July 8, 2026 • 31 mins
Its About Time! Will You Trust The Machine? How Will The Dems Mess This Up? San Diego County Fair Is A Treasure Trove Of Lost And Found Wrap Up
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lou Penroe on news radio six hundred cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
to have you along with us. Happy Wednesday. Well it's
finally happening. Waimo is rolling out in many major cities
across the country, including San Diego.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wait, well, robotaxis are coming to Las Vegas, Denver, San Diego,
and Tampa, uh and Tampa.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All right, let's go San Diego with the Waimo. Very
very excited. Here's NBC seven San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Driverless cars are gaining popularity, and the most popular brand, Waimo,
is on its way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, you already see him out there on the streets
test driving.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
So it's coming with pushback from our local rideshare drivers.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's right, Amari Fleming. It's got pushback the local rideshare.
Local ride share drivers are pushing back. No surprise.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Driverless cars like Waimo have really boomed in popularity over
the past couple of years, and though they haven't reached
San Diego yet, rideshare drivers here say they don't want
the same safety concerns they've noticed across the state to
happen in our neighborhoods. These drivers want to be clear
their grief with Waimo has nothing to do with the
added competition.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
At NBC seven's shandelmanez well, I think that's a good story,
but certainly it has something to do with the competition.
There's no driver that's going to be cheaper. That has
to be cheaper, so they're going to be out of
a job. And I get that. Look, I get it.
(01:34):
I think I think Uber and Lyft is great. I
think ride share has been a great invention. It was perfect.
It was absolutely perfect. It was private people using their
own possessions, their cell phone and their car, and being
able to connect privately with a private company that wants
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to connect somebody who needs a lift from a restaurant
back to the house, or from the auto dealership the
auto repair shop to work or anywhere you want to go.
And it was just brilliant. It was absolutely, absolutely beautiful.
It was the perfect, in my mind like intersection of
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technology and old school and taking advantage of downtime. Now
you own your car all day, every day, You own
your driver's license all day every day. You pay insurance
on your car all day every day, whether it's on
the road, or if it sits in your driveway, So
why not in your spare time take full advantage of
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that car and put it to work for you by
going around your town and picking people up and dropping
them off and making some money. And the only way
to do that is to coordinate with a company that
is on my phone too, and that's all Uber and
Lyft is and it's just magic. It really works. Now.
Guess who didn't like that? The taxi drivers, right, especially
(03:04):
at airports, they really got mad. They're still mad at
LAX and it's not I mean, you're still the red
headed stepchild at CBX. I don't fly into San Diego
that much anymore, so I don't know what the situation
is there, But at CBX they make you know, you
got to go walk all the way down there to
pick up an Uber and Lyft. You can't be you know,
(03:25):
right in the Port of Cachet, that's where the taxi
people are. So it's happening, and Waimo will advance it
even more. And I'm a huge supporter of this. I've
said this before, and I know we have a lot
of over the road truck drivers listening, and they make
a good living, and I think that automated trucking is
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going to happen faster than WAIMO puts the Uber and
Lyft drivers out of work, and I think that's going
to be a real change in the employment structure of
over the road truckers. And so therefore I am in
favor of it phased in approach so that these people's
lives aren't completely ruined. But it just is the case
(04:11):
that people's lives get upended by technology all the time.
I mean, you're hearing about it in Microsoft and Microsoft
in the games division, AI is replacing like four thousand people. Well,
what does a guy who knows how to code for
what games do? Microsoft? Like, you know is Xbox Microsoft?
(04:34):
I guess it is like, if that's what you know
how to do as a job, is to make a
call of duty, and now AI is doing it, what
are you gonna do? Your life has just been upended,
but you can't get in the way of technology. The
same thing goes for Uber Lyft drivers. If you were
(04:55):
using if you were significantly relying on Uber and Lyft
not as a side hustle, but as the main income,
or even if the side hustle was necessary, to support,
then you are going to be I think pushed out
as WAYMO is going to take over.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I think there still will be places for private cars.
You know, there are people who still and I've done
this too, for important rides to the airport where you
absolutely cannot miss. Because I've had this happen. I have
scheduled an uber and have you know, I'm at the
front door with my wife and the baggage, and you know,
it's four o'clock in the morning and you get a
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message that the ride's not coming, or they cancel your
ride or something happened, and then you can't get another ride,
and that's terrified. So I have gone and arranged to
have a private driver, literally, a person that that's all
they do is drive back and forth to San Diego
Airport or lax or John Wayne or where Sambrad, do
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you know? Wherever I'm going Ontario. And it's a person
that you don't have to work through an app. You
actually have their cell phone number, and it's more expensive,
but it's a guaranteed thing. So I think they'll always
be that. But I think you're seeing the beginning of
the end of ride share, and I think it's going
(06:19):
to be very, very convenient. I think there'll be fewer
cars on the road. I think you'll want to not
drive as much. I think you.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Will see less utility vehicles being built and more luxury
vehicles being built, because the only time you'll need to
be in a car is when you wish to drive yourself,
and why not drive yourself in the lap of luxury.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So I think it's going to be a huge change.
I think it's going to be a tectonic shift. And I,
for one, look absolutely for I look forward to it.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Hey, Louis Craig and Pleasure Hills. I like the idea
of the way more because there's no driver and it
kind of gives you this that you have quote unquote
total privacy. But then I think you probably don't have
any privacy at all because you're driven around by a robot.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This. Well, well he's going to be listening to you,
that's for sure, But why do you want to talk
to the robot? Like if if you and your wife
are in the car, then talk to each other, or
if you're alone, scroll through your phone, Like yeah, I don't.
I mean, I suspect that there will be chatty Waimo options.
(07:29):
I mean why not. I mean, you can have a
conversation with AI. Now I just saw my son do it.
We were trying to Ai how to get Spotify the
app onto my TV set and play through the speakers,
and I couldn't figure out how to hook it up.
And so he has like a virtual like his chat
(07:52):
GPT talks to him like it's a guy. And you know,
all he had to do is give the guy the
model and make of the flat screen, the model and
make of my receiver, and he told me how to
wire it up. So I assume that they could have
a conversation with you in the weimo. But you know
(08:15):
you can also just make a call.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I ride a motorcycle and I'm worried about the waimos
when I'm lane splitting, Afraid it's just gonna bump into
me or something.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We'll see how it goes. Well, see how it goes.
Be careful out there. I'll bet you it's safer lane
splitting with a waymo than lane spitting splitting with you know,
a woman driver. Oh well, a bad driver or is
that redundant? I wonder if there'll be weaimo for women,
Like you know how, there are certain categories where you
(08:43):
can order an uber and it's just for a woman
exclusively a woman driver, so that women feel a little
more comfortable. So what would be the equivalent of the
robot for women? Probably a cleaner car, right, that might
be an option. But the future is here. Are you
(09:03):
gonna take away?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Mo?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Lou Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogos.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Riverless cars are gaining popularity and the most popular brand, Waimo,
is on its way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's right, and I'm excited about it. Can't wait to
hop in one.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Hey, Lou, I'm totally in favor of Waimu coming to
San Diego because I can't tell you how many times
I've had an Uber lift driver canceled the service while
on the way to pick me up to take me
to the airport, causing me to almost miss my flights. Anyways,
(09:41):
love your show, Lou.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I appreciate the call. It's happened to me more than
once and it is kind of terrifying, and I don't
know what I'm doing wrong, or like my wife schedules
it and you think that it's a done deal, like
the flight itself, but more than one there's been a
problem and then you've got a scurry and now you're
(10:05):
you know, you're looking for a ride right now at
four in the morning, and there's fewer cars and they're
more expensive. So yeah, that won't happen anymore with the Waimo.
So that's one good thing to look forward to. Game O.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
They could put a Teddy Bear in the front seat.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It looks like.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Elmo, and they can pick up their friends and hill crush.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's the dice man with gay jokes during Pride month.
That's bad for wait till the thirty.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
First, taylu.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I do not feel bad for the Uber and Lyft drivers.
It's just gotten worse and worse, more expensive.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
The quality of car and driver has gone downhill. And
it all happened when they all were crying a fit
about you know, we deserve healthcare four oh one k
all this stuff. It went downhill after that, so it's
not a job to live on as a side gig.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So I don't feel bad for them. Well, I appreciate
the call. I do feel bad for them. Everything you
just said is true. The cost has certainly gone up,
the quality has been the same, and that is inconsistent. Right,
there are some cars that pull up to pick me
up and they're immaculate inside. They look like they've been detailed,
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they're brand new. Guy's got three kinds of charging cables
for me. There's bottles of water in the side door,
the pocket of the door. Very pleasant, very clean and
really nice car. And then there are those times where
somebody pulls up and they got all their laundry in
the back of the car, and they got their jack
(11:42):
in the box trash and the shotgun seat, and they
got this blanket draped over the rear bench seat that's
got dog hair on it. And the driver is fourger
pounds and he's got the seat back and I can't
get behind him, and I want to take that seat
because I want my wife to have the only good
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seat left in the car. And he's driving like Snoop Dogg,
you know, rolling, you know, just all spiked out. So
that experience has been consistent with me. In ride shares,
there've been unbelievably beautiful cars and some people that need
a shower. So that's not a fair hit, and it's
(12:24):
not a fair hit that the cost has gone up.
They can't blame the cost of fuel, and the regulatory
thing was not at their making. Remember Uber and Lyft
were the ones that put it on the bollot to
try and reverse whatever that Assembly bill was. Remember State
assembly Woman lorenegan Zales, she was the problem. She ruined it.
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She made it more expensive, not the company. And those
stooges that were, you know at press conferences calling for
healthcare from Uber and Lyft, they're not really ride share drivers.
They're paid actors. They're paid you know, people that the
union pay them to go down there and hold signs
(13:06):
that say support AB What was it AB one? Oh,
I can't remember now, so long ago, but I was
so angry because at that time gas prices were not
so high and it was an unregulated place, which means
the fair and free market rule. And Uber and Lyft
was great, and it was very, very inexpensive. I could
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get back and forth to town, you know, the town that
or the downtown area that was that is near my
house was like eight dollars eight bucks to hop in
a car and go to a restaurant and drink, and
eight bucks to come home. Why would I have there's
no chance, Why would you ever consider getting a designated
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driver or not drinking, and certainly you're not going to
take your own car if you plan on drinking. So
it was just it was I loved it. I loved
the early days of Lyft prior to Lorena Gonzales. I
just thought it was great, and I think Waimo is
going to make it even better. I think at the
expense of Uber and Lyft, and I think that's fair
(14:12):
to say. Again his Shendell minise from NBC seven, she says,
they say it has nothing to do with the competition.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Traveler's cars like Waimo have really boomed in popularity over
the past couple of years, and though they haven't reached
San Diego yet, rides here. Drivers here say they don't
want the same safety concerns they've noticed across the state
to happen in our neighborhoods. These drivers want to be clear,
they're grief with Weimo has nothing to do with the
added competition, right, and.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's a complete falsehood. Obviously, it's all about the competition.
They don't care about safety. Clearly, a processor, a computer processor,
is a safer driver than a human being. So a
couple of years ago, I had the occasion to meet
Steve Wozniak. Wosniak was one of the co founders of Apple.
(15:00):
He got out early, so he's not as famous as
Steve Jobs. But in the world of tech people know
him and he's a really big deal. And he did
very well. And I remember him talking about and this
was many years ago, like before WEAMO, but he had
been an advocate for autonomous driving cars for years, like
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ten years ago, and I remember him telling me, he said, Lou,
the human brain is a lot of things. It is
a terrible processor. My bad Apple processors, my early Apple
processors are a factor of a hundred times more efficient
than the human brain. And it's because the processor is
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just faster and better at making the kinds of decisions
that need to be made in driving a two thousand
pound car around other two thousand pound cars. And now
you add in the technology of of cameras, side camera
sensors and all that, and it's a no pun intended
a no brainer to have a process or replace the
(16:11):
human brain as the driver of this car. And uh,
I think he's right, And it looks as it turns out,
he is right. As WAYMO will start doing that. Lou,
Penrose on news radio six Hundric Cogo Wai mo Is
head at the San Diego.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I saw two way MoU's over the weekend. One was
it's in the back of a part car that wasn't
going to move in the middle of the street and
it just sat there forever on top of it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, so I think that that's going to happen. I
think they are going to at times have faulty action.
So that's not unsafe, that just means it's not working.
So it's one of the thousand way Moos. Why am
I saying it's not Waymu. It's way mo Is Washington Mutual,
(17:02):
which was a bank that collapsed under the Obama administration.
WAIM will have some faulty circuits, just like your computer crashes.
But the good news is that it just pulls itself
over and doesn't move. That's what you want in a
self driving car.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Apple's top tier M four max chip operates at around
thirty eight trillion operations per second. Scientists estimate that the
human brain performs at about ten to the fifteenth power
to ten to the eighteenth power operations per second. With
a storage capacity of roughly two point five petabytes, Yeah,
who's even heard of a petabyte in a computer? They're
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not even close to the human brain.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Okay, so then let me ask you this question. How
many I mean, how many vodka martinis can apples? M
four Max chip handle before it can drive anymore?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
So, sad if you only had a dependable taxi driver,
you think I want an autonomous car?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
No, I need.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I got a job. I need to work. Lou, get
it together, so I have it together. You seem to not.
Here's the reality. Here's an inconvenient truth for you. And
remember I have an obligation to tell you this. My
name is Lou Penrose, the last adult in San Diego.
(18:24):
The world is not your job's program. Like we don't
not take advantage of technology that significantly increases our collective
quality of life because it might cost you a job. Right,
Life is not a jobs program for you. Conditions change.
(18:48):
There were a lot of blacksmiths around to shoe horses,
Not so much anymore, and life was not a out
creating jobs for blacksmith's. Life was to live and take
advantage of technology that just gets better and better and better.
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But you know, I mean, there'll still be opportunities for
you to be okay and then you can take a
way mo to your new job. Hey, San Diego, Ferrett
wrapping up and over nine hundred items in the lost
and found and some really weird items. CBSA's Abby Black
went down there to see what kinds of things they
got in the lost and found by it bag.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Nine hundred five unclaimed items. We're talking about dance shoes,
a yearbook, even a drum pedal, and fair officials say
there's still time to claim your happy Indeed.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think the drum pedal is odd that anybody somebody
went to the fair with the drum pedal. My suspicion
is the drum pedal belongs to the drummer that performed
at the fair. He's probably the guy that left it behind.
Here's Gail Tompkins, she's the affairs guest service coordinator. She's
got the big They got one of these huge buckets.
(20:05):
I guess of lost and found things, we have quite
a variety of things. As you can see. How do
you not go home without your walker?
Speaker 11 (20:12):
I even have, believe it or not, two pillows.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, a walker was left at the County Fair. Did
I mean? Was there some kind of a religious revival
section of the fair, and somebody said, step out of
your chair and walk. How do you leave a walker behind?
When my kids were in elementary school, there was a
lost and found bin and I had to go through
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it a lot because at least once a week one
of my sons left their lunchbox and I had to
go fish it out of this ridiculous bin that was
filled with jackets and hoodies and other lunchboxes. And every
once in a while I'd run across something that was
quite odd. I ran across a pair of pants. I'm thinking,
(21:00):
how do you lose your pants and not know? So
somebody left their walker. Somebody left pillows.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
I even have, believe it or not, two pillows.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, and they look pretty good. Somebody no cases though,
so somebody took the pillows or maybe they brought the
pillows to the fair without cases, or maybe they were
inside the base drum. That's what it is. Oh, this
is one fun this. We have a Ford hubcap yeah,
Ford hubcat like and this wasn't found in the parking lot.
(21:33):
This was found in the fair. So not sure what
the Ford hubcap represents. A Ford hubcap.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
We got about over one hundred cell phones turned in
and I only have a few left.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
One hundred cell phones. People always lose the cell phone
on the ride and then they think it's gone forever.
And what they do at the County Fairy they charge.
They keep the cell phones charged that they can, and
according to gailuh event actually they go off like they
open up the Lost and Found, like right at nine
(22:05):
o'clock and the cell phones are going off and she
picks it up, like, Hi, did I leave my cell phone?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
That?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yes, that must be a fun part of the job
to answer one hundred cell phone calls. But they keep
them charged because they know that someone's gonna call their
own phone and find out where it is. So Shony
has a few left because that's the first thing everybody
comes and picks up their cell phone.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
Over one hundred cell phones turned in, and I only
have a few left. And we had nine hundred and
four items, well actually nine and five. I got one today.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
They're still coming, there's still funding stuff, there's still funning
lost stuff. People can't hang on to anything. I don't know,
like losing I get that you lose the cell phone
on the ride, but losing clothing, losing the walker losing
a hubcap. That seems rather odd, really really odd stuff.
But the good folks at the San Diegogunty Fair are
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they're on They're on the ball. They're looking out for you,
and that's really good. Hey ups, excuse me, USPS. The
United States Postal Service raising the price of stamps again.
This time it's going up really big. I only have
forever stamps, and I buy them like at Christmas time,
by the one hundred, and I have a bunch left over,
(23:22):
so I'm in the black.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
It's going to cost more to send first class mail
starting Sunday, when the price of eight forever stamp will
tick up to eighty two cents from seventy eight cents.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Wow, it was it's seventy eight. Now it's not gonna
be eighty two. I am sure. I bought my forever
stamps in the fifties. I go fifty five, maybe fifty eight,
So it's been going up regularly.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Look, I love my friends and fellow government workers at
the post Office. It's a great job. They're fun people,
they're characters, all of them. But there's no way you're
gonna be able to mail a letter from San Diego
and have it land in Bangor, Maine for eighty two cents.
(24:09):
They're gonna have to continue to raise these prices. I
don't know why they don't just jump it to a
dollar starting today, like just like, go way ahead. I
mean gas fuel prices are only gonna go up. The
cost of maintaining those vehicles are only gonna go up.
The processing facilities, right, they have to be maintained. It's
only gonna go up. You can't be doing this at
(24:31):
eighty two cents a letter, and nobody's mailing anything anymore.
I can't even get my bank statements mailed anymore, they insist.
Now you've got to act like I like I certainly
my investment statements, like my four oh one K I
like that mailed to me because I want to look
through and see if I can catch my person churning
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the account unnecessarily. That's what they do sometimes. So I
would look to see why why was all this sold?
So I want to I want to sit through it,
and I need it in my hands. I can't look
at it on a screen. And now it's not coming
in the mail anymore because I had I had an
actively checked to keep it. Same thing happened with iHeart,
(25:13):
mister finnerdy, did you get a mailed W two at
the end of the year or W four or whatever
we get I did, see I I didn't, and my
wife needed it for the tax girl. And I'm like,
I don't know where it is and I have no
idea how to find it on the website. And it
took me like a half a day to get my
you know, my own, my own tax document because I
(25:36):
like it mailed to me.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
Yes that you want mailed to you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Want that in my hands? Yeah, but uh, the the uh,
the stamps are gonna go on, They're gonna go up,
and I guess postcards are going up to.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Who uses postcards? What was the last time we got
a postcard from anything?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That incredible? Yeah, I mean, but they just don't.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
No one, even when you vacation, they don't use postcards anymore.
I'm having a great time at wherever, you know, the
France or Marseilles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Wish you were here. Yeah, I mean, who who buys
a postcard? But yeah, they're still selling them.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Other postage products set to see price hikes include domestic
postcards sixty five cents, up from sixty one cents.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, like, oh that's gonna really, that's gonna put them
back into black. Uh, sixty five from sixty one. So
that four cent per postcard and that's the postage you
got to pay for the card. Gritting from Palm Springs,
Like who is doing that? People take selfies and text
the selfie.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Exactly the talk about a dying business. The postcards have
gone way of the dodo.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, you need a postcard like you need a Blockbuster video,
or as Lou Penrose would say, like you need a
San Diego Public library branch. That's just absurd. Lou Penrose
on news radio six hundred cogo.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Hey, Lou Sweaty from Lakeside. The walker's easy. Somebody said
they were disabled so they could get better parking, maybe
even pay less for it. Safed it walked in with
the walker and dumped it and went and bolt their business.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wow, that's low. He might be right, But don't you
have to have a placard? I thought you had to
have that blue placard you're supposed to. Yeah, well the
license plate. I don't think you could just show a walker.
But maybe they you know, didn't get you know, better parking,
(27:32):
but use the walker to get, you know, to go
up first on the ride. Cut the line. Oh that's worse.
That's worse. Yeah, I use the walker to go They'll
they'll let you cut the line. Yeah. He might be right.
That might be an idea for next year. Hey and
new love your show.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
William from Rander Pennsquidos, You guys just nailed it on
the head.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I have unlimited amount of postcards in my hand. I'm
speaking into it right now.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Snap a photo, send a text, boom, instant postcard.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thank you have a great day, guys. That's right. That's
a lot cheaper than buying a postcard, especially now that
the stamps have gone up. Guess what's come down? Egg prices. Remember,
for the longest time during the Biden administration, egg prices
through the roof. Nobody could figure out why. Now they've
bottomed out, and the people that make eggs are stuck
holding the bag.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Typically, egg prices fall within a pretty predictable range. That
has not been the case over the last year, where
we've seen them above six dollars per dozen down to
now two nineteen a dozen. How do you run a
business when the prices are so vary?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, talking to an egg farmer here in California. How
you gonna run a business? How do you know? If
you know you got to invest in chickens to get eggs. No,
it's insane, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
I mean it went up last year because the bird
flu and we actually lost our flock to the bird flue.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Last year. We lost three thousand birds. But three thousand birds. Wow,
that was a bad bird flue. So then he ran
out to buy more bird you know, to replenish, thinking
that he's gonna sell eggs at six dollars a dozen,
and now there are three happened to a lot of
farmers across the country, so not many eggs, and so
prices go up.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
A lot of the.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Farmers doubled down this year thinking it was gonna happen again. Well,
it didn't really happen. So now we have too many eggs.
Now we have too many eggs, too many eggs, and
you know what happens when there's too many eggs, the
same thing that happens when there's too many vacancies. The
rents go down. So the egg prices have gone down.
I think this might be an unpopular opinion. I think
(29:35):
Gordon Ramsey uses way too much butter in his scrambled eggs.
He he uses like three big chunks of butter for
scrambled eggs, and I I just have to disagree. You
can't use that much butter. I think you should use butter.
I don't do spray. You don't want to go with
(29:56):
pam or any of that stuff. You know, avocado oil
or even olive oil has flavor, and that messes up
the flavor of the scrambled egg. So you want to
go with a little bit of butter. I used to
take the stick like while it was still in the wrapper,
like while it was still a you know, a cube,
and then with the open end of the stea, you
hold the stick of butter and then it just rub
(30:18):
some butter in the center of the pan. That's all
the butter I ever used. Hey, my mom taught me
that trick, which probably contaminates the entire stick of butter.
But you know, we all live in the same house.
Ramsey's putting way too much butter into scrambled eggs, so
of course they're gonna come out fluffy. That's the secret
of almost all of restaurant cooking is they use so
(30:38):
much butter. That's what makes the steak sizzle. That's what
makes you know the faeat is sizzle. That was the
trick at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. They're like, oh, this is
that sizzle?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You pour enough butter on a choice cut of meat
and it's gonna sizzle. So there is a lot of
butter in the restaurant industry and he uses well, that's
the industry he comes from. But I think he uses
way too much butter. I do like his chopped green
onion trick. That's good. And I have learned how to
do the scrambled egg rose where you just constantly pull
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from the side all around the pan and then all
of it comes in the center and it shaped like
a rose. So I can do that, but I could
do it for you with way less butter.
Lou Penroe on news radio six hundred cogo. We are
live in San Diego. Thank you for tuning in. Good
to have you along with us. Happy Wednesday. Well it's
finally happening. Waimo is rolling out in many major cities
across the country, including San Diego.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Wait, well, robotaxis are coming to Las Vegas, Denver, San Diego,
and Tampa, uh and Tampa.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
All right, let's go San Diego with the Waimo. Very
very excited. Here's NBC seven San Diego.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Driverless cars are gaining popularity, and the most popular brand, Waimo,
is on its way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, you already see him out there on the streets
test driving.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
So it's coming with pushback from our local rideshare drivers.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's right, Amari Fleming. It's got pushback the local rideshare.
Local ride share drivers are pushing back. No surprise.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Driverless cars like Waimo have really boomed in popularity over
the past couple of years, and though they haven't reached
San Diego yet, rideshare drivers here say they don't want
the same safety concerns they've noticed across the state to
happen in our neighborhoods. These drivers want to be clear
their grief with Waimo has nothing to do with the
added competition.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
At NBC seven's shandelmanez well, I think that's a good story,
but certainly it has something to do with the competition.
There's no driver that's going to be cheaper. That has
to be cheaper, so they're going to be out of
a job. And I get that. Look, I get it.
(01:34):
I think I think Uber and Lyft is great. I
think ride share has been a great invention. It was perfect.
It was absolutely perfect. It was private people using their
own possessions, their cell phone and their car, and being
able to connect privately with a private company that wants
(01:58):
to connect somebody who needs a lift from a restaurant
back to the house, or from the auto dealership the
auto repair shop to work or anywhere you want to go.
And it was just brilliant. It was absolutely, absolutely beautiful.
It was the perfect, in my mind like intersection of
(02:20):
technology and old school and taking advantage of downtime. Now
you own your car all day, every day, You own
your driver's license all day every day. You pay insurance
on your car all day every day, whether it's on
the road, or if it sits in your driveway, So
why not in your spare time take full advantage of
(02:41):
that car and put it to work for you by
going around your town and picking people up and dropping
them off and making some money. And the only way
to do that is to coordinate with a company that
is on my phone too, and that's all Uber and
Lyft is and it's just magic. It really works. Now.
Guess who didn't like that? The taxi drivers, right, especially
(03:04):
at airports, they really got mad. They're still mad at
LAX and it's not I mean, you're still the red
headed stepchild at CBX. I don't fly into San Diego
that much anymore, so I don't know what the situation
is there, But at CBX they make you know, you
got to go walk all the way down there to
pick up an Uber and Lyft. You can't be you know,
(03:25):
right in the Port of Cachet, that's where the taxi
people are. So it's happening, and Waimo will advance it
even more. And I'm a huge supporter of this. I've
said this before, and I know we have a lot
of over the road truck drivers listening, and they make
a good living, and I think that automated trucking is
(03:46):
going to happen faster than WAIMO puts the Uber and
Lyft drivers out of work, and I think that's going
to be a real change in the employment structure of
over the road truckers. And so therefore I am in
favor of it phased in approach so that these people's
lives aren't completely ruined. But it just is the case
(04:11):
that people's lives get upended by technology all the time.
I mean, you're hearing about it in Microsoft and Microsoft
in the games division, AI is replacing like four thousand people. Well,
what does a guy who knows how to code for
what games do? Microsoft? Like, you know is Xbox Microsoft?
(04:34):
I guess it is like, if that's what you know
how to do as a job, is to make a
call of duty, and now AI is doing it, what
are you gonna do? Your life has just been upended,
but you can't get in the way of technology. The
same thing goes for Uber Lyft drivers. If you were
(04:55):
using if you were significantly relying on Uber and Lyft
not as a side hustle, but as the main income,
or even if the side hustle was necessary, to support,
then you are going to be I think pushed out
as WAYMO is going to take over.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I think there still will be places for private cars.
You know, there are people who still and I've done
this too, for important rides to the airport where you
absolutely cannot miss. Because I've had this happen. I have
scheduled an uber and have you know, I'm at the
front door with my wife and the baggage, and you know,
it's four o'clock in the morning and you get a
(05:37):
message that the ride's not coming, or they cancel your
ride or something happened, and then you can't get another ride,
and that's terrified. So I have gone and arranged to
have a private driver, literally, a person that that's all
they do is drive back and forth to San Diego
Airport or lax or John Wayne or where Sambrad, do
(05:58):
you know? Wherever I'm going Ontario. And it's a person
that you don't have to work through an app. You
actually have their cell phone number, and it's more expensive,
but it's a guaranteed thing. So I think they'll always
be that. But I think you're seeing the beginning of
the end of ride share, and I think it's going
(06:19):
to be very, very convenient. I think there'll be fewer
cars on the road. I think you'll want to not
drive as much. I think you.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Will see less utility vehicles being built and more luxury
vehicles being built, because the only time you'll need to
be in a car is when you wish to drive yourself,
and why not drive yourself in the lap of luxury.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So I think it's going to be a huge change.
I think it's going to be a tectonic shift. And I,
for one, look absolutely for I look forward to it.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Hey, Louis Craig and Pleasure Hills. I like the idea
of the way more because there's no driver and it
kind of gives you this that you have quote unquote
total privacy. But then I think you probably don't have
any privacy at all because you're driven around by a robot.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
This. Well, well he's going to be listening to you,
that's for sure, But why do you want to talk
to the robot? Like if if you and your wife
are in the car, then talk to each other, or
if you're alone, scroll through your phone, Like yeah, I don't.
I mean, I suspect that there will be chatty Waimo options.
(07:29):
I mean why not. I mean, you can have a
conversation with AI. Now I just saw my son do it.
We were trying to Ai how to get Spotify the
app onto my TV set and play through the speakers,
and I couldn't figure out how to hook it up.
And so he has like a virtual like his chat
(07:52):
GPT talks to him like it's a guy. And you know,
all he had to do is give the guy the
model and make of the flat screen, the model and
make of my receiver, and he told me how to
wire it up. So I assume that they could have
a conversation with you in the weimo. But you know
(08:15):
you can also just make a call.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I ride a motorcycle and I'm worried about the waimos
when I'm lane splitting, Afraid it's just gonna bump into
me or something.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
We'll see how it goes. Well, see how it goes.
Be careful out there. I'll bet you it's safer lane
splitting with a waymo than lane spitting splitting with you know,
a woman driver. Oh well, a bad driver or is
that redundant? I wonder if there'll be weaimo for women,
Like you know how, there are certain categories where you
(08:43):
can order an uber and it's just for a woman
exclusively a woman driver, so that women feel a little
more comfortable. So what would be the equivalent of the
robot for women? Probably a cleaner car, right, that might
be an option. But the future is here. Are you
(09:03):
gonna take away?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Mo?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Lou Penrose on news Radio six hundred Cogos.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Riverless cars are gaining popularity and the most popular brand, Waimo,
is on its way here to San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
That's right, and I'm excited about it. Can't wait to
hop in one.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Hey, Lou, I'm totally in favor of Waimu coming to
San Diego because I can't tell you how many times
I've had an Uber lift driver canceled the service while
on the way to pick me up to take me
to the airport, causing me to almost miss my flights. Anyways,
(09:41):
love your show, Lou.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I appreciate the call. It's happened to me more than
once and it is kind of terrifying, and I don't
know what I'm doing wrong, or like my wife schedules
it and you think that it's a done deal, like
the flight itself, but more than one there's been a
problem and then you've got a scurry and now you're
(10:05):
you know, you're looking for a ride right now at
four in the morning, and there's fewer cars and they're
more expensive. So yeah, that won't happen anymore with the Waimo.
So that's one good thing to look forward to. Game O.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
They could put a Teddy Bear in the front seat.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It looks like.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
Elmo, and they can pick up their friends and hill crush.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
It's the dice man with gay jokes during Pride month.
That's bad for wait till the thirty.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
First, taylu.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I do not feel bad for the Uber and Lyft drivers.
It's just gotten worse and worse, more expensive.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
The quality of car and driver has gone downhill. And
it all happened when they all were crying a fit
about you know, we deserve healthcare four oh one k
all this stuff. It went downhill after that, so it's
not a job to live on as a side gig.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
So I don't feel bad for them. Well, I appreciate
the call. I do feel bad for them. Everything you
just said is true. The cost has certainly gone up,
the quality has been the same, and that is inconsistent. Right,
there are some cars that pull up to pick me
up and they're immaculate inside. They look like they've been detailed,
(11:20):
they're brand new. Guy's got three kinds of charging cables
for me. There's bottles of water in the side door,
the pocket of the door. Very pleasant, very clean and
really nice car. And then there are those times where
somebody pulls up and they got all their laundry in
the back of the car, and they got their jack
(11:42):
in the box trash and the shotgun seat, and they
got this blanket draped over the rear bench seat that's
got dog hair on it. And the driver is fourger
pounds and he's got the seat back and I can't
get behind him, and I want to take that seat
because I want my wife to have the only good
(12:03):
seat left in the car. And he's driving like Snoop Dogg,
you know, rolling, you know, just all spiked out. So
that experience has been consistent with me. In ride shares,
there've been unbelievably beautiful cars and some people that need
a shower. So that's not a fair hit, and it's
(12:24):
not a fair hit that the cost has gone up.
They can't blame the cost of fuel, and the regulatory
thing was not at their making. Remember Uber and Lyft
were the ones that put it on the bollot to
try and reverse whatever that Assembly bill was. Remember State
assembly Woman lorenegan Zales, she was the problem. She ruined it.
(12:46):
She made it more expensive, not the company. And those
stooges that were, you know at press conferences calling for
healthcare from Uber and Lyft, they're not really ride share drivers.
They're paid actors. They're paid you know, people that the
union pay them to go down there and hold signs
(13:06):
that say support AB What was it AB one? Oh,
I can't remember now, so long ago, but I was
so angry because at that time gas prices were not
so high and it was an unregulated place, which means
the fair and free market rule. And Uber and Lyft
was great, and it was very, very inexpensive. I could
(13:28):
get back and forth to town, you know, the town that
or the downtown area that was that is near my
house was like eight dollars eight bucks to hop in
a car and go to a restaurant and drink, and
eight bucks to come home. Why would I have there's
no chance, Why would you ever consider getting a designated
(13:51):
driver or not drinking, and certainly you're not going to
take your own car if you plan on drinking. So
it was just it was I loved it. I loved
the early days of Lyft prior to Lorena Gonzales. I
just thought it was great, and I think Waimo is
going to make it even better. I think at the
expense of Uber and Lyft, and I think that's fair
(14:12):
to say. Again his Shendell minise from NBC seven, she says,
they say it has nothing to do with the competition.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Traveler's cars like Waimo have really boomed in popularity over
the past couple of years, and though they haven't reached
San Diego yet, rides here. Drivers here say they don't
want the same safety concerns they've noticed across the state
to happen in our neighborhoods. These drivers want to be clear,
they're grief with Weimo has nothing to do with the
added competition, right, and.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's a complete falsehood. Obviously, it's all about the competition.
They don't care about safety. Clearly, a processor, a computer processor,
is a safer driver than a human being. So a
couple of years ago, I had the occasion to meet
Steve Wozniak. Wosniak was one of the co founders of Apple.
(15:00):
He got out early, so he's not as famous as
Steve Jobs. But in the world of tech people know
him and he's a really big deal. And he did
very well. And I remember him talking about and this
was many years ago, like before WEAMO, but he had
been an advocate for autonomous driving cars for years, like
(15:24):
ten years ago, and I remember him telling me, he said, Lou,
the human brain is a lot of things. It is
a terrible processor. My bad Apple processors, my early Apple
processors are a factor of a hundred times more efficient
than the human brain. And it's because the processor is
(15:48):
just faster and better at making the kinds of decisions
that need to be made in driving a two thousand
pound car around other two thousand pound cars. And now
you add in the technology of of cameras, side camera
sensors and all that, and it's a no pun intended
a no brainer to have a process or replace the
(16:11):
human brain as the driver of this car. And uh,
I think he's right, And it looks as it turns out,
he is right. As WAYMO will start doing that. Lou,
Penrose on news radio six Hundric Cogo Wai mo Is
head at the San Diego.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I saw two way MoU's over the weekend. One was
it's in the back of a part car that wasn't
going to move in the middle of the street and
it just sat there forever on top of it.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, so I think that that's going to happen. I
think they are going to at times have faulty action.
So that's not unsafe, that just means it's not working.
So it's one of the thousand way Moos. Why am
I saying it's not Waymu. It's way mo Is Washington Mutual,
(17:02):
which was a bank that collapsed under the Obama administration.
WAIM will have some faulty circuits, just like your computer crashes.
But the good news is that it just pulls itself
over and doesn't move. That's what you want in a
self driving car.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Apple's top tier M four max chip operates at around
thirty eight trillion operations per second. Scientists estimate that the
human brain performs at about ten to the fifteenth power
to ten to the eighteenth power operations per second. With
a storage capacity of roughly two point five petabytes, Yeah,
who's even heard of a petabyte in a computer? They're
(17:42):
not even close to the human brain.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Okay, so then let me ask you this question. How
many I mean, how many vodka martinis can apples? M
four Max chip handle before it can drive anymore?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
So, sad if you only had a dependable taxi driver,
you think I want an autonomous car?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
No, I need.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I got a job. I need to work. Lou, get
it together, so I have it together. You seem to not.
Here's the reality. Here's an inconvenient truth for you. And
remember I have an obligation to tell you this. My
name is Lou Penrose, the last adult in San Diego.
(18:24):
The world is not your job's program. Like we don't
not take advantage of technology that significantly increases our collective
quality of life because it might cost you a job. Right,
Life is not a jobs program for you. Conditions change.
(18:48):
There were a lot of blacksmiths around to shoe horses,
Not so much anymore, and life was not a out
creating jobs for blacksmith's. Life was to live and take
advantage of technology that just gets better and better and better.
(19:09):
But you know, I mean, there'll still be opportunities for
you to be okay and then you can take a
way mo to your new job. Hey, San Diego, Ferrett
wrapping up and over nine hundred items in the lost
and found and some really weird items. CBSA's Abby Black
went down there to see what kinds of things they
got in the lost and found by it bag.
Speaker 10 (19:30):
Nine hundred five unclaimed items. We're talking about dance shoes,
a yearbook, even a drum pedal, and fair officials say
there's still time to claim your happy Indeed.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think the drum pedal is odd that anybody somebody
went to the fair with the drum pedal. My suspicion
is the drum pedal belongs to the drummer that performed
at the fair. He's probably the guy that left it behind.
Here's Gail Tompkins, she's the affairs guest service coordinator. She's
got the big They got one of these huge buckets.
(20:05):
I guess of lost and found things, we have quite
a variety of things. As you can see. How do
you not go home without your walker?
Speaker 11 (20:12):
I even have, believe it or not, two pillows.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, a walker was left at the County Fair. Did
I mean? Was there some kind of a religious revival
section of the fair, and somebody said, step out of
your chair and walk. How do you leave a walker behind?
When my kids were in elementary school, there was a
lost and found bin and I had to go through
(20:37):
it a lot because at least once a week one
of my sons left their lunchbox and I had to
go fish it out of this ridiculous bin that was
filled with jackets and hoodies and other lunchboxes. And every
once in a while I'd run across something that was
quite odd. I ran across a pair of pants. I'm thinking,
(21:00):
how do you lose your pants and not know? So
somebody left their walker. Somebody left pillows.
Speaker 11 (21:08):
I even have, believe it or not, two pillows.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, and they look pretty good. Somebody no cases though,
so somebody took the pillows or maybe they brought the
pillows to the fair without cases, or maybe they were
inside the base drum. That's what it is. Oh, this
is one fun this. We have a Ford hubcap yeah,
Ford hubcat like and this wasn't found in the parking lot.
(21:33):
This was found in the fair. So not sure what
the Ford hubcap represents. A Ford hubcap.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
We got about over one hundred cell phones turned in
and I only have a few left.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
One hundred cell phones. People always lose the cell phone
on the ride and then they think it's gone forever.
And what they do at the County Fairy they charge.
They keep the cell phones charged that they can, and
according to gailuh event actually they go off like they
open up the Lost and Found, like right at nine
(22:05):
o'clock and the cell phones are going off and she
picks it up, like, Hi, did I leave my cell phone?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
That?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yes, that must be a fun part of the job
to answer one hundred cell phone calls. But they keep
them charged because they know that someone's gonna call their
own phone and find out where it is. So Shony
has a few left because that's the first thing everybody
comes and picks up their cell phone.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
Over one hundred cell phones turned in, and I only
have a few left. And we had nine hundred and
four items, well actually nine and five. I got one today.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
They're still coming, there's still funding stuff, there's still funning
lost stuff. People can't hang on to anything. I don't know,
like losing I get that you lose the cell phone
on the ride, but losing clothing, losing the walker losing
a hubcap. That seems rather odd, really really odd stuff.
But the good folks at the San Diegogunty Fair are
(22:59):
they're on They're on the ball. They're looking out for you,
and that's really good. Hey ups, excuse me, USPS. The
United States Postal Service raising the price of stamps again.
This time it's going up really big. I only have
forever stamps, and I buy them like at Christmas time,
by the one hundred, and I have a bunch left over,
(23:22):
so I'm in the black.
Speaker 12 (23:25):
It's going to cost more to send first class mail
starting Sunday, when the price of eight forever stamp will
tick up to eighty two cents from seventy eight cents.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Wow, it was it's seventy eight. Now it's not gonna
be eighty two. I am sure. I bought my forever
stamps in the fifties. I go fifty five, maybe fifty eight,
So it's been going up regularly.
Speaker 13 (23:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Look, I love my friends and fellow government workers at
the post Office. It's a great job. They're fun people,
they're characters, all of them. But there's no way you're
gonna be able to mail a letter from San Diego
and have it land in Bangor, Maine for eighty two cents.
(24:09):
They're gonna have to continue to raise these prices. I
don't know why they don't just jump it to a
dollar starting today, like just like, go way ahead. I
mean gas fuel prices are only gonna go up. The
cost of maintaining those vehicles are only gonna go up.
The processing facilities, right, they have to be maintained. It's
only gonna go up. You can't be doing this at
(24:31):
eighty two cents a letter, and nobody's mailing anything anymore.
I can't even get my bank statements mailed anymore, they insist.
Now you've got to act like I like I certainly
my investment statements, like my four oh one K I
like that mailed to me because I want to look
through and see if I can catch my person churning
(24:52):
the account unnecessarily. That's what they do sometimes. So I
would look to see why why was all this sold?
So I want to I want to sit through it,
and I need it in my hands. I can't look
at it on a screen. And now it's not coming
in the mail anymore because I had I had an
actively checked to keep it. Same thing happened with iHeart,
(25:13):
mister finnerdy, did you get a mailed W two at
the end of the year or W four or whatever
we get I did, see I I didn't, and my
wife needed it for the tax girl. And I'm like,
I don't know where it is and I have no
idea how to find it on the website. And it
took me like a half a day to get my
you know, my own, my own tax document because I
(25:36):
like it mailed to me.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
Yes that you want mailed to you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Want that in my hands? Yeah, but uh, the the uh,
the stamps are gonna go on, They're gonna go up,
and I guess postcards are going up to.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Who uses postcards? What was the last time we got
a postcard from anything?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That incredible? Yeah, I mean, but they just don't.
Speaker 12 (25:56):
No one, even when you vacation, they don't use postcards anymore.
I'm having a great time at wherever, you know, the
France or Marseilles or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Wish you were here. Yeah, I mean, who who buys
a postcard? But yeah, they're still selling them.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Other postage products set to see price hikes include domestic
postcards sixty five cents, up from sixty one cents.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, like, oh that's gonna really, that's gonna put them
back into black. Uh, sixty five from sixty one. So
that four cent per postcard and that's the postage you
got to pay for the card. Gritting from Palm Springs,
Like who is doing that? People take selfies and text
the selfie.
Speaker 12 (26:31):
Exactly the talk about a dying business. The postcards have
gone way of the dodo.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, you need a postcard like you need a Blockbuster video,
or as Lou Penrose would say, like you need a
San Diego Public library branch. That's just absurd. Lou Penrose
on news radio six hundred cogo.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Hey, Lou Sweaty from Lakeside. The walker's easy. Somebody said
they were disabled so they could get better parking, maybe
even pay less for it. Safed it walked in with
the walker and dumped it and went and bolt their business.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Wow, that's low. He might be right, But don't you
have to have a placard? I thought you had to
have that blue placard you're supposed to. Yeah, well the
license plate. I don't think you could just show a walker.
But maybe they you know, didn't get you know, better parking,
(27:32):
but use the walker to get, you know, to go
up first on the ride. Cut the line. Oh that's worse.
That's worse. Yeah, I use the walker to go They'll
they'll let you cut the line. Yeah. He might be right.
That might be an idea for next year. Hey and
new love your show.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
William from Rander Pennsquidos, You guys just nailed it on
the head.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I have unlimited amount of postcards in my hand. I'm
speaking into it right now.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Snap a photo, send a text, boom, instant postcard.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Thank you have a great day, guys. That's right. That's
a lot cheaper than buying a postcard, especially now that
the stamps have gone up. Guess what's come down? Egg prices. Remember,
for the longest time during the Biden administration, egg prices
through the roof. Nobody could figure out why. Now they've
bottomed out, and the people that make eggs are stuck
holding the bag.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Typically, egg prices fall within a pretty predictable range. That
has not been the case over the last year, where
we've seen them above six dollars per dozen down to
now two nineteen a dozen. How do you run a
business when the prices are so vary?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, talking to an egg farmer here in California. How
you gonna run a business? How do you know? If
you know you got to invest in chickens to get eggs. No,
it's insane, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
I mean it went up last year because the bird
flu and we actually lost our flock to the bird flue.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Last year. We lost three thousand birds. But three thousand birds. Wow,
that was a bad bird flue. So then he ran
out to buy more bird you know, to replenish, thinking
that he's gonna sell eggs at six dollars a dozen,
and now there are three happened to a lot of
farmers across the country, so not many eggs, and so
prices go up.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
A lot of the.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Farmers doubled down this year thinking it was gonna happen again. Well,
it didn't really happen. So now we have too many eggs.
Now we have too many eggs, too many eggs, and
you know what happens when there's too many eggs, the
same thing that happens when there's too many vacancies. The
rents go down. So the egg prices have gone down.
I think this might be an unpopular opinion. I think
(29:35):
Gordon Ramsey uses way too much butter in his scrambled eggs.
He he uses like three big chunks of butter for
scrambled eggs, and I I just have to disagree. You
can't use that much butter. I think you should use butter.
I don't do spray. You don't want to go with
(29:56):
pam or any of that stuff. You know, avocado oil
or even olive oil has flavor, and that messes up
the flavor of the scrambled egg. So you want to
go with a little bit of butter. I used to
take the stick like while it was still in the wrapper,
like while it was still a you know, a cube,
and then with the open end of the stea, you
hold the stick of butter and then it just rub
(30:18):
some butter in the center of the pan. That's all
the butter I ever used. Hey, my mom taught me
that trick, which probably contaminates the entire stick of butter.
But you know, we all live in the same house.
Ramsey's putting way too much butter into scrambled eggs, so
of course they're gonna come out fluffy. That's the secret
of almost all of restaurant cooking is they use so
(30:38):
much butter. That's what makes the steak sizzle. That's what
makes you know the faeat is sizzle. That was the
trick at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. They're like, oh, this is
that sizzle?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You pour enough butter on a choice cut of meat
and it's gonna sizzle. So there is a lot of
butter in the restaurant industry and he uses well, that's
the industry he comes from. But I think he uses
way too much butter. I do like his chopped green
onion trick. That's good. And I have learned how to
do the scrambled egg rose where you just constantly pull
(31:14):
from the side all around the pan and then all
of it comes in the center and it shaped like
a rose. So I can do that, but I could
do it for you with way less butter.
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