November 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Lou on the busiest travel day before Thanksgiving and his secret travel hack.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Blu Penrose 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 Tuesday. Thursday is Thanksgiving,
but today is really the busy day.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's going to be the busiest travel season in fifteen years,
So if you are headed to the airports, make sure
you're planning accordingly.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So TSA expects to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Screen eighteen million travelers from today until next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Eighteen million travelers starting today through next Tuesday, because they'll
screen the same travelers back on Tuesday. Tuesday the busiest
day next week. I guess Sunday isn't the travel day anymore.
Everybody must have heard, you know better off take the
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next day off of work and travel on Monday, and
then that was no good Like next Tuesday. These are
like COVID era travel days, where you just travel to
day you want.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But that's a lot of screening.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Fifty two thousand flights everybody's traveling.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Today expected to be the busiest day.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Of the week, with fifty two.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Thousand flights scheduled nationwide. The FAA says their air traffic
control towers are still under staff. But the good news
is they are back to pre government shutdown levels and
flight schedules are also back to normal.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
All right, this is all good news, right, I mean,
the government shutdown is a thing of the past.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The air traffic controllers, everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Was worried about that, and we're often running. Everybody's on
their way to Thanksgiving. And for those that are not
traveling but have traveled, you've never experienced it at this level.
So isn't that a good feeling? Like I'm not traveling anywhere.
I'm driving to Palm Springs after the show on Wednesday,
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after I get out of here at Kogo, but that's
just a little drive. Flying really is a much more
challenging travel mode. Nobody takes the train, and only homeless
people take buses.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So that's all there.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Is is cars and planes, and the airport, as you know,
has gotten more and more challenging. And everybody is doing
this and I love this. Everybody is on social media
putting out travel hacks based on airlines. I've been looking
at this this morning. It really is fun. I don't
travel really nearly as much as I did when I
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worked in Washington, d C. Traveling back and forth from
DC to California. The only time I travel really on
an airplane is when I'm going on vacation.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And everybody's in a good mood.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If that plane is, you know, scheduled to land in Cancun,
so nobody's in a bad mood on that plane. Right
going to LaGuardia through o air maybe a bad mood.
And everybody's posting all these travel hacks, and I thought
a lot of them were quite clever. Just things that
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you can do, Ways that you can fix up your suitcase,
ways that you can actually plan yourself a little picnic,
not to bring smelly food, just like all And the biggest,
the biggest piece of advice, mister finnerty, do you know
what the number one piece of advice was? I thought
this was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, hit me, what is it? Don't drink alcohol on
the plane. Oh well, yeah, no, that's that's a no brainer. Yeah.
I know you're already getting dehydrated up there, so you
don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, I had always heard how dehydrating it was.
But like you are, you will. You are far more
likely to get a headache from that chardonnay on the
plane than you are getting calm, like, have a glass
of wine at the airport if you want, but once
you get on the plane, just hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, and
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spend the next two hours three hours just as as
hydrated as possible. And uh, it was just a bunch
of really interesting travel hacks that I thought were a
lot of fun. And it sounds like everybody is getting
a lot. I know Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation,
has been out there encouraging everybody to use a little
more civility, a little more pleases. And thank yous. I
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learned to travel hawk a long time ago. I have
been using it for years and it works like a charm.
And it's not my idea. I actually got this from
Shannon Bellio. Bellyo gave me this idea. She works in
Los Angeles at a radio station, Kafine.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
She taught me.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She said, look, there is a Sea's Candy in every
major airport. Go into that Sea's Candy and just buy
a box, buy a pound of candy, buy a half
pound box if you want, like what you're looking at,
maybe eight bucks twelve bucks, which won't even cover the
cost of your chardonnay at the airport. And then when
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you get on the plane, there's always like a flight
attendant right there as you get in that little door
before you turn right hand it to her and say
this is for the crew, thank you for being the crew.
Like she doesn't just do it on Thanksgiving every single
time she travels, and.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It is. It is gold Man, it is absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
First off, nobody turns down a box of chocolate, even
if you're watching a weight you're just delighted to receive
a box of chocolate. It's very nice you We're not
talking about Whitman Samplers here.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Nobody can go wrong with Sees candy.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And you're in California, so Sees candy is available. And
people that are, you know, the crew may or may
not be from California.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Maybe they're from pigs Knuckles, Arkansas. So it's like a
treat for them.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And then the flight attenant can share it with you know,
whoever she wants to, or give it to the pilot
or not or whatever. But it is such a golden ticket.
It has worked for me to make things pleasant.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It doesn't always.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Result in a free drink ticket or even an upgrade
sometimes it has, but it just seems to make my
flight more comfortable. I feel happy about it. It's always
been received and there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
There's the second. It's secondhand.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It wasn't my idea, but I have employed it and
I recommend it all right. Here's Katla's Mario Ramirez at
LAX talking to some lucky travelers.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
From families headed to Hawaii to missionaries headed to Vietnam.
We've really been talking to white the variety of people.
And this family here is headed to a Disney cruise.
How many in your group?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Going down to the Disney cruise on a Tuesday morning.
That's the way to spend thanks Toeving. I did that
a few years ago. One of the best Thanksgivings. Let
Disney cook the bird. They do a far better job.
Everything is very The mashed potatoes are very fluffy, the
fruit is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Everything on the Disney cruise is already good.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So they really have to outdo themselves to make the
Thanksgiving feast seem like a feast, because every single meal
is a feast on a Disney cruise. And you got
to take a plane to get to the cruse Disney cruise.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
How many in your group? Five? Including my husband.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
What's your favorite part about the Disney Cruise?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm limited ice cream and you the pilot Piety.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Am that great mister Finnerdy a little ones agoing with
the unlimited ice cream and the Pirate party.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You know that's for big kids too.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, there are lots of big kids on that on
that cruise. I uh, I remember the unlimited ice cream.
It was on like like the eleventh deck or something,
but that was That was my then ten year olds
first time that he ventured out, like in a hotel
or anything without a big brother, because he's the youngest
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and he's always had, always has a big brother available,
and we're always like, all right, just stick with your
big brother. And when he found that unlimited ice cream
bar on the like like deck eleven, he's like, I'm
gonna take the room key. I think I can figure
this out from here. Guys, I'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Five including my husband.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
What's your favorite part about the Disney crew?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I'm living in a street and you the Pirate piet Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Everyone's in a good mood. All the flights are working.
All the air traffic controllers are back to work, fifty
two thousand flights in the best first world nation on
planet Earth, the United States of America. Eighteen million people
traveling to go see loved ones and carve turkey and
get into political arguments and watch football and have a
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great time. I think this is fantastic. I'm going a
good Thanksgiving mood, and I hope you are too. Eight
hundred six hundred Cogo eight hundred six hundred five six
four six, And if you're listening live, you can join
us on the talkback mike if you have any of
these travel hacks for holidays or any other time. I
like the one yesterday we got for people driving, which.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I have not yet followed, and that has gas up
the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So I should probably do that on the way out
of Cogo, because you don't want to really gas up
the day that you're traveling. And today's the busiest travel day.
I don't know what the freeways were like, but we'll
find out here in just a moment. Blue Penrose on
News Radio six hundred Cogo always live on the iHeartRadio app.
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It is the busiest travel day of the holiday season.
And like the busiest Thanksgiving travel week from Tuesday to
Tuesday in seventeen years, and everybody's traveling and everything seems
to be going smoothly. I'm surprised that there isn't more
talk about how to get along.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
With your in laws.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I know Sean Hannity was talking about it, but I mean,
that's like a Good Morning America thing, Like why isn't
that cornering the news in good like in morning drive,
Like during COVID that was like the big thing that
we were all not going to get along after. After
Trump was elected in twenty sixteen, and then during the
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Biden years, we were not going to be able to
get along because politics, and it seems like we've gotten
over ourselves. And really I never thought people like me
that support Trump had anything to worry about. It's the people.
It's the losers that have things to worry about. I mean,
the Kamala Harris people. They're the sour pusses. But everything
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seems to be going smoothly, So maybe it's just a
maybe it's all over. Maybe Trump arrangement syndrome has settled
in and has numbed the mind of the cat ladies
and the rest of us are just enjoying our lives.
And I have thought about this for quite some time.
I noticed that all the numbers are good, and Trump
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is doing his job in cheerleading the numbers and chastising
Republicans when they do anything but cheerlead the numbers, because
that's how you stay on narrative. There is no question
that if the stock market was at its lowest level,
everybody would say Donald Trump's economy is bad. There is
no question that the price of turkey was at a
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record high, everyone would say President Trump's economy is bad.
There was no question that if fifty two thousand flights
and eighteen million travelers weren't traveling because of the cost
of airline tickets or the cost of fuel, they would
say President Trump's economy is a terrible economy. You know this.
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So clearly, this is a good economy, and President Trump
is ushering in a good economy. And really, the economic
agenda of the country is defined by the executive branch.
So inasmuch as the Trump haters want to call it otherwise,
things are good. Now. Whether people see things as good
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or not is a whole, separate emotional matter. The Consumer
Confidence Index is emotional. The gross to mess product is numbers,
and right now people are not feeling like the country
is in good shape.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But the country is in good shape.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
The Trump administration is making the case that prices are down.
Data from OLS Fargo shows costs for common items like turkey, stuffing, cranberries,
frozen vegetables, and dinner rolls are lower, but consumer sentiment
is still pretty gloomy. Fox News polls show a majority
of Americans aren't happy with the way the economy is
going here.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I'm not surprised at that first off. Majority of
Americans could be fifty one percent. We know that forty
eight percent have Trump Arrangement syndrome. So it only takes
a couple of independents that are sour pusses to be
able to make the statement a majority of Americans are
gloomy about the economy. Right, Let's put things in perspective.
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Make no mistake. I am happy. I like the direction
we're going.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I see prices coming.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They're not going to fall. Overnights have to come down
or just stop going up. Inflation is certainly flat, and
Trump is working on it. He is prioritizing it, he's
accomplishing what a president can accomplish, and that is slashing
fuel costs by drill baby, drill right, utilize domestic energy,
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flood the space with petroleum so that the Saudis can't
charge one hundred and fifty seven dollars a barrel.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Instead they're charging fifty seven dollars a barrel. That's good
for you and good for me.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The price of the pump here in California never really
changes because California taxes at a faster rate than Trump
can reduce the price of fuel. Eventually, the price of
fuel will go down to zero and you'll still be
paying for eighty five. So the consumer confidence isn't as
important to me, but it is telling.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But consumer sentiment is still pretty gloomy. If Fox News
polls show a majority of Americans aren't happy with the
way the economy is going, the White House acknowledges more
work needs to be done, and they say, in part,
the Trump administration is relentlessly fighting to deliver the bold
structural changes that will bring lasting relief to all American families.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That's right, that's what it takes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Short term fix, lower taxes, reduce the size and scope
of government, expand freedom and opportunity, get regulation out of
the way.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's the short term fix. Long term fix is structural.
You got to change the tax code. You got to
reduce the corporate tax rate. You got to reduce the
taxes on the millionaires in the billionaires and invite them
to come back and be millionaires in billionaires here in
the United States and move the jobs back to America
and get the fire up the factories and get Americans
working manufacturing. That is happening, but it takes time. It's
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never reported. Every time Trump has a press conference, he's
got some Japanese print prime minister or some Saudi you know,
shake and they're all talking about investing billions of dollars
right here in the United States. And as soon as
he go the questions, the reporter wants to ask about Epstein.
I watched the whole press conference, and I am excited
to hear about the investment in the United States.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But that does take time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But it's not where the numbers are, it's the direction
the numbers are moving, and they're moving in the right direction.
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Talking about the holiday season and the season we're in
and the fact that times are good, President Trump is
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out there saying it. You're always going to have some
sense of consumer confidence waning because people don't know coming
out of bad times if these good times will last forever.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You're feeling shaky about the economy. Who's feeling shaky about
the economy?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Liberals, yes, Democrats are feeling shaky about the economy because
they might have to work and the application for food
stamps might not be approved. Democrats are feeling shaky about
the economy because they'll have to produce as opposed to
relying on being hired and staying employed because the company
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is trying to meet a diversity quota. Democrats are shaky
about the economy because the better the econom me, the
better it is for Americans.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
The better it is for Americans.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The more Americans realize that they don't need government. The
more Americans realize they don't need government, the more Americans
realize they don't need democrats. Do you see how that works? Now,
there is a counter punch to this. There is a
counter punch to prosperity, and that is prosperity it has
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its own diminishing level of marginal return. That's an economic
factor like those of us. In economics and finance, there's
a principle called the diminishing level of marginal return, and
that is if you love Oreo cookies, I mean just
love Oreo co Co cookies, I give you a free
box of Oreo cookies.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You eat every single one in the box.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Then I give you a second one and you eat
almost the whole box.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Can't get through it. Then I give you a third one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And you just really can't even start eating those Oreo cookies,
even though you love or your cookies. The marginal return
your delight diminished over time. The same thing happens with prosperity.
There's a diminishing level of marginal return, and that is
as good as think. At the first wave of good things.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You're nervous.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
This is good, but is it gonna stay? You're shaky.
The next wave of good things, you're like, man, things
are good.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I gotta admit Trump was right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Then the net third wave of things going good, you're like,
this is great. I noticed the guy across the street
bought a new car. I'm seeing a lot of paper
license plates. People are buying new cars, so consumer confidence
must be high. So I'm gonna go out and buy
a new car too. And I don't see a lot
of for sale signs around here. And look, that slob
across the street is actually panning his house. Right, You
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start seeing things around you anecdotally but like locally, and
that becomes a good thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And then in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The fourth way, it's like, Okay, I mean, things really
got better in the second quarter of the year. Things
are good, but they're not getting any better. Right, so
the margin return on prosperity begins to diminish. That doesn't
mean anything is bad. That just means it's only so
much this president can do to create opportunities for you.
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So times are good, make the best of them. Right,
you start preparing for a great quality of life while
you have a good quality of life in the fast
food industry. I don't know if you know this, but
I used to work for Burger King, mister Finnity.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did you know that he's dealing with the the listener?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I know, I always, I always go to him when
he's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
At Burger King. When it's fat, like when it's slow.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
When when the when the when the the dining room
slows down, when the you know, the drive through slows down,
usually like after two in the afternoon, after the lunch rush.
The rule was, when in peace, prepare for war. And
that is it's slow now, So take a breath and
then go restock. Restock the hamburger buns, make sure they're
all there. Go check the salad bar, make sure all
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the tomatoes are good. Restock the cups, restock the straws. Right,
when in peace, prepare for war. Same thing with prosperity.
When things are good, prepare for great and ride it up.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
But yeah, I think there.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Will be a level of economic growth and prosperity that
Trump achieves that will begin to taper off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And then that's okay. We're not there yet.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I think we can start doing a lot more in
our major cities, and I think we can compel a
lot more people to work when we I think this
idea of having people requalify for food stamps is a
great idea. I also want everybody to requalify for Section
eight housing. I also want everybody to requalify for supplemental
disability insurance. I want it because I don't trust anything
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that went on under the Obama administration or the Biden administration,
and we tend to find a lot of illegals when
we do this whole requalifying. If you're an American and
you're actually disabled, it's not going to bother you to requalify.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
If you're an American and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You actually qualify for food stamps, I'm happy to have
the program for you. But if you don't, you don't,
and if you do, it's not an insult to ask
you to requalify these are government benefits. They don't belong
to you, they belong to me. So I have no problem.
And by the way, while we're at it, I want
people to have to requalify for that, you know, low
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income status for San Diego Gas and Electric. I want
people to requalify for that low income status on their
AT and T bill. Can't just be low income for
your whole time while not while the economy is growing
and this prosperity and opportunity everywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You just can't sit around low income your whole life.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, you get eighteen months under the Penrose administration. After
eighteen months, if your lot in life's the saying, it's you,
it's not the cost of the power bill.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
All right, President Trump, pardon the turkey.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Normally I don't go for this whole turkey pardon act.
I think it's unpresidential. Every year the president does it.
I don't like the president of the United States standing
next to a turkey. I don't dig the whole Easter
egg roll and the big fuzzy bunny either, But these
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are traditions, and I don't know that Abraham Lincoln actually
had a live turkey. But nevertheless, leave it to Trump
to make it the most entertaining turkey pardon ever.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
The annual turkey pardon turning into a turkey roast. As
President Trump took some shots at former President Biden, alleging
last year's turkeys were pardon using the auto pen, so
the pardons are now invalid.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
How about that? Trump gets a shot in there. He said,
last year there's turkeys that were pardoned by Joe Biden,
were pardoned by the autopen, which means they're not valid,
which means these birds are not pardoned and could wind
up on the Thanksgiving Day table.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So lucky that Trump is here.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I jumped in and repardon last year's turkeys so they'd
be actually pardoned. I signed it, you know, with an
actual pen.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Terrible situation cause by a man named sleepy Joe Biden.
He used an autopen last year for the turkey's pardon.
So I have the official duty to determine, and I
have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid.
But they're here by nol and void.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The turkey is known.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
As peachin blossom last year, have been located, and I
am officially pardoning them and they will not be served
for Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay, peach and blossom that were pardoned by Joe's autopen
last year. Now they've been officially pardoned, and now Trump
moves on to this year's turkey, and he actually wanted
to give them another name.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
The turkey's being pardoned today go by the names of
Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw their pictures, I
thought we should well. I was gonna I shouldn't say this.
I was gonna call him chuck in Nancy. But then
I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never
pardon those two people.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
How about that nobody is having more fun being president
of the United States, and nobody has ever had more
fun being President of the United States than Donald J.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Coming up following the news at five, Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy again reiterated, is I don't know if it's a
desire his recommendation maybe that you don't dress like a
slob going to the airport. He said that we're trying
to embark on a civility campaign. We're encouraging everybody in
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the transportation industry to reimagine how they can be nice
and courteous and that's only half of it, is asking
the American traveler, particularly now when we embark upon starting
today the busiest Thanksgiving travel season I think they said
in seventeen years. But it's definitely very busy out there,
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and airports get very busy. And he held a press
conference today and said, look, there's a lot of things
that we can do, but it's not lost upon me
that showing up at the gate wearing pajamas and slippers
probably doesn't help.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Let's try not to where slippers in pajamas as we
come to the airport.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think that's positive.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I do think that's positive. I'm with him. I don't
need to see you in your nightgown. But as you
can imagine, there has been blowback and a lot of
people have pushed back on the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So we'll hash it out coming up.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Following the news at five o'clock, here's President Trump championing
championing this his first Thanksgiving of the new administration.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
According to the USCA, the price of Thanksgiving Turkey is
down thirty three percent from its Bidenira highs. Potatoes are
down thirteen percent. Ham is down fifteen percent. Compared to
last Thanksgiving. So we are down to a level that
we haven't seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Time, and those numbers are quite correct that according to
the Farm Bureau. I still find it fascinating that the
turkey is cheaper than the carrots, Like the appetizer tray
will set you back more than the main course.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Here it is, so your carve me things like your
stuffing and your roles are down nine and fourteen percent, respectively,
and then your fresh veggies and your sweet potatoes are
up significantly sixty one percent for the veggie tray, don't
invite me over if you're getting it that he transfer appetizer,
and thirty seven percent for the sweet potatoes. Now, why
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can it be that the cost is down for the
third year in a row if we know that food
at home prices according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
are up two point seven percent since last fall.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, look, is anybody not buying rolls? I mean, the
price of rolls, whether they're up thirteen percent or thirty
percent is kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Like, is that really throwing you off?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'm not really sure about the whole cost of rolls thing.
According to the Farm Bureau, are you ready for this number,
mister finnerty, The average Thanksgiving dinner, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner
should be five dollars and fifty two cents per person,
not including.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Beverage where at home.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
At home in order, if you bought a turkey and
mashed potatoes and green beans, like just the plate that
you see on TV, that should cost you per serving
per person five dollars and fifty two cents, which seems
rather low to me.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's too low. I don't buy that, Like, isn't that
low enough?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I mean, I would.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Think it would be at least ten something or maybe
even eleven. A make value meal is eight dollars. Yeah,
I'm thinking you're talking turkey, cranberry sauce or roll, mashed potatoes, stuffing,
whatever else. He ams right.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This proves my point. This isn't the holiday to check
the barometer of the nation's food cost. This is not
an expensive meal, like Thanksgiving is not an expensive meal,
and nobody should be going to the poorhouse hosting Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
President Trump is translating mixed economic news retail sales up,
consumer confidence down this way. The American Farm Bureau Federation's
accounting finds that a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten. So I don't know what
the American Farm Bureau thanks is classic, but let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Counting finds that a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten comes
out to about fifty five dollars eighteen cents. That is
five point fifty two a person, and that is down
five percent a person from last year, five to fifty
two a person.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So either people are taking too much and I don't
know how that works out. Like, what about the leftover food?
Like you could, we will certainly eat twice. My boys
will eat twice. I think the turkey we got was
sixteen and a half pounds, which seems kind of heavy
to me. My wife doesn't eat turkey. I'm not sure
how much I'm gonna have, but we will eat twice.
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So now if you they won't be left over of everything,
all the mac and cheese will be gone.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I'm sure of that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
The worst part about eating with my family is the
pumpkin pie, because this is the way it goes in
my family. The pumpkin pie and ice cream is eating
for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning, So everybody will get up
at like eight o'clock, nine o'clock at Grandma's house and
Palm Springs, and she'll have already broken into the pumpkin pie.
That's great. The pumpkin pie and ice cream for breakfast
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on Thanksgiving morning, that's awesome. Then we're in Palm Springs,
so we go for a hike, because that's always fun,
the traditional Thanksgiving hike. And I'll post the photo on
my Facebook page. And then we come home and.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Start, like, you know, peeling potatoes.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'll make the pasta with the moots adel and ricotta cheese,
and everybody will start. Everybody's got a thing, and then
we'll eat, and then we'll like eat later, but they'll
be Yeah, the dessert is served at breakfast.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
That's always the way it's been
Blu Penrose 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 Tuesday. Thursday is Thanksgiving,
but today is really the busy day.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's going to be the busiest travel season in fifteen years,
So if you are headed to the airports, make sure
you're planning accordingly.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So TSA expects to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Screen eighteen million travelers from today until next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Eighteen million travelers starting today through next Tuesday, because they'll
screen the same travelers back on Tuesday. Tuesday the busiest
day next week. I guess Sunday isn't the travel day anymore.
Everybody must have heard, you know better off take the
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next day off of work and travel on Monday, and
then that was no good Like next Tuesday. These are
like COVID era travel days, where you just travel to
day you want.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But that's a lot of screening.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Fifty two thousand flights everybody's traveling.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Today expected to be the busiest day.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Of the week, with fifty two.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Thousand flights scheduled nationwide. The FAA says their air traffic
control towers are still under staff. But the good news
is they are back to pre government shutdown levels and
flight schedules are also back to normal.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
All right, this is all good news, right, I mean,
the government shutdown is a thing of the past.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The air traffic controllers, everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Was worried about that, and we're often running. Everybody's on
their way to Thanksgiving. And for those that are not
traveling but have traveled, you've never experienced it at this level.
So isn't that a good feeling? Like I'm not traveling anywhere.
I'm driving to Palm Springs after the show on Wednesday,
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after I get out of here at Kogo, but that's
just a little drive. Flying really is a much more
challenging travel mode. Nobody takes the train, and only homeless
people take buses.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So that's all there.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Is is cars and planes, and the airport, as you know,
has gotten more and more challenging. And everybody is doing
this and I love this. Everybody is on social media
putting out travel hacks based on airlines. I've been looking
at this this morning. It really is fun. I don't
travel really nearly as much as I did when I
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worked in Washington, d C. Traveling back and forth from
DC to California. The only time I travel really on
an airplane is when I'm going on vacation.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And everybody's in a good mood.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
If that plane is, you know, scheduled to land in Cancun,
so nobody's in a bad mood on that plane. Right
going to LaGuardia through o air maybe a bad mood.
And everybody's posting all these travel hacks, and I thought
a lot of them were quite clever. Just things that
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you can do, Ways that you can fix up your suitcase,
ways that you can actually plan yourself a little picnic,
not to bring smelly food, just like all And the biggest,
the biggest piece of advice, mister finnerty, do you know
what the number one piece of advice was? I thought
this was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, hit me, what is it? Don't drink alcohol on
the plane. Oh well, yeah, no, that's that's a no brainer. Yeah.
I know you're already getting dehydrated up there, so you
don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, I had always heard how dehydrating it was.
But like you are, you will. You are far more
likely to get a headache from that chardonnay on the
plane than you are getting calm, like, have a glass
of wine at the airport if you want, but once
you get on the plane, just hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, and
(03:47):
spend the next two hours three hours just as as
hydrated as possible. And uh, it was just a bunch
of really interesting travel hacks that I thought were a
lot of fun. And it sounds like everybody is getting
a lot. I know Sean Duffy, the Secretary of Transportation,
has been out there encouraging everybody to use a little
more civility, a little more pleases. And thank yous. I
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learned to travel hawk a long time ago. I have
been using it for years and it works like a charm.
And it's not my idea. I actually got this from
Shannon Bellio. Bellyo gave me this idea. She works in
Los Angeles at a radio station, Kafine.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
She taught me.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
She said, look, there is a Sea's Candy in every
major airport. Go into that Sea's Candy and just buy
a box, buy a pound of candy, buy a half
pound box if you want, like what you're looking at,
maybe eight bucks twelve bucks, which won't even cover the
cost of your chardonnay at the airport. And then when
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you get on the plane, there's always like a flight
attendant right there as you get in that little door
before you turn right hand it to her and say
this is for the crew, thank you for being the crew.
Like she doesn't just do it on Thanksgiving every single
time she travels, and.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It is. It is gold Man, it is absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
First off, nobody turns down a box of chocolate, even
if you're watching a weight you're just delighted to receive
a box of chocolate. It's very nice you We're not
talking about Whitman Samplers here.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Nobody can go wrong with Sees candy.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And you're in California, so Sees candy is available. And
people that are, you know, the crew may or may
not be from California.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Maybe they're from pigs Knuckles, Arkansas. So it's like a
treat for them.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
And then the flight attenant can share it with you know,
whoever she wants to, or give it to the pilot
or not or whatever. But it is such a golden ticket.
It has worked for me to make things pleasant.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It doesn't always.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Result in a free drink ticket or even an upgrade
sometimes it has, but it just seems to make my
flight more comfortable. I feel happy about it. It's always
been received and there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
There's the second. It's secondhand.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It wasn't my idea, but I have employed it and
I recommend it all right. Here's Katla's Mario Ramirez at
LAX talking to some lucky travelers.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
From families headed to Hawaii to missionaries headed to Vietnam.
We've really been talking to white the variety of people.
And this family here is headed to a Disney cruise.
How many in your group?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Going down to the Disney cruise on a Tuesday morning.
That's the way to spend thanks Toeving. I did that
a few years ago. One of the best Thanksgivings. Let
Disney cook the bird. They do a far better job.
Everything is very The mashed potatoes are very fluffy, the
fruit is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Everything on the Disney cruise is already good.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So they really have to outdo themselves to make the
Thanksgiving feast seem like a feast, because every single meal
is a feast on a Disney cruise. And you got
to take a plane to get to the cruse Disney cruise.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
How many in your group? Five? Including my husband.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
What's your favorite part about the Disney Cruise?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm limited ice cream and you the pilot Piety.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Am that great mister Finnerdy a little ones agoing with
the unlimited ice cream and the Pirate party.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You know that's for big kids too.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, there are lots of big kids on that on
that cruise. I uh, I remember the unlimited ice cream.
It was on like like the eleventh deck or something,
but that was That was my then ten year olds
first time that he ventured out, like in a hotel
or anything without a big brother, because he's the youngest
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and he's always had, always has a big brother available,
and we're always like, all right, just stick with your
big brother. And when he found that unlimited ice cream
bar on the like like deck eleven, he's like, I'm
gonna take the room key. I think I can figure
this out from here. Guys, I'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Five including my husband.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
What's your favorite part about the Disney crew?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
I'm living in a street and you the Pirate piet Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I love it, I love it.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Everyone's in a good mood. All the flights are working.
All the air traffic controllers are back to work, fifty
two thousand flights in the best first world nation on
planet Earth, the United States of America. Eighteen million people
traveling to go see loved ones and carve turkey and
get into political arguments and watch football and have a
(08:28):
great time. I think this is fantastic. I'm going a
good Thanksgiving mood, and I hope you are too. Eight
hundred six hundred Cogo eight hundred six hundred five six
four six, And if you're listening live, you can join
us on the talkback mike if you have any of
these travel hacks for holidays or any other time. I
like the one yesterday we got for people driving, which.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I have not yet followed, and that has gas up
the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So I should probably do that on the way out
of Cogo, because you don't want to really gas up
the day that you're traveling. And today's the busiest travel day.
I don't know what the freeways were like, but we'll
find out here in just a moment. Blue Penrose on
News Radio six hundred Cogo always live on the iHeartRadio app.
(09:14):
It is the busiest travel day of the holiday season.
And like the busiest Thanksgiving travel week from Tuesday to
Tuesday in seventeen years, and everybody's traveling and everything seems
to be going smoothly. I'm surprised that there isn't more
talk about how to get along.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
With your in laws.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I know Sean Hannity was talking about it, but I mean,
that's like a Good Morning America thing, Like why isn't
that cornering the news in good like in morning drive,
Like during COVID that was like the big thing that
we were all not going to get along after. After
Trump was elected in twenty sixteen, and then during the
(09:57):
Biden years, we were not going to be able to
get along because politics, and it seems like we've gotten
over ourselves. And really I never thought people like me
that support Trump had anything to worry about. It's the people.
It's the losers that have things to worry about. I mean,
the Kamala Harris people. They're the sour pusses. But everything
(10:19):
seems to be going smoothly, So maybe it's just a
maybe it's all over. Maybe Trump arrangement syndrome has settled
in and has numbed the mind of the cat ladies
and the rest of us are just enjoying our lives.
And I have thought about this for quite some time.
I noticed that all the numbers are good, and Trump
(10:40):
is doing his job in cheerleading the numbers and chastising
Republicans when they do anything but cheerlead the numbers, because
that's how you stay on narrative. There is no question
that if the stock market was at its lowest level,
everybody would say Donald Trump's economy is bad. There is
no question that the price of turkey was at a
(11:01):
record high, everyone would say President Trump's economy is bad.
There was no question that if fifty two thousand flights
and eighteen million travelers weren't traveling because of the cost
of airline tickets or the cost of fuel, they would
say President Trump's economy is a terrible economy. You know this.
(11:24):
So clearly, this is a good economy, and President Trump
is ushering in a good economy. And really, the economic
agenda of the country is defined by the executive branch.
So inasmuch as the Trump haters want to call it otherwise,
things are good. Now. Whether people see things as good
(11:50):
or not is a whole, separate emotional matter. The Consumer
Confidence Index is emotional. The gross to mess product is numbers,
and right now people are not feeling like the country
is in good shape.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But the country is in good shape.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
The Trump administration is making the case that prices are down.
Data from OLS Fargo shows costs for common items like turkey, stuffing, cranberries,
frozen vegetables, and dinner rolls are lower, but consumer sentiment
is still pretty gloomy. Fox News polls show a majority
of Americans aren't happy with the way the economy is
going here.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
And I'm not surprised at that first off. Majority of
Americans could be fifty one percent. We know that forty
eight percent have Trump Arrangement syndrome. So it only takes
a couple of independents that are sour pusses to be
able to make the statement a majority of Americans are
gloomy about the economy. Right, Let's put things in perspective.
(12:51):
Make no mistake. I am happy. I like the direction
we're going.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I see prices coming.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
They're not going to fall. Overnights have to come down
or just stop going up. Inflation is certainly flat, and
Trump is working on it. He is prioritizing it, he's
accomplishing what a president can accomplish, and that is slashing
fuel costs by drill baby, drill right, utilize domestic energy,
(13:17):
flood the space with petroleum so that the Saudis can't
charge one hundred and fifty seven dollars a barrel.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Instead they're charging fifty seven dollars a barrel. That's good
for you and good for me.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
The price of the pump here in California never really
changes because California taxes at a faster rate than Trump
can reduce the price of fuel. Eventually, the price of
fuel will go down to zero and you'll still be
paying for eighty five. So the consumer confidence isn't as
important to me, but it is telling.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
But consumer sentiment is still pretty gloomy. If Fox News
polls show a majority of Americans aren't happy with the
way the economy is going, the White House acknowledges more
work needs to be done, and they say, in part,
the Trump administration is relentlessly fighting to deliver the bold
structural changes that will bring lasting relief to all American families.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
That's right, that's what it takes.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Short term fix, lower taxes, reduce the size and scope
of government, expand freedom and opportunity, get regulation out of
the way.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Drill, baby, drill.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's the short term fix. Long term fix is structural.
You got to change the tax code. You got to
reduce the corporate tax rate. You got to reduce the
taxes on the millionaires in the billionaires and invite them
to come back and be millionaires in billionaires here in
the United States and move the jobs back to America
and get the fire up the factories and get Americans
working manufacturing. That is happening, but it takes time. It's
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never reported. Every time Trump has a press conference, he's
got some Japanese print prime minister or some Saudi you know,
shake and they're all talking about investing billions of dollars
right here in the United States. And as soon as
he go the questions, the reporter wants to ask about Epstein.
I watched the whole press conference, and I am excited
to hear about the investment in the United States.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
But that does take time.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But it's not where the numbers are, it's the direction
the numbers are moving, and they're moving in the right direction.
Blue Penrods on News Radio six hundred co Go always
live on the iHeartRadio app happy Thanksgiving time and if
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Talking about the holiday season and the season we're in
and the fact that times are good, President Trump is
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out there saying it. You're always going to have some
sense of consumer confidence waning because people don't know coming
out of bad times if these good times will last forever.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You're feeling shaky about the economy. Who's feeling shaky about
the economy?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Liberals, yes, Democrats are feeling shaky about the economy because
they might have to work and the application for food
stamps might not be approved. Democrats are feeling shaky about
the economy because they'll have to produce as opposed to
relying on being hired and staying employed because the company
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is trying to meet a diversity quota. Democrats are shaky
about the economy because the better the econom me, the
better it is for Americans.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
The better it is for Americans.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The more Americans realize that they don't need government. The
more Americans realize they don't need government, the more Americans
realize they don't need democrats. Do you see how that works? Now,
there is a counter punch to this. There is a
counter punch to prosperity, and that is prosperity it has
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its own diminishing level of marginal return. That's an economic
factor like those of us. In economics and finance, there's
a principle called the diminishing level of marginal return, and
that is if you love Oreo cookies, I mean just
love Oreo co Co cookies, I give you a free
box of Oreo cookies.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You eat every single one in the box.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Then I give you a second one and you eat
almost the whole box.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Can't get through it. Then I give you a third one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
And you just really can't even start eating those Oreo cookies,
even though you love or your cookies. The marginal return
your delight diminished over time. The same thing happens with prosperity.
There's a diminishing level of marginal return, and that is
as good as think. At the first wave of good things.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You're nervous.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
This is good, but is it gonna stay? You're shaky.
The next wave of good things, you're like, man, things
are good.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I gotta admit Trump was right.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Then the net third wave of things going good, you're like,
this is great. I noticed the guy across the street
bought a new car. I'm seeing a lot of paper
license plates. People are buying new cars, so consumer confidence
must be high. So I'm gonna go out and buy
a new car too. And I don't see a lot
of for sale signs around here. And look, that slob
across the street is actually panning his house. Right, You
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start seeing things around you anecdotally but like locally, and
that becomes a good thing.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
And then in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The fourth way, it's like, Okay, I mean, things really
got better in the second quarter of the year. Things
are good, but they're not getting any better. Right, so
the margin return on prosperity begins to diminish. That doesn't
mean anything is bad. That just means it's only so
much this president can do to create opportunities for you.
(19:20):
So times are good, make the best of them. Right,
you start preparing for a great quality of life while
you have a good quality of life in the fast
food industry. I don't know if you know this, but
I used to work for Burger King, mister Finnity.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Did you know that he's dealing with the the listener?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I know, I always, I always go to him when
he's on the phone.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
At Burger King. When it's fat, like when it's slow.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
When when the when the when the the dining room
slows down, when the you know, the drive through slows down,
usually like after two in the afternoon, after the lunch rush.
The rule was, when in peace, prepare for war. And
that is it's slow now, So take a breath and
then go restock. Restock the hamburger buns, make sure they're
all there. Go check the salad bar, make sure all
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the tomatoes are good. Restock the cups, restock the straws. Right,
when in peace, prepare for war. Same thing with prosperity.
When things are good, prepare for great and ride it up.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
But yeah, I think there.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Will be a level of economic growth and prosperity that
Trump achieves that will begin to taper off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And then that's okay. We're not there yet.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I think we can start doing a lot more in
our major cities, and I think we can compel a
lot more people to work when we I think this
idea of having people requalify for food stamps is a
great idea. I also want everybody to requalify for Section
eight housing. I also want everybody to requalify for supplemental
disability insurance. I want it because I don't trust anything
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that went on under the Obama administration or the Biden administration,
and we tend to find a lot of illegals when
we do this whole requalifying. If you're an American and
you're actually disabled, it's not going to bother you to requalify.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
If you're an American and.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You actually qualify for food stamps, I'm happy to have
the program for you. But if you don't, you don't,
and if you do, it's not an insult to ask
you to requalify these are government benefits. They don't belong
to you, they belong to me. So I have no problem.
And by the way, while we're at it, I want
people to have to requalify for that, you know, low
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income status for San Diego Gas and Electric. I want
people to requalify for that low income status on their
AT and T bill. Can't just be low income for
your whole time while not while the economy is growing
and this prosperity and opportunity everywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You just can't sit around low income your whole life.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, you get eighteen months under the Penrose administration. After
eighteen months, if your lot in life's the saying, it's you,
it's not the cost of the power bill.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
All right, President Trump, pardon the turkey.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Normally I don't go for this whole turkey pardon act.
I think it's unpresidential. Every year the president does it.
I don't like the president of the United States standing
next to a turkey. I don't dig the whole Easter
egg roll and the big fuzzy bunny either, But these
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are traditions, and I don't know that Abraham Lincoln actually
had a live turkey. But nevertheless, leave it to Trump
to make it the most entertaining turkey pardon ever.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
The annual turkey pardon turning into a turkey roast. As
President Trump took some shots at former President Biden, alleging
last year's turkeys were pardon using the auto pen, so
the pardons are now invalid.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
How about that? Trump gets a shot in there. He said,
last year there's turkeys that were pardoned by Joe Biden,
were pardoned by the autopen, which means they're not valid,
which means these birds are not pardoned and could wind
up on the Thanksgiving Day table.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So lucky that Trump is here.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I jumped in and repardon last year's turkeys so they'd
be actually pardoned. I signed it, you know, with an
actual pen.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Terrible situation cause by a man named sleepy Joe Biden.
He used an autopen last year for the turkey's pardon.
So I have the official duty to determine, and I
have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid.
But they're here by nol and void.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The turkey is known.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
As peachin blossom last year, have been located, and I
am officially pardoning them and they will not be served
for Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Okay, peach and blossom that were pardoned by Joe's autopen
last year. Now they've been officially pardoned, and now Trump
moves on to this year's turkey, and he actually wanted
to give them another name.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
The turkey's being pardoned today go by the names of
Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw their pictures, I
thought we should well. I was gonna I shouldn't say this.
I was gonna call him chuck in Nancy. But then
I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I would never
pardon those two people.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
How about that nobody is having more fun being president
of the United States, and nobody has ever had more
fun being President of the United States than Donald J.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Coming up following the news at five, Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy again reiterated, is I don't know if it's a
desire his recommendation maybe that you don't dress like a
slob going to the airport. He said that we're trying
to embark on a civility campaign. We're encouraging everybody in
(25:04):
the transportation industry to reimagine how they can be nice
and courteous and that's only half of it, is asking
the American traveler, particularly now when we embark upon starting
today the busiest Thanksgiving travel season I think they said
in seventeen years. But it's definitely very busy out there,
(25:27):
and airports get very busy. And he held a press
conference today and said, look, there's a lot of things
that we can do, but it's not lost upon me
that showing up at the gate wearing pajamas and slippers
probably doesn't help.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Let's try not to where slippers in pajamas as we
come to the airport.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think that's positive.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I do think that's positive. I'm with him. I don't
need to see you in your nightgown. But as you
can imagine, there has been blowback and a lot of
people have pushed back on the Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
So we'll hash it out coming up.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Following the news at five o'clock, here's President Trump championing
championing this his first Thanksgiving of the new administration.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
According to the USCA, the price of Thanksgiving Turkey is
down thirty three percent from its Bidenira highs. Potatoes are
down thirteen percent. Ham is down fifteen percent. Compared to
last Thanksgiving. So we are down to a level that
we haven't seen in a long.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Time, and those numbers are quite correct that according to
the Farm Bureau. I still find it fascinating that the
turkey is cheaper than the carrots, Like the appetizer tray
will set you back more than the main course.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Here it is, so your carve me things like your
stuffing and your roles are down nine and fourteen percent, respectively,
and then your fresh veggies and your sweet potatoes are
up significantly sixty one percent for the veggie tray, don't
invite me over if you're getting it that he transfer appetizer,
and thirty seven percent for the sweet potatoes. Now, why
(27:05):
can it be that the cost is down for the
third year in a row if we know that food
at home prices according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
are up two point seven percent since last fall.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, look, is anybody not buying rolls? I mean, the
price of rolls, whether they're up thirteen percent or thirty
percent is kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Like, is that really throwing you off?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'm not really sure about the whole cost of rolls thing.
According to the Farm Bureau, are you ready for this number,
mister finnerty, The average Thanksgiving dinner, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner
should be five dollars and fifty two cents per person,
not including.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Beverage where at home.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
At home in order, if you bought a turkey and
mashed potatoes and green beans, like just the plate that
you see on TV, that should cost you per serving
per person five dollars and fifty two cents, which seems
rather low to me.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That's too low. I don't buy that, Like, isn't that
low enough?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I mean, I would.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Think it would be at least ten something or maybe
even eleven. A make value meal is eight dollars. Yeah,
I'm thinking you're talking turkey, cranberry sauce or roll, mashed potatoes, stuffing,
whatever else. He ams right.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
This proves my point. This isn't the holiday to check
the barometer of the nation's food cost. This is not
an expensive meal, like Thanksgiving is not an expensive meal,
and nobody should be going to the poorhouse hosting Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
President Trump is translating mixed economic news retail sales up,
consumer confidence down this way. The American Farm Bureau Federation's
accounting finds that a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten. So I don't know what
the American Farm Bureau thanks is classic, but let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Counting finds that a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten comes
out to about fifty five dollars eighteen cents. That is
five point fifty two a person, and that is down
five percent a person from last year, five to fifty
two a person.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So either people are taking too much and I don't
know how that works out. Like, what about the leftover food?
Like you could, we will certainly eat twice. My boys
will eat twice. I think the turkey we got was
sixteen and a half pounds, which seems kind of heavy
to me. My wife doesn't eat turkey. I'm not sure
how much I'm gonna have, but we will eat twice.
(29:43):
So now if you they won't be left over of everything,
all the mac and cheese will be gone.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I'm sure of that.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
The worst part about eating with my family is the
pumpkin pie, because this is the way it goes in
my family. The pumpkin pie and ice cream is eating
for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning, So everybody will get up
at like eight o'clock, nine o'clock at Grandma's house and
Palm Springs, and she'll have already broken into the pumpkin pie.
That's great. The pumpkin pie and ice cream for breakfast
(30:12):
on Thanksgiving morning, that's awesome. Then we're in Palm Springs,
so we go for a hike, because that's always fun,
the traditional Thanksgiving hike. And I'll post the photo on
my Facebook page. And then we come home and.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Start, like, you know, peeling potatoes.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'll make the pasta with the moots adel and ricotta cheese,
and everybody will start. Everybody's got a thing, and then
we'll eat, and then we'll like eat later, but they'll
be Yeah, the dessert is served at breakfast.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
That's always the way it's been
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