big giant companies surviving, like your costcos, car gets and walmarts. puts the small business owners out of business. we re almost out of time. correctly, you actually closed a business because of this sort of problem. i faced a number of challenges with people buying out of state, not paying sales tax. i saw a drop of 50% in my business. and my employees, i did profit sharing three years ago and had to stop because we were not getting above the line. ultimately as los angeles as california have raised minimum wage, it got to the point where it wasn t making sense wib was losing money each month and had to close the business. we have people unemployed right now still searching for work. thank you very much for joining us this sunday and we ll see what happens. the chant is fight for 15. it s going to be one neck of a midterm election season. thank you. thank you for having me. have you seen the video, comedian michelle wolf comparing
surrounding neighborhoods who were also threatened in those e-mails to say they shouldn t show the picture, and they basically on the basis of looking at that, they decided they wouldn t take the picture. does that mean that dvd release also becomes difficult because you would face the same challenge, which is the walmarts and the costcos of the world would have to agree to stock the dvd? again, we don t have a direct interface with the american public, so we would require either through online or in a retail situation, we would need distribution, and, yes, it s fair to say if we can t find one of those large retailers or many of those large retailers to sell our dvds, we wouldn t be able to provide them with the interview. is it fair to say, michael, your hope and expectation is that the movie will be seen we have always wanted the american public to see this movie. we have worked tirelessly to do
e-mails to say they shouldn t show the picture, and they basically on the basis of looking at that, they decided they wouldn t take the picture. does that mean that dvd release also becomes difficult because you would face the same challenge, which is the walmarts and the costcos of the world would have to agree to stock the dvd? again, we don t have a direct interface with the american public, so we would require either through online or in a retail situation, we would need distribution, and, yes, it s fair to say if we can t find one of those large retailers or many of those large retailers to sell our dvds, we wouldn t be able to provide them with the interview. is it fair to say, michael, your hope and expectation is that the movie will be seen we have always wanted the american public to see this movie. we have worked tirelessly to do so. so absolutely we would that s been the primary objective
and costcos of the world would have to stock the dvd? again, we don t have a direct interface with the american public. we would require, either through online or in a retail situation, we would need distribution and yes, it s fair to say, if we can t find one of those large retailers or many large retailers to sell our dvds, we wouldn t be able to provide them with the interview. is it fair to say, michael, your hope and expectation the movie will be seen by the american people? we have always wanted the american people to see this movie. we have worked tirelessly to do so. absolutely. that s been the primary objective throughout. michael, let me ask you to go through the sequence of what happened. when did you first realize you had a problem? the first time we understood there was an issue with the
sense of it, having had the conversations, was there was enormous pressure put on them by the malls, by the shops in the malls, by the surrounding neighborhoods who were also threatened in those e-mails to say that they shouldn t show the picture and they basically on the basis of looking at that, they decided that they wouldn t take the picture. does that mean that a dvd release also becomes difficult because you would face the same challenge, which is the walmarts and the costcos of the world would have to agree to stock the dvd? again, we don t have a direct interface with the american public so we would require either throughon line or in a retail situation, we would need distribution. yes, it s fair to say if we can t find one of those large retailers or many of those large retailers to sell our dvds, we wouldn t be able to provide them with the interview. is it fair to say, michael, that your hope and expectation