September 19, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Wellness Wednesday with wife, mother, fitness expert, and masterful storyteller Claudine Cooper on KFI…PLUS – Thoughts on Amazon’s latest mandate that it’s employees “return to the office five days a week” and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Wellness Wednesday, as you already know, so you know
what that means. It's time to catch up with Claudie
and Cooper and find out what's happening in the world
of health and wellness.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Claudian, good evening. How are you tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Doing great? How about you? Mo?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You know, I'm kind of I'm at that point in
the year where I start to get progressively down. What
I mean by that is, I notice the days are
getting shorter. I notice that, you know, it's getting darker sooner.
We're at the end of summer, we're moving into fall,
and with it, I seem to have a lacking desire
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to work out as often, as frequently, as fervently as
I would, let's say, during the summer or in the spring.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Does that make any sense?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Listen, That's totally understandable.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I feel the same way people think just because I'm
in health and wellness, just because I teach fitness classes.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They think that I am like always motivated.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Oh, you must get up at five am ready to
work out. Not necessarily the case. First of all, I'm
not a morning person. But I also feel impacted when
it's dark outside. I don't want to go work out
when it's dark outside, so five am is.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Not my time frame. It's usually always dark at five am.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
But in the summer months, we do have a longer
period of daylight and that is a source of energy.
So when we have more sunshine, when we have more daylight,
we also have more energy, which ultimately leads us into
being more active.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Does that make sense, Yeah, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
But it also sounds like you're saying that there is
a physical and mental component to this, where yes, the
sunlight vitamin D does matter, but also there's an emotional
aspect where it's like, hmm, I feel my day is
over because I'm leaving work at six o'clock and the
sun is already low. I'm less inclined. I imagine someone's
(02:05):
thinking this, I'm less inclined to put in that full
workout because it's getting late.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Look, I've taught night classes at the gym for many,
many years, and I notice a deep decline right around
this time of year in my night classes. So five pm,
six pm, seven pm, you just see less and less people.
September October, November, December, then January we run into the
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New Year's resolutions. People can push through that darkness just
a little bit just to get through their goals.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I guess also, and I do want to be dismissive.
I'm quite sure someone is listening right now. It's like, hey, mo,
you know, my life changes every September. The kids are
back in school, but that means I still got to
pick them up. My day to day schedule changes. I
don't have the amount of free time quote unquote that I.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Did during the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know, don't believe it on me is far as
being lazy or just not wanting to work out because
it's late.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What about those folks.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That's a good point. In fact, I'm a mom, you
know that. I realized it's more than just bringing the
kids to school. It's their sports, it's their homework, it's
their activities. It's making sure that they have food. Which
I want to take a quick sidebar because this cracked
me up.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The other day.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
My kids were in the kitchen on a Sunday meal,
prepping for the week. What I said, Oh, I looked
at my husband, Honey, we've done something right now. Of course,
I have teenagers now, but just thinking back on the
times when I had three younger kids who all had activities,
it was much harder to fit in my own self
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care right, be it exercise or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What about these teenagers now who are going back to school.
When I was in school, we had PE and I
was playing basketball. But I don't know what that high
school matrix looks like these days. Are are kids getting
the requisite amount of exercise in their day to day
lives or do they, like adults like you and me,
have to schedule that extra time in.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
In short, I can say that the PE programs, much
like the music programs and the art programs, are falling
by the wayside. I've seen it in my own kids schools,
and I've seen it in other public schools where I
have volunteered. I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This little sidebar.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I used to teach healthy education as a parent volunteer
in the public schools, where I would teach kids how
to avoid snacks that were unhealthy and opt for snacks
that were healthier. I would introduce them to foods like
at a mommy or hummus, things that they could take
with them and eat. I even have a funny little
(04:48):
story from back then where one of the grandmothers came
and she said, my son made my grandson made me
go get him seaweed. She said, I've never had seaweed before,
and actually it's pretty So the young kids are putting
on the older generation of you know, some healthy snacks.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That that was a sweet moment.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You introduced something that I forgot about in this health
and wellness discussion, the importance of diet. And I noticed
that my diet tends to change as the seasons change.
One because if I'm inside, I'm less inclined to go
out and get that healthier food. I'm just reaching for
whatever's around, whatever may be available. Now, my wife made
(05:29):
meal prep, but that's not me. I'm eating from meal
to meal to meal. What have you found? Do you
find that people's dietary routines also change with the seasons.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
First of all, you and I have so many similarities.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Mo.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You and I are both married to early birds, We're
both married.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
To meal preppers, and we're both lazy with our nutrition,
and we both like to stay up late.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I mean, we work out, we're good about getting our exercise.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
But yeah, so anyways, saying that to say this is.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The peer of comfort food.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We are now in the fall season, we are entering
into the holidays. This is where comfort food, dark knights,
early dark knights, watching your shows, eating while you sit
on the couch.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All feels so good right now, does an Emo?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It feels really good.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
As a matter of fact, I'm sitting down right now
enjoying this conversation with you, Claudie Cooper. Now I know
that you working at Iconics Fitness in Inglewood. You have this,
I'm quite sure a swell of new clientele. People are
appreciative of the new gym and all that it affords.
But when you see at the client as we get
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deeper into the fall and into the winter.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You know, I'll have to keep you posted because when
things are new, people are so excited. I'm telling you,
I see people every single day coming into the gym
taking group fitness classes, lifting weights, bringing friends, bringing family,
and it's just I gotta be honest with you. Having
lived in this neighborhood for almost twenty five years, knowing
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that we needed some health and wellness resources, especially something
to this level, and finally being a part of this
has been such a full circle moment for me, just
the fact that I've created wellness resources in the neighborhood.
But to get to be part of this big movement
and seeing people benefit from it, Wow, just like I'm full,
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That's all I can say.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know this has been a gradual process, not only
for you, but the city of Inglewood.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
If you're just tuning in, I guess right now.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
As always on Wednesday, this Wellness Wednesday is Claudine Cooper.
You can always find out more about her and her
work at Claudinecooper dot com. And when we come back,
will always remind you in this one more time will
remind you of her free community workouts, both online and
in person. How you can be part of it and
get yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Maybe you're already on the road, but keep on the
road to better health and better wellness. It's Later with
Moe Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We're talking about all things health and wellness. But also
as the seasons change, maybe our schedules change, maybe our
lack of motivation may increase. You may have noticed that
the days are getting shorter. I always notice that the
days are getting shorter, and it changes my approach to
my fitness routine. So, Claudine, I was thinking over the break,
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I was wondering about how we can either better motivate
ourselves or is motivation even a part of the equation.
Because when we first started talking, when you first came
on this show back in twenty three, I asked you
about the new Year's resolution and how people probably usually
tapered off at this point in the year, and so
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they have to feel that to get back on track
for the new year come January first, What is it
about motivation which is real or not real?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
At least once a week I get this message in
my direct message box. It says, hey, Claudine, how do
I stay motivated to work out?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
What can I do to increase my motivation?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
To be honest with you, there's not a single person,
not a fitness professional, not a personal trainer, no one
who is consistently motivated.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But when you're not motivated, you have to lean onto discipline.
The discipline is what separates the people who continue to
go to the gym even when it's dark outside, people
like me who don't want to go when it's dark,
but we still have to push through. Since I've been
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working at Iconics in Englewood, I have noticed that there
are people who are consistent at the same exact time
every single day they come in, and they're not always motivated.
I've noticed this. Sometimes they have kind of a bad attitude. MO,
not gonna lie to you, And I'll say, hey, have
a great workout, and they'll grumble, grumble, And then after
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the workout, I'll say, oh, you were you were a
little surly this morning, and they'll say, I didn't really
feel like coming today, but they came anyways. So what
is the difference between leaning on the idea that you're
going to be motivated all the time and then leaning
into the knowledge that you have to sometimes push yourself
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and be disciplined. It's just like paying the bills. Do
you want to pay bills every first of the month?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Do you want to pay the rent?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Who does? Who wants to see their whole check dwindle
away to pay the bills?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But we have to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Because we need to have a place to live and
groceries to eat, so we do it even when we're
not motivated to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, let me expand that metaphor.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we are continuing to pay the rent on our
health and wellness, and if we don't pay the rent,
then we have to suffer the consequences and get evicted. Okay,
that's about as far as I could take it. But
you also said discipline, and you have exhibited discipline as
far as offering something meaningful and valuable to the community.
(11:19):
You have your Friday Online free workout. Tell us once
again what is that about and how people can go
about being part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
My Friday Online Workout was born in the pandemic, so
it's just a virtual workout. We take thirty minutes out
of our day and on Friday, as a lot of
people still work from home, that's one thing I've noticed,
So we just hop on to zoom. We do a
couple little exercises, use some hand weights, you know, dumbbells
that you may have laying around collecting dust at the house,
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and then we also do some cardiovascular exercises.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That can be done at any time of the day.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just a reminder that we don't need to go to
the gym to necessarily get at a good workout. So
that's Fridays at nine am Pacific time on my website
at Claudinecooper dot com. You can request the link. Also
on Saturday mornings. For the last ten years, every Saturday,
I have been teaching a free workout and I did
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that because I live in a neighborhood where we were
low on health and wellness resources, and ten years ago my.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Free workouts were really probably.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
One of the only ways that people could get out
and get a great group fitness class in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And it's consistently stayed that way. So it's in Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I got to tell you, I was driving through that
portion of Inglewood the other day, and I know that
it's a good thing that your workouts are in the
morning because after the morning with the opening of the
Intuit home with a YouTube theater, with the Kia Forum
and Sofi Stadium, you got the games on Sundays. Of
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course now either the rams or charge or it's a
concert and outdoor concert. It's a good thing your stuff
is in the morning because after that it's more than
difficult to find your way around that neighborhood. Be it
on Century, be it on Manchester. The good news is
it's vibrant, it's great in an economic sense.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The bad news is it can be difficult at.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Times for the existing businesses trying to get in and out.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And the residents.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Mo I mean Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You know, traffic is definitely an issue for those of
us who live here. I will say this my workouts
on Saturday morning, they start at nine am, the parking
is free, and afterwards there's a whole farmer's market dedicated
to plant based foods, fresh veggies, fresh fruits, live music.
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So the neighborhood itself is still electric and vibrant. But yes,
that traffic is ooh, it can get a little hectic
during those time.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I do appreciate that farmer's market is right next to
the parking structure. You can't miss it, and so after
your workout you can go reward yourself with some healthy
eats and have a great start to the rest of
your weekend. Cludding Cooper, I could speak with you all evening,
but I gotta go, and I know you're busy as well.
Thank you for coming on this evening and We'll do
it again next week.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Business as usual. Thanks Mo, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's Later with mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We
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Speaker 1 (14:29):
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Speaker 2 (14:35):
And ever since the pandemic came to an end, as
far as our work is concerned, corporations have struggled to
find their footing, their balance balancing productivity versus profitability. During
the pandemic, I think it's fair to say a lot
of corporations realize that either they didn't need all that
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office space, or they found that they could create a
larger profit stream by not having everyone in these large
buildings and renting these office spaces when it wasn't really
needed for the bottom line. But as they got further
further way from the pandemic, productivity became an issue where
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you didn't have the oversight, You didn't have the availability
of some employees because they were doing their own thing
most of the day. You couldn't monitor them in a
classic sense. And for the past few years we had
been reporting on how different businesses, different corporations have been
asking employees. And that's the first thing, asking asking their
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employees to come back into the office two days a week,
three days a week. And I remember saying, like, what
what do you mean, why are you asking? You're the employer,
they're the employee. But I guess it was an employee focus.
Workforce employees seemingly had more leverage, and a lot of
employees were balking at the idea of coming back into
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the office three or more days a week. And then
it started to change. Employers said, no, we are the employers.
We get to decide whether people are going to be
paid by us and work remotely or come in the office.
And you saw more and more companies demanding more of
the employees. To that end, Amazon is telling many of
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its workers to return to office five days a week.
Growing up, I should say, just when I was like
a wee lad in the workforce, the idea of being
told that I have to come in five days a week,
that was what are you talking about? I mean, I
wouldn't have a job. If you don't come in five
days a week. Sometime six, you're not going to have
a job. And now we're in a world where a
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lot of these employees are saying like, no, I don't
want to come in five days a week. I need
three days at home. I need four days at home.
Why is it it just can't work from home. It's
really weird. In a message posted to the company's website
on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jasse said the some people
believe that there are significant advantages to having employees in
the office full time, talking about work culture, productivity, stuff
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like that. The return to office requirement for Amazon is
supposed to take effect in early January of twenty twenty five.
So if you move to the other side of the
country think that you didn't have to come to the office,
you might have to make some other arrangements. But like
I said, it's not just Amazon ups JP Borgan Chase
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Bowie with exception of all the layoffs that you'd heard
Mark Ronner talking about, they have called at least some
of their workers back to the office full time.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The mandates, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I guess they're not really making a difference because they're
dragging their feet. It's like, look, when your boss said
you got to be in an office full time when
starting Monday, That's what I'm thinking. No, we're going to
give you to January twenty twenty five. It's September, let's
count on our fingers, October, November, December. You're giving them
a third of a year, a third of a year
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to decide if they want to keep their job or
come into the office five days a week.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's amazing to me. I see this differently.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I see companies like Amazon and others who are issuing
these edicts to return to office. I see, while on
one hand, they're saying, we want you all to come
back to the office, and those set an arbitrary day
doesn't even matter. They could say, you know, October first, whatever,
it doesn't matter. I think what companies like this are
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doing is they are constantly weighing their options, looking at
different AI initiatives, different AI programs that they can implement,
and get to the point where they can say, hey,
we gave.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You all three months.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Now none of you have to return because now we
have managed to automate everything or all of your jobs
that we now see we don't actually need you for.
We can farm those out overseas or just do without
you period because now we have you know, already intelligence
over here doing it force.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I halfway agree with that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I honestly believe that all companies are making an ongoing
assessment of whether they can use you or not use
you as an employee, whether your job is necessary or not.
And I always think I think it's always better to
be in someone's face so they actively remember you. It's
a whole lot easier to fire someone who you never see,
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who you don't have any personal interaction with. And I
think younger people kind of lose sight of that, and
they think a job is a job is a job. No,
there are other factors into whether you will keep your
job or not. And if you can demonstrate and make
sure that the powers that be know your name, know
your work ethic, know your value to the company, and
if that means being in their face once or twice
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or three times a week, or even five times a week,
then damn it, I would do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
There are just several companies in California that are afraid
of being sued somewhere or another because California is very litigious,
especially when it comes to workplace lawsuits, and they want
to make sure that they put it out there. Hey,
we gave them plenty of time to come back. No
one came back, and all the while, they could just
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be hiring, hiring, hiring people who will come in do
the minimalized work that's necessary right now, because they're already showing, well,
we don't really need you here. We could do this
with a different workforce. You know, you're all fired, and
not have to worry about that backlash of people saying,
what I'm fired, I'm sulling. No, we gave you time
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to come back, and none of y'all showed up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And there's something else. And I've talked about this before,
but e bears mentioning again. It's not like I've never
had a remote job. One of my first jobs in
radio was remote. When I was working for Ryan Seacrest
as a producer for American Top forty. I was not
in the office. I was working mostly from home. But
it demanded that I was very disciplined. I was talking
talking about discipline with Claudia, Claudia Cooper talking about working
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out discipline.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, it's the same type of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If you don't have discipline over here, you don't have
discipline any other facets of your life. It requires a
lot of discipline. And I don't know, but I get
the sneaking suspicion that a lot of corporations are dealing
with employees who may not be as disciplined as necessary,
and then they're finding ways that they can work without them.
And to your point, Tuala, if they can find someone
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else to do it or something else to do their jobs. Yeah,
we talked about Chipotle, how they're automating every single job.
Is looking to see how they can reduce their bottom line.
The variable costs of employees and payroll costs and benefits costs.
If they can get rid of those, then they're going
to If you're not going to make yourself available or
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make yourself invaluable, then that means you're making yourself expendable.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's real simple to me. It just tickles me that
you're seeing these.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Big, powerful, successful, multi national corporations bending over backwards and
begging employees please come to the office three days a week.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Then, all right, well we're gonna have to ask you
to come in two days a week. Well, damn it,
you won't do that, then starting next year, final offer
five days a week next year, though, We'll give you
four months to think about it. And I believe everyone
here on the show has had a remote job at
some point. I know Mark Runner has. I'm pretty sure
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Stephan you have. You had a remote job at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
It was like a hybrid because sometimes I have to
go into the studio, but kind of like you, I
was able to do stuff from home.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So yeah, you got to be disciplined.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, you do, because oftentimes nobody is telling you. It's
kind of like college. No one's telling you to study,
no one's telling you to turn in the assignment, no
one's telling you to get your work done.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You do it or you don't, and if you don't,
you fail the.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Class, or you get it incomplete, or you end up
like Mark Runner with a lot of debt.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
You don't want that. Have you left out the whole
COVID factor in this though. I think a lot of
people don't want to come back to a crowded office
because we're in the middle of another surge and most offices,
most corporations aren't doing anything about it. They're not cleaning
the air, they're not putting filters in the offices, and
people are literally risking their lives to go back to work.
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We're in the middle of another huge surge with different variants.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I think that there is a percentage of people, but
I'm more likely to believe that since we're probably dealing
with a different generation of the labor force, a younger
generational labor force, they probably probably would be less concerned
about that.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
So for them, it's just laziness.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, I think so put us as a way, when
I was in my twenties, I was not worried about healthcare.
I was not worried about getting sick pandemic aside. You know,
you still kind of feeling you're in vulnerable and invincible,
and you're not thinking in those stark terms.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
We know, and we should make clear that young people
are just as vulnerable to serious illness and injury from
COVID as anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, but I don't think they're wrapping that into their
equation of whether they want to come back to the
office five days a week. I think it's more like
I don't want to be in the office five days
a week because I don't want to have to go
in the office five days a week.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
The two are distinctly separate in terms of the reasoning
and rationale because these exact same young people who are
not returning to the office, and a lot of the
people that these companies are targeting, they are finding ways
to go to this party, that party, this get together,
like this, this bash, this concert period.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So so hell with that then. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
So it's not that because there are lots of leisure
activities that are driving people back out there. Hell, I
was over at city Walk the other day and it's packed.
No one is like, oh, we should be concerned about COVID. No,
but these same people, many of who who I know,
are not returning to work on Monday and taking these
four day weekends.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Yeah, that's not their concern. Okay, the hell with them.
They can they can roll the dice just like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well that was easy, Yeah, can you convince me when
we come back. We got to talk about how you
can now renew your passport online, and if you're a
traveler like me, that's a huge deal because there was
nothing worse, especially talking about the pandemic. Right before the
pandemic or right around the time pandemic. Got my passport renewed,
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it was like, well, we can't go anywhere, but having
to go down in person to do it was really,
really problematic, and it took a whole lot longer. Now
that they've made it available for you to do it online,
it should change everything. We'll tell you about the process
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
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KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I know the summer is ending, but now might be
the time to get ahead of the game and renew
your passport. You may not know there are some countries
if your passport is within six months of expiring, they
won't let you come in. So it's not good to
wait till the last moment to renew your passport. Sometimes
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people put it off. I know I did, and then
you find yourself having to wait a long time to
get it. I mean, you can get an expedited passport,
and I think it may come in six weeks or something.
But you know, if you have an upcoming trip, it
may put you in a bad spot.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So don't wait till the last moment.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And now the process may be a little bit more
simple to do where you don't have to get in
that long line like I did, like my wife did,
and stand there and have to wait for the person
to become available. So you can give them all your
information and renew your passport. You might be able to
do it online at.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
American travelers can now renew their passports faster and cheaper
than ever. The State Department has unveiled its new online
passport renewal program, just in time for.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
The holiday travel rush.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Abcga Norman has the details on this ABC News.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Exclusive, a game changer for international travel. For the first
time ever, Americans can renew their passport online.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I mean, we expect five million Americans to be able to.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Use this every year.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
The State Department, revealing exclusively to ABC News it's pilot
passport renewal program is.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Now fully available to the public.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Wait, wait minute, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
The State Department renewed revealed exclusively to ABC News. This
was kind of like common knowledge, I thought, because I
just recently checked into my passport status and also my
global entry.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
Was an exclusive here, The State Department, revealing exclusively to
ABC News it's pilot passport renewal program is.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Now fully available to the public.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
If you meet the criteria an adult twenty five year
older who's had a passport before, you'll no longer have
to fill out and print that paper application mail a
check or make an appointment. The modernization making it easier
as a record number of Americans are traveling internationally.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Last year, the State Department.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Hidden all time high processing and issuing more than twenty
four million in passports.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
The process of applying for our passport online will be
much more convenient for Americans.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
You have to create an account to start the application
process on the State Department's website, enter your old passport
information and upcoming travel plans, and no more finding a
place to get your picture taken.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
For so many Americans, when you get your passport picture,
it's a whole ordeal.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You have to go somewhere to get it taken.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Now you can do that on your phone.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
You can upload your photo and apply completely online without
having to.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Do anything in person or anything.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
Keep them out right, Just make sure to follow the
guidelines right, no selfies, a plain white background, and the
photo has to be recent. Then check out with the
debit or credit card and you're done.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
To be serious, I do like this if only because
I like to have all my information in a digital form.
We talked about the California driver's license is now available
in a digital form. You can use it in a
few locations like airport, certain airports.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I've already done that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I have a digital form of my California driver's license
on my phone. What is interesting to me, though, And
you've traveled Mark, so you would get this. I'm surprised
we're still using these paper passport booklets. Now, you could
have a passport card. There is a passport card. My
wife usually travels with that. But I'm surprised that we
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still use Buy and Lars the same type of booklets
as we did sixty years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
I like them, and it's harder to screw with them. Honestly,
it's a physical thing you must have on you, and
it's got to have an actual physical stamp on it. Yeah,
but here's what's weird about that whole situation between your passport,
your Social Security card, your birth certificate, and your driver's license.
Let's say that you haven't really needed one or more
of those in a while. It's a huge pain in
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the ass to get those again. And so it is.
This is great news, It really is.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And if you have any intentions of traveling in the
next year, take a look at your passport, assuming that
you have one, and if it's getting close to that time,
just go ahead and renew it, because you never know.
You may just get some wild idea to go on
a cruise like to Mexico or something nobody's gonna do. No,
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you wouldn't like Tuala did. But you always want to
make sure your paperwork is in order and also available,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Because if you have to just getting your birth certificate
is such a massive headache. Keep all that stuff current
if you have an easy way to do it, or
to renew it, because if you have to start over
from zero, you're going to be wasting a lot of
time going to downtown offices that you don't want to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
You should ask Touwala. He's told the story on air before.
You should ask him his story of getting his birth
certificate and his citizenship.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It's wild.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
I would hate for you to have to tell that
again on the air so that everybody could hear it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
No, I can't tell it, but he has to tell it.
He look twallow has to test tell us some time
because he had to jump through all sorts of hoops
and it is to your point, hell on earth trying
to get that, especially if you weren't born here in America.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Oh even I happened to be born here in America.
And when I moved here, I was trying to get
all my stuff in order. Unbelievable hassle just getting my
birth certificate so that I could get a new Social
Security guard.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I think card.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
I think I had my first Social Security card when
I was like, what, twelve thirteen something like that. Say
with me, No, nobody carries that stuff. And when I
did find my original card, it had my little childhood
scrawl signature on it. You need to keep that stuff
current and save yourself a ton of trouble. This is
the part of the digital revolution. I do appreciate.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Wellness Wednesday, as you already know, so you know
what that means. It's time to catch up with Claudie
and Cooper and find out what's happening in the world
of health and wellness.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Claudian, good evening. How are you tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Doing great? How about you? Mo?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You know, I'm kind of I'm at that point in
the year where I start to get progressively down. What
I mean by that is, I notice the days are
getting shorter. I notice that, you know, it's getting darker sooner.
We're at the end of summer, we're moving into fall,
and with it, I seem to have a lacking desire
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to work out as often, as frequently, as fervently as
I would, let's say, during the summer or in the spring.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Does that make any sense?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Listen, That's totally understandable.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
I feel the same way people think just because I'm
in health and wellness, just because I teach fitness classes.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
They think that I am like always motivated.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Oh, you must get up at five am ready to
work out. Not necessarily the case. First of all, I'm
not a morning person. But I also feel impacted when
it's dark outside. I don't want to go work out
when it's dark outside, so five am is.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Not my time frame. It's usually always dark at five am.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
But in the summer months, we do have a longer
period of daylight and that is a source of energy.
So when we have more sunshine, when we have more daylight,
we also have more energy, which ultimately leads us into
being more active.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Does that make sense, Yeah, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
But it also sounds like you're saying that there is
a physical and mental component to this, where yes, the
sunlight vitamin D does matter, but also there's an emotional
aspect where it's like, hmm, I feel my day is
over because I'm leaving work at six o'clock and the
sun is already low. I'm less inclined. I imagine someone's
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thinking this, I'm less inclined to put in that full
workout because it's getting late.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Look, I've taught night classes at the gym for many,
many years, and I notice a deep decline right around
this time of year in my night classes. So five pm,
six pm, seven pm, you just see less and less people.
September October, November, December, then January we run into the
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New Year's resolutions. People can push through that darkness just
a little bit just to get through their goals.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I guess also, and I do want to be dismissive.
I'm quite sure someone is listening right now. It's like, hey, mo,
you know, my life changes every September. The kids are
back in school, but that means I still got to
pick them up. My day to day schedule changes. I
don't have the amount of free time quote unquote that I.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Did during the summer.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know, don't believe it on me is far as
being lazy or just not wanting to work out because
it's late.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What about those folks.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
That's a good point. In fact, I'm a mom, you
know that. I realized it's more than just bringing the
kids to school. It's their sports, it's their homework, it's
their activities. It's making sure that they have food. Which
I want to take a quick sidebar because this cracked
me up.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
The other day.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
My kids were in the kitchen on a Sunday meal,
prepping for the week. What I said, Oh, I looked
at my husband, Honey, we've done something right now. Of course,
I have teenagers now, but just thinking back on the
times when I had three younger kids who all had activities,
it was much harder to fit in my own self
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care right, be it exercise or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What about these teenagers now who are going back to school.
When I was in school, we had PE and I
was playing basketball. But I don't know what that high
school matrix looks like these days. Are are kids getting
the requisite amount of exercise in their day to day
lives or do they, like adults like you and me,
have to schedule that extra time in.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
In short, I can say that the PE programs, much
like the music programs and the art programs, are falling
by the wayside. I've seen it in my own kids schools,
and I've seen it in other public schools where I
have volunteered. I don't know if you know.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This little sidebar.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I used to teach healthy education as a parent volunteer
in the public schools, where I would teach kids how
to avoid snacks that were unhealthy and opt for snacks
that were healthier. I would introduce them to foods like
at a mommy or hummus, things that they could take
with them and eat. I even have a funny little
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story from back then where one of the grandmothers came
and she said, my son made my grandson made me
go get him seaweed. She said, I've never had seaweed before,
and actually it's pretty So the young kids are putting
on the older generation of you know, some healthy snacks.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
That that was a sweet moment.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You introduced something that I forgot about in this health
and wellness discussion, the importance of diet. And I noticed
that my diet tends to change as the seasons change.
One because if I'm inside, I'm less inclined to go
out and get that healthier food. I'm just reaching for
whatever's around, whatever may be available. Now, my wife made
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meal prep, but that's not me. I'm eating from meal
to meal to meal. What have you found? Do you
find that people's dietary routines also change with the seasons.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
First of all, you and I have so many similarities.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Mo.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You and I are both married to early birds, We're
both married.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
To meal preppers, and we're both lazy with our nutrition,
and we both like to stay up late.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I mean, we work out, we're good about getting our exercise.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
But yeah, so anyways, saying that to say this is.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The peer of comfort food.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
We are now in the fall season, we are entering
into the holidays. This is where comfort food, dark knights,
early dark knights, watching your shows, eating while you sit
on the couch.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All feels so good right now, does an Emo?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It feels really good.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
As a matter of fact, I'm sitting down right now
enjoying this conversation with you, Claudie Cooper. Now I know
that you working at Iconics Fitness in Inglewood. You have this,
I'm quite sure a swell of new clientele. People are
appreciative of the new gym and all that it affords.
But when you see at the client as we get
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deeper into the fall and into the winter.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
You know, I'll have to keep you posted because when
things are new, people are so excited. I'm telling you,
I see people every single day coming into the gym
taking group fitness classes, lifting weights, bringing friends, bringing family,
and it's just I gotta be honest with you. Having
lived in this neighborhood for almost twenty five years, knowing
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that we needed some health and wellness resources, especially something
to this level, and finally being a part of this
has been such a full circle moment for me, just
the fact that I've created wellness resources in the neighborhood.
But to get to be part of this big movement
and seeing people benefit from it, Wow, just like I'm full,
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That's all I can say.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I know this has been a gradual process, not only
for you, but the city of Inglewood.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
If you're just tuning in, I guess right now.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
As always on Wednesday, this Wellness Wednesday is Claudine Cooper.
You can always find out more about her and her
work at Claudinecooper dot com. And when we come back,
will always remind you in this one more time will
remind you of her free community workouts, both online and
in person. How you can be part of it and
get yourself.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
On the road.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Maybe you're already on the road, but keep on the
road to better health and better wellness. It's Later with
Moe Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We're talking about all things health and wellness. But also
as the seasons change, maybe our schedules change, maybe our
lack of motivation may increase. You may have noticed that
the days are getting shorter. I always notice that the
days are getting shorter, and it changes my approach to
my fitness routine. So, Claudine, I was thinking over the break,
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I was wondering about how we can either better motivate
ourselves or is motivation even a part of the equation.
Because when we first started talking, when you first came
on this show back in twenty three, I asked you
about the new Year's resolution and how people probably usually
tapered off at this point in the year, and so
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they have to feel that to get back on track
for the new year come January first, What is it
about motivation which is real or not real?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
At least once a week I get this message in
my direct message box. It says, hey, Claudine, how do
I stay motivated to work out?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
What can I do to increase my motivation?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
To be honest with you, there's not a single person,
not a fitness professional, not a personal trainer, no one
who is consistently motivated.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
All the time.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
But when you're not motivated, you have to lean onto discipline.
The discipline is what separates the people who continue to
go to the gym even when it's dark outside, people
like me who don't want to go when it's dark,
but we still have to push through. Since I've been
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working at Iconics in Englewood, I have noticed that there
are people who are consistent at the same exact time
every single day they come in, and they're not always motivated.
I've noticed this. Sometimes they have kind of a bad attitude. MO,
not gonna lie to you, And I'll say, hey, have
a great workout, and they'll grumble, grumble, And then after
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the workout, I'll say, oh, you were you were a
little surly this morning, and they'll say, I didn't really
feel like coming today, but they came anyways. So what
is the difference between leaning on the idea that you're
going to be motivated all the time and then leaning
into the knowledge that you have to sometimes push yourself
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and be disciplined. It's just like paying the bills. Do
you want to pay bills every first of the month?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Do you want to pay the rent?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Who does? Who wants to see their whole check dwindle
away to pay the bills?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
But we have to do it.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Because we need to have a place to live and
groceries to eat, so we do it even when we're
not motivated to do it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Okay, let me expand that metaphor.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So we are continuing to pay the rent on our
health and wellness, and if we don't pay the rent,
then we have to suffer the consequences and get evicted. Okay,
that's about as far as I could take it. But
you also said discipline, and you have exhibited discipline as
far as offering something meaningful and valuable to the community.
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You have your Friday Online free workout. Tell us once
again what is that about and how people can go
about being part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
My Friday Online Workout was born in the pandemic, so
it's just a virtual workout. We take thirty minutes out
of our day and on Friday, as a lot of
people still work from home, that's one thing I've noticed,
So we just hop on to zoom. We do a
couple little exercises, use some hand weights, you know, dumbbells
that you may have laying around collecting dust at the house,
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and then we also do some cardiovascular exercises.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That can be done at any time of the day.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just a reminder that we don't need to go to
the gym to necessarily get at a good workout. So
that's Fridays at nine am Pacific time on my website
at Claudinecooper dot com. You can request the link. Also
on Saturday mornings. For the last ten years, every Saturday,
I have been teaching a free workout and I did
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that because I live in a neighborhood where we were
low on health and wellness resources, and ten years ago my.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Free workouts were really probably.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
One of the only ways that people could get out
and get a great group fitness class in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
And it's consistently stayed that way. So it's in Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I got to tell you, I was driving through that
portion of Inglewood the other day, and I know that
it's a good thing that your workouts are in the
morning because after the morning with the opening of the
Intuit home with a YouTube theater, with the Kia Forum
and Sofi Stadium, you got the games on Sundays. Of
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course now either the rams or charge or it's a
concert and outdoor concert. It's a good thing your stuff
is in the morning because after that it's more than
difficult to find your way around that neighborhood. Be it
on Century, be it on Manchester. The good news is
it's vibrant, it's great in an economic sense.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The bad news is it can be difficult at.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Times for the existing businesses trying to get in and out.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And the residents.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Mo I mean Trump.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You know, traffic is definitely an issue for those of
us who live here. I will say this my workouts
on Saturday morning, they start at nine am, the parking
is free, and afterwards there's a whole farmer's market dedicated
to plant based foods, fresh veggies, fresh fruits, live music.
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So the neighborhood itself is still electric and vibrant. But yes,
that traffic is ooh, it can get a little hectic
during those time.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I do appreciate that farmer's market is right next to
the parking structure. You can't miss it, and so after
your workout you can go reward yourself with some healthy
eats and have a great start to the rest of
your weekend. Cludding Cooper, I could speak with you all evening,
but I gotta go, and I know you're busy as well.
Thank you for coming on this evening and We'll do
it again next week.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Business as usual. Thanks Mo, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
It's Later with mo Kelly CAFI AM six forty. We
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Speaker 1 (14:29):
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Speaker 2 (14:35):
And ever since the pandemic came to an end, as
far as our work is concerned, corporations have struggled to
find their footing, their balance balancing productivity versus profitability. During
the pandemic, I think it's fair to say a lot
of corporations realize that either they didn't need all that
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office space, or they found that they could create a
larger profit stream by not having everyone in these large
buildings and renting these office spaces when it wasn't really
needed for the bottom line. But as they got further
further way from the pandemic, productivity became an issue where
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you didn't have the oversight, You didn't have the availability
of some employees because they were doing their own thing
most of the day. You couldn't monitor them in a
classic sense. And for the past few years we had
been reporting on how different businesses, different corporations have been
asking employees. And that's the first thing, asking asking their
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employees to come back into the office two days a week,
three days a week. And I remember saying, like, what
what do you mean, why are you asking? You're the employer,
they're the employee. But I guess it was an employee focus.
Workforce employees seemingly had more leverage, and a lot of
employees were balking at the idea of coming back into
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the office three or more days a week. And then
it started to change. Employers said, no, we are the employers.
We get to decide whether people are going to be
paid by us and work remotely or come in the office.
And you saw more and more companies demanding more of
the employees. To that end, Amazon is telling many of
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its workers to return to office five days a week.
Growing up, I should say, just when I was like
a wee lad in the workforce, the idea of being
told that I have to come in five days a week,
that was what are you talking about? I mean, I
wouldn't have a job. If you don't come in five
days a week. Sometime six, you're not going to have
a job. And now we're in a world where a
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lot of these employees are saying like, no, I don't
want to come in five days a week. I need
three days at home. I need four days at home.
Why is it it just can't work from home. It's
really weird. In a message posted to the company's website
on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jasse said the some people
believe that there are significant advantages to having employees in
the office full time, talking about work culture, productivity, stuff
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like that. The return to office requirement for Amazon is
supposed to take effect in early January of twenty twenty five.
So if you move to the other side of the
country think that you didn't have to come to the office,
you might have to make some other arrangements. But like
I said, it's not just Amazon ups JP Borgan Chase
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Bowie with exception of all the layoffs that you'd heard
Mark Ronner talking about, they have called at least some
of their workers back to the office full time.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The mandates, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I guess they're not really making a difference because they're
dragging their feet. It's like, look, when your boss said
you got to be in an office full time when
starting Monday, That's what I'm thinking. No, we're going to
give you to January twenty twenty five. It's September, let's
count on our fingers, October, November, December. You're giving them
a third of a year, a third of a year
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to decide if they want to keep their job or
come into the office five days a week.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
It's amazing to me. I see this differently.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I see companies like Amazon and others who are issuing
these edicts to return to office. I see, while on
one hand, they're saying, we want you all to come
back to the office, and those set an arbitrary day
doesn't even matter. They could say, you know, October first, whatever,
it doesn't matter. I think what companies like this are
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doing is they are constantly weighing their options, looking at
different AI initiatives, different AI programs that they can implement,
and get to the point where they can say, hey,
we gave.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You all three months.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Now none of you have to return because now we
have managed to automate everything or all of your jobs
that we now see we don't actually need you for.
We can farm those out overseas or just do without
you period because now we have you know, already intelligence
over here doing it force.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I halfway agree with that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I honestly believe that all companies are making an ongoing
assessment of whether they can use you or not use
you as an employee, whether your job is necessary or not.
And I always think I think it's always better to
be in someone's face so they actively remember you. It's
a whole lot easier to fire someone who you never see,
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who you don't have any personal interaction with. And I
think younger people kind of lose sight of that, and
they think a job is a job is a job. No,
there are other factors into whether you will keep your
job or not. And if you can demonstrate and make
sure that the powers that be know your name, know
your work ethic, know your value to the company, and
if that means being in their face once or twice
(19:53):
or three times a week, or even five times a week,
then damn it, I would do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
There are just several companies in California that are afraid
of being sued somewhere or another because California is very litigious,
especially when it comes to workplace lawsuits, and they want
to make sure that they put it out there. Hey,
we gave them plenty of time to come back. No
one came back, and all the while, they could just
(20:18):
be hiring, hiring, hiring people who will come in do
the minimalized work that's necessary right now, because they're already showing, well,
we don't really need you here. We could do this
with a different workforce. You know, you're all fired, and
not have to worry about that backlash of people saying,
what I'm fired, I'm sulling. No, we gave you time
(20:38):
to come back, and none of y'all showed up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And there's something else. And I've talked about this before,
but e bears mentioning again. It's not like I've never
had a remote job. One of my first jobs in
radio was remote. When I was working for Ryan Seacrest
as a producer for American Top forty. I was not
in the office. I was working mostly from home. But
it demanded that I was very disciplined. I was talking
talking about discipline with Claudia, Claudia Cooper talking about working
(21:04):
out discipline.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Well, it's the same type of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
If you don't have discipline over here, you don't have
discipline any other facets of your life. It requires a
lot of discipline. And I don't know, but I get
the sneaking suspicion that a lot of corporations are dealing
with employees who may not be as disciplined as necessary,
and then they're finding ways that they can work without them.
And to your point, Tuala, if they can find someone
(21:28):
else to do it or something else to do their jobs. Yeah,
we talked about Chipotle, how they're automating every single job.
Is looking to see how they can reduce their bottom line.
The variable costs of employees and payroll costs and benefits costs.
If they can get rid of those, then they're going
to If you're not going to make yourself available or
(21:49):
make yourself invaluable, then that means you're making yourself expendable.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It's real simple to me. It just tickles me that
you're seeing these.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Big, powerful, successful, multi national corporations bending over backwards and
begging employees please come to the office three days a week.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Then, all right, well we're gonna have to ask you
to come in two days a week. Well, damn it,
you won't do that, then starting next year, final offer
five days a week next year, though, We'll give you
four months to think about it. And I believe everyone
here on the show has had a remote job at
some point. I know Mark Runner has. I'm pretty sure
(22:32):
Stephan you have. You had a remote job at some point. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
It was like a hybrid because sometimes I have to
go into the studio, but kind of like you, I
was able to do stuff from home.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
So yeah, you got to be disciplined.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, you do, because oftentimes nobody is telling you. It's
kind of like college. No one's telling you to study,
no one's telling you to turn in the assignment, no
one's telling you to get your work done.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You do it or you don't, and if you don't,
you fail the.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Class, or you get it incomplete, or you end up
like Mark Runner with a lot of debt.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
You don't want that. Have you left out the whole
COVID factor in this though. I think a lot of
people don't want to come back to a crowded office
because we're in the middle of another surge and most offices,
most corporations aren't doing anything about it. They're not cleaning
the air, they're not putting filters in the offices, and
people are literally risking their lives to go back to work.
(23:18):
We're in the middle of another huge surge with different variants.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I think that there is a percentage of people, but
I'm more likely to believe that since we're probably dealing
with a different generation of the labor force, a younger
generational labor force, they probably probably would be less concerned
about that.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
So for them, it's just laziness.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, I think so put us as a way, when
I was in my twenties, I was not worried about healthcare.
I was not worried about getting sick pandemic aside. You know,
you still kind of feeling you're in vulnerable and invincible,
and you're not thinking in those stark terms.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
We know, and we should make clear that young people
are just as vulnerable to serious illness and injury from
COVID as anybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, but I don't think they're wrapping that into their
equation of whether they want to come back to the
office five days a week. I think it's more like
I don't want to be in the office five days
a week because I don't want to have to go
in the office five days a week.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
The two are distinctly separate in terms of the reasoning
and rationale because these exact same young people who are
not returning to the office, and a lot of the
people that these companies are targeting, they are finding ways
to go to this party, that party, this get together,
like this, this bash, this concert period.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So so hell with that then. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
So it's not that because there are lots of leisure
activities that are driving people back out there. Hell, I
was over at city Walk the other day and it's packed.
No one is like, oh, we should be concerned about COVID. No,
but these same people, many of who who I know,
are not returning to work on Monday and taking these
four day weekends.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Yeah, that's not their concern. Okay, the hell with them.
They can they can roll the dice just like everybody else.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well that was easy, Yeah, can you convince me when
we come back. We got to talk about how you
can now renew your passport online, and if you're a
traveler like me, that's a huge deal because there was
nothing worse, especially talking about the pandemic. Right before the
pandemic or right around the time pandemic. Got my passport renewed,
(25:22):
it was like, well, we can't go anywhere, but having
to go down in person to do it was really,
really problematic, and it took a whole lot longer. Now
that they've made it available for you to do it online,
it should change everything. We'll tell you about the process
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I know the summer is ending, but now might be
the time to get ahead of the game and renew
your passport. You may not know there are some countries
if your passport is within six months of expiring, they
won't let you come in. So it's not good to
wait till the last moment to renew your passport. Sometimes
(26:02):
people put it off. I know I did, and then
you find yourself having to wait a long time to
get it. I mean, you can get an expedited passport,
and I think it may come in six weeks or something.
But you know, if you have an upcoming trip, it
may put you in a bad spot.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
So don't wait till the last moment.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And now the process may be a little bit more
simple to do where you don't have to get in
that long line like I did, like my wife did,
and stand there and have to wait for the person
to become available. So you can give them all your
information and renew your passport. You might be able to
do it online at.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
American travelers can now renew their passports faster and cheaper
than ever. The State Department has unveiled its new online
passport renewal program, just in time for.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
The holiday travel rush.
Speaker 10 (26:49):
Abcga Norman has the details on this ABC News.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Exclusive, a game changer for international travel. For the first
time ever, Americans can renew their passport online.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I mean, we expect five million Americans to be able to.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Use this every year.
Speaker 11 (27:04):
The State Department, revealing exclusively to ABC News it's pilot
passport renewal program is.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Now fully available to the public.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Wait, wait minute, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
The State Department renewed revealed exclusively to ABC News. This
was kind of like common knowledge, I thought, because I
just recently checked into my passport status and also my
global entry.
Speaker 11 (27:28):
Was an exclusive here, The State Department, revealing exclusively to
ABC News it's pilot passport renewal program is.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Now fully available to the public.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
If you meet the criteria an adult twenty five year
older who's had a passport before, you'll no longer have
to fill out and print that paper application mail a
check or make an appointment. The modernization making it easier
as a record number of Americans are traveling internationally.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Last year, the State Department.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
Hidden all time high processing and issuing more than twenty
four million in passports.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
The process of applying for our passport online will be
much more convenient for Americans.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
You have to create an account to start the application
process on the State Department's website, enter your old passport
information and upcoming travel plans, and no more finding a
place to get your picture taken.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
For so many Americans, when you get your passport picture,
it's a whole ordeal.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You have to go somewhere to get it taken.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Now you can do that on your phone.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
You can upload your photo and apply completely online without
having to.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Do anything in person or anything.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
Keep them out right, Just make sure to follow the
guidelines right, no selfies, a plain white background, and the
photo has to be recent. Then check out with the
debit or credit card and you're done.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
To be serious, I do like this if only because
I like to have all my information in a digital form.
We talked about the California driver's license is now available
in a digital form. You can use it in a
few locations like airport, certain airports.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
I've already done that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I have a digital form of my California driver's license
on my phone. What is interesting to me, though, And
you've traveled Mark, so you would get this. I'm surprised
we're still using these paper passport booklets. Now, you could
have a passport card. There is a passport card. My
wife usually travels with that. But I'm surprised that we
(29:22):
still use Buy and Lars the same type of booklets
as we did sixty years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
I like them, and it's harder to screw with them. Honestly,
it's a physical thing you must have on you, and
it's got to have an actual physical stamp on it. Yeah,
but here's what's weird about that whole situation between your passport,
your Social Security card, your birth certificate, and your driver's license.
Let's say that you haven't really needed one or more
of those in a while. It's a huge pain in
(29:49):
the ass to get those again. And so it is.
This is great news, It really is.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
And if you have any intentions of traveling in the
next year, take a look at your passport, assuming that
you have one, and if it's getting close to that time,
just go ahead and renew it, because you never know.
You may just get some wild idea to go on
a cruise like to Mexico or something nobody's gonna do. No,
(30:16):
you wouldn't like Tuala did. But you always want to
make sure your paperwork is in order and also available,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Because if you have to just getting your birth certificate
is such a massive headache. Keep all that stuff current
if you have an easy way to do it, or
to renew it, because if you have to start over
from zero, you're going to be wasting a lot of
time going to downtown offices that you don't want to
deal with.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
You should ask Touwala. He's told the story on air before.
You should ask him his story of getting his birth
certificate and his citizenship.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It's wild.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
I would hate for you to have to tell that
again on the air so that everybody could hear it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
No, I can't tell it, but he has to tell it.
He look twallow has to test tell us some time
because he had to jump through all sorts of hoops
and it is to your point, hell on earth trying
to get that, especially if you weren't born here in America.
Speaker 9 (31:12):
Oh even I happened to be born here in America.
And when I moved here, I was trying to get
all my stuff in order. Unbelievable hassle just getting my
birth certificate so that I could get a new Social
Security guard.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I think card.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
I think I had my first Social Security card when
I was like, what, twelve thirteen something like that. Say
with me, No, nobody carries that stuff. And when I
did find my original card, it had my little childhood
scrawl signature on it. You need to keep that stuff
current and save yourself a ton of trouble. This is
the part of the digital revolution. I do appreciate.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
If I am six forty, we're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, at least you've decided to listen to KFI, see
you're making progress. K F and kost HD, two Los Angeles,
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