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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrose on news radio six hundred cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us. Happy Tuesday. So
this is a real important one for me.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I think we are getting very close to crossing a line,
and I think this crosses the line.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So the restrooms are closed.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They were up for discussion, and the way budget battles
work is they know there's gonna be some things that
are third rails, right, things that the public is just
not going to tolerate.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So they put it all out there, Oh, we don't
have enough money.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's the way it goes, and so we're gonna have
to reduce services, and they throw it a couple of
things that are just hard nos so they can pull back.
That's the basic negotiating platform, right, that's the style. So
the mayor throws out, well, we're gonna have to close
down the restrooms this summer, and we're gonna have to
close all the recreation centers and close all the.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Libraries, and no money for Animal Samaritans. Right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They always go that way, the children, the animals, you
being able to use the toilet, right, because they know
those are hot button issues. People love the libraries, they
love the rec centers, they love the animals, and of course,
you know Fox five San Diego is gonna go down
there to Mission Valley and find some pregnant woman, you know,
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doing her daily walk or pushing a stroller and saying,
how is this going to affect you?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, it's very formulaic the way it all works.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And the mayor's office knows that Fox five San Diego
is gonna go down there and interview a pregnant woman walking.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If this this restroom's closed, Man, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, it's gonna be very uncomfortable. So what do you
have to say?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think that they should find the money elsewhere reporting
live from Mission Valley. I'm sew and so box fives right. Like,
it's all very formulaic, and you see it every budget cycle,
so they always all they hyperbolize in what they're going
to cut so that they can say, good news.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We struck a deal.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We had a long day at the city hall, win
the budget, a lot of public comments.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And we struck a deal and we split the baby.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But I think it's worse. It's worse when you cut
some of the bathrooms. I don't think you should be
cutting bathrooms at all. I mean, I can't think of
another service I would not rather be cut.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know how I feel about the public libraries.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't want to have an argument with all you
librarians out there and all you book lovers, because that's
not what this hour's about.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But that's where I would go.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I would close the libraries, fire the librarians, sell the building.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Forever, not for the summer.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You need a public library the way you need a
Blockbuster video store. Everything in the library is on your phone.
So that's an easy one for me to find the money.
But that's one voice. You maybe want to keep the
libraries but cut the rec center. Maybe you want to
keep the rec center, but uh raised taxes, raise fees.
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Maybe you want to keep the fees but have paid
parking at Balboa Park. We can all have our opinions
and where the money comes from, and that's okay, that's
self government. But I think we all agree that you
don't cut any bathrooms. Bathrooms are so quintessential to a
high quality of life. Right. We're in a social contract here,
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you and I in San Diego, and.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
People have to use the restrooms.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And you and I both know what happens when people
need to use the restrooms and there are no restrooms available.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Some people can hold it, some people can't or won't,
and that's gross.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's how you go a first world country to a
third world country in a single act.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's only thirteen bathrooms. They're way more of that than that.
But the San Diego is close thirteen bathrooms across Mission
Bay Park, Ski Beach, Vacation Island, Vacation, Bonita Cove, and
Ventura Point. The city expects to save five hundred thousand dollars.
(04:32):
Am easily five hundred thousand dollars. You gotta be kidding me.
That is nothing. You know the size of the budget
for San Diego, that's nothing. Borrow the money if you
have to sell a couple of vehicles to say five
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You want to inconvenience the people of.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
San Diego at these places, and these are places where
people actually go to the bathroom, right, These are destination
places in San Diego to go for walks, to take
your kids for a walk, to take the little ones
on strollers. I have three sons. They were all in strollers.
We would go down to places like this. We would
go to Harbor's, we would go to places where there
are walk paths. People are there with their dogs, they're
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you know, sitting on benches. Maybe there's happy hours going
on locally. But it's joyful, quality of life destinations for
San Diego.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's exactly what Mission Bay is. It's a quality of
life destination for people that live here. Like it's that
a tourist attraction. It's just part of our town and
we should be able to use the restroom and they
should all be open the most. The only thing more
annoying than closing all the bathrooms is closing some of
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the bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
What are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Give every pregnant woman that goes on a walk a
cheat sheet, Send word out to all the you know,
all the obstetricians and gynecologists in San Diego. Hey at
the next is it? You know, you know, do the
you know, the twenty week check up. And also hander
this list of all the bathrooms that are closed. It's
just it's so annoying to me. I think that is
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the worst. It really is the worst. This, I I
get it that you're going to cut services, and that's
fine with me. I don't find the cut and services
and inconvenience when they're services that really nobody needs. But
this is beyond a public service.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Don't you think I've said this before about water fountains.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm a huge fan of the water districts in San
Diego and the water boards of San Diego. Of all
the bureaucrats and all the government workers, I like the
water people the most.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They're very serious people.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They are certainly bureaucrats and they're politicians, but the water
districts are filled with engineers like as opposed to the
school board right or the sandag or the city council.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The water district people are serious people.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And as a result, you can go to any public
fountain in San Diego and safely drink the water out
of it. You may not want to. You might think
it's public and it's gross, but it's certainly clean.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It will not get you sick.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You could go inside the restrooms in San Diego. You
could go inside the restrooms at the Ventura Point Bunny
to cove Ski Beach, you and go inside, and then
you could turn on the fawcet to wash your hands,
and you could cut the water coming out of the
Fawston not a water fountain, literally a spigot to wash
your hands. You can drink that water safely because we
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and our water districts and the water people in charge
in San Diego take clean water so seriously.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And you can do that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Everywhere in the United States, literally from Seattle to Miami,
from Maine to San Diego and all points in between.
And you can go to any public facility in America
and drink clean, safe water. Do you know how unique
of an experience that is on planet Earth? Nowhere else
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can you do that. Nowhere else can you do that.
And it's because as a society, as a people, we
got together and said, all right, before we get started
having our own country here, we want safe water systems.
We saw what happened with the plague in Europe. We
see how some of these third world countries are run.
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You see the problem that other nations have with sewer
systems and wastewater treatment. So we are gonna do it
very differently. We're gonna have clean water delivered to the people,
and we're gonna have their refuse water taken away from them,
very far away and taken to water treatment facilities away
from people, so there's no chance of the mix up happening,
and that will provide a quality of life that is unique,
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not just on planet Earth, but in the history of mankind.
So I'm a big fan of what we have accomplished
as a people, building a first world country that is
delightful in its quality of life. And I just think
this is a real punch to the gut in the
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spirit of that endeavor. So I think it's wrong. I
think they should rethink this. I think they should open
up all thirteen of those bathrooms. I know it's just thirteen.
I don't care. I don't think one should be closed.
I think they should all be fully stocked. I think
they should be toilet paper. I think the restrooms of
the trash can should be cleaned regularly, and I think
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they should have somebody go in there and maintain them
and wipe down the countertops like it's the Rich Carlton.
Why don't we treat all the public restrooms like the
way they treat them at the Ritz Carlton or at
the Mariotte. Why shouldn't we expect our public restrooms in
San Diego to look like the public restrooms at the
Hilton Bayfront.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Why not we live here, We like our society like this.
We expect it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
At the at the hotel lobby at the Marriot.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Why wouldn't we expect the scene.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But no, instead of saying we should make this place
as clean as the finest restroom in the finest hotel downtown, no,
the attitude is let's close it to save money, and
let's let the people of San Diego have a worse
quality of life and hold it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's the wrong direction and I'm not going to tolerate it.
What say you? Eight hundred and six hundred Cogo eight hundred,
six hundred and five six four six.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
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Speaker 2 (10:50):
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So the bathrooms are closed.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
We knew it was coming, but now that it's happened,
I am just as upset about it. San Diego has
closed thirteen bathrooms across Mission Bay Park as part of
a budget cutting measure. Locations including Ski Beach, Bonita Co
then tore Point. The city expects the closures to say,
are you ready five hundred and forty six thousand dollars?
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They couldn't find five hundred and forty six thousand dollars
so that we could maintain a quality of life. City services,
recreation centers, summer programs, extra hours on the weekends for
the city libraries.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Those are luxuries.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Public facilities like the restrooms are necessities, and they are
just sticking it to us, and I hate it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, that's why they do it. They do it on purpose.
They could literally cut all their stupid special programs, but
they choose those because they know it'll kiss people.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Off, to make them like they really need the money.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And the people who complain are the ones who look
for them, so that's what they get. I really don't
care about the libraries the bathrooms. They should leave the
bathrooms and the recliners should stay open open. They should
put elsewhere, and they know they can, they just choose
not to.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They just choose not to.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And a lot of this, you know, throwing out a
bunch of ideas to get everybody upset to see who
shows up and screams the loudest is budgeting by committee.
And I think that's horrible. I just think that it's
an abdication of leadership.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But Lou, if they get rid of the public libraries,
where are they going to do the tranny story hours
for our children?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Did you even think about that?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I have thought about that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There are other places they can do drag Queen Story Hour.
I don't think drag Queen Story Hour has to be
on city property. I think that there are They've got
to be organizations that are advocating for drag Queen Story
Hour that can rent a room and invite all the
children over, and it could all be done privately. And
at that point I would have no grounds to argue.
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You want to privately take your child to a Drag
Queen Story Hour at some private property, have yourself a
good old time.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't think any bathroom should be cut either. Thank you.
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
We would have enough money for everything if we didn't
spend so much money on services for illegals full stop.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, isn't that the truth?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I mean that it goes without saying, but it has
to be repeated over and over again so that we remember.
And also because I have a growing listening audience, and
I want to make sure that all the new listeners,
thank you for joining the family, know where we all
feel about this. So so many things that go without
saying have to be repeated.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Whenever any city, county, or the state legislature say they're
short on money, they're not. They are providing services for
non Californians who are in California illegally.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So it's hard to.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Say, guys, can you budget a little bit differently so
that we can use the bathrooms when you should be
screaming why are you spending money on anybody that is
not a Californian in the state legally. So yeah, it
makes your hair hurt and makes you want to pull
the hair out of your head. And I am convinced
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that sometimes they do this at creature comfort. And again
I call it a creature comfort. It's truly a quality
of life issue. It really is, and I use that
term specifically. We have earned an elite quality of life
in San Diego. We should view this city as just
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short of a country club of a yacht club. That's
what we should expect. We pay for it, we deserve it.
Why shouldn't we get it? They're not closing restrooms at
the yacht club. They're not closing restrooms at the country clubs.
You know why their members wouldn't tolerate it. You and
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I are members of the San Diego country Club.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's what the city is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a hierarchy of government that is funded to our
dues called taxes, to provide us quality of life services
that we want. When people join the country club, that's
what they're doing, right. When people join the yacht club,
that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They want a place.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
They can go that's clean and the rift raft is
kept out and everything works and it's nice, and the
bathrooms are nice and wipe down and there's always nice
toilet paper and there's a bar in there.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's what we want. We want a city where everything's nice.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And the riff rafts kept out and the only nice
people are there, and it's just us and belongs to us,
and we all keep it nice and there are services
for us that we delight in, like pickleball courts and
volleyball courts and you know, walking paths for our dogs
and clean bathrooms. That's the way we have to look
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at things. And when we elect leaders, we have to
elect leaders that look at it that way.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I want to elect a.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Mayor that treats the city as if he was the
head manager at a country club.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And tolerate little elves. Think about it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That way, and become elite the way you deserve to be.
Five thirty four, twenty six, Now in front of six o'clock,
Loup Penrose on news radio six hundred co Go.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's official.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The city is cutting some public restrooms in a cost
saving measure, in fact, the locations in Mission Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And I think it is so wrong. It is such
the wrong thing to do.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's unnecessary, it doesn't save a lot of money, and
I find it to be punitive.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And I think they should hear from us. Yep, hold on,
they can't hear from us.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
If they can hear, so we can't have cleaned restrooms
in public places. They should also cut all budgets to
clean their restrooms in their private offices, the consulor's offices,
the mayor's office, and every restroom in city Hall.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm with you, that's what should happen.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The public restrooms in city Hall should be open, but
the private restrooms in the Mayor's office and in the staff's.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Office they should be locked.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let's share the pain, guys, you go take a longer
walk to use the restroom.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That is not a bad idea, mister Finnity.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Every once in a while a colonel of genius erupts
on the lou Penrose Show from the listening audience. That
is going to be a good question when we have
Mayor Todd Gloria on with us.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Next time, I'm gonna say, hey, man, I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're doing your best to balance the budget. Let's lead
by example. How many restrooms were closed at City Hall?
There's multiple restrooms for convenience, right, that's why there's more
than one.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
So how many restrooms are closed at city Hall? Get
that caller's name.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes, too much earlier. The lady is right, and you're right.
You're spinning it on legals, and that's wheretty much all
the wing is going. Literally, that's what we all should
be mad about.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, that's interesting. I've been trying to get that analysis
for a long time. I know how much they budget
for illegals. I don't know how much they spend on illegals.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's hard to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Know because illegals are illegal and they don't have documentation.
Suspense is we are spending far more on illegals than
we budget for. Right, you see that happening now in
Los Angeles County or in Los Angeles City in the
city election in the primary, they elected to impose a
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sales tax on themselves to cover the snap benefits and
medical medical costs that were being cut by the government,
the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services. So
President Trump said, all right, Los Angeles, if you insist
on not checking to see if the recipient of medical
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is legally in the country, that I'm not going to
send any the administration money.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
LA City complying with federal law, they imposed the tax
on themselves to generate money to give away to make
sure every illegal that applied got healthcare.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I mean, it's just absolutely crazy. The same here in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We don't know how many illegals are draining services from
the city budget because illegals just don't always show up to.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You things where.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Everybody says that and no one's gonna check your residency,
no one's gonna check your legal status. We don't do
that here in San Diego at the city level. Sometimes
they show up with false documents. These people traffic in
counterfeit documents. So my suspicion for a long time has
been it's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Hey, lou love your show. This is William from Rend's Opinionsquitos.
You know we keep hearing you. Ever got the word
out of their mouth is text a billion? Make them
pay their fair share. I got a better idea. Why
don't we start taking the people at the bottom, all
the freeloaders and the parasites, make them pay their fair
share instead of all these entitlement programs. Thank you have
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a great one.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
He was thinking my song. I've been saying that for
a long time. The millionaires and billionaires are not the problem,
the broke or the problem.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It's the broke that we should be mad at.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's the broke that need all these government services. It's
the broke that we spend an inordinate amount of time
talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That That is, I mean, that really is why.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know, like this this bathroom issue is such a
big deal to me, because we do spend an inordinate
amount of time and so much budgetary time and so
much argument in society about how we can do better
by the broke. They're a real pain in the ass
to society. Oh, Lou, that's a terrible thing to say.
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They don't have any money. Yes, everything Lou Penrose says
is a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
We don't spend.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Nearly We spend a lot of time talking about the
millionaires and billionaires and how much they should be paying,
And we spend way too much time talking about two
p people who don't have a pot to spit in
and can't rub two nickels together and we should feel
bad for them, And we never spend any time about
actual successful working people, the middle class, the rest of us,
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the normal people that don't need city services, that don't
go to the public library, that don't need Section eight housing,
that actually have a job, they have their act together,
they are starting a family, they get pregnant, they want
to go take a walk on the walking path with
their dog and Mission Bay and can't use the damn toilet.
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That's the problem. So every once in a while I
have to champion normal people, just the rest of us
that make their insurance payments, that make their mortgage payments,
that aren't going to the soup kitchen or the food coopa,
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whatever it is. That pay for their children's school lunch,
that buy their kids' school supplies with their own money. Right,
These are the people that I am championing. These are
the people that I'm talking to. These are the people
that I'm talking about, the normal Sandyagans that get up, responsibly,
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make their children lunch, go to work, earn money, budget
to afford the quality of.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Life that they can.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And at the end of the day, they're not asking
for a community center or you know, extra library hours
or an illegal alien legal society. All they want is
for the public restrooms to be open when they take
some time for themselves and.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Go for a walk.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Hey, lou why don't we just pee in poop anywhere
we want?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And say, diego is he did do something about that?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, I don't want that to happen. That's what I'm
trying to avoid. I'm trying to protect. I literally want
to take my arms around our first world culture and
prevent it from slipping needlessly into the third world hellhole
that exists everywhere else on the planet where they do
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just that. That's what I'm talking about, because you know
and I know that that is an unintended consequence of
shutting down bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
There was a small park.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
By my house, well my old house, uh, and this
was before I had kids, and it was one of these.
It was a great little park and I remember looking
forward to being able to take my boys to this
great little park and be one of those dads, you know,
at the park.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And it was one of these parts. It was older.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It just did not have facilities, didn't have bathrooms, and
they wanted to put in a bathroom, and the residents
that houses right around the park were like, no, no, no,
we don't want bathrooms there. They're like, well, but the
little boys and girls, you know, they go and water
the plants and the bushes if you don't put a
bathroom there. And all the homeowners right around the area
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were like no, because all the homeless are going to
move into the bathrooms and shoot up heroin and that
always happens, and it becomes all the parks when they
put in bathrooms, it becomes worse for the homeowners that
have to have homeless people broken beer bottles and sleeping
and they use you know, my driveway as a restroom.
Like that was their experience, and I kind of appreciate
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that because unfortunately, whenever you install a public bathroom at
a park, it becomes a homeless person's apartment, and so
you got to get in there and kick the bums out.
But at the end of the day, for quality of
life for the people that went to that park, including
me and my wife and my boys, it would have
been nice to be able to use the restroom, and
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it never happened. I saw it came up they're doing
a study committee. So my oldest is seventeen now, so
this has been a seventeen year old discussion, and for
seventeen years, little boys who couldn't hold it went and
watered the plants over in the corner. Right. It's like
ridiculously unnecessary. And I always thought, you know, how do
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they do this in Switzerland? How do they do this
in Germany? How do they do this in France? How
do they do this in other First World nations with
clean people?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How do they do in Japan? There are nations with
clean people and clean.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Societies that also have little boys and girls that want
to play in public but have to use the restroom.
How do they do that without the bums moving in
and the drug addicts living in the bathrooms?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It has to be accomplishable.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh you're talking about very expensive when you talk about
the ones that automatically.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Lock on a time, those are expensive. How expensive could
they be?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So yeah, I don't want people using the city as
a restroom. I want the restrooms open, and I want
them nice and clean, and I want all of you
to expect it and insist upon it. That's my fight.
I draw the line at the bathroom. Gotta have them.
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It separates us from all these other animals on planet Earth.
Blue Penrose on news radio six hundred cogoy.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
So the solution in Germany, Switzerland and most of Europe
is you pay. We were just there and it's one
euro to go to the bathroom or one frank in Switzerland,
so it's not cheap, but it's not expensive either. You
have to make people pay and not just to get
in the door. So that's one solution. That's how they
do it in those countries.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So it was fifty p when I was in London.
Maybe it's gone up. That's fifty pence. It's not that
kind of pee.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh, that is correct for public restrooms? Is it a
Swiss frank? Now that's a lot. But all right, fine,
you know what I'm all ears, but I want the
toilets and the facilities to look like a Swiss toilet.
Have you been in the Swiss public restrooms? They're all
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hans grow heat. I mean, all the fixtures are like
Newport brass. I mean, you wouldn't believe the quality of
the fixtures and the marble, and they are beautiful, not
like we got here, like these gray stainless steel things.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Like you're in an a Saint asylum with no.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Doors at a padlock so that the homeless don't steal
the toilet paper. So I'll pay a Swiss frank to
use the public restrooms as long as it looks like
a restroom in Lausann.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Or like Geneva.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So that's the trade off, because they do in Lausan
and like Geneva. And I've also been with my children,
very young children in Switzerland when I went to go
visit my.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Relatives, and where there are.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Parks, where there are swing sets, where there is anything
where children are encouraged to go. And Switzerland, I just
know this because I've been there a lot of times
in I have family there. They are a very pro
family culture, and I think that we're a pro family
culture too. They just do it better than we do.
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We try, but unfortunately we have a lot of non
family elements that hang around are pro family things, so
you just don't have that over there. But where there
are parks, and they have very elaborate parks in Switzerland's
pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And where where there are parks with.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Swing sets, let's just say, or playground equip where there's
things where they know kids are going to be, then
they do not charge. So it's pretty convenient and it's
pretty easy. And I don't know what they do in France.
I suspect it's pretty much the same. But you would
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never have this discussion. They would never be a you know,
like the Normandy city council would ever say all right,
well we're short budget shortfall, we got to close down
thirteen public restrooms.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But again that was never offered. I would entertain.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Putting a system together throughout the city where we put
in fifty cents or apple pay fifty cents to use
the public restrooms and in places where children are invited,
then it's free. So there are other there are way
more routes to go than closing them.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And the reason that I stand so strongly on this.
It's not hyperbole just to you know, feign passion to
get your dand rope. I really think we have to
be careful with the society we have created.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We're taking a step backwards.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Closing down public restrooms is taking a step backwards, and
I don't think we should ever do that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Right. Shortening library hours on.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
A Saturday is not taking a step backwards in basic
quality of life culture. Shutting down thirteen bathrooms where people
that live here, not tourist attractions.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
This is where people that live here.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And that enjoy the quality of life of San Diego,
where they go to be and relax and recreate. That
is limiting our quality of life. We have to have
a balance. You know, we incur a lot. You saw
what happened in Newport. Each the people that live there
incurred that intrusion in exchange for coffers, you know, to
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restaurants and bars, right so same here. We incur a
lot of visitors in San Diego because it's beautiful and
they want to come, and we want to be hospitable
and host and get the tax revenue that they leave behind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But in exchange, we want a quality of life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We want that money to go to our quality of life.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Public restrooms and facilities equal that in my mind.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us. Happy Tuesday. So
this is a real important one for me.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I think we are getting very close to crossing a line,
and I think this crosses the line.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So the restrooms are closed.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They were up for discussion, and the way budget battles
work is they know there's gonna be some things that
are third rails, right, things that the public is just
not going to tolerate.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So they put it all out there, Oh, we don't
have enough money.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's the way it goes, and so we're gonna have
to reduce services, and they throw it a couple of
things that are just hard nos so they can pull back.
That's the basic negotiating platform, right, that's the style. So
the mayor throws out, well, we're gonna have to close
down the restrooms this summer, and we're gonna have to
close all the recreation centers and close all the.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Libraries, and no money for Animal Samaritans. Right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They always go that way, the children, the animals, you
being able to use the toilet, right, because they know
those are hot button issues. People love the libraries, they
love the rec centers, they love the animals, and of course,
you know Fox five San Diego is gonna go down
there to Mission Valley and find some pregnant woman, you know,
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doing her daily walk or pushing a stroller and saying,
how is this going to affect you?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, it's very formulaic the way it all works.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And the mayor's office knows that Fox five San Diego
is gonna go down there and interview a pregnant woman walking.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If this this restroom's closed, Man, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, it's gonna be very uncomfortable. So what do you
have to say?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I think that they should find the money elsewhere reporting
live from Mission Valley. I'm sew and so box fives right. Like,
it's all very formulaic, and you see it every budget cycle,
so they always all they hyperbolize in what they're going
to cut so that they can say, good news.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We struck a deal.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
We had a long day at the city hall, win
the budget, a lot of public comments.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And we struck a deal and we split the baby.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
But I think it's worse. It's worse when you cut
some of the bathrooms. I don't think you should be
cutting bathrooms at all. I mean, I can't think of
another service I would not rather be cut.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You know how I feel about the public libraries.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't want to have an argument with all you
librarians out there and all you book lovers, because that's
not what this hour's about.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
But that's where I would go.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I would close the libraries, fire the librarians, sell the building.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Forever, not for the summer.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You need a public library the way you need a
Blockbuster video store. Everything in the library is on your phone.
So that's an easy one for me to find the money.
But that's one voice. You maybe want to keep the
libraries but cut the rec center. Maybe you want to
keep the rec center, but uh raised taxes, raise fees.
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Maybe you want to keep the fees but have paid
parking at Balboa Park. We can all have our opinions
and where the money comes from, and that's okay, that's
self government. But I think we all agree that you
don't cut any bathrooms. Bathrooms are so quintessential to a
high quality of life. Right. We're in a social contract here,
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you and I in San Diego, and.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
People have to use the restrooms.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And you and I both know what happens when people
need to use the restrooms and there are no restrooms available.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Some people can hold it, some people can't or won't,
and that's gross.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That's how you go a first world country to a
third world country in a single act.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's only thirteen bathrooms. They're way more of that than that.
But the San Diego is close thirteen bathrooms across Mission
Bay Park, Ski Beach, Vacation Island, Vacation, Bonita Cove, and
Ventura Point. The city expects to save five hundred thousand dollars.
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Am easily five hundred thousand dollars. You gotta be kidding me.
That is nothing. You know the size of the budget
for San Diego, that's nothing. Borrow the money if you
have to sell a couple of vehicles to say five
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You want to inconvenience the people of.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
San Diego at these places, and these are places where
people actually go to the bathroom, right, These are destination
places in San Diego to go for walks, to take
your kids for a walk, to take the little ones
on strollers. I have three sons. They were all in strollers.
We would go down to places like this. We would
go to Harbor's, we would go to places where there
are walk paths. People are there with their dogs, they're
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you know, sitting on benches. Maybe there's happy hours going
on locally. But it's joyful, quality of life destinations for
San Diego.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's exactly what Mission Bay is. It's a quality of
life destination for people that live here. Like it's that
a tourist attraction. It's just part of our town and
we should be able to use the restroom and they
should all be open the most. The only thing more
annoying than closing all the bathrooms is closing some of
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the bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
What are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Give every pregnant woman that goes on a walk a
cheat sheet, Send word out to all the you know,
all the obstetricians and gynecologists in San Diego. Hey at
the next is it? You know, you know, do the
you know, the twenty week check up. And also hander
this list of all the bathrooms that are closed. It's
just it's so annoying to me. I think that is
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the worst. It really is the worst. This, I I
get it that you're going to cut services, and that's
fine with me. I don't find the cut and services
and inconvenience when they're services that really nobody needs. But
this is beyond a public service.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Don't you think I've said this before about water fountains.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm a huge fan of the water districts in San
Diego and the water boards of San Diego. Of all
the bureaucrats and all the government workers, I like the
water people the most.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They're very serious people.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
They are certainly bureaucrats and they're politicians, but the water
districts are filled with engineers like as opposed to the
school board right or the sandag or the city council.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The water district people are serious people.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And as a result, you can go to any public
fountain in San Diego and safely drink the water out
of it. You may not want to. You might think
it's public and it's gross, but it's certainly clean.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It will not get you sick.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You could go inside the restrooms in San Diego. You
could go inside the restrooms at the Ventura Point Bunny
to cove Ski Beach, you and go inside, and then
you could turn on the fawcet to wash your hands,
and you could cut the water coming out of the
Fawston not a water fountain, literally a spigot to wash
your hands. You can drink that water safely because we
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and our water districts and the water people in charge
in San Diego take clean water so seriously.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And you can do that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Everywhere in the United States, literally from Seattle to Miami,
from Maine to San Diego and all points in between.
And you can go to any public facility in America
and drink clean, safe water. Do you know how unique
of an experience that is on planet Earth? Nowhere else
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can you do that. Nowhere else can you do that.
And it's because as a society, as a people, we
got together and said, all right, before we get started
having our own country here, we want safe water systems.
We saw what happened with the plague in Europe. We
see how some of these third world countries are run.
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You see the problem that other nations have with sewer
systems and wastewater treatment. So we are gonna do it
very differently. We're gonna have clean water delivered to the people,
and we're gonna have their refuse water taken away from them,
very far away and taken to water treatment facilities away
from people, so there's no chance of the mix up happening,
and that will provide a quality of life that is unique,
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not just on planet Earth, but in the history of mankind.
So I'm a big fan of what we have accomplished
as a people, building a first world country that is
delightful in its quality of life. And I just think
this is a real punch to the gut in the
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spirit of that endeavor. So I think it's wrong. I
think they should rethink this. I think they should open
up all thirteen of those bathrooms. I know it's just thirteen.
I don't care. I don't think one should be closed.
I think they should all be fully stocked. I think
they should be toilet paper. I think the restrooms of
the trash can should be cleaned regularly, and I think
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they should have somebody go in there and maintain them
and wipe down the countertops like it's the Rich Carlton.
Why don't we treat all the public restrooms like the
way they treat them at the Ritz Carlton or at
the Mariotte. Why shouldn't we expect our public restrooms in
San Diego to look like the public restrooms at the
Hilton Bayfront.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Why not we live here, We like our society like this.
We expect it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
At the at the hotel lobby at the Marriot.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Why wouldn't we expect the scene.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But no, instead of saying we should make this place
as clean as the finest restroom in the finest hotel downtown, no,
the attitude is let's close it to save money, and
let's let the people of San Diego have a worse
quality of life and hold it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
That's the wrong direction and I'm not going to tolerate it.
What say you? Eight hundred and six hundred Cogo eight hundred,
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Speaker 1 (10:44):
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Speaker 2 (10:50):
Live and local A News Radio six hundred co Go.
So the bathrooms are closed.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
We knew it was coming, but now that it's happened,
I am just as upset about it. San Diego has
closed thirteen bathrooms across Mission Bay Park as part of
a budget cutting measure. Locations including Ski Beach, Bonita Co
then tore Point. The city expects the closures to say,
are you ready five hundred and forty six thousand dollars?
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They couldn't find five hundred and forty six thousand dollars
so that we could maintain a quality of life. City services,
recreation centers, summer programs, extra hours on the weekends for
the city libraries.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Those are luxuries.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Public facilities like the restrooms are necessities, and they are
just sticking it to us, and I hate it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, that's why they do it. They do it on purpose.
They could literally cut all their stupid special programs, but
they choose those because they know it'll kiss people.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Off, to make them like they really need the money.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And the people who complain are the ones who look
for them, so that's what they get. I really don't
care about the libraries the bathrooms. They should leave the
bathrooms and the recliners should stay open open. They should
put elsewhere, and they know they can, they just choose
not to.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They just choose not to.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And a lot of this, you know, throwing out a
bunch of ideas to get everybody upset to see who
shows up and screams the loudest is budgeting by committee.
And I think that's horrible. I just think that it's
an abdication of leadership.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But Lou, if they get rid of the public libraries,
where are they going to do the tranny story hours
for our children?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Did you even think about that?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I have thought about that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
There are other places they can do drag Queen Story Hour.
I don't think drag Queen Story Hour has to be
on city property. I think that there are They've got
to be organizations that are advocating for drag Queen Story
Hour that can rent a room and invite all the
children over, and it could all be done privately. And
at that point I would have no grounds to argue.
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You want to privately take your child to a Drag
Queen Story Hour at some private property, have yourself a
good old time.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't think any bathroom should be cut either. Thank you.
I appreciate the call.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
We would have enough money for everything if we didn't
spend so much money on services for illegals full stop.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, isn't that the truth?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I mean that it goes without saying, but it has
to be repeated over and over again so that we remember.
And also because I have a growing listening audience, and
I want to make sure that all the new listeners,
thank you for joining the family, know where we all
feel about this. So so many things that go without
saying have to be repeated.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Whenever any city, county, or the state legislature say they're
short on money, they're not. They are providing services for
non Californians who are in California illegally.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So it's hard to.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Say, guys, can you budget a little bit differently so
that we can use the bathrooms when you should be
screaming why are you spending money on anybody that is
not a Californian in the state legally. So yeah, it
makes your hair hurt and makes you want to pull
the hair out of your head. And I am convinced
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that sometimes they do this at creature comfort. And again
I call it a creature comfort. It's truly a quality
of life issue. It really is, and I use that
term specifically. We have earned an elite quality of life
in San Diego. We should view this city as just
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short of a country club of a yacht club. That's
what we should expect. We pay for it, we deserve it.
Why shouldn't we get it? They're not closing restrooms at
the yacht club. They're not closing restrooms at the country clubs.
You know why their members wouldn't tolerate it. You and
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I are members of the San Diego country Club.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's what the city is.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's a hierarchy of government that is funded to our
dues called taxes, to provide us quality of life services
that we want. When people join the country club, that's
what they're doing, right. When people join the yacht club,
that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
They want a place.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
They can go that's clean and the rift raft is
kept out and everything works and it's nice, and the
bathrooms are nice and wipe down and there's always nice
toilet paper and there's a bar in there.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's what we want. We want a city where everything's nice.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And the riff rafts kept out and the only nice
people are there, and it's just us and belongs to us,
and we all keep it nice and there are services
for us that we delight in, like pickleball courts and
volleyball courts and you know, walking paths for our dogs
and clean bathrooms. That's the way we have to look
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at things. And when we elect leaders, we have to
elect leaders that look at it that way.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I want to elect a.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Mayor that treats the city as if he was the
head manager at a country club.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And tolerate little elves. Think about it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
That way, and become elite the way you deserve to be.
Five thirty four, twenty six, Now in front of six o'clock,
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Speaker 2 (16:56):
It's official.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
The city is cutting some public restrooms in a cost
saving measure, in fact, the locations in Mission Bay.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
And I think it is so wrong. It is such
the wrong thing to do.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's unnecessary, it doesn't save a lot of money, and
I find it to be punitive.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And I think they should hear from us. Yep, hold on,
they can't hear from us.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
If they can hear, so we can't have cleaned restrooms
in public places. They should also cut all budgets to
clean their restrooms in their private offices, the consulor's offices,
the mayor's office, and every restroom in city Hall.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'm with you, that's what should happen.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The public restrooms in city Hall should be open, but
the private restrooms in the Mayor's office and in the staff's.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Office they should be locked.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let's share the pain, guys, you go take a longer
walk to use the restroom.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That is not a bad idea, mister Finnity.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Every once in a while a colonel of genius erupts
on the lou Penrose Show from the listening audience. That
is going to be a good question when we have
Mayor Todd Gloria on with us.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Next time, I'm gonna say, hey, man, I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You're doing your best to balance the budget. Let's lead
by example. How many restrooms were closed at City Hall?
There's multiple restrooms for convenience, right, that's why there's more
than one.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
So how many restrooms are closed at city Hall? Get
that caller's name.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes, too much earlier. The lady is right, and you're right.
You're spinning it on legals, and that's wheretty much all
the wing is going. Literally, that's what we all should
be mad about.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well, that's interesting. I've been trying to get that analysis
for a long time. I know how much they budget
for illegals. I don't know how much they spend on illegals.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's hard to.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Know because illegals are illegal and they don't have documentation.
Suspense is we are spending far more on illegals than
we budget for. Right, you see that happening now in
Los Angeles County or in Los Angeles City in the
city election in the primary, they elected to impose a
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sales tax on themselves to cover the snap benefits and
medical medical costs that were being cut by the government,
the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services. So
President Trump said, all right, Los Angeles, if you insist
on not checking to see if the recipient of medical
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is legally in the country, that I'm not going to
send any the administration money.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
LA City complying with federal law, they imposed the tax
on themselves to generate money to give away to make
sure every illegal that applied got healthcare.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I mean, it's just absolutely crazy. The same here in
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
We don't know how many illegals are draining services from
the city budget because illegals just don't always show up to.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You things where.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Everybody says that and no one's gonna check your residency,
no one's gonna check your legal status. We don't do
that here in San Diego at the city level. Sometimes
they show up with false documents. These people traffic in
counterfeit documents. So my suspicion for a long time has
been it's a lot more.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Hey, lou love your show. This is William from Rend's Opinionsquitos.
You know we keep hearing you. Ever got the word
out of their mouth is text a billion? Make them
pay their fair share. I got a better idea. Why
don't we start taking the people at the bottom, all
the freeloaders and the parasites, make them pay their fair
share instead of all these entitlement programs. Thank you have
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a great one.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
He was thinking my song. I've been saying that for
a long time. The millionaires and billionaires are not the problem,
the broke or the problem.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
It's the broke that we should be mad at.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's the broke that need all these government services. It's
the broke that we spend an inordinate amount of time
talking about.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That That is, I mean, that really is why.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know, like this this bathroom issue is such a
big deal to me, because we do spend an inordinate
amount of time and so much budgetary time and so
much argument in society about how we can do better
by the broke. They're a real pain in the ass
to society. Oh, Lou, that's a terrible thing to say.
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They don't have any money. Yes, everything Lou Penrose says
is a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
We don't spend.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Nearly We spend a lot of time talking about the
millionaires and billionaires and how much they should be paying,
And we spend way too much time talking about two
p people who don't have a pot to spit in
and can't rub two nickels together and we should feel
bad for them, And we never spend any time about
actual successful working people, the middle class, the rest of us,
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the normal people that don't need city services, that don't
go to the public library, that don't need Section eight housing,
that actually have a job, they have their act together,
they are starting a family, they get pregnant, they want
to go take a walk on the walking path with
their dog and Mission Bay and can't use the damn toilet.
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That's the problem. So every once in a while I
have to champion normal people, just the rest of us
that make their insurance payments, that make their mortgage payments,
that aren't going to the soup kitchen or the food coopa,
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whatever it is. That pay for their children's school lunch,
that buy their kids' school supplies with their own money. Right,
These are the people that I am championing. These are
the people that I'm talking to. These are the people
that I'm talking about, the normal Sandyagans that get up, responsibly,
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make their children lunch, go to work, earn money, budget
to afford the quality of.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Life that they can.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
And at the end of the day, they're not asking
for a community center or you know, extra library hours
or an illegal alien legal society. All they want is
for the public restrooms to be open when they take
some time for themselves and.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Go for a walk.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Hey, lou why don't we just pee in poop anywhere
we want?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And say, diego is he did do something about that?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, I don't want that to happen. That's what I'm
trying to avoid. I'm trying to protect. I literally want
to take my arms around our first world culture and
prevent it from slipping needlessly into the third world hellhole
that exists everywhere else on the planet where they do
(24:24):
just that. That's what I'm talking about, because you know
and I know that that is an unintended consequence of
shutting down bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
There was a small park.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
By my house, well my old house, uh, and this
was before I had kids, and it was one of these.
It was a great little park and I remember looking
forward to being able to take my boys to this
great little park and be one of those dads, you know,
at the park.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And it was one of these parts. It was older.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It just did not have facilities, didn't have bathrooms, and
they wanted to put in a bathroom, and the residents
that houses right around the park were like, no, no, no,
we don't want bathrooms there. They're like, well, but the
little boys and girls, you know, they go and water
the plants and the bushes if you don't put a
bathroom there. And all the homeowners right around the area
(25:20):
were like no, because all the homeless are going to
move into the bathrooms and shoot up heroin and that
always happens, and it becomes all the parks when they
put in bathrooms, it becomes worse for the homeowners that
have to have homeless people broken beer bottles and sleeping
and they use you know, my driveway as a restroom.
Like that was their experience, and I kind of appreciate
(25:42):
that because unfortunately, whenever you install a public bathroom at
a park, it becomes a homeless person's apartment, and so
you got to get in there and kick the bums out.
But at the end of the day, for quality of
life for the people that went to that park, including
me and my wife and my boys, it would have
been nice to be able to use the restroom, and
(26:05):
it never happened. I saw it came up they're doing
a study committee. So my oldest is seventeen now, so
this has been a seventeen year old discussion, and for
seventeen years, little boys who couldn't hold it went and
watered the plants over in the corner. Right. It's like
ridiculously unnecessary. And I always thought, you know, how do
(26:28):
they do this in Switzerland? How do they do this
in Germany? How do they do this in France? How
do they do this in other First World nations with
clean people?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
How do they do in Japan? There are nations with
clean people and clean.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Societies that also have little boys and girls that want
to play in public but have to use the restroom.
How do they do that without the bums moving in
and the drug addicts living in the bathrooms?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It has to be accomplishable.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh you're talking about very expensive when you talk about
the ones that automatically.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Lock on a time, those are expensive. How expensive could
they be?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So yeah, I don't want people using the city as
a restroom. I want the restrooms open, and I want
them nice and clean, and I want all of you
to expect it and insist upon it. That's my fight.
I draw the line at the bathroom. Gotta have them.
(27:28):
It separates us from all these other animals on planet Earth.
Blue Penrose on news radio six hundred cogoy.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
So the solution in Germany, Switzerland and most of Europe
is you pay. We were just there and it's one
euro to go to the bathroom or one frank in Switzerland,
so it's not cheap, but it's not expensive either. You
have to make people pay and not just to get
in the door. So that's one solution. That's how they
do it in those countries.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
So it was fifty p when I was in London.
Maybe it's gone up. That's fifty pence. It's not that
kind of pee.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Uh, that is correct for public restrooms? Is it a
Swiss frank? Now that's a lot. But all right, fine,
you know what I'm all ears, but I want the
toilets and the facilities to look like a Swiss toilet.
Have you been in the Swiss public restrooms? They're all
(28:31):
hans grow heat. I mean, all the fixtures are like
Newport brass. I mean, you wouldn't believe the quality of
the fixtures and the marble, and they are beautiful, not
like we got here, like these gray stainless steel things.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Like you're in an a Saint asylum with no.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Doors at a padlock so that the homeless don't steal
the toilet paper. So I'll pay a Swiss frank to
use the public restrooms as long as it looks like
a restroom in Lausann.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Or like Geneva.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So that's the trade off, because they do in Lausan
and like Geneva. And I've also been with my children,
very young children in Switzerland when I went to go
visit my.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Relatives, and where there are.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Parks, where there are swing sets, where there is anything
where children are encouraged to go. And Switzerland, I just
know this because I've been there a lot of times
in I have family there. They are a very pro
family culture, and I think that we're a pro family
culture too. They just do it better than we do.
(29:39):
We try, but unfortunately we have a lot of non
family elements that hang around are pro family things, so
you just don't have that over there. But where there
are parks, and they have very elaborate parks in Switzerland's
pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And where where there are parks with.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Swing sets, let's just say, or playground equip where there's
things where they know kids are going to be, then
they do not charge. So it's pretty convenient and it's
pretty easy. And I don't know what they do in France.
I suspect it's pretty much the same. But you would
(30:23):
never have this discussion. They would never be a you know,
like the Normandy city council would ever say all right,
well we're short budget shortfall, we got to close down
thirteen public restrooms.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But again that was never offered. I would entertain.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Putting a system together throughout the city where we put
in fifty cents or apple pay fifty cents to use
the public restrooms and in places where children are invited,
then it's free. So there are other there are way
more routes to go than closing them.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And the reason that I stand so strongly on this.
It's not hyperbole just to you know, feign passion to
get your dand rope. I really think we have to
be careful with the society we have created.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We're taking a step backwards.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Closing down public restrooms is taking a step backwards, and
I don't think we should ever do that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Right. Shortening library hours on.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
A Saturday is not taking a step backwards in basic
quality of life culture. Shutting down thirteen bathrooms where people
that live here, not tourist attractions.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
This is where people that live here.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And that enjoy the quality of life of San Diego,
where they go to be and relax and recreate. That
is limiting our quality of life. We have to have
a balance. You know, we incur a lot. You saw
what happened in Newport. Each the people that live there
incurred that intrusion in exchange for coffers, you know, to
(32:08):
restaurants and bars, right so same here. We incur a
lot of visitors in San Diego because it's beautiful and
they want to come, and we want to be hospitable
and host and get the tax revenue that they leave behind.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But in exchange, we want a quality of life.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
We want that money to go to our quality of life.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Public restrooms and facilities equal that in my mind.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
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