Is It Going to Be A Dark Christmas?

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As the Crowd Cast. I am Correl so very glad
you're joining me on this Monday, December eighth. Very glad
to be here with you. It feels like I've been
away forever. So much has happened since Thursday that I
feel like I've been gone forever and we're you know,
we got a lot to talk about today, although I
have to tell you as December goes on, I want

(01:22):
to talk about Trump less and less for two reasons.
First of all, it's not getting any better. It's actually
getting much much worse. It's getting so bad that yesterday
I thought you need to stop messing around and actually
leave the country. And I'll tell you what policy that

(01:43):
he's putting in place. That made me actually feel that way,
but I did. I felt that way. But then I'm
sort of torn, and like you, I'm torn in two directions.
I want to enjoy the holidays. I don't know how
many more I've got. I don't know how many more
I've got. With Ember, I micro manage our weight. Ember
has lost about four ounces over the last month, and

(02:04):
I can't figure that out. She's always six point six
kilogram six point six one, six point six five, six
point six two always, and starting December or January, I'm sorry,
November twenty seventh, she went to six point five seven
and now she's at six point five to two. But
I'm fate feeding her the same thing. And those are kilograms,

(02:28):
so that's ounces that she's lost about six ounces, and
for a fifteen fourteen pound dog, that's a weight loss.
So I can't figure it out, and so it has
me scared. So that's on my mind. But I want
to enjoy the holidays, you know. I want to be
around family and friends or at least just not think
about how devastating the world is. And you know, I

(02:50):
like to get lost in movies this time of year
because it is screener season. And we will be talking
about the Golden Globes that we're announced today. And let's see.
I just I saw some really fun movies. I saw
Predator bad Lands. We'll talk about that, and then the
Julia Roberts film After the Hunt with Andrew Garfield, which

(03:13):
is about me too. We're going to talk about a
very powerful line from that movie. So we've got all
that coming up later. But right now, you know, like you,
I think I am torn. You want to pay attention
to the news, You want to be informed over the holidays,
but when the news is as cataclysmically bad as it

(03:35):
is coming out of Washington, d C. You almost don't
want to pay attention, you know, you just you want
to say, like for December, I'll just put this away.
And I think they almost count on that because they're
doing some very dastardly deeds over the course of the
last week and this week, and you know, it was

(03:57):
announced it's seventy five thousand people were arrested by ice
that had no criminal records, which you know defeats what
Donald Trump was doing. Look, if you are in this
country illegally and you are truly a criminal, and by
a criminal, I mean robbing, thieving, raping, murdering, criminal. I

(04:25):
don't mean a criminal who didn't do his immigration paperwork.
I mean an actual criminal to where you're harming the community,
you're a spousal abuser, or you know, you're you're an
actual criminal, then yes, I say get them out. I
agree with Donald Trump on that, and I don't think

(04:46):
any of us disagree on that. I don't think we
disagree with Maga on that that you know policy, If
someone is here illegally and they are selling drugs or
they are are you know, they're a burglar, or they're
a rapist or whatever, then yeah, I'm you know, but

(05:07):
traffic violations, no, immigration paper violations, no, but a real
criminal and actual criminal, you know, like Donald Trump, then yeah,
then throw them out. I'm in agreement with that. But
seventy five thousand people that they arrested weren't criminals, weren't

(05:30):
people with criminal records, had no crimes that they were committing.
That's bad. That's not like five or ten, that's seventy
five thousands. That's a lot of mistaken arrests, and that's depressed.

(05:51):
And how do we stop that. If you can stop ice,
you know, only Congress could really stop it.

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You know, Steve and I went shopping over this holiday weekend,
and I gotta tell you the stores they were pretty
fall you know, parking was horrific. We were at the
outlet mall here in Vegas. I asked some of the
store clerks if they've been busy. They said swamped, and

(06:51):
I thought, well, that's good for the economy, right, That's
that's good. However, I read online that seventy seven percent
of people surveyed that are shopping for Christmas are using
a credit card that they are not going to be
able to pay off the following month. They're going to

(07:12):
have to break Christmas up into multiple payments. Now, if
you can't pay your credit cards off the following month,
then you can't afford what you're buying. And look, I'm
with you. I can't. I can't pay them all off.
I carry a balance. I have a big zero percent
interest balance right now, about eight thousand dollars that I'm carrying.
That's zero percent interest until next September, so you know,

(07:36):
I'm just like pay it off between now and then.
But that was alarming that two thirds of the people
or three quarters of the people who are out shopping
are actually putting it on a credit card. What about y'all,
are you just not shopping or are you putting it
on a credit card but you'll pay the credit card
next month? Or are you financing Christmas? As we live

(07:58):
in the era of financing. You know did in ninety
seven thousand months for a car and two hundred and
forty three years for a home, so you know, but
there were a lot of people out. I bought two
pairs of shoes at the Puma store. I went in
for a skull cap and they were giving them away,
but you had to buy one hundred dollars worth of shoes,
and I found two pairs of shoes to that because

(08:20):
every two years in December I have to replace six
pairs of shoes because I walk two thousand miles or
more a year, so my shoes were out. So every
two years I replace all my shoes and I give
the old ones to charity because they're a little worn,
well they're a lot worn, but they're still usable. So

(08:40):
you know, someone that was homeless or whatever would be
grateful for them. So if I get a new pair,
I have to get rid of a pair. That's the rule.
And so I got a total of five new pairs
of shoes. I'm very happy. Shouldn't have spent the money,
but over the last two weeks, I've gotten five new
pairs of shoes and I'm ecstatic. Little things like that
feel like blessings into world. But people are charging them.

(09:05):
They're charging their purchases and they're planning on paying it
over three to six months, which means you're not done
with Christmas until almost June. And that's that's American life
right now. In the chat room, people are saying, I
put everything on a credit card, but I don't keep
a balance. Good for you, for most of my cards
are at zero. Most are at zero. I have eleven

(09:28):
credit cards because I had to rebuild my credit after
a bankruptcy, so I got smaller cards first, which I
don't use them anymore, and then you know, they gave
me larger cards later, but I don't. I try not
to carry a balance. What about you, are you financing Christmas?

(09:54):
You know, is it going to be something that happens
over the next six months. And I went to ask
me what I want for Christmas, and as I told
you on my show, the only two things I really
want are a new a Vitamins ascent of X five
and then a new food processor from Breville that does
the cubing, because both of those things of mine broke.

(10:17):
But that's combined, that's like eleven hundred dollars, so I'm
not getting that. But again, it was joyous to be out.
It was great to be out with Steve and having
you know, shopping, and I wore a mask of course.
For those of you keeping track my immunology, I told
you the immunologist ordered a complete immune panel. I've never

(10:40):
had one, and it made me cry when I got
the results. I'll just share this today because these shows
are going to be a little looser, not as rigidly
politics and not as rigidly topic driven, just sort of
conversation all over the next month between now and January.
The show is going to be more of a conversation.
But yeah, I had the panel done, and I cried

(11:03):
because you know, Andrew had those panels done all the
time because he had HIV eights and I in my
entire life, I know you all are going to not
believe this, but I've never had a complete immune panel
done in my whole life. Of all the labs they've
ever done, they've never done a CD four count, CD
three T cell count, none of that. And I knew

(11:25):
that Andrews. I knew his religiously, Like when he got
on the drug study and his T cells were one
ninety eight, they were two below what they wanted. They
wanted two hundred or below, and we used to rejoice
when his got above two hundred, and I thought that
that was good. And when he was on his protease
inhibitors they got up to four hundred, and I thought, wow,

(11:46):
that's great. We were rejoicing. We were so happy when
his t cells were four hundred. Well, I got my
t cells back and they're almost eleven hundred. They're ten
ninety nine or ten eighty nine. And I cried because
I never really realized how high T cells were supposed
to be, and it showed me how low Andrew's really were.

(12:12):
I didn't know that they could go all the way
up to seventeen hundred. Imagine when you're young and vibrant,
that's where they're at. I'm fully in the green on everything. Also,
I didn't know that we all carry the new macaccle
virus with us for newmacacle pneumonia. We have all come
in contact with it, and when they do an immune panel,
they test your antibodies to that different serum antibodies, and

(12:34):
that lets them know if you respond to viral infections.
I didn't know that that we'd all been exposed to
newmacacle pneumonia. Who knew? I didn't know. But everything's in
the green. So I don't know what the immunologist will
do with that. But everything with a CD three, CD
four I have. They do two different things. TETNA yes,

(13:00):
to see if you still have tetanus immunity. I do,
and then they so that it's It was great and
I cried because I thought, Wow, your immune system is
held up. And I cried because of all of my
friends with HIV AIDS, where their immune systems got devastated
and it's the holidays, and holidays bring out the melancholy

(13:21):
in most of us. So, but I was also grateful
for the healthcare and the access because I don't know
how long that's going to last. Donald Trump, for instance,
today the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court does not normally
go back and try to change their own precedent. Okay,

(13:42):
so if there's something the Supreme Court has already decided,
they tend not to want to go back and readjudicate
those cases. Well, they are taking a ninety year old
precedent about presidential power, where the Supreme Court said ninety

(14:03):
years ago that the president does not have the authority
to fire the heads of independent agencies. Okay, these are
agencies that do business with the government but are independent,
independent agencies. They're government agencies, but they're independent. They're not

(14:28):
a part of his cabinet, you know that sort of thing.
And normally it was their bosses in those agencies, the
head of the Department of whatever or whatever, that would
do the firing. But now Trump wants to expand his
presidential powers to include the firing of the heads of

(14:50):
independent agencies. It is another how do I say this?
The Supreme Court appears to want the president to be
a dictator. In their rulings of late, the conservatives on
the Court have been about expanding presidential power, and that's
not what the Supreme Court's there for. In fact, they're
there for the exact opposite. The Supreme Court is supposed

(15:14):
to be there to limit presidential power. Okay, so they
are now expanding or they're revisiting a precedent to expand,
and if they're revisiting it, it's because they think that
it probably needs to be changed. So it is scary

(15:35):
when we have a guy that already wants to be
a dictator having the Supreme Court actually help him expand
his power. That's depressing. Then I follow this Aaron Parness guy.
He's young, he's handsome, he does news for Midas Touched,

(15:58):
and yesterday I saw him speak about the administration has
reached out to the FBI and told them they want
to ferret out domestic extremist and those domestic extremists will
include people with quote radical gender ideology, meaning if you

(16:22):
accept trans people, if you accept gay people, if you
rally or support them, or if you're an ally. They
want to find people that are against ice because they
think you shouldn't be against what the president is doing
with ice. He had a list of who the FBI

(16:42):
is now going to be on the lookout for, and
they're going to start a website so people can report
these quote extremists. Well, to Maga, I'm an extremist and
ta Maga, you're an extreme. You just don't have a podcast.

(17:03):
And when I read that, I thought, Chuck, you really
can't stay here. You are so outspoken and have been
for so many years that someone and I don't have
to be as famous as David Pacman or Don Lemon.
It just takes some upset Maga person to come across

(17:24):
my podcast, hear it and report it as soon as
that becomes available. And that's scary to me because people
like me in Nazi Germany disappeared. You know, I just
watched Kiss of the Spider Woman, the new one. We're
gonna talk about that today too, and the guys are

(17:46):
in jail in that movie, the revolutionary guys in jail
because in Argentina they jailed journalist, artist, dissidents, basically people
as well. That's why the other guy's in the jail
because they also jailed gay people as Devians and that

(18:08):
didn't end until nineteen eighty three. In my lifetime is
when they released them from jail. That can happen here.
And I know a lot of you don't think it's
gonna get that bad, but people like Don Lemon and
David Pacman, they already think it's gonna get that bad,
and they are worried. I bet Stephanie Miller has a

(18:30):
bit of concern. I am concerned because I'm not gonna
go to jail for Donald Trump. I'm not gonna go
to jail for America. I would just leave. But even
that they are, they're very against Europe. Since we last spoke,
both Pentagon Pete and Donald Trump have made it clear

(18:54):
they want to break up the EU. They want the
EU to go back to just members stay and let
each state have its own policies and sovereignty. And they
want that because they want anti DEI policies. It's a
pro Russia stands. In fact, the headline it was so

(19:16):
scary I printed it in my caption from the BBC
new US Security strategy aligns with Russia's vision. Now. I
don't know about you, but I grew up thinking Russia
was the enemy duck and cover. It was always Russia
that was gonna bomb US. We were fighting communism, we

(19:38):
were fighting Russia. So to see the headline new US
security strategy aligns with Russia's vision. That's terrifying, especially over
the holidays. When you see the other headline, Supreme Court
to reconsider ninety year old president of limiting president powers

(20:00):
to fire heads of agencies. That's scary. You see Aaron
Parnas Trump administration to instruct FBI to find extremists in
the United States, including radical gender ideology, anti ice pro immigrants.
That's you and me, you know. In the good News headline,

(20:24):
Trump is underwater in his approval rating in thirty nine states,
including my state. He's at negative fifteen in Nevada, negative
forty in California. He's way down in the negatives in
thirty and not just blue states. In Florida, he approval
rating is in the negative. Marjorie Taylor Green was on

(20:48):
Sixty Minutes making sense, which is frightening. Talk about scary.
She was saying that Trump is not putting America first.
I mean, this woman was making sense, and so these
are scary headline. They are Germany, not c S headline

(21:12):
a website to report your neighbors, you know, expansion of
presidential powers. So what do we do over the holidays?
Do we just ignore it? I'd like to hear them.
Do we just ignore it? Do we just say I'm
not going to do it this till January?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Say?

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Now?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Is show side.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
All right? We are back? Part one of the shows
almost over? So that's my dilemma as a podcaster. These
are things that I do pay attention to, but last
night they got me so overwhelmed. I literally if I
had a couple friends in Vancouver or in Puerto Aarta,

(22:25):
if I could be sure. See. The other reason I
don't want to leave America is my aorta. Okay, my
aorta is growing, and it's it's four point four, four
point three, seventy five, four point four whatever. Now, they
don't operate till five point five at five point zho
you see the surgeon, and then somewhere between five point
zero and five point five they operate, and they grow slowly.

(22:45):
So even if mine's four point five this year, even
if it grew from four point four this last year
to four point five, I am still five to seven
to ten years away from unless it really balloons out
from having to have either open hearts or them going
in through my groin and putting in a t vall
it's called, and they certainly can do that in other countries.

(23:09):
What I'm concerned about is if Trump continues to antagonize Europe,
if Trump continues to antagonize Latin American nations like Venezuela, Argentina,
if he pisses off Mexico, if I go relocate somewhere,
they may kick me out because other countries are only

(23:32):
going to tolerate Trump and Americans so much and his
immigration policies before they say that no Americans are welcome here.
Portugal and Spain already think there's enough Americans there. Countries
are going to France, other countries, they're going to start saying,
no Americans stay in your country because of Donald Trump.

(23:56):
So I'm very worried if we don't get out in
the next six months. If any of you and see
they don't talk about emigration. They talk about immigration, but
this administration doesn't talk about More Americans have left under
Donald Trump than under any other administration. More Americans have

(24:17):
left America since Trump has been president than under any
other president, we are bleeding people, and the question becomes,
are we going to be able to stay in whatever
country we go to? Are they going to be so
mad at Trump they say get out. You know, if
a country goes to war and you're living in abroad,

(24:41):
that you have to go back to your country. You
can't stay where you're at. So that's frightening to me
because quite frankly, I'm comfortable. I love my Vegas condo
and outside of the summer, you know, I know I
don't have a social life and all of that, and
I need improve movement. But I'm good this holiday season.

(25:03):
I've been taking stock and I'm good. I hope Ember
isn't sick with any kind of cancer or anything losing
the weight, but and even that if she passes, she
you know it'll kill me, but I will go on.
You know, I'm good. And health wise, things have been
coming back great. My complete labs, that my my annual physical,

(25:25):
all of my labs were great, and now this complete
immune panel is great. And the pulmonologist says, my lungs
are great. I just might need a seapat machine or
oxygen at night, but that's not major considering I'm sixty
three years old, so I'm good. I'm good, and I'd

(25:47):
like to be good in America, Portland, Palm Springs, whatever,
Las Vegas. But I got really afraid over this weekend.
I really did, because of much as I'd like to
deny that it's getting really bad. The midterms are eleven
months away, so he has unless Republicans find a heart,

(26:11):
he has eleven months of unfettered where the Supreme Court
is actually going to expand his powers, and he wants
to go after anyone that opposes him. Look at him
hosting the Kennedy Center Honors. Never been done. Never the
president doesn't host that a host does, but he did.

(26:32):
He is so ego maniacal and subsequently wants to take
it out on his enemies. He was raging about people
making fun of him sleeping, and I posted a show
with the image of him sleeping that said, dozy down.
You know, I mean, I'm a target and I don't

(26:53):
want to be a target. I don't because no one's
helping us. You and I the Democrats are not helping us. Well,
they're doing all they can Correll, It's not enough. If
this is all the Democrats can do, it's not enough.

(27:16):
We now need them to convince their Republican counterparts that
actually aren't MAGA to start being largerie Taylor Green. We
need others to follow her example. But I don't see
them flocking away from the party. How they could stay

(27:36):
with this man and this party, I don't know, because
they're not Republicans. These are not Republican values that he's pushing.
Their right wing, extreme, pseudo Christian evangelical. They're not the
regular GOP. His tariffs are illegal, but will the Supreme

(27:57):
Court say it? Will Cangress rein him in? No, So
we have no help, and that's why I feel the
need again to maybe get out. I'm and I don't
have the money. I'd clear one hundred and seventy thousand
from this condo given the market, that is not enough
to move to another country. It's just it's not And

(28:18):
what if I move to that other country and invest
in property and then they kick me out or the
Dollar tanks or you know, there's a million what ifs.
So I'm worried, and on this holiday week, and I
don't want to be worried. I want to be baking
and cooking, and I want to be you know, having

(28:38):
joy and talking about the year's best albums and the
year's best movies and all of that. I don't want
to be as worried as I am, but the stories
that have come out even in this last week are
terrifying to those in the know, to those political pundits
that are in the know, the last week has been terrifying,

(29:04):
and every week is terrifying. So what do we do?
What do you and I do? Just go about our
holidays and hope for the best. I mean, if that's
kind of all we can do, right, I can't stop it.
You can't stop it. What else can we do?

Speaker 1 (29:27):
You know?

Speaker 4 (29:28):
Just stay out of the way, keep your head low,
don't be a target. I'll talk to you as a
chat room and down below in the comments. I'd like
to hear from you at really Correl dot com or
YouTube dot com, forwards Aftterally Correl, and don't forget Patreon
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Yeah, I was diagnosed with sleep apnia, answering her question
from the chat room, Yes, they said I have mild
sleep apnia. In fact, on the thirteenth, I have another
overnight study here at my house.

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Speaker 4 (31:00):
All right, I'm reading the chat room. It's not not cusk.
It's full fascism. Greeting's friends and neighbors. Could be that
all that's left for us at this time, and they
want us to take that, take that away through I
think I'll move to a cabin in the Yukon. I
don't blame you, Corel. Were you diagnosed with sleep apnea?
I was mild sleep apnea, not major, but mild.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Um.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Thank god that at least we have are getting a big,
beautiful new ballroom. Well, I don't know. He fired the
architect that was doing it, and then someone asked a
question about it and he called them stupid, so that
lot could sit empty. Who knows. I don't know. I've
been on seapap for thirty years. It's been a live
saversus Ray Renati. Well, they won't give me seapap because

(31:49):
I don't dip below eighty eight percent oxygen at night.
That's the only way mad Care will pay for it, so,
which is ridiculous. So you know, I I said this morning,
I don't want to do shows for the rest of
the month. And that's odd for me. Okay, I'm just

(32:10):
gonna be honest, as I told you. The shows are
going to be more conversation all over the next month
and less, you know, hard hitting topic and blah blah blah.
I said, I don't want to be do a show
for the next month, but I need the money first
of all from the patrons. And second of all, you know,
I know that you guys like to hang out with
me for an hour a day. And the reason I

(32:34):
said that was because I truly am scared and I've
never been I've been gay in America my whole life,
and I've been in scary situations, but I've never been afraid.
I was not afraid of Ronald Reagan, was not I
was not afraid of AIDS. It made me just want
to fight. I know that I got death threats at

(32:57):
KFI Andrew and I did, and I and still on KGL.
But even those didn't scare me because they were the fringe.
They were the very outer edges of the fringe. Yes,
there were conservatives that didn't like the gay guys on
the radio or whatever that, you know, but the actual
ones that wanted to do me harm were the outer

(33:20):
ones on the fringe. Now we have a president that
wants to do me harm, and he does. Donald Trump,
if he heard me, would not like me and would
want me silenced, and has the authority now to make

(33:42):
you disappear. That was never the case in America. Okay,
if you opposed Ronald Reagan, you didn't disappear. If you
opposed George W. Bush or George Herbert Walker Bush, you
didn't disappear. And the Democrats weren't so power.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
That.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
I always felt there were people that were on my
side helping me fight. I didn't feel alone in the fight,
and I didn't feel like it was futile. I felt
that if we got same sex marriage, if we got
AIDS recognized and got the health community on board and
all of that, I felt the battles were winnable and

(34:25):
I felt the goal was worth it. Now I no
longer think the battle is winnable. And that's something Democrats
aren't saying out loud. There's no we're going to take
the mid terms and then we'll take the presidency back.
They're thinking that in eleven months there'll be a country left,

(34:46):
or that we won't be in a world war, and
the world war will look different. We will side with
Russia against Europe. The United States could actually go to
war with Europe given how Trump is. I mean, the
BBC headline new US Security strategy aligns with Russia's vision.

(35:12):
So I don't feel anymore that there's enough people on
my side that are powerful enough to help protect me
should something go wrong. I just don't feel it. Nor
do I feel that America, with the amount of people

(35:33):
in it that are maga and the amount of people
who are letting Donald Trump just go his merry way,
I just don't see the country as being worth it.
It's values. I mean, what are American values right now?
As we look at this holiday season and talk about
morals and values and all that. What are the American values? Maladies?

(35:58):
What are they?

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You know, that is a really great question. What are
the American values? We're gonna talk about that all right.
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song means a lot to me, and the lyrics are
about dancing with people who have gone before you and

(37:14):
doing it because you can. And I think of that
song and how I wrote it for the people that
aren't here because I can still dance, and it makes
me think about America. I can still fight. So is
it wrong to leave America out of fear? Is that

(37:34):
any reason to leave your home fear? A lot of
you are like, well, yeah, but is it really you know,
leaving your country? It's huge, it's a big deal. It
takes a lot, it is not easy. And do you
do it because of fear or do you just wait

(37:59):
it out? And if I do just wait it out,
how do I wait it out? Do I not do
a political show for the next three years? Do I
just talk about everything but politics? Do I delete my
podcast and delete my YouTube channel and get rid of
all of that online that's out there as much as

(38:19):
I can and start all new again and just not
do politics. Find an audience that doesn't want me to
do politics. I know you're asking yourself these questions, where
do I fit in in this country? You know, when
you go out and you're just talking to people, you

(38:40):
have to censor yourself now. The second when I was
at the lab getting blood draw and they closed the
door because I was criticizing Trump. They literally closed the
door to the lab so the lobby couldn't hear me.
Talking because I was criticizing Donald Trump. That's how much
fear there is in America right now. Oh, you can't

(39:01):
speak out against him. There's people that support him. They'll
get upset. We never cared before, you know, under George W. Bush,
no one cared if people that supported him got upset
if you said the war was illegal or that he
was a war criminal. I mean, no one cared. Now

(39:22):
you say that about Donald Trump and you got a
sh Think about that. Think about that, you know. James
Schnabel says, never live in fear, wait it out. I
have very real fear that I will be targeted. And
I don't want to die for Donald Trump. I don't

(39:44):
want to be put in the hospital. I don't want
ember to die because of Donald Trump. I don't want
to lose my home. I don't want to be taken
away and interrogated because of Donald Trump or my views
on Donald Trump. It's easy to say wait it out
when you're not a public person. You know, I can't

(40:05):
hide even if I stop doing the podcast. I have
an opinion and I just can't bite my tongue. So
I get afraid, you know, and people are saying in
the chat room I don't live in fear, but I've
lost hope. See, hope is something I never lost. I

(40:29):
always had hope that as gay people we would get equality.
I always had hope that good would win, that we
would help the poor, that we would feed the hungry,
that everyone would get the health care they needed. I
always had that hope that we'd get it right. You know,

(40:51):
I would see little glimmers of hope along the way
of us getting it right. You know, Oh, there's something
government's doing, it's getting it right. I don't see government
getting anything right, even under Joe Biden. I did not
see a lot of government getting things right. I know

(41:14):
that Joe Biden did a ton of stuff, and I
know that it was all good. I'm not saying he
didn't accomplish a lot he did. But did he end homelessness?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
No?

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Did every person in America once he was done being
president have food in their stomachs and enough food, enough
money to buy food.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
No?

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Did social service programs give people enough money to actually
live and not, you know, conscript them to a life
of poverty.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Were gays completely and totally equal under Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
No?

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Did women have the right to choose yes, but was
it law from Congress?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (42:02):
So I haven't seen government get it right in a while.
I just haven't have you what's the last thing you
can remember the government got right. We're not getting climate
change right and it's killing us. We're not getting energy
right and it's killing us. We're not getting help for

(42:26):
the poor, the needy, the sick. Health insurance premiums that
Congress has done nothing, The vote has not happened. Premiums
are going to triple. We're not getting that right. What
exactly are we getting right as a people. We're certainly
not getting harmony, unity, forward movement. Socially, we're not getting

(42:47):
that right. Violence hasn't decreased. There's mass shootings every day,
road raid shootings, gun violence everywhere. So we haven't gotten
that right. What are we getting right? I'd love to
hear from you down below in the comments, And I
know we could be sarcastic. Well, we're getting incarceration right,

(43:08):
We're getting you know what positive things for the American
people are we getting right? Groceries are now unaffordable, interest
rates are still too high. What are we getting right?
I'm very interested to hear your opinion. You know, what
are we getting right? Yes, I am very lucky someone

(43:31):
hasn't attacked me in Nevada. I see Trump supporters here
every day, although at the park today there was a
sticker on a light pole that said stop Donald Trump,
Save Democracy. It's the first such thing I've seen at
the park ever. I was like, Oh, well, how about that.
What is America getting right when it comes to government?

(43:57):
I'd love to hear what you think. Maybe in your
local area government is getting something right, and maybe you
could share that with us. Maybe on a state level
there's some things going right. On a federal level, there's not,
but maybe on a state level there is. And as

(44:18):
for Trump, I don't think he has the ability to
do the right thing unless it's advantageous for him. It's
all a grift. These child accounts that they're setting up,
these bank accounts for kids, that's a grift. The money
will either not be there when they age or they're
going to do something with that money. It's a grift.

(44:38):
It's they don't do anything altruistic. It's all a grift.
So what is going right? We are getting a lot
right for the rich. Ray Raynadi said that in the
chat room I just watched General Russell Honorey talk about

(44:58):
the illegality of what Trump is doing with our military. Yeah, yeah,
blowing up innocent people in boats. We don't know that
everyone on those boats are drug dealers. There's been no trial,
no accusations, no verdicts, no nothing, just raining down fire
from the sky and wiping out ten twenty people at

(45:20):
a time for drugs. The last time that one boat
that we haven't seen the second video on where they
clung to the boat for forty five minutes before we
blew them up, waving for US helicopters to come help them,
and they're justifying the second strike saying, well, the boat
was still floating upside down because there were drugs attached

(45:42):
to the hull. They don't know that. They're making shit up.
Our government is attacking and killing innocent people. We are
not at war with them. We are not at war
with Venezuela. There is no war on drugs. That is
a euphemism, It is a metaphor. It is not a
real war. What we're doing is completely illegal. We are

(46:05):
having military people commit murder, actual murder, and Pentagon Pete
is the head of the conspiracy to commit murder, as
is Donald Trump. And that's just a fact. That's I'm
not trying to be anti Trump. The president is issuing
illegal orders to wipe out boats of people that have

(46:27):
had not had a trial. There's no judge, there's no jury,
there's nothing, just a death penalty, and we're having the
military carry that out. So we've turned them into murderers.
That's pretty damn depressing. You know, that's pretty depressing. And

(46:56):
you look and he gets this fIF a piece of war,
a piece award that was just invented for him that
many board members of FAIFA did not even know, with FIFA,
FEIFA whatever, did not even know what's happening, and that
was done solely to stroke his ego. So you have

(47:19):
corporations now cow tying and stroking his ego. You have
you know, look, he said the Netflix deal needs review.
That means he's going to pressure Netflix to remove LGBTQ content.
You wait and see if they want to do this
seventy five billion dollar merger with HBO Warner. I guarantee

(47:45):
you he's going to say, you've got to take off
some of your pro gay programming. I guarantee it. I
guarantee it Maga hates Netflix because Netflix has pro trans
and pro gay programming and they hate that. They hate it. Well,

(48:06):
now Netflix needs something from the federal government, approval of
a seventy seven point five billion dollar deal. What will
they do to get that deal? Will they throw us
under the bus? Probably? Probably? And that's really sad, you know,

(48:32):
And it's all a grift. He could care less about
drug dealers. He's blowing up those boats. He wants power
in Venezuela because Venezuela has more oil than God and
Trump wants it. He wants that oil. This wow, Can
we just talk about movies? Can we talk about the

(48:54):
me Too movie that Julia Roberts was nominated for today
called After the Hunt with Garfield, Andrew Garfield and her.
Can we just talk about that. There's a great line
in the movie that Julia Roberts says to I Ayo,
the girl from the Bear, the girl from the Bear,

(49:14):
the black Girl accuses Andrew Garfield, a professor of rape.
She's also a lesbian and she accuses She's a rich
lesbian and she's at Yale and she accuses Andrew Garfield
of rape. She goes to Julia Roberts, who is her
professor at Yale and discloses Julia doesn't act the way

(49:36):
that this woman thinks that she should, and then the
whole movie is about the fallout for everybody from this accusation,
which we never find out if the accusation was true
or not. By the way, and there's a great line
Julia says in it that says, you know, life isn't
designed to make you comfortable. You don't have the right

(49:57):
to be comfortable every minute of the day, with every decision.
And that's really powerful in today's world where Maga feels
that they need to live in a world where nothing
upsets them. If trans people upset them, give it to
the trans gay people upset them. Give it to the
game that Maga feels they should live in a world
where nothing upsets them. And in the movie they point out,

(50:22):
you know, the world doesn't hear to not upset you.
The movie sucks FYI. I hate to say that, but
it does. The script writing horrible. Julia and Andrew Garfield
great performances, incredible performances. They rise above the material, but
they had a chance to really explore how Me Too

(50:46):
tears people apart. They didn't. They had a chance to,
but they didn't, and they had Julia kind of having
an affair with the Andrew Garfield thing, and they're like
forty years apart or thirty years apart, you know, they're
they're certainly not contemporaries. And I thought, why does Hollywood
do this? Julia Roberts would be dating a man in

(51:06):
her fifties or at least forties Andrew Garfield, that's not him.
So unless she just was a cougar, I guess, you know,
unless he was a cougar. So yeah, but you know
that's the movies after the Hunt. Maybe watched it, just
know Julia Gray Andrews Gray, the movie fat. But I

(51:27):
did say a good movie I did.

Speaker 8 (51:29):
I'll tell you no show Side.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
Oh Curry Favor in the chat room. You saw it too? Yeah,
it sucked. It was it was just they had great
actors and great performers giving great performances in a bad movie.
I got through it. It was on as I was
doing work, but it tried to be so ethereal and
so intellectual that it just wasn't that good. I did

(52:27):
see a really good movie Predator Badlands. Oh my god,
I love the Predator movies. I do, even the cheesy ones.
And this one is the best of all of them.
It's called Predator bad Lands. It's so good. Hey, we
learned so much about the predator creatures, the Utahs y

(52:49):
uatas they're they're not just horrible evil creatures. They have
family units, they have emotions, and they can do things
like have loyalty and and you know all we learned
so much about them. Uh, and it's just good. It's
got a it's got a better Predator bad Lands has
a better script than the movie with Julia Roberts. Really

(53:12):
good movie. I can't tell you enough how you should
watch it. It's a great movie. If there's feel good moments,
there's scary moments, a lot of sci fi moments, there's
charming moments. It's just a good movie. Predator bad Lands.
The other good movie that I saw was I Think,

(53:37):
I don't know why it didn't resonate, but Kiss of
the Spider Woman. It's a remake, but it's good. The
acting was incredible and j Loo is fabulous, giving us
her best Sid Sharis and doing a great job. Jlo
is wonderful in it. She looks great, she sounds great,
she dances beautifully. The two men that play them characters

(54:00):
in jail, they're both great actors. The story is there
about dissidence, about rebellion, about being jailed for no reason,
about the cruelty that these people underwent in these jails,
and it's a it's a cautionary tale for what's happening
right now in America. And yes it's gay and campy,

(54:24):
it's wonderful. I don't know. I don't know why the
j Loo hate made that movie like a bad It's
not a bad movie. The remake of Kiss of the
Spider Woman is really quite I think it's one of
the best films made this year. Everyone's all dogging it.
It's like, no, it's a really good movie. So yeah,

(54:44):
and yes there's gay sex in it, but who cares
h Kiss of the Spider Woman. I totally can. And
Jalo looks incredible in it, just a diva star making
just incredible role. Uh. And she does grade in And
I don't know why everyone was dogging on her in
this movie. She sounds great, she looks great, the plot
is great. It's from a play. And then it was

(55:05):
a movie with William Hurt I think, And now it's
you know been remade, really really good film Predator badlines.
Oh yeah, in the chat room, they're agreeing. The twists
in the movie were very good. They were very good. Yes,
j Kelly wonderful, wonderful, great cast, great acting. I don't
like Adam Sandler. I do not like Adam Sandler. He's

(55:29):
great in this movie. And of course George Clooney wonderful. See,
this is what I'd rather talk about over the holidays.
Ways to spend your time not watching the news and
movies are great escapism. Look, if After the Hunt had
been better, it would have been a great exploration of
the me too movement, which is a topic that we've

(55:49):
all talked about. Kiss of the Spider Woman is a
great cautionary tale. And you see the gay guy at
dinner with his family when he finally gets out of jail.
And who was a trumper basically, who supports the Argentinian
government getting rid of the the the undesirables, the journalist,

(56:09):
the people who would dare right against the establishment, the gays,
the artist who would speak out against the establishment. They
were put in jail, and it's we're not far off
from that happening here. So that's a great movie to
watch right now. I started Utopia too, I couldn't get

(56:31):
into it, so I switched to What did I switch to?
I was watching Zoutopia too, and I said, no, I
don't really want to watch this, and I switched to
another Disney movie. I forget. I was doing Disney screeners
last night. Was it Elio that I switched? Oh? I forget.
The next one I need to watch is Heada. It's
already up for some Golden Globes and I have it.
And it's a remake of Head of Gabbler for those

(56:54):
of you that know that novel from the like thirties
or forties. I think it's very old story, but it's updated,
so I need to see that. The comments seem ahead
of what I'm watching. Sorry, maybe the live stream isn't.
Maybe you're not streaming fast enough. I don't know. All right,

(57:17):
We've got a full week of shows for you this
week and next week, and i'll be here over the holidays.
Some of the shows will be recorded. I am not
going to work on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, but
i'll post shows and there'll be new shows. Well they
won't be best of there'll be new shows, but they'll
be recorded like on New Year's even New Year's Day,
those will be recorded. But guess what, everyone else does

(57:38):
that too on podcast If they're on live radio, they
have a fill in. But if you're a podcaster, you
pre recorded. So Christmas even Christmas Day will be pre recorded,
but there will be new shows, and the same with
New Year's even New Year's Day, but they'll they'll just
be pre recorded, but they'll be new, so hopefully you'll
watch them and enjoy them. Although viewership goes way down

(58:01):
in December. Wait wait, just plummets for everything, every podcast,
every everything. Before we go, I saw Don Lemon and
David Packman in a panel about the future of news,
and Ben Shapiro was on the panel as well, and
I commented under Don Lemon's post, you know you're just
because John Lemon had. Don Lemon had to justify being

(58:24):
on a panel with Ben Shapiro, and he said, look,
if we're talking about the future of media, those voices
are going to be there, so we have to address them. No,
we don't. This is where me and other liberal podcasters disagree.
I would never share a stage with Ben Shapiro, even

(58:44):
to counteract him or to counterdict him, or to shut
him down or whatever, wouldn't do it. I do not
believe any of these people should be given any kind
of platforming at all. They have their own plant. He
can do Fox News, he can do Newsmax News nations.
They have access to platforms that we as liberals do not.

(59:07):
I do not believe that we should platform Ben Shapiro,
Charlie Kirk or his you know ghost, his wife. I
don't believe any of these right wing Nick twenty. If
you are a liberal like David Pacman or Don Lemon,
and you are famous, you should not be on the

(59:30):
same stage as set you give them credibility. I am
CORELLVI who you want to be? Something heard Anyboddy to
my thought on it, I wasn't invited, but I wouldn't
have gone. I wouldn't have gone. I would not go
to any.

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