Kamala Takes Control as Summer Ends

Kamala Takes Control as Summer Ends

Karel Cast 24-113

Kamala Harris did an interview with Tim Walz on CNN and as Dana Bash tried a lot of "gotcha" questions she did the Presidential thing and said move on. She did no harm, and, may have done some good. 

Labor Day is upon us and summer is ending. But this summer taught us a lot of things, and one hard lesson was that climate change is happening faster than any of us, except scientist, thought. Will we take the lessons of summer.

Also, summer is supposed to be the time of movies. Did you see any this summer that were memorable? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Alrighty. Kamala Harris faced the media last night on CNN.
If you want to call that the media, how did
she do? Also? Labor days upon us? Summer is ending?
What did summer teach us? We're going to talk about
more than that today. Trust me, honey, Trust, uncensored, unfiltered, fun, hinged,

(00:23):
E's the Curell Cast. Listen daily on your favorite streaming service.
It is the crow Cast. Oops. I am Carrel, silvery
glad you are joining me. Happy Friday, August thirtieth, Tomorrow,
the last day of August September begins over the weekend
Labor Day programming. Note, I will not be here on Monday. Well,

(00:46):
I'll be here where am I gonna be? Me and
my brick a brac. I will be here on Monday,
but I won't be on air. I'm taking the day
off now that I do five shows a week, I'm
taking a day off on Monday for all of us
to enjoy Labor Day. And I hope you have a
good one and a safe one and a sane one.
We got a lot to talk about today. Kamalas faced

(01:07):
the press last night with Tim Walls. How did that go?
Summer is ending. Did we learn anything from summer? We're
gonna talk about that summer movies. Do you even remember
a movie that came out this summer? Were there any
memorable ones? We're gonna talk about that. Don't forget if
you want to chat live from ten am to ten
thirty with me and with a group of that's developing

(01:27):
quite a little community now. Max Irwin's already in there.
It's YouTube dot com forward slash really corel that I'm sorry, Yes,
that's right, YouTube dot com forward slash really corel. And
the live chat is on the right side. Now, that
doesn't mean I don't want your comments down below the video.
I do. Those comments keep our algorithm up when you

(01:49):
hit like on the video, even if you like them
every day, when you hit like on the video, that
keeps the algorithm up. And we're trying to get the
attention of the YouTube out agorhythm. We're over here waving
saying hey, pay attention to me, and sooner or later,
hopefully it will all right before we get to everything.
Yesterday I debuted. We're not going back here on the show.

(02:13):
We have had a lot of great major My friend
Mark Keene does promotions and He's been sending it to
major people, heads of labels, Ramon Herve who used to
be married to Vanessa Williams and has his own firm,
all these people already. We have a documentary that wants
to use it, Black Girls Rock from Beet has shown

(02:34):
interest in using it and having THEA perform it. We
have many people in the industry, tastemakers saying this is bomb.
And you know, I'm not asking for money right now.
I'm simply saying the problem is to adequately launch a song,
you need about fifteen thousand dollars and we're going to

(02:54):
do it for much much less. Call in a bunch
of favors, and we're going to hope that it takes
off on YouTube and next week when it's on you know,
Apple Music and tunecre and and a lot of you
don't realize, you know, when you hear something, what it
took for you to hear that music? In other words,
how did it get on Pandora? How did it get

(03:16):
on the playlist in Apple Music and in Spotify? And
you know, how did it get where it got? And
the answer to that mostly is money. You have to
pay people to promote it to these taste makers you know,
that will then put it on their playlist and get
it in rotation. It used to be you just serviced radio.

(03:38):
It used to be when you had a song like this,
you would call two hundred radio stations and you would
try to get it into their music director, who would then,
if they knew the promoter, you know, put it on
get it and get it airplay. And while that still
is part of the way you do it, there's still radio,
and there's still people that work radio. Now there are

(04:00):
people that specialize in getting it on Spotify, getting it
on playlist on Spotify, and all of that. My main
goal is to get it to Kamala Harris and hope
that she likes it enough to use it for a
commercial or for a rally or for whatever. But it
would be great if it became a hit. So when
we get it up on YouTube, when we get it

(04:21):
up on Spotify, when we get next week, it'll be
up on Spotify, Apple Music, Title and all of the stores, Amazon,
all of it. That'll probably be Wednesday of next week.
I'm going to need you to stream it, like it,
buy it all of that, because that again bumps it up.
It's all about algorithms. Your whole life is now an algorithm.

(04:44):
The ads that you see on TV are based on
your viewing habits, the things that you see on your
phone or your tablet are based on your habits. Everything
is now about the algorithm. Whether it's a television algorithm,
a music algorithm, a shopping algorithm, you are all. You're
part of an algorithm. And to get into that algorithm,

(05:06):
you have to have a buzz. And to create that
buzz it takes money. So we're gonna try. We're gonna
be you know, and things happen all the time that
don't have a lot of money involved, and so we
are going to try. Oh god, I just found something.
Do I have cancer? Just found something? Good thing? I
see the dermatologists next week. So yes, So the algorithm

(05:29):
is the thing, and hopefully we'll get caught up in it.
All right. So Kamala did an interview last night with
Dana Bash, a reporter I'm not fond of on a
network I don't watch. CNN has now just turned into
Fox News Light. However, the first and important thing is
she did no harm. And just like doctors, politicians need

(05:51):
to first do no harm. So she did not do
any harm to her campaign. There was nothing, no big bloopers,
no big gotcha moments. In fact, every time Dana Bass
tried to give her a gotcha moment asking her about Trump, saying, oh,
you're you know, you suddenly turn black. What do you
say about that? She says, I say, it's right out
of his old plate, same old playbook. And next question please,

(06:14):
And Dana says, you don't want to address that? She goes,
why would I address that? Next question please? And that
shows a that she's a serious candidate. That in other words,
we have been indulging politicians with very non serious actions, okay,
actions that serious politicians would never do. And it's time

(06:39):
for politicians to start doing what Kamala did last night.
If the media is going in a direction that is
not serious, that it's like, you know, you cannot be
serious asking me this question, they should not address it.
And yes, there will be those who say, oh, why
are they avoiding the question? Those aren't serious people. And

(07:00):
by the way, yesterday I had a whirlwind day. I
got the song in the morning, I played it for
you guys, I got off air, I did an album cover,
I did a one sheet, I started a lyric video.
I worked with THEA getting a mix. I did an
hour and a half meeting of Grammy Advocacy, and I
met one of my production idols, Peter Asher, who is

(07:23):
like one of the biggest. He's producing a big album
for a big artist that I adore right now, and
I just you know, it was a whirlwind day. I
didn't stop until bedtime. And you know what I didn't
do yesterday, I didn't go on social media at all
because I was just too busy. And today this morning,
when I looked at threads and Instagram, I thought, egg

(07:45):
even just one day away, and you go back and
you look at what people are posting, negative about Kamela,
negative about whatever, and there are people with five followers,
ten followers, their bots or their Russians or their idiots whatever.
I just thought, Wow, this is what I was filling
my day with. No wonder. I was in a bad

(08:06):
state because social media is like swimming in a cesspool.
It is just like swimming in a big vat of crap,
because that's all it is. So I'm I'm making a pledge.
I'm I'm not doing social media for the time that
I was before because I was so much happier yesterday
without it. I just I was like, wow, I found

(08:28):
this stuff interesting. Before I felt a need to comment
on this stuff, I must really be bored. And I
realized that when I was involved in a project all
day yesterday and today I got to finish the lyric
video and go to lunch because there's no water here
at my house a water main broke, and you know,
I got a lot to do today. I haven't been
on social media and it's been so refreshing. However, I

(08:51):
did see people posting on social media this morning, just
very briefly about Kamala. Half of them were happy with
the interview. The other half were saying, oh sheh chicken,
or why did she have Tim Wells there to hold
her hand, or you know whatever. So I found out
that it's the same crap different day, that social media
never changes. It's severe criticism, severe praise, stupid questions, stupid people,

(09:17):
influencers trying to make money telling you stupid crap. There
really is no reason to be on it. I mean,
you know, look at it maybe for five or ten
minutes just to see what's up, but other than that,
there is no reason to spend an hour on social media.
Not one hour of your life. It's not worth it.
And so I was trying to gauge the Kamala interview

(09:37):
by social media, and I thought, well, why these people
don't half of them aren't even real. Why try to
gauge it that way? So I gauged it by going
out and watching the clips. Myself, I don't subscribe to
see an end. So I went out and watched clips
of the interview, and everything that I saw was presidential.

(09:57):
Every answer was concise and you know, and real. They
asked her, why are you not as liberal now on
some of these issues? She goes, Look, my core values
haven't changed, she goes, But since twenty nineteen, you know,
over the last five years, I've had time to evolve
on some of these you know, ideas and some of

(10:18):
these principles. And they tried to collect, you know, corner
around climate change. She goes, I haven't changed on that.
Joe Biden and I we have set forth, you know,
legislation to where we must meet time standards, you know,
X amount of reduction by this date and blah blah
blah blah. That date shows none of that's changed. That's
that's that's all still in the works. So she addressed

(10:40):
that presidents and politicians are human and that they might
start out very idealistic about one idea and then discover
the reality of what you can and cannot do and
adjust yourself accordingly. That's just that's called being smart. You know,
that's called progress. Don't forget. There is a chat YouTube

(11:02):
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(12:32):
and they thought I was crazy. Oh god. So I
didn't watch all the interview on CNN. I watched clips
online and I have to tell you, well, but look,
if Kamala Harris said she believes that space aliens are
abducting our children, I'd still vote for her because she
is not Donald Trump. And there comes a point where
you have to say, I don't want to say lesser

(12:54):
of two evils because she's not evil. Tim Wallas is
not evil. They're great people, But there comes a time
where you do have to say to yourself, I will
do anything to keep that person away from the Oval Office.
I don't care who I That's why I said I
would have voted for Joe Biden if he was on
a ventilator having to write notes on a whiteboard in

(13:15):
a diaper, I still would have voted for him, you know,
because you gotta keep Donald Trump away from the white
Look at him pushing people around at Arlington National Cemetery.
How horrible is that, you know, his staff pushing people
out of the way when they're saying, you're breaking federal law,
get out of our way. We don't need four more

(13:35):
years of that. The world doesn't need four more years
of that. Nobody needs four more years of that. Nobody.
So I would vote for Kamala if she said she
believed that Elvis is still alive. You know. And by
the way, I just want you to know that according
to a recent poll, fourteen percent of America thinks Elvis

(13:58):
is still alive. Eight percent of America think angels are real,
you know, are real, like walk among us, come down
from heaven and are real. So when you talk about
America and you talk about percentages of people, and you
think about the people who are posting online. Some of
the people posting online believe that Elvis is still alive

(14:20):
or believe that angels walk the earth, you know what
I mean. So you got to gauge at all with
almost a grain of salt, you know, make your own determination.
Kamala Harris is what we need right now. Is she
the right person for the job. She's the right person
right now, and that's all that matters. When we come back.

(14:43):
It's the end of summer. What did summer teach us?
And were there even any summer blockbusters that were of no?
I mean, summer gave us movies before and now it
just gave us heat and not the good kind where
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(18:24):
you know, out proud and unapologetic. So it's summer, and
I think this summer, more than ever, should have taught
us a lot now here in Vegas. You know, it's
not just a news item that June was the hottest
June ever and that there were more days above one
hundred and five than there ever has been, and that

(18:45):
there were more nights that didn't drop to eighty or
below than there ever has been. No change. I haven't
read anything in our local news about any kind of
changes being done to mitigate what's happening in other words,
the governor is announcing he's going to replace all the
concrete in Las Vegas with reflective concrete that absorbs the heat.

(19:07):
There's no new legislation being introduced and says if you
build a house, it has to be heat reflective. You know,
there's none of that. There's there's nothing saying that if
we build a new road, and we're building lives of
new roads here, if we're building a new road, to
build it, it has to be a solar road, or
it has to be a road that charges cars, or
it has to be no there's none of that. So

(19:28):
what does Nevada learned from this last summer? Not a
damn thing. And that's sad because there were lessons in it,
and the lesson in it for the entire world. Lisbon, Spain,
France having droughts, record heat one hundred and seven in
summer in Australia yesterday. Those are lessons. The planet is

(19:50):
trying to teach us a lesson, and that lesson is
I'm changing, I'm changing fast, adapt Look at me, look
God me changeing. Oh yes, from Dreamgirls. But that's what

(20:14):
the planet is singing to us. The planet's singing, I'm
changing and so when things change, you have to adapt
where not. That's how you die. Okay, that's how you
become extinct if you don't adapt. And we're not adapting
fast enough. Okay, twenty thirty is not the time to be.

(20:36):
You know, you're twenty fifty. Uh uh, twenty twenty five.
We should have no more fossil fuel by twenty twenty five,
the end of next year. Give businesses and car manufacturers
and everybody one year and then that's it. Stop selling
fossil fuel, well corral. That would cripple I don't care.

(20:58):
I don't care anymore if it cripples business. I don't
care if people lose money because they can't stop destroying
the planet. That's why I probably will never be president.
I don't care. I don't care. Shell and ex on it,
although we'll go out of business. They've had fifty friggin
years to adapt and they haven't, so don't. I don't

(21:18):
care anymore, and neither should our leaders. They should be like, No,
y'all have had enough time. Cities have had enough time
to build public transportation. They don't. The country has had
enough time to build high speed rail, it hasn't. So
sit you ass at home, because you're not going to
destroy the planet just because you need to get to
the disco. Take a car, electric car, take public transportation, walk,

(21:43):
ride a friggin bicycle. This no, and I would if
I were president of the United States in my four years,
I would make sure that meat consumption dropped under my
watch by fifty percent. I would put such high tariffs
on meat that no one could afford it, and I'd
be hated for it, But I wouldn't care, because guess what,

(22:05):
that's what the planet needs. The planet needs us to
be plant based. Eighty percent of our diet now, not
in twenty years, not in one hundred. Now, eighty percent
of one hundred percent of all of us have to
eat eighty percent less meat. Yes, you could still have
meat and fish and dairy once a week. That's what

(22:29):
the planet will sustain. We act like we can make
the rules where the planet comes. Oh no, we want
to eat. We wanted to, We want to, we want to,
we wanna. We act like what we want is what
the planet wants. It's not. And when we get leaders
that will actually behave that way that even if the

(22:50):
will of all of their people says one thing so what,
so what. I don't care that the will of every
American is to have a car. If the car isn't
hydrogen electric or some other fuel, then no period. Just no.
I don't care that people want to eat steaks the
size of a friggin' house. No, no, because guess what,

(23:16):
the planet is on its own time schedule. And that's
what summer taught us. That global warming isn't an idea anymore.
It's not a fear anymore. It's not something just out
in the ether anymore. It's here. It's happening, and it's
happening faster than anybody thought it would. And we are
truly on the brink of destruction. We're not like fifty

(23:40):
years away from complete devastation. We're like a year. The
Atlantic currents could stop at any time. Part of the
Atlantic is cooling down, nobody know why. Meanwhile, billions with
a bee, billions of crabs disappeared last year, and now
they know it was climbing change. The effects are happening now,

(24:03):
and this summer should have taught all of us that
we don't have time to waste. But once the planet
cools down, once winter is here, we'll forget all about summer. Well,
not me speaking of summer. Summer is a time for
blockbuster movies. And I just saw the chat at YouTube

(24:24):
dot com forward slash really Carrell that someone said Twisters,
And I will agree, the only blockbuster movie this summer
that was worth anything was Twisters. That was a feel
good summer romp of a movie. The rest do you remember?
I'd love to hear your comments down below. What movies

(24:44):
from the summer do you even remember? Right now? You
know I heard something funny studio. It was one of
those fake conversations. So a studio execs says, Hi, Hey,
would you watch a ten hour movie? What a ten
hour movie? No way? Okay? But if I break it
up into one hour increments and put it online as
a series where you watch it all in one sitting, Well, yes,

(25:06):
now you got me, you bastard. And that's the truth.
I was told yesterday that our song is too long.
Our song is three minutes and twenty two seconds. Someone said, oh,
it should be under two minutes and thirty seconds because
attention spans are shrunk. I don't make music for people
with small attention spans. And I thought, oh my god,

(25:26):
we've gone from a time of Stairway to Heaven being
seventeen minutes, Funeral for a Friend being twenty one minutes,
and being played on radio to two and a half minutes.
That's not music, that's a prelude. Aretha didn't do two
and a half minute songs, Barbara doesn't do two and
a half minute songs. Adele doesn't do two and a

(25:47):
half minute songs. The same with movies, everyone wants them
under ninety minutes. Well, the movie's too long, and Oppenheimer
was three hours. Who wants to sit through that? And
these are the same lard asses that'll sit up on
their sofa and binge watch an entire series in one day,
like they watching a ten hour movie. And you know,

(26:07):
I'm talking to you, how many of you? I look?
I do it. I put it on, I started, and
I just let it go all day. I have it
on the TVs and while I'm working and stuff. I've
watched all the Slow Horses in four days, all four seasons.
You guys can only watch three. I got a screener
for season four. I watched all four seasons of Slow
Horses in three or four days. Granted there's only six

(26:31):
episodes each and they're only two hundred or forty minutes,
So that's what two hundred and forty minutes, which is
what two hours or four hours? So yeah, so I
watched twelve hours of Slow Horses over the course of
three days, you know, on in the background while cooking,
on in the background while working. But as for movies
this summer, outside of Twisters, I don't long Legs with Crappy.

(26:56):
I don't do the Marvel. I think Marvel killed movies.
Everything's got to be Marvel Marvel. I don't. I'm a
grown up, you know, I don't. I watch them when
they come on like Netflix. I just watched Madam Webb.
That wasn't bad. But I don't go to a movie
and pay to see a Marvel movie. I'm grown. There
were very few movies for grownups, and that's the truth.

(27:18):
There were very few dramatic films. Nowadays at the theater,
there aren't many films that are just dramas or comedies.
They're rom coms. Those are all on streaming now. There
is a movie coming about Maria Callis with Angelina Jolee.
She got an eight minute standing ovation at the Venice
Film Festival. But guess what that's going on Netflix? So

(27:38):
the movies at the theaters, they're just these hundred million
dollar blow everything up bad boys for and everything's a remake.
The Crow is out right now yet another version of
the Crow? Did we need a version of The Crow?
Isn't the Brandon Lee one? Fine? You know? So, like,
I'm not going to go see a remake of The Crow.
If it comes on TV, I'll watch it, but I'm
not going to pay to go see it. So half

(28:00):
the movie is coming out of remakes and the other
half were just shoot them up, bang bang, loud explosions,
no storylines, hardly any acting. So there's like Steven Spielberg
shaped my life, okay, Jaws, Close Encounters, Jurassic Park. These
were movies to go to the theater for, even the

(28:21):
Fableman's and you know other some of his dramatic super
eight or eight millimeters or whatever it was called. So Spielberg,
that guy knows how to make a movie for the theater.
But I'd love to hear your comments. Did you go
Did you even go to the movies this summer? That's
what summer's about. You go to the movies, you cool off?
Did any of you go to the movies. And if

(28:43):
you did, what did you see? Let's check this chat
that I ignored you for over here. Let's see oh
Rayburnadi says he never binge watches. Well, good for you.
I do. I don't sit. I don't sit and bing watch.
I exercise, I do work, I go in the kitchen,
all kinds of stuff. Daredevil and Deadpool. Didn't see them?

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Want to see Deadpool? But haven't seen it? What else? Yeah? No, no,
no one's talking about mood. No one. A lot of
people did not go to the movies. Nope, did not
go to the movies. All right, I am Corel. I
will not be back on Monday. I'll be back on Tuesday.
Have a fabulous Labor Day weekend. Know that I love

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I love you so much. Randy Radar, a special blessing
to you, and yeah, we'll see you on Tuesday. Be
safe broadcasting from a completely different point of view yours.

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