July 21, 2025 • 20 mins
(July 21,2025)
Federal cuts leave Los Angeles County health system in crisis. Inside the wild world of dog wellness in Los Angeles. Make Coca-Cola Great again. ‘Quiet Cracking’ is the newest term for workplace problems – and it’s ‘pretty pervasive,’ expert says.
Federal cuts leave Los Angeles County health system in crisis. Inside the wild world of dog wellness in Los Angeles. Make Coca-Cola Great again. ‘Quiet Cracking’ is the newest term for workplace problems – and it’s ‘pretty pervasive,’ expert says.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is a Monday morning, July twenty one, Fast Food Day,
National Fast Food Day. And here is a heartbreaker. And
we knew this was going to happen. At least seventy
six children and ten adults have reportedly died of malnutrition
in Gaza. We were told by the health authorities there
(00:33):
that people were on the verge of starvation, and now
there are reports of actual death of starvation. And well,
as I've said many times, for someone who's pro Israel,
I do believe what Israel is committing his crimes against
humanity simple straight out starving people to death purposely, no question.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now, on a fun side, federal cuts leave La County
health system in a complete crisis. La County, I mean
La County is it just has an enormous budget and
has an entire health system bigger than most states responsible
for the care of the region's poorest. Is careening towards
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financial crisis because of the cuts that are happening big time.
The Big Beautiful Bill expected to claw back seven hundred
and fifty million dollars per year from the County Department
of Health Services, which oversees public health for public hospitals
two dozen clinics. The agency called the bill a big
(01:43):
devastating blow to our health system and a hiring freeze
is in effect immediately. The administration's budget for the next
fiscal year will result in a two hundred million dollars
cut to the department. And what the department does is
wannitor disease outbreaks. For example, program gone inspecting food and
providing substance use treatment. That's basically gone. I'm not going
(02:08):
to sugarcoat it. Barbara Ferrari, head of Public Health. I'm
not gonna say where you can even survive this. We
can't survive this big a cut. Why Because most state
agencies most states get a huge amount of money from
the federal government.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Why is that because some states.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Don't have anywhere near income tax right they just don't
have it, And the federal government funds us mainly through
the states. The number of direct federal programs are very
small relative to the amount of money that flows to
the states for programs, and the federal government controls how
(02:50):
much money goes to the states.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And if you're in.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
California, particularly LA County, we are screwed.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, well, because look at the fight that's going on
between California, La County and the government. The White House
announced it was ending infectious disease grants to county health
worth billions of dollars, including forty five million dollars LA
County was supposed to use to combat the thread of
measles and bird flu. I mean, because we don't have
(03:27):
to either we don't have bird flu. It doesn't exist,
and measles doesn't exist one of the two. Or you
know what, social programs, Medical programs are not as important,
and they're not with this administration. But remember, we have
elected our president in a democratic election. We have elected
(03:50):
Congress who back up the president every which way there is.
This month, the county Health Department lost another sixteen million
dollars for a program educating food stamp recipients about how
to buy healthy and there's more.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Two thousand and six will.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Be the biggest blow yet for our warned two hundred
million dollars from her department, twelve percent cut. She said,
I've actually never seen this much disdain for public health.
So she no longer has enough money for the Bioterrorism
Watch program, monitoring outbreaks that might signal a biological attack,
(04:32):
and soon count officials will have to stop testing ocean
water for toxins year round, cutting back to just half
the year where toxins usually occur.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean, that is tough. That is very tough.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So what happens is these federal dollars flow through and
many health programs are at risk and.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Are being cut not even so much at risk.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And unfortunately, when these happen, what the administration says is
that we are making we are getting rid of the waste,
we are getting rid of the fraud, and by cutting
these programs, we're making America healthier again, and we're making
America greater again. Now, I don't know how that works
(05:24):
when you're cutting programs that deal with measles and somehow
that's good for the populace. I don't know how that works,
but I guess it does.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The reality is is that social programs are not as
important as immigration, as defense. We know that, but this
isn't just social programs. This is food stamps for example.
I mean, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When they talk about medicaid cuts Medicaid being for people
who are very poor and can't afford anything. Obamacare, they're
not Medicaid cuts. Well, they are in the sense of
they're now requirements for work and there'll be a copay
of thirty dollars a month for most Medicaid recipients. So
(06:15):
there's going to be a ton of people that are lost.
But the argument these are cuts, and the other side
is these aren't cuts.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We just want to make people work.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And because a lot of people don't, yeah, it's going
to cost us less money.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
There will be quote cuts.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I guess it depends on how you want to define cuts.
But I'll tell you what is legitimate, and that is
the cuts are here to medical programs. Absolutely, there will
be less money, which means the county on its own
has to fund these various programs and agencies. The state
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has to fund various programs, and the counties are going
to ask grants from the state. And we in California
pay a whole lot more in taxes than we receive
from the federal government. Certain states get more money from
the Feds than the.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Citizens of those states.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The workers pay into the federal government via income tax,
and certain states sort of subsidize the rest of them,
and we are in the subsidizing part of that equation.
And even with that, our various programs are being cut
not just to the bone, they're being cut into the bone.
(07:39):
And that's hey, you know, this is how we live.
This is how we're going to live. It's unfortunate, but
that's the way it goes. And I you know, I'm
not a huge fan of governmental spending. I mean, I
do like programs that are paid for. I do believe people,
if they are working full time, should be able to eat.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For example.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I know that's totally crazy, revolutionary. Okay, La southern California,
but La particularly is known as a land of fruits
and nuts, where the rest of the country, certainly in
the South and the mid the middle part of the country,
(08:21):
think that we are basically crazy. You know, we eat
tofu turkey, that sort of thing. I mean, we're just
really weird. Guess what, They're absolutely right. Let me tell
you what's going on. We now have the wild world
of dog wellness, which has exploded. I mean, we are
(08:42):
a dog town for sure, and now we're entering We've
always had this, but now entering balls to the wall.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
In dog wellness.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's a niche industry and what it does is mirrors.
Wellness treatments for human swinging from relaxing and rejuvenating to
the kind of weird. VET affiliated treatments include this is
for your dog, mind you, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, chiropractic care, psychiatry
(09:16):
for your dogs, nutrition and that includes raw and organic
food supplements, Western and Chinese herbal remedies, dog spas, practitioners
offering massage reichi is that pronounced right, reiche?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What the hell do I know? Reiche meditation, red light therapy.
That's for inflammation. I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Skin and nail treatments is not just cutting nails that
the vet does. Oh no, it's more than that. They
call those potocures forest bathing. How about a pet psychic?
WHOA there is the co host of a radio show
(10:04):
called pet Buzz and what she says, Charlotte Red Human
centric wellness for dogs is at a high point.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
One of the reasons VET bills are going up like crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Better focus on preventive care, although even preventative care can
be really expensive, so self care for humans becomes more popular.
Wellness products and services that are dog oriented follow that lead. Now,
this is true. I don't think this is an increasing number.
(10:37):
I think this has always been a huge number of
pet owners now view their dogs as children, and a
New York court recently ruled that you know what, dogs
can be immediate family members.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For purposes of lawsuits, etc.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
California and most of the states, dogs you may think
of as your kids, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They're dogs, their property. That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They are not members of your family. Although people think
of them. People have dogs really do look of them
as their kids. So Lindsey and I we don't have kids.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Thank god.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I've done that, been there, done that, and so she'll
tell me occasionally and she's been She goes feed the kids.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I go feed the kids. You mean feed the dogs,
feed the kids.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
How many people think their dogs are kids. I've got
news for you. Dogs are dogs. And as much as
I would have many times wanted to put my kids down,
I couldn't because they're not dogs. Now could I put
down a dog? Unfortunately, I've had to several times.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Dogs. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Here is something that's pretty important I think, and this
is doctor Jerry Klein, who is the American Kennel Club
Chief erinarian. He says, you know, owners have to be
careful not to project human desires onto animals. You know,
they don't share the same tastes. You know, they don't
like spicy food. You know, it's a different kind of taste.
(12:24):
They feel pain differently too. From what I understand, a
lot of this stuff is geared to humans. And I've
taken dogs to the vet, you know, we as you know,
my little my little Gucci, my little terrier, it was
eaten by a coyote and still survived it, and she
hurt like hell. We took her to the vet, of course,
(12:45):
and the vet I said, she looks like in such
pain because dogs feel different, they don't feel pain the
same way we do. And of course we had surgery
on little Gucci and the surgery really didn't take, so
they're needed in others. And I said, how much is
that going to cost? Sixteen thousand dollars? Gucci did not
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survive that because Gucci was put down. If you think
I was going to spend sixteen thousand dollars more to
operate on this little dog, you're crazy. I wouldn't spend
sixteen thousand dollars out of pocket out of pocket to
operate on my kids much less a dog. The point
is we are weird with the world of dogs. So
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on behalf of little dead Gucci and the other dogs
around the world.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Taking care of us the same way you would take
care of yourself, with nutrition and massage and reichi and
therapy and beat all of it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And this, I mean, this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Story goes on and on. Actually is the story in
the La Times. I wish I spent more time on it.
The reporter actually put his dog through a week of
this stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And the description of what.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That dog went through first of all thousands and thousands
of dollars. And I got to tell you this is
where people are absolutely right, how.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Crazy things are.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Quiet cracking is a new term, and according to the experts,
this is pervasive. And what is quiet cracking, Well, it's
the latest buzzword and it describes a lack of fulfillment
at work, job satisfaction. It describes a look at the
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potential for growth not very much, among other factors. Now,
this is not quiet quitting, which is getting yourself up
and out of a job. You're basically going to quit
without physically and standing up to say I'm quitting, so
it doesn't necessarily mean an employee's performance is affected. Their
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happiness and being happy at work is something that I
don't know how many of us are. And one of
the questions I always ask whenever I start conversations with
people and ask them what they do, and then everybably
they will tell me, and I go and do you
like what you do?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Do you like your work?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I get yeah, I love my work, or yeah
I like it or more often than not, not particularly,
not particularly happy, disengaged actually is.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
There was a survey from a talent LMS company offers
training resources for business and found over half of the
respondents experience quiet cracking at their jobs. Twenty percent say
they experience it constantly, basically being very unhappy, not engaged,
but still workingse what are you going to do? I mean,
(16:01):
you have to eat right and what are the reasons
why are people.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Involved in quiet in quiet cracking? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How about this no job security because of concerns about layoffs,
lack of opportunity, growth, opportunities being replaced by AI, I mean,
all of it, and it's happening more and more. And
the problem is is that management has to be taught
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how to deal with this. There are ways of dealing
with this, but the problem is management is as quiet
cracking as other employees are. Everybody is quiet cracking right up,
and I'm assuming that senior management is not because they
make a lot of money and obviously very focused.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Maybe they are. I mean, now you don't talk too.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Many CEOs in my life, but just you know, disengaged.
And so I'm going to go around the room and
keep in mind that everybody I do I ask here
as they tell me that they like their jobs, which
I will hear that, then that's what you will hear
this morning. And that is because management here at KFI
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tends to listen to this show and we have to lie.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So with that in mind, will are you happy here?
I am generally happy.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm really happy to be here, but if I have
to be anywhere at the butt crack of morning, it
would be nice to not have to do that. But yeah, right,
but you're basically happy, ye, absolutely, liar, Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
My life is completely fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I feel like I am the I and KFI and
there's no place I would rather be.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's that is vomitous, Okay, cono happy, We'll go ahead
and plead the fifth on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
There you go, mister honesty has hit, mister honesty, and
I must tell you, and to be honest, I am
thrilled because I am so close to getting the hell
out of here. I can't even begin to tell you
how happy I am.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That makes a lot of us. Yeah, I mean, this
is actually, this is a pretty good gig. It really is.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Radio is kind of fun. I'm on my ass during
the show. It's for us.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Full time is three or four hours? Well that's on
my end of it. Will not, Michael Monk's not.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But you know, I mean it's a pretty good gig
it is, And so am I fulfilled. I don't know,
I have no idea, and I don't know where Anne is.
I would ask her if she were. All right, guys,
we're done, and another fulfilling show tomorrow morning, all over again,
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and it starts with wake up Call, and that's Michael
Monks with Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Amy will be back tomorrow and Amy is back. That's right, Oh,
thank you, all right, thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So it's Will and Amy starting at five am with
wake Up Call, and then.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I jump aboard, not Neil because he's out this.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Week, and so we say goodbye to Michael Monks and
we you know, enjoyed you. Here, Michael, I'm reading this,
by the way, and I just want to let you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Know I enjoyed you too. But you said you don't
read from scripts earlier today, so I know that one.
I read that one. No, no, I don't read for commercials. Okay,
You like, hey, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have to listen. You've got to listen. Coming up,
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is a Monday morning, July twenty one, Fast Food Day,
National Fast Food Day. And here is a heartbreaker. And
we knew this was going to happen. At least seventy
six children and ten adults have reportedly died of malnutrition
in Gaza. We were told by the health authorities there
(00:33):
that people were on the verge of starvation, and now
there are reports of actual death of starvation. And well,
as I've said many times, for someone who's pro Israel,
I do believe what Israel is committing his crimes against
humanity simple straight out starving people to death purposely, no question.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Now, on a fun side, federal cuts leave La County
health system in a complete crisis. La County, I mean
La County is it just has an enormous budget and
has an entire health system bigger than most states responsible
for the care of the region's poorest. Is careening towards
(01:21):
financial crisis because of the cuts that are happening big time.
The Big Beautiful Bill expected to claw back seven hundred
and fifty million dollars per year from the County Department
of Health Services, which oversees public health for public hospitals
two dozen clinics. The agency called the bill a big
(01:43):
devastating blow to our health system and a hiring freeze
is in effect immediately. The administration's budget for the next
fiscal year will result in a two hundred million dollars
cut to the department. And what the department does is
wannitor disease outbreaks. For example, program gone inspecting food and
providing substance use treatment. That's basically gone. I'm not going
(02:08):
to sugarcoat it. Barbara Ferrari, head of Public Health. I'm
not gonna say where you can even survive this. We
can't survive this big a cut. Why Because most state
agencies most states get a huge amount of money from
the federal government.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Why is that because some states.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Don't have anywhere near income tax right they just don't
have it, And the federal government funds us mainly through
the states. The number of direct federal programs are very
small relative to the amount of money that flows to
the states for programs, and the federal government controls how
(02:50):
much money goes to the states.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
And if you're in.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
California, particularly LA County, we are screwed.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, well, because look at the fight that's going on
between California, La County and the government. The White House
announced it was ending infectious disease grants to county health
worth billions of dollars, including forty five million dollars LA
County was supposed to use to combat the thread of
measles and bird flu. I mean, because we don't have
(03:27):
to either we don't have bird flu. It doesn't exist,
and measles doesn't exist one of the two. Or you
know what, social programs, Medical programs are not as important,
and they're not with this administration. But remember, we have
elected our president in a democratic election. We have elected
(03:50):
Congress who back up the president every which way there is.
This month, the county Health Department lost another sixteen million
dollars for a program educating food stamp recipients about how
to buy healthy and there's more.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Two thousand and six will.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Be the biggest blow yet for our warned two hundred
million dollars from her department, twelve percent cut. She said,
I've actually never seen this much disdain for public health.
So she no longer has enough money for the Bioterrorism
Watch program, monitoring outbreaks that might signal a biological attack,
(04:32):
and soon count officials will have to stop testing ocean
water for toxins year round, cutting back to just half
the year where toxins usually occur.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean, that is tough. That is very tough.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So what happens is these federal dollars flow through and
many health programs are at risk and.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Are being cut not even so much at risk.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And unfortunately, when these happen, what the administration says is
that we are making we are getting rid of the waste,
we are getting rid of the fraud, and by cutting
these programs, we're making America healthier again, and we're making
America greater again. Now, I don't know how that works
(05:24):
when you're cutting programs that deal with measles and somehow
that's good for the populace. I don't know how that works,
but I guess it does.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The reality is is that social programs are not as
important as immigration, as defense. We know that, but this
isn't just social programs. This is food stamps for example.
I mean, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
When they talk about medicaid cuts Medicaid being for people
who are very poor and can't afford anything. Obamacare, they're
not Medicaid cuts. Well, they are in the sense of
they're now requirements for work and there'll be a copay
of thirty dollars a month for most Medicaid recipients. So
(06:15):
there's going to be a ton of people that are lost.
But the argument these are cuts, and the other side
is these aren't cuts.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We just want to make people work.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And because a lot of people don't, yeah, it's going
to cost us less money.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
There will be quote cuts.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I guess it depends on how you want to define cuts.
But I'll tell you what is legitimate, and that is
the cuts are here to medical programs. Absolutely, there will
be less money, which means the county on its own
has to fund these various programs and agencies. The state
(06:53):
has to fund various programs, and the counties are going
to ask grants from the state. And we in California
pay a whole lot more in taxes than we receive
from the federal government. Certain states get more money from
the Feds than the.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Citizens of those states.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The workers pay into the federal government via income tax,
and certain states sort of subsidize the rest of them,
and we are in the subsidizing part of that equation.
And even with that, our various programs are being cut
not just to the bone, they're being cut into the bone.
(07:39):
And that's hey, you know, this is how we live.
This is how we're going to live. It's unfortunate, but
that's the way it goes. And I you know, I'm
not a huge fan of governmental spending. I mean, I
do like programs that are paid for. I do believe people,
if they are working full time, should be able to eat.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
For example.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I know that's totally crazy, revolutionary. Okay, La southern California,
but La particularly is known as a land of fruits
and nuts, where the rest of the country, certainly in
the South and the mid the middle part of the country,
(08:21):
think that we are basically crazy. You know, we eat
tofu turkey, that sort of thing. I mean, we're just
really weird. Guess what, They're absolutely right. Let me tell
you what's going on. We now have the wild world
of dog wellness, which has exploded. I mean, we are
(08:42):
a dog town for sure, and now we're entering We've
always had this, but now entering balls to the wall.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
In dog wellness.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's a niche industry and what it does is mirrors.
Wellness treatments for human swinging from relaxing and rejuvenating to
the kind of weird. VET affiliated treatments include this is
for your dog, mind you, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, chiropractic care, psychiatry
(09:16):
for your dogs, nutrition and that includes raw and organic
food supplements, Western and Chinese herbal remedies, dog spas, practitioners
offering massage reichi is that pronounced right, reiche?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What the hell do I know? Reiche meditation, red light therapy.
That's for inflammation. I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Skin and nail treatments is not just cutting nails that
the vet does. Oh no, it's more than that. They
call those potocures forest bathing. How about a pet psychic?
WHOA there is the co host of a radio show
(10:04):
called pet Buzz and what she says, Charlotte Red Human
centric wellness for dogs is at a high point.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
One of the reasons VET bills are going up like crazy.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Better focus on preventive care, although even preventative care can
be really expensive, so self care for humans becomes more popular.
Wellness products and services that are dog oriented follow that lead. Now,
this is true. I don't think this is an increasing number.
(10:37):
I think this has always been a huge number of
pet owners now view their dogs as children, and a
New York court recently ruled that you know what, dogs
can be immediate family members.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
For purposes of lawsuits, etc.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
California and most of the states, dogs you may think
of as your kids, but they're not.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They're dogs, their property. That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They are not members of your family. Although people think
of them. People have dogs really do look of them
as their kids. So Lindsey and I we don't have kids.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Thank god.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I've done that, been there, done that, and so she'll
tell me occasionally and she's been She goes feed the kids.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I go feed the kids. You mean feed the dogs,
feed the kids.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
How many people think their dogs are kids. I've got
news for you. Dogs are dogs. And as much as
I would have many times wanted to put my kids down,
I couldn't because they're not dogs. Now could I put
down a dog? Unfortunately, I've had to several times.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Dogs. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Here is something that's pretty important I think, and this
is doctor Jerry Klein, who is the American Kennel Club
Chief erinarian. He says, you know, owners have to be
careful not to project human desires onto animals. You know,
they don't share the same tastes. You know, they don't
like spicy food. You know, it's a different kind of taste.
(12:24):
They feel pain differently too. From what I understand, a
lot of this stuff is geared to humans. And I've
taken dogs to the vet, you know, we as you know,
my little my little Gucci, my little terrier, it was
eaten by a coyote and still survived it, and she
hurt like hell. We took her to the vet, of course,
(12:45):
and the vet I said, she looks like in such
pain because dogs feel different, they don't feel pain the
same way we do. And of course we had surgery
on little Gucci and the surgery really didn't take, so
they're needed in others. And I said, how much is
that going to cost? Sixteen thousand dollars? Gucci did not
(13:06):
survive that because Gucci was put down. If you think
I was going to spend sixteen thousand dollars more to
operate on this little dog, you're crazy. I wouldn't spend
sixteen thousand dollars out of pocket out of pocket to
operate on my kids much less a dog. The point
is we are weird with the world of dogs. So
(13:27):
on behalf of little dead Gucci and the other dogs
around the world.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Thank you so much for.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Taking care of us the same way you would take
care of yourself, with nutrition and massage and reichi and
therapy and beat all of it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And this, I mean, this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Story goes on and on. Actually is the story in
the La Times. I wish I spent more time on it.
The reporter actually put his dog through a week of
this stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And the description of what.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
That dog went through first of all thousands and thousands
of dollars. And I got to tell you this is
where people are absolutely right, how.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Crazy things are.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Quiet cracking is a new term, and according to the experts,
this is pervasive. And what is quiet cracking, Well, it's
the latest buzzword and it describes a lack of fulfillment
at work, job satisfaction. It describes a look at the
(14:37):
potential for growth not very much, among other factors. Now,
this is not quiet quitting, which is getting yourself up
and out of a job. You're basically going to quit
without physically and standing up to say I'm quitting, so
it doesn't necessarily mean an employee's performance is affected. Their
(15:00):
happiness and being happy at work is something that I
don't know how many of us are. And one of
the questions I always ask whenever I start conversations with
people and ask them what they do, and then everybably
they will tell me, and I go and do you
like what you do?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Do you like your work?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I get yeah, I love my work, or yeah
I like it or more often than not, not particularly,
not particularly happy, disengaged actually is.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What it is.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
There was a survey from a talent LMS company offers
training resources for business and found over half of the
respondents experience quiet cracking at their jobs. Twenty percent say
they experience it constantly, basically being very unhappy, not engaged,
but still workingse what are you going to do? I mean,
(16:01):
you have to eat right and what are the reasons
why are people.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Involved in quiet in quiet cracking? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How about this no job security because of concerns about layoffs,
lack of opportunity, growth, opportunities being replaced by AI, I mean,
all of it, and it's happening more and more. And
the problem is is that management has to be taught
(16:36):
how to deal with this. There are ways of dealing
with this, but the problem is management is as quiet
cracking as other employees are. Everybody is quiet cracking right up,
and I'm assuming that senior management is not because they
make a lot of money and obviously very focused.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Maybe they are. I mean, now you don't talk too.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Many CEOs in my life, but just you know, disengaged.
And so I'm going to go around the room and
keep in mind that everybody I do I ask here
as they tell me that they like their jobs, which
I will hear that, then that's what you will hear
this morning. And that is because management here at KFI
(17:22):
tends to listen to this show and we have to lie.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So with that in mind, will are you happy here?
I am generally happy.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I'm really happy to be here, but if I have
to be anywhere at the butt crack of morning, it
would be nice to not have to do that. But yeah, right,
but you're basically happy, ye, absolutely, liar, Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
My life is completely fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I feel like I am the I and KFI and
there's no place I would rather be.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's that is vomitous, Okay, cono happy, We'll go ahead
and plead the fifth on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
There you go, mister honesty has hit, mister honesty, and
I must tell you, and to be honest, I am
thrilled because I am so close to getting the hell
out of here. I can't even begin to tell you
how happy I am.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That makes a lot of us. Yeah, I mean, this
is actually, this is a pretty good gig. It really is.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Radio is kind of fun. I'm on my ass during
the show. It's for us.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Full time is three or four hours? Well that's on
my end of it. Will not, Michael Monk's not.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But you know, I mean it's a pretty good gig
it is, And so am I fulfilled. I don't know,
I have no idea, and I don't know where Anne is.
I would ask her if she were. All right, guys,
we're done, and another fulfilling show tomorrow morning, all over again,
(18:58):
and it starts with wake up Call, and that's Michael
Monks with Michael Monks.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Amy will be back tomorrow and Amy is back. That's right, Oh,
thank you, all right, thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
So it's Will and Amy starting at five am with
wake Up Call, and then.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I jump aboard, not Neil because he's out this.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Week, and so we say goodbye to Michael Monks and
we you know, enjoyed you. Here, Michael, I'm reading this,
by the way, and I just want to let you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Know I enjoyed you too. But you said you don't
read from scripts earlier today, so I know that one.
I read that one. No, no, I don't read for commercials. Okay,
You like, hey, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have to listen. You've got to listen. Coming up,
Gary and Shannon. This is KFI A M six forty.
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