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Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.26,0:00:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As fall turns to winter across this nation, many millions will converge on centers of worship large and small,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.96,0:01:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to celebrate and give thanks to a familiar God.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.63,0:01:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He tells us to buy now and pay later. He tempts us with promises of endless credit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.83,0:01:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he leads us down the path to eternal debt.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.22,0:01:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Tis the season to be shopping....
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.31,0:01:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's just one more thing you have to do before the end of the year and that is... Shop yourself silly!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.29,0:01:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are saying "Look, we can't just let the terrorists win...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.32,0:01:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...and just stay home."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.68,0:01:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of Americans are hitting the stores...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.14,0:01:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... Tradition on this Black Friday is... Get out and shop... till you drop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.15,0:01:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used to be a nation of producers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.64,0:01:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are now a nation of consumers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.76,0:01:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American stores, could already fit every man, woman and child in north America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.78,0:02:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South America and Europe, inside them, at one time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.24,0:02:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love toys and Elmo... - We love Elmo!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.43,0:02:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our gadgets, appliances, tools... - I've a gift for you guys! - flat panel TV's...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.75,0:02:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to have that or it won't be a happy holiday!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.96,0:02:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time, since the great depression, our household personal savings rate is below zero
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.80,0:02:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 60% of us, are in long-term debt on our credit cards.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.39,0:02:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...This is free financing for all your purchases...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.76,0:02:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We now spend under one hour a week in religious or spiritual time,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.24,0:02:39.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over five hours a week shopping!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.57,0:02:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 15 million Americans, may be clinically addicted to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.19,0:02:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...people saw that there is very limited supply and they begin behaving like animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.61,0:02:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just like to say as I always say,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.86,0:02:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes I enjoy my diamond ring much more than I enjoy my husband!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.97,0:02:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've feed something that She doesn't like, she says "Oh mommy I don't like that!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.85,0:03:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She actually goes potty... "
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.09,0:03:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know people will run over a pregnant woman to get to the Item they want, there is no surprise there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.72,0:03:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three quarters of us, view Christmas with more dread than anticipation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.44,0:03:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet we'll spend half a trillion dollars on Christmas this year and create five million tons of extra waste.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.13,0:03:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some say it's all gotten out of control,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.69,0:03:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Church of Stop Shopping is planning what it calls "a Shopocalypse tour".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.14,0:03:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drive the demons out of those cash registers...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.17,0:03:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reverend Billy, what is the mission? What is you're trying to tell people?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.94,0:03:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're trying to get people to slow down their consumption, Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.47,0:03:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're addicted, conflicted! We're hypnotized! consumerized!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.57,0:03:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...consumers are expecting to spend around 40 to 57 billion dollars this holiday season,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.75,0:04:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this weekend alone, is gonna be the busiest shopping weekend of the year.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.55,0:04:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop shopping! Save us from our credit cards! You don't have to BUY a gift, to GIVE a gift!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.15,0:04:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.40,0:04:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop shopping children, we can go the other way!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.24,0:04:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Folks, only 30 days of shopping to Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.72,0:04:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop it! Slow down your consumption!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.83,0:04:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to stop! Stop shopping...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.90,0:05:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop, stop shopping, Halleluja, sing Halleluja... we will never shop again, forever and for...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.92,0:05:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Halleluja!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.86,0:05:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We won't shop again!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.58,0:05:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna put those Nikes down and we'll stop shopping, shopping
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.14,0:05:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're gonna put that Starbucks down and we'll stop shopping, shopping
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.66,0:05:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're gonna put that Wal-Mart down and we will start to stop, Halleluja! Halleluja!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.96,0:05:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you something, Who's the man who cast the pall on the big bad shopping mall?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.86,0:06:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will stop you, he will shock you, he will test you, he will bless you.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.52,0:06:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children give up all your sin, 'cause he's our reverend.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.90,0:06:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reverend Billy!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.15,0:06:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Help us! Bless us, Give us the power to... STOP SHOPPING!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.16,0:06:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.39,0:06:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.40,0:06:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're here today... 28 days before Christmas
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.87,0:06:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's behind so many layers of billboards and supermodels looking down at us... in their Christmas lingerie.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.68,0:07:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Billboards covered with fake dickensian gingerbread lattes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.44,0:07:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're beating each other up at the cash register in the supermalls.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.73,0:07:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I know what they're doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.13,0:07:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have some compassion there, some part of me... feels pretty violent right now about Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.88,0:07:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, we're gonna go out across... this shopping addicted country. Please remember us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.52,0:07:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might be chased across that Wal-Mart parking lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.44,0:07:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know what kind of jail in might be in.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.22,0:07:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Macy's and Bloomindale's have jails now.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.15,0:07:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna out there. We're gonna keep those biodiesel busses going on...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.40,0:07:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make sense
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.93,0:07:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this journey into utter absurdity.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.02,0:07:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that all we're asking people to do, is to slow down their shopping.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.79,0:08:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What am I saying? Stop shopping!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.13,0:08:21.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happy holiday, happy holiday
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.23,0:08:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the merry bells keep ringing, may your every wish come true.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.60,0:08:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Happy holiday, happy holiday
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.97,0:08:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may the..... keep ringing happy holidays to you
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.92,0:08:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not a traditional anymore, like where
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.75,0:08:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can just be around your family and buy them small things and they appreciate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.42,0:08:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now if you get people small things they don't appreciate it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.64,0:08:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would not want to celebrate Christmas if there were no gifts.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.27,0:08:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gotta have the Christmas spirit, with some brand new rims.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.71,0:08:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Material stuff ain't important, I just wanna, cruise around flashing my rims
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.96,0:09:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can see me down the street... damn! look what he got for Christmas!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.47,0:09:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This year for Christmas I want The Gucci dog tag with the free cuflinks....and Prada shoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.07,0:09:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever costs a lot, people want. People don't what something that's cheap.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.75,0:09:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...And then you just throw them away, buy new ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.71,0:09:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a bad holiday, it's just more if... you go broke. And the news lets you know that you're gonna go broke.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.72,0:09:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've had my life threatened, I've had people follow me out to the parking lot and try to beat me up
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.54,0:09:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if I have all the systems in my car. I've had people curse me out, I've had people actually spit at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.70,0:09:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a woman who's about 60 years old curse me put and spit on me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.34,0:09:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for not having a PS3 for her 6-years old grandson...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.61,0:09:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just me, too - we've had a lot worse in some of the other stores.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.19,0:09:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do we have here? Laser tag... drum set!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.12,0:09:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's for the kids, for the kids. I don't care if I go broke, it's for my kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.30,0:10:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was living in Times Square and I couldn't figure out where I was.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.27,0:10:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My neighborhood had turned into a mall.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.02,0:10:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Small shops were getting closed down, and here's Mickey Mouse, here's the Lion King,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.22,0:10:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here's all these Disney industries... Nobody really goes here anymore EXCEPT consumers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.89,0:10:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.54,0:10:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Than I asked myself "Who's shouting here, who's really getting out there and raising their voice a bit,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.37,0:10:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...Repent..... - It was the sidewalk preachers!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.78,0:10:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... For the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.19,0:10:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bind the spirit right now with the name of Jesus' Father, I loose the kingdom of Jesus Christ upon them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.11,0:10:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ye shall be roasting on your roaster, while you're toasting on your toaster,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.28,0:10:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as you're coasting on your coaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.95,0:10:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went and bought little pine pulpit. I was catering tables at the time, so I had a tuxedo.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.42,0:11:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just started to bellow: "People.... tourists... listen to me!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.22,0:11:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mickey Mouse is the Antichrist!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.67,0:11:16.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to start our own church that isn't about the worship of the retail moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.75,0:11:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goofy's come to steal the dreams and imagination of you children! Hallelujah!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.22,0:11:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're under arrest. Put your hands behind your back.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.15,0:11:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop shopping! Stop shopping! (Crowd shouting: Let him go!)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.64,0:11:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we were able to change Christmas ...we would change the whole year.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.56,0:12:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the 'Stop Shopping' Church doesn't necessarily... we don't have the answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.51,0:12:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're trying to slow down our own shopping. I think we have .... the question...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.51,0:12:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.16,0:12:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Toasters, remember? Toaster! Now, see someone!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.26,0:12:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Billy and I fell in love before I ever saw Reverend Billy and really knew what he was up to.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.65,0:12:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were married by the time I started directing the show.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.10,0:12:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was intrigued from the beginning by the choir. I watched the choir grow from, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.91,0:12:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six people and a musician to 35 singers and a 7 piece band.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.43,0:12:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say 'Stop shopping' just to get your attention. Certainly nobody can stop shopping.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.10,0:13:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can have a conscience about your shopping.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.27,0:13:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about how it affects other people,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.52,0:13:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just explore the options, that's all we ask.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.59,0:13:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got scientists... preachers' kids, high-school teachers, recovering executives,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.39,0:13:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're all joined together in the 'Church of Stop Shopping gospel choir.'
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.73,0:13:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've no idea how Billy does it really. I even don't know how many times he's been arrested.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.14,0:13:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't even tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.02,0:13:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I worry... Billy is going to jail for a while. you know, it doesn't slow him down at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.00,0:13:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Shopocalypse... it comes in the form of the Stonehenge of logos!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.98,0:14:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we pray today for protection and safety as we get into our two bio-diesel busses
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.88,0:14:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if the fabulous unknown protects us and keeps us we'll be in the Promised Land of customers!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.62,0:14:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While many people hit the malls to do a little Christmas shopping today
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.55,0:14:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one man is on a mission to stop what he calls 'The Shopop.... Shopo...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.26,0:14:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shopocalypse. It's like Apocalypse and shopping together.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.30,0:14:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church of Stop Shopping! They're on a month-long, cross-country tour
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.12,0:14:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to convince people to reject overconsumption and change their shopping ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.36,0:15:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This year for Christmas I want a disposable cell phone.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.49,0:15:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,XBox 360, Nintento 'Revolution.' -Nintendo DS for Christmas. All the kids are talking about it...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.50,0:15:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This year I want so much! - I want an iPod! - a Batman mobile.. - An army knife and an army gun!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.42,0:15:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you want for Christmas this year? - A outdoor dog and ferries...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.56,0:15:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Rudolph the rednosed Reindeer to come to my house!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.40,0:15:35.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many presents do you think is 'A lot of presents'? - 100!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.21,0:15:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, 100, that is a lot of presents.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.66,0:15:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you can afford it, it's hard to draw a line sometimes between
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.64,0:15:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being moderate and giving them all they need and want versus spoiling them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.01,0:15:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over here are The toys. And over here are my doll-house stuff. And my dream things are over here....
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.95,0:16:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has seen commercials on the Saturday morning shows, and anytime she sees something
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.83,0:16:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she yells out: "Mommy, come see this! I want this!"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.01,0:16:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a crocodile and I named him Chum-chump. My favorite toy is Chum-chump!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.06,0:16:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think you have too many toys? -Yeeees! - Well how did that happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.18,0:16:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you and mommy gave them to me, and Christmas....
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.43,0:16:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This... has nothing in it. Daddy, what's this?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:31.22,0:16:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intriguing thing really is that most of the 'togetherness' is now created around the gift-giving.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.82,0:16:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christmas almost died out in America after the Revolution. Then it was realized
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.35,0:16:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was a wonderful commercial opportunity because it combines this commercialism
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.02,0:16:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a true feeling of love and affection.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.48,0:17:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our parents go to such immense trouble for making seem to children that nobody shopped for Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.25,0:17:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The presents were all brought by Santa Claus who made them each by hand
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.62,0:17:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and disguise the fact that the gifts they bought for their kids have in fact come out of a shop
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.27,0:17:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and come out of a season of anxiety and sometimes - tragic desperation.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.31,0:17:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the very beginning all of us as babies are conditioned in this society
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.49,0:17:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see Christmas in a certain way. And so they associate the material goods with the symbol of love,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.58,0:17:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is exactly what the marketers want them to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.09,0:17:54.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some countries it's illegal to advertise to children under 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.31,0:18:00.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in America we spend over 15 billion dollars marketing to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.03,0:18:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Studies reveal that until the age of 8 most children don't know the difference between advertising and entertainment.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.68,0:18:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American children now absorb over 40 hours of media exposure a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.68,0:18:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While meaningful conversations with their parents will total less than .. 40 minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.33,0:18:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite suffering a shotgun blast through his chest Michael Penkala stayed focused
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.65,0:18:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on being one of the first US buyers of the new Playstation 3 from Sony.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.83,0:18:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Penkala was on the floor coughing out blood and telling the workers to take the wallet out of his pocket
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.85,0:18:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to purchase the PS3.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.12,0:18:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like drinking Dickens.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.35,0:18:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hear you brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.49,0:19:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had to plaaaay the XBox 360, WOW, it's craaaazy, it's just like Real Life!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.62,0:19:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my secret....
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.23,0:19:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gonna go tackle the choir?.... Billy, that's what I want you to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.99,0:19:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to really practice the thing we talked about yesterday: generosity,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.65,0:19:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opening your eyes.... I want you to go in the other direction about connecting to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.78,0:19:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't go to the performance! Let the performance emerge, OK, from a real situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.90,0:19:28.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hallelujah. Exactly!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.14,0:19:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you ask 'What exactly is the Shopocalypse'?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.68,0:19:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that discounted luxury item, that we are all buying as we are all dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.90,0:20:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're proceeding into the shopping season under an enormous misunderstanding:
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.36,0:20:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think we are consumers at Christmas time. NO! We are Being Consumed at Christmas time!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.61,0:20:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over there, that new XBox 360, Oh My God, NO, NO, I gotta have it, gotta have it,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.97,0:20:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,IT FEELS LIKE REAL LIFE!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.70,0:20:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody give me a Changelujah here.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.50,0:20:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changelujah! Can you do that brother?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.18,0:20:31.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May this young man..... may the ability to distinguish between real life and simulated life
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.50,0:20:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come into his body yeeeeah!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.48,0:20:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can live in the mall. I dreamed about living in the mall once.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.25,0:21:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a cool dream! It was like my parents owned the mall and I could get whatever I wanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.38,0:21:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That just made me want to smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.08,0:21:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I'm a pretty smart girl, I can tell when they're trying to get us buy stuff,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.81,0:21:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then I wanna buy their stuff, so...you know...
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.12,0:21:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't really make a difference if it's advertised or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.56,0:21:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still wanna buy it because everybody's buying it. If everybody buys it then I'm gonna buy it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.42,0:21:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just feel like sometimes you HAVE to buy your clothes at certain place, or else
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.14,0:21:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you won't be considered... normal. People will laugh at you, rumors will spread.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.50,0:21:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is a bad thing. Very bad thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.52,0:21:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lost our whole box of Lola's Christmas outfits, everything's just gone, we can't find it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.47,0:21:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Noooo! - Her whole Christmas wardrobe is gone!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.42,0:21:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh look! Here's a Louis Vuitton bag with the cherries.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.50,0:22:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think she needs that, don't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.40,0:22:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good bye, thanks a lot!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.73,0:22:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Lola's Christmas tree, she has her own ornaments; this is Lola's closet,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.94,0:22:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her wardrobe is kept and organised, her dresses and fancier things here,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.17,0:22:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweaters, slacks and coats all across the bottom here.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.04,0:22:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi sweetepie, you wanna put this on?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.81,0:22:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's so pretty! Let me see you. That's pretty.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.55,0:22:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cheers!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.86,0:22:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Compulsive buying is something that overtakes someone.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:46.53,0:22:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They need skills, tools and strategies to stop it; it's not enough to say:
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.64,0:22:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I'm not gonna do it anymore!', because one has to respect all of the functions that it serves.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.47,0:23:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a little reminder card that I give everybody I work with; it's got questions:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.62,0:23:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why am I here? Do I need this? How will I pay? What if I wait? And Where will I put it?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.58,0:23:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holidays do trigger some people. Buying is equated with love,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.08,0:23:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness is just the next purchase away.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.53,0:23:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try to talk to me about your shopping sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.99,0:23:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a store that I love; and I faithfully go everyday at lunch.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.34,0:23:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day?? - Every day, and they always have a bargain.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.47,0:23:38.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the last time I was there they had this great blue dress, and I really wanted it!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.39,0:23:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew it would fit, I mean, I knew until I took it to the dressing room
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.25,0:23:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and got undressed and I ... got it up to my hips and I could not get that dress on.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.63,0:23:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I pushed the dress on; couldn't get it over my shoulders, so I thought:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.14,0:23:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'No, this dress is gonna fit!' - and I put it on, and I wanted this dress SO BAD!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.36,0:24:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I pulled it at my.... Got It! Oh my.... I could not get it off.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.05,0:24:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tried every way: back down, back up, I could not call those ladies because
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.22,0:24:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go there every day! I had to destroy it and I had little key scissors on my keychain
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.67,0:24:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I cut myself out of it, cause I didn't want to embarrass myself and not be able
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.56,0:24:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go back to that store, so.. I can still go to the store.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.81,0:24:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I probably shouldn't have done that.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.86,0:24:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sister, the fabulous Creator that gave you your wonderful body...
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.82,0:24:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is saying something to you at that moment. Your body destroyed that dress and
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.100,0:24:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it did the right thing. Maybe your needs will be what you refer to
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.30,0:24:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you make the decision to shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.80,0:24:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go now and sin no more. - I just felt bad for ruining the dress, not for shopping!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.69,0:25:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, it's lovely, it's got pictures of God holding semis in the air...
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.98,0:25:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hear my testimonial.... I just want to let you know that ..
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.32,0:25:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Travel John came in handy in my car last evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.68,0:25:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just.... can't we shop? - We're not shopping, we're just.... uh..
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.55,0:25:44.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My fear is that we'll be perceived as weirdos or not taken seriously, but..
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.100,0:25:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are people here that totally left their lives behind to try to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:52.96,0:25:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before the Stop Shopping choir I always thought protesting was marching on Washington,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.37,0:26:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shouting with signs, but it's a new serious political work in creative, fun ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.25,0:26:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's incredible, like nothing I expected.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.25,0:26:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The chipmunk was wearing a little robe made of leaves; inside there was a crucifix and some holy wafers,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.96,0:26:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been missing from the church for a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.87,0:26:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a sinner, yes I am, and I own a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.85,0:26:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okey-dokey, I think it's a sale.... no, that's a waste, I can't pay 6 bucks on this crap...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.08,0:26:37.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much! I did not buy one thing! It was hard...
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.86,0:26:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would Jesus buy?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.20,0:26:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,XBox 360!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.76,0:26:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus would probably buy a Playstation 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.08,0:27:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ooooh, this year he'd probably get a Wii, or a 360 if they didn't have any Wiis available.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.14,0:27:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I don't think we'd see Jesus at Wal-Mart buying a new pair of shoes,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.15,0:27:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although it is cold down here and he might get socks.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.80,0:27:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know... I don't think he'd have to buy anything, well I guess he would.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.60,0:27:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would buy because, you know, you need bread, he'd buy the necessities.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.84,0:27:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think he was very conservative. Not a Republican!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.19,0:27:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He might with love and maybe a bit of sternness in his voice, say:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.01,0:27:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Look, you're reading the Scriptures, but you're missing half the message!
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.63,0:27:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't you learn about what to do about the poor?"
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.88,0:27:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do the CEOs get 500% more than the one at the bottom?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.09,0:27:53.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is wonderful, he answers all prayers. 'Cause for a long time I prayed:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.49,0:27:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Please get me off the streets of Outskid Row.'
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.67,0:28:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here I am with my own room, fully decorated for Christmas, and I'm just really, really thankful!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.94,0:28:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Buy the baby gift. Do we shop, do we die? Oh no that kind of gift!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.27,0:28:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would Jesus buy, whaaat would Jesus buuuuuy."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.18,0:28:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sam Ruben live from Hollywood. This is WGM Morning news at 8.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.90,0:28:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's the only reverend with a court order barring him from entering any Starbucks in California.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.18,0:28:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says Mickey Mouse is his own personal Antichrist.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.25,0:28:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping gospel choir are here this morning, Morning brother,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.10,0:28:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how are you? - Hallelujah! - Nice to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.15,0:28:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you have a specific message, uh? - Oh yes, we're trying to...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.93,0:29:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get people to think about what to do in this Christmas time.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.54,0:29:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanna express love for the person you're giving the gift to with just another product from the supermall?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.73,0:29:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask the question: 'What would Jesus buy!' - Right, I don't do it!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.16,0:29:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exorcise your credit card... that's all right, that's OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.63,0:29:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, what if you sing a song here! I gotta get to the mall!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.20,0:29:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get out of here! That guy's got a shopping problem. Follow him! Hallelujah!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.26,0:29:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessed are the Mickey D' free for they wil SAVE OUR CITY!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.34,0:29:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessed are those who forgo the Gap, for they will save our sins!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.61,0:29:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will remoooove Starbucks! and Disney!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.14,0:29:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many shoppers have gone into the Magnificent mile and have never been seen again.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.99,0:29:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starbucks with a billionaire at the top and impoverished people at the bottom!
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.65,0:30:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't spend four dollars on a latte in this café.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.01,0:30:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't mean to create banana republic! It wasn't our idea!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.95,0:30:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Dysney company still presides over sweatshop facilities around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.42,0:30:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, we see where it came from! We back away!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.90,0:30:39.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We won't go back! We won't we won't, no more, no more! Hallelujah!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.77,0:30:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wake up America! Are you people, or are you sheeple, led to the Shopocalypse?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.17,0:31:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always wanted to have the high fashion shoes, and now I'm in debt. I'm 21 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.25,0:31:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Credit cards give you a false sense of economic security. That 'Buy now and pay us later!'
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.76,0:31:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- at high interest rates, that's what people forget about.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.49,0:31:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You turn 18 and you get your first credit card and it's like this amazing thing...
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.01,0:31:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just walking in, show the people this piece of plastic and I get what I want!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.13,0:31:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would typically take me until the end of fall next year to pay off Christmas bills.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.51,0:31:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christmas is when I go all out, you know, maybe I didn't always have nice stuff when I was growing up
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.21,0:31:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want them to have everything, I want them to grow up having name brand stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.83,0:31:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the cool toys; and when their friends come over they can say they have it,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.55,0:31:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My husband is ... like ... "No! We have a budget and we stick to a budget" and he doesn't know I have three or four.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.79,0:31:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't believe in credit cards or anything like that. We do have a credit card
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.67,0:32:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we use it we just pay it off every month.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.96,0:32:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here it is again: Christmas and I'm just not getting cards and...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.58,0:32:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think he'll just have a fit when he finds out, so...
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.16,0:32:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a card that I just received in the mail and it will be maxed it out by the end of the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.50,0:32:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a girl there was no plastic. When I was a girl your credit was really
Dialogue: 0,0:32:21.12,0:32:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a matter of a handshake; that's how my dad would hit the deal in my home town.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.25,0:32:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know that I'm gonna pay the store when I get paid, right? That was the credit line.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.73,0:32:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American consumer credit debt has surpassed 2.4 trillion dollars, and 60% of us are carrying
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.45,0:32:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13 000 dollars in credit card debt this Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:44.25,0:32:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At over 1 mln. a year bankruptcies continue to rise especially after the holidays.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.46,0:32:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, Americans will still get over 4 billion new credit card offers
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.99,0:33:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and charge over 100 billion dollars on Christmas gifts this year.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.99,0:33:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're seeing gift cards that function like credit cards; marketing to 12 - 13-year olds,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.24,0:33:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're seeing the marketing of consumerism to children as young as 3-years old!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.73,0:33:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Friend! Friend! Lock that door! There are people here with... too much credit!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.43,0:33:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want everybody here to reach down in your wallet and I want you to bring out your credit card
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.50,0:33:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want you to wave it in the air, magnetic stripe facing Reverend Billy.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.72,0:33:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna exorcise the credit!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.58,0:33:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One time Jesus got violent was the money changers;
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.42,0:33:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the Visas, the Citybanks came into the temple - that's when he got upset
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.68,0:34:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the outrageous users' rates that were being charged.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:19.65,0:34:23.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two weeks until Christmas that year. Wrapped up your shopping yet? Have you wrapped up
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.81,0:34:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your presents yet? Matell is feeling swell, saying barbie doll sales are up this year. Matter of fact it`s the top toy for girls...
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.16,0:34:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are you guys? I love the hair!
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.39,0:35:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Reverend Billy and this is the stop hopping gospel choir.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.31,0:35:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, give me a cue here.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.98,0:35:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love this! OK, I feel you man!, I really do!
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.57,0:35:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at this! - Can we sing you a song? - Absolutely!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:39.13,0:36:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Serious! The little boy loved the brat line.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:41.86,0:36:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a good sense of humor about it. Maybe that's the governor's. A certain awareness. He invited us inside!
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.27,0:36:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yeah! Time to end the workday.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.68,0:37:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably one of the happiest Christmasses that I can recall we sold some pop bottles
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.22,0:37:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some rags, my wife and I. We used to buy rags, haha.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:09.40,0:37:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we sold pot models and rags. We were able to buy some paraffin wax and we made candles.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.67,0:37:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we gave everybody! Everybody had candles; actually when we left that little appartment
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.21,0:37:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it still had candle wax all down the stove!
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.35,0:37:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't know we were poor, you know, because everybody was in the same boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.45,0:37:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my dad made Christmas so special because he always made sure there was oranges and apples
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.22,0:37:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with maybe a pair of boots or something that we had to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.06,0:37:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking that Santa was gonna come down the chimney and I was waiting for
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.64,0:38:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything to be all right the next day...I just felt very happy, I had candy and
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.46,0:38:07.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple of basic things I had... and I was happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.98,0:38:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.41,0:38:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dear Reverend, today's my first visit to your website; I find that what you're accomplishing
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.84,0:38:37.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.41,0:38:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Elisa and Grace and Uncle Billy...
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.52,0:38:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are Christmas cards... Right, we were supposed to be singing carols around the piano.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.43,0:39:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bill's probably about 7 here? And here's he's about 11. This is South Dakota.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.47,0:39:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were really made to have a creative life. So Bill had piano and cello,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.67,0:39:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was actually very gifted musically.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.42,0:39:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it's one thing to be performing in the family in the living room,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.47,0:39:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's another thing to say 'This is my life!'
Dialogue: 0,0:39:19.16,0:39:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'd go out there in the world with my talent, my heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.38,0:39:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make this be how people know me, what I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.97,0:39:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say the performance element came to be totally in service of the message.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.73,0:39:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the message became the reason for Reverend Billy's being.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.01,0:39:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to take Starbucks into our bodies!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.22,0:39:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has come into our neighborhoods like space aliens!
Dialogue: 0,0:39:59.59,0:40:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you please shut up!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.76,0:40:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that you feel when the corporation is your best friend?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:06.36,0:40:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the corporation, the multinational corporation is your lover?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:12.01,0:40:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is Starbucks my lover? It's not my lover!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.94,0:40:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changelujah children! I call on the God that is NOT a product! Come into this evil Wal-Mart!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.68,0:40:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exorcise this cash register! Don't touch our children!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.20,0:40:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I talk to you for a moment? - No! We're in church here! We're worshiping here!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.89,0:41:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just wanna ask the fabulous Unknown ...... for forgiveness on this leg of the trip!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.08,0:41:20.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We froze our vegetable last night because we ran out of heating in this bus!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.74,0:41:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like Jimmy Swagger in this church when he got caught at 4 in the morning with a prostitute.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.76,0:41:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was in his church, his wife was in the front row and he was:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.62,0:41:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dear, dear, I'm so sorry dear, I HAVE SINNED!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.99,0:41:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forgive me!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.62,0:41:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're back to fossil fuel. I'm so sorry! Forgive me!"
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.81,0:41:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hallelujah brother!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.39,0:42:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen! Amen! Amen!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.29,0:42:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give me your camera.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.62,0:42:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talk to him.... Liza!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.49,0:42:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stand on your knees..... we love you, we're with you!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.90,0:42:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't move anybody!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.84,0:42:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody who's not injured, get off the bus right now! The paramedics are here....
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.98,0:42:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where are you hurting, buddy?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.97,0:42:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fractured ribs I believe....
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.07,0:43:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flight is coming in here? - Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.85,0:43:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were rammed by an 18-wheeler headed for Minneapolis. I don't know about the tour...
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.56,0:43:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody's hugging everybody... it's ...we're getting MedEvacs...
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.64,0:43:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A semidriver apparently misjudged the speed of those buses and plowed right into the back
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.40,0:43:33.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that second bus.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.100,0:43:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're apparently members of a performance activist group, in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.25,0:43:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're on a nation-wide mission with an intriguing message for shoppers
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.08,0:43:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this holiday season.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:49.79,0:43:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're on a mission to save Christmas from overconsumption; we want people to discover
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.73,0:43:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another way to give gifts to each other this year.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.91,0:44:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that right there was Reverend Billy. Although the group is based in comedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.34,0:44:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their message is serious. Members say they're fighting against false idols
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.38,0:44:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Christmas spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.83,0:44:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we're the people that were touring in the bus together; we'd like to visit our friends...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.04,0:44:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the IC department somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.80,0:44:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, we can order medical university license plates. Don't delay, order yours today!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.27,0:44:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Violin section in the background...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.83,0:44:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're went 13 people into the hospital, here, but they're starting to come around.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.33,0:44:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey champ!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.17,0:45:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're gonna try and charter a bus in the morning, I don't know really how that's gonna go.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.19,0:45:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, now everyone wants to just get back on the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.10,0:45:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, my mom was like 'You need to stop that tour, you're coming right home!'
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.90,0:45:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My momma said the same thing!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.32,0:45:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told her we don't give up!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.87,0:45:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will mooooove, yes we will! You know we're gonna GET BACK, right back, oooon that roooad..
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.22,0:45:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll spreeeeead, the gospel, of Stop shoppiiiing, and we won't give up, we won't give up; Push on! Push On!
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.12,0:46:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will revive our church and continue, go on and on and we'll find, somehooooooow, somwheeeeere
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.34,0:46:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll get on a brand new bus tomorrow early in the morning, and we won't give up we won't give up. Push on! Push On! PUSH ON!
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.47,0:46:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you the Reverend Billy? - Aaaaah, no. - We thought that's pretty funny,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.61,0:46:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because our reverend is Reverend Billy. - Oh, really? - That's what he said. Reverend Billy.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.65,0:46:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, your reverend is from what church? - The church of Stop Shopping.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.32,0:46:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interesting... - I've never heard of it!
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.50,0:47:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you're trying to establish a church here? Oh, you're just travelling.... - Oh, crusade! Way to go!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.52,0:47:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You guys are doing a wonderful work! You are doing a mission!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.49,0:47:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We here in Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, a missionary's job is to spread the Word,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.23,0:47:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just keep it to yourself but spread it throughout the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.30,0:47:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the good thing. And it takes some guts to do that!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.98,0:47:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you experienced the kind of electric charge as when you're going to a Big Box,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.26,0:47:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're going to a chain store, and you just get a little bit out of the proper prescribed behavior?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:51.72,0:47:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a little bit outside of that, maybe raising an original issue; and maybe that issue goes to a table next to you...
Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.42,0:48:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's just your first amendment, that's all.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.81,0:48:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe somebody finds you obnoxious? Nothing new for me baby!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:21.86,0:48:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many places in America where there are no sidewalks. What does this say about us?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.82,0:48:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says that we have to either be in our car, or in our house, or in the mall!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.66,0:48:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are only commercial spaces in almost all of America, or private spaces.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.66,0:48:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're either trespassing, or you're buying.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.86,0:48:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as if we live under a kind of enchantment.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.87,0:48:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a 100 years from now we won't be doing the things we're doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.06,0:48:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would've figured out way more interesting things to do than go shopping as our main activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.46,0:49:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately I also know that we don't have 100 years to make that transition.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.73,0:49:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We gotta make it more quickly than it would happen naturally or else we're gonna derail
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.84,0:49:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Earth's physical system, especially its climate.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.13,0:49:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This consumer frenzy makes everything into a commodity - everything has become a thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.08,0:49:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even Christmas, even Christ. The shopping mall is a symbol of everything that has gone wrong with Christmas,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:23.69,0:49:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't what Jesus had in mind for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.52,0:49:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would like to invite you to come to the Mall of America.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:39.15,0:49:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have 100 robes, we have this wonderful idea of sort of a anarchic mormontanemental choir.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.30,0:50:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The once sleepy town of Bloomington, Minnesota. A monument for the ages has risen,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.57,0:50:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their own police force, an amusement park, a wedding chapel,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.63,0:50:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the first ever college campus built inside of a mall.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.10,0:50:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 4 miles of storefront, with more than 42 million visitors per year!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.06,0:50:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's more visits than to the Capitol, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland combined.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.55,0:50:36.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behold! The Mall of America!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:48.61,0:50:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna spread the good gospel to Mall of America!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:55.44,0:51:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walk away from the product!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.60,0:51:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drive the money changers out of the temple!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:16.12,0:51:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all ending up inside these supermalls! These products are taking over our lives!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.16,0:51:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shall I just get up there....
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.29,0:51:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop shopping!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:38.66,0:51:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hallelujah! Changelujah! Let's change!
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.94,0:51:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're here in the heart of Mall of America (Calling all security...)
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.65,0:51:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell you to join us with many other Americans in saving Christmas
Dialogue: 0,0:51:58.94,0:52:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FROM THE SHOPOCALYPSE!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.67,0:52:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've gotta stop protesting and you're gonna have to leave, OK?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.75,0:52:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've gotta walk out of the property, you're not allowed to be on the property.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:15.64,0:52:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're just everywhere, you never known when we're gonna show up.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.91,0:52:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's fine but you can't be here today. - You've gotta stop shopping!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.14,0:52:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your consumption is getting out of control! Hallelujah, that wasn't nice!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.66,0:52:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Try it now, it's never too late.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:29.04,0:52:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sorry I yelled at you! I get angry at police pretty easily! We'll see each other again somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:56.78,0:53:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Texas. Jay from the Dallas Morning News, Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:00.98,0:53:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Savitri, would you say hello to Mr. Jay? - Hi there, how are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.91,0:53:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We try to... First of all, we know how hard it is to shop in America without compromising...
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.53,0:53:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these values. You know, I think you can go in any store and be hard-pressed to find a product
Dialogue: 0,0:53:19.84,0:53:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's made in America. But first of all, we look for things that are made in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.13,0:53:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we try to shop in places where the money we spend will come back into the local communities,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:31.54,0:53:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into local economies.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:51.34,0:53:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gordon's Barber shop.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.73,0:53:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need a haircut!
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.47,0:54:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello! We thought the whole store was empty! - Well I'm here, I didn't want to get in your way...
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.93,0:54:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Bill, how are you? What's your name? - Mike. - This is my wife Savitri there.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.81,0:54:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just came up from Demoin this morning and we're freezing, cause I just don't have...
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.30,0:54:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need a good sweater. Can I try it? Then if I don't like it check the quality. - That's all right. This one's wool.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.23,0:54:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this... made in America, or is this too much to ask? - Let me see. Are you gonna take it back off?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:33.53,0:54:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No, I would never take it off.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:37.51,0:54:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Made in USA. Yeeeeeeah! Hallelujah!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.83,0:54:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gentleman next door said there were Wal-Marts on 20 miles in either direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:50.39,0:54:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has that affected your store at all? - Oh yeah. Wal-Mart is killing small town America. Seriously, it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:57.11,0:55:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saturday nights everybody came to town, and we'd be busy, be here and be busy
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.35,0:55:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until 11 - 12 o'clock at night! We have two sons and I have not encouraged either one of them
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.77,0:55:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come back to the store. I mean, there's no future... and that's sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.20,0:55:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you think of a business that's been in our community for over 125 years, and
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.94,0:55:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'll be gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.48,0:55:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all goes back to the mindset of the people and it goes back to the Wal-Mart mentality.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:27.48,0:55:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We gotta buy this as cheap as we can buy it, we don't care where it's made,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.52,0:55:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't care they're not paying the employees anything. As long as I bought that pair of socks
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.84,0:55:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 50 cents instead of 2 dollars - I'm happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:44.53,0:55:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of folks think it's inevitable - they're gonna disappear into the big stores.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:48.66,0:55:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have to feel that way. So let's talk to each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:52.71,0:55:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put our money back in our own community.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.36,0:56:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as I get a good deal it doesn't matter where it's made in.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.83,0:56:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the price. I think everybody just looks for the price.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:15.26,0:56:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I doesn't really matter to me where things are made, because I just get them,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.07,0:56:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really wonder where they're made, because that just takes ....is too mind-boggling for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.07,0:56:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They go to other countries to make cheaper stuff, and then we get jobs in Wal-Marts, K Marts
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.12,0:56:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Targets, and we get paid less because of course cashiers don't make a lot of money;
Dialogue: 0,0:56:38.85,0:56:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stockers don't make a lot of money. But you know, what are we gonna do?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:47.50,0:56:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing we can do!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:49.74,0:56:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't like boycott everything, cause I won't buy anything...So...
Dialogue: 0,0:56:55.44,0:57:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really don't know what to tell you, I'm sorry.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.69,0:57:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, people have a choice: Are they gonna choose low prices or high wages?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.82,0:57:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's not a choice that I can make for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:16.59,0:57:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus said: Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.02,0:57:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are more people being fed by Wal-Mart than any government in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.99,0:57:43.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Globalization doesn't mean that America is losing. It means that America is shifting its locations,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.100,0:57:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means maybe that.... the workers are not making as much in salary, but....
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.33,0:58:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're losing insurance, and they're losing retirement benefits,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:01.85,0:58:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which always says that.... that nothing is guaranteed anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:09.25,0:58:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Been at Wal Mart for 5 years. Started as plain clerk, now I got promoted to invoice clerk.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.61,0:58:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I put in about 6 days a week, over 70, no, 96 hours, I say a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.94,0:58:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The benefits are good, we have....
Dialogue: 0,0:58:34.57,0:58:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait a bit, you got me....
Dialogue: 0,0:58:39.70,0:58:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as benefits, as far as the wages that are coming here... you got me here.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.76,0:58:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If companies are allowed to pit the American worker against desperately poor people in the developing world
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.92,0:59:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who don't have the right to organize, who don't have any form of democracy at all...
Dialogue: 0,0:59:02.44,0:59:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't compete against slave labor, it's impossible.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:06.13,0:59:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, how do workers live in Bangladesh that make all Wal-Mart shirts?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.88,0:59:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They get paid 13 to 17 cents an hour. Well those workers live in utter misery.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.96,0:59:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those wages translate into not being able to brush your teeth.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:23.66,0:59:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They get up in the morning and brush their teeth with their finger, using ashes from the fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.33,0:59:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they can't afford a toothbrush.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:33.49,0:59:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is a certain decency to American people.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:36.31,0:59:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they stand face to face with a 13-year old kid, and that kid tells the American people
Dialogue: 0,0:59:42.55,0:59:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she works 7 days a week, and every other day they work until 3 AM,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.38,0:59:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they keep them for an 19-and-a-half hour shift...
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.38,0:59:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She got 7 cents an hour sewing clothing for Wall Mart.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.100,0:59:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while we were walking away from her, she just blurted out:
Dialogue: 0,0:59:58.84,1:00:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I feel like I'm dying! I'm so sick and exhausted!'
Dialogue: 0,1:00:02.43,1:00:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13 years old and she tells us she feels like she's dying. Yet she works for the largest
Dialogue: 0,1:00:06.44,1:00:13.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,retail corporation on the face of the Earth, that had 11 bln. dollars of profits.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:13.38,1:00:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wal-Mart led the way and now everyone wants to milk the system for as much as possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:23.31,1:00:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest fear to the corporations is that young people wake up and start asking
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.11,1:00:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not even negative questions. Just like: 'Wait a second! Let's slow down a bit!
Dialogue: 0,1:00:32.43,1:00:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who made this product?'
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.93,1:00:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no idea.... Really... That would definitely cause me not to buy from that place anymore.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:40.84,1:00:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, but this thing is everything is made there. Your shirt was made there.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.95,1:00:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like probably a kid made that.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:49.95,1:00:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Philippines, the one is Vietnam... We could call someone.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.54,1:01:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, can we have some information on where your clothes are made?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:05.45,1:01:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Our clothes? - Yeah, where they're made? - Where we're located?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:10.56,1:01:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, where your clothes are made.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.54,1:01:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked my manager and she told me we don't know. - Is there a law that you should know?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:21.50,1:01:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could double-check online.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:24.15,1:01:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never even thought about this before. I had no idea.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.82,1:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can only ask questions.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:29.64,1:01:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these are all laboured , so you can check China Labor Watch, Corpwatch and Labor.net.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:36.12,1:01:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we should go to this 'Responsible Shopper'.org.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.51,1:01:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, so they have specials about workers in Bangladesh.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:42.95,1:01:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unpaid retirements.... and in some cases even endured beatings by their supervisors? Workers operating the hot glue machines had burn scars and fresh burns on their hands.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:09.04,1:02:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to Wal-Mart Headquarters, because Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:15.69,1:02:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Walton family are 5 of the top 10 richest people in America, but they pay their workers
Dialogue: 0,1:02:21.31,1:02:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very very little. They've gotten that wealthy on the backs of a lot of people.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:26.86,1:02:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of places, lots of towns have been devastated by them...
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.61,1:02:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They really destroy the American dream.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:36.98,1:02:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll park near a graveyard and we'll have a funeral for small-town America.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:45.56,1:02:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that adjoining cemetery are the buried hopes of the American dream.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.59,1:02:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a real vision after Supermalls -
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.84,1:03:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a complex, fun, big American dream in the future, that is not about betrayal.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.71,1:03:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not being cheated. The teenagers making these goods on the other side of the world,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.80,1:03:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they won't have that kind of life anymore! We will know better than to cooperate in that slavery.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:21.93,1:03:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be able to give a better life for our children.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:26.69,1:03:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you see that future? We're gonna exorcise Wal-Marts.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:52.20,1:03:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's waking up now....
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.28,1:04:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's Resurrection time. Let's go to that sign now. Let's take the evil into our bodies now.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:10.49,1:04:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let the anger come out. We started this country with anger. There is a time for anger.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:17.39,1:04:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a time to exorcise, with millions of Americans in our bodies.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:22.69,1:04:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have millions of Americans in us!
Dialogue: 0,1:04:37.94,1:04:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll give our own gifts this Christmas!
Dialogue: 0,1:05:11.31,1:05:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that was miserable.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:15.18,1:05:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of Americans in our bodies....
Dialogue: 0,1:05:19.69,1:05:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that we'll start levitating and fly over Wal-Mart and something might happen.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:27.18,1:05:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I did was dive into the shrub.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.02,1:05:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope nobody here hears us. Those that hear us, they SO don't want to hear us!
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.85,1:05:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look pretty tired. - I feel I need for what we do to have some impact on someone soon.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:21.85,1:06:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weather's still ... the weather outside is frightening. It's gonna be a long ride.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.98,1:06:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With convincing song and dance, wailing about the dreaded sins of retail chains
Dialogue: 0,1:06:37.98,1:06:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and corporate conglomerates, Bill and his red-robed choir of followers faces questions of sincerity.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:43.89,1:06:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She does tell them to stop everyone from shopping but she looks to the choir
Dialogue: 0,1:06:48.19,1:06:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and says she was happy he was giving them work.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:50.62,1:06:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're probably all on welfare, she said, so it gives them something to do.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:53.98,1:06:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's incredible!
Dialogue: 0,1:07:09.55,1:07:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think people are really stopping their shopping very much.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:15.64,1:07:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not surprising at all that we got hit by some truck in a hurry to deliver its goods.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:21.27,1:07:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The malls are packed, the cars are packed, they look at us like we're crazy.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:25.66,1:07:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Stop shopping?' - Yeah, yeah, stop shopping!
Dialogue: 0,1:07:31.36,1:07:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the culture of shopping is so complete now that even just a single interruption
Dialogue: 0,1:07:37.96,1:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a kind of success. You really do have to start somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:10.29,1:08:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live right now in a dark time. Everybody is inside an automobile on the way to a television.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:21.62,1:08:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got an emergency here! Oh, we can't stop shopping in Dallas!
Dialogue: 0,1:08:30.32,1:08:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's a thing out there they call Christmas. Why are they throwing so many obstacles
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.83,1:08:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between us and the beginning of their hopes? Hundreds of thousands of grinning celebrities
Dialogue: 0,1:08:45.66,1:08:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on labels, saying: 'No, this is a gift, no, this is a reference to a gift, a simulation, a painting of a gift...'
Dialogue: 0,1:08:55.75,1:09:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why the obstacle course? I'm gonna go to Wal-Mart and sing! I'm gonna go to Target and preach!
Dialogue: 0,1:09:06.74,1:09:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna go to those obstacles and I'm gonna say: "WHY CAN'T I GIVE? WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE?'
Dialogue: 0,1:09:16.32,1:09:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Le'ts give a gift! A real gift!
Dialogue: 0,1:09:21.32,1:09:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We survive the fire, the Shopocalypse....
Dialogue: 0,1:09:34.44,1:09:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together we will penetrate the parking lot of the Big Box. We'll go through the electric doors,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:39.55,1:09:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,past the cash registers, down the aisles to the devil itself!
Dialogue: 0,1:09:50.41,1:10:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, Victoria, we know your secret! We don't need a million catalogs to have our sexual fantasies!
Dialogue: 0,1:10:00.42,1:10:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn the camera off! - Can we take your picture too? Nightmare!!!!
Dialogue: 0,1:10:12.56,1:10:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We aren't allowed anywhere near this mall! Yeah! They're probably having
Dialogue: 0,1:10:17.52,1:10:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the federal police already waiting.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:19.96,1:10:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy in the white suit in the white bus. How do I talk to him?
Dialogue: 0,1:10:23.44,1:10:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are 5000 Reverend Billies with white suits. Sometimes a Reverend Jimmy, Reverend Jimmybob,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:30.77,1:10:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reverend Jimmybob Billy....
Dialogue: 0,1:10:34.63,1:10:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will take the real life that we have within us, that originallity that we've got
Dialogue: 0,1:10:39.93,1:10:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has got nothing to do with products! Amen, hallelujah!......
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.92,1:11:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shop consciously this year! We have three days to go! Stop your shopping officer!
Dialogue: 0,1:11:08.91,1:11:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will sit down in the seats before these yellow feet of the most famous corporate logo in the world,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:14.79,1:11:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one that has chosen to steal our children's imaginations for 80 years...
Dialogue: 0,1:11:23.96,1:11:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Devil, MICKEY MOUSE!
Dialogue: 0,1:11:30.15,1:11:35.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can hear the sounds of this season, right, the Jingle bells, the Christmas carols...
Dialogue: 0,1:11:35.89,1:11:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the horns honking as drivers curse at each other... Today promises to be
Dialogue: 0,1:11:40.94,1:11:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mother of all gridlock alert days.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:49.47,1:11:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're so close here, it's the last push. How you keep it together at the end, when you're exhausted,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:54.55,1:11:59.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really the test.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:04.64,1:12:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they continue to fornicate, after they know the difference, then they might cause
Dialogue: 0,1:12:09.75,1:12:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 9,2 earthquake to destroy Los Angeles. So a lot of us have to remain virgins
Dialogue: 0,1:12:17.39,1:12:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the day that we die.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:19.85,1:12:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's not give gifts based on cruelty this year!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:25.77,1:12:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just heard stop shopping.. Isn't it 'Stop shopping' he sings?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:31.32,1:12:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I should've heard this before.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:33.19,1:12:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give a gift - out of love this season!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:36.38,1:12:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's excellent to bring this message, why people are so much into consumerism,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:42.38,1:12:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we should really realize what is the true meaning of Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:47.08,1:12:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more about love for each other, than to be so much into consumerism, buying, buying....
Dialogue: 0,1:12:53.83,1:12:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would Jesus buy?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:58.99,1:13:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think he'd buy anything at a Staples!
Dialogue: 0,1:13:21.63,1:13:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ask the fabulous Creator, the Mother Father God that's not a product!
Dialogue: 0,1:13:34.21,1:13:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come into the soul of this blessed baby, give this child, give its parents the loving power
Dialogue: 0,1:13:44.40,1:13:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not be lost to the mindlessness of consumerism!
Dialogue: 0,1:13:58.49,1:14:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roxanne Elisabeth, let's all sing!
Dialogue: 0,1:14:14.07,1:14:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aaaamen! Bless the child... Aaaaamen! Bless the child....Aaaaamen, amen, amen!
Dialogue: 0,1:14:35.54,1:14:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You guys gotta leave. The manager... gotta leave. - Right, we're leaving
Dialogue: 0,1:14:42.21,1:14:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've just baptized a child, did you see?
Dialogue: 0,1:15:00.89,1:15:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That felt so good, wow. Did you see that? Wow. That makes it all worth it.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:12.86,1:15:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can take me to jail now.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:31.24,1:15:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America is a fascinating country in many ways. Of course, Los Angeles is the dream capital
Dialogue: 0,1:15:37.58,1:15:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world, this is what we sell here. Disneyland is a perfect example of that.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:42.77,1:15:47.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disney is entirely fantasy, it is a simulation. Walt Disney built that place
Dialogue: 0,1:15:47.90,1:15:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the perfect little American town where he grew up.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:54.48,1:16:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is shiny, everything is beautiful. You'll notice at Disneyland there's no time -
Dialogue: 0,1:16:01.39,1:16:10.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can either live in the past, you can live in the future, you can never live in the present.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:10.65,1:16:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Disneyland is like following the yellow brick road and end up finding the Wizard of Oz
Dialogue: 0,1:16:18.49,1:16:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly turns out that there's nothing behind the curtain,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:23.18,1:16:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the frenzy that you came from in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:28.68,1:16:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've lost the real dream and we've replaced it with this artificial dream.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:37.07,1:16:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Disney it's funny that it has this image of a magic kingdom and children's dreams and all the rest,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:44.86,1:16:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even they are completely ruthless.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:50.05,1:16:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's made in China, Disneypress. And I don't think many people in the US may associate
Dialogue: 0,1:16:58.26,1:17:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Disney book with crushed and broken fingers, lacerated hands, broken bones,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:04.83,1:17:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even deaths of young women in China.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:09.92,1:17:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the workers of the factory that made this in Sri Lanka tried to organize a union,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:16.01,1:17:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they took the union leader out of the factory and broke his kneecaps.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:24.25,1:17:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't question things. We don't think about the meaning of life enough.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:28.52,1:17:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christmas should be a time when we take that step back and we think about
Dialogue: 0,1:17:34.58,1:17:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what really matters, what's really worth it.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:39.66,1:17:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A whole closet full of stuff that we never use is a testament to our dissatisfaction.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:47.39,1:17:55.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this endless cycle of not being satisfied, more consumption - less satisfaction.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:55.38,1:18:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about less consumption and more satisfaction?
Dialogue: 0,1:18:00.30,1:18:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christmas means the pathetic hope that the coming of one who would just set all things straight,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:06.98,1:18:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn things upside down. Christmas is meant to shake the world up,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:13.37,1:18:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just be an occasion for more shopping.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.68,1:18:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:25.19,1:18:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not even a mouse. The children were nestled all snug in their beds while ads for new doodads
Dialogue: 0,1:18:33.19,1:18:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,played out in their heads. When the children awoke they spoke all-too honest:
Dialogue: 0,1:18:39.21,1:18:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Did we get what we wanted? What Santa Claus promised?'
Dialogue: 0,1:19:04.70,1:19:15.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We gotta do this. We gotta head over there, to Promised Land.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:58.96,1:20:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First church of Brooklyn? We're gospel choir from the First church of Brooklyn.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:02.26,1:20:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pasadena. The first church of Pasadena, and it's Unitarian.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:06.69,1:20:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make sure your wrist watches are synchronized.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:11.12,1:20:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now arriving from a trip around Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:19.69,1:20:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each one of you here today has forever become a part
Dialogue: 0,1:20:23.24,1:20:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the magic known throughout the world as Disneyland.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:26.94,1:20:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May you forever treasure this very special Christmas day at the happiest place on Earth!
Dialogue: 0,1:20:45.68,1:20:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In just 2 minutes Disneyland will present a Christmas fantasy parade!
Dialogue: 0,1:20:51.40,1:20:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This magical place where dreams come true!
Dialogue: 0,1:21:03.52,1:21:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello everyone, yooohooo! Mickey wants to know you're rooting for him! Go Mickey go!
Dialogue: 0,1:21:16.93,1:21:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go Mickey go!
Dialogue: 0,1:21:24.31,1:21:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did it! He made it to the top!
Dialogue: 0,1:21:56.51,1:22:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is amazing! Christmas time in Disneyland! We got what Santa gave us
Dialogue: 0,1:22:07.72,1:22:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was what we wanted! We're so lucky! Christmas time on Main street in Disneyland!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:18.35,1:22:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But wait a minute! This amazing Main street, it's so prosperous, so beautiful, so healthy!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:30.20,1:22:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The main streets across America they're not this prosperous, they're not this amazing!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:36.97,1:22:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're empty, they're shuttered, they're outsourced!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:42.81,1:22:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything here, Main Street USA, is Made in China! - Sir... - Something's wrong! - Leave now!
Dialogue: 0,1:22:52.73,1:23:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's take our magic back to America! Let's go shop at home! We can change!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:02.03,1:23:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sir, you need to relax... sir... - Let's slow down our consumption!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:05.90,1:23:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hallelujah! Stop shopping here! We have the magic! The corporations stole Christmas!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:14.92,1:23:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can take it back! - Will you stop or you'll be arrested! - Let's give a real gift!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:26.16,1:23:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to jail tonight. I challenge you. Stop Shopping here.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:33.00,1:23:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to jail. Merry Christmas! Stop....
Dialogue: 0,1:23:38.94,1:23:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leave Disneyland! Stop....ah!
Dialogue: 0,1:23:53.75,1:23:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And your preacher back there, he's gonna go to jail. Everybody here will go to jail
Dialogue: 0,1:23:57.77,1:24:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you don't stop what you're doing.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:10.61,1:24:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if we did save Christmas from the Shopocalypse?
Dialogue: 0,1:24:19.75,1:24:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A billion people pause at the cash register: 'Wait a minute, should I buy this thing?
Dialogue: 0,1:24:25.73,1:24:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is this thing? What do I intend to do with that thing?'
Dialogue: 0,1:24:32.91,1:24:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if they have.... Ohhhh, then we'll have the opportunity to give the greatest gift of all!
Dialogue: 0,1:24:46.53,1:24:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can give the gift of Christmas itself!
Dialogue: 0,1:24:50.15,1:24:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's pray to the Fabulous Unknown!
Dialogue: 0,1:24:55.75,1:25:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give us the power to recognize the greatest gift of all, when we have the chance to give it.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:05.47,1:25:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause there've been so many "Tickle-me Elmos" and cabbage-face dolls...
Dialogue: 0,1:25:09.56,1:25:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how to recognize Christmas with all these Christmas decorations!
Dialogue: 0,1:25:17.16,1:25:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would Christmas itself look like, how would you wrap it?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:29.49,1:25:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much for letting us come together
Dialogue: 0,1:25:38.23,1:25:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look at someone else that you can help, that you can reach out to -
Dialogue: 0,1:25:44.80,1:25:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's what this is all about.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:48.68,1:25:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if we could change Christmas? What if the America we all saw together this December could change,
Dialogue: 0,1:25:57.75,1:26:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even a little at Christmas time?
Dialogue: 0,1:26:03.07,1:26:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we could change the whole year! Spend half as much as you spent last year for Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:11.68,1:26:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's buy half as much and give twice as much!
Dialogue: 0,1:26:17.29,1:26:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give my child my time; my loved one my love - a real gift!
Dialogue: 0,1:26:23.24,1:26:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen! Amen! Amen! Hallelujah!
Dialogue: 0,1:26:38.61,1:26:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was Christmas before the shopping started?
Dialogue: 0,1:26:56.64,1:27:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christmas is the birth of the child we believe will grow up to teach us peace.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:06.80,1:27:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have to be a Christian to hope that's true. Amen? - Amen.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:13.34,1:27:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody give me a Merry Christmas here. - Merry Christmas! Hallelujah!