Now It’s for Everybody

My film, Rolling Along, is moving from MAX to YouTube

Dear Friends,

Since February, it has meant a lot to be able to connect with many of you through my film, Rolling Along, on MAX. It’s my story – but it’s also the story of tens of thousands of people I've been lucky to meet in life, as a Midwestern kid, on the basketball court, in the Senate, across New Jersey, across America, even around the world. It’s our story, an American story; and it’s my attempt to encourage people to open up to one another as human beings, and in the process, I hope, provide some joy and healing in these divided times.

Over these past months, I’ve been moved by many of you who’ve sent notes or come up to me to share your reflections. I hope Rolling Along is creating new points of connection – not just to me, but to people in your own lives; proof that when you share your most personal thoughts, you find that people all around you are experiencing the same things. You discover our common humanity. That’s my goal for this project.

If I really want this film to bring people together, though, it has to reach as many people as possible. To truly celebrate our common humanity, I want to make it available to everyone. So after six months on MAX, which I’ve been proud and grateful to be a part of, I’m pleased to say that this past week, we brought Rolling Along to YouTube. Now anyone, anywhere, can see it anytime for free, and share it with the people they love.

Hopefully they, too, will see themselves in the story, and feel inspired to reflect on their own lives and deepen the bonds that bring us together as human beings.

In coming weeks, we’ll be adding more content to @BillBradley on YouTube as well, including from American Voices, the radio show that I’ve hosted on Sirius XM for the past 20 years. We’ve done over 1,400 interviews with all kinds of Americans – public servants, athletes, artists; people with unusual jobs, or who do selfless things for their communities or for our country. Each episode highlights the goodness of the American people, and offers an example of the kinds of conversations that we can all have, if we’re curious and open to connection.

Overall, I hope to build a place that celebrates that shared humanity – the generosity that comes with trying to understand one another, to give people the benefit of the doubt, to reach out to others who are different, finding, to our surprise sometimes, how much we have in common. That’s the intention of Rolling Along; it’s the spirit of American Voices; and it’s the ethos of America at its best.

Thank you for all your support – I look forward to continuing the conversation!

Bill Bradley