-Welcome back. Good to see you. -Thank you so much.
-I'm always so happy to have you here. You did a very nice thing.
In your hometown of Traverse City, Michigan,
you own a couple movie theaters.
Beautiful -- -Some old theaters.
I restored them as a nonprofit
and donated them to the community, yeah.
-During the shutdown,
you were letting federal workers come for free.
-Yes. Yeah. And their families.
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Free popcorn, free pop. -Free popcorn and free pop.
That's great. -Yes. Yes.
-Wait. You guys call popcorn pop?
-No. Soda is pop. -All right. Good.
-Popcorn is popcorn. -Okay. Good.
I was worried there was, like, some weird Traverse City slang.
-No, no, no. We are --
The closer you get to Canada, words do change.
-Yeah. -And people get nicer.
-They do. The closer you get to Canada, they get nicer.
I want to thank you. You gave us some very nice promotion.
You wore a "Late Night with Seth Meyers" hat
on "All In with Chris Hayes." -Oh, that's right.
I promised I'd wear a Chris Hayes hat tonight.
-Oh, really? -Oh, I'm so -- He's in bed.
-Oh, yeah. He won't be... You know what we'll do?
We'll just digitally put in there.
We'll get our digital-effects team to make it a...
Yeah, there you go. [ Laughs ]
So, we have so much to talk about.
We were obviously mentioning Howard Schultz
at the top of the show.
How do you feel about -- -The self-made Howard Schultz.
-Well, now, explain this. -Yes, yes.
-You take issue with "self-made."
-Well, in the same sentence,
he goes, "I'm a self-made billionaire.
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn."
Right away, by admitting
that you had subsidized public housing
paid for by the tax dollars of the American people,
you aren't self-made.
You got a hand up from us, like we want to do.
We want to help our fellow Americans.
It's a form of socialism, public housing.
And yet he's saying, "I'm all self-made."
He went to a public university.
He went to Northern Michigan University, actually.
And, you know, again, financed by taxpayers' dollars.
And, then, he sells coffee,
which is essentially water, using city water systems.
-Yeah. -Municipal water systems.
-Right. -Which, you know...
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It's, like, a huge infrastructure
that, you know, if you have a business,
you might have to have FedEx or trucks
deliver things to your store.
He has the people in New York and all these other cities
delivering the water underground to him.
And, then, you know what your water bill is.
Nobody -- It's -- Of all the utility bills,
it's your least expensive bill, right?
So, I did the calculation earlier today.
It's like 100th of a penny
to fill up a grande cup at Starbucks.
100th of a penny for that water.
And to say, "Oh, I got to be a..."
You got to be a billionaire
because we're paying for the water!
-Yeah. Yeah.
If he was just giving people a cup of coffee grounds,
that would be one thing.
-The beans are probably another penny.
The coffee bean. -You have a way --
You have an idea to pressure him not to run.
What's your idea?
-Well, my idea, first of all, is none of us
should go to Starbucks until he announces he's not running.
-Gotcha. Okay.
-Then you can go back and buy a $5 cup of coffee.
But in the meantime, I was thinking
that those of us who would support such a boycott,
we could set up, like, a little table in front of Starbucks,
like a lemonade stand, and provide coffee,
because people need their coffee, I understand that.
So, we'll have coffee there at Starbucks
but in front of Starbucks with city-owned water.
-There you go.
-So...
-Again, we're starting to see -- You know, it's still early days.
There's sort of a trickle of candidates
that I think is going to only increase in size.
We're starting to see platforms.
If you were running, what would be your platforms?
What would be the things that Michael Moore would promise
to the American people?
-Well, I have a number of things I would do.
First of all, I love the idea of just outlawing billionaires.
It really is immoral.
I mean, I understand, you know, you can make $900 million
and get through the year with that as your income.
But the idea of a billionaire -- I was thinking about --
We were talking backstage here.
We're on 50th Street and Sixth Avenue
here in New York City.
Two nights ago, a young mother, 22 years old,
at the subway stop one block over
on Seventh avenue and 50th Street,
trying to take her baby down the stairs in the stroller,
and she falls and she dies.
The mother dies.
The baby lived, but the mother died.
And I'm like -- This is the richest country on the planet,
and we're in the richest city,
and we have a subway system that is over 100 years old
and feels like it's 200 years old.
And the fact that we can't even provide
what you have in other cities in this country,
but also throughout the world --
mass transit, modern mass transit --
and she has to die struggling to take a stroller down the stairs.
Nine blocks from us right here --
go the other direction, on 59th and Sixth Avenue --
a man just bought the most expensive
home, dwelling, in America.
He spent $238 million on his penthouse.
-Yeah. -On Central Park South.
How could we just nine blocks away have that
and allow this woman to die because of an infrastructure
that has crumbled and doesn't work?
If I were president, I would fix that immediately.
I would not allow this kind of disparity to continue.
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