May 8, 2024 • 33 mins
A group wants to put a measure on the ballot that would add a new half cent sales tax in LA County to prevent homelessness. Nathan Hochman had a long Twitter(X) thread on why a suspect was free to shoot a LA County Sheriff's deputy after already being a felon. We're all working with uninspired people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
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regular studio. Yesterday, I was in exile yesterday. Now today
I'm back in the regular studio. And there are seven
television screens.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What do you watch you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, five of them are blank.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, one of them's on a news channel, one of them's.
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On a baseball game. The ones that are off should
be ready by Friday, is what I was. I see.
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I say five blank screens, and I will say those
five new screens are all outside my line of sight
the way my chair is positioned. They're all way off
to the left. But yeah, it's the fun that counts.
It's it's the the good intentions, right, isn't that what
we're told? Well, they had good intentions, well that they
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had good intentions and five screens. In fact, a couple
of them are just blocked by the other computer screens
in front of me or the the in house camera screen.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
You know what, It's better that way because you get
distracted so easily.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In fact, I have let's say one two, But between
our in room camera screens here and the computer screens
there are eleven eleven.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Of Now, wow, that's too much for you.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, no, that is too much. You know I have.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I probably have some version of add.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And she was quick to a great I've been officially
diagnosed by doctor Mark.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
There, Okay, you need medication, but no.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't need medication. But but I'm either hyper focused
or completely lost at c There's only two switches in
my brain, and having eleven screens here sends me lost
at sea because I'm very easily distracted. I'm gonna well,
we got a lot of good stuff today. At one
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thirty what thirty, Like, take some time for this one,
like sit down and listen. You might want to have
a you know, you might want to have a cup
of coffee, maybe in a snack, or maybe you want
to stiff drink. Nathan Hackman, who's running for DA against
George Gascon, posted on x Twitter the story of RAYMONDO Duran.
(02:43):
He's a gang member, has been for decades and he's
the one who shot the Lay County Shriff's deputy Samuel
Spiro in the back in West Covina. And why was
Ramondo Duran on the streets? It is a you know,
I think it'd be too shocked, but by everything Gu's
(03:05):
going is done, everything you've heard that, you really wouldn't
even flinch at one more absurd story. This one will
make you flinch. You really aren't going to believe how
gas go and handle this. And the record, the extensive,
long running record that RAYMONDO Duran has and it allowed
him to be on the streets just to randomly shoot
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Deputy A. Spiro again in the back. It was just
a Spiro was just sitting on on his on his motorcycle,
I think, waiting for a light to change. And there
was no altercation between them, there was no chase, there
was no Duran wasn't being monitored in any way. Wait
till you hear the story. One thirty. I wanted to
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give you some warnings so you could take the time,
and you're probably not working any way at home, so
just take a ten minute break from your break and listen.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, this.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Regis gave me before we started, and I hadn't seen
this this morning because it was in the Whittier Daily
News and we go through dozens new sources and Ray
saw on the Whittier Daily News something which is hard
to believe. In fact, I read it twice and I'm thinking, no,
this can't be. I must be missing something. There is
(04:27):
a petition that was submitted with four hundred and ten
thousand signatures yesterday at the La County Registrar's office. These
four hundred and ten thousand signatures were put together by
a group that wants to get the following measure on
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This would.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
This would add a new half sent sales tax in
Los Angeles County to do what you're saying, to prevent
and reduce homelessness because all the other tax increases have
worked so well, all the other borrowing has worked so well.
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This is known as the Affordable Housing, Homelessness Solutions and
Prevention Now Initiative WOW, and what it wants to do
is replace the quartercent sales tax which is temporary with
a half cent sales tax that will last forever. So
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they want to double the tax and make it last
forever because the quartercent is going to expire in three years. Now,
housing advocates and homeless service providers, you know, all these criminal,
fake nonprofits that are bleeding us out of billions of
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dollars and producing nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They want more money.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They got a big staff, the administrators, the top administrators
make fat six figure salaries plus benefits. And here's the usual.
The money from the tax they say would pay for
things like new affordable housing. Now you know how much
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affordable housing goes for in Los Angeles County. It costs
a million dollars a unit immediate and interim housing. Oh,
look at this mental health and substance abuse treatments for
homeless people. Every few years they make the same claims.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh, we're gonna beell housing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh it's mental health, Oh it's substance abuse, and the
number of homeless people goes up by a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'll now you know something.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
As I was reading this, I notice they actually in
the story, and high up in the story, they printed
all the information about the increase in homelessness in La
County and in La City, and how much money we've
already been taxed in recent years to fix it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm thinking, huh, this is not the La Times,
is it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I checked.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's like, oh, yes, it's the Wittier Daily News, because
the La Times would never publish how much how the
homeless number has gone way up, and how much money
we've already been taxed and how much we borrowed. But
what are your daily News? And I have to credit
the writer here, Lynn tact uh lintact. Now she writes,
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more than seventy five thousand people were homeless in La
County last year. That's up nine percent. The number of
homeless living on the streets is up fourteen percent. The
number of homeless just in La City is up ten
percent year to year. These are one year increases almost
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double digits across the board. Nine percent increase in La County,
ten percent in La City, fourteen percent people living on
the streets. This is after all the money we poured
in in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Give you a quick rundown. Maybe you forgot.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In twenty sixteen, voters in the city of La approved
Prop HHH borrowed one on a quarter billion dollars to
a build affordable housing. The projects have cost way more
and taken much longer to build than many had expected,
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leaving taxpayers frustrated.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The units are going for a million dollars now, it's
taken way too long. We're talking eight years ago. Taxpayers
are frustrated, and so the people who profit off these
taxes say.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hey, can we double the tax? And in La County.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Voters passed Measure H that was the quarter sent sales
tax to raise about three hundred and fifty million a
year for ten years, so that's three and a half
billion dollars. And that was to help homeless people transition
into affordable housing units which never got built and cost
a million dollars a pop. And the people, the criminals
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who run these nonprofits say, well, this time this tax
would come with greater accountability than previous taxes. Ah.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I got to stop for a moment. Well, we're coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You're listening to John cobelt onto Man from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Forty after one point thirty. We are going to I'm
gonna tell you a story. Nathan Hochman posted it today
on social media. The story of RAYMONDO Deran, the gang
member who shot cherf's deputy Samuel Espuro in the back
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in Westcovina last month. Why was he running free? What's
his rap sheet? What has his life been like? Wait
till you hear this story and it leads you to
George Gascone, obviously, because Hawkman's running against Gascon. If if
you only needed to know one story about Gascone to
justify kicking his ass out of office, you could. This
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would be a good This would be a good story
to base your vote on. I'm sure there are even worse,
but this is enough right here. Okay, back to back
to another another tax being proposed for homelessness. Now, we
the idiots in California just passed Governor Newsom's proposition barely,
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but it passed to borrow six billion dollars for homelessness
and drug treatment and.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Mental illness treatment right well now here.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
On top of that, these these criminals in the homeless
industry got four hundred and ten thousand signatures together and
sent them to the La County Registrar's office yesterday to
get this new idea on the ballot for November. The
Affordable Housing Homelessness Solutions and Prevention Now initiative. This would
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replace the temporary quarter set sales tax that funds homeless
programs that don't work and replace it with a new
hal sentid sales tax that's going to last forever. And
we told you that in the county, we passed a
quarter sent sales tax in La that created three and
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a half billion dollars over ten years. Homelessness went up
double digits just last year, okay. And then in this one,
I was in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, the city of
La agreed to borrow a billion and a quarter dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Affordable housing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So between the two that is almost five billion dollars,
almost five billion dollars in La City in La County.
And homelessness went up ten percent in the city, fourteen
percent on the streets of La County, and nine percent
overall just year to year.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So who's proposing this.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, would you believe it's it's people in the homeless
industry who want to make sure their funding doesn't run
out because eventually you borrow the money, but you've borrowed
all you're allowed to and then you're out right or
you have a quarter cent temporary sales tax. Well, that's
going to run out in twenty twenty seven. Let's step
it up here, let's replace it, make it permanent, Let's
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increase it, double it, because that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Tax is going to be doubled. So they have a quote.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
From Ryan Smith, president and CEO of the Saint Joseph Center,
and he says, we need to double this tax and
make it permanent because more homeless people are being housed
now than ever before. But the problem is the number
of people becoming homeless is still outpacing the number that
are being housed.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
In other words, no matter how many.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
People we house, there's even more who show up unhoused.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You like that word.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's their official word, which means more and more people
are moving to LA to get a free home.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's why they keep coming.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well, you know for these kind of people who don't
want to work, I mean most people who are working
these days don't really want to work. Imagine the work
ethic of people who aren't working. And then they hear
oh LA is giving out free houses and this Ryan
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Smith says, this is going to address the issue by
focusing on prevention as well as housing solutions as much
as we're housing people, we need to make sure that
people are not falling into poverty. Well, falling into poverty
means you chose not to work, and you chose to
inject drugs or not take your mental health medication.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That's what you chose to do. Nobody falls into poverty.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You have to dive into poverty under your own power.
Things don't happen to people. People create their circumstances. There
are people who create the circumstances of not taking their
mental health medication, or of taking too many drugs and
not working well.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
When you choose not.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
To work, eventually you end up without a home. But
why should you work if we're giving out free homes.
Here's another one. At least Buick, President and CEO of
the United Way right, they don't have enough money. This
measure is new, bold, and critically important. It'll make sure
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that nearly thirty thousand people receiving housing and services are
not caught off from that critical support and pushed back
into homelessness. If we pass this in twenty sixteen and
twenty seventeen, are those people back to work yet? No,
you're still not working after all these years. Oh, one
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more line, This is my favorite. Service providers who receive
funding under this new measure must meet specific performance goals
because up to now they don't have to. They have
to report how they're spending the money because up until
now they don't, and they have to go undergo annual audits,
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which hasn't existed. Otherwise they get their money taken away.
So with the two propositions we passed seven and eight
years ago, it didn't require any of these criminal nonprofits
to meet performance goals or to report how they're spending
the money and undergo audits. So the money disappeared and
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homelessness shot up double digits. Oh but this time they'll
do it right. You just double our tax and we'll
do it right this time. I don't know what number
or initiative this is going to be on the ballot
or letter or whatever system they're using, but we'll let
you know to vote know on this emphatically, because this
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is these are criminal organizations, these homeless nonprofits.
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Debor Do you know that thirty eight percent of Americans,
according to this poll, never felt more uninspired at work
(18:13):
than they do now. Now, I don't know any uninspired
people at work. I don't know if you've seen any.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Uh not really, I mean this place is so inspiring.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, thirty eight percent must be somewhere else else
not here anyway, We'll tell you about that.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I mean, I'm inspired every day I get to work
on this show.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sure, right, I'm inspired.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
But people apparently or not.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, there's almost forty percent that are uninspired. Maybe we
shouldn't take to the hallways and look for them, yeah,
and identify the uninspired workers.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, I think that maybe if I have a feeling
if we asked for anonymous.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Emails, why they got to be anonymous?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What's your name on it?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Because you know, people don't like.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
To tell the truth and put their name and then they.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Get in trouble and they have you know, it's a
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, we'll talk about it next segment, all right. Nathan
Hackman put out a series of posts on x and
it was about Raymundo Duran. You don't probably don't recognize
his name, but he did something really awful just a
few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He pulled up alongside a.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Sheriff's deputy named Samuel Ipura, La County Sheriff's deputy and
shot him in the back while the deputy was sitting
on his motorcycle. Happened in West Covina. Now Icepurro survived.
He had a pull of proof vest on, but it
was a bulletproof vest getting getting shot in the back
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and caused some injury.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And who is this guy? Ramundo Duran?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well hawkman running against George Gascon tells this story. Now
listen to this carefully and count how many things make
you want to punch your windshield out. Hakman says this
story is based on a review of court records from
three counties dating back more than twenty five years, Duran
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is a dangerous man who should not have been on
the streets to shoot Deputy I Sporrol. Let's start with
July eighth, twenty twenty one. Duran commits a hit and
run resists arrest led police on a dangerous televised pursuit.
Police were forced to intentionally crash crash into Duran's car
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to disable it. Duran then fled on foot, but officers
caught and arrested him. Now let's go through those events again.
Hit and run, resistant arrest, dangerous pursuit, police have to
crash their car. And at the time that Duran was arrested,
he was a four time convicted felon, wanted for a
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parole violation, also a known gang member with a rap
sheet filled with red flags.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Here are some of those flags.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
In nineteen ninety six, he was convicted of domestic violence,
OH sentence to probation with four months in jail, not
much May seventeenth, two thousand and two, Duran was sentenced
to eleven years in prison for manslaughter. He stabbed his
boss to death at a jiffy lubin Azusa. Before accepting
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a plea bargain, Duran claimed he was acting in self defense.
Less than a year later, on April fifteenth, two thousand
and three, Duran commits a felony battery against a guard.
He's in state prison, but he commits felony battery against
the guard identified as Officer Team Madrid at Selina's Valley
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State Prison. Pleads no contest to battery on a correctional
officer and was given four more years in prison. So
let's say we have eleven plus four dating back to
two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He should be in prison until twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Then November two thousand and nine, Durant stabs another prisoner
with a jail made knife a shank in Imperial County.
He pleads guilty to assaulting a prisoner in a matter
likely to cause great bodily injury, and he got another
four years in state prison on top of the fifteen
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he'd already been sentenced to. So now we're looking at
nineteen years. Eventually, though, he gets released on parole and
is returned to Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He violates parole. A warrant was issued.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Now after the police chase because of the parole violation.
Because of his long history of stabbing people, sometimes to death.
George Gascone could have sought a prison sentence Duran was
arrested for the police chase in twenty twenty one. Instead,
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Gascone gave Duran probation in a plea bargain because these
are the orders he gives to is deputy DA's Duran
had faced up to six years in prison for this case,
but he got zero time. One prosecutor described this plea
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bargain as atrocious.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Okay, so what happens.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
On February twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, they arrested Duran
again unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Gascone
agreed to a plea bargain. He only got two years
four months instead of six years. Well, of course he's
let out early. If he got in the six years,
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he wouldn't have been loose to shoot the sheriff's deputy Aspiro.
It's incredible the number of violent crimes he's committed, and
he was out on the streets because of gascon No
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matter how many times they caught him committing another felony
so Hakman reviews the case. You have a gang member
with manslaughter on his record, who assaulted a prison guard,
who stabbed another inmate, who violated parole after his release,
who evaded police in a televised chase, gets arrested with
a loaded firearm. Gascone wouldn't put him away, and so
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he's out on the street and he shoots Deputy Ospuro
in the back. In West Covina, a case closed here.
Why would you give this guy a break? He's got
a rap sheet going back to nineteen ninety six. He's
already killed people, tried to kill a number of people,
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and was succeeded at least once. Do you believe how
evil gascon is? You read this and you know it's enraging.
Your stomach gets sick. Gascone is pure evil. It says
as if the devil manufactured gascon in an evil District
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attorney factory somewhere in Hell and shipped them down here
to ruin the lives of normal people. Gascone is probably
he must have horns growing at the back of his head.
It can't possibly be human. Who the f voted for
him in this county?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
All right, we come back we're all working with uninspired people.
I guess when you have nearly forty percent of Americans
polled saying they have never felt more uninspired than they
do now, not only the uninspired, but it's the most
uninspired they've ever been in their life.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I wonder why.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, it's yeah, I don't know why. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It seems like the pandemic just took the stuffing out
of people. Yeah, hasn't bounced back. I look every day
to see if it's bounced back. Hasn't mess.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
We're inspired, so that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's right, So we will give you our inspirational analysis
why everybody else is uninspired.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Coming up after two o'clock. We did go through some.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Of the testimony late in the show yesterday, but we
have Peter harr Lambas from ABC News, an investigative reporter,
and he is going to give his perspective on Stormy
Daniels graphically describing her night in a hotel room with
Donald Trump. You've probably heard some of this, so that's
(26:57):
an actual recording from that night. That is the sound
it makes, all right, so here's here's there's a website
called study fines and they collect all the scientific studies
and I read it frequently. A lot of them seem
to be nonsense. However, this one, I think underestimates was
going on. According to a recent survey, thirty eight percent
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of Americans have never felt more uninspired at work than
they do now. Thirty eight percent. And they pulled two
thousand people with jobs and said that this lack of
inspiration is directly impacting productivity. Now you want to hear
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this one. You think that's bad? Thirty eight percent, Yes,
I do. There's another thirty eight percent admitted to feeling
only somewhat inspired and productive. Now we're up to seventy
six percent of the country, wow, either somewhat or uninspired.
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Thirty seven percent of those with a work routine think
it's stale, and it's a little higher for people who
work in person. Okay, see, because if you work at home,
you don't have to work, so you don't want.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
To go outside. Right, You have your cell phone, check
your email, You go.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
On walks, bike rides, take swim, if you have a pool.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
You can go have lunch outside.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Set up a bird feeder, watch the birds come out.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, and sixty two percent say that individuals and communities
surrounding their workspace positively influence their productivity. So maybe a
lot of people are coming to empty offices and they're
feeling uninspired because there's nobody to talk to work.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I say, you know, it is a little depressing when
you come in here on a Friday and not a
whole lot of people are here.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Now get this, and this is where like everybody's turned
into toddlers. The survey finds that offices could improve productivity
if they provided in house activity rooms.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
What would we do in those activity rooms?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
To the Trump and Stormy, I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That would be a human relations kind of catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Well, you don't have a safe zone, walking tracks and
other ways for employees to take fitness breaks. It's like
everybody wants to have jimberee, don't they. You can't just
go you could work. I always think my dad going
to the factory for fifty years.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You know, he never.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Needs It's a different time, John.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yes, people don't want me because I'm uninspired today.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'd like to have a walking break.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, I do take walking breaks in between. You know
when the commercials go on just because my legs start hurting.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, that, but they want something more formalized. They want
like a walking track and an activity room.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Imagine that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Imagine I get up in the middle of the show
and just take a walking break.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
We'll see certain jobs you cannot do that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But what if I want a walking break.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Well, but you can't, then you need a different job.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
She can have a walking break because she only does
something every ten minutes. You are continuously engaged. If you
take ten minutes to climb stairs or head outside for
a nature work, that makes you more productive. Standing desks
make you more productive. Seventy percent. Everybody's blaming their work environment.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Well, because you do well.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
A lot of people spend most of their time at work, right,
I said, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Some people.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Some of the most creative ideas come to them in
non work areas. One third of the respondents said they
get their most creative ideas in bed.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Well, if they're like me and they're up all night,
the wheels are turning.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
In a coffee shop at fourteen percent the gym, So
people who spend their gay he's drinking coffee, working out
and laying in bed apparently of the most productive if
given the chance to take more breaks. By the way,
all I see are breaks. I don't see anybody who's
(31:26):
not on break. Uh. They would jump at the opportunity
for snack breaks forty two percent or mental breaks thirty
five percent. So they want a mental break, a snack break,
They want to lie in bed, they want to drink
some coffee, they want to work out of the gym,
they want to have a nature walk, they want to
(31:48):
have an activity room to do god knows what.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
And what's wrong with all those things? I mean, man,
I'd like a job.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Like that where I don't see any time put aside
to actually work and be product No, there's nothing listed here.
Uh this is really really I you know what, five
years ago, I'd never heard of any of this. People
just went to work, and now it's like, uh, can
(32:15):
I have a break. It's like when you go to
story You ever go to service like grocery stores? Do
you ever hear the employees? Yes the register? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh is it time for my break?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
What time is it? I'm going on break? Are you
on break?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Or if you're waiting in a long line, whether it's
a post office or whatever. And you get and you
get to the front of the line, and then somebody
there says, I'm sorry, I'm going on break, and then
you got to go to another line.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Are you kidding me? You can't take one more person?
I've been waiting in this look.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I jump across the desk and start choking him. No,
you're not taking a break.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
That happens so many times.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I know they see, they can tell that you really
want to get your business done.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's like I'm on break now. They look at you. No, no,
they all have a way of staring past you. We're
looking down.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
We have a different you and I seriously have a
different work ethic.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yes, we should pat ourselves on the back because I
don't relate.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I really don't relate anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I know Eric.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Eric has an extremely good workout. Yeah, we come back.
Peter Harlambo's ABC News. He's got his take on the
Stormy Daniels Donald Trump testimony yesterday in New York. Today
it was an off day. Debra Mark live in the
KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
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show live on KFI AM six forty from one to
four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Every day.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're on the radio between one and four in the afternoon,
and then after four o'clock it's on the iHeart app
John Cobelt' show on demand, the podcast, and it's just
what you heard on the radio show. But if you
miss parts of it, you can listen to it and
catch up or listen to it again because it was
just so good. There are Now we're back in our
(00:29):
regular studio. Yesterday, I was in exile yesterday. Now today
I'm back in the regular studio. And there are seven
television screens.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
What do you watch you.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well, five of them are blank.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh, one of them's on a news channel, one of them's.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
On a baseball game. The ones that are off should
be ready by Friday, is what I was. I see.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I say five blank screens, and I will say those
five new screens are all outside my line of sight
the way my chair is positioned. They're all way off
to the left. But yeah, it's the fun that counts.
It's it's the the good intentions, right, isn't that what
we're told? Well, they had good intentions, well that they
(01:13):
had good intentions and five screens. In fact, a couple
of them are just blocked by the other computer screens
in front of me or the the in house camera screen.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
You know what, It's better that way because you get
distracted so easily.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
In fact, I have let's say one two, But between
our in room camera screens here and the computer screens
there are eleven eleven.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Of Now, wow, that's too much for you.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, no, that is too much. You know I have.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I probably have some version of add.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
And she was quick to a great I've been officially
diagnosed by doctor Mark.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
There, Okay, you need medication, but no.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I don't need medication. But but I'm either hyper focused
or completely lost at c There's only two switches in
my brain, and having eleven screens here sends me lost
at sea because I'm very easily distracted. I'm gonna well,
we got a lot of good stuff today. At one
(02:17):
thirty what thirty, Like, take some time for this one,
like sit down and listen. You might want to have
a you know, you might want to have a cup
of coffee, maybe in a snack, or maybe you want
to stiff drink. Nathan Hackman, who's running for DA against
George Gascon, posted on x Twitter the story of RAYMONDO Duran.
(02:43):
He's a gang member, has been for decades and he's
the one who shot the Lay County Shriff's deputy Samuel
Spiro in the back in West Covina. And why was
Ramondo Duran on the streets? It is a you know,
I think it'd be too shocked, but by everything Gu's
(03:05):
going is done, everything you've heard that, you really wouldn't
even flinch at one more absurd story. This one will
make you flinch. You really aren't going to believe how
gas go and handle this. And the record, the extensive,
long running record that RAYMONDO Duran has and it allowed
him to be on the streets just to randomly shoot
(03:26):
Deputy A. Spiro again in the back. It was just
a Spiro was just sitting on on his on his motorcycle,
I think, waiting for a light to change. And there
was no altercation between them, there was no chase, there
was no Duran wasn't being monitored in any way. Wait
till you hear the story. One thirty. I wanted to
(03:47):
give you some warnings so you could take the time,
and you're probably not working any way at home, so
just take a ten minute break from your break and listen.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Now, this.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Regis gave me before we started, and I hadn't seen
this this morning because it was in the Whittier Daily
News and we go through dozens new sources and Ray
saw on the Whittier Daily News something which is hard
to believe. In fact, I read it twice and I'm thinking, no,
this can't be. I must be missing something. There is
(04:27):
a petition that was submitted with four hundred and ten
thousand signatures yesterday at the La County Registrar's office. These
four hundred and ten thousand signatures were put together by
a group that wants to get the following measure on
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This would.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
This would add a new half sent sales tax in
Los Angeles County to do what you're saying, to prevent
and reduce homelessness because all the other tax increases have
worked so well, all the other borrowing has worked so well.
(05:09):
This is known as the Affordable Housing, Homelessness Solutions and
Prevention Now Initiative WOW, and what it wants to do
is replace the quartercent sales tax which is temporary with
a half cent sales tax that will last forever. So
(05:32):
they want to double the tax and make it last
forever because the quartercent is going to expire in three years. Now,
housing advocates and homeless service providers, you know, all these criminal,
fake nonprofits that are bleeding us out of billions of
(05:53):
dollars and producing nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
They want more money.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
They got a big staff, the administrators, the top administrators
make fat six figure salaries plus benefits. And here's the usual.
The money from the tax they say would pay for
things like new affordable housing. Now you know how much
(06:19):
affordable housing goes for in Los Angeles County. It costs
a million dollars a unit immediate and interim housing. Oh,
look at this mental health and substance abuse treatments for
homeless people. Every few years they make the same claims.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh, we're gonna beell housing.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh it's mental health, Oh it's substance abuse, and the
number of homeless people goes up by a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'll now you know something.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
As I was reading this, I notice they actually in
the story, and high up in the story, they printed
all the information about the increase in homelessness in La
County and in La City, and how much money we've
already been taxed in recent years to fix it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And I'm thinking, huh, this is not the La Times,
is it.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I checked.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's like, oh, yes, it's the Wittier Daily News, because
the La Times would never publish how much how the
homeless number has gone way up, and how much money
we've already been taxed and how much we borrowed. But
what are your daily News? And I have to credit
the writer here, Lynn tact uh lintact. Now she writes,
(07:40):
more than seventy five thousand people were homeless in La
County last year. That's up nine percent. The number of
homeless living on the streets is up fourteen percent. The
number of homeless just in La City is up ten
percent year to year. These are one year increases almost
(08:05):
double digits across the board. Nine percent increase in La County,
ten percent in La City, fourteen percent people living on
the streets. This is after all the money we poured
in in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Give you a quick rundown. Maybe you forgot.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In twenty sixteen, voters in the city of La approved
Prop HHH borrowed one on a quarter billion dollars to
a build affordable housing. The projects have cost way more
and taken much longer to build than many had expected,
(08:46):
leaving taxpayers frustrated.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The units are going for a million dollars now, it's
taken way too long. We're talking eight years ago. Taxpayers
are frustrated, and so the people who profit off these
taxes say.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hey, can we double the tax? And in La County.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Voters passed Measure H that was the quarter sent sales
tax to raise about three hundred and fifty million a
year for ten years, so that's three and a half
billion dollars. And that was to help homeless people transition
into affordable housing units which never got built and cost
a million dollars a pop. And the people, the criminals
(09:40):
who run these nonprofits say, well, this time this tax
would come with greater accountability than previous taxes. Ah.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I got to stop for a moment. Well, we're coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
You're listening to John cobelt onto Man from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Forty after one point thirty. We are going to I'm
gonna tell you a story. Nathan Hochman posted it today
on social media. The story of RAYMONDO Deran, the gang
member who shot cherf's deputy Samuel Espuro in the back
(10:22):
in Westcovina last month. Why was he running free? What's
his rap sheet? What has his life been like? Wait
till you hear this story and it leads you to
George Gascone, obviously, because Hawkman's running against Gascon. If if
you only needed to know one story about Gascone to
justify kicking his ass out of office, you could. This
(10:47):
would be a good This would be a good story
to base your vote on. I'm sure there are even worse,
but this is enough right here. Okay, back to back
to another another tax being proposed for homelessness. Now, we
the idiots in California just passed Governor Newsom's proposition barely,
(11:13):
but it passed to borrow six billion dollars for homelessness
and drug treatment and.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Mental illness treatment right well now here.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
On top of that, these these criminals in the homeless
industry got four hundred and ten thousand signatures together and
sent them to the La County Registrar's office yesterday to
get this new idea on the ballot for November. The
Affordable Housing Homelessness Solutions and Prevention Now initiative. This would
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replace the temporary quarter set sales tax that funds homeless
programs that don't work and replace it with a new
hal sentid sales tax that's going to last forever. And
we told you that in the county, we passed a
quarter sent sales tax in La that created three and
(12:14):
a half billion dollars over ten years. Homelessness went up
double digits just last year, okay. And then in this one,
I was in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, the city of
La agreed to borrow a billion and a quarter dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Affordable housing.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So between the two that is almost five billion dollars,
almost five billion dollars in La City in La County.
And homelessness went up ten percent in the city, fourteen
percent on the streets of La County, and nine percent
overall just year to year.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So who's proposing this.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, would you believe it's it's people in the homeless
industry who want to make sure their funding doesn't run
out because eventually you borrow the money, but you've borrowed
all you're allowed to and then you're out right or
you have a quarter cent temporary sales tax. Well, that's
going to run out in twenty twenty seven. Let's step
it up here, let's replace it, make it permanent, Let's
(13:17):
increase it, double it, because that.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Tax is going to be doubled. So they have a quote.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
From Ryan Smith, president and CEO of the Saint Joseph Center,
and he says, we need to double this tax and
make it permanent because more homeless people are being housed
now than ever before. But the problem is the number
of people becoming homeless is still outpacing the number that
are being housed.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
In other words, no matter how many.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
People we house, there's even more who show up unhoused.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You like that word.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That's their official word, which means more and more people
are moving to LA to get a free home.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's why they keep coming.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well, you know for these kind of people who don't
want to work, I mean most people who are working
these days don't really want to work. Imagine the work
ethic of people who aren't working. And then they hear
oh LA is giving out free houses and this Ryan
(14:34):
Smith says, this is going to address the issue by
focusing on prevention as well as housing solutions as much
as we're housing people, we need to make sure that
people are not falling into poverty. Well, falling into poverty
means you chose not to work, and you chose to
inject drugs or not take your mental health medication.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
That's what you chose to do. Nobody falls into poverty.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You have to dive into poverty under your own power.
Things don't happen to people. People create their circumstances. There
are people who create the circumstances of not taking their
mental health medication, or of taking too many drugs and
not working well.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
When you choose not.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
To work, eventually you end up without a home. But
why should you work if we're giving out free homes.
Here's another one. At least Buick, President and CEO of
the United Way right, they don't have enough money. This
measure is new, bold, and critically important. It'll make sure
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that nearly thirty thousand people receiving housing and services are
not caught off from that critical support and pushed back
into homelessness. If we pass this in twenty sixteen and
twenty seventeen, are those people back to work yet? No,
you're still not working after all these years. Oh, one
(16:09):
more line, This is my favorite. Service providers who receive
funding under this new measure must meet specific performance goals
because up to now they don't have to. They have
to report how they're spending the money because up until
now they don't, and they have to go undergo annual audits,
(16:32):
which hasn't existed. Otherwise they get their money taken away.
So with the two propositions we passed seven and eight
years ago, it didn't require any of these criminal nonprofits
to meet performance goals or to report how they're spending
the money and undergo audits. So the money disappeared and
(16:53):
homelessness shot up double digits. Oh but this time they'll
do it right. You just double our tax and we'll
do it right this time. I don't know what number
or initiative this is going to be on the ballot
or letter or whatever system they're using, but we'll let
you know to vote know on this emphatically, because this
(17:19):
is these are criminal organizations, these homeless nonprofits.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
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Debor Do you know that thirty eight percent of Americans,
according to this poll, never felt more uninspired at work
(18:13):
than they do now. Now, I don't know any uninspired
people at work. I don't know if you've seen any.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Uh not really, I mean this place is so inspiring.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, yeah, thirty eight percent must be somewhere else else
not here anyway, We'll tell you about that.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I mean, I'm inspired every day I get to work
on this show.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Sure, right, I'm inspired.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
But people apparently or not.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, there's almost forty percent that are uninspired. Maybe we
shouldn't take to the hallways and look for them, yeah,
and identify the uninspired workers.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, I think that maybe if I have a feeling
if we asked for anonymous.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Emails, why they got to be anonymous?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What's your name on it?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Because you know, people don't like.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
To tell the truth and put their name and then they.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Get in trouble and they have you know, it's a
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, we'll talk about it next segment, all right. Nathan
Hackman put out a series of posts on x and
it was about Raymundo Duran. You don't probably don't recognize
his name, but he did something really awful just a
few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He pulled up alongside a.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Sheriff's deputy named Samuel Ipura, La County Sheriff's deputy and
shot him in the back while the deputy was sitting
on his motorcycle. Happened in West Covina. Now Icepurro survived.
He had a pull of proof vest on, but it
was a bulletproof vest getting getting shot in the back
(19:47):
and caused some injury.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And who is this guy? Ramundo Duran?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Well hawkman running against George Gascon tells this story. Now
listen to this carefully and count how many things make
you want to punch your windshield out. Hakman says this
story is based on a review of court records from
three counties dating back more than twenty five years, Duran
(20:16):
is a dangerous man who should not have been on
the streets to shoot Deputy I Sporrol. Let's start with
July eighth, twenty twenty one. Duran commits a hit and
run resists arrest led police on a dangerous televised pursuit.
Police were forced to intentionally crash crash into Duran's car
(20:37):
to disable it. Duran then fled on foot, but officers
caught and arrested him. Now let's go through those events again.
Hit and run, resistant arrest, dangerous pursuit, police have to
crash their car. And at the time that Duran was arrested,
he was a four time convicted felon, wanted for a
(20:57):
parole violation, also a known gang member with a rap
sheet filled with red flags.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Here are some of those flags.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
In nineteen ninety six, he was convicted of domestic violence,
OH sentence to probation with four months in jail, not
much May seventeenth, two thousand and two, Duran was sentenced
to eleven years in prison for manslaughter. He stabbed his
boss to death at a jiffy lubin Azusa. Before accepting
(21:28):
a plea bargain, Duran claimed he was acting in self defense.
Less than a year later, on April fifteenth, two thousand
and three, Duran commits a felony battery against a guard.
He's in state prison, but he commits felony battery against
the guard identified as Officer Team Madrid at Selina's Valley
(21:49):
State Prison. Pleads no contest to battery on a correctional
officer and was given four more years in prison. So
let's say we have eleven plus four dating back to
two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
He should be in prison until twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Then November two thousand and nine, Durant stabs another prisoner
with a jail made knife a shank in Imperial County.
He pleads guilty to assaulting a prisoner in a matter
likely to cause great bodily injury, and he got another
four years in state prison on top of the fifteen
(22:26):
he'd already been sentenced to. So now we're looking at
nineteen years. Eventually, though, he gets released on parole and
is returned to Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
He violates parole. A warrant was issued.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Now after the police chase because of the parole violation.
Because of his long history of stabbing people, sometimes to death.
George Gascone could have sought a prison sentence Duran was
arrested for the police chase in twenty twenty one. Instead,
(23:05):
Gascone gave Duran probation in a plea bargain because these
are the orders he gives to is deputy DA's Duran
had faced up to six years in prison for this case,
but he got zero time. One prosecutor described this plea
(23:29):
bargain as atrocious.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Okay, so what happens.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
On February twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, they arrested Duran
again unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Gascone
agreed to a plea bargain. He only got two years
four months instead of six years. Well, of course he's
let out early. If he got in the six years,
(23:57):
he wouldn't have been loose to shoot the sheriff's deputy Aspiro.
It's incredible the number of violent crimes he's committed, and
he was out on the streets because of gascon No
(24:18):
matter how many times they caught him committing another felony
so Hakman reviews the case. You have a gang member
with manslaughter on his record, who assaulted a prison guard,
who stabbed another inmate, who violated parole after his release,
who evaded police in a televised chase, gets arrested with
a loaded firearm. Gascone wouldn't put him away, and so
(24:43):
he's out on the street and he shoots Deputy Ospuro
in the back. In West Covina, a case closed here.
Why would you give this guy a break? He's got
a rap sheet going back to nineteen ninety six. He's
already killed people, tried to kill a number of people,
(25:03):
and was succeeded at least once. Do you believe how
evil gascon is? You read this and you know it's enraging.
Your stomach gets sick. Gascone is pure evil. It says
as if the devil manufactured gascon in an evil District
(25:24):
attorney factory somewhere in Hell and shipped them down here
to ruin the lives of normal people. Gascone is probably
he must have horns growing at the back of his head.
It can't possibly be human. Who the f voted for
him in this county?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
All right, we come back we're all working with uninspired people.
I guess when you have nearly forty percent of Americans
polled saying they have never felt more uninspired than they
do now, not only the uninspired, but it's the most
uninspired they've ever been in their life.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I wonder why.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, it's yeah, I don't know why. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It seems like the pandemic just took the stuffing out
of people. Yeah, hasn't bounced back. I look every day
to see if it's bounced back. Hasn't mess.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
We're inspired, so that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's right, So we will give you our inspirational analysis
why everybody else is uninspired.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Coming up after two o'clock. We did go through some.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Of the testimony late in the show yesterday, but we
have Peter harr Lambas from ABC News, an investigative reporter,
and he is going to give his perspective on Stormy
Daniels graphically describing her night in a hotel room with
Donald Trump. You've probably heard some of this, so that's
(26:57):
an actual recording from that night. That is the sound
it makes, all right, so here's here's there's a website
called study fines and they collect all the scientific studies
and I read it frequently. A lot of them seem
to be nonsense. However, this one, I think underestimates was
going on. According to a recent survey, thirty eight percent
(27:21):
of Americans have never felt more uninspired at work than
they do now. Thirty eight percent. And they pulled two
thousand people with jobs and said that this lack of
inspiration is directly impacting productivity. Now you want to hear
(27:44):
this one. You think that's bad? Thirty eight percent, Yes,
I do. There's another thirty eight percent admitted to feeling
only somewhat inspired and productive. Now we're up to seventy
six percent of the country, wow, either somewhat or uninspired.
(28:08):
Thirty seven percent of those with a work routine think
it's stale, and it's a little higher for people who
work in person. Okay, see, because if you work at home,
you don't have to work, so you don't want.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
To go outside. Right, You have your cell phone, check
your email, You go.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
On walks, bike rides, take swim, if you have a pool.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
You can go have lunch outside.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Set up a bird feeder, watch the birds come out.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, and sixty two percent say that individuals and communities
surrounding their workspace positively influence their productivity. So maybe a
lot of people are coming to empty offices and they're
feeling uninspired because there's nobody to talk to work.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
I say, you know, it is a little depressing when
you come in here on a Friday and not a
whole lot of people are here.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Now get this, and this is where like everybody's turned
into toddlers. The survey finds that offices could improve productivity
if they provided in house activity rooms.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
What would we do in those activity rooms?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
To the Trump and Stormy, I guess.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
That would be a human relations kind of catastrophe.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Well, you don't have a safe zone, walking tracks and
other ways for employees to take fitness breaks. It's like
everybody wants to have jimberee, don't they. You can't just
go you could work. I always think my dad going
to the factory for fifty years.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You know, he never.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Needs It's a different time, John.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yes, people don't want me because I'm uninspired today.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'd like to have a walking break.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well, I do take walking breaks in between. You know
when the commercials go on just because my legs start hurting.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, that, but they want something more formalized. They want
like a walking track and an activity room.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Imagine that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Imagine I get up in the middle of the show
and just take a walking break.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
We'll see certain jobs you cannot do that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But what if I want a walking break.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Well, but you can't, then you need a different job.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, that's not fair.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
She can have a walking break because she only does
something every ten minutes. You are continuously engaged. If you
take ten minutes to climb stairs or head outside for
a nature work, that makes you more productive. Standing desks
make you more productive. Seventy percent. Everybody's blaming their work environment.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Well, because you do well.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
A lot of people spend most of their time at work, right,
I said, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Some people.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Some of the most creative ideas come to them in
non work areas. One third of the respondents said they
get their most creative ideas in bed.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Well, if they're like me and they're up all night,
the wheels are turning.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
In a coffee shop at fourteen percent the gym, So
people who spend their gay he's drinking coffee, working out
and laying in bed apparently of the most productive if
given the chance to take more breaks. By the way,
all I see are breaks. I don't see anybody who's
(31:26):
not on break. Uh. They would jump at the opportunity
for snack breaks forty two percent or mental breaks thirty
five percent. So they want a mental break, a snack break,
They want to lie in bed, they want to drink
some coffee, they want to work out of the gym,
they want to have a nature walk, they want to
(31:48):
have an activity room to do god knows what.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
And what's wrong with all those things? I mean, man,
I'd like a job.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Like that where I don't see any time put aside
to actually work and be product No, there's nothing listed here.
Uh this is really really I you know what, five
years ago, I'd never heard of any of this. People
just went to work, and now it's like, uh, can
(32:15):
I have a break. It's like when you go to
story You ever go to service like grocery stores? Do
you ever hear the employees? Yes the register? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh is it time for my break?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
What time is it? I'm going on break? Are you
on break?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Or if you're waiting in a long line, whether it's
a post office or whatever. And you get and you
get to the front of the line, and then somebody
there says, I'm sorry, I'm going on break, and then
you got to go to another line.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Are you kidding me? You can't take one more person?
I've been waiting in this look.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I jump across the desk and start choking him. No,
you're not taking a break.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
That happens so many times.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I know they see, they can tell that you really
want to get your business done.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's like I'm on break now. They look at you. No, no,
they all have a way of staring past you. We're
looking down.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
We have a different you and I seriously have a
different work ethic.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yes, we should pat ourselves on the back because I
don't relate.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I really don't relate anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I know Eric.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Eric has an extremely good workout. Yeah, we come back.
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