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The Big One Page #3
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1997
- 91 min
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now we're into two minutes.
"This guy's eyes...
They've not blinked, not once."
And the doctor said,
and I quote...
"Well, that's not human."
[Laughter]
I'm getting a theory
going here in my head, you know?
Not human. Right?
I'm thinking,
"Don't look in his eyes.
"Don't look in his eyes.
Look away. Don't."
You don't look at his eyes,
but he gets us with the sound.
"Flat tax, flat tax,
flat tax, flat tax..."
Aah! Turn that sound down!
"Flat tax, flat tax, flat tax."
MOORE, CONTINUING:
So back in February...
I was here in Des Moines,
for the lowa caucuses...
and I decided to go over
to the Forbes headquarters...
to see if
Steve was some kind of...
freak X-File
brother from another planet.
And this guy comes out...
and he says,
"Hi, my name is Chip Carter."
"Chip Carter?
That's Jimmy Carter's son."
"No, I'm the other Chip Carter."
He had this weird look
in his eyes too.
MOORE:
How longhas Mr. Forbes been here?
Really only been
on the ground 6 to 8 weeks.
Invasion of lowa.
Invasion of
the Body Snatchers in lowa.
Steve Forbes was born where?
I have no idea.
I can't remember.
You don't know?
[Laughter]
Where did Steve Forbes
come from?
come from nowhere.
- Right?
- Pretty much.
Where is nowhere?
It's somewhere out there.
[Laughter]
I'm freakin' out, man.
I'm thinkin'...
"OK, I'm in the Ramada
in Des Moines tonight...
"and I'm triple
dead bolting the door."
"I am not gonna die
in Des Moines...
"you know, taken away
"calling themselves
the Forbes campaign."
Where are you taking
the spaceship here after lowa?
I'm gonna go home to Oklahoma
for a few days and rest...
and then they'll send me
to another state.
[Chuckles]
OK. Um, all right.
Uh, I think we should
probably let him go.
MOORE:
So anyways,the guy has disappeared, right?
And the only time
that now you have any idea...
that they're still with us
is if you ever notice...
certain people
reading the publication...
with the name Forbes...
the name of their leader...
on the magazine.
Usually men
in three-piece suits...
white guys that look like
they got a lot of money.
They're the aliens.
Beware of these people
who read "Forbes" magazine.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
[Chattering]
MOORE:
As I wassigning copies of my book...
I was handed an anonymous note.
It read, "Hey, Michael...
"we're organizing here
at Borders in Des Moines.
"There's a secret meeting
statewide tomorrow night.
"We thought
you should know that...
"we, the ragtag employees
at Borders are not allowed...
"to do the book table
for your reading.
"Only management
is here tonight...
"selling your book
to these people.
"Borders headquarters
in Ann Arbor...
"says they're
protecting us from you.
"Ah, well, you know the shtick.
Take care."
They were awfully happy
that you were here.
Great.
MOORE:
This was notwith the Borders book store
chain on my tour.
At their Philadelphia store
I had refused...
blocking their entrance...
and instead I had brought
the protesters...
inside with me to my reading.
That resulted in Borders
refusing to let me speak...
at my scheduled appearance
the following week...
in their New York store.
So, we got your note inside.
You're the people
that work at Borders?
Mm-hmm.
And you're trying
to organize the store?
MAN:
Yeah.MOORE:
And you wanted to meet meout here in the dark?
What's going on?
Well, we're actually...
Tomorrow night is
an organizational meeting.
The entire store
is getting together...
and we're meeting
with an organizer...
and we're gonna go from there.
- Because why?
- Because... There's a car.
MOORE:
Who's that?WOMAN:
It's no one. It's...MOORE:
They told me...they were afraid
of being seen with me...
because the Borders
regional manager...
had shown up to the event
unannounced...
with a man
they didn't recognize.
MAN:
I don't even knowwho that person is.
WOMAN:
No.We don't even like...
MAN:
I don't want to thinkabout who that person was.
WOMAN:
SECOND WOMAN:
Some corporate thug.
MAN:
Yeah. Some union busterguy from Omaha.
Borders workers such as
yourselves were not allowed...
to work the table here
at the event tonight?
BOTH:
Right.Only management
could work the table?
MAN:
Yes.WOMAN:
Field the questions.To protect us.
MOORE:
Protect you from what?From me?
MAN:
I don't know. I even asked.Pointedly, I said...
"You mean you don't want us
to hear what he has to say?"
Everybody in the store
bought your book...
after they put the crunch on.
MOORE:
[Laughing]After they what?
WOMAN:
Well,we felt this pressure...
MAN:
After we all gotkicked off the table...
we said,
"What's in this book?"
MOORE:
Right."Why can't we be here?"
MAN:
It was really interesting.MOORE:
They then told methat Borders was deducting...
money from their paychecks
for a health plan...
that had no doctor
in Des Moines.
We don't actually have
health benefits at the moment.
We're paying for them.
We started
paying for them in April...
but we don't have them.
So that was what really
galvanized a lot of people.
They were sort of like...
"I'm paying for
all of this and it's not..."
So it's actually,
we don't have any benefits.
Almost everybody
MOORE:
Mm-hmm. Really?You have to work a second job
if you work at Borders?
- Yes.
- You have to do it.
MOORE:
To pay the bills.What do you...
MAN:
We make six bucks an hour.
MOORE:
What second jobsdo you guys work?
Discount retail store.
MOORE:
Yeah. In additionto working at Borders?
They post the results
by our time cards,
So you sit there and you look at
these long numbers...
of how much over profit
we're doing...
and how well we're doing...
and then you're punching
in and out...
and you're getting
your little paycheck...
with your big hunk
for health insurance...
that you can't use.
MOORE:
After taxes,what's your paycheck?
WOMAN:
MAN:
That's every two weeks.MOORE:
Every two weeks?So that's about, what?
About 8,000 a year, after taxes.
What do you want?
What do you hope
the union will get you?
We're not asking
for 15 bucks an hour.
We're not even asking for ten.
- You'd be happy with...
- Good God. Eight.
- Good luck.
- Thanks, Michael.
Thank you very, very much.
And I'll do what I can
to help you win.
MOORE:
We headed offto Rockford, Illinois...
which, like my hometown
of Flint, Michigan...
had just been named
by "Money"magazine...
as the worst city
in the country.
Driving through Rockford,
I realized...
there were
other similarities to Flint.
We had game show host
Bob Eubanks.
They had actress
Susan Saint James.
Culturally, we had
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