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(03:08):
pan is to throw an admiral in one. I don't
think that's gonna go over too well with the rank
and file military. I don't think they like their admirals
being thrown under the Trump bus. We all know that
Pete ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan boat. We
also all know that was a direct order from Donald Trump.
And if there is a war criminal, it is the
orange bloated fuck who says his MRI is perfect. I'm sorry. Okay,

(03:33):
y'all know that I know medicine. Okay, y'all know this.
If you're a listener of mine, you know I know medicine.
No eighty year old man with the diet that he
has carrying the weight that he does. No person that
age is going to have a cardiac MRI, which is

(03:53):
what he had, and have it come up normal. It's
not going to happen. There is going to be afloroscurosis.
I guarantee you if I have athoscurosis at sixty three,
and you probably have some at your age. Very few
people do not have athoscurosis over the age of sixty

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because they ate food during their lifetime. That's why statins
are so very huge. So anyway, the notion that he
had a completely normal for a sick eighty year old,
I mean that doctor. First of all, doctors don't speak
that way. They don't they doctors don't say you had

(04:37):
a normal MRI. That's not how they speak. They speak
in findings, all right, and they would say we found
limited amount of afloscurosis or we found no indication of
this or that. They would not just say, oh, it's
a pretty normal MRI. That is just not how it works.
So they're lying about that. Pam Bondi is again lying.

(05:00):
He does for a living and his MRI is not
perfectly normal unless you take into account all the maladies
that an eighty year old, bloated, fat, out of shape,
bad diet person would have Yes, it's normal for someone
who may be about to drop dead of a stroke
or a heart attack. So I would need them to

(05:21):
define what what what is their criteria for perfectly normal
for MRI? You know what do they gauge that against
a dead person, a person in the ICU? You know what,
what do they or a perfectly normal MRA? You know,
a pet scan can be perfectly normal and show lots
of cancer. If you're taking a pet scan of a

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person with cancer, then you would expect to find cancer,
and you know, so that would be normal, a normal finding.
So you know, I don't know what they're gauging. I
don't know how they're gauging it. But I'll tell you what.
His MRI is no more normal than.

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You know, I want to talk about how America living
in America, living in America is like whitewater rafting. I
really do want to talk about that today, and we will,
But you know, I gotta. I have to do things
that are top of mind, that are you know, in
my brain, uh and hopefully are relevant to y'all. Y'all
stick around. So I think they're probably a little relevant

(06:51):
to y'all, isn't it weird? I try to center myself
in between those two screens, and if I'm not, it
upsets me. Anyway. My friend Morgan Mallory, who I've had
the pleasure of singing with and performing with before and
I've known for I don't know how many years now,
fifteen years maybe, came over last night. He had a

(07:14):
gig here in Las Vegas, and I wish I was
in San Francisco. Please help me move to San Francisco.
You see all these fundraisers on Instagram for these old
people at these people find they raised two hundred thousand,
three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand. Could we do one
for me to help me move to San Francisco because
I'd love to live there, but in a nice condo,
so it's gonna be like eight hundred thousand dollars, and

(07:35):
we both know that's not going to be a really
expensive condo, but just a nice one. I want to
live in North Beach or somewhere around the Embarcadero by
where Kgo used to be, maybe in the Castro. Please
we should start. It's giving Tuesday. Help Correl move to
San Francisco. Anyway, So Morgan was here in Las Vegas

(07:56):
and he said something so profound. How many times are
you in a conversation with a friend and they say
something that just sticks with you and it makes you
think and reevaluate. I guess I'm your friend that says
stuff to you that makes you think. So last night Morgan,
who is an entertainer and an incredible singer, and I

(08:17):
wish he was top of the charts because his voice
is incredible, and his musical skills, his guitar skills, He's
just an incredible talented individual. And he said something to
me last night which I've still been thinking about today.
He came over, he brought a bottle of vegan wine.
God bless him. He didn't know I don't drink anymore

(08:39):
because of my aphib I had a sip. It was good,
but you know, I can't really drink. But he came
over and he had some wine, and God, as cute
as he is, I wish it had led to something more.
But he's straight and he's got an incredible fiance. Say God,
they're a great couple. So anyway, we were talking. I said, so,

(09:00):
how's career, how's life? And he said, well, you know,
I had to a bit of ego death that has
made me happier than ever. And I said pardon, and
he said, I realized that I don't have to be
the most important person on stage now. What he meant
was he has been trying for a very long time

(09:22):
for a solo singing career and he's made incredible albums.
Daniel Charleston, the late Daniel Charleston, was such a fan
of Morgan. That's why I asked Morgan to sing it
Daniel's memorial and he did and he's sang Daniel by
Elton John and it was just so beautiful. So Morgan
has you know, America's got talent. He went to Portland

(09:45):
for to do a play Jesus Christ Superstar. He was
the lead. He played Jesus he's done musical theater. He
is a marvel, he is a talent, and he deserves
to be the most important person on the stage. But
he said to himself, I have you know, I decided
I didn't have to be and I could play bass
in other people's bands and help them with musical direction

(10:08):
and still have a ball and not have to worry
about being the headliner, being the person in front of
the band getting those gigs. Someone else can book those
gigs and I can be in their band, and I'm
having a ball. And his fiance, Tabitha, she does a
YouTube sitcom which I'm told is very funny. I have

(10:29):
yet to see her and three other girlfriends. And he
now does the audio dialogue and the cleaning up of
the dialogue and all of that, and he's expanding into
other things where he is not the main person on stage.
And that stuck with me because a first of all,
I have to say out loud, the thought of not

(10:50):
being the most important person on stage to me is appalling.
I you know, I just I'm not a part of
a choir. But would I be happier if I were.
I'd still be entertaining, I'd still be get you know.
So he is happier than I've seen him in a
long time. And he did it by readjusting his idea

(11:14):
of success and fame and all of that. And once
he readjusted his idea, he became a working artist full
time with no other day jobs where he's out now.
Last night it was a solo gig where he was
singing and performing, but other gigs he does he's the
bass player. And that was powerful to me. I realized

(11:37):
I didn't have to be the most important person on stage.
It was very powerful to me. And it's not because
I'm thinking of becoming a part of an ensemble or
a background singer. I couldn't do it. I couldn't and
my personality is such I think my personality is a
bit too big to blend. But something that I have

(11:58):
been doing, as I have a number five charting single
in the UK that thea Austin is saying We're not
going back, is songwriting. I really enjoy songwriting and I
really enjoy hearing other people, not just me, but other
people sing my songs. And when Morgan said that to me,

(12:23):
it just solidified in my brain. One of the career
paths I want to do in the next year, which
is get more songs that I have written placed with
other artists. I can write five songs a day. I
don't have to worry about giving away songs that I
want I can write. I can write an album of

(12:44):
material for myself in a week and then write an
album of material for somebody else in the next week.
So I'm not worried about that I can write. I
am blessed. Words just flow out of me, as you know.
So I thought to myself that that message from Morgan
that you don't have to be the most important person

(13:05):
on stage, it resonated with me to say, you know,
I don't have to sing every song that I write.
I can write for other artists and still have fun.
I cried when I heard Fas sing We're Not going Back,
knowing that I wrote it and hearing her incredible delivery
of it, I cried so obviously I enjoyed it, and

(13:29):
when I see her sing it on stage, I fill
with pride. Like I wrote that, you know, so, I
don't have to be the singer of every song that
I write, and maybe next year I'll become a bigger
songwriter than a singer. It didn't bother Michael Bolton. It
hasn't bothered Corey Hart, mister, I wear my sunglasses at night.

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Who is filthy rich? Carol King? Filthy rich? Writing the
music is where the money is actually not singing it,
and so it really inspired me. Next year, I've written
songs for Morgan. Morgan has sung two of my songs.
And when I watched him sing two of my songs,
Flickering Life, a song that he did at my YouTube channel.

(14:11):
You can go see it. It's called Flickering Life. It's
my ode to television. I really think that song should
be placed with the Emmys, you know, because it's an
ode to watching television, Flickering Life, because the TV flickers.
And I when Morgan sang that for the Dorians and
I heard Morgan sing that song, he wrote the music,

(14:34):
I wrote the lyrics. Incredible, just incredible, and it made
me realize. It gave me permission to pursue songwriting. Hearing
someone say you don't always have to be the most
important person on stage, but I will say this, in
my mind, a songwriter is more important than the singer.

(14:57):
I know you're gonna be like, what, but Celine dion
Adele Barbara, they'd be nothing without great songs to sing.
So it all starts with the song. So to me,
even though I may not be the one singing it,
I'm still the most important person on stage because I
wrote it and it inspired me, and that conversation inspired me.

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So what conversations have you had, what piece of advice
or what statement has someone in your life made, And
it might even be me that really got you thinking
and reevaluating your world. Because last night, when Morgan said
I realized I don't have to be the most important

(15:42):
person on the stage. It struck me as confirmation that
next year I should write more songs and if I
can find humans to write the music, great. If I can't,
then AI because that's the world we live in, and
it really inspiredired me. Yes, I wrote the theme music
for my podcast. I wrote that song. I wrote the

(16:05):
Patreon song too. I wrote the lyrics. I wrote the
lyrics for show Time is Here, Corell is so Near Kiss,
so Time is Here. I wrote that. I wrote those
lyrics and I wrote the Patreon lyrics Patreon is the
Way to Go. I wrote those lyrics. So Yes, I
co wrote both the songs you hear in my show.

(16:29):
But what advice have you heard or what phrase or
comment has someone made that really stuck with you? For
me last night, it was you don't have to be
the most important person on stage. Well, yes I do,
but I can get there a different way. I don't

(16:50):
always have to be the singer. I can be the songwriter.
I don't always have to be the actor. I can
be the scriptwriter or the story come up with the story.
Because I'm a great writer. So I can use writing
in entertainment. And I know AI can do it. I
know I get it. I'm better than AI. And I'll

(17:14):
tell you that right now. So what comment, phrase, piece
of advice? You know? My friend listens to Joel Ostein
and I made her stop this weekend. I said, you
need to find a new guru, and I finally talked
her out of listening to Joel Ostein. I said that
man is horrible. He doesn't open up his church to people.
He didn't open it up during the hurricanes when you know,

(17:36):
snap benefits weren't being paid in Houston. He didn't take
some of the multiple millions of dollars and say I'm
going to help those people. The man is a Charlatan
and if there is a heaven, he ain't going. She
finally agreed, and she's going to lay off the Joelostine.
But what you know, he does say inspirational things. So
what inspirational thing you gotta play with me? Now? You

(17:57):
gotta leave comments down below. We need to get the
comments up. I beg you every day. That's how the
algorithm finds us. The chat room is great, but we
need at least thirty comments down below every video. So
I'd like you to say, what piece of advice was
it your parents that gave it to you, a sibling,

(18:17):
was it a stranger? Did you just hear it on
the radio? But it struck. It struck for me last night.
It was you don't have to be the most important
person on stage. Daniel Charleston understood that he loved being
in choirs, and I would always say why do you
love it? He goes, because I get to perform at

(18:38):
Disney Hall, I get to perform at the you know,
the Gougenheim. I get to perform. So he had performed
in operas at all the great venues. He wasn't the lead,
he wasn't the person they were coming to pay to
see he was in the choir or the ensemble, but
he was still there, still performing, and it was great.

(18:59):
He loved it. I'd want to be the lead. I'm sorry,
That's how I'm built. But there are other ways to
be the lead. Write the story, write the song, throw
the event. You know Correll's Club decades that I want
to do. I'm the MC and I bring in music
artists for the evening, you know, kind of like art

(19:20):
le Beaux used to do. So what piece of advice
or what did you hear, whether it was years ago
or now that kind of made you reevaluate your life
or validate something that you were feeling. For me, it's
you don't always have to be the most important person

(19:41):
on the stage. That's powerful, that's very, very powerful. And
I want to know what powerful things you have heard
in your life that changed the trajectory or confirm to
you you were on the right path. I'd love to
hear from you. Put the comments down, be hello, text
me at seven oh two eight five oh five oh seven,

(20:04):
or leave a comment down below on Patreon. What what
tell me? Baby? Tell me? Please? All right, let me
check the chat room for that too. Carol, did you
write there. Yes I did. I heard someone say the
loudest man in the room is the weakest. The quietest
man in the room is the strongest. Yep. That's often true. Yep, yep.

(20:29):
I can't recall specifically what someone said to me, but
I'm continually inspired by people that are over fifty or
sixty reinventing themselves or rediscovering their creative talents and exploring
new That's me. That's what I'm doing. Uh one over time,
you spend too much time thinking about what you need
to do and not enough time doing what you need
to do. Oh that's good, that's very good. Don't panic.

(20:53):
From Douglas Adams. Amen. Um, Yeah, my theme song is
an earworm. You're not the only one. I'll be walking
around the house and I'll go, Corel is so near
because show time is here, so on with the show.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Let's give it a go.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Corella is the one that you need to know. Now
it's showed time. Yes, it's an earworm.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
All right.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
When we come back, we'll get to America the Whitewater.
I love the hour format. I get to shoot ship
with you. It's the.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Sata Now it's show.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
All right, we are back I was so busy reading
the chat room. There's such inspirational stuff in there. I
love shows like today. James Snable, a senior grad student
concurrently enrolled in med school, said, Jim, why get a
doctorate and work in a lab when you can also
get an MD and run the whole thing. Amen's sister.

(22:22):
You don't always have to be the most important person
on stage. Wow, Morgan, I hope you listen to the show.
I'm gonna tell you listen to today's show because you
really gave me food for thought last night, looking as
cute as you did. Jesus Christ. If I didn't have
such respect for his fiance, I would have made a move, honey,

(22:42):
because he was looking good. And he's tall, He's like
six foot something. He's Oh, it's just a handsome He's
a star. See. I almost got sad when I heard that,
except he's having such a good time and making money
and loving his life that I couldn't be sad. But
I thought, you're a star, dude. You got the look,
you got the sound, you got the talent. You know

(23:04):
you are a star. You know he is. He is
a star. I only hang around extraordinarily talented people. Thea Morgan.
My friend Stephen cabral a great DJ. Daniel Amspah, a
friend of mine up in Seattle or Portland, is such
an incredible photographer and filmmaker if he'd ever let himself
just be one, just you know, because sometimes people need

(23:26):
permission to let their talent run, you know, to be
to let it be free. And I hope I give
that to y'all. You know, last night, Morgan, he talked
to me and he was saying, you know, I just
you know people that changed the world like you. And
I said, oh, I haven't. He goes, You've changed the world,
you really have. You've changed it for LGBTQ people back

(23:50):
in the nineties and the early two thousands just by
being you and getting the jobs you got, and then
your fearlessness and always being outspoken and speaking truth to power.
He's like, you know you And I was like, oh, Morgan, stop, stop, stop,
I'll do you already. Stop. No, I'm just kidding. I
would have, but you know I'm kidding. But anyway, I
was high. By the way, I see, I eat edibles

(24:12):
at six and six fifteen so I can go to
bed at nine point thirty. He got here at seven.
So by eight point fifteen, I was high, and I'm
trying to not look high and trying to pay attention
and be in the moment, but I was like, Hi,
of course he's seen me high before anyway. So Rachel
says Mel Robbins inspires her. That's wonderful, all right. So

(24:38):
coming up in the next half hour, I want to
talk both about the news of the day and Pete
and war crimes and all that, but also last night
when I was prepping the show, I thought about whitewater rafting,
and I don't know why I've never done it. I
never would do it. Fuck no, See, I only do
things that black people do, okay, because black people don't

(24:59):
want to because just living in America for a black
person is dangerous enough. Just going out on the streets,
driving a car, walking in public, that's dangerous for a
black person because of racist like Donald Trump has emboldened
and cops, you know, they can get killed for being black.
So black people don't take a whole lot of risk.

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You don't see black people skydiving that much. You barely
see black people skiing down the side of a mountain.
You know, you don't see a lot of black scuba divers.
Black people do not put themselves in unnecessary danger because
they're in danger enough. So I'm from the black person
school of what to do and what not to do.

(25:42):
I don't like to put myself in unnecessary danger. I
don't go swimming with sharks. Black people don't go swimming
with sharks. They would look at that and say, what
the hell is wrong with you get about that water?
So you know, I'm from the black person school of
stay safe and trust me. You don't see a lot
of black people skiing down the side of a hill.

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Now some might say, well that's economic corell They just
that was never in their culture because it bullshit. You
could die. Black people don't do a lot of stuff
that you can die, do it except living in today's world.
So I'm from that school. I don't like to take
a lot of danger. So I don't want whitewater raft
You don't the word white is in whitewater rafting, So

(26:25):
you don't see a lot of black people doing it.
But it's dangerous whitewater rafting. You know, you could fall
out the boat, you could drown it. Ember would not
like it. So I don't do it. However, I thought
about how I love the movie of the River Wild
with Meryl Streep. Love it, love it, love it. It's cheesy,
it's not one of the ones that she's most remembered for,

(26:45):
but I love that movie. And when you whitewater raft
there are areas of calm, areas of peace, beautiful areas
where you're just floating. Then you get to the whitewater
and you are completely out of control of the boat.
You try to stay in control, You try to paddle

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certain ways and avoid the rocks and try to not
go over a waterfall. But sometimes the boat tips over,
Sometimes you hit the rocks, sometimes you go over the waterfall.
And I was thinking about that as an allegory for
America today, because every day that I read the headlines,

(27:28):
it's like we are trapped in the raft of America.
We're in this raft. America is this raft, and we
are constantly thrown about side to side, trying to avoid
real dangers, trying to find calm, trying to just get
through to the other side. To me, that's a whitewater

(27:51):
rafting is a great symbol for what it's like to
be an American today, always so much turbulence every day
Oh my god, there's been another mass shooting every day.
Oh my god. The economy is teetering on the brink
every day. We're on the brink of some war. Now
it's with fucking Venezuela because they got oil. And I

(28:16):
thought to myself, that's no way to actually live.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Whitewater rafting is something you do and it takes days
or hours and then you're done. We have not been
out of this raft for decades. We had the turbulence
in my lifetime, we had the turbulence of ron Well,
if we go way back in my lifetime, we had

(28:43):
the calm of Kennedy and then I was a year
old when he got assassinated. Then we had somewhat calm
of Johnson. But then we had the horror of Nixon
and that was whitewater rafting. And then we had the
horror of Ford. That was whitewater rafting. Then we had

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the calm of Jimmy Carter, although there was gas prices
and shortages and all of that. Then we had the
turbulence and horror of Ronald Reagan, which included some waterfalls.
Then we had George W. Bush. That was war. We'll

(29:27):
keep talking about America, the whitewater raft when we come back,
and how to find peace and security in it. How
to not fall out the boat. Although if you don't
get in the boat, you won't fall out. I'm telling
you to the Black Persons school of Baying.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Broadcasting from a completely different point of view yours.

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Listen daily to the.

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Show Time is here. No time to fear.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Corilla is so near because show time is here.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
So on with the show.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Let's give it a go.

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Corilla is the one that you need to know.

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Speaker 4 (30:29):
We are in the whitewater raft that is America. Do
you have a life preserver that would be your saving
That would be you know, your safety net? Or if
you bought out the boat, are you gonna drown? We're
gonna talk about this and so much more when we
come back.

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Welcome to part two of the Carell Cast. I am
Corel speaking of earworms. You know every day I wake
up with a song in my head every day, every
single day. Uh, and today's will not today cooking with
Carter follow him on Instagram. Uh, today will not leave
my head. And it's my song which comes out December sixth,

(31:20):
which I'm gonna need you to play. I'm gonna need
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It's called I Dance because and I got all twelve
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Rachel in the chat Room, Rachel Kapper says whitewater rafting
is also a metaphor for life, as is the weather
and the ocean. There's always a storm coming, such as life.
It's how we weather the storms, that's how we live.
That's very true. And you know, when you're in a
whitewater raft, you have they make you wear a life preserver.

(32:46):
But in America we only give life preservers to the
chosen few, to the wealthy, to those that can afford it.
If you're poor in America, you're in the whitewater raft,
but you ain't got a lie life preserver. So if
you fall out, your toast. Isn't that a great analogy?
Think about it? Think about classism in America. We're in

(33:11):
a whitewater raft. Sometimes we're in the calm, sometimes we're
in the midst of horror, and sometimes we're headed to
a waterfall. And it's mostly survivable if you have the tools.
Do you have an ore to try to steer you
away from different things and push you away from things?
Do you have a life vest in case you fall out?

(33:32):
Because people fall out and they live, They make it
through the white water and they make it to the end.
So that's classism. The rich. They got the oars hell.
Some of them have a motor, you know, not that
it would work in white water, but you know what
I mean. And then they got the safety vest. They

(33:55):
got freaking balloon suits where they impossible to sink us,
most of us. If we fall out, we did, we drowning,
or we're struggling. We may not die. We may make
it through the white water. People do without life vest.
But you struggle, you go under, you nearly drown, you

(34:17):
come back up. That's life. If you have the resources,
you can stay in the boat, or if you fall
out of the boat, you can survive. If you don't
have the resources, you struggle and possibly collapse. That is life.
And it is like the ocean. Rachel, you know, I

(34:40):
follow this guy, Adam Radcliffe, I think is his name.
He he and three other people started in New York
and they rowed in a boat all the way across
to England, all the way across the Atlantic. He's so
fucking dropped dead, gorgeous. I can't take how beautiful he is.

(35:02):
He's the reason I'm gay. He's just something. But if
you followed their trip, it was a perfect allegory for life.
There were times they were in storms, they were soaking wet,
their boat capsized, they lost some of their food, they
lost some of their equipment, but they had to keep going.
They couldn't stop there in the middle of fucking Atlantic,

(35:24):
so you know, there was no rescue for them. They
had to go. There were other days where it was
beautiful out where the wind was at their backs, and
they're feeling great physically, They've had enough to eat and
drink and you know, and they're doing their things, and
they ultimately made it. They made it to their destination safely.

(35:49):
No one died, but it was a rough crossing. Storms
came nearly destroyed their trip, but they weathered the storms.

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stick with you now too, at least I hope it does.
The ultra wealthy are preparing to harvest the wealth of
the middle and lower class. Again, says Randall, I agree.
I agree. When why water rafting, the entire raft can

(36:52):
flip over, or you could get your teeth knocked out
by a metal paddle. Yes, that's life, ain't it. Many
of you have metaphor you know, had your teeth knocked out,
maybe not actually knocked out, but had them knocked out,
you know, and you gotta get through that. When we

(37:14):
look at the news today, it is mind boggling, you know,
it really is. And we have to live with this
stuff every single day. These are the rapids of life,
you know. Now there's an admiral being blamed for what
Pete did and what Trump did. They're trying to throw
an admiral under the bus. That's that's wrong on so

(37:38):
many levels. You know, it's just wrong for the command,
the commander in chief, the which president said the buck
stops here. I would like Donald Trump for once to
take account for his actions. He authorized these strikes on
the Venezuelan boats. Ultimately, whatever happened, he is the commander

(38:01):
in chief of them. He is above the admiral he
is responsible. Period, the buck stops with him, we'll see
will there be peace in Ukraine four years? That war
has been going on for four years. Why because it's profitable,

(38:23):
because arms companies are making money, because other people are
making money. That's why the war is continuing. Because somebody
is making money, somebody, you know. Meanwhile, we have the
Northeast being buried in a winter storm, which we're not
prepared for. Climate change is changing, you know, the everything

(38:48):
is going to be affected by it, you know. And
then we just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez. He's released from
US prison. After the Trump pardoned this guy. They trafficked
more cocaine than my friend Karen in the seventies. I mean,
you know, this guy was a drug dealer, like tons

(39:13):
of coke. That By the way, I don't blame drug dealers.
I don't. I know people do. I don't. If we
were happy, we wouldn't do drugs. If America was a
great great you know, in Switzerland, they don't do a
ton of drugs. They don't have a cocaine problem in
Switzerland because they have happy people. Norway, other countries where

(39:33):
people are happy, they don't do a ton of drugs.
But in America, in this whitewater raft, we do a
ton of drugs because we're scared, you know. So I
look at these headlines and say, this is how we
go insane, Why we're on so many antidepressives, why we're

(39:56):
so fat. You know, America is on a ton of
any depressives and we're fat. And now we're taking drugs
to get not fat because we can't seem to do
it on our own, and why because we're unhappy. It
is living in a constant state of is my boat

(40:18):
gonna flip over? And am I going to be tossed
into the rapids. That's what life in America is. Even
when we're in the calm, we worry is my boat
gonna flip over? And am I going to be thrown
into the rapids? That's and the rapids is poverty. Now.
I saw an interesting article yesterday about two other interesting articles,

(40:41):
And the interesting article was one economist said you have
to make one hundred and thirty thousand dollars or less
or more a year or year in poverty in the
United States. One hundred and thirty k is what he
said the poverty level should be. And another economist wrote,
so that's kind of high. You know, that's not really

(41:04):
what it should be. And the other economists said, if
you take all these things into account, it really should
be about thirty percent less. Well, thirty percent less is
about ninety thousand dollars or ninety two thousand dollars, and
that economist agreed that the poverty level in America should

(41:24):
be about ninety thousand dollars because if you don't make that,
you do not have enough money to pay all of
your bills, put one third of your money away for savings,
have a rainy day account, and do an afford a
car that you don't get on a ten year loan,
Afford a house that you don't get a fifty year
mortgage for. So poverty in America is basically ninety two

(41:48):
thousand dollars a year or below. And that's most everybody,
meaning most of us. If we get thrown into the rapids,
it's going to be rough and we may drown, we
may go under. And in America, going under is losing
your home, losing your car, losing your job, that's what

(42:13):
Going under the water in America is losing your ability
to take care of yourself, to feed yourself, and we
all worry about that. Unless you have a million dollars
or more, you worry about going into the water. I
certainly do, and I know most of you do. And

(42:35):
part of that is because as a country, we have
not set up a system where if we go in
the water, someone in the boat's there that give us
a hand back in. That's where social safety net programs
are supposed to come in when we go in the water.

(42:56):
So unemployment, social security, those are supposed to be things
to help pull you back up in the boat. In
other countries, unemployment is eighty percent of your previous income.
When I left KFI and got fired, or when I
got fired at KGO the first time, my income went

(43:19):
from one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars a year
to less than thirty on unemployment. Now, that's not a
hand back into the boat. That's not that's barely a
flotation device to keep you afloat. Because we blame people
for falling out of the boat in America, we blame

(43:43):
people for winding up in the rapids. We blame them
your fault. It's not their fault, it's the economy's fault.
It's the way the system is set up. It's capitalism's fault.
Most people that end up in the rapids don't end
up there. Willingly something big happens. Oh boy, what a

(44:10):
show today. Huh what a show? So we could talk
about fun things for the I mean, there are so
many horrible stories in the news that we could talk about.
You know, I love the Guardian's headline Trump administration selling
out admiral to shield Hagsath over boat strikes. Yep. These

(44:31):
people have no loyalty, they have no fidelity. They'll throw
whoever under the bus to save their own skins. They
they're not nice People's no other way to say that.
They're just not nice people, and they have no loyalties Ukraine.
Here we have people discussing the end of the war

(44:51):
that aren't involved in it. I mean, if Zelensky's not
at the table, why is anybody talking to putin, you know,
excluding Zelenski from talks about the future of his country.
That's that's pretty screwed up, if you ask me. So

(45:12):
that's the whitewater that we have to navigate, because it's
your money. Like I said yesterday, Trump spending seventy million
of your dollars just to golf. It's your money, you're
not being able to spend it. I have to tell
you in an item you may or may not have

(45:33):
seen in the news yesterday, Luigi was back in the news.
You know, because half these people that do these big crimes,
we never hear, Like the guy that shot Charlie Kirk.
Have you heard anything about him, like at all? Do
you know if he's gone to trial. Do you know
if he's had a preliminary hearing. Do you know if

(45:56):
they definitively linked the weapon to him? Have you heard
anything other than the fact that his wife has now
recorded a song. Oh yeah, maybe she'll perform it at
her halftime show that they're doing. Really, have you heard
anything in the news about the shooter of Charlie Kirk. Nope, nope,

(46:18):
because that was staged. Charlie Kirk was assassinated by MAGA.
They don't want to admit that it was an assassination
to divide the country even further. And I know that
someone in the Trump administration had their hands in it.
I know they did. It's Ockham's razor. You know, that

(46:43):
is the easiest explanation, not that some rando got a
shot off from six hundred feet or however long three
hundred feet, six hundred feet I forget which you know,
one shot? If he hated people so much, why not
shoot up the crowd and then he disappears. But Luigi,

(47:04):
he's back in the news and he looked good. I
can't help it. I know he's a killer, but oh
my god. If there was ever an agency that represented
killer models, he could be their star client. He looked good.
They're trying to have the gun and his notepad excluded,

(47:29):
and if they do, the prosecution has no case. And
the reason they say they should exclude it is they
were in his backpack and the cops searched the backpack
without a warrant, and the cop said, well, I wanted
to see if he had a bomb, which he's not
a bomber. There was no bomb at the scene. There

(47:50):
was no bomb in his backpack. That was just a
feeble excuse to do a search without a warrant. And
so if the judge throws out gun and his notebook,
then Luigi could walk because they would have no definitive
proof that he was the killer. You cannot tell on
the video, and they released more video yesterday. You cannot

(48:13):
tell on the video that it's him. You can't. He's
wearing a hoodie, his face is covered. You can't really
tell that it's him. It could be another gorgeous model
that just happened to be in the area. So yeah,
it's very very interesting, all right. Don't forget. The chat
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go and stream it and leave your comments down below.
So far you're commenting on what piece of advice or
what you know did you hear one day that just
really stuck with you? For me, it's you don't have
to be the most important person on the stage. That
really stuck with me, really did. And also the whitewater

(49:26):
rafting of America. How do you survive the rapids? How
do you do it? Some of you tune out, some
of you lay down in the boat. Quite frankly, you
just lay down and hope to weather it all safely.
Some of you grab what little life preserver you have
and just huddle in the corner. Others grab an oar

(49:47):
and try to take it on. How do you navigate
what has become this whitewater rafting of America? Because it's rough.
We've ball gone over some waterfalls before I know we
have I have don't go chasing them. So how do
you get through a lot of You have a safety net,

(50:10):
You have savings, you have you know, money for retirement,
So that's your life vest, that's your safety net. But
I think it's profound when I said that we blame
people for falling in and then we don't have real
ways to get them back in the boat. In fact,
in many ways, the US government throws weights to them

(50:33):
and makes them think. Because you get let's say you
get on a social program and then you try to
get back to work to you know, get your life improved.
You'll get cut off of that program the minute you
get your first check. But then you might get fired
in two months, or the job might disappear, or it
might just be a temporary job. There's so many people
that can't take even temporary jobs because they're on some

(50:55):
sort of social program and if they take the job,
it'll negate that program, and then getting back on the
program will be nearly impossible, so they just don't even
take the jobs. We don't have systems set up in
this country to help Americans get back in the boat.
We help them stay afloat about a foot under the

(51:18):
water and then they come up to gap for air.

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Oh, he was such a quiet boy show.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
You're right, Granny. Warrantless searches are okay with this administration.
They don't care. What do they care? Who needs the Constitution?
They don't. They ignore it, which is sad. It's very
very sad. We're not only in white water right now.
We're in toxic water. We really are. We're in a

(52:21):
whitewater raft and we're surrounded by sludge. That's what Trump
has done. He's polluted everything. It's fun as going through
the presidents earlier that I lived under and how they
shook up the stream, you know, caused rapids. I remember
Reagan and AIDS and the economic policies that made today

(52:45):
possible for the rich when the nation started to then
covet the rich, and now you have so many people
that are poor that protect the rich, protect the billionaires.
There shouldn't be billionaires. They should not exist. No one
needs a billion with a B dollars and when you
get that much money, you're no longer connected. They're not us. See,

(53:08):
everyone seems to think that billionaires think, act and relate
to us. They don't. These are people that can send
a jet to Alaska to buy a salmon for dinner
and fly it back. As my friend Morgan told me,
he knew someone that did that because they're a billionaire.

(53:29):
They wanted fresh Alaskan salmon. So they literally sent a
private jet in the morning to Alaska from la to
get a salmon and bring it back for a late
dinner and thought nothing of it. Didn't think about the
harm to the environment, didn't think about the cost, thought nothing.
Why because they're billionaires. They don't think that way. To them,

(53:54):
that's perfectly normal. You mean, everybody that wants salmon doesn't
send a playing to Alaska. I know people in California
that ship in food from New York every day. Why
because they're billionaires. They want it, they get it. Screw

(54:15):
the environment, screw anything, doesn't matter. And if they were multimillionaires,
they could still do that. If they had five hundred
million instead of a billion, they would still be able
to do that. Their life would not suffer. But we
seem to think it's okay to let billionaires exist because
I guess we all believe that one day we're gonna

(54:35):
be one. We're not. I mean, you have a chance,
just like you have a chance of being struck by lightning,
or dying in a car crash, or being shot out
in public. In fact, your chances in America are greater
of being shot in public than becoming a billionaire. And
that's the truth. I looked it up. The odds of

(54:56):
you becoming a billionaire are greater than the odds of
you being shot in public. Think about that. And so
this whitewater raft that we're in the water around us
right now is toxic. And it didn't just become that way.
Reagan helped make it that way. George Herbert Walker Bush

(55:17):
helped make it that way. George W. Bush helped make
it that way. Richard Nixon helped make it that way,
and then you have the presidents coming along that want
calm and peace and unity and to work together. The
Obama's the Clintons, and they're not perfect. Clinton was not
good for gays, and Obama did drone strikes that I
did not approve of. And you know, Biden, I can't

(55:43):
really think of anything he did except wander I know
that sounds odd. I know Joe Biden did a lot
in his presidency, I do. I know that he accomplished
quite a bit, but his frailty overshadowed it. Although he
looks healthier now with prostate can than Donald Trump does
with his normal MRI. And why can't hackers, You know

(56:06):
they can get our information from the most secure places.
Even the US government has had leaks of information. Why
can't anonymous or some hacker hack into Walter Reid and
get his MRI results, the real ones, and release them.
Why aren't those public records? Why does HIPPA protect a

(56:27):
president's medical records? I mean, I don't know as an
employer if you have the right to see your employees'
medical records, But when it's the leader of the free
world who could lead you into nuclear winter, I think
that changes the situation a little bit. I think they
should actually have to release the report and the images.

(56:51):
Why not, Well, because it's his private health information. His
health directly affects the path of the United States and
the world. I think that usurps any kind of hippoprotections.
If you ask me, what do y'all think? Yes, the

(57:14):
top tax rate in nineteen fifty five was ninety one
percent over two hundred thousand dollars. Absolutely, after World War Two,
any money over two hundred thousand dollars was taxed at
ninety one percent. And what do you know, from World
War two until now, the rich still got richer. It
was who that changed that? Anybody? Raise your hand? Do
you know who changed that tax rate from ninety one

(57:35):
percent down to thirty one percent? Anybody? Anybody, anybody, anybody
in the chat room, raise your hand. Do any of
you know who changed the tax rate from ninety one
percent on any income over two hundred thousand dollars to
thirty one percent? Anybody, anybody, anybody. I'll give you a hint,

(57:57):
it was in my lifetime. Anybody, I'll give you another hit,
Ding dong, the witch is dead. Anybody. Ronald Reagan Reagan's
the one who changed that tax on the rich because
he had a lot of rich friends. They retired of

(58:18):
paying ninety one percent tax or having to hide their income.
I just read an article this morning that they want
baby boomers to start giving away nineteen thousand dollars in
gifts because you can do that without a tax implication.
So they want They're saying baby boomers should give all
their children nineteen grand should get. They're saying baby boomers
should start giving people nineteen thousand dollars. If you're a

(58:39):
baby boomer and you want to give someone money, and
you want to give me nineteen thousand dollars, PayPal, dot me,
forward slash early Carrel, I will take your nineteen thousand
dollars give it up. But yeah, I read that this morning.
I don't know why they're saying baby boomers should be
giving away their money. They earned it, they made it,
they invested, they got it. That boomers need to start

(59:01):
spreading their wills. They shouldn't hoard it. I mean, they
should spread it out a little to their kids, their grandkids,
that sort of stuff. But some aren't. I hear that
some boomers are not giving their kids their money they're
not good. See if I had kids and I had money,
my kids would have money. I'm not one of the owne.

(59:22):
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