September 29, 2025 • 29 mins
America Isn’t the Country You Think It Is | Karel Cast 25-121
America loves to call itself the “greatest country in the world”—but the numbers tell a different story. Over 350 mass shootings this year, a wannabe tyrant in the Oval Office, and a Supreme Court that props up a far-right agenda. 70% of our infrastructure is outdated, we lack public transportation, and universal health care is still a dream—while we remain #1 for medical bankruptcies.
The reality? 80% of Americans don’t have enough to retire. Care homes are broken, healthcare for aging is inadequate, and hatred—racism, homophobia, transphobia—runs rampant. Add to that endless wars and drug epidemics, and the myth of “American greatness” crumbles.
So here’s the question: are we ignoring reality because the truth is too painful to face?
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America loves to call itself the “greatest country in the world”—but the numbers tell a different story. Over 350 mass shootings this year, a wannabe tyrant in the Oval Office, and a Supreme Court that props up a far-right agenda. 70% of our infrastructure is outdated, we lack public transportation, and universal health care is still a dream—while we remain #1 for medical bankruptcies.
The reality? 80% of Americans don’t have enough to retire. Care homes are broken, healthcare for aging is inadequate, and hatred—racism, homophobia, transphobia—runs rampant. Add to that endless wars and drug epidemics, and the myth of “American greatness” crumbles.
So here’s the question: are we ignoring reality because the truth is too painful to face?
👉 Watch, share, and subscribe for fearless commentary on the real state of America.
youtube.com/reallykarel
#KarelCast, #AmericanReality, #MassShootings, #HealthcareCrisis, #RetirementCrisis, #USPolitics, #SupremeCourt, #MAGA, #AgingAmerica, #MedicalBankruptcy, #DrugCrisis, #Infrastructure, #IndependentMedia, #NewsAnalysis, #BreakingNews, #TruthToPower, #Racism, #Homophobia, #Transphobia, #AmericaInDecline
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The Karel Cast is supported by your donations at patreon.com/reallykarel and streams live Monday–Thursday at 10:30am PST. Available on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Apple Music, Spotify, iHeart Media, Spreaker, and all major platforms.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time is here. No time to fear. Corilla is so
(00:04):
near because show time is here. So on with the show.
Let's give it a go. Correll is the one that
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Now it's show side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Two conservative white men with guns stage, another tweet that
tofu is the enemy. You cannot make this stuff up.
We're going to remove the blinders and look at America
today on the Corral Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Uncensored, unfiltered, un hinged.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's the Corral Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Listen daily on your favorite streaming service.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is the croll Cast. I carell apologies to the
chat room in advance. My iPad is out on the bar.
I can't get it till the first break, but I
will get it, So start chatting and I will read
all of your comments during my first break. YouTube dot
com forward slash Really Corell is the place to go
to leave those comments. So yesterday, in the span of
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twelve hours, we had three mass shootings, three hundred and
eighty five mass shootings to date in the United States,
and we're only on day two hundred and ninety seven,
so we still got more to go. If that's, you know,
not good enough. And this morning, you would think the
President would be tweeting things about, you know, condolences, or
(01:43):
about gun violence and how we must get a handle
on the gun violence or something. You think he would
be tweeting something other than going to war with vegans.
And I'm not making this up. This morning, Donald Trump
tweeted that real men eat steaks, burgers, and hot dogs
and not tofu not that Donald Trump would know what
(02:04):
it's like to be a real man. Real men don't
wear makeup on their hands or orange makeup on their face.
Real men don't really dye their hair. Real men don't
cheat on their wives. Real men don't cheat their children
like crap. Real men don't do a lot of things
that Donald Trump does. But you know, what can I
say about that? But what we can do is really
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examine what's going on in America and you know, the
emperor having no clothes, all that sort of stuff. We
know that, we know that Donald Trump is a poor
excuse for a human and a poor excuse for a president.
We know that anyone with a brain. If you're a maga,
I'm sorry, you're too on. You're just not intelligent enough
(02:51):
to actually know these things. You've been brainwashed, you're a
cult member, You know that sort of stuff. But if
you are someone with a brain, then you know that
what's going on is reprehensible and that America is literally
falling apart at the scenes, and no one really seems
(03:14):
interested in fixing it, at least not in an earnest,
inclusive and forwardly progressive way. Everyone just seems interested in
their own, getting their own and division, dividing, conquering that
sort of thing. So we are left with the country
that we have. And I started going through this weekend
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was really depressing for me. I have to tell you
it was a I stopped speaking to a friend of
almost forty years this weekend. I can't take it anymore.
I'll tell you some of that later in the show.
But b I started researching based on an article that
I read about what it's like to retire in America
at age seventy five. And these people had resources where
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they could give them seventy five thousand dollars a year.
One of the people they profiled gives themselves one hundred
and forty thousand dollars a year. So I started researching
because I felt bad. I thought, oh my god, I
don't I ain't got this money. And so I felt badly,
and I said, how many Americans have more than one
million dollars in their retirement accounts? How many do you think?
(04:22):
What percentage of Americans do you think have more than
a million dollars in a retirement account? IRA four oh
one k all of that savings? How many Americans? I'll
check the chat room during the break. I want you
to guess right now, how many Americans do you think?
What percentage of Americans do you think have over a
(04:43):
million dollars for retirement? The number is four percent? Four percent.
So then I said, okay, well, maybe they ain't got
a million dollars liquid like you know in a four
oh one k's whatever, But what about if they're worth
more than a million dollars, because then they could leverage
their assets during their retirement. I said, okay, what percentage
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of America Americans have more than a million dollars in assets,
meaning they're home, their bank accounts, all of that. What
number do you think that is? How many Americans do
you think have a net worth of more than a
million dollars on paper? How many? Nineteen percent? So when
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I typed into chat GPT and said, so eighty one
percent of America is not prepared to retire, it said, yes,
and that is the largest financial issue facing the United
States of America, the largest. This is what chat GPT said.
(05:48):
The biggest issue we have is that eighty one percent
of America does not have the money to retire. But
we're going to talk about even more than.
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Show Time is here. No time to fear. Corrill is
so near because show time is here. So on with
the show. Let's give it a go.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Correll is the one that you need to know. All right,
we are back, and as promised, I got the computer
or the iPad, uh so I can get to your
chat room and I can see what you all are
talking about, which means I need this handy dandy wonderful
(06:45):
stand that I that I bought for this purpose and
can't get it. Ah, Let's see if social Security retirement
vehicle or an insurance program floor of support. Social Security
was designed to augment your pension. You know, it was
never meant to be the sole income. Reverse mortgages are
going to skyrocket more than a million, maybe five percent
(07:08):
nineteen percent, Sandy, well five percent, you were right if
you say more than a million hat in the bank.
So yeah, will be reverse mortgages. Yeah, exactly. So social
Security is about to disappear. I agree with people in
the chatroom on that. So after researching, and I got
(07:29):
really worried, to be honest with you, I literally could
barely sleep last night because I thought, what am I
gonna do? You know, I don't have the money. I'm
sixty two, I'll be sixty three in a month. I
have two hundred thousand dollars that I'm standing in, which
in Vegas prices are dropping, dropping, dropping, and I'm reliant
(07:51):
upon Social Security, which we know if the government shuts down,
and it's going to that after a while, social Security
will be forced to shut down as well. And Trump
will let it because he'll blame the Democrats because he
doesn't care about people. He cares about blame and revenge,
and so he'll blame the Democrats and people like myself
(08:12):
won't get checks. Now that's just what's going to happen.
So I got really panicked last night, which is not
good if you're wearing this, y'all see what I'm wearing.
So I got really panicked, and I thought, how are
you going to earn a million and a half dollars
in like four years until you're sixty seven. Now it
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can be done. It can be done. Of course, entertainment
is dying, so the industry that I would earn it in.
You know, this weekend there was this guy named Speed
here in Las Vegas, and everybody was making a big
deal about him. I have no clue who he is.
He's a social media media person that has a whole
bunch of followers. He's African American, he's young. He comments
(08:59):
on football games and soccer games, and he takes the
camera with him when he goes and does things in
real life, and that's it. He has no discernible talent.
But he just got a forty million dollar endorsement deal
because of all of his followers. What's gonna happen to
these people like him who don't save their money and
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they're not going to when social media no longer pays
their bills, and they have no skills, They certainly don't
finish college. These influencers and all these other people. We
are raising a generation that thinks they can be famous
in the ether and that that's going to be long lasting,
that's going to be a career. It's not. And so
(09:42):
here I was paniced last night, like, what are you
going to do? Even if I got a job, a
good paying job doing something out of entertainment, which God
knows what it would be after thirty years of being
a talk show host, Even if I got a job
in talk radio, I'm not gonna be able to save
him million and a half dollars in four years. So
(10:04):
I was like, you're gonna end up in some hell
hole somewhere. And that really looks like my future SAG
after is two grand a month is not going to
pay for my life when Social Security disappears. So I
was panic stricken, and you should be. Two eighty one
percent of America does not have enough money to retire.
(10:27):
The average four toh one k at age fifty five
now is two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That is
the average that is not enough to retire. So what
are we going to do with the generation of people
that can't afford their own lives? Because it's coming and
(10:48):
Trump's not preparing for it, and states aren't preparing for it.
But not just that. I started to look at all
of America with these mass shootings. The only country in
the world to have three hundred plus mass shootings this year,
short of sub Saharan African nations that are at war
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or don't have a government, we are the only industrialized
nation to have three hundred plus mass shootings. When you
type in top ten of everything, infant mortality, we're number
twenty three. Education, we're number fourteen. Healthcare outcomes, even though
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we spend more money than any country on individual healthcare.
When it comes to outcomes, we're number seventeen. So we
spend all this money, but we have terrible outcomes from
healthcare number seventeen. Our infrastructure seventy two percent of America's
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infrastructure is falling apart or needs to be replaced. Seventy
two percent public transportation. We are number twenty one in
the world for adequate public transportation. The only thing America
is number one in is incarceration and mass shootings. That's it.
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We are not number one in anything else. So we
talk about making America great, America is not great. In fact, America,
by the numbers is kind of a shithole country. Now,
I'm sorry if you don't like that. Those are the statistics.
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We are number eleven in the world when it comes
to college graduates. The IQ of the average American ranks
number fourteen in the world. We're stupid. Yes, we have
more billionaires than any other country. We do, so we
got that. So America it's not this great, shining beacon
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of a country that excels at everything. On the contrary,
America is a failing country that is failing at innovation.
We are failing at invention. We are failing in leadership.
We are failing in health care outcomes. We are failing
in mortality of our children. The number one cause of
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death for children under the age of eighteen in America
is gun violence. We are the only nation with that statistic.
I hate to say it, but by the numbers, America
sucks and Mago's quick responsible we even get out, then
get out. It wouldn't be then how do we improve it?
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See MAGA wouldn't say, well, then how do we improve it?
They'd say, well, then if you don't like it, just
get out. Because they are content to have low education standards.
They are content to have bad health care outcomes. They
are content they think they're gonna be taken care of
when they get older. They're not. America is failing right
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in front of us. It is drowning, It is going under,
and it is taking us with it. If eighty one
percent of us cannot afford to grow old in this country,
what's gonna happen to us? Soilent green chambers where we
show up and get disintegrated like the Twilight Zone, what's
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going to happen to us? I don't know. I couldn't
tell you what's going to happen to me. I don't know,
because if you look at all of the numbers for
everything our response to climate change. This morning, when when
Trump attacked vegans, he first started by attacking windmills, he said,
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just like those unsightly windmills that do nothing, the soy boys.
You know what, being a vegan is the only answer
to save America and the planet, and the fact that
he is dead set against it means it is the
only answer to save the country. But when you have
(15:17):
someone attacking a healthy lifestyle because he seems to think
that real many stakes, that's where we're at as a nation.
That's who's leading this country. Someone more concerned about people
eating tofu than he is. A forty year old Iraq
veteran who had a Trump sign on his house in
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the last election, who is a gun owner hunter and
had two American flags on the back of the pickup
truck that he drove through the church. That's MAGA. Then
the guy in North Carolina that shot into the crowd
sued a church last year. You know why because he
(16:01):
said LGBTQ people were trying to kill him for being heterosexual.
And where did he get that rhetoric from. Oh, I
don't know, maybe all of MAGA talking about straight pride
and all of that. Trump is creating killers and they
(16:21):
are being unleashed on our communities and he tweets about tofu. Meanwhile,
as a nation, every statistic about your better quality of life,
we do rank high. For a couple of things. We
have the highest cost of living, we have the highest
price of groceries. I mean, there's a lot of things.
(16:44):
We do rank number one in highest healthcare cost per
person in the world with the lowest outcome, So we
do rank high in a few things. We are number
one for low taxes, for billionaires. I don't know how
you feel about that, and so I tell myself, you know,
(17:05):
if we took off the rose colored glasses, if we
stopped believing the propaganda and we just looked at the
facts about America, if you were looking for a country
to move to, Let's say you didn't live here and
you were looking for a nation to move to, you
would not choose America. The mass shootings alone, we had
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three in one day, at a church, at a restaurant,
at a party. Just those alone would keep you out
of the country. Everyone says, oh, but our healthcare is
so great, then why do we have such bad outcomes?
Why do we spend more money per patient and yet
have worse outcomes. It's the country is failing in front
(17:54):
of me, and so here I am aging. I do
not have the million and a half dollars that I
will need in four years to quote retire unquote. The
job market for people over sixty is almost nonexistent. So
what do I do to flourish in my own country
as gays are being turned upon? You know, being an
(18:16):
openly gay broadcaster again is just it is more. It
is harder now for me as a gay person to
get a job in media than it was in the
mid nineties when we got the jobs in media, and
we're the only ones. It's harder now in twenty twenty
five to be an openly gay broadcaster than it was
(18:38):
in nineteen ninety five. And I know a lot of
you are sitting there now going, you know, well, let's see,
let's look in the chat room. Uh Trump is a
fat burger. Amen. Trump tweeting about TOFU is another way
of dividing us. Now he wants to turn people against vegans. Yes,
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he does, actually, and of course the Epstein files. What
TOFU has to do with the Epstein files, I'll never know.
You know, we have a criminal in power that slept
with seventeen and sixteen year old girls, or is protecting
people who did. And what's his agenda of the morning,
Let's slam vegans. We have mass shootings going on by MAGA,
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and MAGA is trying to paint it that it's the left,
radical liberals. There is a chart in the New York
Times about political violence and violence in America. Who commits it?
And guess what it's a It's a bar graph. This
much of the bar conservatives, Ey ey, teeny part of
the bar liberals, and yet they're trying to flip it.
(19:49):
They're trying to say, oh no, this much of liberals,
and no, Maga not only supports violence, they what are
the color? When you put what's the word it's a
legal turn, you suborn it. When you empower it through
your language, you suborn it. They suborn violence through their rhetoric,
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through their anti gay rhetoric, through their anti lesbian rhetoric,
through their anti trans rhetoric, through their anti immigrant rhetoric. Meanwhile,
they're deploying National Guard troops to Portland. Neither the governor
or the mayor want it, and they're doing it anyway,
ignoring states' rights, deploying National Guard all over the country
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so he can instill martial law and suspend the midterms,
which he knows he will lose. So what does America
stand for anymore? What kind of quality of life are
we able to have in this country? If you are
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not wealthy, if you do not make more than three
or four hundred thousand dollars a year, what kind of
quality of life does America offer? The serious question, if
you're not Maga living in your own delude, you know,
delusional Christian world. What's the reality of life in America?
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Being shot, being broke, very sad, very sad state of
affairs in that December.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Very subsmat stay now is show?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You know the other thing that got me all depressed
this weekend? Maybe y'all can relate to this. So about
six months ago, a friend of forty plus years who
has been involved in every aspect of my life sent
me a weird text. You know, they had been complimenting
my music, and I said, thank you so much. You know,
I could not be doing this without you. Thank you,
(22:21):
thank you. And they then texted back and said, you know,
I've complimented you a bunch over the last month or
two and you just haven't really acknowledged that enough for me.
And I'm like, what I say, thank you? What more
do you want me to do? Well? I just don't
think you value my opinion. I tell you all the
(22:43):
time how much I love you, admire you, how grateful
I am for you in my life. I thank you
all the time. How is my gratitude about you know
this not enough? How is saying thank you not enough
every time we speak, telling you how important you are
to me? How is that not enough, so they blocked me.
(23:08):
Thirty seven years I've known this person, and they block
my calls and block my text so I'm like, okay, whatever.
So then about four months later they unblocked me and
we start talking again. And then someone very important to
them dies. But this person was also very important to
the gay community. So I send a text, Oh, I
(23:31):
am so sorry for your loss. Please tell her wife
how sorry I am for her loss. This is such
an enormous loss to the gay community. This person was
such an important member of the gay community. This is
so terrible. I'm so sorry to hear this. This person
got mad because they said I wasn't contrite enough and
(23:54):
that I made it about me by mentioning how important
this person was to the gay community. So you make
it all about yourself. It's like, I'm not the gay community.
I'm not like the entire gay community. How is that
about myself? They were important to the gay community, but
because they didn't think that I was sad enough for them,
even though I said you have my deepest condolences, that
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wasn't enough. So they blocked me again. So then they
reach out again and say I'm on a spiritual retreat,
please don't call their text I'm like, okay, so I don't,
and then I apologize via an email and the person says,
all is forgiven. Can't wait to catch up when I
get back from the East Coast, can't wait to talk
(24:40):
to you. So I wait three weeks, don't get a
phone call, don't get a text, send a couple over
that three weeks, thinking we're okay again, and finally I
get another text. I've been on these spiritual retreats and
I am of the higher frequency now and I claim
blessings in the name of Jesus Christ and the number nine,
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and you're on a low frequency, and you bring negativity
because you talk about events in the world that are negative.
I've been a talk show host for thirty years. This
person knows that. So I just can't talk to you anymore.
You just you know, I wish you blessings and I
wish you love, but you're a low frequency and I'm
a high frequency, and I just can't bear it, and
(25:21):
I just can't speak to you. And then they send
me this video, an hour long video of all the
planets aligning and the number nine, nine, nine, and claiming
you're whatever through Christ. This is a person who I've
had to forgive for their statements saying that trans women
are not real women, even though I was wrong about that.
(25:43):
For a long time, I've seen the light and I've
told them that's transphobic. Yet they don't care, and they
make a ton of money from the gay community, but
they set out loud trans women are not real women.
I'm a real woman. They're not. They said that to me.
This is a person who wouldn't introduce me to someone
(26:04):
they were dating because that person was Muslim and they
weren't aware of how they would handle such a gay person.
That's homophobia. And now they're going to send me all
this woo woo stuff about nine ninety nine and the
universe and claiming in the name of the Lord when
they know I'm an atheist, and I let that bother me.
(26:26):
I'm like, oh, well, maybe I'm a bad person, maybe
I'm not grateful enough, maybe I had And then finally
I just said, I don't know. This person's lost their mind.
And so after thirty seven years, no more, no more talking,
and they say I'm toxic because I talk about world events,
And I said, you've excused me for you've you've mistaken
(26:49):
me for the news. I can't you know, We've talked
about politics and the news our entire friendship. You will
call me just to talk about politics and the news.
And now if I bring it up, I'm negative. Well,
the world is negative. I'm sorry. And so now I'm wondering,
should I even talk about the world to my friends
(27:10):
because it is so negative it is a downer? Should
I not even speak when I'm talking to friends about
what's going on in the world because it's just not positive.
It had me questioning myself, questioning everything. And then finally
I just said, no, they're insane. Actually they they're homophobic
(27:32):
and don't even know it, and they've gone insane. There
I claim the blessings and the name of nine ninety nine,
and oh the universe is aligning at this date. To
you know, all the frequency and the vibrations of the
universe does not vibrate. That's a myth. That's a myth.
Anyone that tells you that there's a universal vibration frequency
(27:53):
is wrong. There's no sound in space at all, and
there's no frequency. Yes, there are radio waves in the universe,
but it's not anyway they're just insane. So that hurt
and I spent the weekend hurting over that, over someone
from thirty seven years just you know, and the fact
(28:13):
that I've had to forgive them for a whole lot
in our lifetime and never blocked them, never not took
their call when they didn't come to Andrew's funeral because
they had work. Okay, you know, don't introduce me to
your boyfriend. Okay, don't tell me you're doing an engagement
thirty miles from my house because your boyfriend's there and
you don't want me there to mix with him. Okay,
(28:36):
had to find out on social media. Okay, I get
to forgive all of that, But now you get to
tell me I'm a negative person of low frequency because
I talk about world defense. Okay, maybe i am. Maybe
the country is one big downer and it's turned me
into a big downer. You know, maybe that's maybe that's
(28:58):
somewhat the truth. Maybe I need to stop talking about politics,
Maybe I need to stop paying attention to Donald Trump,
or maybe hiding one's head in the sand and just
ignoring it is not the way to go. Maybe looking
at these negative events and saying, oh I just don't
(29:18):
want to know. Is too much. There's a person at
my door. My dog is going to part so maybe
we'll see. We'll see, all right, we'll be back tomorrow.
I'm Corel be who you want to be, so I
don't hurt your buddy. So glad you could join me today,
And I hope you haven't had an experience like that
this weekend. We're a long term friend. Set off the lavista,
(29:41):
but you know, you win
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Some broadcasting from a completely different point of view yours
Time is here. No time to fear. Corilla is so
(00:04):
near because show time is here. So on with the show.
Let's give it a go. Correll is the one that
you need to know.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Now it's show side.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Two conservative white men with guns stage, another tweet that
tofu is the enemy. You cannot make this stuff up.
We're going to remove the blinders and look at America
today on the Corral Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Uncensored, unfiltered, un hinged.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's the Corral Cast.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Listen daily on your favorite streaming service.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is the croll Cast. I carell apologies to the
chat room in advance. My iPad is out on the bar.
I can't get it till the first break, but I
will get it, So start chatting and I will read
all of your comments during my first break. YouTube dot
com forward slash Really Corell is the place to go
to leave those comments. So yesterday, in the span of
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twelve hours, we had three mass shootings, three hundred and
eighty five mass shootings to date in the United States,
and we're only on day two hundred and ninety seven,
so we still got more to go. If that's, you know,
not good enough. And this morning, you would think the
President would be tweeting things about, you know, condolences, or
(01:43):
about gun violence and how we must get a handle
on the gun violence or something. You think he would
be tweeting something other than going to war with vegans.
And I'm not making this up. This morning, Donald Trump
tweeted that real men eat steaks, burgers, and hot dogs
and not tofu not that Donald Trump would know what
(02:04):
it's like to be a real man. Real men don't
wear makeup on their hands or orange makeup on their face.
Real men don't really dye their hair. Real men don't
cheat on their wives. Real men don't cheat their children
like crap. Real men don't do a lot of things
that Donald Trump does. But you know, what can I
say about that? But what we can do is really
(02:28):
examine what's going on in America and you know, the
emperor having no clothes, all that sort of stuff. We
know that, we know that Donald Trump is a poor
excuse for a human and a poor excuse for a president.
We know that anyone with a brain. If you're a maga,
I'm sorry, you're too on. You're just not intelligent enough
(02:51):
to actually know these things. You've been brainwashed, you're a
cult member, You know that sort of stuff. But if
you are someone with a brain, then you know that
what's going on is reprehensible and that America is literally
falling apart at the scenes, and no one really seems
(03:14):
interested in fixing it, at least not in an earnest,
inclusive and forwardly progressive way. Everyone just seems interested in
their own, getting their own and division, dividing, conquering that
sort of thing. So we are left with the country
that we have. And I started going through this weekend
(03:37):
was really depressing for me. I have to tell you
it was a I stopped speaking to a friend of
almost forty years this weekend. I can't take it anymore.
I'll tell you some of that later in the show.
But b I started researching based on an article that
I read about what it's like to retire in America
at age seventy five. And these people had resources where
(03:59):
they could give them seventy five thousand dollars a year.
One of the people they profiled gives themselves one hundred
and forty thousand dollars a year. So I started researching
because I felt bad. I thought, oh my god, I
don't I ain't got this money. And so I felt badly,
and I said, how many Americans have more than one
million dollars in their retirement accounts? How many do you think?
(04:22):
What percentage of Americans do you think have more than
a million dollars in a retirement account? IRA four oh
one k all of that savings? How many Americans? I'll
check the chat room during the break. I want you
to guess right now, how many Americans do you think?
What percentage of Americans do you think have over a
(04:43):
million dollars for retirement? The number is four percent? Four percent.
So then I said, okay, well, maybe they ain't got
a million dollars liquid like you know in a four
oh one k's whatever, But what about if they're worth
more than a million dollars, because then they could leverage
their assets during their retirement. I said, okay, what percentage
(05:04):
of America Americans have more than a million dollars in assets,
meaning they're home, their bank accounts, all of that. What
number do you think that is? How many Americans do
you think have a net worth of more than a
million dollars on paper? How many? Nineteen percent? So when
(05:26):
I typed into chat GPT and said, so eighty one
percent of America is not prepared to retire, it said, yes,
and that is the largest financial issue facing the United
States of America, the largest. This is what chat GPT said.
(05:48):
The biggest issue we have is that eighty one percent
of America does not have the money to retire. But
we're going to talk about even more than.
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Correll is the one that you need to know. All right,
we are back, and as promised, I got the computer
or the iPad, uh so I can get to your
chat room and I can see what you all are
talking about, which means I need this handy dandy wonderful
(06:45):
stand that I that I bought for this purpose and
can't get it. Ah, Let's see if social Security retirement
vehicle or an insurance program floor of support. Social Security
was designed to augment your pension. You know, it was
never meant to be the sole income. Reverse mortgages are
going to skyrocket more than a million, maybe five percent
(07:08):
nineteen percent, Sandy, well five percent, you were right if
you say more than a million hat in the bank.
So yeah, will be reverse mortgages. Yeah, exactly. So social
Security is about to disappear. I agree with people in
the chatroom on that. So after researching, and I got
(07:29):
really worried, to be honest with you, I literally could
barely sleep last night because I thought, what am I
gonna do? You know, I don't have the money. I'm
sixty two, I'll be sixty three in a month. I
have two hundred thousand dollars that I'm standing in, which
in Vegas prices are dropping, dropping, dropping, and I'm reliant
(07:51):
upon Social Security, which we know if the government shuts down,
and it's going to that after a while, social Security
will be forced to shut down as well. And Trump
will let it because he'll blame the Democrats because he
doesn't care about people. He cares about blame and revenge,
and so he'll blame the Democrats and people like myself
(08:12):
won't get checks. Now that's just what's going to happen.
So I got really panicked last night, which is not
good if you're wearing this, y'all see what I'm wearing.
So I got really panicked, and I thought, how are
you going to earn a million and a half dollars
in like four years until you're sixty seven. Now it
(08:35):
can be done. It can be done. Of course, entertainment
is dying, so the industry that I would earn it in.
You know, this weekend there was this guy named Speed
here in Las Vegas, and everybody was making a big
deal about him. I have no clue who he is.
He's a social media media person that has a whole
bunch of followers. He's African American, he's young. He comments
(08:59):
on football games and soccer games, and he takes the
camera with him when he goes and does things in
real life, and that's it. He has no discernible talent.
But he just got a forty million dollar endorsement deal
because of all of his followers. What's gonna happen to
these people like him who don't save their money and
(09:19):
they're not going to when social media no longer pays
their bills, and they have no skills, They certainly don't
finish college. These influencers and all these other people. We
are raising a generation that thinks they can be famous
in the ether and that that's going to be long lasting,
that's going to be a career. It's not. And so
(09:42):
here I was paniced last night, like, what are you
going to do? Even if I got a job, a
good paying job doing something out of entertainment, which God
knows what it would be after thirty years of being
a talk show host, Even if I got a job
in talk radio, I'm not gonna be able to save
him million and a half dollars in four years. So
(10:04):
I was like, you're gonna end up in some hell
hole somewhere. And that really looks like my future SAG
after is two grand a month is not going to
pay for my life when Social Security disappears. So I
was panic stricken, and you should be. Two eighty one
percent of America does not have enough money to retire.
(10:27):
The average four toh one k at age fifty five
now is two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That is
the average that is not enough to retire. So what
are we going to do with the generation of people
that can't afford their own lives? Because it's coming and
(10:48):
Trump's not preparing for it, and states aren't preparing for it.
But not just that. I started to look at all
of America with these mass shootings. The only country in
the world to have three hundred plus mass shootings this year,
short of sub Saharan African nations that are at war
(11:10):
or don't have a government, we are the only industrialized
nation to have three hundred plus mass shootings. When you
type in top ten of everything, infant mortality, we're number
twenty three. Education, we're number fourteen. Healthcare outcomes, even though
(11:31):
we spend more money than any country on individual healthcare.
When it comes to outcomes, we're number seventeen. So we
spend all this money, but we have terrible outcomes from
healthcare number seventeen. Our infrastructure seventy two percent of America's
(11:52):
infrastructure is falling apart or needs to be replaced. Seventy
two percent public transportation. We are number twenty one in
the world for adequate public transportation. The only thing America
is number one in is incarceration and mass shootings. That's it.
(12:17):
We are not number one in anything else. So we
talk about making America great, America is not great. In fact, America,
by the numbers is kind of a shithole country. Now,
I'm sorry if you don't like that. Those are the statistics.
(12:38):
We are number eleven in the world when it comes
to college graduates. The IQ of the average American ranks
number fourteen in the world. We're stupid. Yes, we have
more billionaires than any other country. We do, so we
got that. So America it's not this great, shining beacon
(13:02):
of a country that excels at everything. On the contrary,
America is a failing country that is failing at innovation.
We are failing at invention. We are failing in leadership.
We are failing in health care outcomes. We are failing
in mortality of our children. The number one cause of
(13:25):
death for children under the age of eighteen in America
is gun violence. We are the only nation with that statistic.
I hate to say it, but by the numbers, America
sucks and Mago's quick responsible we even get out, then
get out. It wouldn't be then how do we improve it?
(13:46):
See MAGA wouldn't say, well, then how do we improve it?
They'd say, well, then if you don't like it, just
get out. Because they are content to have low education standards.
They are content to have bad health care outcomes. They
are content they think they're gonna be taken care of
when they get older. They're not. America is failing right
(14:11):
in front of us. It is drowning, It is going under,
and it is taking us with it. If eighty one
percent of us cannot afford to grow old in this country,
what's gonna happen to us? Soilent green chambers where we
show up and get disintegrated like the Twilight Zone, what's
(14:33):
going to happen to us? I don't know. I couldn't
tell you what's going to happen to me. I don't know,
because if you look at all of the numbers for
everything our response to climate change. This morning, when when
Trump attacked vegans, he first started by attacking windmills, he said,
(14:56):
just like those unsightly windmills that do nothing, the soy boys.
You know what, being a vegan is the only answer
to save America and the planet, and the fact that
he is dead set against it means it is the
only answer to save the country. But when you have
(15:17):
someone attacking a healthy lifestyle because he seems to think
that real many stakes, that's where we're at as a nation.
That's who's leading this country. Someone more concerned about people
eating tofu than he is. A forty year old Iraq
veteran who had a Trump sign on his house in
(15:39):
the last election, who is a gun owner hunter and
had two American flags on the back of the pickup
truck that he drove through the church. That's MAGA. Then
the guy in North Carolina that shot into the crowd
sued a church last year. You know why because he
(16:01):
said LGBTQ people were trying to kill him for being heterosexual.
And where did he get that rhetoric from. Oh, I
don't know, maybe all of MAGA talking about straight pride
and all of that. Trump is creating killers and they
(16:21):
are being unleashed on our communities and he tweets about tofu. Meanwhile,
as a nation, every statistic about your better quality of life,
we do rank high. For a couple of things. We
have the highest cost of living, we have the highest
price of groceries. I mean, there's a lot of things.
(16:44):
We do rank number one in highest healthcare cost per
person in the world with the lowest outcome, So we
do rank high in a few things. We are number
one for low taxes, for billionaires. I don't know how
you feel about that, and so I tell myself, you know,
(17:05):
if we took off the rose colored glasses, if we
stopped believing the propaganda and we just looked at the
facts about America, if you were looking for a country
to move to, Let's say you didn't live here and
you were looking for a nation to move to, you
would not choose America. The mass shootings alone, we had
(17:30):
three in one day, at a church, at a restaurant,
at a party. Just those alone would keep you out
of the country. Everyone says, oh, but our healthcare is
so great, then why do we have such bad outcomes?
Why do we spend more money per patient and yet
have worse outcomes. It's the country is failing in front
(17:54):
of me, and so here I am aging. I do
not have the million and a half dollars that I
will need in four years to quote retire unquote. The
job market for people over sixty is almost nonexistent. So
what do I do to flourish in my own country
as gays are being turned upon? You know, being an
(18:16):
openly gay broadcaster again is just it is more. It
is harder now for me as a gay person to
get a job in media than it was in the
mid nineties when we got the jobs in media, and
we're the only ones. It's harder now in twenty twenty
five to be an openly gay broadcaster than it was
(18:38):
in nineteen ninety five. And I know a lot of
you are sitting there now going, you know, well, let's see,
let's look in the chat room. Uh Trump is a
fat burger. Amen. Trump tweeting about TOFU is another way
of dividing us. Now he wants to turn people against vegans. Yes,
(18:59):
he does, actually, and of course the Epstein files. What
TOFU has to do with the Epstein files, I'll never know.
You know, we have a criminal in power that slept
with seventeen and sixteen year old girls, or is protecting
people who did. And what's his agenda of the morning,
Let's slam vegans. We have mass shootings going on by MAGA,
(19:24):
and MAGA is trying to paint it that it's the left,
radical liberals. There is a chart in the New York
Times about political violence and violence in America. Who commits it?
And guess what it's a It's a bar graph. This
much of the bar conservatives, Ey ey, teeny part of
the bar liberals, and yet they're trying to flip it.
(19:49):
They're trying to say, oh no, this much of liberals,
and no, Maga not only supports violence, they what are
the color? When you put what's the word it's a
legal turn, you suborn it. When you empower it through
your language, you suborn it. They suborn violence through their rhetoric,
(20:12):
through their anti gay rhetoric, through their anti lesbian rhetoric,
through their anti trans rhetoric, through their anti immigrant rhetoric. Meanwhile,
they're deploying National Guard troops to Portland. Neither the governor
or the mayor want it, and they're doing it anyway,
ignoring states' rights, deploying National Guard all over the country
(20:35):
so he can instill martial law and suspend the midterms,
which he knows he will lose. So what does America
stand for anymore? What kind of quality of life are
we able to have in this country? If you are
(20:56):
not wealthy, if you do not make more than three
or four hundred thousand dollars a year, what kind of
quality of life does America offer? The serious question, if
you're not Maga living in your own delude, you know,
delusional Christian world. What's the reality of life in America?
(21:19):
Being shot, being broke, very sad, very sad state of
affairs in that December.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Very subsmat stay now is show?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You know the other thing that got me all depressed
this weekend? Maybe y'all can relate to this. So about
six months ago, a friend of forty plus years who
has been involved in every aspect of my life sent
me a weird text. You know, they had been complimenting
my music, and I said, thank you so much. You know,
I could not be doing this without you. Thank you,
(22:21):
thank you. And they then texted back and said, you know,
I've complimented you a bunch over the last month or
two and you just haven't really acknowledged that enough for me.
And I'm like, what I say, thank you? What more
do you want me to do? Well? I just don't
think you value my opinion. I tell you all the
(22:43):
time how much I love you, admire you, how grateful
I am for you in my life. I thank you
all the time. How is my gratitude about you know
this not enough? How is saying thank you not enough
every time we speak, telling you how important you are
to me? How is that not enough, so they blocked me.
(23:08):
Thirty seven years I've known this person, and they block
my calls and block my text so I'm like, okay, whatever.
So then about four months later they unblocked me and
we start talking again. And then someone very important to
them dies. But this person was also very important to
the gay community. So I send a text, Oh, I
(23:31):
am so sorry for your loss. Please tell her wife
how sorry I am for her loss. This is such
an enormous loss to the gay community. This person was
such an important member of the gay community. This is
so terrible. I'm so sorry to hear this. This person
got mad because they said I wasn't contrite enough and
(23:54):
that I made it about me by mentioning how important
this person was to the gay community. So you make
it all about yourself. It's like, I'm not the gay community.
I'm not like the entire gay community. How is that
about myself? They were important to the gay community, but
because they didn't think that I was sad enough for them,
even though I said you have my deepest condolences, that
(24:19):
wasn't enough. So they blocked me again. So then they
reach out again and say I'm on a spiritual retreat,
please don't call their text I'm like, okay, so I don't,
and then I apologize via an email and the person says,
all is forgiven. Can't wait to catch up when I
get back from the East Coast, can't wait to talk
(24:40):
to you. So I wait three weeks, don't get a
phone call, don't get a text, send a couple over
that three weeks, thinking we're okay again, and finally I
get another text. I've been on these spiritual retreats and
I am of the higher frequency now and I claim
blessings in the name of Jesus Christ and the number nine,
(25:00):
and you're on a low frequency, and you bring negativity
because you talk about events in the world that are negative.
I've been a talk show host for thirty years. This
person knows that. So I just can't talk to you anymore.
You just you know, I wish you blessings and I
wish you love, but you're a low frequency and I'm
a high frequency, and I just can't bear it, and
(25:21):
I just can't speak to you. And then they send
me this video, an hour long video of all the
planets aligning and the number nine, nine, nine, and claiming
you're whatever through Christ. This is a person who I've
had to forgive for their statements saying that trans women
are not real women, even though I was wrong about that.
(25:43):
For a long time, I've seen the light and I've
told them that's transphobic. Yet they don't care, and they
make a ton of money from the gay community, but
they set out loud trans women are not real women.
I'm a real woman. They're not. They said that to me.
This is a person who wouldn't introduce me to someone
(26:04):
they were dating because that person was Muslim and they
weren't aware of how they would handle such a gay person.
That's homophobia. And now they're going to send me all
this woo woo stuff about nine ninety nine and the
universe and claiming in the name of the Lord when
they know I'm an atheist, and I let that bother me.
(26:26):
I'm like, oh, well, maybe I'm a bad person, maybe
I'm not grateful enough, maybe I had And then finally
I just said, I don't know. This person's lost their mind.
And so after thirty seven years, no more, no more talking,
and they say I'm toxic because I talk about world events,
And I said, you've excused me for you've you've mistaken
(26:49):
me for the news. I can't you know, We've talked
about politics and the news our entire friendship. You will
call me just to talk about politics and the news.
And now if I bring it up, I'm negative. Well,
the world is negative. I'm sorry. And so now I'm wondering,
should I even talk about the world to my friends
(27:10):
because it is so negative it is a downer? Should
I not even speak when I'm talking to friends about
what's going on in the world because it's just not positive.
It had me questioning myself, questioning everything. And then finally
I just said, no, they're insane. Actually they they're homophobic
(27:32):
and don't even know it, and they've gone insane. There
I claim the blessings and the name of nine ninety nine,
and oh the universe is aligning at this date. To
you know, all the frequency and the vibrations of the
universe does not vibrate. That's a myth. That's a myth.
Anyone that tells you that there's a universal vibration frequency
(27:53):
is wrong. There's no sound in space at all, and
there's no frequency. Yes, there are radio waves in the universe,
but it's not anyway they're just insane. So that hurt
and I spent the weekend hurting over that, over someone
from thirty seven years just you know, and the fact
(28:13):
that I've had to forgive them for a whole lot
in our lifetime and never blocked them, never not took
their call when they didn't come to Andrew's funeral because
they had work. Okay, you know, don't introduce me to
your boyfriend. Okay, don't tell me you're doing an engagement
thirty miles from my house because your boyfriend's there and
you don't want me there to mix with him. Okay,
(28:36):
had to find out on social media. Okay, I get
to forgive all of that, But now you get to
tell me I'm a negative person of low frequency because
I talk about world defense. Okay, maybe i am. Maybe
the country is one big downer and it's turned me
into a big downer. You know, maybe that's maybe that's
(28:58):
somewhat the truth. Maybe I need to stop talking about politics,
Maybe I need to stop paying attention to Donald Trump,
or maybe hiding one's head in the sand and just
ignoring it is not the way to go. Maybe looking
at these negative events and saying, oh I just don't
(29:18):
want to know. Is too much. There's a person at
my door. My dog is going to part so maybe
we'll see. We'll see, all right, we'll be back tomorrow.
I'm Corel be who you want to be, so I
don't hurt your buddy. So glad you could join me today,
And I hope you haven't had an experience like that
this weekend. We're a long term friend. Set off the lavista,
(29:41):
but you know, you win
Speaker 4 (29:43):
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