Roger & Me
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:04:01
That all sounded fine and good,
but the assembly line wasn't for me.

:04:04
My heroes were the Flint people
who'd escaped the life in the factory...

:04:08
and got out of Flint,
like the guys in Grand Funk Railroad...

:04:11
Casey Kasem, the women who married
Zubin Mehta and Don Knotts...

:04:16
and perhaps Flint's
most famous native son, Bob Eubanks...

:04:19
host of TV's hit show
The Newlywed Game.

:04:22
I figured if Bob Eubanks
could make it out of here, so could I.

:04:28
After 10 years of editing my own paper
in Flint...

:04:30
a California millionaire
asked me to be the editor...

:04:33
of his muckraking magazine
in San Francisco.

:04:36
It didn't take me long
to figure out what to do.

:04:38
The final issue of the Michigan Voice
is being printed.

:04:41
Ten years after he began it, Michael Moore
is moving to San Francisco.

:04:47
What would you do?
I mean, this was San Francisco.

:04:54
But San Francisco was on
the other side of the world from Flint.

:04:57
Everyone there had a job,
yet no one seemed to be working.

:05:00
The cafés were filled with people
at 3:00 p.m.

:05:05
I was told there's one restaurant
for every 44 people in San Francisco...

:05:08
but most of them
seemed to be dessert places.

:05:11
Trying to get a simple cup of coffee
became a nightmare for me.

:05:14
Espresso, double espresso,
cappuccino, double cappuccino...

:05:18
latte, double latte, mocha, double mocha...
:05:21
caffe con panna, macchiato,
double macchiato...

:05:25
caffe bianco, or house blend.
:05:29
I was feeling disoriented living in a town
that didn't carry any nondairy creamer.

:05:33
I went to work and announced...
:05:35
that I was going to give a monthly column
to a Flint auto worker.

:05:38
The owner instead told me to run
an investigative report on herbal teas.

:05:42
I told him I had a better idea:
Let's put the auto worker on the cover.

:05:46
The owner wasn't amused and declared
that California and I were a mismatch...

:05:50
just before he offered me
my free U-Haul back to Michigan.

:05:55
- Hello, Dad.
- Hello, son.

:05:57
- It's been a long time.
- It sure has.


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