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[Music] - We've gone from 40% to less than 1% in the space of two interviews.
- Less than 1%. - Less than 1%. It's roughly, it's roughly that.
And it's gonna go down to zero by 20 ... - So why not just go down with goodwill after this summit that you're hosting?
And for everything you say, cause I understand, it's come back to the government, the minister in charge.
- Because we are a legal, a legally scrupulous and punctilious country, and there's a planning decision that has to be taken benign, not the planning authority, but... - But it is your government.
- I don't want more code, and our government doesn't want more code.
- And would you intervene to stop it?
- We'll do what's legally, we're legally able to do.
- Have you been surprised at how the faith communities have sometimes resisted both vaccines and mask mandates?
- Yeah Walter, this is a source of heartache.
I'm an evangelical Christian.
And that seems to be the community where there has been particular skepticism about masks and about vaccines.
Much of it gets all tangled up with politics 'cause those also communities that tend to be conservative, and oftentimes have embraced some of the rhetoric coming from the right, which may in some instances, really not be based on science at all.
- There was a part of me that always knew that the rejection that I was receiving did not have anything to do with me or my talent.
- Why do you think you knew that?
- Because I'm a black man in America.
- Um hmm.
- I sat and watched all of my white counterparts become stars, and work all the time.
If they weren't stars, they were working all the time and I was unemployed and bankrupt.
For years!
- What happened there?
- That's when I realized I can't outrun this.
I have to go home.
I have to get the instruments back in my lap and I have to keep playing music, because it saved my life, my entire life.
And I think that it might do it again.
And I went home and started the Foo Fighters.
♪ I thought I knew ♪ ♪ what it took to bother you ♪