Growing Up Female | Ep. 262 Rumble with Michael Moore podcast

This week the world lost an incredible force of good, the godmother of the modern documentary, Julia Reichert, whose groundbreaking work inspired countless filmmakers that followed - including 17-year-old Michael Moore in 1971 when he drove his parents' car to Ann Arbor to watch her first film, Growing Up Female, a subversive feminist documentary, in an auditorium on the University of Michigan campus. Years later, they would become friends, and today on Rumble, Michael pays tribute to Julia.
Also, fresh off the United States Men’s soccer team’s loss in the 2022 World Cup, Michael shares his take on the world’s game of football, and gives one final push to Rumble listeners to Get Out the Vote for Senator Raphael Warnock before the final midterm runoff election in Georgia this Tuesday.
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2) National Geographic Documentary Films and Picturehouse present Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s latest documentary, Retrograde, available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu this December.
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[@dozermurphy8963]

Thank you so much for being a feminist. Nothing better than a male feminist. I am a survivor of that time period. Our daughters really need to hear this. We fought too hard to let our rights be rolled back.

[@celestepalm6949]

Next thing we need to Codify into law is *Protection of Access to Contraception* because that is the Religious Reich's next target on women's autonomy.

[@jfleming6656]

I so enjoy his talks. Always informative. We’re in tough times. Yet I feel hopeful and strangely aware at the profound point in history we’re experiencing.

[@celestepalm6949]

What we need is a strong, _truly progressive_ Democrat presidential candidate to replace Biden or we'll get the Orange Man again. Is it too soon for Kamala Harris? Is Elizabeth Warren a contender? How strong is the national appeal for AOC? This is something we need to push on NOW so Biden *doesn't* run again.

[@DV-dt9sq]

You make excellent documentaries Michael! You are one of the people of hope in this world...don't quit fighting we need you and you do amazing work my friend! You are a treasure! ✊🏻🌞♥️💪💪

[@donnasantiago9245]

And I love the way you educate us, please don't ever stop.

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

RIP Julia 🍾🥂 life well done… thank you

[@celestepalm6949]

Wow, Mike. Thanks for shining a light on Filmmaker Julia Reichert. Not only am I sad that she's gone but I'm also sad I never heard of or knew of her work before. More people need to know about her!!!

[@melissaverduin3693]

Sorry for your loss Michael. 💞

[@kathygann7632]

Thank you for teaching me this.

[@ayleneasp8933]

You are a darling man, Michael! Lovely explanation of the current events and the need to be eternally hopeful!

[@cheri238]

Sorry for our loss of Julia and your friend Michael. She was a great documentarian. Thank you for sharing this to all of us. Much sympathy to her family and friends.❤️

[@TheRubeeRose]

Thank you for speaking for Julia Reichert! She was my hero when I was in my teens. She totally inspired me. I saw that movie in 1972, I was 18. I still remember it vividly.

[@chadsimmons6347]

1972 I was 8, the hippies were protesting Nixon, Miami Dolphins had perfect season, Billy Jack was a bad ass & I got a new bike

[@BPe-ie9je]

Ps, Michael, ! Loved your tribute to Julia. Thanks. B.

[@rosanna5515]

My deepest sympathy to you on the passing of your friend. Thank you for introducing us to her work. Be well.

[@athenahill8788]

😘MM❤ Thank you for all you do. And your humor.

[@rubengarcia8375]

God bless you.... Rest in peace Julia, darling ❣️💘💚 the whole world adores you 🙏👍💜

[@tylerhackner9731]

Love your vids Mike!

[@KyaniMosaic_Crone]

I was going to listen to your latest episode on my morning commute but there's no way I can not tear up as you honor Julia Reichert. She was the true definition of an Earth Angel.

[@darshansingh4375]

So sorry about your loss Michael, thank you so much for making me discover about this great lady, she left us, but will carry on inspiring the world. Rôle models should never be forgotten.

[@Michael-gl1jp]

@𝐓ext𝐌e°±𝟭ᒿ𝐎6𝟽ՕӠ𝟗𝟐𝟼𝟨 you're not Michael Moore. You're a con artist. Get lost.

[@silencesays228]

Please accept my condolences for your loss. Thanks for bringing this to out attention. I looked the title up in my local library catalog and I can stream it using my library card.

[@5DNRG]

Sorry about our loss of this valuable woman. Criterion is a great platform that also features most (if not all?) of the films by Bergman, one of my fave directors.

[@robertforsythe3280]

Ann Arbor, such a great place for so many things. Growing up women is not just something for the last century. It goes back even more than recorded history 2,000 years or more for our genetic background. My take is the male of the human race has subjugated or tried to subjugate non-male humans for all recorded history. Others who are brave enough to challenge the Dogma of human existence works to get there voice heard. Thank you Michael for sharing your heart and mind.

[@leealexander3507]

Michael I'm so sorry about the loss of your friend. That's so sad. I'm familiar with her work. She was obviously a great woman although I didn't know her personality.

[@pamhall1434]

Julia was such an important pioneer of women making documentaries. Growing Up Female was ground breaking, timely, necessary. She is greatly missed.

[@ellenbruckermarshall4179]

RIP Julia Richert, pictured above. Sad that her memorial service was postponed due to Covid at home. Thanks for featuring this film Michael Moore.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

I have criterion - I’m going to watch growing up female now. thanks for the heads up. 💛

[@leealexander3507]

I never gave a thought to the fact that I was female. I just knew what I wanted to do so I did it. It helped that my father treated me like a full partner in his business from the time I was 12 and I intended to follow in his footsteps although women didn't do that job back then. Now it's as much if not most a women's business but there were very few of us then. Almost none at all.

[@hapennysparrow]

I loved this episode. The antidote using sports as a metaphor for American values spoke volumes to me of the self centered mindset we have. Win at all costs, no matter how injustice impacts those around you. Huh. This is a Christian Nation? Gee, that's just what Jesus taught us, right? Mow over your opponent cause it's all about winning, damn the consequences .

[@celestepalm6949]

I've never been tuned into the sports world, but there's something inherently evil about the World Cup being hosted in a black hole like Qatar. What a perfect-yet-insane example of bread & circuses ignoring the misery that's around them.

[@lisajohana9707]

Michael Moore, I admire your work so f-ing much

[@user-bb8wu2jt2l]

كل الدعم لمايكل مور Michael moore من أجل الحفاظ على أرضنا من جشع "الحيوانات المفترسة"

[@scrubjay93]

The women's liberation movement influenced my sisters and me in a huge way having grown up in the 60s and 70s. I'm just glad my parents were also very progressive and encouraged us to go to college and follow our dreams instead of "settling down and having kids". None of us ever did, lol! 😂 #NoRegrets

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Though not female I have a daughter and granddaughters, so I can emphasize. Warnock has defeated Walker, Democrats control Senate 51 - 49.

[@shelecejensen923]

Sorry for your loss R.I.P.

[@Nancy-mi3xe]

Growing Up Female is also available through Sonoma County Library's Kanopy. It should be free. Other libraries might offer Kanopy as well.

[@bradmurphy3206]

To the memory of Julia Reichert. Thanks Michael, for putting it out. When Rickie Fowler was announced to tee off at the '15 Presidents Cup, the Aussie fans started singing Rickie Rickie you're so fine... Don't know how Rickie felt but as an American myself, I thought it was cool.

[@billydiaz7280]

Does anyone else feel like stay at home moms were the societal saftey net during covid lockdowns?

[@celestepalm6949]

That and the remote work boom.

[@KC-go8cu]

A Hockey game that we are used to when we are a man down with an empty net is not Football Rules. LOL

[@leealexander3507]

I'm pleased that Iowa will no longer be first. I moved here in order to care for aging parents and I really hate it here. I can't wait to get back to the west coast or at least somewhere in the western United States although I'm also considering Verizon or leaving the country entirely although I'm not sure where. I'm looking at some options

[@breezedarkstorm666]

Egypt is cheap to live. If you make like 1000 bucks a month.

[@leealexander3507]

@@breezedarkstorm666 Thanks but it's also far too hot which is why I'm not going back to California. I could do Oregan though.

[@Queenie-the-genie]

@@leealexander3507 I live in central Oregon. It’s high, hot and dry in the summer where I live and freezing in the winter. Because of the altitude the sun is gone early. We do have great rivers and nice trees in the mountains - but no giant redwoods sadly. I would say don’t move to a high desert unless you know that you like that sort of thing. Some people love it. I miss California - the Pacific Ocean and the beautiful Redwood forests.

[@celestepalm6949]

@@Queenie-the-genie & Lee Alexander: Did Lee mean Arizona when she said Verizon? If so, Flagstaff or Sedona would be your best bet bioregion-wise, but they're not cheap. Yes, OR or WA are your best bets - though Minnesota, northern Michigan, & Vermont are also more humane places to live. Kathleen, I still live near the lovely redwoods but that sadly won't last - CA is just too $$$ now & from nickel & dimeing everyone to death. It's the RV life 4 me.

[@M0oranshi]

Haha lol 19:00 this cracked me up, I'm from Belgium, but from the dutch part so I am actually Flemish, so I have three names too. I agree it's kind of silly. No offense taken at all. Holland is our sworn enemy in all the best love and faith, we're like taunting siblings.

[@direwolf6234]

they are the dutch people living in holland and since most of the area was reclaimed from the 'lowlands' below sea level they are the 'netherlands' .. and it's an island continent that is all one country

[@marissadower-morgan3313]

Michael, Thank You . I grew up in the late 1950's -1960's. As a woman never felt I was given a chance to be all I could be , due to my sex . Even my self professed liberal minded parents , did not plan for my future ( collage education and right to be self sufficient) due to my sex. Since Girls were supposed to be married and mothers . It seems women are just born to breed , and serve their families , The Church dose a lot to support this problem . Condemning women for having out of wedlock sex , or relationships . Honestly being a woman in the 20th century was not Liberating ....Rather exploitive and deeply disappointing. I wish I had another life to live it all better , and free of male dominance .PS I love Children and motherhood .

[@lucibjlb]

Except for the death of your friend Julia, you were hilarious on your podcast. I love the songs you described, and the differences between America and the rest of the world. So true. Cracks me up.

[@jayjee735]

I hope this gives you thought about the importance of sex on our lives and the current gender identity cult aweeping the West. Women have been subjugated to horrendous abuse and prejudice due to our FEMALE SEX but now gender identity ideology would have the public believe a man is suffering even worse oppression if he calls himself a woman than an actual adult human female. There are (genitals intact) men in womens prisons in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, many other European countries too, this is torture for women in those prisons who are more often likely to have suffered domestic violence and sexual abuse at the hands of men.

[@cheri238]

True 👍

[@celestepalm6949]

Is the Ann Harbor Women's Music Festival still going or did that get ruined by the TransMob? Everyone else has their clubs & hangouts, it's only right women-born-women deserve theirs.

[@rosemaryparker2567]

Watched the movie here on youtube. It was ok but the subject has been covered numerous times. I was a stay at home mom in the ninties hate that saying . I was a stay at home mom til i went outside then i was a outside mom. When i scored crack was a scoring crack mom. Anyway my daughter is a ok ill say it a stay at home mom. So the more things change the more they stay the same.

[@howardhales6325]

A lot of countries are also islands.

[@MC-71]

🙏🏻✌

[@leealexander3507]

It's been a long time since I've been outside the United States.. I miss traveling Unfortunately my health doesn't allow me to travel but one I get an electric wheelchair or mobility scooter I might get out o and around more more m

[@frinoffrobis]

well.... either let's not go back in time, or let's hear mike's view

[@erldamills9939]

I want desperately to learn how to save money

[@DougGrinbergs]

PSA: this was posted on Stitcher 5 days ago

[@DV-dt9sq]

Nederland is official I think and its inhabitans call it so, but Holland or Duch are not the names they gave rhemselves I think...others call them so. Like americans and the like. By the way in the XVII century Nederland was known as Batavia. 🙂

[@therealjanz8811]

If your fit enough i could give you an exclusive intervieuw about my concepts of this world. a.d. 2022 & beyond, or 2023. Greeting to the dead filmmaker Orson Welles met him 1 time in the 70's 😇😇

[@arlenestanton9955]

When I was a kid in Massachusetts, a rumble was a gang fight, being a girl I was never involved with this,but I don’t think guns were used. This was in the early 60’s. Being a pacifist, I’m surprised you choose this name for your podcast. Does it have another meaning, that I’m unaware of?