Being Thankful in A World of Hate

on high covered, uncovered, uh, stirring every hour. Oh my god. You use the evulsion mixer and it was fabulous. So you gotta make your own mayo, you gotta make your own ketchup. Those are two great recipes and you're gonna be getting more cause the response has been great from you guys. In terms of me in the kitchen. You like me in the kitchen. I like being in the kitchen. So there we go. You know, my microphone is too high today. Sometimes your microphone is high and mighty spring

her down a little. There we go, There we go. Just because you're a boom microphone doesn't mean you have to be all up in the sky. Could be down here with me. All right. So, how y'all doing, how you're doing, You're feeling good? Listen, I'm listening to Barbara Strystanza audio books. I'm feeling a little you know, Brooklyn. How you're doing. You're fine, You're doing good. You mench I they So I want to start with why I'm not feeling very thankful? Okay, I'm freaking one step away

from depressed as hell. There's even a giant dark cloud over my house right now, not making that up. It's snowing out in Red Rock and there's a big black cloud over the park over my house, and I feel it's a metaphor. I even said that at the park. I said, oh, that dark cloud could be a metaphor. And this tattooed bearded guy playing with his dog says, oh no, the next four years are gonna be great. And I'm like, you stupid fuck. As Trump is announcing

his tarifs this morning. They're going to cripple you and I they are. You can't afford to pay thirty percent more for goods, You just can't. The New York Times says Trump's tariffs will cripple trade. Maybe the New York Times should have been a little more aware of that as they were doing stories that pumped him up. The New York Times is partially responsible for Trump, and now they're like, oh, we's got or cripple trade. Yeah, no shit, we knew that back then. Why didn't you New York

Times Because you're just idiots. So this morning, I have a gay friend who lives in Georgia with his mom, and he's fifty plus but he takes care of her, and you know, he works in healthcare and they're loving their life in Valdosta. So he had come out to visit me, and you know, and last year or this year, I forget when, but you know, we remain friends. So this morning he sent a thing that said, oh, look,

it's sixty seven here already. Lovely, I said, it's forty eight here and he said, another reason to move to the beautiful East Coast. You'd be a smash here, And I said, han, I know you support him and probably voted for him, but Trump is about to make it too expensive for me to live in the USA. Twenty five percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada mean fruits and vegetables which I eat, go up thirty percent or more.

That means a antelope that is currently four dollars will now be five dollars and thirty cents pineapples will go to four fifty each. I may have to look into Mexico or another country just so I can eat because I am a vegan. Of course, if you're not a vegan, beef coming from Canada, which forty percent of ours does, is going to go up thirty percent as well. So get ready for fifteen dollars hamburger. I'm not being hysterical.

I'm just telling you like it is. Things are about to go way high, and I live on a fixed income. It ain't gonna cut it unless I get this show going in Las Vegas, or my podcast pays more, or I find another passion. I said, but you know I'm too old to be a hooker. He said, think positive, It's all going to be okay. I said, for you, yes, you have a job in the medical field. Everyone needs the medical field, and it currently pays well. For those of us on a fixed income, not so much. He said, Oh,

we could always get married. We have faith in the positive. I said, why are you a citizen of Mexico or Canada. I need an Irishman that wants a husband in name only, or a Frenchman or a Spaniard, he said, just be an American. You worry too much. I said, no, I am just realistically watching the world. I'm worried, but that's because i know what is going to happen, and I'm trying to find a place that i can thrive. He goes, I never worry about all that stuff, you know. Stay

in the moment, stay in the day. You sound like Rachel Maddow. I said, oh good, she's a Rhodes scholar with two PhDs. Well, she's an idiot. Can you imagine? I said, she's smarter than you or I, smart enough to make twenty five million a year. Good for her, but she acts like an unhinged freak. Rachel Maddow, he's referring to I said, she speaks three languages and as a Rhodes scholar. He goes, not impressed. You can be

smart and still act like an idiot. And then I sent him the story Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico and Canada and China. I said, this will raise prices thirty percent. I am not making this up. I don't have thirty percent for more groceries. It's not fear, it's what's gonna happen. Oh, you're negative. I'm not this type of conversation person. You can have it with Rachel. I'm happy and thriving. Well, good for you, you got yours.

So who the fuck cares if others go hungry? Who cares if people won't be able to make rent gas and pay for food. I mean, let them eat cake, stale old cake, but let them eat it, all right, miss Antoinette, But remember it didn't end well for her. He's all calmed down, and this is the problem that we're facing. These people like the guy in the park

this morning. He said, oh, the next four years are going to be great, and like this Matt's Matt in Atlanta in Valdosta, who says, oh, you know, Rachel Maddow is a free can come. You know what? They discredit learned individuals. They discredit any news story that actually goes against their belief. They actually believe that the oligarchs are going to make life better for them. These people are not only stupid, they've proven to be dangerous. And now

Trump gets the charges dropped against him. So the coup worked. Now I don't know about you, but two days away from Thanksgiving, I'm finding it hard to really keep my mood up knowing that January sixth, twenty six or twenty twenty a coup occurred and it was successful. He is

back in office in January. He has unbridled power, with a Republican House and Senate, an immunity from the Supreme Court, and he was never prosecuted for his crimes, including the Document's case, proving that we have two systems of justice. They can no longer say that no one is above the law. He is. And so I don't know about you, but that is weighing on me. It's weighing on my

friend Steve. It's weighing on my friends in California. It's weighing on Hannah, and she's doing okay, but it's weighing on her. It's weighing on everybody I know, because they know they're not idiot maga. They know how bad this is about to get and how unaffordable our nation is about to get, and they know there's absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. They have seized power. And he keeps saying saying a mandate. And now you see all these stories saying he didn't get fifty percent of

the electorate. It is not a mandate. He got forty nine point seven percent of the electorates and Kamala got forty eight point nine percent, not even one percent of the electorate. Separate the two of us. That's not a mandate, epics. It is they're going with the lie that it is. Want to support the Courl Castle, then like and subscribe

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I said, we gotta figure out Thanksgiving. Are you gonna spend forty five dollars for a meal for one person from no Butcher and then Steve spend forty five dollars for a meal for one person from Costco and then reheat that meal and then have it on Thanksgiving? Is that what you're gonna do? You love to cook? Why aren't you cooking? So I look, I made a grocery list. I said, well cook, you know, have leftover, spend the money.

Who the fuck cares spend one hundred hundred fty dollars whatever, two hundred Just cook, Cook a turkey thigh for for you know, for Steve, and you have your your turkey loaf, and you know, cook, have a Thanksgiving. He'll come over, get some mac and cheese from down to Earth and then you do the potatoes and a veggie and stuffing and the meat, and then have a dessert and that's it. You know, cook make your butternut pumpkin soup that I want to make. And all day I tried to get

to the grocery store. I did all day. And you know what I could do? Be depressed, look for houses in other countries, and then realize I don't have the resources to go look for houses in California. Then realize I'd have to get in debt to go. Realize that half of the people I talk to think this guy is okay, that this that we're going to be fine, and that I have nothing in common with them. Feeling out of place in my own community and my own

country all over again. You know, in the when I was in my twenties and thirties and teens, I felt out of place because I was gay. Now I feel out of place because I know what's going to happen, and people just don't. The sky really is falling, and Chicken Little is running around telling everybody and nobody cares. They don't care if the sky falls on them. So yesterday afternoon, I said, you know what you have your condo Ember is alive. The spot on her liver wasn't

cancer at least we don't think it is. And six months we'll do it again. Your bills are paid, your credit score is seven to eighty, you know, so you're you've got some friends that you can still reach out to on the phone. You've got your show. Yes, it's little, and you have to grovel and beg for patrons like some street urchin, like a busker. I'm big. Podcasters are buskers. Now we put on our hat called Patreon, and we hope that you throw some money in it. It's demeaning.

I love you, and I love my patrons. I do, but personally, can I tell you how demeaning it is to have to beg you for five dollars a month so I can at least eat and pay my bills. It's demeaning that liberals make other liberals grovel for money, and they do. It's always been the way it is in progressive media. That's why there is no progressive media. There literally is no money in it. And yes, Jeff Miller is filling up auditoriums on her Sexy Liberal tour,

two thousand seed auditoriums. She's not filling up the arenas. She's not making millions per show. They're clearing thousands, which is great and I'd love to be a part, but you know, Ben Shapiro could get ten thousand people to attend, And so I have to grovel for five dollars donations, or I have to put up with questions from supporters who have sent large amounts of money, well where did the money go? Or why don't you have the money? Or you said you were going to do this with

the money. I literally have to be accountable to fans who have donated to me because they send an email and say, I thought you were going to make an app with that money. They don't know that I did make the app, but then it's too much money to host the app. They don't know, you know. And the fact that I have to actually rely upon donations, it's demeaning. I don't want to do business this way. I'm used

to being paid by ABC, CBS, NBC, you know. I'm used to going out and doing shows and walking away with three or four thousand dollars that night. Now I beg every day for eight hundred and fifty three dollars a month. Look and without it, I'd be screwed. So of course I'm going to keep doing the song and dance, and of course I'm going to keep begging people to

support me on Patreon. Without it, I'd literally have to drive Uber or door dash or something, and that would be so humiliating, a history making talk show host, a gay leader having to drive for door Dash. But that's where we're headed. That's where I'm headed. I can't live off the eight fifty if that doesn't get up to one thousand or fifteen hundred a month soon, you know. And so I try to change the show. I'd just like you try to change your life. You try to say, Okay,

how am I going to get through this? How am I going to live through this? What have I got to do? And that's where I'm at. It's like, what have you got to do to get through this? Chuck? You're a vegan and it's going to be so expensive fruits and vegetables because of Trump. What are you gonna do to bite your tongue When these people say things like, oh, the next four years are going to be great, how

do you not get in a fight. I'm listening to Barbara Streisand's book, and she's talking about the way we were, and she's talking about how she relates to Katie Morowski, the character who said people are their principles when she fought with Hubble, and Hubble said, why do you do it all? You know, Yeah, they're being dragged before Congress right now, but in five years they'll all make pictures again, and what will you What would all this have been for?

And she said, so you want me to ignore my principles And he said, no, I want you to, you know, live And she said, but people are their principles. I am my principles. Today Walmart announced they're cutting back diversity, equity and inclusion. Does that make me want to go

to Walmart? No, I don't fuck you. Walmart cutting back your DEI, making sure women aren't in the boardroom, days aren't in the boardroom, Blacks aren't in the boardroom, sending the word to other companies that they don't need DEI anymore, get rid of it. Does that make me want to go shop at that store?

suddenly they market way down. Otherwise I'd have to trash it or you know whatever, And people literally fight to get the deals to the rich people's amusement. Black Friday is demeaning. It's demeaning that corporations wait for one day a year to make things actually affordable. It's like the Purge because on that one day you gotta go buyff and a lot of you don't buy frivolous stuff on Black Friday. You buy stuff you need, thoughts, underwear, maybe

a new TV because yours went out or whatever. But hey, go spend the money, spend a fortune on food for Thanksgiving, and then go out shopping the day after for Christmas, and then spend lots more money. Make civilionaires happen. Well, you trouble, you know, I read a quote. I'll read it to you when I come back to prove none of that. Hey, Corell here, and I'd like to take a moment to thank all the patrons at Patreon. Your support means the absolute world to me and the show.

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the party going as long as we can. You know, I know, being literate isn't chic anymore, and that quoting authors is not in vogue. But I'm old, and Charles Dickens wrote something a long time ago. It's very famous, but I want to read it to you to show to give you some encouragement, because we do have to find things to be thankful for. Now that I've bitched for two segments, this is where we bring it all home and tell you you, yes, you still have to be thankful, And let me read this to you. It

was the best of times. It was the worst of time. It was the age of wisdom, It was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of light, and was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us. We were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct

to hell. In short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received for good or for evil. In the superlative degree of comparison. Only. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. None of this is new, Okay, it's not. Nothing Trump is going to do is new. Nothing the Americans are saying or doing is new. Maga is not. And yet through it all we have survived as a species, as a culture,

as a society. Through it all, some have thrived. The poorest among us have been the happiest among us at times. And so this Thanksgiving week, I do want you to concentrate on the good, to act, scituate the positive, eiminate the negative. This will all be a memory one day, not a good one, but it will all be a memory. And your sanity, your life is the most important thing. You know. When we look back on our lives, we

don't look back on the political regimes. We look back on the Thanksgivings that we had with friends or family, or by ourselves or whatever. We look back on Christmases in New Year's. We look back on joy and love and pain and sorrow. We look back on the people. We look back on the emotion, on the feelings. So I want you, I want you to concentrate on what you have today, not what may be taken from you in three months, not what you can't afford come February.

I want you to concentrate on today. What do you have today? I have Ember, She's right in front of me. Hi, little girl, Hi, dear little honeyboo on to why I'm sweating like a like Whitney Houston doing a concert. I have you. Yes, it's a limited audience, but at least it does give me eight hundred and fifty three dollars a month, and it does keep me from driving for door Dasher or God doing god knows what other job, producing some other podcast where I don't even get to

be on it or whatever. At least I get to be in my home, in my room here with you all every day, four days a week. I do have choices for food. I could buy it or I could cook it. But at least I have a choice, and choices are so valuable. I have friends that will love me on Friday on Monday in January. So I need you on this Thanksgiving week to purge the evil that is coming, to purge the worry that is present. Because the one thing that shouldn't happen is people like Maga

and Donald Trump should not ruin your life. They can financially and politically, of course they can. They have the power, but that doesn't ruin who you are. They can't touch that. They can't touch your love, your kindness. They can't touch your passion or your hope. Oh they can beat it down. They can bring gray clouds overhead, but there really is a sun still shining behind them, and they can't stop that. Donald Trump is going to die, probably within the next

seven to ten years. He will be gone. You won't be He's seventy eight, going to be eighty. The presidency wears you down. He's going to die. So you have to make sure you live. You have to make sure that you're in some ways thriving. I have a friend who's applying for a new job. He really wants it. I said, go get it, get yours, don't let this slow you down. Go be who you'd want to be. And so on this forty eight hours before Thanksgiving, I want you to refocus. I want you to listen to

great music or a book. I want you to plan a meal for yourself, for you and your dog or your cat, or for a big gathering, or go attend one, find one and go, or go volunteer to give out food to the homeless. Some of the comedy clubs do that they you know, find a place if you don't have a place. And I don't want to say block the future out of your mind, but for just a day, for just a moment in time. Remember that time is

the only constant. It's going to keep moving, and change is going to happen in that time, good change, bad change. And that it's always been that way. It's always been the best of times and the worst of times. You've always been on the precipice of heaven and the gates of hell always. This time, right, missam right, I hear it. This time is not unique. We think it is. We think the world has never seen anything like this, And no, the world has seen this countless times. And you got

to give up a little bit. For instance, climate change, we're not going to solve it now. I don't want you to stop your efforts being a vegan, recycling, composting, take care of your planet, but don't have any great hopes that we're going to solve climate change. We're not. There's no will to do it. The rich don't want it done. They want to milk this planet until it's dead. Accept that. Do what you can, but don't cry over it.

It's done. It's over, so let it go. In thirty forty years, climate's going to make this planet a healthcape. But most of you won't be here, and if you are, you'll adapt, You'll change the way you live. Let some things go. That's how you think the Thanksgiving. Keep your blessings near and let other things go because it is the death of time and worth. I am carel you who you want to be fond of? Heard about it. We'llcome back tomorrow and then third the in party. We

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