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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred COBO.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
In the news that we didn't cover. You want to
bring up.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Maybe you have a question for me, Critique, criticize, call
and yell and scream and hang up. It's all good.
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Ask Lou anything starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
You're here.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's lay down the streets your favorite radio station. Somehow
this ain't with Marke Cony head in mind radio God, No, No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know what, Penrod, You're a punk through on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Lou, I am so glad that you've brought the wish
sandwich because I grew up on Matt being in a
poorer family, and there are occasions because I'm a commissioned
employee that I still have to eat Wish sandwiches in
my late forties.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, and they're not so bad if you can find
a good Fixen's little cart the AMPM and Karnie Masa
has got a good little Fixen's cart.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They got a lot of stuff in there. It's not
just pickles.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They got pickles, they got diced onions, they got relished,
they got a couple of kinds of peppers. And the
nacho cheese is free. I think they do charge for
the chili. Sometimes it's hit or miss. I always ask,
and depending on who's working the counter, it's just like,
go ahead, I'm not gonna stand the line for twenty
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five cents.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But they'll have hot chili.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So you get a hot dog bun, throw some hot chili,
some you know, hot cheese, a couple of onions, and.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You got yourself a Wish sandwich.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Got me through many, uh you know, many a pay
period when there was nothing left at the ATM and
you were hungry.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I have a question for you, a really important question.
Are you guys scientologists? If you're not scientologists, do you
approve of advertising for Scientology on your show as much
as you guys are doing just asking.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I am not a scientologist.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I do hear the Church of Scientology advertising on the
radio more these.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Days, that's okay. I hear.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Israel advertising on the radio these days, and I hear
people advertising for pro life pregnancy centers advertising on what
trauma thon.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I did try to.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I wanted to read Dianetics really badly, and the book
Dynatics by l Ron Hubbard.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The commercial for Dynetics.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was always on, like in the afternoon when I was
a kid, I would home school and I'm sitting there
just watching the Flintstones or whatever, and l Ron Hubbard
and Dianetics and the commercials were so exciting. And when
I was in college, I'm like, I'm gonna read Dianetics
and see what this is all about. It is so
hard to read. I couldn't get through it. So I figure,
(03:20):
you know, if the book is that hard, then the
religion's probably really hard.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But Tom Cruise he.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Swears by it, uh so, uh you know, maybe it's
gonna maybe something there.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Today's the third of July. I don't want you're there
or not, but we're talking about hot dogs and bacon
on them. You know, when bacon came out on burgers
and then everybody, as you said, put it on every
burger they could find. I love bacon, but I don't
want it on my burger. Maybe once in a great while,
that's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I agree with you. You know, it's funny about that.
Even if that once in a great while were today,
you'd still pass. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's like, yeah, maybe like once in a while, right,
But if that day that was once in a while
occurred right now and I said, let's go out, let's
go get the double cheeseburger Burger King.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You want to get one with bacon, you'd say, no,
I'll get it. No, it's fine because that once in.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
A pretty wild day never really occurs because you never
really want it. And you're right, it was a fad.
It started at Burger King with the bacon double cheeseburger.
I was there, and now you can. I mean, everybody's
got to have bacon on everything, and it's over. It's
too much enough with the bacon, and why you're at
it enough with the sour dough. Nobody asked for a
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hamburger to be placed on sour dough bread. It doesn't
taste good. It's so oily. Just give me a good bun.
Everybody had to have everything on sour dough. Burger King
with sour dough, Jack in the box with the sour dough,
sour dough everywhere, sour dough Hamburgers is gross.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Good Lord has food done. I love you talk about
McDonald's and Fergan King the what's your favorite taco shop?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, that's easy Del Taco. You mean in the QSR category,
not Mom and Pops. I mean my favorite taco place. Unfortunately,
during COVID went under and the owner moved out to
Palm Desert, and it had a fan following.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was there every Tuesday of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Frankly before my kids were born, and when my first
was born, we were there every Tuesday of our life
and my wife was.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
With the baby right there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's it triggers me to the fact that Taco that
COVID took it out, because I really miss it and
I had not been able to replace it. But in
the QSR world, Uh, that's easy Del Taco. Del Taco
has nailed it. The soft shell taco at Del Taco
(05:57):
with the meat what's called what I call me? They
keep changing the names. It's like fire and diablow and
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, it's it's a mild, medium and hot. The medium.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The hot is good, but it's too hot, and it's
it's not like hotter than the medium.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's a whole different flavor. And the mild is nothing.
So the medium.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
At Del Taco Sauce and the soft Shell Taco, the
tortillas are just perfect and just the right amount of cheese.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The lettuce is always fresh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You always get the reasonable amount of a chicken or beef,
whatever you do.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I go with the beef. But Del Taco for sure.
But a good question. I do appreciate it. Uh, here
we go, Luke Panrose.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The post Office is delivering mail tomorrow, I can. The
post Office is delivering mail tomorrow. We are observing the
fourth of July. On July fourth, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So the post office is the villion I think she
means today. What did she call yesterday? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, the post Office is delivering mail on the third
of July.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But yet it's a federal holiday, and I don't get that.
I said it. A lot of people are sore with me.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But there is absolutely no reason for government offices to
be closed today, none whatsoever. Well, Lou, it's because the
holiday is falling on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So the taxpayer wins. Every once every seven years, the
taxpayer wins.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Like why the purpose of government services is for us,
the taxpayers and the constituents.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's not a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And there's just no reason to inconvenience the tax bank
public by closing all government offices and notice like some
banks are open, some banks are closed, some grocery stores
are open, some are closed, some dentist offices open, summerre closed.
But every government employee is off today. It's like we
put them up on a pedestal and uh.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And appreciate it?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Are you guys scientologist.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Turning it off?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I wish you guys could have a smarter show. It's
too bad.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like the taste the meat. Five thirteen Lou Penrose
Live and Local on News Radio six hundred cogo and
on the iHeartRadio app Lou Penrose Live and Local on
News Radio six hundred cogo doing ask Lou anything, Hey.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Lou, happy birthday to America. I personally feel like hotdog
or Petri dish of yuck. God only knows what's in there,
no matter what you google, Who only knows.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
With that being said, my.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Husband loves himself a good Hebrew National.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He refuses to see anything else, and he likes it.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
With mayo and mustard and American chi you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wow. Well, at least he went with the Hebrew National,
their kosher. They answer to a higher authority. Uh, mayo
and mustard. No, no, that's no, it doesn't go togain. No.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
At least the mayo and ketchup you can mix together
and pretend you got thousand island. Uh do you kiss
him after he eats that?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or does he have to go brush his teeth? That's
the question I have for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, now you can call me and make that she
had a really good uh groan there right?
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Oh yeah, mayo and mustard and and American chie you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, so you can't. You can't do that in
front of your husband. You can call your old buddy
Luigi on the radio and go, my husband eats this. Oh,
but you can't do that in front of him.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Okay, I'm one of those because I can't stand mussards,
so I put ketchup relish and yes, if I have
to to they don't have any of the other stuff,
then I put mayo on it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, everyone's feeling very comfortable being honest with Loui Penrose
on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I accept that as a compliment.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Maybe we got to get a Reddit page started of
people that secretly are putting mayonnaise on a hont dog.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
This is just wrong. I'm sorry, the mayonnaise on the
hot dog is wrong. I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean, the hot dog has got to have a
very mild hot dog taste.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Don't you want to taste the dog?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And well, that's I mean, because that's just a weird combo.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
See, here's the thing. Here's where I can try to
follow you with this.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I would eat an Oscar Mayer boloney sandwich with mayonnaise
and white bread and a slice of American cheese.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Usually a craft single. A hot dog.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Certainly, an Oscar Meyer hot dog is just a tiny
baloney slice, right, I mean it's really it's not much
more season than the baloney. So if I could eat
a baloney sandwich with mayo, then I ought to be
able to have an Oscar Mayer wiener with mayo and
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have the same flavor. And that's because I think the
Oscar Mayer wiener is it just a very light It
isn't a cabasa.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It is not a Polish sausage.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's not a spicy it's not a spicy big bite at.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Seven to eleven. It's a real mild meat. So maybe
that's here's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Make yourself a mayonnaise Oscar Meyer dog and an Oscar
Meyer baloney sandwich with mayo on white bread, and then
take a bite of each and see, like, have somebody
blindfold you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, that won't really work because the sandwich is a
shape differently. I don't now we have to do this.
I've got to figure it out.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
For us non political science experts or who did not
major in the subject, can you please explain to your audience,
including myself, the process to amend the Constitution and how
that kind of works kind of in a nutshell.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I love the shelf. Thanks, Hey, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I am not only your favorite afternoon drive talk show
hosts in San Diego, I'm also your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Political science major.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have a degree in this, so I am it's
an appropriate question. I actually have the capacity to answer.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
The question.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The answer is it requires two thirds of the House
and Senate and three fourths of the US States. Two
thirds of both the House and Senate. So two thirds
of the House and then two thirds of the Senate
and then thirty eight states three fourths. That's one way.
You can also call a constitutional convention that requires three
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forurths of the states, doesn't require Congress at all. The
first method two thirds and three fourths, that was done
twenty seven times. The second method calling the constitutional conventions never.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Been never been tried. There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You now know more than half of the faculty at
the Department of Political Science at USD and one hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Percent of the faculty of Political Science and SDS. You
wish sandwich.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I learned about that from a rubber Biscuit, the performance
from the Blues Brothers in their nineteen seventy eighth film.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But I learned that.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
A wish sandwich was one where you have two slices
of bread.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And you wish you had some meat. Bow wow wow.
There you go, bou chicka bow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Mister Fabusham, I notice you have no Asian commercials, so
you guys both speak anti Asian.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No we have Asian com What are you talking about?
Toyota is a big sponsor. We have Honda, uh, who else?
Hyundai all over the radio, Toyota. The Toyota dealers of
San Diego are huge fans of me and I drive
a Toyota Siena. I talk about Toyota all the time.
(14:09):
No Asian commercials. You got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Lexus dealers.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, now we're we're We're well represented in the Pacific
RIM community, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's something those people should not be naked on bikes.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
It was so shocking.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I saw the bike Naked bike show this time of year,
there's a lot of eclectic kind of events. I think
because it's warm. Lots of Europe they've had bundled up.
Uh and uh just I think they get cavn fever
in Europe, so they have an annual naked bike race,
(14:54):
which looks uncomfortable to me. I mean, I'm all about
h you letting your freak flag fly, and if you're attractive,
I'd like to see you naked. But I don't think
you want to see people naked on.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A bicycle ever.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Even if you're attractive, I don't think you look good
pedaling a bike. And I have to say, uh, I know,
we're in Pride month and there's a lot of Pride
parades and some people are all the way down to
their leather skivvies in these pride parades. But the guys
that I'm looking at, they need to put on some clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm sorry hearing about those eagles. If you're a dumb ass, boring, boring, boring.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This is Lou Penrose Live and Local news Radio six
hundred KOGO doing Ask Lou anything.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
The only proper way to eat sushi in my book,
do you take your.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Spouse out to a nice sushi restaurant and then when
you're on your way home.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You stop at Carl.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Junior because you're hungry again and get your doubles from
making cheeseburg Leiping's the next barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Sauce, extra barbecue sauce, for sure.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
I grew up in the East Coast, and I can
tell you in New England, Newport, Rhode Island, Providence and
Massachusetts and Maine, and everybody puts ketchup on their hot
dog with relish, and sometimes they'll put mustard, but always, always,
always mustard. I mean relish and ketchup.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well. I grew up in New England as well, and
I never saw anybody over the age of eight putting
ketchup on a hot dog. You say, Rhode Island, Eh,
they treat wieners differently there.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Who plays that rift between your sound bites. It's a
great little riff, And I'd like to hear the rest
of the track. If you could tell us the artist
and the name of the song, that'd be really cool.
I have to hear it innocent. So, I mean, some
of these sound clips you get, these people are really
out there. I mean to insult you like they do,
because you're really doing a great job, Lou, and I
(17:08):
love you, and I listened to his office. I can
all right have a great fourth buy.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
That would be yours, truly, Lou Penrose attempting to learn
the opening title sequence to King of the Hill, and
I came up with that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, people call and that's fun.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's it's wide open, so you can call me and
insult me.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's quite okay.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I just wanted to let you know I'm gonna I
think I'm gonna be turning off your show from now on.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You're just not funny, not.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Funny at all. I agree with you. What else is
on the air around this time?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This is a fellow polypsigrad from the University of Arizona.
I love Chicago dogs, but the best hot dog ever
is Pet's Chili Dogs over in Tucson, right off a
Grande and Saint Mary's spicy chill dice onions mustard with
shredded cheddar cheese served with just crispy fries. Oh my lord,
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next step to heaven.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, that does sound complicated.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I don't romance the hot dog as much as many
and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I mean it's for me.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
A hot dog is just the perfect handheld kind of
celebration party summertime food, like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, then you got to get into toppings.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You can't just put a beef patty on a bun
and have a good time. But you can just put
a dog in a bun.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And that's just perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now, there is two arguments, And actually Brett Burkhart and
I were having this argument just the other day because
he asked me he was I don't know if he
was doing this for his morning show, which would make
sense because the two of them are just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On San Diego's Morning News with.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Breton Veronica that he was asking getting he was pulling
the station if we consider a hot dog a meal,
and I said, no, two hot dogs is a meal. Like,
if I'm in charge of the barbecue, then you either
get a burger or two dogs, or you do the split.
(19:20):
You could do a burger and a dog, but two
dogs is a meal. One dog is an appetizer. Like,
you have a hot dog and you're like.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That was great. Can I have another, dude, mayonnaise a
hot dog?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, very lou.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, I didn't put mayonnaise on a hot dog. I said.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
When I was a child, I had mayonnaise and Oscar
Meyer boloney sandwich and a very light flavored hot dog
is kind of like a piece of boloney, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But it's worth the trying.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yeah, Lou, you got to remember that government jobs were
supposed to be you get better benefits because in the
private sector they get be benefits or higher pay. So
here's the deal. They all get better benefits than the
private sector now, and why are they getting paid the
same as the private sector?
Speaker 9 (20:19):
They do not?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So right, you're absolutely correct. It was supposed to be
and primarily women worked at civil service jobs. So that
was the way it was, and that was the way
it was designed.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Government job.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But what we used to call a civil service job,
and you used to take a civil service.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Exam, but what it was it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Was a job that paid below market prices. Like a
secretary at the VA wouldn't get paid, with a secretary
at IBM would get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But a secretary at.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The VA had a government job that was jobs security.
The a's not going anywhere. You're pretty much not going
to get fired. You get less pay, but it's a
secure job and it has benefits.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But it does offer as benefits.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Health insurance and you know, life insurance, and you know
they have all kinds of programs. And back in the
day when you had a government job, you had a
government id. Sometimes they had discounts at the movie theater,
the bowling alley or even insurance policies would give discounted
rates to government employees and then as government employees you
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could get all kinds.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It opens the door to other kinds of benefits. Right,
So like it wasn't a.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
GI bill, certainly, but there were certain advantages to being
a government employee in exchange for a lower salary, so
you're not competing with the private sector, because at the
end of the day, without the private sector, there are
no government jobs, because the salaries of government workers are
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paid for by normal people with real jobs in the
private sector out there busting their hump. So instead of
you know, falling over backwards to thank government employees, recognize
that the federal government is not a jobs program.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That does need to be a workforce.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But we don't have to treat them, you know, like
they're the queen of Sheba. It's the private sector that
matters a lot. We should treat the people in the
private sector, the entrepreneurs, the capitalists, the millionaires and the millionaires,
the people that you know, invest and take chances and
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take risks and open up a shop, open up a laundromat,
open up a barbershop like my dad, open up a restaurant.
These are risk takers, working twenty four to seven, either
with their hands or in their head to try and
to make a living. And they're their taxes go to
pay for all those government workers. And now it's gone completely. Look,
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they just had a riot in Sacramento. Because these people
don't want to go to work, They don't want to
go into the office. I say, newsome, fire them all,
pull Oronald Reagan air traffic controller trick and fire them.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
All, send them all home, and then put.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Out a card table and accept applications from anybody but
those people you just fired and lay down the terms.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Not interested in kid gloving government employees.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Hey, lou let the public employees have the day before
the fourth of July off. You're sounding like you have
TDS and don't want everyone to celebrate the fourth of July?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is it going to be Christmas next with you? That
might be?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
How is how is taking today off as a government
employee hampering them from celebrating our nation's birthday tomorrow? Explain
that to me? What they need to get ready? I
mean what I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'm working.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm going to be celebrating tomorrow. Mister finnerty, Are you
now not going to be able to fully enjoy our
nation's birthday because you're here today.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
I'm already enjoying it just by doing this show and
the theme of the hot dogs and the mail.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, look at what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We've taken a slight departure from the general topics and
news of the day to celebrate a little bit having
fun doing it. But we're still working. So explain to
me how I worked for the federal government. I was
a deputy chief of staff for remember Congress, which mean
had a team, and we had case workers that worked
under me and reported to me, and they managed cases
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and veterans affairs and immigration and you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Know, social security cases.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Explain to me how one of my staffers that works
on your social security problem or your veterans claim, how
them working an eight hour day today in hibissy ability
to celebrate tomorrow. It doesn't stay same with state employees.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
If the state, the people.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
At the you know that you lost your driver's license,
call your assembly member. They're gonna make sure you get
the temporary replacement.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
One.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, that guy's not working today. Neither is my caseworker
for Social Security.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They're all off. Why makes no sense? And it's a
hill that I will stand to die on. Nobody believes
God created hurricanes. What does this sound like?
Speaker 11 (25:39):
Where?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Where?
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Where your humor is humorless? You need to stop, we're
all turning you off.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Lou Penroe Live and Local on news radio six hundred Kogo.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Lou, you'd have to go back to nineteen seventy one
in your time machine to change the law if they
passed for government employees been that way because you're right,
we make less money than everybody else, so they figured
they'd throw us a bone.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks Lou Waan, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I don't have to go back on my time machine.
I can change the law today. I don't need to
change the law. But it's not true that they make
less money now. They did then, they don't now. And
the press secretary for County Supervisor Tarah Laws and Riemer
makes one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars a year to
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send out press releases, like literally right up a press
release that you know, spins what happened at the county meeting,
and you know, shed's a positive light.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
On the boss. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I mean, how many of you that work in public
relations are making one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars a
year to have the government benefits and have a stable
job and don't really do much. It's not like he's
got to schedule, you know, television appearances do make I mean,
it's a pretty easy gig.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Press secretary gigs are pretty easy gigs. I hired press secretaries.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
But you know, I mean a lot of these staffers
are making really I mean, chief of staff for county
supervisors are making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's a lot of money. Don't tell me that's less
than the private sector. It's just not.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So you can imagine what the secretary. Well, now they
call them office assistants. You can imagine what the office
assistant is making. I mean, I'm sure it's more than
the apple one gal because it's a government job and
they have all the government benefits. So look, you get
to make as much money as the job pays.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So I don't want people to get back money.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But it's just that things used to be different, Like
the government job paid less than the private sector because
they didn't want to compete with the private sector, but
they offered benefits and stability, and the private sector offered opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
More money, but there was risk because you get fired.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You can go under lou just wondering if you have
a favorite rock or metal band, enjoy your fourth tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Hey, thank you, that's a great ask blue anything kind
of question.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
My favorite rock band for sure is led Zeppelin. I
referenced them a lot. I quote their lyrics. Uh, yesterday
we were talking about a story that was unfolding and developing,
and I said, this story is developing and building like
Stairway to Heaven. That's a reference to led Zeppelin's song
(28:46):
Stairway to Heaven that starts off simple and then just
builds and builds and builds and builds like that guy
that inherited ten million dollars. So that would be So
metal and rock are two different categories.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
If you're going to ask me my favorite band, that's
difficult for me.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Favorite I had So it comes down to Motley Crue
and Cinderella, two very metal bands from the same era.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But Crue is great because it's Crue, but they.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Really don't have that deep of a catalog. Like Theater
of Pain had the Ballad and the other song was
a cover tune Smoking in the Boys Room.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Everything else on Theater of Pain is junk.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, even Nicky six said that there's nothing on Theater
of Pain that's any good. Smoking in the Boys Room
is a cod to Brownville Station and of course, Home
Sweet Home, that's their ballad. So really they have their
first album and uh Shout at the Devil, so there
and those are two great albums and there are some great.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Songs, but they just don't have the catalog.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Cinderella, on the other hand, not as successful or popular.
I think the most underrated guitar work in heavy metal
is Tom Keefer's guitar work in Cinderella. They have a catalog,
they got a lot of tunes, they got they got
a best of album and every song's great.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But they you know, they just they didn't last.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They fell victim to their demons and couldn't keep the
band together.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, got to be able to survive.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I mean, Aerosmith had demons and problems, but they would
able to keep it together.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So that I.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Think it's got to if it's metal, it's got to
be Cinderella. For me, I could listen to them all
the time. I you know, Tom Keefer still plays, and
he tours a lot on the East Coast. He's from Philadelphia,
and I always looking to see if he's coming, you know,
to any of these bands rather any of these places
that you know have old, washed up metal stars that
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play or like a lot of cover tunes. There's a
place up in u up in Orange County and San
Juan compas Strano called the Coach House.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
He plays there like once a year. I've not in years.
I'm always trying to get this.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I've never been able to pull it off, but I
will one of these years. Hey, have yourself a fantastic
holiday tomorrow. We'll be back live in local on Monday.
Stay safe and enjoy. God bless America. Lou Penrose on
news Radio six hundred KGO and live on the iHeartRadio
Act
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Some of the items we discussed this past week, some
of the items.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
In the news that we didn't cover. You want to
bring up.
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's lay down the streets your favorite radio station. Somehow
this ain't with Marke Cony head in mind radio God, No, No.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know what, Penrod, You're a punk through on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Lou, I am so glad that you've brought the wish
sandwich because I grew up on Matt being in a
poorer family, and there are occasions because I'm a commissioned
employee that I still have to eat Wish sandwiches in
my late forties.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, and they're not so bad if you can find
a good Fixen's little cart the AMPM and Karnie Masa
has got a good little Fixen's cart.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They got a lot of stuff in there. It's not
just pickles.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They got pickles, they got diced onions, they got relished,
they got a couple of kinds of peppers. And the
nacho cheese is free. I think they do charge for
the chili. Sometimes it's hit or miss. I always ask,
and depending on who's working the counter, it's just like,
go ahead, I'm not gonna stand the line for twenty
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five cents.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But they'll have hot chili.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
So you get a hot dog bun, throw some hot chili,
some you know, hot cheese, a couple of onions, and.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You got yourself a Wish sandwich.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Got me through many, uh you know, many a pay
period when there was nothing left at the ATM and
you were hungry.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But yeah, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I have a question for you, a really important question.
Are you guys scientologists? If you're not scientologists, do you
approve of advertising for Scientology on your show as much
as you guys are doing just asking.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I am not a scientologist.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I do hear the Church of Scientology advertising on the
radio more these.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Days, that's okay. I hear.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Israel advertising on the radio these days, and I hear
people advertising for pro life pregnancy centers advertising on what
trauma thon.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I did try to.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I wanted to read Dianetics really badly, and the book
Dynatics by l Ron Hubbard.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The commercial for Dynetics.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Was always on, like in the afternoon when I was
a kid, I would home school and I'm sitting there
just watching the Flintstones or whatever, and l Ron Hubbard
and Dianetics and the commercials were so exciting. And when
I was in college, I'm like, I'm gonna read Dianetics
and see what this is all about. It is so
hard to read. I couldn't get through it. So I figure,
(03:20):
you know, if the book is that hard, then the
religion's probably really hard.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
But Tom Cruise he.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Swears by it, uh so, uh you know, maybe it's
gonna maybe something there.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Today's the third of July. I don't want you're there
or not, but we're talking about hot dogs and bacon
on them. You know, when bacon came out on burgers
and then everybody, as you said, put it on every
burger they could find. I love bacon, but I don't
want it on my burger. Maybe once in a great while,
that's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I agree with you. You know, it's funny about that.
Even if that once in a great while were today,
you'd still pass. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's like, yeah, maybe like once in a while, right,
But if that day that was once in a while
occurred right now and I said, let's go out, let's
go get the double cheeseburger Burger King.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You want to get one with bacon, you'd say, no,
I'll get it. No, it's fine because that once in.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
A pretty wild day never really occurs because you never
really want it. And you're right, it was a fad.
It started at Burger King with the bacon double cheeseburger.
I was there, and now you can. I mean, everybody's
got to have bacon on everything, and it's over. It's
too much enough with the bacon, and why you're at
it enough with the sour dough. Nobody asked for a
(04:36):
hamburger to be placed on sour dough bread. It doesn't
taste good. It's so oily. Just give me a good bun.
Everybody had to have everything on sour dough. Burger King
with sour dough, Jack in the box with the sour dough,
sour dough everywhere, sour dough Hamburgers is gross.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Good Lord has food done. I love you talk about
McDonald's and Fergan King the what's your favorite taco shop?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, that's easy Del Taco. You mean in the QSR category,
not Mom and Pops. I mean my favorite taco place. Unfortunately,
during COVID went under and the owner moved out to
Palm Desert, and it had a fan following.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was there every Tuesday of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Frankly before my kids were born, and when my first
was born, we were there every Tuesday of our life
and my wife was.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
With the baby right there.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's it triggers me to the fact that Taco that
COVID took it out, because I really miss it and
I had not been able to replace it. But in
the QSR world, Uh, that's easy Del Taco. Del Taco
has nailed it. The soft shell taco at Del Taco
(05:57):
with the meat what's called what I call me? They
keep changing the names. It's like fire and diablow and
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, it's it's a mild, medium and hot. The medium.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The hot is good, but it's too hot, and it's
it's not like hotter than the medium.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's a whole different flavor. And the mild is nothing.
So the medium.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
At Del Taco Sauce and the soft Shell Taco, the
tortillas are just perfect and just the right amount of cheese.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The lettuce is always fresh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You always get the reasonable amount of a chicken or beef,
whatever you do.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I go with the beef. But Del Taco for sure.
But a good question. I do appreciate it. Uh, here
we go, Luke Panrose.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The post Office is delivering mail tomorrow, I can. The
post Office is delivering mail tomorrow. We are observing the
fourth of July. On July fourth, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So the post office is the villion I think she
means today. What did she call yesterday? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, the post Office is delivering mail on the third
of July.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But yet it's a federal holiday, and I don't get that.
I said it. A lot of people are sore with me.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But there is absolutely no reason for government offices to
be closed today, none whatsoever. Well, Lou, it's because the
holiday is falling on a Saturday.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So the taxpayer wins. Every once every seven years, the
taxpayer wins.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Like why the purpose of government services is for us,
the taxpayers and the constituents.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's not a jobs program.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And there's just no reason to inconvenience the tax bank
public by closing all government offices and notice like some
banks are open, some banks are closed, some grocery stores
are open, some are closed, some dentist offices open, summerre closed.
But every government employee is off today. It's like we
put them up on a pedestal and uh.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And appreciate it?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Are you guys scientologist.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Turning it off?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I wish you guys could have a smarter show. It's
too bad.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I like the taste the meat. Five thirteen Lou Penrose
Live and Local on News Radio six hundred cogo and
on the iHeartRadio app Lou Penrose Live and Local on
News Radio six hundred cogo doing ask Lou anything, Hey.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Lou, happy birthday to America. I personally feel like hotdog
or Petri dish of yuck. God only knows what's in there,
no matter what you google, Who only knows.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
With that being said, my.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Husband loves himself a good Hebrew National.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He refuses to see anything else, and he likes it.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
With mayo and mustard and American chi you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wow. Well, at least he went with the Hebrew National,
their kosher. They answer to a higher authority. Uh, mayo
and mustard. No, no, that's no, it doesn't go togain. No.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
At least the mayo and ketchup you can mix together
and pretend you got thousand island. Uh do you kiss
him after he eats that?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or does he have to go brush his teeth? That's
the question I have for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, now you can call me and make that she
had a really good uh groan there right?
Speaker 10 (09:39):
Oh yeah, mayo and mustard and and American chie you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh yeah, so you can't. You can't do that in
front of your husband. You can call your old buddy
Luigi on the radio and go, my husband eats this. Oh,
but you can't do that in front of him.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Okay, I'm one of those because I can't stand mussards,
so I put ketchup relish and yes, if I have
to to they don't have any of the other stuff,
then I put mayo on it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, everyone's feeling very comfortable being honest with Loui Penrose
on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I accept that as a compliment.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Maybe we got to get a Reddit page started of
people that secretly are putting mayonnaise on a hont dog.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
This is just wrong. I'm sorry, the mayonnaise on the
hot dog is wrong. I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I mean, the hot dog has got to have a
very mild hot dog taste.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Don't you want to taste the dog?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And well, that's I mean, because that's just a weird combo.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
See, here's the thing. Here's where I can try to
follow you with this.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I would eat an Oscar Mayer boloney sandwich with mayonnaise
and white bread and a slice of American cheese.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Usually a craft single. A hot dog.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Certainly, an Oscar Meyer hot dog is just a tiny
baloney slice, right, I mean it's really it's not much
more season than the baloney. So if I could eat
a baloney sandwich with mayo, then I ought to be
able to have an Oscar Mayer wiener with mayo and
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have the same flavor. And that's because I think the
Oscar Mayer wiener is it just a very light It
isn't a cabasa.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It is not a Polish sausage.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's not a spicy it's not a spicy big bite at.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Seven to eleven. It's a real mild meat. So maybe
that's here's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Make yourself a mayonnaise Oscar Meyer dog and an Oscar
Meyer baloney sandwich with mayo on white bread, and then
take a bite of each and see, like, have somebody
blindfold you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, that won't really work because the sandwich is a
shape differently. I don't now we have to do this.
I've got to figure it out.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
For us non political science experts or who did not
major in the subject, can you please explain to your audience,
including myself, the process to amend the Constitution and how
that kind of works kind of in a nutshell.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I love the shelf. Thanks, Hey, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I am not only your favorite afternoon drive talk show
hosts in San Diego, I'm also your favorite.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Political science major.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I have a degree in this, so I am it's
an appropriate question. I actually have the capacity to answer.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
The question.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The answer is it requires two thirds of the House
and Senate and three fourths of the US States. Two
thirds of both the House and Senate. So two thirds
of the House and then two thirds of the Senate
and then thirty eight states three fourths. That's one way.
You can also call a constitutional convention that requires three
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forurths of the states, doesn't require Congress at all. The
first method two thirds and three fourths, that was done
twenty seven times. The second method calling the constitutional conventions never.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Been never been tried. There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You now know more than half of the faculty at
the Department of Political Science at USD and one hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Percent of the faculty of Political Science and SDS. You
wish sandwich.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
I learned about that from a rubber Biscuit, the performance
from the Blues Brothers in their nineteen seventy eighth film.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But I learned that.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
A wish sandwich was one where you have two slices
of bread.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
And you wish you had some meat. Bow wow wow.
There you go, bou chicka bow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Mister Fabusham, I notice you have no Asian commercials, so
you guys both speak anti Asian.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
No we have Asian com What are you talking about?
Toyota is a big sponsor. We have Honda, uh, who else?
Hyundai all over the radio, Toyota. The Toyota dealers of
San Diego are huge fans of me and I drive
a Toyota Siena. I talk about Toyota all the time.
(14:09):
No Asian commercials. You got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Lexus dealers.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, now we're we're We're well represented in the Pacific
RIM community, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
That's something those people should not be naked on bikes.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
It was so shocking.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I saw the bike Naked bike show this time of year,
there's a lot of eclectic kind of events. I think
because it's warm. Lots of Europe they've had bundled up.
Uh and uh just I think they get cavn fever
in Europe, so they have an annual naked bike race,
(14:54):
which looks uncomfortable to me. I mean, I'm all about
h you letting your freak flag fly, and if you're attractive,
I'd like to see you naked. But I don't think
you want to see people naked on.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A bicycle ever.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Even if you're attractive, I don't think you look good
pedaling a bike. And I have to say, uh, I know,
we're in Pride month and there's a lot of Pride
parades and some people are all the way down to
their leather skivvies in these pride parades. But the guys
that I'm looking at, they need to put on some clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm sorry hearing about those eagles. If you're a dumb ass, boring, boring, boring.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This is Lou Penrose Live and Local news Radio six
hundred KOGO doing Ask Lou anything.
Speaker 11 (15:57):
The only proper way to eat sushi in my book,
do you take your.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Spouse out to a nice sushi restaurant and then when
you're on your way home.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You stop at Carl.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Junior because you're hungry again and get your doubles from
making cheeseburg Leiping's the next barbecue.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Sauce, extra barbecue sauce, for sure.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
I grew up in the East Coast, and I can
tell you in New England, Newport, Rhode Island, Providence and
Massachusetts and Maine, and everybody puts ketchup on their hot
dog with relish, and sometimes they'll put mustard, but always, always,
always mustard. I mean relish and ketchup.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Well. I grew up in New England as well, and
I never saw anybody over the age of eight putting
ketchup on a hot dog. You say, Rhode Island, Eh,
they treat wieners differently there.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Who plays that rift between your sound bites. It's a
great little riff, And I'd like to hear the rest
of the track. If you could tell us the artist
and the name of the song, that'd be really cool.
I have to hear it innocent. So, I mean, some
of these sound clips you get, these people are really
out there. I mean to insult you like they do,
because you're really doing a great job, Lou, and I
(17:08):
love you, and I listened to his office. I can
all right have a great fourth buy.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
That would be yours, truly, Lou Penrose attempting to learn
the opening title sequence to King of the Hill, and
I came up with that.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, people call and that's fun.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's it's wide open, so you can call me and
insult me.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's quite okay.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I just wanted to let you know I'm gonna I
think I'm gonna be turning off your show from now on.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You're just not funny, not.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Funny at all. I agree with you. What else is
on the air around this time?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This is a fellow polypsigrad from the University of Arizona.
I love Chicago dogs, but the best hot dog ever
is Pet's Chili Dogs over in Tucson, right off a
Grande and Saint Mary's spicy chill dice onions mustard with
shredded cheddar cheese served with just crispy fries. Oh my lord,
(18:10):
next step to heaven.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Wow, that does sound complicated.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
I don't romance the hot dog as much as many
and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I mean it's for me.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
A hot dog is just the perfect handheld kind of
celebration party summertime food, like a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, then you got to get into toppings.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You can't just put a beef patty on a bun
and have a good time. But you can just put
a dog in a bun.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
And that's just perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now, there is two arguments, And actually Brett Burkhart and
I were having this argument just the other day because
he asked me he was I don't know if he
was doing this for his morning show, which would make
sense because the two of them are just hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
On San Diego's Morning News with.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Breton Veronica that he was asking getting he was pulling
the station if we consider a hot dog a meal,
and I said, no, two hot dogs is a meal. Like,
if I'm in charge of the barbecue, then you either
get a burger or two dogs, or you do the split.
(19:20):
You could do a burger and a dog, but two
dogs is a meal. One dog is an appetizer. Like,
you have a hot dog and you're like.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
That was great. Can I have another, dude, mayonnaise a
hot dog?
Speaker 11 (19:38):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, very lou.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, I didn't put mayonnaise on a hot dog. I said.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
When I was a child, I had mayonnaise and Oscar
Meyer boloney sandwich and a very light flavored hot dog
is kind of like a piece of boloney, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But it's worth the trying.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yeah, Lou, you got to remember that government jobs were
supposed to be you get better benefits because in the
private sector they get be benefits or higher pay. So
here's the deal. They all get better benefits than the
private sector now, and why are they getting paid the
same as the private sector?
Speaker 9 (20:19):
They do not?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
So right, you're absolutely correct. It was supposed to be
and primarily women worked at civil service jobs. So that
was the way it was, and that was the way
it was designed.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Government job.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But what we used to call a civil service job,
and you used to take a civil service.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Exam, but what it was it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Was a job that paid below market prices. Like a
secretary at the VA wouldn't get paid, with a secretary
at IBM would get paid.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
But a secretary at.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
The VA had a government job that was jobs security.
The a's not going anywhere. You're pretty much not going
to get fired. You get less pay, but it's a
secure job and it has benefits.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
But it does offer as benefits.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Health insurance and you know, life insurance, and you know
they have all kinds of programs. And back in the
day when you had a government job, you had a
government id. Sometimes they had discounts at the movie theater,
the bowling alley or even insurance policies would give discounted
rates to government employees and then as government employees you
(21:34):
could get all kinds.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It opens the door to other kinds of benefits. Right,
So like it wasn't a.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
GI bill, certainly, but there were certain advantages to being
a government employee in exchange for a lower salary, so
you're not competing with the private sector, because at the
end of the day, without the private sector, there are
no government jobs, because the salaries of government workers are
(22:03):
paid for by normal people with real jobs in the
private sector out there busting their hump. So instead of
you know, falling over backwards to thank government employees, recognize
that the federal government is not a jobs program.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That does need to be a workforce.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
But we don't have to treat them, you know, like
they're the queen of Sheba. It's the private sector that
matters a lot. We should treat the people in the
private sector, the entrepreneurs, the capitalists, the millionaires and the millionaires,
the people that you know, invest and take chances and
(22:45):
take risks and open up a shop, open up a laundromat,
open up a barbershop like my dad, open up a restaurant.
These are risk takers, working twenty four to seven, either
with their hands or in their head to try and
to make a living. And they're their taxes go to
pay for all those government workers. And now it's gone completely. Look,
(23:06):
they just had a riot in Sacramento. Because these people
don't want to go to work, They don't want to
go into the office. I say, newsome, fire them all,
pull Oronald Reagan air traffic controller trick and fire them.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
All, send them all home, and then put.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Out a card table and accept applications from anybody but
those people you just fired and lay down the terms.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Not interested in kid gloving government employees.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Hey, lou let the public employees have the day before
the fourth of July off. You're sounding like you have
TDS and don't want everyone to celebrate the fourth of July?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is it going to be Christmas next with you? That
might be?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
How is how is taking today off as a government
employee hampering them from celebrating our nation's birthday tomorrow? Explain
that to me? What they need to get ready? I
mean what I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I'm working.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I'm going to be celebrating tomorrow. Mister finnerty, Are you
now not going to be able to fully enjoy our
nation's birthday because you're here today.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
I'm already enjoying it just by doing this show and
the theme of the hot dogs and the mail.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right, look at what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We've taken a slight departure from the general topics and
news of the day to celebrate a little bit having
fun doing it. But we're still working. So explain to
me how I worked for the federal government. I was
a deputy chief of staff for remember Congress, which mean
had a team, and we had case workers that worked
under me and reported to me, and they managed cases
(24:40):
and veterans affairs and immigration and you.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Know, social security cases.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Explain to me how one of my staffers that works
on your social security problem or your veterans claim, how
them working an eight hour day today in hibissy ability
to celebrate tomorrow. It doesn't stay same with state employees.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
If the state, the people.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
At the you know that you lost your driver's license,
call your assembly member. They're gonna make sure you get
the temporary replacement.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
One.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, that guy's not working today. Neither is my caseworker
for Social Security.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
They're all off. Why makes no sense? And it's a
hill that I will stand to die on. Nobody believes
God created hurricanes. What does this sound like?
Speaker 11 (25:39):
Where?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Where?
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Where your humor is humorless? You need to stop, we're
all turning you off.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Lou Penroe Live and Local on news radio six hundred Kogo.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Lou, you'd have to go back to nineteen seventy one
in your time machine to change the law if they
passed for government employees been that way because you're right,
we make less money than everybody else, so they figured
they'd throw us a bone.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks Lou Waan, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I don't have to go back on my time machine.
I can change the law today. I don't need to
change the law. But it's not true that they make
less money now. They did then, they don't now. And
the press secretary for County Supervisor Tarah Laws and Riemer
makes one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars a year to
(26:40):
send out press releases, like literally right up a press
release that you know, spins what happened at the county meeting,
and you know, shed's a positive light.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
On the boss. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I mean, how many of you that work in public
relations are making one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars a
year to have the government benefits and have a stable
job and don't really do much. It's not like he's
got to schedule, you know, television appearances do make I mean,
it's a pretty easy gig.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Press secretary gigs are pretty easy gigs. I hired press secretaries.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
But you know, I mean a lot of these staffers
are making really I mean, chief of staff for county
supervisors are making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's a lot of money. Don't tell me that's less
than the private sector. It's just not.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
So you can imagine what the secretary. Well, now they
call them office assistants. You can imagine what the office
assistant is making. I mean, I'm sure it's more than
the apple one gal because it's a government job and
they have all the government benefits. So look, you get
to make as much money as the job pays.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So I don't want people to get back money.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But it's just that things used to be different, Like
the government job paid less than the private sector because
they didn't want to compete with the private sector, but
they offered benefits and stability, and the private sector offered opportunity.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
More money, but there was risk because you get fired.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You can go under lou just wondering if you have
a favorite rock or metal band, enjoy your fourth tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Hey, thank you, that's a great ask blue anything kind
of question.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
My favorite rock band for sure is led Zeppelin. I
referenced them a lot. I quote their lyrics. Uh, yesterday
we were talking about a story that was unfolding and developing,
and I said, this story is developing and building like
Stairway to Heaven. That's a reference to led Zeppelin's song
(28:46):
Stairway to Heaven that starts off simple and then just
builds and builds and builds and builds like that guy
that inherited ten million dollars. So that would be So
metal and rock are two different categories.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
If you're going to ask me my favorite band, that's
difficult for me.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Favorite I had So it comes down to Motley Crue
and Cinderella, two very metal bands from the same era.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But Crue is great because it's Crue, but they.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Really don't have that deep of a catalog. Like Theater
of Pain had the Ballad and the other song was
a cover tune Smoking in the Boys Room.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Everything else on Theater of Pain is junk.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, even Nicky six said that there's nothing on Theater
of Pain that's any good. Smoking in the Boys Room
is a cod to Brownville Station and of course, Home
Sweet Home, that's their ballad. So really they have their
first album and uh Shout at the Devil, so there
and those are two great albums and there are some great.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Songs, but they just don't have the catalog.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Cinderella, on the other hand, not as successful or popular.
I think the most underrated guitar work in heavy metal
is Tom Keefer's guitar work in Cinderella. They have a catalog,
they got a lot of tunes, they got they got
a best of album and every song's great.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But they you know, they just they didn't last.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
They fell victim to their demons and couldn't keep the
band together.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, got to be able to survive.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I mean, Aerosmith had demons and problems, but they would
able to keep it together.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So that I.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Think it's got to if it's metal, it's got to
be Cinderella. For me, I could listen to them all
the time. I you know, Tom Keefer still plays, and
he tours a lot on the East Coast. He's from Philadelphia,
and I always looking to see if he's coming, you know,
to any of these bands rather any of these places
that you know have old, washed up metal stars that
(30:49):
play or like a lot of cover tunes. There's a
place up in u up in Orange County and San
Juan compas Strano called the Coach House.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
He plays there like once a year. I've not in years.
I'm always trying to get this.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I've never been able to pull it off, but I
will one of these years. Hey, have yourself a fantastic
holiday tomorrow. We'll be back live in local on Monday.
Stay safe and enjoy. God bless America. Lou Penrose on
news Radio six hundred KGO and live on the iHeartRadio
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