June 24, 2026 • 59 mins
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Toy Story 5 may be breaking box office records, but beneath the animation is a message that hits much closer to home. The film explores a battle between analog toys and digital devices, raising a question that affects all of us: Have we traded real human connection for screens?
Today, we dive into what may be the biggest challenge facing modern society. Despite being more connected digitally than at any point in history, people are feeling more isolated, disconnected, and lonely than ever before.
From endless scrolling and short-form content to online relationships that only feel real, we’re losing something essential. We’re becoming disconnected from nature, from beauty, from community, and from one another. Even the colors and experiences of the real world seem to be fading behind glowing screens.
Can we get our humanity back? Can we reconnect with each other in a meaningful way? The answer may be yes—but many of us won’t like what it requires.
Also today:
• A fence goes up around Trump’s troubled reflecting pool project
• The Senate finally pushes back against an unjust and illegal war with Iran
• Why accountability still matters in American democracy
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THE GREAT DISCONNECT: ARE PHONES DESTROYING HUMAN CONNECTION?
Toy Story 5 may be breaking box office records, but beneath the animation is a message that hits much closer to home. The film explores a battle between analog toys and digital devices, raising a question that affects all of us: Have we traded real human connection for screens?
Today, we dive into what may be the biggest challenge facing modern society. Despite being more connected digitally than at any point in history, people are feeling more isolated, disconnected, and lonely than ever before.
From endless scrolling and short-form content to online relationships that only feel real, we’re losing something essential. We’re becoming disconnected from nature, from beauty, from community, and from one another. Even the colors and experiences of the real world seem to be fading behind glowing screens.
Can we get our humanity back? Can we reconnect with each other in a meaningful way? The answer may be yes—but many of us won’t like what it requires.
Also today:
• A fence goes up around Trump’s troubled reflecting pool project
• The Senate finally pushes back against an unjust and illegal war with Iran
• Why accountability still matters in American democracy
Join Karel for a thought-provoking conversation about technology, loneliness, politics, and what it means to be human in a digital age.
Support the show:
Patreon: ReallyKarel
Subscribe:
YouTube: youtube.com/reallykarel
The Karel Cast streams live Monday through Thursday at 10:30 AM Pacific and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Spreaker, and all major podcast platforms.
#HumanConnection, #Loneliness, #Technology, #ToyStory5, #DigitalAge, #SocialMedia, #ScreenTime, #MentalHealth, #Isolation, #Community, #Humanity, #Culture, #ModernLife, #Relationships, #Connection, #CurrentEvents, #Politics, #Trump, #Iran, #Senate, #NewsCommentary, #ProgressiveVoices, #YouTubePodcast, #PodcastLife, #Karel, #TheKarelCast, #Society, #LifeIn2026, #Discussion, #NewsAnalysis
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Speaker 4 (00:27):
Breaking news. Donald Trump is still an asshole. We'll tell
you why. Also, it's the great Disconnect. We'll talk about that.
And today is a sad day in gay history, and
we'll talk about that and so much more on today's
Carrel Show. Woo No, all right, it is the Carell Show.
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I am Carrel, so very glad you are joining me.
Hopefully we are streaming. I'm trying to find out here.
There's always so much going on in the world, in
the world of technology. But let's hope that we got
this going on and we got it going right. I
think we do. I think there's some streaming going on.
Whole lot of streaming going on. Alrighty James already in
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the chatroom at YouTube dot com Forward slash really girl
breaking news. Donald Trump just canceled a bipartisan signing of
the housing bill, which has gone through. I was just
reading about what it's really going to do, and you know,
I mean, I don't mean to be weird, but but
I am. But it doesn't do much. I mean, it
(01:31):
says it does something to help people buy houses, but
I read it and I don't really see. You know,
it caps the number of private investors, Okay, I mean,
you know, you don't want corporations to own the whole city.
But then again, if you're selling your house, do you
really care? You know? But it also removes restrictions on
(01:54):
certain manufactured housing and other housing. I don't know that
that's good or bad. Restrictions are there for a re
you know, environmental protection and all of that, sou But
the number one thing that Donald Trump could do and
the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and House to
spur home sales is to fix the frickin' economy. Okay.
(02:16):
Nothing in there brings down interest rates. They're at like
six and a half almost seven percent, you know, so
nothing does that. Nothing makes people feel more financially secure,
so they're more apt to go spend money. So I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm like, let's the buzz tell me what's I happen in?
Which is that's by the way, that play Jesus Christ
Superstar enjoying great success in the UK right now, And
I couldn't be happier for them with Sam Ryder, who
I love Sam Wolf writer, Sam Harre, writer, Sam whatever
(02:53):
his instagram is Sam wrd. I love him. Uh and
it's going to go on tour with him, and so
I might have to go to the UK and take
a look. But anyway, what's the buzz? So Trump has
abruptly canceled and probably because he's sick, and Donald Trump
is very sick. Okay, he's like really sick. Let me
(03:17):
tell you what happened. I found this story that no
one's paying attention to in the mainstream media because they're
not interested in the facts. And of course, your poor Europe.
We're going to talk about poor Europe today. They're just
dying over there. But this is from the New Republic.
Eli Lilly approved an obesity drug for a mystery seventy
(03:38):
nine year old patient. Questions are swirling over Donald Trump
and his health after a bombshell report revealed a mystery
man was getting unprecedented access to a weight loss drug.
A seventy nine year old man who was soon to
(03:58):
be eighty has received unparalleled access to Eli Lilly's obese drugs.
Millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting access to retat r
e t a t r u I d retat uh
true tide retata true te. Who makes up these fucking names?
(04:22):
A powerful new drug from the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly,
But no one, okay has identified the person. One identified
person has been able only one to gain premature access
to the drug via the Food and Drugs Administration's Compassionate
Use Program. The FDA program is designed to prioritize access
(04:47):
to experimental drugs for patients. By the way, this came
about during aids for patients with grave or life threatening
medical issues. Grave or life threatening and while the name
aime of the individual has not known, several signs point
to Donald Trump. A senior clinician at the National Institute
of Health Ran Gennath Muniyappa, I'm making that up, requested
(05:13):
access to the drug for the unnamed patient in April.
They cited a diagnosis of refractory obesity with obstructive sleep
apnea pulmonary hypertension, which is hypertension of the lungs, a
potentially life threatening disease characterized by high blood pressure in
the lungs. The request reportedly drew the attention of the
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top health officials which sat then noted was indicative of
the patient's influence. Hello, what was.
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Speaker 4 (06:17):
So a lot of people are waiting for this new
obesity drug ragan Attitude or whatever it is, and one
seventy nine year old man, one in the entire country
one got access to it under the grave injury and
or death parameter. Based on the vague parameters of the
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patient's identity, stat reached out to the White House to
see if the recipient could possibly be Donald Trump, who
similarly suffers from obesity and has publicly expressed interest in
obesity drugs. I always wondered why I didn't put them
on a GOLP one. The White House did not explicitly
deny that the patient was Trump. When asked if Trump
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was the seventy nine year old men in question, White
House spokesperson Cushed Desi did not say no, and instead
referred STAT to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The president was seventy nine at the time. When asked
if Trump had obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension, Desai
offered Trump's latest medical evaluation as a counter, which he
(07:23):
falsely claimed covered this according to STAT, it does not.
According to STAT. The memo makes no mention of either disease.
AHHS did not address the issue of the retrata tratitude
or the patient's identity. The FDA supports expanded access programs
(07:44):
that can provide patients with serious or life threatening conditions
access to investigational treatments when no comparable or satisfying approved
therapies are available. Look Andrew got drugs under this statute,
and a lot of my friends with aides did. Of course,
later their arms fell off or their eyes fell out
or something. But each request is reviewed on a case
(08:06):
by case basis based on the clinical circumstances and applicable
statutory and regulatory requirements. In a public exchange with STAT
over X later Tuesday morning, DECI specified that the application
was not for the president. The STAT reporter, Lizzie Lawrence,
responded that she had asked several federal agencies multiple times
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on Monday, but no one had answered her questions directly,
and that she did not believe decigh. Whoever the patient is,
they had been previously treated with other obesity drugs, such
as o zepic. Those sources who spoke with STAT indicate
the patient experienced only moderate weight loss As a result.
(08:50):
They reportedly recommended against bariatric surgery because of the patient's
age and comorbidity. Donald Trump is getting an experimental drug
that you and I can't get, and he's getting it
because he's really, really sick. Okay, I mean that's just
the way that is. And you know, so he has
(09:15):
canceled the bipartisan signing this morning of a bill that
both sides want. So I don't understand why he would
have any trouble with it, unless, of course, he's sick,
because he's eighty and he's sick. And I don't even
know why they won't announce it. What's the big deal.
We all have eyes, Okay, we can see he's not
(09:36):
a well man. I mean, we can't recall him. I
don't know what are they afraid of? The twenty fifth Amendment?
Why won't they release how sick he really is. You know,
are they just afraid that someone will invoke the twenty fifth?
I don't know. I don't know. What I do know
is it's getting hot in here. Can I just say
(09:58):
there was an unexpected monsoon in Las veg Guess this morning.
It's gonna be one hundred and seven today, but it
was pouring rain this morning. At three am, a crash
of thunder so loud it woke the entire valley. Everybody
I've talked to this morning said, oh my god, three o'clock,
jumped out of bed. We all did. Ember did, I did,
Steve Cabral did. Everyone I know did, Jeanie and Sherry did.
At the park. Everybody I spoke to at the park. Everybody,
(10:20):
even the homeless people, commented about it. And I'm not
making that up. I talked to the homeless people, and
even they, you know, you know, we're like, ah, so, yeah,
so you know there's that. And so on the way
home it poured. It poured. I didn't expect it. We
walked to the park, It's an hour and forty minute walk,
and twenty minutes in it started raining and it stayed
(10:41):
raining the entire time. Ember and I. I'm gonna cry
because Ember and I got drenched and we ran in
the rain, and I took off my shirt and I
sang the Wet Album at the top of my voice.
I was out there walking through Desert Breeze Park singing
kiss me in the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Rain, Make me feel like good child again, bring back
all those memories.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh, yes, was the feeling that I get. I don't
even mind if I good wit. Oh and Ember was
just so cute, all soaking wet and running next to
her daddy. Oh my see, I'm gonna get all the clemped.
(11:32):
It was a beautiful morning, drenched to the gills, but
it was ninety five degrees out, so drenched to the
to the gills, ninety five degrees, my little girl and
I running in the rain. God, I'm gonna miss her anyway.
So it was great. But okay, so sorry. I talked
(11:56):
right through the break because I was just reminiscing. It
was so fabulous. It was just so fabulos us. But
they don't have that luxury over in Europe. Take a
look at this map, child, Look at that? Can you
see ninety three in Zurich? Ninety nine and Leon Leon
Lisbon is going to be a little bit cooler. Seventy
(12:19):
seven France, though, which is ground zero, one hundred and
four in Toulouse. We've got Zurich, Switzerland, which is normally
not you know that hot ninety one, one hundred and
six in Tours, one hundred and five in Paris. Over
in London, if you can look at the map, it's
going to be thirty six, which is ninety six degrees fahrenheit.
(12:42):
Even in Warsaw eighty two. I bet when we talked
to our friend in Ukraine, he's going to say it's
hot there. Italy eighty seven, ninety two in Rome, ninety five.
In Barcelona, Spain. Look at Madrid, dear God, look at Spain.
I mean, is just hottest can be one hundred and
five in Spain one hundred and three, one hundred and four.
(13:04):
They're not set up for this. They had forty deaths
because of the weather yesterday and they're probably gonna have
a lot more. This is climate change at work. This
is the most rapidly heating area in the world. Only
eleven percent of people in the region I just showed
you have air conditioning. It is really tragic. What's going
(13:28):
on over there right now, and I just my thoughts
are with them, because what else can we do, right
I mean, we can't go over there and cool them down,
you know what I'm saying. We can't go cool them down.
So our thoughts are with the people over there, you know,
and we hope with everything in our soul that you
(13:50):
stay safe, you know, because we got to. We gotta
muddle through it. So I'm pulling something up for you.
But I did yesterday and that I'm very proud of
and I want to show it before I do this
next topic. Okay, So I am doing the single as
you know, you have to be proud. I played it
(14:11):
for you yesterday. I did the album cover yesterday. I
did it. And here it is. Take a look, people,
look at that. So that is the stone wall in
that you're looking at right behind that light pole. That
is a photo that I took. That light pole and
those buildings I took that in New York. The Stonewall
Place sign is real. The sign that says Correl is
(14:32):
obviously redone. And then on the wall of the building
behind the stone wall in you see me with a
rainbow and it says you have to be proud, like
painted on the wall of the building. That building is
directly behind. It is on Christopher Street. It is right behind.
The riots occurred right around those two buildings. And that
(14:54):
is the cover for you have to be proud. And
I am so very thrilled with that cover. And I
did it myself. That is not Ai. That photo is real.
That photo was taken about six months ago of me.
And the photo of the street sign is real. I
just had AI take out the bushes that were around
it and one street one way. There's a one way
street sign on it that I had it take out,
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and then of course I did the other end photoshop
on the building. So there it is, and that is great.
And I show you that today, Thank you, Rachel. I
show you that today because today is a very sad anniversary. Okay,
today is a very very sad anniversary. Today. The largest
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gay massacre occurred June twenty fourth, nineteen seventy three, up
until the Poltz Nightclub. And I say this because things
are going badly this Pride Month all across the globe.
They really are. And you know, we've got gauge that
are saying they don't want trans people anymore. You got. Well,
(15:58):
it's just it's going badly. You've got corporations pulling out
and people applauding them for that. You've got so many
things going on. So today, June twenty fourth, nineteen seventy three,
something happened that you don't know about, but I do,
and there is a documentary about it that you should watch.
Today a fire took the lives of thirty two gay
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people at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans. Now remember
this was nineteen seventy three. Being gay was not fashionable, Okay,
there were no laws protecting gay people. So they still
don't know who started the fire. They think they believe
that a disgruntled patron who was thrown out of the
(16:46):
bar for whatever reason, came back with a gas can,
locked the bottom door because it's called the Upstairs Lounge
for a reason, it was on the second story, locked
the bottom door with a shovel so they couldn't get out,
and started a fire. Fifteen people jumped and lived, thirty
(17:07):
two died. There is a very famous picture of a
person clinging to the bars of the window and they
are literally ash. They are burnt to a complete crisp,
but they're still holding the bars of the window because
(17:28):
they couldn't get out. Thirty two gay men and lesbians
died a horrible death today in nineteen seventy three. Those
people were Joseph Henry Adams, Reginald Eugene Adams Junior, Guy Anderson,
Joe William Bailey, Luther Boggs, Lois Louise, Horace Broussard, Herbert
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Dean Cooley, Donald Walter, Dunbar, Adam Rowland, fonn Not, David Stewart,
Gary Horace Getchell, John Thomas Golding, Gerald Hoyt Gordon, Glenn,
Richard Greene, James Walls, Hambrick, Kenneth, Paul Harrington, Reverend William R. Larson,
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Ferris LeBlanc, Robert Lumpkin, Leon Maples, George Matia, Clarence, Joseph
McCloskey Junior, Dwayne, George Mitch Mitchell, Larry Stratton, Eddie Warren,
James Curtis Warren, Willie Enez Warren, doctor Perry Lane Walters Junior,
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Douglas Maxwell Williams, Larry Norman Frost, and two victims that
are unnamed. They never were idd. Now it's the fire
is a tragedy enough, Okay. The tragedy. The fire in
and of itself is a tragedy. But the worst problem,
(19:02):
or the worst part, is that after the fire. First
of all, the firemen didn't want to respond. They knew
it was a gay bar and they didn't really care. Second, afterwards,
the newspapers openly joked about it, openly joked, and the
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Catholic Church in New Orleans A refused to let priest
or any dioceses have funerals for the people that died,
and b if priests called for prayers at Sunday service
for the victims. They were chastised by the church. Everyone
(19:48):
acted like the gay people deserved it. And subsequently, if
even if you just ask, like chat GPT, you know,
explain the reaction action to the upstairs lounge fire. Okay,
here we go, because it'll tell you the upstairs lounge
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fire is almost as historically is important as the fire itself.
An arson attacked at the Upstair Lounge, a gay bar
in the French quarter of New Orleans, killed thirty two
people and injured many others. At the time, it was
the deadliest attack on a gay on gay Americans in
US history, which would only be outdone by the Poultz
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night club shooting where forty nine died. What shocked many
survivors wasn't the fire, It was what happened afterwards, public indifference,
And can you see this happening today? I can. Much
of the city reacted with indifference. Local officials largely remained silent.
No major public mourning was organized, and many newspapers gave
(20:53):
the story limited coverage, despite it being the deadliest fire
in all of New Orleans history, the deadliest fire ever
in the city's history, and the papers didn't even hunt
it or just gave it a blurt. And you wonder
why we need pride money? I could see this happening again,
(21:31):
no show side. Some reactions to the upstairs lounge fire
were openly cruel. One police officer reportedly dismissed the tragedy
by saying, this was, after all, a queer bar. Some
radio commenters mocked the victims and made jokes like I
(21:53):
guess there were a bunch of flaming queens on the radio.
I got reprimanded for playing Ding dong the witch is
dead the day that Ronald Reagan died, or for going
on the radio to put the day that Pope John
Paul died, saying I didn't like him and he was evil.
You know, I got chastised for saying fuck Joe the Plumber.
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Radio commentators in New Orleans went on for the greatest
fire in the city's history and the largest gay massacre ever,
and said, I guess it really was just a bunch
of flaming queens that set the fire. They actually said
that it was because the queens were so flaming that
the place burned down. On air, jokes were made about
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the dead rather than expressions of sympathy in all media
and by many public officials. Author Johnny Townshend later argued
that while the fire itself may not have been motivated
by anti gay hatred, the community's response effectively became a
hate crime of its own. So while it might have
(22:58):
been started by a gay guy who was that he
got kicked out of the bar, it became a hate
crime because of the way New Orleans reacted. The most
painful reaction came from churches. Of course, good God fearing Christians.
Many churches refused to hold funerals for the dead. Archbishop
Philip Hannon denied Catholic funeral services for many victims families
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often struggled to find clergy that were even willing to
conduct memorials. The Metropolitan Community Church was one of the
few that stepped in. Families refused to claim the bodies.
Some families would not claim their loved one's remains because
they were ashamed that their relatives were gay. Several victims
(23:42):
were buried in unmarked graves and Potter's Field because no
one came forward to claim them. Imagine surviving World War II,
raising a family, building a life, and then have your
body left unclaimed because your family couldn't face the truth
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of who you were. That happened to many. The gay community,
of course, reacted very differently. For many around the country,
the fire became proof that they could not rely on police, politicians, churches,
or the media for protection or dignity. This is my life.
I was eleven when this happened. This is my life.
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This is what I have lived. Cops that wouldn't help me,
that made fun of me when I was in danger,
public institutions that openly discriminated against me, Churches that still
to this day preach hate against me. People who come
in my chat room or who quote are go on
to my videos, and say homophobic and horrible slurs with
(24:49):
zero repercussions. The social medias don't take them down. Fifty
years later, New Orleans largely acknowledged that it failed. The
victims memorial have been installed, annual ceremonies are held, and
city leaders have formally recognized the injustice of the response.
The Catholic Church in twenty twenty, just six years ago
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for an event that happened in nineteen seventy three, the
Catholic Church finally issued an apology. The tragedy is now
remembered not only because of the thirty two people who died,
but because it exposed how disposable gay lives were considered
by much of society. And we still are. Trans people
(25:40):
are being killed in record numbers. Hate crimes against gays
have soared five hundred percent under Donald Trump. Aids medication
in the United States and in Africa and other nations
has been cut by Donald Trump. We are dying again.
The religious rights say it's okay now under the life.
(26:00):
The Supreme Court has said under the law that you
don't have to serve a gay person if it's against
your religious beliefs. You all wonder why I'm pissed. You
all wonder why I get so angry all the time?
Try living my life. Try it. I dare you. I
(26:21):
dare you for a week. You don't think I'm still
called faggot over at Desert Priest Park, You know I am.
You know that homeless guy held up a sign on
the fucking corner of the park that I go to
every day that said God demands you kill homosexuals. Not
in nineteen seventy three, in twenty twenty six, And was
(26:41):
he taken off the street? Was his sign destroyed? Nope? Nope.
Every time MAGA attacks trans people, does anybody come to
their aid?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Even some gay people are now jumping ship on trans people.
You will wonder why I want to leave this country.
You will wonder where I am angry a majority of
the time. Try being gay in America now, five years ago,
ten years ago, in nineteen they let us die. They
(27:16):
made jokes if you saw the pictures of the upstairs
lounge of people clinging to the bars whose bodies are
just solid ash, and radio hosts got to call them
flaming queens. The Catholic Church, the largest child rapering in
(27:36):
the world, made fun of victims and refused to let
their clergy reach out to the members of the community.
Families left their loved ones sitting in the morgue unclaimed
to be buried in Potter's Field because they were ashamed
they were gay. I am I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It
(28:10):
is hard for me to continue this show right now
because I hurt so much for those people and the
people at Pault's nightclub and the trans person today that
is going to be met with hatred and bigotry. For
(28:32):
everyone during Pride months, just trying to be themselves and
facing online hatred and bigotry, just like in nineteen seventy three.
It makes me just want to leave, to get out
of this backwards nation. It makes me want people to die,
(28:53):
and I don't like to feel that way. I sometimes
wish every homophobic christ know someone is posting that someone
in Palestine said as soon as we have a Palestine,
we will cleanse it of all the games. And they said, see,
you shouldn't support Palestine, support Israel, And I said, why
(29:15):
I got printed in this country saying the same damn thing.
Right now, I ain't got to look to Palestine.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
It's broadcasting from a completely different point of view.
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Yours listen daily to the.
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Coral cast on your favorite streaming service. You're listening to
the corell cast driving you home or driving you crazy.
It's broadcasting from a completely different point of view.
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Yours listen daily to the.
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Coral cast on your favorite streaming service. You're listening to
the Corelle cast driving you home or driving you crazy.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really am sorry. I
didn't know this topic would affect me so much. I didn't,
but I feel it as bad today as it was
then some fifty plus years ago. And that hatred is
right back, It's right here, It's back in full force.
(30:39):
Maga would say the same things today online that they
said in nineteen seventy three. And if you think they wouldn't,
you're not fucking paying attention. Okay, you're not me. You're
not hearing what I hear and seeing what I see.
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I know most of you find this appalling. You're my listeners,
you're my friends, you're my fans. I know that you
hurt with me. I know that you empathize, and you
know how terrible and horrible what went on today in
nineteen seventy three is. I know that but we're not
the majority. I'll never I will never understand how me
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just being me and how my friends just being my
friends bring on so much hatred. During AIDS, which wasn't
long after nineteen seventy three, I watched a generation of
(31:50):
my beautiful friends just die Lorenzo Clark, Braxton, Rula, Tracy Montclair,
Gary Alexander, Andrew Lee Howard. I watched vibrant, lively, creative,
(32:16):
incredible humans wither and die in weeks and months, and
nobody cared. Nobody Ronald Reagan didn't care. Nobody cared, the
CDC didn't care. Most of the general public didn't care.
(32:39):
They made the same jokes during AIDS. They made jokes
in the White House Press Corps on camera about people
dying of AIDS. Have you ever seen someone die of AIDES?
Have you been in the room when they killed them?
(33:02):
Have you brought things to a party to help them
kill themselves? Have you held their hand and told them
that it's okay to go, That it's okay, Gary, you
can go now, you don't have to hold on anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Have you gone to their funerals and had to fight
through Reverend Phelps and Reverend Sheldon's people that had signs
in front of the funerals that said they deserved to die,
that they got what they deserved. Have you been locked
(33:46):
out of the hospital room because you couldn't legally be
married and your partner of years and years was dying
alone because the family said to keep you out. Have
you gone to funerals for fabulous drag queens only to
(34:08):
see that their family has them in a suit and
a tie and all kinds of boy makeup. Have you
ever had to slam a coffin closed? I did. I
slammed Gary's coffin closed, and I turned and looked at
everyone there and said, damn you all to hell. He
lived with me for nine years and I never saw
one of you motherfuckers at our house. And now you're
(34:29):
gonna sit here and grieve. You're gonna have him in
man clothes. I slammed the coffin closed. Baggage. Yeah, I've
got a little and I've got every right to be pissed,
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every right because today, in nineteen seventy three, thirty two
people burned to death, and then nobody cares, and it
would happen again today. Nothing that's say.
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You know, you wonder how did the person deal? How
did I deal? I became Correll, That's how I bult.
I sang at first and released singles, and then radio
came along. I didn't look for radio. It came along,
and suddenly I'm breaking a barrier in radio for gay
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people taking death threats. The personal told that it took
between Andrew and I, all the fighting that went on
between us because of the stress we were under because
we were gay KFI. We weren't treated well by everybody
at KFI, and I certainly wasn't treated well by people
at KGO. The things that KGO Radio did to me
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are litigious today, the double standard, the comments made by
other hosts on air, Bill Wottenberg and others, the horrible
things they said, Bill Wottenberg saying that I was a
liberal that had up someone's hand, up my ass, moving
my mouth, and I enjoyed it, and he was allowed
(36:55):
to say that. But I was told I could not
reply on air to anything that Wattenberg might have said
or Ron Owens might have said. I was told I
couldn't be on the radio after seven o'clock at night
or before kg O Radio San Francisco would not let
me fill in any spot prior to seven pm. I
(37:17):
could not fill in for Ron Owens in the morning.
I could not fill That is discriminatory. They made it
clear that the gay guy could only go on the
radio after seven o'clock at night. Fuck you Mickey Luckoff
and Jack Swanson for going along with it, and Trish
Robbins for going along with it. Brian Copeland suffered the
(37:40):
same thing. Poor thing, he's in the hospital, had open
heart surgery. Brian Copeland. Oh, he's not doing well, but
he's gonna recover. You think that all this happened in
ancient history. KGO radio was hell for me. They flew me,
They wouldn't give me a raise, they wouldn't give me
a budget for anything, and yet they spent eighteen hundred
(38:02):
dollars to fly me up on Christmas Eve. I had
to go, why so Mickey luck Off could berate me
for what? Well, at the Christmas party four days earlier,
there was a camera on the table and women were
taking out their boobs and they were taking photos on
this strange camera. So when they developed the film, this
(38:24):
person would see boobs. So I turned around and showed
my ass and they took a picture of that. Who
got reported by Bill Wattenberg. The girls pulling out their tits.
No me, and Mickey luck Off made Trish Robbins fly
me up there. He told them to keep me off
the floor and make me wait downstairs, but they said
(38:46):
no and had me wait in Trisha's office. He literally
said I couldn't go on the floor at KGO, and
he took me in his office and he berated me
and humiliated me and said homophobic things to me beyond
the pale. Made me apologize and grovel if I wanted
to keep my job, and I did, and I went
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downstairs and I cried so hard before getting back on
the plane to get home for Christmas Eve. And the
reason I cried was because I had to grovel. I
could have said no, fuck you and not had a job.
No one else at KGO had to do that, nobody
but me. You all think KGO was such a good
(39:31):
time for me, It was fucking hell. Every single week
I was reminded I was different and that there were
different rules for me, and every gay person goes through that,
not just me. And you wonder why we need a
Pride month, you know, you wonder why? Oh, in the
(39:57):
chat room there, I would have reported him. I would
have gotten an attorney. There was no laws protecting me.
Two thousand and three to twenty fifteen. You act like
an attorney could have got a settlement in court. There
were no laws protecting gay people from discrimination, and in
thirty one states it is still legal to fire someone
for being gay. You seem to think there's someone out
(40:19):
there protecting us legally. Grow up. There was no recourse
and KGO knew it. They knew there was nothing I
could do because it was legal. As Bette Midler says,
(40:41):
let's change our head. That wasn't the topic I wanted
to do today, but maybe y'all needed to hear that
on this day of the Upstairs Lounge, how every gay
person goes through that, how trans people are going through
that today when they have to fucking piss and they
walk up to a bathroom door and they don't know
(41:02):
which one to go in because they might be fucking arrested.
Good Christians Mickey Lukoff considers himself a Christian. I'm sure
Jack Swanson and Trish Robbins, I'm sure they consider themselves Christians.
David Hall at KFI was nice to us. Phil Hendry
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was nice to us. John and Ken went on air
and did a half hour anti gay, homophobic rent about
me and Andrew, so much so that the ACLU contacted them.
We didn't even know they had contacted them to possibly
sue them on our behalf, and we didn't even know
(41:45):
it because it was that bad. The next morning we
went into KFI after their rent, and people couldn't look
at us because they didn't know how we were going
to respond. We didn't listen to it, we didn't hear it.
And then Estella Marquin gave us a tape and we
heard a half hour of the worst homophobia that you
(42:06):
have ever heard live on the number one talk station
in the country. And what happened to John and Ken?
They got a fucking bonus and went to KABC and
then went back to KFI where Ken retired, you know
or John, Yeah, Ken retired the gay one. That's what
(42:27):
really hurt. One of them was gay in the closet.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know, we talk about connection. I wanted to talk
about connection today and how we have become so disconnected
in the era of telephones and phones and internet and
text messaging and all of it, that we are just
so disconnected. And the proof that we are disconnected is
(42:55):
how we accept all of the bad behavior going on.
You know, every morning at Desert Briest Park, I see
a shit ton of homeless people, a shit ton and
no one does anything. And in your community, it's everywhere.
It's unacceptable. The number one job of police right now
(43:16):
should be cleaning up our streets, getting the homeless off
our streets. We should not have to see it. They
should not be out there. Other countries have solved their problems,
but we just find it acceptable. Now it's not acceptable,
but we find it. We just look at it and
say there's nothing we can do, and we just drive on. Homelessness.
(43:40):
Acceptable poverty, Acceptable people going bankrupt for medical care, Acceptable
people not being able to access healthcare. Acceptable seniors being
thrown into the streets, are being thrown into hell hosts
because they don't enough money acceptable, social security about to collapse, acceptable,
poverty acceptable, crime acceptable, school shootings acceptable. Look at what
(44:04):
we accept in American culture. Donald Trump acceptable? Well he's
not acceptable to me. Carell Well he's still fucking there,
ain't he? So somebody accepts it. We live in horrible times.
If we truly look at things, because we climate change,
(44:27):
what's happening in Europe today? Acceptable? And what can we do?
We can do plenty, but we won't because we are disconnected.
We are all living with negative comments. Go read under
my videos at Corel official on Instagram or official Corel
on TikTok. Go read the comments. They're unacceptable by any standard.
(44:52):
No one should be allowed to say online what they're
saying about me. It's unacceptable, and yet they're they are.
There's all the comments. All we accept now is bad.
How we're treating trans people unacceptable, unacceptable, but we accept
(45:14):
it because we feel powerless to change it. But if
we all felt connected, if we all felt that we
could pull it together and do things together, that we
were stronger together, then we wouldn't feel that it was
acceptable and we'd be able to change it, but we don't.
(45:36):
I am so tired of America. I really, someone please,
just you know. Nigel Farage got a five million dollar
gift from a Chinese guy, five million dollars just for him,
a private gift for him because he needs security. And
you know he's not making a lot of money because
he's out campaigning and all of that. So this rich
Chinese businessman that agrees with his politics gave him five
(45:57):
million dollars, just a gift, five million dollars, not to
use for anything specific. Just here. You deserve this. You
deserve a good life. You deserve a happy life, Nigel Farage,
here's five million dollars. Why doesn't someone fucking do that
to me? I deserve a good life because I would leave.
I don't know that i'd go to Paris, although I'd
(46:18):
love that city, but I can't take heat. So if
it's gonna start heating up, then Lisbon is staying cool,
Dublin is staying cool. Wow, what a show, What a
show today. I do believe that Caroll was discriminated against
by kgo Well, your belief I mean, thank you for
your beliefs to them, but your belief doesn't matter. I
(46:40):
was discriminated against by KGO. It's not a belief. I
could list time after time after time. They had double
rules for me. I could tell you the homophobic things
Mickey Lukoff said to my face. Often. Often it wasn't
I believe they they did, just like KFI did. They
(47:04):
wouldn't pay us over scale. At KFI, every other drivetime
host each the two combined made over a million a year.
Andrew and I made two hundred thousand combined. Now we
thought that was incredible, but we were the lowest paid
afternoon drive host in Los Angeles history. Andrew and I
(47:25):
why because we were gay, and that's what they told us. Well,
you're an experiment. You're gay, so you know, so they
paid us the least they could pay us at KFI
after a scale one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars a year.
That's what they paid us. John and Ken we're each
(47:48):
getting eight hundred thousand a year. Bill Handle gets over
a million dollars a year. You wonder why I'm poor.
I'm poor because all my life and entertainment and I
was never paid what other people were paid, simply because
I'm gay. I can do the same job as they can.
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And I know a lot of you relate, especially if
you're women. If you're a woman, you know exactly what
I'm saying because you've lived this very same reality. If
you're a white man, you don't know shit. You don't
know anything that I'm talking about, unless you're gay. But
if you're a woman or black or a minority, you
(48:31):
get it. You're like, oh, amen, grow and what are
we supposed to do? You know? All right? Another interesting
story I found out there. Kgo isn't in the opening jingle.
There's no Kgo. I don't reference Kgo anymore in my song.
(48:56):
So I read this interesting story. If you're under fifty,
you're getting more cancers than people over fifty, and that's
not supposed to be that way. And they now know
why this is really interesting. It's from the Times of London. Basically,
younger people are their cells are aging faster, so people
(49:20):
in their forties have a colon that's in its seventies.
And I'm not making this up. They've done the research.
They just did one hundred and fifty thousand surveys of
medical records in the UK and fifty thousand records in
the United States and they now have a test, a
genomic test to test the age of the cells. And
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what they have found is that a forty year old
today has cells my age sixty three. Can you imagine?
And they're not sure why that young people are now
aging on a cellular level faster than ever before. Biologically
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there are forty year olds that are seventy inside they're kidneys,
their colon, their other organs, their heart. Young people under
fifty are getting old people illnesses because their organs are
aging faster than they should be, and they can't figure
out why. They don't know. Is it environment, is it
(50:26):
the food, is it stressed?
Speaker 9 (50:28):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (50:28):
They don't know, but they do know that it's happening.
They have this genomic proof, they have the biological proofs.
If you're under fifty, you're aging faster than people overseas
in terms of organ Yeah, little old organs inside, little kidneys,
o livings.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
Now it's show.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Side, you know, we don't have to go back to KG.
Isn't that interesting though, that that older that younger people
are now aging faster than older people. Isn't that? Why
do you think it is? I think it's the food
(51:25):
I do. I think it's the food. I think that
older that younger people are eating crappy, crappy food. That's
what I think. Now maybe I'm wrong, but that's what
I think. I think older people or younger people are
eating really crappy food. I don't think they're exercising. Uh,
(51:47):
and I think that they're their body is responding on us.
Think there's more stress. Uh, you know that they have
and subsequently they're aging faster. It's that, but it's happening,
you know, you know, So let's see what are we
(52:10):
doing whatever? All right? I did not mean for the
show to go the way that it went today. I didn't.
I really didn't. I mean, what do you care? How's
the fact your life that I was discriminated against about KGO.
I want the show to be more about what's going
on in your world than going on in mind, you know.
(52:32):
But with the Upstairs Lounge tragedy being today and reading
those thirty two names and then looking at how Trump,
look at what Trump is doing to gay people, he
is just setting us back hundreds of years with Project
twenty twenty five and today alone, he's not helping the country.
He hasn't gotten to that signing yet of this housing bill,
(52:52):
and why because he's some sick old man who can't
show up. Then have jd Vance do it. You know
the demo. They've got a rude awakening in New York.
Every democratic socialist that Mendami endorsed, one even beating a Kennedy.
I'm a democratic socialist, I am. That's what. There's finally
(53:15):
a word for what I am. I am a democratic socialist.
I believe in socialism. I believe that we need to
take and make energy free for everybody. Just generate it
and make it free because it comes free from the sun.
I believe water. I believe every essential for human life
should be provided by government. Water, clean air, electricity, internet,
(53:38):
and housing if you can't afford it, and food. I
truly believe in socialism that as a society, we are
better when we all help each other. I do not
believe there should be trillionaires like Elon Musk. I think
we should take his money. We should take every billionaire's
money and only leave them nine hundred million dollars. That's it.
You can survive on nine hundred million dollars. I believe
(54:00):
we should take anything over that just take it, tax
it a ninety nine percent, leave them one percent. And
it's been done before. After World War One and World
War Two, any income above a million dollars was taxed
at ninety seven percent. And guess what, they were still rich.
So Mendami won big in New York in terms of
the people that he endorsed. The House has passed the
(54:23):
bipartisan Housing Bill, banning corporations from buying a lot of property,
except Trump hasn't signed it. The US Senator's voted to
end Trump's Iran war in a rare rebuke of his
war powers. He'll ignore them. That's what the Senate doesn't understand.
They can pass this bill. You know, the Senate votes
to direct end to Iran war, rebuking Trump's on war powers.
(54:45):
He doesn't care, and he has immunity. He can break
every law in the world while he's in the office.
The Supreme Court has said, so he has immunity. I
wanted to talk though today about Toy Story five because
Toy Story five is about human connection and how when
this electronic toy takes over and the analog toys feel
(55:07):
left out, how they have to find a way to
reconnect with the girl and make her use them again.
It's really about human connection. That's what Toy Story five
is about human connection, and I really want to talk
about that because if we were really connected, there wouldn't
be homelessness. If we really were connected, there wouldn't be poverty,
(55:30):
people wouldn't be stressing over healthcare, people wouldn't be alone
as they age. If we were really connected, if we
still connected to each other. But we think friending someone
online or liking their post or commenting under their video
is connection, it's not. We are humans and we need
(55:52):
human connection, and we live in an era where that
is becoming less and less prevalent. Maybe that's why young
people are aging so fast. I'm really what are they
connected to a phone electronics? Maybe their bodies are responding.
Maybe they're just living faster. I don't know. It's really weird.
(56:17):
Extreme heat melting national records across Europe, Yes, we know,
dispute over nuclear inspections show how US and Iran are
negotiating in public because there's no settlement, there's no end
of the war, there is no peace. It's all a
fucking lieh What else Democrats socialists are coming for twenty
(56:40):
twenty eight good Good comedian Guy Branham on what the
old gays remember. I'll tell you what the old gaye remember.
They didn't need to go to him. I we remember pain.
That's if you're a gay and you're over sixty, you
remember great, that's what you remember. Oh yeah, joy and
(57:04):
happiness and love and life and disco and fabulousness. But
you also remember pain, the pain of aids of a pandemic,
taking your friends. Trump cancels signing of landmark bipartisan bill.
It doesn't say why? Why does it not say? President
(57:26):
Donald Trump canceled his approval of landmark bill aimed at
lowering Americans housing costs, just hours ahead of the signing
both chambers were ready. Trump wrote on social media that
he would not sign the bill until a separate law
on a stringent voter ID requirement has passed. Oh great,
so he's blackmailing. So he's got a bill in front
of them to bipartisan to help the Americans find a home,
(57:50):
but he won't sign it until he gets his way
on a voter ID requirement. Impeach the fucker. Now, God,
we have to win the midterms. He's got to go
either die or be impeached one of the two. He
needs to just croak because he's sick as hell, or
be impeached. He's got to go. This man cannot stay
(58:13):
in office for two and a half more years. He
cannot wonder how Maga feels. He won't sign a bill
to make it easier for them to own a home
because he's not getting his way. Oh, now that I've
read that, I'm even angrier. I thought maybe he was
sick or something. But no US support is Israel's true weakness.
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Breaking news. Donald Trump is still an asshole. We'll tell
you why. Also, it's the great Disconnect. We'll talk about that.
And today is a sad day in gay history, and
we'll talk about that and so much more on today's
Carrel Show. Woo No, all right, it is the Carell Show.
(00:49):
I am Carrel, so very glad you are joining me.
Hopefully we are streaming. I'm trying to find out here.
There's always so much going on in the world, in
the world of technology. But let's hope that we got
this going on and we got it going right. I
think we do. I think there's some streaming going on.
Whole lot of streaming going on. Alrighty James already in
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the chatroom at YouTube dot com Forward slash really girl
breaking news. Donald Trump just canceled a bipartisan signing of
the housing bill, which has gone through. I was just
reading about what it's really going to do, and you know,
I mean, I don't mean to be weird, but but
I am. But it doesn't do much. I mean, it
(01:31):
says it does something to help people buy houses, but
I read it and I don't really see. You know,
it caps the number of private investors, Okay, I mean,
you know, you don't want corporations to own the whole city.
But then again, if you're selling your house, do you
really care? You know? But it also removes restrictions on
(01:54):
certain manufactured housing and other housing. I don't know that
that's good or bad. Restrictions are there for a re
you know, environmental protection and all of that, sou But
the number one thing that Donald Trump could do and
the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and House to
spur home sales is to fix the frickin' economy. Okay.
(02:16):
Nothing in there brings down interest rates. They're at like
six and a half almost seven percent, you know, so
nothing does that. Nothing makes people feel more financially secure,
so they're more apt to go spend money. So I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm like, let's the buzz tell me what's I happen in?
Which is that's by the way, that play Jesus Christ
Superstar enjoying great success in the UK right now, And
I couldn't be happier for them with Sam Ryder, who
I love Sam Wolf writer, Sam Harre, writer, Sam whatever
(02:53):
his instagram is Sam wrd. I love him. Uh and
it's going to go on tour with him, and so
I might have to go to the UK and take
a look. But anyway, what's the buzz? So Trump has
abruptly canceled and probably because he's sick, and Donald Trump
is very sick. Okay, he's like really sick. Let me
(03:17):
tell you what happened. I found this story that no
one's paying attention to in the mainstream media because they're
not interested in the facts. And of course, your poor Europe.
We're going to talk about poor Europe today. They're just
dying over there. But this is from the New Republic.
Eli Lilly approved an obesity drug for a mystery seventy
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nine year old patient. Questions are swirling over Donald Trump
and his health after a bombshell report revealed a mystery
man was getting unprecedented access to a weight loss drug.
A seventy nine year old man who was soon to
(03:58):
be eighty has received unparalleled access to Eli Lilly's obese drugs.
Millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting access to retat r
e t a t r u I d retat uh
true tide retata true te. Who makes up these fucking names?
(04:22):
A powerful new drug from the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly,
But no one, okay has identified the person. One identified
person has been able only one to gain premature access
to the drug via the Food and Drugs Administration's Compassionate
Use Program. The FDA program is designed to prioritize access
(04:47):
to experimental drugs for patients. By the way, this came
about during aids for patients with grave or life threatening
medical issues. Grave or life threatening and while the name
aime of the individual has not known, several signs point
to Donald Trump. A senior clinician at the National Institute
of Health Ran Gennath Muniyappa, I'm making that up, requested
(05:13):
access to the drug for the unnamed patient in April.
They cited a diagnosis of refractory obesity with obstructive sleep
apnea pulmonary hypertension, which is hypertension of the lungs, a
potentially life threatening disease characterized by high blood pressure in
the lungs. The request reportedly drew the attention of the
(05:36):
top health officials which sat then noted was indicative of
the patient's influence. Hello, what was.
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So a lot of people are waiting for this new
obesity drug ragan Attitude or whatever it is, and one
seventy nine year old man, one in the entire country
one got access to it under the grave injury and
or death parameter. Based on the vague parameters of the
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patient's identity, stat reached out to the White House to
see if the recipient could possibly be Donald Trump, who
similarly suffers from obesity and has publicly expressed interest in
obesity drugs. I always wondered why I didn't put them
on a GOLP one. The White House did not explicitly
deny that the patient was Trump. When asked if Trump
(06:59):
was the seventy nine year old men in question, White
House spokesperson Cushed Desi did not say no, and instead
referred STAT to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The president was seventy nine at the time. When asked
if Trump had obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension, Desai
offered Trump's latest medical evaluation as a counter, which he
(07:23):
falsely claimed covered this according to STAT, it does not.
According to STAT. The memo makes no mention of either disease.
AHHS did not address the issue of the retrata tratitude
or the patient's identity. The FDA supports expanded access programs
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that can provide patients with serious or life threatening conditions
access to investigational treatments when no comparable or satisfying approved
therapies are available. Look Andrew got drugs under this statute,
and a lot of my friends with aides did. Of course,
later their arms fell off or their eyes fell out
or something. But each request is reviewed on a case
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by case basis based on the clinical circumstances and applicable
statutory and regulatory requirements. In a public exchange with STAT
over X later Tuesday morning, DECI specified that the application
was not for the president. The STAT reporter, Lizzie Lawrence,
responded that she had asked several federal agencies multiple times
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on Monday, but no one had answered her questions directly,
and that she did not believe decigh. Whoever the patient is,
they had been previously treated with other obesity drugs, such
as o zepic. Those sources who spoke with STAT indicate
the patient experienced only moderate weight loss As a result.
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They reportedly recommended against bariatric surgery because of the patient's
age and comorbidity. Donald Trump is getting an experimental drug
that you and I can't get, and he's getting it
because he's really, really sick. Okay, I mean that's just
the way that is. And you know, so he has
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canceled the bipartisan signing this morning of a bill that
both sides want. So I don't understand why he would
have any trouble with it, unless, of course, he's sick,
because he's eighty and he's sick. And I don't even
know why they won't announce it. What's the big deal.
We all have eyes, Okay, we can see he's not
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a well man. I mean, we can't recall him. I
don't know what are they afraid of? The twenty fifth Amendment?
Why won't they release how sick he really is. You know,
are they just afraid that someone will invoke the twenty fifth?
I don't know. I don't know. What I do know
is it's getting hot in here. Can I just say
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there was an unexpected monsoon in Las veg Guess this morning.
It's gonna be one hundred and seven today, but it
was pouring rain this morning. At three am, a crash
of thunder so loud it woke the entire valley. Everybody
I've talked to this morning said, oh my god, three o'clock,
jumped out of bed. We all did. Ember did, I did,
Steve Cabral did. Everyone I know did, Jeanie and Sherry did.
At the park. Everybody I spoke to at the park. Everybody,
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even the homeless people, commented about it. And I'm not
making that up. I talked to the homeless people, and
even they, you know, you know, we're like, ah, so, yeah,
so you know there's that. And so on the way
home it poured. It poured. I didn't expect it. We
walked to the park, It's an hour and forty minute walk,
and twenty minutes in it started raining and it stayed
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raining the entire time. Ember and I. I'm gonna cry
because Ember and I got drenched and we ran in
the rain, and I took off my shirt and I
sang the Wet Album at the top of my voice.
I was out there walking through Desert Breeze Park singing
kiss me in the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Rain, Make me feel like good child again, bring back
all those memories.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh, yes, was the feeling that I get. I don't
even mind if I good wit. Oh and Ember was
just so cute, all soaking wet and running next to
her daddy. Oh my see, I'm gonna get all the clemped.
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It was a beautiful morning, drenched to the gills, but
it was ninety five degrees out, so drenched to the
to the gills, ninety five degrees, my little girl and
I running in the rain. God, I'm gonna miss her anyway.
So it was great. But okay, so sorry. I talked
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right through the break because I was just reminiscing. It
was so fabulous. It was just so fabulos us. But
they don't have that luxury over in Europe. Take a
look at this map, child, Look at that? Can you
see ninety three in Zurich? Ninety nine and Leon Leon
Lisbon is going to be a little bit cooler. Seventy
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seven France, though, which is ground zero, one hundred and
four in Toulouse. We've got Zurich, Switzerland, which is normally
not you know that hot ninety one, one hundred and
six in Tours, one hundred and five in Paris. Over
in London, if you can look at the map, it's
going to be thirty six, which is ninety six degrees fahrenheit.
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Even in Warsaw eighty two. I bet when we talked
to our friend in Ukraine, he's going to say it's
hot there. Italy eighty seven, ninety two in Rome, ninety five.
In Barcelona, Spain. Look at Madrid, dear God, look at Spain.
I mean, is just hottest can be one hundred and
five in Spain one hundred and three, one hundred and four.
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They're not set up for this. They had forty deaths
because of the weather yesterday and they're probably gonna have
a lot more. This is climate change at work. This
is the most rapidly heating area in the world. Only
eleven percent of people in the region I just showed
you have air conditioning. It is really tragic. What's going
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on over there right now, and I just my thoughts
are with them, because what else can we do, right
I mean, we can't go over there and cool them down,
you know what I'm saying. We can't go cool them down.
So our thoughts are with the people over there, you know,
and we hope with everything in our soul that you
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stay safe, you know, because we got to. We gotta
muddle through it. So I'm pulling something up for you.
But I did yesterday and that I'm very proud of
and I want to show it before I do this
next topic. Okay, So I am doing the single as
you know, you have to be proud. I played it
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for you yesterday. I did the album cover yesterday. I
did it. And here it is. Take a look, people,
look at that. So that is the stone wall in
that you're looking at right behind that light pole. That
is a photo that I took. That light pole and
those buildings I took that in New York. The Stonewall
Place sign is real. The sign that says Correl is
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obviously redone. And then on the wall of the building
behind the stone wall in you see me with a
rainbow and it says you have to be proud, like
painted on the wall of the building. That building is
directly behind. It is on Christopher Street. It is right behind.
The riots occurred right around those two buildings. And that
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is the cover for you have to be proud. And
I am so very thrilled with that cover. And I
did it myself. That is not Ai. That photo is real.
That photo was taken about six months ago of me.
And the photo of the street sign is real. I
just had AI take out the bushes that were around
it and one street one way. There's a one way
street sign on it that I had it take out,
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and then of course I did the other end photoshop
on the building. So there it is, and that is great.
And I show you that today, Thank you, Rachel. I
show you that today because today is a very sad anniversary. Okay,
today is a very very sad anniversary. Today. The largest
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gay massacre occurred June twenty fourth, nineteen seventy three, up
until the Poltz Nightclub. And I say this because things
are going badly this Pride Month all across the globe.
They really are. And you know, we've got gauge that
are saying they don't want trans people anymore. You got. Well,
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it's just it's going badly. You've got corporations pulling out
and people applauding them for that. You've got so many
things going on. So today, June twenty fourth, nineteen seventy three,
something happened that you don't know about, but I do,
and there is a documentary about it that you should watch.
Today a fire took the lives of thirty two gay
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people at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans. Now remember
this was nineteen seventy three. Being gay was not fashionable, Okay,
there were no laws protecting gay people. So they still
don't know who started the fire. They think they believe
that a disgruntled patron who was thrown out of the
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bar for whatever reason, came back with a gas can,
locked the bottom door because it's called the Upstairs Lounge
for a reason, it was on the second story, locked
the bottom door with a shovel so they couldn't get out,
and started a fire. Fifteen people jumped and lived, thirty
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two died. There is a very famous picture of a
person clinging to the bars of the window and they
are literally ash. They are burnt to a complete crisp,
but they're still holding the bars of the window because
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they couldn't get out. Thirty two gay men and lesbians
died a horrible death today in nineteen seventy three. Those
people were Joseph Henry Adams, Reginald Eugene Adams Junior, Guy Anderson,
Joe William Bailey, Luther Boggs, Lois Louise, Horace Broussard, Herbert
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Dean Cooley, Donald Walter, Dunbar, Adam Rowland, fonn Not, David Stewart,
Gary Horace Getchell, John Thomas Golding, Gerald Hoyt Gordon, Glenn,
Richard Greene, James Walls, Hambrick, Kenneth, Paul Harrington, Reverend William R. Larson,
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Ferris LeBlanc, Robert Lumpkin, Leon Maples, George Matia, Clarence, Joseph
McCloskey Junior, Dwayne, George Mitch Mitchell, Larry Stratton, Eddie Warren,
James Curtis Warren, Willie Enez Warren, doctor Perry Lane Walters Junior,
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Douglas Maxwell Williams, Larry Norman Frost, and two victims that
are unnamed. They never were idd. Now it's the fire
is a tragedy enough, Okay. The tragedy. The fire in
and of itself is a tragedy. But the worst problem,
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or the worst part, is that after the fire. First
of all, the firemen didn't want to respond. They knew
it was a gay bar and they didn't really care. Second, afterwards,
the newspapers openly joked about it, openly joked, and the
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Catholic Church in New Orleans A refused to let priest
or any dioceses have funerals for the people that died,
and b if priests called for prayers at Sunday service
for the victims. They were chastised by the church. Everyone
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acted like the gay people deserved it. And subsequently, if
even if you just ask, like chat GPT, you know,
explain the reaction action to the upstairs lounge fire. Okay,
here we go, because it'll tell you the upstairs lounge
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fire is almost as historically is important as the fire itself.
An arson attacked at the Upstair Lounge, a gay bar
in the French quarter of New Orleans, killed thirty two
people and injured many others. At the time, it was
the deadliest attack on a gay on gay Americans in
US history, which would only be outdone by the Poultz
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night club shooting where forty nine died. What shocked many
survivors wasn't the fire, It was what happened afterwards, public indifference,
And can you see this happening today? I can. Much
of the city reacted with indifference. Local officials largely remained silent.
No major public mourning was organized, and many newspapers gave
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the story limited coverage, despite it being the deadliest fire
in all of New Orleans history, the deadliest fire ever
in the city's history, and the papers didn't even hunt
it or just gave it a blurt. And you wonder
why we need pride money? I could see this happening again,
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no show side. Some reactions to the upstairs lounge fire
were openly cruel. One police officer reportedly dismissed the tragedy
by saying, this was, after all, a queer bar. Some
radio commenters mocked the victims and made jokes like I
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guess there were a bunch of flaming queens on the radio.
I got reprimanded for playing Ding dong the witch is
dead the day that Ronald Reagan died, or for going
on the radio to put the day that Pope John
Paul died, saying I didn't like him and he was evil.
You know, I got chastised for saying fuck Joe the Plumber.
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Radio commentators in New Orleans went on for the greatest
fire in the city's history and the largest gay massacre ever,
and said, I guess it really was just a bunch
of flaming queens that set the fire. They actually said
that it was because the queens were so flaming that
the place burned down. On air, jokes were made about
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the dead rather than expressions of sympathy in all media
and by many public officials. Author Johnny Townshend later argued
that while the fire itself may not have been motivated
by anti gay hatred, the community's response effectively became a
hate crime of its own. So while it might have
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been started by a gay guy who was that he
got kicked out of the bar, it became a hate
crime because of the way New Orleans reacted. The most
painful reaction came from churches. Of course, good God fearing Christians.
Many churches refused to hold funerals for the dead. Archbishop
Philip Hannon denied Catholic funeral services for many victims families
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often struggled to find clergy that were even willing to
conduct memorials. The Metropolitan Community Church was one of the
few that stepped in. Families refused to claim the bodies.
Some families would not claim their loved one's remains because
they were ashamed that their relatives were gay. Several victims
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were buried in unmarked graves and Potter's Field because no
one came forward to claim them. Imagine surviving World War II,
raising a family, building a life, and then have your
body left unclaimed because your family couldn't face the truth
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of who you were. That happened to many. The gay community,
of course, reacted very differently. For many around the country,
the fire became proof that they could not rely on police, politicians, churches,
or the media for protection or dignity. This is my life.
I was eleven when this happened. This is my life.
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This is what I have lived. Cops that wouldn't help me,
that made fun of me when I was in danger,
public institutions that openly discriminated against me, Churches that still
to this day preach hate against me. People who come
in my chat room or who quote are go on
to my videos, and say homophobic and horrible slurs with
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zero repercussions. The social medias don't take them down. Fifty
years later, New Orleans largely acknowledged that it failed. The
victims memorial have been installed, annual ceremonies are held, and
city leaders have formally recognized the injustice of the response.
The Catholic Church in twenty twenty, just six years ago
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for an event that happened in nineteen seventy three, the
Catholic Church finally issued an apology. The tragedy is now
remembered not only because of the thirty two people who died,
but because it exposed how disposable gay lives were considered
by much of society. And we still are. Trans people
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are being killed in record numbers. Hate crimes against gays
have soared five hundred percent under Donald Trump. Aids medication
in the United States and in Africa and other nations
has been cut by Donald Trump. We are dying again.
The religious rights say it's okay now under the life.
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The Supreme Court has said under the law that you
don't have to serve a gay person if it's against
your religious beliefs. You all wonder why I'm pissed. You
all wonder why I get so angry all the time?
Try living my life. Try it. I dare you. I
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dare you for a week. You don't think I'm still
called faggot over at Desert Priest Park, You know I am.
You know that homeless guy held up a sign on
the fucking corner of the park that I go to
every day that said God demands you kill homosexuals. Not
in nineteen seventy three, in twenty twenty six, And was
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he taken off the street? Was his sign destroyed? Nope? Nope.
Every time MAGA attacks trans people, does anybody come to
their aid?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Even some gay people are now jumping ship on trans people.
You will wonder why I want to leave this country.
You will wonder where I am angry a majority of
the time. Try being gay in America now, five years ago,
ten years ago, in nineteen they let us die. They
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made jokes if you saw the pictures of the upstairs
lounge of people clinging to the bars whose bodies are
just solid ash, and radio hosts got to call them
flaming queens. The Catholic Church, the largest child rapering in
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the world, made fun of victims and refused to let
their clergy reach out to the members of the community.
Families left their loved ones sitting in the morgue unclaimed
to be buried in Potter's Field because they were ashamed
they were gay. I am I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It
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is hard for me to continue this show right now
because I hurt so much for those people and the
people at Pault's nightclub and the trans person today that
is going to be met with hatred and bigotry. For
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everyone during Pride months, just trying to be themselves and
facing online hatred and bigotry, just like in nineteen seventy three.
It makes me just want to leave, to get out
of this backwards nation. It makes me want people to die,
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and I don't like to feel that way. I sometimes
wish every homophobic christ know someone is posting that someone
in Palestine said as soon as we have a Palestine,
we will cleanse it of all the games. And they said, see,
you shouldn't support Palestine, support Israel, And I said, why
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I got printed in this country saying the same damn thing.
Right now, I ain't got to look to Palestine.
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Speaker 4 (30:17):
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really am sorry. I
didn't know this topic would affect me so much. I didn't,
but I feel it as bad today as it was
then some fifty plus years ago. And that hatred is
right back, It's right here, It's back in full force.
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Maga would say the same things today online that they
said in nineteen seventy three. And if you think they wouldn't,
you're not fucking paying attention. Okay, you're not me. You're
not hearing what I hear and seeing what I see.
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I know most of you find this appalling. You're my listeners,
you're my friends, you're my fans. I know that you
hurt with me. I know that you empathize, and you
know how terrible and horrible what went on today in
nineteen seventy three is. I know that but we're not
the majority. I'll never I will never understand how me
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just being me and how my friends just being my
friends bring on so much hatred. During AIDS, which wasn't
long after nineteen seventy three, I watched a generation of
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my beautiful friends just die Lorenzo Clark, Braxton, Rula, Tracy Montclair,
Gary Alexander, Andrew Lee Howard. I watched vibrant, lively, creative,
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incredible humans wither and die in weeks and months, and
nobody cared. Nobody Ronald Reagan didn't care. Nobody cared, the
CDC didn't care. Most of the general public didn't care.
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They made the same jokes during AIDS. They made jokes
in the White House Press Corps on camera about people
dying of AIDS. Have you ever seen someone die of AIDES?
Have you been in the room when they killed them?
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Have you brought things to a party to help them
kill themselves? Have you held their hand and told them
that it's okay to go, That it's okay, Gary, you
can go now, you don't have to hold on anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Have you.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Have you gone to their funerals and had to fight
through Reverend Phelps and Reverend Sheldon's people that had signs
in front of the funerals that said they deserved to die,
that they got what they deserved. Have you been locked
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out of the hospital room because you couldn't legally be
married and your partner of years and years was dying
alone because the family said to keep you out. Have
you gone to funerals for fabulous drag queens only to
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see that their family has them in a suit and
a tie and all kinds of boy makeup. Have you
ever had to slam a coffin closed? I did. I
slammed Gary's coffin closed, and I turned and looked at
everyone there and said, damn you all to hell. He
lived with me for nine years and I never saw
one of you motherfuckers at our house. And now you're
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gonna sit here and grieve. You're gonna have him in
man clothes. I slammed the coffin closed. Baggage. Yeah, I've
got a little and I've got every right to be pissed,
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every right because today, in nineteen seventy three, thirty two
people burned to death, and then nobody cares, and it
would happen again today. Nothing that's say.
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Show Time is here. No time to fear.
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Correll is so near because show time is here.
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So on with the show.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Let's give it a go. Correll is the one that
you need to know.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
You know, you wonder how did the person deal? How
did I deal? I became Correll, That's how I bult.
I sang at first and released singles, and then radio
came along. I didn't look for radio. It came along,
and suddenly I'm breaking a barrier in radio for gay
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people taking death threats. The personal told that it took
between Andrew and I, all the fighting that went on
between us because of the stress we were under because
we were gay KFI. We weren't treated well by everybody
at KFI, and I certainly wasn't treated well by people
at KGO. The things that KGO Radio did to me
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are litigious today, the double standard, the comments made by
other hosts on air, Bill Wottenberg and others, the horrible
things they said, Bill Wottenberg saying that I was a
liberal that had up someone's hand, up my ass, moving
my mouth, and I enjoyed it, and he was allowed
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to say that. But I was told I could not
reply on air to anything that Wattenberg might have said
or Ron Owens might have said. I was told I
couldn't be on the radio after seven o'clock at night
or before kg O Radio San Francisco would not let
me fill in any spot prior to seven pm. I
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could not fill in for Ron Owens in the morning.
I could not fill That is discriminatory. They made it
clear that the gay guy could only go on the
radio after seven o'clock at night. Fuck you Mickey Luckoff
and Jack Swanson for going along with it, and Trish
Robbins for going along with it. Brian Copeland suffered the
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same thing. Poor thing, he's in the hospital, had open
heart surgery. Brian Copeland. Oh, he's not doing well, but
he's gonna recover. You think that all this happened in
ancient history. KGO radio was hell for me. They flew me,
They wouldn't give me a raise, they wouldn't give me
a budget for anything, and yet they spent eighteen hundred
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dollars to fly me up on Christmas Eve. I had
to go, why so Mickey luck Off could berate me
for what? Well, at the Christmas party four days earlier,
there was a camera on the table and women were
taking out their boobs and they were taking photos on
this strange camera. So when they developed the film, this
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person would see boobs. So I turned around and showed
my ass and they took a picture of that. Who
got reported by Bill Wattenberg. The girls pulling out their tits.
No me, and Mickey luck Off made Trish Robbins fly
me up there. He told them to keep me off
the floor and make me wait downstairs, but they said
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no and had me wait in Trisha's office. He literally
said I couldn't go on the floor at KGO, and
he took me in his office and he berated me
and humiliated me and said homophobic things to me beyond
the pale. Made me apologize and grovel if I wanted
to keep my job, and I did, and I went
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downstairs and I cried so hard before getting back on
the plane to get home for Christmas Eve. And the
reason I cried was because I had to grovel. I
could have said no, fuck you and not had a job.
No one else at KGO had to do that, nobody
but me. You all think KGO was such a good
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time for me, It was fucking hell. Every single week
I was reminded I was different and that there were
different rules for me, and every gay person goes through that,
not just me. And you wonder why we need a
Pride month, you know, you wonder why? Oh, in the
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chat room there, I would have reported him. I would
have gotten an attorney. There was no laws protecting me.
Two thousand and three to twenty fifteen. You act like
an attorney could have got a settlement in court. There
were no laws protecting gay people from discrimination, and in
thirty one states it is still legal to fire someone
for being gay. You seem to think there's someone out
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there protecting us legally. Grow up. There was no recourse
and KGO knew it. They knew there was nothing I
could do because it was legal. As Bette Midler says,
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let's change our head. That wasn't the topic I wanted
to do today, but maybe y'all needed to hear that
on this day of the Upstairs Lounge, how every gay
person goes through that, how trans people are going through
that today when they have to fucking piss and they
walk up to a bathroom door and they don't know
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which one to go in because they might be fucking arrested.
Good Christians Mickey Lukoff considers himself a Christian. I'm sure
Jack Swanson and Trish Robbins, I'm sure they consider themselves Christians.
David Hall at KFI was nice to us. Phil Hendry
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was nice to us. John and Ken went on air
and did a half hour anti gay, homophobic rent about
me and Andrew, so much so that the ACLU contacted them.
We didn't even know they had contacted them to possibly
sue them on our behalf, and we didn't even know
(41:45):
it because it was that bad. The next morning we
went into KFI after their rent, and people couldn't look
at us because they didn't know how we were going
to respond. We didn't listen to it, we didn't hear it.
And then Estella Marquin gave us a tape and we
heard a half hour of the worst homophobia that you
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have ever heard live on the number one talk station
in the country. And what happened to John and Ken?
They got a fucking bonus and went to KABC and
then went back to KFI where Ken retired, you know
or John, Yeah, Ken retired the gay one. That's what
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really hurt. One of them was gay in the closet.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know, we talk about connection. I wanted to talk
about connection today and how we have become so disconnected
in the era of telephones and phones and internet and
text messaging and all of it, that we are just
so disconnected. And the proof that we are disconnected is
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how we accept all of the bad behavior going on.
You know, every morning at Desert Briest Park, I see
a shit ton of homeless people, a shit ton and
no one does anything. And in your community, it's everywhere.
It's unacceptable. The number one job of police right now
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should be cleaning up our streets, getting the homeless off
our streets. We should not have to see it. They
should not be out there. Other countries have solved their problems,
but we just find it acceptable. Now it's not acceptable,
but we find it. We just look at it and
say there's nothing we can do, and we just drive on. Homelessness.
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Acceptable poverty, Acceptable people going bankrupt for medical care, Acceptable
people not being able to access healthcare. Acceptable seniors being
thrown into the streets, are being thrown into hell hosts
because they don't enough money acceptable, social security about to collapse, acceptable,
poverty acceptable, crime acceptable, school shootings acceptable. Look at what
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we accept in American culture. Donald Trump acceptable? Well he's
not acceptable to me. Carell Well he's still fucking there,
ain't he? So somebody accepts it. We live in horrible times.
If we truly look at things, because we climate change,
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what's happening in Europe today? Acceptable? And what can we do?
We can do plenty, but we won't because we are disconnected.
We are all living with negative comments. Go read under
my videos at Corel official on Instagram or official Corel
on TikTok. Go read the comments. They're unacceptable by any standard.
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No one should be allowed to say online what they're
saying about me. It's unacceptable, and yet they're they are.
There's all the comments. All we accept now is bad.
How we're treating trans people unacceptable, unacceptable, but we accept
(45:14):
it because we feel powerless to change it. But if
we all felt connected, if we all felt that we
could pull it together and do things together, that we
were stronger together, then we wouldn't feel that it was
acceptable and we'd be able to change it, but we don't.
(45:36):
I am so tired of America. I really, someone please,
just you know. Nigel Farage got a five million dollar
gift from a Chinese guy, five million dollars just for him,
a private gift for him because he needs security. And
you know he's not making a lot of money because
he's out campaigning and all of that. So this rich
Chinese businessman that agrees with his politics gave him five
(45:57):
million dollars, just a gift, five million dollars, not to
use for anything specific. Just here. You deserve this. You
deserve a good life. You deserve a happy life, Nigel Farage,
here's five million dollars. Why doesn't someone fucking do that
to me? I deserve a good life because I would leave.
I don't know that i'd go to Paris, although I'd
(46:18):
love that city, but I can't take heat. So if
it's gonna start heating up, then Lisbon is staying cool,
Dublin is staying cool. Wow, what a show, What a
show today. I do believe that Caroll was discriminated against
by kgo Well, your belief I mean, thank you for
your beliefs to them, but your belief doesn't matter. I
(46:40):
was discriminated against by KGO. It's not a belief. I
could list time after time after time. They had double
rules for me. I could tell you the homophobic things
Mickey Lukoff said to my face. Often. Often it wasn't
I believe they they did, just like KFI did. They
(47:04):
wouldn't pay us over scale. At KFI, every other drivetime
host each the two combined made over a million a year.
Andrew and I made two hundred thousand combined. Now we
thought that was incredible, but we were the lowest paid
afternoon drive host in Los Angeles history. Andrew and I
(47:25):
why because we were gay, and that's what they told us. Well,
you're an experiment. You're gay, so you know, so they
paid us the least they could pay us at KFI
after a scale one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars a year.
That's what they paid us. John and Ken we're each
(47:48):
getting eight hundred thousand a year. Bill Handle gets over
a million dollars a year. You wonder why I'm poor.
I'm poor because all my life and entertainment and I
was never paid what other people were paid, simply because
I'm gay. I can do the same job as they can.
(48:11):
And I know a lot of you relate, especially if
you're women. If you're a woman, you know exactly what
I'm saying because you've lived this very same reality. If
you're a white man, you don't know shit. You don't
know anything that I'm talking about, unless you're gay. But
if you're a woman or black or a minority, you
(48:31):
get it. You're like, oh, amen, grow and what are
we supposed to do? You know? All right? Another interesting
story I found out there. Kgo isn't in the opening jingle.
There's no Kgo. I don't reference Kgo anymore in my song.
(48:56):
So I read this interesting story. If you're under fifty,
you're getting more cancers than people over fifty, and that's
not supposed to be that way. And they now know
why this is really interesting. It's from the Times of London. Basically,
younger people are their cells are aging faster, so people
(49:20):
in their forties have a colon that's in its seventies.
And I'm not making this up. They've done the research.
They just did one hundred and fifty thousand surveys of
medical records in the UK and fifty thousand records in
the United States and they now have a test, a
genomic test to test the age of the cells. And
(49:42):
what they have found is that a forty year old
today has cells my age sixty three. Can you imagine?
And they're not sure why that young people are now
aging on a cellular level faster than ever before. Biologically
(50:03):
there are forty year olds that are seventy inside they're kidneys,
their colon, their other organs, their heart. Young people under
fifty are getting old people illnesses because their organs are
aging faster than they should be, and they can't figure
out why. They don't know. Is it environment, is it
(50:26):
the food, is it stressed?
Speaker 9 (50:28):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (50:28):
They don't know, but they do know that it's happening.
They have this genomic proof, they have the biological proofs.
If you're under fifty, you're aging faster than people overseas
in terms of organ Yeah, little old organs inside, little kidneys,
o livings.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
Now it's show.
Speaker 4 (51:02):
Side, you know, we don't have to go back to KG.
Isn't that interesting though, that that older that younger people
are now aging faster than older people. Isn't that? Why
do you think it is? I think it's the food
(51:25):
I do. I think it's the food. I think that
older that younger people are eating crappy, crappy food. That's
what I think. Now maybe I'm wrong, but that's what
I think. I think older people or younger people are
eating really crappy food. I don't think they're exercising. Uh,
(51:47):
and I think that they're their body is responding on us.
Think there's more stress. Uh, you know that they have
and subsequently they're aging faster. It's that, but it's happening,
you know, you know, So let's see what are we
(52:10):
doing whatever? All right? I did not mean for the
show to go the way that it went today. I didn't.
I really didn't. I mean, what do you care? How's
the fact your life that I was discriminated against about KGO.
I want the show to be more about what's going
on in your world than going on in mind, you know.
(52:32):
But with the Upstairs Lounge tragedy being today and reading
those thirty two names and then looking at how Trump,
look at what Trump is doing to gay people, he
is just setting us back hundreds of years with Project
twenty twenty five and today alone, he's not helping the country.
He hasn't gotten to that signing yet of this housing bill,
(52:52):
and why because he's some sick old man who can't
show up. Then have jd Vance do it. You know
the demo. They've got a rude awakening in New York.
Every democratic socialist that Mendami endorsed, one even beating a Kennedy.
I'm a democratic socialist, I am. That's what. There's finally
(53:15):
a word for what I am. I am a democratic socialist.
I believe in socialism. I believe that we need to
take and make energy free for everybody. Just generate it
and make it free because it comes free from the sun.
I believe water. I believe every essential for human life
should be provided by government. Water, clean air, electricity, internet,
(53:38):
and housing if you can't afford it, and food. I
truly believe in socialism that as a society, we are
better when we all help each other. I do not
believe there should be trillionaires like Elon Musk. I think
we should take his money. We should take every billionaire's
money and only leave them nine hundred million dollars. That's it.
You can survive on nine hundred million dollars. I believe
(54:00):
we should take anything over that just take it, tax
it a ninety nine percent, leave them one percent. And
it's been done before. After World War One and World
War Two, any income above a million dollars was taxed
at ninety seven percent. And guess what, they were still rich.
So Mendami won big in New York in terms of
the people that he endorsed. The House has passed the
(54:23):
bipartisan Housing Bill, banning corporations from buying a lot of property,
except Trump hasn't signed it. The US Senator's voted to
end Trump's Iran war in a rare rebuke of his
war powers. He'll ignore them. That's what the Senate doesn't understand.
They can pass this bill. You know, the Senate votes
to direct end to Iran war, rebuking Trump's on war powers.
(54:45):
He doesn't care, and he has immunity. He can break
every law in the world while he's in the office.
The Supreme Court has said, so he has immunity. I
wanted to talk though today about Toy Story five because
Toy Story five is about human connection and how when
this electronic toy takes over and the analog toys feel
(55:07):
left out, how they have to find a way to
reconnect with the girl and make her use them again.
It's really about human connection. That's what Toy Story five
is about human connection, and I really want to talk
about that because if we were really connected, there wouldn't
be homelessness. If we really were connected, there wouldn't be poverty,
(55:30):
people wouldn't be stressing over healthcare, people wouldn't be alone
as they age. If we were really connected, if we
still connected to each other. But we think friending someone
online or liking their post or commenting under their video
is connection, it's not. We are humans and we need
(55:52):
human connection, and we live in an era where that
is becoming less and less prevalent. Maybe that's why young
people are aging so fast. I'm really what are they
connected to a phone electronics? Maybe their bodies are responding.
Maybe they're just living faster. I don't know. It's really weird.
(56:17):
Extreme heat melting national records across Europe, Yes, we know,
dispute over nuclear inspections show how US and Iran are
negotiating in public because there's no settlement, there's no end
of the war, there is no peace. It's all a
fucking lieh What else Democrats socialists are coming for twenty
(56:40):
twenty eight good Good comedian Guy Branham on what the
old gays remember. I'll tell you what the old gaye remember.
They didn't need to go to him. I we remember pain.
That's if you're a gay and you're over sixty, you
remember great, that's what you remember. Oh yeah, joy and
(57:04):
happiness and love and life and disco and fabulousness. But
you also remember pain, the pain of aids of a pandemic,
taking your friends. Trump cancels signing of landmark bipartisan bill.
It doesn't say why? Why does it not say? President
(57:26):
Donald Trump canceled his approval of landmark bill aimed at
lowering Americans housing costs, just hours ahead of the signing
both chambers were ready. Trump wrote on social media that
he would not sign the bill until a separate law
on a stringent voter ID requirement has passed. Oh great,
so he's blackmailing. So he's got a bill in front
of them to bipartisan to help the Americans find a home,
(57:50):
but he won't sign it until he gets his way
on a voter ID requirement. Impeach the fucker. Now, God,
we have to win the midterms. He's got to go
either die or be impeached one of the two. He
needs to just croak because he's sick as hell, or
be impeached. He's got to go. This man cannot stay
(58:13):
in office for two and a half more years. He
cannot wonder how Maga feels. He won't sign a bill
to make it easier for them to own a home
because he's not getting his way. Oh, now that I've
read that, I'm even angrier. I thought maybe he was
sick or something. But no US support is Israel's true weakness.
(58:34):
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