The Michael Moore Podcast

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Ep. 79: Big Bowl of Delightful (feat. Jeff Garlin) May 13, 2020

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Jeff Garlin is one of America's most beloved comedians and a star and Executive Producer of one of the greatest TV shows ever, "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He joined Michael to discuss life during the pandemic, when Hollywood might get back to work, doing stand-up post-Covid 19 and whether "Curb" will come back for another season. Watch Jeff's Netflix special, "Jeff Garlin: Our Man In Chicago" https://www.netflix.com/title/81078466 Follow Jeff on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jeffgarlin/

Ep. 78: Give It to Me Straight, Doc (feat. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel) May 11, 2020

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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the former Obama White House Health Policy Adviser, a longtime public health official at the National Institutes of Health and the Vice Provost of Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. He's been a blunt truth-teller from the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, refusing to sugarcoat his commentary. He joins Michael to assess where we've succeeded, where we've failed, and what the next few years might look in America while dealing with this pandemic.

Subscribe/Listen to Dr. Emanuel's new podcast "Making The Call"

https://www.endeavoraudio.com/podcasts/true-stories-podcasts/making-the-call

Read Zeke's book "The Trillion Dollar Revolution"

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Ep. 77: Mother's Day May 10, 2020

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On Mother's Day under self-quarantine, Michael Moore shares his memories of his late mother Veronica Wall Moore.

Ep. 75: We Are In A Planetary Emergency May 05, 2020

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Michael Moore lays out the stakes of the extinction level event we are currently facing, the failures of the eco-capitalist movement and why we must change course.

To read Michael's written piece, "We Are In A Planetary Emergency" visit his Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10156865580936857?

For information about "Planet of the Humans" visit here:

https://planetofthehumans.com/

Ep. 74: Dr. Mona Says Don't Drink Bleach (feat. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha) Apr 28, 2020

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On the 6th anniversary of the start of the Flint Water catastrophe, Michael Moore is joined by with pediatrician who first exposed the high levels of lead in Flint's children, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Dr. Mona is a pediatrician at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, a professor at Michigan State University and the author of "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City."

Dr. Mona, who was recently diagnosed with Covid-19, gives an update on where things stand in Flint and makes the connection between what happened in Flint and what is now happening with the coronavirus pandemic.

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Read Dr. Mona's book, "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City."

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To help the children of Flint, Dr. Mona suggests visiting:

http://flintkids.org/

Ep. 72: Happy Earth Day from the Planet of the Humans (feat. Jeff Gibbs & Ozzie Zehner) Apr 22, 2020

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On the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Michael is joined again by Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner, the team behind the new film, "Planet of the Humans." They discuss what Earth Day means to them, the explosive first day of the film's release, and where we go from here.

Join the "Planet of the Humans" Livestream Discussion TONIGHT (April 22nd) at 10pm ET/7pm PT!

https://youtu.be/HBGcEK8FD3w

Watch "Planet of the Humans" here:

https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE

Ep. 71: SURPRISE! A New Movie Brought to You by Michael Moore and Rumble. Available Now! (feat. Jeff Gibbs & Ozzie Zehner) Apr 21, 2020

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Michael Moore announced today that he is releasing a brand new documentary film and is offering it as a gift, free of charge, in the midst of the global pandemic. Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It's too little, too late. On this special episode of RUMBLE, Michael is joined by the director of the film, Jeff Gibbs, and producer Ozzie Zehner.

Watch the full movie "Planet of the Humans" here!

https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE

Visit the official Planet of the Humans website here:

https://planetofthehumans.com/

Read Ozzie Zehner's important book "Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism"

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Ep. 70: "Vote for Biden, But Don’t Lie About Who He Really Is" (feat. Dr. Cornel West) Apr 17, 2020

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Dr. Cornel West is one of the great thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. In the wake of Bernie Sanders' exit from the Presidential race, and in the midst of the global pandemic, he joins Michael to discuss choosing sides between milquetoast neoliberals and vicious neofascists, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jim Clyburn and wrestling with despair.

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Ep. 69: Your Beloved Private Health Insurance (feat. Wendell Potter) Apr 15, 2020

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When Michael Moore made the Oscar-nominated film SiCKO about America's health care system, Wendell Potter was a Vice President and "chief propagandist" at health insurance giant Cigna. He and his colleagues devised a plan to "push Michael Moore off a cliff" due to fear that the film would expose the corruption of their industry. Potter's role was to fly to Michigan, infiltrate the premiere of the film, and and spy on and discredit Moore.

Not long after watching the film, Potter experienced a crisis of conscience and could no longer continue lying on behalf of America's health insurers. He became a whistleblower, spilled the beans about how his former business operates and is now a vocal advocate for a true, government-backed, universal health care system in America.

He joins Michael to recount their bizarre first meeting, expose the lie that Americans love their private health insurance and figure out health care in America post-coronavirus pandemic.

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Watch Michael Moore's 2007 classic SiCKO here:

https://youtu.be/YbEQ7acb0IE

or here:

https://vimeo.com/76646445

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Read Wendell Potter's books!

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Paperback:

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Kindle:

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Nation On The Take

Kindle:

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Paperback:

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Hardcover:

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Visit Tarbell, the investigative journalism site Potter founded:

https://tarbell.org/

Ep. 68: We're All In Donald Trump's Cartoon (feat. Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow) Apr 14, 2020

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If satire is the art of taking reality to the absurd extreme, then what is a satirist to do when the absurd extreme becomes a daily reality? Michael is joined by one of the great satirists of our time, cartoonist Dan Perkins. Under the pseudonym Tom Tomorrow, Perkins created a strip called This Modern World which has ridiculed the corporate, political and media power structures for almost 30 years. He and Michael discuss the absurdities of living in the age of coronavirus, the Trump virus and the capitalism virus.

His most recent cartoon, "The Death Cult" can be seen here:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1936455/-Cartoon-The-death-cult

Visit Tom Tomorrow's website:

https://thismodernworld.com/

Follow him on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow

Follow him on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/realtomtomorrow/