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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred co Go. We
are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. The big match
between the United States and Belgium underway.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You can hear it live.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
On our sister station Sports seven sixty live watch parties
going on all over San Diego and everybody's excited.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So and.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
If you are not interested in play by play, but
do you want to know if we're winning a losing,
We will give updates because all the TVs in the
newsroom are watching the World Cup. No one's watching the news,
so I've been abandoned, so it's just you and me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
One hundreds of volunteers picked up thousands of pounds of
trash yesterday in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They do this every year.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The fifth of July is always a big beach cleanup day,
and I'm glad we do. I always lament that we
have to year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But it wasn't so bad this year.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Most the trash, I guess, was on the grass and
it was overflow from trash cans that couldn't be kept
up with by the city, certainly on the fourth of July.
But I understand the beaches were not so bad, and
that's a good sign.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
More than two hundred and fifty pounds of trash was
collected Sunday morning in the Mission Beach area, everything from
aluminum cans to patriotic decorations. Sir Frider volunteer Vicky Conlin
says that most common items found were plastic water bottles,
cigarette butts in bankul plastic pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That the ABC News is Alex lying cigarette butts are back.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I've noticed this too. We went from everybody was smoking
in the eighties. Everybody smoked, well in the eighties, everybody
I knew smoked. When I was a kid, everybody smoked,
and in black of my photos everyone was smoking. So
we went from everybody smoking to nobody smoking, then everybody vaping,
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and now people are going back to cigarettes. And there
are actually people out there that are recommending you go
back to cigarettes, not doctors, but pop culture figures. I've
heard this argument made. I've heard people make the argument
that it's all been a big lie, that lung cancer
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numbers among smokers is not disproportionately high, and that nicotine
is good for you. And it sounds like a line
from a woody Allen movie. But there are people making
that are I know that my brother, who is a
respiratory guy, has said that vaping is very bad for you,
like the micro animization of whatever you're inhaling that impact
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your lungs is very very bad. So I know my
brother said, I would rather you smoke a couple of
cigarettes out at a bar than just be hitting on
that vappen all day.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now he's a respiratory guy. I don't really do either,
But I have seen a lot more cigarette smoking sound.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
For plastic water bottles, cigarette butts, and a bankful plastic pieces.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So if we're going to go back and become a
cigarette town, can we please get some ashtrays out there?
Why are you leaving the cigarettes at the beach? That's gross, man,
And this is how I know it's not Sandy Egans.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
We wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Like the worst thing in the world to be sitting
at the beach and you're just enjoying yourself and the
kids are running in and out of the surf, and
you're there on a chair and you're just kind of
dragging your fingers into the delicious sand.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And you have to hit its disgusting cigarette. But bank
for plastic pieces.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So it's more than one hundred and thirty volunteers spread
out across the beach boardwalk in picnic areas with the
most debris found in the grass.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, so that's I mean, I understand why grass catches
the debris. The wind blows, you know, the birds come
pick stuff up. They steal your French fries. If you
don't watch, they'll steal an entire slice of pizza and
then they go, well they grab the plate or the
plate blows in the wind and it all just blows away.
You can't catch it and eventually just stops at the grass,
which makes it easier to clean up.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So I am.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm happier that it was a more manageable beach cleanup
day following the fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The kind of main things for finding at these cleanups?
Should you try to get a sense of what do
we need to educate the public?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Moron? Yeah, I don't think I know that. The surf rider,
they pride themselves on this. They want to they keep score.
I mean they meticulously write down like how many cans,
how many pounds, how many cans, how much is cans
and bottles? How much is plastic bottles, how much is
cigarette butts? How much is trash?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Right? And they keep all these notes and then they.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Go back to the office and they pour over the
data so they can learn from it to better learn
how to educate the public for next fourth of July.
And I think that's noble work.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But give it up.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Everybody that is a nice person knows not the throw
any trash.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's not like people are mistaken.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Their empty white claw, they picked up you know, the
paper products, they picked up the paper plates, they put
that in, but they so, you know, they finished.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They drain the last sip of their white claw and
then toss it on the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Like clean people know what trash is and dirty people
don't care. So I don't know that there is an
education program you can design and provide. What would it say, Hey, everybody,
welcome to San Diego. Last year we saw a disproportionate
amount of straws on the beach. Those straws wind up
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in the ocean and they impact our you know, the fish,
and it's just gross and they don't ever dissolve. So
in addition to all the other trash that you should
be throwing away, please mind the straw, like, well, I
don't understand this educational outreach program that you're trying to
design of.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What do we need to educate the public more on?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, slobs or slobs. My dad taught me that a
long time ago. Pigs are pigs. Some people are pigs.
Nothing you're gonna do about it. What you try and
do is not put all the pigs together. Try and
put them in between a couple of clean people and
maybe they'll learn.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And they say, the simplest way to help is to
leave less behind in the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You really ought to be leaving the beach with what
you brought in. The trash cans are there as a courtesy,
and I prefer you put your trash in the can
then leave it on the ground. But in Japan there
are no trash cans in public anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Do you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like if a Japanese person leaves their house with an apple,
they also leave their house with a little plastic ziplock bag.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And they put the apple's core after they finished the apple.
First off, they eat.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
At home or inside, but if they have to eat
in public, then they eat the apple and then they
put it in a little ziploc bag and put it
in there, in there, you know whatever, in their pocket
or in a little carrying case, like it is possible
for people to be clean. The last thing that Japanese
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would do is toss it on the beach. So I
actually prefer in like composing on people to take out
what they brought in. Like you picked up a bunch
of cans of medello, and you picked up a pizza
at seven to eleven, and you got a bunch of napkins,
and now the pizza box you can't bend it enough
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to get into the trash Can you walk.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Out with it? Take it back to your car.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I know, because what people do They leave it on
top of the trash can, which it drives me crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That doesn't belong there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Please try to reduce the amount of single use things
that you're using.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Try to bring your.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Own water bottles.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, I always put the water bottles. A lot of
plastic bottles on the beaches.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I saw this.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I was watching TV this morning and or yeah, I
guess it would be now when I guess it was
Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I was watching.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Before the World Cup, and like the amount of plastic
bottles is just crazy. At the very least, could you
make if you're gonna be a slob and leave your
plastic single use water bottle on my beaches here in
San Diego, can you at least do that little trick
where you keep the cap, Loosen the cap just a
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little bit, squeeze the water bottle like an accordion, and
then tighten the cap to create a vacuum. So the
water bottle is like this little blue plastic disc. That
makes life a lot easier on those of us that
have to clean up after you, and just makes it
a lot easier to put it all in a trashman.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's the lesson I teach my sons.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm like, if you're too lazy to go get a
glass and go to the sink, and you have to
drink out of a bottle, then at the very least,
when you're done with that bottle, can.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You collapse it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Every boy loves to collapse a illumine of can to
demonstrate their strength.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Everyone seems to love to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm gonna squeeze this can, but they won't like collapse
down the water bottle, which makes life a lot easier
for me when we have to do recycling. Well, congratulations
in San Diego and to the Serf Rider Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
They got the beaches cleaned up. Looks beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And you know, we only have three hundred and sixty
four more days until the nine or nine ers come
back again next year and leave all the trash for us.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Lou Penrose on.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
News radio six hundred cobos seventeen minutes into the match,
and Belgium's up by one update talking about the day
after the fourth of July here in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm very proud. One hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Volunteers showed up, collected over two hundred fifty pounds of
trash at just Missing Mission Beach alone.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's all part of our annual beach cleanup.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We don't appreciate them leaving trash, but we're not gonna
just let it sit. Hey, Lou, she did say she
was trying to educate the public moron.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, that would be good.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Let's hear what she said, the kind of main things
for finding at these cleanups. Did you try to get
a sense of what do we need to educate the
public moron?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh, you're right, she did say, the public moron. It
is moronic to leave trash. I mean, come on, we're
not a trashy country. And look it's cleaned up. You
should see the Pavilions Shopping Center parking lot in Newport Beach.
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It looked like an East LA seven to eleven parking lot,
and by the next morning it looked brand new. It
honestly looked like it had been resurfaced. They scrubbed the
black top clean. So we don't like people throwing trash around,
but we don't let it sit, which means we'd rather not,
rather not have you do it in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The first place.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of the reason that they count the cans and the
bottles and the trash is because they want to find
a new tax to give us.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, well that's funny.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, they're counting, not so much counting, just identifying the
kind of trash that they're getting. So, as you heard there,
they're just trying to figure out how we can better
educate the public going forward. And as I said, that's
kind and sweet, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Not going to work.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
These people are just the trashy people, and they come
and they visit us and leave us their trash, and
it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And it drives me crazy. And I just wish we
could embrace.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I saw another thing at this out of this World
Cup that you see is other countries cultures, and Japan
wasn't doing very well. They have some years to go
to get like a top rated football club, but the
fans are top notch.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The fans were cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I think it was it was at in Austin, Texas
at where Houston maybe it was in Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And after they get the.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Japanese drew to a tie, which isn't losing, but it's
not winning, and they cleaned up the section where the
Japanese fans were sitting.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
For any the Japanese already clean up after themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They take all their trash with them because culturally that's
what they would do at home, so they don't know
to do any differently. But in case some other soccer
fan left some popcorn on the ground or a can
on the ground, the Japanese went through the stadium and
cleaned up. Like that's a winning culture. In my mind,
that's something we can borrow. I really do like that,
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so I appreciate it all right. So a court ruling
has forced the city of San Diego to halt the
city crackdown on the street vendor, and it's been a
problem for a while because they're back. They're back at
Balballa Park, they're back at the gas lamp, they're back
at city beaches other popular spots. And the leaders of
the merchant groups are very frustrated because they look at
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the city as retreating on the issue. The city really isn't.
The State Appeals Court in January ruled that it was
illegal for the city to impound the carts, which is
strange because they can impound your car, but they can't
impound the carts, and they can because it's property. The
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ruling vindicated the complaints of the vendors who had operated
for many years outside of Peco Park, and said it
was overly restrictive to have.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A no vendor zone or even limiting their hours.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So the court defeat has caused all the hot dogs
to come back. And it's just a cat and mouse chase.
And I get it that it's kind of fun. It's
kind of fun after a concert to go out and
get a gliz. It's kind of fun. You're drunk on
campus at STSU and you go and to a hotspot
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and you get some food and it's out there. I
don't think it's a good look. I just we're not
a street. There are certain corners of the United States
that have historically been known for street vendors. New York
City and the hot dog in the pretzel. Okay, there
are some areas of Chicago. There have been some areas
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of San Diego. Certainly, if there's a fair or a
party or a parade.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Then you can have street vendors.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
But to constantly have street vendors, which begets illegal street vendors,
and then the whole place starts looking like a.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Third world hell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Whole other countries that have street vendors, it's very charming
when you go there and you see it, and if
you are brave enough to eat Indian street food, then
you take a photograph and hope for the best. I
wouldn't I know they have open air, wet more markets
in China.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They'll look healthy to me. I don't see any of
the refrigeration.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I just I always air on the side of keep
this a first world nation, and in like very clean
first world countries. They don't just have random people selling
your food on the street with or without a license.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There are areas of town that bring in that charm.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Maybe on certain nights, maybe during the farmer's market, whatever,
but like not just normally anybody can just get a
Bunsen burner, a pro pain tank, heat up a griddle,
and start selling hot dogs. Like that's that's not first world.
So I I side with the with the with the
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merchants here. Uh, it's not healthy, it's not clean, it's
not safe, it's hard to regulate.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There's no no, you never know who these people are.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
If you want to eat in San Diego, go inside
somebody that's paying for a business license.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Competing with the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But there is other stuff going on, and this is
a big one for me. I talk about this a lot.
The Council of Economic Advisors to the President put out
a statement that right now more American factories are being
built in the United States than at any other time
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in American history. You know, this has been a mantra
of mine. I believe in the American manufacturing economy. I
think it is vital that we bring back American manufacturing
jobs to America. I think we have to manufacture in America.
I was hopeful during the first days of the COVID
scare when we learned we did not have enough respirators
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for the projected need, and we realized that we were
not manufacturing respirators in the United States, and we invented
the damn thing. And I said, well, there could be
a silver lining to this story. We will certainly leave
this COVID experience as a nation recognizing, hey, we can't
outsource everything to the Chinese. We should be manufacturing some
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things here in the United States. And it didn't happen
until President Trump was elected, and in his first term
he embarked upon an effort to reshore American manufacturing, but
he had to spend all his time fighting off Democrats
who always claimed to be for the working man, but
they were trying to impeach him. And then, of course
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they tell us Joe Biden won in twenty twenty, so
that was four years. And then when Trump came back
in twenty four he began the process of seriously restoring
American manufacturing, using tariffs as a as a lever to
force companies to either pay up or bring their factories back.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And it is working right now.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
There's more new factories being built the US than ever
in US history, and it's because We've got all these
commitments to the nineteen trillion dollars of commitments for people
to build factories. But because we actually put a timer
on right, so you get to expense the new factory,
which is a great tax advantage, but only if you
build it in the first four years.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And so there's a race to make America great again.
What about that? What about that? How smart is that?
How smart is that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
If you have Trump arrangement syndrome and you are a
Trump hater and you are all Orange man bad, you
have to admit that that is a good strategy by
being able to expense the factory, but only in the
first four years or in the four years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
There's only four years in this Trump presidency.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That puts a stopwatch on a company to get over
here and start building a factory. Everybody's talking about AI.
Everybody's worried about AI. Oh my goodness, AI is going
to eat our lunch. It's going to take all our jobs.
It might take a lot of jobs in the tech sector.
I heard that my Microsoft was cutting back on a
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lot of jobs in their gaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I don't know how all that works.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't know what these people do inside that Microsoft building.
But if a computer can do it and they're not necessary,
that's going to be painful because I don't know what
the staff of Microsoft is like. I did meet a
lot of people that worked at Google when I was
working in Congress at the Irvine Google Place whatever it's called,
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a factory of building a plant, and these were young people,
all drinking cans of red Bull, but they all had
electrical engineering degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So these are very well educated people.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And I suspect the people that work at Microsoft are
very well educated too.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
But AI is better.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So that's going to be an adjustment in our economy
and in our workforce, and we should probably start preparing
for it. I will say this, it will never be
able to replace manufacturing. They will always need to be
things made by people. There'll be robotics, and there'll be
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some improvements in technology where people don't have to do
as much rudimentary work, but at the end of the day,
a thing has to be assembled, a person's got to
be there. And everything in your house, and I mean
everything in your house used to be made in America
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by an American at an American factory, and it was
shipped to the stores in your community and you bought
it and everybody made money. There has traditionally been three
legs to the American economy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's a three legged stool and it's very efficient.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You have the professional class, the professional economy. That's a doctor, lawyer, businessman, architect, CPA, accountant.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Right, that's the professional economy.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And then you have the service economy that's the people
that work at the convention center, people to work in hotels,
people that make your food, people that make your martini,
people that do your laundry. And then you have the
manufacturing economy. The manufacturing economy takes raw materials that are
milled in mind here in the United States and sends
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those materials to a factory where an American goes to
work every day and turns raw materials into stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And it's magic. It really is magic.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
When you take steel that is made from iron in Birmingham, Alabama,
and you send that iron and.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Steel through Pittsburgh to Detroit to build a car.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And you take rubber from Pennsylvania, and you take glass
from Ohio, and you know, parts from Oklahoma City, and
you send all those parts to Detroit and then a
bunch of Americans get together and they assemble all those
parts into a car, and then they put that car
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on a train, and then that train.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Comes all the way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And then a truck comes and takes those cars and
puts them on the car lot.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And then you go out and buy yourself a car.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Do you have any idea how much economic activity goes
into that. All that money circulates among Americans. The guy
that worked on the iron in Birmingham, he gets paid.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The guy that turns.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It into steel in Pennsylvania, he gets paid. The guy
that loads the seal on the truck and sends it
to Detroit, he gets paid. The guy in Detroit who
puts the car together, he gets paid. The guy that
everybody gets paid, the glass guy, the rubber guy, the parts.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Guy, the car dealership. Everybody gets paid.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And all that money circulates among Americans, and it works.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's magic. It works so well.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It is, in fact, the recipe for the post World
War two boom in America. It's how we got so
wealthy because we're buying from each other, using our own
raw materials, protecting our markets from foreign imports, and keeping
our products high quality. And then through a series of
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bipartisan Republicans and Democrats got together in the late seventies
and early eighties and put together trade deals and shipped
all the jobs to China, closed down all the American factories,
threw all the Americans out of work, and they called
it free trade.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Now your house is filled with plastic crack from.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
China, and it's junk, and it doesn't work, and you
throw it away, and you think you're ahead of the
game because it's only nine to ninety nine for another
coffee maker at Walmart.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But yet you've been throwing away coffee makers for years.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So it's bad for the landfill, it's bad for free trade,
is bad for the environment. It fills our landfills with
plastic crack from China that never, never disintegrates.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
When do you remember your grandmother throwing away a coffee maker?
When do you remember when do you remember your grandparents
ever getting a new refrigerator. My grandparents had the same
refrigerator my whole life.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I don't even remember them repairing it because it was
American maid. If you grew up as I did in
the eighties, late seventies, early eighties, then everything in your house,
if your mother used a General Electric or a Westinghouse
washer and dryer, and it was heavy duty, and it
was solid steel, and it did laundry and it never leaked,
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and it was never a problem. I have been through
three washers and dryers in my house since the baby
was born. The baby's now thirteen. We moved in my
wife was still pregnant with the baby. I've gone through
three washers and dryers, and I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I like I follow the directions.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
They say you can put eight towels, and I only
put in five. I don't overload it because I don't
feel like buying it over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
How gingerly you use your washer and dryer. It's plastic
crap from China.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's junk.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So I have paid three times for what my parents
and grandparents paid for.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Once, and they'd still be going with it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Same with the refrigerator, same with the ovens, saying with
the toaster, same with everything else. So I'm very happy
to hear about these factories returning. I'm glad that we're
on a stopwatch because the sooner the better, and you know,
at the end of the day, we're all not going
to be rocket scientists. We're all not going to work
and Microsoft. Some of us just want to go to
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the factory, do our day's work for a good day's pay.
And these factory workers got paid well. They supported factory towns.
One paid check supported the whole household. And these factory
towns dot the Midwest and we're vibrant communities.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And technology is great, but at the end of the day,
you're gonna need an oven, and you're gonna need a
washing machine, and you're gonna need a vacuum cleaner. Let's
have them American made to their high quality, and we
get we've paid for.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Hey, lou, Yeah, recently, I bought a whirlpool from Costco
a refrigerator less than six months. Seven months later, I
got a water leak. Come on, the guy says, it's
a manifold. How in the world does a manifold gold
bad when nothing's around it.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
That garbage we're buying these days.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It's all crap.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's all crap, and it's it's worse in the refrigeration section,
Like every refrigerator is just jump.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All those compressors are junk.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I talked to a guy, an HVAC guy that works
on commercial grade stuff, and he said, oh, yeah, no,
we've known that for a while.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The Chinese used this.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's not you know, in order for a compressor to work,
it's going to be an iron core.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, iron's expensive, so they.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Cheap out and you get bad compressors, and everything is
so cheap that nothing's worth repairing.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Like some of these switches, relay switches.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You're talking about like an eighteen dollar part, but it
should last. But if it doesn't last, it's not even
worth sending out a guy. What are you gonna do
pay a guy one hundred and eighty dollars to come
out to swap out, you know, an eighteen dollars part
on a six hundred dollars refrigerator. So people just toss
the whole damn thing into the landfill and go to
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costs going by another piece of piece of Chinese crap refrigerator,
and over and over and over again. So it's time
to bring back American manufacturing. It puts Americans back to work.
These are good jobs. It's you know, it's a factory.
Work is not the way it used to be. It's
not this gray dreary life that you see in the
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films Norma Ray or the final scene of an officer
and a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's a good day of work.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You get to work with your hands, that's kind of fun,
and you're with the fellas and you get paid really well,
and our quality of life goes up, the quality of
our stuff goes up, and we pay each other.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Lou you probably remember this.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You used to be able to take a bolt and
a nut and spin the nut and it would spin
from one end to the other because it was such
high quality and such tight precision the way it was made.
Now you go to home depot and buy a bolt
and a nut and try that, and it won't even
do one riv It's such terrible quality.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's worse than that. It's also soft.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The bolts and nuts that you're talking about are so
soft that you can barely use tools to tighten them.
There are a couple of grades stronger than aluminum foil.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
In the business we call fasteners, and fasteners are are
the worst I've ever seen, like unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I was fixing a ceiling fan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Because it was out of balance, and you could see
that when the ceiling fan was assembled in China, the
guy strull you the nut went on wrong, stripped it
and just left it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So now I'm stuck.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I mean, it's so easy to strip anything because the
fasteners are just junk, and that's if they're metal. Nowadays,
is sending it to you in plastic or worse. I
was talking about a relay switch. I went to go
replace something, not a relay switch, but something like it
on an appliance, and the plastic that the part is
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made out of is so light duty that it's impossible
to screw it back onto the dishwasher because you can't
tighten it, or I'll just you crack the whole thing. Now, look,
there's only one solution, and that is bring the factories back,
put the Americans back to work, Let's make our own stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Let the Chinese buy their own stuff. We'll buy our
own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Everybody will be happy and we'll be safe, and we'll
have higher quality stuff. Hey, tomorrow's the last day to
get the seventy five cent Jack in the Box or
Jack in the Box tacos. Everybody likes those two tacos
for seventy five cents. Tomorrow Is that last day.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Tacos from Jack in the Box. This is where it's at.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
It's hard to find a Jack in the Box a
hashsaur cream, but when you have it, it really elevates these.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So for three weeks now they've been doing every Tuesday,
two tacos for seventy five cents at Jack in the Box.
Everybody swears by them. I am okay with them. If
I'm at Jack in the Box, I'm not gonna get
the taco I've had them, but the people that love them.
The Taco Tuesday special ends tomorrow, so keep that in mind.
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Not gonna want to not get two tacos for seventy
five cents at Jack in the Box.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
My goodness,
Lou Penrose on News Radio six hundred co Go. We
are live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in.
Good to have you along with us. The big match
between the United States and Belgium underway.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You can hear it live.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
On our sister station Sports seven sixty live watch parties
going on all over San Diego and everybody's excited.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So and.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
If you are not interested in play by play, but
do you want to know if we're winning a losing,
We will give updates because all the TVs in the
newsroom are watching the World Cup. No one's watching the news,
so I've been abandoned, so it's just you and me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
One hundreds of volunteers picked up thousands of pounds of
trash yesterday in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They do this every year.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The fifth of July is always a big beach cleanup day,
and I'm glad we do. I always lament that we
have to year after year after year.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But it wasn't so bad this year.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Most the trash, I guess, was on the grass and
it was overflow from trash cans that couldn't be kept
up with by the city, certainly on the fourth of July.
But I understand the beaches were not so bad, and
that's a good sign.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
More than two hundred and fifty pounds of trash was
collected Sunday morning in the Mission Beach area, everything from
aluminum cans to patriotic decorations. Sir Frider volunteer Vicky Conlin
says that most common items found were plastic water bottles,
cigarette butts in bankul plastic pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That the ABC News is Alex lying cigarette butts are back.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I've noticed this too. We went from everybody was smoking
in the eighties. Everybody smoked, well in the eighties, everybody
I knew smoked. When I was a kid, everybody smoked,
and in black of my photos everyone was smoking. So
we went from everybody smoking to nobody smoking, then everybody vaping,
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and now people are going back to cigarettes. And there
are actually people out there that are recommending you go
back to cigarettes, not doctors, but pop culture figures. I've
heard this argument made. I've heard people make the argument
that it's all been a big lie, that lung cancer
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numbers among smokers is not disproportionately high, and that nicotine
is good for you. And it sounds like a line
from a woody Allen movie. But there are people making
that are I know that my brother, who is a
respiratory guy, has said that vaping is very bad for you,
like the micro animization of whatever you're inhaling that impact
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your lungs is very very bad. So I know my
brother said, I would rather you smoke a couple of
cigarettes out at a bar than just be hitting on
that vappen all day.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now he's a respiratory guy. I don't really do either,
But I have seen a lot more cigarette smoking sound.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
For plastic water bottles, cigarette butts, and a bankful plastic pieces.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So if we're going to go back and become a
cigarette town, can we please get some ashtrays out there?
Why are you leaving the cigarettes at the beach? That's gross, man,
And this is how I know it's not Sandy Egans.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
We wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Like the worst thing in the world to be sitting
at the beach and you're just enjoying yourself and the
kids are running in and out of the surf, and
you're there on a chair and you're just kind of
dragging your fingers into the delicious sand.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And you have to hit its disgusting cigarette. But bank
for plastic pieces.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So it's more than one hundred and thirty volunteers spread
out across the beach boardwalk in picnic areas with the
most debris found in the grass.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, so that's I mean, I understand why grass catches
the debris. The wind blows, you know, the birds come
pick stuff up. They steal your French fries. If you
don't watch, they'll steal an entire slice of pizza and
then they go, well they grab the plate or the
plate blows in the wind and it all just blows away.
You can't catch it and eventually just stops at the grass,
which makes it easier to clean up.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So I am.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm happier that it was a more manageable beach cleanup
day following the fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
The kind of main things for finding at these cleanups?
Should you try to get a sense of what do
we need to educate the public?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Moron? Yeah, I don't think I know that. The surf rider,
they pride themselves on this. They want to they keep score.
I mean they meticulously write down like how many cans,
how many pounds, how many cans, how much is cans
and bottles? How much is plastic bottles, how much is
cigarette butts? How much is trash?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Right? And they keep all these notes and then they.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Go back to the office and they pour over the
data so they can learn from it to better learn
how to educate the public for next fourth of July.
And I think that's noble work.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But give it up.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Everybody that is a nice person knows not the throw
any trash.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's not like people are mistaken.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Their empty white claw, they picked up you know, the
paper products, they picked up the paper plates, they put
that in, but they so, you know, they finished.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
They drain the last sip of their white claw and
then toss it on the ground.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Like clean people know what trash is and dirty people
don't care. So I don't know that there is an
education program you can design and provide. What would it say, Hey, everybody,
welcome to San Diego. Last year we saw a disproportionate
amount of straws on the beach. Those straws wind up
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in the ocean and they impact our you know, the fish,
and it's just gross and they don't ever dissolve. So
in addition to all the other trash that you should
be throwing away, please mind the straw, like, well, I
don't understand this educational outreach program that you're trying to
design of.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What do we need to educate the public more on?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, slobs or slobs. My dad taught me that a
long time ago. Pigs are pigs. Some people are pigs.
Nothing you're gonna do about it. What you try and
do is not put all the pigs together. Try and
put them in between a couple of clean people and
maybe they'll learn.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And they say, the simplest way to help is to
leave less behind in the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You really ought to be leaving the beach with what
you brought in. The trash cans are there as a courtesy,
and I prefer you put your trash in the can
then leave it on the ground. But in Japan there
are no trash cans in public anywhere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Do you know that?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like if a Japanese person leaves their house with an apple,
they also leave their house with a little plastic ziplock bag.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And they put the apple's core after they finished the apple.
First off, they eat.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
At home or inside, but if they have to eat
in public, then they eat the apple and then they
put it in a little ziploc bag and put it
in there, in there, you know whatever, in their pocket
or in a little carrying case, like it is possible
for people to be clean. The last thing that Japanese
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would do is toss it on the beach. So I
actually prefer in like composing on people to take out
what they brought in. Like you picked up a bunch
of cans of medello, and you picked up a pizza
at seven to eleven, and you got a bunch of napkins,
and now the pizza box you can't bend it enough
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to get into the trash Can you walk.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Out with it? Take it back to your car.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I know, because what people do They leave it on
top of the trash can, which it drives me crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That doesn't belong there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Please try to reduce the amount of single use things
that you're using.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Try to bring your.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Own water bottles.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, I always put the water bottles. A lot of
plastic bottles on the beaches.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I saw this.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I was watching TV this morning and or yeah, I
guess it would be now when I guess it was
Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I was watching.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Before the World Cup, and like the amount of plastic
bottles is just crazy. At the very least, could you
make if you're gonna be a slob and leave your
plastic single use water bottle on my beaches here in
San Diego, can you at least do that little trick
where you keep the cap, Loosen the cap just a
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little bit, squeeze the water bottle like an accordion, and
then tighten the cap to create a vacuum. So the
water bottle is like this little blue plastic disc. That
makes life a lot easier on those of us that
have to clean up after you, and just makes it
a lot easier to put it all in a trashman.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's the lesson I teach my sons.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm like, if you're too lazy to go get a
glass and go to the sink, and you have to
drink out of a bottle, then at the very least,
when you're done with that bottle, can.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You collapse it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Every boy loves to collapse a illumine of can to
demonstrate their strength.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Everyone seems to love to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm gonna squeeze this can, but they won't like collapse
down the water bottle, which makes life a lot easier
for me when we have to do recycling. Well, congratulations
in San Diego and to the Serf Rider Foundation.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
They got the beaches cleaned up. Looks beautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And you know, we only have three hundred and sixty
four more days until the nine or nine ers come
back again next year and leave all the trash for us.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Lou Penrose on.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
News radio six hundred cobos seventeen minutes into the match,
and Belgium's up by one update talking about the day
after the fourth of July here in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm very proud. One hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Volunteers showed up, collected over two hundred fifty pounds of
trash at just Missing Mission Beach alone.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's all part of our annual beach cleanup.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We don't appreciate them leaving trash, but we're not gonna
just let it sit. Hey, Lou, she did say she
was trying to educate the public moron.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, that would be good.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Let's hear what she said, the kind of main things
for finding at these cleanups. Did you try to get
a sense of what do we need to educate the
public moron?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh, you're right, she did say, the public moron. It
is moronic to leave trash. I mean, come on, we're
not a trashy country. And look it's cleaned up. You
should see the Pavilions Shopping Center parking lot in Newport Beach.
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It looked like an East LA seven to eleven parking lot,
and by the next morning it looked brand new. It
honestly looked like it had been resurfaced. They scrubbed the
black top clean. So we don't like people throwing trash around,
but we don't let it sit, which means we'd rather not,
rather not have you do it in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The first place.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Of the reason that they count the cans and the
bottles and the trash is because they want to find
a new tax to give us.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, well that's funny.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
No, they're counting, not so much counting, just identifying the
kind of trash that they're getting. So, as you heard there,
they're just trying to figure out how we can better
educate the public going forward. And as I said, that's
kind and sweet, it's.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Not going to work.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
These people are just the trashy people, and they come
and they visit us and leave us their trash, and
it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And it drives me crazy. And I just wish we
could embrace.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I saw another thing at this out of this World
Cup that you see is other countries cultures, and Japan
wasn't doing very well. They have some years to go
to get like a top rated football club, but the
fans are top notch.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
The fans were cleaning up.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I think it was it was at in Austin, Texas
at where Houston maybe it was in Texas.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And after they get the.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Japanese drew to a tie, which isn't losing, but it's
not winning, and they cleaned up the section where the
Japanese fans were sitting.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
For any the Japanese already clean up after themselves.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
They take all their trash with them because culturally that's
what they would do at home, so they don't know
to do any differently. But in case some other soccer
fan left some popcorn on the ground or a can
on the ground, the Japanese went through the stadium and
cleaned up. Like that's a winning culture. In my mind,
that's something we can borrow. I really do like that,
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so I appreciate it all right. So a court ruling
has forced the city of San Diego to halt the
city crackdown on the street vendor, and it's been a
problem for a while because they're back. They're back at
Balballa Park, they're back at the gas lamp, they're back
at city beaches other popular spots. And the leaders of
the merchant groups are very frustrated because they look at
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the city as retreating on the issue. The city really isn't.
The State Appeals Court in January ruled that it was
illegal for the city to impound the carts, which is
strange because they can impound your car, but they can't
impound the carts, and they can because it's property. The
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ruling vindicated the complaints of the vendors who had operated
for many years outside of Peco Park, and said it
was overly restrictive to have.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A no vendor zone or even limiting their hours.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So the court defeat has caused all the hot dogs
to come back. And it's just a cat and mouse chase.
And I get it that it's kind of fun. It's
kind of fun after a concert to go out and
get a gliz. It's kind of fun. You're drunk on
campus at STSU and you go and to a hotspot
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and you get some food and it's out there. I
don't think it's a good look. I just we're not
a street. There are certain corners of the United States
that have historically been known for street vendors. New York
City and the hot dog in the pretzel. Okay, there
are some areas of Chicago. There have been some areas
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of San Diego. Certainly, if there's a fair or a
party or a parade.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Then you can have street vendors.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
But to constantly have street vendors, which begets illegal street vendors,
and then the whole place starts looking like a.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Third world hell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Whole other countries that have street vendors, it's very charming
when you go there and you see it, and if
you are brave enough to eat Indian street food, then
you take a photograph and hope for the best. I
wouldn't I know they have open air, wet more markets
in China.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They'll look healthy to me. I don't see any of
the refrigeration.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I just I always air on the side of keep
this a first world nation, and in like very clean
first world countries. They don't just have random people selling
your food on the street with or without a license.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There are areas of town that bring in that charm.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Maybe on certain nights, maybe during the farmer's market, whatever,
but like not just normally anybody can just get a
Bunsen burner, a pro pain tank, heat up a griddle,
and start selling hot dogs. Like that's that's not first world.
So I I side with the with the with the
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merchants here. Uh, it's not healthy, it's not clean, it's
not safe, it's hard to regulate.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There's no no, you never know who these people are.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
If you want to eat in San Diego, go inside
somebody that's paying for a business license.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Competing with the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But there is other stuff going on, and this is
a big one for me. I talk about this a lot.
The Council of Economic Advisors to the President put out
a statement that right now more American factories are being
built in the United States than at any other time
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in American history. You know, this has been a mantra
of mine. I believe in the American manufacturing economy. I
think it is vital that we bring back American manufacturing
jobs to America. I think we have to manufacture in America.
I was hopeful during the first days of the COVID
scare when we learned we did not have enough respirators
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for the projected need, and we realized that we were
not manufacturing respirators in the United States, and we invented
the damn thing. And I said, well, there could be
a silver lining to this story. We will certainly leave
this COVID experience as a nation recognizing, hey, we can't
outsource everything to the Chinese. We should be manufacturing some
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things here in the United States. And it didn't happen
until President Trump was elected, and in his first term
he embarked upon an effort to reshore American manufacturing, but
he had to spend all his time fighting off Democrats
who always claimed to be for the working man, but
they were trying to impeach him. And then, of course
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they tell us Joe Biden won in twenty twenty, so
that was four years. And then when Trump came back
in twenty four he began the process of seriously restoring
American manufacturing, using tariffs as a as a lever to
force companies to either pay up or bring their factories back.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And it is working right now.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
There's more new factories being built the US than ever
in US history, and it's because We've got all these
commitments to the nineteen trillion dollars of commitments for people
to build factories. But because we actually put a timer
on right, so you get to expense the new factory,
which is a great tax advantage, but only if you
build it in the first four years.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
And so there's a race to make America great again.
What about that? What about that? How smart is that?
How smart is that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
If you have Trump arrangement syndrome and you are a
Trump hater and you are all Orange man bad, you
have to admit that that is a good strategy by
being able to expense the factory, but only in the
first four years or in the four years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
There's only four years in this Trump presidency.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That puts a stopwatch on a company to get over
here and start building a factory. Everybody's talking about AI.
Everybody's worried about AI. Oh my goodness, AI is going
to eat our lunch. It's going to take all our jobs.
It might take a lot of jobs in the tech sector.
I heard that my Microsoft was cutting back on a
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lot of jobs in their gaming platforms.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I don't know how all that works.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't know what these people do inside that Microsoft building.
But if a computer can do it and they're not necessary,
that's going to be painful because I don't know what
the staff of Microsoft is like. I did meet a
lot of people that worked at Google when I was
working in Congress at the Irvine Google Place whatever it's called,
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a factory of building a plant, and these were young people,
all drinking cans of red Bull, but they all had
electrical engineering degrees.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So these are very well educated people.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
And I suspect the people that work at Microsoft are
very well educated too.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
But AI is better.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So that's going to be an adjustment in our economy
and in our workforce, and we should probably start preparing
for it. I will say this, it will never be
able to replace manufacturing. They will always need to be
things made by people. There'll be robotics, and there'll be
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some improvements in technology where people don't have to do
as much rudimentary work, but at the end of the day,
a thing has to be assembled, a person's got to
be there. And everything in your house, and I mean
everything in your house used to be made in America
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by an American at an American factory, and it was
shipped to the stores in your community and you bought
it and everybody made money. There has traditionally been three
legs to the American economy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's a three legged stool and it's very efficient.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You have the professional class, the professional economy. That's a doctor, lawyer, businessman, architect, CPA, accountant.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Right, that's the professional economy.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And then you have the service economy that's the people
that work at the convention center, people to work in hotels,
people that make your food, people that make your martini,
people that do your laundry. And then you have the
manufacturing economy. The manufacturing economy takes raw materials that are
milled in mind here in the United States and sends
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those materials to a factory where an American goes to
work every day and turns raw materials into stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And it's magic. It really is magic.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
When you take steel that is made from iron in Birmingham, Alabama,
and you send that iron and.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Steel through Pittsburgh to Detroit to build a car.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And you take rubber from Pennsylvania, and you take glass
from Ohio, and you know, parts from Oklahoma City, and
you send all those parts to Detroit and then a
bunch of Americans get together and they assemble all those
parts into a car, and then they put that car
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on a train, and then that train.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Comes all the way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And then a truck comes and takes those cars and
puts them on the car lot.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And then you go out and buy yourself a car.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Do you have any idea how much economic activity goes
into that. All that money circulates among Americans. The guy
that worked on the iron in Birmingham, he gets paid.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The guy that turns.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It into steel in Pennsylvania, he gets paid. The guy
that loads the seal on the truck and sends it
to Detroit, he gets paid. The guy in Detroit who
puts the car together, he gets paid. The guy that
everybody gets paid, the glass guy, the rubber guy, the parts.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Guy, the car dealership. Everybody gets paid.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And all that money circulates among Americans, and it works.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's magic. It works so well.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It is, in fact, the recipe for the post World
War two boom in America. It's how we got so
wealthy because we're buying from each other, using our own
raw materials, protecting our markets from foreign imports, and keeping
our products high quality. And then through a series of
(23:26):
bipartisan Republicans and Democrats got together in the late seventies
and early eighties and put together trade deals and shipped
all the jobs to China, closed down all the American factories,
threw all the Americans out of work, and they called
it free trade.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Now your house is filled with plastic crack from.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
China, and it's junk, and it doesn't work, and you
throw it away, and you think you're ahead of the
game because it's only nine to ninety nine for another
coffee maker at Walmart.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
But yet you've been throwing away coffee makers for years.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So it's bad for the landfill, it's bad for free trade,
is bad for the environment. It fills our landfills with
plastic crack from China that never, never disintegrates.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
When do you remember your grandmother throwing away a coffee maker?
When do you remember when do you remember your grandparents
ever getting a new refrigerator. My grandparents had the same
refrigerator my whole life.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I don't even remember them repairing it because it was
American maid. If you grew up as I did in
the eighties, late seventies, early eighties, then everything in your house,
if your mother used a General Electric or a Westinghouse
washer and dryer, and it was heavy duty, and it
was solid steel, and it did laundry and it never leaked,
(24:47):
and it was never a problem. I have been through
three washers and dryers in my house since the baby
was born. The baby's now thirteen. We moved in my
wife was still pregnant with the baby. I've gone through
three washers and dryers, and I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I like I follow the directions.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
They say you can put eight towels, and I only
put in five. I don't overload it because I don't
feel like buying it over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
How gingerly you use your washer and dryer. It's plastic
crap from China.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's junk.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So I have paid three times for what my parents
and grandparents paid for.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Once, and they'd still be going with it.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Same with the refrigerator, same with the ovens, saying with
the toaster, same with everything else. So I'm very happy
to hear about these factories returning. I'm glad that we're
on a stopwatch because the sooner the better, and you know,
at the end of the day, we're all not going
to be rocket scientists. We're all not going to work
and Microsoft. Some of us just want to go to
(25:48):
the factory, do our day's work for a good day's pay.
And these factory workers got paid well. They supported factory towns.
One paid check supported the whole household. And these factory
towns dot the Midwest and we're vibrant communities.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
So you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And technology is great, but at the end of the day,
you're gonna need an oven, and you're gonna need a
washing machine, and you're gonna need a vacuum cleaner. Let's
have them American made to their high quality, and we
get we've paid for.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Hey, lou, Yeah, recently, I bought a whirlpool from Costco
a refrigerator less than six months. Seven months later, I
got a water leak. Come on, the guy says, it's
a manifold. How in the world does a manifold gold
bad when nothing's around it.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
That garbage we're buying these days.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It's all crap.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's all crap, and it's it's worse in the refrigeration section,
Like every refrigerator is just jump.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
All those compressors are junk.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I talked to a guy, an HVAC guy that works
on commercial grade stuff, and he said, oh, yeah, no,
we've known that for a while.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The Chinese used this.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's not you know, in order for a compressor to work,
it's going to be an iron core.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well, iron's expensive, so they.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Cheap out and you get bad compressors, and everything is
so cheap that nothing's worth repairing.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Like some of these switches, relay switches.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You're talking about like an eighteen dollar part, but it
should last. But if it doesn't last, it's not even
worth sending out a guy. What are you gonna do
pay a guy one hundred and eighty dollars to come
out to swap out, you know, an eighteen dollars part
on a six hundred dollars refrigerator. So people just toss
the whole damn thing into the landfill and go to
(27:35):
costs going by another piece of piece of Chinese crap refrigerator,
and over and over and over again. So it's time
to bring back American manufacturing. It puts Americans back to work.
These are good jobs. It's you know, it's a factory.
Work is not the way it used to be. It's
not this gray dreary life that you see in the
(27:55):
films Norma Ray or the final scene of an officer
and a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It's a good day of work.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You get to work with your hands, that's kind of fun,
and you're with the fellas and you get paid really well,
and our quality of life goes up, the quality of
our stuff goes up, and we pay each other.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Lou you probably remember this.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You used to be able to take a bolt and
a nut and spin the nut and it would spin
from one end to the other because it was such
high quality and such tight precision the way it was made.
Now you go to home depot and buy a bolt
and a nut and try that, and it won't even
do one riv It's such terrible quality.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
It's worse than that. It's also soft.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
The bolts and nuts that you're talking about are so
soft that you can barely use tools to tighten them.
There are a couple of grades stronger than aluminum foil.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
In the business we call fasteners, and fasteners are are
the worst I've ever seen, like unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I was fixing a ceiling fan.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Because it was out of balance, and you could see
that when the ceiling fan was assembled in China, the
guy strull you the nut went on wrong, stripped it
and just left it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So now I'm stuck.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I mean, it's so easy to strip anything because the
fasteners are just junk, and that's if they're metal. Nowadays,
is sending it to you in plastic or worse. I
was talking about a relay switch. I went to go
replace something, not a relay switch, but something like it
on an appliance, and the plastic that the part is
(29:37):
made out of is so light duty that it's impossible
to screw it back onto the dishwasher because you can't
tighten it, or I'll just you crack the whole thing. Now, look,
there's only one solution, and that is bring the factories back,
put the Americans back to work, Let's make our own stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Let the Chinese buy their own stuff. We'll buy our
own stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Everybody will be happy and we'll be safe, and we'll
have higher quality stuff. Hey, tomorrow's the last day to
get the seventy five cent Jack in the Box or
Jack in the Box tacos. Everybody likes those two tacos
for seventy five cents. Tomorrow Is that last day.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Tacos from Jack in the Box. This is where it's at.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
It's hard to find a Jack in the Box a
hashsaur cream, but when you have it, it really elevates these.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So for three weeks now they've been doing every Tuesday,
two tacos for seventy five cents at Jack in the Box.
Everybody swears by them. I am okay with them. If
I'm at Jack in the Box, I'm not gonna get
the taco I've had them, but the people that love them.
The Taco Tuesday special ends tomorrow, so keep that in mind.
(30:49):
Not gonna want to not get two tacos for seventy
five cents at Jack in the Box.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
My goodness,
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