Transcripts For CNNW Piers Morgan Tonight 20121228

Of the way we were extraordinary hour with the legendary superstar. Those men are fighting for your right to make any picture you want. Her incredible career. I only began to sing because i couldnt get a job as an actress. Leading men. Greatest love of her life. You always ask that of people. Why is that . And the tragedy that changed everything. I think its disarming. Her take on Plastic Surgery and the personal side of fame. You see me as this star. I dont see myself like that. Barbra streisand, the way she is. A funny girl. This is piers morgan tonight. People ask me who i would most like to have on my show as a guest, one name continuously pops up in my mind. Shes a fabulous actress and a truly iconic voice, and the greatest that has ever been. She is a humanitarian, a wife, a mother, an activist, and a funny girl, and she is, of course, Barbra Streisand. I even got your name right. Did you say barbra . Barbra, but i said streisand right. We had dinner and you corrected me. Streisand. Some english way of saying it. Thats it, by god, youve got it. Now, i have just come from watching your brilliant new movie. I dont say that lightly, guilt trip. The reason i loved it is it reminded me exactly what it would be like if i went on a road trip with my mother. Its about you and seth rogen. You go off on a bizarre crazy road trip together. Youre the archetypal jewish mother and hes the archetypal son, and hilarity ensues. In a funny touching way. Lets watch the clip. Im over here. Im over here. I see you, hey. All of newark sees you. Hi, there. Hey, mom. Good to see you. Look at you. Look at me. Oh, my god. Okay. Lets get out of the way here. Sports jacket. Yeah, i am. How did you know how to buy a sports jacket . I took a class in it. Oh, my god, honey, you left the price tag on it. J. Crew . My fancy schmancy son. Im just going to keep it in case it goes on sale. Its a really touching movie. I found it really moving. It moved me to tears at one stage, but its also funny. You had a ball doing it . Yeah, if you like working that much. Yeah, it was fun. It actually was fun. Do you hate all work, basically . No. What do you like doing . I love i love making movies, actually. I love recording. Thats what i love. You dont like performing in front of people. Thats odd. It is strange. I never know what to do during the applause. I dont know what to do. Its like, oh, okay. All right, lets go on to the next thing. Its a strange thing to be live in front of people. You consider yourself to be primarily an actress who sings where many people would think youre the greatest singer arguably that has ever been. I would argue that. I dont know, but i only began to sing because i couldnt get a job as an actress. Your dream was to be an actress, a star . You wanted to be a star . I think when i was young, i wanted to be a star, until i became a star. Then its a lot of work, you know. Its work to be a star. I dont enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process. If i said, look, you can go to a desert island. All you can do for the rest of your life, you can sing, you can direct, you can act, or you can just sit there drinking out of coconuts. I would say direct. Thats the first . Thats the true love . Directing is so interesting. You know, it sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you have felt, that youve observed. It just you know, you can turn the camera on anything, oh, my god. Just turn the camera and do youre in control of your work. Youre in control of your socalled art. I like that. When i watched guilt trip and well come to your own guilt trips because im sure there are millions of them, as i have, but it took me back to your early upbringing in many ways because its about motherhood. Its about a relationship between a mother and her son. You had a very difficult upbringing. You talked about this before, but i found it fascinating. Your father died when you were 1. 15 months old. I was 1 when my father died so i saw that parallel. Really . Ah. I was fortunate that my mother remarried somebody who was a fantastic father to me. Wow. You werent so fortunate. You had this very difficult relationship with your father. I was personally fascinated by that. How much do you think its scarred you or did it just drive you . I think it did scar me more than it drove me. What drove me was the fact that my fathers life was cut so short. He died at 35 years old. And it was he was listed in a book of great leaders of education. He wrote incredible theses, if thats such a word, with just wonderful observations, and one of them, he was a teacher, and he also taught at a reformatory. He taught english to juvenile delinquents. And i could never read that piece until i got much older and had this certain experience. Then i was able to read it. And that was me. In other words, there is so much in the cellular memory or the dna, because i never knew him, but at 16, i had discovered chekhov and ipson and shakespeare, and when i finally read my fathers theses, it was how to teach prisoners and delinquents through chekhov and ipson and shakespeare, you know . Had you been able to find out a lot about him and his character and his life . Not really. Although very mystical things happen. You know, i was doing a concert. I cant remember when, several years ago. And i was with my two girlfriends one night at my house, and they were talking about their fathers. And i couldnt relate to them because they had the experience of having a father. I came up to my office after they left and there was a letter from my father that had been sent to me through a cousin who has the same streisand name in brooklyn in some synagogue, and she asked if i was related to me, and said it is many my cousin and said, could you give this to barbra. This is my fathers girlfriend when he was 19 years old, and she found me through my cousin, and it was a poem written to her. Such a buteautiful poem. And it talked about love. The only thing really in this world is love, was the moral of the poem. With an enigmatic structure in it that you had to find, you had to find the keys to find his such an interesting mind. Extraordinary. He was 19 when he wrote this . Yeah. What does that make you feel . That he was telling me something. That it was to me. What was he telling you . It was this message that, you know, no matter what, love is the answer. Thats why i called my album love is the answer. Also a line from a song. But your character in the movie, guilt trip has been in love, what, to the viewer, has been in love properly twice in her life, to the man she married and then to this other guy that she fell in love with. But how many times have you in your life been properly in love . How many times i have been in love and i should have been prepared for this because you always ask this, although you did not ask mike tyson that. Theres a reason for that. Is that right . Im trying to think. At least five or six. Really . See thats fascinating. Does the wider world know all of them . You didnt ask how long it lasted, this love feeling or whatever. How long does it need to last to qualify for proper love, do you think . Oh, not that long. Eight months, would you say . Maybe years. Some people have it literally in a flash. I do believe it can be love at first sight. I know people where thats happened. They have been very happy the re of their lives together. They get lucky. Yeah. Isnt it interesting . Its a recognition of something. I knew i liked you from the minute, but i didnt know your father died that early. And there is you see, we never talked about it. You might have known that about me, but theres something that you recognize in someones past, and its a void that you recognize, in a way, dont you think . Im sure you are the same, but youre perennial curious because you never knew this person who despite this was a pivotal part of your life, clearly. Thats why youre here, and that is what i find fascinating about it. Did you feel that your mother properly loved you . Or was there a sense always of jealousy you were leading the kind of life perhaps she dreamt of herself . She was a wonderful singer. My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sisters, not like my sons, but a high soprano voice and really beautiful. I used to say, mom, why didnt you get a career as a singer, and she said, no, she was too shy, and she could not do it. Im basically shy, too. But that makes the difference. You know, how do you succeed if you dont try . How did you feel when your mother died, did you feel you had reconciled things with her . Basically, yeah. Little a short time before she died, i remember going to her house, and she had alzheimers, and she didnt recognize me, really. But i started to sing her a melody of something she had sung when she was younger. And that she remembered. And it just shows you the power of music, doesnt it . What was it you sang . Do you remember . It was something that she made a record of when i was 13 and she took me, but it was really because she made the records and i was able to make a record. When i was 13. Do you think she was proud of you . You know what it was . I used to say, mom, how come you never told me i love you . You never said those words or really hugged me. She said, i didnt want you to get a swelled head. She said, i knew that my parents loved me, but they didnt have to tell me all the time. Its a certain coldness, you know . Its not tactile. Its not physical. Its i dont know what it is. Its strange to me always. Strange to me. How are you with your son . Oh, i just i think everything he does is great. You know, i mean, my son, thats unconditional love. I swear. Its a terrible thing to say, but i think my son could do something really bad and i know i would find a way to justify it. You sang with your son, jason. This is in september. Lets take a look at this because its very moving. What do you have . How many times a day do i think of you wow. Doesnt he have a gorgeous voice . An amazing voice. Look at that. He had never been on stage before. But he has done so much incredible work on himself that he actually could have the courage. He said, im never going to perform. I like recording, but im never going to perform live. I said, jason, when i heard him sing that song on this record he made, i said, weve got to sing it together. I have to sing that with you. It was beautiful to watch. Wow. We found it on the internet. How do you like that . I have never seen that before. You have never seen that . Amazing. We have it on a Television Show thats going to come out, on mothers day, hopefully. Thats great. Lets take a break and come back and talk about jason. I want into know if you have ever been on a road trip with him, and if there is any parallel with him. When we come back, i want to talk about politic, and the way we were and my Favorite Movie, and also i want to know what rocks your boat, because a lot does. My conversation with Barbra Streisand took place before the shooting in utah. She said the horrible tragedy in newtown, connecticut, has brought to the forefront a much needed and long overdue National Conversation regarding the lack of gun control and Mental Health services in the country. I hope the story of sandy hook elementary finally captures our leaders in washington to do something substantive regarding gun control and access to Mental Health Care Services for those who desperately need it. We will be right back. Initiated. Neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. 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Thats my single Favorite Movie of all time. Really . I told Robert Redford about it. He said hed been resisting your clarion call for a sequel ever since. Its such a good story for a sequel. I know. Im still after him. Hes never made a sequel to anything, he told me. He just doesnt believe i understand that. But this happens to be a great story. I wanted it to be released on the 25th anniversary, but we never made it. What would have happened . It just was a very interesting story about through their daughter and her political activism at berkeley in 1968 and the Democratic National convention, which is very interesting. It was a beautiful love story again. Now, i know that youre into your politics big time because we spent most of the last month emailing each other about barack obama and mitt romney. And you were tearing me off a new one, i believe is the american phrase, for what you perceived to be my lack of support for the president. Thats right. I was more interested in the debate we were having. It was a very good one, actually. I found it very informative. I kept sending you articles. You did. And your man won. Your man didnt . No, i didnt have a horse in the race. Im british. I cant vote. I dont have the right. But my argument to you was i wondered whether mitt romney could be better for the american economy. God no. You know why . You were having none of it. Do you know why . There have been businessmen who have turned president s, i think herbert hoover, george bush, the first george bush. Businessmen. I think there was a couple of others. Lousy president s. Businessmen make lousy president s. Why have you been so consistently supportive of obama . I cant even imagine thinking about what would happen to the Supreme Court if a republican were the president , you know . I mean, Citizens United is a horrible thing that people can spend and waste this amount of money on elections . Think of all the you know, the people that could benefit from that money, you know . There have been two elections since ive been in america, there have been two elections where one party has had far more financial firepower than the other. One was here in california with meg whitman, one was nationally, but romney clearly had more money than obama. For most of that campaign. In both cases, the one with the most money lost. Isnt that great . What does that tell you . People are getting smarter. I dont like all this amount of money spent on this election. There should be a give Campaign Finance reform is very important. I hope somebody does something about it. You should have a given amount. Equal amount. Equal air time and thats it. You know . That idea of corporations being people, no, no. This is a country of, by and for the people, not of, by and for the corporation. You know. Because im so against gmos, the modified food, and im so against lobbying, you know, by Chemical Companies lobbying, and that proposition 37, you know, was bad. And thats scary because the poison and, you know, the poison in our foods and the air and pollution, and they give discretionary polluters. Were having climate change. The republicans dont seem to want to acknowledge that. Its a major problem. And you have to be a democrat to understand that or to believe in that. Have you ever been in love with a republican . Never. Could you ever be . No. Really . Thats fascinating. Well, unless there was an enormous sexual chemistry and i had to and we never talked about politics, maybe, but i cant quite imagine it, no. What have been the proudest moments for you with obama . I imagine one of them was when he came out so vocally for gay rights. Mmhmm. Absolutely. Thats great. What else . What else has he done . That youre particularly proud of him doing . Oh, his stance for women, women. The power of women or not allowing just for that one reason. In my show, i would say, im not going to tell you concert tour, limited concert tour, i would say im not going to tell you who to vote for, but if you want clean air and good food and so forth, and if you believe a woman has the right to choose what happens in her own body, in other words, or you think your body belongs to the state, theres a clear choice. How could you thank god that akin and mourdock came out with those extremist views. Extraordinary statements. I thought, keep talking, boys, keep talking. When you watch the footage of those moments, neither of them had a clue that they said anything remotely contentious. That is so scary, isnt it . I found that unsettling that you could potentially reach the point of becoming a senator and actually have no clue that what you are saying is so deeply offensive to many people. Right. Some men, mostly women, right . It was deeply offensive. Do you feel that theres any form of real equality yet in america for women . Were one of the last countries to ever think of having a woman be president. But i think thats possible now, but it wasnt years ago. Do you think hillary is likely to run in 2016 . I dont know. But i hope after a fouryear rest that she would run because she would be a great woman president. Lets take another break and come back and talk hollywood. Your great love. It is. I want to know who you think the greatest movie star in the world is, other than yourself. No, no. Question of blood flow. Cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moments right. You can be more confident in your ability to be ready. And the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. 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Can you hear me papa can you see me papa can you find me in the night papa are you near me papa can you hear me papa can you help me youre wearing the same outfit. You just realized. Thats very funny. What do you think when you see yourself from that era . That was from yentl in 1983. Yeah, what do you think . Yeah, when you look at yourself. Im so objective when i look at myself when im directing a movie and im editing. Its always she, her, its not me. Like the character in the movie. Do you see a beautiful woman there . Not particularly. Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought you looked beautiful . From certain angles. Really . Which is your best angle . Well, my left. Why . Because my eyes dont look as crosseyed sometimes. Or my nose is better or my mouth is better. Thats really what you feel . Yeah, im like two different people, im two sides, i think. Lets take another clip from one of my favorite films. This is your film debut funny girl. This is 1968. Like candy and the suns a ball of butter dont bring around a cloud to rain on my parade dont tell me not to fly i simply got to if someone takes a spill its me and not you who told you youre allowed to rain on my parade its odd. Fabulous, though. I dont like to live in the past. I like to live in the present. So its always odd for me to see to see things from the past. Weve got you from when youre 19 years old. You do . This will really torment you. Whoa. 19 years old. When a bee lie sleeping in the palm of your hand youll bewitched and deeply looked after see, i didnt know then which was my good side. That hairdo. See, i find that utterly spellbinding. All youre thinking of is i look crosseyed. Im thinking theres beautiful young woman singing like an angel. Isnt that sweet . Two different perspectives. We dont appreciate ourselves, most people. Interesting. How have you resisted the selfmasticated plunge into Plastic Surgery that so Many American female stars feel compelled to do . I dont trust most people. You know, when i was younger, i thought, god, if only i could take off like that little bit and just shorten it just a little bit, but what if he screws up . You know . So i just and i really dont like the idea of changing ones face. You know, like capping the teeth or stuff like that to change a face, no. Who is the greatest actor youve ever seen . Because i know you love acting. Its your great love, your great passion, who do you think . Marlon brando. Really . No question. Why . Do you doubt that . No, i dont, actually. I think he would definitely although i remember interviewing Dennis Hopper once and he said that james dean for him had the brando thing as well. But brando was first. Yeah. No, he was fascinating. He would call me up sometimes. Marlon brando would . He called me up once and said, sing me a song. And i said, marlon, thats like me asking you to recite hamlet. To which he proceeded to recite from hamlet. What did you have to sing . I did. What did you sing him . I sang a song called nobodys heart belongs to me. Just down the phone to Marlon Brando . And i remember sitting in my kitchen, ill never forget this, one of those moments you never forget. This is before they had gizmos to record things. And im going doing hamlet. So i had to sing him a song. What did he say at the end of it . I dont remember that. Was it a regular thing . Would he ring you up on a friday night and say, wheres my song . We once went on a short road trip together. You and Marlon Brando . This is fantastic. Where did you go . He wanted to take me to the desert to see the wildflowers. I bet he did. And sleep over in a ghost town he said. Now were getting there. But i was such a nice jewish girl that i just said, marlon, i cant stay overnight with you. Ill go with you for the day but you have to take me home. So marlon clearly wanted to do more than just look at flowers with you . He wanted to sleep over in the desert with me. You turned down Marlon Brando . Yeah, absolutely. How did he take rejection . It was fine. But i mean, he would do things like we would talk for hours and hours sometimes on the phone. It was great. What about . I find this mesmerizing. You and Marlon Brando, the greatest singer and the greatest actor just chewing the fat on the phone. Yeah, we would talk for hours. Interesting, when we went on that road trip, he had just done, you know, the sexual one last tango in paris. But i never asked him about acting, but he told me, you know, it was interesting when he was telling me, and ill write about it some day, but when i was older and i was doing my last no, i was nuts, yeah. Then he was telling all these things, you know, how he wears an earwig so he could hear the lines. A guy would speak the lines. I was saying to him, jesus, you know, marlon, i didnt want to know the lines of this movie because i was supposed to be under the influence of a drug, in nuts. But then he started to tell me. But i never wanted to ask him, impose on him. He came to my house once, and he said, okay, before we say anything, look into my eyes and dont smile or anything. See how long you can do it. And actually i was just reading a book about him how long did you do it . I couldnt do it. I kept laughing. But he was amazing. I see in this book that he does that with people. Amazing. Lets take a break, lets come back and talk about singing. Singing. Yeah. Because i look at you and i see the greatest singer theres ever been. And i want to know how you do it. Thats sweet. Its a fact. Youre Barbra Streisand. Oh, my god. Ive been taking a multivitamin for years. Centrum silver. Both of us actually. Our pharmacist recommended it. And that makes me feel pretty good about it. And then i heard about a study looking at multivitamins and the Long Term Health benefits. And what do you know . They used centrum silver in the study. Makes me feel even better, thats what i take. 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Really . Its just almost i would say musical perfection. But also you just look so dazzling in that clip. Thats so nice. What do you feel when you see it . I cant see what you see. I really cant. Really . Im looking at the why was i wearing that kind of thing over the black dress . God, my hair was light. And i was a little chubby. You werent chubby no, no, thats okay. Its okay. But you werent. You were beautiful. The interesting thing about you is the singing. Come to the amazing success youve had, but the fact that youve got so cripplingly shy when you perform live i found really interesting. You play this huge concert in new york once, 130,000 people. 150, thats okay. Central park. And you forgot the words to a few big songs and it freaked you out so much you didnt perform again live for how long . 27 years. Thats incredible. At the peak of your powers when you could have earned presumably a Million Dollars a night in vegas, you just stopped. Thats some freakout you were going through. I know. When you get freaked out when you get freaked out tell me how youre feeling. Because youre Barbra Streisand. I didnt think that people with your talent could feel that nervous. Theres probably several people called Barbra Streisand, meaning, you see me as this star. I dont see myself like that. Im this girl. Im this woman. Im this mother. Im this wife. You know. I dont dress up. At home, im i dont like to say schlump. But more like the picture you saw me in. I was very comfortable doing that picture. I wore a sweatsuit and sneakers. What i loved about it is you were the least starry superstar i ever met in my life. I was imagining after all these diva stories i read about over the years, which i kind of half hoped were true. Isnt that terrible . No. You werent remotely divaish. You were very normal and nice. I hate to disappoint you. What the hell is a diva . I dont even know. Have you ever been one . No. Have you ever screamed at people . Yeah, i scream at people. That doesnt mean you know, i scream at my husband. It doesnt make me a diva. Are you a perfectionist . I am proud to say i am. But there is no such thing as perfection, and i found that out when i was 15 years old. I wrote it in my journal that perfection is imperfection. So it has that humanity, a human quality. Otherwise its too cold, right . You can just strive for perfection. Better word is excellence. Strive for excellence. What i love about you is heading towards christmas, you can even sing christmas stuff better than anybody else. Watch this. I found this on the internet, too. Youre kidding me. Silent night i like that. Holy night all is calm all is bright round young virgin mother and child do you hear it . Youre saying you sound hoarse. Ive got goosebumps. This is why you are such a perfectionist. It must be why youre so good. Maybe because i never never happy. Im never in love with what i do, thats right. What things do you do that maybe we wouldnt know . Are you a secret painter . Do you build things . I draw. I actually draw. I take photographs. I wrote a book on design. Thats interesting to me. Because thats a lot to do with directing, too. Its composition and color and monochromatic frames. And that interests me. Are you a naturally restless person or can you just completely relax if you want to . Hmm, i think more so now i can relax. I mean, i really like quiet. I like to read and be quiet and watch films and or have interesting conversations. Most conversations are not that interesting. Thats why i like politics, political youre great at that. Ive had some ding dongs with you which ive thoroughly enjoyed. You give as good as you get. No holds barred. No, that was fun. Lets talk more about the guilt trip. I want to know what guilt trips youve had in your life. And i want names. Thats hard. Share everything. Share brotherly love. Share one ups. Mom . Mom . The share everything plan. Lets your family share a pool of data across 10 devices with unlimited talk and text. Get a spectrum 2 by lg for 49. 99 do you want to come on my trip with me, mom . You want to drive Cross Country with me . Yeah. No. Its you know, we wont be gone long. Its only eight days in the car together. I want to make sure that im hearing this correctly. You want to spend a week in a car with your mother. More than anything in the world. Dont you think i might get on your nerves a little bit . No, it was just a thought. If you dont want to do it, then fine. I dont want to push you. Im so awful that you cant spend Barbra Streisand in the guilt trip. Its a very warm film. Its funny but also warm and poignant in places. Could you ever imagine doing a road trip with your son like that for a week . Yeah, i could imagine doing that. You wouldnt drive each other mad . My mother and i would last probably about a day. Really . Yeah, because were just too similar. There would be too much arguing, im sure. She probably wouldnt admit it, but i bet there would be. We never did that. I love traveling with him now on my tour. That was great. He brought his dog, i brought my dog, and we ate chosh habal. You know what that is . A chinese delicacy like a hamburger. Ive taken my husband on my road trip. How did that go . It makes us closer. Ive only met him once or twice, but he seems a very calming influence. A very selfconfident, you know yeah. Very unstarry, again, i really liked him. Hes a very down to earth kind of character. Hes very different than i am. Im much more and how much like. Frenetic. The character you played, joyce, are you in real life . Are you neurotic . In a good way. Probably. Im on Good Behavior now. Lets turn to the future. Because youre somebody that i get the feeling just having talked to you as well you dont really like going on about the past. No. To you its about whats happening next. And being here in the present and being its hard, too, youre trying to be grateful for everything thats positive and not dwell on the negative, but its in my character to see things more pessimistically than optimistically. So i have to work at that. You seem to have managed your career, it may have been by default. Lazy. Maybe that. Your words, not mine. You havent done that many tours or released that many albums by comparisons to many contemporaries over that period, havent made that many movies. Right. But what youve managed to do is make any time you do anything, you make each time an event that people look forward to. That may be the secret to your incredible longevity. Its not conscious. It is what i do. And new ly in relationships and especially going to gym, i dont have any desire to work. Sometimes work is a substitute for life. For life, thats right. Your track record, 51 gold albums, 30 platinum, 18 multiplatinum, 18 grammys, thats just the movies, acting and so on. It is an unbelievable array of trophies and you must have a cabinet the size of the new york yankees, and does any of that really motivate you . Or do you look at that and say, yeah, i havent done bad for a young girl from brooklyn . Every once in a while. I was building a new house and i decided ill put them in the room. You cant see them when you walk in but theyre there and i do appreciate them now, i must say. I do say, oh, good, i was here. I am still here, but i was here. I think it is because my father, and maybe you relate to this, died so young that i want to be remembered. I want to have made a mark here. And records and films and Television Show, they do that this they say you existed, you were here and hopefully for good purpose. Lets take a final break, lets talk about other ways to be remembered. Most notably for your charitable work. Youve raised a lot of money and made a big difference. I hope so. Really . 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Because thats been almost as relentless and productive as anything else youve done. One of the particular things that youre so keen on is womens Heart Disease. Tell me why thats been such a passionate thing for you. Because, you know im i dislike inequality so much, whether its gender issues or gay rights or whatever. Even in the medical sciences there is discrimination. So it turns out that more women die of Heart Disease now than all cancers combined. More women die of Heart Disease rather than men, more women than men die of Heart Disease. Did you know that . I was so shocked by some of these statistics. Until i researched this interview and i saw why you were so strong about it. Right. Its startling. 50 years of research have been done on men. Ill tell you a funny story, too. You realize how powerful females are, okay . That even in the research, a woman doctor discovered how to grow a heart from stem cells in, you know, in a petri dish, whatever. Thats beating. How did she do it . You know how she did it . With only female stem cells because literally the male stem cells got lost. Like in life. And they refused to ask for directions. Now, this is true. Can you imagine that . So i just believe, you know, Breast Cancer has done such a magnificent job raising millions and millions of dollars to help that disease, but lets say 39,520 women died of Breast Cancer one year in last coup of year years. 455,000 died of Heart Disease. And we havent learned yet those Organizational Skills in order to raise awareness and subsequent funds to help that because women have a different a smaller vascular system called a micro vascular system. We need different equipment, different diagnostic techniques