October 15, 2024 • 22 mins
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In this episode the ladies discuss recieving their mail-in ballots and the ballot drop boxes that are popping up around town. They also discuss Hurricane Milton and the effects of climate change. Then they break down prop 32 which seeks to raise the minimum wage in california from $16 an hour to $18. Tune in!
In this episode the ladies discuss recieving their mail-in ballots and the ballot drop boxes that are popping up around town. They also discuss Hurricane Milton and the effects of climate change. Then they break down prop 32 which seeks to raise the minimum wage in california from $16 an hour to $18. Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In the Note Podcast, your source for everything that matters
in La.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to the in the Note Podcast. My name
is Kayla. I'm Colette, and we backly backly back the way.
We're so close to election day it's not even funny.
I finally got my belling me too. I started filling
it out.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm still like deciding on a few things, but I
started feeling out, which is very good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I didn't even open it yet, but I got that.
And then the book you were talking about last week,
and I was like, oh my god, I'm actually like
not throwing this away for the first time ever. I
think I'm going a vote in person. I don't know why.
I just like it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did that for the midterms, and it's it's it's
fun because it's like, ooh, I'm voting in person. But
it's also a little anxiety producing because I feel like
even though I had I did all my research beforehand
and I have answers ready, I just still had like
my phone out and I felt like I was cheating.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
On a test. Like I don't know why I had
that vibe that I wasn't about it. I don't know.
I think I will probably vote by mail at the
end of the day, like knowing who I am, but
the idea of going this year just because I don't know.
I feel like I'm more edgy KD in voting now.
I feel like it's my duty to actually go in person,
stand in line, and you know, get my balat. I
don't know, we'll see. And I also like, do you
(01:08):
get the sticker when you you don't get the sticker
when you mail? Yeah, you do. It's in there. It's
in there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I see it, right, It's at the top of like
the little like instruction page.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's in the package that I got. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
People always miss it though, because it is easily missed.
So I used I thought for like two years that
like we didn't get stickers when you voted by mail,
But no, it's in there.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's just you gotta look for it. Okay, Yeah I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's okay, don't get the.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Most important part when they started doing that and if
if those stickers increased voting, like do you think that
that was like a whole campaign that they did, and
then they were like, let's see if we give people
sticker it Sometimes it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Seems like people post it just to like let people know,
like I voted, but like I think maybe it does.
People really willly want that sticker.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's like when you're in kindergarten and you do something
good and you get a little like yellow star sticker,
Like it's that vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, like I did good. I don't have mine.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think I saved this dicker from my first presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
My first one was Trump and Biden, the one I
could first vote in because Trump and Hillary. I was seventeen,
about to turn eighteen, so I missed it by that much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mine was Obama as well, So what a year. It
was a crazy time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I remember I was a college freshman and he came
to our campus.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh and that was wait oh Obama came here? Yeah
wow wow Wait where'd you go? Michigan State?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh yeah, I remember that so vividly and I was
like whoa. And honestly, like that was the first moment
where I was like, Okay, I want to be invested
in involved. There really is something to be said about,
you know, like whennes isn't you with your own eyes
being there those grassroots efforts that get people excited, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know what the heck, guess who spoke at my inauguration?
Who as your inauguration? Yeah, isn't inauguration question to tell us?
I didn't even question. I was like, who tell me?
But what were you thinking of when I said inaugration?
Were okay, Yes, it's a convincement. Guess who spoke at
(03:07):
mine when I graduated in twenty seventeen Liberty University, Hillary,
Uh huh closer? Is no other side other side Trump? Trump? Yeah?
It was a time. Wow, were people like protesting and
there are some people who actually did not like come
(03:28):
at all? You know, mind you. Liberty is a very
conservative school. I went there because I had a cheerleading scholarship.
But yeah, very very conservative and so. But there obviously
are mixed Republicans everybody Democrats at Liberty. And the people
who did not want to see him just didn't show
up to graduation and they didn't walk. Wow, obviously you
(03:49):
still get your diploma. But they were like, there's no
way I'm sitting for this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Like was there any protests or anything, because I remember
like there was like a school a while ago, like
they didn't like their speaker or something with someone political,
and they all like stood up and turned their back
to the stage.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That wasn't that. I don't know. You receive his speech,
we won't talk about it. He's a controversial figure, that's
for sure. Yeah. That's a that's a that's a wow.
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, it's so interesting because, like I feel like Obama
is not as controversial as a figure to have at
your college graduation.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It wasn't graduation. It was just like a rally. Oh
then never mind, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But that's the thing, Like I feel like having rallies.
It's just everything has been so politicized lately, even just
even the idea of a candidate coming for a rally,
that statement has I feel like the weight of it
has changed so much since two thousand and eight when
I first voted for president.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure, it's gotten much more intense. Yeah,
you know they're trying to politicize this Hurricane Milton thing. Really. Yeah,
I've been I don't know if you guys have been watching,
and by the time this comes out, Hurricane Milton will
already have came. But we're let Yeah, I've been watching
the news heavy about all this, and Hurricane Milton is very,
(05:06):
very intense. It's a category like four or five at
this point, it's supposed to really do some damage. But
all people can talk about it seems like it's like
what is Trump thing? What it's to come? You know
what I mean? Like politics, Republican Democrats, Like people's lives
are at stake right now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm texting all my friends who are in Florida. Weirdly enough,
most of them are like, no, I think we're going
to stay, and like from California and like get out
of there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
My brother, My brother is in Florida. I don't know
if he's in the direct impact.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But he is staying as well. And I'm like, make
sure you have a go bag.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Make sure you have He was like, get a carrier
ready to stuff your cat in case you got a run.
But it's it's yeah, it's really it's very impactful. A
lot of people are talking about that, like seven hundred
and fifty dollars that the Biden administration wants to give
to these hurricane victims for immediate relief, and that's kind
of what Kayla was saying, is becoming very politicized. Trump's
(05:59):
talk about it like that's not enough money, and it's
like it's you know it's turned into that when really
it just needs to be about the hurricane and people's
lives and getting people to safety. Yeah, and then afterwards
we can talk about the climate, you know, the climate
issues that have resulted from it, and then start legislature
(06:20):
after that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But I have seen people, I have seen people commenting
too on like where these FEMA funds go. Yeah, I've
seen people politicizing that and if these funds are actually
going towards hurricane victims, or if it's going towards immigration,
or if it's going towards different things. And the White
House actually addressed saying that these FEMA funds that people
raise for hurricanes or for natural disasters go into a
(06:42):
separate Oh that's good, all of money so like, well, yes,
it's all in one FEMA really fund. There's like branches
of it, so when you when you're fundraising for hurricane relief,
all of that money is going towards hurricane relief.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's not going towards other places. That's good.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I'm glad that that was like thought out, and I'm
glad people were asking our government about it and kind
of being like, hey, like, where's this money actually going
that you know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It seems like that's the thing, like accountability has truly
I feel like taking the forefront when it comes to elections,
and it's it's all around, it's on either side, and
I think that's why things are becoming so heightened and
why things are becoming so much different than they were
years ago, because transparency and accountability I feel like are
at the forefront of everyone's mind.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I mean the way social media.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do you remember back in the day on social media,
if you were an influencer, you would go under kind
of like a screen name. Yeah, that like every YouTuber had,
Like I was like a huge like Jenna Marvels. Yeah,
it was like the Lizzy Glam and all these things.
Nobody used their real name. And I remember there was
like a drastic shift when all of those YouTubers ended
up flipping to their real name, and it almost felt like,
(07:47):
oh my god, Like there's this level of transparency that
we haven't had before because the internet was a little
bit more of like a private place where you just
like create and like leave the creation like where it was.
But now just just the way our culture is, the
way the Internet has moved, the way information has been disseminated.
There is this desire, this innate desire and almost this
(08:11):
like push for a level of accountability that I don't
think that we've seen any other time.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And that's what I think is so great.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Honestly, sometimes I think like we're a little too transparent
about stuff, Like we used to like not share like
who we voted for and stuff like that, and now
we do. I think that's good, but now it's like, Okay,
celebrities like tell us you're voting.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
For it, and demand there's a demand now and it's
a little different.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And so while in situations with like celebrities and stuff,
I don't think it's necessarily needed. I do, however, love
that we're going to our government and saying, give us
the transparency, give us like what exactly where this money
is going, exactly what's happening. And in that case it's
really good. So I mean, yeah, good and bad with everything,
but there is a line.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's like you want the accountability to know, like we
want the transparency to know where things are going. But
this level of accountability of like having everyone comment on
every issue, like that's not needed, but like yeah, but yes,
like that with this whole disaster thing. It's like the
focus like let's get through the disaster first, and then
we can't talk about like where you stand on these things.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's like our focus should be on like.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Solving like the most pertinent issue at which would be
relief for.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
People exactly, Like seven hundred and fifty dollars Trump is right,
is not that much money. It is for immediate relief.
I do want to say that, like, but it's better
than nothing. Get them the money, really good. Just get
them something to help them out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah. So yeah, all that's to say, it's just very
very sad. I don't know. One last thing. I don't
know if you guys have been on TikTok and heard
of Lieutenant Dan, this guy who lives on a boat.
He's homeless, he's a former veteran, right, and he lives
on a boat and he refuses to leave his boat.
He's like, this is all I have. God told me
(09:49):
that I am supposed to be on this boat. Like
I'm gonna be good. He's like the boat, the boat's uh,
you know, it's just gonna rise with the water, it's
gonna float, and I'm gonna be fine. And everybody has
been like donating clothes and money and even offer to,
you know, buy him a hotel room so that he
can like leave, yeah, because the wind is going to
be crazy, oh my gosh. But he's like he refuses,
(10:10):
and they let.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The water level itself like that, but be floating down
like random streets and stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So I'm really invested in his story. Hopefully hopefully he
makes it. Hopefully he makes it. But it's a lot
going on. But like, of course you can donate if
you want to help out. I know the American Red
Cross has a lot of places where you can donate
and stuff like that. So just yeah, like look online
and see where you can donate. But it's just all
really sad and just prayers for everybody in Florida. I
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don't know if y'all saw, but the other day the
ballot drop boxes they just started popping up all over
the place. So you can look online. I think I
KISSFM dot com slash in the no, I'll put exactly
like where you can find a specific ballot drop off whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But it feels like little sims popping around like, oh,
like the boxes.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I can't be dropping mine in there, so see
me and San Gabriel looking at the ball just be like,
where am I going to drop it off?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh my gosh. All right, So getting into proposition thirty two,
that is going to be on your November ballot. So
increasing minimum wage is basically the bottom line. Sixts to
increase California's minimum wage, which is currently at sixteen dollars
per hour. So here are the specifics. Employers with twenty
six or more employees would pay seventeen dollars hourly for
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the rest of twenty twenty four, and then eighteen dollars
an hour beginning January first, twenty twenty five. Employers with
twenty five or fewer employees would have a minimum wage
of seventeen dollars an hour. So you can vote yes,
you can vote no. Me personally yes, same here, I'm yes.
I'm totally for this.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
A lot of the labor groups are supporting this measure,
and many say it's not as high of a minimum
wage as we'd like, but it's a step in the
right direction and this would Sandberg estimates that this would
give raises to two million workers statewide who have not
benefited from industry specific rates or don't live in cities
that require a higher wage, So supporters also argue that
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the money would help families afford basic needs, which lord
knows a lot of Californians need, just because the prices
are going up with everything else and our wages are
staying the same. We can't afford if the prices are
going way way up and we stay at the same
income rate.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's really good, let's see here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Supporters also argue that the money would help Okay already
said that it would also help reduce low income Californian's
use of taxpayer provided benefits, and UC Berkeley has found
that California's gradual increase to fifteen dollars had no.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Significant effect on job losses.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So a lot of like people are saying, oh, the
job losses, like people will get you know, they won't
pay as many people because everyone is getting paid higher.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So that's actually it's not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Statistically significant with people losing their jobs, so it's worth
it for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You're talking about costs in cost of living raising well,
that is one of the things that people who are
against this say, We're gonna see higher costs if the
cost for production and the cost for labor goes up
due to the rate the weight is raising, we as
the consumers, are gonna bear that cost. So that is
one of the things one of the arguments against raising
this minimum wage. Also, like you said, fewer jobs are,
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reduction of available work hours for employees are what some
people who are against this also say as well. They
also say that it was like one billionaire who drafted
this bill. There's a lot of loopholes in it, a
lot of just just not necessarily the greatest of language
in it. So they're not so sure that the way
that this bill was drafted it's gonna be beneficial. They
say that market, not politicians, not bureaucrats, should be dictating
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the financial growth and success of the state of California.
So they say, let the market dictate. Let's stop sending
the message that mediocrity is a pathway to professional success
in California.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So let me make sure I got this right. What
they're saying is if they pay the employees more, So
let's take like fast food workers, because I know that's
been a huge topic lately, it's fast food workers in
the industry, if they pay them more, they're saying that
we suffer because the peper the cost, because the prices
go up. And that is true, honestly, because it was
just in the news a couple of months ago. How
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McDonald's and all them, like Burger King, like the prices
are not they not a dollar no more, you know?
And is that because we are they're trying to pay
more people.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's what they're saying by letting the market dictate.
So when they say, really like a delicate balance of
like what's causing what the cost of living is raising?
So do you raise wages to match the cost of
living or do you keep wages the same and then
that way the cost of living maybe over time decreases
because we're not footing the bill for those increase wages.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
When they say let the market decide, I really don't
like that because all that like they they will use
any excuse to not pay people what they deserve. Yeah,
like they they took so long to pay fast food
workers twenty dollars an hour and that is what they
should be being paid because they do a lot of
manual frickin' labor and they are like, oh, well, now
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we have to raise the prices. It's like, no, you
can take like we can take some money out of
the CEO's pocket. Personally, I think that's the CEOs are
getting paid way too much and they're not doing as
much work as the floor workers are doing. And so
if like a two dollars frickin' increase is that big
of a deal that all the prices are going to
go up, I think that's the whole I.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Need to exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Like, I just I don't really understand the correlation, And
maybe we can get an expert on to talk about this.
Maybe it's like some big economic thing that I just
don't understand, But I really I think it's just an
excuse to not pay people what they deserve, and personally,
like that's why I'm a little with The people that
are against this bill are like, you know, the National
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Federation of Independent Businesses. Of course, you know, independent businesses
aren't gonna want to pay their people more because then
that's going to be taking money out of their pocket.
But those people deserve to be paid more. The California
Republican Party, the Taxpayers Association, Howard Jarvis's, the California Chamber
of Converse, the California Restaurant Association, Like a lot of
these people would only like they think that they would
lose money by paying people more.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But I honestly, I.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Think that's where you see it the most is in
restaurants because those business owners, you know, I feel like
restauranting is such a crazy industry to make a profit anyway.
And I do feel like those criticisms I hear in
the restaurant industry the most. Where the wages raise, so
that means all of the prices on that menu are
going to be going up. That's where I've seen, I
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think the most changed. So it would be interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Also in restaurants, it's like I feel like they never
pay like waitresses or waiters like enough money because they're like,
oh the tips, right, tips?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm like, why am I expecting to put the bill on?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You should be paying your employees a living wage and
then I will tip if they do a great job,
Like that's how it should be.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Personally, I like a fundamental issue. I feel like where
like why are we raising the minimums? Why aren't we
like setting ceilings on the maximums? Yes for CEOs, like
maybe the distribution of wealth needs to be changed, but
h this current moment, the way our system is set up.
But yeah, about the minimum wave.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
But that's why that that's why that they don't want
like they they're they're raising the prices, but sorry, they're
paying people more. And so they're raising the prices because
they're like, well, this is what happens when when we
want to pay our employees more. I'm like, how about
you just take a little bit out of your budget
and then.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Look at that because it's all about problem solved, right, Yeah,
so they're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No profit line starts to shrink, they check the prices up.
You know what makes me sad, like and always has,
how essential workers who work so hard every single day
get like the minimum amount of money. But then you
have like these athletes and like movie stars making millions
and millions of dollars. And I know, like when it
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comes to media and royalties and all that stuff, that's
why they make millions of dollars. But it just doesn't
seem fair to me that firefighters and uh, you know
teachers just make so little money. Well, yeah, play football
makes you a billionaire. I don't you get it. I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I mean, thank God for unions, right, because it's those
union workers, it's those those teachers, those firefighters, those those
essential workers that are doing the things like there is
no like, imagine if all of our teachers just quit
went on strike.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'mastered, if all the McDonald's workers went on strike and
just went away, Like those are I feel like those
are just as essential as like if if you suddenly
couldn't get your Starbucks order, they would.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Be in shambles. Unionized recently they did.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, and so it's like I feel like it's just
like it's so these professions are important, and they always
kind of look at these professions like, oh, it's just
a high school job.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's just whatever, it's just a barista.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
But this is these are careers for people like you
meet people in this position.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Otherwise, you so much about yourself, about the world, about
people around you by working jobs where you're interfacing with
people from all walks of life. Yeah, like truly, you
get no other type of education than if you work
a retail job, if you work a restaurant job, Like truly,
you learn so much about the world. I don't know
if you guys have ever any of those kind of jobs,
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but just just the I worked at Panera, Yeah, like
the sociology, Like I truly think everyone like college is great, right,
but I also think everyone should get like a real
world experience of working at nine to five, not no,
not even a nine to five like a shift job
where it's customer facing or customer service or something where
you're like doing something in the public, just because you
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learn so much about the way people are in these
kind of roles and the way people interface with each other.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And you learn a lot of patience too. Yeah, I
feel like it's like a vital thing that we need.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But also if someone like, sorry, if someone like those
jobs are important and it's not just like teenagers and
like people in their early twenties doing these jobs.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
People are in their thirties and forties. This is their career.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
This is I know I already said this, but it's
just like it's such it's so important, and like I
hate when people are like, oh, just it's just a
part time gig, it's just a part of It's like, no,
this is a job.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That deserves more than the minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Personally, I feel like we're always like straying away from
humanity lately, you know what I mean, like just giving
people grace and extending the fact that like that's that's
not just like a number, right, like minimum wage of like,
that's not just like a number.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's like a person. That's their salary, that's their livelihood
that they make, that's how they eat, that's how they
take care of their kids, how they pay rent. And
we live in California. It is so expensive and this
would be this would help a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I think, yeah, I do. I would love to get
like an economist on here though, to talk about how
that fluctuates, because there is a point, you know what
I mean. We ideally, right, raising the minimum wage would
be a win because that immediate impact of like, oh
my god, I'm making two more dollars an hour, Like
that immediate impact would be so beneficial, like you said,
but what's like the down the line impact, right? And
(20:45):
that down the line isn't you know, twenty years Downloe,
that's like six months down the line? Are we going
to see these prices increase? And is that actually going
to make our cost of living harder to keep up with?
Because is the is the inflation rate that we're going
to see greater than that two dollars raise? So that's
kind of where that line is. Toad and That's why
I'd be so great to have someone who knows economics
to talk.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Maybe we can try to get somebody next.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's a very complished, it's such a hard like like
I people I know, the people who are economics majors
in college were like the smartest people.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Like they're like, it's such a hard topic. But it
also kind of is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Like I said that that study of humanity lets supply
and demand right to see, like where where things are
shifting and where things are moving and spending habits the
way people. You know, I feel like our spending habits
have changed so much. I mean, I'm so influenced easily
on TikTok to buy some I see someone using it
one time, I'm like, oh my god, that looks so great.
Oh yes, I almost on an eight dollars sunlight lamp
last night because I was scrolling and I was bored
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and like, I don't know. I think consumer consumer habits
are crazy to study, and just.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The way that we could be so easily.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Influenced just by the scroll on your phone, like where
they're putting ads and where people are spending their money.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's crazy to see. Yeah, well it's going to be
on your ballot. Vote yes or no. It's up to you. Uh,
we got to get out of here. But yeah, that
was proposition thirty two. I like the and we appreciate
you so much for hanging out and listening. And I
hope you got your ballot in the mail. Yeah, start voting,
girls and boys. Yeah, my name is Kayla. You can
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find me at Kayla Thomas forty. I'm Coola. You can
find me at Kola Underscore Huber and you can find
me my name is Emily at It's Emily Score. We
will talk to you next week. See ninety
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to the in the Note Podcast. My name
is Kayla. I'm Colette, and we backly backly back the way.
We're so close to election day it's not even funny.
I finally got my belling me too. I started filling
it out.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm still like deciding on a few things, but I
started feeling out, which is very good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I didn't even open it yet, but I got that.
And then the book you were talking about last week,
and I was like, oh my god, I'm actually like
not throwing this away for the first time ever. I
think I'm going a vote in person. I don't know why.
I just like it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I did that for the midterms, and it's it's it's
fun because it's like, ooh, I'm voting in person. But
it's also a little anxiety producing because I feel like
even though I had I did all my research beforehand
and I have answers ready, I just still had like
my phone out and I felt like I was cheating.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
On a test. Like I don't know why I had
that vibe that I wasn't about it. I don't know.
I think I will probably vote by mail at the
end of the day, like knowing who I am, but
the idea of going this year just because I don't know.
I feel like I'm more edgy KD in voting now.
I feel like it's my duty to actually go in person,
stand in line, and you know, get my balat. I
don't know, we'll see. And I also like, do you
(01:08):
get the sticker when you you don't get the sticker
when you mail? Yeah, you do. It's in there. It's
in there.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I see it, right, It's at the top of like
the little like instruction page.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's in the package that I got. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
People always miss it though, because it is easily missed.
So I used I thought for like two years that
like we didn't get stickers when you voted by mail,
But no, it's in there.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's just you gotta look for it. Okay, Yeah I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's okay, don't get the.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Most important part when they started doing that and if
if those stickers increased voting, like do you think that
that was like a whole campaign that they did, and
then they were like, let's see if we give people
sticker it Sometimes it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Seems like people post it just to like let people know,
like I voted, but like I think maybe it does.
People really willly want that sticker.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's like when you're in kindergarten and you do something
good and you get a little like yellow star sticker,
Like it's that vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, like I did good. I don't have mine.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I think I saved this dicker from my first presidential election.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah. Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
My first one was Trump and Biden, the one I
could first vote in because Trump and Hillary. I was seventeen,
about to turn eighteen, so I missed it by that much.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mine was Obama as well, So what a year. It
was a crazy time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I remember I was a college freshman and he came
to our campus.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh and that was wait oh Obama came here? Yeah
wow wow Wait where'd you go? Michigan State?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh yeah, I remember that so vividly and I was
like whoa. And honestly, like that was the first moment
where I was like, Okay, I want to be invested
in involved. There really is something to be said about,
you know, like whennes isn't you with your own eyes
being there those grassroots efforts that get people excited, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know what the heck, guess who spoke at my inauguration?
Who as your inauguration? Yeah, isn't inauguration question to tell us?
I didn't even question. I was like, who tell me?
But what were you thinking of when I said inaugration?
Were okay, Yes, it's a convincement. Guess who spoke at
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mine when I graduated in twenty seventeen Liberty University, Hillary,
Uh huh closer? Is no other side other side Trump? Trump? Yeah?
It was a time. Wow, were people like protesting and
there are some people who actually did not like come
(03:28):
at all? You know, mind you. Liberty is a very
conservative school. I went there because I had a cheerleading scholarship.
But yeah, very very conservative and so. But there obviously
are mixed Republicans everybody Democrats at Liberty. And the people
who did not want to see him just didn't show
up to graduation and they didn't walk. Wow, obviously you
(03:49):
still get your diploma. But they were like, there's no
way I'm sitting for this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Like was there any protests or anything, because I remember
like there was like a school a while ago, like
they didn't like their speaker or something with someone political,
and they all like stood up and turned their back
to the stage.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That wasn't that. I don't know. You receive his speech,
we won't talk about it. He's a controversial figure, that's
for sure. Yeah. That's a that's a that's a wow.
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, it's so interesting because, like I feel like Obama
is not as controversial as a figure to have at
your college graduation.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It wasn't graduation. It was just like a rally. Oh
then never mind, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But that's the thing, Like I feel like having rallies.
It's just everything has been so politicized lately, even just
even the idea of a candidate coming for a rally,
that statement has I feel like the weight of it
has changed so much since two thousand and eight when
I first voted for president.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah. Oh yeah, for sure, it's gotten much more intense. Yeah,
you know they're trying to politicize this Hurricane Milton thing. Really. Yeah,
I've been I don't know if you guys have been watching,
and by the time this comes out, Hurricane Milton will
already have came. But we're let Yeah, I've been watching
the news heavy about all this, and Hurricane Milton is very,
(05:06):
very intense. It's a category like four or five at
this point, it's supposed to really do some damage. But
all people can talk about it seems like it's like
what is Trump thing? What it's to come? You know
what I mean? Like politics, Republican Democrats, Like people's lives
are at stake right now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm texting all my friends who are in Florida. Weirdly enough,
most of them are like, no, I think we're going
to stay, and like from California and like get out
of there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
My brother, My brother is in Florida. I don't know
if he's in the direct impact.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But he is staying as well. And I'm like, make
sure you have a go bag.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Make sure you have He was like, get a carrier
ready to stuff your cat in case you got a run.
But it's it's yeah, it's really it's very impactful. A
lot of people are talking about that, like seven hundred
and fifty dollars that the Biden administration wants to give
to these hurricane victims for immediate relief, and that's kind
of what Kayla was saying, is becoming very politicized. Trump's
(05:59):
talk about it like that's not enough money, and it's
like it's you know it's turned into that when really
it just needs to be about the hurricane and people's
lives and getting people to safety. Yeah, and then afterwards
we can talk about the climate, you know, the climate
issues that have resulted from it, and then start legislature
(06:20):
after that.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But I have seen people, I have seen people commenting
too on like where these FEMA funds go. Yeah, I've
seen people politicizing that and if these funds are actually
going towards hurricane victims, or if it's going towards immigration,
or if it's going towards different things. And the White
House actually addressed saying that these FEMA funds that people
raise for hurricanes or for natural disasters go into a
(06:42):
separate Oh that's good, all of money so like, well, yes,
it's all in one FEMA really fund. There's like branches
of it, so when you when you're fundraising for hurricane relief,
all of that money is going towards hurricane relief.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's not going towards other places. That's good.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I'm glad that that was like thought out, and I'm
glad people were asking our government about it and kind
of being like, hey, like, where's this money actually going
that you know.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It seems like that's the thing, like accountability has truly
I feel like taking the forefront when it comes to elections,
and it's it's all around, it's on either side, and
I think that's why things are becoming so heightened and
why things are becoming so much different than they were
years ago, because transparency and accountability I feel like are
at the forefront of everyone's mind.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I mean the way social media.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Do you remember back in the day on social media,
if you were an influencer, you would go under kind
of like a screen name. Yeah, that like every YouTuber had,
Like I was like a huge like Jenna Marvels. Yeah,
it was like the Lizzy Glam and all these things.
Nobody used their real name. And I remember there was
like a drastic shift when all of those YouTubers ended
up flipping to their real name, and it almost felt like,
(07:47):
oh my god, Like there's this level of transparency that
we haven't had before because the internet was a little
bit more of like a private place where you just
like create and like leave the creation like where it was.
But now just just the way our culture is, the
way the Internet has moved, the way information has been disseminated.
There is this desire, this innate desire and almost this
(08:11):
like push for a level of accountability that I don't
think that we've seen any other time.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And that's what I think is so great.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Honestly, sometimes I think like we're a little too transparent
about stuff, Like we used to like not share like
who we voted for and stuff like that, and now
we do. I think that's good, but now it's like, Okay,
celebrities like tell us you're voting.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
For it, and demand there's a demand now and it's
a little different.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And so while in situations with like celebrities and stuff,
I don't think it's necessarily needed. I do, however, love
that we're going to our government and saying, give us
the transparency, give us like what exactly where this money
is going, exactly what's happening. And in that case it's
really good. So I mean, yeah, good and bad with everything,
but there is a line.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's like you want the accountability to know, like we
want the transparency to know where things are going. But
this level of accountability of like having everyone comment on
every issue, like that's not needed, but like yeah, but yes,
like that with this whole disaster thing. It's like the
focus like let's get through the disaster first, and then
we can't talk about like where you stand on these things.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's like our focus should be on like.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Solving like the most pertinent issue at which would be
relief for.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
People exactly, Like seven hundred and fifty dollars Trump is right,
is not that much money. It is for immediate relief.
I do want to say that, like, but it's better
than nothing. Get them the money, really good. Just get
them something to help them out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah. So yeah, all that's to say, it's just very
very sad. I don't know. One last thing. I don't
know if you guys have been on TikTok and heard
of Lieutenant Dan, this guy who lives on a boat.
He's homeless, he's a former veteran, right, and he lives
on a boat and he refuses to leave his boat.
He's like, this is all I have. God told me
(09:49):
that I am supposed to be on this boat. Like
I'm gonna be good. He's like the boat, the boat's uh,
you know, it's just gonna rise with the water, it's
gonna float, and I'm gonna be fine. And everybody has
been like donating clothes and money and even offer to,
you know, buy him a hotel room so that he
can like leave, yeah, because the wind is going to
be crazy, oh my gosh. But he's like he refuses,
(10:10):
and they let.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The water level itself like that, but be floating down
like random streets and stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So I'm really invested in his story. Hopefully hopefully he
makes it. Hopefully he makes it. But it's a lot
going on. But like, of course you can donate if
you want to help out. I know the American Red
Cross has a lot of places where you can donate
and stuff like that. So just yeah, like look online
and see where you can donate. But it's just all
really sad and just prayers for everybody in Florida. I
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don't know if y'all saw, but the other day the
ballot drop boxes they just started popping up all over
the place. So you can look online. I think I
KISSFM dot com slash in the no, I'll put exactly
like where you can find a specific ballot drop off whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But it feels like little sims popping around like, oh,
like the boxes.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I can't be dropping mine in there, so see
me and San Gabriel looking at the ball just be like,
where am I going to drop it off?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh my gosh. All right, So getting into proposition thirty two,
that is going to be on your November ballot. So
increasing minimum wage is basically the bottom line. Sixts to
increase California's minimum wage, which is currently at sixteen dollars
per hour. So here are the specifics. Employers with twenty
six or more employees would pay seventeen dollars hourly for
(11:23):
the rest of twenty twenty four, and then eighteen dollars
an hour beginning January first, twenty twenty five. Employers with
twenty five or fewer employees would have a minimum wage
of seventeen dollars an hour. So you can vote yes,
you can vote no. Me personally yes, same here, I'm yes.
I'm totally for this.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
A lot of the labor groups are supporting this measure,
and many say it's not as high of a minimum
wage as we'd like, but it's a step in the
right direction and this would Sandberg estimates that this would
give raises to two million workers statewide who have not
benefited from industry specific rates or don't live in cities
that require a higher wage, So supporters also argue that
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the money would help families afford basic needs, which lord
knows a lot of Californians need, just because the prices
are going up with everything else and our wages are
staying the same. We can't afford if the prices are
going way way up and we stay at the same
income rate.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's really good, let's see here.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Supporters also argue that the money would help Okay already
said that it would also help reduce low income Californian's
use of taxpayer provided benefits, and UC Berkeley has found
that California's gradual increase to fifteen dollars had no.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Significant effect on job losses.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
So a lot of like people are saying, oh, the
job losses, like people will get you know, they won't
pay as many people because everyone is getting paid higher.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So that's actually it's not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Statistically significant with people losing their jobs, so it's worth
it for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You're talking about costs in cost of living raising well,
that is one of the things that people who are
against this say, We're gonna see higher costs if the
cost for production and the cost for labor goes up
due to the rate the weight is raising, we as
the consumers, are gonna bear that cost. So that is
one of the things one of the arguments against raising
this minimum wage. Also, like you said, fewer jobs are,
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reduction of available work hours for employees are what some
people who are against this also say as well. They
also say that it was like one billionaire who drafted
this bill. There's a lot of loopholes in it, a
lot of just just not necessarily the greatest of language
in it. So they're not so sure that the way
that this bill was drafted it's gonna be beneficial. They
say that market, not politicians, not bureaucrats, should be dictating
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the financial growth and success of the state of California.
So they say, let the market dictate. Let's stop sending
the message that mediocrity is a pathway to professional success
in California.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So let me make sure I got this right. What
they're saying is if they pay the employees more, So
let's take like fast food workers, because I know that's
been a huge topic lately, it's fast food workers in
the industry, if they pay them more, they're saying that
we suffer because the peper the cost, because the prices
go up. And that is true, honestly, because it was
just in the news a couple of months ago. How
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McDonald's and all them, like Burger King, like the prices
are not they not a dollar no more, you know?
And is that because we are they're trying to pay
more people.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's what they're saying by letting the market dictate.
So when they say, really like a delicate balance of
like what's causing what the cost of living is raising?
So do you raise wages to match the cost of
living or do you keep wages the same and then
that way the cost of living maybe over time decreases
because we're not footing the bill for those increase wages.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
When they say let the market decide, I really don't
like that because all that like they they will use
any excuse to not pay people what they deserve. Yeah,
like they they took so long to pay fast food
workers twenty dollars an hour and that is what they
should be being paid because they do a lot of
manual frickin' labor and they are like, oh, well, now
(15:00):
we have to raise the prices. It's like, no, you
can take like we can take some money out of
the CEO's pocket. Personally, I think that's the CEOs are
getting paid way too much and they're not doing as
much work as the floor workers are doing. And so
if like a two dollars frickin' increase is that big
of a deal that all the prices are going to
go up, I think that's the whole I.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Need to exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Like, I just I don't really understand the correlation, And
maybe we can get an expert on to talk about this.
Maybe it's like some big economic thing that I just
don't understand, But I really I think it's just an
excuse to not pay people what they deserve, and personally,
like that's why I'm a little with The people that
are against this bill are like, you know, the National
(15:43):
Federation of Independent Businesses. Of course, you know, independent businesses
aren't gonna want to pay their people more because then
that's going to be taking money out of their pocket.
But those people deserve to be paid more. The California
Republican Party, the Taxpayers Association, Howard Jarvis's, the California Chamber
of Converse, the California Restaurant Association, Like a lot of
these people would only like they think that they would
lose money by paying people more.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But I honestly, I.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Think that's where you see it the most is in
restaurants because those business owners, you know, I feel like
restauranting is such a crazy industry to make a profit anyway.
And I do feel like those criticisms I hear in
the restaurant industry the most. Where the wages raise, so
that means all of the prices on that menu are
going to be going up. That's where I've seen, I
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think the most changed. So it would be interesting to see.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Also in restaurants, it's like I feel like they never
pay like waitresses or waiters like enough money because they're like,
oh the tips, right, tips?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm like, why am I expecting to put the bill on?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You should be paying your employees a living wage and
then I will tip if they do a great job,
Like that's how it should be.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Personally, I like a fundamental issue. I feel like where
like why are we raising the minimums? Why aren't we
like setting ceilings on the maximums? Yes for CEOs, like
maybe the distribution of wealth needs to be changed, but
h this current moment, the way our system is set up.
But yeah, about the minimum wave.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
But that's why that that's why that they don't want
like they they're they're raising the prices, but sorry, they're
paying people more. And so they're raising the prices because
they're like, well, this is what happens when when we
want to pay our employees more. I'm like, how about
you just take a little bit out of your budget
and then.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Look at that because it's all about problem solved, right, Yeah,
so they're not going to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No profit line starts to shrink, they check the prices up.
You know what makes me sad, like and always has,
how essential workers who work so hard every single day
get like the minimum amount of money. But then you
have like these athletes and like movie stars making millions
and millions of dollars. And I know, like when it
(17:40):
comes to media and royalties and all that stuff, that's
why they make millions of dollars. But it just doesn't
seem fair to me that firefighters and uh, you know
teachers just make so little money. Well, yeah, play football
makes you a billionaire. I don't you get it. I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I mean, thank God for unions, right, because it's those
union workers, it's those those teachers, those firefighters, those those
essential workers that are doing the things like there is
no like, imagine if all of our teachers just quit
went on strike.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I'mastered, if all the McDonald's workers went on strike and
just went away, Like those are I feel like those
are just as essential as like if if you suddenly
couldn't get your Starbucks order, they would.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Be in shambles. Unionized recently they did.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, and so it's like I feel like it's just
like it's so these professions are important, and they always
kind of look at these professions like, oh, it's just
a high school job.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It's just whatever, it's just a barista.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
But this is these are careers for people like you
meet people in this position.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Otherwise, you so much about yourself, about the world, about
people around you by working jobs where you're interfacing with
people from all walks of life. Yeah, like truly, you
get no other type of education than if you work
a retail job, if you work a restaurant job, Like truly,
you learn so much about the world. I don't know
if you guys have ever any of those kind of jobs,
(19:01):
but just just the I worked at Panera, Yeah, like
the sociology, Like I truly think everyone like college is great, right,
but I also think everyone should get like a real
world experience of working at nine to five, not no,
not even a nine to five like a shift job
where it's customer facing or customer service or something where
you're like doing something in the public, just because you
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learn so much about the way people are in these
kind of roles and the way people interface with each other.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And you learn a lot of patience too. Yeah, I
feel like it's like a vital thing that we need.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But also if someone like, sorry, if someone like those
jobs are important and it's not just like teenagers and
like people in their early twenties doing these jobs.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
People are in their thirties and forties. This is their career.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
This is I know I already said this, but it's
just like it's such it's so important, and like I
hate when people are like, oh, just it's just a
part time gig, it's just a part of It's like, no,
this is a job.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That deserves more than the minimum wage.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Personally, I feel like we're always like straying away from
humanity lately, you know what I mean, like just giving
people grace and extending the fact that like that's that's
not just like a number, right, like minimum wage of like,
that's not just like a number.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That's like a person. That's their salary, that's their livelihood
that they make, that's how they eat, that's how they
take care of their kids, how they pay rent. And
we live in California. It is so expensive and this
would be this would help a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I think, yeah, I do. I would love to get
like an economist on here though, to talk about how
that fluctuates, because there is a point, you know what
I mean. We ideally, right, raising the minimum wage would
be a win because that immediate impact of like, oh
my god, I'm making two more dollars an hour, Like
that immediate impact would be so beneficial, like you said,
but what's like the down the line impact, right? And
(20:45):
that down the line isn't you know, twenty years Downloe,
that's like six months down the line? Are we going
to see these prices increase? And is that actually going
to make our cost of living harder to keep up with?
Because is the is the inflation rate that we're going
to see greater than that two dollars raise? So that's
kind of where that line is. Toad and That's why
I'd be so great to have someone who knows economics
to talk.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Maybe we can try to get somebody next.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
It's a very complished, it's such a hard like like
I people I know, the people who are economics majors
in college were like the smartest people.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Like they're like, it's such a hard topic. But it
also kind of is.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Like I said that that study of humanity lets supply
and demand right to see, like where where things are
shifting and where things are moving and spending habits the
way people. You know, I feel like our spending habits
have changed so much. I mean, I'm so influenced easily
on TikTok to buy some I see someone using it
one time, I'm like, oh my god, that looks so great.
Oh yes, I almost on an eight dollars sunlight lamp
last night because I was scrolling and I was bored
(21:38):
and like, I don't know. I think consumer consumer habits
are crazy to study, and just.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
The way that we could be so easily.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Influenced just by the scroll on your phone, like where
they're putting ads and where people are spending their money.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's crazy to see. Yeah, well it's going to be
on your ballot. Vote yes or no. It's up to you. Uh,
we got to get out of here. But yeah, that
was proposition thirty two. I like the and we appreciate
you so much for hanging out and listening. And I
hope you got your ballot in the mail. Yeah, start voting,
girls and boys. Yeah, my name is Kayla. You can
(22:10):
find me at Kayla Thomas forty. I'm Coola. You can
find me at Kola Underscore Huber and you can find
me my name is Emily at It's Emily Score. We
will talk to you next week. See ninety
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!