May 12, 2023 • 30 mins
Shameless Americans Plus Cringey Songs Karel Cast Podcast #206 Shame and Embarrassment are not horrible emotions in small amounts or over the right things; so why have we in the USA lost the ability to be embarrassed? And we should be by many things: Trump on CNN; George Santos; Climate Change; Homelessness; hunger; corporate greed; and the list goes on (and I’d love to hear yours). So where did our embarrassment go? Plus, May is Mental Health month and there’s a few things you can do immediately to improve yours. AND, cringe worthy songs abound in music libraries; songs that simply would not be released today. So why are they still around, and what ones can you think of off hand? Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com
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We have lost a very important emotion. I'm going to tell you which one
and why we could use some ofit. Also, May is Mental Health
Month. I'm gonna give you somesteps you can do to improve your health
and songs that make you cringe thesedays. Uncensored, Unfiltered, Unhinged,
(00:21):
brel Cast listen daily on your favoritestreaming service. It is the Crowdcast.
I am Correll Happy. What isit Friday? Oh my god? So
much has happened over the last fewdays that we have to talk about.
But you know, I just talkedwith my niece Heather up in Seattle,
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and I feel encouraged. You know, she's thirty nine. I can't believe
she's almost forty, and she's tryingto have a baby with her wife,
and they're building a modular home onsome property that they've gotten, and they're
moving forward with life. You know, they're not letting this crazy world,
this messed up world, impede theirquest for happiness. And she's concentrating on
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being happy locally, in other words, in her community. You know,
she found a community that's good forLGBTQ people. She found a state that's
a decent state to live in.And they're carving out their niche there and
and that's really what we have todo these days. We can't, you
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know, the bigger picture is nowso out of our control, Russia and
Ukraine and Joe Biden being too oldto run for president and all this other
stuff. It's it's so maddening andso out of our control that we have
to refocus on what we can control. And what we can control is ourselves
and our own optimism or pessimism.We can we can make a choice in
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our day to day life whether toallow all the horror that is going on
from climate change on down the line, to make us negative, make us
feel poorly, make us depressed,as May is Mental health month, or
we can focus on what we canchange and what we can do, and
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that is local, that's in yourheart, in your soul, in your
home, and in your community,and we can start being happy for the
good that's left, you know,for the fact that there is still some
good left in this world, andthere is now. I said, we
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were going to talk about a humanemotion that we need more of. And
I was on the phone this morningwith one of my friends and I said,
you know, we used to havea saying yah to be embarrassed.
Now, embarrassment means, let's see, I wrote down the definition of embarrassment,
Okay, a feeling of self consciousness, shame, or awkwardness. Okay,
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and we really need some shame.I think that we have lost shame,
and shame is a good thing insome ways. Now, we always
try to shame people for the wrongthings. Okay. Throughout history, they've
tried to shame people for being gay. They've tried to shame people for you
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know, unwed mothers or whatever that'swrong. We you know, we've always
tried to shame the wrong people.Today's world could use a good dose of
shame, meaning embarrassment. For instance, CNN should be embarrassed and ashamed for
putting a known a rapist, aperson who has had now had a jury
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of his peers say that he sexuallyassaulted somebody, someone who's going to be
indicted for seditious conspiracy, who weknow tried to overturn a duly certified election,
a traitor to the United States.They should be embarrassed for putting that
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man on television, for letting himspew the lies that he spewed. I
did not watch, but I knowat by the media that he just did
more of the same. The electionwas rigged and blah bah blah, bah
blah, bah blah. I believeeven called the female hostess a nasty woman,
and she took it. You know, Donald Trump has no shame,
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or he wouldn't leave the fricking house. Okay, But CNN they should have
some shame. They should be embarrassedfor putting that creature on television. We
did not used to do that.Back in the day. Media would never
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interview a known rapist, a noown criminal up for indictment, whether he
was running for president or not.They just simply wouldn't have put him on
because they would have been embarrassed todo so. Now, hey, if
he gets ratings, we have losta sense of embarrassment about bad behavior and
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instead let people double down on theirbad behavior. George, excuse me,
George Santos can't even say his namewithout choking. George Santos should be embarrassed,
and the Republican Party should be completelyembarrassed that someone in their ranks who
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was on the floor of the Congressand their party is up on thirteen federal
counts for lying, cheating, stealing. He should have walked out with a
shroud over his face and not saida word to the press. Instead,
he walks up. He's just asdefied. I'm going to stay in Congress.
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I'm going to do this. I'mgoing to do that. I'm going
to fight these charges. He hasno shame, no sense of embarrassment.
You know, I was made tofeel embarrassed about my mother because she was
four foot nine and disabled. Iwas made to feel ashamed and embarrassed because
I loved another man in high school. How how dare I? I was
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made to feel ashamed and embarrassed becauseI was poor, because I was fat.
I was made to feel shame bysociety because I was fat, because
I was gay, because I waspoor, none of the things that I
should have been embarrassed about. Iwas made to feel that way by society.
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And now today, society does notmake Donald Trump feels so embarrassed that
he can't leave the house, doesnot make CNN feel so embarrassed for putting
that man on that they would neverthink to do it again. You know,
I made at outside of George Sanchosand Donald Trump, things in today's
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world that we should be ashamed of. That we should be embarrassed by.
We should be embarrassed by the factwe allow billionaires to exist in our economy
while the masses suffer. We shouldbe embarrassed by that. That should bring
us great national shame. But we'velost it. We've lost a sense of
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shame, of guilt. We shouldbe embarrassed that we look away from the
homeless problem, that we complain aboutthe home most problem and yet do nothing
about it. Rhanna ought to beembarrassed that she named her child Rza.
She named her child, How doyou even pronounce that rizza rza? He's
a rapper or something, and sothey named their kid rza. You should
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be embarrassed. Your kids got togo to school, Okay, your kid's
gonna have to be out there withother kids who are mean, and you
named him r za Z. Idon't know how to pronounce it. Ought
to be embarrassed. I'd love tohear from you at contact at really Correll
dot com or down below in thecomment section down below. Here, on
YouTube YouTube dot com, forward slashReally Correll, or my Patreon subscribers,
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you can I read the comments underthose videos Patreon dot com, forward slash,
Really Correll. What are some ofthe things you think we should be
more embarrassed about that we should carrya sense of shame. There is food
companies. The seven biggest food companiesare making record profits while we struggle at
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the grocery store and millions go hungry. We should be ashamed, should be
embarrassed by that. It should botherus. The fact that we're letting the
right pick on drag queens and makeabortion illegue. How ashamed should we be
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that we are letting rich white mendictate what women do with their bodies.
That is so shameful. That isyou know, why do we not have
a sense of guilt or shame aboutthings that we are doing that are horrific?
I know why we've lost the ability. We totally have lost the ability.
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We have almost breaded out of ourselvesshame and guilt. You know,
I'm not saying those emotions are good, that they serve a purpose. They
make you change. When you feelashamed, you're guilty of something, you
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often change. It's time to changewhere we go. If you're not visiting
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Really correll dot com daily, you'remissing out. Get the podcast videos and
the blug including recipes at really correlldot com. That's really ka r e
l dot com, Uncensored, unfiltered, Unhinged Correllcast. You know, May's
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Mental Health Month and talk about shameand guilt and how it's all misplaced.
We we we make people feel ashamedor guilty over stuff that they should feel
zero shame or zero guilt about sexuality, unwanted pregnancies, whatever it might be,
and mental health and mental illness.We make people feel ashamed that they
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might have some sort of mental illness, that they might be in some way
impaired in their brain. We makepeople feel depressed because they are depressed,
you know, or was depressed,Oh bother e Or was depressed. But
guess what, all of his friendsinvited him everywhere. They never told him
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to cheer up. They always hadhim along. They just let him be
e or they just let him bea downer. That's a yor he's a
downer. They didn't make or feelbad because he was a downer. They
didn't ostracize or and not invite himto play reindeer games because he was a
downer. They included him in everything. They just figured out he's a downer.
He'll get with the program sooner orlater. Mental illness is nothing to
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be ashamed of, And yet somany people are afraid to seek help,
to say I need help, Ineed help getting through this. So many
of you are afraid to help yourselvesget over mental illness. And I think
we use that term too broadly becauseI think a lot of things that we
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talk about as mental illness are reallynatural states of being human, but ones
that you need to work through.For instance, depression. Depression is completely
and totally normal and natural. Everybodygets depressed and yes, for days or
weeks, sometimes months. So whatcan you do if you're feeling overwhelmed?
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What can you do if you're sufferingfrom depression? Well, there's no quick
fix and certainly not a pill.Okay, well, let me rephrase.
Some mental illnesses do require medication.I just think medications for mental illnesses are
overprescribed, like riddling for kids thatthey say have add No child should be
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given riddling. I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm just telling you I was not
given riddling. I have ADHD.I don't think any kid should be medicated
into compliance. Okay, that's allwe're doing there. We don't want to
deal with their energy, we don'twant to deal with their attention spans,
so we medicate them. That's wrong. Okay, However, if you are
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depressed, if you are overwhelmed,and if you can't seem to shake it,
maybe you need to make some changes. And that's so hard to do
when you're in the depths of it, but so crucial. For instance,
I exercise almost two hours a day, and you should too, because no
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matter what you're both your physical andmental health will benefit. I'm not saying
it cures you. Look at me, I'm a mess, but just at
the mess i'd be if I didn't. For instance, this morning, I
started with thirty minutes of yoga.You can do YouTube videos yoga. You
can do the Apple Fitness Plus ifyou have an Apple Watch or an iPhone.
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You don't even need an Apple Watchnow you can just if you have
an iPhone, tons of fabulous yogaworkouts with wonderful people are just waiting for
you. You don't have to payand go to a class, YouTube,
Apple Fitness Plus, Peloton, otherways. Start doing yoga. It's age
old, it's ancient, it's anancient art form. Start doing it.
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It does help your mind and bodyas you breathe and you stretch and you
move. Maybe you're physically impaired likeI am, and maybe you won't be
able to do every single thing.That doesn't matter, Start doing it.
Do it in a chair if youhave to make that effort. Start eating
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better. Are you feeling sad,You're feeling blue, You're feeling overwhelmed,
You're feeling nervous, jittery, paranoid. Start eating better. You know there's
a story at medium about how horriblewe're eating. How percent of the people
are still eating processed food, seventynot getting enough fruits or vegetables. That
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directly plays into your mental health.I know you don't think it does,
but it does because there are nutrientsand vitamins in that food, in leafy
vegetables, in fresh fruits, inbeans and legoms. There are things in
there that are actually going to nourishyour brain and change your chemical levels naturally.
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So start exercising more, start eatingbetter. Your mood will change.
Get a dog or a cat,you know, nurture the caregiver in you.
Step outside of yourself by volunteering tohelp homeless or help kids, or
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whatever step outside of your brain.It makes your brain healthier. Your brain
is an organ like your kidneys oryour liver, and just because the thing
where thought comes from doesn't mean thatyou can't treat it like a kidney or
a liver. You can. There'sno stigma in any kind of mental illness
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depression, schizophrenia, ADHD on downthe line. There's no stigma or shame
in that. There's no stigma orshame in stepping back saying you're overwhelmed.
I can't deal right now. I'vegot too much on my plate. There's
no shame in saying my work lifebalance is out of balance and I need
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to spend more time on what's importantto me, my family, my hobbies,
taking a walk in the sunshine,something as stupid as taking a walk
in the sunshine can change your mentalhealth. It's proven. I'm not making
this up. So in May forMental Health Month, want you to start
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doing things that are better for you. I want you to eat better.
I want you to start exercising moreand get outside, start walking on your
lunches. Steve rides his bike toand front to work, and then he
rides at home at lunchtime on beautifuldays like today. Start getting out more,
Get out in the sunshine, getout in the world. Start nurturing
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you your soul. Start feeding you, and not just good food, but
good information, good podcast, goodwebsites, good social media. Start feeding
yourself better ingredients to be a betterperson. Only then will your brain have
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a chance to process and sleep.I can't stress enough at least seven hours
a night. Don't tell me youcan't. Don't tell me your schedule won't
allow it. Sleep. These simplethings simple are things you can do to
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have better mental health. Sleep sevenhours, eat better food, get outside
and exercise more. These are realthings that doctors should be prescribing. I
mean that before they ever give youa prescription medicine for a mental illness.
Talk to friends. Be honest withyourself and with friends. When you're talking
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with someone, don't be afraid tosay you're afraid. Don't be afraid to
say you're unsure. Don't be afraidto be stupid. Talk to people in
your life. Don't text them,call them, FaceTime them, Visit them.
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And you want to know something,It can really help your mental health.
Touch touch touch another person appropriately.Please touch a dog or a cat.
Physical touch, warmth embraces actually raisechemical levels in your brain and change
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the way you think and learn tostep away. Learn when you have to
step back, whether it's from arelationship, from information, from the internet,
from a job. Learn that yourbrain has limits, because it does.
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When we start actually taking care ofour brain like the organ that it
is, like your heart, thenmental health becomes manageable. Now again,
there are many, many mental diseasesthat require doctors, some require surgery,
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know, as we age and astime goes forward, pop music of the
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past becomes cringeworthy. And I reallywant your participation on this. I really
want you to post down below onYouTube where you're gonna like and subscribe.
I really want you to post asong that you hear nowadays and you just
cringe. You think, oh mygod. Now you know when you watch
the old Bugs Bunny cartoons and he'sin blackface doing owing gubbo and gubble you're
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like, oh my god, thiswould just so bugs Bunny was so inappropriate
in so many situations. But music, I have a vast music library,
not streaming my own music library.I have like three hundred gigabytes of music
that I over the years digitized CDsand albums and things. And I've got
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a TV out in the living roomnow, which Andrew would probably approve of,
and so I'm able to access AppleMusic out there as well. And
I have found so much better thanstreaming. I'm just playing my own music,
and I hope you all do thattoo. You play your own music,
the music that you left, Okay, don't rely on streaming. Y'all
have CDs, vinyl, digital MPthree's from your first iPod whatever, revisit
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that music. But as I do, there's not a great artist to live
that hasn't recorded a song that makesme cringe. Barbara streisand she just released
an album in November of Live atthe Bone Sis and that was a gay
nightclub. It was gonna be herfirst album back in the day, but
then they shelved it and they tookher into the studio and she recorded all
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those songs in the studio. There'sa song on there called come to the
Supermarket an Old Pea King, andyou know, there's a line if you
want a slave that's particularly African.I'm like, oh, oh my god,
there's like ten of those lines inthat song, come to the Supermarket
and an Old Pea King. It'sjust cringeworthy, some of the lyrics.
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And this morning I heard Cartman's versionbecause Cartman recorded in the Ghetto by Elvis
Presley. So they have Elvis's versionplaying and then Cartman sings along in the
Ghetto and it's hysterical. It's fromSouth Park, but it made me listen
to the original Elvis Presley song inthe ghetto. There is possibly no more
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of a racist song than in theyou know. And his mama cried because
if there's one thing that she don'tneed, it's another little baby in mouth
to feed in the ghetto. Ohmy god. So first of all,
you're saying, she's just swamped withkids, probably black. Hello, you
know. Then one night, indesperation, a young man slips away.
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He buys a gun, he stealsa car, tries to run, but
he doesn't get far, and hismama cries. So the black kid turns
out to be a violent felon anddies in the street, and as he
dies, another little baby child isborn. That song is so like ten
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Ways from Wrong. I can't eventell you. I just listen to it
and cringe. Barbara Streisand's finale fromFunny Girl, which Leah Leah Michelle is
singing right now on Broadway probably tonight. My man. It costs me a
lot, but there's one thing thatI've got. It's my man. Like
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that's the be all prize for awoman right, cold and wet tied,
you bet, But all that Isoon forget. With my man. He's
not much full looks and no heroout of books, but I love him.
I don't know why I should.He beats me too, What can
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I do? That's the Billy Hollidayversion. He beats me too? What
can I do? Oh? Myman? I love him so he'll never
know. My life is just despair, but I don't care. So it's
okay for her to be in despair, for her to be like an abused
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spouse, because when he chakes mein his arms, the world is bride
all right. What's the difference ifI say I'll go away when I know
I'll come back on my knees oneday. Every part of that lyric is
wrong, okay, just wrong.And it didn't just stop and I mean
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Rod Stewart Tonight's tonight. You know, relax my virgin child. If you
watch the video, she's like sixteenyears old. Oh, just let your
inhibition runs wild. Jerry Lee Lewishas a song about dorking his cousin which
he really did. Money for Nothingby Dire Straits says the faggot word about
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fifteen times. That little fagot isa millionaire. They even they did not
include it on their Greatest Hits album, And yet it's the MTV song I
Want My umtvs. Oh My God, illegal Immigrant or alien by Phil Collins's
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band There or whatever it was called, Oh my God, brown Sugar.
Ah. The Rolling Stones have evenchanged the lyrics now when they're out on
tour because the lyrics to brown Sugar, Oh my God just about as racistness
could be. I just heard asong from the fifties about the loose woman
in town. She's the no nowoman men go oh. So there are
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so many pop songs out there thatwhen you listen to them now, even
just ten or fifteen years later,you cringe. You think, oh my
god, this could not be releasedtoday. This is just horrible, and
it's not wokeness. It's that thesesongs were really bad. You know,
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half of Billy Holiday's catalog is abouta man beating her. Half the song
she sings, ain't nobody's business.If I go to church on Sunday and
then cabba ray on Monday, ain'tnobody's business if I do. If my
man ain't got no money, andI say, take all mine, honey,
Ain't nobody's business if I do.And then the song she says,
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if he hits me, and thenI still forgive him, it's my business.
I know, I won't call noCoppa if I'm beat up by my
papa, ain't nobody's But that's aclassic jazz era song. I won't call
no copper if I'm beat up bymy papa. Oh my god in heaven.
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So I know that. You knowthat there are cringeworthy songs when you
hear them now you're like, oh, how do I ever liked this song?
You know? So down below inthe comments here on YouTube, I'd
love to hear your cringe worthy song. A song when you hear it,
you just think, oh, dearGod, I should take this out of
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my music library because this is justbad. I mean when I heard Come
to the Supermarket and Old Peaking byBarbara, I thought, I can't leave
this in my library. We've gotthere's Asian jokes in their Turning Japanese,
which is really a song about masturbation. It is, that's what it's about.
I think I'm turning japan nice becauseyour eyes squint when you masturbate allegedly,
um, but still a group ofwhite guys, I think I'm turning
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Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so. Now no,
no, just just no. Sowhat songs are cringe worthy to you
nowadays? What pop songs do youwonder? How did they ever get away
with this? I am Correll bewho you want to be? Song to
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We have lost a very important emotion. I'm going to tell you which one
and why we could use some ofit. Also, May is Mental Health
Month. I'm gonna give you somesteps you can do to improve your health
and songs that make you cringe thesedays. Uncensored, Unfiltered, Unhinged,
(00:21):
brel Cast listen daily on your favoritestreaming service. It is the Crowdcast.
I am Correll Happy. What isit Friday? Oh my god? So
much has happened over the last fewdays that we have to talk about.
But you know, I just talkedwith my niece Heather up in Seattle,
(00:41):
and I feel encouraged. You know, she's thirty nine. I can't believe
she's almost forty, and she's tryingto have a baby with her wife,
and they're building a modular home onsome property that they've gotten, and they're
moving forward with life. You know, they're not letting this crazy world,
this messed up world, impede theirquest for happiness. And she's concentrating on
(01:08):
being happy locally, in other words, in her community. You know,
she found a community that's good forLGBTQ people. She found a state that's
a decent state to live in.And they're carving out their niche there and
and that's really what we have todo these days. We can't, you
(01:29):
know, the bigger picture is nowso out of our control, Russia and
Ukraine and Joe Biden being too oldto run for president and all this other
stuff. It's it's so maddening andso out of our control that we have
to refocus on what we can control. And what we can control is ourselves
and our own optimism or pessimism.We can we can make a choice in
(01:53):
our day to day life whether toallow all the horror that is going on
from climate change on down the line, to make us negative, make us
feel poorly, make us depressed,as May is Mental health month, or
we can focus on what we canchange and what we can do, and
(02:15):
that is local, that's in yourheart, in your soul, in your
home, and in your community,and we can start being happy for the
good that's left, you know,for the fact that there is still some
good left in this world, andthere is now. I said, we
(02:38):
were going to talk about a humanemotion that we need more of. And
I was on the phone this morningwith one of my friends and I said,
you know, we used to havea saying yah to be embarrassed.
Now, embarrassment means, let's see, I wrote down the definition of embarrassment,
Okay, a feeling of self consciousness, shame, or awkwardness. Okay,
(03:05):
and we really need some shame.I think that we have lost shame,
and shame is a good thing insome ways. Now, we always
try to shame people for the wrongthings. Okay. Throughout history, they've
tried to shame people for being gay. They've tried to shame people for you
(03:30):
know, unwed mothers or whatever that'swrong. We you know, we've always
tried to shame the wrong people.Today's world could use a good dose of
shame, meaning embarrassment. For instance, CNN should be embarrassed and ashamed for
putting a known a rapist, aperson who has had now had a jury
(03:53):
of his peers say that he sexuallyassaulted somebody, someone who's going to be
indicted for seditious conspiracy, who weknow tried to overturn a duly certified election,
a traitor to the United States.They should be embarrassed for putting that
(04:15):
man on television, for letting himspew the lies that he spewed. I
did not watch, but I knowat by the media that he just did
more of the same. The electionwas rigged and blah bah blah, bah
blah, bah blah. I believeeven called the female hostess a nasty woman,
and she took it. You know, Donald Trump has no shame,
(04:36):
or he wouldn't leave the fricking house. Okay, But CNN they should have
some shame. They should be embarrassedfor putting that creature on television. We
did not used to do that.Back in the day. Media would never
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interview a known rapist, a noown criminal up for indictment, whether he
was running for president or not.They just simply wouldn't have put him on
because they would have been embarrassed todo so. Now, hey, if
he gets ratings, we have losta sense of embarrassment about bad behavior and
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instead let people double down on theirbad behavior. George, excuse me,
George Santos can't even say his namewithout choking. George Santos should be embarrassed,
and the Republican Party should be completelyembarrassed that someone in their ranks who
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was on the floor of the Congressand their party is up on thirteen federal
counts for lying, cheating, stealing. He should have walked out with a
shroud over his face and not saida word to the press. Instead,
he walks up. He's just asdefied. I'm going to stay in Congress.
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I'm going to do this. I'mgoing to do that. I'm going
to fight these charges. He hasno shame, no sense of embarrassment.
You know, I was made tofeel embarrassed about my mother because she was
four foot nine and disabled. Iwas made to feel ashamed and embarrassed because
I loved another man in high school. How how dare I? I was
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made to feel ashamed and embarrassed becauseI was poor, because I was fat.
I was made to feel shame bysociety because I was fat, because
I was gay, because I waspoor, none of the things that I
should have been embarrassed about. Iwas made to feel that way by society.
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And now today, society does notmake Donald Trump feels so embarrassed that
he can't leave the house, doesnot make CNN feel so embarrassed for putting
that man on that they would neverthink to do it again. You know,
I made at outside of George Sanchosand Donald Trump, things in today's
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world that we should be ashamed of. That we should be embarrassed by.
We should be embarrassed by the factwe allow billionaires to exist in our economy
while the masses suffer. We shouldbe embarrassed by that. That should bring
us great national shame. But we'velost it. We've lost a sense of
(07:30):
shame, of guilt. We shouldbe embarrassed that we look away from the
homeless problem, that we complain aboutthe home most problem and yet do nothing
about it. Rhanna ought to beembarrassed that she named her child Rza.
She named her child, How doyou even pronounce that rizza rza? He's
a rapper or something, and sothey named their kid rza. You should
(07:54):
be embarrassed. Your kids got togo to school, Okay, your kid's
gonna have to be out there withother kids who are mean, and you
named him r za Z. Idon't know how to pronounce it. Ought
to be embarrassed. I'd love tohear from you at contact at really Correll
dot com or down below in thecomment section down below. Here, on
YouTube YouTube dot com, forward slashReally Correll, or my Patreon subscribers,
(08:20):
you can I read the comments underthose videos Patreon dot com, forward slash,
Really Correll. What are some ofthe things you think we should be
more embarrassed about that we should carrya sense of shame. There is food
companies. The seven biggest food companiesare making record profits while we struggle at
(08:41):
the grocery store and millions go hungry. We should be ashamed, should be
embarrassed by that. It should botherus. The fact that we're letting the
right pick on drag queens and makeabortion illegue. How ashamed should we be
(09:03):
that we are letting rich white mendictate what women do with their bodies.
That is so shameful. That isyou know, why do we not have
a sense of guilt or shame aboutthings that we are doing that are horrific?
I know why we've lost the ability. We totally have lost the ability.
(09:24):
We have almost breaded out of ourselvesshame and guilt. You know,
I'm not saying those emotions are good, that they serve a purpose. They
make you change. When you feelashamed, you're guilty of something, you
(09:46):
often change. It's time to changewhere we go. If you're not visiting
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Really correll dot com daily, you'remissing out. Get the podcast videos and
the blug including recipes at really correlldot com. That's really ka r e
l dot com, Uncensored, unfiltered, Unhinged Correllcast. You know, May's
(10:39):
Mental Health Month and talk about shameand guilt and how it's all misplaced.
We we we make people feel ashamedor guilty over stuff that they should feel
zero shame or zero guilt about sexuality, unwanted pregnancies, whatever it might be,
and mental health and mental illness.We make people feel ashamed that they
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might have some sort of mental illness, that they might be in some way
impaired in their brain. We makepeople feel depressed because they are depressed,
you know, or was depressed,Oh bother e Or was depressed. But
guess what, all of his friendsinvited him everywhere. They never told him
(11:22):
to cheer up. They always hadhim along. They just let him be
e or they just let him bea downer. That's a yor he's a
downer. They didn't make or feelbad because he was a downer. They
didn't ostracize or and not invite himto play reindeer games because he was a
downer. They included him in everything. They just figured out he's a downer.
He'll get with the program sooner orlater. Mental illness is nothing to
(11:48):
be ashamed of, And yet somany people are afraid to seek help,
to say I need help, Ineed help getting through this. So many
of you are afraid to help yourselvesget over mental illness. And I think
we use that term too broadly becauseI think a lot of things that we
(12:09):
talk about as mental illness are reallynatural states of being human, but ones
that you need to work through.For instance, depression. Depression is completely
and totally normal and natural. Everybodygets depressed and yes, for days or
weeks, sometimes months. So whatcan you do if you're feeling overwhelmed?
(12:33):
What can you do if you're sufferingfrom depression? Well, there's no quick
fix and certainly not a pill.Okay, well, let me rephrase.
Some mental illnesses do require medication.I just think medications for mental illnesses are
overprescribed, like riddling for kids thatthey say have add No child should be
(12:56):
given riddling. I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm just telling you I was not
given riddling. I have ADHD.I don't think any kid should be medicated
into compliance. Okay, that's allwe're doing there. We don't want to
deal with their energy, we don'twant to deal with their attention spans,
so we medicate them. That's wrong. Okay, However, if you are
(13:20):
depressed, if you are overwhelmed,and if you can't seem to shake it,
maybe you need to make some changes. And that's so hard to do
when you're in the depths of it, but so crucial. For instance,
I exercise almost two hours a day, and you should too, because no
(13:41):
matter what you're both your physical andmental health will benefit. I'm not saying
it cures you. Look at me, I'm a mess, but just at
the mess i'd be if I didn't. For instance, this morning, I
started with thirty minutes of yoga.You can do YouTube videos yoga. You
can do the Apple Fitness Plus ifyou have an Apple Watch or an iPhone.
(14:03):
You don't even need an Apple Watchnow you can just if you have
an iPhone, tons of fabulous yogaworkouts with wonderful people are just waiting for
you. You don't have to payand go to a class, YouTube,
Apple Fitness Plus, Peloton, otherways. Start doing yoga. It's age
old, it's ancient, it's anancient art form. Start doing it.
(14:24):
It does help your mind and bodyas you breathe and you stretch and you
move. Maybe you're physically impaired likeI am, and maybe you won't be
able to do every single thing.That doesn't matter, Start doing it.
Do it in a chair if youhave to make that effort. Start eating
(14:45):
better. Are you feeling sad,You're feeling blue, You're feeling overwhelmed,
You're feeling nervous, jittery, paranoid. Start eating better. You know there's
a story at medium about how horriblewe're eating. How percent of the people
are still eating processed food, seventynot getting enough fruits or vegetables. That
(15:05):
directly plays into your mental health.I know you don't think it does,
but it does because there are nutrientsand vitamins in that food, in leafy
vegetables, in fresh fruits, inbeans and legoms. There are things in
there that are actually going to nourishyour brain and change your chemical levels naturally.
(15:31):
So start exercising more, start eatingbetter. Your mood will change.
Get a dog or a cat,you know, nurture the caregiver in you.
Step outside of yourself by volunteering tohelp homeless or help kids, or
(15:54):
whatever step outside of your brain.It makes your brain healthier. Your brain
is an organ like your kidneys oryour liver, and just because the thing
where thought comes from doesn't mean thatyou can't treat it like a kidney or
a liver. You can. There'sno stigma in any kind of mental illness
(16:15):
depression, schizophrenia, ADHD on downthe line. There's no stigma or shame
in that. There's no stigma orshame in stepping back saying you're overwhelmed.
I can't deal right now. I'vegot too much on my plate. There's
no shame in saying my work lifebalance is out of balance and I need
(16:37):
to spend more time on what's importantto me, my family, my hobbies,
taking a walk in the sunshine,something as stupid as taking a walk
in the sunshine can change your mentalhealth. It's proven. I'm not making
this up. So in May forMental Health Month, want you to start
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doing things that are better for you. I want you to eat better.
I want you to start exercising moreand get outside, start walking on your
lunches. Steve rides his bike toand front to work, and then he
rides at home at lunchtime on beautifuldays like today. Start getting out more,
Get out in the sunshine, getout in the world. Start nurturing
(17:26):
you your soul. Start feeding you, and not just good food, but
good information, good podcast, goodwebsites, good social media. Start feeding
yourself better ingredients to be a betterperson. Only then will your brain have
(17:51):
a chance to process and sleep.I can't stress enough at least seven hours
a night. Don't tell me youcan't. Don't tell me your schedule won't
allow it. Sleep. These simplethings simple are things you can do to
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have better mental health. Sleep sevenhours, eat better food, get outside
and exercise more. These are realthings that doctors should be prescribing. I
mean that before they ever give youa prescription medicine for a mental illness.
Talk to friends. Be honest withyourself and with friends. When you're talking
(18:37):
with someone, don't be afraid tosay you're afraid. Don't be afraid to
say you're unsure. Don't be afraidto be stupid. Talk to people in
your life. Don't text them,call them, FaceTime them, Visit them.
(18:59):
And you want to know something,It can really help your mental health.
Touch touch touch another person appropriately.Please touch a dog or a cat.
Physical touch, warmth embraces actually raisechemical levels in your brain and change
(19:21):
the way you think and learn tostep away. Learn when you have to
step back, whether it's from arelationship, from information, from the internet,
from a job. Learn that yourbrain has limits, because it does.
(19:45):
When we start actually taking care ofour brain like the organ that it
is, like your heart, thenmental health becomes manageable. Now again,
there are many, many mental diseasesthat require doctors, some require surgery,
(20:06):
some require medications, but so muchcan be done by you. Make your
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know, as we age and astime goes forward, pop music of the
(21:00):
past becomes cringeworthy. And I reallywant your participation on this. I really
want you to post down below onYouTube where you're gonna like and subscribe.
I really want you to post asong that you hear nowadays and you just
cringe. You think, oh mygod. Now you know when you watch
the old Bugs Bunny cartoons and he'sin blackface doing owing gubbo and gubble you're
(21:22):
like, oh my god, thiswould just so bugs Bunny was so inappropriate
in so many situations. But music, I have a vast music library,
not streaming my own music library.I have like three hundred gigabytes of music
that I over the years digitized CDsand albums and things. And I've got
(21:45):
a TV out in the living roomnow, which Andrew would probably approve of,
and so I'm able to access AppleMusic out there as well. And
I have found so much better thanstreaming. I'm just playing my own music,
and I hope you all do thattoo. You play your own music,
the music that you left, Okay, don't rely on streaming. Y'all
have CDs, vinyl, digital MPthree's from your first iPod whatever, revisit
(22:10):
that music. But as I do, there's not a great artist to live
that hasn't recorded a song that makesme cringe. Barbara streisand she just released
an album in November of Live atthe Bone Sis and that was a gay
nightclub. It was gonna be herfirst album back in the day, but
then they shelved it and they tookher into the studio and she recorded all
(22:33):
those songs in the studio. There'sa song on there called come to the
Supermarket an Old Pea King, andyou know, there's a line if you
want a slave that's particularly African.I'm like, oh, oh my god,
there's like ten of those lines inthat song, come to the Supermarket
and an Old Pea King. It'sjust cringeworthy, some of the lyrics.
(22:57):
And this morning I heard Cartman's versionbecause Cartman recorded in the Ghetto by Elvis
Presley. So they have Elvis's versionplaying and then Cartman sings along in the
Ghetto and it's hysterical. It's fromSouth Park, but it made me listen
to the original Elvis Presley song inthe ghetto. There is possibly no more
(23:18):
of a racist song than in theyou know. And his mama cried because
if there's one thing that she don'tneed, it's another little baby in mouth
to feed in the ghetto. Ohmy god. So first of all,
you're saying, she's just swamped withkids, probably black. Hello, you
know. Then one night, indesperation, a young man slips away.
(23:41):
He buys a gun, he stealsa car, tries to run, but
he doesn't get far, and hismama cries. So the black kid turns
out to be a violent felon anddies in the street, and as he
dies, another little baby child isborn. That song is so like ten
(24:02):
Ways from Wrong. I can't eventell you. I just listen to it
and cringe. Barbara Streisand's finale fromFunny Girl, which Leah Leah Michelle is
singing right now on Broadway probably tonight. My man. It costs me a
lot, but there's one thing thatI've got. It's my man. Like
(24:22):
that's the be all prize for awoman right, cold and wet tied,
you bet, But all that Isoon forget. With my man. He's
not much full looks and no heroout of books, but I love him.
I don't know why I should.He beats me too, What can
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I do? That's the Billy Hollidayversion. He beats me too? What
can I do? Oh? Myman? I love him so he'll never
know. My life is just despair, but I don't care. So it's
okay for her to be in despair, for her to be like an abused
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spouse, because when he chakes mein his arms, the world is bride
all right. What's the difference ifI say I'll go away when I know
I'll come back on my knees oneday. Every part of that lyric is
wrong, okay, just wrong.And it didn't just stop and I mean
(25:32):
Rod Stewart Tonight's tonight. You know, relax my virgin child. If you
watch the video, she's like sixteenyears old. Oh, just let your
inhibition runs wild. Jerry Lee Lewishas a song about dorking his cousin which
he really did. Money for Nothingby Dire Straits says the faggot word about
(25:55):
fifteen times. That little fagot isa millionaire. They even they did not
include it on their Greatest Hits album, And yet it's the MTV song I
Want My umtvs. Oh My God, illegal Immigrant or alien by Phil Collins's
(26:17):
band There or whatever it was called, Oh my God, brown Sugar.
Ah. The Rolling Stones have evenchanged the lyrics now when they're out on
tour because the lyrics to brown Sugar, Oh my God just about as racistness
could be. I just heard asong from the fifties about the loose woman
in town. She's the no nowoman men go oh. So there are
(26:45):
so many pop songs out there thatwhen you listen to them now, even
just ten or fifteen years later,you cringe. You think, oh my
god, this could not be releasedtoday. This is just horrible, and
it's not wokeness. It's that thesesongs were really bad. You know,
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half of Billy Holiday's catalog is abouta man beating her. Half the song
she sings, ain't nobody's business.If I go to church on Sunday and
then cabba ray on Monday, ain'tnobody's business if I do. If my
man ain't got no money, andI say, take all mine, honey,
Ain't nobody's business if I do.And then the song she says,
(27:30):
if he hits me, and thenI still forgive him, it's my business.
I know, I won't call noCoppa if I'm beat up by my
papa, ain't nobody's But that's aclassic jazz era song. I won't call
no copper if I'm beat up bymy papa. Oh my god in heaven.
(27:52):
So I know that. You knowthat there are cringeworthy songs when you
hear them now you're like, oh, how do I ever liked this song?
You know? So down below inthe comments here on YouTube, I'd
love to hear your cringe worthy song. A song when you hear it,
you just think, oh, dearGod, I should take this out of
(28:14):
my music library because this is justbad. I mean when I heard Come
to the Supermarket and Old Peaking byBarbara, I thought, I can't leave
this in my library. We've gotthere's Asian jokes in their Turning Japanese,
which is really a song about masturbation. It is, that's what it's about.
I think I'm turning japan nice becauseyour eyes squint when you masturbate allegedly,
um, but still a group ofwhite guys, I think I'm turning
(28:38):
Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so. Now no,
no, just just no. Sowhat songs are cringe worthy to you
nowadays? What pop songs do youwonder? How did they ever get away
with this? I am Correll bewho you want to be? Song to
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