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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Lou Penroe on News Radio six hundred COGO. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
to have you along with this happy Friday. So the heat.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Wave that we just had in San Diego is coming back,
only it's coming back in a tropical way. Here is
Fox five San Diego's Megan Heally.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You thought it was hot this week in southern California,
It's only going to get hotter as we had into
next week, and it's gonna feel like the tropics.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The tropics that means humidity. That's a nice way of
saying it's gonna be sticky now. Warm temperature is okay
in southern California. I have no problem with the temperatures
in an East County. I don't have any problem with
the temperatures in Palm Springs. I lived in Palm Springs
for almost fifteen years, and it could be one hundred
(00:56):
and twelve and I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Absolutely. I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ninety eight degrees at eleven o'clock at night, It's absolutely amazing.
I've been to Tucson with the boys in the summertime,
and I like Vegas.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I love the dry heat.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I find it embracing it really, I feel like it's nice.
I was just out in Indian Wells a couple of
weeks ago with my wife for something, and it was hot,
and people like going, oh, yeah, a hot weekend. I'm like, no,
it's fantastic. You get out of the pool and it's warm.
You gotta watch where you put your rainbow sandals because
(01:32):
they'll be hot.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And the ground's hot. But it's warm. But I do
not like the humidity.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It can be seventy degrees and eighty percent humidity, and
I think it's miserable. And right now the heat problem
that everyone's talking about that's gripping Europe and parts of
the Midwest. Here in the United States, it's not the temperatures,
it's that they have humidity. So it just becomes unbearable.
It's just horrible. So I can't have that here in
(01:59):
Sandy A Go. But according to Megan Healy, I am.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Monsonal moisture coming in from Baja, meaning that it's gonna
add more moisture, more humidity to the region here in
southern California.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Plus the heat plus the heat, that's no good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You add heat and humidity and you combine them and
then you have something called the heat index.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I think that's what meteorologists say. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's odd to me because Baja is not sticky, So
I don't know why it's the fault of Baja. Although
we are entering into a monsoon season, I think right
is in August first, the beginning of monsoon season. There
was a while that that's where low season kicked in
at some of the resorts.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
They don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You used to be high season and low season, and
low season was because of the monsoons. But I know
it's gonna be sticky, and uh, that's no bueno for me.
So here's NBC's Vicky win from the Today Show.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
She says that it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're gonna want to cool things down, but you are
overdoing it with the AC. There used to be a
school of thought, and I think my wife subscribes to
this school of thought that you should set your thermostat
for the AC, set it at a temperature, and then
(03:25):
don't keep turning it on and all like, oh, no
one's gonna be here. Why are we cooling down a
house that's empty? So turn off the AC. Then you
get home and it's eighty two degrees in the house.
You're like, oh God, pump up the AC. And my
wife would say, no, that's you're overworking the AC. Like
let it just, you know, stay at a certain temper,
(03:46):
set it and forget it. Was the old school of thought,
and h NBC's Vicky Winn says, no, that's not true,
not with the modern things.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is there A lot of people say you should never
turn off your acs when you come back. It's gonna
cost so much much and reuse so much energy to
bring it back up. So modern hazy. According to the experts,
that is actually not true to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Okay, so now she's saying, do turn it off, don't
set it and forget it. Only have it on when
you're in the house. I mean, I hope I have
a modern AC. I don't know what makes it. What's modern?
I mean, I don't have the nest thing, but it's
a Honeywell. I think she just means a newer AC
(04:30):
and that's that's probably right, because when we turn it on,
it kicks on. It's freezing cold as soon as I
turn it on, So maybe I do have a modern AC.
But that's what she's saying saying, don't leave it at
a temper, don't cool an empty house.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I actually do keep our house around seventy six to
seventy eight. It is you acclimate, you acclimate.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
All right. So this is where it got controversial.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
She's saying, and she is quoting experts, that you should
at seventy in summertime. You should be at seventy six,
seventy eight, not seventy two, not seventy, not sixty eight.
Like my middle son, My middle son, he waits till
I fall asleep because the upstairs thermometer is in the
master bedroom. And he waits till I fall asleep because
(05:19):
if I catch him, I'll chase him out.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And he puts it on sixty eight, and.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like sleeps in like just you know, just as as
boxer shorts under like two heavy blankets while the air
is sixty eight. But the problem is that it's also
sixty eight in my bedroom, and I'm freezing to death.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I'll get up at like three in the morning
and turn at all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Then he gets all mad. But they're saying seventy eight.
I don't know that I could sleep at seventy. I'm
not gonna be able to sleep next week.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Not if not If Megan Heely is right and it's
going to be you know, tropical, that's sticky. I don't
like that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But there is a point of view that you need
to in summertime you should acclimate to warmer temper. You
won't notice it if you just live at seventy six
degrees inside your house, and then eventually you get to
seventy eight degrees and you can save money for every degree.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
That you can turn your thermo set up. That's three
percent in savings.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay, every degree.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So I'm at sixty eight, So sixty eight to sixty nine,
three six.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And nine to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, I could save twenty percent of my energy bill
every single time. I don't know that I could get
away with seventy eight. I think that I would be
I would I'd be in the doghouse. I don't think
anybody would handle that. But if I could keep it,
you know, north of seventy four, that would save me
a significant amount of money.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have to set it up.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think it is Wi Fi where I can do
it for my phone because I can see from the
live three sixty when my son's not in the house,
I know when they go out on rides on their ebikes.
So as soon as I hear the you know, deedle
deedle on my phone that so and so left the house,
I can immediately just use my phone to save myself
fifteen to twenty percent on my energy cause for that moment, Yeah,
(07:27):
the call is to acclimate.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And then they also tell me that kids in the
other houses are wearing sweatshirts inside because a who call?
When you have it at sixty eight degrees, that is
not what nature intended for you to feel in the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
How about that thought that nature did not intend for
you to be sixty eight degrees in the summer, that
nature intended you to be at seventy five, seventy six,
seventy eight degrees inside, and that you should acclimate. What
do you think about that? I want to hear from you.
What temperature is it inside your house? As we head
(08:00):
into the tropical heat wave of twenty twenty six in
San Diego next week.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Blu Penrose on news Radio six hundred co Go.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's gonna be hot next week and sticky in San Diego,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You thought it was hot this week in southern California.
It's only going to get hotter as we had into
next week, and it's gonna feel like the tropics.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The tropics. That's Fox five's Megan Heally.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Here is NBC's Vicky Winn from the Today Show saying
you need to cut back on the AC and acclamate
your body to the heat.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I actually do keep our house around seventy six to
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It is.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You acclimate, you acclimate.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You should be acclimating, which means you should be sweading
your ass off in San Diego and cool it with
the AC. By the way, the Wise Out people put
out this PSA, I thought it was helpful.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
If your AC unit still technically works but not like
it used to, you probably don't need to replacement just yet.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Most companies will look at that and say, yeah, you
need a new system, but.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
In a lot of cases you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You probably just have a system that's dirty, worn down,
and not running efficiently anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So if that's your system, you should call somebody because
they're going to be busy on Monday's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And by Tuesday it'll be July.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So if your system is a hasn't been serviced for
a while, you probably want to do that tune up
because usually it's just cleaning.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I watched the guy do it too. I had a system.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I tried so hard to keep it going, and it
was I think it was from when the house was
originally built.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
My house was built in two thousand and we were
having some problems.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Like every every spring we would have a problem, like
we would just kick off and my wife would call
a guy and like I wasn't home and it would
just be fixed. And I just assumed it was some
kind of circuit that I I don't know. I checked,
I check all the circuit breakers and they're all there,
(10:03):
all seemed to be not tripped.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So there's some secret circuit out there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I guess that I don't have access to that on
the air conditioning. But it was like every year, like, oh,
it's working now, okay, well.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it would like it would work all season, and
then somewhere between November and May something would trip off
that required the guy to make a service call. And
that was going on for a number of years, and
then it was happening frequently through the in the summer,
and I'm like, oh, please, no, please get me to October.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I do not want to write that check. I know
it's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And my wife was like, yeah, this thing is I mean, lou,
this thing is probably fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's time. Yeah, just one more summer.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And it went out, and uh, I tried to be
cheap and tried. I had a guy come and tell
me what the part I needed was. I bought the part.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It wasn't cheap, and he installed it and it still
didn't work.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And then I was stuck with the part, and I
went up selling the part on chraciless and buying a
brand new air condition. So yeah, do those maintenances. You
know what's interesting on this day in history? July tenth,
nineteen sixty three. Guess what song was really? How about
(11:25):
that Martha and the vendelas It released heat Wave on
July tenth, nineteen sixty three. So it's all must be
part of a cosmic righteousness. Out in the desert they
are boiling. I mean it is really hot out there.
They are getting hit with a heat wave. You think
it's hot in East County, out in Palm Springs, it's
(11:46):
really hot, And in Palm Desert it's even hotter.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Here's something Chrissy Palm Springs posted.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We live in desert, but nobody knows where that is.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
We see me live in Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We live in Palm Desert.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
No, we're not retired. Do like to have dinner before
four pm?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, you're gonna have to eat dinner before four pm.
It's not going to get under one hundred degrees until
eleven o'clock at night in Palm Desert. Oh man, hey, uh, oh,
you know, I wanted to ask you about this, mister Finnerdy,
because you like I. We watch a lot of film.
I mean you watched film as a career. I just
(12:22):
watched film because I sit in front of the TV
all my life.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, and it came out.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I was talking to my I get a call from
Southwest Bank and the guy calls me and says, hey,
I just need to verify this. There was a check
cashed in of all places, Arkansas and we just had
a call from ark Arkansas. I wonder if it was
her anyway, it was. It was a sizeable amount and
(12:49):
he just he's like, it got flagged. I need to
verify that you didn't write this checkout. And he sent
me a photograph of it, and I said, no, I.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Didn't write that, chick, don't don't don't pay. I mean,
I didn't. That's not for me. And I called my
wife and uh, She's like, let me call and they didn't.
They didn't process it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
But there was somebody in the state of Arkansas that
washed one of my checks because I recognized the amount
and it was my check and you know.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Who it was to who it was to?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It was to Heather, it was to my agent at
the Weis Agency.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And somehow this because the amount is correct, but the
you know, the paid to the order of has been.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Washed, and I think the date was washed. It was
out of my it was out of the trust account.
I know that. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
For some reason, my accountant said that I should pay
my agent out of my trust account because it's tax deductible.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Like as or what. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But the way this works is every year I have
to pay my agent ten percent of my base salary,
and the beginning of my year is April first, so
I write her a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Check and then at the end of the year we.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Settle up on any any bonus money I make and
and you get some of that too.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Misterfinish. So you know how that works, right, we you know,
we settle up like a December thirty.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
First, I look forward to every year.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Right, me too?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And right, So there's basically two checks that are write
to her, and so I recognized the number and somebody
washed the check and I'm on the phone with the
bank guy and I'm like, I saw this movie.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I saw this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I saw it with the you know, the kid from
the Titanic boat right, who was in that movie? Right,
that's it? Catch me if you can. So I know
exactly how this works. So I think I know how
we can track her down.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And he's laughing. Tom Hanks and the guy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That went with Rose and yeah, they literally took they
took acid tone or something and they washed my check.
I couldn't believe it. I'm like, okay, well we know
it was it was done in Arkansas. Is there any
way you can figure out who it is? And I
guess they were able to track her down. So I'm
(15:09):
looking forward to seeing how this all turns out.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And if it were not for me watching you know,
Tom Hanks and the kid from the Titanic, you know,
I wouldn't know as much.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was very It was very very good that I did.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
That film is very educational. Everyone should see, very educational
and educational.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He knew that it was a left handed teller, right
because of the way she stamps and rolls the stamp
to the right to the left, and the eights usually
go first because the ink dries out the stamp.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That all came in handy the other day, and it
was not an insignificant amount of money. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Lou Penrose Live and local news Radio six hundred cogo.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
From Vista Alu. What my daughter always says is air
conditionings for the week. Don't have any at my house,
so it stays at whatever the temperature is that we
can get it at at night, and we just you
stand so good, look at that as stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I appreciate the call. I believe in air conditioning for sure,
but I look, I'm kind of thoughtful when people say
things like that the NBC Today's show, You know person,
so that your body is not meant to be sixty
eight degrees in the summertime, so your body is more
(16:32):
powerful than you think.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And I thought that was an interesting point of view.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Like if it's if it's you know, we know that
the body reacts to the light being light longer, right,
and we know the body reacts to winter time and
the light being light shorter. So why wouldn't your body
naturally accommodate or acclimate if you will, to the light
being light longer and the days being longer and it
(16:57):
not being so hot at seventy four, seventy five, seventy
six degrees.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I just really caught my ear. It wasn't an ordered acclimate.
She was saying that you will acclimate and you'll save money.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
One degree is three percent of energy saving depending on
how efficient you are conditioning is, and you know me, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Always looking to save you money. But yeah, I mean,
you can go with the fans if you want. It
was worse for me.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Because my dad is Italian and I grew up with
a lot of Italians, and the Italians believe in keeping
the heat out that kakamamie science I had to grow
up with. So the Italians believe you close the windows
when it's hot to keep the heat.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Out, whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So we were not allowed to open the windows until
I think my mom threw a frying pan of my
dad and then we did at seventy two degrees in
my house, got the solar going a sweatshirt on, and
I am loving life. Look at you loving life there
in the summertime in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hey, it's National French Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You didn't think that you were going to get through
a program of lou penrose Is without mentioning fast food
on a national holiday like today.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Today is National French Friday, and there are plenty of
deals for you to get your mouth on. Most are
only accessible if you use the restaurant's app or sign
up for rewards.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
See that's how they get you. That's how they get you. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So what do we got at Arby's extra large Fries
for just one ninety nine Carl's Junior free large fry
del Taco. I think among the top tier French fries.
I really do.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And if you can get them well done, which you
really can't. You can try. They're really good.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But if you're lucky to get a batch that was
well done, you're going to be happy. De talk go
free regular fries and this goes on through Sunday. So
they're extending National French Fry Day at Deltaco McDonald's free medium.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Fries by far the best fries in the business.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wendy's free order of fries, any size, Wendy's always topping
whatever McDonald's does. I have nothing from my alma mater,
Burger King. I wonder if they're doing anything. And the conversation,
of course, drifts to French fries and where the term
(19:33):
comes from. You thought it came from France. You thought
the French invent invented French fries.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
So did I.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
When I went to visit my family in Switzerland. In
the by Lake Geneva in montro we charted. We took
a day trip. There's a boat that goes across Lake
Geneva and you can spend the day across the lake.
At the other side of the lake is France. So
we were going to go over to France for the
(20:02):
day and do some shopping and have lunch. And when
I got there, I had to order French fries and
I did, and they were not remarkable.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
They were kind of like steak fries here.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But I actually had French fries in France, and it
turns out that that isn't where.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The name comes from. Did you know that the French.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's called a French fry because of the French cut
of potato. Like there's a Julianne cut, and there's a
dicing cut what we call a shoe string cut. They
just call a French cut. So it's a French cut
of a potato. They did not, in fact invent invent
the French fries.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Guess who did French chef?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
And today we're gonna talk about the French fries. So
actually the French fries. They all love French because I
come from Fremce. But the French is.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
A type of cuts. So when we cut the fries like.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
That like little batli, and that's called the French cuts.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's because of the way it's cut. It's all about
the cut. You can do a lot of things with potato.
You can slice it like ovals, you can have steak fries,
you can dice it up and make hash browns. And
the shoe string cut with the four like you know,
the long square is a French cut of the potato.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
That's called the French cuts.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And actually as much from.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
The rivalrie going to Belgium and France, I have to
give them that trading fries.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
It's from Belgium.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They're from Belgium, so they're Belgium fries cut French style.
So there you go. The more you know I'm an outlier.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I like crinkled cut fries from frozen from the supermarket
and I heat them up not too crispy.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So the supermarket fries are working for me.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In that air fryer. I have to tell you, I'm
living in that air fryer these days. Everything that comes
out of it is really good. It delivers on its promise.
You can get frozen. You can get store brand, Kirkland
brand frozen French fries, which are normally.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Awful, and they have been awful.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We would tried it every which way from Sunday on
the cookie sheet in the oven convection, right, nobody actually
even knows what convection is as opposed to bake, and
you know, but you know the oven has that setting.
Go try the convection. See that makes a difference. No,
it just to tastes like freezer burnt awfulness. Enough ketchup
(22:22):
and you cover it up. And then we got the
air fryer and you put the frozen fries in the
basket of the air fryer, and it doesn't matter how
many you pour in, it doesn't matter. You know it,
what crispiness you want it. You just press the button
that says fries. You don't even have to look up
or read the instructions on what they recommend. You just
(22:43):
press the button fries and they come out perfectly, absolutely
perfect every time. So I'm with you with the frozen
fries as long as you put them in the air
fryer del Taco.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
They're wavy and they're thick, and they're highly underrated.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I agree with you, highly underrated, and today free regular
fries now through Sunday in honor of National French Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Which is today.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I don't buy fries from McDonald's from anywhere because they're
never made fresh. Well, they're made fresh at some point,
but I'll counter that. You know who makes fries fresh
is in and out, and I don't prefer the taste
of in and out fries. I'll have them, but I
don't yearn for them the way I yearn for McDonald's fries.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So sometimes fresh isn't best.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Lou Penroe on News Radio six hundred Cogo coming up
following the News at five o'clock. It's ask lou anything,
anything at all that's on your mind. Some of the
items we discussed this past week, some of the items
in the news that we didn't get to. You want
to bring up for discussion, offer your opinion, ask for hours.
Maybe you have a question about something I said, the
(23:59):
way I fray something, critique, criticize, call and yell and
scream at me and hang up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's all good. It's wide open.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It's ask GLU anything, and it follows the news at
five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The people that are.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
In the United States to watch the World Cup are
still falling in love with Americans. They are just taking
to social media. That's the big story, the big story
about this World Cup, the you know, the human interest
story for Americans is how much these visitors from Western
Europe and from Japan and China and Latin America that
(24:37):
had never been to America.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
How much they love Americans.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
In Kansas City, it is the smallest stadium of all
the tournament stadiums, and the people are just.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
In love with the Midwest.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Kansas City is by far the smallest US city to
host the World Cup, but by the end of the tournament,
organizers say, the biggest winner of the world's largest single
sport could.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Be not only KC but all of Middle America.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
All of the Midwest, because people drawing while they're there.
Europeans have an awful lot of time. I mean, these
people get six eight weeks vacation. They must get an
increase because of the World Cup. I don't know where
these people have the money. I mean, they are just
not working and they're paying these World Cup prices and
they're just burning fuel driving around saying, oh, it's only
(25:25):
eight hours to.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Chicago, let's go see Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And they're just driving all over the country enjoying the
hell out of it, and I love it. So they're
all over the Midwest and they keep calling it Middle America,
which is kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But you know, if you're a European, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know New York City, you know surfing California, so
really southern California, and you know cowboys.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's all you know. You don't know anything about Missouri
or Kansas.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
But now they do.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
As fans head home, until the world about their American
travels and experiences.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
This is the first time in the Middle of America.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Then nice, I love that the middle of America, uh,
you know, the middle of America actually.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Would be more toward Oklahoma. But I know what he
said first time, in the middle of America.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
The nicest people. People are really nice.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
See that we're really nice, and these Europeans are shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I find that delightful. We're just we're just the nicest people.
Well they are. I don't know if they think that
us here in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So people, people are really nice.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's nothing like Miami or New York. I mean, it's uh,
it's a herd of the US.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
And I never eat this parting.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
China advise you. I like that guy. He says, it's
nothing like Miami or New York.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I've never had barbecue like this in China.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
This park doing China advise you. Thats in Kansas. He's
moss beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, the Argentinian guy, he's giving travel advice. He's advising
us to visit Consas because it's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I love to hear that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm very excited that all these people are going to
go to, you know, their little corner of the world
and tell these stories about how wonderful the United States
is because we are wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We you know, I don't know what they're.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Telling them on the BBC Worldwide or whatever news organizations
they have there, but I think the news organizations there
are an American because we've.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Always been wonderful people, but now everybody knows it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Hey, our report came out and this is kind of
a somewhat shop talk, but it's interesting to me, and
it might be due to me.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Afternoon drive radio is moving up.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Back in the day, it was always assumed that morning
drive radio the morning shows with a number one audience,
and then it began to drift off, maybe peak up
a little bit in afternoon drive because of trap patterns
and people on the road so they're listening to radio
in the car. But certainly the powerhouse of audience was
morning drive.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And it still is, but it's been slowly declining.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
In twenty twenty four, it was at fifty two percent.
Right in twenty twenty six, it's dropped down to forty percent,
so it's declining. At the same time that would be concurrently,
afternoon radio listening was at twenty eight percent in twenty
twenty four. It's up now in twenty twenty six to
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thirty four percent, So it's an inverse thing, mister Finnity.
Morning drive listening listening is still higher than me, but
it's it's trending downward, and afternoon drive listening on the
radio is trending upward.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I have a theory I could be.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I'd like to know so I can keep it going well.
I think we're trending up. Afternoon shows are trending up
because people are coming back from work. They're they're discharging,
they're they're listening. They're listening for entertainment, they're listening for
what happened going on when they were at work. But
when they're going to work in the morning, I think
more and more people are focusing on, Oh, I got
(29:12):
to send this text to this. Oh hey Alexa, make
sure my boss knows about this. Oh I got to
send that email. I think they're already in work mode
and so they're not listening because they don't want to
be distracted. They're already mentally at the office pre working.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yes, I think that's right because we all do that right,
like we literally because we get our emails at the
house and we're already thinking about work. And once you're
in the car. You're effectively working because you're commuting. So yeah,
you could probably through Apple car plays, start shooting off
emails and texts so that when you actually get into
your desk and log in, you're already on the on.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
The way exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow, well we're.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Benefiting from your workaholics out there, all right. Well, thanks
for decompressing with me in the afternoon.
Lou Penroe on News Radio six hundred COGO. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
to have you along with this happy Friday. So the heat.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Wave that we just had in San Diego is coming back,
only it's coming back in a tropical way. Here is
Fox five San Diego's Megan Heally.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
You thought it was hot this week in southern California,
It's only going to get hotter as we had into
next week, and it's gonna feel like the tropics.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The tropics that means humidity. That's a nice way of
saying it's gonna be sticky now. Warm temperature is okay
in southern California. I have no problem with the temperatures
in an East County. I don't have any problem with
the temperatures in Palm Springs. I lived in Palm Springs
for almost fifteen years, and it could be one hundred
(00:56):
and twelve and I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Absolutely. I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Ninety eight degrees at eleven o'clock at night, It's absolutely amazing.
I've been to Tucson with the boys in the summertime,
and I like Vegas.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I love the dry heat.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I find it embracing it really, I feel like it's nice.
I was just out in Indian Wells a couple of
weeks ago with my wife for something, and it was hot,
and people like going, oh, yeah, a hot weekend. I'm like, no,
it's fantastic. You get out of the pool and it's warm.
You gotta watch where you put your rainbow sandals because
(01:32):
they'll be hot.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And the ground's hot. But it's warm. But I do
not like the humidity.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It can be seventy degrees and eighty percent humidity, and
I think it's miserable. And right now the heat problem
that everyone's talking about that's gripping Europe and parts of
the Midwest. Here in the United States, it's not the temperatures,
it's that they have humidity. So it just becomes unbearable.
It's just horrible. So I can't have that here in
(01:59):
Sandy A Go. But according to Megan Healy, I am.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Monsonal moisture coming in from Baja, meaning that it's gonna
add more moisture, more humidity to the region here in
southern California.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Plus the heat plus the heat, that's no good.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
You add heat and humidity and you combine them and
then you have something called the heat index.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I think that's what meteorologists say. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's odd to me because Baja is not sticky, So
I don't know why it's the fault of Baja. Although
we are entering into a monsoon season, I think right
is in August first, the beginning of monsoon season. There
was a while that that's where low season kicked in
at some of the resorts.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
They don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You used to be high season and low season, and
low season was because of the monsoons. But I know
it's gonna be sticky, and uh, that's no bueno for me.
So here's NBC's Vicky win from the Today Show.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
She says that it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're gonna want to cool things down, but you are
overdoing it with the AC. There used to be a
school of thought, and I think my wife subscribes to
this school of thought that you should set your thermostat
for the AC, set it at a temperature, and then
(03:25):
don't keep turning it on and all like, oh, no
one's gonna be here. Why are we cooling down a
house that's empty? So turn off the AC. Then you
get home and it's eighty two degrees in the house.
You're like, oh God, pump up the AC. And my
wife would say, no, that's you're overworking the AC. Like
let it just, you know, stay at a certain temper,
(03:46):
set it and forget it. Was the old school of thought,
and h NBC's Vicky Winn says, no, that's not true,
not with the modern things.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Is there A lot of people say you should never
turn off your acs when you come back. It's gonna
cost so much much and reuse so much energy to
bring it back up. So modern hazy. According to the experts,
that is actually not true to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Okay, so now she's saying, do turn it off, don't
set it and forget it. Only have it on when
you're in the house. I mean, I hope I have
a modern AC. I don't know what makes it. What's modern?
I mean, I don't have the nest thing, but it's
a Honeywell. I think she just means a newer AC
(04:30):
and that's that's probably right, because when we turn it on,
it kicks on. It's freezing cold as soon as I
turn it on, So maybe I do have a modern AC.
But that's what she's saying saying, don't leave it at
a temper, don't cool an empty house.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I actually do keep our house around seventy six to
seventy eight. It is you acclimate, you acclimate.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
All right. So this is where it got controversial.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
She's saying, and she is quoting experts, that you should
at seventy in summertime. You should be at seventy six,
seventy eight, not seventy two, not seventy, not sixty eight.
Like my middle son, My middle son, he waits till
I fall asleep because the upstairs thermometer is in the
master bedroom. And he waits till I fall asleep because
(05:19):
if I catch him, I'll chase him out.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And he puts it on sixty eight, and.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Like sleeps in like just you know, just as as
boxer shorts under like two heavy blankets while the air
is sixty eight. But the problem is that it's also
sixty eight in my bedroom, and I'm freezing to death.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So I'll get up at like three in the morning
and turn at all.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Then he gets all mad. But they're saying seventy eight.
I don't know that I could sleep at seventy. I'm
not gonna be able to sleep next week.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Not if not If Megan Heely is right and it's
going to be you know, tropical, that's sticky. I don't
like that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But there is a point of view that you need
to in summertime you should acclimate to warmer temper. You
won't notice it if you just live at seventy six
degrees inside your house, and then eventually you get to
seventy eight degrees and you can save money for every degree.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
That you can turn your thermo set up. That's three
percent in savings.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay, every degree.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So I'm at sixty eight, So sixty eight to sixty nine,
three six.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And nine to twelve.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wow, I could save twenty percent of my energy bill
every single time. I don't know that I could get
away with seventy eight. I think that I would be
I would I'd be in the doghouse. I don't think
anybody would handle that. But if I could keep it,
you know, north of seventy four, that would save me
a significant amount of money.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have to set it up.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I think it is Wi Fi where I can do
it for my phone because I can see from the
live three sixty when my son's not in the house,
I know when they go out on rides on their ebikes.
So as soon as I hear the you know, deedle
deedle on my phone that so and so left the house,
I can immediately just use my phone to save myself
fifteen to twenty percent on my energy cause for that moment, Yeah,
(07:27):
the call is to acclimate.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And then they also tell me that kids in the
other houses are wearing sweatshirts inside because a who call?
When you have it at sixty eight degrees, that is
not what nature intended for you to feel in the summer.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
How about that thought that nature did not intend for
you to be sixty eight degrees in the summer, that
nature intended you to be at seventy five, seventy six,
seventy eight degrees inside, and that you should acclimate. What
do you think about that? I want to hear from you.
What temperature is it inside your house? As we head
(08:00):
into the tropical heat wave of twenty twenty six in
San Diego next week.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Blu Penrose on news Radio six hundred co Go.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's gonna be hot next week and sticky in San Diego,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You thought it was hot this week in southern California.
It's only going to get hotter as we had into
next week, and it's gonna feel like the tropics.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The tropics. That's Fox five's Megan Heally.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Here is NBC's Vicky Winn from the Today Show saying
you need to cut back on the AC and acclamate
your body to the heat.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I actually do keep our house around seventy six to
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It is.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You acclimate, you acclimate.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You should be acclimating, which means you should be sweading
your ass off in San Diego and cool it with
the AC. By the way, the Wise Out people put
out this PSA, I thought it was helpful.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
If your AC unit still technically works but not like
it used to, you probably don't need to replacement just yet.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Most companies will look at that and say, yeah, you
need a new system, but.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
In a lot of cases you don't.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You probably just have a system that's dirty, worn down,
and not running efficiently anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So if that's your system, you should call somebody because
they're going to be busy on Monday's.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And by Tuesday it'll be July.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So if your system is a hasn't been serviced for
a while, you probably want to do that tune up
because usually it's just cleaning.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I watched the guy do it too. I had a system.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I tried so hard to keep it going, and it
was I think it was from when the house was
originally built.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
My house was built in two thousand and we were
having some problems.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Like every every spring we would have a problem, like
we would just kick off and my wife would call
a guy and like I wasn't home and it would
just be fixed. And I just assumed it was some
kind of circuit that I I don't know. I checked,
I check all the circuit breakers and they're all there,
(10:03):
all seemed to be not tripped.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So there's some secret circuit out there.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I guess that I don't have access to that on
the air conditioning. But it was like every year, like, oh,
it's working now, okay, well.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And it would like it would work all season, and
then somewhere between November and May something would trip off
that required the guy to make a service call. And
that was going on for a number of years, and
then it was happening frequently through the in the summer,
and I'm like, oh, please, no, please get me to October.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I do not want to write that check. I know
it's coming.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And my wife was like, yeah, this thing is I mean, lou,
this thing is probably fifteen years old.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's time. Yeah, just one more summer.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And it went out, and uh, I tried to be
cheap and tried. I had a guy come and tell
me what the part I needed was. I bought the part.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It wasn't cheap, and he installed it and it still
didn't work.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And then I was stuck with the part, and I
went up selling the part on chraciless and buying a
brand new air condition. So yeah, do those maintenances. You
know what's interesting on this day in history? July tenth,
nineteen sixty three. Guess what song was really? How about
(11:25):
that Martha and the vendelas It released heat Wave on
July tenth, nineteen sixty three. So it's all must be
part of a cosmic righteousness. Out in the desert they
are boiling. I mean it is really hot out there.
They are getting hit with a heat wave. You think
it's hot in East County, out in Palm Springs, it's
(11:46):
really hot, And in Palm Desert it's even hotter.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Here's something Chrissy Palm Springs posted.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
We live in desert, but nobody knows where that is.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
We see me live in Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We live in Palm Desert.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
No, we're not retired. Do like to have dinner before
four pm?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, you're gonna have to eat dinner before four pm.
It's not going to get under one hundred degrees until
eleven o'clock at night in Palm Desert. Oh man, hey, uh, oh,
you know, I wanted to ask you about this, mister Finnerdy,
because you like I. We watch a lot of film.
I mean you watched film as a career. I just
(12:22):
watched film because I sit in front of the TV
all my life.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, and it came out.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I was talking to my I get a call from
Southwest Bank and the guy calls me and says, hey,
I just need to verify this. There was a check
cashed in of all places, Arkansas and we just had
a call from ark Arkansas. I wonder if it was
her anyway, it was. It was a sizeable amount and
(12:49):
he just he's like, it got flagged. I need to
verify that you didn't write this checkout. And he sent
me a photograph of it, and I said, no, I.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Didn't write that, chick, don't don't don't pay. I mean,
I didn't. That's not for me. And I called my
wife and uh, She's like, let me call and they didn't.
They didn't process it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
But there was somebody in the state of Arkansas that
washed one of my checks because I recognized the amount
and it was my check and you know.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Who it was to who it was to?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It was to Heather, it was to my agent at
the Weis Agency.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And somehow this because the amount is correct, but the
you know, the paid to the order of has been.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Washed, and I think the date was washed. It was
out of my it was out of the trust account.
I know that. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
For some reason, my accountant said that I should pay
my agent out of my trust account because it's tax deductible.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Like as or what. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But the way this works is every year I have
to pay my agent ten percent of my base salary,
and the beginning of my year is April first, so
I write her a.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Check and then at the end of the year we.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Settle up on any any bonus money I make and
and you get some of that too.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Misterfinish. So you know how that works, right, we you know,
we settle up like a December thirty.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
First, I look forward to every year.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Right, me too?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And right, So there's basically two checks that are write
to her, and so I recognized the number and somebody
washed the check and I'm on the phone with the
bank guy and I'm like, I saw this movie.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I saw this movie.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I saw it with the you know, the kid from
the Titanic boat right, who was in that movie? Right,
that's it? Catch me if you can. So I know
exactly how this works. So I think I know how
we can track her down.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And he's laughing. Tom Hanks and the guy.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
That went with Rose and yeah, they literally took they
took acid tone or something and they washed my check.
I couldn't believe it. I'm like, okay, well we know
it was it was done in Arkansas. Is there any
way you can figure out who it is? And I
guess they were able to track her down. So I'm
(15:09):
looking forward to seeing how this all turns out.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
And if it were not for me watching you know,
Tom Hanks and the kid from the Titanic, you know,
I wouldn't know as much.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I was very It was very very good that I did.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
That film is very educational. Everyone should see, very educational
and educational.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He knew that it was a left handed teller, right
because of the way she stamps and rolls the stamp
to the right to the left, and the eights usually
go first because the ink dries out the stamp.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
That all came in handy the other day, and it
was not an insignificant amount of money. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Lou Penrose Live and local news Radio six hundred cogo.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
From Vista Alu. What my daughter always says is air
conditionings for the week. Don't have any at my house,
so it stays at whatever the temperature is that we
can get it at at night, and we just you
stand so good, look at that as stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I appreciate the call. I believe in air conditioning for sure,
but I look, I'm kind of thoughtful when people say
things like that the NBC Today's show, You know person,
so that your body is not meant to be sixty
eight degrees in the summertime, so your body is more
(16:32):
powerful than you think.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And I thought that was an interesting point of view.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Like if it's if it's you know, we know that
the body reacts to the light being light longer, right,
and we know the body reacts to winter time and
the light being light shorter. So why wouldn't your body
naturally accommodate or acclimate if you will, to the light
being light longer and the days being longer and it
(16:57):
not being so hot at seventy four, seventy five, seventy
six degrees.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I just really caught my ear. It wasn't an ordered acclimate.
She was saying that you will acclimate and you'll save money.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
One degree is three percent of energy saving depending on
how efficient you are conditioning is, and you know me, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Always looking to save you money. But yeah, I mean,
you can go with the fans if you want. It
was worse for me.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Because my dad is Italian and I grew up with
a lot of Italians, and the Italians believe in keeping
the heat out that kakamamie science I had to grow
up with. So the Italians believe you close the windows
when it's hot to keep the heat.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Out, whatever that means.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So we were not allowed to open the windows until
I think my mom threw a frying pan of my
dad and then we did at seventy two degrees in
my house, got the solar going a sweatshirt on, and
I am loving life. Look at you loving life there
in the summertime in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Hey, it's National French Friday.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You didn't think that you were going to get through
a program of lou penrose Is without mentioning fast food
on a national holiday like today.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Today is National French Friday, and there are plenty of
deals for you to get your mouth on. Most are
only accessible if you use the restaurant's app or sign
up for rewards.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
See that's how they get you. That's how they get you. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So what do we got at Arby's extra large Fries
for just one ninety nine Carl's Junior free large fry
del Taco. I think among the top tier French fries.
I really do.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And if you can get them well done, which you
really can't. You can try. They're really good.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But if you're lucky to get a batch that was
well done, you're going to be happy. De talk go
free regular fries and this goes on through Sunday. So
they're extending National French Fry Day at Deltaco McDonald's free medium.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Fries by far the best fries in the business.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Wendy's free order of fries, any size, Wendy's always topping
whatever McDonald's does. I have nothing from my alma mater,
Burger King. I wonder if they're doing anything. And the conversation,
of course, drifts to French fries and where the term
(19:33):
comes from. You thought it came from France. You thought
the French invent invented French fries.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
So did I.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
When I went to visit my family in Switzerland. In
the by Lake Geneva in montro we charted. We took
a day trip. There's a boat that goes across Lake
Geneva and you can spend the day across the lake.
At the other side of the lake is France. So
we were going to go over to France for the
(20:02):
day and do some shopping and have lunch. And when
I got there, I had to order French fries and
I did, and they were not remarkable.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
They were kind of like steak fries here.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But I actually had French fries in France, and it
turns out that that isn't where.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The name comes from. Did you know that the French.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's called a French fry because of the French cut
of potato. Like there's a Julianne cut, and there's a
dicing cut what we call a shoe string cut. They
just call a French cut. So it's a French cut
of a potato. They did not, in fact invent invent
the French fries.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Guess who did French chef?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
And today we're gonna talk about the French fries. So
actually the French fries. They all love French because I
come from Fremce. But the French is.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
A type of cuts. So when we cut the fries like.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
That like little batli, and that's called the French cuts.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Did you know that?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's because of the way it's cut. It's all about
the cut. You can do a lot of things with potato.
You can slice it like ovals, you can have steak fries,
you can dice it up and make hash browns. And
the shoe string cut with the four like you know,
the long square is a French cut of the potato.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
That's called the French cuts.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And actually as much from.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
The rivalrie going to Belgium and France, I have to
give them that trading fries.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
It's from Belgium.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
They're from Belgium, so they're Belgium fries cut French style.
So there you go. The more you know I'm an outlier.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I like crinkled cut fries from frozen from the supermarket
and I heat them up not too crispy.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So the supermarket fries are working for me.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In that air fryer. I have to tell you, I'm
living in that air fryer these days. Everything that comes
out of it is really good. It delivers on its promise.
You can get frozen. You can get store brand, Kirkland
brand frozen French fries, which are normally.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Awful, and they have been awful.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We would tried it every which way from Sunday on
the cookie sheet in the oven convection, right, nobody actually
even knows what convection is as opposed to bake, and
you know, but you know the oven has that setting.
Go try the convection. See that makes a difference. No,
it just to tastes like freezer burnt awfulness. Enough ketchup
(22:22):
and you cover it up. And then we got the
air fryer and you put the frozen fries in the
basket of the air fryer, and it doesn't matter how
many you pour in, it doesn't matter. You know it,
what crispiness you want it. You just press the button
that says fries. You don't even have to look up
or read the instructions on what they recommend. You just
(22:43):
press the button fries and they come out perfectly, absolutely
perfect every time. So I'm with you with the frozen
fries as long as you put them in the air
fryer del Taco.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
They're wavy and they're thick, and they're highly underrated.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I agree with you, highly underrated, and today free regular
fries now through Sunday in honor of National French Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Which is today.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I don't buy fries from McDonald's from anywhere because they're
never made fresh. Well, they're made fresh at some point,
but I'll counter that. You know who makes fries fresh
is in and out, and I don't prefer the taste
of in and out fries. I'll have them, but I
don't yearn for them the way I yearn for McDonald's fries.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So sometimes fresh isn't best.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Lou Penroe on News Radio six hundred Cogo coming up
following the News at five o'clock. It's ask lou anything,
anything at all that's on your mind. Some of the
items we discussed this past week, some of the items
in the news that we didn't get to. You want
to bring up for discussion, offer your opinion, ask for hours.
Maybe you have a question about something I said, the
(23:59):
way I fray something, critique, criticize, call and yell and
scream at me and hang up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's all good. It's wide open.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It's ask GLU anything, and it follows the news at
five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The people that are.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
In the United States to watch the World Cup are
still falling in love with Americans. They are just taking
to social media. That's the big story, the big story
about this World Cup, the you know, the human interest
story for Americans is how much these visitors from Western
Europe and from Japan and China and Latin America that
(24:37):
had never been to America.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
How much they love Americans.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
In Kansas City, it is the smallest stadium of all
the tournament stadiums, and the people are just.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
In love with the Midwest.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Kansas City is by far the smallest US city to
host the World Cup, but by the end of the tournament,
organizers say, the biggest winner of the world's largest single
sport could.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Be not only KC but all of Middle America.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
All of the Midwest, because people drawing while they're there.
Europeans have an awful lot of time. I mean, these
people get six eight weeks vacation. They must get an
increase because of the World Cup. I don't know where
these people have the money. I mean, they are just
not working and they're paying these World Cup prices and
they're just burning fuel driving around saying, oh, it's only
(25:25):
eight hours to.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Chicago, let's go see Chicago.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And they're just driving all over the country enjoying the
hell out of it, and I love it. So they're
all over the Midwest and they keep calling it Middle America,
which is kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But you know, if you're a European, what do you know?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You know New York City, you know surfing California, so
really southern California, and you know cowboys.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's all you know. You don't know anything about Missouri
or Kansas.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
But now they do.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
As fans head home, until the world about their American
travels and experiences.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
This is the first time in the Middle of America.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Then nice, I love that the middle of America, uh,
you know, the middle of America actually.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Would be more toward Oklahoma. But I know what he
said first time, in the middle of America.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
The nicest people. People are really nice.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
See that we're really nice, and these Europeans are shocked.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I find that delightful. We're just we're just the nicest people.
Well they are. I don't know if they think that
us here in San Diego.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
So people, people are really nice.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
It's nothing like Miami or New York. I mean, it's uh,
it's a herd of the US.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
And I never eat this parting.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
China advise you. I like that guy. He says, it's
nothing like Miami or New York.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I've never had barbecue like this in China.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
This park doing China advise you. Thats in Kansas. He's
moss beautiful.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, the Argentinian guy, he's giving travel advice. He's advising
us to visit Consas because it's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I love to hear that.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm very excited that all these people are going to
go to, you know, their little corner of the world
and tell these stories about how wonderful the United States
is because we are wonderful people.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We you know, I don't know what they're.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Telling them on the BBC Worldwide or whatever news organizations
they have there, but I think the news organizations there
are an American because we've.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Always been wonderful people, but now everybody knows it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Hey, our report came out and this is kind of
a somewhat shop talk, but it's interesting to me, and
it might be due to me.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Afternoon drive radio is moving up.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Back in the day, it was always assumed that morning
drive radio the morning shows with a number one audience,
and then it began to drift off, maybe peak up
a little bit in afternoon drive because of trap patterns
and people on the road so they're listening to radio
in the car. But certainly the powerhouse of audience was
morning drive.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
And it still is, but it's been slowly declining.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
In twenty twenty four, it was at fifty two percent.
Right in twenty twenty six, it's dropped down to forty percent,
so it's declining. At the same time that would be concurrently,
afternoon radio listening was at twenty eight percent in twenty
twenty four. It's up now in twenty twenty six to
(28:34):
thirty four percent, So it's an inverse thing, mister Finnity.
Morning drive listening listening is still higher than me, but
it's it's trending downward, and afternoon drive listening on the
radio is trending upward.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I have a theory I could be.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I want to hear it.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I'd like to know so I can keep it going well.
I think we're trending up. Afternoon shows are trending up
because people are coming back from work. They're they're discharging,
they're they're listening. They're listening for entertainment, they're listening for
what happened going on when they were at work. But
when they're going to work in the morning, I think
more and more people are focusing on, Oh, I got
(29:12):
to send this text to this. Oh hey Alexa, make
sure my boss knows about this. Oh I got to
send that email. I think they're already in work mode
and so they're not listening because they don't want to
be distracted. They're already mentally at the office pre working.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yes, I think that's right because we all do that right,
like we literally because we get our emails at the
house and we're already thinking about work. And once you're
in the car. You're effectively working because you're commuting. So yeah,
you could probably through Apple car plays, start shooting off
emails and texts so that when you actually get into
your desk and log in, you're already on the on.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
The way exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wow, well we're.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Benefiting from your workaholics out there, all right. Well, thanks
for decompressing with me in the afternoon.
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