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PORK WORM ATE BRAIN; Apple Crushes Creativity? Trump Ever Tried Karel Cast 24-54

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he had a pork worm eat his brain and gave him brain damage. And he wants to be President and calls Biden infirm. How do you know if you have a parasite and how do you get them? And did he really have them. Does Donald Trump? Does #MAGA ? Have they just been eating too much raw bacon?

Donald's Delays are working. He's not going to trial before the election for the biggest of his crimes. Why? Out of control judges that side with him or delay his trials. From the Supreme Court to local judges, they are, in fact, protecting him and treating him differently.

Apple has introduced some pretty cool iPad upgrades, and the commercial that they are using to promote them is causing all kinds of trouble amongst online creators. But is it just fake outrage?

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The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

Tornado outbreaks leave trail of destruction across multiple states; Republicans ban climate change in Florida, just in time for hurricane season; House Republicans' latest salvo in their 'War on Woke Appliances'; PLUS: A shift is underway in how U.S. culture portrays climate reality... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

This time on Code WACK!

With all its apparent advantages, why hasn’t California passed single payer yet? Is organized labor fully in the Medicare-for-All game? Do managed care providers - like Kaiser Permanente - have outsized influence on healthcare reform in the state?

To find out, we spoke to Peter Shapiro, a retired letter carrier and author of Song of the Stubborn One Thousand: the Watsonville Canning Strike (Haymarket Books 2016). He represented his union at the founding conference of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer in 2009 and has been involved with the issue ever since. He currently represents the Alameda Labor Council on the board of Healthy California Now, a single-payer advocacy coalition. This is the second episode in a two-part series with Peter Shapiro.

Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!

MET GALA MEH; Paying for PrEP; Daniels Storms Karel Cast 24-54

The Met Gala, a benefit for the museums costume wing, happened Monday and why do I feel very Hunger Games about it all? $75k tickets. Outfits that cost even more. I used to think it was all just celebrity good fun, but now, in today's world, it just seems…wrong. But why? We talk about it.

Stormy Daniels has spilled the tea, and just big wow. But Old Spice and Pert? I mean, really Donald? Where do you buy your toiletries, Walgreens?

PrEP Therapy, to help people not get HIV, is $2k a month or more. Should insurance companies be forced to pay for a drug that isn't needed? You don't need drugs to not get HIV, just condoms and common sense. So why when people are being denied Chemo, are we paying for this? Is it cost effective?

Watch on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe at YouTube.com/reallykarel @ReallyKarel is all social media and website reallykarel.com

The Karel Cast is heard three times a week on all your favorite streaming services and the video can be seen on Youtube. Karel is a history-making #LGBTQ talk show host currently living in Las Vegas with his pup Ember.

As we watch the unprecedented criminal trial in New York, eyes are also on the Supreme Court, for they will rule in June on the also-unprecedented question of presidential immunity. If SCOTUS rules that Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for acts he made as a private citizen in his post-presidency, we will have crowned a king. And of course, if he wins the November election, the King has already told us—loudly, and in no uncertain terms—how he plans to rule. Here’s a short commentary on the subject of kings and the trull of law. I hope you’ll listen.

Relentless rains trigger widespread floods in Houston and southern Brazil; April 2024 was the hottest April on record, on land and sea; Man-made global warming is supercharging heavy rains across the U.S.; PLUS: President Biden unveils billions in new funding for rural clean energy, and to remove and replace toxic lead water pipes... All that and more in today's Green News Report!