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Speaker 1 (00:00):
People will be surrounding San Diego Bay. In Washington, the

(00:04):
Great America State Fair had to be postponed and shut
down the day because of the extreme heat of the
nation's capital, with the temperatures reaching one hundred degrees feeling
like one hundred and eleven degrees and President Trump taking
part in America's two hundred and fiftieth Birthday celebration Tonight
at South Dakota's Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
There will be a flyover featuring the new Air Force
one Blackhawk helicopters and a B two bomber so that
is expected to thrill the crowds washing below. Besides the
President's remarks, the evening will culminate with a fireworks display
lighting up the skies over Keystone and Rapid City, South Dakota.
The last time fireworks were seen over the site was
in July twenty twenty, and it stopped after concerns about

(00:47):
the fireworks causing fires in the Black Hills. Interior Secretary
Doug Bergham insists they have a plan in place to
identify fire and put it out quickly if there is one.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
That's Madeleine rivera reporting here and die Gooway reminder from
CalFire and Santigo firefighters, if you are going to be
playing with and fortunately hopefully not fireworks. Fireworks are all
illegal all kinds in San Diego County.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
If you are caught with pyrotechnics, you could be arrested
and prosecuted. CalFire State Fire Marshal Doug Berlin says it's
already happened this year as.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
We entered this period, It's important to understand what we
are already experiencing across California.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
So far, just in the first.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Six months of twenty twenty six, within our jurisdiction alone
at CalFire, we have responded to nearly fifty wildland fires
sparked by illegal fireworks.

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Berlin says illegal fireworks put lives, homes, and entire communities
at risk. He says, your best bet go to a
supervised fireworks and watch the show.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
I'm Phil Farrar.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
The July fourth weekend is not only about fireworks and
patriotic music. What about some patriotic movies to watch this weekend?

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Classics like seventeen seventy six Yankee Doodle Dandy and Mister
Smith Goes to Washington celebrate the nation's founding and civic spirit,
while films like Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers
onto the sacrifices made to protect those ideals. Then there
are the crowd pleasers, including Top Gun, Maverick, The Patriot,
and of course Independence Day.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
We're going to Live on, We're going to survive.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
Today.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
We celebrate our Independence Day.

Speaker 6 (02:29):
Whether you're in the mood for history, heroism, or just
a little Hollywood spectacle, there's no shortage of red, white
and blue entertainment this holiday weekend.

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This is the last weekend of the fair.

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Speaker 5 (04:13):
We are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. Happy Friday.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
We are live and local on the holiday, so happy
to be with you talking about America, American American things,
hamburgers and hot dogs, and the hustle and bustle out
there to get ready for the big celebration tomorrow, the
fourth of July and the two hundred and fiftieth birthday
of the United States. Andrew Yang took the social media

(04:43):
and said, Happy two hundred and fiftieth birthday America. You
look great, he said, Of course, most countries don't make
it to two hundred and fifty years. The average modern
state lasts one hundred and fifty eight to two hundred
years before running aground. I wonder if that's true. What

(05:04):
I mean, what's a modern state? I can't conceive of
a situation where the United States runs aground? Like is
that like well, like Burma became Miramar or I'm not
sure what a modern state is anyway, that's I guess
that's the stat The average modern state lasts one hundred

(05:24):
and fifty eight years, so two hundred.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Years before running around.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right, so the Roman Empire made it for two
thousand years. America, you have seventeen hundred and fifty years
to go to beat the Roman record, and I say
we go for the record two fifty and it's been
a good run. We did a lot of good when
you consider the efficiency. We got a lot done in
two hundred and fifty years. Everybody's talking about US. Two

(05:50):
hundred and fifty years ago, nobody had no one heard of.
The United States of America was thirteen colonies. By the
War of eighteen twelve, we survived the British Navy. Next thing,
you know, we had the Spanish American War, and everybody's like, wow,
those guys over there, those Yankees that had that squirmish
with the king.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
They just took Guam in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
And by World War One we were a player. And
at the end of World War Two we were the best.
And post World War Two, we just became the greatest
thing that ever happened on the planet. And today we
stand in uh with I mean, there's no second place,

(06:35):
there's no second place. America isn't just the biggest gross
domestic product country. It's way bigger than the second largest
most domestic product country. We're so much wealthier, we are
so much better, we are so much healthier, we got
clean water, we got flushing toilets.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
You can flush toilet paper in the toilet. That's a biggie.
That's a biggie.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
We got we got everything going. It's uh, we got
just the biggest and best of everything.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
And I love it. And so it's right and.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Proper to celebrate our achievements as a people, as a culture,
as a nation.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
So Andrew Yang, I think that's right.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
So Ben Shapiro, who has his own radio show, I
Guess and also a podcast.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Uh, and he's the anchor of Daily Wire.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
I like him, you know, he gets into the religious
version of politics more than than I do.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
But I like his wit. He's sharp, and he you know,
has great debates, and he's a good guy.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
He put together the Ultimate American List, well, they asked him.
They created the Ultimate American list and the best the
Ultimate American Food, Ultimate American historical figure, Ultimate American movie.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
And it goes on and on, but it starts off
with the food.

Speaker 9 (07:57):
All right, the best American food clearly hamburgers and fries.
And I understand, I get it. Fries are just trips
from England, and Hamburger's come from Germany.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
It doesn't matter. That's an American food.

Speaker 9 (08:06):
Everyone knows it's American food, and anybody that tells you
differently is line to you.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Pretty obviously, I go with that. I think the hamburg
the plate of a hamburger and fries.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Is the ultimate American food, no question about it, if
you just give it a thought.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
That is something that is on the menu from sea
to shining sea, from coast to coast, even in There's no.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Area of the country where a bergeran fries is not local.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Right, So the ultimate American food, he says, hamburger fries,
And I agree.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Most American historical figure, mister.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Finnerty, Well, to me, it's George Washington.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh wow, you got it. That's what he said too.
He said the most the most American historical figure would
be George Washington, the father of our country. Hmm, I
guess I mean contemporary American figures. For me, I had
a bigger impact because they're closer to my life. So

(09:09):
it's hard to relate to Washington because, like it was
before there was recorded sound, I never heard him speak.
The only thing I know about Washington is that he's
on the dollar bill and the quarter, and they named
two places after him.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
And he was a tough solb.

Speaker 10 (09:24):
I mean he was like anybody who tried to desert
Valley forge during the hard winter.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
He was like, you'll be shot.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
I mean, this guy, he's a heck of a general.
He was one heck of a general.

Speaker 10 (09:33):
He lost more battles than he won, but he won
the pivotal battles.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
So I'm thinking, like, do I go maybe Paton?

Speaker 7 (09:42):
Uh oh, that's a good choice.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, I mean the most American historical figure, the one
that typifies America in American history.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I mean, you can go with presidents like Washington or Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
But what demonstrates Erica, what typifies American American?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Excellent? What's America to me?

Speaker 4 (10:04):
America is freedom, opportunity, swagger, strength.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
Well, that would be Reagan, wouldn't it. Ronald Reagan.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
I kind of feel like Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh, like he's put Muhammad Ali is an internationally known
figure like and from America, but I'm he's like my hero.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
So all right, I'll go with George Washing.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Most American movie, the movie that most typifies the American experience.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Wow, not the best movie, not.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
The one that won the most Oscars, but the most
American movie.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
What do you got.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
I would think it would have to be a Western,
don't you.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, like any John Wayne, John Wayne, like Stagecoach or
The Alamo.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
He said. And I don't know this movie. Maybe you
do Best Years of Our Lives.

Speaker 10 (11:01):
Oh, yes, no, that's a great movie. That that's that's
about what the vets were going through coming back home
after World War Two. Credick March.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's what Ben Shapiro said, Best Years of
Our Lives, Best American movie.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
But I'm with you. I'm feeling the West because that really,
I mean, the West is America. That's I mean, we
we taking the West right, the West. I mean on film.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
On film, westerns are captured well because of the scenic
beauty of America.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
And the horseback thing. It just a yeah, I'm feeling
like a John Wayne movie. Okay, uh Best American business Apple?
You say Apple, he said? He said, Walmart, Okay, I
say McDonald's.

Speaker 10 (11:49):
Yeah, that's good, call McDonald's. I would I would change
mind to McDonald's.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
That that's that's better, not just because of the food
but the business model.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Right.

Speaker 10 (11:57):
And it's been around longer. It's been around since what
the late early fifties and.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
The expansion and the ever presence and the comfort that
people have when they see the Golden Arches, and that
it is loved and has a presence in every corner
of the world. And people just have a warm spot
in their heart about America when they go into the
McDonald's in Tokyo or in Singapore, you.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Know, and just that whole thing.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
You don't understand to see, you don't seem to understand
what business you're in, mister Kroc.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
You're not in the burger business. You're in the real
estate business.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
That's a very American notion and a great scene the
kid from the Office and uh Ray Kroc in the
movie The Founder. Okay, this is a hard one for me.
Most American musician.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
I'm trying to think of it.

Speaker 10 (12:49):
Well, that would be someone like maybe George Gershwin or
something something back.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
That's what we said, he said, George Gershwer, look at
you did you?

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Were you watching the Daily Wire?

Speaker 7 (12:56):
This gun was I promise, he said, George Gershwin.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Uh, okay, I got time here. Most American TV show.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
Oh, for me, it's Happy Days.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
That's a good one, he said. And this is interesting,
but I agree with him. It is very American in
the same way that the founder is American. For McDonald,
he said, breaking bad. Okay, different kind of America, but yeah, okay, right,
different kind of America, but American values. And he said,
and if you want to go family friendly, the Waltons, oh,
I would say Little House on the Prairie.

Speaker 7 (13:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
Well, I think the Happy Days, the Waltons and the
Little House on the Prairie all kind of like capture
certain slice of America at different times.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
I mean, they could all call as most America. I
mean the Little House on Prairie s. I mean Landon
did a good job with that. He did, really did
a good job.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
I mean, after what six six seasons of of gun
Smoke and Bonanza Cananza rather.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Yeah, all right, they would.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
So now the next is there's a radio station for
Los Angeles that went around, what what's the most American thing? Yeah,
they're talking about the time capsule. So they were talking
about what kinds of things would you put in a
time counsole?

Speaker 5 (14:06):
What is the most American thing?

Speaker 4 (14:09):
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The final on July nineteenth and it's all live on
the free iHeartRadio app with my Lou Penrose Live and
local on news radio six hundred Ko Goo. Good to
be with you on a Friday. I hope you're getting
ready for the Fourth of July. Everybody's getting ready, getting
all the things they need. And whether you're having a
hosting people at your house, going to someone else's house,

(15:31):
going down to the harbor, whatever you're doing, do it
with American swagger and style, because that's the kind of
a that's the kind of way we are these days.

Speaker 11 (15:41):
Lou, you need to go see Young George Washington. It's
playing in the movie theaters now. My husband and I
are going tomorrow to see a very patriotic movie about
George Washington.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Love your show.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I appreciate the call. Well, that's timely. We're going through
the Ultimate American List. This is put together by Bench Biro,
and one of the categories is the most American.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Historic Figure.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
And that's a toughie, right like most American typifies the
American spirit in the last two hundred and fifty years,
Washington a biggie. But there have been other American historic
figures and they're not necessarily in politics that could be
from pop culture, from a snapshot of pop culture that

(16:29):
just typify American strength and grace and pride and performance.
And that's why Muhammad Ali comes to mind. I'm a
huge Ali fan. I remember the moment that Ali jumped
into my spirit. I was sick from school, sick, as

(16:51):
you know, home from school they I was sick. So
you know how it is when you're sick growing up
in the seventies and eighties, you lay on the sofa
and you just watched TV all day and your mom
comes and checks your temperature, and that's what you do.
So you just laid there, I mean the cartoons pretty much,
and around ten o'clock and then you're stuck watching the
Love Boat or whatever. And my mom took the day

(17:11):
off to be with me, and you know, you're in
and out of falling asleep because you have a fever.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
And I woke up around three o'clock on the sofa.
My mom was.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Watching Donahue, Phil Donahue, remember the Phil Donahue show.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Mister Finnity.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
Oh yeah, you're going way back now, I.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
Know that's how old I am.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Well, I mean this was like I was probably in
the second grade and his guest was Muhammad Ali, and
I knew Muhammad Ali because my grandfather watched boxing and.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Were we always knew.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
I knew all the fighters, and uh yeah, Ali was
either champion. I mean he was probably retired by then,
since he was on Donahue. No, I don't know if
I was in third grade, I was mid mid seventies.
And Ali was talking about language, about words, about how
the words get into the minds of young black men,

(18:01):
and how Angel's food cake is white and Devil's food
cake is black, and how you have white nights and
the bad character in every Western wears a black hat.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
And he went on and on with this rift.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Right, Mary had a little land whose fleece was white
as snow, and the ugly duckling was black.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
And it was brilliant.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
Absolutely, people were laughing in the audience, and I'm blown away.

Speaker 5 (18:34):
I'm riveted by this guy. He's a boxer.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
I never heard him speak except things like, you know,
if you want to lose your money, bet on sunny. Right,
he was just like talking about boxing in rounds. I'm
gonna knock him down in round three. I'd never heard
him opine on pop culture, and it was brilliant and
it changed my life.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
It changed my world.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
I learned all about why Ali changed his name, all
about why he refused to induction into the army, and
I I think he's a huge cultural icon for strength
and grace. He said, I'm not a draft dodger. I'm
not running to Canada. I'm gonna stand here and fight.
I've been fighting for four hundred years for my rights.

(19:15):
I can fight another.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Four and gave up the belt and they banned him
from boxing. He couldn't make a living. So you know
what he did to make a living. Gave paid speeches
on college campuses. Brilliant stuff. Civil rights hero.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
So uh, I'm gonna go with Ali Muhammad Ali as
the most historic American figure for me.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Uh, but uh, that's how it goes.

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Ali.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
We gotta go with true there we go here.

Speaker 12 (19:45):
No, Eli, You've gotta go with true grit or bleazing
saddles or hell about Wizard of Oz. Yeah, there's a
backsider for you with him. Think to guess. Wow, all right,
god less of Erica, Lou love.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
You, Wizard of Oz, mister Finnerdy, that's not bad.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
You can't go of the comedy as the most American film,
because even American comedy is either based on French farce
or you know, even slapstick is almost kind of British, right,
Benny Hill was doing that stuff before they were doing
it in the Borsch Belt, or you know, right, the

(20:20):
British were doing that kind of comedy before the Three Stooges.
So it's hard to do a comedy as an ultimate
American film.

Speaker 10 (20:29):
Maybe if I was gonna do comedy, I'd go all
the way back to Charles Chaplin in modern times.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Right, but that those are still homages to like Vaudeville
is ultimately British, it's not really American, right, So that's true.
So I think you have to say out of comedy
if if you want to go, because I mean there's
like say, you know, like Citizen Kane, mister Smith goes
to Washington. Those are but those are political too.

Speaker 10 (20:57):
Wasn't bad again again that goes back to westerns though,
was not a bad choice.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
He had Tregre Trugrid is not a bad choice.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Okay, So they the Time Capsule. They put together the
Time Capsule, and this is great.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
They're gonna put the every State Entered, something that goes
in the time capsule that doesn't necessarily represent their state,
but the state of twenty twenty six from their state.
So it's a it's great, right, and they're gonna bury
this and and uh, you know, dig it up in
two hundred.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
And fifty years.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
So imagine what things are gonna be like in two
hundred and fifty years from now.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Uh. But so I have a list of what some.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Of the states put in, including the state of California.
What do you think California gave up from California to
represent twenty twenty six in California.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
In the time capsule. You're not gonna believe this. I'll
tell you what it.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Is when we come back Blue Penrose Live and Local
on news Radio six hundred COGO on the Friday before
the fourth of July.

Speaker 13 (21:59):
Lou, maybe Superman would be the American iconic hero.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Well, Superman is a hero and he fights for truth,
justice in the and the American way. Then now he
doesn't fight for the American way anymore. But see, he
is a fictional character. Maybe I shouldn't be the one
telling you this, But so he's not an historic figure

(22:27):
because he by definition, to be an historic figure, you
have to have lived, and he only.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Lives on the silver screen, all right.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
So the big Time Capsule, they asked all fifty states
to submit something, and they put it in the time
capsule and they're gonna bury it and then dig it
up in two hundred and fifty years. And the Americans
that are around in the year whatever, twenty two seventy six,

(22:58):
I guess, wow, twenty two seventy six, there's no way
my sprinkler timer is going to be able to I
was worried at the millennium. I was really worried because
there's no you know, you have to put in the
date and time to program your your Rainbird sprinkler. But

(23:19):
somehow you just go to twenty six and it knows
that today is Friday.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
So they thought ahead at Rainbird. But I don't know that.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
You know, twenty two seventy six, that's far, far, far away.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
But on tomorrow, in.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
The year twenty two seventy six, do you think the
apes will be in charge by them?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Mister finnerny what was the year?

Speaker 7 (23:44):
It was like thirty seven five or something.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Oh, so we'll have some time.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Yeah, we'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
So Cornelius will still be a servant in twenty two
seventy six. That's what they ought to put in the
time capsule, just the DVD of the original Planet.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Of the Apes. I am worried about that. That was
a real thought through movie.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Anyway, I thought what they put in the time capsule
is frankly lame.

Speaker 14 (24:11):
Each state and six territories provided items to vary in
the time capsule. There are letters from congressional leaders, NHL
Commissioner Gary Bettman, and Baseball Commissioner Rob Manford.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
That's odd to me. Nobody wants to read the congressional leader.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
So Hakim Jeffries wrote a letter to America and Americans
in twenty two to seventy six. I don't want to
hear from congressional leaders. I have such a low opinion
of congress Major League Baseball, football and baseball will still
be around, I suspect, but I don't think the umpires
are going to last.

Speaker 14 (24:42):
Now Here are some of the actual contents in the
time capsule. Georgia has sent a medallion from the Master's
Golf tournament.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
I'm medallion for the Master's Golf tournament. Mister Finnerdy.

Speaker 12 (24:51):
That's lame.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
That's lame.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
That has nothing to do with today in America or Georgia,
other other than the the golf courses are in Georgia.
I mean that is not that you know what that is.
That's a last minute thought. That's the governor saying, oh right,

(25:16):
they're having this party. They're burying this thing in Philadelphia.
What do we have around here? I mean that is
not that that that they did not do their homework.

Speaker 14 (25:24):
Maine has sent part of a bone from a North
Atlantic white whale that's an endangered species.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
They sent literally a whalebone.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
That's kind of dark, right, because it's already an endangered species.
You know, in uh, you know, two hundred and fifty years,
a lot of these species could go, and these.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
People are gonna open it up.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
They're gonna say, like, what's what's main their contribution?

Speaker 5 (25:52):
What is that a chicken bone? No, it's a whalebone.
But it was it.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
The species he's ended around twenty one hundred, Oh it
was it was swimming then, No, it was endangered.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Then well why didn't they do something about it? I
don't know. Let's go to the next state. Okay, what
about California?

Speaker 14 (26:11):
From California an ai prompt from Claude predicting what the
United States will be in two hundred and fifty years.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
So that's pretty good, but it's also pretty lazy. Claude
is like a chat GPT. But I don't think Governor
Newson likes chat GPT. He likes Claude, maybe has financial
interest in it, maybe a donor. But he went to
an AI company it's called Claude and asked for a
description of what America will be like in twenty in

(26:40):
two hundred and fifty years. So that's again lazy, but inventive,
that's not so bad. So if you were going to
stick something in the time capsul, what typifies America like
American culture right now today, I would argue.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
A dose of ozempa in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Nothing typifies American culture more than an injectable prescription drug
because we are a nation of seventy five percent obese people.
That's causing all kinds of health problems, and we need
to actually have a drug to get us to stop
eating like a horse.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
I think that it's.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
True, and that people are buying it on the black market,
and that celebrities are microdosing with it to just get
a little bit thinner.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
You could just not eat, but we.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Need to spend one thousand dollars a month to get
us to stop eating like that. To me, the ozembic
pen is to me, what should be in that time capsule,
because nothing explains American society better than that. They went
around the newsroom here, this is a news radio station

(27:59):
up in Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
They asked him what is the most American thing right now?

Speaker 8 (28:03):
And then either before or after we go off for
really good barbecue.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
All right, so this isn't something to stick in the
time copsule. With this in his mind, what is the
most American thing? Baseball and then barbecue?

Speaker 5 (28:16):
That's America.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Walk into a seven eleven and get a big old
and call it a deal.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
There you go, seven eleven, big Gold. That's pretty American.

Speaker 15 (28:25):
Tucky cheese.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
Your pizza may not be the best, but it's definitely
an experience.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Chuck e cheese. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
All the games and the kids and they serve beer
chuck e cheese, so the parents can drink beer while
the kids eat bad pizza.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
And run around.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
And you know, I mean for an arcade is gambling
for kids?

Speaker 15 (28:50):
Drive throughs you can get a meal almost any time
around the clock. You can a puzzle money in the
bank there, you can pick up a far prescription.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Yeah, that's true. A drive through.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
They don't have drive throughs in other parts of the country,
other parts of the world, and in the places they
do like, it's not as expansive as it is in
the United States. The drive through is a very American thing.
Banks have drive throughs, pharmacies have drive throughs. Liquor stores
have drive throughs in Mississippi, and of course the Big Mac.

Speaker 15 (29:26):
And if you're going through Las Vegas, you can go
through a drive through wedding shovel.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
That's right, and get married in a drive through in Vegas.

Speaker 8 (29:33):
Very American for me, it's a giant cup of coffee,
because you know, other countries have their little.

Speaker 7 (29:38):
Classy espresso moment.

Speaker 15 (29:40):
I honestly think it's college football and the culture surrounding.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Water bottles, not just any water bottles, like customize, personalized,
like separation anxiety kind of water bottles.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
If people do customize their water bottles, my sons customize
their water bottle.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
That is very amic the water bottle. People go crazy
for that water bottle.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
There are public fountains everywhere, and you could just cup
your hand under the spigot outside at the garden hose,
or just in the kitchen sink and drink water. We
never have water bottles growing up as a kid. Now
my wife is after my boys all the time. Did
you fill up your water bottle? Get your water bottle?
Take your water bottle? We have we have a water
bottle cupboard, like of all the different because it's different

(30:30):
sizes and shapes of water bottles. Some are real big,
some are just ones that you take to the gym
like day use water bottles.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
Others are for like a whole day.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
And they have three boys, so they each have their
own water bottles, and they get dented and some of
them leak.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
So I got multiple water bottles.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
You get water bottles as gifts or promotional items. You
go down, you know, the water district hands you a
water bottle and you walk down to the farmer's market.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
So water bottles everywhere. Very very American, Dennis.

Speaker 13 (31:00):
I think the most American thing that you can buy,
at least it was what people would buy when they
were visiting from Europe, is the Levi five oh one
button blue.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Gene All right, lee By's legendary five oh one blues.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
That is very American.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Louke Penrose on news radio six hundred COGO. We're live
and local, 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 audems we discussed this past week, you
want to revisit and discuss.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Maybe you couldn't get through.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Maybe you want to bring up something that we didn't cover.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
And you want to talk about it. Share your opinion,
get mine. Maybe you have a question for me, a
personal question, a question about the.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Show, about something I said about the station, the way
we conduct ourselves, critique, criticize, call and yell and scream
and hang up on me.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's all good. It's wide open.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
It's asked lou anything, and it follows the news at five.

Speaker 12 (31:53):
A couple of things for that time capsule. How about
a picture of Taylor Swift in her field, let's say,
to represent pop culture and where you can go with
a good voice.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
No, I don't want to put Taylor Swift.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
I mean two hundred and fifty years from now, they're
not gonna I mean it's not that isn't no nothing
against Taylor. I thought she was getting married on the thirteenth.
I don't know why I thought the thirteenth, but congratulations.
I understand they're already married now, they're just going through
the ceremony. They probably got the so they got the

(32:29):
license in the state of New York, I guess. But
they're on a big party. Look, you know how many
people can rent out Madison Square Garden for a wedding
And I hope it's open bar because Travis Kelcey, he
probably invited a lot of football players and they drink
a lot, So that's that's all good.

Speaker 8 (32:53):
My favorite hotdog style is just simply playing nothing on it.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
So there are people that go that route.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
My niece was a plain hot dog, no ketchup, no mustard,
no relish, no nothing, just the dog in the bun.
And people do enjoy it that way. And if it's
a steam bun, you can't go wrong.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
I love a good hot dog, seamed bun, grilled, crispy
hot dog, mustard and sweet relish.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yum m, sounds like you do.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
My favorite hot dog is bacon wrapped with mayo, mustard, ketchup,
diced onions, dice tomatoes, and hot sauce.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Happy for the July America. Look at you. You you're
going with the gizzie.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
So that's maybe she must have went to SDSU that
they do a lot of that at night around the
campus of SDSU.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
They wrap the hot dog and bacon.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Uh it's a you know, a regional thing called it's
you know, they do that in San Diego a lot.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
They do it in La too. I don't like that.
I don't think bacon and hot dogs go together.

Speaker 7 (33:59):
I don't think mayonnaise and hot dogs go together.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
I don't think mayonnaise and hot dogs go together either.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
She said that. Yeah, no, she.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Oh, I didn't even hear that. We see she she
lost me at the.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
Bacon wrappedise came right after that.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
Bacon wrap and mao on a hot.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
Dog fucking wrapped with mayo.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Oh, well, that's just wrong. I don't really like bacon
wrapped around much bacon. I mean, for me, bacon has
to be cooked.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
And even then, I'm not a I worked at Burger
King and I was there when they started introducing the
bacon double cheeseburger. Like that was the first thing that
ever went that where bacon showed up was the bacon
double cheeseburger and people were going crazy for it, and
Carls Junior made a whole thing about it, the big
Western Bacon Western, and then everybody had bacon on everything,

(34:59):
and then you had bacon to the whopper, and then
I mean every jack was doing bacon.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I'm like, enough with the bacon.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
The bacon double cheeseburger wasn't that good, and the bacon's
overpowering and it's salty, and I just don't like to
bite into a beef hamburger and also taste bacon. I
don't like bacon bits in my salad. So I mean
we got to differentiate breakfast and lunch.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Lou, I don't like hot dogs, but I do like
a chili cheese bun every now and then with onions.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Oh well, so just what just chili cheese? And are
you one of those wish people? When I was in
college and we had no money, we would uh me
and a bunch of the other fraternity brothers we'd go
to It's not the AMPM, but it's like an AMPM.
They don't have ampms because Atlantic Richfield doesn't have a
presence in New York. They're called hess Smarts and uh

(35:57):
it's a hess is the name of the gas station.
But say idea, right, but we would do wish sandwiches.
A wish sandwich is where the four of us split
the cost of a package of hot dog buns. They
do sell hot dog buns at the gas station, and
that's it.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
And then you go to.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
The conniment station and sometimes they have chili, but they
always have melted cheese. They have relish and pickles and
onions and ketchup and so we would just basically load
up a hot dog bun with condiments and that's called
a wish sandwich, as in you wish you had money

(36:36):
to actually have a sandwich, so that it sounds like
what she was eating there. A bunch of wish sandwiches,
all right. It's ask glu anything eight hundred and six
hundred Coco eight hundred, six hundred five six four six
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