September 25, 2025 • 30 mins
America Isn’t Ready for 124 Million Seniors | Karel Cast 25-120
Over 37% of Americans are now over 50—that’s 124 million people—and the cracks in our system are showing. Social Security is running dry, affordable home health care barely exists for the middle class, and state-sponsored elder care is almost nonexistent. Meanwhile, medicine is lagging behind in treating the illnesses most affecting older Americans.
The truth is clear: America is not ready for the greying of its population, and the consequences are already unfolding.
Plus, Trump falsely blames California Governor Gavin Newsom for an ICE shooting. Why does MAGA never take responsibility for its own dangerous rhetoric and actions?
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Over 37% of Americans are now over 50—that’s 124 million people—and the cracks in our system are showing. Social Security is running dry, affordable home health care barely exists for the middle class, and state-sponsored elder care is almost nonexistent. Meanwhile, medicine is lagging behind in treating the illnesses most affecting older Americans.
The truth is clear: America is not ready for the greying of its population, and the consequences are already unfolding.
Plus, Trump falsely blames California Governor Gavin Newsom for an ICE shooting. Why does MAGA never take responsibility for its own dangerous rhetoric and actions?
👉 Watch, share, and subscribe for bold commentary on aging, politics, and the future of America.
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#KarelCast, #AgingAmerica, #SocialSecurity, #HealthcareCrisis, #ElderCare, #Retirement, #USPolitics, #SeniorHealth, #AgingPopulation, #Medicare, #IndependentMedia, #NewsAnalysis, #TrumpLies, #MAGA, #BreakingNews, #EconomicCrisis, #PublicPolicy, #FutureOfAmerica, #GreyingOfAmerica, #CivicEngagement
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-karel-cast--1368295/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm here, I promise. I'm just old. Not that we're
talking about today, being old and trying to get to
the job and get to the workplace and get to
your life. We're not set up to be aging.
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It is the Crowdcast. I am Correl truly. I was
wiring up my heart monitor, and I because I don't
put it on, I take it off when I shower
and then I don't put it back on until the show.
I give myself a thirty minute break, you know, And
so was I wasn't. I had the wires wrong, And
so I'm like, I'm gonna be laid for the show
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because you're old, bitch, because you're old and hooked up
to it. Now I'm a heart monitor. But that goes
with the topic of the show today, which is America
is not ready to age. According to statistics, we have
one hundred and twenty four million people in America over
the age of fifty. That's pretty much one third of
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America thirty seven percent, that's more than one third is
over the age of fifty. And you know, we're not
set up. And I thought of this this morning because
my an Ireen, my dad's sister, my last remaining aunt
or uncle on the planet, is in care in Texas
(02:04):
and they're not rich, so she's in whatever Medicare will
pay for. And while it's not a hell hole, it
is certainly not. You know, my friend Oscar, who has money,
is in care in Newport Beach where they pay twenty
one thousand dollars a month. His place has a bar
with a two drink maximum, isn't that cute, a restaurant
(02:28):
on site, a game room, a movie theater on site.
They have all stages of people there on different floors.
They have the top floor for people who need constant,
you know, attention. They have the second floor for people
who are more independent. So you know, it's it's how
every senior should age, except in America. That's the exception,
(02:50):
not the norm. The norm is we put them in
hell holes. My mother was three up in a room.
There was no dignity, there was no privacy, and she
died next to people she didn't know. And that made
me very sad. And a lot of families today feel
very badly because they can't take care of their aging
(03:11):
parent or grandparents. They don't have the resources, they've got
to work, they can't be home one of the family members.
Not Mexican families. And I say that a little flippantly,
but a lot of Mexican culture they take care of
their older people, they live with them. But even now
that's changing. The number one growth industry in Mexico is
building senior care homes. They didn't have them before because
(03:33):
you took care of Abelita, you took care of your grandparents.
But here it's just we're not set up and she's
got dementia and they don't know what type. She's ninety four,
so they don't know what type. And I thought about that.
I thought, all this computing power, all this advanced medicine,
and we can't figure out how to prevent dementia. That's
(03:56):
like not the NUX. If I were president, that would
be the number one health issue that I would tackle
because it's terrible. It robs you of your senior life.
It robs your family. It causes great stress and duress.
It is a terrible, terrible thing where most of us
think if we get dementia, we'd be like Robin Williams
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and want to just do ourselves in We are not
set up for an aging America. There is discrimination everywhere
for people over fifty. Then you can't rejoin the work.
For us, it is so hard and if you do,
it'says a greeter at Walmart. You might be a skilled
engineer or whatever, but you got to go be a
greeter at Walmart, you know. I mean. So we are
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not We are not set up at all to deal
with an aging population. Now in the UK they are
set up a little bit better. They do have care homes.
We don't have care homes. Also in the UK, the
NHS pays for care workers to come to the house
three times a day. They'll come for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
(04:59):
They'll cook, they'll and this keeps people out of the
care homes. We don't have that. Solid security does not
cover a worker to come to your house three times
a day. They might cover once and maybe every other day.
It's like my neighbor downstairs John so Leah. His caretaker
(05:20):
is a mess, and she does drugs, and she's called
the paramedics this year over one hundred times. Because I've
kept track, I'm that nosy kind of neighbor. And over
one hundred times she's called nine one one, not for him,
not for the bedridden disabled person, her husband that she
takes care of, but for her. Meanwhile, he's left to
(05:41):
fend for himself. Basically, he can't get out of bed.
Many times I've had to go give him food and
they take him into rehab for two or three weeks
and then send him back. That is not a bechist.
What do you think the median age in America? I'll
tell you when we come back.
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Forward slash Early Correll. James Schnabel is in my chat room.
This man is so frickin' smart. I've had many conversations
with him off air and on air. This guy is
smart and he used to be a pathologist. I believe
that was the title of his job. He'll correct me
if I'm wrong, but he just said I was rejected
twice for post retirement positions. Too old to try again.
(07:37):
Anyone would be lucky to have the counseling and the
wisdom of James Snabel. I don't like, haven't been to
his house to have drinks or anything, but I will
tell you this, I've been around medical people my whole life.
This man's the real deal. He knows a lot. And
if I were running a pathology center, I would want
him on as a senior advisor. I truly would. And
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yet he's too old, and so we have gone from
a nation of our founders who were old. By the way,
our median age in the country is thirty seven, but
one hundred and twenty four million of us are over fifty.
That's thirty seven percent. We're not set up, for instance,
(08:22):
public transportation. When you get older, you don't want to drive,
you know. Nowadays, I truly wish there were there's these
zeus here in Las Vegas. I'm gonna go take you
on a ride for one this weekend and film it.
It's one of those Amazon automated cars. Amazon who today
had to pay two point five billion dollars because they
(08:42):
proved in court that Amazon has tricked people into subscribing
to Amazon Prime. But two point five billion dollars to
Amazon is nothing. That's probably two days profits. So you know,
I'm at the age where I should just be able
to call a a little automated vehicle that comes, picks
me up and takes me places. It's safer, it's safer
(09:06):
for other drivers. If everyone over the age of sixty,
let's say, use public transportation, you know or not. They
didn't have to, like not a law, but if it
was available, many would. None of our services are set
up really for the elderly and for the aged, and
yet we are becoming a country where very soon almost
forty percent of the nation will be over fifty, because
(09:27):
the median age is thirty seven. So what do we do?
So many of you are saving up because you know
this day and now we because of modern medicine, we
have people living into their nineties. And so we have
sixty and seventy year old people who are aged themselves
having to take care of their ninety year old parents.
(09:52):
And nobody thinks about this. This is not on the
national radar at all. Trump is eighty years old. You
would think that elder care would be something that guy's
you know, sensitive to, but he's rich, so he's not worried,
and he only worries about what's in his world. I
know y'all want me to talk about the possible indictment
(10:13):
of James Comy. I I'm not gonna come on here
every day and point out how close to Hitler we
are becoming prosecuting a former head of the FBI. Nor
am I going to tell you that yesterday I saw
a three different posts with a Nazi swatstika on the
left saying all of the things that the hit that
(10:34):
the Nazis stood for, and then on the right saying
liberals and trying to say that liberals are Nazis. This
group of people, MAGA and the President, their stock in
trade is to project and to call the others on
the other side what they are. They're calling trans people
(10:55):
terrorist when we know it's MAGA that are the terrorist.
We know that they've done more damage to him America
and picked up a gun and used it more times
than anybody else. We know that it's a fact. They
won't they don't believe that fact, but it's a fact.
We know, beyond the shadow of a doubt that Donald
Trump and maga's treatment and rhetoric against immigrants is what
(11:21):
caused the shooting yesterday. We know that, and yet they're
blaming Gavin Newsom for it. One of these horrible talk
show hosts, John coblt. He works at KFI Los Angeles.
It used to be John and Ken. Ken is gone
now I can't believe Ken did the show. Ken is
allegedly gay. I have seen evidence that Ken is gay,
(11:42):
but he never came out, so I can't say that
he is gay. But let's just say that everyone at
KFI just assumed that Ken of John and Ken was gay.
And I've seen photos of him with people that were
identified as his lover, so, but I've never slept with him,
so I can't say for sure. But allegedly Ken of
John and Ken was gay or is gay, and he
(12:04):
had to sit there every day with this homophobe. And
this guy's out there saying it's Gavin Newsom's fault, when
it's Trump's fault, treating these people like subhuman, acting like
they were dirt, calling them names, painting them as criminals.
He has made enemies out of immigrants, That's just the truth.
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So you know, coming on here every day and saying, oh,
this happened again today, this happened again today, it's not
going to serve you. But talking about real issues. Here's
a real issue that America should be talking about. We
are not set up. Social Security is going to be
insolvent within six years. One of the number one priorities
(12:50):
of this administration should be shoring up social Security, not
by cutting people off. And now they're saying they're going
to raise the retirement age, which is already sixty seven.
We should be lowering the retirement age. People should have
more time to enjoy life after they work. If you
work from when you're eighteen to sixty forty two years,
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you should be able to retire. The notion that you
now they're going to raise it. They're talking of raising
it to seventy till you have to work into your
seventy But how you cannot get a job. Let's say
you're fifty nine or sixty and you have to change careers.
You're not going to find a job to work out
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until you're seventy. We have a huge looming crisis of
seniors that will not be able to afford their own
homes or food, and we do not have a social
safety net set up to catch those seniors. And we
keep them in poverty. Already, seniors literally live in poverty
(13:57):
if all they have is social security. They you've heard
the stories of them eating dog food, having to get
food bank food, Saint Vincent de Paul, Catholic charities meals
on wheels. How degrading. We degrade our seniors and make
them count change because they didn't set themselves up in
a country where it's nearly impossible to set yourself up.
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We blame seniors for not having money when in the
sixties and seventies and eighties and nineties it's been nearly
impossible in today's world to save money, and so we
blame them, Well, you should have set yourself up if
you want to retire for twenty years it's from sixty
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five to eighty five, and you want to live on
the minimum that we know that it takes to live
in America, which is now eighty thousand dollars a year
just to pay your bills. According to what it says
out there, that's one point six million dollars that you're
supposed to have in the bank by the time you're
(15:05):
sixty five. I know very few people that had one
point six million dollars saved up in the bank by
the time they're sixty five, I have three thousand dollars
in the bank, and then I have my house, so
two hundred thousand. So I have two hundred and three
thousand dollars and that's it. So we tell seniors to
(15:27):
get out, Go move to Malta, Go move to Mexico,
Go move where it's cheaper. You live your whole life
in America, you pay into American system, and then you
can't afford it in your senior year, so you have
to leave it. We treat aging people disgracefully and we
(15:47):
never address it. Well I'm addressing it. We don't talk
about it. Well I'm talking about it. We have got
to do more. We have got to do better for
all citizens, but our seniors in particular. Doctors used to
make house calls. Now we do have here in Vegas.
(16:07):
We have a service called doctor Ru and my health
insurance will pay for them to come to my house.
They're not doctors, they're physicians assistants. But for mild things,
at least it's better than nothing. And I think they
can draw labs too. But there should be home health
care for almost any senior an and anywhere in the country.
(16:30):
Medicare is cutting out telehealth. It's not going to cover
telehealth after the Trump sees it as a pandemic thing.
So something that has given seniors access to health care,
access to their doctors without having to leave their home.
He now wants to cut that out, and many insurance
companies have telehealth is important. We are not helping our seniors.
(16:59):
We're not. And that's where you coming. You know. Today
is Music Advocacy Day and I'm very excited. I'm going
to be meeting with R and B Legend, Angela Wynn Bush,
who I adore, look her up. I'm going to be
meeting with other industry professionals here in Vegas, all members
of Grammy, and we are going to go meet with
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Representative Susie Lee and talk about three key issues for
the music industry this year. The No Fakes Act, which
says you can't use our faces or our music through
AI without our permission or without licensing it period because
they're making new songs from new artists and it's not
the artist. The second is AI in general. We want
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companies like open ai to pay to train their AI
with our music. You see all these things now, oh
make a song, make a song, make a song, Well,
that computer had to learn how to make an R
and B song from something, and they didn't pay those creators.
You know, Publishing is the lifeblood of a of a
(18:08):
music person period, not just for them, but for their heirs,
for their family. So if you wrote a song and
it's a hit, it can be a source of THEA
made a ton of money with rhythm as a dancer,
you know, And if any of the songs that I
write end up hitting, it could end up giving me
money for years to come, unless Congress doesn't protect that.
(18:32):
And we're trying to get them to totally fund the
National Endowment for the Arts, which is only two hundred
and eighty three million dollars or point zero zero three
percent of the budget, But they haven't fully funded the
ANYA yet, and so we're gonna go meet and talk
with them. But one of the things people should be
meeting with their constituents about, and meeting with their representatives
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about actually scheduling meetings, is going down and talking to
your state rep. About seniors in your state. What is
that state rep going to do to make sure that
seniors in your state can age gracefully when's the last
time you even thought about calling your representative and talking
(19:15):
about issues that affect the older people in America. It's
just not on anybody's radar. But meanwhile, we getting older
and social security is not the answer. We need national,
state sponsored care homes that are nice. You know, they
(19:35):
don't have to be the Waldorf Astoria, but they shouldn't
be a flea ridden, you know, bag of a hotel.
We should treat seniors with dignity and respect, but we don't.
We let them live in squalor. And in the UK,
the biggest issue facing seniors is being addressed, and you
(19:56):
know what that is. How many of you know what
the biggest issue facing seniors is in the United States too.
It's it's epidemic. It's been declared an epidemic. How many
of you know anybody? Anybody, come on, Come on, loneliness, loneliness.
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Their family dies or doesn't want anything to do with
them because they're old, They don't have a large social
circle because getting out is nearly impossible. In the UK,
they did a national survey. One in three seniors doesn't
see another human in a month. They go a whole
(20:41):
month without seeing anybody, So This is a big issue loneliness.
What are we doing in America to combat loneliness? Not
just for seniors, for anybody. Nothing. We have no sense
of connection, no sense of community. We think they can
get on an iPad or an iPhone, and that's not connection.
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We do not take care of our elderly. And seven
percent of us are over fifty. One hundred and twenty
four million peoples out of three hundred and forty millions,
double the amount that voted for damas monks are over fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We do this, hegeta Now is show side?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You know I'm having trouble with aging. I am. I
just never saw myself aging. I thought I knew I
would get old. But the concept of getting old and
actually aging is two different things. Betty Right, Betty Right, Bete,
Betty White, Betty writes a singer Betty White was right
(22:21):
when she said aging is not for the week, and
it's not you know, every day you wait for something
else to fall apart. When they put this heart monitor
on me, I told them, I said, I almost don't
want to know the results anymore. And she said, I
hear that from so many people your age. They're just
tired of being tested and they're tired of the results
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because as you age, stuff's going to go wrong. It
just does your body's you know, aging, and you're gonna die.
You know, I'm not here for a long time. I'm
here for a good time. You're gonna die. Yesterday I
had my I go to the dentist every three months
for a teeth cleaning, even though continues to criticize my
teeth on every video, every video there, go to a dentists,
(23:04):
see an orthodontist. I go to a dentist every three months.
And as we were cleaning yesterday, I had them search
for cancer because I'm terrified of that. I had HPV
when I was a kid at eighteen. I means you're
more apt to get oral cancer. And my friend Alan
Raidaman died because he was having a tooth extracted and
they found a cancerous lesion on his tongue and now
(23:26):
he's dead. And I it would take away my ability
to talk to sing. It's my worst nightmare. And so
I have some spots on my tongue, little red things
or little creases or crevices or whatever, and so I
have them always checked and he's like, I don't see
anything you know to worry about. But I thought, that's
the rest of my life. Every three months, I have
to have my mouth checked for lesions. Every year, I
(23:48):
have to have my body checked for squamas cell carcinoma
because I had cancer. I had squamas cell carcinoma on
my face right here, and they did a mose procedure
and removed it. But squamis cells like to travel, so
now I have to have every year. They have to
look for skin cancer. Every year you have a physical,
they do all those labs, all the blood work. I
(24:10):
have to have my prostate. I'm an aging man, so
I have to have my Luckily, my prostate PSA is
below one zero point six, so that's good. But you
see what I'm saying. As you age, all of a sudden,
there's all you have to have a colonoscopy every five
to ten years. You have to, you know, And and
these tests aren't in vain. They're looking for stuff. And
(24:32):
as I learned on House, whenever you go looking, you're
gonna find. From the show House, I learned a true
fact that a perfectly healthy individual, some an athlete at
the top of their game, you could put them in
the hospital and do every test known, and you'd find
three things wrong with them, because every human has three
things wrong with them at least all the time. And
(24:54):
so I think about aging. This morning, I was listening
to a playlist that Apple created for Army called Love,
and it was filled with like fifty percent dead people.
People that I love, Tina, Marie Whitney, Houston, Phillis Hyman,
Vesta Williams, you know on down the line that you
(25:17):
know Johnny mathis now retired, Frankie Valley now retired and
near dead, will almost retired and certainly near dead. You know.
I see movies the way we were, Robert Redford, Dead
streisand eighty three. I'm having trouble with aging. I don't
want to die. I don't I'm not of that age
yet where I want to die. I don't want to die.
(25:40):
And yet there is less ahead of me than behind me.
And so you give all you give these people all
this stuff that they have to worry about, and then
they have to worry about food, shelter, access to medical
care because we don't take care of our seniors. And
(26:00):
emotionally aging is not easy. Psychologically, oh, they tell you, oh,
you stop caring and you no, that's just not true.
There are some I don't give a shit anymore, you know,
moments because you're old, you're like, oh fuck it. But
you know, for the most part, you still care about
life and your family, and in your brain you're not old.
(26:22):
Your brain still thinks you can go conquer your dreams,
you can go do things. You know, you're still start
new projects. Your brain is like, yeah, let's go, go go,
and your body is like, fuck you. We don't teach
each other how to age. We don't. There's no courses
(26:44):
in aging, there's no manual. We just throw people to
the wolves. And then we center on youth and beauty.
And now older people look at Brian Seacrest, Oh my god,
and we're friends. He looks so hard. Oh my god,
he looks horrible. He used to be so handsome. He's
(27:04):
not anymore. He's got like a zembic face. His eyes
are bugging, his cheeks are probably with filler. He's using botox.
We make old people mutilate themselves now to just try
to look young. Barbara's had work done. Everybody has. I mean,
there's not an older celebrity that I can think of
that hasn't had a ton of shit done to their face. Literally,
(27:27):
we make people mutilate themselves. Look at Madonna, you know,
all to what to look young. Well, they might look young,
but they feel like shit on the inside. I'll tell
you that Madonna can pull everything back as tight as
she wants to. She's in sixty five, now sixty six.
(27:47):
She still wakes up and goes ow. And more importantly,
we don't teach younger people how to let go, because
when you get older, you do have to let go.
You have to let go of certain dreams. You have
to let go of certain people, You have to let
(28:08):
go of certain situations. You have to, you have no choice.
Some people can no longer live upstairs if they've lived
in an upstairs apartment their whole lives. Now they can't.
They can't carry groceries up they can't. You know, we
need to address aging issues. I want you to be
sensitive to them. I want you to reach out to
(28:29):
your lawmakers, send them an email, send them a letter
and say, hey, you know, what are you doing to
help seniors in our community? And then ask yourself, what
am I doing to help seniors in my community? Could
I volunteer once a week to go visit shut ins.
Could I go to a hospital and volunteer? Could I go?
(28:51):
I bring Embir to nursing homes because she's a service dog,
so I bring her to nursing homes and she just
brightens up their day. At us nursing home the twenty
thousand dollars a month, they literally had miniature horses there
when I was there in the courtyard visiting, but that
brightened up their day. Do you have a dog that
is friendly that you could get certified? Not service dog certified,
(29:14):
that's a different certification. You just make sure they're not aggressive,
that you could take to a nursing home and let
people just smile and pet them. We need to do better.
I will see you on Monday. I'm off the music
Advocacy Day for Grammy. I am Corelbee, who you want
to be from to hurt you, buddy, have a lovely
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that'll work.
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I'm here, I promise. I'm just old. Not that we're
talking about today, being old and trying to get to
the job and get to the workplace and get to
your life. We're not set up to be aging.
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It is the Crowdcast. I am Correl truly. I was
wiring up my heart monitor, and I because I don't
put it on, I take it off when I shower
and then I don't put it back on until the show.
I give myself a thirty minute break, you know, And
so was I wasn't. I had the wires wrong, And
so I'm like, I'm gonna be laid for the show
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because you're old, bitch, because you're old and hooked up
to it. Now I'm a heart monitor. But that goes
with the topic of the show today, which is America
is not ready to age. According to statistics, we have
one hundred and twenty four million people in America over
the age of fifty. That's pretty much one third of
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America thirty seven percent, that's more than one third is
over the age of fifty. And you know, we're not
set up. And I thought of this this morning because
my an Ireen, my dad's sister, my last remaining aunt
or uncle on the planet, is in care in Texas
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and they're not rich, so she's in whatever Medicare will
pay for. And while it's not a hell hole, it
is certainly not. You know, my friend Oscar, who has money,
is in care in Newport Beach where they pay twenty
one thousand dollars a month. His place has a bar
with a two drink maximum, isn't that cute, a restaurant
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on site, a game room, a movie theater on site.
They have all stages of people there on different floors.
They have the top floor for people who need constant,
you know, attention. They have the second floor for people
who are more independent. So you know, it's it's how
every senior should age, except in America. That's the exception,
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not the norm. The norm is we put them in
hell holes. My mother was three up in a room.
There was no dignity, there was no privacy, and she
died next to people she didn't know. And that made
me very sad. And a lot of families today feel
very badly because they can't take care of their aging
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parent or grandparents. They don't have the resources, they've got
to work, they can't be home one of the family members.
Not Mexican families. And I say that a little flippantly,
but a lot of Mexican culture they take care of
their older people, they live with them. But even now
that's changing. The number one growth industry in Mexico is
building senior care homes. They didn't have them before because
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you took care of Abelita, you took care of your grandparents.
But here it's just we're not set up and she's
got dementia and they don't know what type. She's ninety four,
so they don't know what type. And I thought about that.
I thought, all this computing power, all this advanced medicine,
and we can't figure out how to prevent dementia. That's
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like not the NUX. If I were president, that would
be the number one health issue that I would tackle
because it's terrible. It robs you of your senior life.
It robs your family. It causes great stress and duress.
It is a terrible, terrible thing where most of us
think if we get dementia, we'd be like Robin Williams
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and want to just do ourselves in We are not
set up for an aging America. There is discrimination everywhere
for people over fifty. Then you can't rejoin the work.
For us, it is so hard and if you do,
it'says a greeter at Walmart. You might be a skilled
engineer or whatever, but you got to go be a
greeter at Walmart, you know. I mean. So we are
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not We are not set up at all to deal
with an aging population. Now in the UK they are
set up a little bit better. They do have care homes.
We don't have care homes. Also in the UK, the
NHS pays for care workers to come to the house
three times a day. They'll come for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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They'll cook, they'll and this keeps people out of the
care homes. We don't have that. Solid security does not
cover a worker to come to your house three times
a day. They might cover once and maybe every other day.
It's like my neighbor downstairs John so Leah. His caretaker
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is a mess, and she does drugs, and she's called
the paramedics this year over one hundred times. Because I've
kept track, I'm that nosy kind of neighbor. And over
one hundred times she's called nine one one, not for him,
not for the bedridden disabled person, her husband that she
takes care of, but for her. Meanwhile, he's left to
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fend for himself. Basically, he can't get out of bed.
Many times I've had to go give him food and
they take him into rehab for two or three weeks
and then send him back. That is not a bechist.
What do you think the median age in America? I'll
tell you when we come back.
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Forward slash Early Correll. James Schnabel is in my chat room.
This man is so frickin' smart. I've had many conversations
with him off air and on air. This guy is
smart and he used to be a pathologist. I believe
that was the title of his job. He'll correct me
if I'm wrong, but he just said I was rejected
twice for post retirement positions. Too old to try again.
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Anyone would be lucky to have the counseling and the
wisdom of James Snabel. I don't like, haven't been to
his house to have drinks or anything, but I will
tell you this, I've been around medical people my whole life.
This man's the real deal. He knows a lot. And
if I were running a pathology center, I would want
him on as a senior advisor. I truly would. And
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yet he's too old, and so we have gone from
a nation of our founders who were old. By the way,
our median age in the country is thirty seven, but
one hundred and twenty four million of us are over fifty.
That's thirty seven percent. We're not set up, for instance,
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public transportation. When you get older, you don't want to drive,
you know. Nowadays, I truly wish there were there's these
zeus here in Las Vegas. I'm gonna go take you
on a ride for one this weekend and film it.
It's one of those Amazon automated cars. Amazon who today
had to pay two point five billion dollars because they
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proved in court that Amazon has tricked people into subscribing
to Amazon Prime. But two point five billion dollars to
Amazon is nothing. That's probably two days profits. So you know,
I'm at the age where I should just be able
to call a a little automated vehicle that comes, picks
me up and takes me places. It's safer, it's safer
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for other drivers. If everyone over the age of sixty,
let's say, use public transportation, you know or not. They
didn't have to, like not a law, but if it
was available, many would. None of our services are set
up really for the elderly and for the aged, and
yet we are becoming a country where very soon almost
forty percent of the nation will be over fifty, because
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the median age is thirty seven. So what do we do?
So many of you are saving up because you know
this day and now we because of modern medicine, we
have people living into their nineties. And so we have
sixty and seventy year old people who are aged themselves
having to take care of their ninety year old parents.
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And nobody thinks about this. This is not on the
national radar at all. Trump is eighty years old. You
would think that elder care would be something that guy's
you know, sensitive to, but he's rich, so he's not worried,
and he only worries about what's in his world. I
know y'all want me to talk about the possible indictment
(10:13):
of James Comy. I I'm not gonna come on here
every day and point out how close to Hitler we
are becoming prosecuting a former head of the FBI. Nor
am I going to tell you that yesterday I saw
a three different posts with a Nazi swatstika on the
left saying all of the things that the hit that
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the Nazis stood for, and then on the right saying
liberals and trying to say that liberals are Nazis. This
group of people, MAGA and the President, their stock in
trade is to project and to call the others on
the other side what they are. They're calling trans people
(10:55):
terrorist when we know it's MAGA that are the terrorist.
We know that they've done more damage to him America
and picked up a gun and used it more times
than anybody else. We know that it's a fact. They
won't they don't believe that fact, but it's a fact.
We know, beyond the shadow of a doubt that Donald
Trump and maga's treatment and rhetoric against immigrants is what
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caused the shooting yesterday. We know that, and yet they're
blaming Gavin Newsom for it. One of these horrible talk
show hosts, John coblt. He works at KFI Los Angeles.
It used to be John and Ken. Ken is gone
now I can't believe Ken did the show. Ken is
allegedly gay. I have seen evidence that Ken is gay,
(11:42):
but he never came out, so I can't say that
he is gay. But let's just say that everyone at
KFI just assumed that Ken of John and Ken was gay.
And I've seen photos of him with people that were
identified as his lover, so, but I've never slept with him,
so I can't say for sure. But allegedly Ken of
John and Ken was gay or is gay, and he
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had to sit there every day with this homophobe. And
this guy's out there saying it's Gavin Newsom's fault, when
it's Trump's fault, treating these people like subhuman, acting like
they were dirt, calling them names, painting them as criminals.
He has made enemies out of immigrants, That's just the truth.
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So you know, coming on here every day and saying, oh,
this happened again today, this happened again today, it's not
going to serve you. But talking about real issues. Here's
a real issue that America should be talking about. We
are not set up. Social Security is going to be
insolvent within six years. One of the number one priorities
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of this administration should be shoring up social Security, not
by cutting people off. And now they're saying they're going
to raise the retirement age, which is already sixty seven.
We should be lowering the retirement age. People should have
more time to enjoy life after they work. If you
work from when you're eighteen to sixty forty two years,
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you should be able to retire. The notion that you
now they're going to raise it. They're talking of raising
it to seventy till you have to work into your
seventy But how you cannot get a job. Let's say
you're fifty nine or sixty and you have to change careers.
You're not going to find a job to work out
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until you're seventy. We have a huge looming crisis of
seniors that will not be able to afford their own
homes or food, and we do not have a social
safety net set up to catch those seniors. And we
keep them in poverty. Already, seniors literally live in poverty
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if all they have is social security. They you've heard
the stories of them eating dog food, having to get
food bank food, Saint Vincent de Paul, Catholic charities meals
on wheels. How degrading. We degrade our seniors and make
them count change because they didn't set themselves up in
a country where it's nearly impossible to set yourself up.
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We blame seniors for not having money when in the
sixties and seventies and eighties and nineties it's been nearly
impossible in today's world to save money, and so we
blame them, Well, you should have set yourself up if
you want to retire for twenty years it's from sixty
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five to eighty five, and you want to live on
the minimum that we know that it takes to live
in America, which is now eighty thousand dollars a year
just to pay your bills. According to what it says
out there, that's one point six million dollars that you're
supposed to have in the bank by the time you're
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sixty five. I know very few people that had one
point six million dollars saved up in the bank by
the time they're sixty five, I have three thousand dollars
in the bank, and then I have my house, so
two hundred thousand. So I have two hundred and three
thousand dollars and that's it. So we tell seniors to
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get out, Go move to Malta, Go move to Mexico,
Go move where it's cheaper. You live your whole life
in America, you pay into American system, and then you
can't afford it in your senior year, so you have
to leave it. We treat aging people disgracefully and we
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never address it. Well I'm addressing it. We don't talk
about it. Well I'm talking about it. We have got
to do more. We have got to do better for
all citizens, but our seniors in particular. Doctors used to
make house calls. Now we do have here in Vegas.
(16:07):
We have a service called doctor Ru and my health
insurance will pay for them to come to my house.
They're not doctors, they're physicians assistants. But for mild things,
at least it's better than nothing. And I think they
can draw labs too. But there should be home health
care for almost any senior an and anywhere in the country.
(16:30):
Medicare is cutting out telehealth. It's not going to cover
telehealth after the Trump sees it as a pandemic thing.
So something that has given seniors access to health care,
access to their doctors without having to leave their home.
He now wants to cut that out, and many insurance
companies have telehealth is important. We are not helping our seniors.
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We're not. And that's where you coming. You know. Today
is Music Advocacy Day and I'm very excited. I'm going
to be meeting with R and B Legend, Angela Wynn Bush,
who I adore, look her up. I'm going to be
meeting with other industry professionals here in Vegas, all members
of Grammy, and we are going to go meet with
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Representative Susie Lee and talk about three key issues for
the music industry this year. The No Fakes Act, which
says you can't use our faces or our music through
AI without our permission or without licensing it period because
they're making new songs from new artists and it's not
the artist. The second is AI in general. We want
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companies like open ai to pay to train their AI
with our music. You see all these things now, oh
make a song, make a song, make a song, Well,
that computer had to learn how to make an R
and B song from something, and they didn't pay those creators.
You know, Publishing is the lifeblood of a of a
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music person period, not just for them, but for their heirs,
for their family. So if you wrote a song and
it's a hit, it can be a source of THEA
made a ton of money with rhythm as a dancer,
you know, And if any of the songs that I
write end up hitting, it could end up giving me
money for years to come, unless Congress doesn't protect that.
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And we're trying to get them to totally fund the
National Endowment for the Arts, which is only two hundred
and eighty three million dollars or point zero zero three
percent of the budget, But they haven't fully funded the
ANYA yet, and so we're gonna go meet and talk
with them. But one of the things people should be
meeting with their constituents about, and meeting with their representatives
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about actually scheduling meetings, is going down and talking to
your state rep. About seniors in your state. What is
that state rep going to do to make sure that
seniors in your state can age gracefully when's the last
time you even thought about calling your representative and talking
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about issues that affect the older people in America. It's
just not on anybody's radar. But meanwhile, we getting older
and social security is not the answer. We need national,
state sponsored care homes that are nice. You know, they
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don't have to be the Waldorf Astoria, but they shouldn't
be a flea ridden, you know, bag of a hotel.
We should treat seniors with dignity and respect, but we don't.
We let them live in squalor. And in the UK,
the biggest issue facing seniors is being addressed, and you
(19:56):
know what that is. How many of you know what
the biggest issue facing seniors is in the United States too.
It's it's epidemic. It's been declared an epidemic. How many
of you know anybody? Anybody, come on, Come on, loneliness, loneliness.
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Their family dies or doesn't want anything to do with
them because they're old, They don't have a large social
circle because getting out is nearly impossible. In the UK,
they did a national survey. One in three seniors doesn't
see another human in a month. They go a whole
(20:41):
month without seeing anybody, So This is a big issue loneliness.
What are we doing in America to combat loneliness? Not
just for seniors, for anybody. Nothing. We have no sense
of connection, no sense of community. We think they can
get on an iPad or an iPhone, and that's not connection.
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We do not take care of our elderly. And seven
percent of us are over fifty. One hundred and twenty
four million peoples out of three hundred and forty millions,
double the amount that voted for damas monks are over fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We do this, hegeta Now is show side?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
You know I'm having trouble with aging. I am. I
just never saw myself aging. I thought I knew I
would get old. But the concept of getting old and
actually aging is two different things. Betty Right, Betty Right, Bete,
Betty White, Betty writes a singer Betty White was right
(22:21):
when she said aging is not for the week, and
it's not you know, every day you wait for something
else to fall apart. When they put this heart monitor
on me, I told them, I said, I almost don't
want to know the results anymore. And she said, I
hear that from so many people your age. They're just
tired of being tested and they're tired of the results
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because as you age, stuff's going to go wrong. It
just does your body's you know, aging, and you're gonna die.
You know, I'm not here for a long time. I'm
here for a good time. You're gonna die. Yesterday I
had my I go to the dentist every three months
for a teeth cleaning, even though continues to criticize my
teeth on every video, every video there, go to a dentists,
(23:04):
see an orthodontist. I go to a dentist every three months.
And as we were cleaning yesterday, I had them search
for cancer because I'm terrified of that. I had HPV
when I was a kid at eighteen. I means you're
more apt to get oral cancer. And my friend Alan
Raidaman died because he was having a tooth extracted and
they found a cancerous lesion on his tongue and now
(23:26):
he's dead. And I it would take away my ability
to talk to sing. It's my worst nightmare. And so
I have some spots on my tongue, little red things
or little creases or crevices or whatever, and so I
have them always checked and he's like, I don't see
anything you know to worry about. But I thought, that's
the rest of my life. Every three months, I have
to have my mouth checked for lesions. Every year, I
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have to have my body checked for squamas cell carcinoma
because I had cancer. I had squamas cell carcinoma on
my face right here, and they did a mose procedure
and removed it. But squamis cells like to travel, so
now I have to have every year. They have to
look for skin cancer. Every year you have a physical,
they do all those labs, all the blood work. I
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have to have my prostate. I'm an aging man, so
I have to have my Luckily, my prostate PSA is
below one zero point six, so that's good. But you
see what I'm saying. As you age, all of a sudden,
there's all you have to have a colonoscopy every five
to ten years. You have to, you know, And and
these tests aren't in vain. They're looking for stuff. And
(24:32):
as I learned on House, whenever you go looking, you're
gonna find. From the show House, I learned a true
fact that a perfectly healthy individual, some an athlete at
the top of their game, you could put them in
the hospital and do every test known, and you'd find
three things wrong with them, because every human has three
things wrong with them at least all the time. And
(24:54):
so I think about aging. This morning, I was listening
to a playlist that Apple created for Army called Love,
and it was filled with like fifty percent dead people.
People that I love, Tina, Marie Whitney, Houston, Phillis Hyman,
Vesta Williams, you know on down the line that you
(25:17):
know Johnny mathis now retired, Frankie Valley now retired and
near dead, will almost retired and certainly near dead. You know.
I see movies the way we were, Robert Redford, Dead
streisand eighty three. I'm having trouble with aging. I don't
want to die. I don't I'm not of that age
yet where I want to die. I don't want to die.
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And yet there is less ahead of me than behind me.
And so you give all you give these people all
this stuff that they have to worry about, and then
they have to worry about food, shelter, access to medical
care because we don't take care of our seniors. And
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emotionally aging is not easy. Psychologically, oh, they tell you, oh,
you stop caring and you no, that's just not true.
There are some I don't give a shit anymore, you know,
moments because you're old, you're like, oh fuck it. But
you know, for the most part, you still care about
life and your family, and in your brain you're not old.
(26:22):
Your brain still thinks you can go conquer your dreams,
you can go do things. You know, you're still start
new projects. Your brain is like, yeah, let's go, go go,
and your body is like, fuck you. We don't teach
each other how to age. We don't. There's no courses
(26:44):
in aging, there's no manual. We just throw people to
the wolves. And then we center on youth and beauty.
And now older people look at Brian Seacrest, Oh my god,
and we're friends. He looks so hard. Oh my god,
he looks horrible. He used to be so handsome. He's
(27:04):
not anymore. He's got like a zembic face. His eyes
are bugging, his cheeks are probably with filler. He's using botox.
We make old people mutilate themselves now to just try
to look young. Barbara's had work done. Everybody has. I mean,
there's not an older celebrity that I can think of
that hasn't had a ton of shit done to their face. Literally,
(27:27):
we make people mutilate themselves. Look at Madonna, you know,
all to what to look young. Well, they might look young,
but they feel like shit on the inside. I'll tell
you that Madonna can pull everything back as tight as
she wants to. She's in sixty five, now sixty six.
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She still wakes up and goes ow. And more importantly,
we don't teach younger people how to let go, because
when you get older, you do have to let go.
You have to let go of certain dreams. You have
to let go of certain people, You have to let
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go of certain situations. You have to, you have no choice.
Some people can no longer live upstairs if they've lived
in an upstairs apartment their whole lives. Now they can't.
They can't carry groceries up they can't. You know, we
need to address aging issues. I want you to be
sensitive to them. I want you to reach out to
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your lawmakers, send them an email, send them a letter
and say, hey, you know, what are you doing to
help seniors in our community? And then ask yourself, what
am I doing to help seniors in my community? Could
I volunteer once a week to go visit shut ins.
Could I go to a hospital and volunteer? Could I go?
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I bring Embir to nursing homes because she's a service dog,
so I bring her to nursing homes and she just
brightens up their day. At us nursing home the twenty
thousand dollars a month, they literally had miniature horses there
when I was there in the courtyard visiting, but that
brightened up their day. Do you have a dog that
is friendly that you could get certified? Not service dog certified,
(29:14):
that's a different certification. You just make sure they're not aggressive,
that you could take to a nursing home and let
people just smile and pet them. We need to do better.
I will see you on Monday. I'm off the music
Advocacy Day for Grammy. I am Corelbee, who you want
to be from to hurt you, buddy, have a lovely
and safe weekend. Hopefully over the weekend will solve this
(29:36):
life lasting problem. I sent up a busling, so hopefully
that'll work.
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