May 1, 2023 • 30 mins
Citizens United to Smote Desantis plus Why Writers Strike Karel Cast #201 A ruling hated by may progressives may, in fact, aid Disney in their fight against DeSantis and drive him to lose his culture war battle; The writers are going to strike, but why? They haven't since 2007, should they? What's their beef? And Restaurants in CA and other cities are playing the National Anthem mid-meal and expecting people to stand, are we really going to take a page out of the Nazi playbook? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com
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A ruling from the Supreme Court thatliberals hate might actually help them win the
culture war against Ronda Santis. Andwhy are the writers about to strike in
Hollywood? I'm gonna tell you whenit's got me feeling a little like a
fraud. And restaurants and the nationalanthem it's creepy. Wait till we talk
about this uncensored, unfiltered, unhingedcREL Cast. Listen daily on your Favid
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streaming service. Here is the cRELCast. I I'm Correl, silvery glad
you are joining me. Happy Mondayto all of you out there on May
first, May the fourth be withyou. That's coming up, all right,
A ruling from the Supreme Court thatliberals have hated for a long time,
including myself, may help win theculture war against Ronda Santis when it
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comes to Disney. We're gonna talkabout that, but before I do,
I would just like to say Iwent out Saturday night with Steve. We
went to the Star of the DesertArena in prim Nevada. It's a great
arena. It's older, was builtin nineteen ninety four and I don't think
they changed the carpet since. Butit's really gone R and B and Stephen
never been to an all black concert, and that's really what I grew up
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with. So I was right athome, people wave in their hand and
screaming, you better sang. Andwe went to see and I loved that.
By the way, I ain't culturallyappropriate, and that is my culture.
That's where I came from. WhenI'm at a concert, if I
can't scream out you better sang,bitch, then I ain't at the right
concert. Okay. So we wentto see Stephanie Mills and she did not
disappoint. I saw Stephanie Mills firston one drama in like nineteen seventy five
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or seventy six, something like that. I was like fourteen years old and
she had been cast in The Whizon Broadway. And she went on one
darrama which was Kids Our People toWaka Doo, Waka Doo, Waka doo,
and she sang home and that wasit. That From that moment on,
I loved her. I danced allher songs in the eighties and nineties,
and when she went to ballads andthe two thousands, I sang along
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with her in the two thousands,and I've loved her she's sixty six,
she looks in ratible, and yeah, she's outspoken, and she's the one
that got in trouble for saying that, you know, Diana Ross, Beyonce
is not Diana Ross, and youknow what, I'm with her on that.
So anyway, I loved her.I loved the show. It was
great getting out and I gotta tellyou, I went for free. Now,
I've gone to concerts for free inmy whole life as media, but
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this time I didn't. The managementactually didn't call me back. I called
twice, management didn't call me back. That's how they are nowadays. They
get so many calls from people,influences whatever, they just don't call people
back. But anyway, so Ijoined LV House Seats Las Vegas House Seats.
Now I know I have a lotof listeners in the Bay Area and
Reno. They have this in thoseareas too, And you pay one hundred
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and forty nine bucks a year,including text messages which you want, and
when a great show has extra seats, they give them to LV house Seats
and then they send you a textmessage. Well, about a week and
a half ago, I got atext message, Hey, you want to
see Stephanie Mills, and I said, yes, I do. We had
great seats. We had wonderful seatsand they were free. Now I'm sad
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about that because Stephanie didn't make themoney, but actually she did. She
made her money for that night.And since we bought drinks and Steve bought
you know stuff, the casino madeits money, the venue made their money.
It was all fine, and wehad a great time. So if
you're in the Bay Area or Renoor several other places, I would join
house seats. It's called houseats dotcom and it's a great way to get
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out. We've Steve and I havegone to three news. It's paid for
itself. We've gone to like threeshows. So it was great. And
Stephanie Mills the bomb would I willpay, you know, I'd pay to
see her, and I don't payto see many concerts see if I don't
go as media or whatever. Butshe was great. It was a splurge.
We had a good time. Ileft Ember alone. Oh God,
Ember has a luck stating patella.Okay. When I got home, she
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was so excited she threw her kneecapout and started screaming in pain and I
already felt guilty enough about leaving her. Bridget babysat for me, which was
nice, but oh god, thedrama when I got home and then I
massaged her leg and finally she gotbetter, and oh lord, that just
makes me not want to leave her. But anyway, it was great.
It was a great show. SoRhonda Santis is now the board of this
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Disney district is suing Disney because Disneyis suing the board and Rhonda Santis,
and how is this going to end? While legal experts have weighed in,
and you know what might help savethe day here? Citizens United. That
horrible ruling that Republicans pushed through togive corporations personhood, which means corporations have
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been able to enjoy rights under theConstitution like free speech. Well, if
this is if Citizens United is appliedin this case, desantists is punishing Disney
because they supported the anti They actuallythey were against that don't Say Gay law.
They supported those who were against thedon't Say Gay law. And under
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Citizens United, it is that corporation'sright if they want to speak out against
the don't Say Gay law, itis their constitutional right to freedom of speech.
Republicans are the ones who gave corporationspersonhood, and now under Citizens United,
Disney actually has legal legs to standon improving that all of this has
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been political retaliation for them opposing RoundSantists. That's the essence of the First
Amendment, speaking truth to power withoutfear of repercussion. This is the exact
reason the First Amendment exists for people, for you and I. In other
words, a governor or a senatorshouldn't be able to come after you for
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speaking out against them and ruin yourbusiness and ruin your life. That's protected
under the First Amendment. Your speech. Well, under Citizens United, which
give corporations personhood, Disney's speech,Disney's objection to the don't say gay law
would be protected under freedom of speech. And Disney knows this, and they've
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got more money and more lawyers thanFlorida or Ronda. Santists and Republicans know
this, and they're scared. They'rescared that De Santists is going to lose
against Mickey Mouse, and if hedoes, it will not look good for
a presidential bid. It also doesn'tlook good that he is taking on private
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corporations for their public views. BecauseRepublicans are frightened that in states like California
that Gavin Newsom could now put placesout of business, you know, find
them, censure them, make regulationsagainst them if they are not on the
democratic or progressive side of things.And so Republicans actually are not supporting Ronda
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Santists. Meanwhile, Disneyland in California'shaving their first sanctioned gay event after hours.
It's during Pride month, and theydid that, unfortunately, not to
support the gay community. And Imean that, you know, they're doing
it more to smite ron Da Santis. It's you know, they've had a
chance. You know, Pride's beengoing on as long as I am almost
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as long as I am old,since nineteen sixty nine. They've had a
chance. Over the last what fiftyfour years, they've had the chance to
support gay pride. But on theGay Pride Day that happens where everyone wears
a red shirt, they actually weregiving people that didn't you know, that
accidentally wore red shirts and didn't wantto identify as gay. They would actually
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give them a Disney shirt so theydidn't have to be you know, assumed
to be gay. Now they're doinga full on gay night. Well,
that's Ron De Santis is doing.Okay, So they're doing that to anger
round Santis, not to really pleasethe gays, but oh well, the
gays will go and enjoy it andsupport it. I would perform there,
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but I couldn't find out who handlesthe talent. I spent probably thirty minutes
on the phone with Disney Corporate inboth Orlando and California trying to find out
who was booking talent for that night, and they couldn't tell me. They
don't know. They honestly did notknow. That's how messed up Disney is
when it comes to who handles theirtalent. They were they were given me
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the names of people that handled liketheir dancers at nights and what No,
who's booking the talent for them?Oh well that would be a third party?
What third party? Well, wedon't know, you don't know.
Whatever. So Citizens United, whichI hated, could actually turn around and
bite the Republicans in the ass,and I hope it does. I hope
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Ronda Santis because look, we gottastart, you know, stopping evil in
its tracks. I'm glad Disney hasmoney and is standing up to De Santis.
I wish more people with money wouldstand up to these horrifying people because
they're decimating our nation. And youknow, if they win, they're projected
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to win the House and Senate.If they do, we are done as
a nation. And I mean I'mnot being you know, we talk a
lot. There's a lot of themthings. It's like hyperbole or exaggeration,
or the sky is falling? Howmany chunks have to hit you in the
head before you realize the sky actuallyis falling? I mean, how many
how much of the sky has tocollapse upon you before you realize it's actually
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falling. It's like climate change thePacific Northwest, including Canada, where I
would love to be in Vancouver.I'm number two hundred and twelve there today
on the podcast charts. How manyof you will believe that there is a
giant heat wave coming this summer forVancouver for seattles? All right, when
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we come back, what are thewriters strugging about when they go week go
to the sky. If you're notvisiting really correll dot com daily, you're
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missing out. Get the podcast videosand the blug including recipes at really correll
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unhinged, it's the cruel cast.And if the Currell cast and I
am Correl, why are the writersabout to strike? And what will it
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mean to your entertainment? A lot? Actually, back when it happened in
two thousand and seven, a realityTV took over because they don't have a
lot of writers and be the qualityof television went way down, and then
the actors and craftsman joined in thestrike and production shut down. A lot
of your shows didn't get full seasonsor just sort of end it abruptly.
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So it will affect the entertainment thatyou see. But why are they striking?
Well, I heard the report onNPR this morning and I heard writers
interviewed, and it struck me becauseI woke up worried this morning. And
one of the topics I wanted todo for you today was, you know,
sometimes you feel like a fraud.You know, you get up and
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you put on that happy face andyou get yourself in a good mood,
but inside there's a storm. Youknow, inside you're tumultuous, Inside,
you're depressed. Inside, you're reallyworried, but you can't let your wife
or husband know or the kids,or your employer or whatever. So you
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put on that game face and youget out there and you try to inspire
others. You try to lift othersup, You try to be supportive of
others when inside you're I don't wantto say slowly dying, but inside you're
afraid. And I come out hereevery day and I project this image to
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you. It's not an image Idon't project. It's real what you see.
But a lot of times I don'tlet you in on exactly how bad
or badly I'm feeling inside. Youdon't want to hear it. You don't
need to hear it. It doesn'thelp you. But I'm really worried about
money. Now. I've had theactual blessing to be disabled. I know
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that sounds really weird, but betweenmy sag Aftra and my soul security,
you know, I get and withPatreon, which I am allowed, I'm
allowed up to thirteen hundred a monthon disability, so I'm allowed the seven
hundred from Patreon. So between that, you know, I get about forty
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five about almost sixty about fifty fivesixty grand a year all told. Now,
that's not really enough to live intoday's world. But it's a lot
more than a lot of people aremaking. And so I've been blessed.
I need more. Everybody does.That's poverty level. We've proven fifty seven
thousand dollars a year or below inAmerica right now is basically poverty level where
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you're just meeting your bills. Youdo not have extra money for like anything.
I haven't traveled in so long becauseit's an other than long beach for
doctors. And so I woke upthinking, how are you going to exploit
what you have? If you typeinto Google how much does the average podcast
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make? It says five to ninehundred a month, I'm right in that
range. And if you type youknow, so I'm a how are you
get? Like married men? Andit got lost during COVID. It's a
great song and disco is happening rightnow. I want to rerelease it.
That takes money, a house versionof Stronger Together. I believe in it.
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It takes money, and I can'tkeep getting in my own debt using
my own money. And this iswhere the topic of the writer strike comes
in. I don't you know therethe money making opportunities in entertainment are drying
up, so writers there when theepisode they have written airs, they get
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their one hundred percent residual for thatepisode, their negotiated rate that they have
been paid for that episode. Butremembers TV series have gone from twenty three
episodes, I mean, Law andOrder still does twenty three and such,
but many are now twelve or eveneight episodes per season, and so the
number of episodes has been cut,so their income has been cut there.
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And then when it comes to residuals, if you watch Abbot Elementary, the
writers get one hundred percent of theresidual for the first time it airs,
the second time or every time they'reafter that it would air. In the
past, they would get a fiftypercent residual, half of their normal residual.
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But streamers where everything is going now, ABCNBCCBS, they don't play their
sitcoms and stuff over and over againlike they used to syndication. You know,
there's no such thing anymore syndication reallyI on TV and such, they're
considered streamers and they pay a fivepercent residual, not fifty. So people
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who used to be getting checks forten thousand, thirty thousand, twenty thousand,
they're now getting checks no lie forfive dollars, seven dollars twelve dollars.
Emmy winning writers for television shows inbetween the seasons, which is a
long period now, have literally saidthey have to drive for Uber and they
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have an Emmy for writing television thatyou love, and they struggle to make
the bills and the rent. Nowin these are people with Emmy's far more
famous than I, and in betweenseasons, they're struggling financially because of streaming,
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and now with AI, they wantto assure, they want assurances from
television that they're not going to havescripts written by AI, and they're already
doing it. People. People arealready saying, write me an episode of
Friends, and the AI is spittingone out and while it's not perfected yet,
it will be. And writers arevery afraid of that and should be.
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And so they're trying to negotiate intheir deals that these companies Netflix and
ABC and stuff will not use AIto write scripts. And so the companies
are saying no, And so thewriters are going to go on strike because
they have no other choice, becausethey cannot make a living anymore, even
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if they're writing for shows like AvidElementary or your favorite television shows on Netflix
or whatever, your favorite series thatyou see the writers, and there are
no there is no great television withouta writer. And yet the directors and
the producer like you know, SeandaRhymes and Ryan Murphy, they make multiples
of millions of dollars, but theydon't write the stuff. Some of them,
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some episodes are written by them,but not many. It all goes
back to the writer. Magazines,newspapers, they're now using AI. They're
using people with no writing experiences.Typos they're everywhere, grammatical errors they're everywhere,
and real writers such as myself,we can't get hired. And if
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they we do that acause I thoughtthis morning, while you could start writing
again in your you know, inoff time, you know, you maybe
should approach radio. But radio isnot hiring. Radio's firing. Stephanie Miller
has a Patreon. She's only doingone Sexy Liberal tour this year because of
cost. How Sparks you know,donations Patreon, David Packman donations Patreon.
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They're not making a lot of money, they're making enough. And while steph
ain't poor, she comes from money. And while you know none of these,
you know, how Sparks makes moretouring with his Van Halen you know
nerd Halen band that he does,doing a talk show. And so the
whole business of entertainment streaming is killingit. My friend Thea used to get
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residual checks every year for rhythm asa dancers celebrating thirty years. You still
hear it on all the streaming.I hear it every day. You probably
do too if you listen to music. She got a check from Spotify for
our five hundred and sixty dollars fora hundred thousand screen streams. That would
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normally be a ten thousand dollars checkif she was getting paid the royalty.
And who's making the money? Spotifiesmaking that money. The difference between the
five hundred and the ten thousand,that nine thousand, nine hundred or nine
thousand, five hundred dollars that's goingin Spotify's pocket. Apple Music is making
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a fortune, not the people onit. And what's so wal who made
these deals these companies said, ifyou want to be on our service,
if you want your music distributed,this is what we pay, like it
or lumpet be and my music mightgo out of business because there's other ways
to collect royalties now and writers aren'tmaking as much royalties as GAP is having
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financial difficulties publishing companies that publish themusic that collect the royalties because the royalties
just aren't there. So the writersare striking to try to protect what little
income they have coming in now,and streamers in the networks don't want to
do it. They act like theycan exist without riders and now with AI
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maybe they can wow chef up,big wow, making yours device a whole
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lots murder. Get the correl Castdamp free at the app store of your
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He does correl Cast. I amCorrell. I mean, just a big
wow before we move on to thenational anthem and restaurants. And that's why
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it had me feeling like a fraud, because you know, I have to
be happy during the day. Ican. I am blessed. I cannot
be depressed because I am blessed.I own my home, I have food.
You know I'm not driving for Uberyet, you know I'm blessed.
I have Ember. She has goodhealth care because she's insured. Ninety six
dollars a month. I pay forher insurance. Now, So in the
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grand scheme, I'm blessed. Butas I told the universe this morning,
I'm not done. I want todo more, and every creative person out
there, We're not done. Wewant to do more. As Adell collects
a million two for one night,there's a hundred artists here in Las Vegas
that can barely pay the bills becausethe venues pay one artist and the other
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people that work there Spotify it israping music artist Apple Music, God bless
them. Like my podcast is chartingon Apple Podcasts right now as we speak
in the top two hundred. AmI making any money from Apple at all?
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No? Am I driving people totheir platform? Yes? Now they
have partner programs set up and thisand that that you can get involved in.
It's not worth the effort. Youdo it and you end up making
two hundred bucks and you have togo through a ton of work. And
so we just we are devaluing everybodyin the arts. We're devaluing music.
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And meanwhile the met galats going onand you doze a cat this and blahdah
blah that. Yes, there arelike thirty people in music making money and
nobody else even Gay Pride events.They're booking huge stars now, Mariah Carey,
Grace Jones. That means the budgetfor the smaller acts has been cut.
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So travel budgets are being cut,Hotel budgets are being cut, personal
appearance fees are being cut. Theyused to give people like Crystal Waters or
thea you know, three grand,five grand, seven grand to go do
you know? Three five songs?Now it's fifteen hundred, a thousand and
your own travel expenses, and weare devaluing all of it. And it's
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just so sad. It's so sadthe writers even have to strike. Without
writers, there's no entertainment. Ijust happened to be a content I'm a
writer. You know, many podcastspeople their podcast has written for them,
someone helps them write it, youknow, without creativity and art, we
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just are such a valueless people,you know. And I'm blessed that I
get seven hundred a month from Patreon. It used to be twelve hundred.
But I guess a lot of youdon't like me anymore, or a lot
of you are broke, or mymessage ain't getting out or what. I
don't know, maybe I'm not promotingit right. I don't know, but
I'm not alone. You know,everyone's numbers have gone down, and meanwhile
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I come out here three times aweek trying to make your view of the
world, you know, a littledifferent. Writers try to write things that
make you think and entertain you,like Ghosts, the show Ghost on TV.
The writing is hysterical and wonderful.But those writers, they're not making
much money from Paramount plus streamer.They make their hundred percent residual when it
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airs the first time on CBS,but then when I watch it on Paramount
Plus, they're not getting much moneyfrom my stream at all. That's not
right. Now. What can youdo about it? What can I do
about it? You can support artistsyou love. You can go to more
live performances, like I went tosee Stephanie Mills. Even if it's through
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LV house Seats or throughhouse seats dotCom. You're still going to support the
venue. You're still gonna give moneythere, and the artist has been paid
unless it goes to I would nevertake house seats for an event where the
artist is getting a percentage of thedoor for like smaller shows. I would
only do it for the big,big shows in the big arena. They
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give away tons of seats anyway,and they always have. But I would
never do it for a show whereit's like a hundred people or two hundred
people, I would pay because thatgoes right to the artist. Stephanie got
her guarantee, paid up front.The promoter paider whether my ticket was free
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or not, that you know,that doesn't matter. And the promoter made
money off the alcohol sales, mademoney off the merchandise sales made money.
So the promoter got their money.And it's a forty five hundred seat venue.
They got their money after two thousandseats were sold at you know,
fifty seventy eighty one hundred dollars aticket. So I don't badly about that.
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But a smaller show i'd buy unlessI was invited as media, in
which case I'm working. I'm providinga service. I'm publicizing their show.
And even today by telling you allto go see Stephanie Mills, to go
buy a ticket to see Stephanie Mills, you know, that's promotion. Promotion
isn't free. So I heard inCalifornia, Fairfield, someone was dining.
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They were filming their pancakes on TikTok, and right then the national anthem came
on in the restaurant and people stoodup and did their whole whatever, and
under the comments it said, oh, yeah, this happened in Marietta,
That's happened here, That's happened there. So there seems to be businesses now,
like restaurants starting to play the nationalanthem anthem I hate, by the
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way, I think I hate that. A. It's a British song.
B. It was written during warabout war, rockets and bombs, and
they make it seem noble that wecan blow shit up and that war,
you know, it's steeped in war. You know, the greatest generation will
be a generation that lives without war. So America the Beautiful should actually be
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our national anthem. But that beingsaid, these people just randomly playing the
national anthem and expecting people to standup. Have you seen Cabaret? Okay,
Cabaret, If you haven't seen it, you should either the play or
the movie. Cabaret is in thethere's a scene where they're all out in
the country, the Baron and Lizaand Michael York, where they're all they're
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having it. They were a thruttleand they were a thruple. They were
all sleeping with the baron. They'reout there and a Nazi youth stands up
and start singing Tomorrow belongs to me, the Nazi youth theme, Oh Father,
the land, Father, lanchas yourpride. And they show how even
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people who are uneasy about it allstand up because if they don't, there'll
be repercussions. That's exactly what thisis. It is exactly out of the
Nazi playbook. It is creepy,it is wrong, this forced sense of
patriotism that the right has claimed.These people who know nothing about patriotism or
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their country or the constitution, butwill condemn you if you do not stand
for the national anthem. I don'tstand for the national anthem. Screw the
national lanthem. You're not gonna tellme when and how I'm going to have
pride in my country. You knowwhen Whitney Houston saying it, it gave
me great joy. Why because ofthe performance, there wasn't some false sense
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of patriotism, The land of thefree, the home of the brave.
If you're so free, you'd befree to sit for the national anthem.
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A ruling from the Supreme Court thatliberals hate might actually help them win the
culture war against Ronda Santis. Andwhy are the writers about to strike in
Hollywood? I'm gonna tell you whenit's got me feeling a little like a
fraud. And restaurants and the nationalanthem it's creepy. Wait till we talk
about this uncensored, unfiltered, unhingedcREL Cast. Listen daily on your Favid
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streaming service. Here is the cRELCast. I I'm Correl, silvery glad
you are joining me. Happy Mondayto all of you out there on May
first, May the fourth be withyou. That's coming up, all right,
A ruling from the Supreme Court thatliberals have hated for a long time,
including myself, may help win theculture war against Ronda Santis when it
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comes to Disney. We're gonna talkabout that, but before I do,
I would just like to say Iwent out Saturday night with Steve. We
went to the Star of the DesertArena in prim Nevada. It's a great
arena. It's older, was builtin nineteen ninety four and I don't think
they changed the carpet since. Butit's really gone R and B and Stephen
never been to an all black concert, and that's really what I grew up
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with. So I was right athome, people wave in their hand and
screaming, you better sang. Andwe went to see and I loved that.
By the way, I ain't culturallyappropriate, and that is my culture.
That's where I came from. WhenI'm at a concert, if I
can't scream out you better sang,bitch, then I ain't at the right
concert. Okay. So we wentto see Stephanie Mills and she did not
disappoint. I saw Stephanie Mills firston one drama in like nineteen seventy five
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or seventy six, something like that. I was like fourteen years old and
she had been cast in The Whizon Broadway. And she went on one
darrama which was Kids Our People toWaka Doo, Waka Doo, Waka doo,
and she sang home and that wasit. That From that moment on,
I loved her. I danced allher songs in the eighties and nineties,
and when she went to ballads andthe two thousands, I sang along
(01:55):
with her in the two thousands,and I've loved her she's sixty six,
she looks in ratible, and yeah, she's outspoken, and she's the one
that got in trouble for saying that, you know, Diana Ross, Beyonce
is not Diana Ross, and youknow what, I'm with her on that.
So anyway, I loved her.I loved the show. It was
great getting out and I gotta tellyou, I went for free. Now,
I've gone to concerts for free inmy whole life as media, but
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this time I didn't. The managementactually didn't call me back. I called
twice, management didn't call me back. That's how they are nowadays. They
get so many calls from people,influences whatever, they just don't call people
back. But anyway, so Ijoined LV House Seats Las Vegas House Seats.
Now I know I have a lotof listeners in the Bay Area and
Reno. They have this in thoseareas too, And you pay one hundred
(02:38):
and forty nine bucks a year,including text messages which you want, and
when a great show has extra seats, they give them to LV house Seats
and then they send you a textmessage. Well, about a week and
a half ago, I got atext message, Hey, you want to
see Stephanie Mills, and I said, yes, I do. We had
great seats. We had wonderful seatsand they were free. Now I'm sad
(03:00):
about that because Stephanie didn't make themoney, but actually she did. She
made her money for that night.And since we bought drinks and Steve bought
you know stuff, the casino madeits money, the venue made their money.
It was all fine, and wehad a great time. So if
you're in the Bay Area or Renoor several other places, I would join
house seats. It's called houseats dotcom and it's a great way to get
(03:23):
out. We've Steve and I havegone to three news. It's paid for
itself. We've gone to like threeshows. So it was great. And
Stephanie Mills the bomb would I willpay, you know, I'd pay to
see her, and I don't payto see many concerts see if I don't
go as media or whatever. Butshe was great. It was a splurge.
We had a good time. Ileft Ember alone. Oh God,
Ember has a luck stating patella.Okay. When I got home, she
(03:46):
was so excited she threw her kneecapout and started screaming in pain and I
already felt guilty enough about leaving her. Bridget babysat for me, which was
nice, but oh god, thedrama when I got home and then I
massaged her leg and finally she gotbetter, and oh lord, that just
makes me not want to leave her. But anyway, it was great.
It was a great show. SoRhonda Santis is now the board of this
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Disney district is suing Disney because Disneyis suing the board and Rhonda Santis,
and how is this going to end? While legal experts have weighed in,
and you know what might help savethe day here? Citizens United. That
horrible ruling that Republicans pushed through togive corporations personhood, which means corporations have
(04:31):
been able to enjoy rights under theConstitution like free speech. Well, if
this is if Citizens United is appliedin this case, desantists is punishing Disney
because they supported the anti They actuallythey were against that don't Say Gay law.
They supported those who were against thedon't Say Gay law. And under
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Citizens United, it is that corporation'sright if they want to speak out against
the don't Say Gay law, itis their constitutional right to freedom of speech.
Republicans are the ones who gave corporationspersonhood, and now under Citizens United,
Disney actually has legal legs to standon improving that all of this has
(05:20):
been political retaliation for them opposing RoundSantists. That's the essence of the First
Amendment, speaking truth to power withoutfear of repercussion. This is the exact
reason the First Amendment exists for people, for you and I. In other
words, a governor or a senatorshouldn't be able to come after you for
(05:43):
speaking out against them and ruin yourbusiness and ruin your life. That's protected
under the First Amendment. Your speech. Well, under Citizens United, which
give corporations personhood, Disney's speech,Disney's objection to the don't say gay law
would be protected under freedom of speech. And Disney knows this, and they've
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got more money and more lawyers thanFlorida or Ronda. Santists and Republicans know
this, and they're scared. They'rescared that De Santists is going to lose
against Mickey Mouse, and if hedoes, it will not look good for
a presidential bid. It also doesn'tlook good that he is taking on private
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corporations for their public views. BecauseRepublicans are frightened that in states like California
that Gavin Newsom could now put placesout of business, you know, find
them, censure them, make regulationsagainst them if they are not on the
democratic or progressive side of things.And so Republicans actually are not supporting Ronda
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Santists. Meanwhile, Disneyland in California'shaving their first sanctioned gay event after hours.
It's during Pride month, and theydid that, unfortunately, not to
support the gay community. And Imean that, you know, they're doing
it more to smite ron Da Santis. It's you know, they've had a
chance. You know, Pride's beengoing on as long as I am almost
(07:15):
as long as I am old,since nineteen sixty nine. They've had a
chance. Over the last what fiftyfour years, they've had the chance to
support gay pride. But on theGay Pride Day that happens where everyone wears
a red shirt, they actually weregiving people that didn't you know, that
accidentally wore red shirts and didn't wantto identify as gay. They would actually
(07:38):
give them a Disney shirt so theydidn't have to be you know, assumed
to be gay. Now they're doinga full on gay night. Well,
that's Ron De Santis is doing.Okay, So they're doing that to anger
round Santis, not to really pleasethe gays, but oh well, the
gays will go and enjoy it andsupport it. I would perform there,
(07:58):
but I couldn't find out who handlesthe talent. I spent probably thirty minutes
on the phone with Disney Corporate inboth Orlando and California trying to find out
who was booking talent for that night, and they couldn't tell me. They
don't know. They honestly did notknow. That's how messed up Disney is
when it comes to who handles theirtalent. They were they were given me
(08:20):
the names of people that handled liketheir dancers at nights and what No,
who's booking the talent for them?Oh well that would be a third party?
What third party? Well, wedon't know, you don't know.
Whatever. So Citizens United, whichI hated, could actually turn around and
bite the Republicans in the ass,and I hope it does. I hope
(08:43):
Ronda Santis because look, we gottastart, you know, stopping evil in
its tracks. I'm glad Disney hasmoney and is standing up to De Santis.
I wish more people with money wouldstand up to these horrifying people because
they're decimating our nation. And youknow, if they win, they're projected
(09:05):
to win the House and Senate.If they do, we are done as
a nation. And I mean I'mnot being you know, we talk a
lot. There's a lot of themthings. It's like hyperbole or exaggeration,
or the sky is falling? Howmany chunks have to hit you in the
head before you realize the sky actuallyis falling? I mean, how many
how much of the sky has tocollapse upon you before you realize it's actually
(09:31):
falling. It's like climate change thePacific Northwest, including Canada, where I
would love to be in Vancouver.I'm number two hundred and twelve there today
on the podcast charts. How manyof you will believe that there is a
giant heat wave coming this summer forVancouver for seattles? All right, when
(09:52):
we come back, what are thewriters strugging about when they go week go
to the sky. If you're notvisiting really correll dot com daily, you're
(10:20):
missing out. Get the podcast videosand the blug including recipes at really correll
dot com. That's really KA RE l dot Com. Uncensored, unfiltered,
unhinged, it's the cruel cast.And if the Currell cast and I
am Correl, why are the writersabout to strike? And what will it
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mean to your entertainment? A lot? Actually, back when it happened in
two thousand and seven, a realityTV took over because they don't have a
lot of writers and be the qualityof television went way down, and then
the actors and craftsman joined in thestrike and production shut down. A lot
of your shows didn't get full seasonsor just sort of end it abruptly.
(11:01):
So it will affect the entertainment thatyou see. But why are they striking?
Well, I heard the report onNPR this morning and I heard writers
interviewed, and it struck me becauseI woke up worried this morning. And
one of the topics I wanted todo for you today was, you know,
sometimes you feel like a fraud.You know, you get up and
(11:26):
you put on that happy face andyou get yourself in a good mood,
but inside there's a storm. Youknow, inside you're tumultuous, Inside,
you're depressed. Inside, you're reallyworried, but you can't let your wife
or husband know or the kids,or your employer or whatever. So you
(11:50):
put on that game face and youget out there and you try to inspire
others. You try to lift othersup, You try to be supportive of
others when inside you're I don't wantto say slowly dying, but inside you're
afraid. And I come out hereevery day and I project this image to
(12:11):
you. It's not an image Idon't project. It's real what you see.
But a lot of times I don'tlet you in on exactly how bad
or badly I'm feeling inside. Youdon't want to hear it. You don't
need to hear it. It doesn'thelp you. But I'm really worried about
money. Now. I've had theactual blessing to be disabled. I know
(12:35):
that sounds really weird, but betweenmy sag Aftra and my soul security,
you know, I get and withPatreon, which I am allowed, I'm
allowed up to thirteen hundred a monthon disability, so I'm allowed the seven
hundred from Patreon. So between that, you know, I get about forty
(12:56):
five about almost sixty about fifty fivesixty grand a year all told. Now,
that's not really enough to live intoday's world. But it's a lot
more than a lot of people aremaking. And so I've been blessed.
I need more. Everybody does.That's poverty level. We've proven fifty seven
thousand dollars a year or below inAmerica right now is basically poverty level where
(13:20):
you're just meeting your bills. Youdo not have extra money for like anything.
I haven't traveled in so long becauseit's an other than long beach for
doctors. And so I woke upthinking, how are you going to exploit
what you have? If you typeinto Google how much does the average podcast
(13:41):
make? It says five to ninehundred a month, I'm right in that
range. And if you type youknow, so I'm a how are you
get? Like married men? Andit got lost during COVID. It's a
great song and disco is happening rightnow. I want to rerelease it.
That takes money, a house versionof Stronger Together. I believe in it.
(14:01):
It takes money, and I can'tkeep getting in my own debt using
my own money. And this iswhere the topic of the writer strike comes
in. I don't you know therethe money making opportunities in entertainment are drying
up, so writers there when theepisode they have written airs, they get
(14:24):
their one hundred percent residual for thatepisode, their negotiated rate that they have
been paid for that episode. Butremembers TV series have gone from twenty three
episodes, I mean, Law andOrder still does twenty three and such,
but many are now twelve or eveneight episodes per season, and so the
number of episodes has been cut,so their income has been cut there.
(14:48):
And then when it comes to residuals, if you watch Abbot Elementary, the
writers get one hundred percent of theresidual for the first time it airs,
the second time or every time they'reafter that it would air. In the
past, they would get a fiftypercent residual, half of their normal residual.
(15:09):
But streamers where everything is going now, ABCNBCCBS, they don't play their
sitcoms and stuff over and over againlike they used to syndication. You know,
there's no such thing anymore syndication reallyI on TV and such, they're
considered streamers and they pay a fivepercent residual, not fifty. So people
(15:33):
who used to be getting checks forten thousand, thirty thousand, twenty thousand,
they're now getting checks no lie forfive dollars, seven dollars twelve dollars.
Emmy winning writers for television shows inbetween the seasons, which is a
long period now, have literally saidthey have to drive for Uber and they
(15:58):
have an Emmy for writing television thatyou love, and they struggle to make
the bills and the rent. Nowin these are people with Emmy's far more
famous than I, and in betweenseasons, they're struggling financially because of streaming,
(16:18):
and now with AI, they wantto assure, they want assurances from
television that they're not going to havescripts written by AI, and they're already
doing it. People. People arealready saying, write me an episode of
Friends, and the AI is spittingone out and while it's not perfected yet,
it will be. And writers arevery afraid of that and should be.
(16:41):
And so they're trying to negotiate intheir deals that these companies Netflix and
ABC and stuff will not use AIto write scripts. And so the companies
are saying no, And so thewriters are going to go on strike because
they have no other choice, becausethey cannot make a living anymore, even
(17:02):
if they're writing for shows like AvidElementary or your favorite television shows on Netflix
or whatever, your favorite series thatyou see the writers, and there are
no there is no great television withouta writer. And yet the directors and
the producer like you know, SeandaRhymes and Ryan Murphy, they make multiples
of millions of dollars, but theydon't write the stuff. Some of them,
(17:26):
some episodes are written by them,but not many. It all goes
back to the writer. Magazines,newspapers, they're now using AI. They're
using people with no writing experiences.Typos they're everywhere, grammatical errors they're everywhere,
and real writers such as myself,we can't get hired. And if
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they we do that acause I thoughtthis morning, while you could start writing
again in your you know, inoff time, you know, you maybe
should approach radio. But radio isnot hiring. Radio's firing. Stephanie Miller
has a Patreon. She's only doingone Sexy Liberal tour this year because of
cost. How Sparks you know,donations Patreon, David Packman donations Patreon.
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They're not making a lot of money, they're making enough. And while steph
ain't poor, she comes from money. And while you know none of these,
you know, how Sparks makes moretouring with his Van Halen you know
nerd Halen band that he does,doing a talk show. And so the
whole business of entertainment streaming is killingit. My friend Thea used to get
(18:40):
residual checks every year for rhythm asa dancers celebrating thirty years. You still
hear it on all the streaming.I hear it every day. You probably
do too if you listen to music. She got a check from Spotify for
our five hundred and sixty dollars fora hundred thousand screen streams. That would
(19:00):
normally be a ten thousand dollars checkif she was getting paid the royalty.
And who's making the money? Spotifiesmaking that money. The difference between the
five hundred and the ten thousand,that nine thousand, nine hundred or nine
thousand, five hundred dollars that's goingin Spotify's pocket. Apple Music is making
(19:22):
a fortune, not the people onit. And what's so wal who made
these deals these companies said, ifyou want to be on our service,
if you want your music distributed,this is what we pay, like it
or lumpet be and my music mightgo out of business because there's other ways
to collect royalties now and writers aren'tmaking as much royalties as GAP is having
(19:48):
financial difficulties publishing companies that publish themusic that collect the royalties because the royalties
just aren't there. So the writersare striking to try to protect what little
income they have coming in now,and streamers in the networks don't want to
do it. They act like theycan exist without riders and now with AI
(20:11):
maybe they can wow chef up,big wow, making yours device a whole
(20:38):
lots murder. Get the correl Castdamp free at the app store of your
choice, now, uncensored, unfiltered, unhinged. It's the correl Cast.
He does correl Cast. I amCorrell. I mean, just a big
wow before we move on to thenational anthem and restaurants. And that's why
(21:02):
it had me feeling like a fraud, because you know, I have to
be happy during the day. Ican. I am blessed. I cannot
be depressed because I am blessed.I own my home, I have food.
You know I'm not driving for Uberyet, you know I'm blessed.
I have Ember. She has goodhealth care because she's insured. Ninety six
dollars a month. I pay forher insurance. Now, So in the
(21:26):
grand scheme, I'm blessed. Butas I told the universe this morning,
I'm not done. I want todo more, and every creative person out
there, We're not done. Wewant to do more. As Adell collects
a million two for one night,there's a hundred artists here in Las Vegas
that can barely pay the bills becausethe venues pay one artist and the other
(21:51):
people that work there Spotify it israping music artist Apple Music, God bless
them. Like my podcast is chartingon Apple Podcasts right now as we speak
in the top two hundred. AmI making any money from Apple at all?
(22:11):
No? Am I driving people totheir platform? Yes? Now they
have partner programs set up and thisand that that you can get involved in.
It's not worth the effort. Youdo it and you end up making
two hundred bucks and you have togo through a ton of work. And
so we just we are devaluing everybodyin the arts. We're devaluing music.
(22:34):
And meanwhile the met galats going onand you doze a cat this and blahdah
blah that. Yes, there arelike thirty people in music making money and
nobody else even Gay Pride events.They're booking huge stars now, Mariah Carey,
Grace Jones. That means the budgetfor the smaller acts has been cut.
(22:56):
So travel budgets are being cut,Hotel budgets are being cut, personal
appearance fees are being cut. Theyused to give people like Crystal Waters or
thea you know, three grand,five grand, seven grand to go do
you know? Three five songs?Now it's fifteen hundred, a thousand and
your own travel expenses, and weare devaluing all of it. And it's
(23:19):
just so sad. It's so sadthe writers even have to strike. Without
writers, there's no entertainment. Ijust happened to be a content I'm a
writer. You know, many podcastspeople their podcast has written for them,
someone helps them write it, youknow, without creativity and art, we
(23:44):
just are such a valueless people,you know. And I'm blessed that I
get seven hundred a month from Patreon. It used to be twelve hundred.
But I guess a lot of youdon't like me anymore, or a lot
of you are broke, or mymessage ain't getting out or what. I
don't know, maybe I'm not promotingit right. I don't know, but
I'm not alone. You know,everyone's numbers have gone down, and meanwhile
(24:10):
I come out here three times aweek trying to make your view of the
world, you know, a littledifferent. Writers try to write things that
make you think and entertain you,like Ghosts, the show Ghost on TV.
The writing is hysterical and wonderful.But those writers, they're not making
much money from Paramount plus streamer.They make their hundred percent residual when it
(24:33):
airs the first time on CBS,but then when I watch it on Paramount
Plus, they're not getting much moneyfrom my stream at all. That's not
right. Now. What can youdo about it? What can I do
about it? You can support artistsyou love. You can go to more
live performances, like I went tosee Stephanie Mills. Even if it's through
(24:53):
LV house Seats or throughhouse seats dotCom. You're still going to support the
venue. You're still gonna give moneythere, and the artist has been paid
unless it goes to I would nevertake house seats for an event where the
artist is getting a percentage of thedoor for like smaller shows. I would
only do it for the big,big shows in the big arena. They
(25:14):
give away tons of seats anyway,and they always have. But I would
never do it for a show whereit's like a hundred people or two hundred
people, I would pay because thatgoes right to the artist. Stephanie got
her guarantee, paid up front.The promoter paider whether my ticket was free
(25:36):
or not, that you know,that doesn't matter. And the promoter made
money off the alcohol sales, mademoney off the merchandise sales made money.
So the promoter got their money.And it's a forty five hundred seat venue.
They got their money after two thousandseats were sold at you know,
fifty seventy eighty one hundred dollars aticket. So I don't badly about that.
(26:00):
But a smaller show i'd buy unlessI was invited as media, in
which case I'm working. I'm providinga service. I'm publicizing their show.
And even today by telling you allto go see Stephanie Mills, to go
buy a ticket to see Stephanie Mills, you know, that's promotion. Promotion
isn't free. So I heard inCalifornia, Fairfield, someone was dining.
(26:25):
They were filming their pancakes on TikTok, and right then the national anthem came
on in the restaurant and people stoodup and did their whole whatever, and
under the comments it said, oh, yeah, this happened in Marietta,
That's happened here, That's happened there. So there seems to be businesses now,
like restaurants starting to play the nationalanthem anthem I hate, by the
(26:49):
way, I think I hate that. A. It's a British song.
B. It was written during warabout war, rockets and bombs, and
they make it seem noble that wecan blow shit up and that war,
you know, it's steeped in war. You know, the greatest generation will
be a generation that lives without war. So America the Beautiful should actually be
(27:11):
our national anthem. But that beingsaid, these people just randomly playing the
national anthem and expecting people to standup. Have you seen Cabaret? Okay,
Cabaret, If you haven't seen it, you should either the play or
the movie. Cabaret is in thethere's a scene where they're all out in
the country, the Baron and Lizaand Michael York, where they're all they're
(27:33):
having it. They were a thruttleand they were a thruple. They were
all sleeping with the baron. They'reout there and a Nazi youth stands up
and start singing Tomorrow belongs to me, the Nazi youth theme, Oh Father,
the land, Father, lanchas yourpride. And they show how even
(27:56):
people who are uneasy about it allstand up because if they don't, there'll
be repercussions. That's exactly what thisis. It is exactly out of the
Nazi playbook. It is creepy,it is wrong, this forced sense of
patriotism that the right has claimed.These people who know nothing about patriotism or
(28:22):
their country or the constitution, butwill condemn you if you do not stand
for the national anthem. I don'tstand for the national anthem. Screw the
national lanthem. You're not gonna tellme when and how I'm going to have
pride in my country. You knowwhen Whitney Houston saying it, it gave
me great joy. Why because ofthe performance, there wasn't some false sense
(28:45):
of patriotism, The land of thefree, the home of the brave.
If you're so free, you'd befree to sit for the national anthem.
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