:42:00
As it turned out,
we were the same season.
:42:06
There were other ways to survive in Flint.
:42:09
Taco Bell was one.
:42:11
The local Taco Bell
was retraining laid-off auto workers...
:42:13
to assemble tacos and chicken fajitas.
:42:16
The local paper said
this would be their dream job.
:42:20
When I stopped by to see
how they were doing...
:42:22
the manager told me
why all the ex-GM workers had been fired.
:42:27
Many of them say
this is a lot of hard work...
:42:30
because assembly work is easy.
It depends on what you make it.
:42:34
At Taco Bell, every day's a new day.
:42:37
Every time you turn around,
it's a different challenge.
:42:40
- Taco Light.
- One Taco Light.
:42:42
- Would you like Cinnamon Crispas?
- Yeah, you make it sound so good.
:42:46
Dining here today?
:42:48
Fast food is one of the most
stressful environments...
:42:51
because of the demands on you.
:42:53
Fast food demands a fast pace...
:42:56
because we want to present a food item...
:42:59
within so many seconds, if we can do it.
:43:02
The transaction from assembly work
and the fast pace at Taco Bell...
:43:07
Some of them
just couldn't develop that speed.
:43:11
There's a number of small manufacturing
companies that have done very well.
:43:16
One I like to look at is Helmac Co.
Are you familiar with them?
:43:20
They invented a lint roller.
:43:21
Now they ship lint rollers
all over the world...
:43:24
and have a very profitable,
nice business operating.
:43:30
Maybe there's a...
:43:32
- There's all kinds of opportunities...
- Tom, wait a minute.
:43:36
Lint rollers?
That's the solution to an auto industry...
:43:40
That's an example.
:43:41
A giant auto industry
that had its birthplace here in Flint?
:43:44
Lint rollers will pull us
out of this depression?
:43:47
There's as much opportunity here...
:43:50
as when Billy Durant started
the motor company on Water Street.
:43:54
Maybe more opportunities.
:43:55
- You believe that?
- Yes, I do. Absolutely.