John Robbins Speaks at First Unitarian Church

i wondered about this church i've heard a lot about it is the first time i've ever been in in my thought about twelve years ago there was a sermon given in this church about diet for a new america and my work and in the audience was eight then thirteen year old young lady whose name at that time was michel this and that and that was the first time she had ever heard of john robins or die from america her name now is michelle robinson she is pale and my daughter in love as well as a daughter in law and has been living for the last seven years as the marathon is the wife of course ocean and about almost four months ago now she gave birth to iran it was bittersweet because they were more than two months

premature and they spent the first seven weeks in the hospital under conditions that we would never have wished them but which were necessary to save their lives they are thriving now one day that week the glorious day that they came home from the hospital about a little over two months ago and finally among the libyan intelligence to his running the neonatal intensive care unit where they've been promised time called the miracle babies and i asked him what he meant that every baby as a miracle but i asked him what he meant and he said that never in his long career hadn't ever seen babies born that early do that well now it so happens that our family had just great visible corporate press

to support these babies an ocean and a shell out and spend every waking minute in the hospital holding the babies getting what's called kangaroo care which just maximum skin to skin contact you can't play with their interaction with any other external sense an infant born there really are but just to be a human connection spiritual presence with them that's not something that the hospital by and large support for general it's a good time they get some observers to the battle and we have to time and again take stands for our babies for their humanity they were just objects that needed a certain amount of warmth in a certain amount of and we did that within you to be held and they needed our love and there were so many nights we stayed til the past midnight took us two in the morning in a hospital

surrounded by linking monitors and that would your choices and screaming babies who are just in it's a whole realm in some respects and their worst bale and i myself an ocean initial singing four part harmony lullabies to our babies and all the other babies there and in our hearts all the babies everywhere one that whatever stage of a gestation and whenever it's socioeconomic reality because we were so aware that's hama it is would be blessed with the kind of care that they were able to get the required and i'm such a bittersweet situation when the new an ecologist said that remark has really been calling the miracle babies and asked them and then they told me what i just told you i said to them have you ever seen in your entire career parents and family as involved as committed

as informed as ocean and the shelling then he said absolutely not and the connection is you know that's an interesting hypothesis at night we had to take stands but we couldn't push too hard against the system and we can challenge everything going miles myself i was questioning everything i do but we had been working in harmony with him in and hospitals policies which were established often from liability issues for the convenience of staff for insurance purposes and we're working with them to try to benefit these newborns so fragile and seeing their will to live seeing there are vulnerability they were born ones what lesson

three and it was a long awaited years of it i came in touch again with the preciousness of life an iranian born and i saw again how easy it is for me to lose touch with that they take for granted my health to the moon about iran's view of life how easy it is for us in the society particularly with its paradigms to take for granted the spirit that brings us forward with us releases of reserves to our homeless

to our humanity to each other's arms and hearts and spirit and embrace how easy we can forget that i've come to look upon good choices that would reveal which is a deal which is not even as an opportunity to stay in pakistan it's not really about the rice or the cucumber a low price other contenders but there's something else operating and these things or we wouldn't even for one very obviously it's an opportunity for your help shoes which leads a victory more consciously and more healthily so that your body can be a vibrant and vigorous vehicle for your living spirit for what you love to do so you'll have the energy to do what you love to do what's important to you to do

sen biden will lead to joy as much as possible and a burden as little as possible so that you can have whatever is optimum for you in terms of your life because we live in a culture where that's not how through his health and were surrounded by fast in places so fast in a really bizarre and fast moving fast enough that they can get your plate in six seconds you know and it tasted like that that's a value to now i'm eighteen we gave all the on the run in fact it's just the opposite of that the nature of the violence and it is a violation of

the social reality of giving to the community and people in every culture in every tribe and every land people are gathered together realtors and how to use food to bring them together in every culture of getting together the activities lending it's an act of sharing and recognizing a common humanity picks but that's not really what was on a mcdonald's lot you know and so it can be opportunities than through your own physical wellness yourself to hear your self respect but in order to do that you have to challenge the advertising of the culture the conventional paradigms in a lot of cases we have to challenge at what our families taught us to eat because what is

most convenient what's the primary operating reference in the culture with it is it's not the healthiest thing and you know we all know that and sometimes we slept and we just do the easy thing that turns out to be in the long run a lot more costly it's also an opportunity to take a stand i think for our kinship with life or humanity in the sense of our compassion for other beings and this is a very important one to me has been a defining characteristic of my work for many years and to bring this issue for a year because my experience is that the vast majority of people who at animal products are an invasive plants i love animals

they love their animals the cattle have a dog and they cared for those creatures they really do and they would be horrified to learn how all animals and all in modern food production are treated and they don't know and it was my task to inform people about this even though it's painful to see because when we see it when we really see it then we have a chance to take a stand then we have gotten to bring our life choices are two choices into alignment with mark herring but we don't know if you're living on the other side of the veil then we remain comfortably ensconced in a cultural

trends it's pervasive and it's destructive and it's a violation of the human animal bond and it's a violation of our humanity because the extent that the suffering in animal factories the extent of the cruelty that standard operational procedure and factory farms is so extreme i'll just give you an example that is fairly well known but i just want to highlight that because it's a representative and that's what's done to the audience because in dairy production only the females have no problems so the males have little value economically and the vast majority of them are turned into the hole and the process is this did take the newborn away from his mother at birth animals he's allowed twenty four hours with her but usually

nothing now so they take him away from her this is a newborn calf just fresh from aleppo gotten you annotate his cabinet would integrate and that shame at the neck and a given this great performance are changing and the crate is so small that as he goes he becomes a long way in utterly and was unable to take a single step unable to turn around and let himself unable to lay down his natural sleeping position performance and what's done to erase what's going to dairy cows themselves what's been the lockout ends with stun the broiler chickens and turkeys

is of the same nation in modern factory farming which is what we were developing this culture to mass produce a meat based diet for the numbers of people working i don't think anyone gets up in the morning and says well how can we make life more miserable for these creatures but they do wake up in the morning and say how can we make more money off of the situation out and cut our costs are we maximizing profits and they don't include any equation anything that has to do with the animals' needs on welfare or nation so we've ended up with systems that violate these animals basic nature's so totally frustrated the race against him so completely as to be an abomination shenzhen and that's the truth that the negro deserves during an egg producers don't want to see i don't want to think

about the animal mcdonald's has had advertisements that they have shown on saturday morning television where children are watching cartoons and they see a clown ronald mcdonald telling them that hamburger one hamburger patties when i first saw that i didn't really recognize it for what it was i thought it was like a fantasy like santa claus but i've come to understand but it actually was a sophisticated and deliberate marketing strategy designed a great expense to obscure a reality that a hamburger is the ground and they don't want children to make the connection because children and when i sing showed i mean the innocent part of all of us feel the connection with animals so deeply

with respect with appreciation for the gifts they gave us and the gifts that they elicit from us in terms of allowing insurers and potential to to pre shame the ability to live with respect for other animals as an amazing thing is endemic diseases sets it's a foundational and lost traditional cultures have your own animal in your life that you love and that in that relationship we became more fully yourself some part of your heart opened up some part of her nature expanded some part of you was born in that relationship was given life why is it that we call some animals and treat again so much and then turn around and also other animals

enter and feel entitled to treat them any manner of police alongs a lower price we're going to get the iranians to draw that line and for some animals are over that age out of our circle of compassion it's part of a long history of exploiting engine viewing the natural world as a commodity and doing it as having value only insofar as weak and converted row that we can use that objective by exploiting it but my sense is that the natural world as a community that has given as burma which we are liable for which we must care if we are to survive if we are to be fully human if we are going

to honor the truth that lives in hers as the power to make a difference in this world suffer me good choices as an opportunity to take a stand for compassion enjoy this as an opportunity to make a statement what reservoir to make a statement of celebration and affirmation things stand for movies you don't have voices in campaign stands for themselves they can vote they have no legal standing as persons in our society yet and that voice hasn't been an opportunity to exploit

but for others about it as an opportunity to stand up for those who can't reconcile so important that we do that from italy judges are also an opportunity to take a stand for the future for the sustainability plan for children's rights have clean air and clean water and the viola liasson the hassle them water lever over that isn't being the harrow well of diversity of species that hasn't been deleted by extinctions or you know all we all know that the environment is deteriorating rapidly in human

activity we know that the amount of carbon dioxide and methane and other greenhouse gases is it is increasing in the atmosphere the stabilizing the climate we don't know exactly what's going to happen but most of the computer models are very frightening about the weather disturbances are likely to be the case in the coming decades and the impact of that on food production is very very dramatic what most of us don't know is what we can do to make a difference to try to restore our society to the sound of the logical question we try we do what we can summon us we recycle we turn off the lights only leave the rooms more and more people are installing a low flow showerhead installed low flow toilets or

doing other things to conserve water such as turning off the water at the top of the russian agent except when you're rinsing that right some of us you know religiously than others were almost feel that there's a need for a shift in our cultural reference to the resource base and to the natural world because it's obvious the degree to which we are damaging bout of hughes's life enjoy this is an opportunity to take a very meaningful difference they mentioned there was an audience and so the state to conserve water in different ways it's interesting the university of california agricultural extension at uc davis which is the primary agricultural campus of the university of california in chains did a survey and analysis of alarms in

california agriculture mention california of their loss but it was also it is the primary agricultural stay in terms of the production they concluded that it takes to produce and they brought it down to how many gallons of water does a judge agrees that unless unless everything was on the list they concluded that age twenty three gallons of water to produce the average californian apple's twenty four rounds to prefer down sixty degrees seventy pound california lettuce twenty five the average amount of california commands the ranger fruits and vegetables was from alone nineteen to a high of seven great recession united's seventy gallons of red beet five thousand two hundred fourteen gallons of water to produce one

pound of the government or how much water is that we think it's actually enough water to fill a stack of one gallon water containers like you might bring home bottled water from the market never mind there's another where let's say you take a shower every day city seven showers and weaker let's say your average seven minutes in the shower and shrubs now kind of danger those people moving away from the city so you take it at seven shows a week and you are seven minutes for showing just forty nine seventeen seven minutes that you spent her weekend show right what about fifty years to make our members of the

museum and that's a lonely through through charlotte's to galveston which by the way is a veritable low rate i can get in the shower and it's actually more than you live in california you're not allowed to install a major contractor she'll have with a greater rate than one point five pounds because of water conservation regulations but let's say you have an ample low perform two thousand and one reason we are shine ninety eight hundred seven hundred gallons of water a week two times that scientology has a nearly five thousand two hundred and fifty fifty two weeks a year fifty two times a hundred fifty two hundred gallons of water a shower every single day for year you totally money in here has to be to unintelligible that means that in the state of california do you save more water or not getting one can be

anyone but not showering every day for an entire year that's the numbers that's where it is on a national average of more water than that some states nationally it's about twenty five hundred gallons of waters that still six months or where some leverage it's a different thing you know we got your leverage once we've gotten to where we can be effective and it turns out that reducing consumption of meat is the most powerful thing to do nothing to save water was just describing but also to save energy turns out there's a cornell study that it takes thirty nine times more energy to produce and then it goes from soybeans

which means if you're driving a protein from serbian judge actually using only two percent two point three percent to have percent as much energy as you are if you're driving a protein corey we are similarly vastly more efficient its phenomenal actually at how much is to be good environmental and in terms of resources consumption and in terms of ways production by shift to more plant based diet and how little people are aware of this in the society is a stunning to me again and again and the government going to pretend it isn't so the union of concerned scientists very fine organization that a study last year and very very carefully analyze all things that people do in our

society for their environmental impact and they concluded that the two worst days that you can do in this society or drive an suv and eating and a true which do you think according to their data was the worst in terms of greenhouse gases me hard to believe but it's just such a petroleum based agriculture that we have now and there's so much that's used in every step of the process the production of mourning sixteen how the reagan at one pound of the lobby there's an average their resumes they just a diversion season to season because on average and when you recognize and sixteen counts of grand one pound wrecking as the wastefulness oh he's one of the grain bread rise when we're consuming we were doing in effect is consuming

a tremendous amount of energy and water and human labor and land and so all of overusing that much more contamination it's just not very efficient number is and you never meet your choices are an opportunity to take a stand in solidarity with the world's hungry it is so profound to me that we live in a society that has such technological expertise and we live in a day when there are more people going hungry warns than ever before mrs jones a soul and so challenging that reality and when i look at what we can do to try to resolve this

ancient skiers you were because i do want to see a result i do want to see us rise to the possibility of aluminum or i think will be only human when we do that new values hole and it's interesting when you say that it takes sixteen pounds of grain to make the video lester brown said that if united states consumed ten percent less to leave we would say the membrane of the sixty million people a telling number because it's a it's a number as larger possibly greater than the total number of people on the entire planet expected to die of ammunition under a hundred thousand that doesn't mean that is actively monitor an end will result because there's no guarantee of all the grain that would be safer bridge

worlds a really otherworldly other words supporting cannot afford to buy but there is one year and it's not going to reach them if we consume ourselves in effect by cycling of the animals one interesting we give you an example of that let's say that we were going to have dinner tonight to get it how many warring say we were gathered for a meal together and let's say that we were divided us into their business while they're still in the house are and the people on this have in the church fortunately we have a piece of the planet we have salads we have steamed veggies we have a whole grain brown rice or wheat bread we have any plaque

tofu we have anything made from a plant seed are not in the inner groove original that you might want and in the back for seconds if you want to have anything and for dessert that is not a particular like it would you be happy with that digital content with that one entity on this happened there was a little different if your last name on this if you're in this half of the church and your last name begins with a b or c which raise your hands with and for you tonight we have if you had like really small so and for dessert eyes

and the rest of you detroit see the vast majority of new unfortunately for you we'll have anything why am i doing this which is this the food resources required to produce a routine on the side of the room the land of the energy the human water and so when everybody is getting a plant based that our equivalent of margarine is that voting on the side of the room with only about human leagues eating out all by consuming how would you feel if you're someone underside of the room and you're eating your review one of the privileged few and the social system and you have the money and you have the

attack and you're using it to me but you're surrounded by people who are reading at all or at me grimly and her watching their children star you think you might need some lots on your doors some extra police some guns how much peers they're in this situation how much separation i mean you're one of the many things you know i know i'm sure that everyone in this room if given a choice between living in this kind of the world are living in this kind of a world which is to live in this kind of world even if you knew that if you lived in this kind of the world he would be one of the only eight but it was made and there were so many others but the truth is that the world we live in

is more like this and like this today and it's dead in the wall and the degree to which you mean based diet at us that was extraordinary to me says camden needs a shame the tragedy in college and i stand against the mail the peak so for me in which judges are not indicators than that only knew that somehow some way making the statement on and you know this thing that you may when you get into making a good sign or something that's one thing but you also pretty low and because he didn't like his native of habits that he

repeated on me over and over again the power of that in terms of determining the nature of your life the outcome of your health the outcome of the relationships the outcome as expressed in your soul arm is quite profound and then the statements we're making and the stands were taking even if we don't know that we're taking money even if we don't know the warnings that our enormous lesson and one of the things i want to do with this evening with your kind attention is to draw our alertness to the power of the stands and that happens in the ways that we learn and i'm not talking about purity i got a friend patrick reynolds is the grandson of rj reynolds of aluminum and tobacco fame and fortune and

patrick his grandfather died of emphysema rj reynolds and his father died of lung cancer and patrick is on an anti smoking campaign and as congress about the tobacco industry and its propensity to harm and he's learned the rest of his family we did shows together centers because rebels because unlike that actually an actress about one show that we're under someone asked him about guilt as i threw out the window i'm here to change things now there such a difference between responsibility and guilt and it's so important that we support each other and ourselves in in and responsibility in our power to make a difference and not us

we would go out because it doesn't have a dozen animals your voter registration or worse and you know there's another thing too choices for mayor an opportunity to stand for the natural design a thing we've all species the genetically engineered no one gm also answer to world hunger but they're saying that we've gotten to have a hard time feeding the world and boy this is going to work now who would stand in the way of them except it's very interesting there are the rye this year two hundred and one hundred million acres world one platinum genetically engineered crops

not a single one of those acres is widening inequality has been engineered were designed for higher yields not as safe elevator is planning to drop it was an engineer designed to grow immortal soil intelligent tolerant around to tolerate different salsa they're all designed for two purposes the vast majority of the junior riders today the site resistant crops eighty percent eighty million of a hundred million years around eighteen months which means that a farmer can spray the field with roundup monsanto's patent and bestselling report and i'm always all twenty seven genetically engineered crop and then

planted will die and the farmers don't like that because it's it's a very in the way of you don't just fly over the lakers and spray roundup is a great moneymaker for monsanto however raises the amount of the side dramatically that is used in monsanto's the same company also receives ninety five percent of the world market in genetically engineered seeds monsanto the same company that brought us agent orange ddt this is the people that we want to control rules don't apply they're not really trying to alleviate world hunger they wouldn't mind if that happened as long as i could make it probable but that is not the purpose and when they present one of the real problems with

genetically engineered crops is that there isn't a pollen control and no wall built around about how to contain that and on the us president and you then have crossed colonization even in organic crops so the crops that are grown and who says where farmers would never touch with attendant whole agencies are starting to be contaminated with genetic engineering term this bodes ill for organic agriculture and it's a frightening reality but i mentioned eighty percent of the crops grown in the world of art that are genetically engineer arbor these riverside resistant and most of those are roundup ready the other twenty percent are what are called resistance one of the tremendous is they haven't engineered to produce a natural

insecticide beachy in every cell plans for its entire life cycle for in perpetuity so what this means is that they are living as descent living concepts that are proliferating because they're breeding why it's going and starring role as this is not a minor thing very interesting there's only four countries in the world that are growing genetically engineered crops united states alone represent seventy five percent growth probably coach and gm are you all here in japan and australia

in really the rest of the industrialized world some exceptions in canada and argentina is saying no their rent referencing that our nominee you remember when the dawn of the nuclear era when there wasn't at that one time there was a technology that was so immensely powerful and it was captivating was fascinating to scientists a winnable what we can do and the reason why yes we can actually are telling us we were told electricity education you remember well it's given as toxic waste too long lived ever disclose exactly radio x never ever

just now it's on the edge of another crucial of technology and it's interesting that in the united states there's been this korea says there's been this ok whatever monsanto wants the fda is the wrong attitude but it's not the case in other countries is not the case in england it's not the case that any of the scandinavian countries it's not because they're people are protesting they're demanding that is the label they don't allow them to be grown in the open and this is an important issue and it's a distinction here between medical biotech and agricultural biotech which is out in the open and exposed if someone is genetic engineering and georgia produces the type of blood clotting factor for example this is a sin that answer is worth a lot of money they are very careful about and

mate with this week but it is a very carefully controlled polar opposite which is being contested and the nation after nation and started to be in this country we are developing a campaign to requiring labeling and road you know two thirds of the foods available in our supermarket contains a day genetically engineered ingredients were you asked about that idea been notified about that you know which crops which foods are those now all tell you which they are foods that contains oil products that have not been bargaining agreement and which don't specify non gmo foods that contain corn products and no one is in terms of the

cost and basically aren't as corn syrup as in a lot of things as an ingredient that i for those concerns allows anyone and so important oil industry veteran that's why interest is so common so if you're going to be one of well so that has been widely grown as urging him to take a stand for the natural design for me doesn't mean just not eating if i can avoid genetically engineered foods though it does but it also means getting active politically talking about this recognizing the danger and the threat that that entails educating myself in helping educate others

and working for legislation that would require these foods to be labeled the peak one senate doesn't want that they don't want the fighting tooth you know interestingly enough they're starting to really feel as farmers in north dakota north dakota is the largest producing state in the united states the united states is the largest wheat producing country in the world by far and monsanto is coming up with roundup ready week their next one online they hope to introduce next year or two thousand and three report the latest it's a big one because of the amount of wheat grown in the united states which is just the one country that seemed to control the farmers union in north dakota have been seeing

what's happened to the world market for corn when we had the problem started last year an anti contamination of the whole ensemble and the rest of the world's only one record you know us corn exports to europe probably ninety five percent and so the north dakota farmers say well you know that would be great to just be able to spray roundup maybe but we don't want a loser markets globally so we like to work not through this have just grown interstate and they recognize that they can't want one car market to supply will grow it because of other farmers do you get the drift have to give the dress so they're divided because let's talk about this do we want this in our state we want to do this needs to know and the farmers do this is not an organic group so we oppose we don't want we want legislation for bidding

banning the growing out of a roundup ready week and any genetically engineered crops in our state just a few months ago and then they got the legislation proposed in the state legislature and they got it passed by the one of the first of the two houses and then when i went to the second house monsanto went into that state we as attorneys and from rats and advertisements and a tremendous amount of money and the votes came down about two weeks ago and monsanto won by one vote and what about next year with him it's inevitable that people are going to revolt as they they were once being done to victims and the dangers and risks

involved even if ninety nine percent of the crops turned out to be relatively benign not because of allergic reactions of people not because lower yields although studies show that most of them do not to involve grotesque environmental risks the one percent that was the democrats could do so much damage to human how the agricultural as a whole julie to the biosphere for the life support system to the moon exist life is not worth the risk to math and evidently don't write because people who are themselves telling us who are doing it for world hunger they're doing what they're doing

these are the same people that had come up with genetically engineered crops that don't reproduce that are still called terminator technology and this is a technology that monsanto has developed and corroboration believer not with usda collaboration has been using public funds to renters dc still so that a farmer cannot save his or her seat as people in the third world where the hunger for the most part is that these people say they're trying to alleviate eighty percent of the seats that are planted are saved by the farmers they don't go and buy them they say that this will render that i immemorial connection to life and it's cyclical continuity seven who wins

upholding the natural design living as naturally as we can cite it as we cannot say that i don't expect you to be i would ask you to try to be a full year on an airplane today i can give you a long list of things i do that if you look for it and then there's animal cruelty in the vault there's environmental destruction and war things i do that aren't sustainable but hopefully i could give you a longer list of things i'm doing and trying to do that are holding the potential and the reality are creating together a world that is sustainable and it works for a world where children are not left out were all arrested and where people whatever their color of their skin or whatever their ethnic or racial around a religious background are embracing celebrated

welcomed with the fullness of their culture and the fullness of their hearts it's part in the great humans at heavily the first list is getting short as it becomes more you know not that long ago was it wasn't that easy to be a vegetarian sculpture i remember when the idiom the average american mother would've been more upset to learn that her son or daughter was becoming a vegetarian going to learn that you're shooting up smoking it is to be a darn near impossible to get organic food is becoming easier even in omaha and a moral certainty and now but it's easy to get but you see you are the pioneers you have the opportunity we all have the opportunity today to to our

borders to try out in the wilderness that others will then follow and it's easier those of us who are taking action when words against the grain when it's harder on the people who are upholding the future and upholding human heart detentions and this is what i one honoring four that stands you have taken into unwanted decisions you've made of honor who you really are even when people around you and your reference group may not have understood you or supported you or grasp what you're about i would bet that everyone in this room has had times when you stood alone when no one around reflected for you who you really were what do you know about what you intend it was important to you to you what ukraine

needed when you're just wonder what prayer is lower and yet you found a way to even there to live in alignment come room and coherent as best you can under the circumstances you were given and are given a given time this is what the activists not interested not to be better than anybody but to be as much ourselves are true holder amended in each other's arms it sells i see rays of hope in so many places want to tell you why a few years ago i got a phone call from a television show that we wanted to do a program on my work and this has happened for me a number of times and i'm not much

interested often because i don't believe in television as an agent of social change tell parents of young children that consider this in the house is a temptation and it is and there isn't and anyway they did the woman who had called said well you know we're a national show were in every market in the country now that i got my pack my interest and so what is the name of your challenges of lifestyles i've never heard of a show called lifestyles but then again i don't watch television so i wouldn't know i don't know what's a big show what is in you know i've heard of an answer that's usually so i asked her what time it was on in

my variable so i could arrange to look at it and public official it was sense that i was interested in the bar and she gave me a time and the station and as it happened i had a newspaper and there's a lot of trouble coming up the newspaper and look at other cities dr marianne advocate and that times station which is four minutes as lifestyles are advances lifestyles and the senate has to say and it drops he was consumption you glorify the show was parts of people who made people feel envious and separate and not enough it at a time when the earth this morning under a one under the consumption of our culture what are you doing

this became she said i'm sorry you feel that way but i really have to say that we're a positive show we don't we're not hard copy your current fair inside edition we don't put people down we tried it the pastas and i said well every spiritual tradition i am aware of teachers that human fulfillment and happiness an end and all this is not to be obtained through the chunnel acquisitions you seem to be standing in opposition to the pre great stream of human spiritual reality she said well lady she said that we really wanted to she says it won't see are a lot of different conditions policy allowed to do a

show on and people of great wealth and used to use their the resources for voyager one to be a humanitarian cause i said well that's that's nice nice i wish you did that show every week and once he just didn't show at and and then convention she when i ask why are you calling me and what you think may be that on her own problems the author the opposite of everything you're about and she said no john robins return of hit show and john robins for new america i said well why i can build this is ridiculous i said you know first we're not rich and it didn't occur to me that she might have thought that i'm still connected to him and restaurants fortune and not have been alive and that explained that she's well you you couldn't image ii styles another could have been laid

at says she's benches of some of the song on the stack here have read your books and we think they're incredibly important in one image a message to an audience a large audience that might otherwise not be exposed know so yeah i mean just i stopped and i had never done something and not knowing really wanted it i said yes you know i just so we need disappointment and sure enough the day arrived and ms van pulls up outside my norms on the side and the guardian's lifestyles of the rich like venetian blinds and i see the sliding door open of the

van and out of its star coming people and that bears cameramen and the cameras and sound equipment and lights and people to run all of this stuff i'm an independent producer and the director i'm someone who either they call a gopher you know and it was his job to go for hamburgers at lunch and it was just bizarre and are coming out and i'm thinking we were living in at that time a very small place and i think they're not benefit it's like there's a lot of families i told her about our plates glasses is what will live the way you want an additional we'll think of something so here they are coming out and the cameraman eddie sotelo it's too first to the door and pounds on the door now right outside

on a monitor as a little sign that says roberts is pounding on the door and the door is excuse me sorry to bother you were looking for the robins house we seem to have gotten lost your number is the same as his right out and i said well actually i am john robert pleased him in him and we you know we just aired this is where you live and so he said i guess this is the place and then they came and they barely fit now we had at the time only for chairs metal chairs that were part of an old line that set that we've done that says decades before vinyl covered sculpture and over the years past week have less or even the

vinyl unbelievably the first is that i tried to stop them ridiculous thing to try to do but i tried but it was hopeless so i gave up at what is plaid tie against it considering something remarkable happens right now and i was living with it and the fact that the cats into science it's where but i'm trying to be hospitable and that particular with his cameraman who's not obviously fully comfortable so what would you like to have a seat and i gestured to the scriptures and i just saw his eyes and then he goes all standard thank you it was a reaction had on the report forties and early in the film and that i did and never actually find that day they crammed themselves in and then we would film interviews for me for example when the staff and answer asking questions they should have killed that

actually but they were very respectful particular as time went along and when lunchtime came the first they and the gopher was over hamburgers there was this nervous allison are you do you really like this bill had wonderfully been in the kitchen making this big so i would say you know are you all want to just stay here and they did and they decided as a group to go to actually for the time that we were together for the four things that i thought i thought it was an obligatory to their to their employment and i thought that was very respectful and inmates early for a nicer energy between us and had less attention and how we have fun and and then there was the time for them to leave and are sweet actually needed

and the camera man said to me you know i wish my family was more like this so now some of the things you do it doing on the floor sitting cross legged with that but he said that there are other things he said you know i've been with the show for four years we've been a private islands with and it's enormous palatial states no one was ever a sweet and then the woman who made the original call it with the producer of the show embrace today i was reading and said you have no idea i mean the los angeles for ten years working with the show and then she put her in her mouth right next to it are lowered her voice saying something as if no one else in here and said you know that show and the shallow some time the peak i've been doing this all his users to do this program this is what makes it worthwhile i

love this and she was weeping it was really beautiful and they laughed and then i realized another ten hours of footage they're gonna convince than manufacturers show and editing for what they leave out and how their position that they could make me look like an idiot they could do anything about it so with some anxiety i managed to watch the show the first time that with air and it hasn't hurt thousands of times now as a matter of fact turned out to be one of the most popular shows all time and they did do beautiful job and and it's very intimate gathering on their coding for rosa i make myself rich by making and once you on that show he calls me lt daley is

to make the room and at one point the camera to see on the show the cameras are fanning across the room and there are pictures and robin leach says knowing where he got this what he meant what he says when the jurors invisible is every stick of furniture in their house it is recycled and at the end of the show they bring up a photo of the earth institute of the picture scorched earth and so there's no political boundaries it's such a beautiful thing or it's a geometric marvel you know that if he were the size of a billiard ball it would be genetically

more satirical than a billiard ball it's there he says and all its beauty and glory and fragility are who are room of our life support system our mother our future and i believe that will go on the screen for a long time actually usually foot the images of micro second interview and say beautiful music and robin wright says he says this man's life goes to show that he believes he who dies with the most toys wins doesn't see the whole picture the whole earth and i thought what happened to this show

would say that even for a second if this message is the underlying senate could work its way even in to and through it she's program of something and it's usually something is happening in our culture and our society that enables that to occur that we don't read about them it's really important that it is the way to be creative the forces that are at work within ourselves in our beings and relationships in our lives that are making us uncomfortable with that is to strike which are making it hard for us to tolerate there it is but you're making as possible for us to create an imagined and translate

that longing into action to create and construct it that those forces i really don't recognize in children there to say we're disappointed when to celebrate the joys and the news media doesn't illustration and i think that if you really want to know what's going on sometimes self appointed media fast and not thinking to yourself this slice of reality the main feed itself instead and this is silence and quietness to the powerful you know parts signatures meditation and loving connection with each other and reverence and respect for a sales fortune for kids from eating choices our

opportunity to stand for self respect and in their creation and i see that the forces that are on our society that they are responsible really for lifestyles of the rich and nervous doing something social significance or are the most important things that we can touch and you know one guy and he was talking about social action social change he used a phrase frequently called such a row that means the power source and he used to be a distinction to horse is a force a force might makes right and this is the power of a person living in integrity i'm living in their

passion or a trusted aide who they are and celebrating every other living beings connection to that show and it was an award for the visit were designed for