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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrod on News radio six hundred kgo. We are
live in San Diego. You for tuning in. Good to
have you along with us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Friday, man, it's been one heck of a week and.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Here we are all right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So the big story yesterday, of course, was the announcement
of the jury verdict, and people are still talking about it.
The reaction of it on TV was great. I mean,
we covered it live here on radio, but everybody's in
different places, and you never know where a good place
is going to be. News eight's Jenny Day was at
the right place at the right time because she got
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the Maliete family coming out of the courtroom and it's
pretty dramatic audio. So here's here's the verdict, live on
News eight here in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
This just in breaking right here, right now into La Vista,
right out front the courthouse. Larry Millie take guilty of
first degree murder, meaning that he premeditated, he planned the
death of Maya back on January seventh, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, so we all got the information at the same time.
So at this point I'm listening to the radio. I'm
listening to Phil Farrar, but I'm watching on TV Jenny Day,
and it's it's very dramatic to see on TV.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Guilty of first agree murder. I'm being told that people
are crying in court. My colleague writing here that there
is no visible emotion from Larry.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No visible emotion. Also he was wearing a mask like
it was COVID. But a lot of crying in the courtroom,
I'm sure tears of happiness from the victim's family side
and relatives. And I mean it's just sad all around, right,
I mean, two people's lives are pretty much destroyed. The
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victim is dead and the other guy, the person that
caused the death, is facing life imprisonment.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So complete the horribleness, but very dramatic. And here is
a news a. It's Jenny Day.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
She's at the right place at the right time because
where she was, I mean, there's reporters everywhere, and you
don't know who who's going to come out of the courtroom,
and who comes out but Larry Miliette's father.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, what else would you like us to know about
your son? How do you simple about the verdict? Where
do you think Maya is?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's breaking up. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
With News eight. I don't know if they're using a Marty.
I don't know how in this digital technology, I can't figure.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Out why the microphone wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But we all a broadcasting we've had this moment where
we got something big. It's live without a net and
a stupid microphone doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
About your son, how do you stipple about the verdict?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Where do you think maya is? Just do your thing? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Again?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This is the father says I don't want to talk,
and I think there's a bit of a language barrier,
but he kind of pushes away and says, just do
your thing bang okay again.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This is Larry's parents here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, they don't want to talk. They just want to
get in the car and go away.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But if you are a reporter and it's on the scene,
you really have an obligation to continue to ask questions
and see if you can coax.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A reaction, because they have to have a reaction.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And by the way, you heard no tears coming from Larry,
so that's news. So you gotta I know a lot
of people have criticized a lot of the reporters for pushing.
You have to because eventually they'll give you something.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, this is Larry's father, Jenny's trying to speak with
right now. This is live, happening in real time, just
moments after the verdict has read that his son is
guilty of premeditated murder for killing his wife.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Maya.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, and you see Jenny Day there and you couldn't
hear it, But the father.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did say, just love Jesus.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So I glean from that that the parents or the
father are just kind of, you know, resigned to let
it be in God's hands at this point. Dramatic stuff.
And then another this is let's see here. I'm not
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sure who this is. I think this is may belong to.
This is not News eight. But somebody got one of
the jurors and listen to the juror.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We took one vote and it came back and it
was a saled vote, and we all agreed that he
was guilty in the first degree.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Even though there's no body to that way.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A body, she's here.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I love this juror, I really do. This juror is
thinking on her feet. That's the right question, the reporter asks,
even though there's no body, because that's the way we
all kind of, you know, intellectually lead into this, Right,
there's no body, how can how can you be so
sure that it's premeditated and first degree and all of
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that with no body, you would think that in the
absence of a body, then you can't be one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And I was sold yesterday by Phil Farrar.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, Louis, you might might think that, but you'd be
wrong because according to the National Center for No Body
Convictions or whatever, it's a guilty verdict is reached in
a very high percentage. I go for eighty percent of
the time, so it's quite common.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Right. But the juror had a great retort to the question.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It was a unanimous verdict on the unanimous vote in
the jury, on the first vote, even with nobody that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was guilty in the first degree.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Even though there's no body, did that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
She's here? I love that. Oh there's a body. Stop
saying there's nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
See this, juror employees lou Penrose rule number four words matter.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Why have we been saying there's nobody? There is a body,
even though there's no body, did that. She's here, he
knows where she's at. He did it. It's overwhelming evidence.
It's boom boom. Yeah. I love this woman.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She's a good juror. I want her sitting in judgment
all the time. I'm not sure what your number she was.
I couldn't see it from her name badge, but yeah,
I mean unless people think that Maya Mayente is, you know,
on the eighth floor of the Four Seasons in Paris.
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She's gone and so there is a body. It's somewhere,
and the juror says it's here. Well, very dramatic stuff.
People are really caught up in this, and it's just
interesting to me. I'm not a like a true crimes person.
I know that iHeartRadio has a true crimes podcast and
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it's very popular. It's particularly popular among women listeners. Women
listeners love these crime stories. And this is a tragedy
and it's real, like, this isn't science fiction, and it's
a home base. It's at a Cheuela vista and you
know the photographs, it just looks terrible. But there is
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something intriguing I think about these crime stories, and that's
the reason that we've been following it since what twenty
twenty one this it's been five years all the way
up to the guilty verdict and the tension and the
anticipation yesterday afternoon, right, mister Finnerdy, I mean we were
all told to stand by. We got a note from
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our news director, Cliff Out that, you know, one of
those like you know, all staff be aware that when
this comes down, we will take it live.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And you know, Phil.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ferar standing by me, and everybody was at you know,
at their at their battle stations.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh yeah, we were all alert for about maybe just
under an hour. Yeah, on alert.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And that's how big of a story it was and
still is and people people continue to.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Talk about it. So, uh, it was just a gripping
moment in time.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But I really thought that the coverage of Jenny day
a News eight was really dramatic. She did not expect
the parents to come out, and she had them and
she was able to get something from them. She looks great,
by the way, in that green she wore a green
sheer blouse because she's got that beautiful red hair.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So she looks good. And uh covered the story all right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Uh when we get back, Uh, they're throwing trash out
of windows of cars along the eight going into East
County and nobody seems to know why. But Caltrans can't
keep up with it, so, uh, why are more so
than like any other road in San Diego County? So
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what is it about driving to East County on the
eight that causes people to use the side of the
road as a trash can?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Very very, very uncool. I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Coming up next, lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred
Cogo Always Live and Local Cobos. Laura Kane is on
her way to La Joya to find out what all
is going on and what the perfume smells like that
the the plan is to spray perfume I guess into
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the air as best as I can understand it. So
she'll fill us in and she'll join us coming up
in just a few minutes up talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Trashy smells.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Out on the out in East County on the eighth,
residents and drivers are getting frustrated with the amount of
litter along the freeway. It's not unlike it's unlike any
other area of the county.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Here's News Eight's alex Lie.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Have you seen this trash on and off rams here
in East County? Well, you're not the only one. In fact,
if you were reached out to us seeing she is
frustrated by seeing all of this debris garbage all over
here and is frustrated with what Caltrans has done about it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So I'm not sure that it's fair to get frustrated
with Caltrans.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I know that it's the job of the street sweepers
to sweep it up, but.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This seems to be a problem, and it's not so
bad county wide. It's really bad on the eight, but
it's bad compared to other states, like you would never
see like going driving east on the eighth, you would
never see that, for example.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
In the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's a lot of things politically I don't like about
Portland and you know, Seattle, but you just don't see
garbage on the ground in the state of Oregon at all.
You just would never see it, like not even one rapper,
not even one.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Empty in and out cup. You just don't see it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And you don't see it in Arizona either, Like you
just drive along the ninety five through Parker Lake, Havasu City,
you don't see debris, and you do in southern California buying,
certainly in Los Angeles County, not as much in Orange County,
and never in North County, but sometimes a little bit
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along the roadways and the debris on the eighth in
East County is it's striking in its trashiness, and I
think we need to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You can see trash debris and overgrow the long side
of the road.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's an ongoing site.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
For many East County drivers who want the litters to
be cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I want the litter to be cleaned up too. I
hate litter.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I like clean things, and clean begets clean and trash
begets trash.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm a firm believer in that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's why you got to pick up that sofa immediately,
because as soon as you see a sofa along the
side of the road, by the end of the weekend
there'll be four sofas and a turlet.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't know, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, people just see a sofa and think, why
go to the dump.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I'll just dump it here.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's already a sofa here, and eventually somebody from cal
Drains will come by and pick them up.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And it's just a very bizarre behavior.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And I don't know the type of person that would
roll down their window and throw a bag of in
and out out the window onto the road, and I
don't know where they think it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But it's not like one person. And if it was,
you know, the Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
After a Fourth of July weekend, then it would be
different because it's not us, it's people visiting us, and
you and I both know who that is. But this
is all the time, and the residents are blaming Caltrans,
and Caltrans had the greatest response.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I reached out to Caltrans looking for answers. They said,
the problem isn't the lack of cleanups, but that new
litter appears almost as quickly as it's removed, and they
can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
They can't keep up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, you can't have Caltrans out there every day.
They have other things to do. And if your Coltrans
your attitude is, look, you know, we're on a schedule here.
It's your people who are messy, not us that we're
not cleaning fast enough. As soon as it's cleaned up,
it's just as dirty as it was when we were
there moments ago.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So there's just something that's going on.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And maybe if you're in East County, if you can
explain to me, are the like, are the side streets
in the communities do they have trash on them too?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Or is it just on the eight? And are you
seeing it? Like do you if you live there and
take the eight regularly? Have you ever been.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Behind somebody that's just throwing trash out of the window
of the moving car? Because if so, take a take
a photograph of that license plate and send it to
me and I'll get it to the right person, because
that is a crime. You're not you know, you're illegally
not allowed in the state of California to dispose of
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anything out of the window of a moving car, like,
not a single thing. You can't spit bubblegum out your window,
and you shouldn't. And I know this because there was
a case. This goes back a long time. But I
was on the radio a long time ago and somebody
got sighted for eating sunflower seeds.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And you know how that works, right.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
For all you ball players out there or dad's of
sons who play baseball. The sunflower seed thing, it's a
trick where you put some flower seats in your mouth
and then you shell them and are able to eat
the seed and separate the shell and then you disgustingly
spit it into a cup or something, or some people
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spit it onto the ball field, and somebody spit it
out the window of a car, and behind the car
happened to be a CHP officer on a motorcycle, and
the shell of all places, hit the CHP officer.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And at high speed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A dispensed some flower seed shell can hurt and the
officer didn't know what it was until he stopped the
car and then realized how disgusting that was. And he
just got hit by something that was just in someone's
mouth and issued a ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So that's how I know that that law.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You can't be throwing anything out of the car, so
whether it's and you think, well, what's the sunflower seat
is biodegradable, so that's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, you're not allowed to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And certainly you know the empty del taco bag is
not biodegradable. So if you see somebody doing that, take
a picture of it and send.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
It to me. If you do that, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Just wrap it up, put it on the floor of
the passenger seat. Don't be gross. Keep America beautiful. Just
like Ironized Cody used to say, that's what we really need.
We really need more public service announcements on TV from
Ironized Cody where the Native American is crying because of
all the trash. Keep America beautiful and keep the Ape beautiful.
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Heading on out to East County.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's Loupenrose public service announcement on a Friday, Lou Penrose
on News Radio six hundred co Go.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This is a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So San Diego is going to use odor spray to
really leave the stench in La Joya Cove and it
sparked controversy. Coco's own Coco's Own Laura Caine is there
live and has been speaking with La Joya residents. Laura,
what can you smell anything from where you are?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I'm with?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
I am literally on the sand, and there are three giant,
big boys in front of me, big seals, and they're
going to be talking while we're talking, because they're all right.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, we may, we may.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I may want to get some comments every from them too,
because they have to live there as well.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
So I spoke to some people who are here from
Texas and they said this is one of the things
that they looked up you had to do in San
Diego is the best thing ever. And they said, you know,
it smells. It smells like a makes a hoop and
rot and fish.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's what I got.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
And she said, you know, I would rather be here
swimming with the seals. It was more exciting than actually
going to the zoo to see the animals. And she
said that was a couple of people I spoke to
said that they are worried about the environmental impact it
might have, although the city says this is not going
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to hurt anything in the ocean, but they're like, well,
how do they know? And the seal of the seals
and I'm looking at young people, middle aged people, old
people swim in right along with the seals in the
stench in their waist and it's no big deals people,
I don't think really here, Wow, what do we know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What the perfume is going to smell?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I mean, is it is it going to just eliminate
the smell because most you know polpe perrie, uh in
the you know, in the in the powder room, right,
is there to just mask a smell that is already there?
So right the smell, the smell will already be there,
so you know, short of lighting a ka letting a match,
I'm not sure what they can do.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But masket, what new smell? Will la Hooya smell like?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
They're calling it a bioactive odor, counteractant and cleaner, so
it breaks down the waist and therefore disseminates it, I
guess across the ocean, so you don't get that big
waft of stink. I don't think it's going to smell
particularly like you know, flowers or apples or anything like that.
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It's just going to maybe not smell as bad as
rotten fish and waste.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's what they're hoping.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
But you know what I'm telling you people, I don't
think people really care about the STEMP. It's more about
seeing these animals, these wildlife up close and personal. HiT's
were the coolest things ever to see these animals and
people swimming alongside each other.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think. I think that's what the draw is, right that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, it's so much so that we're constantly, you know,
putting out public service announcements to you know, not get
so close and to not invade their space. Also another
concern I was reading about this, the smell is familiar.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
To the habitat that's there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
If it stops smelling like home for them, it could
be disorienting for them. And the cult belongs to them
as much as it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Belongs to us.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, there was a park
ranger that they are all over the place. They're making
sure these animals are very well taken care of and
not charmed in any way. I tried to come down
these backs stairs because I don't want to get as
close as possible to the sea lion for you, glue,
and I almost got arrested, so I quickly said, I'm sorry,
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I apologize, and I ran right back up, right back
down the other stairs. So they're here to definitely keep
things in line and keep the sea lions safe, and
they're watched over. Really well, it's just the smell, you
know what it is. It's the people that are eating
at the rest that they get the big waft of
smell and that might not be so nice.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
That's what they the problem is.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, we'll talk to a lot of folks and
report back with us. And I know you have a
special coming up on Monday. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
If she goes Laura.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Kane with the Sea Lions and the smell in La
Joya cove Man.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
What a story. All right, we'll have a full report.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
On that coming up on San Diego's Morning News on Monday.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, it's just a trashy everywhere, right.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I think people are using the E Freeway for a
trash can in East County because East County is a
trashy place to be. Have you seen the people living there?
And you know what, I used to live there, So
maybe I'm a little trashy too, but I don't throw
my trash out the window. I'm not a degenerate.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, you're not a degenerate because you're a listener of
the program and maybe you are a little trashy.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know, but uh, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You can be a little trashy and not throw things
out the window of the car. You have your apartment
to trash. Why do you have to trash the freeway
and why there?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Hey, Lou this trash situation on the freeways. And I
know you say it's an East County thing, but this
is a whole county thing.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hey, we just.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Can't seem to get our act together here in San
Diego with all the trash and the homeless and everything else.
Speaking of the trash, the cigarette butts at the stop
signs and the cross sections, unbelievable. San Diego needs to
get its act together. Anyways, love your show.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I appreciate the call. I did not say it was
an East County thing. Let's be sure to not.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Have me be smirched.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, Caltrans said it was an eight thing going east,
so that's the concern, and it isn't a county thing.
It's particularly disproportionately high on the eight to ated eastward
right by Nathan Fletcher Parkway, and Caltran says, look, because
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Alex Live from News eight. She contacted cal Trands and
they said, we're trying. It's not that we're not cleaning here,
it's the report.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I reached out to Caltrans looking for answers. They said,
the problem isn't the lack of cleanups, but that new
litter appears almost as quickly as it's removed, and they
can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, they can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So honestly, that's not Caltrans's problem, that's our problem.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So in the actual city of Alcohol, yes, there is
a lot of trash everywhere, and in fact, a couple
times a week I used to go out on walks
with a trash picker and trash bag and pick up trash.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
On my walks.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
But I don't live there anymore. Move to a different state, Alabama,
and you don't have any trash on the streets where
I'm at right.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I noticed that too when I visited smith Lake. It's
striking just how clean other places are. And it's unnecessary.
You don't need to throw the trash out the window.
There are receptacles all over the place, and it's just gross.
It's just an odd behavior. And the earlier caller mentioned
the cigarette butts. I honestly don't understand that. I really don't.
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I don't know if it's a cultural thing, because there
are other cultures that's chain smoke and drop the butts
on the ground. I'm not going to point to a
particular culture, but I've seen it. And now that cigarette
smoking is on a comeback, did you know that, like
(24:29):
literally cigarette there's a bunch of influencers on social media
that are making the case that vaping is really really
bad for you, while cigarette smoking was just bad for you.
And there may be some some truth to it. My
brother said the same thing. Yeah, my brother said that too.
He works in a respiratory care at the Carolina Medical Center,
(24:51):
and he said that the problems we're seeing with vaping
are huge because it's at an atomic level. It's like
at a microscope level. You're inhaling. You know, those flavors
and everything. The chemicals used to make those flavors are
attacking your lung cells.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The bombarding your lung cells. So you shouldn't do either.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
But I'd rather you smoke two or three cigarettes over
a course of a night than hit the vakee pen
all day. And there are people out there saying that
they're going back to cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's foolishness in my mind, but you do what you want.
Just don't flick the butt on the ground, particularly in
the sand like surf.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No. I know you're saying, yeah, I don't want that
in the sand. I don't want. I don't want.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And I also don't want the smoke filled smell, you know,
the smoke from the cigarettes that get into your clothes.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
If your buyer smoker, nobody wants that. It's hard to
get out. No, let's not bring cigarettes back. That's a
bad idea. I don't like it. I'm very surprised.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But you're starting to see the little circles outside of
bars in San Diego where everyone's.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Going out for smoke and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That they are flicking that's so or flicking the cigarette
butts on the ground just drives me insane. I I walk,
I walk my dog by my house. There was a
person that was clearly a renter, not a homeowner, and
he came from one of those cultures that I noticed
tend to not be sensitive to the way we handle
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cigarette butt and you know, disposal in this country. And
in front of every time, every single time, like in
front of his house, he would like just I would
pick them up.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They'd be like ten cigarette butts.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I didn't want to be a Karen and call
the h o A, but like, what's wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think, yeah, you would be well, I mean, you
walk in the dog and you're in your own, you know, neighborhood,
and so you see like a broken piece of glass,
you pick it up. You see you know they're doing
construction on a house, right, you notice a nail in
the middle of the street.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You pick it up.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I want your neighbor to get a flat tire, you see,
you know drywall screw you.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Pick it up.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And I crossed the same house and in front of
the house there is like ten cigarette butts, all from
the same package.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, you're right, I should have called. I think he's
moved now. Uh, but it was a real problem. Loup
Penroe on news radio six hundred Cogo.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We are about to embark upon a second heat wave
in San Diego. But it's not just gonna be hot.
It's gonna be hot and humid. And you know, I
don't like humidity. I don't like it at all. One
of the things we have going for us here in
San Diego is the weather. It is not just America's
finest city, it is America's finest climate. And the tropics
(27:48):
are coming and I don't like that because that brings, uh,
stickiness and sweatiness and mosquitoes, and I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
So they're.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Warning you about the tropical conditions that are coming to
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Also, experts are saying that you need to actually turn
up your thermostat, which means turn off your air conditioning
and acclimate your body, so seventy eight degrees instead of
seventy two.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Hey, lude to the bimbo that thinks East County people
are trashy. Now she needs to maybe get off her
couch and come on out and pick up the trash
that she's leaving behind. Because we are trash people, we
don't want to pick it up. She can kiss my trash.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh good for you. I actually think she was flirting
with me. I think that's where that comment was going.
I felt a little bit of a flirt and that's good.
It's Friday.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Talking about the trash going east bound eight. I've seen
ed cod trucks driving along eastbound eight and trash be
flying out of the top. So that's something else to
consider too. The trash trucks having trash to spurs trash
on the freeway.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I see that from time to time, but it's rare, right.
Usually it's you know, like an onion, you know, skin
coming off an onion truck. The trash trucks have trash bags,
so it's not just random trash. And it's almost exclusively
fast food containers. I mean, I'm looking at the video here,
(29:24):
here's news Eight's alex Lie and it's just fast food bag.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
You can see trash debris and overgrow the long side
of the road. It's an ongoing site for many East
County drivers who want the litters to be cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, it just looks like people, you know, swing through
a taco bell, eat the taco bell and just fling it,
you know, the bag and the cup out the window.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Hey, lude to the bimbo.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I got that call. I lou, appreciate your show on littering.
I think it's the way people are raised.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
I never saw that kind of stuff when I was
growing up and the kids as a kid during the eighties,
and I see it along my mom's condo. People just
open their car door and throw their to go stuff
on the ground. I think they should make the fine
greater than a thousand dollars double that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Thank you. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm not sure the fine is gonna matter. Yeah, Like,
who just throws stuff on the ground. It's really really
bizarre behavior. And what's unique about what makes this a
story is it seems to be happening disproportionately on the
eight headed East, Like I don't like it anywhere and
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you know, you could go to any median on any
roadway in the county and it won't take long before
you find yourself. Yeah, a paper cup for McDonald's. But
along the eight it's really bad. Right along Nathan Fletcher,
right by the intersect with Nathan Fletcher Parkway is.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yesterday we learned that that parkway was not named after
Nathan Fletcher at all.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I thought it was because they.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Changed the sas oar Javes signed, so I thought maybe
they should also change the Nathan Fletcher sign, but it's
not named after him. What I think they should do
is I think Nathan Fletcher, in an act of atonement,
should adopt the aid and he should be out there
cleaning it up. There's a good idea.
Lou Penrod on News radio six hundred kgo. We are
live in San Diego. You for tuning in. Good to
have you along with us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Friday, man, it's been one heck of a week and.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Here we are all right.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So the big story yesterday, of course, was the announcement
of the jury verdict, and people are still talking about it.
The reaction of it on TV was great. I mean,
we covered it live here on radio, but everybody's in
different places, and you never know where a good place
is going to be. News eight's Jenny Day was at
the right place at the right time because she got
(00:42):
the Maliete family coming out of the courtroom and it's
pretty dramatic audio. So here's here's the verdict, live on
News eight here in San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
This just in breaking right here, right now into La Vista,
right out front the courthouse. Larry Millie take guilty of
first degree murder, meaning that he premeditated, he planned the
death of Maya back on January seventh, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, so we all got the information at the same time.
So at this point I'm listening to the radio. I'm
listening to Phil Farrar, but I'm watching on TV Jenny Day,
and it's it's very dramatic to see on TV.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Guilty of first agree murder. I'm being told that people
are crying in court. My colleague writing here that there
is no visible emotion from Larry.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No visible emotion. Also he was wearing a mask like
it was COVID. But a lot of crying in the courtroom,
I'm sure tears of happiness from the victim's family side
and relatives. And I mean it's just sad all around, right,
I mean, two people's lives are pretty much destroyed. The
(01:57):
victim is dead and the other guy, the person that
caused the death, is facing life imprisonment.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So complete the horribleness, but very dramatic. And here is
a news a. It's Jenny Day.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
She's at the right place at the right time because
where she was, I mean, there's reporters everywhere, and you
don't know who who's going to come out of the courtroom,
and who comes out but Larry Miliette's father.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, what else would you like us to know about
your son? How do you simple about the verdict? Where
do you think Maya is?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's breaking up. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
With News eight. I don't know if they're using a Marty.
I don't know how in this digital technology, I can't figure.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Out why the microphone wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But we all a broadcasting we've had this moment where
we got something big. It's live without a net and
a stupid microphone doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
About your son, how do you stipple about the verdict?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Where do you think maya is? Just do your thing? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Again?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This is the father says I don't want to talk,
and I think there's a bit of a language barrier,
but he kind of pushes away and says, just do
your thing bang okay again.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
This is Larry's parents here.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, they don't want to talk. They just want to
get in the car and go away.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But if you are a reporter and it's on the scene,
you really have an obligation to continue to ask questions
and see if you can coax.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A reaction, because they have to have a reaction.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And by the way, you heard no tears coming from Larry,
so that's news. So you gotta I know a lot
of people have criticized a lot of the reporters for pushing.
You have to because eventually they'll give you something.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, this is Larry's father, Jenny's trying to speak with
right now. This is live, happening in real time, just
moments after the verdict has read that his son is
guilty of premeditated murder for killing his wife.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Maya.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, and you see Jenny Day there and you couldn't
hear it, But the father.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Did say, just love Jesus.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
So I glean from that that the parents or the
father are just kind of, you know, resigned to let
it be in God's hands at this point. Dramatic stuff.
And then another this is let's see here. I'm not
(04:30):
sure who this is. I think this is may belong to.
This is not News eight. But somebody got one of
the jurors and listen to the juror.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We took one vote and it came back and it
was a saled vote, and we all agreed that he
was guilty in the first degree.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Even though there's no body to that way.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A body, she's here.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I love this juror, I really do. This juror is
thinking on her feet. That's the right question, the reporter asks,
even though there's no body, because that's the way we
all kind of, you know, intellectually lead into this, Right,
there's no body, how can how can you be so
sure that it's premeditated and first degree and all of
(05:16):
that with no body, you would think that in the
absence of a body, then you can't be one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And I was sold yesterday by Phil Farrar.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, Louis, you might might think that, but you'd be
wrong because according to the National Center for No Body
Convictions or whatever, it's a guilty verdict is reached in
a very high percentage. I go for eighty percent of
the time, so it's quite common.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Right. But the juror had a great retort to the question.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It was a unanimous verdict on the unanimous vote in
the jury, on the first vote, even with nobody that.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He was guilty in the first degree.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Even though there's no body, did that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
She's here? I love that. Oh there's a body. Stop
saying there's nobody.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
See this, juror employees lou Penrose rule number four words matter.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Why have we been saying there's nobody? There is a body,
even though there's no body, did that. She's here, he
knows where she's at. He did it. It's overwhelming evidence.
It's boom boom. Yeah. I love this woman.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
She's a good juror. I want her sitting in judgment
all the time. I'm not sure what your number she was.
I couldn't see it from her name badge, but yeah,
I mean unless people think that Maya Mayente is, you know,
on the eighth floor of the Four Seasons in Paris.
(06:56):
She's gone and so there is a body. It's somewhere,
and the juror says it's here. Well, very dramatic stuff.
People are really caught up in this, and it's just
interesting to me. I'm not a like a true crimes person.
I know that iHeartRadio has a true crimes podcast and
(07:17):
it's very popular. It's particularly popular among women listeners. Women
listeners love these crime stories. And this is a tragedy
and it's real, like, this isn't science fiction, and it's
a home base. It's at a Cheuela vista and you
know the photographs, it just looks terrible. But there is
(07:37):
something intriguing I think about these crime stories, and that's
the reason that we've been following it since what twenty
twenty one this it's been five years all the way
up to the guilty verdict and the tension and the
anticipation yesterday afternoon, right, mister Finnerdy, I mean we were
all told to stand by. We got a note from
(07:58):
our news director, Cliff Out that, you know, one of
those like you know, all staff be aware that when
this comes down, we will take it live.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And you know, Phil.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ferar standing by me, and everybody was at you know,
at their at their battle stations.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Oh yeah, we were all alert for about maybe just
under an hour. Yeah, on alert.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
And that's how big of a story it was and
still is and people people continue to.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Talk about it. So, uh, it was just a gripping
moment in time.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But I really thought that the coverage of Jenny day
a News eight was really dramatic. She did not expect
the parents to come out, and she had them and
she was able to get something from them. She looks great,
by the way, in that green she wore a green
sheer blouse because she's got that beautiful red hair.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So she looks good. And uh covered the story all right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Uh when we get back, Uh, they're throwing trash out
of windows of cars along the eight going into East
County and nobody seems to know why. But Caltrans can't
keep up with it, so, uh, why are more so
than like any other road in San Diego County? So
(09:15):
what is it about driving to East County on the
eight that causes people to use the side of the
road as a trash can?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Very very, very uncool. I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Coming up next, lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred
Cogo Always Live and Local Cobos. Laura Kane is on
her way to La Joya to find out what all
is going on and what the perfume smells like that
the the plan is to spray perfume I guess into
(09:47):
the air as best as I can understand it. So
she'll fill us in and she'll join us coming up
in just a few minutes up talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Trashy smells.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Out on the out in East County on the eighth,
residents and drivers are getting frustrated with the amount of
litter along the freeway. It's not unlike it's unlike any
other area of the county.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Here's News Eight's alex Lie.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Have you seen this trash on and off rams here
in East County? Well, you're not the only one. In fact,
if you were reached out to us seeing she is
frustrated by seeing all of this debris garbage all over
here and is frustrated with what Caltrans has done about it.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So I'm not sure that it's fair to get frustrated
with Caltrans.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I know that it's the job of the street sweepers
to sweep it up, but.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This seems to be a problem, and it's not so
bad county wide. It's really bad on the eight, but
it's bad compared to other states, like you would never
see like going driving east on the eighth, you would
never see that, for example.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
In the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's a lot of things politically I don't like about
Portland and you know, Seattle, but you just don't see
garbage on the ground in the state of Oregon at all.
You just would never see it, like not even one rapper,
not even one.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Empty in and out cup. You just don't see it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And you don't see it in Arizona either, Like you
just drive along the ninety five through Parker Lake, Havasu City,
you don't see debris, and you do in southern California buying,
certainly in Los Angeles County, not as much in Orange County,
and never in North County, but sometimes a little bit
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along the roadways and the debris on the eighth in
East County is it's striking in its trashiness, and I
think we need to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
You can see trash debris and overgrow the long side
of the road.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's an ongoing site.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
For many East County drivers who want the litters to
be cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I want the litter to be cleaned up too. I
hate litter.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I like clean things, and clean begets clean and trash
begets trash.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm a firm believer in that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That's why you got to pick up that sofa immediately,
because as soon as you see a sofa along the
side of the road, by the end of the weekend
there'll be four sofas and a turlet.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I don't know, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, people just see a sofa and think, why
go to the dump.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I'll just dump it here.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's already a sofa here, and eventually somebody from cal
Drains will come by and pick them up.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And it's just a very bizarre behavior.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
And I don't know the type of person that would
roll down their window and throw a bag of in
and out out the window onto the road, and I
don't know where they think it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
But it's not like one person. And if it was,
you know, the Monday.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
After a Fourth of July weekend, then it would be
different because it's not us, it's people visiting us, and
you and I both know who that is. But this
is all the time, and the residents are blaming Caltrans,
and Caltrans had the greatest response.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
I reached out to Caltrans looking for answers. They said,
the problem isn't the lack of cleanups, but that new
litter appears almost as quickly as it's removed, and they
can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
They can't keep up.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean, you can't have Caltrans out there every day.
They have other things to do. And if your Coltrans
your attitude is, look, you know, we're on a schedule here.
It's your people who are messy, not us that we're
not cleaning fast enough. As soon as it's cleaned up,
it's just as dirty as it was when we were
there moments ago.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So there's just something that's going on.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And maybe if you're in East County, if you can
explain to me, are the like, are the side streets
in the communities do they have trash on them too?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Or is it just on the eight? And are you
seeing it? Like do you if you live there and
take the eight regularly? Have you ever been.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Behind somebody that's just throwing trash out of the window
of the moving car? Because if so, take a take
a photograph of that license plate and send it to
me and I'll get it to the right person, because
that is a crime. You're not you know, you're illegally
not allowed in the state of California to dispose of
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anything out of the window of a moving car, like,
not a single thing. You can't spit bubblegum out your window,
and you shouldn't. And I know this because there was
a case. This goes back a long time. But I
was on the radio a long time ago and somebody
got sighted for eating sunflower seeds.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
And you know how that works, right.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
For all you ball players out there or dad's of
sons who play baseball. The sunflower seed thing, it's a
trick where you put some flower seats in your mouth
and then you shell them and are able to eat
the seed and separate the shell and then you disgustingly
spit it into a cup or something, or some people
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spit it onto the ball field, and somebody spit it
out the window of a car, and behind the car
happened to be a CHP officer on a motorcycle, and
the shell of all places, hit the CHP officer.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And at high speed.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
A dispensed some flower seed shell can hurt and the
officer didn't know what it was until he stopped the
car and then realized how disgusting that was. And he
just got hit by something that was just in someone's
mouth and issued a ticket.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So that's how I know that that law.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
You can't be throwing anything out of the car, so
whether it's and you think, well, what's the sunflower seat
is biodegradable, so that's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
No, you're not allowed to do it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And certainly you know the empty del taco bag is
not biodegradable. So if you see somebody doing that, take
a picture of it and send.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
It to me. If you do that, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Just wrap it up, put it on the floor of
the passenger seat. Don't be gross. Keep America beautiful. Just
like Ironized Cody used to say, that's what we really need.
We really need more public service announcements on TV from
Ironized Cody where the Native American is crying because of
all the trash. Keep America beautiful and keep the Ape beautiful.
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Heading on out to East County.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
All right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's Loupenrose public service announcement on a Friday, Lou Penrose
on News Radio six hundred co Go.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This is a good one.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So San Diego is going to use odor spray to
really leave the stench in La Joya Cove and it
sparked controversy. Coco's own Coco's Own Laura Caine is there
live and has been speaking with La Joya residents. Laura,
what can you smell anything from where you are?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I'm with?
Speaker 7 (17:18):
I am literally on the sand, and there are three giant,
big boys in front of me, big seals, and they're
going to be talking while we're talking, because they're all right.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Well, we may, we may.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I may want to get some comments every from them too,
because they have to live there as well.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
So I spoke to some people who are here from
Texas and they said this is one of the things
that they looked up you had to do in San
Diego is the best thing ever. And they said, you know,
it smells. It smells like a makes a hoop and
rot and fish.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's what I got.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
And she said, you know, I would rather be here
swimming with the seals. It was more exciting than actually
going to the zoo to see the animals. And she
said that was a couple of people I spoke to
said that they are worried about the environmental impact it
might have, although the city says this is not going
(18:15):
to hurt anything in the ocean, but they're like, well,
how do they know? And the seal of the seals
and I'm looking at young people, middle aged people, old
people swim in right along with the seals in the
stench in their waist and it's no big deals people,
I don't think really here, Wow, what do we know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What the perfume is going to smell?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Like?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I mean, is it is it going to just eliminate
the smell because most you know polpe perrie, uh in
the you know, in the in the powder room, right,
is there to just mask a smell that is already there?
So right the smell, the smell will already be there,
so you know, short of lighting a ka letting a match,
I'm not sure what they can do.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But masket, what new smell? Will la Hooya smell like?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
They're calling it a bioactive odor, counteractant and cleaner, so
it breaks down the waist and therefore disseminates it, I
guess across the ocean, so you don't get that big
waft of stink. I don't think it's going to smell
particularly like you know, flowers or apples or anything like that.
(19:27):
It's just going to maybe not smell as bad as
rotten fish and waste.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
That's what they're hoping.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
But you know what I'm telling you people, I don't
think people really care about the STEMP. It's more about
seeing these animals, these wildlife up close and personal. HiT's
were the coolest things ever to see these animals and
people swimming alongside each other.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think. I think that's what the draw is, right that.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I mean, it's so much so that we're constantly, you know,
putting out public service announcements to you know, not get
so close and to not invade their space. Also another
concern I was reading about this, the smell is familiar.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
To the habitat that's there.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
If it stops smelling like home for them, it could
be disorienting for them. And the cult belongs to them
as much as it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Belongs to us.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, there was a park
ranger that they are all over the place. They're making
sure these animals are very well taken care of and
not charmed in any way. I tried to come down
these backs stairs because I don't want to get as
close as possible to the sea lion for you, glue,
and I almost got arrested, so I quickly said, I'm sorry,
(20:44):
I apologize, and I ran right back up, right back
down the other stairs. So they're here to definitely keep
things in line and keep the sea lions safe, and
they're watched over. Really well, it's just the smell, you
know what it is. It's the people that are eating
at the rest that they get the big waft of
smell and that might not be so nice.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
That's what they the problem is.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right, we'll talk to a lot of folks and
report back with us. And I know you have a
special coming up on Monday. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
If she goes Laura.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Kane with the Sea Lions and the smell in La
Joya cove Man.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
What a story. All right, we'll have a full report.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
On that coming up on San Diego's Morning News on Monday.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, it's just a trashy everywhere, right.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I think people are using the E Freeway for a
trash can in East County because East County is a
trashy place to be. Have you seen the people living there?
And you know what, I used to live there, So
maybe I'm a little trashy too, but I don't throw
my trash out the window. I'm not a degenerate.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No, you're not a degenerate because you're a listener of
the program and maybe you are a little trashy.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know, but uh, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You can be a little trashy and not throw things
out the window of the car. You have your apartment
to trash. Why do you have to trash the freeway
and why there?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Hey, Lou this trash situation on the freeways. And I
know you say it's an East County thing, but this
is a whole county thing.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hey, we just.
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Can't seem to get our act together here in San
Diego with all the trash and the homeless and everything else.
Speaking of the trash, the cigarette butts at the stop
signs and the cross sections, unbelievable. San Diego needs to
get its act together. Anyways, love your show.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I appreciate the call. I did not say it was
an East County thing. Let's be sure to not.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Have me be smirched.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, Caltrans said it was an eight thing going east,
so that's the concern, and it isn't a county thing.
It's particularly disproportionately high on the eight to ated eastward
right by Nathan Fletcher Parkway, and Caltran says, look, because
(23:01):
Alex Live from News eight. She contacted cal Trands and
they said, we're trying. It's not that we're not cleaning here,
it's the report.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I reached out to Caltrans looking for answers. They said,
the problem isn't the lack of cleanups, but that new
litter appears almost as quickly as it's removed, and they
can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, they can't keep up with the maintenance.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So honestly, that's not Caltrans's problem, that's our problem.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So in the actual city of Alcohol, yes, there is
a lot of trash everywhere, and in fact, a couple
times a week I used to go out on walks
with a trash picker and trash bag and pick up trash.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
On my walks.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
But I don't live there anymore. Move to a different state, Alabama,
and you don't have any trash on the streets where
I'm at right.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I noticed that too when I visited smith Lake. It's
striking just how clean other places are. And it's unnecessary.
You don't need to throw the trash out the window.
There are receptacles all over the place, and it's just gross.
It's just an odd behavior. And the earlier caller mentioned
the cigarette butts. I honestly don't understand that. I really don't.
(24:06):
I don't know if it's a cultural thing, because there
are other cultures that's chain smoke and drop the butts
on the ground. I'm not going to point to a
particular culture, but I've seen it. And now that cigarette
smoking is on a comeback, did you know that, like
(24:29):
literally cigarette there's a bunch of influencers on social media
that are making the case that vaping is really really
bad for you, while cigarette smoking was just bad for you.
And there may be some some truth to it. My
brother said the same thing. Yeah, my brother said that too.
He works in a respiratory care at the Carolina Medical Center,
(24:51):
and he said that the problems we're seeing with vaping
are huge because it's at an atomic level. It's like
at a microscope level. You're inhaling. You know, those flavors
and everything. The chemicals used to make those flavors are
attacking your lung cells.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The bombarding your lung cells. So you shouldn't do either.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
But I'd rather you smoke two or three cigarettes over
a course of a night than hit the vakee pen
all day. And there are people out there saying that
they're going back to cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It's foolishness in my mind, but you do what you want.
Just don't flick the butt on the ground, particularly in
the sand like surf.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No. I know you're saying, yeah, I don't want that
in the sand. I don't want. I don't want.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And I also don't want the smoke filled smell, you know,
the smoke from the cigarettes that get into your clothes.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
If your buyer smoker, nobody wants that. It's hard to
get out. No, let's not bring cigarettes back. That's a
bad idea. I don't like it. I'm very surprised.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But you're starting to see the little circles outside of
bars in San Diego where everyone's.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Going out for smoke and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That they are flicking that's so or flicking the cigarette
butts on the ground just drives me insane. I I walk,
I walk my dog by my house. There was a
person that was clearly a renter, not a homeowner, and
he came from one of those cultures that I noticed
tend to not be sensitive to the way we handle
(26:19):
cigarette butt and you know, disposal in this country. And
in front of every time, every single time, like in
front of his house, he would like just I would
pick them up.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
They'd be like ten cigarette butts.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And I didn't want to be a Karen and call
the h o A, but like, what's wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I think, yeah, you would be well, I mean, you
walk in the dog and you're in your own, you know, neighborhood,
and so you see like a broken piece of glass,
you pick it up. You see you know they're doing
construction on a house, right, you notice a nail in
the middle of the street.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You pick it up.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I want your neighbor to get a flat tire, you see,
you know drywall screw you.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Pick it up.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And I crossed the same house and in front of
the house there is like ten cigarette butts, all from
the same package.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, you're right, I should have called. I think he's
moved now. Uh, but it was a real problem. Loup
Penroe on news radio six hundred Cogo.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
We are about to embark upon a second heat wave
in San Diego. But it's not just gonna be hot.
It's gonna be hot and humid. And you know, I
don't like humidity. I don't like it at all. One
of the things we have going for us here in
San Diego is the weather. It is not just America's
finest city, it is America's finest climate. And the tropics
(27:48):
are coming and I don't like that because that brings, uh,
stickiness and sweatiness and mosquitoes, and I don't want that.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
So they're.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Warning you about the tropical conditions that are coming to
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We'll tell you about it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Also, experts are saying that you need to actually turn
up your thermostat, which means turn off your air conditioning
and acclimate your body, so seventy eight degrees instead of
seventy two.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Hey, lude to the bimbo that thinks East County people
are trashy. Now she needs to maybe get off her
couch and come on out and pick up the trash
that she's leaving behind. Because we are trash people, we
don't want to pick it up. She can kiss my trash.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh good for you. I actually think she was flirting
with me. I think that's where that comment was going.
I felt a little bit of a flirt and that's good.
It's Friday.
Speaker 10 (28:47):
Talking about the trash going east bound eight. I've seen
ed cod trucks driving along eastbound eight and trash be
flying out of the top. So that's something else to
consider too. The trash trucks having trash to spurs trash
on the freeway.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I see that from time to time, but it's rare, right.
Usually it's you know, like an onion, you know, skin
coming off an onion truck. The trash trucks have trash bags,
so it's not just random trash. And it's almost exclusively
fast food containers. I mean, I'm looking at the video here,
(29:24):
here's news Eight's alex Lie and it's just fast food bag.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
You can see trash debris and overgrow the long side
of the road. It's an ongoing site for many East
County drivers who want the litters to be cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, it just looks like people, you know, swing through
a taco bell, eat the taco bell and just fling it,
you know, the bag and the cup out the window.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Hey, lude to the bimbo.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I got that call. I lou, appreciate your show on littering.
I think it's the way people are raised.
Speaker 11 (29:54):
I never saw that kind of stuff when I was
growing up and the kids as a kid during the eighties,
and I see it along my mom's condo. People just
open their car door and throw their to go stuff
on the ground. I think they should make the fine
greater than a thousand dollars double that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Thank you. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm not sure the fine is gonna matter. Yeah, Like,
who just throws stuff on the ground. It's really really
bizarre behavior. And what's unique about what makes this a
story is it seems to be happening disproportionately on the
eight headed East, Like I don't like it anywhere and
(30:32):
you know, you could go to any median on any
roadway in the county and it won't take long before
you find yourself. Yeah, a paper cup for McDonald's. But
along the eight it's really bad. Right along Nathan Fletcher,
right by the intersect with Nathan Fletcher Parkway is.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yesterday we learned that that parkway was not named after
Nathan Fletcher at all.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I thought it was because they.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Changed the sas oar Javes signed, so I thought maybe
they should also change the Nathan Fletcher sign, but it's
not named after him. What I think they should do
is I think Nathan Fletcher, in an act of atonement,
should adopt the aid and he should be out there
cleaning it up. There's a good idea.
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