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It's 1130 in the morning. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.920 And his opponent, Marissa Roy, is one of those DSA 0:00:42.260 --> 0:00:49.100 loony bags who is not planning to prosecute misdemeanors. Yes, 0:00:49.380 --> 0:00:51.600 that's right. And she's winning in the polls right now, 0:00:51.650 --> 0:00:54.590 but there's a huge number undecided. But can you imagine 0:00:55.670 --> 0:01:03.630 LA favoring somebody who doesn't prosecute misdemeanors, John McKinney tomorrow, 0:01:03.690 --> 0:01:07.670 he will prosecute misdemeanors. Uh, now we're going to talk 0:01:07.709 --> 0:01:12.280 with Micah Reed who lives in the San Fernando Valley. Uh, 0:01:12.420 --> 0:01:16.140 Micah is one of many people, uh, including Debra and 0:01:16.220 --> 0:01:20.500 I shocked at our DWP bill, which was exponentially higher 0:01:20.620 --> 0:01:21.780 than anything we'd ever seen. 0:01:22.540 --> 0:01:22.780 Yes. 0:01:22.860 --> 0:01:26.750 The summer was hot, but, uh, It turns out that 0:01:26.810 --> 0:01:33.080 the threshold to be pushed into higher tiers, higher expensive electricity, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:38.679 those thresholds are so low that having a heat wave 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.580 and just running your air conditioning at a normal temperature 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.490 will just kill you in terms of price. And it 0:01:47.570 --> 0:01:50.310 just seems something basic like getting air conditioning in a 0:01:50.330 --> 0:01:53.990 hot summer shouldn't cost this much. And in most states, 0:01:54.030 --> 0:01:58.210 it doesn't. This is DWP Pricing. Micah Reed's coming on. 0:01:58.410 --> 0:02:05.490 He was complaining at a LADWP meeting yesterday, a hearing. Micah, 0:02:05.670 --> 0:02:06.850 how are you? Thanks for coming on. 0:02:07.950 --> 0:02:09.960 Hey, Don. I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. 0:02:10.260 --> 0:02:11.100 You got a bill of $ 3, 322. 0:02:10.860 --> 0:02:10.940 01. 0:02:10.940 --> 0:02:17.620 How'd that feel? Yeah, they had to throw that extra. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.660 It hurt, I'll tell you. I mean, like you said, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.600 the summer was hot. But I wasn't expecting the bill 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.280 to be as bad as it was this time around. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.340 It really hurts. You have a change.org petition, and you 0:02:31.410 --> 0:02:34.000 have about 40,000 signatures already. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.370 Yeah, we just hit 41,000 signatures, and we're demanding an 0:02:40.389 --> 0:02:43.970 independent audit from LADWP. And we want them to look 0:02:44.150 --> 0:02:46.510 very closely at that rate tier system like you were 0:02:46.530 --> 0:02:49.169 talking about. In the summer, people get pushed into Tier 0:02:49.169 --> 0:02:52.460 3 so quickly. And, you know, it's like 41 cents 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:53.160 a kilowatt hour. 0:02:53.180 --> 0:02:56.640 It really hurts. It's terrible that they didn't agree to 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.419 do it. The audit, at least that's what I read 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.840 today in the news stories. So did they outright refuse 0:03:02.900 --> 0:03:05.910 or it got postponed or what's the status there? 0:03:07.220 --> 0:03:09.690 Uh, I don't, I don't know anything about them actually 0:03:09.710 --> 0:03:12.150 even addressing it during the meeting. I, I didn't have 0:03:12.190 --> 0:03:14.310 a chance to listen all the way through it. I 0:03:14.350 --> 0:03:18.310 know that Karen Bass says that, uh, She is going 0:03:18.850 --> 0:03:22.030 to give people relief until the end of the year. But, John, 0:03:22.150 --> 0:03:27.340 that really concerns me because it's not forgiving the bill itself. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.600 People are just going to drive themselves further and further 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.340 into utility bill debt, which just seems insane to me. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.740 Yeah, it's a payment plan. You still have to pay 0:03:36.780 --> 0:03:42.690 the same amount. Yeah, the story, this is KTLA, that 0:03:42.990 --> 0:03:46.270 they approve a relief plan. That's the payment plan, but 0:03:46.350 --> 0:03:47.010 not a new audit. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.220 Right. Yeah, and that's what we need more than anything 0:03:54.660 --> 0:03:57.340 is the audit and for them to look closely at 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.340 the tier system because people in the San Fernando Valley 0:04:01.100 --> 0:04:04.360 and in areas where it's hot, you know, I have 0:04:04.380 --> 0:04:07.450 my air conditioning at 74 degrees, and I know a 0:04:07.490 --> 0:04:09.430 lot of people freak out about that, but even if 0:04:09.490 --> 0:04:11.470 I put it at 78 degrees when it's 105 outside, 0:04:11.490 --> 0:04:13.250 it's still 82 degrees inside my house. 0:04:13.270 --> 0:04:22.960 Yeah. I mean, we kept ours pretty– in fact, we 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.989 kept ours about somewhere between $ 75, 000, $ 76, 000 around there. And 0:04:27.060 --> 0:04:28.850 I got hit with a $ 3, 000 bill too. 0:04:31.029 --> 0:04:31.289 Yeah. 0:04:31.470 --> 0:04:36.770 And it was not chilly in our house by any standard. 0:04:37.890 --> 0:04:41.980 Yeah, I'm getting tons of people commenting on my videos 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.120 saying that they got outrageous bills as well. Some people 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.480 even higher than mine, obviously. And then I've got people 0:04:49.500 --> 0:04:51.219 in the comments saying that they have solar panels, and 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.080 they got two $ 3, 000 bills. So I don't understand how 0:04:55.140 --> 0:05:01.169 the LADWP charges. It's very confusing, and it seems like 0:05:01.190 --> 0:05:04.490 there's a big lack of transparency on how they read 0:05:04.510 --> 0:05:06.890 the meters, at least the way it seems on my end. 0:05:07.089 --> 0:05:10.289 I'm looking at my bill. Tier 1 energy only goes 0:05:10.370 --> 0:05:19.980 up to 700 kilowatt hours. And I used 6,000. So 0:05:22.210 --> 0:05:25.890 at about 10% of my energy use, I'm already in 0:05:25.930 --> 0:05:26.370 tier two. 0:05:29.230 --> 0:05:29.450 Right. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.099 At about 30% of my kilowatt hours, now I'm in 0:05:34.140 --> 0:05:37.040 tier three. Now I'm really getting hosed. And so are you. 0:05:37.140 --> 0:05:37.800 So is everybody. 0:05:39.570 --> 0:05:42.490 Yeah, I think half of my utility bill on that 0:05:42.490 --> 0:05:45.810 $ 3, 000 bill, I was in Tier 3 as far as 0:05:45.850 --> 0:05:48.990 the electricity goes. And then you look at the bill 0:05:49.010 --> 0:05:51.820 for electricity, they throw a 10% tax on top of it, 0:05:51.850 --> 0:05:52.930 which is just outrageous. 0:05:53.270 --> 0:05:59.000 Yeah, I'm looking at that. I had $ 184 in Tier 1. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.100 I don't know how many days that gets you. I 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.260 guess that gets me about three days of electricity. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:05.760 Right. 0:06:06.060 --> 0:06:09.870 And then I'm up to about $ 600. And then I'm 0:06:09.910 --> 0:06:14.950 out of tier two. And then tier three cost me $ 1, 728. 0:06:14.830 --> 0:06:23.010 And then $ 241 for the 10% tax. And again, we 0:06:23.089 --> 0:06:28.200 kept it no lower than 75. And there was only 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.240 three people in our house all summer. Three people. We 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.760 had one of our sons living with us for a 0:06:33.779 --> 0:06:35.659 couple of months before we went back out. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.180 Yeah, it's super frustrating. And I know you've been talking 0:06:41.220 --> 0:06:44.210 about LADWP for years as I've listened to you for 0:06:44.230 --> 0:06:47.470 a long time. And you look at the salaries and 0:06:47.490 --> 0:06:51.610 the overtime and the compensation plans that they have for retirement. 0:06:52.430 --> 0:06:55.349 And I saw, I think yesterday in the California Post, 0:06:55.890 --> 0:07:00.479 that I think five LADWP employees make up $ 4 million 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:01.320 a year. 0:07:01.339 --> 0:07:01.679 Yeah. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.760 Like, I mean, it's gotten insane. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.860 And they're regular employees. They're supervisors. Yeah. down the food chain. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.040 That's what's nuts about this. And how would we know this? Yeah, yeah. 0:07:17.180 --> 0:07:22.360 It's four distribution supervisors and an electric distribution mechanic. Between 0:07:22.380 --> 0:07:26.050 the five of them, nearly $ 4 million. One of them, 0:07:26.630 --> 0:07:31.090 one mechanic, took in $ 505, 000 just in overtime. 0:07:33.530 --> 0:07:36.530 Yeah, if you go to CaliforniaTransparent.com and look at the 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.230 Look at all those salaries. It's like you're looking at 0:07:39.370 --> 0:07:42.170 like legal minimum for an NFL roster or something. 0:07:42.950 --> 0:07:47.230 Now, when you were saying your piece at the LADWP hearing, 0:07:47.270 --> 0:07:50.610 they're just staring at you there. Yeah. 0:07:50.750 --> 0:07:50.930 Yeah. 0:07:50.970 --> 0:07:52.590 They just looked at me with a blank stare. And 0:07:53.530 --> 0:07:56.520 the president said that my bill represents two percent of 0:07:56.650 --> 0:08:00.380 LADWP rate payers, which I think is just using, you know, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.990 gymnastics with the math. Because he said that the average 0:08:04.190 --> 0:08:07.650 LADWP customer has a bill of up $ 250, which I 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.000 think is a complete joke. And I've talked to tons 0:08:11.020 --> 0:08:12.680 of people that work in solar that look at bills 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.040 all day, and they've never seen a bill for $ 250. 0:08:14.980 --> 0:08:20.740 No, that is impossible. Because like I said, we got 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:28.190 three people in our family. And I think that's, I 0:08:28.230 --> 0:08:30.190 don't know, it's like two days worth of electricity. I 0:08:30.390 --> 0:08:33.140 don't know how this happens. In fact, we kept the 0:08:33.780 --> 0:08:36.300 air conditioning off much of the time because of this. 0:08:37.900 --> 0:08:40.700 Yeah, and, John, I've done everything on my end to 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.330 try and, like, make my house energy efficient. I mean, 0:08:43.350 --> 0:08:47.510 when we bought this house, we put in brand-new energy-efficient windows. 0:08:47.610 --> 0:08:47.810 Yeah. 0:08:48.130 --> 0:08:53.809 We put a pool, a variable-speed pool pump. You know, 0:08:53.910 --> 0:08:58.530 I've got blackout blinds. I've got a brand-new HVAC system. So, 0:08:58.550 --> 0:09:00.430 I mean, I don't know what else they want me 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.000 to do. They want me to put $ 50, 000 solar panels 0:09:03.059 --> 0:09:06.220 on my roof and spray insulation. I don't get it. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.380 It's a racket. No matter what you do, they're going 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.079 to charge you. By the time you get to Tier 3, 0:09:11.059 --> 0:09:14.120 you're paying $ 0. 40 for a kilowatt hour. That same kilowatt 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.420 hour in Nevada is $ 0. 0:09:15.580 --> 0:09:16.500 11. 0:09:16.500 --> 0:09:18.350 So it doesn't matter what you do. You can waste 0:09:18.390 --> 0:09:20.650 all the money you want on these home improvements. They're 0:09:20.670 --> 0:09:23.030 still going to charge you $ 0. 40, and they're going to 0:09:23.050 --> 0:09:25.329 charge that to you three out of four weeks of 0:09:25.350 --> 0:09:31.860 the month. Right. And when you complain, they're just going 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.380 to stare at you and tell you it's your fault. 0:09:35.620 --> 0:09:37.239 It's your fault for trying to get out of the 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:37.680 heat wave. 0:09:40.530 --> 0:09:44.510 Yeah, well, hopefully we can try to keep pressing them. 0:09:44.950 --> 0:09:46.590 I don't know what else to do, but I know 0:09:46.610 --> 0:09:48.730 a lot of people are pretty angry about it. I mean, 0:09:48.770 --> 0:09:51.430 it was pretty humbling yesterday to hear some people that 0:09:51.970 --> 0:09:57.120 aren't as fortunate, that are disabled, veterans, people on fixed 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.220 incomes that saw their bill go from $ 250 to $ 1, 000. 0:10:00.900 --> 0:10:03.559 It's across the board. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.859 Here's one here. Cheyenne Gutierrez lives with her mother in 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:11.729 a two-bedroom apartment. Her bill went from $ 150 to $ 900. 0:10:11.390 --> 0:10:17.170 I guess her mom was secretly jacking up the air 0:10:17.210 --> 0:10:22.620 conditioning all summer on her. All right, listen, Micah, you keep– no, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:22.949 go ahead. 0:10:24.230 --> 0:10:26.730 Oh, yeah, every time there was a story like that, 0:10:26.809 --> 0:10:30.470 they sent somebody over to take them outside and have 0:10:30.510 --> 0:10:33.689 a consultation. 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I've been 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.439 telling you about how they expanded the Medicare program, the 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:07.699 Medicaid program for poor people, extra $ 12 billion, Medicaid, your 0:12:07.740 --> 0:12:11.990 tax money, to go to illegal aliens. Do you know 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:12.850 what part of the. 0:12:15.300 --> 0:12:22.520 It's not just paying their medical bills. It's giving them expensive, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:30.010 high-end luxury food is delivered to their house. Because there's 0:12:30.450 --> 0:12:35.510 a loophole where you could ask for medically tailored meals. 0:12:36.730 --> 0:12:42.430 So you'll get expensive prepared meals or grocery items paid 0:12:42.490 --> 0:12:45.790 for by you. And it can be anything. You can 0:12:45.850 --> 0:12:52.010 claim that you have anxiety or depression or ADHD. Claim 0:12:52.030 --> 0:12:57.709 you have ADHD and you'll get free luxury food delivered 0:12:57.750 --> 0:13:03.010 to your door. As well as pre-diabetes and any heart issues, 0:13:03.450 --> 0:13:08.230 mental health disorders. Hey, I'm crazy. I need some good food. 0:13:08.530 --> 0:13:10.750 And people are doing it. It's costing us billions of dollars. 0:13:12.940 --> 0:13:17.580 Listen to this video that Christopher Rufo made for City Journal. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:18.319 You'll get the idea. 0:13:18.730 --> 0:13:21.390 This is California's latest welfare program. 0:13:21.490 --> 0:13:24.069 We got lots of stuff. 0:13:24.250 --> 0:13:25.870 You've got strawberries. 0:13:26.050 --> 0:13:26.809 Blackberries. 0:13:26.950 --> 0:13:28.330 Blueberries. 0:13:28.350 --> 0:13:30.290 Two pounds of tilapia. 0:13:30.470 --> 0:13:31.090 Cachos. 0:13:31.490 --> 0:13:35.190 Every week, California is sending these luxury food boxes to 0:13:35.230 --> 0:13:39.920 Medicaid recipients right to their doorstep for free. It's like 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.900 Instacart for welfare queens. 0:13:42.340 --> 0:13:43.040 It's all part of. 0:13:43.020 --> 0:13:47.940 The state's $ 12 billion Medicaid expansion, and it's easy to qualify. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.160 All you need is a welfare number and a medical condition, 0:13:51.330 --> 0:13:54.190 including anxiety, depression, and PTSD. 0:13:55.050 --> 0:13:56.050 I am a. 0:13:55.990 --> 0:13:57.240 Little bit allergic to the sun. 0:13:57.270 --> 0:13:58.790 It's an autoimmune thing. 0:13:58.870 --> 0:14:02.710 According to federal data, the program is also a windfall 0:14:02.770 --> 0:14:07.959 for private contractors. Companies like Bento, Mom's Meals, and Project 0:14:08.020 --> 0:14:12.280 Food Box have billed taxpayers millions of dollars for the 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.160 luxury food program. Middle class families are struggling to buy 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.470 the basics, while California's welfare households are living. 0:14:20.250 --> 0:14:23.250 High on the hog. Oh, yeah. 0:14:23.830 --> 0:14:28.760 That's not an exaggeration. There's some woman named Lupita on TikTok. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:34.100 She posted a video opening up one of these grocery boxes, 0:14:34.500 --> 0:14:40.420 courtesy of you, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed 0:14:40.460 --> 0:14:46.920 it by hand. And inside she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, 0:14:46.980 --> 0:14:52.410 and more. Debra, you should apply for this. You could 0:14:52.430 --> 0:14:53.170 prove anxiety. 0:14:53.410 --> 0:14:54.110 Yes, I can. 0:14:54.210 --> 0:14:56.270 And you're going to get a whole box of fruits 0:14:56.290 --> 0:14:56.750 and vegetables. 0:14:56.790 --> 0:14:56.950 Nice. 0:14:57.170 --> 0:14:58.010 What's the phone number? 0:14:59.750 --> 0:15:01.230 You have to fill out a form. But you could 0:15:01.270 --> 0:15:06.050 fake the forms. Okay. Yesterday, I was like, I need 0:15:06.090 --> 0:15:09.370 some lettuce. But lettuce was $ 5. And look at this. 0:15:09.790 --> 0:15:13.470 Fresh lettuce. Thank you, God. No, no, no. It's not God. 0:15:13.810 --> 0:15:17.450 It's us. It's the idiots who made Gavin Newsom the governor. 0:15:17.750 --> 0:15:21.550 That's how you ended up with your box of free food. God, 0:15:21.670 --> 0:15:24.770 thank you, God. Yes, God's shipping out the boxes to 0:15:24.790 --> 0:15:29.850 your house. Medi-Cal pays contractors to deliver the food for 0:15:29.890 --> 0:15:33.730 up to 12 weeks, and then you can re-enroll. Well, 0:15:33.790 --> 0:15:36.070 looks like my anxiety is acting up again. 0:15:36.170 --> 0:15:39.470 Do they have vegan food? 0:15:39.490 --> 0:15:47.660 Like this box I mentioned was pretty much vegan, right? Yeah. Carrots, broccoli, apples, orange. Well, 0:15:47.740 --> 0:15:49.350 I mean, yeah, if you've got a medical condition. 0:15:49.370 --> 0:15:51.490 So I can ask for some quinoa or some lentils. 0:15:51.550 --> 0:15:55.270 Oh, I'm sure. You can get salmon, beef, or organic produce. 0:15:55.450 --> 0:15:57.490 Amy's Kitchen Meals. Oh, yeah. 0:15:57.550 --> 0:15:58.770 Amy's does some vegan things. 0:15:58.790 --> 0:16:01.570 There you go. You got PTSD? 0:16:02.730 --> 0:16:05.520 Yes, I do, from working with you. Absolutely. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:06.540 I'll sign off on that. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:07.000 Okay. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.400 You need a witness? You need the cause? 0:16:09.500 --> 0:16:09.740 Yes. 0:16:09.780 --> 0:16:12.680 Yes, okay. I'll say, all right, I gave her PTSD. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:18.110 Give her her food. Um, let me see. Uh, over 0:16:18.230 --> 0:16:21.710 several months, these foods would cost you and I hundreds 0:16:21.750 --> 0:16:25.280 of dollars at the grocery store. And in fact, uh, 0:16:25.330 --> 0:16:30.830 across 24 weeks, if you're getting medically tailored meals, uh, 0:16:30.830 --> 0:16:34.950 $ 1, 500 it costs us. And they get one of the 0:16:35.010 --> 0:16:36.990 women says, yeah, I get way more in this box 0:16:37.030 --> 0:16:40.150 than I, I, I would, uh, buying it at the 0:16:40.190 --> 0:16:54.330 grocery store. And, uh, The biggest biller in the nation 0:16:55.110 --> 0:17:01.520 was Project Food Box. It received more than $ 68 million 0:17:01.620 --> 0:17:06.500 from Medicaid sending out luxury food. And in this case, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.530 in California, it's illegal aliens. And then they don't even 0:17:11.570 --> 0:17:14.240 thank you. They thank God. I got more coming up. 0:17:15.340 --> 0:17:19.800 You're listening to John Kobelt On Demand from KFI AM 640. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:27.810 KFI AM 640, we're stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show, 0:17:28.130 --> 0:17:31.320 on till 6, after 6 o'clock. Geez, you just joined us? 0:17:31.730 --> 0:17:34.010 You missed a lot. So that's what the podcast is for, 0:17:34.050 --> 0:17:36.740 right after 6. Download it on the iHeart app. John 0:17:36.780 --> 0:17:40.280 Kobelt Show On Demand. We are live on YouTube, live 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.379 on X. Get yourself to a video screen. You can 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:48.189 watch this. 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Now, I 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:34.479 often joke about all the young guys who don't go 0:18:34.550 --> 0:18:39.250 out anymore. They don't date. They don't go out for 0:18:39.270 --> 0:18:43.200 a drink with their buddies. They're not having sex, let 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.359 alone getting married and having children. They just don't do anything. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.370 In fact, there was a study out we talked about 0:18:49.380 --> 0:18:51.150 a few months ago how they like to lay in bed. 0:18:51.530 --> 0:18:54.590 It's called bed rot. And they'll spend the weekend staring 0:18:54.609 --> 0:18:59.330 at screens. Order in on DoorDash, and that's your weekend. 0:19:01.670 --> 0:19:03.149 And I've never had a weekend like that in my 0:19:03.170 --> 0:19:05.770 whole life. I've never laid in bed for an entire 0:19:05.810 --> 0:19:09.700 weekend ordering food and staring at screens. It's not happened once. 0:19:11.630 --> 0:19:16.280 But it's even worse than that. This is a story 0:19:16.420 --> 0:19:22.520 in The Atlantic. Do you know that there are 7 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:27.660 million men in what they call the prime age, 25 0:19:27.660 --> 0:19:33.260 to 54, who have dropped out of the workforce? They 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:34.139 don't work anymore. 0:19:34.380 --> 0:19:35.660 How do they support themselves? 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.050 I will tell you. And it's not that there aren't 0:19:40.290 --> 0:19:46.030 job openings. If you look, just look at these sectors. 0:19:46.070 --> 0:19:52.120 And when I'm talking about traditional guy jobs, right? Manufacturing, construction, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.119 you could throw in mining and logging. There were 800,000 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.110 job openings last month. 0:20:00.109 --> 0:20:00.409 800,000. 0:20:00.410 --> 0:20:02.270 They have no takers. 0:20:02.770 --> 0:20:05.710 Those are hard jobs. People don't want those types of jobs. 0:20:06.050 --> 0:20:07.170 They want to work from home. 0:20:08.250 --> 0:20:11.230 These guys don't even work from home. They sit at 0:20:11.270 --> 0:20:17.510 home and they don't do anything. They go on welfare, disability, 0:20:17.710 --> 0:20:21.510 or they live in their parents' house. Seriously, that's what 0:20:21.530 --> 0:20:28.150 all the research says. Also, there's a lot of police, fire, 0:20:28.369 --> 0:20:32.110 other law enforcement agencies have huge vacancy rates. Can't fill 0:20:32.150 --> 0:20:35.730 those jobs either. Some of these pay good money, good benefits. 0:20:37.790 --> 0:20:43.320 Guys don't want to, you know what they're doing? Well, 0:20:43.340 --> 0:20:47.720 first of all, they compare it to women. The women 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:52.620 who are not formally working spend most of their time 0:20:52.660 --> 0:20:57.260 then on caregiving and other unpaid work at home. But 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:01.800 the average man without a job, ages 25-54, devotes less 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:06.260 than an hour, less than an hour a day to 0:21:06.300 --> 0:21:10.850 such purposes. What they're doing is they're spending five and 0:21:10.869 --> 0:21:15.210 a half hours a day watching television and movies. And 0:21:15.690 --> 0:21:23.459 more hours on pornography and video games. And more than 0:21:23.580 --> 0:21:26.600 half of the men, 18 to 49, have an online 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:32.200 sports betting account. They're smoking a lot of pot. Price 0:21:32.260 --> 0:21:36.980 of marijuana has collapsed. The drug is more potent than ever. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:40.380 More than a quarter of the men who are not 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:46.280 employed or in school smoke pot, Every day, or almost 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:51.469 every day, they spend their days watching porn, gambling, and 0:21:51.490 --> 0:21:59.070 doing drugs. Now, that's 7 million guys, and it's 25, 54. 0:21:59.050 --> 0:22:02.530 We're not even talking idiot teenagers. Not even idiots in 0:22:02.550 --> 0:22:06.629 their early 20s. We're talking about 25. You're very close 0:22:06.690 --> 0:22:08.650 to your brain having matured. 0:22:10.770 --> 0:22:11.070 And.... 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.040 That's when you could be ready for responsibility. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:16.440 Well, who's going to want that? 0:22:17.420 --> 0:22:18.220 Well, they don't. 0:22:18.460 --> 0:22:20.680 What I'm saying is what woman is going to want 0:22:20.740 --> 0:22:21.640 one of those guys? 0:22:23.060 --> 0:22:27.800 Well, they don't. So they're not getting married. Right. Women 0:22:27.820 --> 0:22:30.639 are not going to marry you if you're not working. 0:22:31.460 --> 0:22:31.600 Correct. 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:36.370 That's simply not going to happen. And then I see 0:22:36.390 --> 0:22:38.730 these guys, they go online and they complain about women 0:22:38.810 --> 0:22:40.490 and how hard it is to meet them and the 0:22:40.530 --> 0:22:41.710 high standards the women have. 0:22:43.690 --> 0:22:46.159 Okay, that might be true, but they definitely don't want 0:22:46.220 --> 0:22:46.720 a deadbeat. 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:47.760 Like having a job. 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:48.180 Right. 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:55.480 Why do you think I work two jobs? That'll pay off. Well, 0:22:55.580 --> 0:22:58.879 one thing is the safety net in this country, according 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:03.330 to this analysis, is pretty generous these days. So you 0:23:03.350 --> 0:23:07.050 just have to fill out some forms, and you're going 0:23:07.070 --> 0:23:08.670 to get a box of food delivered every day. 0:23:09.070 --> 0:23:10.590 And your parents are going to pay? 0:23:10.790 --> 0:23:11.030 Yeah. 0:23:11.290 --> 0:23:14.820 There would be no way if my... 25 to 54-year-old 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.859 child was acting that way. 0:23:19.380 --> 0:23:22.460 It turns out even if you raise wages in all 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:29.240 these fields, it doesn't help. They simply... Because what's more 0:23:29.300 --> 0:23:31.399 pleasurable than bed rotting? 0:23:32.380 --> 0:23:33.020 Not a whole lot. 0:23:33.060 --> 0:23:35.560 Getting stoned, pants down around the ankles. 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:36.420 Well, that I don't know. 0:23:36.580 --> 0:23:46.050 Watching... No, that apparently is a big draw. Look, just 0:23:46.070 --> 0:23:49.200 because it's not something you're... Yeah. 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:50.500 The H is L. 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:53.399 Oh, that's all right. Other people have other points of view. Right. 0:23:53.940 --> 0:24:00.580 And the thing is, these jobs require some ability to concentrate, 0:24:01.180 --> 0:24:05.760 to listen and follow directions, and to endure discomfort. And 0:24:05.820 --> 0:24:08.620 if you're doing porn, gambling, and drugs, you don't need 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:09.399 any of those skills. 0:24:09.670 --> 0:24:10.130 That's right. 0:24:10.990 --> 0:24:12.850 And you don't care as the time's going by. It 0:24:12.869 --> 0:24:18.320 doesn't seem like a slow-moving day. The video game thing 0:24:18.380 --> 0:24:22.699 is huge. As they write in this study, higher wages 0:24:22.740 --> 0:24:25.060