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This Gay Week: Supreme Court Fight & Russia’s Crackdown Backfires · The Karel Show

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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: It is a good week to be gay in the USA.
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  Speaker 5: We got a new gay senator from New Hampshire and
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  Speaker 5: the fascists that were in the ruling party have been
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  Speaker 5: shown the door. It's going to talk this gay week
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  Speaker 5: with Scott Jacobson with Around the World. But don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: I was singing a whatchamacallits song there. Uh, what is
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  Speaker 5: that song? I've been around the world. Oh, it's come
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  Speaker 5: on from the same people that did come on Barbie.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go party. I forget what, anyway. Uh, all right.
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  Speaker 5: It is this gay week. I am, well, well, uh,
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  Speaker 5: the Barbie, I'm a Barbie girl or yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 5: wonderful song. And their next single was called Around the World.
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  Speaker 5: in trouble for their video because they used a whole
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  Speaker 5: bunch of cartoon people that they weren't supposed to. But anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Aqua.
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  Speaker 5: Aqua, that's it. The voice you hear is Scott Jacobson.
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  Speaker 5: He is in Ukraine. We are going to talk about
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  Speaker 5: all things gay around the world. But before we do,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we had a seismic shift here in the
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  Speaker 5: United States when it comes to our politics this week.
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  Speaker 5: It was a red wedding of sorts with MAGA on
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  Speaker 5: the run. What a great song, MAGA on the run.
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  Speaker 5: MAGA on the run and Republicans now distancing themselves from
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  Speaker 5: the orange turd. My friend has come up with the
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  Speaker 5: term conservaturds. And so will things change for LGBTQ people
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  Speaker 5: in America? Let's hope so come January. But one of
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  Speaker 5: the other issues that Democrats seem more sympathetic to, as
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  Speaker 5: do many American people, is the war in Ukraine. We
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  Speaker 5: do not want Ukrainians wiped out. We do not want
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  Speaker 5: Vladimir Putin to win. Donald Trump changes his support like
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  Speaker 5: he changes his diaper, however the wind blows. And so
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted to ask you, over there in Ukraine,
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  Speaker 5: are you too busy trying to survive and not get
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  Speaker 5: hit by ballistic missiles to really pay attention to our politics?
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  Speaker 5: Or are people encouraged that the Democrats are coming back
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  Speaker 5: in power so maybe they'll get, uh-oh, I lost Scott
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  Speaker 5: right when I was going to ask him an important question.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get him back. Because I want to know if
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  Speaker 5: over in Ukraine, if they're encouraged by the fact that
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  Speaker 5: Democrats have taken power and that they support Ukraine more
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  Speaker 5: than not. And so hopefully Zelensky will get the backing
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  Speaker 5: that he needs and Donald Trump, his mood won't be
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  Speaker 5: able to change every 20 seconds. And so we can
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  Speaker 5: help the Ukrainians. So we're trying to get Scott back
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  Speaker 5: in Ukraine to talk this gay week. That's going to
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  Speaker 5: take a second probably. So as soon as he... There
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  Speaker 5: he is. He's back. Sorry about that. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: I have a heart arrhythmia and I've been having issues
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  Speaker 5: and it makes my heart skip when you bail out
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  Speaker 5: because I'm afraid you've been bombed.
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  Speaker 4: To help you be calm, there were several either UAVs
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  Speaker 4: or missiles blowing up not too long ago.
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  Speaker 5: But they're all good now. Well, so what about that?
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  Speaker 5: How is our politics? Are you guys over there a
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  Speaker 5: little more encouraged that maybe there'll be more support?
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  Speaker 4: Europe has footed the bill since 2025, since Mr. Trump
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  Speaker 4: came into office. So what the winning of the House
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  Speaker 4: and the Senate does is apply Olympic rules to the
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  Speaker 4: extremes of MAGA and the GOP and the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 4: So that kind of, it's a rebalancing. Because being such
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  Speaker 4: a free society, the good and bad of human nature
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  Speaker 4: really expresses itself in the United States. And so when
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  Speaker 4: you get this more balanced situation, I just apply the
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  Speaker 4: Olympic rules where remove the extremes on either end, and
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  Speaker 4: then the centers can basically hash it out. And that's
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  Speaker 4: better for everyone, generally. And with regards to the Ukrainian case,
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  Speaker 4: they have more.
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  Speaker 5: Do you worry that the sentiment over here is to
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  Speaker 5: stop spending money on wars so we can have united
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  Speaker 5: health care and all of this, or not united, I
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  Speaker 5: mean universal health care and all of that? When you
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  Speaker 5: hear all this talk of let's spending money on foreign wars,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Ukraine is a foreign war. They're mostly talking
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  Speaker 5: about Iran and Israel. But at the same time, it
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  Speaker 5: is a war that we're spending money on. Are you
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  Speaker 5: worried that Democrats might try to heed their base and
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  Speaker 5: not spend as much money on the war?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: So since 2025, as noted, the funding situation has changed.
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  Speaker 5: So the money is really coming from Europe.
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  Speaker 4: Humanitarian aid and military aid. Yes. Military aid and humanitarian aid. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the American military companies, maybe Raytheon and et cetera, they
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  Speaker 4: allow European bills to pay... for munitions and other supplies
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  Speaker 4: for Ukraine, for Ukraine to buy it that way.
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  Speaker 5: All right. We're going to talk more with Scott from
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  Speaker 5: Kiev when we come back. Don't go anywhere. I am Carell,
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  Speaker 5: If you were on the show yesterday, you would have
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  Speaker 5: had no audio because it came and went faster than
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  Speaker 5: I can even imagine. than Donald Trump probably did with
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  Speaker 5: Stormy Daniels. All right. What a thought. Well, we have
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  Speaker 5: some big gay news out of the United States. In
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  Speaker 5: New Hampshire, two days ago on November 3rd. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: my birthday is Saturday, November 7th. But out of New
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  Speaker 5: Hampshire on November 3rd, we have the first openly gay,
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  Speaker 5: because you never know, But the first openly gay senator
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  Speaker 5: from New Hampshire, and he was elected November 3rd. He
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  Speaker 5: will be seated in January, and he will be the
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  Speaker 5: first gay member of the Senate. And that is a
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  Speaker 5: big deal to a lot of gays here in this country. Because,
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  Speaker 5: you know, anytime we can get someone in, I believe so, yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And the thing about that is the 100 most powerful
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  Speaker 5: people in the country are the Senate. So we now
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  Speaker 5: have one one-hundredth of a voice in the most powerful body,
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  Speaker 5: which is the Senate. So that is a big piece
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  Speaker 5: of gay news coming out of the United States. Other
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  Speaker 5: gay and lesbian officials also won here in the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: We had several. We had a governor. We had local
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  Speaker 5: state legislatures. So there's more and more gay people in
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  Speaker 5: politics now than almost ever before. And that's a great thing.
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  Speaker 5: And one of them is now a senator. So that's
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  Speaker 5: really cool out of New Hampshire. And while he's from
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  Speaker 5: a very small state, his vote is equal to any
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  Speaker 5: others in the body. There's 100 votes and they all
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  Speaker 5: count for the same. Doesn't matter if it's California or
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  Speaker 5: New Hampshire. So we're hoping that, you know, he'll champion.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't really heard his platform, but We're hoping, as
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  Speaker 5: a gay community, that he will help champion either legislation
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  Speaker 5: that helps LGBTQ people or at least stops any legislation
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  Speaker 5: that would harm LGBTQ people. Because I would very much
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  Speaker 5: like politicians to take the Hippocratic Oath and say, first,
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  Speaker 5: do no harm. So we'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 4: The hypocritical sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah exactly they they get it they got it mixed
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  Speaker 5: up uh all right let's dive into this gay week
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  Speaker 5: and you tell me you want to play roulette and
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  Speaker 5: tell me where you want to start at which which
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  Speaker 5: uh which story you want to begin with.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't respondents And they found that uncertainty is a major
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  Speaker 4: influence on LGBTQ dating vis-a-vis Hinge. And so they found
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  Speaker 4: uncertainty affected 76% of LGBTQ daters and 52% of heterosexual daters.
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  Speaker 4: So a big trend, uncertainty is across the dating landscape there,
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  Speaker 4: but it's maybe 40 to 50% higher with regards to
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  Speaker 4: LGBTQ daters. while those LGBTQ respondents said it actually clarified
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  Speaker 4: relationship preferences. So they were finding.
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  Speaker 5: That we're- think we should be clear. When they're saying uncertainty,
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  Speaker 5: they mean uncertainty about the world. Not just about dating,
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  Speaker 5: but just uncertainty about the world in general. And that's
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  Speaker 5: to a much higher degree than heterosexuals. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: that tells me what I said on my show on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: which is, you know, as I age, it's lonely. It's
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  Speaker 5: very lonely because, A, I lost a generation of friends
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  Speaker 5: to AIDS. They can't be 60 right now because, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're gone. And So there's just not a lot of company.
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  Speaker 5: And the world is an uncertain place. Like, look what
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  Speaker 5: happened in this country. So Monday, being gay was one
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  Speaker 5: step closer to being outlawed, and same-sex marriage was about
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  Speaker 5: to be attacked, and trans people have horrible things happening. Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: seismic shift in politics, and come January, we may have
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  Speaker 5: some allies, we may be protected, and we even get
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  Speaker 5: a gay senator.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 5: I think the uncertainty gays and lesbians feel about the
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  Speaker 5: world is warranted. And I do think it's higher in
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  Speaker 5: the gay community than not because we live in fucking
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  Speaker 5: different worlds. You know, straight people live in a completely
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  Speaker 5: different world. It's a different world than gay people. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that really plays into this. Straight people, heteronormative, cisgendered,
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  Speaker 5: Their world is not one of rights that can be
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  Speaker 5: taken away at the drop of a hat. Some politician
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  Speaker 5: decides something and suddenly you're in their crosshairs. Someone needs
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  Speaker 5: to get reelected and they know they can get votes
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  Speaker 5: from homophobes so they go after the community. So every
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  Speaker 5: single day, the ground beneath gay people actually shifts and
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't below straight people, at least not as much.
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  Speaker 5: And I fully believe, and this is not just in
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  Speaker 5: the United States, this is globally. No matter where you are,
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  Speaker 5: if you are gay, every day you wake up and
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  Speaker 5: wonder what footing you're going to be on on that day.
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  Speaker 5: you know, based on the whims of the media, politicians,
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  Speaker 5: you know, everything else. Straight people don't wonder that. They
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  Speaker 5: don't wake up and say, gee, is my marriage going
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  Speaker 5: to be challenged today? Gee, is my transness going to be,
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  Speaker 5: you know, discriminated against today? Am I going to be
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  Speaker 5: thrown out of my job, thrown out of the military?
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  Speaker 5: They don't wake up with those same fears. And that's
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  Speaker 5: why I really believe there's much more uncertainty about the world,
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  Speaker 5: 76 to 52% respectively for gays versus straights. And that's
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  Speaker 5: because we live in two different worlds, and ours is
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  Speaker 5: filled with earthquakes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm reminded of late Paul Mooney's commentary about some African
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  Speaker 4: Americans may talk big, but in his time and prior,
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  Speaker 4: there were white lawmakers. They passed laws to back their opinions.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a much more substantial thing when you can
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  Speaker 4: pass laws as opposed to just talk big occasionally. And
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  Speaker 4: I think it's the kind of thing you're getting at
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  Speaker 4: in sort of the reverse direction. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ways to analyze those type of findings outside of
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  Speaker 4: the dating world and sort of the larger point of making.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Queen Elizabeth said it best during her life when
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  Speaker 5: she was looking at a room full of people discussing
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  Speaker 5: climate change. And she said to a friend, these people
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  Speaker 5: are a lot about talk and not a lot about do.
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  Speaker 5: And she was right. People talk a good talk, but
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  Speaker 5: then they often don't get down to business. Another interesting
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  Speaker 5: statistic from that that I am proof of, gay and
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  Speaker 5: lesbian queer daters are 33% more likely than straight daters
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  Speaker 5: to say it matters that their friends like the person
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  Speaker 5: that they're dating. 37% for trans people. And they're also
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  Speaker 5: 20% more likely to want to check whether a potential
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  Speaker 5: partner fits in their friend circle. I have brought first
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  Speaker 5: dates to friend gatherings and everything because if they don't
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  Speaker 5: gel with my group, they can't be with me. It's
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  Speaker 5: just that simple. And part of the reason, as it
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  Speaker 5: states in here, is we.
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  Speaker 5: Gays and lesbians, we create family. We create our families.
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  Speaker 5: We have chosen family. And we want to make sure
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  Speaker 5: that these people are going to gel into that unit.
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  Speaker 5: Because if they don't, then there's going to be problems,
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  Speaker 5: and we would just rather not deal with it. Now,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if it's someone that looks like the guy
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  Speaker 5: from The Gilded Age, then, you know, all bets are off.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 5: It is very important to gays and lesbians that their
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  Speaker 5: chosen family accept their date. And there's many gays and
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  Speaker 5: lesbians that go out with their friends on a first date.
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  Speaker 5: And people think that's weird. Why would you complicate it?
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  Speaker 5: Why would you not be alone? And that's because if
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  Speaker 5: you can't get along with my friends, you can't get
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  Speaker 5: along with me. And that's very prevalent in the gay community.
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  Speaker 4: That's rational decision making. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: 86% said consistent communication from someone they're starting to date
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  Speaker 5: makes them feel less anxious. I couldn't agree more. Ghosting
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  Speaker 5: is not good. Also, I'm a communicator. And so if
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  Speaker 5: you leave me after a date, you can bet I'm
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  Speaker 5: texting you on your way home. You can bet I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to text you the next morning and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: good morning. How was your evening? You know, that sort
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  Speaker 5: of stuff. I communicate. And if a person can't communicate back,
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  Speaker 5: that's a problem for me. Because it makes me feel
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  Speaker 5: more secure and less anxious if they're apt to respond.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying 75 texts a day. I'm just, you know,
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  Speaker 5: within reason. And then PDAs early in the relationship also help.
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  Speaker 5: 65% of gay daters feel more secure. And they are
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  Speaker 5: 50% more likely than straight daters to hesitate to show
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  Speaker 5: affection on the first date. I have experienced this. You
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  Speaker 5: go out on the first date, you want to hold
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  Speaker 5: hands or you want to touch at the table or
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  Speaker 5: you want to maybe kiss goodnight, but you're hesitant, A,
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  Speaker 5: because of society. You're still not used to people not
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  Speaker 5: freaking out when you're in public, you know, touching each other.
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  Speaker 5: And B, you're not sure how they're going to react.
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  Speaker 5: Are they someone that's into, what if they're uncomfortable in public,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with PDAs? Now, with me and Andrew, that
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  Speaker 5: was never an issue. We would kiss. We'd do anything
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  Speaker 5: wherever we were. Hell, I'd blow him at the post office. Actually,
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  Speaker 5: I did blow him at the post office once. I did.
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  Speaker 5: In the parking lot. He came with me naked, wrapped
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  Speaker 5: in a blanket, because he was not feeling well. And
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  Speaker 5: he always got horny when he didn't feel well. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know why. But I came out after sending a package,
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  Speaker 5: and there he was in the passenger seat with the
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  Speaker 5: blanket open and... things were out of tension and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: what are you doing? And he goes, the question is,
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  Speaker 5: what are you going to do? Well, I don't have
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  Speaker 5: to be told twice. So, you know, down I went
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  Speaker 5: and people parked next to us and we're just, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Post office.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you said standing post.
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  Speaker 5: No, post office. Yeah, no, it was, I have had
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  Speaker 5: sex at a post office parking lot before. And that,
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  Speaker 5: is that considered a PDA? Probably, I guess. I don't,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I don't know. Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: It's an affectionate form, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm good with it. I don't mind it. All right.
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  Speaker 5: I really hope that there's audio on this segment, but
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  Speaker 5: we'll see. We'll see. I really hope the stack segment
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  Speaker 5: that I'm doing. I've had such audio problems with this thing.
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  Speaker 5: I can't even tell you. You know, I just I
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  Speaker 5: can't tell you. It's it's really, you know. It's not
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  Speaker 5: a fun... Not a fun thing. But if there's no
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  Speaker 5: audio on it, there's no audio on it. But there
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  Speaker 5: might be. So we'll see. We'll just see. Okay. So,
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  Speaker 5: in fact... Oh, I know why they're... Never mind. I'm
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  Speaker 5: an idiot. I'll, you know... I'm an idiot. That's all
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  Speaker 5: there is to that. Okay. So that's a good story.
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  Speaker 5: That is a good story. And it speaks to.
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  Speaker 5: How do I say this? Gay people go out of
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  Speaker 5: their way to let straight people know that we're just
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  Speaker 5: like them, okay? We're just like straight people. We're not
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  Speaker 5: just like straight people, okay? We're not. And our dating
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  Speaker 5: is different than their dating because we are different people
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  Speaker 5: and we bring different things into that situation. So gay
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  Speaker 5: dating and straight dating are different things. And I think
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  Speaker 5: this article exemplifies that. It shows that based on the statistics.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have the same issues. We don't have the
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  Speaker 5: same confines. I mean, come on. If you're a gay
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  Speaker 5: man and you go on a first date, you're sleeping together.
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  Speaker 5: I know for straights, it's like the third date. Gay people,
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  Speaker 5: it's the first date. Well, we're like, let's get this
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  Speaker 5: out of the way and see if we're compatible. That's
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  Speaker 5: what we are. That's what we do.
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  Speaker 4: Splendid. is a lot like that for heterosexuals.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they have to be quick there. It's cold. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and they want to keep warm. So, you know, on
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  Speaker 5: the first date, your temperature could drop.
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  Speaker 4: It does help.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: Are you Icelandic? And are you, are you, when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to dating, are you Icelandic? uh yes and no
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna take that as a yes.
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  Speaker 4: Iceland I lived in Iceland for three weeks last year
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  Speaker 4: three and a half weeks yeah how many dates did
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: you have that was a great time and.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I'm sure how many dates did you go on Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: no comment. All right. Another, well, I don't say it's
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: a good story. It's not. But another story. We lost
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: a truly great actor this last week. And, you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Captain Picard. Patrick Stewart. And, you know, he was gay, obviously.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: And he treasured LGBTQ people. And I have to say,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: as I speak, you know, I've been appointed to speak
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: for all the gays. We treasured him too. So we're
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: going to talk a little about Patrick Stewart and more
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: stories from around the world on this gay week with
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Scott Jacobson in Ukraine when we come back. But He
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: was an incredible actor. He was a national treasure. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: loved the stuff that he did. A lot of stuff
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: with Sir Ian McKellen, like just off camera as well
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: as on. But they were best buddies and they were
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: the cutest little bromance. They weren't together, but they were
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: just the cutest little bromance in the world. Gave me
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: hope that I could be a little old gay man
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: and have another little old gay man friend.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Sort of thing, you know.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: So we lost Patrick.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Circus, who is a gay icon in a way, 86
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: years old, and gay. And, you know, as far as
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: I know, I mean, I don't think I'm still in
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: the beans here, but he certainly didn't have a wife.
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• 21:53
  Speaker 5: You have to be proud with hatred. Hey everyone, it's Karel.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: You know, Pride Month was rough this year. We had
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: a lot of hate heaped upon us from Trump, from MAGA,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: and from other governments around the world. And if you
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: are a trans person, you are really going through a
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: particular type of hell right now. That's why when I
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: was thinking of my next single in June, I sat
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: down and I wrote, you have to be proud. You
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: have to be proud with anger so loud. Streaming everywhere.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Keep fighting. Keep singing. Keep dancing. We're going to win.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Color me gobsmacked and shocked. Patrick Stewart was heterosexual and
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: married to a woman. And that, you know, I have
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: spent most of my life thinking that man was gay.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: So that's really interesting to me. But he is straight.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: and married to a woman, jazz singer Sunny Ozel, who
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: he married in 2013. Many people, according to Chad GPT,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: mistakenly believed he was gay because of A, his close
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: friendship with Ian McKellen, B, he has played many, many
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: prominent gay characters on screen, and he has been a
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: staunch LGBTQ advocate his entire life. vocal and longtime ally
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: to the gay community and has received multiple awards in
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: the LGBTQ community for his advocacy. Plus, he's kind of effeminate,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: so I really just thought he was gay, but he's not.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: What did you think? Did you think he was gay?
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: No, I knew he was part of an important sci-fi
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: representation of humanist philosophy. And so he was sort of
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: an icon within humanist philosophical life stance representations on screen.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: In addition, with his sort of speaking out about his
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: own mother's domestic violence stuff, about his advocacy for LGBT,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: his friendship with Serene McKellen, et cetera, he was living
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: out humanist philosophy. And for many, many years, he was
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: representing that in sort of an optimistic, futuristic vision in
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Star Trek.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Well, I know that you can't see this, but neither
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: can my listeners. But here's a full-blown picture of Patrick
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: kissing Ian McKellen on the lips. So you could see
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: where I would get the impression. But you bring up
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: a great point. First of all, Star Trek. Star Trek
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: is very important to gay people. I know many gay
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Star Trekkies. And one of the reasons is Star Trek
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: embraced ultimate diversity. I mean, frickin' aliens, hello. It had
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: the first, one of the first, on-screen, one of the
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: first same-sex, not same-sex, sorry, one of the first interracial
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: kisses was on the television show Star Trek. And certainly
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: the intense relationship between Kirk and Spock You know, I'm
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: not going to say they were gay for each other,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: but honey, you know, so I guess in real life,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Leonard Nimoy actually couldn't stand him afterwards. But a lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: of people can't. And we lost Chekhov this last week
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: to the guy, the guy that played Chekhov. We lost
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: him when George Takai dies, who is gay. I will
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: be devastated. But Star Trek was very inclusive. It was
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: very progressive. And the same with X-Men. You know, if
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: you think about what X-Men is really about, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: X-Men is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: How do I say this? It's... it's about the odd
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: men out. You know what I mean? They're, they're mutants. They're,
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: and so gays can relate to finding power in being different. Uh,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: and X-Men speaks to that, that we all have our
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: own superpower, even if we're different. Uh, and so, uh,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I can, he played, he played in a lot of
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: movies and a lot of TV shows that really resonate
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: with the gay community. and did so as a fierce
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: and staunch advocate. So we will miss him. We need
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: every advocate that we can get. And he's only 86.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: And I say only because, you know, Barbara's 84, Cher's 82,
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Diana Ross, they're all out touring and having a good time.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: So it's sad that we lost him at 86. He
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: deserved to live to 100 like Dolly Parton did and
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: a lot of other people and Mike Trump doesn't. But
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: we lost him. But he was a big ally and
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: he was a great friend to the gays. All right.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: You pick the story next.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, only final comment. Life is very short
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: and it's, it's too short to be a bad person.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: So let's go with.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I wish like two thirds of the world. I wish
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: that two thirds of the world would see that. Yes.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Life is too short to be a bad person. So stop.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: You know, it's just, I mean, yeah, you know, and,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: and also just apart from all of this, a tremendously
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: good actor.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: Oh my God. My God. I mean, to go from,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: you know, Picard or Xavier to full, just full Shakespeare,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: you know, full, just the bard, uh, in the same breath,
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: he could do it. He could, you know, he consummate actor. Absolutely.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Now, uh, to local matters, uh, regionally for me.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Local to whom? Meduza.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Moi. So five cases have been documented by MediaZona in
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: which Russian authorities penalize people for LGBTQ related material despite
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: their hostile or satirical intentions. So even if they're anti-LGBT,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: representing LGBT is the criminal offense. Or the offense?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Well, I would just.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Rainbow imagery?
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: I would just like to say in Russia's defense, if
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you're going to be a bigot, be a bigot to everybody.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: You know, if you're going to ban pro-gay propaganda, then
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: ban the anti-gay propaganda too. If you're going to be
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: an asshole, be an asshole to everybody. Don't just, you know.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: I guess that's the lesson. I guess that's the lesson.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: If you're going to be an asshole, be an asshole
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: to everybody.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the lesson. That's the story. It's just expanded restrictions.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Next story.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: You know, the thing about Russia and their anti-gay stance
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: is the same as every other government, which is Russia
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: acts like there are no gay people there and or
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Chechnya or other countries. And of course, that's just not true.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: And young people, young Russians, they're already past that. The
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: young Russians love gay people. They party with gay people.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: They don't want to harm gay people. you know, younger Russians,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: unless they're hardcore, you know, Kremlin people, but younger Russians.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: And my friend Thea Austin has performed in Russia and
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: she's a gay icon. And she performed at a club
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: where a lot of people were gay. Go ahead. Yes.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: You could say the older generations and the younger generations
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: are having.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: A heated rivalry. Oh, well, yes, they are. Well, look
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: at that. You know, you got Connor Story and Hudson
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: talking about how they love to cuddle, that they're platonic,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: they don't screw each other, but yet they are affectionate
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: and love each other because that's how young people are now.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: You know, it's like if a young guy that's straight
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: wants to hug his best gay friend or cuddle with his...
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: best straight friend or whatever, they're going to do it.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: And they don't put a label on it. They just do.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: You know what? It's better.
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: It's better.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: And healthier. I agree. One of the things I said yesterday,
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: a few days ago on my show on Wednesday, the
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: day after, was that it's time to let young people... Well,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: we'll go to break, but it's time to let young people....
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: It's broadcasting from a completely different point of view.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Yours.
• 30:33
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• 30:44
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• 30:51
  Speaker 6: It's broadcasting from a completely different point of view.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yours.
• 30:57
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• 31:08
  Speaker 7: You're listening to the Corelcast. Driving you home or driving
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: you crazy.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Stream I Dance Because on all services. The song is very,
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: very personal to me. And the video now is very
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: touching to me. I cried the first time. Well, I
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: cry all the time. But I cried the first time
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: I saw it. We all have somebody, whether it's someone
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: that's passed from AIDS or some other thing. We all
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: have people that we danced with. And that's why we dance.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Stream I Dance Because on all services. All right, we
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: are back. I was saying, you know, young people's attitudes
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: about LGBTQ people, I don't want to totally overgeneralize. There
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: are many who are against gay people and against trans
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: people and all that. But I would say two-thirds of
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: young people, people under 30, people under 35, they've lived
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: their whole lives hearing all this bullshit from old people,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: and they're just not having it. They're just not having it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: They're like, you know what?
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: No.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: You know, we're going to just live and let live
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: sort of thing. And there's even accounts I follow on Instagram.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: One is called Cult Wives because the guy is so
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: fucking cute. Oh, my God. He's got me written all
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: over him. But he has a wife. But he also does.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: They do three ways with guys. And he will actually
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: partner up with the guy for OnlyFans and just do
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: him and a guy. And everyone loves. under the comments,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: they're so confused. They're like, are you gay or are
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: you not gay? Are you bi or what are you?
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: And he's like, first of all, I'm making 150K a month.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: That's the first thing. Oh yeah, 150K a month from
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: just having sex with your wife and another guy. I'd
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: marry a woman if it got me 150K a month.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: But more importantly, he stresses the attitude is I'm not
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: going to label what I am I enjoy my wife.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: I enjoy these guys. I enjoy both. Will I always
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: do it? I don't know, but I'm not going to
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: label it. And I think a lot of young people
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: are tired of labels. And that's why I think there's
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: a little backlash against the alphabet, against LGBTQIA, but only
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: because young people are just tired of labels. They just
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: want to be. And whatever their sexuality is, it is,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: That's a very astute assessment. Yeah, I think it's, People,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: they get knocked for not wanting to have a label,
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: but I think they're more going on actual character, which
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: has a qualitative assessment value to it. And so they're
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: just more into authenticity as a value. And probably they
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: could detect a little more readily than older generations that
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: had culture more enforced on them. Sincerity. I think it's
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: a very good point.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they don't want homophobia forced on them. They
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: don't want to be told they have to hate gays
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: because baby boomers do or because Gen X does. They
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: want their own set of rules, and I say I'm
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: fine with it. As I age, I'll be 64 Saturday.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: As I age, I'm looking now going, you know what?
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: It is a young person's game.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: It is.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: It's a young person's game. Let's let them step in
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: and step up. because I kind of like their ideals
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: and their values. And I know they get slighted a
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: lot for not having any. But when it comes to
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: social mores, I'm liking what some of the younger people
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: are saying about LGBTQIA. I even like when they say,
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: I don't like the labels because to me, I'm just
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: judging people on who they are, not their letter. Or
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I'm having sex with who I want to have sex with.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: If I want to have sex with a guy, I'll
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: have it. If I want to have sex with a girl,
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: I'll have it. And I don't want to label because
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: of that. And I respect that. I fought for the
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: right for them to have a label and be proud
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: about it. But if they don't want a label, that's
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: equally a choice. And I'm all for it. I truly am.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: All right. Where are we going?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Are we going to Venezuela? Yeah, I think a lot
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: of the economics of social life here, I think it's
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: just trade-offs. If you have a label... It's a shortcut
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: for social life. But that's their own. They're inheriting this.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: These are their lives that they're going to be inheriting
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: and developing and building for the next iteration of culture.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: And I hope that it sticks. I hope that their
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: culture in 30 years' time, when they're my age, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: hope culture has gotten to where letters aren't important, where
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: we treat everybody the same no matter. So it doesn't
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: matter how we identify because We don't need to segregate
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: ourselves out by sexuality. That is my hope. Meanwhile, in Caracas,
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: they are separating themselves out based on sexuality. The LGBTQIA
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: plus community there has marched in Caracas demanding recognition of rights.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: And I think that's great because that's like a stonewall.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: That's how you get things. Venezuela, of course, is not
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: a hotbed of LGBTQ rights, and they are trying to
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: change that. and get more rights because they say Venezuelans
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: are of a diverse sexual orientation and that it is
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: healthier for them to have the rights and to be
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: able to live openly. So Venezuela, which is undergoing a
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: lot of social change right now, One of the social
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: changes they're undergoing is trying to push for more rights,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: and we'll talk about that story and others from around
• 36:33
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• 36:36
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• 36:57
  Speaker 2: You have to be proud with hatred.
• 37:02
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• 37:04
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• 37:18
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• 37:21
  Speaker 5: are stronger than ever and they can't have our pride.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Showtime is here. No time to fear.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Corral is so near because Showtime is here.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Corral is the one that you need to know.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: And Venezuela basically is the United States in the 90s.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Gay men are not allowed to donate blood in public hospitals.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: We could not in the 90s. And we still can't.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: They say we can, but we can't. Because the questionnaire
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: they ask basically excludes you. Have you had sex, like,
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: in the last five years? Have you, you know, are
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: you on PrEP? Or all these other things that would
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: then exclude you. So the Red Cross says that gay
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: people can donate. Gay men, because there was a prohibition
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: on it, which was useless and stupid. because all blood
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: is tested for HIV. But it's not true. We can't
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: still donate blood. We have different hoops to jump through,
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: a different form to fill out. And if you answer
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: even like, yes, I had sex three years ago, then
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: you're not qualified to give blood. So that's ridiculous. But
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: they're not allowed to donate blood in public hospitals. Transgendered
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: people are legally required to identify with their birth or
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: their dead names, basically. and same-sex couples do not have
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: the right to marry. So basically, Caracas and Venezuela are
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: the United States in the 90s. Five police officers were
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: detained in Venezuela after NGOs reported an illegal raid, acts
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: of extortion, arrest of 33 men in gay entertainment venue
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: in the Lada State. The prosecutor general's office reported the
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: arrest at the time, and the investigation was launched. So
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: it's not great to be gay in Venezuela, However, they're
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: trying to change that because, like we said earlier, there
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: is a gay community and it's not going away and
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: they want to be more recognized. Maybe, maybe the change
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: in our Congress and our Senate and House, which will
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: be more LGBTQ friendly, maybe that will spread. I don't know. Well,
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: I guess we'll have to see. All right, here's something,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: a story that's... The Supreme Court conservative majority seemed inclined
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: to rule that the four-year-old children of gay and trans
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: parents can be barred from state-funded pre-K programs. In 2022,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Colorado adopted a statewide program to provide all four-year-olds with
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: an early education. The program paid for taxpayers to the
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: tune of $ 6, 300 per child, was open to all, including
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: religious groups. The only caveat was that the preschool program
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: had to comply with the state law barring discrimination based
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: on race, religion, ethnicity, or other categories. Although the Catholic
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Church initially supported the program, and the non-profit Catholic Charities
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: still participates in it, the Denver Archdiocese maintained that compliance
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: with the state's non-discrimination mandate violated the Constitution's guarantee to
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: free exercise of religion. The Denver Archdiocese, though not others
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: in the state, by the way, want an exemption from
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: the law so they can obtain state funding while at
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: the same time barring from its program children of gay
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: and trans parents and the Supreme Court is sort of
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: poised to let them. Isn't that ironic? The richest religious
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: entity in the world, the Catholic Church, wants the money
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: from the state, but they want to take it and
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: be able to discriminate against families who actually pay taxes
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: to help pay that fee. And isn't it ironic, Mr.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Scott Jacobson, that a religion is going out of its
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: way legally to legally discriminate against children?
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Right. Legally going out of its way to take money
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: from public taxpayers meant for public good to discriminate against
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: select individuals in the population based on sexual orientation and
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: gender identity.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: It's a perfect recipe of the use of religion for discrimination.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: And many of those public taxpayers are... LGBTQIA +.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, look, Catholic Church, if you don't want...
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: It's like, look, Catholic Church, if you don't want these
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: kids in your preschool, don't take the fucking money. It's
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: that simple. Don't take the money.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: And this is the big thing. From their mentality, many
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: of them, of the more hardline, conservative orientation, they will
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: frame this as a restriction on their religious freedom. That's
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: exactly what this is saying. They're not realizing... then a
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: universalization of standard would require them to not do so.
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: But they see stopping them from discrimination as an oppression
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: of them, when in fact they are the ones doing it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Yes. If I can't discriminate, you are discriminating against me.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: That's what they're saying. They're saying that I want to discriminate,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: and if I can't discriminate, then it's discrimination and I
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: should sue. That's circular thinking.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Yes. So they will be the same individuals often, not always,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: to rail against the victimhood as a culture in terms
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: of their framing. And then they will frame their own
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: victimization of others and the stoppage of it as a
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: victimization of them. And therefore they will play victim, even
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: though they are a significant minority, if not a majority
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: of the population in certain areas. And therefore, they're claiming
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: a majoritarian victimhood stance when they are stopped from discriminating
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: against a minority.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: I should think they'd want younger children. They could groom
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: them to be assaulted then, you know. I mean, it
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: is the Catholic Church, the largest child raporing in the world.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I did do a volunteer-based project, and it's a
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: free text I did on Orthodox clergy abuse. with experts
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: and victims and advocates. So I'm well aware it's in Catholic, Orthodox, everywhere.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: That's a significant problem.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Priests like to diddle little boys. Who knew? Yeah. Well,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: I knew. I knew when I was an altar boy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, I knew. Although they didn't diddle me and
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: I sued them because, you know, that kind of rejection.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: I can't have it. I'm kidding. I didn't sue them.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: Colombian activists fight to bring LGBTQ left-wing history back to
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the National Museum. Just so you understand the story, the
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: National Museum of Bogota used to have left-wing history and
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: LGBTQ history. And then under a president that was previous,
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: it was removed. And now that the newly elected president,
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: and I cannot pronounce his name, Ebaloado de la Espría,
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: and what he has launched is a cultural counter-revolution. Columbia's
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: government took down more than 40 items from the National Museum.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Most of those items reflect the leftist, feminist, and LGBTQ history,
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: and now others want it back. I find it really
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: interesting when people try, Donald Trump is doing this here
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: in America, hopefully he'll be stopped now, when they try to,
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I don't want to say rewrite history, when they try
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: to erase the history of people they don't agree with.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: They don't like gays, they don't like lesbians, they don't
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: like left-wing, they don't like empowered women, so let's take
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: away anything from a museum that might remind people those
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: people exist. It's like removing Frida Kahlo paintings because you
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: don't like strong, independent women. And that's really what they're
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: trying to do. They're trying to say, well, we don't
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: like these people, so we don't want to see their art,
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: we don't want to see anything that pertains to their life,
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: You know, as if that in some way erases them,
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: because that's what they're trying to do is erase them,
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: you know, and it's not going to work, but they're trying.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: You know, here in Nevada, we have the Southern Nevada
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: Art Museum just opened downtown, and their whole back wall
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: is LGBTQ local history, and it changes out, and it's wonderful.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: And this museum where you can see LaTrek and Van
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Gogh and all this, you can also see a whole
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: wall of LGBTQ history. I think that's fabulous. You know,
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get Grammy Museum to do the same thing,
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: to have a DEI sort of corner where we feature
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: work from women, neurodivergent, LGBTQ, people of color, and, you know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: have that as a regular exhibit there to show that
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: there are diverse communities making music. It's harder than I
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: thought to get them to do that, but I am trying.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: All right. So what else have we got going on
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: here in our little, I don't know. Do we want
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: to do another Catholic? I'm so sick of Catholic stories.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: I really am.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: There was a lot of Catholic stories.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: I grew up Catholic. Okay, I did. My mom was
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Catholic and my dad too. And so I had to
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: go to Catholic school, which was a debacle. I got
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: kicked out in sixth grade for hitting a nun. Uh,
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: but she deserved it. Uh, and you know, when I
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: was part of the Catholic church and school, I saw
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: what a cult it truly is and it is, uh,
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: and how they're just weird. You know, their, their, their
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: whole mass is weird. The trans the transfiguration, you know,
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: body of Christ, blood of Christ. It's like, you're, you
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: turn into cannibals in the middle of a Catholic mass.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: You've been doing it. Have you been to a Catholic mass?
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: And you saw communion?
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: No, I did the thing.
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: The baptism? Is that what that was?
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: No, you go up to the priest, you go like this,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: and then they don't do it for you.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: They give you a blessing, but they don't give you
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: the Christ.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: The whole thing of what they're doing.
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: Is allegedly feeding you the body of Christ. Take this,
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: all of you, and drink from it, for this is
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: my blood. You know, the blood of the everlasting.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: They mean that literally and spiritually.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: Yes. And so they're cannibals, basically. And they want to
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: tell me what's moral and just. They wear dresses and
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: yet denounce gay people. They turn into cannibals every time
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: they have a mass and yet want to act morally superior.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: And back until about 15 years ago, they let nuns
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: beat you up at school. And then the priest would
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: molest you later to make it all better. So, you know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: I have real odds with the Catholic Church. And I
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: maintain they hide behind religion because they are, in fact,
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: and this is a factual statement. They are the largest
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: child rape ring in the world. That is what they are.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: There have been more children assaults out of the Catholic
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Church than any other entity that we know of. And
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: they're not shut down. Yes.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: In 2024, in Los Angeles, approximately $ 800 to $ 900 million
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: USD was paid out for class action lawsuits. And then
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: New York recently had its own, somewhere between 800 and
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: 900 million dollars as well. So we're seeing a reckoning
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: for class action lawsuits for victims. These are the victims
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: that are known.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: You know what would be a reckoning? Shut them down.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Remove their tax exempt. They get to fuck kids and
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: have a tax exempt status. They get to discriminate and sue.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: in Colorado to deprive children of access to their preschool
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: services and still get tax exempt status. And now they
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: want to collect $ 6, 300 per student. And then be able
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: to discriminate against which students they take. And on top
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: of that money coming in, get tax exempt status. We
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: could have universal health care in this country or a
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: good portion of it if we taxed all the fucking churches.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: Your fairy tale should not exempt you from paying taxes.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Well, another thing is it's also they get a lot
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: of money, have gotten a lot of money, billions for
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: those charter schools, too.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely. And yet they threw me out in 1975
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: because my parents couldn't pay the tuition and I hit
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: a nun. So those two things combined, it was a
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: perfect storm and out I went. But she hit me first,
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: by the way. A girl threw a ball at me
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: and hit me. So I picked the ball up and
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: threw it back at the girl and hit her. The
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: nun saw what I did, came over and hit me
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: and said, you like to hit girls? And she smacked me.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: So even though I was only in sixth grade, I
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: smacked her back and her habit came right off her head.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: And everybody was like, ooh. Of course, I went straight
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: to the principal's office where they called my parents and
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: they were told to come pick me up. And I
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: was no longer welcome at St. Anthony's. And they made
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: it clear during that meeting what good graces we were
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: on because I was on their pro bono. They allow
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: certain students to come free if they can't afford it.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: And I was one of those students that they gave
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: lunch to and let be free at the school. And
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: so I was a pro bono student. So they pointed
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: out every time they could how grateful I should be
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: to them for a tax-exempt billion-dollar entity providing me education.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: So, yeah.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, I never realized I'm so angry at the Catholic church.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: I didn't, I didn't really realize that. Uh, when my
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: mom died.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I don't think you're angry. I think, I think you're
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: justified in outrage.
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: You know, when my mom died, the priest, I had the,
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: I had her service at St. Anthony's because that's where
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: that was her church. And the priest, I was on
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: radio at the time and the priest was horrified because
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: he had heard me on radio many times speak of
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: my contempt for the Catholic church. And he thought I
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: was going to come and have mom's funeral there and
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: get up on the pulpit and, you know, say something inappropriate.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: And I assured him, I am here for my mother,
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: not for you. You know, so I'm not going to
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: say anything inappropriate while I am up on the podium
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: or whatever they call it, pulpit, altar, whatever. But they
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: were really scared that I was going to say horrible
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: things during the mass about the Catholic Church. And I thought, wow,
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: a little insecure much? You know, come on, a little insecure?
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, we've got 30 seconds left in this segment.
• 52:18
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• 52:21
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• 52:25
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• 53:40
  Speaker 5: I'm laughing because Ember is asleep over there under the
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: chair and she is sawing some logs, honey. She is snoring.
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: She is as loud as can be. She'll be 11
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: in two weeks. I can't believe it. It's killing me.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: It's killing me. Your birthdays are close together. Yes. I'm
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: November 7th. She's November 15th. November 15th is when I
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: got ran over and Pippa died. And we found out
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: later that Ember was born on that very day. So
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: she was meant to be my doggie. And they should
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: live to be 30 or 40 because I will not
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: be ready in three or four or five years when
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: her time comes. I will not be ready. And that's
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: going to be a problem. But let's not pre-grieve. All right. So,
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: you know... There's a lot of controversy around gays being parents.
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know why. All the research shows we make
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: much better parents, and we do. Our kids are more well-adjusted.
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: They feel more loved. They feel more included. There's so
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: much research that gay and lesbian parents are actually better
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: parents than straight parents, which is based on outcomes, based
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: on how their kids turn out. Because we won't have it.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? Oh, and they're also better dressed and,
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: you know, better fashion and all of that. But in Manila,
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: they are trying to promote parenthood and including single parenthood.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: And that's important because some people, you know, there are
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: a lot of kids out there that need to be adopted. And,
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: you know, one person can raise a kid, you know,
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: as well as two. Yeah. And so in Manila, they
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: wanted to clarify that from the Department of Social Welfare
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: that members of the LGBTQIA community are not excluded. for
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: qualifying for solo parent benefits under the Republic Act number 11861,
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: also known as the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act. There
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: was some question as to whether or not there was
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: some discrimination. They were being denied these payments and such.
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: But they said the law is clear and there is
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: no room for interpretation that would suggest members of the
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: gay community are not covered. The law simply states if
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: you are a single parent, you get these benefits. It
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: does not say except XYZ or LGBTQIA. So their minister
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: has clarified that gay people will, in fact, qualify and do,
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: in fact, qualify to get benefits to be a single
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: parent in America. in manila uh and that's a good
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: story that's that's you know they're not being denied benefits
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: uh they're being they're being granted benefits uh and that's
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: always a good story and as i said uh you
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: know gays make great parents and sure there's some that
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: don't uh but uh others you know others do uh
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: and um i'd I'd like to end if we can
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: that there was also a rainbow wave, not just a
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: blue wave here in the United States. There was a
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: rainbow wave. Chris Pappas, the Democrat that we talked about
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: from the Senate in New Hampshire, the first out gay
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: man elected to the U.S.
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: Senate.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: We had Sarah McBride, a Democrat. She's going to be
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: in the U.S. House from Delaware. She is a transgendered
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: female and transgendered woman. And she will be in the U.S.
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: Congress serving. Not the first, by the way. There has
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: been another. Or wait, no, the nation's first out transgendered
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: federal lawmaker. I thought there was another one, but I
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: guess not. So she is going to go into the
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: House from Delaware. And then J.D. Ford is a Democrat
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: from Indiana, and he is going to go into the U.S. House.
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: And Indiana is a conservative state. So his victory there
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: means that they're really pissed off at the Republicans, because
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: if they chose a gay man in Indiana over a Republican,
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: they're really pissed. And then we have Bentley Hudgens. a Democrat.
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: She will be in the Georgia Assembly. She won a
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: seat in the Georgia Assembly as the state's first out-transgendered
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: and non-binary state lawmaker. Sharice Davis, a Democrat, will be
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: in the U.S. House from Kansas. And she won re-election
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: after preserving her historic representation of the Sunflower State, Kansas.
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: She is a lesbian. Then we had Richie Torres. He's
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: a Democrat. He will be in the U.S. House in
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: New York. And Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democrat, will be in
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: the Pennsylvania House. Jeremy Moss will be in the U.S.
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: House from Michigan. Deshauna Neal, a Democrat, will be in
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: the Delaware House. Mark Pocan will be in the U.S.
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: House from Wisconsin. And Zoe Zephyr will be in the
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: Montana House. Then we have Joanne Mendoza going to the U.S.
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: House from the conservative state of Arizona. Maura Healey, a Democrat.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: She's going to be the governor of Massachusetts. She is
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: a lesbian. She defeated a Republican, and she's the nation's
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: first out lesbian governor. And then we had Eric Sorensen, Democrat,
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: will be in the U.S. House from Illinois. And Claire
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: Snyder-Hall is a Democrat. She'll be in the Delaware House.
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: Emily Randall will be in the U.S. House from Washington.
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: Tina Kotek, governor from Oregon. And she is a lesbian.
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: And of course, my friend used to be the mayor
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: of my city of Long Beach and a friend of mine.
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: Robert Garcia is a Democrat in the U.S. House, and
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  Speaker 5: he's on several committees. He's a very powerful Democrat. Mark Tucano, Democrat,
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  Speaker 5: the U.S. House from California. Marnie Von Wilpert, Democrat, U.S.
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  Speaker 5: House from California. Ann Johnson, Democrat in the Texas House
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  Speaker 5: from And Becca Ballant will be the co-chair of the
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  Speaker 5: Congressional Equality Caucus, as well as Alison Montgomery, Democrat in
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  Speaker 5: the Alabama House. And that's the list. And that's a
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  Speaker 5: whole lot of fucking LGBTQ people in both the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: House and their state houses. And I, for one, could
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  Speaker 5: not be happier. That's really kind of incredible if you
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: think about it. I mean, that's kind of incredible if
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: you think about it. Tres bien.
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  Speaker 4: Bueno.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Can you think of any other country that has
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  Speaker 5: that many LGBTQ people in their house? I can't. The
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  Speaker 5: House of Commons, the House of Lords. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: there's a ton of gay people in those. Well, we
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  Speaker 5: have to make.
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  Speaker 4: A distinction between those that are out known and those
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  Speaker 4: that are suspected and just there.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to stay safe over in the Ukraine. We'll
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  Speaker 5: be back with Scott next week. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: What a great way to end, though. All of those
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  Speaker 5: people in their state houses or the U.S. House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 4: This was a good ending. This was a good choice.
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  Speaker 5: Really good ending. Stay safe over there. I wish the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: Democrats were taking power tomorrow so they could help Ukraine more.
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  Speaker 5: But we'll see. We'll see how it goes. But in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: the meantime, as you said, even tonight you had ballistics
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: and you had drones and you had all that and
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  Speaker 5: you know well.
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  Speaker 4: The big thing is now electricity is very scarce and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: running water can be scarce.
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  Speaker 5: Well i am corral be who you want to be
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  Speaker 5: if i'm hurting anybody i'm gonna go and send scott
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  Speaker 5: some water try some solar panels that's the best i
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  Speaker 5: can do uh but hey it'll be something i believe.
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  Speaker 4: This is the last hello darkness my.
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  Speaker 5: Old friend yeah well truly huh i mean you've got
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: light right now.
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  Speaker 6: It's broadcasting from a completely different point of view yours
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: listen daily to the corral cast on your favorite streaming service.
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  Speaker 5: I want to stop all that because I just have
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: to tell you right at that point, my friend Thea's
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: song came to mind, which is right now, you've got power, power, power.
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  Speaker 5: But you may not later. Right now? Oh, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, when the power's off all day, it's just black.
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  Speaker 5: My HOA turned off the water yesterday to do a
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: repair for four hours and I fucking lost my mind.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: I was like, no water? So I can't imagine going
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: a day or two without water.
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  Speaker 4: I think yesterday we had power out for about, Yeah,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: I think yesterday I was maybe out for maybe 16
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: or 18 hours, and then there's some running water. And
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: then it's like 9 degrees or lower outside.
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  Speaker 5: I could send you a portable generator.
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  Speaker 4: There's just no heating.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: I could send you a little generator.
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  Speaker 4: We got a battery thing here. Well, I had surgery,
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  Speaker 4: so I lay under blankets right now while I work.
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  Speaker 5: What did you have? Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 5: You dropped that on me at the end of the show. Well,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: I had surgery. For what?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: And that is this gay week with Carell Boulay and
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: Scott Jacobson.
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell me you were sexually reassigned. I mean, what
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: surgery did you have? Was it minor surgery?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: It's minor to moderate surgery.
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  Speaker 5: Where'd you have it? In Ukraine?
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  Speaker 4: I'm in, I think.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: In a Ukrainian hospital?
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  Speaker 4: The doctor's here.
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  Speaker 5: They had surgery in Ukraine clinic. Well, I hope it
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: wasn't anything major. Was it like skin cancer removal or something?
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  Speaker 4: Or was it like, it was a problem. It wasn't, uh,
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  Speaker 4: no organs. Um, well, I guess, well, technically the whole
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: human body is different organs, even skin biggest organ, but still, um,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: it was, uh, it's an issue. It's good. It's in
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: healing and it should be good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a scar?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like full recovery will be six months. Immediate
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: recovery will be within a week from now. And it
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: was a week ago.
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  Speaker 5: Good Lord. Over there having surgeries in Ukrainian hospitals. Good Lord. Well,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: how's their health care there? How'd you do? How much
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: did it cost?
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  Speaker 7: It depends.
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  Speaker 4: There's certain things that I would say they do excellently.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: So dental care, excellent. Law, excellent. Although they might have
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: a different traditional system.
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  Speaker 5: Did you have to pay as a foreigner there? As
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: someone who's, you're not a resident. So did you have
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: to pay? Was it expensive?
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  Speaker 4: It was reasonable.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: Let's say you were in Canada. How much cheaper would
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: it have been than if you were in Canada?
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a really good question. I'd have to do
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: a formal comparison. I don't know, but I know it's cheaper.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: Cheaper.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't the reason I came here. It was an incidental.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: It was an incidental thing. Right.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: You didn't go to Ukraine to have a surgery. No
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: one would accuse you of that.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: You know, I went to Warsaw for a big business
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: thing conference. And then I went to for a few
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: days and I went to a NATO military tech summit
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: in Prague, interviewed a special operations general and some others.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Then they came back, and then it was still a problem,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: but I kept having to delay because of travel. Then
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: I had to go to Western Ukraine, back from Kyiv,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: to Lviv, to interview a chief rabbi, one of the
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: heads for Chabad, Lviv over there. Then I came back,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: and then I got the surgery.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: Do you still have your appendix? Is that your appendix? Oh,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: I don't have mine. It fell out, basically. Well, I mean,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: they had to go in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm in excellent health. I just had a little thing.
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  Speaker 5: Just a newsflash. Just a newsflash. People in excellent health
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: don't have surgery in Ukraine. Just so you know. Your
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: health was not excellent at that moment.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Touche.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: Yes. All right.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: We'll let him go now. Obviously, he's recovering. I was
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: in the hospital two weeks ago, too. We're probably laying
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: in the hospital bed at the same time. Except mine
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: cost a lot more. They came in. My heart was
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: beating 188 beats a minute. Irregular. Uncontrolled. And they come
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: into my fucking room with a credit card machine and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: ask me for $ 195 copay. Then they admit me later.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: And about eight hours later, having not seen a doctor,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: only seen physician's assistants, they come in and tell me
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: my daily co-pay is going to be $ 400 and would
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: I like to use the credit card on file?
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: We should have done this gay week recline hospital edition.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: It would have been great.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: Amen.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I am Karel Buhi. Want to be someone to hurt anybody?
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  Speaker 5: We'll see Scott next week. Au revoir.