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Have We Reached a Tip-ing Point? · The Karel Show

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Speaker 1: Showtime is here. No time to fear.
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Speaker 2: Carell is so near because Showtime is here.
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Speaker 3: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
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Speaker 3: Carell is the one that you need to know. Now
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Speaker 3: it's Showtime.
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Speaker 4: Well, the rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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Speaker 4: Have we reached a tipping point with tips in the
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Speaker 4: United States and the world? We're going to talk about
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Speaker 4: that and what I learned in the ER. We're going
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Speaker 4: to talk about that and so much more on The
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Speaker 4: Carell Show. It is The Carell Show. I am Carell.
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Speaker 4: So very glad you are joining me on this Thursday.
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Speaker 4: A little bit late in the day, 2 o'clock, but
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Speaker 4: I am here. I'm queer, and no one seems to
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Speaker 4: be used to it, but that's okay. We got some
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Speaker 4: things to talk about today, and if you're watching this live, great. Otherwise,
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Speaker 4: you may be watching it in a repeat, but either way,
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Speaker 4: love you, mean it, and so very glad that you
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Speaker 4: are here. All right, the incident with me at the
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Speaker 4: polls has gone national. Fox 5 picked it up, and
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Speaker 4: then their affiliates picked it up, and it's gone national,
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Speaker 4: and everywhere I go, I'm getting recognized as the guy
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Speaker 4: that got attacked at the polls. And I have to
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Speaker 4: tell you that that incident was so stressful, it landed
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Speaker 4: me in the hospital. For those of you that have
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Speaker 4: atrial fibrillation or any kind of heart rhythm disorder, you
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Speaker 4: know how scary that can be. You also know there
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Speaker 4: are triggers. Stress, abnormal stress, because, you know, regular stress
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Speaker 4: is okay, but abnormal stress is one of the triggers.
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Speaker 4: And I would say being attacked at the polls and
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Speaker 4: then that Tuesday seeing that video all over the place,
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Speaker 4: being contacted by the ACLU, having to relive it over
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Speaker 4: and over again, talking to the media about it, et cetera,
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Speaker 4: I would say that that is stress and that places
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Speaker 4: some kind of stress on you. Well, it did me.
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Speaker 4: It did me. And I ended up, going into what's
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Speaker 4: called AFib with RVR, rapid ventricular response. When it happened
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Speaker 4: Tuesday evening at 5.30, my heart rate was over 200.
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Speaker 4: That is a medical emergency. That is get straight to
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Speaker 4: the ER, which is what I did. And it's so
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Speaker 4: funny because I'm getting ready to go to the ER.
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Speaker 4: My heart's beating fast. I'm winded because it's beating so fast.
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Speaker 4: And what am I doing? Packing up Ember's food. packing
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Speaker 4: up embers vitamins, packing up embers antibiotics, because I knew
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Speaker 4: we'd probably be away from home for a few days. Uh,
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Speaker 4: and you know, I had to be prepared because she
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Speaker 4: stays with me. Um, so, um, we, I can't see
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Speaker 4: without these things. I hate that I can't see without them,
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Speaker 4: but I can't. So we went to the ER, uh,
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Speaker 4: where they promptly, you know, took me into the back and, and, um,
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Speaker 4: my horrible experience began because I had a horrible experience.
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Speaker 4: I wasn't seen by a cardiologist in 18 hours, and
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Speaker 4: yet my heart was hugely fast. Two hours after being there,
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Speaker 4: they admitted me. However, they didn't have a room, so
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Speaker 4: they kept me in the room in the back of
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Speaker 4: the ER. But all of my orders and my doctors
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Speaker 4: were now from upstairs, and they don't communicate well with
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Speaker 4: the ER staff. So I couldn't get answers. I barely saw,
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Speaker 4: I didn't see a doctor. I saw physician's assistants and
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Speaker 4: no cardiologist. And of course, I'm terrified. And if it
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Speaker 4: weren't for my friend Jeannie from the park and Steve,
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Speaker 4: but Jeannie who came and sat with me Tuesday night
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Speaker 4: and then left, and I cried a lot because I
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Speaker 4: was alone with Ember in an ER room all by
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Speaker 4: myself and hardly any attention being paid to me from
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Speaker 4: the nurses or anybody. Then Jeannie came the next morning
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Speaker 4: at 6 a.m. to walk Ember Steve brought me a
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Speaker 4: charger for my phone. Finally, at one in the afternoon,
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Speaker 4: I left AMA. Actually, I didn't leave AMA because they
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Speaker 4: couldn't get a doctor from the floor to come down
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Speaker 4: and talk to me about leaving. So they said, just elope.
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Speaker 4: And I'm like, what is that? And they said, you're
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Speaker 4: just going to sign yourself out. And they apologized to nurses.
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Speaker 4: They're like, you'll probably see your cardiologist and get this
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Speaker 4: treated at home because it's obvious this ain't working. And
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Speaker 4: it wasn't. They were only giving me a drug to
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Speaker 4: slow down my rhythm. They were not giving me any
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Speaker 4: anti-arrhythmic drugs to stop the AFib. And they weren't even
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Speaker 4: really controlling the rhythm. It was scary. It was so scary.
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Speaker 4: They have the crash card in your room and they're
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Speaker 4: telling you how serious it is and that your heart
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Speaker 4: could fail and just all this stuff. And, you know,
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Speaker 4: from stress, from this lady attacking me and then the
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Speaker 4: video getting out there and all of that. And plus
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Speaker 4: the health care. I will not be going back to
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Speaker 4: Spring Valley Hospital. They couldn't even manage a vegan meal.
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Speaker 4: The nurse had to go around and find peanut butter
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Speaker 4: and graham crackers. I hadn't eaten in 17 hours by
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Speaker 4: the time they brought me graham crackers and peanut butter.
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Speaker 4: They finally got cream of wheat and a cup of
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Speaker 4: syrup and fruit to me. And that was just, I mean,
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Speaker 4: Amber ate better than I did. So we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Carell is so near because Showtime is here.
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Speaker 3: So on with the show. Let's give it a go.
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Speaker 3: Carell is the one that you need to know.
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Speaker 4: You know, I want to tell you how biased and
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Speaker 4: bad journalism is today. Fox 5 News here wanted to
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Speaker 4: interview me about what happened. So I called her from
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Speaker 4: the hospital bed and talked to the journalist, told her
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Speaker 4: exactly what happened, told her how worried I was that
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Speaker 4: this would happen to other people, told her how I
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Speaker 4: felt betrayed by the county, the state, by Metro Police,
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Speaker 4: who just issued this lady a warning. The whole thing.
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Speaker 4: She said, okay, great. Can we come by today around
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Speaker 4: four or five to your house, if you're home, from
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Speaker 4: the hospital and do an interview? I said, sure. She said,
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Speaker 4: we could do something via Zoom. I said, okay, great.
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Speaker 4: That was at 11 in the morning or One in
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Speaker 4: the afternoon, somewhere around there. Never heard from that journalist again. Never.
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Speaker 4: Not to say, oh, we're not coming by. We're not
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Speaker 4: going to do a Zoom. Nothing. Then when they wrote
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Speaker 4: the story, they used none of my quotes. But who
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Speaker 4: did they quote? A Republican candidate that was there who
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Speaker 4: actually said the lady wasn't that bad. Did they quote
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Speaker 4: the victim?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: Had they interviewed the victim? Yes. But did they quote him?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: Did they come by for an interview like they said
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Speaker 4: they were going to do?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: Did they call and cancel the interview?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: It's Fox, Fox 5 Las Vegas, where the story is
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Speaker 4: on their website at Fox 5 Vegas. So that was
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Speaker 4: disappointing to me because I thought there might be some
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Speaker 4: integrity in, you know. So I checked myself out of
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Speaker 4: the hospital yesterday, AMA, because they're not doing anything. I
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Speaker 4: was laying in the bed for hours saying, without any
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Speaker 4: kind of attention at all. And I thought, I could
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Speaker 4: be doing this at home, and I have the same
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Speaker 4: drug at home. The only drug they were giving me
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Speaker 4: was metoprolol, and I have metoprolol. So I was like,
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Speaker 4: I could be home, even though my heart could stop
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Speaker 4: at any minute and all of that. So I left.
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Speaker 4: And my intention was to go to a new hospital.
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Speaker 4: But I came home, and my cardiologist in Long Beach said, well,
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Speaker 4: take your propafenone. So I did. And I was so
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Speaker 4: tired from not sleeping the night before because I was
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Speaker 4: in the ER. I couldn't sleep. I was so tired
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Speaker 4: that I fell asleep an hour after taking the propafenone
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Speaker 4: and I woke up this morning and my heart was
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Speaker 4: in sinus rhythm. I had a cardiologist here appointment today.
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Speaker 4: I went and my EKG is normal. So I'm in
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Speaker 4: sinus rhythm. However, and I'll just say this now in
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Speaker 4: case you tune out or whatever. I have been asked
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Speaker 4: by both my cardiologists to take a couple weeks off,
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Speaker 4: to not do the show every day, not read the
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Speaker 4: news every day, because the kind of AFib that I
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Speaker 4: was in with RVR is dangerous and life-threatening. And not
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Speaker 4: just a casual term, life-threatening. Life-threatening. And my kidneys went
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Speaker 4: down to stage three kidney failure yesterday. When I checked
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Speaker 4: into the hospital, they tested what's called my EGFR it
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Speaker 4: went to sixty one that stage three kidney failure because
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Speaker 4: they weren't getting any blood because at two hundred beats
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Speaker 4: a minute your heart can't get blood to your organs
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Speaker 4: so it was a major thing. And God bless Ember
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Speaker 4: being with me. But outside of her, I was alone
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Speaker 4: until Jeannie got there. And she could only stay a
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Speaker 4: few hours. So from 10 o'clock until I The next
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Speaker 4: morning at six, when Jeannie came to walk Ember, I
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Speaker 4: was alone with just Ember in a room with really
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Speaker 4: horrible teal walls, just terrible decorating, and a TV that
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Speaker 4: didn't have many channels. Nurses who really didn't know what
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Speaker 4: was going on because there were no orders because the
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Speaker 4: doctor was upstairs. At one in the morning, I asked
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Speaker 4: to speak to my doctor because I wanted to know
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Speaker 4: the treatment plan. Why aren't they treating the AFib? Why
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Speaker 4: just the speed? They couldn't because the doctor that was
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Speaker 4: my doctor rounds at multiple hospitals and she was already
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Speaker 4: gone to another hospital. So the doctor attending physician for
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Speaker 4: me in the ER, because technically I wasn't a patient
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Speaker 4: of the ER, that even though I'm in the ER,
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Speaker 4: but they don't have a bed, I couldn't even ask
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Speaker 4: her a question because she wasn't there. I couldn't take it.
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Speaker 4: It was causing me stress. The machine constantly beeping when
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Speaker 4: my heart rate went over 150. Just everything. It was
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Speaker 4: just causing me so much stress. I said, I got
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Speaker 4: to leave. I said, I got to leave. I can't.
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Speaker 4: And the nurses understood. They apologized profusely. So I came home,
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Speaker 4: took my propafenone, went to bed, woke up with it
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Speaker 4: in sinus rhythm. Is there lasting damage? We don't know.
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Speaker 4: Over the next two weeks, I'm having a nuclear stress
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Speaker 4: test where they inject radioactive isotopes into me and then
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Speaker 4: put me on a treadmill and then look at my heart.
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Speaker 4: I'm having echocardiogram. I'm speaking to another doctor today at 4.30
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Speaker 4: and I will be exploring an ablation, which is where
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Speaker 4: they go into your groin, go into your heart, scar
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Speaker 4: the areas that conduct the electricity badly, and with an
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Speaker 4: 85% cure rate, fix AFib because I can't I can't
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Speaker 4: go through what I went through. This is twice in
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Speaker 4: 18 months that I've been hospitalized for AFib with RVR.
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Speaker 4: It's scary. And the third time, I may die. And
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Speaker 4: I don't want to die. I love Ember. I love
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Speaker 4: my life. I love my home. I don't want to die.
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Speaker 4: And so the doctor has asked that I take two
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Speaker 4: weeks off just to decompress and to deal with the
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Speaker 4: health care issues. I'm going to come back after my birthday.
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Speaker 4: My birthday is November 7th, which is a Saturday. I
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Speaker 4: will come back Monday, November 9th, after the midterms. Hopefully,
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Speaker 4: we can have some good things to talk about. Also,
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Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be going down and filing a police
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Speaker 4: report with the ACLU about this lady. I need time
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Speaker 4: to not stress, I guess. I will miss you guys
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Speaker 4: every day. I haven't taken a day off since Christmas.
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Speaker 4: I will miss you guys every day I will think
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Speaker 4: of you every day. And I will probably send messages
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Speaker 4: through Patreon, little videos or little clips or something to
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Speaker 4: my patrons. I hope I don't lose any of you
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Speaker 4: patrons by taking two weeks off. But if I do,
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Speaker 4: I do. I can't worry about it anymore. I can't
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Speaker 4: stress every day about Donald Trump and about politics and
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Speaker 4: about patrons and about, am I going to lose patrons?
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Speaker 4: And if I do, where am I going to get money?
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Speaker 4: And I can't, it Added to what that lady did
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Speaker 4: to me, it literally almost killed me on Tuesday. I
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Speaker 4: could have had a stroke. I was 500% more likely
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Speaker 4: to have a stroke over that time because I don't
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Speaker 4: take Eliquis. I don't have AFib all the time, so
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Speaker 4: I'm not on a blood thinner. I'm on aspirin. My
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Speaker 4: labs came back wonky. They're just a lot of stuff.
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Speaker 4: So take in two weeks. hope I don't lose you.
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Speaker 4: I hope you come back November 9th. I hope you
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Speaker 4: know how much I'm going to miss being here every day.
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Speaker 4: I will send little short videos to my patrons, post
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Speaker 4: them on my social media. You can keep track of
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Speaker 4: me that way, but for the most part, I'm going
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Speaker 4: to step back. I've already cast my ballot. I don't
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Speaker 4: care about Donald Trump's dementia. I don't care, but what
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Speaker 4: did I not, what did I think about on that
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Speaker 4: bed alone in the ER? other than the horrible walls
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Speaker 4: and no art. What did I think about? Was it
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump? Was it the economy? Was it Ukraine? Was
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Speaker 4: it Israel and Genesis? No. I thought about Ember and
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Speaker 4: what would happen to her if I left. I thought
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Speaker 4: about my family and what would happen to them and
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Speaker 4: how much they'd miss me if I left. I thought
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Speaker 4: about my life and how I'm not done doing things
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Speaker 4: that I want to do. I didn't think about Trump
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Speaker 4: or politics or issues. I thought about me. I thought
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Speaker 4: about you. I thought about all the years that I've
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Speaker 4: spoken to you directly in your homes, in your cars,
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Speaker 4: and how I would miss that in some way, shape,
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Speaker 4: or form. Whether it's a weekly TV show or a
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Speaker 4: daily radio show, whatever, I just thought about how much
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Speaker 4: I would miss talking to you guys, entertaining you guys.
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Speaker 4: That's what I thought about. When I came home alone
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Speaker 4: last night, did my routine, woke up with Ember this
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Speaker 4: morning in bed, both of us so exhausted, held her,
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Speaker 4: made breakfast. When that happened, I cried a lot because
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Speaker 4: that's the important stuff, making breakfast for Ember. exercising, doing yoga.
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Speaker 4: I did yoga this morning. Going to the park, breathing
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Speaker 4: fresh air. Donald Trump, for 10 years, has sucked the
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Speaker 4: life out of everything he touches. His supporters, including the
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Speaker 4: one that attacked me and caused this. I asked my
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Speaker 4: cardiologist today, could this be a direct response to the
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Speaker 4: stress I suffered from the attack And they unequivocally said yes.
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Speaker 4: ChatGPT said yes. Claude said yes. This is a direct result.
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Speaker 4: That lady nearly killed me. She didn't just attack me
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Speaker 4: on Saturday, but the stress of that attack, of feeling
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Speaker 4: powerless because the police did nothing, the county and state
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Speaker 4: did nothing, all of that welled up, all the hatred
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Speaker 4: that I have for MAGA, all the hatred that I
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Speaker 4: have for America who has done nothing to stop the
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Speaker 4: cancer that is MAGA, all the hatred I have for
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump, all the hatred I have for homophobes who
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Speaker 4: have been yelling at me through bullhorns my whole life,
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Speaker 4: all of that weighed on me so much that it
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Speaker 4: literally broke my heart. I can't do it. I can't
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Speaker 4: do it. I've been on 10-day heart monitors, 5-day heart monitors,
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Speaker 4: 30-day heart monitors. I have been on so many. There's
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Speaker 4: no point in putting me on one anymore. I've been
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Speaker 4: on a 30-day monitor. I've been on a 20-day monitor.
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Speaker 4: I've been on a 10-day monitor. We're beyond that now.
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Speaker 4: We know what's wrong with my heart. AFib with RVR now.
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Speaker 4: RVR is new. The last two times I've gone into AFib,
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Speaker 4: it's gone over 180 beats a minute. That's new. That
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Speaker 4: means my AFib is getting worse, not better. So now
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Speaker 4: I've got to call Cedars in LA and arrange to
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Speaker 4: be seen and hope that I'm a candidate for an ablation.
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Speaker 4: Because I cannot do that again. I can't. Do you
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Speaker 4: know how terrifying it is To be in the ER
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Speaker 4: with your dog and your heart going crazy and everyone
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Speaker 4: suddenly you're on 15 different devices. You've got 12 lead
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Speaker 4: EKG going on. You've got an IV going in. You've
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Speaker 4: got questions being pelted at you again and again and again.
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Speaker 4: You've got drugs going in. You've got monitors beeping at you.
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Speaker 4: It's not like the pit. It's terrifying. It's absolutely terrifying.
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Speaker 4: And then you've got people moaning in the hallways. You've
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Speaker 4: got someone next door dying. You've got a person across
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Speaker 4: the way with full-blown COVID. You've got... Yeah, no. Yep.
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Speaker 4: You know? So I've got a lot of learning to do.
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Speaker 4: I've got to learn how not to react so angrily.
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Speaker 4: But Donald Trump and America for my whole life Donald
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Speaker 4: Trump and America has put me on the defensive. I've
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Speaker 4: had to fight for everything being gay. Any of you
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Speaker 4: gay people know what I'm talking about. Your job, the
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Speaker 4: ability to sue after Andrew died, the ability to get married,
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Speaker 4: the ability to not get fired because you're gay. I've
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Speaker 4: had to fight for my very existence for 47 years
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Speaker 4: since I came out. Every day. discrimination. I sit here
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Speaker 4: with no money because for decades I was underpaid because
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Speaker 4: I was gay. You can all relate to this. If
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Speaker 4: you're gay, if you're a woman, this is life. And
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Speaker 4: life in America right now is too stressful. It just is.
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Speaker 4: And so I have to step away for a few weeks.
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Speaker 4: And I hope I don't lose you guys or lose
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Speaker 4: you as patrons. I need the money. But if I do,
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Speaker 4: I do. Because what I don't need is to be
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Speaker 4: in that ER. What I don't need, do you know
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Speaker 4: what it feels like to have a heart in your
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Speaker 4: chest beating 200 beats a minute? That is almost, that's
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Speaker 4: three and a half beats a second. So this is
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Speaker 4: a second.
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Speaker 5: One.
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine in that second, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3,
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Speaker 4: that's how fast my heart was going.
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Speaker 4: And now we've got
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Speaker 4: the Pultzfield deblasion. Weight loss. I weigh 205 pounds. I
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Speaker 4: lost two pounds in the hospital because they didn't feed me.
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine a hospital that can't feed a vegan?
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Speaker 4: A hospital. A place of health. Not having healthy food.
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine? In New York City, all hospitals are planted.
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Speaker 4: In Las Vegas, you're in there for a heart issue
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Speaker 4: and they want to feed you fucking steak and eggs.
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Speaker 1: Patreon is the way.
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Speaker 6: You have to be proud with hatred.
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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Karel.
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Speaker 4: You know, Pride Month was rough this year. We had
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Speaker 4: a lot of hate heaped upon us from Trump, from MAGA,
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Speaker 4: and from other governments around the world. And if you
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Speaker 4: are a trans person, you are really going through a
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Speaker 4: particular type of hell right now. That's why when I
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Speaker 4: was thinking of my next single in June, I sat
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Speaker 4: down and I wrote, you have to be proud. You
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Speaker 4: have to be proud with anger so loud. Streaming everywhere.
22:24
Speaker 4: Keep fighting. Keep singing. Keep dancing. We're going to win.
22:40
Speaker 4: You know, there's a commenter under one of my videos.
22:42
Speaker 4: He says, oh, your show is always about you. That's
22:45
Speaker 4: why no one cares and no one watches it. And
22:47
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, Howard Stern's show is all about
22:50
Speaker 4: Howard Stern, even when he's talking to other people, and
22:52
Speaker 4: yet he's the top of the game. That person's just
22:55
Speaker 4: a hater. Because nowadays, it's okay to just be hateful
22:59
Speaker 4: and vitriolic and not care. And if my show is
23:04
Speaker 4: all about me, then it's also all about you, and
23:07
Speaker 4: that's what he doesn't get. Each of you has had
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Speaker 4: to go to the emergency room at some point or another.
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Speaker 4: Each of you has interactions with healthcare at one point
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Speaker 4: or another, or the lack of being able to get healthcare.
23:24
Speaker 4: Each of you, for the last 10 years, have watched
23:28
Speaker 4: your country be attacked. And because you care about your country,
23:33
Speaker 4: because you care about your neighbors, because you care about women, gays, trans,
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Speaker 4: because you care about kids, It has ripped your heart
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Speaker 4: out for 10 years now. Each of you, like me,
23:51
Speaker 4: has sat amazed, just amazed at the stupidity and the
23:57
Speaker 4: hatred and the vitriol that has come from Trump and MAGA.
24:02
Speaker 4: And each of you, at some time or another, have
24:06
Speaker 4: felt that America's not going to make it and that
24:09
Speaker 4: maybe you'd be better somewhere else. I'm not self-centered or narcissistic.
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Speaker 4: I'm you. I'm living the life that you're living. It
24:21
Speaker 4: hurts me when I go fill up my car and
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Speaker 4: it costs $ 85. That hurts. It hurts me when I
24:28
Speaker 4: go to the grocery store and have to spend $ 150
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Speaker 4: on barely anything. That hurts. It hurts you the same way.
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Speaker 4: It hurts that I don't have several million dollars in
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Speaker 4: the bank for retirement as most of you do not
24:44
Speaker 4: have several million dollars in the bank for retirement. And
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Speaker 4: you don't really know what you're going to do. It
24:52
Speaker 4: hurts you that you're in your 80s and you have
24:55
Speaker 4: to take out loans to just fix up your house
24:58
Speaker 4: and you know that you'll never pay them back because,
25:00
Speaker 4: like Tom Skerritt who passed away today, you're not going
25:03
Speaker 4: to live to be 100. Everything that affects me that
25:09
Speaker 4: I talk about right here affects you directly. None of
25:15
Speaker 4: you have experiences that I'm not experiencing. In fact, most
25:20
Speaker 4: of you are in a lot better shape than I
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Speaker 4: am because you have pension plans or you have lots
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Speaker 4: of money in retirement or whatever that might be. But
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Speaker 4: a lot of you, you're in my boat. What if
25:33
Speaker 4: I became disabled from this trip to the ER and
25:36
Speaker 4: had to have care at home? How would I pay
25:38
Speaker 4: for that? That's a lot of your biggest fears. How
25:42
Speaker 4: will I pay for it? How will I pay for
25:44
Speaker 4: my retirement? How will I pay if I ever become
25:47
Speaker 4: incapacitated and need care at home? Where will they put
25:51
Speaker 4: me if I can't afford care at home? What will
25:54
Speaker 4: happen to Ember? All of you have these kinds of worries.
25:59
Speaker 4: I am you. I'm you. I live the same lives.
26:04
Speaker 4: I'm not in a bubble. I'm not Rachel Maddow leaving
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Speaker 4: all the topics behind and driving to my upstate New
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Speaker 4: York mansion. I'm not Stephanie Miller making jokes about it
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Speaker 4: all day long because I'm worth over a million dollars
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Speaker 4: and while it bothers me and I'm on the right
26:20
Speaker 4: side of everything, it's only so bad. I'm not a
26:26
Speaker 4: host on MSNOW getting a $ 10, 000 a week check. That's
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Speaker 4: not who I am and that's not who you are.
26:36
Speaker 4: You're like me. You're at the whim of of these
26:40
Speaker 4: politicians who, with one stroke of a pen, can take
26:45
Speaker 4: away services that you need, that you rely upon. We're
26:50
Speaker 4: at the whim of people like Donald Trump who, with
26:54
Speaker 4: one word, with one tweet, can crash economies. We sit
27:00
Speaker 4: and watch as religious extremism begins to take over. We
27:04
Speaker 4: sit and watch our friends be discriminated against because they're
27:08
Speaker 4: trans or bi or gay or they're a woman. We
27:11
Speaker 4: mourn for the girls who get pregnant now because they
27:14
Speaker 4: can't terminate it if they want to, even if they're
27:16
Speaker 4: 15 and raped by their fathers. And that hurts you.
27:21
Speaker 4: And you carry it in here just like it hurts me.
27:26
Speaker 4: You pick up the paper every day or go online
27:29
Speaker 4: and look at headlines, and you sit shaking your head
27:34
Speaker 4: because you cannot believe where we are as a country
27:38
Speaker 4: and who we are as a people. You want to
27:43
Speaker 4: be optimistic. You want to be optimistic. You want to
27:47
Speaker 4: have joy and laughter, but it gets harder and harder.
27:51
Speaker 4: Even if you have a hobby like painting and then
27:52
Speaker 4: you go to buy oil paints and suddenly your one
27:55
Speaker 4: tube of chromium red goes from $ 10 to $ 50. You're
28:02
Speaker 4: just me and I'm just you. And we're just trying
28:06
Speaker 4: to make it. And it gets harder and harder and
28:10
Speaker 4: harder every day because it seems common sense has been lost.
28:17
Speaker 4: Dignity has been lost. Integrity is a thing of the past.
28:21
Speaker 4: Lying is now the norm. And you feel that because
28:30
Speaker 4: you're human and you're a good human. I'm not self-absorbed.
28:38
Speaker 4: I'm you. I talk about everyday life. and how it
28:43
Speaker 4: affects each and every one of us because it affects
28:46
Speaker 4: me the same way it affects you. Other hosts, it
28:49
Speaker 4: doesn't affect them the way that it affects you. My
28:54
Speaker 4: sister is on state aid. When she gets a letter
28:57
Speaker 4: that says she's not a citizen anymore and they're going
28:59
Speaker 4: to cut her off for no reason, they've seen her
29:02
Speaker 4: birth certificate, that affects me. It's not just an immigration
29:09
Speaker 4: policy anymore. Suddenly it's an out-of-control system getting it wrong.
29:15
Speaker 4: And nowadays when a system gets something wrong, it's up
29:17
Speaker 4: to you to disprove it. Prove you're a citizen. But
29:23
Speaker 4: I have a birth certificate. Yeah, well, still, prove it.
29:30
Speaker 4: You cry when you see these people being molested and
29:33
Speaker 4: beaten by ICE when they're American citizens. The ICE agent
29:38
Speaker 4: who was carrying a child. away after ICE murdered or
29:43
Speaker 4: shot her parents. You see that image and it breaks
29:48
Speaker 4: your heart because you're not immune. You try to be immune.
29:56
Speaker 4: You think, well, it's gone as far as it can
29:58
Speaker 4: go or I've seen it all. And then something else
30:03
Speaker 4: happens and you realize, I haven't seen that. It actually
30:07
Speaker 4: can get worse. You sit and shake your head.
30:13
Speaker 1: You hurt.
30:15
Speaker 4: You have stress. Donald Trump has created more stress in
30:20
Speaker 4: the last 10 years than any president for the last 240.
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30:30
Speaker 4: Yours.
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30:43
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30:48
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Speaker 4: Yours.
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Speaker 4: The song is very, very personal to me, and the
31:20
Speaker 4: video now is very touching to me. I cried the
31:23
Speaker 4: first time. Well, I cry all the time. But I
31:25
Speaker 4: cried the first time I saw it. We all have somebody,
31:28
Speaker 4: whether it's someone that's passed from AIDS or some other thing.
31:30
Speaker 4: We all have people that we danced with, and that's
31:33
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
31:46
Speaker 4: It would help if I were an introvert. Unfortunately, I'm not.
31:50
Speaker 4: I'm going to miss my daily interactions with Rachel and
31:52
Speaker 4: James and Granny and Phineas and everybody in the chat room.
31:55
Speaker 4: I'll be back in two weeks, though. Please stay tuned.
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32:03
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32:07
Speaker 4: about the midterms. You know, I saw an article yesterday
32:11
Speaker 4: about tipping and how on the Las Vegas Strip these people,
32:16
Speaker 4: these showgirls and other people, were walking up and saying,
32:19
Speaker 4: do you want to take a picture with us? And
32:21
Speaker 4: then if you say yes and you do, then they
32:22
Speaker 4: demand money from you. And they've been getting out of control.
32:27
Speaker 4: So now there are signs that you don't have to
32:29
Speaker 4: tip the buskers, you don't have to tip the showgirls.
32:33
Speaker 4: And I thought to myself, here is another institution we
32:37
Speaker 4: refuse to get rid of. In fact, they've expanded. I'll
32:41
Speaker 4: be on websites buying stuff, And it'll ask if I
32:44
Speaker 4: want to leave a tip for the people that, you know,
32:47
Speaker 4: purchase or process my order. And I think to myself,
32:53
Speaker 4: can't corporate America pay them enough? You know, and when
32:58
Speaker 4: I looked at this tipping article, I thought, you know,
33:01
Speaker 4: today I went for a sushi lunch. I shouldn't have,
33:03
Speaker 4: but I did. You know, vegan sushi. Actually, I didn't
33:07
Speaker 4: eat it all. It's in the refrigerator. I ate very
33:09
Speaker 4: little on my appetite shot. And, um, You know, the
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Speaker 4: bill was, I think the ramen was $ 13, $ 14, and
33:17
Speaker 4: then $ 8 for the, so $ 24 plus tax, so like $ 28.
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Speaker 4: And the tip was $ 5. 50. He came to my table twice, $ 5. 50.
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Speaker 4: And I thought, we've got to get rid of tipping.
33:36
Speaker 4: We've got to stop. It has let corporations off the hook.
33:43
Speaker 4: for paying a living wage. You know, and I used
33:49
Speaker 4: to think it was okay. You know, like, oh no,
33:51
Speaker 4: tip your waiter, tip your bartender. And now I think, no,
33:56
Speaker 4: the business that I'm at should pay them enough to
33:59
Speaker 4: where they don't have to rely on tips. Oh yeah, well, Carell,
34:02
Speaker 4: sometimes they make two, three, $ 4, 000 in tips. Why aren't
34:07
Speaker 4: they making two, three, $ 4, 000 in salary? If they're a
34:11
Speaker 4: popular bartender and they're bringing in tons of money for that,
34:14
Speaker 4: why aren't they cut in on those profits? So I
34:20
Speaker 4: really feel it's time to get rid of all tipping.
34:23
Speaker 4: Just get rid of it. And no, that doesn't mean
34:27
Speaker 4: add a 15% surcharge to everybody's check. We're tired of it.
34:33
Speaker 4: Everywhere we go, we are nickel and dimed to death.
34:37
Speaker 4: Now we go out to eat, it costs $ 50. And
34:40
Speaker 4: now the tipping doesn't even start at 15% anymore. Now
34:45
Speaker 4: on the tipping thing, it's 20, 22, 25. Tipping someone
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Speaker 4: one quarter of your bill, even one fifth of your bill,
34:57
Speaker 4: for fucking what? You signed up to be a server. Well,
35:02
Speaker 4: my boss doesn't pay me. That's your boss's problem. If
35:07
Speaker 4: all servers stopped working because there was no more tipping,
35:12
Speaker 4: guess who would get paid better? And I don't want
35:15
Speaker 4: to hear how there's so little profit on restaurants and
35:18
Speaker 4: margins on restaurants that if they had to pay their
35:20
Speaker 4: servers more money, they've been able to do this in
35:23
Speaker 4: every other country except ours forever. So how can they
35:28
Speaker 4: do it in England? How can they do it in Ireland?
35:31
Speaker 4: When I first went to an Irish pub and I
35:34
Speaker 4: was poured a Guinness and it was two pounds and
35:36
Speaker 4: I gave him three, he gave me a dollar back.
35:39
Speaker 4: And I said, no, that's for you. He goes, we
35:40
Speaker 4: don't do that. Keep your money. I'm fine. I'm paid well.
35:47
Speaker 4: In many European situations, I've offered to tip and they're like, no,
35:49
Speaker 4: that's okay. We have great services. Our health care is covered.
35:54
Speaker 4: Part of the reason we have to tip is because
35:56
Speaker 4: we don't take care of workers. They don't have free
36:00
Speaker 4: health care. They don't have affordable housing. They don't have
36:05
Speaker 4: retirement plans. In other words, we, the people, have to
36:11
Speaker 4: make up for the shortcomings of the millionaires and billionaires
36:14
Speaker 4: that run everything, which is how they became millionaires and billionaires.
36:20
Speaker 4: Why should I tip at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant? Gordon Ramsay
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Speaker 4: is a multi-millionaire. Why should I give any servers at
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Speaker 4: his restaurant any money when he could clearly give them
36:34
Speaker 4: 15% of their days every day? Every day. Why do
36:42
Speaker 4: I have to?
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37:14
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37:17
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37:21
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37:43
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37:48
Speaker 4: You know, I laughed because I thought to myself in
37:50
Speaker 4: the ER, wouldn't it be funny if the doctor asked
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Speaker 4: for a tip? Or the nurse asked for a tip.
37:55
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't see a cardiologist the entire 18
37:57
Speaker 4: hours I was there. Do you know who I did see?
37:59
Speaker 4: At first, when I'm first getting there, hooked up to
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Speaker 4: all these wires, scared to death, the registration lady came
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Speaker 4: in and asked for my $ 150 copay. Not making that up.
38:10
Speaker 4: Scared to death. Wires all over. And then, yesterday afternoon,
38:16
Speaker 4: which is one of the reasons I also went home,
38:19
Speaker 4: another registration lady came in and said, Okay, you're going
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Speaker 4: to be admitted or you've been admitted. Your co-pay is
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Speaker 4: $ 500 a day for up to six days. And I said,
38:30
Speaker 4: so I have to pay 500 bucks a day every
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Speaker 4: day that I'm here? And she said, yes. And would
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Speaker 4: you like to pay that right now with credit card?
38:39
Speaker 4: You know, we'll charge you for three days, which is
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Speaker 4: the normal stay. And I said, so my heart's going
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Speaker 4: 180 beats a minute. I don't even know if I'm
38:49
Speaker 4: going to fucking live or die. And you're asking me
38:53
Speaker 4: for $ 1, 500. Well, we will give you a 15% discount
38:56
Speaker 4: if you pay now so we don't have to bill you.
38:59
Speaker 4: So actually, I'm only asking you for $ 1, 350. I'm in
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Speaker 4: a room in the ER. I have not seen a
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Speaker 4: cardiologist as of yet. I am hooked up to an
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Speaker 4: EKG machine, a pulse ox machine. I have a crash
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Speaker 4: cart sitting in the room. And they're asking me for
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Speaker 4: a credit card for our three days copay of $ 1, 350.
39:23
Speaker 4: That was the straw that did it. I said, I'm
39:25
Speaker 4: checking out. You can't get a doctor in here. All
39:29
Speaker 4: I've been seeing is physician's assistants. You can't even get
39:32
Speaker 4: a real fucking doctor, but you can get a woman
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Speaker 4: in here with a credit card terminal? Fuck all of
39:37
Speaker 4: you all, and fuck the American healthcare system. I watch
39:43
Speaker 4: healthcare shows from Australia and from the UK. They would
39:47
Speaker 4: be embarrassed. to do that to a patient. They would
39:52
Speaker 4: be appalled if that happened to one of their patients.
39:57
Speaker 4: But it happened to me yesterday. Well, you have a $ 500.
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Speaker 4: I said, I didn't pay that last time. Well, things
40:04
Speaker 4: with Medicare have changed under Donald Trump. That's what she said. Well,
40:08
Speaker 4: things with Medicare has changed under Trump, and now you
40:12
Speaker 4: have a $ 500 a day payment, and we'll knock it
40:15
Speaker 4: down to $ 350 a day I think, well, 15%. No,
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. That's only, what, $ 75. So she's all, we'll
40:26
Speaker 4: knock it down to $ 425 a day if you pay now.
40:29
Speaker 4: And we'll charge you for three days every three days.
40:32
Speaker 4: So if you're here for three days, if you're here
40:34
Speaker 4: for six days. And all I could do, and that
40:37
Speaker 4: stressed me out. A, I don't, what if I'm there
40:41
Speaker 4: for five days? I ain't got $ 2, 500 to give them.
40:43
Speaker 4: Second of all, I'm in the middle of an AFib
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Speaker 4: with RVR episode. They haven't even gotten my rhythm under
40:54
Speaker 4: control and you want a fucking credit card. I was gobsmacked.
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Speaker 4: I was truly gobsmacked at that. I thought, really? Like,
41:14
Speaker 4: you know, you can't just say we're going to bill you. Whatever,
41:18
Speaker 4: you're asking me for a credit card. In the ER.
41:27
Speaker 4: That really made me hate America. I really hated America
41:32
Speaker 4: at that moment. Because say what you will about access,
41:36
Speaker 4: say what you will about the quality of care, whatever,
41:39
Speaker 4: it wouldn't have happened in Ireland. It wouldn't have happened
41:41
Speaker 4: in Britain. It wouldn't have happened in any European nation.
41:45
Speaker 4: It wouldn't have happened in Australia. But it happened right
41:49
Speaker 4: here in Las Vegas. Go ahead and give us your
41:53
Speaker 4: credit card. We'll charge you for three days. If you
41:56
Speaker 4: don't use up the three days, we'll just refund the card. Well,
42:08
Speaker 4: Trump has made changes to Medicare. I thought Trump can't
42:10
Speaker 4: make changes to Medicare. Only Congress can make changes to Medicare.
42:17
Speaker 4: But I was gobsmacked at that. Sitting there with wires
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Speaker 4: on my chest, my heart beating out of control and
42:25
Speaker 4: out of rhythm, and what does this bitch come in
42:28
Speaker 4: and do? Ask me for a credit card. Have I
42:31
Speaker 4: even seen a cardiologist yet?
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Speaker 5: No.
42:34
Speaker 4: Oh, and by the way, that'll be billed separately. And
42:37
Speaker 4: when you do see your specialist or cardiologist and all
42:39
Speaker 4: of those, they have their own billing apparatus and their
42:42
Speaker 4: own co-pays, so you'll be paying those directly to them.
42:46
Speaker 4: This is just for the hospital. And if you need
42:49
Speaker 4: any anesthesia while you're here or any additional testing such
42:52
Speaker 4: as CTs, MRIs, or CAT scans, there will be a
42:56
Speaker 4: copay for those as well that we will bill you
42:59
Speaker 4: for after. What? So what's the copay for you for?
43:05
Speaker 4: The bed that I'm not in? I asked her, I said,
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Speaker 4: do I get a discount for today because I've been
43:10
Speaker 4: in the ER 18 hours even though I've been admitted?
43:13
Speaker 4: I don't have a room? Oh, no, sir, we don't discount.
43:16
Speaker 4: So you're charging me for a room I'm not even
43:19
Speaker 4: fucking in? Well, you're in this room. This is an
43:23
Speaker 4: emergency room. I already paid the copay for this room. Yes,
43:29
Speaker 4: we'll apply that. We'll apply the $ 150 that you paid
43:33
Speaker 4: for the ER to your daily $ 500. oh, well, that's
43:38
Speaker 4: so white of you. You know, that's just so, that's
43:42
Speaker 4: so white of you. So the whole thing was just
43:49
Speaker 4: a foobar. All of it. All caused by a lady
43:53
Speaker 4: who felt she needed to attack me at the polls.
43:58
Speaker 4: And now, I really did think the lady wanted, I
44:01
Speaker 4: bet the register, can you imagine if the registration lady
44:04
Speaker 4: said when I paid my $ 1, 500, I didn't pay it,
44:06
Speaker 4: but had I paid the $ 1, 500, can you imagine if
44:09
Speaker 4: she expected a $ 300 tip? Because that's 20% of $ 1, 500.
44:13
Speaker 4: Can you imagine? Okay, sir, here's your credit card. Well,
44:17
Speaker 4: it shows the thing on here for tip. Well, yes, sir,
44:19
Speaker 4: I'm the registrar. I go around to every room. You
44:21
Speaker 4: don't think I deserve a tip? I am surprised that
44:25
Speaker 4: that didn't happen. I truly am. And you see, there
44:33
Speaker 4: I am, already too stressed, okay? And she adds distrust
44:38
Speaker 4: because not only does it make me mad at that moment,
44:41
Speaker 4: but it makes me mad at the system. I got
44:44
Speaker 4: so angry at American healthcare at that point. I was
44:48
Speaker 4: grateful to have access, but at the same point, do
44:50
Speaker 4: I really have access? If you can't pay that $ 2, 500,
44:53
Speaker 4: we'll bill you. Yeah, so then what? You can ruin
44:58
Speaker 4: my credit? I can have to file a bankruptcy or what?
45:02
Speaker 4: You know, a bill doesn't mean it's free. Well, you
45:07
Speaker 4: could apply for a hardship program if you don't own property.
45:10
Speaker 4: I do own property. Well, then you can't apply for
45:13
Speaker 4: the hardship program. Thanks. So I'm supposed to live in
45:19
Speaker 4: the street, and then you'll bill me, and I can
45:22
Speaker 4: apply for a, and that was for a discount. You
45:26
Speaker 4: can apply for a 50% discount after you pay. Do
45:32
Speaker 4: you hear how just insensitive that is? So I take
45:43
Speaker 4: all that stuff personally. And I carry that weight with me.
45:49
Speaker 4: Because I know I'm not the only one going through
45:51
Speaker 4: that experience. And that's the problem. I have empathy. I
45:55
Speaker 4: know that there was a lady in the hallway. There
45:58
Speaker 4: were many people in the hallway. And they were treating
46:00
Speaker 4: people in the lobby. You still have to pay the
46:03
Speaker 4: ER co-pay even if you're treated in the lobby. And
46:08
Speaker 4: there are multiple people being treated in the lobby. And
46:11
Speaker 4: I'm making that up. I don't know if any of
46:13
Speaker 4: you have been to an ER of late, but they
46:15
Speaker 4: treat a lot of people in the lobby and in
46:18
Speaker 4: the halls. In America, in hospitals that are multi-million dollar facilities,
46:24
Speaker 4: treating patients. There was this woman, so a physical therapist
46:28
Speaker 4: came to see if I could walk and talk. I'm like,
46:30
Speaker 4: I'm an AFib, I'm not a cripple. But they're like,
46:32
Speaker 4: let's walk down the hall. There was this Hispanic lady
46:36
Speaker 4: on a bed and she was suffering. She did not
46:39
Speaker 4: look good in the hall. And then when I walked back,
46:44
Speaker 4: her mother was there, you know, stroking her forehead, stroking
46:48
Speaker 4: her hair. While her daughter, adult daughter in her 20s,
46:52
Speaker 4: was there suffering, really suffering. And I looked at the
46:57
Speaker 4: mom and daughter and I said, may your pain be
46:59
Speaker 4: removed and may you heal quickly. Like I'm the Pope
47:03
Speaker 4: or something. And they said, thank you so much. I
47:06
Speaker 4: just couldn't walk by and not say something nice. And
47:10
Speaker 4: then I thought, one of them is going to have
47:12
Speaker 4: a registrar come over and say, could we have your
47:14
Speaker 4: credit card, please? You know? Truly. Truly. Our system is
47:25
Speaker 4: so woefully broken, and that weighed on me. You know?
47:31
Speaker 4: That weighed on me. It made me feel badly for me,
47:38
Speaker 4: for the woman in the hallway, for her mother, and
47:42
Speaker 4: for everybody out there like her that's experiencing this kind
47:46
Speaker 4: of thing. It gave me stress.
47:52
Speaker 5: So.
47:53
Speaker 4: I do have to step back for a couple weeks.
47:56
Speaker 4: Just till November 9th. Unless during that time Trump drops
48:00
Speaker 4: dead or something. But you know what I mean. Barring
48:03
Speaker 4: any huge international stories. But think about that. You're being
48:10
Speaker 4: treated in the hallway of an ER. Not even in
48:14
Speaker 4: a room. So there's no dignity there. You're lying there
48:17
Speaker 4: at your worst moment and people are just walking past
48:20
Speaker 4: you and looking at you and, you know, and you
48:27
Speaker 4: can't do anything. What are you going to do? You're sick.
48:29
Speaker 4: You're there. What are you going to do? And yet,
48:33
Speaker 4: you still get a bill. You still get charged full price.
48:38
Speaker 4: There's not a hallway price and an in-the-room price. You know,
48:42
Speaker 4: even at hotels, you don't pay full price for bad
48:45
Speaker 4: rooms because The bad rooms are cheaper. In a hospital,
48:51
Speaker 4: no room at all, and you still got to pay.
48:55
Speaker 4: That's some crazy shit right there. And that's the American
49:00
Speaker 4: healthcare system. That's where we are. And that's really quite sad.
49:07
Speaker 4: And when you hear Medicare for all, Well, that's great,
49:10
Speaker 4: but I have Medicare. I'm on UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage. Medicare
49:14
Speaker 4: for all is great, but not if they're going to
49:17
Speaker 4: charge you $ 500 copay to go to a hospital. Then
49:22
Speaker 4: that isn't really Medicare for all, is it? Because guess what?
49:27
Speaker 4: That room at the hospital doesn't cost them $ 500. A
49:32
Speaker 4: room at the Hilton? But trust me, hospital bed ain't
49:36
Speaker 4: no Hilton. And this is America. This is what we've become.
49:44
Speaker 4: Take a person at their lowest of their low, when
49:47
Speaker 4: they are sicker than a dog, and charge them. And
49:52
Speaker 4: I guarantee you, the company that runs Spring Valley Hospital
49:56
Speaker 4: shows a profit. I guarantee you their CEO makes millions
50:00
Speaker 4: of dollars a year. I guarantee it. I guarantee their
50:04
Speaker 4: board of directors makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
50:09
Speaker 4: I guarantee it. And yet you're lying there hooked up
50:13
Speaker 4: to machines not knowing if you're going to live or die,
50:15
Speaker 4: and they come in and ask for a copay.
50:17
Speaker 5: Why?
50:18
Speaker 4: Because they need to make their millions of dollars. And
50:21
Speaker 4: the shareholders need their money. And the members of the board.
50:25
Speaker 4: When you walk into the hospital, the first sign you
50:27
Speaker 4: see at Spring Valley Hospital. This is a for-profit hospital.
50:34
Speaker 4: That's what it says on a plaque right by the
50:39
Speaker 4: front door. This is a for-profit hospital. No hospital in
50:44
Speaker 4: the United States should be for profit. No medical system
50:48
Speaker 4: at all should be for profit. Healthcare insurance companies should
50:53
Speaker 4: not be for profit. UnitedHealthcare should make zero in profits. Now,
51:00
Speaker 4: they can write off the salaries of their employees and
51:02
Speaker 4: all of that. I'm not saying that the people should
51:04
Speaker 4: work for free. I'm just saying that they shouldn't operate
51:08
Speaker 4: on the profit status. After expenses, every bit of money
51:13
Speaker 4: should go back to the patients. Every bit. Nope. Then
51:21
Speaker 4: the CEOs wouldn't be able to have their huge payments.
51:25
Speaker 4: And the shareholders, the board of directors... Yeah, that upset me. Obviously.
51:34
Speaker 1: You know?
51:36
Speaker 4: Obviously. And Congress does nothing. Congress people don't pay co-pays.
51:45
Speaker 4: They have excellent health insurance. And if they do, they've
51:47
Speaker 4: got the money. You know, it's one thing if you're
51:52
Speaker 4: rich and they say it's going to cost you 500
51:54
Speaker 4: bucks a day to stay here, you'll think to yourself, well,
51:56
Speaker 4: I spend more than that on dinner. But if you're me...
52:01
Speaker 4: and you're being told it's going to be $ 500 a day,
52:04
Speaker 4: suddenly you're rethinking whether you can even stay in the
52:07
Speaker 4: fucking hospital or not. Because that's exactly what I did.
52:13
Speaker 4: I was like, well, they're not doing anything. They're just
52:16
Speaker 4: giving me a drug that I have at home. They're
52:18
Speaker 4: not even monitoring my monitor. You know, so why am
52:23
Speaker 4: I going to pay them $ 500?
52:23
Speaker 5: I left.
52:29
Speaker 4: And yes, part of the reason I left wasn't to
52:32
Speaker 4: see inadequate care. It was the money I was going
52:35
Speaker 4: to have to pay. They couldn't tell me when I was,
52:37
Speaker 4: I said, well, when am I going to get an
52:39
Speaker 4: actual room? We don't know. So you're saying I can
52:42
Speaker 4: pay 500 bucks a day to stay here in the ER?
52:44
Speaker 4: Get no sleep? Have no amenities? Not even have a bathroom? Patriotism!
53:02
Speaker 4: Now remember, the word is F-U-N-K, funk, honey. Do you
53:07
Speaker 4: wanna funk?
53:08
Speaker 5: Do you.
53:18
Speaker 1: Wanna funk?
53:25
Speaker 4: Hey, it's Carell.
53:26
Speaker 1: Go stream Do You Wanna Funk?
53:28
Speaker 4: My tribute to Sylvester. Everywhere you get your music. Carell,
53:31
Speaker 4: do you wanna funk?
53:33
Speaker 3: Now it's showtime.
53:40
Speaker 4: All right, we are back. So this is my final
53:42
Speaker 4: show until November 9th. I have got to take a
53:47
Speaker 4: little break. My doctors have encouraged me to take two
53:49
Speaker 4: weeks off, and so I am going to. I will
53:54
Speaker 4: miss you, but that's.
53:56
Speaker 6: Life, right?
53:58
Speaker 4: I was going to talk about tipping today, and I did.
54:00
Speaker 4: I think we, I don't believe we should tip anymore.
54:02
Speaker 4: I really think, sorry for these spots. I went to
54:04
Speaker 4: the dermatologist this morning. He burned me here. He burned
54:07
Speaker 4: me here. They love that can, don't they? The dermatologist. God,
54:10
Speaker 4: they walk in with that can just ready to shoot
54:12
Speaker 4: you with it. Just ready to freeze something. And so
54:16
Speaker 4: he did. Sub something keratosis. Sub actinic keratosis. I forget
54:22
Speaker 4: what he called them. Not cancer. How do you know?
54:28
Speaker 4: My hope for you over the next two weeks is A,
54:32
Speaker 4: that you've already voted. I hope most of you have
54:35
Speaker 4: already voted. Do not wait until election day. It's going
54:38
Speaker 4: to get stupid at the polls. Vote now. If you
54:42
Speaker 4: have early voting in your state, early vote. If you don't,
54:46
Speaker 4: fill out your ballot. Do not mail it. Bring it
54:48
Speaker 4: down to the, I don't care if you have to
54:49
Speaker 4: go to the county registrar. Bring your ballot in and
54:53
Speaker 4: hand it to a human being. If you absolutely have
54:58
Speaker 4: to vote by mail, do it at least six days
55:00
Speaker 4: prior to the election ending. Do not wait until election
55:03
Speaker 4: day to mail your ballot. Okay? Because they're going to
55:06
Speaker 4: do every dirty trick in the book. Because they know
55:10
Speaker 4: they're getting slaughtered. And they are. Early voting in every
55:12
Speaker 4: state is breaking records. And a majority is Democratic or Independent.
55:19
Speaker 4: They're going to get slaughtered. I believe Mohammed Al-Fayed is
55:23
Speaker 4: going to win. And I hope he does. He's hot
55:25
Speaker 4: as hell, first of all. Not that that matters, but
55:28
Speaker 4: if you're going to elect a senator, you might as
55:30
Speaker 4: well look like that or a congressperson. And second of all,
55:34
Speaker 4: I like what he has to say. I wish he
55:36
Speaker 4: were running here. I think he's going to win. I
55:40
Speaker 4: think James Talia Rico is going to win in Texas.
55:43
Speaker 4: In fact, I think a lot of Texas districts are
55:46
Speaker 4: going to go blue. I do. And I believe a
55:49
Speaker 4: lot of Georgia is going to go blue. I do.
55:52
Speaker 4: And maybe even some parts of Florida. Because people are
55:57
Speaker 4: sick and tired of everything that I just talked about.
56:03
Speaker 4: They're sick and tired of, you know, today they want
56:06
Speaker 4: to make a big deal in Vegas. Gas is now
56:08
Speaker 4: below $ 5 a gallon. It's $ 4. 99. I'm like, that's something
56:13
Speaker 4: to be happy about? $ 5 gas? It should be $ 2.
56:19
Speaker 4: I keep hearing from Trump and everybody how we're energy self-sufficient.
56:22
Speaker 4: Then why do we charge people for gas at all?
56:26
Speaker 4: If we pump enough oil out of the United States
56:28
Speaker 4: for everybody to have, why are we paying for it?
56:31
Speaker 4: Because we're not energy self-sufficient, because we can't refine the
56:35
Speaker 4: very oil that we pull out of our country. It
56:37
Speaker 4: is light crude. We can only refine heavy crude. So
56:41
Speaker 4: we pull out the light crude and sell it to
56:43
Speaker 4: countries that can refine it, and we buy, with that money,
56:48
Speaker 4: heavy crude. That's a stupid system set up to make
56:51
Speaker 4: a lot of people money, ain't it? And it does.
56:55
Speaker 4: Look at the Saudis. They're so fucking rich when they travel,
56:59
Speaker 4: they bring 30 of their friends and buy out an
57:01
Speaker 4: entire floor. That's our money. They're happy to spend it
57:07
Speaker 4: and use it to be misogynistic, backward religious idiots. So
57:14
Speaker 4: I think there's going to be a bloodbath, but I
57:16
Speaker 4: don't know. People have surprised me before. I wish that
57:21
Speaker 4: Trump was on the ballot like he keeps saying, pretend
57:23
Speaker 4: I'm on the ballot. when he's not waving to people
57:26
Speaker 4: that aren't there or snapping at reporters and saying, you
57:29
Speaker 4: better watch out. When he's not threatening people or waving
57:33
Speaker 4: to imaginary people or pooping his pants. God, imagine all
57:37
Speaker 4: of that being said about a real president, waving at
57:40
Speaker 4: things that aren't there, pooping his pants, snapping at reporters
57:44
Speaker 4: and not making sense while doing it, making strange noises
57:49
Speaker 4: during his speeches that no one understands why he's doing it.
57:53
Speaker 4: rambling on about men's asses and why he likes to
57:57
Speaker 4: feel them. This is a man that should have been
58:01
Speaker 4: removed under the 25th Amendment a while ago. And he's not.
58:08
Speaker 4: And see, that bothers me. That stresses me out. That
58:11
Speaker 4: we have this insane person that should, by all accounts,
58:15
Speaker 4: be removed. And he's not. He's just allowed to be insane.
58:23
Speaker 4: And he's insane. That man is not well. Alright, did
58:28
Speaker 4: I miss anything in the news today? I don't think
58:30
Speaker 4: I did. There's, you know, same old stuff in the news.
58:33
Speaker 4: Trump's crazy. Really, same old stuff in the news. Trump's crazy.
58:36
Speaker 4: That's why I can't really watch Aaron Parnas or anyone anymore.
58:40
Speaker 4: It's like, and here's another crazy thing that Trump did.
58:45
Speaker 4: Trump defends Ramaswati's ad with Acton's A Strange Mom. Oh yeah,
58:50
Speaker 4: did you see that ad? There's this Acton person who put, well,
58:57
Speaker 4: Acton is running, and her mother, who is estranged from her,
59:01
Speaker 4: is in some ad saying, my daughter, with no teeth,
59:03
Speaker 4: looking like the last meth head, saying, well, my daughter,
59:07
Speaker 4: don't trust my daughter.
59:09
Speaker 2: Oh.
59:10
Speaker 4: Okay okay uh clark county approves plans for a 68
59:18
Speaker 4: foot church in spring valley despite neighbors being upset well
59:22
Speaker 4: heaven forbid Rubio and Hegseth are pointing their finger at
59:26
Speaker 4: Musk in the Starlink shutdown while Musk says it was
59:29
Speaker 4: directly by Donald Trump. Great. Great. Carrie has been renewed
59:36
Speaker 4: for a second season. Good, it's a great show. Judge
59:39
Speaker 4: orders Trump to sit for deposition in his defamation lawsuit
59:42
Speaker 4: against BBC. That won't go well. Ilhan Omar says bizarre
59:48
Speaker 4: pre-dawn raid on her home is forcing her to move out. Yeah,
59:51
Speaker 4: you think? You think? Sidney Sweeney's R-rated masterpiece, who cares?
59:57
Speaker 4: Crystal Lake, I did watch. I watched three episodes of
1:00:00
Speaker 4: Crystal Lake on Peacock last night. Oh my God, it's
1:00:03
Speaker 4: so good. Because it's set in the 80s. Oh, they
1:00:06
Speaker 4: had feathered hair. Remember feathered hair with a vent brush?
1:00:09
Speaker 4: Oh my God. They had Walkmans and feathered hair and
1:00:13
Speaker 4: they were listening to fabulous music and life was just
1:00:16
Speaker 4: a little bit simpler. And I just love, it's set
1:00:19
Speaker 4: in the 80s. I love the cars, big hunks of
1:00:22
Speaker 4: metal that don't cave in when you wreck them. Oh,
1:00:26
Speaker 4: it's just wonderful. Just watching it just for the 80s.
1:00:29
Speaker 4: And they say the kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. I thought, oh,
1:00:32
Speaker 4: there it is. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. It's all
1:00:35
Speaker 4: about Jason's mom. And you meet Jason as a young
1:00:37
Speaker 4: kid when he drowned with his big head. And he's
1:00:40
Speaker 4: got some disability. And you find out why she turns
1:00:43
Speaker 4: into a killer. It's such a good show. But more importantly,
1:00:48
Speaker 4: the 80s references. Oh, my God. Cassette tapes. There are
1:00:51
Speaker 4: cassettes everywhere. Oh, I miss cassettes. Well, they've come back now,
1:00:54
Speaker 4: CDs and cassettes. The 80s were great. I am Carell.
1:00:59
Speaker 4: Please stay safe until November 9th. I'll give you updates
1:01:03
Speaker 4: via Patreon and social media. Be who you want to be.
1:01:06
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1:01:12
Speaker 4: Glad to be home. So glad. I love you guys. Really,
1:01:18
Speaker 4: truly do. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you,
1:01:23
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you.
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