WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:07.160 You know, there's an old saying, when someone shows you 2 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:10.000 who they are, believe them. So if you judge a 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.960 person by how they act and you see their priorities, 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.359 what does that say about the United States of America? 5 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.399 What are our priorities telling our allies? 6 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.960 Uncensored, unfiltered, un hinged. 7 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:29.440 It's the Cuell Cast. Listen daily on your favorite streaming service. 8 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.039 It is the Crell Cast. I am Carell Happy Thursday, 9 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:42.520 July or July. Genda Rushlings Truck January twenty third, So 10 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.679 very glad you are joining me. 11 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.719 You know, I got to thinking today about priorities. 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:53.719 Uh and you can tell what matters to me by 13 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.600 listening to my show, and so many of you do. 14 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:58.719 And I thank all of you, all of my patrons 15 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.399 at Patreon dot com, Forward slash Really, Carrell at YouTube 16 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.840 YouTube dot com, Forward slash Really, Correl and Babetta, who 17 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.359 is always in the chat room. I just realized you're 18 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.280 David and Toby's Babetta, that you've been in my world 19 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:14.799 for like twenty five years, and I didn't know that 20 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.640 was you. Uh, So, Hi Babbeta, Hi Darling. I talked 21 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:22.680 to David this morning on My word does Babeta live. 22 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.200 He says, Temple City. I said, wait a minute, is 23 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:26.599 that her in my chat room? 24 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:29.640 He's like, yeah, she listens to your shama. Well good lord. 25 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.560 They're off for a four day cruise my friends, and 26 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.640 they may be cruising in the Gulf of America. 27 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.439 Oh how nauseating? Is that? All right? 28 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:45.560 So what's on my mind is priorities and the message 29 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:52.239 your priorities, my priorities, and America's priorities send. 30 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.040 What message does it send? You know? 31 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.159 What do people think is important to you? What do 32 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.319 people think is important to me? What do people think 33 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.680 is important to America or Americans? 34 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:07.840 Now? 35 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.680 Granted, only twenty four percent of the people voted for 36 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:16.599 Donald Trump, and yet those priorities are going to be 37 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:22.280 what defines us in the future for the next four years, 38 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.159 and so what are those We're going to talk about that. 39 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.560 But from the David Hall school of broadcasting, you got 40 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:33.680 to talk about what's on your mind or it's a 41 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:40.360 fake show. You know, we gay people are fabulous, And 42 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.719 one of the fabulous things we gay people do is 43 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.520 form extended families. We're very very good at it because 44 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.080 for many of us, our original family, our mother, father, sister, 45 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.639 brothers as uncles may not be as welcoming to us 46 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.879 because we're gay by trans and so we form family 47 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.800 of like minded individuals. Gays do this every day in 48 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:10.439 every community across the globe, and more so than straight people. 49 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:12.759 And I know you're going to say that's not true, 50 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:14.479 but it is true. 51 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.879 I have the stats and the life experience to back 52 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:22.120 that up, so I am not immune to that. And 53 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.120 I'm sure many of you have an extended family of friends. 54 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.479 They're your you know, your friends giving you're especially if 55 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.759 you're gay. Uh. And I know some of you don't 56 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.159 like that I speak in generalizations. A lot of white 57 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.919 men got angry at my show yesterday, did you know, 58 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:41.120 saying how white men basically have messed everything up and 59 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.599 continue to mess everything up. And they're like, well, I'm 60 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.199 a white man and I don't want to be grouped 61 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.840 with them too bad. You know, you, if you are white, 62 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.800 you do experience white privilege. Whether you know it or not, 63 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:55.240 you do. 64 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:56.560 Uh. 65 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.319 But anyway, so I've. 66 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:04.199 Had the the luck to have at one time a 67 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:09.560 large extended family of LGBTQ friends, and in the eighties 68 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:13.680 and in the nineties, two members of that family were 69 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:19.120 Bert Critchfield and John Gilzell just they weren't lovers or anything, 70 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.399 but they were just big members of the family. I 71 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.399 met Bert the same night I met Andrew in nineteen 72 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.800 eighty eight. He walked up to me at the frat 73 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.639 house and asked me if I knew the name of 74 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:37.040 Genie's sister from my dream of Genie, and I said, 75 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.480 all Genies are named Genie, so her sister's name is Genie. 76 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:42.800 And he said, how did you know that? I said, 77 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:46.680 I know everything. So we became fast friends. In fact, 78 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:48.920 he was very handsome and I very easily could have 79 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:53.920 dated him instead of Andrew. So Bert stayed in my life. 80 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.600 Was a creative force in my life. I took him 81 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.160 to plays, we went lots of places. He was the 82 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.680 most creative artist I ever met, in terms of he 83 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:08.639 could do like prosthetics, make creatures. He was something. He 84 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:13.360 should have worked in Hollywood. But Bert never found his way. 85 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.639 He just wasn't right for this world. He was childlike 86 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.439 and he just never found his way. So yesterday I 87 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.519 get a call from David Ethridge, who dated Bert. 88 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:27.000 I introduced them. 89 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.879 And doesn't date him now, of course, but dated him 90 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:34.639 back in the day and he said, Burt Cridgefield has died, 91 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.839 and I was I was stunned. I was in the 92 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.160 middle of a four hundred dollars drama, trying to pay 93 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.000 a mixer to mix do you want to funk? Wondering 94 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.319 where I'm going to get the money, and bam, I 95 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.759 get the news about Burt. And it really struck me 96 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.160 because so much of my extended family from the eighties 97 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.959 nineties are dying. It almost feels like AIDS again, where 98 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.079 a friend died every week. So I was in that 99 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.600 grief and I decided to text Dennis Cope, who I 100 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.000 haven't spoken to in months and well years. I haven't 101 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.120 spoken to him, but I've texted him about last year, 102 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.920 I guess, and that he was good friends with Bert, 103 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.920 as were all my friends. And I told him about 104 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.959 Bert and he of course was upset about it. But 105 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:28.639 then he said, did you hear about John Gildso And 106 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:34.120 I'm like no, And he died and so here I 107 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.399 thought the day couldn't get worse and then bam, I 108 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.800 find out another friend has died. So last night and 109 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:47.800 today I am not in a good psychological place because 110 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:55.319 two of this big key players in my past have died, 111 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.680 and it symbolizes the loss of youth, the loss of that, 112 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.000 the loss of that family. 113 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:03.800 A lot of symbolism. 114 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.279 But it also made me grateful that, somehow, some way, 115 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.720 at sixty two years of age, through the AIDS crisis, 116 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.600 through Bert died of cirrhosis, which made me just as 117 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:22.560 mad as Daniel Charleston dying of ketamine, and through all 118 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:28.439 of that, through drug usage, through opiates galore, somehow I'm 119 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:32.720 still here. Yes, I'm very worried about the tremor in 120 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.279 my hands. Yes, my toes right now are doing this, 121 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.000 all of them, which is new. But I'm still grateful 122 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.839 to be here because if you ask Bert or John, 123 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.600 you know, would you be me right now with my tremors, 124 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.279 they'd be like, but you're still alive, right, yes, okay, 125 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.639 I'll be you. So I was very grateful, and it 126 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.879 did make me start thinking about priorities, because it's I 127 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.519 could die at any time. I'm sixty two, I'm aging, 128 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.199 and while that's still considered young, my friends are dropping 129 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.879 around me. Three in the last year, Daniel Charleston, John 130 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:16.199 guildso now Bert and So I started thinking about priorities 131 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.959 and how they reflect Even after you're gone. How they 132 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.759 reflect what you stood for and who you were? And 133 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:34.200 so I awoke thinking about this administration and how statements 134 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:39.960 were made yesterday that DEI is illegal and immoral, that 135 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.840 they want other government employees to report people who are 136 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.120 promoting DEI. 137 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.200 That's like the Nazis. 138 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:54.200 But more importantly, I thought about all the troubles in 139 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:57.240 the United States right now, for not just liberals, but 140 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.120 for MAGA, for everybody. I thought of all the troubles, 141 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:09.279 and I thought, is this our priority? Like first thing 142 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:16.080 out the box, the priority is to discriminate against Americans, 143 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.559 to make a point that we're anti day and anti trance. 144 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.960 Is that an American priority? 145 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.480 And so I want to talk about American priorities when 146 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.840 we come back and what they reflect about us as a. 147 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.600 People want to support the Corell cast, then like and 148 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:40.360 subscribe the YouTube videos at the really Corel channel. Just 149 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.559 go to YouTube dot com forward slash really Correll, that's 150 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.600 Kril and subscribe to the most exciting YouTube stream available today. 151 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:53.200 If you're not visiting really corell dot com daily, you're 152 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.879 missing out. Get the podcast videos and the blug including 153 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:13.440 recipes at reallycorrel dot com. 154 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.320 All right, you know, before we move forward about the priorities. 155 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.919 I love to interact with listeners and chatters, and Ray 156 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:21.720 Vernadi's in the chat room and he's one of the 157 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.399 ones who got angry about me saying, you know, white 158 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.519 men basically are the root of all of our problems. 159 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.879 And he keeps saying I wasn't angry, I just don't 160 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.399 think it's accurate. Well, then, please explain to me in 161 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.000 modern history, who is responsible for all the messes that 162 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.159 we've been in. Because has there been a black president 163 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.080 other than Obama? 164 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:50.480 Nope? Has there been a female president other than who? Nobody? 165 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:55.600 So No, the United States has been run by rich 166 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:01.360 white men. Look at Europe. Yes, there's been a few 167 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:02.240 female leaders. 168 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:06.399 Margaret Thatcher in Britain, Ireland had a female Teaesack, both 169 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:07.919 of them white, by the way. 170 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.480 But other than that, who has run Britain? 171 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:16.440 The Queen was not running Britain Parliament and the prime 172 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:17.159 Minister does. 173 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:24.159 And what are they? White men? Go back through history, King, 174 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.559 Charles King, James King, this King that what are they? 175 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:34.679 White men who oversaw slavery in America, white men. 176 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.960 Who constructed the banking system and the financial systems that 177 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:44.720 keep others out white men who are in charge of 178 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:50.360 the justice system that penalizes unfairly minorities, gays, blacks. 179 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:51.120 White men. 180 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.440 So I know you don't think it's accurate that white 181 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.960 men are the reason we are in this mess today, 182 00:11:58.399 --> 00:11:59.759 But explain to me. 183 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.360 If they're not, then who is. 184 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.919 Who's the largest voting block in the United States of America? 185 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:14.759 White men. Women couldn't even vote until the twentieth century. 186 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.039 So explain to me. If it's not rich white men 187 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.559 that have completely messed up society, then who is it. 188 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:27.759 So you can get angry and you can. 189 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:30.919 Say it's not accurate, But then tell me then, which 190 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.559 minorities have messed up America? 191 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:35.639 Which ones? 192 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.679 Which black people have led to the downfall of America, 193 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.600 Which brown people have led to the downfall of America? 194 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:50.279 Which women have led to the downfall of America? 195 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:50.679 White? 196 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:54.919 You know what women? What black women led the UK? 197 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:02.720 Any country in the UK? What about Russia? So this 198 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.759 notion that rich white men have not been the root 199 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.639 of most of our problems, I'm sorry if you don't 200 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.519 like it. If you don't like it, prove me wrong. 201 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.960 Tell me what black people, brown people, gay people, women 202 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:23.480 have messed up our society. List their names, tell me 203 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:28.960 what they did, enlighten me. Look, I'm a white man. 204 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.519 I take the responsibility. I admit men that look like 205 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:40.360 me have messed up society forever, and that I, even 206 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:45.799 though I am gay, have benefited from white privilege. Now, 207 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.279 if you can't even acknowledge that, then you're not paying attention. 208 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:50.840 To the problems. 209 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:55.080 Although Trump is orange, So there's that. And let's go 210 00:13:55.159 --> 00:14:00.320 back to priorities. Today, there was a world form and 211 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:06.120 our leader was a mess, a rambling mess, vilifying the UK, 212 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.000 telling the Saudis he's going to make them lower the 213 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.320 price of oil, like he'll make them do it, threatening war, 214 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.759 all this other stuff. But what he's doing back home 215 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:22.080 right now is making DEI this huge target. And so 216 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:26.120 when other countries look at America, what do you think 217 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.919 they think our priorities are? 218 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:30.320 What? 219 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.720 How do you feel that we are viewed as a 220 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:41.639 culture in the world. First of all patriarchal, anti woman, second, 221 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:49.879 white Christian majority, Third, anti gay, anti trans, anti buy, 222 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:56.799 anti lesbian, everything but anti Maine. Fourth, no concern for 223 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:03.879 the environment whatsoever, No concern learn at all for the environment. Fifth, 224 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.840 unwilling to stop massacres because of our love of guns. 225 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:15.919 So we're a gun loving white Christian, anti woman, anti 226 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:21.200 minority nation. That's what the world thinks of our priorities 227 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.320 based on our actions. And you can say, oh, no, Corel, 228 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:29.200 it's only the actions of twenty four percent, But guess 229 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.639 what they represent us now to the world. That's who 230 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:39.600 we are. Is that who you want to be? Is 231 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.320 that the image that you want to present to the world. 232 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:48.960 It's not the image I want to present. I don't 233 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.600 want the world to think that we're anti women, that 234 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:56.159 were anti minority, that we're against gays, lesbians, trans that 235 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:02.720 we don't support people of color. We are now anti immigrant. 236 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.799 I don't believe that's a good place, that's a good 237 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.720 reputation to have immigrants keep our economy going. 238 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.440 So what are American values? 239 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.799 I keep hearing this talk of going back to American values? 240 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.720 What are the American values that everybody seems to think 241 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.120 we need to get back to. 242 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.399 Because it appears to the rest of. 243 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.480 The world and to me, that the American values that 244 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:43.919 we cherish most are bigotry, hatred, misogyny, Christian nationalism. These 245 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:50.559 appear to be the priorities, the values of Americans. We 246 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.759 appear to not value our children because a we won't 247 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:55.840 let women make their own health care decisions and be 248 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.080 once they're out of the womb, we don't care if 249 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:03.960 they get shot. What are American values? I would love 250 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.799 to hear your comments down below. What are the American 251 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.319 values that everybody seems to think we need to fight 252 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:17.240 for when they talk about the American way, truth, justice, 253 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:22.440 and the American way. What is the American way in 254 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.920 twenty twenty five. I would love to hear your thoughts 255 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:31.400 on what the American way is in twenty twenty five, 256 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.559 because for me, it's to be more fabulous. If I'm 257 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.079 going to go out and it appears I am. If 258 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.680 I'm going to go out God knows when, then I 259 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:44.680 need it to be. 260 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:50.119 On my terms. I need to be fabulous, you know. 261 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:56.480 And I don't want this representation that's going to the 262 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.960 world to be how they think of me. I mean, 263 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:05.279 there's not much we can do. We can exemplify the opposite. 264 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.519 We can be inclusive, we can be caring, we can 265 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.880 be loving, we can be kind, we can be funny, 266 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:16.079 we can be you know, we can act differently and 267 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:20.599 try to promote the image of a caring American of 268 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:26.880 a loving American, of an inclusive American. But I don't 269 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.720 think that message is going to get out I think 270 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.720 for the next four years. And actually I think through 271 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:42.000 a majority of history, we've been seen as an imperialistic, misogynistic, patriarchal, 272 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.880 gun toting, Jesus loving. 273 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:53.039 You know, frontier. Are those the values? Is that? Are 274 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:58.799 those American values? What are American values? Because we keeps 275 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:05.359 hearing about them every day every day and now we've 276 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:14.160 seen it ei, you know, nemoral, illegal, What are values? Hey? 277 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:16.160 Carell here, and I'd like to take a moment to 278 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.279 thank all the patrons at Patreon. Your support means the 279 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.119 absolute world to me and the show. 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So please listen on all 291 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.279 streaming services, watch and subscribe on YouTube, and so support 292 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.160 the show to Patreon at Patreon dot com. 293 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.880 Forward slash really Correl, Thanks for almost. 294 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.440 Thirty years of support for the loudest, craziest, most unhinged 295 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.640 gay guy and his little dog. And let's keep the 296 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:28.039 party going as long as we can. You know, I 297 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.039 hear the word freedom, and I'm seeing the word freedom 298 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:33.440 in the chatroom at YouTube dot com. Forward slash really 299 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:38.240 Carrel that freedom is an American value. Who in this 300 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:45.559 country accept rich white men have ever been free? And 301 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.680 I mean that that is an honest question. Who in 302 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:56.359 America has ever been free? Accept rich white men? Have 303 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:58.599 Blacks ever truly been free? 304 00:20:59.160 --> 00:20:59.400 Ever? 305 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:06.880 No have Days, no Chinese, no Irish, no women? No 306 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:15.039 Who has ever really been free in America? Except rich 307 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:21.400 white men? Who's free right now? Are you free? Are 308 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.480 you free to do what you want to be? As 309 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.920 alternate would say. 310 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.240 You're free? Are you free? 311 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:33.880 Because I don't feel so free. I'm certainly not free 312 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.000 to love who I want to love without critical disdain, 313 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:45.680 without laws trying to interfere Again, are you free? Because 314 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:50.720 economic slavery is a very real thing, and even though 315 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:55.240 they ended regular slavery allegedly, there is certainly economic slavery. 316 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.920 Most of us are economic slaves. We're not free to 317 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:00.359 do what we want to do. We don't have the 318 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:05.839 resources to do it. So, when you talk about freedom 319 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:10.240 being an American value, are you free to live from 320 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:11.599 the fear of gun violence? 321 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:17.079 No? Are you free to live from fear of a 322 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:17.759 lot of things? 323 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:18.599 No? 324 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:24.759 So, who has ever really been free in America? 325 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:32.039 Native Americans? Yes, before we got here, not afterwards. Who 326 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:38.559 has been free in America? Except rich white men. If 327 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:43.119 that's an American value, then why doesn't it trickle down 328 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:46.960 to the rest of the people. Are you free to 329 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:48.279 say what you want to say? 330 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:48.680 No? 331 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:53.240 Not anymore. You're certainly not. Are you free to do 332 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:55.680 what you want to do? No, there's a billion laws 333 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:59.839 and rules and regulations. Who has been free? Who can 334 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:00.240 it ignore? 335 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.599 Are those laws and regulations rich white men? 336 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.640 Who can say whatever they want to say without any 337 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:07.519 fear of repercussion? 338 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:09.119 Whatsoever? Rich white men? 339 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.079 So, if freedom is an American value, or at the 340 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:20.640 top of the list, who does it pertain to because 341 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:25.079 I haven't been free my entire life at all, like 342 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:25.920 at all? 343 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:29.839 Have you? 344 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:32.000 You think because we can have a podcast and come 345 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.640 out here and talk like this, that we're free When 346 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:39.440 I worry about my safety every single day, when I 347 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:46.119 get death threats, credible death threats, that's freedom, you think 348 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:48.880 because you can go on social media and type whatever 349 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.400 you want to type that you're free. No, that's not 350 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:56.960 freedom because a you'll get a lot of hatred or 351 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:01.799 canceled or docked, you know, So that's not freedom. 352 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:09.480 What freedom do you have? Really? Rich white men have 353 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:09.880 it all. 354 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.279 They can literally do it. They can kill somebody and 355 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.279 get away with it. What can you get away with? 356 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:23.480 So if freedom is an American value, why doesn't it 357 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:28.319 apply to all Americans? It doesn't. It goes by class. 358 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:31.920 Someone said race and class are two different things, and 359 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:33.119 I laughed right in their face. 360 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:35.799 I'm like, yeah, you keep on believing that. 361 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.680 I mean, truly, Are you free to see the doctor 362 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:42.640 you want to see when you want to see them, No, 363 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.480 you're not. Are you free to get the health care 364 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.240 that you need when you need it? Nope, that freedom 365 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:53.279 depends on an insurance company. So what exactly are you 366 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:59.039 free to do die? You know, it's about it. Pay 367 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:01.039 your taxes. You're free to pay your taxes, and you're 368 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:05.880 free to die. That's about it. So if freedom is 369 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:11.200 an American value, we're failing at it, just big time. 370 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:18.039 What are other American values other than freedom? Let's talk 371 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.240 about the basic ones. Life. Life is supposed to be 372 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:28.720 an American value. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness life. 373 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:31.880 Are you free to have a life? No, no, you're not. 374 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:36.200 In fact, you have to scratch and claw to have 375 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:42.759 a life. Health Care isn't free. Wouldn't that come under life? 376 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.680 You know, if you're entitled to life, you're entitled to 377 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.680 a healthy life. That would mean you're entitled to health care, 378 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:53.799 to housing, to food. Food isn't a right. Health Care 379 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:58.960 isn't a right. A home isn't a right, not in America. 380 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:03.480 And you you're entitled to life. What about liberty? The 381 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.960 definition of liberty is to live in society free from 382 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:10.799 others oppressive ideologies. 383 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:16.039 That's what liberty is. I have never had liberty in 384 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.559 the United States as a gay man. 385 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.440 I have always been under the oppressive view of a 386 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:28.440 pseudo Christian nation. Never have I had liberty. Ever, and 387 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:31.440 what about the pursuit of happiness? Doesn't mean you're going 388 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:36.319 to get it, but what about the pursuit of it? Well, again, 389 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:40.359 are you free to pursue your happiness when you've got 390 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:47.240 to work twenty four to seven to give money to corporations? No, So, 391 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:52.680 even our basic principles life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, 392 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:58.880 if those are our values, we're failing. And so we 393 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.119 will be judged by history and by the future by 394 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:08.079 our values. That's how they'll judge us. What were their 395 00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:13.759 values of America in twenty twenty five? What did they value? 396 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:24.400 They valued guns, discrimination, political infighting, conspicuous consumption, destruction of 397 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:33.240 the planet, isolationism. These are the things we seem to value. 398 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.720 So as we look at America and we hear the 399 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:43.720 terms American values, maybe those aren't a good thing. Maybe 400 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:50.319 the values of America are not good. The true values 401 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:57.880