i feel very great and that people are coming together to really look at race that we can right now help at least e leaveuate some -- alleviate some of the pain out there. >> thank you for coming. >> how is your book? >> up believable. >> she's gone from one success to the next. it's amazing. >> oh, look at you. >> there's a new acquisition recently. who was it? >> yeah, and then -- >> i congratulated. >> there's communications -- [inaudible]

>> he's an exquisite jeweler. >> thank you. >> so, how long are you going to be back here? >> well, i leave tomorrow, but now i moved to new york, so i'm here a lot. i have a home in l.a., but i'm here a lot. >> write it with an accent, will you? [laughter] >> get you both over here. [inaudible conversations] >> get you something to look at, come on. come on over there. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it is a pleasure.

>> two years ago -- [inaudible] >> he started writing a book. >> volunteer, you know, we got time to help because we're not working so -- >> and now -- >> res resumés don't count anymore? >> no, nothing does. >> there was an idea over productivity yields redundancy. >> right. >> i have robots now. nobody can tell, except the guys who lost their jobs. >> that's true, very true. >> we need a new market to rebuild america to catch up to china and europe in transportation because nothing is greener than a nice railroad

ride. i have one dream, rebuild the american railroads. >> sure? >> yeah, no more l.a. to new york, you have to go through them. no more plane rides across the united states. you have to take the train and say hi to st. louis and cleveland. wouldn't that be a great rule? take the train. [laughter] thank you. >> who's going to win? >> that one thing did it. >> nobody's going to believe she hired somebody -- you have all the money in the world. nine years of never having a conversation on whether it's it's like family, but you never asked her if anything is all right or can we help you for anything, and once she ran for office, it was said

you better -- [inaudible] >> i know, i was there. >> you probably came in on the first class ticket so -- >> what are you talking about? >> i'm going to channel to europe. that would put people to work. >> there you go. >> kathleen, that's her nickname. you get paid more if you're kathleen. >> is it l -- kathleen. right. >> stand for a photo. >> [inaudible]

>> it was a long day, but you got here. >> that's fantastic really. when do you start? ? >> in a couple weeks. >> you're staying here right? >> oh, yeah, it was really hard, but it was time for something new. >> you think balance the power is shifting a little bit? >> yeah, think about five years ago. >> right. right. >> [inaudible] it looks absolutely unbridgeable then; right? >> totally. mars and venus. >> mars and venus, and then bond of brothers -- >> the next thing that goes is

when tv goes that way because broadcast is going to split open that way too. i think tv is going -- >> yeah. >> well, you know, of course, i wouldn't hesitate. >> it was-minute, you know. >> i'm -- i know when people say -- [inaudible] >> my friends are doing that. >> right. [inaudible conversations] >> okay. >> glad to be here.

>> bill was on your show today. >> yeah. >> what do you think of the book, and how do you think she's doing on the book tour in >> well, it's a standard of doing anything every day of anything that's happening. truly, you are a model of a way to be, not just a way to think or do, and i think what the book represents is that because the book, well it's incredibly critical, certain aspects of running the country, the book ultimately uses and complements that criticism which is valid to chart a path towards bridge building to foster undeveloped anger or unchammed anger -- unchanneled anger that is ultimately disruptive to the country. >> how did that come about? >> when i wrote about susie in the book under the title find

your own which is they told people to volunteer with that, and have been talking about her and about her dream. her father lost his job. it is great this brought the two of them together. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, thank you. i'm not here to confront, but i am here to deal with reality. i'm going to give you a little reality before we begin. i'll start with my own reality, and then we'll talk about yours. based on most of the polling, myself and where is chris matthews? i saw him out there somewhere? we're all about to catch fire. they don't like the media, so the unemployment problem is about to get worse in the media.

it's not just us though. they don't like the politicians that much either, and in fact, they don't care for anybody in this backyard last i checked. so our objective tonight is to keep our jobs starting with my own, but how do we do that? well, i got my job by yelling at everybody, maybe people in this room, but i don't think i'll be able to keep my job from yelling at anymore from this point forward. in fact yelling to anybody about anything seems a lousy way to solve a problem. in the context of arianna being here and she's gracious in not everybody to read her book, she asks you read the last 30 pages the book, and there's a reason for that because while a lot of this book goes to the problems

in the country and the problems we have structurally and culturally, arianna's point, and i agree with her that the 30 pages speak to the solutions that need to be pursued as a group in this country, so, again, i'll start with myself. instead of looking at those that i view as the problem, i look in the mirror and look at myself as the problem, and what i mean when i say that is the way that i choose to relate to the people in my life specifically in the context of my profession and in the context i relate to people that i disagree with the most goes directly to my ability to be beneficial in the way that i spend those days, and that has been an incredible process for me as i knave gaited my -- navigated my way to my new role as political pain in the ass or

political pain in the ass that i've been and put it in a new phrase as building bridges and not motes, and one of the things that goes most to that is the ability to both have resolve and understanding of the need and necessity for resolution in your own life and in the decisions that i make in my own life and we make in our own lives such that we know where the lighthouse is and would like to get to and understand the necessity of growing in that direction through whatever the weather may be, and at the same time, have the awareness that a, none of us are right all the time. most of us are not right most of the time, and even when we are right, being right doesn't necessarily solve the problem, and i think that last one is the biggest one because a lot of

people, myself included, will frequently reside back on the fact that they are correct, and they know that their assessment, whatever it is, and you may well know it that you are correct, but to take that pause which i think is really like i said represented in the solution chapter that arianna has presented not only in the book, but in the solution mission that arianna is currently leading recruiting people like myself, susie buffet,set realms, anybody in the backyard that she can get her hands on. she drags you out on to the field whether you want to go or not saying we got to do this. the most critical point from all of it though, and from the this book, from my own navigation to what i wanted to share with you this evening in this regard is the imperative for all of us

regardless of who we are and where we are and all the rest of us to give up the concept of us and them and to adopt the concept of us as a problem solving mechanism and as a way to be, as opposed as a thing to do, and i -- nothing captured that more than earlier today with arianna on the show along with susie buffet what is warren's daughter and seth realms,ed founder of an organization called we have time to help, and seth is here, and we'll talk with him later, and i asked if he had a lot in common with the world's richest man, and i don't feel i have a lot in common with the daughter of the world's richest man, and i think seth can speak to this, and i'll speak to it, spending time with

the daughter of the world's richest man, you're not spending time with the world's richest man, but somebody who has a value system to expand outside of their domain because they know it must be done, and the other point that arianna has been so imp fattic -- emphatic in is the concept of being okay yourself and having that mote from you being protected of what's happening is no longer adequately or perhaps fortunately for what we have to navigate as a group in this country one way or the other over the next decade or so, and with that said, i'll bring you up here, arianna, to help us with the navigation and get seth up here as well to talk about not only your efforts here, but also how many more people in the room kg dragged objected -- can be dragged on the field to

help. >> thank you so much, dylan and thank you seth for being here. thank you all for coming, and thank you to our wonderful host and the family here. i just feel so incredible that we got her out of her shell finally to host a party, and that, of course, thank you so much, ted, tammy and ted, and hillary were getting ready in the bedroom, and i fell asleep while everything was going on. we can sleep anywhere, and this is just a family feeling for tammy and hill lair and i -- hillary have had for a long time. thank you so much for opening up your backyard. we're having our own obama backyard party. [laughter] thank you to the other cohosts, john, greta, anita, alex, and

sally, and thank you all for coming here, and dylan thank you for what you said because you and i have been through this journey together and first bonded over our anger on what was happening, but i chammed my anger into writing third world americament the title itself shows how angry i am about what's happened to the country, the middle class and the 26 million out of work or not employed or the people losing their homes this year, ect., ect., ect., and then at some point, you know, in different ways, dylan and i reached the same conclusion which is that that's not going to get us anywhere, and that right now this country is in deep crisis, much deeper than we realize, and we have a moment of choice. we can channel that anger into dividing and scapegoating, and that's happening already all around us, and that will destroy

us. all we can take -- or we can take that anger and acknowledge it because it is legitimate, and channel it into rebuilding our communities and lives, and as dylan pull it building bridges, not motes. in researching the book, i discovered we have time to help. this was started by seth who is here from portland, oregon. seth lost his job in portland, and after filling out multiple job application and after getting depressed, he decided that the one thing he had in abundance was time. he created literally wegottimetohelp.org. people can come together to help people with needs. it can be i'm preeing inapt and i need to move and i need a

truck with someone to help me. it can be as basic as that or a child care for the night. it can be anything, and seth and the network that he put together and the way he uses social media made it possible to help, a and seth will talk for himself the in the process he just didn't help, but the way he train formed -- transformed himself of being a victim to contributing to the world. the big problem of unemployment is not just a financial issue, but a psychological issue. i wrote about seth in my book, and i wrote about susie buffet in my book because we had a discussion in des moines, iowa one night and seeing omaha for her backyard so all the money in her foundation is spent in ohm

ha whatever the problem is whether it's a library or a teenage girl is getting pregnant. >> how? >> actually, -- her idea is to do it beforehand by giving the money to go to the mall if they don't get pregnant which is very practical and not likely to produce a congressional leer mark; right? >> right. >> so, seth to susie, the idea of where we are in life, whether we're out of work or have billions of dollars, it's the time right now in our nation's history despite the airplane going over head to step it up, to step up to the plate and do our part, so i want seth to say thing and thank dylan for putting seth on the show a couple weeks ago, and then i talked about seth being on the book tour, so now he's been

innone dated with requests from other cities to actually have them start branches there, and the bottom line about that is instead of us focuses on our deficits and shortages, we can start focuses on what we have in abundance, an abundance of time, abundance of skill we're not using, and an abundance of resources. we can raise money for seth to build an infrastructure to help him help others start what he's started in port land, and the idea is little by little while fighting the political battle about the role of government and who to do to create jobs to build that infrastructure, we can be channeling our energy and frustration into rebuilding, and that will change what's happening because as was said,

america can be counted to do the right thing when and only when it has exhausted all other possibilities, and now we have exhausted a lot of possibilities, so it's time to do the right thing, and seth is part of that right thing. [applause] >> thank you. i'm not nearly as elegant as my cohorts up here, but -- >> but we are your cohorts. >> yes, you are my cohorts. yes, every single person standing here tonight has something to offer to the rest of the country, everyone whether it be mowing somebody's yard or lending a hand moving or just an ear. we get so many e-mails and calls from people that just need to

tell their story. they need somebody to hear the pain in their lives. that, we all have that to offer, every single one of us. i don't care who you are or what you do, how much time you have. yes, we have time to help, but we all have time to help, and there is as arianna and dylan spoke earlier, there is a surplus in this country, we just need to harvest it. there's a surplus of skills, of time, of money, of everything. there is a surplus, and yet we have millions withering and that's not okay, and we need to change that. we can change that, so we harvest this time, these skills of mostly unemployed people, but we have everything from ceo's to unemployed people writing us saying i got time because everybody realizes that they've

got time, and together, without the government, without the states and the cities and the panels and the committees, we can change everything with our time and our skills, and that's what we want to do with we've got time. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> congratulations. >> i think you're actually when i get fired, we can -- >> you'll have time. >> yeah, i'll have time, and you can have my job. one of the things done this evening as you surely know is the solicitation for ideas, and things that can be done with time. here, have that microphone, and arianna and i went through some of the ideas, and just so you get a sense of this, should we reveal the inteppedded use of the ideas -- intended use of the ideas?

it was to create a custom page and lawmpleg the adopt -- launch an idea where people from this gathering and others can be gathered will be posted on the huffington post and we'll use our joint flashlights, the tv show, and afnl the huffington post and other appearances to solicit people to look at the list of ideas and maybe they have time to work in the library or cook in the kitchen or sit on the phone to listen to your point, and we're going to ask people to adopt these ideas and push more ideas in so that we can get out of the business of feeling like we are powerless to deal with these problems and empowered to address these problems. can i ask you one question really quickly because one thing that has struck me not just in

watching and getting to know you, seth, but others who made the decision to live outside their bubble is a choice. those that do that tend to become happier. it's not just those who live outside the bubble feel better or lord over their friend because they help and other people don't, but the actual satisfaction in any begin life for someone who makes that effort to breakthrough the i near sha of the mote to build a bridge or a stack of bridges actually leads to a greater sense of personal satisfaction, and i'm curious whether you found that to be the case yourself? >> oh, completely, completely. i mean, we have obviously, any time you do something for anyone else, it's a boost to your esteem, to your well-being, to your, you know -- we have people writing us that three quarters of the way through their 15 paragraph e-mail, we think what are they

doing to ask for because it is i've lost this, i've lost this, i've lost this, and at the end of the e-mail they say, but you know what? i want to help. they don't ask us for anything. they want to help even though they lost their hews or their car or job or whatever -- they lost everything, but yet they still want to help, and they realize how much helping swb -- somebody else, recognizing somebody in trouble, how much that does for you. you know, i told you before on the show, it's better than a job. it's better than winning the lottery. it's, -- you -- there no words to describe how it feels to step out of yourself, your troubles, your problems, and go help somebody else that needs it. >> the thing that was interesting is that susie buffet

feels the same way. >> right. >> do you want to do some cards here with that said? >> yeah. >> you can raise your hand if you really like your idea. >> we have prizes. >> what's that? >> we have prizes. >> we do have prizes it arianna likes your idea. teaching a market marketable skill. >> if you want to do that, who did? >> i have anne -- anne, where are you? anne, where are you? this is yours. you won a pillow, come and claim it. >> all right, now i like this idea, but i worry about the -- >> run a library? >> what about the internet? >> libraries are still useful

during the time of the internet. >> yeah. >> then, yeah, what do you do with a library? >> what do you do with it? >> get people who don't have anything to do to use it as a gathering place. >> as a community center? >> yeah. >> good. that's why i have you. i would volunteer to young boys who don't have boys, fathers, or single mothers who have lives close to crime. >> thank you, sue. whenever you get here, the pillow awaits you. [laughter] no. [laughter] >> the last card. it's the last card i got. we're going to leave it at that. >> we're going to leave it at that. >> enjoy your evening.

>> no? >> we have one surprise. we didn't tell arianna about. the president is not done speaking yet, but he wanted to be here. someone is celebrating a big birthday. let's sing happy birthday to arianna. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday dear arianna ♪ happy birthday to you [cheers and applause] seth, get in there. [applause] >> thanks for coming and plenty of food and drink, guys, and cake. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> oh, are you kidding? >> thank you so much. thank you for that