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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us. Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The San Diego median home price has been released.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wow, it's a number. It is a number.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
San Diego home prices hit another record in June, with
the median price reaching nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nine fifty nine fifty. Wow. That means half of the
homes are worth more than that and have are worth blush.
That's the medium, right. Oh man, that's an expensive house.
That's that's lots of matzo.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
San Diego home prices hit another record in June, with
the median price reaching nine hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is according to co Star.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
While affordability it's a major challenge, of course, there could
be some relief ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And the relief ahead is you can go by in
an adu and stick it in your backyard if there's
enough room, and rent it out for like eleven hundred dollars.
That's the relief. That's a little relief. But I guess
SAT law and now federal law are making it easier
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for you to get one of these granny flats, tiny
little house in the back for some college kid, or
in this story, the grandmother actually moved in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think this is the first time I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
An ADU occupied by an actual family member, like a granny.
A granny in a granny flat is rare, but or
a mother in law casida.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But that's what this, that's what these.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
People are doing nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So
let me put this in perspective for you, because I
have theories on why this is, and it's pretty much everything.
It is the lack of building homes for the last
forty years. Also, people want to be in San Diego,
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so the desire to live in San Diego causes our
prices to rise.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And then you have to I.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Plead with you to at least appreciate my argument, and
that is our salaries have not kept up.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They just haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We are far more efficient than we were forty years ago,
not forty times, more like a factor of ten, four hundred,
four thousand times more efficient at our jobs. We're just quicker,
we're better, we're sharper, we have better tools available to us.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Whatever the job is.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It it's more efficient at it. If it's high tech,
we're just more efficient. We have used technologies to become
more efficient, and our salaries just.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Don't reflect that. Well, what do you you're now?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You sound like a democrat. You want to raise the
minimum wage. No, but the reality is we should. We
should all have more money.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
For our labor.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
However that works out, let me put it into some perspective.
In nineteen eighty, the median home price in San Diego
was sixty thousand dollars, and the average wage in San
Diego was twenty thousand dollars, So the meeting home was
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three times as much as the average wage. Okay, twenty
thousand dollars. You know that's in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That was a good living.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Not you weren't a rich man, but you weren't broke,
and you could afford to buy a house. Now, saving
up a down payment on a sixty thousand dollar house
making twenty thousand dollars a year not easy to do.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But people did it. Well, of course they did it.
Your parents did it. How else do you think they
bought their house?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They saved for a house. It was a phrase, I'm
saving for a house. Are you guys going on that
trip this year. Now we're saving for a house.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How was your Christmas? Well, we kept it light. We're
saving for a house.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
People sacrificed to save for a house, and it took
a couple of years, and they saved up a down
payment and they put a down payment, and you can
you can certainly do it on a twenty thousand dollars
salary and put a down payment on a sixty thousand
dollar house.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And they lived in it and you were raised in it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Right now, fast forward to twenty twenty six. Average salary
in San Diego sixty thousand dollars three times but it
was it's a little bit more. But for the purposes
of my math, let's just go with sixty thousand dollars
three times more meetian home nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You can save a down and now they want twenty
percent down and mortgage insurance, like there's no way you
could save a down payment at all. Ever, it's arithmetically
impossible to save a down payment making sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A year for a nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars
I'll double it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'll put your wife to work also making sixty thousand dollars,
And I would argue at one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year, you're gonna have a hard time scrapping
together a down on a nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars house.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Like, if you do it, you're Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So what's the thing that's different is our wages. Our
wage is just way below, in my opinion, what it
should be. Now, how do you get people's wages up
without causing all kinds of inflations and other unintended consequences
and impacts of the economy. That's tricky, right, That's why
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they have to raise gradually. But for the longest time,
no one was getting raises for Like, wages are actually
rising a little bit, which is a good thing in
the economy, and I think it's due to this administration policies.
But they should always be rising, and people just having
us they're not used to getting raises.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sometimes some companies.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Will give you, you know, just cost of living adjustments.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
In the federal government they do colas, but those are
eaten up by inflation.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Back in the day, people actually got raises, like yearly
raises in their pay, and it wasn't something that you
were worried about if I get a raise on my
price myself out of the job. No, you get more
money because you're more valuable to the boss. You have
more experience, you've made more mistakes. Now you can train
younger people. Like we used to have this system of
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employment in this country where people that were there longer
were more valuable by virtue of their maturity of the workforce.
A mature workforce was a valuable workforce, so it commanded
a higher wage because you made fewer mistakes and you
were more productive. That's just the just being on the job.
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Time on the job made you more valuable. You add
the technological advancements, now you're way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
More productive, way more productive.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Your boss is on the golf course with a prospective
client on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You're at home. He shoots you a text and says, hey,
I know it's the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Apologize just real quick, what was that total contract number
that we did for so until last year? And you're like, oh,
it's a one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars great, perfect, Thanks,
gotta go like that little exchange that could have landed
the new client.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Think about how easy that was to do. Like, we've
all done this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You've all had quick text chats with the boss or
somebody at work and gotten somebody out of a jam,
like they're literally in the middle of a meeting, and
you're the one that knows the answer, and it's an
easy answer, and it's at you know, right at your
finger to right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No one's asking you to go to work.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You don't have to go pull up a file of cabinet,
you don't have to drive into the office. That little
exchange involves a level of technology that we didn't have
forty years ago. That is efficiency, right, that makes you valuable,
and yet you didn't get paid for that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You didn't like you don't walk in Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They're like, here's extra ten thousand dollars to your salary
for shooting me that text. But you were ten thousand
dollars more valuable to the firm.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So that's an issue. The wages are an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Good news though, manufacturing jobs are coming back and the
numbers are up.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They came out this morning. I'll share them with you next.
Louke Penrose on News radio six hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Cogo Hey, manufacturing jobs are on the rise. You know
that's a big thing with me. American manufacturing is roaring back.
According to CNBC, under President Trump, the largest sacks cut
in American history, and every Democrat voted against it. But
luckily we at this point have Republican majorities in the
House and Senate.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Is driving American manufacturing.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
If we look at manufacturing, these are fresh. July reads
comes in much better than expected, fifty five point six.
That would be the best read in over four years.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Best read in over four years. That's success. I cannot
stress enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
How important it is for American manufacturing to boom.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's the only.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Way everybody's freaking out about AI. At the end of
the day, AI can't manufacture. You actually need an American Now.
Robotics and hydraulics can help, but there's got to be
a guy at the auto factory. And under President Trump,
because of Trump's strong stance on tariffs and strong encouragement
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of reassuring.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
American manufacturing, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
More Toyotas will be manufactured by Americans on planet Earth
this year.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Than by anybody else.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Because Toyota saw the riding on the wall, and they said,
all right, let's get these plants in America. Ford moved
its manufacturing plant from Mexicali to Detroit. Guess who won
the state of Michigan in the electoral college. The candidate
that was for free trade and let all the jobs
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go to Mexico, or the candidate that was threatening forward
with the tariff unless they moved the manufacturing to America.
That's right, the second version, the guy that used tariffs
as a weapon against our foreign competitors. And it's working,
and it's really important. Everything in your house, and I
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mean everything in your house used to be made in
America by an American at an American factory, and it
was high quality stuff, and it worked, and you used
it and you repaired it if it broke, which.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It rarely did.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
One of the most famous television commercials ever was the
Maytag Repairman.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He was lonely.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know why he was lonely because the Maytag won
usher never broke down. It was so such a cultural
statement that people talked about it. They're like, you'll lonely
like the Maytag repair Man.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean, it caught on.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's the reputation our stuff had.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That the repair man was lonely, and they made a
commercial lot of it. That's how good American made stuff was. Then,
through a series of bipartisan Republicans and Democrats, a series
of ridiculously stupid trade deals, we closed all the American factories,
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shipped all the jobs overseas, and now your house is
filled with plastic crap from China. And it decimated the
American manufacturing economy. And it created a real crater right
in the middle of the greatest economy we ever saw,
Like the post World War two American economy was fired
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because it was a famous three legged stool. You had
the professional services that's doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, right, and
then you have the service economy, people that pour you
and martini at the bar, people that, uh, you know,
clean the hotel rooms, people that work at the convention center,
people that are work in retail behind the counter at Nordstroms.
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And then in the middle you have the manufacturing economy.
These are people that go into a building every day
and take raw materials and turn them into products. And
that those three legs of that stool created a post
World War two economic boom that the world had never seen.
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And it was because we are primed for a manufacturing country.
Were so it's so excellent. We have the best real
estate to do that sort of thing. We have a great,
big country. We have all the raw materials we need,
so we don't have to buy the raw materials.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So when you need steel for.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
A washing machine, you go you go to the guy
in Birmingham, Alabama, because he's got the iron ore. And
then you ship the iron ore. Pay the American in
Birmingham for the iron ore, ship it to Pittsburgh. The
guy in Pittsburgh turns it into steel. That guy gets paid.
Then you send the steel to the General Electric plant
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in Ohio and he turns that steel into a washing machine.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And then you pay that guy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And then you ship it on a train car and
we the entire country is mapped out coast to coast
with rail lines. You know where those rail lines go
from the factory to the store in every town in America,
the appliance store.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's perfect. So then that guy and the and the
railspurg goes right up to the lording doc.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So that guy puts now the assembled washing machine on
a truck. Now the truck draw or on the train right,
they trained, and you paid the train guy they trained.
They sent it on a train to an appliance store
here in San Diego. And then you take your wife
on a Saturday to the appliance store and you buy
your wife a brand new washing machine, and the guy
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that sells it to you gets paid, so that all
that money circulates in our economy, making our country richer.
And then your wife is a brand new washing machine
and it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's what your grandparents did.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They filled the house with American made appliances that were
a high quality, and they paid Americans seven times along
the way.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's how we became a wealthy nation.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
In the fifties and the sixties and the seventies, and
it was beauty.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Then we close down all the.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Factories, ship the jobs overseas, put the Americans out of work,
and now your house is filled with a bunch of
plastic crap from China and it's junk, j u n
K junk.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know it and I know it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You go and buy an appliance at an appliance store
in San Diego, and what's the first thing that they
run after you?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What do they want to sell you? That's right, the
extended warranty.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why because they know it's a piece of crap from
China and it's gonna break. Did your grandfather have an
extended warranty on his refrigerator? So we got to get
these manufacturing jobs back quickly. We got to put Americans
back to work making things, and we got to buy
American made stuff and keep the plastic crap from China
out of the country. That's the secret to prosperity going
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forward in this century.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
No other way. It ain't Ai and it's not cliff
jumping viral videos.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It's American made stuff, made by Americans working every day.
Blue Penrose on news radio stri coogo NPR. There's a
story about how people are putting food on their credit card.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Here's MPR's Jennifer Ludden.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
More than a quarter of working age adults who used
a credit card for food did not repay the full amount.
That's according to new research by the Urban Institute think tank,
which finds an uptick in such financial stress.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Something is wrong with this story. I'm not sure what
it is yet. I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Because you know how NPR is, they don't like the president,
so they they go in slow right. They don't have
Trump derangement syndrome. They just try and sound above it all,
but they really have an agenda that they're pushing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That anybody that would put food on their credit card
would behave any differently if a Democrat were president, Like
that is such foolish behavior that I don't know that
it matters who the president is. I think a lot
of things that are going on in this country that
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people like reporters at NPR and liberal reporters.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
At ms NOW.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And all like left wean and there's a lot of
left leaning media right like these stories that you see,
I think would have been there no matter what.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I think. They're looking to find stories of.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
People making foolish choices and as a result, having a
miserable life, and then try to make it sound like
this is happening now, because I guarantee you the people
that they're reporting on there, it doesn't matter if they
had just gotten it doesn't matter if they're helped insurance
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breems were cut in half, they would have squandered the
money away, like there's no help in somebody that puts
their food on a credit card regularly and doesn't pay
off the balance, like there's no fixing.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Stupid. Here's a Dave Maddingly he reports for NPR.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Despite the easing of inflation, new research shows more people
in the US are using credit or dipping into their
savings to pay for groceries.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
What's more people like the two more that you met.
I'm not buying it. What kills me about NPR, and
this is partly personal. NPR just beats me in San Diego,
and it kills me because I can't there's no way
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anybody that would listen to NPR for news and information.
They can't be helped like that is just a cult.
And I so there's nothing I can do. There's no
way I can counter program to an NPR like like
they can counter program to me, But there's no way
I can counter program to NPR. I have to tell
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you the straight, skinny. I got to tell you the truth,
the good, the bad, and the ugly. I call balls
and strikes because I live in Realville. But the people
that listen to NPR, they live in Lalla Land, fantasy land,
Trump Arrangement syndrome Land, and that's their audience, and they
the Trump Arrangement syndrome. People have to constantly be fed.
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It's a religion to them, and NPR is their church,
and so they have a very reliable audience. My audience
loves me, but they also love the padres. They also
love country. They also love rock and roll. Some days,
what we're talking about is not their cup of tea,
and they'll go listen to you know, this sports sports talk,
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and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I get that. But the NPR people, they listen all day,
every day.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And that solid connection gives them a bit of an
edge in ratings. And it's always kind of bugged me
because there's no fixing that, just like there's no fixing
Trump arrangement syndrome. So whenever I can catch NPR being
somewhat disingenuous, I like to exploit it, just from my
own joy. Here's more of Jennifer Ludden from NPR.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Over the past year, expanded work requirements for Federal Food
eight have also taken hold. Enrollments in that program has
dropped by several million people.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, but that's great, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
See why you make it sound like and they all
sound like that too, But why do you make it
sound like that's a terrible thing that that's my tax
dollars that's going that was going to people who didn't
need it could certainly feed themselves. So the reduction of
membership of people on food assists federal food assistance is good.
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And I think it just goes back to the classic
difference between liberals and democrats rather liberals and conservative conservatives
measure compassion by how many Americans no longer need food stamps,
not by how many Americans are.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
On food stamps. So they had the store.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, well they're saying thirty percent increase in the last
five years of the amount of people Americans that are
using credit.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Card to buy food.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I mean, come on, why are you doing that? Like,
why would you do that? You don't need to do that.
You certainly don't need.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
There are cheaper versions of pretty much everything, and there
are cheaper grocery stores. You don't have to go to Gelson's,
like go someplace else or don't buy it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't have to buy everything in the store if
you go to the store.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
There was a time, I don't know, Trump was toying
with a tariff on somebody in South America and coffee
went from four ninety nine a can to like seven
ninety nine a can.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was like, wow, it's that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But I get it, you know, I want to be
tough on these countries, and I'm willing to put my
money where the mount my mouth is and I'll pay
the price. So ground coffee prices did go up every
once in a while to be a sale on the
store brand, and I found out that the store brand
was just as good, and that would be five ninety nine,
So I'd get a couple of cans of that, or
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I would skip, Like you can make your own choices.
Not everything in the store is expensive. At the same time,
eggs have dropped in price. Remember when eggs were so expensive.
Everybody was talking about the expensive eggs. It was so
expensive during the Biden years. Nobody knew why bird flew
or something. Who knows, or California law made it so
if you raise chickens in California, you got to give
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them two bedrooms in a bath.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
They can't just there can't be all caged. And egg
prices went up.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You know what, I did buy fewer, Like you don't
just buy it because you want it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
If you're on a budget, you explore other things.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It was during the Biden years that I got into
the chicken thighs. That's where I learned that that air
fryer and a package of chicken thighs, Man, oh man
of Chevitz, are you in heaven? And as it turns out,
they were lying to you about that too. They were
lying to you, Oh, you gotta have the white meat.
You gotta chicken thighs or dark meat. You gotta have
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the white meat. The white meat's way better for you.
The white meat has fewer calories, but it's not way
better for you. There are things that are in the
chicken thigh that your body needs, and that air fryer
is so good that you can leave the skin on the.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Thigh and you're still ahead of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Chicken thighs are nothing like sometimes you get a party
pack for a dollin on an a pound.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You don't have to buy New York boneless because that's
now that's at sixteen ninety pounds because of Biden. So right,
you make other choices. You don't just go in there
and buy everything you want and then.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Realize you don't have enough money in your checking account,
and so you put your grocery bill on a credit card.
Fools do that, So I don't know that it advances
journalism to report on foolishness, because it really is all right.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
When we come back. MTV turned forty five over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's amazing forty five years ago, idea loaded and changed music.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Forever, and I just think it's great.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Lou Penrose on News Radio six Hundrick Coogo coming up
following the news at five o'clock, the San Diego Unified
School District lunch menu is out and it's bold. They're
going fresh the new federal requirements under Bobby Kennedy Junior
to keep things fresh and to get the whole foods
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in there and less sugar less junk, and San Diego
Unified is following the rules. And I'm pretty impressed. Forty
five years ago today you just heard it. I want
my MTV. It was actually Saturday morning at twelve oh one,
so Friday night going into Saturday morning would have been
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August first, where they went ahead, launched the rocket ship,
planted the flag on the moon with the MTV logo.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
MTV turns forty five today. The channel launched August first,
nineteen eighty one at twelve oh one am, opening with
footage of the Apollo eleven moon landing a flag planted
with the MTV logo and the words Ladies and Gentlemen
rock and roll. The first video ever played video Killed
the Radio Star by the Buggle.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's right, video Killed the Radio Star. No one ever
heard of the Buggles. They didn't really come out with
anything else.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Killed. As the first twenty four hour video channel, it
changed how music was promoted, discovered, and experienced. Nowadays, music
videos mostly live on YouTube, and the channel leans more
reality TV than music television.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But it was cool, I mean, it was something else.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It really did change the way music is distributed, the
way it's promoted, the way it's styled.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And it was great. Like I lived the MTV arc.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I was a teenager when it came on, and I
remember coming home from school. So if it launched on Saturday,
today would be Monday. I would be in the living
room across the street at my friend's house and we
would just watch it all day, go and get snacks.
And you know, there were not that many videos because
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who had a video. There was no place to put
a video, so there were very few videos, and so
you see all the same ones over and over and
over again. You saw the Buggles, you saw you know
eight six, seven, five, three h nine.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I remember a.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Lot of thirty eight Special, a lot of hold on
loosely and caught up in you. And to get product
on MTV, bands had to jump like they unless they
had some concert footage. But few people had that unless
they were making a concert movie.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
So like, why would you film a concert? So nobody
really ever thought to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Some had some available to them, it was raw footage
and rough.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So what they did is they staged a video.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They just said, all right, let's just get everybody on
a stage, uh, get some get some crowd here, like
hire some some some people to look excited, do a
casting call, and we'll just lip sync to the song
and boom, there's your video. Because I remember watching a
lot of videos and the guitars were not.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Plugged into the amp.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I thought, that's strange, like they didn't have wireless technology.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Then what's going on? Why isn't that guy's guitar plugged
into the end? And then I realized, oh, they're just
making a video. That's not they're not really playing.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
But it was great because from a fan perspective, you
got to see the band.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You got to see them up.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Close on television, even if you went to a concert,
you know, nobody gets seats up close your way in
the back, so you're seeing you know, van Halen down
there and they're small. But on MTV you can actually
watch Eddie van Halen play. You could watch see where
his fingers go. Oh that's how he plays that, I
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get it now right. You could see what David e
Roth was wearing on stage. It's like, oh, these videos
are just close ups of your favorite band. And then
they started to get theatrical. There was three kinds of videos.
There was concert footage, there was the stage thing where
the guitar is not plugged in, and then there was
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these like theatrical videos that told a story.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I didn't like those.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I don't think that they necessarily moved more product or
sold more albums. Obviously, you know The Thriller with Michael
Jackson is the biggest one. But there was a lot
of people making very artsy videos that made no sense.
Like Pat Benattar did mostly concert footage, but she also
did some that told stories. And then sometimes the video
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had nothing to do with the song, and it was
very confusing. I'm like, that's what the song is about,
Like scorpions rock you like a hurricane. They're like women
in cages that look like zombies. I remember Motley crue'z
Too Young to Fall in Love, which is one of
my favorite songs by Crue, but the video is like
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Motley Crue going into a Chinese warehouse and getting into
a fight, Like, oh, is that what the song is about?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So it was very confusing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I far prefer when they're just on stage, like, this
is my all time favorite MTV video.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, my babies not an connoation of so fan you
mother wants to tether man brand me? What's miss.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Smelling?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Van Halen in the Height eighty one Oakland Coliseum live
on stage concert footage. You're watching Van Halen on TV
and it comes on again.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's in rotation. So much fun. Happy anniversary, MTV
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us. Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
The San Diego median home price has been released.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wow, it's a number. It is a number.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
San Diego home prices hit another record in June, with
the median price reaching nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nine fifty nine fifty. Wow. That means half of the
homes are worth more than that and have are worth blush.
That's the medium, right. Oh man, that's an expensive house.
That's that's lots of matzo.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
San Diego home prices hit another record in June, with
the median price reaching nine hundred fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is according to co Star.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
While affordability it's a major challenge, of course, there could
be some relief ahead.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And the relief ahead is you can go by in
an adu and stick it in your backyard if there's
enough room, and rent it out for like eleven hundred dollars.
That's the relief. That's a little relief. But I guess
SAT law and now federal law are making it easier
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for you to get one of these granny flats, tiny
little house in the back for some college kid, or
in this story, the grandmother actually moved in.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think this is the first time I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
An ADU occupied by an actual family member, like a granny.
A granny in a granny flat is rare, but or
a mother in law casida.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But that's what this, that's what these.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
People are doing nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So
let me put this in perspective for you, because I
have theories on why this is, and it's pretty much everything.
It is the lack of building homes for the last
forty years. Also, people want to be in San Diego,
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so the desire to live in San Diego causes our
prices to rise.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And then you have to I.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Plead with you to at least appreciate my argument, and
that is our salaries have not kept up.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
They just haven't.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We are far more efficient than we were forty years ago,
not forty times, more like a factor of ten, four hundred,
four thousand times more efficient at our jobs. We're just quicker,
we're better, we're sharper, we have better tools available to us.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Whatever the job is.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It it's more efficient at it. If it's high tech,
we're just more efficient. We have used technologies to become
more efficient, and our salaries just.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Don't reflect that. Well, what do you you're now?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You sound like a democrat. You want to raise the
minimum wage. No, but the reality is we should. We
should all have more money.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
For our labor.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
However that works out, let me put it into some perspective.
In nineteen eighty, the median home price in San Diego
was sixty thousand dollars, and the average wage in San
Diego was twenty thousand dollars, So the meeting home was
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three times as much as the average wage. Okay, twenty
thousand dollars. You know that's in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That was a good living.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Not you weren't a rich man, but you weren't broke,
and you could afford to buy a house. Now, saving
up a down payment on a sixty thousand dollar house
making twenty thousand dollars a year not easy to do.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
But people did it. Well, of course they did it.
Your parents did it. How else do you think they
bought their house?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They saved for a house. It was a phrase, I'm
saving for a house. Are you guys going on that
trip this year. Now we're saving for a house.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
How was your Christmas? Well, we kept it light. We're
saving for a house.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
People sacrificed to save for a house, and it took
a couple of years, and they saved up a down
payment and they put a down payment, and you can
you can certainly do it on a twenty thousand dollars
salary and put a down payment on a sixty thousand
dollar house.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And they lived in it and you were raised in it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Right now, fast forward to twenty twenty six. Average salary
in San Diego sixty thousand dollars three times but it
was it's a little bit more. But for the purposes
of my math, let's just go with sixty thousand dollars
three times more meetian home nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There's no way.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You can save a down and now they want twenty
percent down and mortgage insurance, like there's no way you
could save a down payment at all. Ever, it's arithmetically
impossible to save a down payment making sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A year for a nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars
I'll double it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'll put your wife to work also making sixty thousand dollars,
And I would argue at one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars a year, you're gonna have a hard time scrapping
together a down on a nine hundred and fifty thousand
dollars house.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Like, if you do it, you're Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So what's the thing that's different is our wages. Our
wage is just way below, in my opinion, what it
should be. Now, how do you get people's wages up
without causing all kinds of inflations and other unintended consequences
and impacts of the economy. That's tricky, right, That's why
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they have to raise gradually. But for the longest time,
no one was getting raises for Like, wages are actually
rising a little bit, which is a good thing in
the economy, and I think it's due to this administration policies.
But they should always be rising, and people just having
us they're not used to getting raises.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Sometimes some companies.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Will give you, you know, just cost of living adjustments.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
In the federal government they do colas, but those are
eaten up by inflation.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Back in the day, people actually got raises, like yearly
raises in their pay, and it wasn't something that you
were worried about if I get a raise on my
price myself out of the job. No, you get more
money because you're more valuable to the boss. You have
more experience, you've made more mistakes. Now you can train
younger people. Like we used to have this system of
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employment in this country where people that were there longer
were more valuable by virtue of their maturity of the workforce.
A mature workforce was a valuable workforce, so it commanded
a higher wage because you made fewer mistakes and you
were more productive. That's just the just being on the job.
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Time on the job made you more valuable. You add
the technological advancements, now you're way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
More productive, way more productive.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Your boss is on the golf course with a prospective
client on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You're at home. He shoots you a text and says, hey,
I know it's the weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Apologize just real quick, what was that total contract number
that we did for so until last year? And you're like, oh,
it's a one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars great, perfect, Thanks,
gotta go like that little exchange that could have landed
the new client.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Think about how easy that was to do. Like, we've
all done this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You've all had quick text chats with the boss or
somebody at work and gotten somebody out of a jam,
like they're literally in the middle of a meeting, and
you're the one that knows the answer, and it's an
easy answer, and it's at you know, right at your
finger to right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No one's asking you to go to work.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You don't have to go pull up a file of cabinet,
you don't have to drive into the office. That little
exchange involves a level of technology that we didn't have
forty years ago. That is efficiency, right, that makes you valuable,
and yet you didn't get paid for that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You didn't like you don't walk in Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They're like, here's extra ten thousand dollars to your salary
for shooting me that text. But you were ten thousand
dollars more valuable to the firm.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
So that's an issue. The wages are an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Good news though, manufacturing jobs are coming back and the
numbers are up.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
They came out this morning. I'll share them with you next.
Louke Penrose on News radio six hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Cogo Hey, manufacturing jobs are on the rise. You know
that's a big thing with me. American manufacturing is roaring back.
According to CNBC, under President Trump, the largest sacks cut
in American history, and every Democrat voted against it. But
luckily we at this point have Republican majorities in the
House and Senate.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Is driving American manufacturing.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
If we look at manufacturing, these are fresh. July reads
comes in much better than expected, fifty five point six.
That would be the best read in over four years.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Best read in over four years. That's success. I cannot
stress enough.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
How important it is for American manufacturing to boom.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's the only.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Way everybody's freaking out about AI. At the end of
the day, AI can't manufacture. You actually need an American Now.
Robotics and hydraulics can help, but there's got to be
a guy at the auto factory. And under President Trump,
because of Trump's strong stance on tariffs and strong encouragement
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of reassuring.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
American manufacturing, it's happening.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
More Toyotas will be manufactured by Americans on planet Earth
this year.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Than by anybody else.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Because Toyota saw the riding on the wall, and they said,
all right, let's get these plants in America. Ford moved
its manufacturing plant from Mexicali to Detroit. Guess who won
the state of Michigan in the electoral college. The candidate
that was for free trade and let all the jobs
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go to Mexico, or the candidate that was threatening forward
with the tariff unless they moved the manufacturing to America.
That's right, the second version, the guy that used tariffs
as a weapon against our foreign competitors. And it's working,
and it's really important. Everything in your house, and I
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mean everything in your house used to be made in
America by an American at an American factory, and it
was high quality stuff, and it worked, and you used
it and you repaired it if it broke, which.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It rarely did.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
One of the most famous television commercials ever was the
Maytag Repairman.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He was lonely.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You know why he was lonely because the Maytag won
usher never broke down. It was so such a cultural
statement that people talked about it. They're like, you'll lonely
like the Maytag repair Man.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I mean, it caught on.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
That's the reputation our stuff had.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That the repair man was lonely, and they made a
commercial lot of it. That's how good American made stuff was. Then,
through a series of bipartisan Republicans and Democrats, a series
of ridiculously stupid trade deals, we closed all the American factories,
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shipped all the jobs overseas, and now your house is
filled with plastic crap from China. And it decimated the
American manufacturing economy. And it created a real crater right
in the middle of the greatest economy we ever saw,
Like the post World War two American economy was fired
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because it was a famous three legged stool. You had
the professional services that's doctor, lawyer, engineer, architect, right, and
then you have the service economy, people that pour you
and martini at the bar, people that, uh, you know,
clean the hotel rooms, people that work at the convention center,
people that are work in retail behind the counter at Nordstroms.
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And then in the middle you have the manufacturing economy.
These are people that go into a building every day
and take raw materials and turn them into products. And
that those three legs of that stool created a post
World War two economic boom that the world had never seen.
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And it was because we are primed for a manufacturing country.
Were so it's so excellent. We have the best real
estate to do that sort of thing. We have a great,
big country. We have all the raw materials we need,
so we don't have to buy the raw materials.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So when you need steel for.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
A washing machine, you go you go to the guy
in Birmingham, Alabama, because he's got the iron ore. And
then you ship the iron ore. Pay the American in
Birmingham for the iron ore, ship it to Pittsburgh. The
guy in Pittsburgh turns it into steel. That guy gets paid.
Then you send the steel to the General Electric plant
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in Ohio and he turns that steel into a washing machine.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And then you pay that guy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And then you ship it on a train car and
we the entire country is mapped out coast to coast
with rail lines. You know where those rail lines go
from the factory to the store in every town in America,
the appliance store.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's perfect. So then that guy and the and the
railspurg goes right up to the lording doc.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So that guy puts now the assembled washing machine on
a truck. Now the truck draw or on the train right,
they trained, and you paid the train guy they trained.
They sent it on a train to an appliance store
here in San Diego. And then you take your wife
on a Saturday to the appliance store and you buy
your wife a brand new washing machine, and the guy
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that sells it to you gets paid, so that all
that money circulates in our economy, making our country richer.
And then your wife is a brand new washing machine
and it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's what your grandparents did.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
They filled the house with American made appliances that were
a high quality, and they paid Americans seven times along
the way.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
That's how we became a wealthy nation.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
In the fifties and the sixties and the seventies, and
it was beauty.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Then we close down all the.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Factories, ship the jobs overseas, put the Americans out of work,
and now your house is filled with a bunch of
plastic crap from China and it's junk, j u n
K junk.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
You know it and I know it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You go and buy an appliance at an appliance store
in San Diego, and what's the first thing that they
run after you?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
What do they want to sell you? That's right, the
extended warranty.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Why because they know it's a piece of crap from
China and it's gonna break. Did your grandfather have an
extended warranty on his refrigerator? So we got to get
these manufacturing jobs back quickly. We got to put Americans
back to work making things, and we got to buy
American made stuff and keep the plastic crap from China
out of the country. That's the secret to prosperity going
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forward in this century.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
No other way. It ain't Ai and it's not cliff
jumping viral videos.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It's American made stuff, made by Americans working every day.
Blue Penrose on news radio stri coogo NPR. There's a
story about how people are putting food on their credit card.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Here's MPR's Jennifer Ludden.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
More than a quarter of working age adults who used
a credit card for food did not repay the full amount.
That's according to new research by the Urban Institute think tank,
which finds an uptick in such financial stress.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Something is wrong with this story. I'm not sure what
it is yet. I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Because you know how NPR is, they don't like the president,
so they they go in slow right. They don't have
Trump derangement syndrome. They just try and sound above it all,
but they really have an agenda that they're pushing.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
And I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That anybody that would put food on their credit card
would behave any differently if a Democrat were president, Like
that is such foolish behavior that I don't know that
it matters who the president is. I think a lot
of things that are going on in this country that
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people like reporters at NPR and liberal reporters.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
At ms NOW.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And all like left wean and there's a lot of
left leaning media right like these stories that you see,
I think would have been there no matter what.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I think. They're looking to find stories of.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
People making foolish choices and as a result, having a
miserable life, and then try to make it sound like
this is happening now, because I guarantee you the people
that they're reporting on there, it doesn't matter if they
had just gotten it doesn't matter if they're helped insurance
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breems were cut in half, they would have squandered the
money away, like there's no help in somebody that puts
their food on a credit card regularly and doesn't pay
off the balance, like there's no fixing.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Stupid. Here's a Dave Maddingly he reports for NPR.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Despite the easing of inflation, new research shows more people
in the US are using credit or dipping into their
savings to pay for groceries.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
What's more people like the two more that you met.
I'm not buying it. What kills me about NPR, and
this is partly personal. NPR just beats me in San Diego,
and it kills me because I can't there's no way
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anybody that would listen to NPR for news and information.
They can't be helped like that is just a cult.
And I so there's nothing I can do. There's no
way I can counter program to an NPR like like
they can counter program to me, But there's no way
I can counter program to NPR. I have to tell
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you the straight, skinny. I got to tell you the truth,
the good, the bad, and the ugly. I call balls
and strikes because I live in Realville. But the people
that listen to NPR, they live in Lalla Land, fantasy land,
Trump Arrangement syndrome Land, and that's their audience, and they
the Trump Arrangement syndrome. People have to constantly be fed.
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It's a religion to them, and NPR is their church,
and so they have a very reliable audience. My audience
loves me, but they also love the padres. They also
love country. They also love rock and roll. Some days,
what we're talking about is not their cup of tea,
and they'll go listen to you know, this sports sports talk,
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and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I get that. But the NPR people, they listen all day,
every day.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And that solid connection gives them a bit of an
edge in ratings. And it's always kind of bugged me
because there's no fixing that, just like there's no fixing
Trump arrangement syndrome. So whenever I can catch NPR being
somewhat disingenuous, I like to exploit it, just from my
own joy. Here's more of Jennifer Ludden from NPR.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Over the past year, expanded work requirements for Federal Food
eight have also taken hold. Enrollments in that program has
dropped by several million people.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, but that's great, Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
See why you make it sound like and they all
sound like that too, But why do you make it
sound like that's a terrible thing that that's my tax
dollars that's going that was going to people who didn't
need it could certainly feed themselves. So the reduction of
membership of people on food assists federal food assistance is good.
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And I think it just goes back to the classic
difference between liberals and democrats rather liberals and conservative conservatives
measure compassion by how many Americans no longer need food stamps,
not by how many Americans are.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
On food stamps. So they had the store.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, well they're saying thirty percent increase in the last
five years of the amount of people Americans that are
using credit.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Card to buy food.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I mean, come on, why are you doing that? Like,
why would you do that? You don't need to do that.
You certainly don't need.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To do that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
There are cheaper versions of pretty much everything, and there
are cheaper grocery stores. You don't have to go to Gelson's,
like go someplace else or don't buy it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't have to buy everything in the store if
you go to the store.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
There was a time, I don't know, Trump was toying
with a tariff on somebody in South America and coffee
went from four ninety nine a can to like seven
ninety nine a can.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was like, wow, it's that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
But I get it, you know, I want to be
tough on these countries, and I'm willing to put my
money where the mount my mouth is and I'll pay
the price. So ground coffee prices did go up every
once in a while to be a sale on the
store brand, and I found out that the store brand
was just as good, and that would be five ninety nine,
So I'd get a couple of cans of that, or
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I would skip, Like you can make your own choices.
Not everything in the store is expensive. At the same time,
eggs have dropped in price. Remember when eggs were so expensive.
Everybody was talking about the expensive eggs. It was so
expensive during the Biden years. Nobody knew why bird flew
or something. Who knows, or California law made it so
if you raise chickens in California, you got to give
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them two bedrooms in a bath.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
They can't just there can't be all caged. And egg
prices went up.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You know what, I did buy fewer, Like you don't
just buy it because you want it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
If you're on a budget, you explore other things.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It was during the Biden years that I got into
the chicken thighs. That's where I learned that that air
fryer and a package of chicken thighs, Man, oh man
of Chevitz, are you in heaven? And as it turns out,
they were lying to you about that too. They were
lying to you, Oh, you gotta have the white meat.
You gotta chicken thighs or dark meat. You gotta have
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the white meat. The white meat's way better for you.
The white meat has fewer calories, but it's not way
better for you. There are things that are in the
chicken thigh that your body needs, and that air fryer
is so good that you can leave the skin on the.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Thigh and you're still ahead of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Chicken thighs are nothing like sometimes you get a party
pack for a dollin on an a pound.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You don't have to buy New York boneless because that's
now that's at sixteen ninety pounds because of Biden. So right,
you make other choices. You don't just go in there
and buy everything you want and then.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Realize you don't have enough money in your checking account,
and so you put your grocery bill on a credit card.
Fools do that, So I don't know that it advances
journalism to report on foolishness, because it really is all right.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
When we come back. MTV turned forty five over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's amazing forty five years ago, idea loaded and changed music.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Forever, and I just think it's great.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Lou Penrose on News Radio six Hundrick Coogo coming up
following the news at five o'clock, the San Diego Unified
School District lunch menu is out and it's bold. They're
going fresh the new federal requirements under Bobby Kennedy Junior
to keep things fresh and to get the whole foods
(26:02):
in there and less sugar less junk, and San Diego
Unified is following the rules. And I'm pretty impressed. Forty
five years ago today you just heard it. I want
my MTV. It was actually Saturday morning at twelve oh one,
so Friday night going into Saturday morning would have been
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August first, where they went ahead, launched the rocket ship,
planted the flag on the moon with the MTV logo.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
MTV turns forty five today. The channel launched August first,
nineteen eighty one at twelve oh one am, opening with
footage of the Apollo eleven moon landing a flag planted
with the MTV logo and the words Ladies and Gentlemen
rock and roll. The first video ever played video Killed
the Radio Star by the Buggle.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's right, video Killed the Radio Star. No one ever
heard of the Buggles. They didn't really come out with
anything else.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Killed. As the first twenty four hour video channel, it
changed how music was promoted, discovered, and experienced. Nowadays, music
videos mostly live on YouTube, and the channel leans more
reality TV than music television.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
But it was cool, I mean, it was something else.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It really did change the way music is distributed, the
way it's promoted, the way it's styled.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And it was great. Like I lived the MTV arc.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I was a teenager when it came on, and I
remember coming home from school. So if it launched on Saturday,
today would be Monday. I would be in the living
room across the street at my friend's house and we
would just watch it all day, go and get snacks.
And you know, there were not that many videos because
(27:52):
who had a video. There was no place to put
a video, so there were very few videos, and so
you see all the same ones over and over and
over again. You saw the Buggles, you saw you know
eight six, seven, five, three h nine.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I remember a.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Lot of thirty eight Special, a lot of hold on
loosely and caught up in you. And to get product
on MTV, bands had to jump like they unless they
had some concert footage. But few people had that unless
they were making a concert movie.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
So like, why would you film a concert? So nobody
really ever thought to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Some had some available to them, it was raw footage
and rough.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So what they did is they staged a video.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They just said, all right, let's just get everybody on
a stage, uh, get some get some crowd here, like
hire some some some people to look excited, do a
casting call, and we'll just lip sync to the song
and boom, there's your video. Because I remember watching a
lot of videos and the guitars were not.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Plugged into the amp.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I thought, that's strange, like they didn't have wireless technology.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Then what's going on? Why isn't that guy's guitar plugged
into the end? And then I realized, oh, they're just
making a video. That's not they're not really playing.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
But it was great because from a fan perspective, you
got to see the band.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You got to see them up.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Close on television, even if you went to a concert,
you know, nobody gets seats up close your way in
the back, so you're seeing you know, van Halen down
there and they're small. But on MTV you can actually
watch Eddie van Halen play. You could watch see where
his fingers go. Oh that's how he plays that, I
(29:38):
get it now right. You could see what David e
Roth was wearing on stage. It's like, oh, these videos
are just close ups of your favorite band. And then
they started to get theatrical. There was three kinds of videos.
There was concert footage, there was the stage thing where
the guitar is not plugged in, and then there was
(29:59):
these like theatrical videos that told a story.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I didn't like those.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I don't think that they necessarily moved more product or
sold more albums. Obviously, you know The Thriller with Michael
Jackson is the biggest one. But there was a lot
of people making very artsy videos that made no sense.
Like Pat Benattar did mostly concert footage, but she also
did some that told stories. And then sometimes the video
(30:26):
had nothing to do with the song, and it was
very confusing. I'm like, that's what the song is about,
Like scorpions rock you like a hurricane. They're like women
in cages that look like zombies. I remember Motley crue'z
Too Young to Fall in Love, which is one of
my favorite songs by Crue, but the video is like
(30:47):
Motley Crue going into a Chinese warehouse and getting into
a fight, Like, oh, is that what the song is about?
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So it was very confusing.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I far prefer when they're just on stage, like, this
is my all time favorite MTV video.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, my babies not an connoation of so fan you
mother wants to tether man brand me? What's miss.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Smelling?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Van Halen in the Height eighty one Oakland Coliseum live
on stage concert footage. You're watching Van Halen on TV
and it comes on again.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's in rotation. So much fun. Happy anniversary, MTV
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