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The Michael Moore Podcast

Ep. 17: Re-education Camp (feat. Francesca Fiorentini)

The Michael Moore Podcast

Michael Moore

News, News Commentary

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Almost 10 years after Obamacare was passed, medical bills are still the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., 30 million Americans are uninsured, and those who have insurance are dealing with the most expensive health care costs in the world. Michael is joined by political satirist and journalist Francesca Fiorentini to discuss healthcare in America and the state of political satire.

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Watch this clip from Francesca's MSNBC special, "Red, White & Who?":

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-originals/watch/-red-white-who-digital-exclusive-sen-bernie-sanders-extended-interview-75851845619

Watch Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated film "SiCKO" here:

https://vimeo.com/76646445

Watch Francesca on AJ+ here:

https://www.youtube.com/ajplus

Follow Francesca on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/franifio

Follow Francesca on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/franifio/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you, okay, I have another question about really briefly, but I know it's a hard

0:05.3

one.

0:06.7

In terms of emotional labor, I think a lot of people see your work.

0:10.9

I see your work as doing some of this emotional labor to speak to the white people, specifically

0:17.1

like white middle class, working class, what have you folks about racism and about having

0:24.4

some sort of class consciousness and about not seeing themselves as so separate from immigrants

0:29.9

and people of color?

0:32.5

Do you conceive of yourself at all in that light as like you are doing some emotional

0:38.3

labor that let's say that 30-year-old black woman cannot do because she will be discriminated

0:45.8

against and or has too much work on her hands?

0:49.0

Well, when I said, you know, I can't leave this country until we get it right, that's

0:53.0

the number one thing that we have to get right, that the privilege that I've been able

0:59.0

to have being born white has really soured me on so many things and I've not appreciated

1:10.6

it.

1:11.6

I don't like the fact that I get to win simply because I have a certain pigmentation of

1:18.6

my skin.

1:19.6

But you use it, you use that privilege, I think, to speak to folks who might not otherwise

1:25.1

hear from someone like AOC.

1:26.8

Yes, well, I hope so.

1:28.5

Yes, that is exactly what I want to do all the time and in fact, when Iron Man and

1:35.0

Spoiler Alert in the last Avengers passed away.

1:39.5

So there's an opening in the Avengers and so I want to go meet the Rosso brothers and

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