August 25, 2025 • 31 mins
I Want More Than Rainbow Sidewalks | Equal Rights, Not Empty Gestures 🌈🇺🇸
Florida and other states are painting over rainbow sidewalks — but here’s the truth: LGBTQ+ Americans don’t need symbolic gestures. We need equal rights, protection under the law, and an economy that works for everyone.
This episode of the Karel Cast calls out politicians like DeSantis who focus on erasing symbols instead of fixing real problems. Equality isn’t about sidewalks or flags — it’s about being treated like any other American, without discrimination, and with the same protections, opportunities, and dignity.
From LGBTQ+ rights to women’s rights, racial justice, and immigrant protections — every group deserves more than performative politics. We need action, not symbols.
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Florida and other states are painting over rainbow sidewalks — but here’s the truth: LGBTQ+ Americans don’t need symbolic gestures. We need equal rights, protection under the law, and an economy that works for everyone.
This episode of the Karel Cast calls out politicians like DeSantis who focus on erasing symbols instead of fixing real problems. Equality isn’t about sidewalks or flags — it’s about being treated like any other American, without discrimination, and with the same protections, opportunities, and dignity.
From LGBTQ+ rights to women’s rights, racial justice, and immigrant protections — every group deserves more than performative politics. We need action, not symbols.
👉 Join the conversation, share your voice, and don’t forget to like 👍, comment 💬, subscribe 🔔, and share 🔁 to keep this message alive.
The Karel Cast is supported by your donations at patreon.com/reallykarel. Catch it live Monday–Thursday at 10:30am PST and on demand across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Media, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
#LGBTQRights, #EqualityForAll, #StopDeSantis, #RainbowSidewalks, #EqualRights, #JusticeMatters, #PoliticalTruth, #HumanRights, #WeAreAllAmerican, #EndDiscrimination, #PerformativePolitics, #CivilRights, #YouTubeShorts, #TrendingNow, #DailyShorts, #SubscribeNow, #LikeAndShare, #KarelCast, #TruthMatters, #StayInformed
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Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh, show Time. You know, I've thought a lot about it,
and I don't need rainbow sidewalks and Pride flags flying
over city Hall. I'll tell you what I need. Also,
there's a new drug out there that's horrifying and I
want you to stay away from it. We'll talk about it.
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It is the Carell Cast. I am Carrel Happy Monday,
August twenty fifth, So very glad, you are joining me.
We've got a lot to talk about today. A couple
of things from personal, you know, topics that came in
my way, from the personal realm, and then of course
the bigger world picture. First, I want to clarify some
things about my last show last week. A lot of
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you took it to mean that I'm giving up, that
I'm you know, abandoning my convictions, abandoning the country, abandoning you,
and that couldn't be further from the truth. But I
had a really interesting weekend. I felt lightheaded all weekend
(02:17):
and my blood pressure spiked so high it was really scary,
one eighty over ninety, but it went down. It went
down later in the evening till one eleven over sixty
five where it normally is. And part not all. It
could be something going on in my head. Doctor says,
if it happens again, go to the er. But part
(02:38):
of its stress, And what I was trying to say
to you last week is it is not healthy for
us as humans to stress as much as we are
over things we cannot control. You know, this morning I
read the headlines and instead of getting upset, I just said, oh, well, know,
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nothing I can do until there is something for me
to do in this situation, I'm not going to worry
about it. And that's really what I meant by the show.
Until there is something for you to do in a
certain situation, don't let it stress you. I can't stop
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Nettan Yahoo from taking over Gaza. He's going to The
Jewish people in Israel have lost all of my credibility
when it comes to the Holocaust because they are committing
one on their own and they're letting their leader commit one.
But again, many of the Jews in Israel are powerless
to stop in Yahoo. So I can't worry that he
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blew up something that killed journalists. I can't. I can't
be mad about it. He's going to keep doing what
he's doing, and only the world leaders can stop him
or his own people. So getting upset over that there's
no point. And Trump has done so many horrible things
since last Thursday, since we last were together, that I
(04:04):
can't even enumerate them all. But I'm not going to
get mad at him. Why Because I can't stop him.
Only Congress can stop him. The billionaires that he serves
can stop him. But you and I we can't stop him.
We can vote against him. We can help Gavin Newsom
past the legislation to redistrict in California. You know, those
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are the things we can do. But getting mad at
everything he does every day it's not going to serve us.
So last week I was simply trying to say to
you to concern yourself more with things you can change
and things you can influence, and let the stress of
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the other go. You know, just let it go, because
we live in extraordinary times right now, and caring as
much as I do, and caring as much as you do,
it doesn't serve us well right now, and doesn't serve
our health well. So I'm not saying don't pay attention.
(05:10):
I'm not saying let go of your beliefs. I'm not
saying don't be passionate about your country. I'm not saying
any of that. I'm saying, be very careful what you
hold onto, you know, be very very careful as to
what you are holding on to, because it's going to
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bring you stress. You know, it's going to overwhelm your life,
and I don't want that to happen. I know it
was overwhelming mine for instance. Let's just go right into
we'll do the drug topic. In the last segment, you know,
yesterday I exclaimed something I said, I don't need rainbow sidewalks.
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You know, I often have opinions that are outside of
the gay norm. I don't need rainbow sidewalk. I don't
need my city hall to fly a rainbow flag during
Pride Month. I don't need that. I don't There are
plenty of gay bars to fly the rainbow flag. If
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you're a business and you are aligned with LGBTQ, you're
an ally fly a flag. I don't need city hall
to do it. I don't need the state capital to
do it. I don't need the White House to do it.
And I don't need rainbow sidewalks in the gay neighborhoods.
I don't need them. I don't need a lot of
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what the gays have seen as progress in my life.
I really don't. I've never needed that from government. I
don't even care if my government acknowledges my sexuality. In fact,
I would prefer my government not acknowledge my sexuality. Now.
(06:59):
Isn't that you know something you don't hear every day?
You know, I don't care if a president or a governor, or,
a mayor I don't care if they acknowledge my sexuality.
That's not what I need from them. And I think
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many people have been looking to government for things that
government shouldn't be doing and that we don't need from government.
You know what I need from government, An equal playing field.
That's what I need from government. Okay, I need an
equal playing field. I need there should be no laws
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or regulations against me or my sexuality. Okay, that's what
I need. I don't need them to fly a rainbow flag.
I don't need them to be in the gay pride parades.
It's nice, it's cute. I don't need it. I just
need the same rights, the same benefits of the law
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that every other American. In fact, I don't need my
government to look at me as a gay American. I
prefer my government just look at me as an American,
the same as every other of the three hundred and
thirty million residents of this country. I don't need them
to look at me as anything except American. Women don't
(08:26):
need to be looked at as anything except women. Blacks
don't need to be seen as black, They just need
to be seen as Americans. The founding fathers laid out
a gorgeous document that said all Americans. All that already
means gay people, that already means by trans that already
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means women, black, white, green, purple. American means you are
entitled to every single thing every other American is entitled to.
That No other American shall have more freedom, more dignity,
more rights, or more opportunity than you. Now, that's all
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I need from my government. I don't need a rainbow
cross walk. I can cross the street without it. What
I need is better public transportation. I don't need pride
flags over a city hall. What I need are more
gays and lesbians and trans people in city hall pulling
(09:35):
the strings. I don't need for June to be declared
Gay Pride months. What I need is for every single
month for gays and lesbians to have the same rights
as everybody else in every single month. I don't need
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my government to like me or my sexuality. I just
need it to protect me, to make sure that my
rights are not violated, to make sure the playing field
is equal. That's what I need, not what i'd like
(10:15):
to see. I'd like to see a big kum bay
a world. I would, but I don't need it. I'd
like to see gays being recognized, but I don't need it.
What I need is a government that functions for all.
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You know, the founder is never envisioned government being so
up in everybody's business. They never envisioned a government that
would want to be inside a woman's vagina. They really didn't.
They didn't envision a government that cared whether two men
got married two women or a man and a woman.
They it wasn't on their radar, okay, And so I
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think that the pendulum did swing too much, and that's
why we're here. Suddenly gays needed city Hall to fly
a pride flag, they needed rainbow sidewalks, they needed blah
blah blah blah. But no, they don't really. You know,
one of the things I love about America, and I
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do love some things is the multiculturalism of neighborhoods. I
love that you can go to Little Saigon or Chinatown,
or Italian Town or Indiaville or whatever. I love that
there are areas of every city that cater or have
(12:19):
I love the Jewish District in Los Angeles, the Fairfax District.
I love going and immersing myself in their culture. But
I don't need the government to acknowledge every single culture
every single day or every single month. That's not what
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I need government for. I need government to keep prices low.
I need government to negotiate fair trade deals so we
don't come out on the bottom. I need government to
mitigate damages from climate change and lead us into a
new era of energy and public transportation that has a
zero harbon footprint. When it comes to minorities, there aren't any.
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There shouldn't be a minority in government. You know why,
because we're all Americans. You can't be a minority if
you're an American, because then you're part of three hundred
and thirty million people. And minorities, including gays, have segregated
themselves from other Americans so much that they want it
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appears to people they want special rights or different rights. No,
I don't need any right that any MAGA person doesn't have.
I don't need any special recognition that any MAGA person
doesn't get. I just need the same. That's it. If
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this person can't be fired. No one should be able
to be fired from a job for being who you are, gay, black, trans.
No American should be able to be fired by another
American for any reason other than bad performance. No law
should ever be made that affects just one group of people,
(14:15):
like banning trans That's ridiculous. They're Americans. There should be
no law made against them in America. And this is
what MAGA and Republicans and Donald Trump get wrong, that
we are all no one. There should be no religious
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concessions in government. None. You should be treated no better
or no worse because you are a Christian, or a
Jew or a Muslim, period because you're an American. We
have lost the concept of being an American, and subsequently
we have splintered ourselves into so many different factions that
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now all fight amongst each other that we've become an
intolerable place to live. Intolerable. You know, I loved in
the eighties where you would go to San Francisco and
go to the Castro and it was just gaglore, every business,
every everything. I love that. I don't need, you know,
(15:22):
gay businesses all over town. If you want to be
all over town, fine, if you want to fly your flag,
that's fine. But I like going to a gay ghetto
or a Jewish ghetto or whatever. I like that. But
when it comes time to all pull together, we need
to remember at the ballot box we're Americans. And I
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know that's hard to do because it's become identity politics,
performative identity politics, and that's never what this country was
set up to do. So you can keep your rainbow sidewalks.
Just stop making laws against trans people. I mean nice
if we you know, you can keep your flying your
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flag over the White House. I don't care what flag
you fly over the right House. I don't care if
you fly a Pride flag or not. Just don't sign
any law inside the White House against me. I don't
care if you don't approve of the LGBTQ lifestyle. I
don't care. I'm an American and that's how you should
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see me first. And we stopped seeing each other as Americans.
Now there's good Americans. Bad Americans. To liberals, Maga are
bad Americans, and they are. To Maga, liberals are bad Americans. Well,
there's no such thing as a good or bad American.
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There's just an American with a different viewpoint of yours.
We have lost any concept of unity, dignity, respect. That's
all I need, the same thing any the same thing
our founders said. I was entitled to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. That's all I need from my government,
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the ability for me to have a life, to have
liberty in it, and to pursue happiness on a level
playing field. Meanwhile, I would very much like for government
to provide energy to everybody that needs it. That's something
government can do. To provide housing to anyone that needs it,
(17:31):
to keep the streets safe, to protect us in time
of war. That's what I need government for. Social services centralized,
and you know, health care for all. That's what I
need government for. I don't need it to approve or
disapprove of me, or black people, or trans people, or
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gay people or liberals or I don't need any of that.
I need it to do its job. And somewhere along
the line, we forgot what the job of government is
the job of government, like an hoa, is to make
our lives better. That's what the job of government is.
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To make our lives better and to make sure the
country is fair for everybody in it. That's what government is.
That's all it should do. How do we make the
lives of Americans better? All Americans, not Republican Americans, not
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MAGA Americans, not liberal Americans, all Americans, poor Americans, rich Americans.
How do we benefit their lives? How do we make
infrastructure they can rely on public transportation, they can use
a healthcare system they can access without going bankrupt, care
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for them and the young. How do we make sure
women are treated equally in business? That's what government's supposed
to be about, and it's lost its way. It has
totally lost its way. And as Henry in the chatroom
or Harriet YouTube dot com, Oh, Harry Morgan, that's dexter.
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It's very hard for government to protect everyone when one
group decides it's supposed to impose its values on the nation.
That's exactly right. I don't need liberal values, I don't
need conservative values. I don't need Christian values. You know
what kind of values I need? American values. That's what
I need. I need America to have values, and those
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are the only values that the government should project life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, equality, fairness, that's it. I don't need
them to suppose their lifestyle on I won't impose it
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on that. When we come back, there's a drug out
there and it's not an opiate and it's killed. Hey,
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years of support to the loudest, craziest, most unhinged gay
guy and his little dog. And let's keep the party
going as long as we can. You know, I have
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to disagree with Ray Renatti in the chat room who
said that government should protect the rights of those in
the minority. No, because government shouldn't see a minority. Government
should only see an American. Government should protect everybody's rights,
not just those in the minority. Everybody, every American should
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have the exact same rights, and therefore, defending the rights
of one American is defending the rights of all. We've
got to get out of this. My my thinking, my minority.
I need government to cater to my minority. No, I
am not a minority by being gay. I'm an American.
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I am part of three hundred and thirty million other
people that's not a minority. Only when we think this
way is it going to work. The government should protect
the rights of every American, not just those in the minority,
every American, and it should not grant anybody any more rights,
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be it those in the majority or those in the minority.
Equality equal equals equal. That's as simple as that. Equal
equals equal.
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I got a phone call yesterday from a friend who
was in detox from a drug. I really hadn't paid
attention to the drug. I can't say online because they'll
ban the video. But it's spelt k R A tom,
so we'll call it tom K tom, k R a tom.
(23:09):
We'll just say k tom and K Tom is sold
at liquor stores and smoke shops and gas stations as
an alternative to alcohol. Now, this drug has been used
for thousands of years by ancient cultures for pain, anxiety,
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and other other ailments, and it works when used in
small amounts and not consumed all day every day. However,
in America, of course, people have started using ten or
twelve bottles of this stuff a day. Now. My friend
is going through an opiate detox because this drug K
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tom it affects your opiate receptors in your brain. It's
not an opiate, but it's an opiate antagonist. It affects
those receptors in your brain, so it can give you
a feeling of euphoria. It can give you better focus,
it can take away pain, it can actually help in
opiate detox. They've used it for centuries. So now the
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epidemic of this has become greater than the opiate crisis,
particular in appllation and other places, because people see, oh,
it's a natural substance. It's sold at a liquor store,
it's sold at a gas station. How bad can it be? Well,
hemlock is a natural substance. Heroin is from a poppy.
That's a very natural substance. So just because something is
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natural doesn't mean it's safe. Cyanide is natural. You find
it in the seat of an apple, but we know
it'll happen if you take that. So this drug is
horrible and I want you all to stay away from
this drug. Krat Om. I currently have a friend in
detox from it, and he says it's hell. And then
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this morning I read an article on Apple News about
this very thing. Twenty and thirty year olds are now
addicted to this drug that they buy at the gas station.
It is sending people to the hospital. It is killing
people now, I tell you, and in the chat room,
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people do know what it is. I tell you this
because I went through opiate withdrawal. I was on opiates
for fourteen fifteen years, and I learned a lot about myself,
about others. I learned a lot. And one of the
things I learned is that happy rats don't medicate. And
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so this k tom epidemic is again stemming from unhappiness,
and that's why it's taking hold in some of the
poorest areas in the country. Remember the experiment, two rats,
one cage by themselves, one water bottle, one food bottle,
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and that two water bottle, sorry, two water bottles, one
food bottle, one water bottle, drugged with opiates the other plane.
The two rats in the cage by themselves in a
small cage with nothing to do. Both odd within four
weeks of being in the cage died from drug overdose.
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Then they took a rat topia, a wonderful place to
be a rat, and they put ten rats in there,
and they put the same three bottles, a food bottle,
a water bottle, and a bottle with opiates in it. Well,
the rats were much happier in this ratopia, and they
had rat friends and they socialized and they did things.
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So the opiate water bottle only went down about a
quarter every month. And why is that? Because rats don't medicate,
they don't need to take the drug because they're happy.
And so this k tom epidemic, it goes right back
to the fact that we're all not all, but many
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people want to alter their existence. They don't like their reality.
They don't feel they belong, they don't feel they're good enough,
strong enough. They have imposter syndrome. They don't feel they're
rich enough, pretty enough, handsome enough. There's a million things
that make them unhappy and they turn to a substance
(27:37):
which makes them feel better. For me, it's food. But
if we were truly happy, And this goes back to
the first part of what it is that I need
from my government. I need from my government to help
make a society where people don't need to drug themselves
to get by, where existing isn't so painful that you
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will go to a gas station and spend ten dollars
for a bottle of some herb you've never heard of
before in your life. That's killing your liver, damaging your kidneys,
frying your brain to make yourself feel better. No, I've
never done over the counter drugs. They're for pansies. So
(28:22):
as I'm concerned, do real drugs. You want to do
an opiate, do a freaking opiate. I don't condone it,
And after detoxing from them, I probably won't ever do
one again. But don't do a fake opiate. If you're
gonna do an opiate, do an opiate. You you know.
If you're gonna do speed, don't freaking do some weird form.
Go out and get yourself an eight ball. So and
(28:43):
I don't condone any of it, by the way, but
I say, find out why you're turning to the drug.
Find out why you need this k tom or you
need this opiate. I know why I need cannabis to
relieve my stress and make me relax. I know why
I need it so happy. Rats don't medicate. If we
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have this k tom epidemic in this country, it's because
even though with the opiate crisis, we've tried to solve it,
making opiates harder to get doesn't solve the crisis. You
have to find out why people were taking opiates in
them because they work taking opiates or taking this k tom,
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that's the underlying cause of the addiction. Why are you
taking it? Is it to get rid of unhappiness to
make you feel better because you feel like crap every day.
If so, you need to solve those issues. It's like
my friend with Kennemy. He's dead. Daniel Charleston's birthday is
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this week. He would have been thirty eight years old. Instead,
he died at thirty seven from the wonder drug you
know which. And I don't mean kto, I mean Kennedy.
It's not a wonder drug. It may be good for
depression and microdosas, it may be good for many things,
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but it's addictive and it will kill you. And he
wasn't happy, and that's why he turns to his Hi
have grell You who you want to be? It's on
a hurdy buddy. Think about what I've said today. Okay,
leave your comments down below. I don't need special things
from the government.
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Oh, show Time. You know, I've thought a lot about it,
and I don't need rainbow sidewalks and Pride flags flying
over city Hall. I'll tell you what I need. Also,
there's a new drug out there that's horrifying and I
want you to stay away from it. We'll talk about it.
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It is the Carell Cast. I am Carrel Happy Monday,
August twenty fifth, So very glad, you are joining me.
We've got a lot to talk about today. A couple
of things from personal, you know, topics that came in
my way, from the personal realm, and then of course
the bigger world picture. First, I want to clarify some
things about my last show last week. A lot of
(01:56):
you took it to mean that I'm giving up, that
I'm you know, abandoning my convictions, abandoning the country, abandoning you,
and that couldn't be further from the truth. But I
had a really interesting weekend. I felt lightheaded all weekend
(02:17):
and my blood pressure spiked so high it was really scary,
one eighty over ninety, but it went down. It went
down later in the evening till one eleven over sixty
five where it normally is. And part not all. It
could be something going on in my head. Doctor says,
if it happens again, go to the er. But part
(02:38):
of its stress, And what I was trying to say
to you last week is it is not healthy for
us as humans to stress as much as we are
over things we cannot control. You know, this morning I
read the headlines and instead of getting upset, I just said, oh, well, know,
(03:00):
nothing I can do until there is something for me
to do in this situation, I'm not going to worry
about it. And that's really what I meant by the show.
Until there is something for you to do in a
certain situation, don't let it stress you. I can't stop
(03:20):
Nettan Yahoo from taking over Gaza. He's going to The
Jewish people in Israel have lost all of my credibility
when it comes to the Holocaust because they are committing
one on their own and they're letting their leader commit one.
But again, many of the Jews in Israel are powerless
to stop in Yahoo. So I can't worry that he
(03:42):
blew up something that killed journalists. I can't. I can't
be mad about it. He's going to keep doing what
he's doing, and only the world leaders can stop him
or his own people. So getting upset over that there's
no point. And Trump has done so many horrible things
since last Thursday, since we last were together, that I
(04:04):
can't even enumerate them all. But I'm not going to
get mad at him. Why Because I can't stop him.
Only Congress can stop him. The billionaires that he serves
can stop him. But you and I we can't stop him.
We can vote against him. We can help Gavin Newsom
past the legislation to redistrict in California. You know, those
(04:27):
are the things we can do. But getting mad at
everything he does every day it's not going to serve us.
So last week I was simply trying to say to
you to concern yourself more with things you can change
and things you can influence, and let the stress of
(04:48):
the other go. You know, just let it go, because
we live in extraordinary times right now, and caring as
much as I do, and caring as much as you do,
it doesn't serve us well right now, and doesn't serve
our health well. So I'm not saying don't pay attention.
(05:10):
I'm not saying let go of your beliefs. I'm not
saying don't be passionate about your country. I'm not saying
any of that. I'm saying, be very careful what you
hold onto, you know, be very very careful as to
what you are holding on to, because it's going to
(05:30):
bring you stress. You know, it's going to overwhelm your life,
and I don't want that to happen. I know it
was overwhelming mine for instance. Let's just go right into
we'll do the drug topic. In the last segment, you know,
yesterday I exclaimed something I said, I don't need rainbow sidewalks.
(05:52):
You know, I often have opinions that are outside of
the gay norm. I don't need rainbow sidewalk. I don't
need my city hall to fly a rainbow flag during
Pride Month. I don't need that. I don't There are
plenty of gay bars to fly the rainbow flag. If
(06:13):
you're a business and you are aligned with LGBTQ, you're
an ally fly a flag. I don't need city hall
to do it. I don't need the state capital to
do it. I don't need the White House to do it.
And I don't need rainbow sidewalks in the gay neighborhoods.
I don't need them. I don't need a lot of
(06:36):
what the gays have seen as progress in my life.
I really don't. I've never needed that from government. I
don't even care if my government acknowledges my sexuality. In fact,
I would prefer my government not acknowledge my sexuality. Now.
(06:59):
Isn't that you know something you don't hear every day?
You know, I don't care if a president or a governor, or,
a mayor I don't care if they acknowledge my sexuality.
That's not what I need from them. And I think
(07:19):
many people have been looking to government for things that
government shouldn't be doing and that we don't need from government.
You know what I need from government, An equal playing field.
That's what I need from government. Okay, I need an
equal playing field. I need there should be no laws
(07:40):
or regulations against me or my sexuality. Okay, that's what
I need. I don't need them to fly a rainbow flag.
I don't need them to be in the gay pride parades.
It's nice, it's cute. I don't need it. I just
need the same rights, the same benefits of the law
(08:02):
that every other American. In fact, I don't need my
government to look at me as a gay American. I
prefer my government just look at me as an American,
the same as every other of the three hundred and
thirty million residents of this country. I don't need them
to look at me as anything except American. Women don't
(08:26):
need to be looked at as anything except women. Blacks
don't need to be seen as black, They just need
to be seen as Americans. The founding fathers laid out
a gorgeous document that said all Americans. All that already
means gay people, that already means by trans that already
(08:50):
means women, black, white, green, purple. American means you are
entitled to every single thing every other American is entitled to.
That No other American shall have more freedom, more dignity,
more rights, or more opportunity than you. Now, that's all
(09:14):
I need from my government. I don't need a rainbow
cross walk. I can cross the street without it. What
I need is better public transportation. I don't need pride
flags over a city hall. What I need are more
gays and lesbians and trans people in city hall pulling
(09:35):
the strings. I don't need for June to be declared
Gay Pride months. What I need is for every single
month for gays and lesbians to have the same rights
as everybody else in every single month. I don't need
(09:55):
my government to like me or my sexuality. I just
need it to protect me, to make sure that my
rights are not violated, to make sure the playing field
is equal. That's what I need, not what i'd like
(10:15):
to see. I'd like to see a big kum bay
a world. I would, but I don't need it. I'd
like to see gays being recognized, but I don't need it.
What I need is a government that functions for all.
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You know, the founder is never envisioned government being so
up in everybody's business. They never envisioned a government that
would want to be inside a woman's vagina. They really didn't.
They didn't envision a government that cared whether two men
got married two women or a man and a woman.
They it wasn't on their radar, okay, And so I
(11:37):
think that the pendulum did swing too much, and that's
why we're here. Suddenly gays needed city Hall to fly
a pride flag, they needed rainbow sidewalks, they needed blah
blah blah blah. But no, they don't really. You know,
one of the things I love about America, and I
(11:58):
do love some things is the multiculturalism of neighborhoods. I
love that you can go to Little Saigon or Chinatown,
or Italian Town or Indiaville or whatever. I love that
there are areas of every city that cater or have
(12:19):
I love the Jewish District in Los Angeles, the Fairfax District.
I love going and immersing myself in their culture. But
I don't need the government to acknowledge every single culture
every single day or every single month. That's not what
(12:40):
I need government for. I need government to keep prices low.
I need government to negotiate fair trade deals so we
don't come out on the bottom. I need government to
mitigate damages from climate change and lead us into a
new era of energy and public transportation that has a
zero harbon footprint. When it comes to minorities, there aren't any.
(13:07):
There shouldn't be a minority in government. You know why,
because we're all Americans. You can't be a minority if
you're an American, because then you're part of three hundred
and thirty million people. And minorities, including gays, have segregated
themselves from other Americans so much that they want it
(13:30):
appears to people they want special rights or different rights. No,
I don't need any right that any MAGA person doesn't have.
I don't need any special recognition that any MAGA person
doesn't get. I just need the same. That's it. If
(13:50):
this person can't be fired. No one should be able
to be fired from a job for being who you are, gay, black, trans.
No American should be able to be fired by another
American for any reason other than bad performance. No law
should ever be made that affects just one group of people,
(14:15):
like banning trans That's ridiculous. They're Americans. There should be
no law made against them in America. And this is
what MAGA and Republicans and Donald Trump get wrong, that
we are all no one. There should be no religious
(14:35):
concessions in government. None. You should be treated no better
or no worse because you are a Christian, or a
Jew or a Muslim, period because you're an American. We
have lost the concept of being an American, and subsequently
we have splintered ourselves into so many different factions that
(15:00):
now all fight amongst each other that we've become an
intolerable place to live. Intolerable. You know, I loved in
the eighties where you would go to San Francisco and
go to the Castro and it was just gaglore, every business,
every everything. I love that. I don't need, you know,
(15:22):
gay businesses all over town. If you want to be
all over town, fine, if you want to fly your flag,
that's fine. But I like going to a gay ghetto
or a Jewish ghetto or whatever. I like that. But
when it comes time to all pull together, we need
to remember at the ballot box we're Americans. And I
(15:43):
know that's hard to do because it's become identity politics,
performative identity politics, and that's never what this country was
set up to do. So you can keep your rainbow sidewalks.
Just stop making laws against trans people. I mean nice
if we you know, you can keep your flying your
(16:03):
flag over the White House. I don't care what flag
you fly over the right House. I don't care if
you fly a Pride flag or not. Just don't sign
any law inside the White House against me. I don't
care if you don't approve of the LGBTQ lifestyle. I
don't care. I'm an American and that's how you should
(16:26):
see me first. And we stopped seeing each other as Americans.
Now there's good Americans. Bad Americans. To liberals, Maga are
bad Americans, and they are. To Maga, liberals are bad Americans. Well,
there's no such thing as a good or bad American.
(16:46):
There's just an American with a different viewpoint of yours.
We have lost any concept of unity, dignity, respect. That's
all I need, the same thing any the same thing
our founders said. I was entitled to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. That's all I need from my government,
(17:10):
the ability for me to have a life, to have
liberty in it, and to pursue happiness on a level
playing field. Meanwhile, I would very much like for government
to provide energy to everybody that needs it. That's something
government can do. To provide housing to anyone that needs it,
(17:31):
to keep the streets safe, to protect us in time
of war. That's what I need government for. Social services centralized,
and you know, health care for all. That's what I
need government for. I don't need it to approve or
disapprove of me, or black people, or trans people, or
(17:53):
gay people or liberals or I don't need any of that.
I need it to do its job. And somewhere along
the line, we forgot what the job of government is
the job of government, like an hoa, is to make
our lives better. That's what the job of government is.
(18:15):
To make our lives better and to make sure the
country is fair for everybody in it. That's what government is.
That's all it should do. How do we make the
lives of Americans better? All Americans, not Republican Americans, not
(18:37):
MAGA Americans, not liberal Americans, all Americans, poor Americans, rich Americans.
How do we benefit their lives? How do we make
infrastructure they can rely on public transportation, they can use
a healthcare system they can access without going bankrupt, care
(18:59):
for them and the young. How do we make sure
women are treated equally in business? That's what government's supposed
to be about, and it's lost its way. It has
totally lost its way. And as Henry in the chatroom
or Harriet YouTube dot com, Oh, Harry Morgan, that's dexter.
(19:23):
It's very hard for government to protect everyone when one
group decides it's supposed to impose its values on the nation.
That's exactly right. I don't need liberal values, I don't
need conservative values. I don't need Christian values. You know
what kind of values I need? American values. That's what
I need. I need America to have values, and those
(19:47):
are the only values that the government should project life, liberty,
pursuit of happiness, equality, fairness, that's it. I don't need
them to suppose their lifestyle on I won't impose it
(20:07):
on that. When we come back, there's a drug out
there and it's not an opiate and it's killed. Hey,
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guy and his little dog. And let's keep the party
going as long as we can. You know, I have
(21:25):
to disagree with Ray Renatti in the chat room who
said that government should protect the rights of those in
the minority. No, because government shouldn't see a minority. Government
should only see an American. Government should protect everybody's rights,
not just those in the minority. Everybody, every American should
(21:47):
have the exact same rights, and therefore, defending the rights
of one American is defending the rights of all. We've
got to get out of this. My my thinking, my minority.
I need government to cater to my minority. No, I
am not a minority by being gay. I'm an American.
(22:08):
I am part of three hundred and thirty million other
people that's not a minority. Only when we think this
way is it going to work. The government should protect
the rights of every American, not just those in the minority,
every American, and it should not grant anybody any more rights,
(22:30):
be it those in the majority or those in the minority.
Equality equal equals equal. That's as simple as that. Equal
equals equal.
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Speaker 3 (22:48):
I got a phone call yesterday from a friend who
was in detox from a drug. I really hadn't paid
attention to the drug. I can't say online because they'll
ban the video. But it's spelt k R A tom,
so we'll call it tom K tom, k R a tom.
(23:09):
We'll just say k tom and K Tom is sold
at liquor stores and smoke shops and gas stations as
an alternative to alcohol. Now, this drug has been used
for thousands of years by ancient cultures for pain, anxiety,
(23:30):
and other other ailments, and it works when used in
small amounts and not consumed all day every day. However,
in America, of course, people have started using ten or
twelve bottles of this stuff a day. Now. My friend
is going through an opiate detox because this drug K
(23:54):
tom it affects your opiate receptors in your brain. It's
not an opiate, but it's an opiate antagonist. It affects
those receptors in your brain, so it can give you
a feeling of euphoria. It can give you better focus,
it can take away pain, it can actually help in
opiate detox. They've used it for centuries. So now the
(24:20):
epidemic of this has become greater than the opiate crisis,
particular in appllation and other places, because people see, oh,
it's a natural substance. It's sold at a liquor store,
it's sold at a gas station. How bad can it be? Well,
hemlock is a natural substance. Heroin is from a poppy.
That's a very natural substance. So just because something is
(24:43):
natural doesn't mean it's safe. Cyanide is natural. You find
it in the seat of an apple, but we know
it'll happen if you take that. So this drug is
horrible and I want you all to stay away from
this drug. Krat Om. I currently have a friend in
detox from it, and he says it's hell. And then
(25:04):
this morning I read an article on Apple News about
this very thing. Twenty and thirty year olds are now
addicted to this drug that they buy at the gas station.
It is sending people to the hospital. It is killing
people now, I tell you, and in the chat room,
(25:26):
people do know what it is. I tell you this
because I went through opiate withdrawal. I was on opiates
for fourteen fifteen years, and I learned a lot about myself,
about others. I learned a lot. And one of the
things I learned is that happy rats don't medicate. And
(25:48):
so this k tom epidemic is again stemming from unhappiness,
and that's why it's taking hold in some of the
poorest areas in the country. Remember the experiment, two rats,
one cage by themselves, one water bottle, one food bottle,
(26:10):
and that two water bottle, sorry, two water bottles, one
food bottle, one water bottle, drugged with opiates the other plane.
The two rats in the cage by themselves in a
small cage with nothing to do. Both odd within four
weeks of being in the cage died from drug overdose.
(26:31):
Then they took a rat topia, a wonderful place to
be a rat, and they put ten rats in there,
and they put the same three bottles, a food bottle,
a water bottle, and a bottle with opiates in it. Well,
the rats were much happier in this ratopia, and they
had rat friends and they socialized and they did things.
(26:52):
So the opiate water bottle only went down about a
quarter every month. And why is that? Because rats don't medicate,
they don't need to take the drug because they're happy.
And so this k tom epidemic, it goes right back
to the fact that we're all not all, but many
(27:14):
people want to alter their existence. They don't like their reality.
They don't feel they belong, they don't feel they're good enough,
strong enough. They have imposter syndrome. They don't feel they're
rich enough, pretty enough, handsome enough. There's a million things
that make them unhappy and they turn to a substance
(27:37):
which makes them feel better. For me, it's food. But
if we were truly happy, And this goes back to
the first part of what it is that I need
from my government. I need from my government to help
make a society where people don't need to drug themselves
to get by, where existing isn't so painful that you
(28:02):
will go to a gas station and spend ten dollars
for a bottle of some herb you've never heard of
before in your life. That's killing your liver, damaging your kidneys,
frying your brain to make yourself feel better. No, I've
never done over the counter drugs. They're for pansies. So
(28:22):
as I'm concerned, do real drugs. You want to do
an opiate, do a freaking opiate. I don't condone it,
And after detoxing from them, I probably won't ever do
one again. But don't do a fake opiate. If you're
gonna do an opiate, do an opiate. You you know.
If you're gonna do speed, don't freaking do some weird form.
Go out and get yourself an eight ball. So and
(28:43):
I don't condone any of it, by the way, but
I say, find out why you're turning to the drug.
Find out why you need this k tom or you
need this opiate. I know why I need cannabis to
relieve my stress and make me relax. I know why
I need it so happy. Rats don't medicate. If we
(29:07):
have this k tom epidemic in this country, it's because
even though with the opiate crisis, we've tried to solve it,
making opiates harder to get doesn't solve the crisis. You
have to find out why people were taking opiates in
them because they work taking opiates or taking this k tom,
(29:28):
that's the underlying cause of the addiction. Why are you
taking it? Is it to get rid of unhappiness to
make you feel better because you feel like crap every day.
If so, you need to solve those issues. It's like
my friend with Kennemy. He's dead. Daniel Charleston's birthday is
(29:51):
this week. He would have been thirty eight years old. Instead,
he died at thirty seven from the wonder drug you
know which. And I don't mean kto, I mean Kennedy.
It's not a wonder drug. It may be good for
depression and microdosas, it may be good for many things,
(30:12):
but it's addictive and it will kill you. And he
wasn't happy, and that's why he turns to his Hi
have grell You who you want to be? It's on
a hurdy buddy. Think about what I've said today. Okay,
leave your comments down below. I don't need special things
from the government.
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