Doommaxxing: How Fear Became a Billion-Dollar Business

Doommaxxing: How Fear Became a Billion-Dollar Business
AI is taking your job. The economy is collapsing. A new virus is around the corner. Democracy is ending. Or is it?
In this episode of The Karel Cast, we examine the rise of “Doommaxxing”—the business model of keeping people scared, anxious, and constantly engaged. From social media algorithms to cable news, from political campaigns to tech billionaires, fear has become one of the most profitable commodities on Earth.
Throughout history, powerful institutions have used fear to control attention. Today, smartphones and social media have made that process faster, more personal, and more profitable than ever before.
Who benefits when we’re constantly told disaster is just around the corner? Is AI really coming for everyone’s job? Are we being manipulated into living in a permanent state of crisis? And what does all of this mean for our mental health, our politics, and our future?
Plus:
• Trump’s latest claim about algae in the Reflecting Pool and why experts disagree.
• The FCC’s unprecedented challenge to Disney/ABC station licenses, including KGO-TV San Francisco.
• Why media freedom advocates are sounding the alarm.
Fear keeps us scrolling. Fear keeps us clicking. Fear keeps us watching.
But who profits?
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
Corilla is the one that you need to know.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Now it's show side.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
You've heard of doom scrolling? Have you ever heard of
doom maxing? Well, it seems America is excelling out it.
We're going to talk about that, the reflecting pool as
a euphemism for the Trump presidency, and so much more
on today's show, So don't go anywhere on this Tuesday,
June twenty three. Hello and good morning to you all.

(00:50):
On this Tuesday, June twenty third. I am Corral and
it is the Correll Show. So very glad you are here.
I am queer. Are you used to it? We've got
a lot to talk about day, including how the reflecting
pool has become a symbol of Trump's crumbling presidency, and
it really has. Even The New York Times has run
an editorial about how this is really a symbol of

(01:11):
where we are in the country as he blames vandals,
he is so stupid. There is video of the reflecting pool.
If there were vandals, we'd have them on video. There aren't.
We don't. It was a shoddy job he pocketed the
fourteen million, obviously, and gave the person that did it
probably one hundred grand, and they did shoddy work, and

(01:33):
then he filled it with the very swamp water that
he bathes in there in Washington, d c. As he
is the biggest swamp monster around. So we're going to
talk about that. We're also going to talk about a
great editorial I read about doom maxing, you know, doom maxing.
It's like looks maxing, but doom maxing, and how companies

(01:53):
like Meta and others are making a fortune off of
keeping you in the doom and gloe boom sort of mode,
and podcasters and everything. We're also going to talk about
the money of entertainments. If you're not Taylor Swift or
Don Lemon or Joe Rogan, I think it will shock you.

(02:16):
I think those figures will shock you. So we've got
a lot to talk about today. You know. On a
personal note, I'm not thinking about any of that crap today,
you know what. I'm an honest talk show host. I
don't come out here like David Pacman will come out
and talk to you about Trump and whatever. And yeah,
he's worth one to five million dollars a year. According
to Chad Gpt, it told me that David Pacman makes

(02:38):
between one and three million a year, and so maybe
his formula of I'm going to talk right into the camera,
I'm gonna show you videos of Donald Trump, and then
we're going to talk about him and occasionally have a guest.
Maybe that works. And maybe that's why I'm not working
because I don't do that. I don't I can't show
videos of Donald Trump. They make me sick, so you know,

(03:01):
but he makes one to three million a year, so
he's not hurting and he's not living my life. And
I almost think that I'm a little more relatable nowadays
because I'm not a millionaire. Because I could have gone
to the Grammy Diversity Pride party this afternoon at the
Astor in Hollywood and been on a panel. Exactly what

(03:23):
I've been asking for. Put me on a panel, get
me in front of these Grammy people, and they offered,
but I couldn't go because I wasn't going to spend
five hundred dollars just to go to LA for one night,
and they weren't paying their speakers. So there we have that.
Then this morning, I get a call about my car
my car which blew up on Sunday. Well, in order

(03:43):
to figure out what is wrong with it, they first
have to replace the radiator. That's six hundred and fifty dollars.
Then after they replace the radiator, they can tell me
if the block is cracked or the head gaskets are blown,
or if the engines even set aalvegeble, or if this
blowing up of the radiator also overheated other parts of

(04:04):
the engine and blew it out. So they're telling me
I have to spend six hundred and fifty dollars to
maybe find out that the car isn't worth fixing. So
I've been in a dilemma all morning of what to do.
You know, what do I do? Do I fix it?
I do I get the radiator fixed and then see
if it's able to be fixed and it would be
more money. The six fifty is just for the radiator.

(04:27):
Then if there's a problem with the fan or the
engine or whatever, or do I just say goodbye to
the car. I already spent twenty six hundred on it
two months ago, haven't even paid that credit card off,
and now there's this and it's a twenty five year
old two hundred thousand plus lexis. My friend Jen has
an Infinity, a two thousand and seven Infinity with one

(04:48):
hundred and five thousand miles that she'll sell me for
three thousand dollars. Am I just buying another you know,
junker basically, even though it's running good right now, That's
what's on my mind. On my mind, it's like, I
don't even want a car. I don't want a car.
I don't I want to live in a place where
I don't need a car, where a car is not

(05:10):
a necessity, like New York or Paris or londonner you know,
I don't want a car. I like my motorcycle. And
other than that, I think cars are stupid. They're costly,
they run on fossil fuels, they hurt the environment. Insurance
is a mess in terms of you know, the price
of insurance, maintenance and all of that. I just I
don't really want a car, but I feel naked without one.

(05:33):
So that's what's on my mind today. We all have
those kinds of decisions in our lives, and that's what
we think about. We'd like to think about Trump all day,
but we can. We have real life to deal with.
I think the news for getting.

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Speaker 4 (06:18):
You know, I really do think the news forgets that
we don't sit around all day and think about what
they think about you know, ms now, I do not
sit around all day and just ponder the same issues
about Donald Trump and the government. And you know, this
morning in the New York Times there's an open letter
from Elizabeth Warren about how in six years, in six years,

(06:40):
they're gonna have to cut solid Security benefits twenty five
percent unless Congress does something. And she has a plan,
and she wants to introduce it as a bipartisan plan
to help rescue and save Soial Security, which would start
with removing the income cap so people like Elon Musk
would pay SOLI security taxes on all of his income,

(07:01):
not just the first you know, one hundred thousand or
whatever it is. You know, we have We are so
much more as a culture and a people than what
Trump has painted us out to be, and we think
about so much more than what his maggots would make
you believe. I don't sit around all day wondering where

(07:22):
trans people should pee. I know you don't either. I
don't sit around all day mad at a rainbow flag.
I just don't even give it a second thought. I
don't sit around all day doom scrolling so I can
put snide in hurtful comments under people's things that you

(07:43):
know don't agree with me, or that I don't like
because they're different than me. I don't spend the day
doing that, and I don't think you do either. I
spend the day worrying about the real world. There was
a report that Steve said me yesterday that said by
twenty twenty eight, the water in the seven states reliant

(08:05):
on the Colorado River will be at a critical mass
where the system is going to collapse, collapse, collapse. The
Colorado River is running out of water. Lake Mead is
at twenty nine percent. No one is doing anything, so

(08:29):
in just two years the system is going to collapse.
What's anybody doing that? I worry about that. I worry
about where should I move? Because obviously Las Vegas is
not the place to stay, So where should I move?
If I move to California, they get water from the

(08:50):
Colorado River, they're going to have problems. Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado.
So the West is toast. Climate change is making it
heat up and water is running out. So Vancouver, Richmond,

(09:12):
which is just south of Vancouver, where do I go?
I think about that every day, I sure do. Every day.
I think about where am I going to move? And
how am I going to do it on such a
limited income. I think about that, should I leave the country.
I think about that every day. What do you guys
think about every day? Other than Donald Trump? I'm so

(09:37):
curious if this, if we were on KFI or kg O,
the lines would fill up right now. You know, what
do you guys? What are your priorities right now? What
do you think about? I know it's not Donald Trump
all day, and and you know, I don't even fucking
care about Iran anymore. I don't care. He lies, They lie, lie, lie,

(09:59):
lie lie. Today he said Tehran has totally said that
we're gonna do the nuclear talks and all that. Turan's like, no,
we didn't. He just lies if his mouth is moving.
There's vandals at the reflecting Pond. No, you're the vandal
of the reflecting pond. You're the one that the National
Guard should arrest. You destroyed the East Wing of the

(10:21):
White House, a national monument, and the reflecting Pool. You
have now destroyed two national monuments. You should be put
in jail for that alone. Donald Trump should go to
jail for tearing down the East Wing of the White
House without congressional approval or anything, and for destroying the

(10:42):
reflecting pool. It was fine, but no, he should go
to jail for these things. So I do not sit
around and think about them all day. I could care
less about the reflecting pool. I've never been to Washington, DC,
and at the price of things now, I'll probably ever go,
which most people can't believe that I have never been

(11:04):
to Washington, d C. But I never have never been,
never seen the White House never. I told Gavin Newsom
if he wins, I have to go, he has to
invite me as a guest because I've never been, and
he said he would. By the way, I've never seen
the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, I know what's printed
on them. I can recite the words never been, so

(11:26):
I could give a crap about the reflecting pool. You know,
they could use a pool in Paris. Forty people drown
forty people in the U in France drowned yesterday. Forty
That's like the beginning of a bad horror movie. Forty
people drowned. Why because it was one hundred and four
degrees and these poor Parisians who are not used I guess,

(11:49):
to swimming or getting into water. You know, they got
in to cool off and they drowned. Forty, not one,
not two, not five. Forty. I don't think forty people
a day drown in the United States. I don't know
how many people drown a day in the United States.
I really don't. You know who probably knows. Chat GPT.

(12:09):
Let's ask chat GPT, how many people die in the
How many people drown every day? How many people drown
in the USA every day? I ask? Because of the
forty in France, Okay, let's see. Searching the web, it
says the forty deaths in France were shocking because they

(12:31):
happened in a very short period during a heat wave.
But in the United States, drowning is unfortunately a much
more common every day cause of death. Oh my goodness,
forty five hundred drowning deaths per year, which works out
to twelve people every day. Well, good lord, twelve people
a day here in the US, forty in one day

(12:52):
in France, so they're like three and a half days
worth here. That's just so ridiculous. And why climb change
that I worry about climate change every day. I worry
about climate change because I kind of wanted to move
to Europe, but it is the number one place in
the world that's heating up. Europe, London, Spain, Germany, all

(13:17):
of it. It is the place that is heating up
the most. I don't mean cities, because we know Las
Vegas is the number one in the country, but in
the world, the UK, Wales, Great Britain, all of that.
That is the number one place where climate change is
heating And it was one hundred and four yesterday, It's
going to be one hundred and four today. And they

(13:39):
die in from the heat. Only eleven percent have air conditioned.
They die in and these are climate related deaths. Forty
people were alive two days ago. They got hot yesterday
they went in the water and they drowned. Forty people.
Forty families now missing family members. Why climate So when

(14:01):
people think that climate change isn't already killing people, climate
change killed forty people yesterday, forty in one day. Climate change,
It's real. It's here, and it's killing us. That I
worry about Donald Trump, not so much, you know, not

(14:22):
so much, although he is single handedly destroying everything we love.
The Rose Garden has been destroyed, the back Oval lawn,
circular lawn that the White House was destroyed by the
W W E cage thing that he put up. The
East wing is still in rubble. The Kennedy Center, he
refuses to remove the tarp from in front where his
name was removed, the reflecting pool. He's ruining everything, but

(14:44):
the Oval office has been ruined with his TMU fixtures
on the wall. You know, he he is ruining everything.
So that's why I just can't think about him every day.
I just can't. You know, he does not live rent
free in my head. When I get all off of
the show here, I don't think about him for the
rest of the day. What do I think about? What

(15:04):
project am I going to work on this afternoon? I
think about you know, I look at Zillo every day.
Every day I look at Zillo in various places to
see could I afford to live? There is this someplace
I could go every day? And then I worry when
I go alone? You know? Is this a place I
would move by myself? Would ever have a good vet?

(15:25):
Were there doctors there that I would like? Yeah? That's
that's what I think about every day. And of course money.
There's not a day that I don't think about money.
What about y'all? What do you guys think about every
day outside of Donald Trump? What are your concerns, what
are your worries? What are your happinesses? What are your joys?

(15:49):
You know, I think about those every day. Ways to
have fun, ways to you know, try to have a
good life. What do you think about every day other
than Donald Trump? What do you think about? What do
you worry about? What is your biggest If I asked
you right now, what is your biggest worry right now,

(16:10):
what is the first thing that pops off the top
of your head? What is your biggest concern right now
right now? What is your don't say that Democrats are
going to lose the midterms, because that shouldn't be your
biggest concern because you're out of control of that. You
can't control what's gonna happen in the midterms. So you

(16:31):
can vote, and you can encourage others to vote, but
you can't control it. So what is your biggest worry?
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(17:16):
for my Patreon. So what is your biggest worry right now?
Is it retirement? Retirement? Income? What is your biggest worry?
What do you wake up and as you're going through
the day, have a recurring worry about what is it.
I'm curious because the media, the news media, would have

(17:36):
us believe that our biggest worry is the reflecting pool
Donald Trump Iran war, and that's doom's maxing. The media
and social media in particular, have us all believing that
all day long, our worries are the apocalypse, basically the doom.

(17:57):
It's called doom maxing. Everything's out of control and and
you know, it's all spinning in the wrong direction like AI.
Everyone's like, AI is gonna kill us. It's gonna take
our jobs. They said that about everything. They said that
about the telephone, they said that about the television, they
said that about radio, they said that about the Internet.

(18:20):
The Internet's gonna take all of our jobs. The Internet,
it's gonna, you know, bottle. And while it did do
a lot of terrible things, mainly disconnect us, the thing
that's supposed to connect us most has actually disconnected us
the most. But none of the doom scenarios that everyone
came up with for whatever it was, have come true.

(18:42):
They dooms maxing is not new. Every generation has there. Oh,
this is going to destroy life as we know it.
Technology or movement or person and guess what they never do.
Hitler didn't destroy the world. He tried, but he didn't.
We got through it, mostly stalin Donald Trump. We will

(19:02):
get through and there will be some semblance of a
country afterwards, and maybe it'll be darker, maybe it'll go
even more to the right, who knows. But he will
be dead. He's eighty. He's going quickly if he you know,
at an auction, he's already on the going twice. Going
once has already happened. Going twice is where he's at.

(19:24):
He's almost at the going three times and gone. So
but we will survive it. So what is your biggest worry?
Because meta and social media keeps creating doom and doom
scenarios and everything is life or death and everything is

(19:47):
if you don't do this, we're all gonna die sort
of thing. That's what everything is. It's called doomsmaxing. AI
is gonna kill you. AI is gonna take your job.
AI is gonna make you poverty stricken. That's all that's
out there. There's no good stories about AI. It's all
how it's gonna harm you. Oh, we have no restrictions.
Elon Musk is gonna take over the world, and you

(20:09):
know you're all gonna be working for him one day
and just just doom. That's all that's in the news.
If you watch the news now, it's just doom after
doom after doom after doom after doom. And that's because
of how it affects your brain, and how it keeps
you engaged, and how it keeps you coming back. The
algorithm is not stupid. The algorithm knows the more it

(20:30):
gives you the visions of the apocalypse, the more you're
gonna be hooked. But what is your real concerns? You're
honest in your heart concerns. What are you worried about today?
According to some polls and stories, it's healthcare. The number

(20:53):
one thing on most people's minds, the affordability and access
of healthcare if people are aging. So what is your
biggest worries? Type it in the batroom or type it
down below. What is your biggest worries? What do you
worry about the most? I'd love to hear it. I'd
love to hear it. So tell me tell me something good.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Now is show side?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
All right? So let's check what people are saying about,
what they fear, what their biggest dooms are Oh, let's
see right now from Rachel Mira right now, my biggest
concern is my health and having a lot of checkups
and I pray everything is fine. See healthcare. That's that
is one of the number one concerns in America today.

(22:00):
Let's see that. You know who is going to have
the Constitution amended to stay in power permanently. He can't
see they make you worry about that. We have been Oh,
he's gonna get a third term. Donald Trump is not
getting a third term. No one will say that to
his face. The constitution prohibits it. There will not be

(22:21):
a constitutional amendment. It takes two thirds of the states
to ratify it, and they won't. They won't, and it
takes years to ratify a constitutional amendment years. Mississippi just
abolished slavery about ten years ago on their books. They

(22:43):
never sent the votes, so it takes years to amend
the Constitution. They can't do it instantly. Congress Senate has to.
Congress has to write it, approve it, send it to
the Senate, who has to approve it. Then two thirds
of the states have to ratify it. They're not gonna

(23:03):
and he'll die even if he got worst case scenario,
he gets a third term, he'll die. He's not gonna
make it through his second term. He will die before
he leaves office. He is too sick and too demented.
So don't worry about that. When they bring it up,
just laugh, say no, it's not going to happen, because

(23:25):
if it does, we have bigger problems than him getting
a third term. If he is allowed to stay, then
we've lost the country. We've the Constitution. Over the weekend
had a birthday. I don't know why that isn't what
we celebrate. Why we celebrate seventeen seventy six and the
Declaration of Independence, I'll never know. It's the document in

(23:47):
seventeen eighty eight that gave us all the power, the Constitution.
And over the weekend it was the celebration of the ratificing,
the ratifying of the Constitution. That should be a holiday.
It's not, but it should be. And that document is
not gonna let him have a third term, and they're
not going to amend it in time. So don't worry

(24:08):
about that. Okay, ask for healthcare, Yeah, that's a worry.
You should worry about that. Let's see I listened to
the news this morning. A bit. Other than that, I
concentrate on art, my garden, friends, family and pets. Good
for you. I watch BBC in the morning and then
that's it. Nothing for the rest of the day. I
do read the Google News news dot Google dot com,

(24:31):
which aggregates actually Applenews. I use Apple News, and I
choose the networks and the and the papers, you know,
New York Times, Washington Post, La Times, this sort of stuff. Uh,
and it gives me those stories. So Apple News is
what I use. I also fear never having the money
to get me and my cat into a house where
I can live a little more on my terms. That's
a big fear housing and the affordability of housing. In fact,

(24:55):
Congress just passed a bipartisan bill yesterday to try to
make housing more for They're limiting the number of investors
that can buy houses, single family houses. They're they're loosening
up restrictions on funding for manufactured homes. They're they're trying
to do a bunch of things that make it easier
for people to buy a house. Will it I don't know. Uh,

(25:16):
it's well intentioned, I don't know that it'll do much
let's see, I fear that Donald Trump will never be
made to face consequences for his crimes. Why I don't
fear that. There's a lot of very rich white men
who have never faced consequences for their crimes. And my
life went on. Okay. There are so many people that
have wronged gay people, killed gay people, fired gay people

(25:39):
for being gay, prevented gay people from succeeding, said horrible
things about gay people, and never had to come up
and ever they got to live long strom Thurmon lived
to be like a hundred plus. He was a fucking
Confederate racist, neo Nazi, fascist pig. He never got his
come up in ever. So yeah, I don't if Donald

(25:59):
Trump never gets punished, Oh well, he is already being punished.
Donald Trump has a miserable life. Listen to him talk.
He's miserable. He should be having the time of his
fucking life. Obama had the time of his life. He
was the president and he had fun and he made
it look easy. And no matter how stressed he got,

(26:21):
he never conveyed that to the American people because he
was a president. Donald Trump should be having the time
of his life. He is grifting a nation. He is
making billions of dollars for him and his family. He
should be having a ball instead. He is miserable. And

(26:42):
why is he miserable Because he's a miserable person. He's miserable,
and so that's my revenge on Donald Trump. He has
nobody that loves him. None of his family cared for him.
No one's going to attend his funeral, no head of state.
The rest of the world this morning condemned him. The
rest of the world leaders this morning all came out

(27:02):
and said he is not helping the world. We don't
trust the United States as a partner anymore. Donald Trump
is a problem. He's not well loved, he's not well respected.
Most of America hates him. In a new poll, his
approval rating is below thirty percent, So most of the
country hates him. The only people that still build him
up and boost his ego are these insane, insane MAGA people.

(27:26):
A lot of MAGA has left him now or they're
just being quiet about it. They're not as raw raw
as they used to be. Oh yeah, about twenty or
thirty percent of MAGA is still all in for the president.
And they're the ones we hear on social media and
they're the ones we see being interviewed. They don't speak
for the country. The country does not like Donald Trump.
Americans en mass do not like Donald Trump. Now, if

(27:51):
you're maga and you're mad at me for saying that,
I don't fucking care. It's a fact. It's backed up
by research and by polling data. He is underwater in
all but three states. Forty seven states disapprove of him.
He's minus twenty one in Florida Florida, he's minus seventeen
in Texas, he's minus sixty in California, minus forty four

(28:15):
in Washington. The man is completely underwater in approval ratings.
He lives a terrible, miserable life. So I don't care
what happens to him. I don't because no one loves
him and he's miserable. So you know, one day nature
will put him out of his misery. He'll drop and

(28:36):
that's that. Let's see what are some of the other concerns.
We'll read through them during this quick break and come
back and talk about doom maxing. How everyone seems to
do it. Let's see, I'm worried about money. Yeah, everyone,
it just seems money. I see the word money in
here a lot. I'm worried about money. Money is my

(28:56):
number one concern. If I had access to money, I'd
have a show on Free Speech TV. I spoke to them,
James Nabel, I spoke to Free Speech TV. They want
life and segments back. They want it back weekly, one
hour show. They want it yep, And if I had
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Michelle in the chatroom at YouTube dot Com, forward Sashmari
Carrell says, my mom always tells me it's hard to
change the constitution. I only hope you're both right. I am,
we are. And by the way, if Democrats do win
in the midterms, a Democratic House or Senate or both,
then there's no third term period because it would never
pass Congress or the Senate. And then all well, he

(30:39):
could declare martial law. No, there are elections during martial law.
There's nothing he can do. It's fear. It's dooms maxing.
MAGA is great at doom maaxing. They're great at it,
and they love to do it to liberals. They love
to trigger liberals with stuff that they know is never

(30:59):
gonna happen. And any Republican Uh. Tucker Carlson yesterday announced
he's left the Republican Party that he can't take it.
Tucker Carlson has left the Republican Party. Marjorie Taylor Green Christy, No,
they're they're there, They're they know the Titanic is sinking
and they're jumping off. Okay, so that's doom maxing. He's

(31:22):
never going to have a third term. He's not going
to live through his second. Okay, so that's don't even
sweat it. But what if? What if? What if an
asteroid hits the planet? There is there is more of
a chance because guess what, that's happened several times. An
asteroid hitting planet Earth has happened several times. A president

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getting a third term in America never happened, you know,
so worry about things that could actually happen don't doom
Max because Meg Maga wants you to. They love to
trigger liberals into the worst case scenarios. I worry the
Affordable Care Act will be eliminated and I won't be
able to afford healthcare. Everybody worries about that. According to

(32:09):
our recent poll, healthcare is the number one issue leading
into the primaries or to the midterms. Healthcare number one issue.
Number one healthcare because we're aging. There's a price of
everything to worry about too. I only get twenty five
dollars a month in food stamps, and it takes sixty
to fill a gas tank. Amen. Maga is split on

(32:30):
a ran and the resolution of that divide is based
on who is more loyal to Trump. Amen. I heard
a Trump supporter today that what's his name, Dean Withers,
the young, cute, blonde kid that always takes on Maga.
I won't do that. All of these liberals, now, these
liberal podcasters and broadcasters are getting likes and views and
making lots of money. Maybe I should do it, but

(32:52):
they're sitting across from a MAGA person and they're having
some sort of debate. That's like trying to teach math
to a pig. It frustrates the human and pisses off
the pig. I would never do that because they're not
gonna listen. And when this woman said, Donald Trump never
said he likes to see naked ladies at a pageant,
and then Dean Withers pay played the tape of the

(33:16):
Howard Stern Show where Donald Trump said I like to
go in their clothes are off, played it, and you
know what she said, We know what I like a
real man that's attracted to women. I like a you know,
men have testosterone, and you know what, I like that
a real So at first she said he didn't do it.

(33:36):
Then once it was proved he did it, Oh well,
it's okay because he's just a straight guy attracted to
straight women. These were underage girls. And if her daughter
were raped by Donald Trump, I bet she'd excuse it away.
There are women that would offer up their daughters to
be raped by Donald Trump. There are they exist, and she,

(33:57):
this woman I saw today, is one of them. So
they're irredeemable. There's no point debating them. There's no point
trying to teach them, there's no point. The word irredeemable
means unable to be redeemed. MAGA is irredeemable. It's a
cult and unless they are deprogrammed, and it would take years,

(34:22):
then we're just going to have to understand that there
is this functioning cult and not listen to them and
not let them elect people. I'm waiting for nature to
free us of him. Yes, it's going to Andy hum
needs a co anchor. Well, he hasn't answered me, James,
I've emailed him three times. However, I will say from

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Free Speech TV that they did offer Life in segments.
They said, if you want to do an hour long
show that is less politics and more lifestyle, cooking, travel, entertainment,
other kinds of issues that aren't directly related to Donald Trump,
we'd love to have that show. I would love to
stop doing this Monday through Thursday show and just do

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a weekly one hour Life and segments close through CHDD
and as a podcast. I would love that. I think
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Okay. Doom maxing, Yes, that's that's and we're all caught
up in it. Everybody does it doom maxing because the
algorithm serves it, because it serves the rich. The rich
get rich off your fear, and so they make you
afraid all the time, and they bring about issues that

(36:10):
aren't issues, and then the real issues they cover up.
They cover up climate change. What's happening in Europe right now,
one hundred and four degree heat, forty people dead. All
we should think about from this point forward is climate change.
Here in Las Vegas. We should not build one more
house that does not have reflective walls, concrete that absorbs

(36:32):
the heat, and is water self sufficient, not one. Climate
change should be the number one thing on everybody's mind.
Climate change period, it's killing people every day. It's not
the number one thing. Well, the reasons I don't want
a car they contribute to climate change. I mean, if

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I could get an affordable neat see that, my mind
goes back to my problems. I'm sorry, I don't mean
to do that during the show, but that that's really
where my mind goes, Like, I want a car that
doesn't trash the environment but doesn't cost a fortune. Well,
you can't bin. Even a Nissan Leaf is twenty thousand dollars.
I ain't got twenty thousand dollars. If I got twenty

(37:16):
thousand dollars, that'd be seven episodes of Life and Segments,
which Free Speech TV said I could fund by tax
deductible donations. They said, if you find a sponsor that
wants to give to Free Speech TV, like ten thousand
dollars or five thousand dollars, we'll cut you a check
back for production cost. Out of that, we'll keep a

(37:37):
small amount and we'll cut you a check back so
you can finance your throat show through people who want
a tax Right off, I'm all, well, where do I
find those people? Where do I find a rich gay
vegan that wants to give, you know, fifty grand for
me to do Life in Segments? It's like, what tree
does that grow on? So climate change, they're dying in

(37:58):
Europe today. That should be on everyone's mind. I mean, yeah,
they're talking about Carrie keyth Steimer resigning their sixth prime
minister in seven years. And I wish we had that
system where we could just make Trump go, but we
don't because after the midterms, what's really going to happen
to him unless he's impeached, you know. So what are

(38:20):
your fears? You know, what are your fears? What are
your biggest fears? I tried to put my worries about
friends with severe health problems, but I was given a
sad face in my text woodn't show. I wonder why
that is. Let's see vote female next time, I agree,
or for Pete boota judge. Vote for a gay guy.

(38:41):
He'll get the job done, you know, because we haven't
had enough change. We need a woman, or we need
a gay guy. We need we need some change on here.
So yesterday I want to talk to you about the
economics of things that you consume that you probably don't
think about. I want to call this segment stuff that

(39:02):
you don't think about, because I think about this stuff,
but I'm quite sure you don't, Okay, And yet when
I find it out, I'm so very intrigued by it.
It sticks with me. So some things I found out
yesterday stuck with me, and I wanted to share them
with you because it it really stuck with me. So

(39:22):
I was feeling a little down yesterday. Actually, I was
feeling like a failure. True story. I felt like a
complete failure. I'm not a failure. I've made history. I'm
a prominent gay figure. But I felt like a failure
yesterday because I couldn't afford to bip down to LA
to go to this thing and be on this panel.
I thought, you don't even got five hundred dollars you
could spend on this. I shouldn't have to spend it,

(39:43):
by the way, they should pay their speakers. But you
know what I mean. I was like, you really want
to do it. That's something I really wanted to do
and I couldn't because of money. And now I find
out about my car. I'd like to say, just keep
the frickin' car and go buy a convertible Jeep and
call it a day, because that's my dream car. I
know they're not comfortable, I know all about it. I

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want a Jeep convertible, That's what I want. Or an
electric a complete like a Kia Nero, a Kiya Nero,
or a Jeep convertible. Those are my dream cars. That's
what I want. I should be able to go buy
a jeep at this point in my life. I'm sixty
three years old. I have the credit. I could go
buy it, but it's making the payment that would be
the problem. So those things that come into my mind

(40:26):
I felt, so I felt like a failure. So I said, well,
how much money? Because actually Randy Radar texted me and said,
all you keep shouting at windmills, like with your music
and whatever. You know, get your book out, get your
book out, get your book out. You know, your cookbook,
because I'm a brilliant writer. So I said, okay, how
much does music publishing a cookbook or being a podcaster

(40:51):
pay in real life? How much does it pay in
this new entertainment world in which we live. Maybe a'll
have never questioned how much your podcasters make the podcast
that you listen to. You know, maybe you've never wondered
how much the music artist that you listen to makes,

(41:14):
because you probably listened to very big artist who make
a ton of money. But that's not the music industry.
There's the five percent of the music industry that are
signed to labels and have big deals and are selling
a bunch of records or having a lot of streams,
the Madonna, the Taylor Swift, even the middle of the
road people that are still getting millions of views and

(41:37):
millions of streams. That's about five percent of the music industry.
The same with podcasters. Yes there's Don Lemon and Adam
Mockler and Brian Taylor Cohen. But you know that's not
me or Mark Thompson or you know or whoever else. Yes,

(41:58):
Stephanie Miller probably makes around a million a year, maybe
a little under. We know David Pacman does. So they're okay,
they're doing okay, They're not rich. They're not Joe Rogan,
who made one hundred million dollars last year. Stephanie Miller
did not make what Joe Rogan made last year. David

(42:18):
Pacman did not make what Joe Rogan. But how about
the others out there? Okay, how about the others? Okay? So, first,
since since Randy criticized me doing music, which I love
my new song and the label loves my new song,
so they're gonna remix it and promote it. That's great.

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So I said, what does the average independent artist? Since
only five percent of all music artists are signed to
a major record label, Warner Brothers, Universal Music. All of
that five percent, that's it. Ninety five percent of the
music you hear is not signed to a major record

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So you know how much do the people not signed
to a major make? And then I found out that
even if you are signed to a major record label,
you're not making what people think you're making. So this
is what Chad Gpt and Claude, because Claude is good
at research, had to say. The frustrating answer is that
there isn't a single reliable average because music income is

(43:23):
incredibly skewed. A tiny number of artists earn a lot,
while the overwhelming majority earned very little. That said, if
you're asking what does the typical independent artists make from recordings, streaming, publishing,
and royalties alone, without touring or merchandise, the best estimates
can be found somewhere between twenty five hundred and twelve

(43:45):
thousand dollars per year, with many artists making substantially less.
One survey found the average indie musician earned about fifty
seven hundred dollars a year, while the median was closer
to twenty five one hundred dollars. A more recent independent
artist income report found indie artist averaging at about eleven thousand,

(44:07):
five hundred a year. Spotify data shows that the one
hundred thousands highest earning artist generate okay, this is the
top one hundred thousand artist on Spotify. Okay. The top
one hundred thousand artist earned about seventy three hundred dollars
a year in twenty twenty five. For a songwriter who

(44:31):
owns both the master and publishing, one hundred thousand streams
is three hundred to five hundred dollars. One million streams
is three thousand to five thousand dollars, ten million streams
thirty thousand to fifty thousand dollars, one hundred million streams
three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand dollars. Do you

(44:54):
have any idea how much one hundred million record sales
would have made you? Do you have any idea how
much one hundred thousand plays on the radio would have
made you? If you had gotten a hundred million radio plays,
you would have made tens of millions of dollars. Now
you make under five hundred thousand. YEP, Tens of thousands

(45:18):
of streams are mostly promotional. Hundreds of thousands of streams
might buy dinner. Millions of streams start to become meaningful income.
Can you believe that? So a majority of artists in
my position who are not on a major label make
eleven grand a year. That's it. So then I asked

(45:40):
about podcasters. I said, what about podcasters? And it knows
how much I make from Patreon. I make a thousand
a month from Patreon. I'm very transparent about that. It
says your thousand a month is certainly not at the
bottom of Patreon. In fact, based on the data available,
you're above the vast majorority of independent podcasters. Most podcasters

(46:03):
never make a dollar. Depending on the study, somewhere between
seventy to ninety percent of podcast either have no monetization
at all or earn less than enough to cover the
hosting cost, never build a paying audience. Patreon is very
top heavy. Many creators have fewer than ten patrons, less

(46:24):
than one hundred dollars a month in support, and no
recurring revenue. At one thousand dollars a month from Patreon,
you're earning about twelve thousand a year from audience support alone.
Patreon income benchmarks puts you in the top twenty percent
the only thing above you is a major independent creator,
and they often make more than ten thousand dollars a month. Now,

(46:47):
given your stature in media, you should be a major
independent creator, and I'm happy to explore with you ways
to get you to that income. Thanks CHATJPT. People like
Don Lemon, who make millions a year or Joe Rogan,
who make millions of dollars a year, are rare, to
say the least. A majority of podcasters out there right now,

(47:11):
about seventy to ninety percent, do not even make one
thousand dollars per year. Wow. Wow, Wow. So the people
that you enjoy listening to aren't making a ton of money.

(47:31):
They're just not, And so I worry about that. When
we were talking about what is your biggest worry? The
industry that I'm in entertainment, podcasting, songwriting, movie production, television production,
all of it. Everything I do, public speaking, live stage,

(47:52):
all the revenues from that have gone down, down, down,
And the only people making enough money to actually live
are the superstars. Even large talent that signed to a
label can't tour because the expense is too high and
they have to charge too much for tickets, so their

(48:13):
audiences won't come. I looked at Kelly Clarkson tickets yesterday
because Caesar said, oh, look, we're doing a fifty dollars special.
So I looked for fifty dollars tickets for Kelly Clarkson
here in Las Vegas. I couldn't find any. They said
they're running this special. But to sit in the first
area down front of Kelly Clarkson is six hundred and

(48:35):
seventy five dollars per ticket. Most people cannot afford that.
If they buy that ticket, they can't afford it. They're
putting it on the charge card or whatever. I looked
at other acts that I might want to see, same thing,
six hundred, seven hundred dollars. Comedy clubs now charge fifty

(48:56):
bucks plus two drinks, so it's basically one hundred bucks.
Some comedy clubs charge twenty or thirty, but they still
have a two drink minimum, so it's still seventy to
eighty bucks. If I do a show in the Bay Area,
I'm going to have to charge forty to fifty dollars
a ticket, and I don't want to, but that's how

(49:17):
much I'm going to have to charge, and that's not
going to rake in a ton of money for me
that's going to pay the venue and travel cost. So
I worry about my career because monetizing it has become
increasingly hard, And as Chad Gpt told me yesterday, yes
it's maddening. Some people with hardly any skill or talent

(49:40):
or experience start a podcast or start a social media account.
They get millions of viewers or listeners and they're making
a shit ton of money. There's no formula. We don't
know why that happens. Meanwhile, someone with lots of experience
and lots of talent doesn't make anything. Someone will record
a song, the song will go viral. They'll make a
shit ton the money off the song. Other people, established

(50:03):
recording artists, release records and you barely hear them and
they disappear. How many of you remember Texas Hold Them
by Beyonce and all of the controversy about her doing
a country song, Well, both her and the song are
out of out of the No one's talking about them
right now. They come and they go. Madonna's got a

(50:23):
huge album coming. It'll be gone. Madonna the studio, she
did an interview. The studio would not give her the
budget that she needed for her bioplas. So now they're
not doing this. They're going to do it as a
series that pets. Because Universal wouldn't give Madonna money for
a movie. Universal Madonna, they told her no, now it's

(51:02):
show side. Can you imagine Madonna not being able to
finance her own biography Madonna, they had the script, everything
was ready to go, and Universal would not approve the budget.
And she said, well, I've had a big life. It's

(51:23):
expensive to film. She even said she'd film it in Serbia.
She said that I'll film it in Serbia. They didn't
believe her. They said, you won't last three days in Serbia.
She goes, it's work. Of course I will. They wouldn't
finance her film, so she couldn't even take the script
with her, the script that she wrote about her life.

(51:43):
Universal kept, And now she's gone to Netflix and they're
making it a six part mini series. That's the industry
I'm in now, where Madonna can't even get the financing
for her movie. I'm sure your industries you're seeing the
same thing. So what do you really worry about? That?

(52:05):
That's what I really worry about. I don't worry about
Donald Trump all day long. When this show's over in
seven minutes. I won't think about Donald Trump for the
rest of the day except please die, please die, please die,
please die, please die, Please kill over dead, Please choke
on a chicken wing or McDonald McNugget. Oh, if he
would only choke to death on a McNugget, it would
be so just prophetic. Just do it, you know. But

(52:31):
I don't think about the rest of it, and neither
do you. So leave down below. Healthcare is obviously something
you think about. That's a recurring theme. Money is something
you obviously think about, and see that does tie into politics.
Donald Trump controls your bottom line. He starts an unjust
war with Iran. Suddenly we're all going broke. I filled

(52:54):
up my bike this morning twelve dollars. You're like, well,
I'd love that. Well, it's not normally to twelve dollars
to fill it up. It's normally seven or eight dollars,
but twelve dollars to fill it up because gas was
five dollars a gallon. So yes, Donald Trump, and he
affects healthcare. They want to get rid of Obamacare because
the name Obama is on it. So yeah, he does

(53:18):
affect your bottom line when it comes to money, he does,
and he's fucked it up. He has totally ruined your
bank account. Home prices, interest rates are directly tied to
what Donald Trump does, and so he's affecting our housing
and then our debt. By the time he's done, will

(53:41):
be fifty trillion in debt. Let me ask this to
chat GPT. Let's see. Let me see. Here's let's do
a number that's shocking. So the United States is fifty
trillion in debt, or will be if we paid back
one mills billion dollars a day of our national debt,

(54:04):
how long would it take to pay it off? So
if we were to cause it's like a credit card,
So if we were to pay off a million dollars
a day towards our national debt, how long would it
take to pay it off? Let's see, I'll use the
current US debt figure. So the current debt is thirty

(54:25):
nine trillion dollars. If we paid a million dollars per day,
Oh my christ, So we could pay one million dollars
a day on our national debt. How long do you
think it would take to pay it off? How long?

(54:47):
How long? The current national debt of thirty nine point
two eight trillion dollars if we paid one million dollars
a day. If we crewed no more debt and just
paid a million dollars a day back, how long do

(55:08):
you all think it would take? Come on, someone in
the chat room, give me a number, anybody, you're not
going to believe this. One hundred and seven five, one
hundred and seven thousand, five hundred years. It would take
at a million dollars a day, over one hundred thousand

(55:31):
years to repay our national debt. At ten million dollars
a day, it would take ten thousand, seven hundred years
to pay back our national debt. If we gave okay,
so let's say every American gave a dollar a day. Okay,
a dollar a day, So that's three hundred and twenty

(55:53):
seven million dollars a day. If we paid three hundred
and twenty seven million per day, how long? So if
every American every day gave one dollar towards the national debt,
every American, old, young, babies, whatever, if we paid three
hundred and twenty seven million dollars per day, it would

(56:16):
still take three hundred and twenty nine years to pay
off the national debt. And that's with every American paying
a dollar a day three hundred and twenty nine years,
every American paying ten dollars a day or five hundred
and twenty dollars or what would that be? Ten dollars

(56:36):
a day would be five hundred and twenty No, No,
three hundred sixty would be three thousand, six hundred and
fifty dollars a year. If every American paid three hundred
and sixty five dollars three thousand, six hundred and fifty
dollars per year, it would still take thirty two years
to pay it off. At a dollar a day day

(57:00):
three hundred and twenty nine years. And if we gave
a million dollars a day every day to the national debt,
it would take over one hundred thousand years. And by
the time he's done office, we're going to be fifty
trillion dollars in debt. That is a debt that is

(57:22):
never payable. We will never pay that off ever. Ever.
You saw, if we paid three hundred and twenty seven
million dollars a day, it would still take three hundred
and twenty nine million years to pay it off. It's
never gonna happen. So we're screwed as a nation. We're

(57:48):
always going to be in debt, your children, your children's
children there for if a generation is one hundred years,
we're going to be in debt for one hundred thousand years,
or basically, you know, ten thousand generations. Humans are not
gonna last as long as our national debt. Humans will
be off planet Earth and we'll steal howe money to somebody.

(58:13):
Oh my god. Put your comments down below? What is
it you worry about? I am corel Be who you
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and then Thursday, of course, and Friday. I believe we're
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