Roger & Me Page #5

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It's an opportunity for you

to look about you...

and look at the positive within yourself

and within your community.

I read something interesting.

Margaret Thatcher says:

"Cheer up, America.

You live in a great country.

"You're a free country.

You have a great President.

"Not everything's perfect, but cheer up,

because you live in a free America."

So, we live in a free society.

Today is a new day, an opportunity

to do something with yourself.

If nothing else,

thank God for the sunshine...

and for the fact

that you're not starving to death.

Go out and do something with your hands.

I don't know.

Flint is bedrock America.

People here don't quit or give up.

They know there've been many good times

in the past, and there's more...

of good, productive time ahead.

It was like I was reliving my childhood.

First Anita,

and now "Mr. Chevrolet" himself.

Pat Boone had arrived in Flint

just when we needed him.

I look the same.

I liked you the moment I saw you.

More people identified me

with Chevrolet...

than any other sponsor,

and any other spokesman.

Since my family was getting bigger,

we were having a baby a year...

I needed a station wagon.

So each year I worked for Chevrolet...

I had a Corvette

and a station wagon to use.

That strengthened my feeling that this

was a great sponsor and a great product...

which I could whole-heartedly endorse

on television, and did.

Take a look at Chevrolet's'58 Corvette.

What a beauty!

I own and drive one of these myself.

I can vouch for them.

The sweetest-handling baby

on the road today.

Chevrolet's completely new in style.

It's the longest, too.

Have you ever met Roger Smith,

the chairman of General Motors?

I haven't. At least, I don't think I have.

If I had, it would have been

before he was chairman...

years ago, during my involvement.

I don't think we've met.

So you don't know much about him?

I don't know much about him. He seems

to be a very optimistic, can-do kind of guy.

He's not a quitter.

I knew you'd rather have a Buick.

See you later.

Who's to blame

for what's happened in Flint?

I don't think it's anybody's fault.

In a free society,

in a capitalistic, democratic society...

things do change.

There are shifts and trends.

I'm sure General Motors

doesn't have any desire...

to either close down a plant

or put people out of work.

The key becomes the attitude.

Folks wind up saying, "It was

the best thing that happened to me...

"when my job at the plant phased out.

I was only gonna go so far at the plant.

"Now I've got my own business,

whatever it is."

It's maybe no accident...

that the Amway business, for one,

is in aid of Michigan...

offering anybody, for very little money,

a chance to start earning dollars...

having their own store in their home.

If you have a dream, and you

go after your dream, you can do it.

If you do it full-time,

you can really make good money.

You can make a lot of money off of these.

Janet was one of hundreds of

Flint's citizens who had taken Pat's advice.

Although her husband

was still working at GM...

she'd seen many of her friends laid off,

and didn't want to take any chances.

She'd been the founder and host

of Flint's feminist radio show.

Now she was a distributor for Amway.

Color is my main love.

I got color-analyzed myself a couple

of years prior to learning color consulting.

As soon as I found out

what season I was...

it changed my outlook. I went around

draping everyone with my eyes.

I really wanted to get into this business.

It was exciting to me.

About 80 percent of the world's population

is winter or summer.

Blacks, Jews, Italians

most often are winters.

I start with the orange and pink drape.

The reason is

because I want to put you into a family:

The warm family or the cool family.

People who are warm

have a yellow undertone to their skin.

The orange drape

brings the yellow undertone out...

and makes them look really good.

If you put orange

on someone who has a blue undertone...

which would be the pink, or cool, family...

then their face will get real pale...

or they'll look real tired...

or they'll get a lot of ruddiness

come out on their face.

So I like to put what I think

is the wrong color on you first...

then I can compare it to the right color.

That way it will really improve

how you look.

What usually happens

is what I'm seeing happen to her.

She gets jaundice

when you put orange on her.

She turns yellow, looks a little bit sickly.

You might not even see it that much now,

but let's compare it to the pink.

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Three months after we attended

Janet's Amway meeting...

she phoned in a panic

and asked that we come back...

as she'd made a terrible mistake.

I've very recently learned

that I am not an autumn.

I was color-analyzed

by someone in the IMS line...

who are the people

who taught me to do colors.

I've discovered that I am another season.

It's a warm season, like autumn,

but it's spring instead.

The colors that I wear

are basically the same color family...

but they're lighter and brighter.

It's really a shock to me,

because I am out there...

color-analyzing women all the time.

Little did I know...

that I was not the season

that I was telling people I was.

I felt sorry for Janet.

So, to cheer her up, I let her do my colors.

As it turned out,

we were the same season.

There were other ways to survive in Flint.

Taco Bell was one.

The local Taco Bell

was retraining laid-off auto workers...

to assemble tacos and chicken fajitas.

The local paper said

this would be their dream job.

When I stopped by to see

how they were doing...

the manager told me

why all the ex-GM workers had been fired.

Many of them say

this is a lot of hard work...

because assembly work is easy.

It depends on what you make it.

At Taco Bell, every day's a new day.

Every time you turn around,

it's a different challenge.

- Taco Light.

- One Taco Light.

- Would you like Cinnamon Crispas?

- Yeah, you make it sound so good.

Dining here today?

Fast food is one of the most

stressful environments...

because of the demands on you.

Fast food demands a fast pace...

because we want to present a food item...

within so many seconds, if we can do it.

The transaction from assembly work

and the fast pace at Taco Bell...

Some of them

just couldn't develop that speed.

There's a number of small manufacturing

companies that have done very well.

One I like to look at is Helmac Co.

Are you familiar with them?

They invented a lint roller.

Now they ship lint rollers

all over the world...

and have a very profitable,

nice business operating.

Maybe there's a...

- There's all kinds of opportunities...

- Tom, wait a minute.

Lint rollers?

That's the solution to an auto industry...

That's an example.

A giant auto industry

that had its birthplace here in Flint?

Lint rollers will pull us

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