Speaker 1: You know, there's an old saying, when someone shows you
Speaker 1: who they are, believe them. So if you judge a
Speaker 1: person by how they act and you see their priorities,
Speaker 1: what does that say about the United States of America?
Speaker 1: What are our priorities telling our allies?
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Speaker 1: It is the Crell Cast. I am Carell Happy Thursday,
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Speaker 4: You know, I got to thinking today about priorities.
Speaker 1: Uh and you can tell what matters to me by
Speaker 1: listening to my show, and so many of you do.
Speaker 1: And I thank all of you, all of my patrons
Speaker 1: at Patreon dot com, Forward slash Really, Carrell at YouTube
Speaker 1: YouTube dot com, Forward slash Really, Correl and Babetta, who
Speaker 1: is always in the chat room. I just realized you're
Speaker 1: David and Toby's Babetta, that you've been in my world
Speaker 1: for like twenty five years, and I didn't know that
Speaker 1: was you. Uh, So, Hi Babbeta, Hi Darling. I talked
Speaker 1: to David this morning on My word does Babeta live.
Speaker 1: He says, Temple City. I said, wait a minute, is
Speaker 1: that her in my chat room?
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, she listens to your shama. Well good lord.
Speaker 1: They're off for a four day cruise my friends, and
Speaker 1: they may be cruising in the Gulf of America.
Speaker 4: Oh how nauseating? Is that? All right?
Speaker 1: So what's on my mind is priorities and the message
Speaker 1: your priorities, my priorities, and America's priorities send.
Speaker 4: What message does it send? You know?
Speaker 1: What do people think is important to you? What do
Speaker 1: people think is important to me? What do people think
Speaker 1: is important to America or Americans?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Granted, only twenty four percent of the people voted for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and yet those priorities are going to be
Speaker 1: what defines us in the future for the next four years,
Speaker 1: and so what are those We're going to talk about that.
Speaker 1: But from the David Hall school of broadcasting, you got
Speaker 1: to talk about what's on your mind or it's a
Speaker 1: fake show. You know, we gay people are fabulous, And
Speaker 1: one of the fabulous things we gay people do is
Speaker 1: form extended families. We're very very good at it because
Speaker 1: for many of us, our original family, our mother, father, sister,
Speaker 1: brothers as uncles may not be as welcoming to us
Speaker 1: because we're gay by trans and so we form family
Speaker 1: of like minded individuals. Gays do this every day in
Speaker 1: every community across the globe, and more so than straight people.
Speaker 4: And I know you're going to say that's not true,
Speaker 4: but it is true.
Speaker 1: I have the stats and the life experience to back
Speaker 1: that up, so I am not immune to that. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you have an extended family of friends.
Speaker 1: They're your you know, your friends giving you're especially if
Speaker 1: you're gay. Uh. And I know some of you don't
Speaker 1: like that I speak in generalizations. A lot of white
Speaker 1: men got angry at my show yesterday, did you know,
Speaker 1: saying how white men basically have messed everything up and
Speaker 1: continue to mess everything up. And they're like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: a white man and I don't want to be grouped
Speaker 1: with them too bad. You know, you, if you are white,
Speaker 1: you do experience white privilege. Whether you know it or not,
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so I've.
Speaker 1: Had the the luck to have at one time a
Speaker 1: large extended family of LGBTQ friends, and in the eighties
Speaker 1: and in the nineties, two members of that family were
Speaker 1: Bert Critchfield and John Gilzell just they weren't lovers or anything,
Speaker 1: but they were just big members of the family. I
Speaker 1: met Bert the same night I met Andrew in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight. He walked up to me at the frat
Speaker 1: house and asked me if I knew the name of
Speaker 1: Genie's sister from my dream of Genie, and I said,
Speaker 1: all Genies are named Genie, so her sister's name is Genie.
Speaker 1: And he said, how did you know that? I said,
Speaker 1: I know everything. So we became fast friends. In fact,
Speaker 1: he was very handsome and I very easily could have
Speaker 1: dated him instead of Andrew. So Bert stayed in my life.
Speaker 1: Was a creative force in my life. I took him
Speaker 1: to plays, we went lots of places. He was the
Speaker 1: most creative artist I ever met, in terms of he
Speaker 1: could do like prosthetics, make creatures. He was something. He
Speaker 1: should have worked in Hollywood. But Bert never found his way.
Speaker 1: He just wasn't right for this world. He was childlike
Speaker 1: and he just never found his way. So yesterday I
Speaker 1: get a call from David Ethridge, who dated Bert.
Speaker 4: I introduced them.
Speaker 1: And doesn't date him now, of course, but dated him
Speaker 1: back in the day and he said, Burt Cridgefield has died,
Speaker 1: and I was I was stunned. I was in the
Speaker 1: middle of a four hundred dollars drama, trying to pay
Speaker 1: a mixer to mix do you want to funk? Wondering
Speaker 1: where I'm going to get the money, and bam, I
Speaker 1: get the news about Burt. And it really struck me
Speaker 1: because so much of my extended family from the eighties
Speaker 1: nineties are dying. It almost feels like AIDS again, where
Speaker 1: a friend died every week. So I was in that
Speaker 1: grief and I decided to text Dennis Cope, who I
Speaker 1: haven't spoken to in months and well years. I haven't
Speaker 1: spoken to him, but I've texted him about last year,
Speaker 1: I guess, and that he was good friends with Bert,
Speaker 1: as were all my friends. And I told him about
Speaker 1: Bert and he of course was upset about it. But
Speaker 1: then he said, did you hear about John Gildso And
Speaker 1: I'm like no, And he died and so here I
Speaker 1: thought the day couldn't get worse and then bam, I
Speaker 1: find out another friend has died. So last night and
Speaker 1: today I am not in a good psychological place because
Speaker 1: two of this big key players in my past have died,
Speaker 1: and it symbolizes the loss of youth, the loss of that,
Speaker 1: the loss of that family.
Speaker 4: A lot of symbolism.
Speaker 1: But it also made me grateful that, somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: at sixty two years of age, through the AIDS crisis,
Speaker 1: through Bert died of cirrhosis, which made me just as
Speaker 1: mad as Daniel Charleston dying of ketamine, and through all
Speaker 1: of that, through drug usage, through opiates galore, somehow I'm
Speaker 1: still here. Yes, I'm very worried about the tremor in
Speaker 1: my hands. Yes, my toes right now are doing this,
Speaker 1: all of them, which is new. But I'm still grateful
Speaker 1: to be here because if you ask Bert or John,
Speaker 1: you know, would you be me right now with my tremors,
Speaker 1: they'd be like, but you're still alive, right, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be you. So I was very grateful, and it
Speaker 1: did make me start thinking about priorities, because it's I
Speaker 1: could die at any time. I'm sixty two, I'm aging,
Speaker 1: and while that's still considered young, my friends are dropping
Speaker 1: around me. Three in the last year, Daniel Charleston, John
Speaker 1: guildso now Bert and So I started thinking about priorities
Speaker 1: and how they reflect Even after you're gone. How they
Speaker 1: reflect what you stood for and who you were? And
Speaker 1: so I awoke thinking about this administration and how statements
Speaker 1: were made yesterday that DEI is illegal and immoral, that
Speaker 1: they want other government employees to report people who are
Speaker 1: promoting DEI.
Speaker 4: That's like the Nazis.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, I thought about all the troubles in
Speaker 1: the United States right now, for not just liberals, but
Speaker 1: for MAGA, for everybody. I thought of all the troubles,
Speaker 1: and I thought, is this our priority? Like first thing
Speaker 1: out the box, the priority is to discriminate against Americans,
Speaker 1: to make a point that we're anti day and anti trance.
Speaker 1: Is that an American priority?
Speaker 4: And so I want to talk about American priorities when
Speaker 4: we come back and what they reflect about us as a.
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Speaker 1: All right, you know, before we move forward about the priorities.
Speaker 1: I love to interact with listeners and chatters, and Ray
Speaker 1: Vernadi's in the chat room and he's one of the
Speaker 1: ones who got angry about me saying, you know, white
Speaker 1: men basically are the root of all of our problems.
Speaker 1: And he keeps saying I wasn't angry, I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's accurate. Well, then, please explain to me in
Speaker 1: modern history, who is responsible for all the messes that
Speaker 1: we've been in. Because has there been a black president
Speaker 1: other than Obama?
Speaker 4: Nope? Has there been a female president other than who? Nobody?
Speaker 4: So No, the United States has been run by rich
Speaker 4: white men. Look at Europe. Yes, there's been a few
Speaker 4: female leaders.
Speaker 1: Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Ireland had a female Teaesack, both
Speaker 1: of them white, by the way.
Speaker 4: But other than that, who has run Britain?
Speaker 1: The Queen was not running Britain Parliament and the prime
Speaker 1: Minister does.
Speaker 4: And what are they? White men? Go back through history, King,
Speaker 4: Charles King, James King, this King that what are they?
Speaker 4: White men who oversaw slavery in America, white men.
Speaker 1: Who constructed the banking system and the financial systems that
Speaker 1: keep others out white men who are in charge of
Speaker 1: the justice system that penalizes unfairly minorities, gays, blacks.
Speaker 4: White men.
Speaker 1: So I know you don't think it's accurate that white
Speaker 1: men are the reason we are in this mess today,
Speaker 1: But explain to me.
Speaker 4: If they're not, then who is.
Speaker 1: Who's the largest voting block in the United States of America?
Speaker 1: White men. Women couldn't even vote until the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: So explain to me. If it's not rich white men
Speaker 1: that have completely messed up society, then who is it.
Speaker 4: So you can get angry and you can.
Speaker 1: Say it's not accurate, But then tell me then, which
Speaker 1: minorities have messed up America?
Speaker 4: Which ones?
Speaker 1: Which black people have led to the downfall of America,
Speaker 1: Which brown people have led to the downfall of America?
Speaker 1: Which women have led to the downfall of America?
Speaker 4: White?
Speaker 1: You know what women? What black women led the UK?
Speaker 1: Any country in the UK? What about Russia? So this
Speaker 1: notion that rich white men have not been the root
Speaker 1: of most of our problems, I'm sorry if you don't
Speaker 1: like it. If you don't like it, prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: Tell me what black people, brown people, gay people, women
Speaker 1: have messed up our society. List their names, tell me
Speaker 1: what they did, enlighten me. Look, I'm a white man.
Speaker 1: I take the responsibility. I admit men that look like
Speaker 1: me have messed up society forever, and that I, even
Speaker 1: though I am gay, have benefited from white privilege. Now,
Speaker 1: if you can't even acknowledge that, then you're not paying attention.
Speaker 4: To the problems.
Speaker 1: Although Trump is orange, So there's that. And let's go
Speaker 1: back to priorities. Today, there was a world form and
Speaker 1: our leader was a mess, a rambling mess, vilifying the UK,
Speaker 1: telling the Saudis he's going to make them lower the
Speaker 1: price of oil, like he'll make them do it, threatening war,
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. But what he's doing back home
Speaker 1: right now is making DEI this huge target. And so
Speaker 1: when other countries look at America, what do you think
Speaker 1: they think our priorities are?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: How do you feel that we are viewed as a
Speaker 1: culture in the world. First of all patriarchal, anti woman, second,
Speaker 1: white Christian majority, Third, anti gay, anti trans, anti buy,
Speaker 1: anti lesbian, everything but anti Maine. Fourth, no concern for
Speaker 1: the environment whatsoever, No concern learn at all for the environment. Fifth,
Speaker 1: unwilling to stop massacres because of our love of guns.
Speaker 1: So we're a gun loving white Christian, anti woman, anti
Speaker 1: minority nation. That's what the world thinks of our priorities
Speaker 1: based on our actions. And you can say, oh, no, Corel,
Speaker 1: it's only the actions of twenty four percent, But guess
Speaker 1: what they represent us now to the world. That's who
Speaker 1: we are. Is that who you want to be? Is
Speaker 1: that the image that you want to present to the world.
Speaker 1: It's not the image I want to present. I don't
Speaker 1: want the world to think that we're anti women, that
Speaker 1: were anti minority, that we're against gays, lesbians, trans that
Speaker 1: we don't support people of color. We are now anti immigrant.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that's a good place, that's a good
Speaker 1: reputation to have immigrants keep our economy going.
Speaker 4: So what are American values?
Speaker 1: I keep hearing this talk of going back to American values?
Speaker 1: What are the American values that everybody seems to think
Speaker 1: we need to get back to.
Speaker 4: Because it appears to the rest of.
Speaker 1: The world and to me, that the American values that
Speaker 1: we cherish most are bigotry, hatred, misogyny, Christian nationalism. These
Speaker 1: appear to be the priorities, the values of Americans. We
Speaker 1: appear to not value our children because a we won't
Speaker 1: let women make their own health care decisions and be
Speaker 1: once they're out of the womb, we don't care if
Speaker 1: they get shot. What are American values? I would love
Speaker 1: to hear your comments down below. What are the American
Speaker 1: values that everybody seems to think we need to fight
Speaker 1: for when they talk about the American way, truth, justice,
Speaker 1: and the American way. What is the American way in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I would love to hear your thoughts
Speaker 1: on what the American way is in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: because for me, it's to be more fabulous. If I'm
Speaker 1: going to go out and it appears I am. If
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out God knows when, then I
Speaker 1: need it to be.
Speaker 4: On my terms. I need to be fabulous, you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't want this representation that's going to the
Speaker 1: world to be how they think of me. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not much we can do. We can exemplify the opposite.
Speaker 1: We can be inclusive, we can be caring, we can
Speaker 1: be loving, we can be kind, we can be funny,
Speaker 1: we can be you know, we can act differently and
Speaker 1: try to promote the image of a caring American of
Speaker 1: a loving American, of an inclusive American. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that message is going to get out I think
Speaker 1: for the next four years. And actually I think through
Speaker 1: a majority of history, we've been seen as an imperialistic, misogynistic, patriarchal,
Speaker 1: gun toting, Jesus loving.
Speaker 4: You know, frontier. Are those the values? Is that? Are
Speaker 4: those American values? What are American values? Because we keeps
Speaker 4: hearing about them every day every day and now we've
Speaker 4: seen it ei, you know, nemoral, illegal, What are values? Hey?
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Speaker 1: Thirty years of support for the loudest, craziest, most unhinged
Speaker 1: gay guy and his little dog. And let's keep the
Speaker 1: party going as long as we can. You know, I
Speaker 1: hear the word freedom, and I'm seeing the word freedom
Speaker 1: in the chatroom at YouTube dot com. Forward slash really
Speaker 1: Carrel that freedom is an American value. Who in this
Speaker 1: country accept rich white men have ever been free? And
Speaker 1: I mean that that is an honest question. Who in
Speaker 1: America has ever been free? Accept rich white men? Have
Speaker 1: Blacks ever truly been free?
Speaker 4: Ever?
Speaker 1: No have Days, no Chinese, no Irish, no women? No
Speaker 1: Who has ever really been free in America? Except rich
Speaker 1: white men? Who's free right now? Are you free? Are
Speaker 1: you free to do what you want to be? As
Speaker 1: alternate would say.
Speaker 4: You're free? Are you free?
Speaker 1: Because I don't feel so free. I'm certainly not free
Speaker 1: to love who I want to love without critical disdain,
Speaker 1: without laws trying to interfere Again, are you free? Because
Speaker 1: economic slavery is a very real thing, and even though
Speaker 1: they ended regular slavery allegedly, there is certainly economic slavery.
Speaker 1: Most of us are economic slaves. We're not free to
Speaker 1: do what we want to do. We don't have the
Speaker 1: resources to do it. So, when you talk about freedom
Speaker 1: being an American value, are you free to live from
Speaker 1: the fear of gun violence?
Speaker 4: No? Are you free to live from fear of a
Speaker 4: lot of things?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: So, who has ever really been free in America?
Speaker 1: Native Americans? Yes, before we got here, not afterwards. Who
Speaker 1: has been free in America? Except rich white men. If
Speaker 1: that's an American value, then why doesn't it trickle down
Speaker 1: to the rest of the people. Are you free to
Speaker 1: say what you want to say?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Not anymore. You're certainly not. Are you free to do
Speaker 1: what you want to do? No, there's a billion laws
Speaker 1: and rules and regulations. Who has been free? Who can
Speaker 1: it ignore?
Speaker 4: Are those laws and regulations rich white men?
Speaker 1: Who can say whatever they want to say without any
Speaker 1: fear of repercussion?
Speaker 4: Whatsoever? Rich white men?
Speaker 1: So, if freedom is an American value, or at the
Speaker 1: top of the list, who does it pertain to because
Speaker 1: I haven't been free my entire life at all, like
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 4: Have you?
Speaker 1: You think because we can have a podcast and come
Speaker 1: out here and talk like this, that we're free When
Speaker 1: I worry about my safety every single day, when I
Speaker 1: get death threats, credible death threats, that's freedom, you think
Speaker 1: because you can go on social media and type whatever
Speaker 1: you want to type that you're free. No, that's not
Speaker 1: freedom because a you'll get a lot of hatred or
Speaker 1: canceled or docked, you know, So that's not freedom.
Speaker 4: What freedom do you have? Really? Rich white men have
Speaker 4: it all.
Speaker 1: They can literally do it. They can kill somebody and
Speaker 1: get away with it. What can you get away with?
Speaker 1: So if freedom is an American value, why doesn't it
Speaker 1: apply to all Americans? It doesn't. It goes by class.
Speaker 1: Someone said race and class are two different things, and
Speaker 1: I laughed right in their face.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, you keep on believing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, truly, Are you free to see the doctor
Speaker 1: you want to see when you want to see them, No,
Speaker 1: you're not. Are you free to get the health care
Speaker 1: that you need when you need it? Nope, that freedom
Speaker 1: depends on an insurance company. So what exactly are you
Speaker 1: free to do die? You know, it's about it. Pay
Speaker 1: your taxes. You're free to pay your taxes, and you're
Speaker 1: free to die. That's about it. So if freedom is
Speaker 1: an American value, we're failing at it, just big time.
Speaker 1: What are other American values other than freedom? Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the basic ones. Life. Life is supposed to be
Speaker 1: an American value. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness life.
Speaker 1: Are you free to have a life? No, no, you're not.
Speaker 1: In fact, you have to scratch and claw to have
Speaker 1: a life. Health Care isn't free. Wouldn't that come under life?
Speaker 1: You know, if you're entitled to life, you're entitled to
Speaker 1: a healthy life. That would mean you're entitled to health care,
Speaker 1: to housing, to food. Food isn't a right. Health Care
Speaker 1: isn't a right. A home isn't a right, not in America.
Speaker 1: And you you're entitled to life. What about liberty? The
Speaker 1: definition of liberty is to live in society free from
Speaker 1: others oppressive ideologies.
Speaker 4: That's what liberty is. I have never had liberty in
Speaker 4: the United States as a gay man.
Speaker 1: I have always been under the oppressive view of a
Speaker 1: pseudo Christian nation. Never have I had liberty. Ever, and
Speaker 1: what about the pursuit of happiness? Doesn't mean you're going
Speaker 1: to get it, but what about the pursuit of it? Well, again,
Speaker 1: are you free to pursue your happiness when you've got
Speaker 1: to work twenty four to seven to give money to corporations? No, So,
Speaker 1: even our basic principles life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
Speaker 1: if those are our values, we're failing. And so we
Speaker 1: will be judged by history and by the future by
Speaker 1: our values. That's how they'll judge us. What were their
Speaker 1: values of America in twenty twenty five? What did they value?
Speaker 1: They valued guns, discrimination, political infighting, conspicuous consumption, destruction of
Speaker 1: the planet, isolationism. These are the things we seem to value.
Speaker 1: So as we look at America and we hear the
Speaker 1: terms American values, maybe those aren't a good thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: the values of America are not good. The true values
Speaker 1: of America. They read more like the seven deadly sins. Sloth, gluttony, greed, jealousy.
Speaker 1: These our American values, the seven deadly sins. People think
Speaker 1: being a billionaire is something to ascribe to. Wealth is
Speaker 1: an American value. We value wealth almost more than anything,
Speaker 1: So that's an American value.
Speaker 4: Wealth? Is that a virtuous thing? Wealth? And yet it's
Speaker 4: like our main.
Speaker 1: Value greed, conspicuous, consumption, gluttony. Our values are the seven
Speaker 1: deadly sins, as exemplified by television, by media. You know,
Speaker 1: the Oscars are out today, and it's so weird that
Speaker 1: Amelia Perez, a movie I love about a transgendered Mexican
Speaker 1: cartel member that's a musical, has the most nominations at
Speaker 1: this time in our history. I find that so amusing,
Speaker 1: and congrats to Amelia Perez.
Speaker 4: I am Corell. You'll be who you want to be.
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Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll all weather this together and not back Monday.
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