
1071
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:21,851
so they can make money.
1072
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,447
It isn't to honor their hometown.
1073
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:50,845
What's going on here?
1074
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,169
MOORE Uh, they're evicting
somebody from his home.
1075
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,004
Ah.
1076
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,323
I was just wondering.
1077
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:04,210
It turned out that the guy Deputy Fred
was evicting had gone to my high school.
1078
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:05,805
His name was James Bond.
1079
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:08,122
As if that hadn't
caused him enough grief...
1080
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:10,408
he was now being thrown out of his home.
1081
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:14,367
Where can I go? Where can I go to stay?
Mind telling me that?
1082
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,091
We had five kids
at the place where I was this morning.
1083
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:19,163
And you went over there
and evicted them?
1084
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:21,601
- Set them out on the ground.
- Why's that?
1085
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,889
Because they didn't pay the rent.
You think I like this?
1086
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:26,850
I got other things to do.
1087
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:31,130
- You've been doing it a long time.
- Well, it's a job.
1088
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:34,605
- That's what I say. Well, it's a job.
- It's a job.
1089
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:36,840
- Somebody's gotta do it.
- Somebody gotta do it.
1090
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,088
I feel sorry for the people that have kids.
1091
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,369
What are they gonna grow up to?
What are they looking forward to?
1092
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:44,170
If I was a young man, I'd work.
1093
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,322
Look out there. It's nothing.
1094
01:08:46,480 --> 01:08:50,530
- They got a bleak future.
- I worked over there for 17 years.
1095
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,206
- I quit. I worked there.
- Why did you quit?
1096
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,489
Got tired of the system.
1097
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,042
It was like a prison to me, so I quit.
1098
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:00,804
- It was like a prison?
- Yeah.
1099
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,326
That factory played tricks on your mind.
1100
01:09:05,480 --> 01:09:09,201
- Where are you going to stay?
- I could stay at my brother's tonight.
1101
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:12,330
The thing is,
I don't want to stay with somebody.
1102
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,687
I want a chance
to have something of my own...
1103
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:18,690
which doesn't look
like it's going to happen, ever.
1104
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:20,571
Not in this town.
1105
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:22,924
These are rough times.
1106
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:28,484
Really rough times.
I got thrown out of my house once.
1107
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,648
Well, the health inspector came out...
1108
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,962
and told me that I was, um...
1109
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,647
doing my rabbits in an unsanitary
condition for dressing them.
1110
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,451
So now I have to build me a building...
1111
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:46,650
where there's washable walls,
washable floors...
1112
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,610
and an unbreakable, uh, light.
1113
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:52,923
I have to have a scale
that weighs properly...
1114
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:57,967
and I have to have three sinks
where I dress the rabbits.
1115
01:09:58,440 --> 01:10:02,126
- What's going to happen to him?
- He's going to be eaten. Ha!
1116
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,724
He's going to be our supper
on the supper table.
1117
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:07,166
What's the matter? Huh?
1118
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,802
What are you guys crying about?
1119
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,126
MOORE
How do you slaughter them?
1120
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:19,124
Hung them upside-down
and strip their fur off...
1121
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:21,683
and gutted them. Agh.
1122
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:23,763
Quit biting. Heh.
1123
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:25,843
And chop their heads off.
1124
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:27,361
Quit it.
1125
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:30,000
What happened to your brother
who worked at the factory?
1126
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,561
He got laid off.
1127
01:10:47,480 --> 01:10:49,687
Now you know what I'm talking about.
1128
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:51,160
He's dripping.
1129
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:58,845
My girlfriend out in Fenton, we tan them...
1130
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,002
and we, uh...
1131
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:05,085
try to make coats,
gloves and animals out of the furs.
1132
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,169
MOORE
What kind of coat does rabbit fur make?
1133
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:09,522
A rabbit coat. Heh.
1134
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:13,880
- What else do you think it makes?
- Is it a nice coat? Warm?
1135
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:17,323
I don't know. We ain't made one yet.
We got to get enough furs.
1136
01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:21,326
- How many do you need?
- A lot.
1137
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,526
You need lots and lots and lots of furs.
1138
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:28,730
Right now, we've only got 135 furs...
1139
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,451
with all the rabbits I've done so far...
1140
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:33,449
before I got in trouble.
1141
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,249
That's why I'm not actually
supposed to be doing this.
1142
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,522
I was brought up to learn to survive.
1143
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:49,921
If you were out in the wilderness...
1144
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:52,606
Now I'm getting ready to gut him.
1145
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:55,521
You think it's hard
to survive in Flint these days?
1146
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,125
Yes.
1147
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:00,407
MOORE Why?
1148
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,690
The shops are all going down,
and people just ain't...
1149
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,929
got the money like
they used to anymore...
1150
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:10,082
and you can't be buying things.
1151
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:14,245
That's why I said
my rabbit meat usually went...
1152
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:16,641
The people of Flint
had been through the wringer.
1153
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,325
But then came the lowest blow.
1154
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:22,684
Money magazine declared Flint the worst
place to live in the entire country.
1155
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:26,686
The chamber of commerce and local
beer distributors decided to take a stand.
1156
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,081
They would burn Money magazine.
1157
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:32,841
I came down to burn Money magazine,
because Flint's my adopted city.
1158
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,685
I've lived in plenty of cities,
and this is one of the best.
1159
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:39,367
There's plenty of things to do.
The economy is not that bad off.
1160
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:43,605
We're all hard workers and survivors,
and I support Flint.
1161
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:46,001
This is to tell people
that Flint is our hometown.
1162
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:50,802
There's no way on God's green earth we're the
worst place in the whole country to live.
1163
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:52,962
A lot of people say
there's nothing to do in Flint.
1164
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:55,009
Ha! "Ha," I say.
1165
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:56,730
Ha!
1166
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:01,249
I mean, how many cities
have their own PGA Tour event?
1167
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,563
Not that many. We have one right here.
1168
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:08,520
How many cities have an air show
the size we have?
1169
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:13,131
How many people have parks
and rivers and trees...
1170
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:16,529
and huge colleges like this over here?
Not that many.
1171
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,445
We've got a lot going for us,
and don't ever forget it.
1172
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,207
A proper way to start out
would be with a song...
1173
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,011
about another industrial city
that has seen hard times.
1174
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:30,006
The Boss, Bruce Springsteen,
singing a song about his hometown.
1175
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:32,401
Burn! Burn, Money, burn!
1176
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,244
That smells like Gary, Indiana.
1177
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:37,643
Don't ever let anybody tell you
you live in the worst place in the country.
1178
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:38,847
They're wrong!
1179
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:44,529
Good evening.
I'm Ted Koppel, and this is Nightline.
1180
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,129
MOORE'.
Flint was now in the national spotlight.
1181
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:49,566
The biggest event was to come...
1182
01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,644
when Ted Koppel announced
he'd interview city officials live...
1183
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,565
in front of city hall, on Nightline.
1184
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,010
The trouble started...
1185
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:07,565
Here's what we know so far.
1186
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,530
The ABC news program Nightline
was to be broadcasting live...
1187
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:12,444
from in front of city hall tonight.
1188
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,729
The reason? The closing
of the historic Fisher One Plant.
1189
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:17,962
Apparently, moments before the broadcast...
1190
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,647
someone got in the satellite truck
and drove it off, cables and all.
1191
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:24,883
Nightline has had to cancel their segment
from the city of Flint...
1192
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:27,168
and police are looking for a suspect.
1193
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:31,882
Reporting live from in front of city hall
in Flint, I'm Barb Schroeder, TV 12 News.
1194
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,044
MOORE'.
They caught the unemployed worker...
1195
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,083
who made off with the Nightline van.
1196
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,886
But crime in Flint continued to grow.
1197
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:43,806
One guy thought he was the cousin of
Superman and decided to save the town.
1198
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:49,087
MOORE He didn't get very far.
1199
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:53,400
He just wanted us to call him Captain Dah.
1200
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,564
He said, "You can call me Dah-Dah,"
whatever that meant.
1201
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:00,569
MOORE'.
The old jail could no longer hold...
1202
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,411
the increasing number of inmates
the judges were locking up.
1203
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:06,171
So the county built
a new, state-of-the-art jail...
1204
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,767
that was five stories high
and filled a city block.
1205
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:13,129
On the night before the jail was to open,
the city threw a party...
1206
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:16,927
where couples paid $100
to stay overnight in jail.
1207
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,487
Everybody in the whole cell block
1208
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:38,371
We're dancin' to the jailhouse rock
1209
01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,410
When you first come in
from the limo ride...
1210
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:45,007
from the pub-crawling before you
get here, uh, they book you...
1211
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:49,290
they give you a free Breathalyzer test,
and a mug shot...
1212
01:15:49,480 --> 01:15:52,131
complete with your fingerprinting.
1213
01:16:04,480 --> 01:16:08,166
Why do you want
to spend the night here in Flint jail?
1214
01:16:08,320 --> 01:16:12,928
- Um, just for the experience.
- Yes, I've never been in jail before.
1215
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:28,004
Yes!
1216
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,165
Eureka!
1217
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,000
Let's fight.
1218
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:38,089
And we're having a fantastic time here.
1219
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,004
MOORE'.
It was time to confront Roger face to face.
1220
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:49,491
Posing as a GM stockholder, I got into
the annual GM shareholders' meeting.
1221
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:54,202
I sat patiently as stockholders
aired their grievances to the board.
1222
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,681
Finally, it was my turn at the mic.
1223
01:16:56,880 --> 01:17:00,680
Microphone number 40 is somebody
who hasn't had the opportunity to speak.
1224
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,724
Mr. Chairman, I have Mr. Michael Moore...
1225
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,042
a stockholder from Flint, Michigan.
1226
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:09,568
Mr. Gilbert, I wonder
if you'd like to make a motion to adjourn?
1227
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,087
- Mr. Chairman.
- I think we've answered all questions.
1228
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:15,767
I think everyone
has had a turn at the mic.
1229
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:18,040
I have one question.
1230
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,804
All right. Moved and adjourned.
1231
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,088
Thank you all very much.
You've been a great audience.
1232
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,842
I thought you said Louie was here.
1233
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:28,162
- He's right there.
- He was sleeping.
1234
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:31,483
He got up slow,
and didn't know what the hell to do.
1235
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:33,722
He should have kicked him in the nuts.
1236
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:37,123
I think he was surprised,
for whatever reason.
1237
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:38,327
Me, too.
1238
01:17:38,480 --> 01:17:42,610
I'm going to leave this stuff here, okay?
They'll pick that up and bring it?
1239
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:51,604
MOORE'.
It was two weeks before Christmas.
1240
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:53,603
General Motors was closing the factory...
1241
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:56,730
where the great Flint Sit-down Strike
had taken place.
1242
01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:58,486
The UAW had promised...
1243
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:02,725
that a massive demonstration would
be held on the last day of the factory.
1244
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,846
Only four workers showed up
to protest the plant closing.
1245
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,162
This is my second one I've closed.
1246
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:13,769
It must be my destiny
to close all General Motors plants.
1247
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:18,528
It's never pleasant when something
like this comes to an end...
1248
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,762
but life goes on.
1249
01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:22,530
MOORE What are you going to do?
1250
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:24,842
Excuse me a minute.
Where are you guys from?
1251
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,321
We're making a documentary
about Flint, Michigan.
1252
01:18:27,480 --> 01:18:29,482
- From where?
- We're independent.
1253
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:31,521
- We'd like you to be off the lawn.
- Why?
1254
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:34,803
Because this is private property.
We'd like you not to be here...
1255
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:39,010
We thought it was a significant
day here today. The factory's closing...
1256
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,128
Well, it is a very significant day.
1257
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:44,648
It's a very sad time,
a very private, personal time.
1258
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:49,169
What do you think about
General Motors closing up this factory?
1259
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:52,164
This is a very private,
emotional, family time.
1260
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,163
We would not let outsiders in the plant.
1261
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:57,961
- We're not outsiders. We're from Flint.
- You are outsiders. You don't work here.
1262
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:00,248
This community depends on General Motors...
1263
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,846
Jerry, this guy, out.
1264
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,647
I don't understand why we can't
talk to them for a couple minutes.
1265
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:11,003
This is the last hour the factory's open.
What's the problem?
1266
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:14,164
The problem is,
we were told to keep you on the sidewalk.
1267
01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:18,166
- You're hired by General Motors to do that?
- That's correct. On the sidewalk, please.
1268
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,607
MOORE
Uh-huh. Mrs. McGee.
1269
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,171
There she is. Let me ask her.
1270
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,400
Why can't we talk to you
if you're the spokesperson?
1271
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:27,524
You can. I'll come outside and talk,
but not inside.
1272
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:29,091
I've asked you to leave.
1273
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:32,443
- We'll go, if you come and talk.
- I don't think I'll talk to you.
1274
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:35,729
So you won't. You're the spokesperson,
and you won't speak to us.
1275
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,201
That's correct.
You don't represent anybody.
1276
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:41,364
And you're a private interest,
and, no, I won't speak to you.
1277
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:45,206
Uh-huh. We happen to be citizens
of this community.
1278
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:47,442
That's not a private interest.
1279
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,360
We're all citizens of the community.
1280
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,568
- Jerry.
- On the sidewalk, please.
1281
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:01,441
The 1800 workers at this operation
were sent home with flowers today.
1282
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:03,887
Even union leaders
offered them bleak advice.
1283
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:07,886
One worker told me, "You know when
they send you flowers? When you die."
1284
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:10,407
So not a very merry Christmas.
1285
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,086
In fact, as one man
walked out of the plant...
1286
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:17,444
he told me, "I want to wish Roger Smith
a merry Christmas."
1287
01:20:24,440 --> 01:20:26,602
MOORE'.
It was now Christmas Eve in Flint.
1288
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:31,164
After three years of trying to get Roger
to come here, I was ready to give up.
1289
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:34,881
Deputy Fred told me he had three
evictions scheduled for this day.
1290
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,769
At the same time, in Detroit...
1291
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:39,161
Roger Smith was beaming
his Christmas message...
1292
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:42,324
to every GM factory
throughout the world.
1293
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:48,969
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
1294
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:54,206
I'd like to welcome you to our traditional
General Motors Christmas program.
1295
01:20:58,080 --> 01:20:59,280
You better watch out
1296
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,166
You better not cry
1297
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:05,121
You better not pout
1298
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:08,286
I'm tellin' you why
1299
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:16,321
Santa Claus is comin' to town
1300
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:22,601
We're trying to clear up
all the evictions today...
1301
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:27,243
so it won't get into the latter part
of Christmas, which is tomorrow.
1302
01:21:27,440 --> 01:21:29,169
We don't want to do any tomorrow.
1303
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:31,567
- Because it's Christmas?
- Right.
1304
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:34,410
Watch out!
1305
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:36,801
Now, it's my pleasure to introduce...
1306
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,646
the chairman of General Motors
with his annual Christmas message...
1307
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:42,245
Mr. Roger B. Smith.
1308
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:54,971
You know, the thing that strikes me
about Christmas...
1309
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:58,920
is that it's such a total experience.
1310
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,208
For a few weeks out of our year...
1311
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:04,728
our whole environment is transformed.
1312
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:06,928
There are the lights, of course...
1313
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,845
that lift us out of
winter's cold and gloom.
1314
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:14,164
This bitch got his money
and sent my motherfucking shit out.
1315
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:20,286
They remind us
of the warmth of human companionship...
1316
01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:23,762
and of the spring
that's never far behind.
1317
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:28,921
Try to lay it down.
The wind will blow it over if you don't.
1318
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:32,323
We listen for jingle bells in the country.
1319
01:22:32,480 --> 01:22:35,211
We smell the pine needles on the trees...
1320
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,727
and the turkey on the table.
1321
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:40,681
We even dream of a white Christmas...
1322
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:45,721
in the hope that nature will accommodate
our longing for a total experience.
1323
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,406
Where are the motherfucking keys?
1324
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:52,042
- That fucker got his money.
- They're setting it out on the street!
1325
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:55,090
I paid this man his rent. Give me my shit.
1326
01:22:56,560 --> 01:23:00,167
The individual dignity
and worth of each human being...
1327
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,290
the more fully human
each of us will become.
1328
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:06,410
He's got his money!
I showed you the paper!
1329
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,449
All I owe that man is 150.
1330
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:11,410
Now let me close with an observation...
1331
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:16,248
that I consider
by a real leading authority on Christmas:
1332
01:23:16,400 --> 01:23:20,200
Charles Dickens. Here's what he said:
1333
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,162
"I have always thought of Christmas...
1334
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,084
as a good time.
1335
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,607
Get your goddamn coats on!
1336
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:32,368
A kind, forgiving,
charitable, pleasant time.
1337
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:34,921
Set my shit out, and I done paid the bitch!
1338
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:39,085
All I owed the bitch is $150, and
I was going to give it to her stinking ass.
1339
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,130
The only time I know of,
in the long calendar of the year...
1340
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,090
when men and women
seem by one consent...
1341
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,527
to open their hearts freely.
1342
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:50,966
And therefore...
1343
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:55,284
though it has never put a scrap
of gold or silver in my pocket...
1344
01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:58,011
I believe that it has done me good...
1345
01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:02,802
and will do me good.
And I say, God bless it."
1346
01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:07,331
Well, Mr. Dickens, I couldn't agree more.
1347
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:11,491
So I say, "God bless Christmas,
and God bless all of you."
1348
01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:16,640
Thank you. Thank you for coming.
1349
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:21,484
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
1350
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:29,481
Hallelujah, amen, amen
1351
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:31,802
Hallelujah, amen
1352
01:24:32,480 --> 01:24:34,289
MOORE
Mr. Smith, we came from Flint...
1353
01:24:34,440 --> 01:24:37,125
where we filmed
a family being evicted from their home...
1354
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:41,001
the day before Christmas Eve.
A family that worked in your factory.
1355
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:44,403
Would you be willing to come with us
to see the situation in Flint?
1356
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:48,849
I've been to Flint, and I'm sorry for those
people, but I don't know anything about it.
1357
01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:51,361
MOORE
Families being evicted on Christmas Eve...
1358
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:53,562
General Motors didn't evict them.
1359
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,240
- Talk to the landlord...
- They worked for General Motors.
1360
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,806
- They don't work there anymore.
- I'm sorry...
1361
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:02,089
- Could you come to Flint?
- No, I cannot. I'm sorry.
1362
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,725
What's Christmas
going to be like for you this year?
1363
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:15,930
I get a couple of days off.
That's the good part.
1364
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:20,961
I get a chance to rest. But come Tuesday
morning, I'll be back. Right back at it.
1365
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:40,690
MOORE
Well, I failed to bring Roger to Flint.
1366
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:42,842
As we neared the end of the 20th century...
1367
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:45,685
the rich were richer, the poor poorer...
1368
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,366
and people everywhere
now had a lot less lint...
1369
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,569
thanks to the lint rollers
made in my hometown.
1370
01:25:51,720 --> 01:25:54,405
It was truly the dawn of a new era.
1371
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:03,607
Well, if you're espousing a philosophy,
which apparently you are...
1372
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:08,010
that the corporation owes employees...
1373
01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:11,164
cradle-to-the-grave security,
I don't think that can be accomplished...
1374
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:13,084
under a free enterprise system.
1375
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:26,888
Many of us are proud to be here...
1376
01:26:27,040 --> 01:26:31,602
and it will continue to be a good place
to live and raise a family...
1377
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,127
and have a good place to work.
1378
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:45,851
- Where you going?
- I am going to Tel Aviv.
1379
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:47,126
MOORE Why?
1380
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:50,124
Maybe someday
I'll be the Ministress of Tourism.
1381
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,970
Anyway, I was mowing the lawn
with my shirt off, made my back stiff.
1382
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,408
My wife asked me to mow the lawn
with my pants off next time.
1383
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:26,366
I'm planning on going back to school
in January...
1384
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:32,163
for veterinary assistance,
and also for dog grooming...
1385
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:36,086
because there's a lot of animals
that need taking care of.
1386
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:50,850
It's great to have you guys here.
1387
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:54,368
It's been fun having you around.
You see all the craziness that goes on.
1388
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,090
Happy birthday to you
1389
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:13,890
Happy birthday to you
1390
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:17,249
Happy 150th, dear Michigan
1391
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,324
Happy birthday to you
1392
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,286
And 150 more
1393
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:26,161
And if you decide to go
for it, you'll make it.