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Is America Actually Worth the Cost? Shocking Figures Abound

A home in Marin just sold for 14.5 million dollars. And it's nothing that special. Houses in Las Vegas are going for $1.5 up to 30m. The average condo in Los Angeles is now $450k for a one bedroom. Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Miami, Dallas... but it doesn't stop there. Rural America home prices are skyrocketing as well. What are we paying for, exactly? And who, exactly has this kind of money?

The headline reads: Kamala's Nevada problem...things are just so expensive. But is that HER fault, Biden's and again, is it worth it. Nevada is a desert state, extreme temperatures, not much water... should things be expensive here?

Bit it all boils down to America is costly. Cars starting at $25k. Homes out of reach. Food skyrocketing. Healthcare rocketing. Is it all worth the actual price of admission? 

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All right, I have proof positive that black people are treated differently under the law. Also, a home in Marine just sold for fourteen point five million dollars. Is America worth the price tag? And do you want Mark Zuckerberg parenting your kids? We'll talk about it uncensored, unfiltered, un hinged. It's the Cuell Cast. Listen daily on your favorite streaming service. Hello, down there, you pretty girl. Good morning. It is the Carell Cast, and I am Corel. We will be in

the studio in just a quick second. But we are talking today about I saw a headline that said, Kamala's Nevada problem. Everything is just so expensive, and of course that's a problem across the globe, and this morning this played right into it. On the way home from the park this morning, I decided I wanted some Belvida Tea biscuits.

They're strangely and accidentally vegan, and so I stopped at Albertson's and I said, oh yeah, and I need a pineapple and an orange and some strawberries, and so that's exactly what I got here. You go there, you go right there, right there. How much do you think the Belvida orange, pineapple and strawberries cost. How much do you think total for the cost? I will tell you in just a moment. I want you to guess, so I'll tell you in just a second. But it is this

very thing. I even commented when I got checked out. I said, this alone, this alone, this orange was almost as much as anything else that you see there. How much do you think total for all of that? I will tell you just a second. Right, miss Anne, she found a ball at the park and she's ready to go. She wants it bad. Hello down, yes, indeed, Oh my goodness. As you know, I'm a one man show and I have to go up there and do that myself. So good morning, and hello, and welcome to the Carell Cast

on this Wednesday, September eighteenth. So I just showed you a little haul from the store this morning, a package of one pound strawberries, one orange, a special orange. I guess it's not a it's not a naval orange. It's a what is it a tangila? What it's a name? Sumo sumo orange, and then the Belvida and a pineapple. And that's it. And I want you to guess in the chatroom at YouTube dot com. Forward Slash really correl

or at patreon dot com forward slash really correl. I want you to guess how much that costs Okay, I want to see who comes closest, so I'll tell you at the end of the show. So you have you have during the show to guess in the chatroom at YouTube dot com, forward slash really correl. Well, maybe I should open this up to comments too. Okay, I won't

tell you until tomorrow. How about that? So today I want you to guess underneath the video at YouTube dot com forward slash reallycarell or in the chatroom YouTube dot com, forward slash reallycarell or at Patreon Patreon dot com forward slash reallycarel I want you to guess, Okay, dollars and cents, how many dollars and how many cents? How much that cost? The belveda, a sumo orange, a pound of strawberries, and

one pineapple. And the person that comes closest will get this book since no one got it yesterday Todd Haynes all about his art. So I want you to go and guess, and I will keep track of who guesses in the chatroom. Dollars and cents? How much did those items cost? Because the headline here in Nevada, as I said, is Camala's problem. In Nevada, everything's just too expensive. And it got me thinking about is America worth the price

of admission. Basically, we're gonna talk about that, but before we do, I want to talk about a couple things in the news right off the top here set down my notes. First of all, exploding pagers and exploding walkie talkies. Who the fuck knew? Okay, I mean truly, how they did this I will never understand. But somehow they intercepted pagers that were going to be given to hesbela members, put explosives in them, and then set them off all

at once. Innocent people have been injured. And if that happened in our country, we would consider it an attack against our nation. But you know, in Libya, they're just like whatever Hesbel is mad about it, they're going to launch something against Israel. It is not making peace, Okay that is I don't care how ingenious it is, and it's pretty frickin ingenious. Then today walkie talkies blew up because they're not using cell phones because they say they're traceable,

et cetera, et cetera. So they switched to old school pagers. Remember when blowing up your pager meant that a lot of people were paging you. How many of you had a pager? I had a pager. How many of you remember that when you got a pager and they said you're blowing up the pager, that it meant that you were getting a lot of pages. But lord, so it's very ingenious. Now they're trying to find out who made them. Why. I saw the BBC they said, oh, this woman is

the CEO of the country. Oh, you're putting a target on this person. It's like it was ingenious. I don't know how they did it, how they knew those pagers would be in the hands of Hesbela at that moment, I guess a doctor. A couple kids have been killed. It innocent people got killed. Uh and this does not spell peace. Okay, this does not bring peace in the valley. But it's just a stunning story exploding pagers. I had to go and make sure I had the story right,

like like pagers, like you know pagers. But yes, pagers blowing up in genius, but not exactly the way to form a peaceful alliance or get your hostages back or you know, get a cease fire. So as ingenious and you know, kind of fly as it was, it is not a way to bring about peace. And nor did it get rid of Hesbela. They ain't dead. There's still a Hesbala. They still got people running Hesbela. So all of these attacks against Hesbela ain't working, so they need

to try something else. That's the first thing. But boy, like you totally amazed how this happened, Like how did they get the pagers? How did they put the explosives in them? How did they know they were going to Hesbola with the US says we weren't involved. We did a a blink in this morning, said ah, our name is Les. We are not in that mess on it. But were we involved? I don't know, I don't know. I just know this does not bring about peace. It does not bring about a ceasefire, It does not get

your hostages back. All it does is make me glad I don't have a Pager's what it does. And hello to everyone in the chat room. People are guessing, let's see what you're guessing. Two dollars, twenty dollars, thirty dollars and fifteen cents thirty five dollars. Well, I'd like to say you're far off, but you're so dollars and cents how much? At the beginning of the show, I showed you a pineapple, a sumo orange, a pound of strawberries,

and belvida, and don't I eat Well. I had to get belvida because I'm too lazy to make tea snacks. I just ordered my tea for the year. I ordered tea once a year and it's almost three hundred dollars. When I do, it's a monthly expense. I put away a little money for it every month, and so I order from Harney. I want them to become an advertiser. I just bought Macha. I've never had macha before. I even got a little macha preparation. Tea is my thing, as you all know, if you listen to me, I'm

totally into tea. Uh. So I got Macha, I got fruit tea. I'm trying to lose weight, so I get really hungry at eight or eight thirty at night because I eat at four thirty, and instead of having a snack, I'm going to have herbal tea. So I had to get some herbal tea. I got one called Yellow and Blue. It's like lavender and camameal and all this stuff. Also

some rubios which is caffeine free. And then of course I got my Irish breakfast, English breakfast, my Queen Catherine, my Vanilla, my Assam, my Darjeeling, my Earl Gray with Vietnamese Earl Gray. So yeah, got my teeth. Anyway, that was hugely expensive. Normally I spend about one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars once a year on tea. This year it was more like two point fifty. It went up. Everything has gone up. So p Ditty has

been refused bail. This is some serious shit. Now, the judge, he sold his plane, he offered to all of his passports, and he offered fifty million to be placed under house arrest, sold his plane, offered to turn in his passport and set all due house arrest, and they said no. He is in jail awaiting trial, and trial could be months down the line. That's big and it's proof that there are two systems of justice because Donald Trump has done everything that P didd he did. Did you hear about

these freak fest that's what they called him. Freakfest. They would literally go on for days. He had over one hundred bottles of Loube at his la house and I was never invited. See how you are? Did he? But I know people were. There has to be record company

executives and others who are freaking out. And he would have these all day, all night, for several day sex fest where mail hookers would come in and molest, rape, and have sex with consensual or not women, all arranged by Diddy, and the women were trafficked, were brought there. It's it's like right out of one of my TV shows. And so now the judges said, honey, you're staying in jail. So why isn't Donald Trump in jail? We know he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. We know he's had sex

with underage girls. I believe he's had sex with his daughter. We know that he is a sexual predator and a sexual offender. He has not even had to turn in his passport. Did he offer to turn in his passport, his plane and give fifty million dollars cash? And guess what the judge still said, No. Had he been white and rich, he would not be in jail. Now you can say what you want. Like, my black friends are saying the same things, and they're right, and they're kind

of defending. Did he Now, there's no defense for him. He's a low life if he did these things. But he is being treated different than a white person, namely Donald Trump. Donald Trump is as much a sexual offender as P Diddy. Period. Donald Trump ran a pageant for young girls. Remember that, and how creepy he was in the dressing room. How many girls have alleged that he was inappropriate in the dressing room. You saw this new bimbo he's running around with now, she's in her twenties,

looks one hundred and seventy. So Donald Trump should be in jail for all of his crimes, there's no two ways about that. But he's not because he's rich and white. Diddy is in jail because he's black, and that's the truth, make no mistake about it. If P Diddy look at Harvey Einstein. Harvey Weinstein was out of jail up until the jury found him guilty, and even now we're paying for his open heart surgery, we're paying for the Diddy is in jail, rotting and maybe deserves it because he

is black. If he were white, he would be out. I want to hear your comments on this. Am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong, Tell me I'm wrong? Say oh no, Corel. It's just the severity of the crimes. Are you kidding? Donald Trump organized insurrection against the people of the United States of America. He raped e Gen Carroll. According to a civil court, he is on record saying, grab them by the pussy cat. Okay, the man. He had classified

documents at mar Lago. There are a million reasons he should already be in jail, already have his passport taken. He's not p did he is proof? There's two justice systems in America right there. Proof. And I don't know about y'all, but it's sad. It's sad seeing p did he put in jail for the exact Donald Trump. Look at Matt Gates. Look at Matt Gates. They've been investigating sex trafficking with Matt Gates for three fricking years now, and he's not in jail. And he hasn't been around. Why.

He's a wealthy white guy from Florida. That's why he did he. I mean, they don't really they have. They have people coming forward to testify, and they found lube, and they found the videos of that. They found these videos. I will say this, at least Donald Trump was not dumb enough to tape his crimes, well except the one that happened on National TV on January sixth. Outside of that one, all of his other crimes have been in private. Don't here's a note, Okay, if you're gonna be a

successful felon, don't tape your crimes. Don't have so much hubris that you think you're never gonna get caught so you can just tape your crimes. Don't tape your crimes. And I watched so many shows, and on so many shows there's video of the crime. And I think to myself, why do these people videotape themselves doing something stupid? And the answer is, of course they're idiots. He did. He's an idiot, white or black, whatever, he's an idiot. When you have that much money and you choose to behave

in that way, you're an idiot because you're blood. He has what any of us would want, financial security, in wealth, excess wealth, and he throws it all away, all of it away. But I will say he is being punished more severely because he is black. I'd like your thoughts about that in the chat room at YouTube dot com, forward slash Really Carrell, or down below YouTube or Patreon at patreon dot com forward Slushially Carrell. I gotta think of something nice to do for the patron. I haven't

done anything nice. We should do a call. Let's take a date. I'll send out an email for patrist whether this be or extly away, but I got to think of something else is nice for you guys, because I love you so much. Hey Carrel here, and I'd like to take a moment to thank all the patrons Patreon. Your support means the absolute world to me and the show. If you'd like to show your support for the crazy endeavors of the Corell Cast, then please go to Patreon

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doesn't work. So please listen on all streaming services, watch and subscribe on YouTube, and support the show to Patreon at Patreon dot com, Forward slash really Corel Thanks from with thirty years of support to the loudest, craziest, most unhinged gay guy and his little dog. And let's keep the party going as long as we can. Is America worth the price of admission? If you were at Disneyland? Would you pay to go? You know, I was thinking about that yesterday and this morning again down below in

the comments or in the chatroom. I've already gotten their guesses in the chatroom at YouTube dot com, Forward slash really Carrel and I want to take a poll too. It's ten o'clock a good time. I want to do it the show at the time where most of you can come into the chat room. So it's ten am good for that. Should it be six am or two pm?

Or when can you actually come and watch live? Because that's what I really like and the live has no commercials, so once it put on Patreon, you guys should be watching the live feed at ten am for no commercials. That's why I do it with no commercials. All right, So I just made some notes. I want you to why I want to do this topic. Outside of the orange? How much for the sumo orange, the pound of strawberries, the one pineapple, and the belvida? How much for that

do you think? Dollars and cents? Whoever comes closest, I will give that book to So A home in Marine just sold for fourteen point five million dollars, and it's not some giant palatial thing on one hundred acres. Houses in Las Vegas they start at about three hundred thousand. They go up to thirty million dollars to live in a desert with no water that's overcrowded and turned into

a hot concrete jungle. The average condo in Los Angeles is now at four hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a one bedroom Seattle and San Francisco, New York, Miami, Dallas. Those prices on up five hundred thousand starting and then millions for any place you'd really want to live. My old house, Park Howard on Seventh Street in Long Beach is now one point three million dollars rural America. If you think, well, you don't have to live in a

city rural America, prices have skyrocketed four hundred percent. So if you thought you could move outside of town somewhere into rural America, a house that used to be eighty thousand dollars is now three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, whatever it might be. So what are we paying for exactly? And I still

question who has this kind of money? Why do we keep seeing these houses that are millions of dollars being sold on the cover of newspapers and magazines like the San Francisco Chronicle is terrible about this. They always have their featured property and it's always ten twenty million dollars. The same with La Times. You know you should be showing houses that are two hundred thousand, Well you can't. You can't find them. So the headline reads Camalis Nevada problem.

Things are just so expensive. But is that her fault or Biden's uh? And again is it worth it? Nevada is a desert state. We have extreme temperatures, not much water. Shouldn't things be expensive here? Nothing grows here. Everything's got to be brought here in that. One of the prices to pay for living here, but it all boils down to America is very costly. Cars now start at twenty

five thousand dollars, which are out of reach. People need to do used cars, or they get into these seven year loans seven years to pay for a car, and they end up in line at the food bank. I see countless Tesla's and BMW's in line at the food bank. So they're paying everything for their car and insurance. My insurance was won sixty a month on a car that's worth twenty one hundred dollars. Homes are out of reach. If i'd a known one right now, I couldn't buy one.

Food is skyrocketing as you see. And let's talk about healthcare. Here is my summary from Spring Valley Hospital right here for when glaxosmithscline vaccine for shingles put me in the hospital with meningitis. I didn't ask for it. This was not elective. This was I needed to go in the total balance for three days in the hospital sixty seven thousand, one hundred and fourteen dollars. Now there is no way and they didn't do anything. They did a ct and

an MRI and gave me drugs. That's and a spinal tap, spinal tap, ct MRI eeg on my brain, two blood tests and then just I was there, I supplied my own drugs. They didn't have my drugs, so I brought mine from home so to stay in their hospital and have four tests, a CT, MRI, spinal tap, and EG sixty seven thousand, one hundred and fourteen dollars. No one should have to pay that because no one should be

billed back. That is just an made up figure by a company Spring Valley Medical Center, which is a for profit hospital. And I'm sure they're rolling in the dough. But this is why America is going bankrupt. This is why, right And so you look at this and you say to yourself, is America worth it? Look, I don't want to down America. I like our country. I like the idea of our country. And it's a beautiful country, a beautiful places. California is a gorgeous state. There's many gorgeous states.

Hawaii and Seattle, and you know, or Washington and Oregon are gorgeous and all along the top and even Florida is pretty. I mean, you know, there's lots of beautiful states, but is America worth it? Gun violence is at an all time high, bigotry, division, hatred at an all time high. Education system that's some of the lowest in the world, you know, some of the lowest. Not a for profit college system which puts kids way in debt to get

a higher education, that's not covered, healthcare not covered. What do we get for the price of admission to America? And I mean this roads that are very hard to drive on, and not just that, the gas that we have to put in our car to go driving somewhere is hugely expensive. There's no great public transportation anywhere. We're just now getting around to high speed trains when Japan's had them for thirty years. So what do we get for the price of admission? Freedom? Hardly, hardly. I'm not free.

A woman certainly isn't free. Her body is more regulated than almost anything. What do we get when you pay money to go to Disneyland? You know what you're getting. What do we get for the cost of admission for living in the United States? The greatest education system in the world, No, the greatest healthcare system in the world. No, not only is it not the greatest, but with prices

like that, it's not affordable for the average person. Greatest dental care no, greatest mental health nope, happiness, no health, no clean air, barely clean water, not in many cities. What do we get for all the money that we put in to America? What do we get? Access to the best food? No, we have access to the same

food everybody else has. What do we get? I would love to hear from you in the chatroom at YouTube dot com forward slash really Corell or in patreon dot com forward slashurally corell, where you're gonna like and subscribe all my videos please? In your honest opinion, what do we get? What do we get? Because I don't know. I really don't As a gay man, I don't get equality. I don't get dignity. I don't get many politicians that

actually stand up and fight for me. Yeah, the Democrats, some of them, but no, no one on the other side of the aisle. I get division. I get hatred. I get to worry about being shot. You spend a fortune to put your kids through school, clothes, school supplies, lunches, all of that, and then you have to worry about them getting shot. You go to the grocery store to buy food that's too expensive, and you have to worry about a being poisoned because of all the recalls b

being shot. So what do we get for the price of admission to America? I would be interested to hear your thoughts, because my thoughts are we get ripped off. America is a giant ripoff. You know, in Europe they pay a lot in taxes, but they get a lot back public transportation, nursing care, regular care, paid medical care. And are they in trouble And does the NHS need to be revamped? Yes they are, and yes it does, but they still are getting a level of care. What

are you getting? What do you get for what it cost you to live in America? It seems that all we do in America is make the rich rich. That's see, our purpose is no longer to be happy, healthy Americans. Our purpose is now to be overworked Americans giving all our money back to corporations. We don't even give it to the government. Our taxes are very low. You know, illegal immigrants as people call them undocumented workers, pay about ninety seven billion dollars a year in taxes. You know

that most major corporations pay zero. So the next time you want to pick on a free loader, don't make it an illegal immigrant or an undocumented worker. Make it a corporation. I'm going to check the chat room and see what do you think we get for the price of admission to America? Did he should run for president? Yeah? Why not? I mean he's the same as you know. Fifteen to sixty K isn't the cost. It's the fact that our nep corporate medical system derived nothing from all

the medical technology wasted, including your time. Agree, a guy got an infection and stayed in the hospital for three days. They charged him five hundred thousand dollars because they had to keep taking blood and run other tests. Yes, so they say, you know, I mean really, I think sometimes in the hospital they just do they wake you up at four am, not for your health, but to take blood. That costs five hundred dollars. You know, So what do we get? What did I get for that three days

in the hospital? I mean really it? Well, you got better. I was already on the drugs they gave me. They didn't switch my drug in the hospital. They kept me on the anti viral. I had the drug. All I got was monitored to make sure that it didn't get worse, and that I didn't, you know, get Giane Barre or whatever. So do you feel the price of America is worth? It is a three day hospital stay worth sixty seven thousand, one hundred and fourteen dollars. Is what I bought this morning?

Worth what I paid for at Asumo orange of pineapple, strawberries and belvida. I'll tell you tomorrow how much that was worth. Give you time today to put down in the comments how much it is, and the one that wins it gets closest to it, I'll give that book to Is a car really worth fifty thousand dollars or twenty thousand dollars? You know they have five thousand and

ten thousand dollars electric cars over in China. We can't get them because of taris, because electric car manufacturers in this country said, if you let those be sold in America, then we can't sell our thirty five thousand dollar electric cars, which we could be selling for ten thousand dollars, but we want to make a profit. The same General Motors sells a ten thousand dollars electric car in China, they

could sell it here. They don't on purpose. O Zepic and Wagovie is one hundred and forty dollars a month in Europe, it's twenty seven hundred dollars a month in the United States. Why because they can? And what do you get in return for all of this, for all of your hard work. I would like to hear from you, what do you get in return? A great place you can retire in. I would like to retire in San Francisco. I can't. Well, I'd like to just live there, not

retire there. I'd like to just live and I mean in San Francisco, like by the Presidio or by you know, by Kgo where it used to be down by the wharf. I'd like to live right in that area. I can't. I can't. In fact, as an American, you or I are priced out of most American cities. You and I cannot afford to live in most American cities. And we're Americans. So what do we get for all of our money, division, hatred?

We get a criminal running for president. We get the lowest of the low that we spend fortunes on in Washington, DC, like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and all of them. We get a bad public transportation system. We get a national interstate system that's falling apart. We get public roads in our cities that are constructed poorly, fills the potholes and the concrete in killing us for climates. Hi, Am Carell, I'm like your comments from all of this, see who

you want to be. So didn't hurt you, Boddy. We'll see you tomorrow. Thirty broadcasting from a completely different point of view yours. Listen daily to the Corell Cast on your favorite streaming service

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