For folks who haven't heard, there was a big news last couple of weeks. Michael Moore's

film, Planet of the Humans, which was directed by Jeff Gibbs, was taken down off YouTube,

despite a pretty enormous online audience. It was really taken down over a technicality,

a fair use technicality, over four seconds of footage. So it's really right in the middle

of the things a lot of things we've been talking about recently in terms of censorship

on the internet. So we're going to discuss that with him now, and let's already have

to say about, because he hasn't been terribly outspoken yet about this move. So he's going

to have a lot to say, I think about this.

Yeah.

Michael Moore, welcome to Useful Idiots. Thanks for coming back on.

Thank you for having me.

Well, to be respectful of your time, we know we've got a lot of stuff we wanted to get

to with you. So we really want to talk about is what happened with Planet of the Humans,

and especially obviously it's been taken down off YouTube. Can you talk a little bit about

the arc of the sort of campaign to get this movie suppressed and how quickly that coalesced

with this film?

It happened fairly quickly, like within hours of us. We made the decision to, I mean, Jeff

and Ozzie been working on this film for about 10 years, and we're going to release it this

fall in theaters, but I don't think, I don't know. That doesn't seem very hopeful right now.

Maybe it'll be okay, but we just decided why don't we just put it up on my channel on

YouTube, make it free of charge. It's, we really don't feel like there's another six months

to wait when it comes to dealing with a climate catastrophe that we're in the middle of.

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