September 23, 2025 • 30 mins
Modern Life Is Killing Us: Why Your Body Can’t Keep Up | Karel Cast 25-118
Human bodies haven’t changed in 100,000 years, but our world has. From the rise of agriculture just 10,000 years ago to nonstop modern stress, tech overload, and processed living, we’re locked in an evolutionary mismatch—and it’s making us sick. Obesity, depression, cancer, and anxiety aren’t just random—they’re signs our environment is outpacing our biology.
Karel breaks down why life today feels like an uphill battle, how modern pressures are breaking us down physically and mentally, and most importantly: what you can do to protect your health and reclaim your time.
👉 Watch, share, and subscribe for an honest take on survival in a world that wasn’t built for our bodies—or our sanity.
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Human bodies haven’t changed in 100,000 years, but our world has. From the rise of agriculture just 10,000 years ago to nonstop modern stress, tech overload, and processed living, we’re locked in an evolutionary mismatch—and it’s making us sick. Obesity, depression, cancer, and anxiety aren’t just random—they’re signs our environment is outpacing our biology.
Karel breaks down why life today feels like an uphill battle, how modern pressures are breaking us down physically and mentally, and most importantly: what you can do to protect your health and reclaim your time.
👉 Watch, share, and subscribe for an honest take on survival in a world that wasn’t built for our bodies—or our sanity.
🔗 Original Link
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#KarelCast, #ModernLife, #HealthCrisis, #EvolutionaryMismatch, #Obesity, #Depression, #Anxiety, #MentalHealth, #Wellness, #Longevity, #Stress, #Burnout, #ChronicIllness, #CancerPrevention, #SelfCare, #Lifestyle, #MindBodyHealth, #Science, #Biology, #IndependentMedia
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-karel-cast--1368295/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
So on with the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let's give it a go. Correll is the one that
you need to know. Now it's show time.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Alrighty. On today's Correll Cast, I'm gonna tell you about
a news conference that should make us all hang our
head in shame. Plus is a current life killing you,
literally killing you, making you say, we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:58):
It is cast. I am Carrell, so very glad you
are joining me. So I did everything wire cast, telestream
told me to fix the flashing white and now it's
actually worse. So we're going to be in a strobe
light effect all show today and there's nothing I can
do about that. I'll try to fix it again tomorrow.
All right. So this morning a couple things. There was
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Donald Trump at the UN for an hour, and it
was possibly the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. In fact,
it was so bad I didn't want to watch, but
I couldn't look away. It was so bad, I mean,
it was terrible. He denied climate change just flat out
denied it, said it was a hoax to the UN,
(01:43):
where they know better. He talked about the UN being
a pointless, useless organization whose building is crumbling, the escalator
doesn't work, the teleprompter doesn't work, and the UN doesn't work,
according to him, with you know, and then he talked about, oh,
let's see, the biggest economy threat is renewable energy and immigration,
(02:08):
that countries are failing because of immigration and trying to
switch to a green economy. He called them the mayor
of London a horrible person, like at the UN standing there,
called the Mayor of London a Muslim, a horrible person,
and said London was basically a shithole country or a
(02:31):
shithole city. He spent almost an hour villifying the UK
and the EU and zero time villifying China, Russia, North Korea,
et cetera. He spoke of Israel and Gaza and spoke
about nothing of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza at all,
like it just didn't exist. And he told so many
(02:55):
lies that after the speech the BBC took ten minutes
to debunk all of the falsehoods that he said, and
they were just stunned they were like, oh, like stunned
at how horrible this was now making us look like
(03:20):
idiots on the world stage. Is what this man does. Okay,
his stock in trade. But today again you have to wonder,
where's Congress, where's the Senate, where's the billionaires that could
do something about this? Why is this going to be
allowed to go on for three years? And the United
States won't survive it? It really won't. We've talked a
(03:43):
lot about that on the show, and we flippantly said,
you know, time to get out, or you know, all
this other stuff, but let's just be honest with each other.
The United States, as we know it is not going
to survive three years of Donald Trump. So the article
in the Guardian was right. We have about three hundred
(04:05):
and ninety four days to save democracy. And the sad
part is it's not really up to us. We of
course have to get everyone we know to turn out
in the midterms and to vote Democratic, even Republicans. It
is time for Republicans, not MAGA. They're different. That's a different.
There's three parties. Now there's Democrat, there's Republican, and there's MAGA.
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There's three parties. And to say anything different is a
lie there. Now, many Republicans tend to vote MAGA, but
MAGA is its own party, a right wing Christian nationalist
party of authoritarian and dictator rule. That's what MAGA is.
And if they don't like being described that, fuck you,
then don't be that kind of party. If you want
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to be described as a legitimate political party trying to
advance the agenda of your constituents, then act like a
legitimate party. They're not. I can't stand that white strobe.
I can't stand it. It's gonna make I just want
to stop the show. It's gonna just drive me crazy. Anyway,
So we have MAGA and then we have Republicans and
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we have Democrats. We have got to get Republicans to
vote for the Democrats and not MAGA. And that's going
to be hard to do, but it has to be
done or we lose the country. So our job over
the next three hundred and ninety six days is to
convince Republicans not MAGA. They're a cult. They'll never see
(05:37):
the light. They're a death cult. They are a death cult.
They want so yesterday I posted some things on my
social media, on TikTok and on Instagram one minute videos
from the past two shows. When I come back, I'll
tell you what someone what. More than one hundred people
have said to just one video, and it's frightening.
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Speaker 1 (06:13):
Show Time is here. No time to fear. Corell is
so near because show time is here. So on with
the show. Let's give it a go. Correll is the
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Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right, we are back. No, it's show time, all right.
I just logged into my chat room so I can
see everybody. Hi Denise, and Hi Phineas, and Hi Rachel,
my love James, Hello James, Hello to everyone at YouTube
dot com. Forward slashually Correll. Uh, the Independent is not
a party. I know it's a it's a registration, but
(06:51):
it's not a party. There is no independent party, not
a credible one. They've never gotten very I mean, I
know Bernie Ward's independent, Berni Bernie Ward. Oh, there's a
name for my past. Bernie Sanders is an independent. But
there's very few actual independence in Congress and the Senate.
We've never had an independent elected president or vice president,
therefore not a party. So there's three parties. There's Democrat, Republican,
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and MAGA. You know, that's it. And independents are actually
a bad thing because they tend to screw us in
every election. So we have these parties and we've got
to make Republicans see things just I don't understand. See,
that's what I don't get. In all honesty, how could
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anyone look at the state of America and believe what
Trump says today at the UN he said our economy
was booming and is so strong. That's a lie. The
BBC called it out and said, that's a lie. He
said grocery prices were down. That's what he said today
at the UN. Grocery prices were down? Are they? Do
you feel that they're down? No, they're not down. So
(08:05):
I you know, I'm sorry about the slashing. It's really
bothering me. So, you know, I know, Bernie Ward what
a name from my past, right, I mean, oh my god, yeah,
but Bernie Ward would probably be a client of Epstein's.
But anyway, he's wore he never did, but he did.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
A lot of you don't know what I'm talking about.
There was a host on KGO Radio who under George W. Bush,
was prosecuted for child pornography being on his computer and
he didn't have just one or two photos, and he
said he was being framed and that he did it
all to research a book and to prove the hypocrisy
(08:47):
of the Republicans because he was trying to set up
several Republicans that had been texting him. That was all
a lie. They got his computer and there were hundreds
of images on it. He lost his job at KGO.
His wife was a pediatrician. She lost her practice, Her
kids had to change their kids had to change schools.
He is now out of jail because he took a
(09:08):
plea deal. They were going to give him four years
for every image, which is four hundred years, or he
could take a twelve year deal and be out in
like eight so he did. He is now out. But
you know, the name from my past has popped up
because he was on KGO. But the real thing I
wanted to talk to you about today, the real thing,
(09:31):
Oh wait, let me tell you. I told you so.
I posted this one minute video yesterday about how Donald
Trump wants to declare or said he could see it
happening the Pride flag as a terrorist symbol and to
prove that MAGA is irredeemable, that they are the most
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vile people on the planet, that there is no hope
for these people. Under my video are one hundred comments
saying it is a terrorist symbol. Gays are terrorist. Someone
said the last eight mass shootings have been done by
trans people. This is all a lie. All of it
is a lie, but they believe it because they're stupid
(10:15):
as fuck. These people don't have the brains of a
Teepsi fly, they don't have the brains of that chair
over there. They are literally the most stupid people in
the United States. That's who elected Donald Trump, the most
stupid people in the country, of which there are seventy
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seven million, complete and total fucking morons. Okay, that think
the Pride flag is a symbol of terrorism and that
gays are terrorists and that trans are killers. Couldn't be
further from the truth. But they believe it, and they
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used to hide their homophobia the Republicans. MAGA revels in it.
They delight in bashing gay people and harming and killing
gay people in the name of their icon and their Lord.
You have never met hatred like Christian love ever. If
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you ever want to meet the face of hatred, just
look in the face of Christian love. So after I
saw that under my video, I am never reading the
comments ever again. In fact, I may turn the comments off.
I may turn them off because I don't want to
hear what these ignorant fucks have to say anymore. That's
(11:39):
why I want to leave. It's not so much I
want to leave America. I like America, my country. It's
the people. They're ignorant fucks, and they revel now in
their ignorance. They delight in their ignorance. They gather for
a memorial and show their ignorance. Their commit in chief,
(12:00):
because he's not mine, stands in front of the United
Nations and shows off his ignorance by saying the most
ignorant things a world leader could say. Climate change is
a hoax. The two things bankrupting most countries are immigrants
and switching from traditional energy. He said that this morning,
(12:24):
that's what's causing the world's collapse, immigrants and green energy.
He is an embarrassment to the human race, and anyone
that voted for him is an equal embarrassment. And I'm
so tired of sugarcoating it because I'm afraid of being
killed or being kicked off the year or whatever. These
are the most ignorant, fucking people to ever walk planet
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Earth ever. Cave people have more common sense than these
people do. In a way, it's not their fault. There
is an article I really wanted to share with It's
from the Guardian, and it says how modern life makes
us sick and what to do about it, from depression
to obesity. The concept of evolutionary mismatch can help foster
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self compassion and point the way to a more rewarding existence.
This goes along with everything I've been saying on this
show Forever. Let me read you just a little of it.
I like to read on air, but let me read
you just a little of it. One of the fascinating
things about working as a psychotherapist is the opportunity to
observe how many of our problems involve us getting in
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the way of ourselves. The difficulties we encounter are frequently
the result of self sabotage, and managing them often requires
wrestling with our own drives, doing our best not to
give in to our every impulse. This is easier said
than done, of course, To lose weight and keep it off,
to successfully climb out of debt, to find meaningful work,
to maintain long, long term happy relationships, all demand postponing
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our immediate desires in the service of a longer term goal.
Delaying gratification, as it's called, has been a useful tactic
for eons. But at a certain point it becomes reasonable
to ask why does so much of modern life seem
to involve swimming upstream? Why is that following our instincts
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often seems to land us in so much trouble. One
of the central ideas in the field of evolutionary psychology
is that of evolutionary mismatch. Put simply, we evolved in
a very different environment from the one in which we
now find ourselves. As a result, our brains, bodies, and
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instincts are poorly matched for the surroundings. In other words,
we humans have created a world that humans should not
live in. Think about that evolutionary mismatch. We evolved a
certain way, but then created a world that wasmpletely different.
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How much does this really matter? Isn't a hallmark of
being human our species ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Yes,
and no. Yes, we have a remarkable ability to deal
with new problems, to collaborate and find solutions, and to
create technology to help us realize them. At the same time,
anthropologists estimate that human genetics and anatomy have remained unchanged
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for one hundred thousand years. Everything's changed around us, but
our physiology and anatomy has stayed the same. Back then,
we lived in small nomadic hunter gatherer tribes, only developing
agriculture ten thousand years ago, and we only developed civilization
five thousand years ago. That's nothing evolutionary wise, that's nothing
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for all but a vanishingly small number of us. The
contemporary human habitat isn't the one we were made for.
The cities and the environment that we've put ourselves in
is one we're not made for. Genetic adaptations, which can
take tens of thousands of years, could hardly be expected
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to keep up with the move to cities, let alone
technology and cultural shifts, which can have dramatic impacts with
a single lifetime. So what has the fallout been. Perhaps
the starkest impact has been on our waistlines. The instinct
to binge on foods rich in salt, fat, and sugar
is what kept people alive for most of human history
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when the next meal was never guaranteed, So you ate
a lot of fat and sugar and salt because you
didn't when you're gonna eat again. Now we live in
a world where calories are cheap and where scientists devote
their whole careers to making foods hyper palatable, which is
to say, far more appealing than any other food found
in nature. These artificial snacks interfere with the body's ability
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to regulate appetite, making it very difficult to have just
one crisp or one biscuit. Obesity has now overtaken malnutrition
as the leading public health issue in the diet around
the world. The realm of dating and mating has also
changed beyond all recognition. A strong drive to find the
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right sexual partner was indispensable when we banded together in
tribes about one hundred and fifty people against an unforgiving world.
But in those days, the pool of potential mates was small.
Now we have devices that connect us to thousands upon
thousands of potential mates. As a result, the process often
becomes protracted and overwhelming, a phase of life characterized by
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choice paralysis. You've heard me say that that humans don't
do well with a lot of choice. We get paralyzed,
hurtful behaviors such as ghosting and the constant anxiety that
our true soulmate is just to swipe away. Rising rates
of depression and other mental health can also be viewed
through the lens of evolutionary mismatch. To deal with these gaps,
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some of us turn back to technology. That's not a
good thing. Chatbots can fuel the delusions and paranoid thinking
of people with psychosis already. None of this is to
say that the right path for humanity is to attempt
to return to the distant past. No one is suggesting
you become a tribe of one hundred and fifty people
and become hunter gatherers. They weren't utopian. But there is
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a powerful explanation for many of our current physical and
mental difficulties, and it's that the world has developed in
a way that our biology hasn't been able to keep
up with. If you don't take this into account as
you look at your own life, instead of expecting yourself
to perform like some kind of highly optimized machine. You
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open the door to profound self criticism and resentment. The
frustration of not being able to lose weight, the emptiness
of the job you are always wanted to do but don't,
the loneliness of modern cities. These can all feel like
your failure, like an individual failure. Conversely, understanding the life
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we evolve for allows us to look at our problems
with more clarity and self compassion, and can nudge us
towards better, more informed decisions. Rather than berating ourselves for
not being able to control our impulses, we can see
them through the lens of environment or evolutionary mismatch and
start to think about helpful mitigations. Some solutions are straightforward,
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like keeping junk food out of the house, or deleting
social media apps or limiting your screen time. Others are
more complex and require stepping back to see the bigger picture.
Community collaborative problem solving, ritual and meaning are vital ingredients
for satisfying life and will remain so whatever technology we
invent or cultural trends pop up. Thinking about how to
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build these into your life as part of the fabric
rather than optional, is life, life changing, not because there's
anything wrong with us, but because we find ourselves in
strange times. So you had to step back, see the
bigger picture. You've got a foster community, have collaborative problem solving.
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Continue with rituals. Rituals are very important and meaning. I
love ritual every day. I have my rituals. I love
holiday rituals. I love rituals. Most people don't anymore. They're
abandoning rituals. So evolutionary mismatch isn't that something? We are
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living in a world that doesn't suit a human being.
It comes at us too fast. We are overwhelmed with
too many choices, and we don't do well. A human
animal doesn't do well. We need connection, we need community,
we need each other, we need collaborative problem solving. We
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don't have any of that. And we're depressed and we're fat,
and we're angry, we're very and it's all because we're
living in a world we shouldn't have created, and no
one trying to unwind us. Instead, we're trying to wind
us up tighter. That media job to wind you up tighter, sat.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No is show Sie.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Oh my god, you have me crying. You guys First
of all, as I sit here, I'm gonna do something
the most hosts wouldn't do. Look, do you see I
am all wired up? Do you see I have a
heart monitor on for ten days? Why I don't see
if my heart beats regularly one hundred thousand times a day,
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Why is my heart sick? Why? Well? Could it be
evolutionary mismatch? Now I believe that I'm one of the
ones that deal with chaos. Okay, it did say in
the article there's a small number of us that can
actually deal with all of this stuff, and I kind
of believe that that I'm one of those. Now, maybe
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that's just wishful thinking on my part, but I do
thrive under pressure. I do, and I in my brain,
my brain eliminates all the noise and narrows down the
solution and lets me see the problem very clearly. That's
why i'm That's why I do what I do. That's
why you like me, because I can look at all
this complex stuff and say, well, here's the bottom line. Okay,
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but my heart is sick. Because I'm sick. I'm lonely.
I love Ember more than anything. And at the park
I had a discussion with other older dog owners who
all share their same fear as mine, which is that
we will die and leave our dogs without us. That's
like my biggest fear. That is my biggest fear, you know,
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is that I will die before Ember and then her
life will totally change and she'll be sad. My heart
is sick because I watch Donald Trump and I think,
how could any human, any human with a brain, with
an education, look at this man and see anything but
the snake oil orange piece of shit that he is.
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I don't even understand. This is not about political disagreement.
This is not about disagreement on pop policy for health
care or education, or the housing problem or the economy.
This is about a dictator trying to tell the world misinformation,
things that are not true, and the world ain't buying it,
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but Maga is, and they don't know that they're sealing
their own fate, their own doom, that Donald Trump will
lead them right off the cliff and not care. They
don't care. I put myself under great stress every day
that I'm not wealthy. I should be. All of my
peers in radio and entertainment have lots more money than me.
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Why don't I? I don't know Andrew and I spent
a lot. I never got the big deals because I
was gay. They paid me the lowest always they could
at every station because I was gay. And they said,
Andrew and I made one hundred and ten thousand dollars
a year at KFI, the lowest paid host there. Bill
Handa was making millions, and Ken, we're making over a million.
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We got one hundred thousand. Why because we were gay
and untried, So they paid us scale. That was after scale.
The lowest they could pay us was one hundred and
eight thousand dollars a year to be a full time
talk show host. That was the lowest they could pay
us in the LA market, so they did. Meanwhile, every
other host was getting five, six, seven times that. Even
(25:25):
when I go do live gigs, you know, they'll give
me fifteen hundred bucks and they'll give David Hernandez, who
hasn't had one hit record, ten thousand because he's cute.
So I beat myself up all the time over money
that I have to ask patrons to support the show.
I've been on talk radio thirty years, number one talk radio,
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and so I know in your life you have a
lot of the same issues. Why aren't I further ahead?
Why didn't I achieve that goal? Why can't I just
pick up and leave America the rich can Ellen did?
And I read a whole article about Ellen yesterday. Leave
Ellen alone. If Ellen were a man, no one would
be talking about her being mean backstage and what a
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terror she was. I know so many male talk show
hosts that are fucking assholes, assholes. Bill Maher is an asshole.
Ask anyone that writes for him. He is a total
asshole backstage. No one talks about him, but they rag
on Ellen. Why because she's a woman and a lesbian.
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All of that controversy about Ellen would have never happened
if she had been a man. Same with streisand called
a bit her whole career because she wanted to be
in control. So when I read that article about evolutionary mismatch, yeah,
I can see it in my life. I try to
go too fast, and I blame myself too much for
(26:54):
things that are out of my control, and I take
on that weight. I know so much. Many of you
do too. You guys just made me cry in the
chat room. All of you wish me so well, Rachel James,
all of you. You're like, stop reading the comments. You
know your mental health is not worth it. We want
you to be well. I have so many people that
(27:15):
wish me well. It makes me cry. You guys make
me cry. And for thirty years, strangers in the ether
that just hear my voice or now see my image
actually care for me. Sibylle in Switzerland is offering me
two weeks at her house while her husband comes back
(27:37):
to America. You know, come and explore Switzerland. If I'm
healthy enough, maybe I will. You know, I mean, so
many of you reach into your pockets and give to
the show for no other reason than you want to
hear my voice. It is the most humbling part of
my life to be accepted by you all, whether it's
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fifty of you. I don't have Charlie Kirk's numbers. I
did once. I was far more popular than Charlie Kirk
at one point. But whatever numbers I have, even if
only three hundred of you watch the video every day,
that would fill a venue three hundred people. That'd be
a medium sized venue. So every day I fill the
rasroom is only one hundred and twenty people. So every
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day I fill the rasthroom three times just with the video.
The audio is trending in two hundred countries, including Sibylle
in Switzerland. I think she's making a chart in Switzerland
because it's number one ninety eight in Switzerland. It has
to be Sibylle. So think about evolutionary mismatch. When you're
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down on yourself, think about the fact that we're living
in a world that we shouldn't be, and that as
a human we're just not meant for the world we created.
It's too much. We need time to sit around the
fire with friends and decompressed. We need music and art
and literature. They had that hundreds and thousands of years ago.
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That was important to them. Dance, song, storytelling, arts were important.
We don't even have those anymore. So don't blame yourself.
Unwind a little, slow down. I am Corel, but who
you want to be So I didn't hurt you body.
If I don't get rid of that white flashing by tomorrow,
(29:31):
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Corrala is so near because show time is here.
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So on with the show. Let's give it
Time is here. No time to fear. Corilla is so
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Let's give it a go. Correll is the one that
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Alrighty. On today's Correll Cast, I'm gonna tell you about
a news conference that should make us all hang our
head in shame. Plus is a current life killing you,
literally killing you, making you say, we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It uncensored, unfiltered, fun hinged. It's the Correll Cast. Listen
daily on your favorite streaming service.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It is cast. I am Carrell, so very glad you
are joining me. So I did everything wire cast, telestream
told me to fix the flashing white and now it's
actually worse. So we're going to be in a strobe
light effect all show today and there's nothing I can
do about that. I'll try to fix it again tomorrow.
All right. So this morning a couple things. There was
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Donald Trump at the UN for an hour, and it
was possibly the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen. In fact,
it was so bad I didn't want to watch, but
I couldn't look away. It was so bad, I mean,
it was terrible. He denied climate change just flat out
denied it, said it was a hoax to the UN,
(01:43):
where they know better. He talked about the UN being
a pointless, useless organization whose building is crumbling, the escalator
doesn't work, the teleprompter doesn't work, and the UN doesn't work,
according to him, with you know, and then he talked about, oh,
let's see, the biggest economy threat is renewable energy and immigration,
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that countries are failing because of immigration and trying to
switch to a green economy. He called them the mayor
of London a horrible person, like at the UN standing there,
called the Mayor of London a Muslim, a horrible person,
and said London was basically a shithole country or a
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shithole city. He spent almost an hour villifying the UK
and the EU and zero time villifying China, Russia, North Korea,
et cetera. He spoke of Israel and Gaza and spoke
about nothing of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza at all,
like it just didn't exist. And he told so many
(02:55):
lies that after the speech the BBC took ten minutes
to debunk all of the falsehoods that he said, and
they were just stunned they were like, oh, like stunned
at how horrible this was now making us look like
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idiots on the world stage. Is what this man does. Okay,
his stock in trade. But today again you have to wonder,
where's Congress, where's the Senate, where's the billionaires that could
do something about this? Why is this going to be
allowed to go on for three years? And the United
States won't survive it? It really won't. We've talked a
(03:43):
lot about that on the show, and we flippantly said,
you know, time to get out, or you know, all
this other stuff, but let's just be honest with each other.
The United States, as we know it is not going
to survive three years of Donald Trump. So the article
in the Guardian was right. We have about three hundred
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and ninety four days to save democracy. And the sad
part is it's not really up to us. We of
course have to get everyone we know to turn out
in the midterms and to vote Democratic, even Republicans. It
is time for Republicans, not MAGA. They're different. That's a different.
There's three parties. Now there's Democrat, there's Republican, and there's MAGA.
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There's three parties. And to say anything different is a
lie there. Now, many Republicans tend to vote MAGA, but
MAGA is its own party, a right wing Christian nationalist
party of authoritarian and dictator rule. That's what MAGA is.
And if they don't like being described that, fuck you,
then don't be that kind of party. If you want
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to be described as a legitimate political party trying to
advance the agenda of your constituents, then act like a
legitimate party. They're not. I can't stand that white strobe.
I can't stand it. It's gonna make I just want
to stop the show. It's gonna just drive me crazy. Anyway,
So we have MAGA and then we have Republicans and
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we have Democrats. We have got to get Republicans to
vote for the Democrats and not MAGA. And that's going
to be hard to do, but it has to be
done or we lose the country. So our job over
the next three hundred and ninety six days is to
convince Republicans not MAGA. They're a cult. They'll never see
(05:37):
the light. They're a death cult. They are a death cult.
They want so yesterday I posted some things on my
social media, on TikTok and on Instagram one minute videos
from the past two shows. When I come back, I'll
tell you what someone what. More than one hundred people
have said to just one video, and it's frightening.
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Speaker 1 (06:13):
Show Time is here. No time to fear. Corell is
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the show. Let's give it a go. Correll is the
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Speaker 2 (06:29):
All right, we are back. No, it's show time, all right.
I just logged into my chat room so I can
see everybody. Hi Denise, and Hi Phineas, and Hi Rachel,
my love James, Hello James, Hello to everyone at YouTube
dot com. Forward slashually Correll. Uh, the Independent is not
a party. I know it's a it's a registration, but
(06:51):
it's not a party. There is no independent party, not
a credible one. They've never gotten very I mean, I
know Bernie Ward's independent, Berni Bernie Ward. Oh, there's a
name for my past. Bernie Sanders is an independent. But
there's very few actual independence in Congress and the Senate.
We've never had an independent elected president or vice president,
therefore not a party. So there's three parties. There's Democrat, Republican,
(07:18):
and MAGA. You know, that's it. And independents are actually
a bad thing because they tend to screw us in
every election. So we have these parties and we've got
to make Republicans see things just I don't understand. See,
that's what I don't get. In all honesty, how could
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anyone look at the state of America and believe what
Trump says today at the UN he said our economy
was booming and is so strong. That's a lie. The
BBC called it out and said, that's a lie. He
said grocery prices were down. That's what he said today
at the UN. Grocery prices were down? Are they? Do
you feel that they're down? No, they're not down. So
(08:05):
I you know, I'm sorry about the slashing. It's really
bothering me. So, you know, I know, Bernie Ward what
a name from my past, right, I mean, oh my god, yeah,
but Bernie Ward would probably be a client of Epstein's.
But anyway, he's wore he never did, but he did.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
He didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
A lot of you don't know what I'm talking about.
There was a host on KGO Radio who under George W. Bush,
was prosecuted for child pornography being on his computer and
he didn't have just one or two photos, and he
said he was being framed and that he did it
all to research a book and to prove the hypocrisy
(08:47):
of the Republicans because he was trying to set up
several Republicans that had been texting him. That was all
a lie. They got his computer and there were hundreds
of images on it. He lost his job at KGO.
His wife was a pediatrician. She lost her practice, Her
kids had to change their kids had to change schools.
He is now out of jail because he took a
(09:08):
plea deal. They were going to give him four years
for every image, which is four hundred years, or he
could take a twelve year deal and be out in
like eight so he did. He is now out. But
you know, the name from my past has popped up
because he was on KGO. But the real thing I
wanted to talk to you about today, the real thing,
(09:31):
Oh wait, let me tell you. I told you so.
I posted this one minute video yesterday about how Donald
Trump wants to declare or said he could see it
happening the Pride flag as a terrorist symbol and to
prove that MAGA is irredeemable, that they are the most
(09:54):
vile people on the planet, that there is no hope
for these people. Under my video are one hundred comments
saying it is a terrorist symbol. Gays are terrorist. Someone
said the last eight mass shootings have been done by
trans people. This is all a lie. All of it
is a lie, but they believe it because they're stupid
(10:15):
as fuck. These people don't have the brains of a
Teepsi fly, they don't have the brains of that chair
over there. They are literally the most stupid people in
the United States. That's who elected Donald Trump, the most
stupid people in the country, of which there are seventy
(10:35):
seven million, complete and total fucking morons. Okay, that think
the Pride flag is a symbol of terrorism and that
gays are terrorists and that trans are killers. Couldn't be
further from the truth. But they believe it, and they
(10:56):
used to hide their homophobia the Republicans. MAGA revels in it.
They delight in bashing gay people and harming and killing
gay people in the name of their icon and their Lord.
You have never met hatred like Christian love ever. If
(11:16):
you ever want to meet the face of hatred, just
look in the face of Christian love. So after I
saw that under my video, I am never reading the
comments ever again. In fact, I may turn the comments off.
I may turn them off because I don't want to
hear what these ignorant fucks have to say anymore. That's
(11:39):
why I want to leave. It's not so much I
want to leave America. I like America, my country. It's
the people. They're ignorant fucks, and they revel now in
their ignorance. They delight in their ignorance. They gather for
a memorial and show their ignorance. Their commit in chief,
(12:00):
because he's not mine, stands in front of the United
Nations and shows off his ignorance by saying the most
ignorant things a world leader could say. Climate change is
a hoax. The two things bankrupting most countries are immigrants
and switching from traditional energy. He said that this morning,
(12:24):
that's what's causing the world's collapse, immigrants and green energy.
He is an embarrassment to the human race, and anyone
that voted for him is an equal embarrassment. And I'm
so tired of sugarcoating it because I'm afraid of being
killed or being kicked off the year or whatever. These
are the most ignorant, fucking people to ever walk planet
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Earth ever. Cave people have more common sense than these
people do. In a way, it's not their fault. There
is an article I really wanted to share with It's
from the Guardian, and it says how modern life makes
us sick and what to do about it, from depression
to obesity. The concept of evolutionary mismatch can help foster
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self compassion and point the way to a more rewarding existence.
This goes along with everything I've been saying on this
show Forever. Let me read you just a little of it.
I like to read on air, but let me read
you just a little of it. One of the fascinating
things about working as a psychotherapist is the opportunity to
observe how many of our problems involve us getting in
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the way of ourselves. The difficulties we encounter are frequently
the result of self sabotage, and managing them often requires
wrestling with our own drives, doing our best not to
give in to our every impulse. This is easier said
than done, of course, To lose weight and keep it off,
to successfully climb out of debt, to find meaningful work,
to maintain long, long term happy relationships, all demand postponing
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our immediate desires in the service of a longer term goal.
Delaying gratification, as it's called, has been a useful tactic
for eons. But at a certain point it becomes reasonable
to ask why does so much of modern life seem
to involve swimming upstream? Why is that following our instincts
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often seems to land us in so much trouble. One
of the central ideas in the field of evolutionary psychology
is that of evolutionary mismatch. Put simply, we evolved in
a very different environment from the one in which we
now find ourselves. As a result, our brains, bodies, and
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instincts are poorly matched for the surroundings. In other words,
we humans have created a world that humans should not
live in. Think about that evolutionary mismatch. We evolved a
certain way, but then created a world that wasmpletely different.
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How much does this really matter? Isn't a hallmark of
being human our species ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Yes,
and no. Yes, we have a remarkable ability to deal
with new problems, to collaborate and find solutions, and to
create technology to help us realize them. At the same time,
anthropologists estimate that human genetics and anatomy have remained unchanged
(15:26):
for one hundred thousand years. Everything's changed around us, but
our physiology and anatomy has stayed the same. Back then,
we lived in small nomadic hunter gatherer tribes, only developing
agriculture ten thousand years ago, and we only developed civilization
five thousand years ago. That's nothing evolutionary wise, that's nothing
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for all but a vanishingly small number of us. The
contemporary human habitat isn't the one we were made for.
The cities and the environment that we've put ourselves in
is one we're not made for. Genetic adaptations, which can
take tens of thousands of years, could hardly be expected
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to keep up with the move to cities, let alone
technology and cultural shifts, which can have dramatic impacts with
a single lifetime. So what has the fallout been. Perhaps
the starkest impact has been on our waistlines. The instinct
to binge on foods rich in salt, fat, and sugar
is what kept people alive for most of human history
(16:31):
when the next meal was never guaranteed, So you ate
a lot of fat and sugar and salt because you
didn't when you're gonna eat again. Now we live in
a world where calories are cheap and where scientists devote
their whole careers to making foods hyper palatable, which is
to say, far more appealing than any other food found
in nature. These artificial snacks interfere with the body's ability
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to regulate appetite, making it very difficult to have just
one crisp or one biscuit. Obesity has now overtaken malnutrition
as the leading public health issue in the diet around
the world. The realm of dating and mating has also
changed beyond all recognition. A strong drive to find the
(17:15):
right sexual partner was indispensable when we banded together in
tribes about one hundred and fifty people against an unforgiving world.
But in those days, the pool of potential mates was small.
Now we have devices that connect us to thousands upon
thousands of potential mates. As a result, the process often
becomes protracted and overwhelming, a phase of life characterized by
(17:39):
choice paralysis. You've heard me say that that humans don't
do well with a lot of choice. We get paralyzed,
hurtful behaviors such as ghosting and the constant anxiety that
our true soulmate is just to swipe away. Rising rates
of depression and other mental health can also be viewed
through the lens of evolutionary mismatch. To deal with these gaps,
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some of us turn back to technology. That's not a
good thing. Chatbots can fuel the delusions and paranoid thinking
of people with psychosis already. None of this is to
say that the right path for humanity is to attempt
to return to the distant past. No one is suggesting
you become a tribe of one hundred and fifty people
and become hunter gatherers. They weren't utopian. But there is
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a powerful explanation for many of our current physical and
mental difficulties, and it's that the world has developed in
a way that our biology hasn't been able to keep
up with. If you don't take this into account as
you look at your own life, instead of expecting yourself
to perform like some kind of highly optimized machine. You
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open the door to profound self criticism and resentment. The
frustration of not being able to lose weight, the emptiness
of the job you are always wanted to do but don't,
the loneliness of modern cities. These can all feel like
your failure, like an individual failure. Conversely, understanding the life
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we evolve for allows us to look at our problems
with more clarity and self compassion, and can nudge us
towards better, more informed decisions. Rather than berating ourselves for
not being able to control our impulses, we can see
them through the lens of environment or evolutionary mismatch and
start to think about helpful mitigations. Some solutions are straightforward,
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like keeping junk food out of the house, or deleting
social media apps or limiting your screen time. Others are
more complex and require stepping back to see the bigger picture.
Community collaborative problem solving, ritual and meaning are vital ingredients
for satisfying life and will remain so whatever technology we
invent or cultural trends pop up. Thinking about how to
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build these into your life as part of the fabric
rather than optional, is life, life changing, not because there's
anything wrong with us, but because we find ourselves in
strange times. So you had to step back, see the
bigger picture. You've got a foster community, have collaborative problem solving.
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Continue with rituals. Rituals are very important and meaning. I
love ritual every day. I have my rituals. I love
holiday rituals. I love rituals. Most people don't anymore. They're
abandoning rituals. So evolutionary mismatch isn't that something? We are
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living in a world that doesn't suit a human being.
It comes at us too fast. We are overwhelmed with
too many choices, and we don't do well. A human
animal doesn't do well. We need connection, we need community,
we need each other, we need collaborative problem solving. We
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don't have any of that. And we're depressed and we're fat,
and we're angry, we're very and it's all because we're
living in a world we shouldn't have created, and no
one trying to unwind us. Instead, we're trying to wind
us up tighter. That media job to wind you up tighter, sat.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No is show Sie.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Oh my god, you have me crying. You guys First
of all, as I sit here, I'm gonna do something
the most hosts wouldn't do. Look, do you see I
am all wired up? Do you see I have a
heart monitor on for ten days? Why I don't see
if my heart beats regularly one hundred thousand times a day,
(22:21):
Why is my heart sick? Why? Well? Could it be
evolutionary mismatch? Now I believe that I'm one of the
ones that deal with chaos. Okay, it did say in
the article there's a small number of us that can
actually deal with all of this stuff, and I kind
of believe that that I'm one of those. Now, maybe
(22:42):
that's just wishful thinking on my part, but I do
thrive under pressure. I do, and I in my brain,
my brain eliminates all the noise and narrows down the
solution and lets me see the problem very clearly. That's
why i'm That's why I do what I do. That's
why you like me, because I can look at all
this complex stuff and say, well, here's the bottom line. Okay,
(23:06):
but my heart is sick. Because I'm sick. I'm lonely.
I love Ember more than anything. And at the park
I had a discussion with other older dog owners who
all share their same fear as mine, which is that
we will die and leave our dogs without us. That's
like my biggest fear. That is my biggest fear, you know,
(23:29):
is that I will die before Ember and then her
life will totally change and she'll be sad. My heart
is sick because I watch Donald Trump and I think,
how could any human, any human with a brain, with
an education, look at this man and see anything but
the snake oil orange piece of shit that he is.
(23:53):
I don't even understand. This is not about political disagreement.
This is not about disagreement on pop policy for health
care or education, or the housing problem or the economy.
This is about a dictator trying to tell the world misinformation,
things that are not true, and the world ain't buying it,
(24:15):
but Maga is, and they don't know that they're sealing
their own fate, their own doom, that Donald Trump will
lead them right off the cliff and not care. They
don't care. I put myself under great stress every day
that I'm not wealthy. I should be. All of my
peers in radio and entertainment have lots more money than me.
(24:38):
Why don't I? I don't know Andrew and I spent
a lot. I never got the big deals because I
was gay. They paid me the lowest always they could
at every station because I was gay. And they said,
Andrew and I made one hundred and ten thousand dollars
a year at KFI, the lowest paid host there. Bill
Handa was making millions, and Ken, we're making over a million.
(25:02):
We got one hundred thousand. Why because we were gay
and untried, So they paid us scale. That was after scale.
The lowest they could pay us was one hundred and
eight thousand dollars a year to be a full time
talk show host. That was the lowest they could pay
us in the LA market, so they did. Meanwhile, every
other host was getting five, six, seven times that. Even
(25:25):
when I go do live gigs, you know, they'll give
me fifteen hundred bucks and they'll give David Hernandez, who
hasn't had one hit record, ten thousand because he's cute.
So I beat myself up all the time over money
that I have to ask patrons to support the show.
I've been on talk radio thirty years, number one talk radio,
(25:49):
and so I know in your life you have a
lot of the same issues. Why aren't I further ahead?
Why didn't I achieve that goal? Why can't I just
pick up and leave America the rich can Ellen did?
And I read a whole article about Ellen yesterday. Leave
Ellen alone. If Ellen were a man, no one would
be talking about her being mean backstage and what a
(26:11):
terror she was. I know so many male talk show
hosts that are fucking assholes, assholes. Bill Maher is an asshole.
Ask anyone that writes for him. He is a total
asshole backstage. No one talks about him, but they rag
on Ellen. Why because she's a woman and a lesbian.
(26:33):
All of that controversy about Ellen would have never happened
if she had been a man. Same with streisand called
a bit her whole career because she wanted to be
in control. So when I read that article about evolutionary mismatch, yeah,
I can see it in my life. I try to
go too fast, and I blame myself too much for
(26:54):
things that are out of my control, and I take
on that weight. I know so much. Many of you
do too. You guys just made me cry in the
chat room. All of you wish me so well, Rachel James,
all of you. You're like, stop reading the comments. You
know your mental health is not worth it. We want
you to be well. I have so many people that
(27:15):
wish me well. It makes me cry. You guys make
me cry. And for thirty years, strangers in the ether
that just hear my voice or now see my image
actually care for me. Sibylle in Switzerland is offering me
two weeks at her house while her husband comes back
(27:37):
to America. You know, come and explore Switzerland. If I'm
healthy enough, maybe I will. You know, I mean, so
many of you reach into your pockets and give to
the show for no other reason than you want to
hear my voice. It is the most humbling part of
my life to be accepted by you all, whether it's
(28:01):
fifty of you. I don't have Charlie Kirk's numbers. I
did once. I was far more popular than Charlie Kirk
at one point. But whatever numbers I have, even if
only three hundred of you watch the video every day,
that would fill a venue three hundred people. That'd be
a medium sized venue. So every day I fill the
rasroom is only one hundred and twenty people. So every
(28:23):
day I fill the rasthroom three times just with the video.
The audio is trending in two hundred countries, including Sibylle
in Switzerland. I think she's making a chart in Switzerland
because it's number one ninety eight in Switzerland. It has
to be Sibylle. So think about evolutionary mismatch. When you're
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down on yourself, think about the fact that we're living
in a world that we shouldn't be, and that as
a human we're just not meant for the world we created.
It's too much. We need time to sit around the
fire with friends and decompressed. We need music and art
and literature. They had that hundreds and thousands of years ago.
(29:10):
That was important to them. Dance, song, storytelling, arts were important.
We don't even have those anymore. So don't blame yourself.
Unwind a little, slow down. I am Corel, but who
you want to be So I didn't hurt you body.
If I don't get rid of that white flashing by tomorrow,
(29:31):
you will see me screaming you're on. You don't forget
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