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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
have you along with us. Happy Thursday, Thursday the best
day of the week. Repeating our top story. A verdict
has been returned in the murder trial involving Larry Miliette
and his murdered wife, Maya miliet Day. The verdict reached
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guilty of murder in the first degree. Larry Miliette could
face twenty five years to life in prison. Sentencing upcoming,
but the murder in the first degree verdict comes with
it an automatic appeal, so it's not over. But it
is fascinating that there is nobody and bodies yet to
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be found, and the jury still was able to reach
a verdict of guilty of murder.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the first degree, which is premeditated.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
More details coming up at the bottom of the hour
newscast out of the Coco News Center. But once again,
the verdict is guilty of murder in the first degree.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For Larry Milliette.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
California has been ranked all fifty states were ranked by
Consumer Affairs. What is the best state to move too?
Not the best state to live in, but the best
state to move too, and he guesses on where California landed.
Now you're already here, so you're not moving to California.
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You might be leaving California.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Many have.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But if someone were considering moving to California and they
picked up Consumer Affairs, they would hear this.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
California remains one of the worst states to move to
for the year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh that's bad news. One of the worst states, not
just one of the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dates. You got fifty states to choose from, and the
world is your oyster.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Got to move somewhere, want to go somewhere. Where's the best?
Where's the best? Where's California?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That sounds good, pretty girls they write songs about it,
But no.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a new Consumer Affairs report ranks the Golden State
as the third worst state to move to.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Third worst state. So that what is that? Put us
at forty forty seven.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So that fifty Yeah, so we're forty seventh out of
fifty in the best state derby forty seven.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's that's bad press.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is the third year in a row California was
in the top three. New Mexico, Louisiana they topped the list.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
New Mexico and Louisiana are the top of the worst. Okay,
I get that, So we are better than New Mexico
and Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, New Mexico is breaking bad.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I you know, I've heard bad things about Mexico and
how much crime there is. But in the movie Breaking Bad,
the block that Walter lived on looked quite nice. The
school looked nice. Hank lived in a nice house, like
New Mexico is beautiful to look at, but I guess
it's just a real hellhole. And Louisiana is it's just
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you know, it's like nineteen fifty. It really it's charming,
but it really hasn't emerged since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now they determine the rankings based on affordability, safety, education, healthcare.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And quality of life.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
California was dead last in affordability and second to last
in safety.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wow, they really think we're unsafe. I feel very safe.
I think San Diego is very safe. I guess other
places must be much safer. I mean, here, you're not
gonna get hit over the head and they're gonna take
your lunch money. Yeah, there was a while that in
San Francisco they would break into your car really breaking
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into cars anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In San Diego.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There are demonstrations from time to time, but the people
at the demonstrations are cat ladies in their sixties, so
they're really not riots. It's unsafe if you're an illegal.
But yeah, I mean, I don't think you could leave your.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Wallet on the table and then use the restroom.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Like if you're at a patio in the gas lamp,
you can't leave your wallet on the table and then
go inside and use the restroom. But can you do
that in the in States one through forty seven? Like
how much safer could it be in some of these
good states?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, so what are the good states?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The best states to move to? New Hampshire and Utah?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, Utah I can see that those LDS folks, they're
not going to steal your wallet. And New Hampshire's good
because there's no state income tax. The only reason that
people go to New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's not that great. I mean, think about it. Bernie
Sanders is no, he's Vermont.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Uh, who's New Hampshire. There's a wacko governor there for
a while. Like New Hampshire's okay, it's cold. The good
thing about New Hampshire is and the reason people like
it is because liberal people that work in government or
work for one of the universities in Massachusetts, they like
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to build up a pension and then as soon as
they get their pension. And these are liberals, right, These
are people that believe in you know, higher taxes all
the time. But they as soon as they retire from
state government, they moved to New Hampshire where their pensions
are not taxable. I see this all the time. Like
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conquered New Hampshire is filled with former professors that worked
at the University of Massachusetts or work for the Massachusetts government,
Boston whatever, and you know, they got to pay or
they were a cop or firefighter in Boston, and they
certainly not going to retire in Boston where their retirement
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is taxed. It's very interesting the way liberals behave. Same
thing happens in Idaho. All the liberals that work for
the government. As soon as they retire, first thing they do,
pack up and move to Idaho low taxes. They sit
here their whole life and vote for Democrats that increase
the taxes, and as soon as they you know, three
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at fifty out, they pack, they pack a grip and
they go relocate to Idaho to shelter themselves from the taxes,
and all the while scrimming about millionaires and billionaires who
use tax loopholes. It's really a contradiction, but it's it
is a statement, right. I mean consumer affairs, I mean
the pretty good research here, so.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We're absolutely last.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And affordability, education, health care, quality of life not doing
that well either. I can't imagine how the quality of life.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is not. You would think that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Would have pulled us up, that maybe we were set
to be fifty and quality of life pulled us up.
You know on the curve to forty seven?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Did he mention quality of life?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Now they determine the rankings based on affordability, safety, education,
health care, and quality of life?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Right, Well, the healthcare, I mean, what's healthcare? Healthcare is
as good as the health insurance you have. I'm pretty
sure the doctors at the Mayo Clinic are not very
different than the doctors here at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean scripts have good.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't health I mean the healthcare of the people. Well, sure,
the states of a run by illegals and they don't
have health care, they have any money for insurance, so
I don't think it's access to healthcare. I don't know
what they're talking about there, but quality of life I
have a hard time believing. But it is what it is.
Look I choose to live here. I am staying. My
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boys were born and raised in California. They like the weather.
My oldest is now college shopping, and what he is
noticing is there are some fantastic universities around this around
the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But you step outside of the.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Car and you're reminded immediately that you're not in California.
If you're visiting SMU or the University of Alabama or
the University of Hawaii or other in Miami. Where else
do we go a couple of other places. You get
out of the car and you're like, uh, this is horrible,
And you get out. You land in California, and you
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get out of the plane and get into the parking
lot and you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Wow, home sweet home.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So the weather here is not just better than everywhere else,
it is way better. But if you're leaving, or if
you're planning on leaving, or if you're listening, we have
a lot of listeners that we're done with California.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
But they were not done with Lou Penrose.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I get a lot of calls, a lot of emails,
a lot of text a lot of talkbacks from listeners
that are out they're done with California, but they're not
done with Loupenrose. So if you're in that category, where
are you? And if you are planning on splitting, where
are you going? Because there are forty seven states ahead
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of us in all these things, safety, quality of life.
And I'll tell you where I would go and where
I might buy a second home because I visited it
and loved it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We'll do that when we come back around.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred cogo. California comes
in forty eight place a third worst state to move
to in twenty twenty six according to Consumer Affairs, and
we're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We're number three, So that means we're number forty eight
out of fifty, not forty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Did I say forty seven? That's because I have the
president my mind?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Woo. I used to live up in Massachusetts. The one
thing about New Hampshire is their roads are excellent. I
forget what the funding method was, but there was some
resource in taxes that they used that goes directly to
the roads and can't beat them.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Uh, okay, I'm not moving to New Hampshire because they
have good roads. They have good roads in Arizona. They
have good roads in Orange County. That's the attraction.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I mean, our roads in San Diego are not great,
but the mayor has an app.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
So I think they're getting fixed. I never heard anybody.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Say, come to my state, we have good roads, so
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm sure you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I haven't been to New Hampshire since college when I
went there for the New Hampshire Primary when I was
working for College Republicans in eighty eight, and I didn't
know that roads were good because they were covered in snow.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But I appreciate it. No, for me, the answer is clear.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I told you a couple of years ago, my wife
was looking for an ultimate spring break. My wife is
becoming very conscious of the timeline. My son is now
going into his junior year, so a couple of years
ago she was realizing, boy, these years ago fast, and
pretty soon they're all going to be in high school
and then college, and the family spring break trips are
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not going to be doable. So she got, you know,
caught up and starting to plan. You know, I want
to have at least one family time, and the only
time you can do it is spring break. It's the
only time that they're off all at the same time.
So she devised this plan, and she found this place
that I had never heard of.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It was called Smith.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lake and it's in Alabama, and I'd never been to
Alabama and I'd never heard of Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And I let her do all the planning. She's a
planner anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But I have to be honest with you as this
is all coming together and thinking, what are we doing?
Like we can't just go to Hawaii or Mexico or
just go.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Like we're going to a place a state we've never
been to, a lake I've never heard of that no
one's ever heard of, and we're going to get an
airbnb on the lake.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
This is too adventurous for me.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And it's a huge out, Like, you know, five airfares
a week, a week off, I mean, I'm blowing vacation time.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This better be good, baby. Well, I'm here to tell
you it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Was unbelievable, unbelievable, the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
I'm not a big fan of lake bathing because it's
usually too cold. This lake was warm, and it was
a deep lake. And if it's warm enough for Loupenrose
to get in, then it's warm. And it was really warm,
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very refreshing, and uh we the Airbnb came with a
doc and we rented a boat for the week. We
rented a boat from a local that my wife had
found through the Airbnb, through the homeowner. His name was Squirrel,
and I think I had the checkmate out to him.
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Oh no, we had a paying cash. Of course, the
guy's name is Squirrel. He got a pay in cash, and.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh, you know, he didn't he didn't need anything, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Like, do you need a copy my driver's license? Like, no,
I'd have a copying machine here. It was like his
little operation. And I, you know, I asked if it
was okay if my son drive the boat on the lake,
and he didn't ask, well, is he sixteen?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Does he have a driver's listen? He just looked at him.
He signed him up and he wrecked.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He just decided that my son was tall enough to
operate this boat.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That he's giving to me for for the week, good
old squirrel and we uh, you know. He took my
son and my wife.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Took the boat back and somehow navigated the lake with
his Snapchat account and got back to the house that
we had just checked into.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I drove back and tried to find beer.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That was a challenge, and we just had a fantastic time.
My son and I were just talking about it this morning,
how much fun that trip was.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It was such a beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the houses that dotted the lake, I mean they
had to be very expensive houses.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They were lakefront with docs. I mean you're way out.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I mean you're an hour away from the suburbs of Birmingham,
soy like an hour and a half away from Birmingham, Alabama.
And you could be twenty minutes outside of Birmingham, Alabama
and be in the middle of nowhere. So if you're
an hour away, you're really in the middle of nowhere.
And we just had the most fantastic time. I loved
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everything about it. I loved the Birmingham Airport. We spent
at like a day in the city of Birmingham, but
most of the time in Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I mean to the.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Point where my wife was looking at real estate like,
we got to get ourselves one of these houses.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
This should be our second house. We should when the
kids are in college.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Let's sell the cabin in Big Bear because nobody's gonna
go up there and ski, and let's ten thirty one
into this lake house in Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It was unbelievable, and I've since read about it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Like it's the largest man made lake in the United States,
and it's got all the it's got you know, everything
you need.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's got a yacht club or whatever. I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's great, so much fun how to blast everybody there
knew everything about it, but I'd never heard of it,
and I'll bet you've never heard of it, but now
you're looking it up. So that's where i'd go, and
that's where I might spend some time. I have no
idea what the income taxes in Alabama or any of
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that stuff, but.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Whatever, I mean, how much could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Everyone talks about you know, you hear about Alabama. The
only thing you ever hear about Alabama is the song
from Leonard Skinner. But people consider it, Oh, it's deep South,
it's red, it's Bible Belt, it's Dry County.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So those people just must be a bunch of you know.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Southern Baptist religious Bible Bible thumpers. You're not gonna like it,
lou I loved it, and we were able to find Booze.
Took a while, but everybody knew where to go, and
from what I understand to some people that make moonshine
near the lake too, I haven't gotten in touch with them,
but I'll talk to Squirrel next time we go.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'll bet he knows.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Louke Penrose on news Radio six hundred co going live
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You heard with Jack Cronin there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
California ranking bottom in the bottom three of Well It's
of the best places to move to, California is at
forty eight out of fifty.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
California could have much better roads if they actually spent
the tax money collected for the roads on the roads.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I agree with that. You could say that about everything.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
California could have much better education if they actually paid
the teachers more money.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They have the money to do it. California could have much.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Lower crime if they let the sheriffs throw the bad
guys in jail, and California would have less recidivism if
the bad guys stayed in jail.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean you could say that almost about everything.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
They were not taking an audit of coastal San Diego.
They were taking an audit of the entire state against
the other states in the US.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, but I get that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, San Diego is America's finest city, but it's
still in California. And California landed in the bottom three
of fifty. The only place worse than US was Louisiana
and New Mexico. And if you saw breaking bad, everybody
smoke meth in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So something's wrong. And I mean San Diego is great,
but Riverside is great. Orange County is great.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
They're I mean, they're parts of La County that are
literally Fort Apache the Bronx, but I mean lost.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There are people that live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, the Inland Empire is great if you stay
away from the people that breed pit bulls. Palm Springs
is great. I mean, the whole state is great. Santa
Barbara is great. The Bay Area is getting much better
now that they have a sane person as mayor of
the City and County of San Francisco, Like I might
this year actually take my son to go see the
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forty nine ers and feel safe about it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He's been wanting to go right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The San Joaquin Valley is gorgeous. It's agricultural, but it's gorgeous.
Like I've driven to Mammoth and it's a beautiful state. Really,
all of California, just I mean, optically.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Is beautiful, Big Bear is beautiful, and the coast is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean, I can't think of any place in the
state that isn't absolutely beautiful. Well, Hemmett would be the exception,
but that's pretty much it. So it's the leadership and
the politics that make it, you know, one of the
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worst places to live, I guess according to the survey. Looo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You say, you've never heard anybody say that they're going
to move somewhere or move away from somewhere because of
the roads. But have you ever heard somebody say something like,
why do you need more money from the roads when
you haven't already fixed the roads with the money we've
already given.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You for it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes, I hear that from every California voter on election day,
year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So I've seen the enemy and it is us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Hey, what's the worst financial decision you've ever made. This guy,
George Kimmel. I like him a lot. He's a real influencer.
He's one of Dave Ramsey's team. He takes a financial calls,
but he also goes on social media and does a
lot of of fun stuff. That is and it's serious.
(20:26):
He's not a goofball. And he went and asked people
what their worst financial decision was, and you'd be amazed
at what came up.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
What is your all time biggest money mistake? Paying one
hundred thousand dollars for my bachelor's degree? My ex wife.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So the bachelor's degree and the ex wife. Yeah, the
ex wife will get you. I'm here to tell you
you got to be careful shop well because the ex
wife will get.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You my ex wife. When that costs you a couple million. Wow,
there's the couple million. Again. There's no such thing as
a couple million. I heard that last week.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Somebody was saying that they inherited a couple of million dollars.
When you're getting into those figures, there's either a million,
four million, ten million. There's no couple million. But his
ex wife cost him a couple of million.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Probably not paying my car bill.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh, that's the biggest financial mistake, not paying the car payment.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Car bill in time, and I actually got a rebode.
Oh that'll do it. Okay, So so far would we got?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We got divorce, higher education, and just being an idiot
and missing a car.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Payment, spending money on Fortnite on skins.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, so you don't even know what skins is, do you?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know what skins is because my son's combined, over
the course of a year, spent like nine hundred dollars
on Skins. And I only know that because there was
I was invited to be part of a class action
lawsuit against Epic from Apple and they said, we see
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that you are a user.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I'm like, I'm not a user.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
My sons are users, and it's on my Discover card
and I didn't They didn't charge me nine hundred dollars,
but the three of them over the over because there
was a short period of time, This is during COVID too,
when Fortnite was a big thing, and they would just
get Fortnite gift cards for Christmas and Fortnite gift cards
for Easter and Fortnite gift cards for the Birthday, and
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so it became easy over the course of a year
or so to rack up about three hundred dollars in skins.
So this guy, how much do these spending skins on skins?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah? Ode spending money on Fortnite on skins? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well he hasn't said it, but he considered it, considers
it the worst financial mistake ever.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I spent sixty dollars on a Mercedes.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Wow, that's not that much money, but for her it
was a mistake. I kind of stopped paying my bills
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Student loans two hundred thousand dollars in debt with interests.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll die with student loan died.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So do you hear?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The common denominator is education. People are considering higher education
to be the single biggest financial mistake they've made in
their lives, and that is telling right. I'm surprised divorce
didn't come up more often. There's a lot of discussion
about whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey have
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some kind of a document. She is worth many, many,
many times what he's worth. So I like to see what.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That document looks like. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That guy lost a couple of mill in that divorce.
Everyone else is down. You know, sixty grand. One woman's
one hundred grand. She's been paying student loans until she's dead.
That's absolutely unbelievable. But that's George Cammell. He does the
work at Ramsey Solutions. Good stuff, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We got more to do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Costco is changing the way that they are offering muffins.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Got to tell you about that, Klue.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Penrose on news Radio six hundred, COG Live and local
on the iHeartRadio app. Costco is redesigning the muffins. You're
not gonna get as many, and they're gonna be a
little bit smaller.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Let's talk about the Costco muffins. It is a ripoff
its and do not buy. And that's because Costco just
changed the pricing. So they used to sell twelve muffins
for nine dollars in ninety nine cents, but they changed it.
Now they give you eight muffins for six dollars in
ninety nine cents.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
All right, So that's not a huge change, to be honest,
unless you're having a party, you can't get through twelve muffins.
They were huge, huge muffins. Like I would quarter them
and give the boys a quarter of a muffin, you know,
with breakfast, because they're so tall.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So it's a lot of muffin, and.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
They would go bad, and my wife would get like
two kinds we get, like the pumpkin one and the
poppy one, and I'd be throwing them out because they.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Just go bad. So I actually liked the idea of getting.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Eight eight muffins for six dollars in ninety nine cents. Already,
that's more money per muffin. So they increased the price.
But then they did something else.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Is that true? That seems right ish. Maybe it's more
money per muffin. I'd almost rather spend.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A bit more to eat all than to save money
and throw away most.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
That's more money per muffin. So they increased the price.
But then they did something else. They made the muffins smaller. Yeah,
these muffins are smaller, So now it's around fifty eight
percent more expensive per thing of muffins.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't buy him. I'm still gonna buy him. I actually
like it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All the muffins were too huge. Now the muffins looked
like muffins. The muffins used to look like small cakes.
So don't listen to that guy. Costco he's a got
bad mojo. Keep doing what you're doing. Hey, we were
talking about Bonnie Tyler. You know she passed away seventy
five total The Clips of the Heart.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Everybody knows the song.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As to that raspy voice is very sexy, but the
lyrics freak me out because she sounds like a crazy person,
like like like an ex girlfriend who has lost her
mind and about to burn your bed. But what you
didn't know, and I didn't know until today, that her
two songs that she was most known for, Total Clips
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of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, were
written by Jim Steinman.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
This guy was prolific. He was the Bernie Talpin. Jim
Steinman wrote the Bat Out of Hell album for meat Loaf,
like you remember meat Loaf. He didn't write those songs.
He performed those songs.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But it was kind of like a Elton John Bernie
Talpin thing.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So Jim Steyman, who wrote Paradise by the Dashboard Light
and two out of Three Ain't Bad, he wrote Total
Eclipse and Holding Out for a Hero. That's incredible to me.
The other song that it was not a hit. And
this is interesting for Bonnie Tyler. If you were a
woman and I was your man. It was a miss,
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But that was written by Desmond Child's here's a little
bit of it, and there's a reason I bring it up.
That's very, very, very forgettable. I kind of remembered, I
guess I did. But that was like her follow up
to Total Eclipse of the Heart and it just went nowhere.
But Desmond Child, who wrote the song, after the song
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was released by Bonnie Tyler and was a flop, he
reworked the song like he's like, all right, well, you
know you're no good, but I think it's a good song.
Let me rework the song. And he did, and he
sold it to bon Jovi and it became you Give
Love a Bad Name. And you can now kind of
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hear it, right, that's the same song. That's the song
right if you were a women, I was your man?
Bonnie Tyler, complete flop, same song, bon Jovie.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That incredible. I never caught it. Exact same song.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Different lyrics, obviously a little bit more energy and like
you know, just within a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
She was very uh, she and all her writers, I mean,
they just must all hung out together and said, hey,
I recorded this it's a dog, It's not going anywhere
you want it. Desmond wrote it for me and Jon
bon Jovi's like, yeah, I can rock out with see that.
That's music news from Lou Penrose. I feel like MTV news.
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She also did a re recording of Making Love out
of Nothing at All that was made famous by air Supply.
Everybody sang each other's songs. They don't do that anymore
so much. I mean they do covers, but they don't
share music like you don't ever hear like Jimmy Hendrix
would just go and do a you know, like a
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rolling stone, right, he would just do it, or he
would go on stage and perform Sergeant Pepper. You don't
catch that so much anymore. But back in the day,
they all just shared each other's music, and anybody that
can make a hit out of it, go make money.
God love you, Rest and beast. Bonnie Tyler dead at
seventy five.
Lou Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
have you along with us. Happy Thursday, Thursday the best
day of the week. Repeating our top story. A verdict
has been returned in the murder trial involving Larry Miliette
and his murdered wife, Maya miliet Day. The verdict reached
(00:26):
guilty of murder in the first degree. Larry Miliette could
face twenty five years to life in prison. Sentencing upcoming,
but the murder in the first degree verdict comes with
it an automatic appeal, so it's not over. But it
is fascinating that there is nobody and bodies yet to
(00:51):
be found, and the jury still was able to reach
a verdict of guilty of murder.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the first degree, which is premeditated.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
More details coming up at the bottom of the hour
newscast out of the Coco News Center. But once again,
the verdict is guilty of murder in the first degree.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
For Larry Milliette.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
California has been ranked all fifty states were ranked by
Consumer Affairs. What is the best state to move too?
Not the best state to live in, but the best
state to move too, and he guesses on where California landed.
Now you're already here, so you're not moving to California.
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You might be leaving California.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Many have.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
But if someone were considering moving to California and they
picked up Consumer Affairs, they would hear this.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
California remains one of the worst states to move to
for the year twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh that's bad news. One of the worst states, not
just one of the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dates. You got fifty states to choose from, and the
world is your oyster.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Got to move somewhere, want to go somewhere. Where's the best?
Where's the best? Where's California?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That sounds good, pretty girls they write songs about it,
But no.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a new Consumer Affairs report ranks the Golden State
as the third worst state to move to.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Third worst state. So that what is that? Put us
at forty forty seven.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So that fifty Yeah, so we're forty seventh out of
fifty in the best state derby forty seven.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's that's bad press.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is the third year in a row California was
in the top three. New Mexico, Louisiana they topped the list.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
New Mexico and Louisiana are the top of the worst. Okay,
I get that, So we are better than New Mexico
and Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, New Mexico is breaking bad.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I you know, I've heard bad things about Mexico and
how much crime there is. But in the movie Breaking Bad,
the block that Walter lived on looked quite nice. The
school looked nice. Hank lived in a nice house, like
New Mexico is beautiful to look at, but I guess
it's just a real hellhole. And Louisiana is it's just
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you know, it's like nineteen fifty. It really it's charming,
but it really hasn't emerged since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Now they determine the rankings based on affordability, safety, education, healthcare.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And quality of life.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
California was dead last in affordability and second to last
in safety.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wow, they really think we're unsafe. I feel very safe.
I think San Diego is very safe. I guess other
places must be much safer. I mean, here, you're not
gonna get hit over the head and they're gonna take
your lunch money. Yeah, there was a while that in
San Francisco they would break into your car really breaking
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into cars anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In San Diego.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
There are demonstrations from time to time, but the people
at the demonstrations are cat ladies in their sixties, so
they're really not riots. It's unsafe if you're an illegal.
But yeah, I mean, I don't think you could leave your.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Wallet on the table and then use the restroom.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Like if you're at a patio in the gas lamp,
you can't leave your wallet on the table and then
go inside and use the restroom. But can you do
that in the in States one through forty seven? Like
how much safer could it be in some of these
good states?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, so what are the good states?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The best states to move to? New Hampshire and Utah?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Well, Utah I can see that those LDS folks, they're
not going to steal your wallet. And New Hampshire's good
because there's no state income tax. The only reason that
people go to New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's not that great. I mean, think about it. Bernie
Sanders is no, he's Vermont.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Uh, who's New Hampshire. There's a wacko governor there for
a while. Like New Hampshire's okay, it's cold. The good
thing about New Hampshire is and the reason people like
it is because liberal people that work in government or
work for one of the universities in Massachusetts, they like
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to build up a pension and then as soon as
they get their pension. And these are liberals, right, These
are people that believe in you know, higher taxes all
the time. But they as soon as they retire from
state government, they moved to New Hampshire where their pensions
are not taxable. I see this all the time. Like
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conquered New Hampshire is filled with former professors that worked
at the University of Massachusetts or work for the Massachusetts government,
Boston whatever, and you know, they got to pay or
they were a cop or firefighter in Boston, and they
certainly not going to retire in Boston where their retirement
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is taxed. It's very interesting the way liberals behave. Same
thing happens in Idaho. All the liberals that work for
the government. As soon as they retire, first thing they do,
pack up and move to Idaho low taxes. They sit
here their whole life and vote for Democrats that increase
the taxes, and as soon as they you know, three
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at fifty out, they pack, they pack a grip and
they go relocate to Idaho to shelter themselves from the taxes,
and all the while scrimming about millionaires and billionaires who
use tax loopholes. It's really a contradiction, but it's it
is a statement, right. I mean consumer affairs, I mean
the pretty good research here, so.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
We're absolutely last.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And affordability, education, health care, quality of life not doing
that well either. I can't imagine how the quality of life.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is not. You would think that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Would have pulled us up, that maybe we were set
to be fifty and quality of life pulled us up.
You know on the curve to forty seven?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Did he mention quality of life?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Now they determine the rankings based on affordability, safety, education,
health care, and quality of life?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Right, Well, the healthcare, I mean, what's healthcare? Healthcare is
as good as the health insurance you have. I'm pretty
sure the doctors at the Mayo Clinic are not very
different than the doctors here at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I mean scripts have good.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't health I mean the healthcare of the people. Well, sure,
the states of a run by illegals and they don't
have health care, they have any money for insurance, so
I don't think it's access to healthcare. I don't know
what they're talking about there, but quality of life I
have a hard time believing. But it is what it is.
Look I choose to live here. I am staying. My
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boys were born and raised in California. They like the weather.
My oldest is now college shopping, and what he is
noticing is there are some fantastic universities around this around
the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But you step outside of the.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Car and you're reminded immediately that you're not in California.
If you're visiting SMU or the University of Alabama or
the University of Hawaii or other in Miami. Where else
do we go a couple of other places. You get
out of the car and you're like, uh, this is horrible,
And you get out. You land in California, and you
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get out of the plane and get into the parking
lot and you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Wow, home sweet home.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So the weather here is not just better than everywhere else,
it is way better. But if you're leaving, or if
you're planning on leaving, or if you're listening, we have
a lot of listeners that we're done with California.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
But they were not done with Lou Penrose.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I get a lot of calls, a lot of emails,
a lot of text a lot of talkbacks from listeners
that are out they're done with California, but they're not
done with Loupenrose. So if you're in that category, where
are you? And if you are planning on splitting, where
are you going? Because there are forty seven states ahead
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of us in all these things, safety, quality of life.
And I'll tell you where I would go and where
I might buy a second home because I visited it
and loved it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
We'll do that when we come back around.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred cogo. California comes
in forty eight place a third worst state to move
to in twenty twenty six according to Consumer Affairs, and
we're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We're number three, So that means we're number forty eight
out of fifty, not forty seven.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Did I say forty seven? That's because I have the
president my mind?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Woo. I used to live up in Massachusetts. The one
thing about New Hampshire is their roads are excellent. I
forget what the funding method was, but there was some
resource in taxes that they used that goes directly to
the roads and can't beat them.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Uh, okay, I'm not moving to New Hampshire because they
have good roads. They have good roads in Arizona. They
have good roads in Orange County. That's the attraction.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I mean, our roads in San Diego are not great,
but the mayor has an app.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
So I think they're getting fixed. I never heard anybody.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Say, come to my state, we have good roads, so
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm sure you're right.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I haven't been to New Hampshire since college when I
went there for the New Hampshire Primary when I was
working for College Republicans in eighty eight, and I didn't
know that roads were good because they were covered in snow.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But I appreciate it. No, for me, the answer is clear.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I told you a couple of years ago, my wife
was looking for an ultimate spring break. My wife is
becoming very conscious of the timeline. My son is now
going into his junior year, so a couple of years
ago she was realizing, boy, these years ago fast, and
pretty soon they're all going to be in high school
and then college, and the family spring break trips are
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not going to be doable. So she got, you know,
caught up and starting to plan. You know, I want
to have at least one family time, and the only
time you can do it is spring break. It's the
only time that they're off all at the same time.
So she devised this plan, and she found this place
that I had never heard of.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It was called Smith.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lake and it's in Alabama, and I'd never been to
Alabama and I'd never heard of Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And I let her do all the planning. She's a
planner anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
But I have to be honest with you as this
is all coming together and thinking, what are we doing?
Like we can't just go to Hawaii or Mexico or
just go.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
To Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Like we're going to a place a state we've never
been to, a lake I've never heard of that no
one's ever heard of, and we're going to get an
airbnb on the lake.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
This is too adventurous for me.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And it's a huge out, Like, you know, five airfares
a week, a week off, I mean, I'm blowing vacation time.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This better be good, baby. Well, I'm here to tell
you it.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Was unbelievable, unbelievable, the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
I'm not a big fan of lake bathing because it's
usually too cold. This lake was warm, and it was
a deep lake. And if it's warm enough for Loupenrose
to get in, then it's warm. And it was really warm,
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very refreshing, and uh we the Airbnb came with a
doc and we rented a boat for the week. We
rented a boat from a local that my wife had
found through the Airbnb, through the homeowner. His name was Squirrel,
and I think I had the checkmate out to him.
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Oh no, we had a paying cash. Of course, the
guy's name is Squirrel. He got a pay in cash, and.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Uh, you know, he didn't he didn't need anything, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Like, do you need a copy my driver's license? Like, no,
I'd have a copying machine here. It was like his
little operation. And I, you know, I asked if it
was okay if my son drive the boat on the lake,
and he didn't ask, well, is he sixteen?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Does he have a driver's listen? He just looked at him.
He signed him up and he wrecked.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He just decided that my son was tall enough to
operate this boat.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That he's giving to me for for the week, good
old squirrel and we uh, you know. He took my
son and my wife.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Took the boat back and somehow navigated the lake with
his Snapchat account and got back to the house that
we had just checked into.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I drove back and tried to find beer.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That was a challenge, and we just had a fantastic time.
My son and I were just talking about it this morning,
how much fun that trip was.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It was such a beautiful place.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the houses that dotted the lake, I mean they
had to be very expensive houses.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They were lakefront with docs. I mean you're way out.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I mean you're an hour away from the suburbs of Birmingham,
soy like an hour and a half away from Birmingham, Alabama.
And you could be twenty minutes outside of Birmingham, Alabama
and be in the middle of nowhere. So if you're
an hour away, you're really in the middle of nowhere.
And we just had the most fantastic time. I loved
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everything about it. I loved the Birmingham Airport. We spent
at like a day in the city of Birmingham, but
most of the time in Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I mean to the.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Point where my wife was looking at real estate like,
we got to get ourselves one of these houses.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
This should be our second house. We should when the
kids are in college.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Let's sell the cabin in Big Bear because nobody's gonna
go up there and ski, and let's ten thirty one
into this lake house in Smith Lake.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It was unbelievable, and I've since read about it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Like it's the largest man made lake in the United States,
and it's got all the it's got you know, everything
you need.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's got a yacht club or whatever. I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's great, so much fun how to blast everybody there
knew everything about it, but I'd never heard of it,
and I'll bet you've never heard of it, but now
you're looking it up. So that's where i'd go, and
that's where I might spend some time. I have no
idea what the income taxes in Alabama or any of
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that stuff, but.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Whatever, I mean, how much could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Everyone talks about you know, you hear about Alabama. The
only thing you ever hear about Alabama is the song
from Leonard Skinner. But people consider it, Oh, it's deep South,
it's red, it's Bible Belt, it's Dry County.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
So those people just must be a bunch of you know.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Southern Baptist religious Bible Bible thumpers. You're not gonna like it,
lou I loved it, and we were able to find Booze.
Took a while, but everybody knew where to go, and
from what I understand to some people that make moonshine
near the lake too, I haven't gotten in touch with them,
but I'll talk to Squirrel next time we go.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I'll bet he knows.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Louke Penrose on news Radio six hundred co going live
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You heard with Jack Cronin there.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
California ranking bottom in the bottom three of Well It's
of the best places to move to, California is at
forty eight out of fifty.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
California could have much better roads if they actually spent
the tax money collected for the roads on the roads.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I agree with that. You could say that about everything.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
California could have much better education if they actually paid
the teachers more money.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They have the money to do it. California could have much.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Lower crime if they let the sheriffs throw the bad
guys in jail, and California would have less recidivism if
the bad guys stayed in jail.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I mean you could say that almost about everything.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
They were not taking an audit of coastal San Diego.
They were taking an audit of the entire state against
the other states in the US.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, but I get that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I mean, San Diego is America's finest city, but it's
still in California. And California landed in the bottom three
of fifty. The only place worse than US was Louisiana
and New Mexico. And if you saw breaking bad, everybody
smoke meth in New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So something's wrong. And I mean San Diego is great,
but Riverside is great. Orange County is great.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
They're I mean, they're parts of La County that are
literally Fort Apache the Bronx, but I mean lost.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There are people that live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, the Inland Empire is great if you stay
away from the people that breed pit bulls. Palm Springs
is great. I mean, the whole state is great. Santa
Barbara is great. The Bay Area is getting much better
now that they have a sane person as mayor of
the City and County of San Francisco, Like I might
this year actually take my son to go see the
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forty nine ers and feel safe about it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He's been wanting to go right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The San Joaquin Valley is gorgeous. It's agricultural, but it's gorgeous.
Like I've driven to Mammoth and it's a beautiful state. Really,
all of California, just I mean, optically.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Is beautiful, Big Bear is beautiful, and the coast is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean, I can't think of any place in the
state that isn't absolutely beautiful. Well, Hemmett would be the exception,
but that's pretty much it. So it's the leadership and
the politics that make it, you know, one of the
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worst places to live, I guess according to the survey. Looo.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
You say, you've never heard anybody say that they're going
to move somewhere or move away from somewhere because of
the roads. But have you ever heard somebody say something like,
why do you need more money from the roads when
you haven't already fixed the roads with the money we've
already given.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
You for it.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes, I hear that from every California voter on election day,
year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So I've seen the enemy and it is us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Hey, what's the worst financial decision you've ever made. This guy,
George Kimmel. I like him a lot. He's a real influencer.
He's one of Dave Ramsey's team. He takes a financial calls,
but he also goes on social media and does a
lot of of fun stuff. That is and it's serious.
(20:26):
He's not a goofball. And he went and asked people
what their worst financial decision was, and you'd be amazed
at what came up.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
What is your all time biggest money mistake? Paying one
hundred thousand dollars for my bachelor's degree? My ex wife.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
So the bachelor's degree and the ex wife. Yeah, the
ex wife will get you. I'm here to tell you
you got to be careful shop well because the ex
wife will get.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You my ex wife. When that costs you a couple million. Wow,
there's the couple million. Again. There's no such thing as
a couple million. I heard that last week.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Somebody was saying that they inherited a couple of million dollars.
When you're getting into those figures, there's either a million,
four million, ten million. There's no couple million. But his
ex wife cost him a couple of million.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Probably not paying my car bill.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh, that's the biggest financial mistake, not paying the car payment.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Car bill in time, and I actually got a rebode.
Oh that'll do it. Okay, So so far would we got?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We got divorce, higher education, and just being an idiot
and missing a car.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Payment, spending money on Fortnite on skins.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, so you don't even know what skins is, do you?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I know what skins is because my son's combined, over
the course of a year, spent like nine hundred dollars
on Skins. And I only know that because there was
I was invited to be part of a class action
lawsuit against Epic from Apple and they said, we see
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that you are a user.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I'm like, I'm not a user.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
My sons are users, and it's on my Discover card
and I didn't They didn't charge me nine hundred dollars,
but the three of them over the over because there
was a short period of time, This is during COVID too,
when Fortnite was a big thing, and they would just
get Fortnite gift cards for Christmas and Fortnite gift cards
for Easter and Fortnite gift cards for the Birthday, and
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so it became easy over the course of a year
or so to rack up about three hundred dollars in skins.
So this guy, how much do these spending skins on skins?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah? Ode spending money on Fortnite on skins? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well he hasn't said it, but he considered it, considers
it the worst financial mistake ever.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I spent sixty dollars on a Mercedes.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Wow, that's not that much money, but for her it
was a mistake. I kind of stopped paying my bills
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Student loans two hundred thousand dollars in debt with interests.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll die with student loan died.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
So do you hear?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
The common denominator is education. People are considering higher education
to be the single biggest financial mistake they've made in
their lives, and that is telling right. I'm surprised divorce
didn't come up more often. There's a lot of discussion
about whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey have
(23:38):
some kind of a document. She is worth many, many,
many times what he's worth. So I like to see what.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That document looks like. But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That guy lost a couple of mill in that divorce.
Everyone else is down. You know, sixty grand. One woman's
one hundred grand. She's been paying student loans until she's dead.
That's absolutely unbelievable. But that's George Cammell. He does the
work at Ramsey Solutions. Good stuff, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We got more to do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Costco is changing the way that they are offering muffins.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Got to tell you about that, Klue.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Penrose on news Radio six hundred, COG Live and local
on the iHeartRadio app. Costco is redesigning the muffins. You're
not gonna get as many, and they're gonna be a
little bit smaller.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Let's talk about the Costco muffins. It is a ripoff
its and do not buy. And that's because Costco just
changed the pricing. So they used to sell twelve muffins
for nine dollars in ninety nine cents, but they changed it.
Now they give you eight muffins for six dollars in
ninety nine cents.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
All right, So that's not a huge change, to be honest,
unless you're having a party, you can't get through twelve muffins.
They were huge, huge muffins. Like I would quarter them
and give the boys a quarter of a muffin, you know,
with breakfast, because they're so tall.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
So it's a lot of muffin, and.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
They would go bad, and my wife would get like
two kinds we get, like the pumpkin one and the
poppy one, and I'd be throwing them out because they.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Just go bad. So I actually liked the idea of getting.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Eight eight muffins for six dollars in ninety nine cents. Already,
that's more money per muffin. So they increased the price.
But then they did something else.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Is that true? That seems right ish. Maybe it's more
money per muffin. I'd almost rather spend.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A bit more to eat all than to save money
and throw away most.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
That's more money per muffin. So they increased the price.
But then they did something else. They made the muffins smaller. Yeah,
these muffins are smaller, So now it's around fifty eight
percent more expensive per thing of muffins.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Don't buy him. I'm still gonna buy him. I actually
like it.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
All the muffins were too huge. Now the muffins looked
like muffins. The muffins used to look like small cakes.
So don't listen to that guy. Costco he's a got
bad mojo. Keep doing what you're doing. Hey, we were
talking about Bonnie Tyler. You know she passed away seventy
five total The Clips of the Heart.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Everybody knows the song.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As to that raspy voice is very sexy, but the
lyrics freak me out because she sounds like a crazy person,
like like like an ex girlfriend who has lost her
mind and about to burn your bed. But what you
didn't know, and I didn't know until today, that her
two songs that she was most known for, Total Clips
(26:57):
of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, were
written by Jim Steinman.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Man.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
This guy was prolific. He was the Bernie Talpin. Jim
Steinman wrote the Bat Out of Hell album for meat Loaf,
like you remember meat Loaf. He didn't write those songs.
He performed those songs.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But it was kind of like a Elton John Bernie
Talpin thing.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So Jim Steyman, who wrote Paradise by the Dashboard Light
and two out of Three Ain't Bad, he wrote Total
Eclipse and Holding Out for a Hero. That's incredible to me.
The other song that it was not a hit. And
this is interesting for Bonnie Tyler. If you were a
woman and I was your man. It was a miss,
(27:42):
But that was written by Desmond Child's here's a little
bit of it, and there's a reason I bring it up.
That's very, very, very forgettable. I kind of remembered, I
guess I did. But that was like her follow up
to Total Eclipse of the Heart and it just went nowhere.
But Desmond Child, who wrote the song, after the song
(28:04):
was released by Bonnie Tyler and was a flop, he
reworked the song like he's like, all right, well, you
know you're no good, but I think it's a good song.
Let me rework the song. And he did, and he
sold it to bon Jovi and it became you Give
Love a Bad Name. And you can now kind of
(28:27):
hear it, right, that's the same song. That's the song
right if you were a women, I was your man?
Bonnie Tyler, complete flop, same song, bon Jovie.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That incredible. I never caught it. Exact same song.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Different lyrics, obviously a little bit more energy and like
you know, just within a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
She was very uh, she and all her writers, I mean,
they just must all hung out together and said, hey,
I recorded this it's a dog, It's not going anywhere
you want it. Desmond wrote it for me and Jon
bon Jovi's like, yeah, I can rock out with see that.
That's music news from Lou Penrose. I feel like MTV news.
(29:12):
She also did a re recording of Making Love out
of Nothing at All that was made famous by air Supply.
Everybody sang each other's songs. They don't do that anymore
so much. I mean they do covers, but they don't
share music like you don't ever hear like Jimmy Hendrix
would just go and do a you know, like a
(29:33):
rolling stone, right, he would just do it, or he
would go on stage and perform Sergeant Pepper. You don't
catch that so much anymore. But back in the day,
they all just shared each other's music, and anybody that
can make a hit out of it, go make money.
God love you, Rest and beast. Bonnie Tyler dead at
seventy five.
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