June 30, 2026 • 59 mins
America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis: Even $100K Isn’t Enough Anymore
The math of America no longer works — not even for people making six figures.
A new New York Times survey confirms what I’ve been saying for a long time: Americans are being crushed by rising prices, stagnant pay, grocery bills, housing costs, and the daily stress of simply trying to survive. If people making over $100,000 are feeling squeezed, what does that mean for everyone making less?
According to the survey, Americans say rising prices — not just low wages — are the biggest reason they feel financially trapped. Two-thirds say they are struggling and need immediate relief. The number one pressure point? Groceries. Food costs were named the biggest financial burden by 35% of Americans, far ahead of housing.
So what’s the answer in today’s America? Make more money — or suffer.
On this episode of The Karel Cast, Karel breaks down the brutal math of modern American life, why even the well-off feel poor, and why the cost-of-living crisis is becoming impossible to ignore.
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The math of America no longer works — not even for people making six figures.
A new New York Times survey confirms what I’ve been saying for a long time: Americans are being crushed by rising prices, stagnant pay, grocery bills, housing costs, and the daily stress of simply trying to survive. If people making over $100,000 are feeling squeezed, what does that mean for everyone making less?
According to the survey, Americans say rising prices — not just low wages — are the biggest reason they feel financially trapped. Two-thirds say they are struggling and need immediate relief. The number one pressure point? Groceries. Food costs were named the biggest financial burden by 35% of Americans, far ahead of housing.
So what’s the answer in today’s America? Make more money — or suffer.
On this episode of The Karel Cast, Karel breaks down the brutal math of modern American life, why even the well-off feel poor, and why the cost-of-living crisis is becoming impossible to ignore.
Support The Karel Cast at patreon.com/reallykarel
Watch, like, and subscribe at youtube.com/reallykarel
The Karel Cast streams Monday through Thursday at 10:30 AM Pacific and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Spreaker, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
Karel is a history-making broadcaster and entertainer based in Las Vegas with his service dog, Ember.
#CostOfLiving, #Inflation, #GroceryPrices, #MiddleClass, #AmericanEconomy, #EconomicCrisis, #SixFigures, #MoneyProblems, #WorkingAmericans, #FoodPrices, #HousingCosts, #PaycheckToPaycheck, #PersonalFinance, #EconomyNews, #NYTimes, #AmericanDream, #FinancialStress, #Wages, #RisingPrices, #KarelCast, #TheKarelShow, #ProgressiveTalk, #CurrentEvents, #PoliticalCommentary, #LasVegasPodcast, #PodcastLife, #YouTubePodcast, #IncomeInequality, #MiddleClassCrisis, #America2026
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
The Supreme Court fits on trans people this morning for
no reason whatsoever. Birthright citizenship? How did it fair? And
you can't afford America? And the New York Times was
finally caught on. We're want to talk about all of
this today on the Corral Show. No, it is the
Carel Show. I am carrel self, very glad you are
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joining me. Uh, sorry to be a little bit late,
but that's how life is all because of this really,
this right here, this little mouse which decided not to work,
and I fought and fought it and couldn't get into work.
But that's life. So the Supreme Court this morning, in
its infinite wisdom, which it has none, where there should
be turn limits, there should be people that are impeached.
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And of course the I want to call him a
race trader, but he is Clarence Thomas doing his usual
race trading, trading or whatever you call it, turning against
his own people this morning. And I have to tell
you as we start the show. I'd like to be
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jovial and happy and you know all of that, but
I am more than a little pissed off this morning, actually,
And I try to keep it light and try to
keep it you know, and not do a rant every
single day. But the ruling about trans people, How is
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it that for two thousand and twenty six years we've
had no problem with trans people where they pee, where
they pooh, what sports they play? None, zero, no problem,
no hoopla, no ruckus. Now under Donald Trump, suddenly it's
more important than climate change. It's more important than housing,
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than affordability, It's more important than almost anything on their
political agenda, to pick on one tenth of one percent
of the population, to single them out, to make them
feel badly, all because some male to female transgendered individuals
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want to play sports. If you don't like that, then
you shouldn't compete. If you are a woman and you
don't like that trans women can compete in your sport,
then drop the fuck out. It's not your god given
right to compete in sports. Dear God, what have we become?
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What have we become? A laughingstock? That's what we've become.
If you're a woman, and you don't like that male
to female dancers compete in your dance competition, then drop
the fuck out. In Florida, they are literally suing. They
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are suing a dance competition because a male to female
transgendered person was allowed to compete in the competition in
the female category. Someone, some lawyer somewhere has so much
time on their hands, leave trans people alone. They don't
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harm you in any way, shape or form, and ninety
nine point nine percent of you are not dancing or
competing against them. Leave them alone. No, Nope. The highest
legislative body in the land had to weigh in today
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on whether female to male transgendered or male to female
transgendered should be able to compete in sports. That's disgusting.
It's just disgusting, you know, it's disgusting. And meanwhile, while
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that one gets all the headlines, the even bigger egregious things,
the Supreme Court today said fuck you, and I let's
let billionaires and corporations elect our officials because they removed
campaign finance restrictions. JD vanced brought it all the way
to the Supreme Court. Now the party itself, the DNC
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or the RNC can spend as much as they want to,
and candidates can spend as much as they want to,
which just means the candidate with the most money now wins.
That's not a fair system. That's not what the founders
had intended. God, these magam fucking morons, they're so quick.
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Oh the founders were Christians. No they weren't. Oh the
founder they think they know about the Founders. And then
a ruling like today comes along that the Founders would
denounce and decry, and they're fine with it. They're good
with it. Do you know what the founders would have
thought of our obsession with transgendered people in politics and
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in law. They would have been appalled that we would
even legislate such a government was never meant for that.
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Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know, I probably shouldn't do shows when I'm angry.
I really shouldn't. They're not good, and I'm angry today.
I'm mad at so many things today. I can't even
I don't even know what to do. I mean, I'm
mad just from a personal standpoint about a lot of
things going on in my personal life. And I am
mad at the country. I'm mad at MAGA. Yes by
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the way, I set up Make Merchandise Great Again yesterday
and I even put two T shirts up there, and
I started a truth Social account. Oh my god, oh
my god, what a buggy piece of shit platform that is.
Oh my god. It crashes half the time, you can't
upload photos half the time. It is a piece of
(07:03):
shit software program True Social, It is the worst. And
just just creating an account and posting stuff on there
and reading what I was reading, I've never wanted a
group of people to be wiped off the planet more
and I shouldn't feel that way. But what a plague
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and cancer they are. And they're so stupid. They're so stupid,
I can't They're just so irredeemably stupid that it just
angers me that they even have a voice because they're
so stupid. They'll applaud today's decisions. None of today's decisions
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were good. And you'll say, well, the birthright citizenship decision
was good. The Supreme Court had no business with that
on their docket. They should have refused the case. That
is in the constitution. If you want to change that
motherfucking law, you've got to convene Congress, do a constitutional convention.
You've got to change the constitution. You can't have some
out of control, orange demented dictator with a pen think
(08:13):
he can just controvert the Constitution, the thing he was
sworn to protect and serve. So they should have never
even ruled on birthright citizenship. It's in the mother fucking constitution.
You want it changed, change that. So I'm mad at that,
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you know, I'm mad at that we are giving you know,
my mind, there's so much racing in my mind right now,
so much, you know, from little problems like my HLA.
My property is going to shit. There's a car port
that fell down in the wind. Another one. It took
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them eight weeks to fix the last one. Now there's
another one. The waterfall at the front pool is not
working for eight weeks. Now, eight weeks they've had to
fix it. Not working sprinklers all around the property. The
hoses are coming out of the ground. The sprinklers are broken,
not fixing them, pine needles everywhere. Don't have a daily
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gardener anymore. They are fucking with my investment, my money,
all I have in the world. Last night, I had
a nightmare, and this goes into the New York Times
story that I wanted to talk about today. Last night
I had a nightmare that Social Security stopped and that
sag Aftra didn't have the money to pay pensions because
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AI replaced so many actors and craftsmens that no one
paid into sag Afterra and there wasn't enough money to
fund the pension. And I was left with nothing, no income,
no Social Security and no sag after pension. That is
not a far fetch, which means that all I have
left in the world is this house. And if the
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HOA makes it so, we can't get funding. And that's
what this is about. August third, Donald Trump certainly couldn't
sign the housing bill that he had in front of him,
could he. But they allowed another law to go through
that says, if your HOA doesn't have fifteen percent reserves,
if it's got too much pending maintenance. Hello, or if
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there's too many lawsuits, you can't get Fanny may or
Freddie mac funding, which means the only way you could
sell your house or your condo is to a private
investor with cash who is not going to pay full
price for it. It is a grab to let the
wealthy investors buy up condos, and it's happening across the land.
(10:52):
Up to fifty percent of condos will not meet the
new rules. Someone will buy them. Yeah, rich fucks investment
firms and they'll buy him for pennies on the dollar,
and then my investment is shot out the window. Steve
got mad because he said, well, you shouldn't be so
upset about that, And I said, you don't have two
(11:14):
hundred thousand dollars invested in something you don't understand. And oh,
he got so mad about me for that. And I
didn't mean it as an insult. I just meant, this
is my life savings they are messing with and yours. Meanwhile,
he called the housing bill a big yawn. Oh I
don't need to sign it. It's a big yawn. God,
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I have never wanted a president to drop dead more
than him ever. Ever. Why couldn't he have been sitting
next to Charlie Kirk. I mean, truly, I have never
wanted a president to drop dead more in my life.
And I hated Bush and I hated Reagan, but I
didn't want them to keel over. I want him to
clutch his chest and drop, but only the good guy.
(12:02):
And see, I shouldn't do shows that I'm angry because
I say stuff like that. And I shouldn't say stuff
like that in today's world. Plus, I shouldn't feel that way.
I should not feel like I really want someone to
die of a stroke or a heart attack. I shouldn't
no matter who they are or how despicable they are,
I just shouldn't feel that I want them to drop dead.
(12:22):
And yet millions of Americans keep waiting to wake up
and see that he's gone millions. I am not alone
in that thought. I see it online all the time,
people commenting, God, I wake up every day hoping, you know,
every And I'm not alone? And when are we going
to stop phrasing?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
This?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Supreme Court hands Trump a victory. Supreme Court deals blow
to Donald Trump. When did Donald Trump become the only
American that counts? When did that happen because the Supreme
Court is supposed to be there to protect us, we
the people. Donald Trump does not pay their salaries. We do.
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And everything that lands before them directly affects we the people.
It has no fucking bearing on Donald Trump. And yet
it's always phrased that way. Donald Trump scores victory, Donald
Trump scores loss. No American people score victory or American
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people lose. And today Americans, actual Americans, who have done
nothing to their government at all. They have put legalized
discrimination into the law against Americans just because they're different,
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just because they have a medical condition that made them
be born in the wrong body. And when they correct
that medical condition, that gender dysmorphia, they then are faced
with hatred and discrimination codified into law. What a fucking disgrace.
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That is just a disgrace. So you know, there we
have it. Trump is the only one that matters. He wins,
he loses. Not about us anymore. It's about them, the
power players. Do they win. Congress wins this, Mike Johnson
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wins that where are we in all of this? Lost?
Irredeemably lost. You know, yesterday I saw a news story
that South Korea wants to lead the way an AI investment,
and they're going to invest eight hundred and fifty six
billion dollars, nearly a trillion dollars in building chips for
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AI chips, And I I thought to myself, do you
hear yourself? You're going to spend almost a trillion dollars
on artificial intelligence, artificial not living intelligence. But how much
money are you investing in your people? I'm scared to
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death that social security is going to go away and
I will be left old and penniless, as are millions.
Who's investing in social security? Who's investing in a decent
retirement for our old people? For government programs to help
people that don't have huge retirement funds retire with some
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sort of grace and dignity we could afford it. Who's investing?
South Korea is investing more in AI than they are
in their people, and so is the United States. In
the West. We have a fucking water shortage in the West,
and where are they building data centers Colorado, Nevada, California,
places with no fucking water. They're investing more into AI
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than they are into humans. Humans are only now here
to serve the AI, and they want to say, we
shouldn't worry about it taking our jobs. It's taking our life.
It's taking our water, that is our life's blood. Fuck
your job, it's taking your water. We are all going
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to be slaves, creating chips for the big ai and
who owns them billionaires, and we don't even see it.
Now I understand in all these future movies, why they have,
you know, rogue rebels that go around blowing up data
centers and such. I see why now in all these movies.
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I used to think, why are they so afraid of
damn technology? Why would they want to go blow up
data centers? Why are that? You know? I'll see these
movies and I used to think, oh please, And now
I totally get it. Humanity is literally creating the tools
to wipe half of us out or more. Half of
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us will be useless, We will be redundant, We will
have nothing productive to do and no salaries. What are
we going to do with hundreds of millions of people
that aren't making any money? Let them die? Yes, that's
what billionaires want. Billionaires want their nine hundred people, the
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nine hundred billionaires or even millionaires so they want. However
many millionaires there are in the world. I would imagine
there's twenty thirty forty million of them. We could ask
Alexa how many millionaires are in the world. Twenty five million,
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So twenty five million millionaires worldwide. That's it. That's it.
And yet everything now is geared to them. You cannot
buy a property unless you're a millionaire in San Francisco.
So San Francisco's properties are for the twenty five million
people that can afford it. And those twenty five million people,
the millionaires and billionaires, they want the rest of us gone.
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We're a drain on their money. They want just enough
of us left to serve them, and then that's it.
They don't need anybody else. The twenty five million millionaires
just need enough people to make them comfortable. That's it.
That's all they need. They have enough money. They don't
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ever have to make another dollar, so they don't need
us to buy more of their products. Elon Musk could
stop selling everything to just He could just stop everything
today and have enough money to live for ten thousand years.
They don't need us, so they're making us obsolete. They're
starving us. They're letting us die if we're old. They're
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letting our planet be destroyed because they're enclaves won't be destroyed.
It's happening right in front of us, and nobody cares.
No one cares, And if you do care, there's nothing
you can do. You know, this morning, I told a friend,
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I used to wonder why people moved out into some
rural area, started a little farm and just lived off
the grid. I used to think they were insane. Now
I don't think they're insane. We are literally headed to
a complete global realignment, and you and I are not
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in the picture. We're not one of the twenty five
million millionaires. That's it. That's we're not in the picture.
And today the Supreme Court proved that they proved it.
Let the wealthy determine elections, release any kind of restrictions
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on campaign finance. We should be going the other way.
We should be removing all corporate money from campaigns and
make all campaigns publicly funded, period, No outside money in politics.
That's just that's how we should be. Instead, we just
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went the exact opposite. Let all the outside money in
politics flow in and let them spend as much as
they want to win their elections. Wow, just wow, Yeah,
open the bay door. Hell open and people all you
(20:57):
know that this too shall pass? Will it?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Will it?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I'm gonna tell you why that's an untrue statement. Always
go back already, do what's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Oh now it's show side.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Wow. In Seam Valley, a tesla went out of control
and killed a woman sitting on a patio having a
coffee at the Urbane Cafe. Isn't that something? My friend
Steve just sent it to me and said, this is
why when you want to go somewhere and sit outside,
I never want to sit outside because you could be
strung by a rogue tesla. Yeah, that's the truth. So
(22:03):
let me tell you why someone just said and this
too shall pass. Let me tell you why that's not true. Okay,
did the Confederacy pass eighteen sixty one, almost two hundred
years ago? All right, it's basically one hundred and seventy
years ago, the Civil War? Did it end? Did it pass?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
The Confederacy is maga, period and a story. The Confederacy
is maga. That's what they are. That's where that movement
came from. That's their Red States, just like the Confederacy
was Red states. They believe exactly what the Confederacy believed
they have the same morals or lack of morals and
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values than the Confederacy. They're white supremacist, religious zealots, racist homophobes.
It's what maga is the Confederacy. It didn't pass. When
is that going to pass? When is the South going
to finally want to unify with the North and start
accomplishing things like solving climate change, getting high speed rail
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throughout the country. When is that going to happen? It's not.
In Europe, did the Nazi movement pass? No, they still
have it. It's still there and that their extreme right
raises its head all the time in the UK, in
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Germany and France, Nazis just morphed into something else. They
didn't change, they didn't pass, they didn't go away. In
the United States, I am sixty three mother fucking years
old and look fabulous. But phobia pass. Homophobia has been
around sent the church. That's what started it. By the way,
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there were no homophobes before organized religion. No one even cared, okay,
But then organized religion happened. Suddenly the patriarchy cared. Has
it passed? How many generations of gay people have been
told and this shall pass? And then today. In twenty
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twenty six, the Supreme Court outlaws trans people from sports.
So you explained to me when exactly the homophobia is
going to pass, When the transphobia is going to pass?
Explain it to me. I'd love to see your comments
down below. When is far right extremism based in white
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supremacy and a warped sense of religion going to pass?
When is that going to be over? Because it hasn't
been since Oh, I don't know Roman times, you know,
So when when is it going to pass? They wonder
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why the birth rates are down. It's because parents know
that this is no world anymore to bring a child into,
and it isn't. I wouldn't have a child. I think
humans should die out. I know you're like, well, I
really believe as a species we should die out because
we're getting it all wrong, and we're bringing that about.
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By the way, we don't have to stop having children.
We're dying out. We're not concentrating on food security, water security,
climate security, financial security, taking care of our elderly, taking
care of our young. We are not focusing on ourselves.
We are not investing in ourselves. What are we investing in?
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Artificial intelligence? Why aren't we investing on making humans more intelligent?
On human intelligence? Why aren't we better funding schools. Why
aren't we re educating adults like Maga to actually show
them how very wrong they are. Why aren't we investing
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in human intelligence? We're not. We're investing in artificial intelligence.
What's the number one source of research? Artificial humans? Robots?
We're not investing in humanity. We're not investing in each other.
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We're not investing in eighty year olds, seventy year olds,
ninety year olds and giving them a good life for
the rest of their life because they fucking earned it. Nope,
we're not investing in peace. We are investing in war.
They are at war in the Ukraine. There is still
(26:54):
a war in Iran. Iran is the negotiators are not
at the table today. They're over there. Jared Kushner's over there,
and Delhar sitting at a table with his stumb up
his ass and he likes it too. You know, there's
no Iranian representative at these talks. We're still at war
with Iran because we lost the war with Iran. They won.
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They get determined when it's over, not us. They're the winners.
We're not investing in peace, we're not investing in humanity.
We're not investing in the environment, we're not investing in education,
we're not taking pride in human intelligence. We're giving all
of our functions over to devices and phones and everything else.
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You know what, I am a human Google, I'm smart.
I am smarter than most humans, and we're not investing
in making more of me. In fact, we're doing just
the opposite. We're investing in dumbing people down, in creating
an artificial intelligence because humans no longer have intelligence. Did
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you ever wonder why we're so obsessed with creating something
smarter than us, because we know how stupid we've become.
And so today all I see is strife ahead. If
you're not a millionaire, if you're not one of the
twenty five million millionaires in the world, the road ahead
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is going to be help yours, mine all of ours food.
So the story I wanted to talk to you about
today comes out of the La Times, and it's about
food and about how and you know, just general expenses
and how The New York Times did a did their
own research about the math of America, because you know,
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I always talk about the math of America and how
it's not mathing, and you think it's mathing for the
people who are wealthier than you, it's not. I'm gonna
come back. I'm gonna share that story from the New
York Times and how people making one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year are still not making one hundred
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and fifty pay years and they still are Wow.
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Speaker 4 (30:19):
All right, so we're going to share this New York
Times story. Don't forget. If you have a family member
that's maga, go buy them a T shirt at Make
Merchandise Great Again dot com. Every T shirt sold goes
to help fund a liberal leaving the United States. That
liberal is me. I said that in the park today
to friends that are maga. They went and bought T shirts.
I'm not making that up. I said, I started a website,
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Make Merchants, Make Merchandise Great Again. Oh great name, I said, yeah,
for every T shirt I sell, it helps fund a
liberal leaving America. Oh I'm all for that. I said,
we'll go buy a T shirt. So they did right
there on their phone. When I had to create the
graphics yesterday, I literally almost threw up in my mouth.
I did one of Donald Trump holding the world on
his shoulders with a cape that's an American flag and
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it says He's got this. And then the T shirt
that I made that really made me puke. I had
the founding fathers handing Donald Trump the Declaration of Independence
and it says America two fifty democracy or democracy in
great hands. Oh my god. I wanted to throw up.
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But that's a T shirt up there as well. So
go get your MAGA T shirts for your MAGA friends
at Make America or Make Merchandise Great Again dot com
because every dollar sold helps a liberal leave America, and
that liberal is me, all right. So the New York Times,
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which is finally catching on by the way, they have
traced the anti trans rhetoric in this country directly to
the New York Times. The New York Times has been
the champion of antiq trans rhetoric. They have been such
an amplifier. Fuck the New York Times, but here's an
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article out from them. From a distance, the American economy
might appear to be performing well. From a distance, growth
is solid, unemployment remains that low. Stock markets have posted
large gains. But these numbers master the reality that most
Americans see know shit. We dug into the data, conducted surveys,
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and talk to people around the country. Our research shows
that even relatively well off families are struggling despite the
tax cuts and wage gains that the Trump administration touts.
President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long term
solutions or offering short term relief. If they paid attention
to different indicators of Americans' financial health, beyond top line
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growth and other traditional measures of economic success, they might
feel more urgency. So we developed one a model budget
for a family of two parents and two children. We
set their annual income at one hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
well above the eighty three thousand national median for all
US households. That's it, eighty three thousand a year. That's
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the median income that's sixty five hundred a month before taxes,
So that's really about forty five hundred dollars a month
with rents that are in upwards of twenty five hundred anyway, um,
well above the eighty three five national median for all
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US households and right in the middle of the income
distribution for a family of four. According to our calculations,
the math has stopped adding up. The math of America
doesn't add up that I've been saying that for decades
on my show. For over the past eighteen months Trump's regime,
they had a small cushion in twenty twenty four. Now
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they are in the red. After covering just the basics
such as houses, health care plan, and daycare, the family
has over one thousand dollars less than it did a
year ago. Rising costs have wiped out any gains from
higher wages or tax cuts. The family would have trouble
paying for anything beyond the basics a car breaking down,
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a kid breaking an arm. It could not budget for
any of these things that typically a family might hope
for buying a new car, taking a summer vacation, or
even welcoming another child. To mount an effective response, it
helps to know what stresses Americans feel most sharply and
what action they expect from their elected officials. So we asked.
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By almost four to one, Americans told us that rising prices,
rather than paychecks that haven't kept up, are driving a
cost of living squeeze. Two thirds say they are struggling
today and need relief they can feel right away. This
is two thirds of people making one hundred and thirty
thousand or more. By the way, okay, the most cited
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concern grocery costs. Grocery costs. Some thirty five percent of
Americans identified food as the single biggest sort of financial pressure. Foo.
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So a majority of people making over one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars say food food is their single biggest
source of financial pressure, followed number two housing costs, Housing
cost number one, and number two food and housing. Respondents
split almost every among three worries prices that are too high,
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prices that change unexpectedly, and the feeling of getting less
value for the money from products and services because of shrinkflation,
hidden fees, and declining quality. Older Americans are most likely
to focus on sticker shock. Working parents were far more
likely to point to the volatility, the inability to predict
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what a week's groceries will cost from one month to
the next because it changes constantly, and political independence were
especially likely to say that they feel ripped off by
the American economy are economic indicators. The Model family budget
and americans reported experiences suggest that the cost of essentials
has become a political and economic emergency for the nation's
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elected officials. Americans want them to address the root causes
driving up prices and even or to deliver timely relief.
Ideally do both. Research shows where they can start with
the goods that Americans say they have the most trouble
of fording. More than half of the people's surveyed that
make one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year or
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more more than half named meat as their top source
of grossery stress. Well, I could care less about that
six times the share who named the next most chosen
source coffee, tea and other beverages and their right. Do
you know how much I spend every three months on tea?
You guys are gonna faint. Take a guess in the
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chat room. I'll tell you at the end of this story.
How much do you guys think I spend with Harny
and Son's tea every three months? Every three months, Harny
and Son's Tea. How much do you guys think I spend?
Because you know I have tea twice a day, very religiously.
The price of beef helone has risen. Fine let it.
That means that the family buying two pounds of ground
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beef a week paying ten dollars more. Who cares? Don't
buy it? The reasons are complex. Drought has led to
the smallest US cattle herd in decades. Bravo. The meat
packing industry is so concentrated that it has squeezed ranchers
and undermined incentives and to rebuild the herd, good let
it collapse. Last year's tariffs made beef even more expensive, good,
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tax it more, and a parasite is threatening the herd
across America. Fabulous, let them all pass away. Lowering beef
prices and keeping them low requires rebuilding the herd, increasing
competition and meat packing, and strengthening biosecurity. Government is doing
nothing on any of those long term goals. I'm fine
with that. By the way, let it collapse. Even if
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it were, it could take years for beef prices to
go down, and research suggested the public is not wont
to wait. Federal and state elected leaders have a few
responsible ways to deliver a red immediate help on groceries.
Mister Trump should repeal tariffs that serve no strategic purpose
that put sales tax on groceries should remove them. The
ones that tax toothpaste, toilet paper, and diapers should also stop.
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In some cases, companies, particularly those in highly concentrated industries,
have used subtle methods to keep prices higher than the
economic fundamentals demand elected because they're making billions of dollars.
So elected officials at the federal estate level should curb
shri inflation, pricing schemes and digital tricks that confuse and
fleece the consumer. They won't because the rich control the government.
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They also need to require labeling that allows families to
make apples to apples price comparisons, and put companies on
the spot for bait and switch marketing. They will. Most
of all, the country needs selected leaders to demand rigorous,
reliable data on basic questions. After paying the bills, are
families getting ahead or falling behind? Which cost are creating
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the most stressed? When families try to balance their budgets,
They say at the kitchen tables? Does anybody balance their
budgets the kitchen table anymore? All of you do it
at the computer. All of you. Leaders would then make
better decisions about what Americas would make lives easier. Now
you should read the comments, Oh girl, the comments. This year,
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I have seen companies I've wholeheartedly supported for decades because
they valued the good will of their customers just turned
into things I refuse to do business with. Between Social
Security and my decalled Georgia pension, I make one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year, wow, three dependents. The
county rarely and singly grants cost of living increases. I
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was department head. How are ordinary county retirees, faring, secretary's clerks,
police and fire people. They're not They're falling into poverty
and they and this person is blaming Joe Biden for
it all thanks to old Joe. Oh god, oh, i'd
Trump and his absurd tari. So he says that Trump
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and Biden were the worst presidents. Okay, yep. Nobody complains
about dog food, which is fifty percent higher than when
it was in the pandemic. Yep, yep. Obama fifteen percent inflation,
Trump's first term seven point eight percent, Biden twenty one percent,
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Trump second term six percent. Everybody said under those comments
that those are lies. It's that this person's a Trumper,
and that those numbers are lies. So on and on
and on and on they go. At the start of
the year, I was paying two twenty seven for milk.
Now it's three fifty two, a fifty percent increase in
six months. Whatever happened to I promised to bring prices
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down on day one. It's delusion to believe Trump or
the Republicans give a hoot about ordinary people suffering. They don't.
Corporations exist to make money, and they are making it.
They just don't care how yep. So let me ask.
If the New York Time says that one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars a year income people aren't making it,
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how are you, guys making it? Be honest with me,
how are you making it? How are you paying your
mortgage or your rent out of one third of your
budget and then another one third for discustionary spending in food,
and then one third for savings? How are you doing it?
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I'll tell you first how you're doing it. By the numbers,
You're not saving. According to a recent survey, only people
making two hundred thousand dollars a year or more are
putting any money into savings at all. I have none.
I have no savings. I have eight hundred dollars in
a savings account. That's it. That's what I have. Now.
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David Pacman and Stephanie Miller won't tell you that because
they have millions. I don't. I have eight hundred dollars.
I am trapped in a condo with an hoa that
I hate because I don't even have thirty thousand dollars
in savings that I could take and move to another
city and then sell my condo. I should have thirty
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thousand dollars in the bank that I could use for this.
I should, but I don't. How are you making it?
I'd love to hear from you in the comments, because
this article says one hundred and thirty thousand, you're not
making it. And if you have an emergency like my car,
which they called me about and said it's going to
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be ready tomorrow, another eight hundred dollars that I don't have,
it will go on the credit card with the same
twenty three hundred from the other repair. I can't afford
a car. I can't. I really can't. And that's what
this article points out. Most of us can't afford anything
other than food and housing. And that's it. There's no
money for savings. There's no money for emergencies, there's no
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money for vacations. There's no money for life. There is
a only money to pay your cell phone bill, to
pay your housing bill, to eat, and that's it. That's it.
There's no money for life, for vacations, for hobbies. Remember
when you had hobbies. Remember when you could go spend
one thousand dollars on your hobby. If you were a
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photographer or a musician or whatever, your hobby was if
you liked vintage cars. How many of you have a
hobby now that costs money? A lot of you might
have hobbies that don't cost money. You know, you paint
or something, but even that oil paints shop through the
roof because they're made of oil. How many of you
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even have a hobby anymore? How are you making it?
Are you cutting back? Are you cutting back? In the
chat room, they're saying they're not making it? You know
they're not making it. Meanwhile, Peter Tile is building a
bunker in South America and New Zealand. You know, how
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are you making it? How many of you? How much
do you guys think I spend on tea? How much?
How much? How much do you think I spend on tea?
Come on? Someone in the chat room. I'm waiting, I'm waiting,
(45:30):
come on, I'll come come on. I'm just waiting to
see if any of you can guess how much I
spend on tea every three months. And it didn't used
to be that much, but it used to be half
that price. How much? How much? Everybody? Come on, let's see. No,
(45:58):
you're all wrong. I spend two hundred and fifty dollars
on six pounds of tea, six pounds of tea, six
bags of one pound each loose leaf tea, six bags
one pound each loose leaf tea two hundred and fifty dollars.
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It is about forty three dollars a pound for tea
forty three dollars a pound four t forty three. You
think coffee is expensive forty three dollars a pound for
tea forty three dollars. And yeah, now I could do
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without it, but life is too short to not have tea.
I could buy less, but I like to for I
have English breakfast, Irish breakfast, a psalm chocolate, mint chocolate chai,
and royal wedding. Oh and then decaf. I have a
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DCAF so seventies, so seven seventies, two hundred and fifty dollars,
So it's about thirty five dollars a pound from that's
from the brother Harney, Harney and Sons tea the best
tea in the United States, Harney and Sons. And that's
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you know how much did you guess? One hundred and
fifty dollars? Oh? Please? And I wish it used to
be that much. I used to spend about one twenty
five every three months on the same seven bags of tea.
It's double. It's gone from one twenty five to two fifty.
I have tea every morning at six am and every
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afternoon at three pm because I'm not some pagan and
I oh, I have an herbal at night, but the
herbal doesn't count. I buy it cheap on Amazon. It's
like twelve dollars for a huge bag of camameal and
ginger chema meial ginger tea, but real tea, Irish breakfast,
English breakfast, a psalm, chocolate, mint, chocolate, chai, Birthday or
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what is it? Paris herbal. It's called It's lovely. Oh
my god, it's so good. It's decaffeinated tea. It's got vanilla.
It's rubios. Oh my god, it's so good. It's not tea,
it's rubios and it's so good. So sevent tees two
hundred and fifty bucks every three months from Harni and
Sun's Tea. What am I supposed to do not have tea?
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I figure if I'm going down in flames in the future,
I might as well go there with a kappa in
my hand, right, So I hear you, I hear you
in the chat room. You know, I wonder if I'm
I wonder if I'm not as popular as Stephanie Miller
or David Packman because I actually talk about this stuff.
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You never hear Stephanie Miller talking about how the listeners
aren't making it. They like to be humorous and fun
and just complain about the politicians all the time because
she's wealthy, and almost everyone around her table is wealthy,
and I don't slide them for that. I'm totally jealous
of that. And maybe my show would be different if
I didn't have money problems. Maybe I would talk about
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broader issues and more political and more of this and that.
If I didn't have the same money problems that you're having,
I would rent a place somewhere. But if you go
with one third of my income as rent, I can
only afford fifteen hundred dollars a month rent, and there's
no place to rent for that, not a two bedroom.
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And I've got to have a studio, so I can't
go rent something for fifteen hundred dollars a month, a
two bedroom. So maybe if I didn't have money troubles,
the show would be different. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. No, Rachel add one hundred to that. Yes,
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the T shirts are total Maga. I told you guys,
I started a Maga merchandise website. Make merchandise great again.
It's not for you enough, it's for Maga. I figured
if they're gonna hate me, I might have to let
them pay for me to leave the country. So the
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T shirt for not for us. If you want me
to do T shirts for us, I will add a
different website that's for Maga. So if you have Maga.
Speaker 8 (51:03):
Now it's shoes side.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Do not sell out? What do you mean? Do not
sell out? If I can make money off of making
things that I hate, why not. I'm not making any
money as a liberal. I'm not making any money as
a progressive. So if I can create merchandise for these
morons and they'll buy it, I'm sorry. Does it disgust
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me to have to type these things? Yes? Did I
want to throw up in my mouth when I did
those graphics yesterday? I sure did. But if it helps
me raise the money to leave the country. Because we
are in a death situation here, people, what would you
do to save your life? I am trying to save
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my life I have got to generate more income. I
have had T shirts for sale for the Correl Show
for years. I haven't sold.
Speaker 8 (52:10):
One, not one.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
I've already sold four Maga shirts the last five years.
You guys haven't bought one Correl T shirt that I've
had for sale. The link has been on my website
for four years for Correl T shirts haven't sold any
I just put that website up yesterday. Sold for Am
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I selling out?
Speaker 5 (52:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (52:35):
I'm finding a way to make a profit off of
the idiots because I want to go. I want to
get out, and I want to get out comfortably. I
don't want to get out and be in poverty. And
if I can let their money propel me out of
this country to save my life, I will. And if
that bothers some of y'all, oh well, Now, I did
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it as a joke and I am not going to
manage it every day. I am not going to turn
it into a big thing. It probably won't make any money. Okay,
really it probably won't because I can't log on too
true social and promote it. I can't. It just turns
my stomach. I can't do it. But if I could
find someone that could stomach it. I can come up
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with the designs because I just think of the most
outrageous thing and then I make it a design because
these people are just out of their minds crazy.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (53:32):
My friend, yeah, fight fire with fire. My friend Sean
said this to me once, and I'll never forget it.
We were driving down Broadway in Long Beach and there
was this black guy walking the street and he was
handsome as hell, but crazy as a motherfucker. I mean,
he was out there crazy, but he was cute as hell.
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And Sean looked at him and goes, oh, I'd do him.
And I said, Sean, he's out of his mind. And
he said, crazy people need to have sex too, and
I thought, oh my god. Now he was only joking partially,
but it's the same thing. If crazy people are buying
T shirts, then let them buy them from me. I
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used to work for Dave Garafalo in Huntington Beach, the
leader of the Huntington Beach local news. He later got
arrested and went to jail for all of his horrible crimes,
and I was one of the key witnesses against him.
But every week, every two weeks, I took his twelve
hundred dollars to do a newspaper that I hated. The
newspaper was filled with editorials by Dana Roorbacher and all
(54:38):
these right wing, horrible people, and I had to typeset
it and make it look great. But every month I
got twenty four hundred dollars from him, and that paid
my rent. Now, there did come a point where I
finally just said enough, I can't deal with you anymore.
Come and get your art boards. I just can't deal
with you. But for several years I took his money
and hated him. But I said, if that publican's gonna
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give anybody money to do that paper, it might as
well be me. And I say the same thing about MAGA.
If they're gonna spend money on stupid T shirts, they
might as well be putting that money in my pocket.
Now again, unless one of you want to run the
website for me and do all the marketing, I'm not
gonna put any effort into it. It was a joke.
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I just thought yesterday afternoon, I thought, I wonder if
I could really do this, And then I did it,
and set up a Shopify store and a Printify account
and a true social account Instagram account. Make merchandise great again.
But I'm not going to do what it takes to
get followers and get sales and all that. And I'm
not going to go to events with T shirts and things.
I'm not. I'm just I'm not gonna do that. But
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if somebody out there wants to split the revenue with
me and do it, hey, I'm up for it. Oh exhale, exhale.
Oh bumper stickers. You're right, I should be doing the
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problem is getting them in front of MAGA. I started
a true Social account, I have zero followers, so it's
not going to push my content out there. I need
someone to log in as me on True Social and
start posting under other people's things with these photos and
with these links and all of that. But oh well,
oh well, but if you have any MAGA relatives, you
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can go buy them. Make merchandise great again? All right.
I didn't want to have an angry show today. I
love you all, and that's why I get so mad.
I know most of you don't make one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year, and most people that listen
to talk radio don't make that much money. I know
who the demographic is you know, most people that listen
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to podcasts aren't millionaires. It's not one of the twenty
five you know million people that listen to podcasts. It's
poor people, it's middle class people, it's people struggling. And
that's I'm an mpath and I read that New York
Time story and I go, no shit, New York Times.
You had to do a whole you had to go
research to see whether people making one hundred and thirty
k a year or not can afford their life. I
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could have told you in one sentence, no, they can't.
This is like news to the rich now. It really
is to the people making three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand,
five hundred thousand dollars a year. They're not millionaires, they're
not one of the twenty five million, but they're making
two three four hundred thousand a year. It's news to
them that almost everybody in the country is, you know, suffering,
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because they look around and they see teslas everywhere. People
are in debt for those. The other day at the
food bank, I counted ten teslas in line to get
free food. Ten ten teslas, so ten households felt that
paying the car payment on a tesla was more important
than buying food ten in line to get free food.
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We're not making it, and I'm mad about that. I'm
mad that we're concerned with where trans people shit and
piss and not about the water that goes into the bathroom.
The West is out of water. I want to leave
Vegas mainly because we're out of fucking water. And California
(58:17):
is out of water, Utah, Colorado out of water. No
one doing a thing to get more water to it.
I care. I care because I'm one of you. I
struggle like you, and it sucks. But other times it's
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create when you hug your dog, I am forrelbe who
you want to be. It's on that hurt your buddy.
I love you, I do. That's why I get so
mad at you, because I love you, though, and I
want your lives to be better and easier and more fun.
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The Supreme Court fits on trans people this morning for
no reason whatsoever. Birthright citizenship? How did it fair? And
you can't afford America? And the New York Times was
finally caught on. We're want to talk about all of
this today on the Corral Show. No, it is the
Carel Show. I am carrel self, very glad you are
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joining me. Uh, sorry to be a little bit late,
but that's how life is all because of this really,
this right here, this little mouse which decided not to work,
and I fought and fought it and couldn't get into work.
But that's life. So the Supreme Court this morning, in
its infinite wisdom, which it has none, where there should
be turn limits, there should be people that are impeached.
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And of course the I want to call him a
race trader, but he is Clarence Thomas doing his usual
race trading, trading or whatever you call it, turning against
his own people this morning. And I have to tell
you as we start the show. I'd like to be
(01:33):
jovial and happy and you know all of that, but
I am more than a little pissed off this morning, actually,
And I try to keep it light and try to
keep it you know, and not do a rant every
single day. But the ruling about trans people, How is
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it that for two thousand and twenty six years we've
had no problem with trans people where they pee, where
they pooh, what sports they play? None, zero, no problem,
no hoopla, no ruckus. Now under Donald Trump, suddenly it's
more important than climate change. It's more important than housing,
(02:17):
than affordability, It's more important than almost anything on their
political agenda, to pick on one tenth of one percent
of the population, to single them out, to make them
feel badly, all because some male to female transgendered individuals
(02:39):
want to play sports. If you don't like that, then
you shouldn't compete. If you are a woman and you
don't like that trans women can compete in your sport,
then drop the fuck out. It's not your god given
right to compete in sports. Dear God, what have we become?
(03:05):
What have we become? A laughingstock? That's what we've become.
If you're a woman, and you don't like that male
to female dancers compete in your dance competition, then drop
the fuck out. In Florida, they are literally suing. They
(03:26):
are suing a dance competition because a male to female
transgendered person was allowed to compete in the competition in
the female category. Someone, some lawyer somewhere has so much
time on their hands, leave trans people alone. They don't
(03:46):
harm you in any way, shape or form, and ninety
nine point nine percent of you are not dancing or
competing against them. Leave them alone. No, Nope. The highest
legislative body in the land had to weigh in today
(04:07):
on whether female to male transgendered or male to female
transgendered should be able to compete in sports. That's disgusting.
It's just disgusting, you know, it's disgusting. And meanwhile, while
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that one gets all the headlines, the even bigger egregious things,
the Supreme Court today said fuck you, and I let's
let billionaires and corporations elect our officials because they removed
campaign finance restrictions. JD vanced brought it all the way
to the Supreme Court. Now the party itself, the DNC
(04:52):
or the RNC can spend as much as they want to,
and candidates can spend as much as they want to,
which just means the candidate with the most money now wins.
That's not a fair system. That's not what the founders
had intended. God, these magam fucking morons, they're so quick.
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Oh the founders were Christians. No they weren't. Oh the
founder they think they know about the Founders. And then
a ruling like today comes along that the Founders would
denounce and decry, and they're fine with it. They're good
with it. Do you know what the founders would have
thought of our obsession with transgendered people in politics and
(05:39):
in law. They would have been appalled that we would
even legislate such a government was never meant for that.
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Correll is so near because show time is here.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Correll is the one that you need to know.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know, I probably shouldn't do shows when I'm angry.
I really shouldn't. They're not good, and I'm angry today.
I'm mad at so many things today. I can't even
I don't even know what to do. I mean, I'm
mad just from a personal standpoint about a lot of
things going on in my personal life. And I am
mad at the country. I'm mad at MAGA. Yes by
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the way, I set up Make Merchandise Great Again yesterday
and I even put two T shirts up there, and
I started a truth Social account. Oh my god, oh
my god, what a buggy piece of shit platform that is.
Oh my god. It crashes half the time, you can't
upload photos half the time. It is a piece of
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shit software program True Social, It is the worst. And
just just creating an account and posting stuff on there
and reading what I was reading, I've never wanted a
group of people to be wiped off the planet more
and I shouldn't feel that way. But what a plague
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and cancer they are. And they're so stupid. They're so stupid,
I can't They're just so irredeemably stupid that it just
angers me that they even have a voice because they're
so stupid. They'll applaud today's decisions. None of today's decisions
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were good. And you'll say, well, the birthright citizenship decision
was good. The Supreme Court had no business with that
on their docket. They should have refused the case. That
is in the constitution. If you want to change that
motherfucking law, you've got to convene Congress, do a constitutional convention.
You've got to change the constitution. You can't have some
out of control, orange demented dictator with a pen think
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he can just controvert the Constitution, the thing he was
sworn to protect and serve. So they should have never
even ruled on birthright citizenship. It's in the mother fucking constitution.
You want it changed, change that. So I'm mad at that,
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you know, I'm mad at that we are giving you know,
my mind, there's so much racing in my mind right now,
so much, you know, from little problems like my HLA.
My property is going to shit. There's a car port
that fell down in the wind. Another one. It took
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them eight weeks to fix the last one. Now there's
another one. The waterfall at the front pool is not
working for eight weeks. Now, eight weeks they've had to
fix it. Not working sprinklers all around the property. The
hoses are coming out of the ground. The sprinklers are broken,
not fixing them, pine needles everywhere. Don't have a daily
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gardener anymore. They are fucking with my investment, my money,
all I have in the world. Last night, I had
a nightmare, and this goes into the New York Times
story that I wanted to talk about today. Last night
I had a nightmare that Social Security stopped and that
sag Aftra didn't have the money to pay pensions because
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AI replaced so many actors and craftsmens that no one
paid into sag Afterra and there wasn't enough money to
fund the pension. And I was left with nothing, no income,
no Social Security and no sag after pension. That is
not a far fetch, which means that all I have
left in the world is this house. And if the
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HOA makes it so, we can't get funding. And that's
what this is about. August third, Donald Trump certainly couldn't
sign the housing bill that he had in front of him,
could he. But they allowed another law to go through
that says, if your HOA doesn't have fifteen percent reserves,
if it's got too much pending maintenance. Hello, or if
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there's too many lawsuits, you can't get Fanny may or
Freddie mac funding, which means the only way you could
sell your house or your condo is to a private
investor with cash who is not going to pay full
price for it. It is a grab to let the
wealthy investors buy up condos, and it's happening across the land.
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Up to fifty percent of condos will not meet the
new rules. Someone will buy them. Yeah, rich fucks investment
firms and they'll buy him for pennies on the dollar,
and then my investment is shot out the window. Steve
got mad because he said, well, you shouldn't be so
upset about that, And I said, you don't have two
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hundred thousand dollars invested in something you don't understand. And oh,
he got so mad about me for that. And I
didn't mean it as an insult. I just meant, this
is my life savings they are messing with and yours. Meanwhile,
he called the housing bill a big yawn. Oh I
don't need to sign it. It's a big yawn. God,
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I have never wanted a president to drop dead more
than him ever. Ever. Why couldn't he have been sitting
next to Charlie Kirk. I mean, truly, I have never
wanted a president to drop dead more in my life.
And I hated Bush and I hated Reagan, but I
didn't want them to keel over. I want him to
clutch his chest and drop, but only the good guy.
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And see, I shouldn't do shows that I'm angry because
I say stuff like that. And I shouldn't say stuff
like that in today's world. Plus, I shouldn't feel that way.
I should not feel like I really want someone to
die of a stroke or a heart attack. I shouldn't
no matter who they are or how despicable they are,
I just shouldn't feel that I want them to drop dead.
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And yet millions of Americans keep waiting to wake up
and see that he's gone millions. I am not alone
in that thought. I see it online all the time,
people commenting, God, I wake up every day hoping, you know,
every And I'm not alone? And when are we going
to stop phrasing?
Speaker 8 (12:42):
This?
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Supreme Court hands Trump a victory. Supreme Court deals blow
to Donald Trump. When did Donald Trump become the only
American that counts? When did that happen because the Supreme
Court is supposed to be there to protect us, we
the people. Donald Trump does not pay their salaries. We do.
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And everything that lands before them directly affects we the people.
It has no fucking bearing on Donald Trump. And yet
it's always phrased that way. Donald Trump scores victory, Donald
Trump scores loss. No American people score victory or American
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people lose. And today Americans, actual Americans, who have done
nothing to their government at all. They have put legalized
discrimination into the law against Americans just because they're different,
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just because they have a medical condition that made them
be born in the wrong body. And when they correct
that medical condition, that gender dysmorphia, they then are faced
with hatred and discrimination codified into law. What a fucking disgrace.
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That is just a disgrace. So you know, there we
have it. Trump is the only one that matters. He wins,
he loses. Not about us anymore. It's about them, the
power players. Do they win. Congress wins this, Mike Johnson
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wins that where are we in all of this? Lost?
Irredeemably lost. You know, yesterday I saw a news story
that South Korea wants to lead the way an AI investment,
and they're going to invest eight hundred and fifty six
billion dollars, nearly a trillion dollars in building chips for
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AI chips, And I I thought to myself, do you
hear yourself? You're going to spend almost a trillion dollars
on artificial intelligence, artificial not living intelligence. But how much
money are you investing in your people? I'm scared to
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death that social security is going to go away and
I will be left old and penniless, as are millions.
Who's investing in social security? Who's investing in a decent
retirement for our old people? For government programs to help
people that don't have huge retirement funds retire with some
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sort of grace and dignity we could afford it. Who's investing?
South Korea is investing more in AI than they are
in their people, and so is the United States. In
the West. We have a fucking water shortage in the West,
and where are they building data centers Colorado, Nevada, California,
places with no fucking water. They're investing more into AI
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than they are into humans. Humans are only now here
to serve the AI, and they want to say, we
shouldn't worry about it taking our jobs. It's taking our life.
It's taking our water, that is our life's blood. Fuck
your job, it's taking your water. We are all going
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to be slaves, creating chips for the big ai and
who owns them billionaires, and we don't even see it.
Now I understand in all these future movies, why they have,
you know, rogue rebels that go around blowing up data
centers and such. I see why now in all these movies.
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I used to think, why are they so afraid of
damn technology? Why would they want to go blow up
data centers? Why are that? You know? I'll see these
movies and I used to think, oh please, And now
I totally get it. Humanity is literally creating the tools
to wipe half of us out or more. Half of
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us will be useless, We will be redundant, We will
have nothing productive to do and no salaries. What are
we going to do with hundreds of millions of people
that aren't making any money? Let them die? Yes, that's
what billionaires want. Billionaires want their nine hundred people, the
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nine hundred billionaires or even millionaires so they want. However
many millionaires there are in the world. I would imagine
there's twenty thirty forty million of them. We could ask
Alexa how many millionaires are in the world. Twenty five million,
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So twenty five million millionaires worldwide. That's it. That's it.
And yet everything now is geared to them. You cannot
buy a property unless you're a millionaire in San Francisco.
So San Francisco's properties are for the twenty five million
people that can afford it. And those twenty five million people,
the millionaires and billionaires, they want the rest of us gone.
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We're a drain on their money. They want just enough
of us left to serve them, and then that's it.
They don't need anybody else. The twenty five million millionaires
just need enough people to make them comfortable. That's it.
That's all they need. They have enough money. They don't
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ever have to make another dollar, so they don't need
us to buy more of their products. Elon Musk could
stop selling everything to just He could just stop everything
today and have enough money to live for ten thousand years.
They don't need us, so they're making us obsolete. They're
starving us. They're letting us die if we're old. They're
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letting our planet be destroyed because they're enclaves won't be destroyed.
It's happening right in front of us, and nobody cares.
No one cares, And if you do care, there's nothing
you can do. You know, this morning, I told a friend,
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I used to wonder why people moved out into some
rural area, started a little farm and just lived off
the grid. I used to think they were insane. Now
I don't think they're insane. We are literally headed to
a complete global realignment, and you and I are not
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in the picture. We're not one of the twenty five
million millionaires. That's it. That's we're not in the picture.
And today the Supreme Court proved that they proved it.
Let the wealthy determine elections, release any kind of restrictions
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on campaign finance. We should be going the other way.
We should be removing all corporate money from campaigns and
make all campaigns publicly funded, period, No outside money in politics.
That's just that's how we should be. Instead, we just
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went the exact opposite. Let all the outside money in
politics flow in and let them spend as much as
they want to win their elections. Wow, just wow, Yeah,
open the bay door. Hell open and people all you
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know that this too shall pass? Will it?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Will it?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I'm gonna tell you why that's an untrue statement. Always
go back already, do what's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Oh now it's show side.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Wow. In Seam Valley, a tesla went out of control
and killed a woman sitting on a patio having a
coffee at the Urbane Cafe. Isn't that something? My friend
Steve just sent it to me and said, this is
why when you want to go somewhere and sit outside,
I never want to sit outside because you could be
strung by a rogue tesla. Yeah, that's the truth. So
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let me tell you why someone just said and this
too shall pass. Let me tell you why that's not true. Okay,
did the Confederacy pass eighteen sixty one, almost two hundred
years ago? All right, it's basically one hundred and seventy
years ago, the Civil War? Did it end? Did it pass?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
The Confederacy is maga, period and a story. The Confederacy
is maga. That's what they are. That's where that movement
came from. That's their Red States, just like the Confederacy
was Red states. They believe exactly what the Confederacy believed
they have the same morals or lack of morals and
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values than the Confederacy. They're white supremacist, religious zealots, racist homophobes.
It's what maga is the Confederacy. It didn't pass. When
is that going to pass? When is the South going
to finally want to unify with the North and start
accomplishing things like solving climate change, getting high speed rail
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throughout the country. When is that going to happen? It's not.
In Europe, did the Nazi movement pass? No, they still
have it. It's still there and that their extreme right
raises its head all the time in the UK, in
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Germany and France, Nazis just morphed into something else. They
didn't change, they didn't pass, they didn't go away. In
the United States, I am sixty three mother fucking years
old and look fabulous. But phobia pass. Homophobia has been
around sent the church. That's what started it. By the way,
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there were no homophobes before organized religion. No one even cared, okay,
But then organized religion happened. Suddenly the patriarchy cared. Has
it passed? How many generations of gay people have been
told and this shall pass? And then today. In twenty
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twenty six, the Supreme Court outlaws trans people from sports.
So you explained to me when exactly the homophobia is
going to pass, When the transphobia is going to pass?
Explain it to me. I'd love to see your comments
down below. When is far right extremism based in white
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supremacy and a warped sense of religion going to pass?
When is that going to be over? Because it hasn't
been since Oh, I don't know Roman times, you know,
So when when is it going to pass? They wonder
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why the birth rates are down. It's because parents know
that this is no world anymore to bring a child into,
and it isn't. I wouldn't have a child. I think
humans should die out. I know you're like, well, I
really believe as a species we should die out because
we're getting it all wrong, and we're bringing that about.
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By the way, we don't have to stop having children.
We're dying out. We're not concentrating on food security, water security,
climate security, financial security, taking care of our elderly, taking
care of our young. We are not focusing on ourselves.
We are not investing in ourselves. What are we investing in?
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Artificial intelligence? Why aren't we investing on making humans more intelligent?
On human intelligence? Why aren't we better funding schools. Why
aren't we re educating adults like Maga to actually show
them how very wrong they are. Why aren't we investing
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in human intelligence? We're not. We're investing in artificial intelligence.
What's the number one source of research? Artificial humans? Robots?
We're not investing in humanity. We're not investing in each other.
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We're not investing in eighty year olds, seventy year olds,
ninety year olds and giving them a good life for
the rest of their life because they fucking earned it. Nope,
we're not investing in peace. We are investing in war.
They are at war in the Ukraine. There is still
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a war in Iran. Iran is the negotiators are not
at the table today. They're over there. Jared Kushner's over there,
and Delhar sitting at a table with his stumb up
his ass and he likes it too. You know, there's
no Iranian representative at these talks. We're still at war
with Iran because we lost the war with Iran. They won.
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They get determined when it's over, not us. They're the winners.
We're not investing in peace, we're not investing in humanity.
We're not investing in the environment, we're not investing in education,
we're not taking pride in human intelligence. We're giving all
of our functions over to devices and phones and everything else.
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You know what, I am a human Google, I'm smart.
I am smarter than most humans, and we're not investing
in making more of me. In fact, we're doing just
the opposite. We're investing in dumbing people down, in creating
an artificial intelligence because humans no longer have intelligence. Did
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you ever wonder why we're so obsessed with creating something
smarter than us, because we know how stupid we've become.
And so today all I see is strife ahead. If
you're not a millionaire, if you're not one of the
twenty five million millionaires in the world, the road ahead
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is going to be help yours, mine all of ours food.
So the story I wanted to talk to you about
today comes out of the La Times, and it's about
food and about how and you know, just general expenses
and how The New York Times did a did their
own research about the math of America, because you know,
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I always talk about the math of America and how
it's not mathing, and you think it's mathing for the
people who are wealthier than you, it's not. I'm gonna
come back. I'm gonna share that story from the New
York Times and how people making one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year are still not making one hundred
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and fifty pay years and they still are Wow.
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Speaker 4 (30:19):
All right, so we're going to share this New York
Times story. Don't forget. If you have a family member
that's maga, go buy them a T shirt at Make
Merchandise Great Again dot com. Every T shirt sold goes
to help fund a liberal leaving the United States. That
liberal is me. I said that in the park today
to friends that are maga. They went and bought T shirts.
I'm not making that up. I said, I started a website,
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Make Merchants, Make Merchandise Great Again. Oh great name, I said, yeah,
for every T shirt I sell, it helps fund a
liberal leaving America. Oh I'm all for that. I said,
we'll go buy a T shirt. So they did right
there on their phone. When I had to create the
graphics yesterday, I literally almost threw up in my mouth.
I did one of Donald Trump holding the world on
his shoulders with a cape that's an American flag and
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it says He's got this. And then the T shirt
that I made that really made me puke. I had
the founding fathers handing Donald Trump the Declaration of Independence
and it says America two fifty democracy or democracy in
great hands. Oh my god. I wanted to throw up.
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But that's a T shirt up there as well. So
go get your MAGA T shirts for your MAGA friends
at Make America or Make Merchandise Great Again dot com
because every dollar sold helps a liberal leave America, and
that liberal is me, all right. So the New York Times,
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which is finally catching on by the way, they have
traced the anti trans rhetoric in this country directly to
the New York Times. The New York Times has been
the champion of antiq trans rhetoric. They have been such
an amplifier. Fuck the New York Times, but here's an
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article out from them. From a distance, the American economy
might appear to be performing well. From a distance, growth
is solid, unemployment remains that low. Stock markets have posted
large gains. But these numbers master the reality that most
Americans see know shit. We dug into the data, conducted surveys,
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and talk to people around the country. Our research shows
that even relatively well off families are struggling despite the
tax cuts and wage gains that the Trump administration touts.
President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long term
solutions or offering short term relief. If they paid attention
to different indicators of Americans' financial health, beyond top line
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growth and other traditional measures of economic success, they might
feel more urgency. So we developed one a model budget
for a family of two parents and two children. We
set their annual income at one hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
well above the eighty three thousand national median for all
US households. That's it, eighty three thousand a year. That's
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the median income that's sixty five hundred a month before taxes,
So that's really about forty five hundred dollars a month
with rents that are in upwards of twenty five hundred anyway, um,
well above the eighty three five national median for all
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US households and right in the middle of the income
distribution for a family of four. According to our calculations,
the math has stopped adding up. The math of America
doesn't add up that I've been saying that for decades
on my show. For over the past eighteen months Trump's regime,
they had a small cushion in twenty twenty four. Now
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they are in the red. After covering just the basics
such as houses, health care plan, and daycare, the family
has over one thousand dollars less than it did a
year ago. Rising costs have wiped out any gains from
higher wages or tax cuts. The family would have trouble
paying for anything beyond the basics a car breaking down,
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a kid breaking an arm. It could not budget for
any of these things that typically a family might hope
for buying a new car, taking a summer vacation, or
even welcoming another child. To mount an effective response, it
helps to know what stresses Americans feel most sharply and
what action they expect from their elected officials. So we asked.
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By almost four to one, Americans told us that rising prices,
rather than paychecks that haven't kept up, are driving a
cost of living squeeze. Two thirds say they are struggling
today and need relief they can feel right away. This
is two thirds of people making one hundred and thirty
thousand or more. By the way, okay, the most cited
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concern grocery costs. Grocery costs. Some thirty five percent of
Americans identified food as the single biggest sort of financial pressure. Foo.
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Corrill is so near because show time is here.
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So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
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Correll is the one that you need to know.
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So a majority of people making over one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars say food food is their single biggest
source of financial pressure, followed number two housing costs, Housing
cost number one, and number two food and housing. Respondents
split almost every among three worries prices that are too high,
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prices that change unexpectedly, and the feeling of getting less
value for the money from products and services because of shrinkflation,
hidden fees, and declining quality. Older Americans are most likely
to focus on sticker shock. Working parents were far more
likely to point to the volatility, the inability to predict
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what a week's groceries will cost from one month to
the next because it changes constantly, and political independence were
especially likely to say that they feel ripped off by
the American economy are economic indicators. The Model family budget
and americans reported experiences suggest that the cost of essentials
has become a political and economic emergency for the nation's
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elected officials. Americans want them to address the root causes
driving up prices and even or to deliver timely relief.
Ideally do both. Research shows where they can start with
the goods that Americans say they have the most trouble
of fording. More than half of the people's surveyed that
make one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year or
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more more than half named meat as their top source
of grossery stress. Well, I could care less about that
six times the share who named the next most chosen
source coffee, tea and other beverages and their right. Do
you know how much I spend every three months on tea?
You guys are gonna faint. Take a guess in the
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chat room. I'll tell you at the end of this story.
How much do you guys think I spend with Harny
and Son's tea every three months? Every three months, Harny
and Son's Tea. How much do you guys think I spend?
Because you know I have tea twice a day, very religiously.
The price of beef helone has risen. Fine let it.
That means that the family buying two pounds of ground
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beef a week paying ten dollars more. Who cares? Don't
buy it? The reasons are complex. Drought has led to
the smallest US cattle herd in decades. Bravo. The meat
packing industry is so concentrated that it has squeezed ranchers
and undermined incentives and to rebuild the herd, good let
it collapse. Last year's tariffs made beef even more expensive, good,
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tax it more, and a parasite is threatening the herd
across America. Fabulous, let them all pass away. Lowering beef
prices and keeping them low requires rebuilding the herd, increasing
competition and meat packing, and strengthening biosecurity. Government is doing
nothing on any of those long term goals. I'm fine
with that. By the way, let it collapse. Even if
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it were, it could take years for beef prices to
go down, and research suggested the public is not wont
to wait. Federal and state elected leaders have a few
responsible ways to deliver a red immediate help on groceries.
Mister Trump should repeal tariffs that serve no strategic purpose
that put sales tax on groceries should remove them. The
ones that tax toothpaste, toilet paper, and diapers should also stop.
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In some cases, companies, particularly those in highly concentrated industries,
have used subtle methods to keep prices higher than the
economic fundamentals demand elected because they're making billions of dollars.
So elected officials at the federal estate level should curb
shri inflation, pricing schemes and digital tricks that confuse and
fleece the consumer. They won't because the rich control the government.
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They also need to require labeling that allows families to
make apples to apples price comparisons, and put companies on
the spot for bait and switch marketing. They will. Most
of all, the country needs selected leaders to demand rigorous,
reliable data on basic questions. After paying the bills, are
families getting ahead or falling behind? Which cost are creating
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the most stressed? When families try to balance their budgets,
They say at the kitchen tables? Does anybody balance their
budgets the kitchen table anymore? All of you do it
at the computer. All of you. Leaders would then make
better decisions about what Americas would make lives easier. Now
you should read the comments, Oh girl, the comments. This year,
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I have seen companies I've wholeheartedly supported for decades because
they valued the good will of their customers just turned
into things I refuse to do business with. Between Social
Security and my decalled Georgia pension, I make one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year, wow, three dependents. The
county rarely and singly grants cost of living increases. I
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was department head. How are ordinary county retirees, faring, secretary's clerks,
police and fire people. They're not They're falling into poverty
and they and this person is blaming Joe Biden for
it all thanks to old Joe. Oh god, oh, i'd
Trump and his absurd tari. So he says that Trump
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and Biden were the worst presidents. Okay, yep. Nobody complains
about dog food, which is fifty percent higher than when
it was in the pandemic. Yep, yep. Obama fifteen percent inflation,
Trump's first term seven point eight percent, Biden twenty one percent,
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Trump second term six percent. Everybody said under those comments
that those are lies. It's that this person's a Trumper,
and that those numbers are lies. So on and on
and on and on they go. At the start of
the year, I was paying two twenty seven for milk.
Now it's three fifty two, a fifty percent increase in
six months. Whatever happened to I promised to bring prices
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down on day one. It's delusion to believe Trump or
the Republicans give a hoot about ordinary people suffering. They don't.
Corporations exist to make money, and they are making it.
They just don't care how yep. So let me ask.
If the New York Time says that one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars a year income people aren't making it,
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how are you, guys making it? Be honest with me,
how are you making it? How are you paying your
mortgage or your rent out of one third of your
budget and then another one third for discustionary spending in food,
and then one third for savings? How are you doing it?
(42:31):
I'll tell you first how you're doing it. By the numbers,
You're not saving. According to a recent survey, only people
making two hundred thousand dollars a year or more are
putting any money into savings at all. I have none.
I have no savings. I have eight hundred dollars in
a savings account. That's it. That's what I have. Now.
(42:52):
David Pacman and Stephanie Miller won't tell you that because
they have millions. I don't. I have eight hundred dollars.
I am trapped in a condo with an hoa that
I hate because I don't even have thirty thousand dollars
in savings that I could take and move to another
city and then sell my condo. I should have thirty
(43:13):
thousand dollars in the bank that I could use for this.
I should, but I don't. How are you making it?
I'd love to hear from you in the comments, because
this article says one hundred and thirty thousand, you're not
making it. And if you have an emergency like my car,
which they called me about and said it's going to
(43:34):
be ready tomorrow, another eight hundred dollars that I don't have,
it will go on the credit card with the same
twenty three hundred from the other repair. I can't afford
a car. I can't. I really can't. And that's what
this article points out. Most of us can't afford anything
other than food and housing. And that's it. There's no
money for savings. There's no money for emergencies, there's no
(43:56):
money for vacations. There's no money for life. There is
a only money to pay your cell phone bill, to
pay your housing bill, to eat, and that's it. That's it.
There's no money for life, for vacations, for hobbies. Remember
when you had hobbies. Remember when you could go spend
one thousand dollars on your hobby. If you were a
(44:17):
photographer or a musician or whatever, your hobby was if
you liked vintage cars. How many of you have a
hobby now that costs money? A lot of you might
have hobbies that don't cost money. You know, you paint
or something, but even that oil paints shop through the
roof because they're made of oil. How many of you
(44:38):
even have a hobby anymore? How are you making it?
Are you cutting back? Are you cutting back? In the
chat room, they're saying they're not making it? You know
they're not making it. Meanwhile, Peter Tile is building a
bunker in South America and New Zealand. You know, how
(45:02):
are you making it? How many of you? How much
do you guys think I spend on tea? How much?
How much? How much do you think I spend on tea?
Come on? Someone in the chat room. I'm waiting, I'm waiting,
(45:30):
come on, I'll come come on. I'm just waiting to
see if any of you can guess how much I
spend on tea every three months. And it didn't used
to be that much, but it used to be half
that price. How much? How much? Everybody? Come on, let's see. No,
(45:58):
you're all wrong. I spend two hundred and fifty dollars
on six pounds of tea, six pounds of tea, six
bags of one pound each loose leaf tea, six bags
one pound each loose leaf tea two hundred and fifty dollars.
(46:22):
It is about forty three dollars a pound for tea
forty three dollars a pound four t forty three. You
think coffee is expensive forty three dollars a pound for
tea forty three dollars. And yeah, now I could do
(46:50):
without it, but life is too short to not have tea.
I could buy less, but I like to for I
have English breakfast, Irish breakfast, a psalm chocolate, mint chocolate chai,
and royal wedding. Oh and then decaf. I have a
(47:11):
DCAF so seventies, so seven seventies, two hundred and fifty dollars,
So it's about thirty five dollars a pound from that's
from the brother Harney, Harney and Sons tea the best
tea in the United States, Harney and Sons. And that's
(47:34):
you know how much did you guess? One hundred and
fifty dollars? Oh? Please? And I wish it used to
be that much. I used to spend about one twenty
five every three months on the same seven bags of tea.
It's double. It's gone from one twenty five to two fifty.
I have tea every morning at six am and every
(47:55):
afternoon at three pm because I'm not some pagan and
I oh, I have an herbal at night, but the
herbal doesn't count. I buy it cheap on Amazon. It's
like twelve dollars for a huge bag of camameal and
ginger chema meial ginger tea, but real tea, Irish breakfast,
English breakfast, a psalm, chocolate, mint, chocolate, chai, Birthday or
(48:19):
what is it? Paris herbal. It's called It's lovely. Oh
my god, it's so good. It's decaffeinated tea. It's got vanilla.
It's rubios. Oh my god, it's so good. It's not tea,
it's rubios and it's so good. So sevent tees two
hundred and fifty bucks every three months from Harni and
Sun's Tea. What am I supposed to do not have tea?
(48:43):
I figure if I'm going down in flames in the future,
I might as well go there with a kappa in
my hand, right, So I hear you, I hear you
in the chat room. You know, I wonder if I'm
I wonder if I'm not as popular as Stephanie Miller
or David Packman because I actually talk about this stuff.
(49:07):
You never hear Stephanie Miller talking about how the listeners
aren't making it. They like to be humorous and fun
and just complain about the politicians all the time because
she's wealthy, and almost everyone around her table is wealthy,
and I don't slide them for that. I'm totally jealous
of that. And maybe my show would be different if
I didn't have money problems. Maybe I would talk about
(49:30):
broader issues and more political and more of this and that.
If I didn't have the same money problems that you're having,
I would rent a place somewhere. But if you go
with one third of my income as rent, I can
only afford fifteen hundred dollars a month rent, and there's
no place to rent for that, not a two bedroom.
(49:54):
And I've got to have a studio, so I can't
go rent something for fifteen hundred dollars a month, a
two bedroom. So maybe if I didn't have money troubles,
the show would be different. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. No, Rachel add one hundred to that. Yes,
(50:18):
the T shirts are total Maga. I told you guys,
I started a Maga merchandise website. Make merchandise great again.
It's not for you enough, it's for Maga. I figured
if they're gonna hate me, I might have to let
them pay for me to leave the country. So the
(50:39):
T shirt for not for us. If you want me
to do T shirts for us, I will add a
different website that's for Maga. So if you have Maga.
Speaker 8 (51:03):
Now it's shoes side.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
Do not sell out? What do you mean? Do not
sell out? If I can make money off of making
things that I hate, why not. I'm not making any
money as a liberal. I'm not making any money as
a progressive. So if I can create merchandise for these
morons and they'll buy it, I'm sorry. Does it disgust
(51:38):
me to have to type these things? Yes? Did I
want to throw up in my mouth when I did
those graphics yesterday? I sure did. But if it helps
me raise the money to leave the country. Because we
are in a death situation here, people, what would you
do to save your life? I am trying to save
(51:58):
my life I have got to generate more income. I
have had T shirts for sale for the Correl Show
for years. I haven't sold.
Speaker 8 (52:10):
One, not one.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
I've already sold four Maga shirts the last five years.
You guys haven't bought one Correl T shirt that I've
had for sale. The link has been on my website
for four years for Correl T shirts haven't sold any
I just put that website up yesterday. Sold for Am
(52:33):
I selling out?
Speaker 5 (52:34):
No?
Speaker 4 (52:35):
I'm finding a way to make a profit off of
the idiots because I want to go. I want to
get out, and I want to get out comfortably. I
don't want to get out and be in poverty. And
if I can let their money propel me out of
this country to save my life, I will. And if
that bothers some of y'all, oh well, Now, I did
(53:01):
it as a joke and I am not going to
manage it every day. I am not going to turn
it into a big thing. It probably won't make any money. Okay,
really it probably won't because I can't log on too
true social and promote it. I can't. It just turns
my stomach. I can't do it. But if I could
find someone that could stomach it. I can come up
(53:22):
with the designs because I just think of the most
outrageous thing and then I make it a design because
these people are just out of their minds crazy.
Speaker 6 (53:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (53:32):
My friend, yeah, fight fire with fire. My friend Sean
said this to me once, and I'll never forget it.
We were driving down Broadway in Long Beach and there
was this black guy walking the street and he was
handsome as hell, but crazy as a motherfucker. I mean,
he was out there crazy, but he was cute as hell.
(53:53):
And Sean looked at him and goes, oh, I'd do him.
And I said, Sean, he's out of his mind. And
he said, crazy people need to have sex too, and
I thought, oh my god. Now he was only joking partially,
but it's the same thing. If crazy people are buying
T shirts, then let them buy them from me. I
(54:17):
used to work for Dave Garafalo in Huntington Beach, the
leader of the Huntington Beach local news. He later got
arrested and went to jail for all of his horrible crimes,
and I was one of the key witnesses against him.
But every week, every two weeks, I took his twelve
hundred dollars to do a newspaper that I hated. The
newspaper was filled with editorials by Dana Roorbacher and all
(54:38):
these right wing, horrible people, and I had to typeset
it and make it look great. But every month I
got twenty four hundred dollars from him, and that paid
my rent. Now, there did come a point where I
finally just said enough, I can't deal with you anymore.
Come and get your art boards. I just can't deal
with you. But for several years I took his money
and hated him. But I said, if that publican's gonna
(55:00):
give anybody money to do that paper, it might as
well be me. And I say the same thing about MAGA.
If they're gonna spend money on stupid T shirts, they
might as well be putting that money in my pocket.
Now again, unless one of you want to run the
website for me and do all the marketing, I'm not
gonna put any effort into it. It was a joke.
(55:23):
I just thought yesterday afternoon, I thought, I wonder if
I could really do this, And then I did it,
and set up a Shopify store and a Printify account
and a true social account Instagram account. Make merchandise great again.
But I'm not going to do what it takes to
get followers and get sales and all that. And I'm
not going to go to events with T shirts and things.
I'm not. I'm just I'm not gonna do that. But
(55:44):
if somebody out there wants to split the revenue with
me and do it, hey, I'm up for it. Oh exhale, exhale.
Oh bumper stickers. You're right, I should be doing the
(56:06):
problem is getting them in front of MAGA. I started
a true Social account, I have zero followers, so it's
not going to push my content out there. I need
someone to log in as me on True Social and
start posting under other people's things with these photos and
with these links and all of that. But oh well,
oh well, but if you have any MAGA relatives, you
(56:27):
can go buy them. Make merchandise great again? All right.
I didn't want to have an angry show today. I
love you all, and that's why I get so mad.
I know most of you don't make one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year, and most people that listen
to talk radio don't make that much money. I know
who the demographic is you know, most people that listen
(56:47):
to podcasts aren't millionaires. It's not one of the twenty
five you know million people that listen to podcasts. It's
poor people, it's middle class people, it's people struggling. And
that's I'm an mpath and I read that New York
Time story and I go, no shit, New York Times.
You had to do a whole you had to go
research to see whether people making one hundred and thirty
k a year or not can afford their life. I
(57:08):
could have told you in one sentence, no, they can't.
This is like news to the rich now. It really
is to the people making three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand,
five hundred thousand dollars a year. They're not millionaires, they're
not one of the twenty five million, but they're making
two three four hundred thousand a year. It's news to
them that almost everybody in the country is, you know, suffering,
(57:32):
because they look around and they see teslas everywhere. People
are in debt for those. The other day at the
food bank, I counted ten teslas in line to get
free food. Ten ten teslas, so ten households felt that
paying the car payment on a tesla was more important
than buying food ten in line to get free food.
(57:57):
We're not making it, and I'm mad about that. I'm
mad that we're concerned with where trans people shit and
piss and not about the water that goes into the bathroom.
The West is out of water. I want to leave
Vegas mainly because we're out of fucking water. And California
(58:17):
is out of water, Utah, Colorado out of water. No
one doing a thing to get more water to it.
I care. I care because I'm one of you. I
struggle like you, and it sucks. But other times it's
(58:39):
create when you hug your dog, I am forrelbe who
you want to be. It's on that hurt your buddy.
I love you, I do. That's why I get so
mad at you, because I love you, though, and I
want your lives to be better and easier and more fun.
Speaker 6 (58:54):
It's broadcasting from a completely different play of view.
Speaker 9 (58:58):
Yours listen daily to the Corell cast on your favorite
streaming service. You're listening to the Correll Cast driving you
home or driving you crazy. It's broadcasting from a completely
(59:20):
different point of view. Yours listen daily to the Corell
cast on your favorite streaming service.
Speaker 7 (59:33):
So time is here, no time to fear
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