Congress Cashes In While You Struggle | Karel Cast 25-147

Congress Cashes In While You Struggle | Karel Cast 25-147
The new bill reopening the U.S. government is a massive payday for Congress—not for you. Buried deep in the legislation are perks for lawmakers, including a retroactive $500,000 payout for any member whose phone records were seized during the January 6th investigations. Billions more are being funneled into office upgrades, security, and staff expansions.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court keeps siding with Trump’s cruelty—letting people go hungry and putting healthcare back in the hands of rich White men who play God with your life.
Karel also opens up about his own skin cancer removal, using it to spotlight the major advances in cancer treatment and testing—and the question that matters most: Will these medical breakthroughs only help the rich?
And Disney’s Toy Story 5 sends a quiet message: screens are destroying kids. But maybe—just maybe—this is evolution. As technology becomes universal, should kids actually be learning to thrive in a screen-based world?
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It's voting on it right now. Will it path? And
what's in this mysterious bill We're gonna talk about that
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like being here. Child. They cut me open, You cut
me open and keep bleeding. Keep she's here. Leona Lewis.

(01:14):
Actually I had a MOS procedure today on my back.
The spot they took out was the size of a dime,
but the cut two and a half inches all told,
twelve stitches in my back. Can't lift anything with my
left arm over the he set over a gallon of
milk so like eight to ten pounds. Can't get it

(01:37):
wet for forty eight hours. Can't exercise for a week,
no yoga, no weights for a week. That's like a punishment.
And yeah, here I sit. But according to him, cancer
free at least in that area, So I think modern medicine.
We'll be talking about this later on, but we do

(01:59):
have a lot to talk about today in the news
other than the fact that I'm sitting here bleeding, and
I am bleeding. It hasn't quite stopped bleeding yet. So
I'm sitting here giving you my blood, my life's blood
to this show. I hope you're happy. God, I hope
you're happy. Before we get to the bill, which I

(02:20):
have here and I've read and summarized for you, well,
I read it, chat GPT summarized it. I want to
talk to you about the Epstein files, because today the Democrats,
who are pissed, released two emails that make it clear
Donald Trump knew about the girls, and the White House

(02:42):
is of course downplaying. And oh, I just got a
glimpse of the Oval Office today. I haven't seen the
walls and everything. I've only seen the resolute desk with
him at it. Oh my god, Like the lady at
the dermatology lab, said a lady that was waiting, I
go have you seen the old she goes You mean
the bordello. It looks like the gaudiest, cheapest whorehouse in

(03:07):
the world. And I guess that's appropriate given what goes
on in there. But he gold gilded everything. People are starving,
people still don't have their snap benefits. He went to
the Supreme Court to make sure they don't get their
snap benefits. And he sits in a gold gilded room.

(03:32):
I mean, he learned nothing from history, you know, just
crying out for revolution, just just crying out for someone
to dethrone him. But it was the most disgusting thing.
And from that room they denounced these recent Epstein emails.
But you know what, denounce all you want. And now

(03:55):
that the Arizona congress person is finally being sworn in,
they'll have another votes to release the Ebstein files, and
he's all over them. The question becomes, will MAGA care,
Will Maga show the same amount of interest that they
did in the campaign. Will Maga care that he knew

(04:19):
about the girls will congress? In Europe, they literally have
denounced a prince taken And I don't mean the singer
taken his title away from him, taken everything, but the
silverware they might have taken, that he might be eaten
off plastic spoons, you know, all because of what Virginia
Guthrie said in her book. Now we have emails from Epstein, okay,

(04:46):
saying that Trump spent three hours with one of the clients.
He knew it, says in the emails he knew about
the girls. And of course this is no surprise to you,
to me, anyone paying attention. Of course he knew. Of
course he used the services. Of course he engaged in
sex trafficking. There's just no two ways to I mean,

(05:08):
he could sue me now and I could prove him wrong.
Discovery is a bitch. Ebstein said he knew about the girls.
Ebstein said he spent three hours with one of the girls.
What were they doing, needle point Macramay, golfing. I'm sure
he was putting something in a hole with a little buttter,

(05:31):
you know. In other strange news, I was at lunch
today because I did not want to cook, and there
was a headline that DNA scientists have confirmed that Hitler
had one ball and the other was up inside. Doesn't

(05:52):
that just explain a lot? I bet Trump has the
same thing. No balls, Hitler had no ball Visiting really
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Speaker 4 (06:30):
All right. I have a follow up note. I have
a follow up appointment on Monday at ten thirty, so
I will be doing the show Monday at three pm.
Like today, So Monday at three pm, I'll be doing
the show because I have a follow up appointment for
the back surgery Monday morning. So the bill is being

(06:52):
voted upon. Rand Paul did not get his wish. For
those of you thinking that the prohibition of hemp and
THHC products derived from hemp, for those of you that
think that will affect legal cannabis, it won't. They have
classified cannabis and hemp as two separate plants, although really
they're basically the same plant in the same family, but

(07:15):
Congress has classified it as two different things because what
do they care about facts? And you know the genus
of things, so it will not affect legal cannabis in
your state. It will affect the hemp industry, which Ran
Paul is furious about, and they will lose billions of dollars.
But of course Trump nor the Republicans, they don't care,
so it doesn't matter, all right. So the Senate passed

(07:38):
this bill sixty forty and it's gone to the House.
We'll see what the final vote is. The bill contains
a continuing resolution, which we talked about yesterday, which means
they still haven't done their job. In other words, in
October they were supposed to do all appropriations, all everything,
but they didn't, so they do continuing resolutions to continue

(07:59):
down the line. So this continuing resolution will keep the
government funded through January thirtieth, when they could shut it
down all over again. Aren't you thrilled? The shutdown part
two instead of the hangover part two, although it would
almost be the same thing, wouldn't it. There's full year
appropriations for certain agencies such as the Veterans Administration, military construction,

(08:23):
the Legislative branch, and agriculture, so Congress made sure they
were funded. The bill does not include a guarantee of
extension of the enhanced health insurance subsidies under the Inflation
Reduction Act of twenty twenty two. Instead, a separate vote
is estimated for December, but not promised. Key programs like

(08:47):
Snap are protected until September of next year, when they
will be on the chopping block yet again. The bill
includes language blocking or delaying further federal layoffs tied to
the administration's downsizing fffort's under the Continuing Resolution expiration. The
bill passed by the Senate includes a total of eight
hundred and fifty two million dollars for the US Capitol

(09:11):
Police and additional specific funding for enhanced security measures for Congress.
Specific allocations for allegations for security include eight hundred and
fifty two million for the Capitol Police. I don't know
what kind of police force cost almost a billion dollars
a year, but okay, two hundred and three million for

(09:32):
enhanced member security initiatives. Two hundred and three million dollars
to protect five hundred and fifty people. That's a lot.
How much is that computer? What is two hundred and
three million divided by five hundred and fifty. Let's see

(09:53):
what that is. It doesn't want to tell me, computer,
what is two hundred and three mis million divided by
five hundred and fifty Why she cant three hundred and
sixty thousand dollars per senator and congressperson for enhanced security

(10:18):
initiatives three hundred thousand dollars per member just for their security.
It addresses security for members when they are outside of
the Capital complex, such as their district offices and residences.
So we're going to pay for security for these people

(10:38):
everywhere they go, to the tune of three hundred thousand
dollars per year per member. They have cut snap benefits,
they are cutting healthcare subsidies. They are screwing the American
people more than Stormy Daniels did the president, and yet
they are giving themselves the three hundred plus thousand dollars

(11:02):
per member for enhanced security, thirty million for Mutual Aid
Reimbursement program, which funds partnerships between the Capitol Police and
state and local law enforcement. Seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in additional funds for each senator's office account and

(11:24):
for security enhancements at their residences. Five million to the
Senate Sergeant at Arms to coordinate security for senators with
state and local law enforcement. So in total, two hundred
and eight million dollars for their security. Oh plus is
thirty sorry, So two hundred and thirty eight million dollars

(11:47):
in the budget for their security, plus eight hundred and
fifty for the US Capitol Police. So one point one
billion dollars with a B to protect Congress and the Senate. Wow. Wow,

(12:08):
I could go on. There's so much more that I
have here, but it's clear who the big recipients of
this bill are, and that's Congress because if you think
that money I mean, and they're going to replenish the
Snap fund. That was the emergency fund that was used,

(12:29):
it wasn't used. The Snap fund wasn't used. They didn't
tap the Snap fund, which proves that he stole it,
you know, and now they're going to replenish it because
he took it. I think that proves it. This is
the biggest load of crap that I have ever seen

(12:52):
in my life. It is the stinkiest bit of funding
bill that has ever been around. I want to know
why Congress needs a billion dollars for security. I'd like
to know that. You know, they in the eighteen hundreds,
they didn't have security in the early nineteen hundreds, they
didn't have security. You could walk in, talk to them,

(13:14):
walk and walk onto the floor. Now we're spending three
hundred plus thousand per person, more money, excuse me, more
money than most of you will make in a year
or two, just on enhanced security. What they're all gonna
have snipers. We're making robotic outfits for them that are bulletproof.

(13:35):
What where? What is this money? I mean, I really
want to know, and no one's gonna ask them. No
one's gonna even notice it in the bill. In fact,
you know, they've changed the abortion language in the bill
to make it harder for women to get abortions. They've
hidden so many things. And I am sick to death
of Fetterman and these other seven Democrats out there talking

(13:58):
about why they voted for the bill. It's going to
go badly for them. Every Democrat is furious at them
and want them to resign, want them to leave, voted
out special elections, get rid of them. They want Chuck
Schumer to call for the removal. They want them out,

(14:18):
They want them gone, and can you blame them? Fetterman's
really the worst. He might as well just become a Republican.
I mean, he doesn't dress like a Democrat in his baggy,
ugly clothes. He looks like some podunky, a giant. He's
just a mess. And he votes with the Republicans more

(14:40):
than he does with the Democrats. So why is he
in the Democratic Party? Why is he taking up a
chair that a real Democrat could have. He needs to
go far away, go home, resign, join the Republicans, run
on their ticket. Just totally ridiculous. All right. So we've
got a lot in this bill. I just can't I

(15:03):
can't fathom what a billion dollars for security is needed
in the Capitol. These are the same people who thought
that January six people were just a nice group of tourists, right,
isn't Why are they so afraid? Why is Congress and
the GOP so afraid of the American people? We have
seven Cabinet members living on military bases. Now in a

(15:25):
bill they're giving as much money to their security as
they are to snap. I mean that's not true, but
you know what I mean, why you know, they wouldn't
have to be terrorized of the American people if they
stopped treating them badly. But it appears they're terrified. They're
scared to death. So other provisions in the bill. It

(15:51):
provides funding at current or adjusted levels through roughly January thirtieth.
Full year appropriations for the select agencies I mentioned. SNAP
funding will go uninterrupted until September. No guaranteed health insurance subsidies.
They enhance subsidies for ACA premiums are not guaranteed. Layoff,
suspension and employee back pay. They will be paid for

(16:13):
the forty days. Did you hear that, Joshua. They will
be paid for the forty days that they did not
get any money. If they were furloughed and or fired
during the shutdown, they will be rehired. It omits some
very popular amendments. The extending the hemp product regulations which
Ran Paul was for, that's been taken out. Modifying drone

(16:35):
procurement rules has been taken out. Adding major health care
protections are admitted or failed separately. They really hate us,
they love themselves. They're giving themselves a billion dollars worth
of security, and they're going to need it given what
they're doing in this bill. And this summary doesn't even

(16:55):
mention how they're changing the abortion rules in the bill.
It it's a mess. I wish the House would vote
it down. I know there's not a chance because Democrats
don't have a majority in the House, but I wish
it wouldn't pass. I hope every Democrat votes no in
the House. I mean, I know it's rough, but the

(17:20):
people who aren't getting paychecks, they were content to have
this go on. Everybody sees this as a cave so
I wish the House would do its duty and say no,
take it back until you put in the ACA premiums.
Take it back. Evan's Oh, we did this for the

(17:42):
SNAP recipients. More people are going to lose their health insurance.
But no, And as my surgeon said before he cut
a large piece of my back out, why didn't they
cave on day three? Why let it go for forty days?
If you're going to cave? What a mess? All right?

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They're a scam, all right. When we come back, I
just saw a trailer for Toy Story five, and a
lot of you are going to be like, why are
we going to talk about that? Well, because it brings
up a really profound issue of kids and screens, iPads
and phones and as I was watching the trailer, I

(19:28):
had a lot of thoughts about kids, iPads and phones,
So we are going to talk about that later in
the show. There is a country song at number one
on the country charts called Walk My Walk. I'm going
to tell you why that song shouldn't be on the charts.
And the Pope is named his four favorite movies. Do

(19:49):
you know what they are? I do, and we'll talk
about it, and then we are going to talk about
the hemplo a little bit more so you can better
understand it in case you use cannabis products. I don't
want you to get all confused by what the House
is doing or is about to dons. Is it done?
Did they already pass it? Did they? I mean they
don't want to be there late. They're old, you know
they can't be up that late. I mean, what his name,

(20:11):
Mitch McConnell. He's probably asleep by what five PM? Epstein
files update Trump named in emails. Oh they released the emails.
Ooh ooh girl, House returns for vote to end the
government shutdown. They haven't voted yet, though, what they're waiting for?
Ooh child? They released the actual emails like that screenshots

(20:33):
of that emails. Girls, pull yourself a cup of tea.
Let's read them, shall we. Here they are from Jeffrey
Epstein to Glezaine, Jizay or whatever you say her name,
Maxwell four towo twenty eleven. I want you to realize
that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump victim. They

(20:54):
redacted the name victims spent hours at my house with him.
He has never once mentioned. Oo ooh victims spent hours
at my house with him. Oo. This is from oh,
from beyond the grave, girl, Epstein is flapping from beyond

(21:16):
the grave. We're gonna, actually, I'll actually read some more
of those emails when you come back. Oh my goodness,
smack track back like a cat with a tool. Of course, deny, deny, deny.
It's what Trump will.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Do now, is show side?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
All right? I'm looking at these emails, child, Jeffrey Ebstein
is smacking Donald Trump from beyond the grave, Honey, beyond
the grave. The first email to Gazain or Jizayn or
Gislayne or Jissm or jism or whatever her name is,
jism Maxwell, I want you to realize that the dog

(22:20):
that hasn't barked is Trump. The victim spent hours at
my house with him. He has never once mentioned, and
then it doesn't say anything. From jeff Repsbean to Sultan
ben Sula Yem girl, every world leader, Uh never heard
of him? Donald is close to no one. He talks

(22:43):
to many people, he tells each one something different. On Sunday,
March fourth, at five twenty nine, Sultan bin Salami wrote
do you know him? I heard he is so close
to Trump? And then I guess. Jeffrey wrote back a
sudden never heard of him. Donald is close to no one. Then,

(23:03):
from Mitchell Wolf to Jeffrey Epstein, there's an opportunity to
come forward this week and talk about Trump in such
a way that could garner you great sympathy and help
finish him. Are you interested? From Jeffrey Epstein to Kathy Rumbler,

(23:24):
you see I know how dirty Donald is. My guess
is that non lawyers New York biz people have no
idea what it means to have your fixer flip. That
was an answer to Kathy Rumler. It makes no difference
whether it was his money. Issue is failure to disclose
plus fact that he has lied his ass off about

(23:46):
it makes clear that he knew it was illegal. And
then Epstein said back, you see, I know how dirty
Donald is. Oh my god. And Magus signed with this,
and Maggus is just fine with this. Oh from the grave,

(24:06):
just from the grave. Michael Wolf, chronicler of the elites,
provides Epstein with advice on Trump. Oh I can't read it,
it's too small. Let me see blah blah blah. Yep oh, yeah, oh,
here's one. Make no mistake. Donald knows about the girls.

(24:29):
Oh he spent three hours with one at my house.
Of course he knows. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ooh
tea girl t Did they play board games? I hear he's,

(24:50):
you know, big on shoots and ladders. Well he shoots.
Oh my god, Oh my god. Okay, So there is
a new trailer out for Toy Story five, and in
the trailer, the toys are mortified because a new toy
arrives for the girl they're with, and it's a lily pad,

(25:11):
which is an iPad surrounded by a little frog frame
called the lily pad. If they don't have one, they should.
And the whole premise is that the toys that we love,
Woody and buzz light Year and mister Potato Ahead and
all them are now irrelevant that they belong in a

(25:33):
museum because it's going to be all about the iPad.
And look, we know how bad these things are for kids.
We do it lessens their IQ, shortens their attention span,
et cetera, et cetera. However, I was thinking about this.

(25:54):
We are not the smartest race of creatures. We are
going to let things go and happen that aren't good
for us. Okay, we are. We've already done it my
whole life. We've done it. Look at climate change. We
knew all along fossil fuel wasn't good for us, and
yet here it is, and you know that the environment

(26:14):
is dying, and yet we do nothing. So I think
we could argue the future is not going to be
analog that while many of the Gen xers I'm sorry,
Gen zs and millennials are returning to analog, actual physical
vinyl albums, cassette tapes of dumb phones instead of smartphones,

(26:36):
the fact is in the future it's going to be
a multi media, multi screen world, probably with VR headsets
or screens that just pop up out of nowhere that
you can do hand signals too, like in Minority Report.
And so kids, is it wrong if we limit their

(26:56):
screen time? Because isn't that going to be their whole
life when they're grown up. I mean, everything has a screen,
has an input and interface and app that's just going
to keep going. It's not going to get you know less.
So I mean maybe AI and robots will take over

(27:16):
and then we'll have time for analog things like reading
books and listening to music. But I don't see that happening.
I think in education, for instance, they're not going to
have kids right at all in the very near future.
It's all going to be on their pads, on their tablets,
on their whatever, in front of their faces, on their VR.
And we don't even know what new technology is coming.

(27:40):
So while Toy's story wants to make us feel bad
for the toys, I think it's a fade a complete.
I really believe that parents have seated the ability to
educate and raise their children over to screens. I really do,
and it is the parents. Make no mistake. My kid,

(28:05):
they'd be analogued until they were eighteen. I'd let them
have a computer for school, obviously, but their phone would
be a dumb phone, and there'd be set regulations as
to when they could use the computer, and maybe they'd
hate me, but they'd be the most well rounded eighteen
year old of their entire group. The question becomes, is

(28:27):
it a losing battle trying to keep kids away from screens,
trying to, you know, make them realize they need to
learn how to write, They need to learn how to
read a book. They need to learn how to do math,
you know, long hand, or just do math let alone,
you know, just not asking a computer. Is that sort
of are we just old? I guess that's the question

(28:51):
because I agree with the toys in Toy Story five.
I think we're going to lose something irreplaceable. If we
just like kids be attached to screens NonStop, we're turning
into the waal E society. But is that inevitable? Am
I just old this older woman at the dermatologist. She said,

(29:11):
I don't like where everything's going. She's all My kids
told me I need to learn technology, and I told them, no,
I don't. I talked to her because she had a
physical book. I'd like your comments on this down below
her in the chat room. Is it just inevitable? Now?
When we come back, Walk my Walk number one on
the country chart. But should it be? And I guess

(29:35):
talking fay Day complete here and I get words or
words heyday complete? I love Frenchmen.

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Listen daily to the Corelle Cast on your favorite streaming service. O,
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Corella is the one that you need to know.

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Now.

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It's show side.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
All right, just the programming note. Monday, We'll do another
show at three in the afternoon because I have a
follow up coming up next. Walk my Walk number one
on the country chart. Should it be? Uh? And the
Pope has four favorite movies? What are yours?

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Speaker 4 (31:00):
Alright, it is the Crell Cast, Part two. I am
Correll Labor of Love. Today. I got twelve stitches in
my back. I'm not feeling it, not feeling it, but
I wanted to be here with you. I didn't want
to set up the studio because I'm not supposed to
lift things, and I'm like, oh my god, I gotta
move a desk, I gotta move lights, I gotta But
I did it because I wanted to be here with you.
So I'm so glad to be here with you. All right.

(31:20):
So there's a country song out It's called Walk My Walk.
It is number one. It's the most played country song
in the country. And guess what it's Ai. It's Ai,
not AI enhanced, It's Ai. And again we were talking

(31:41):
about with toy story, is this a fade complete? I
was supposed to be at a Grammy thing today, but
I ended up having cancer removed instead, and we at
Grammy are wrestling with how to treat AI and AI
generated music. Now, look, I'm not gonna throw stones. We're
not going back. Which is now number twenty in the
As you know, I used AI to write the music.

(32:04):
I did not use the AI music. I did not
just take that music and have THEA sing to it.
I had a human recreate it, rearrange it, you know,
expand some parts, shorten others, that sort of stuff. But
the overall melody was written by AI. So I'm not
gonna sit here and throw stones. But there's a big

(32:25):
difference between an overall melody being written by AI and
then redone by humans, humans putting in the instruments, all
of that, then to just take it right out the
computer and release the record. But again, is this you know,

(32:45):
is this how it's going to be? So is fighting
this because if so, music artists will well, I guess
go away, won't they. I don't know how this is
going to be a tour be holograms on stage. I
mean think you know, if it, if it becomes cheaper
for record labels to just generate music, they'll just hire

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people to sit there all day and generate AI songs.
Then they don't have to excuse me, they don't have
to pay publishing. And we know that they're going to
take the cheapest route, right I do you do? I
mean they're going to take the cheapest route. So this
is a real problem. It's a very real problem because

(33:31):
it's happened within two years. Chat GPT was just introduced
in the last two years, and now you have a
number one country song that's AI called Walk My Walk.
I haven't heard it. I don't know what it sounds like.
It's a country song. Somebody's you know, someone's wife left them,
their dog died, and their truck won't start. But you

(33:53):
know it's AI and not just AI inspired. See my
my music is AI inspired. I put in great lyrics.
It gives me back a melody that inspires my producer
to then take that track and create a full blown track.
So it's AI inspired. But this track, oh hell to

(34:19):
the note, this track is just AI. And I have
to ask you, is that okay with you? Do you care?
Do you guys care if the music you listen to
is AI or not? Do you care? It's an honest question,
and I like your honest answer down below in the comments,
or over in the chatroom at YouTube dot com, forward

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Speaker 4 (34:49):
Randy Travis lost his voice, okay, but he can still
write songs. So he wrote a song and had AI.
He fed all of his music into AI, had AI
clone his voice, and he's got a new song out.

(35:09):
Randy Travis wrote it. It's Randy Travis's voice, but it's
AI generated version of his voice because his voice is
damaged from a surgery. Julie Andrews could do that you
know she can't sing anymore, Linda Ronstad. They could feed

(35:30):
their voices into AI, make AI clones of their voices,
write new music for them, and have a new Linda
Ronstad song even though she can't sing a note anymore.
Say with Julie Andrews, is that okay? Where are you
on this? I'd love to know because I'm not okay
with it? But again, I'm old. I might just be

(35:52):
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So they did a poll and they asked people, do
you care if the music you hear is AI generated
only four percent of the people said yes. Ninety six
percent said now, okay. With that kind of attitude, it's
a good thing I lived in the era of Barbara

(36:52):
streisand of Michael Jackson, Linda Edar, Emily Sonde. It's a
good thing I lived in the era of Anastasia, Patti LaBelle,
Aretha Franklin. It's a good thing. I lived in the
era of Vesta Williams, of Mickey Howard, of Regina Bell.

(37:12):
It's a good thing I lived in the era of
Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and so many geniuses. Because
the next generation of kids, they're not gonna have that.
They're gonna have AI, and their stars will be manufactured
and disposable. So we might be the last generation to

(37:39):
have real human music, mainly because humans don't seem to care.
I care, Do you care? Does it bother you? That walk?
My walk a country song is an AI song. It's
number one on the Charge. Lunch doesn't seem to bother

(37:59):
a lot of people. It's like movies. You know, I
was going to talk about the popes movies. Yeah, we
joked in the chat room that Trump was just playing
Yatzi with the victim of sex trafficking, and they're all,
he's literate. No, he couldn't play yi he did you

(38:22):
see the picture by the way of him at his
desk in the Oval office, and there's all these papers
in front of him, and you know what the papers
are in large versions of his tweets on True Social,
in large versions on paper of his Why he had
a desk covered with his tweets? I don't I You know,

(38:45):
the guy rage tweets at two in the morning, like,
what's he doing awake? And if he's awake at two
in the morning, why and he working on opening the
government or solving the snap crisis or whatever. No, No,
he's out on true Social. So the pope, you know,
and as we talk about singers, you and I are

(39:06):
the last generation of people who will see the wizardry
and marvels of Hollywood, where actors had to give real performances,
and where crafts people created sets, where technicians created special
effects using art and models and all of that. We're

(39:27):
the last generation to see that. That's just it's within
five or ten years, most movies will be filmed on
green screen and they'll simply put in the background, you know, later,
because it'll be cheaper than going on location. You wait,
no more, they're going to have crews travel around the

(39:47):
world to go and film on locations. There's no need.
They'll just do all green screen. It's just weird and sad.
So movies are going to change as well, and soon
at the Botto office, I bet there'll be a completely
generate AI generated movie. You wait and see. So the
Pope came up with his four favorite films. It's a

(40:09):
Wonderful Life, the Sound of Music, Ordinary People, and Life
is Beautiful? First of all, could there be any more
of vanilla movies than that? But okay, it's a wonderful life.
Everyone loves out the Holidays. I don't. Every time I
see that movie, I change it. I don't, you know,

(40:30):
it's not that's like the one with the leg, the
Christmas movie with the leg the lamp, that's a leg.
I've never even seen that movie. A Christmas Story. I
started watching it and thirty minutes in I thought this
is the worst movie known to mankind. So I stopped watching.
So It's a Wonderful Life, the Sound of Music, Ordinary People,

(40:50):
Robert Redford deals with suicide, incredible film and Life is Beautiful.
Where when he won for the Oscar, the actor walked
on the back of the chain to get down to
the stairs or to the stage. Those are pretty mean.
They're good movies. If you're picking your all time Now,
if you're picking some of the greatest movies ever made,

(41:12):
I would agree those are some of the greatest movies
ever made. But if you're picking your favorite movies, you know,
movies that are your favorites? Oh you know? Uh so
I want to ask you in the comments of the
chat room, what are your four all time favorite movies.

(41:35):
I thought a lot about this before coming on, and
I really couldn't come up. It's like when people ask
me of my favorite songs. It's like saying, what's your
favorite food? Well, all food? I love food. I have
to say A Star is Born with Barbara streisand because
it changed my life to that end, so did the
movie Fame. And they're of the same time in the

(41:57):
same era, So both those movies really profoundly changed me.
Fame and A Star is Born. But in terms of
my favorites, like which ones do you watch? I gauge
it as if you happen upon the movie and it's on,
Like back in the day before you could just choose it.
If you were changing channels and this movie was on,

(42:18):
no matter how many times you've seen it, would you
stop and watch it again? So for me, I would
always stop and watch the Stars Born or Fame, Jaws,
I would always I've watched I've seen Jaws so many
times I can't even count. You know, it was just
an incredible film when it was made. It holds up.

(42:39):
It's still an incredible film. The same with Jurassic Park.
I've seen Jurassic Park countless times, so those are certainly
four that I would love. Fame a Star is Born,
but see Auntie Main. I would never not watch Auntie
Maine with Rosalind Russell. I mean, there's I can't just
list for there's so many all about Eve. How could

(43:03):
you change Betty Davis in one of her best performances ever?
I know almost every line and all about Eve. We're
all little bees full of sting making, honey, aren't we? Honey?
Oh my god, there's so many great lines. Don't worry
about where you'll put that oscar, Eve, I'm sure you
can put it in the place where your heart used
to be. Oh Lord. And of course, fasten your seat belts.

(43:28):
I've seen you like this before, Margo. Is it over
or is it just beginning? Fasten your seat belts. It's
gonna be a bumpy night. How could you not you
know all about Eve, the man who came to dinner?
Oh my god. Almost every line that Monty Wooley says
is a classic line. When the nurse tries to pull
away his chocolates, he grabs them back and says, my

(43:48):
late grandmother ate four box of chocolates a day, and
ten days after she was dead. Looks better than you do, now,
you know. So, I just because I'm such an of cinema,
picking four movies would be so very hard. Maybe four
per genre, four of my favorite dramas, four of my
favorite musicals, you know, because Auntie Mame is not a musical,

(44:12):
but one of my favorite musicals. Star is Born. Do
I really love the sound of music? I guess I do.
I guess. I mean it's a good movie, you know.
I wouldn't say that it's the greatest musical ever, you know,
like ever made, but it's really good. Julie Andrews is
fabulous in it. The Pope thinks it's one of his

(44:36):
favorite movies of all times, so God bless him. The
Wizard of Oz, someone says in the chat room, The Godfather,
The Godfather, Jaws, Auntie Mame, Apocalypse Now I've never I
forgot about Apocalypse now, but that was groundbreaking. And it
was Star Wars. I remember where I was, what movie

(44:56):
theater I saw it in Star Wars Star Trek. Even
though the first movie sucked, it didn't matter. There were
my beloved characters up there again eighty feet wide my dad.
One of the few times my dad and I went
to the movies, we went to a midnight opening of

(45:17):
Star Trek, the first movie at the Lakewood Center Theaters
the night of my cast party of my first lead
in a high school play. And I skipped the cast
party while I made an appearance and then left to
go watch the movie at midnight with my dad. Because
my dad and I shared Star Trek. We loved Star Trek. Oh,
my dad and I loved it so Star Trek, Star Wars,

(45:39):
I mean Star Wars. How could that not be everybody's
on their list of favorite movies? I mean Star Wars. Hello,
the Force is with You? Yeah, and see, I've seen
so many movies and so many great classic movies that
you know, I couldn't name my favorite four movies, like

(46:00):
maybe my favorite four black and white movies, I mean
The Thin Man, any one of the thin Man, Mildred Pierce,
whatever happened to Baby Jane? Oh Jane, if only I
wasn't in this chair. But job lad you are in that.
I mean, shut up and eat y'all? Din din, I

(46:23):
mean really, if you've never I know you've all seen
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? How could you not have?
Everybody's seen that movie. If you haven't, then I pity you.
I feel sorry for you. So the Pope is it's
a wonderful life, the sound of music, where every people
in life is beautiful. Life is beautiful. It's not even that.
Isn't that where he calls everybody princey paste or princey

(46:44):
Pacha or whatever, my princey page or whatever he says.
Uh so yeah, No, I just mean what about Was
there a gay movie? Is there? Like any movie with
a gay theme that like Changed or Rock My World? Oh?
What was the one Making Love? It was a terrible movie,
be horrible movie, But to see Michael on Keen on

(47:04):
screen kissing another boy, it might have been you know,
it might have been bad, but it was good. Broke
Back Mountain No, not one of my top ten movies.
I was not Broke Back Mountain's not a gay movie.
It's a straight movie. Heath Ledger is straight. I mean
in the movie, yes, he loved Jake Jillen Hall unless

(47:27):
he had an affair with him, but he didn't have
an affair with anybody else after that. Now, look, you
can be a gay man and be in love with
someone for your whole life, but you're still going to
have sex, and he didn't. So he was a straight
guy who actually just situationally fell in love. By the way,
I discussed that with the writers of the film, and
they agreed with me. I discussed that with any Prule

(47:49):
the writer, and she agreed with me. So, yeah, that
wasn't a great movie. But what other movies are great?
You know? I disagree on The god Fathers. I didn't
like them. They were too long and too involved. Casino,
that's a really good movie. Casino. I always watch that.

(48:10):
If you're flipping and it's on, just gauge it by that.
What movie If you were flipping channels and saw that
it was on, would you stop on Because that's gonna
be one of your favorite movies, even if it's a
bad movie. There's a lot of movies that are terrible
that I absolutely love They're terrible movies, but I love them.
There's a lot of movies like that. Ticked Off Trannies

(48:31):
with Knives. I love that. I love that movie. It's
exactly what it sounds like. It's about ticked off trannies
with knives, and it's so bad. It's good. Benji. When
I was a kid, Benji ripped me to shreds. I'll
never forget ever rip me to shreds. The Exorcist. I

(48:57):
didn't sleep for weeks. Thought there was that in the attic,
thought my bed was moving. That's a fabulous Do you
know what your mother does? She sucks socks that smell
so yeah. So the Pope picked it's a wonderful life.
The sound of music or any people life is beautiful.
What do you pick? Leave your comments down below or

(49:20):
in the chat room. The Rocky w Horror Pictures Show.
That's a fabulous film. The Wizard of Oz. No, it's
just not that good. Singing in the Rain, Sweeney Todd okay,
Mary Poppins okay. Headwig and the Angry inch YEP. One
of my favorites of all time. Headwig. But I don't

(49:42):
think of the movie. I saw the play and I
saw the play with John Cameron Mitchell. How blessed am
I got the soundtracked early on because I worked at Billboard.
Fell in love with the music. Andrew and I said,
we have to see this. We did, and so the
play is brilliant. The movie's great too, Don't get me wrong,
but the play was brilliant. But yes, Hedwig, great movie,

(50:05):
great gay film, great movie. What he should have won
an Oscar He didn't. I don't even think he was nominated,
but he should have been. So yes, that's a great movie.
Thank you in the chat room for reminding me of
that shark. Nato movies, well those are just pure camp fun,
aren't they.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Love.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
I love bad disaster movies. I hate the Rock nowadays.
But there's this one movie he's in called San Andreas.
It is such a great Irwin Allen. Any Irwin Allen
disaster film. I love Flood, the Towering Inferno, Crash on
Interstate five. Any Irwin Allen movie I loved. He was
the king of disaster movies. And they're basically terrible, but

(50:48):
they're so good. And any airport movie, I don't care
what airport's seventy five, seventy six, seventy seven. I don't care.
They were good enough. So the movie Airplane making fun
of them was good as well. So any of those movies.
Love to hear your comments. What a fun conversation to
have on a Wednesday afternoon, truly. So what I want

(51:10):
to what Trump? What do you think Donald Trump's four
favorite films are? Do you think they're pornos? Debbie does Dallas?
Do you think he watches Stormy Daniels film? It's like
I had her. I mean, really, what what movies do
you think he likes? We know what Obama.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Now is?

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Show Wow, I'm reading more of these emails. Epstein mentioned
Trump multiple times in private emails and gave Russian Russians

(52:08):
insight into Donald Trump. That is something, my god. So
the House has cleared a procedural hurdle to vote on
funding the bill they will be voting later tonight, and
the bill that gives them almost a billion dollars to
enhance their security. I don't even know what that's about.

(52:30):
All kinds of weird stuff in this bill. By the way,
you know, friends are possibly the fuel of life. Oh
you could quote me on that if you like, but
it's true. Friends are the fuel of life. They are
the thing that keep life going. As Bette Midder once said,

(52:52):
you got to have friends. So I was saddened when
I found out that Jimmy Kimmel has lost his friend
of fifty years. Clido Escabido from the show Clido and
the Kletones was his band director. But he was his
band director because when Jimmy got the show, he said,

(53:14):
I'm using him. They wanted him to use other big names,
but he was like, nope, using my best friend. They
met when they were in grade school here in the
city of Las Vegas, and they have remained close friends
ever since. And he lost him. He missed his show
last week and didn't tell anybody why. This was why
Clido was in the hospital, and now he's gone. And

(53:38):
I thought about that, you know, as I told you,
Marishka Hargate said on the recent Law and Order as
for you that we're entering the phase where our good
friends die and we are I am I'm sixty three now.
I was sixty two last week and now I'm sixty three.
I've got twelve stitches in my back as they take
cancer off of me, and probably going to have more

(53:59):
of that happening, and so grateful, by the way, so
grateful to have healthcare, so grateful to be able to
go in and get this cancer removed, So grateful, Thank
you medical gods. And you know, there's going to be
a lot of cancer research and treatments that are very

(54:21):
soon that are remarkable. And what I'm worried about is
that only the rich are going to benefit from all
of this incredible science that's happening right now. There's so
much great science happening right now thanks to Crisper and AI,
and a lot of it about cancers, targeting tumors, testing
for them earlier. Even that the new cancer test that

(54:44):
will tell you if you've got up to fifty cancers.
Guess what, it's six hundred and eighty nine dollars and
not covered by and ow. Oh the anastesia's wearing off.
They told me it would in about four hours, and
that's right about ow and I took time in all. Oh,
I guess twelve stitches hurts. Oh, oh, I'm getting it

(55:07):
all the way around this pain it's oh. See, I
wasn't gonna do the show today in case this happened.
It just happened. It just reared and ugly ahead. Ow
I forgot what the pain was so stabbing. I just
forgot what I was talking about. I'm like, Okay, what
am I talking about here? Oh? That I'm grateful that
I can have this pain, that I'm grateful that I

(55:28):
have access to healthcare, and that we live in a
time where there's going to be cures for cancers. But
will we be able to afford them. That's the problem
with the American health care system as it sits right now.
They're cutting benefits, they're not increasing them, and these new
experimental or newly approved treatments are going to be expensive

(55:54):
and people will die because they can't access them. And
that's terrible. Can you imagine having the technology that would
save people's lives but they can't get it because of money.
Even today, my copay was a total of one hundred
and fifty bucks for today. Some people just why I
put that on a credit card. But if you didn't
have a credit card and you didn't have the money,

(56:15):
then you'd stick with the cancer, right. What a horrible
decision to have to make. Do I get the cancer
taken out or do I feed my family? And there
are people making those decisions. I worry that all of
this fabulous science that's happening you and I won't be
able to access because it's going to be too expensive.

(56:40):
There's now research that these GLP ones have cut colon
cancer death rates. I don't know how it affects it,
but it does. Well, let's say that they benefit a
lot of things, and they want us all to be
on it, even with Trump's reduction. A three hundred dollars
a month copay, that's too much for that's too much

(57:00):
for me. That's you know, too much for a lot
of that's my HOA payment. So I worry that there's
going to be all this great technology in the healthcare
industry and we won't be able to access it, and
so you'll watch your loved ones die from something preventable
or treatable because you just don't have the money for

(57:22):
the new treatments or the new drugs. I hope it
doesn't well, it's already it's already there, and I just
hope it doesn't get worse. Because every day I read
new Alzheimer's treatment. You know, knew this, knew that, new
cancer treatment, new targeting of cancer, knew this, new ways
to get rid of the tumors. And as soon as

(57:42):
that happens. Like this new drug from the venom of
the wolf spider which stops cellular death during a stroke.
So if first responders give it to you within an
hour of you having a stroke, you won't go paralyzed,
you won't have broke damage, it'll stop the cell death. Well,

(58:03):
how much of the shot of that gonna be? You know,
are they gonna kirt chin kirchinu before they give you
the shot? Well, we have this shot here. It'll stop
you from having the damage, but your insurance doesn't cover it.
So if you have a credit card, we take visa
American Express and discover I just that's that's where it's headed.

(58:26):
All right, we'll be back tomorrow unless this acts up.
I don't I can't even shower for forty eight hours
unless I cover it with plastic, And how I would
no exercise, no lifting my arm. Just but grateful, grateful
for the twelve stitches, even though I felt them squeezing
it together to sew it, and she was macromaying back there.

(58:48):
I think I think there's a sock or something back
on my you know, I think she macromade something into
my wound. But they showed me a picture afterwards. They're all,
you squeamish, you wants to know I can look, and
they showed me a photo of it, and I'm like,
that's a fucking big scar. It's literally almost three inches
and that's because they scooped out the round dime sized thing.

(59:10):
But to make a straight scar they had to do
two triangular cuts so they could then pull it together. Ow,
I am Corell, be who you want to be. Son
to hurt anybody? Yes, it hurts. OW. We'll be back
tomorrow and then Monday. Don't forget. We'll be here at
three o'clock again. Not so bad. Reminds me of afternoon drive.

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