1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 2: Good to have you along with us on a Sunday, 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: busy news day with the war underway now in the 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 2: Middle East, US Israeli strikes and Iran retaliating in the 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: Middle East, So stay tuned to I AM six forty. 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 2: All afternoon. Eileen Gonzales is in the KFI twenty four 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 2: hour newsroom with the latest at the top and bottom 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: of every hour, plus updates a between, and we will 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: get another update from Eileen Gonzales coming up in just 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 2: about ten minutes. All right, Governor Gavenus, I'm on the 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:41,639 Speaker 2: campaign trail. He's doing his part to raise the profile 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: of congressional Democrats running for reelection. The midterm election is 13 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 2: two hundred and forty nine days a way, and he 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: is going to different states campaigning for different congressional Democrats 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: and doing a lot of talking and as you can imagine, 16 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: very political, so laying a lot of blame at the 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: feet of Republicans to make the case to give the 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 2: House of Representatives to Democrats. But he said something this 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 2: week that's getting a lot of attention. He said that 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: Republicans are taking America backward and reference the sixties. He said, 21 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 2: it's for real that Republicans want to bring America back 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: to the sixties. 23 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: Here it is. 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 4: It's American reverse right now. You're seen it. 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 5: Not just in Tennessee, You've seen all over the country. 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 5: These guys want to bring us back to a pre 27 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 5: nineteen sixties world. 28 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 2: Okay, so what he's trying to accomplish politically speaking is 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 2: pre nineteen sixties, pre civil rights, pre women's rights, right talking. 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: He wants to use that as an opportunity to bring 31 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: up these narratives about voting rights and voter id and 32 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: civil rights and color and women's rights because the Democrat 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: Party is losing women voters. But people took him, you know, 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 2: out his word and started thinking about and I thought 35 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: this was fun. Like this happens on social media a lot, 36 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: like they'll put a clip and then people will start 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: engaging in conversation about it, and that then the comments 38 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 2: take off on their own. And people were saying, you know, 39 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: my parents or my grandparents, depending on how old you are, 40 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 2: lived in a pre nineteen sixties world. And as I 41 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: look at my life today and I think about their 42 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: life when I was a child, they had a better 43 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 2: quality of life than I do. So what exactly was 44 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 2: so bad about the pre nineteen sixties world. 45 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 4: It's American reverse right now. You're seeing it. 46 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 5: Not just in Tennessee. You've seen all over the country. 47 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 5: These guys want to bring us back to a pre 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 5: nineteen sixties world. 49 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: And that's an interesting point, right, I mean, there people 50 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 2: do have Now. I get it that he's talking about 51 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: civil rights, but it was the sixties that we had 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: the civil rights movement. So something good was happening in 53 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: the soul of America that Americans, the majority of Americans, 54 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: decided to impact positively the minority of Americans. You can't 55 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: do this without the majority. We change the rules of 56 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 2: the game that were disproportionately negatively affecting minorities in America 57 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: by using the majority of Americans to do it. You 58 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: can't change things if a majority doesn't want it. So 59 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: the people couldn't have been all that bad since they 60 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 2: looked after the minorities. That's number one. But when we 61 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: talk about quality of life, which is the number one 62 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: issue going into this midterm election, they use the word affordability. 63 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: President Trump talks about the quality of life, but the 64 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: reality is people are trying to get ahead. They want 65 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 2: a better quality of life. The ultimate goal, it's been set, 66 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: is to live a life better than your parents. And 67 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: more and more people are saying, I'm not living as 68 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: good of a life as my parents did, So that's 69 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: the challenge, and I thought about it. My parents met 70 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: in the sixties and they had a good life like 71 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and I don't know how 72 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: they did it. Like when I was a kid, there 73 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 2: was no sense of struggle, and my parents were not wealthy. 74 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 2: My mother was a high school dropout who became a 75 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 2: cashier at a grocery store and then ultimately took some 76 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 2: accounting classes and was a clerk at the grocery store. 77 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: But that was the height of her career was when 78 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 2: she went from the cash register to the office upstairs 79 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: in the grocery store and did the books. But she 80 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 2: wasn't an MBA or an accountant. She just was good 81 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: at map. That was my mother, high school dropout, cashier 82 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 2: at a grocery store. My father was an illiterate immigrant 83 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: from Italy who did not read or write English or 84 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:05,239 Speaker 2: Italian and opened up a barber shop and did men's haircuts. 85 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 2: What the barber school, my mother and he you know, 86 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: financed and they paid for his beauty school and got 87 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: a certificate and opened up a barber shop which you rented. 88 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 2: He didn't own the building. And those two put two 89 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: sons through college, and my brother and I never thought 90 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: about struggles or affordability. It was just never a discussion 91 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: in the house. You could go and this is I 92 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: grew up in the late seventies early eighties. You could 93 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 2: go downstairs into my kitchen and there'd be food in 94 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: the refrigerator all the time, all the time, and if 95 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: you didn't want to make yourself a sandwich, you go 96 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 2: into the into the little closet, the little pantry there, 97 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 2: and there would be all kinds you'd make yourself riceeroni 98 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: or whatever was in there. You you know, whip it 99 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 2: up and you eat it. Because my mom worked at 100 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: a grocery store, we always had like deli meat called 101 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 2: what we call cold cuts on the East Coast, but 102 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 2: there was it was always in there, like three four 103 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: kinds of meats to choose from, two three different kinds 104 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 2: of cheeses. You go in there and make yourself a 105 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: sandwich after school, and you know, you're happy as a clam. 106 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 2: And we went on vacations, Like my dad would close 107 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 2: the shop in the summer, close the shop. You know 108 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 2: what that means, no income for a week, sign on 109 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 2: the door on vacation, be back Monday. So no, So 110 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: they were able to you talk about living paycheck to paycheck. 111 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 2: I don't know when my dad started saving so as 112 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: to lose the whole income for the week, and we'd 113 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 2: fill the carp with gas and we'd go, you know, 114 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 2: on vacation state at motels. So these people with limited 115 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 2: means and zero skills were live in large like they 116 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 2: would live in the American dream. I have photographs over 117 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: the Christmas holiday. My youngest is twelve, he'll be thirteen 118 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 2: in a month, and he had some project to do 119 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 2: and he needed some photographs of when he was a 120 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 2: kid or whatever. So I did, like, you know, my 121 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 2: photo box. I have, like this box in the closet 122 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 2: and it's all the kids photos and then like whatever 123 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 2: photos I have, and so sorting through it, I found 124 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 2: some older photos of like me when I was a kid, 125 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: or even before I was born, parties going on at 126 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 2: my grandfather's house, christening or something. There was always a 127 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 2: christening or a baptism or an engagement party or first communion, 128 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: something like every Sunday it was these people through parties 129 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: and I'm looking at the photograph. It's black and white. 130 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 2: There's like twenty two people in my grandparents' house and 131 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: they're all leading, like they put extensions on the tables, 132 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 2: like literally, my grandfather was a general contractor, so we 133 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: had a lot of construction stuff around all the time. 134 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: A lot of fun playing in his backyard as a kid, 135 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 2: just climbing on scaffolding, climbing on forms. 136 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 4: You know. 137 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: We would have like when we would play whiffle ball 138 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 2: or baseball or kickball, we would have really great like 139 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 2: bases because they were my grandfather's porcelain like flooring tiles, 140 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: like expensive traverating flooring tiles. My brother and I drag 141 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 2: him out use them as bases first base, second base, 142 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 2: third base, and they'd be so expensive, but we didn't know, 143 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 2: but he had, you know, all kinds, so like they 144 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 2: would go outside to the backyard and get a four 145 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 2: x eight sheet of plywood and put it over a 146 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 2: table and then cover that table so that they'd be 147 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: more room at a table for the like dozens of 148 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 2: people that would be over at the house. And I'm 149 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 2: like staring at this photograph and just unbelievable amounts of 150 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: liquor on the table, like bottles and bottles and bottles 151 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 2: of wine and groppa and shops and cognac. I mean, 152 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: and there's just plates and plates of food and we're 153 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: feeding all these people. And I'm looking at this photo. 154 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 2: But as a kid, I remember that went on every 155 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 2: Sunday of my life. Like people talk about Thanksgiving, right, 156 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 2: a lot of people over for Thanksgiving if you're Italian 157 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 2: or even And I know that's why I still love 158 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 2: the Mexican culture because it's so much like Italian. So 159 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 2: for my Mexican American listeners, you know exactly what I'm 160 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: talking about. When Italians or Mexicans when they have people over, 161 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 2: they don't have twos or threes or fours over. It's 162 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:26,199 Speaker 2: not two people come over for taking coffee. You're talking ten, fourteen, 163 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 2: eighteen people come over, and they come over at two 164 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 2: o'clock and they stay until ten, and there's silly and 165 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 2: I don't know when my grandmother washed the dishes, but 166 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 2: you know next morning everything was cleaned up. So yeah, 167 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 2: the pre nineteen sixties American culture for those of us 168 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: that either can remember it or have any photographs. Gold 169 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: take a look at the photographs of some of the 170 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 2: parties your parents threw at the fourth of July or 171 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: they if they had a New Year's e party at 172 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 2: the house. Look at the table, look at look at 173 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: the of stuff. And if you know what your parents 174 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 2: or grandparents did for a living, then you know they 175 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: could have been earning that much money. But I mean, 176 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: I don't know that I could afford to have the 177 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 2: kind of food in my refrigerator that my parents had 178 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 2: that I that I was, that I accessed growing up. 179 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 2: We have, you know, some sandwich meets us, some turkey 180 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: that I make for lunch for the kids. But my mom, 181 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 2: I mean, we had roast beef, turkey, two kinds of salami, 182 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: three kinds of cheeses all the time. So when Gubna 183 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 2: Avenuwsom says we don't want to go backwards, a lot 184 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 2: of people were saying things were not that bad, at 185 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 2: least when it came to affordability. 186 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 187 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 2: Lots going on. The President is making statements, the hostilities 188 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: will continue, it seems, and there have been reports of 189 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 2: loss of life, certainly of American soldiers. Now there's reports 190 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 2: of losses of life as well as American soldiers injured. 191 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 2: So we want to give you the latest information and 192 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 2: we do that out of the KFI newsroom. Eileen Gonzalez 193 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 2: will have a news update coming up in ten minutes. 194 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: Stay tuned to I AIM six forty all afternoon to 195 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 2: get the latest on what is going on. It is 196 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: nighttime now in the Middle East and retaliatory strikes continue 197 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 2: from Iran and lots of activity in the Straits of 198 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 2: Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, which is going to rattle 199 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: the futures market. There's going to be an interesting twenty 200 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 2: four hours for sure. Right now. Talking about Governor Gavenussom, 201 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 2: he says that people want to take America back to 202 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 2: the sixties, and he doesn't want to go back. He 203 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 2: wants to go forward. That sounds good, but a lot 204 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: of people are reading into that statement and saying, you know, 205 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 2: my parents had a better life than I had. And 206 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: if you think about out the quality of life that 207 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 2: your parents had and the quality of life you have now, 208 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 2: would you agree with that? Are you better off than 209 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: your parents or were your parents living a better life 210 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 2: than you are now. 211 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,599 Speaker 4: It's American reverse right now. You're seeing it. 212 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 5: Not just in Tennessee, You've seen all over the country. 213 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 5: These guys want to bring us back to a pre 214 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 5: nineteen sixties world. 215 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 2: And people are saying pre nineteen sixties look pretty good 216 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 2: to me. And when I look at old photographs of 217 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 2: you know, my parents and grandparents in the family, it 218 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 2: looked like they were having a good time. Now, I 219 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 2: get it. You take photographs when people are happy, so 220 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: the photograph is going to be happy. But and there 221 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 2: were I'm sure there were times that my parents struggled. 222 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 2: I just don't remember hearing about it. And we we 223 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of stuff. We weren't rich kids, 224 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: but we didn't care. We pretty much had everything you needed. 225 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people are looking at 226 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 2: their lives and looking at their parents' life and deciding, 227 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: you know what, they I'm not going to have as 228 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 2: good of a life as my parents had, So maybe 229 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 2: going back to the sixties wouldn't be such a bad idea, 230 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 2: at least when we're talking about policies. 231 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 3: Enjoy the show. I enjoy the show, But can you 232 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:19,359 Speaker 3: translate your story, the story of your family to today's 233 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 3: economic times, Like, just take your family and translate that 234 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 3: into today's climate, and let's see if you get that 235 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 3: same result. I'll be listening. Thank you. 236 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. You mean, what take my parents' 237 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: wages and adjust them for inflation, and take the grocery 238 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 2: bill and adjusted for inflation. I mean, I assume it 239 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 2: would all be a wash. Right. The rent would be 240 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: more expensive on his barbershop, but he would be able 241 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 2: to charge more money for the haircuts. And all I 242 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: know is they say mortgage rates for home mortgages were 243 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: like in the teens in the seventies and eighties. How 244 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 2: could anybody afford that? Yeah, people did. I have absolutely 245 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 2: no idea what their mortgage payment was. And I don't 246 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: really know how much money my dad made. I mean, 247 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 2: I you know, being a small business owner and being 248 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 2: in a cash business is probably a pretty good thing 249 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 2: to do. But how many haircuts can you do? Right? 250 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: I mean, there's only so many people that can get 251 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 2: into that chair in an eight hour day. He did 252 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 2: have a second job aside hustle because the barber shops 253 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 2: back in the day, barbershops were closed on Sunday and 254 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 2: Monday because they were open on Saturday, so even in 255 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: that profession, they respected a five day work week. But 256 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: on Monday, he would get up early and there was 257 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 2: like a senior center, like a senior living home, and 258 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: he had a contract to go in there and do 259 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: haircuts for some of the senior citizens. At work, there 260 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: was like a couple of hours on a Monday, but 261 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: he picked up some extra cash. And that's it, Like 262 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 2: there's only so much money you can make. And I'm 263 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 2: sure my mother was making minimum wage, and I'm sure 264 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 2: minimum wage in the eighties was what like three fifty 265 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: an hour or something. And for many of the years 266 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: that my brother and I, I mean, she only worked part 267 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: time so she could be home by the time we 268 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 2: got home. So like when I was in elementary school, 269 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 2: she was home before I got home so she would 270 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: be home. It wasn't until really we got into middle 271 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: school or high school that she started working full time hours. 272 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: So really, how much money could there be? I mean, 273 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: how much could these people take home? But I mean, 274 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: I I just remember big parties all the time. There's 275 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 2: always people over. I mean, they had a liquor cabinet 276 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 2: that would knock your socks off. I mean they made 277 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: their own wine because they were Italian, but they had 278 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 2: a lot of it, and somebody had to buy the 279 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 2: grapes every October and we celebrated every holiday, and then 280 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: if you're Catholic, there you know, there's always a christening 281 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: or a first communion, and oftentimes it was held at 282 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 2: my grandfather's house because he was, like my grandmother was 283 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 2: the oldest of the five children, and they were all 284 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 2: they all lived like a short drive or sometimes walking distance. 285 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 2: So for whatever reason, I guess, because my grandmother was 286 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 2: the oldest, like she was the home base for those 287 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 2: you know, somebody has a christening or a baptism or 288 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 2: a communion or a baby shower or whatever. It always 289 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 2: just kind of took place in my grandparents' kitchen, so 290 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: they were always there were that was when there was 291 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: an when there was an occasion, just any normal Sunday 292 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 2: to an Italian is like Thanksgiving to everybody else, and 293 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 2: it would go on all day and it would go 294 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: on all night. I remember after the super Bowl there 295 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 2: was a lot of discussion about how we should permanently 296 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: move the Super Bowl to President's Day weekend so that 297 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: everybody has Monday off to rest up because they were out. 298 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: You know, they're up watching the super Bowl. Super Bowl 299 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 2: ends nine o'clock on these coasts, people are eating chicken 300 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 2: wings and drinking beer, and everyone calls in sick on 301 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 2: the Monday after the super Bowl. So maybe we ought 302 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: to just make it a three day weekend or moved 303 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 2: to a Saturday. Like there's all these ideas on how 304 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 2: to shift the super Bowl to cushion the blow of 305 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: the Americans that were celebrating Super Bowl Sunday, and I thought, 306 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 2: you got to be kidding me. The game's over at nine. 307 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 2: My parents were on Sunday like drinking and eating and 308 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: playing cards loudly, like way past nine o'clock every Sunday 309 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: night of my life. And then they got up and 310 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 2: went to work every Monday morning, and some of them 311 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 2: had to go work on scaffolding. I don't know how 312 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 2: they did it, but right in the winter. So spare 313 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 2: me your your headache on super Bowl Monday. Then you 314 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 2: need an entire you need a federal holiday. 315 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 6: Talk to my uncles who. 316 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 2: Are a winner, would go work on roofing with the hangover. 317 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: But I appreciate the call. No, I think adjusted for inflation, 318 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 2: I think it's the same I think that it was 319 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 2: the type of people they were. Honestly, you have more 320 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 2: opportunity to get ahead now than they did because they 321 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: didn't have technology. They didn't have the internet. Right if 322 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 2: a lot of time was wasted because there was no 323 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 2: way of communicating, just being able to call somebody on 324 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 2: a telephone all the time increases your productivity and there's 325 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 2: not a lot of time wasted. So I think that 326 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 2: you have more opportunity to have a better quality of 327 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 2: life than your parents, but people are not taking advantage 328 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 2: of it. But whether it's there or not, certainly more 329 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 2: people than ever are looking at their lives today and 330 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 2: saying that their parents had a better quality of life. 331 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: So when Governor Gavenusom goes on the campaign trail and says, 332 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 2: we don't want to go backwards, we want to go forwards, 333 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 2: I can understand why people are saying, you know, backwards, 334 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 2: maybe you wouldn't be so bad because my parents were 335 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 2: able to make it work and I can't seem to 336 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 2: make it happen. 337 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 338 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: Busy news Sunday, so stay tuned to I AM six 339 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: forty all afternoon for the very latest on the war 340 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 2: in the Middle East. I think Azalas is live in 341 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom with updates on the 342 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 2: hour on the haalf than The next update will come 343 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 2: in just about ten minutes. Talking about the American dream, 344 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 2: talking about affordability, Governor Gavenuwsom says that his political opponents 345 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 2: want to take America back to a pre nineteen sixties world. 346 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 5: It's American reverse right now. You're seen it, not just 347 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 5: in Tennessee, You've seen all over the country. These guys 348 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 5: want to bring us back to a pre nineteen sixties world. 349 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 2: And a lot of people responded to that and said, 350 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 2: you know what, my parents were doing a lot better 351 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 2: than I am, so we would be well served to 352 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 2: have policies that impact my affordability so I could live 353 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 2: at least as good of a life as my parents 354 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:17,239 Speaker 2: and grandparents did. 355 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 7: Kaylu very possible to live the American dream. My wife 356 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 7: and I did so about thirty years ago when we 357 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 7: got married, worked really hard, scrimped and scrounged. You don't 358 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 7: have all the creature comforts that people expect today. And 359 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 7: our kids are on the track same track to be 360 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 7: successful early in their lives and all will be well. 361 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 7: So it's how you manage things. 362 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 2: I think that's right. Good job and good luck. So 363 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 2: I think that's absolutely right. It's how you manage things. 364 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 2: There are a couple of components, though, that are working 365 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 2: against this. I've said this many times. This is where 366 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 2: the progressive lou Penrose comes out bit because I don't 367 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 2: even think the words liberal and conservative and Republican and Democrats. 368 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 2: They don't even work anymore, at least not for me. 369 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: So I am a huge believer in the American worker 370 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 2: and the ability of the American worker to get wages 371 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 2: and wage growth, which is why I'm such a huge 372 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 2: supporter of manufacturing and the American manufacturing economy. Which is 373 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 2: why I am a huge opponent of illegal labor, because 374 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: it depresses American wages. So we want wages to go up, 375 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 2: and I hold that American wages have not gone up 376 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 2: anywhere near what we're worth. It's just the reality. And 377 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 2: by the way, minimum wage increases don't affect that. We're 378 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 2: worth way more than twenty dollars an hour, let alone, 379 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 2: you know the minimum wage of seventeen. I just think 380 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: that our productivity as people is so much more by 381 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 2: virtue of the technology and the accessibility, and we just 382 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 2: haven't been getting any increase. Like, when was the last 383 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 2: time you got a raise? When was the last time 384 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 2: you heard of anybody getting a raise. People don't get 385 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 2: raises anymore. They don't go into the boss's office and 386 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 2: ask for a raise, they don't get promoted anymore. Really, 387 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 2: the only way you get more money is by quitting 388 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 2: and going to another job. But like standard raises and 389 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 2: reviews don't take place in corporations anymore. That used to 390 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 2: happen every December. You would go in and do your 391 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: annual review and get your annual raise, and it would 392 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 2: be higher than inflation, so you're actually ahead of the game. 393 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,679 Speaker 2: If inflation is at four percent, you get a two 394 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 2: percent raise in December. You're upside down if you even 395 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 2: get a raise or review meeting. So our wages just 396 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 2: are not going up, and they are I think have 397 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 2: been depressed significantly for like the last four years. Let 398 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 2: me put some simple math to it, and you're not 399 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 2: supposed to do math on the radio, so I'll make 400 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: it real quick. But you've experienced this. So nineteen eighty, 401 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 2: the average salary in southern California was about twenty thousand 402 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 2: dollars a year, and the average home starter home first 403 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 2: time home in southern California was about sixty thousand dollars. 404 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 2: Sixty thousand dollars. That's three times the average salary. But 405 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 2: if you were purposeful and intentional, you could save a 406 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 2: down payment for a sixty thousand dollars house making twenty 407 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It would take work, but you had to 408 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 2: be intentional, and certainly people did it because it's those 409 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 2: are the houses all over southern California. But people talked 410 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: about it, right, They're like, Oh, you're going on vacation 411 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 2: this year. No, we're saving for a house. Oh there's 412 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 2: going to be a big Christmas holiday this year. No, 413 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: we're saving for a house. Are you buying a new car? 414 00:23:59,160 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 6: Now? 415 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 2: We're saving for People would talk and they would talk 416 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: in those terms, we're saving for a house. So it 417 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 2: would take a couple of years. They didn't go on 418 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 2: vacation for a couple of years. They didn't buy expensive gifts, 419 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: they put off expenses because they were saving for a house. 420 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: And they did. They saved the down payment and put 421 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 2: a down payment on, making twenty grand on a sixty 422 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 2: thousand dollar house and boom, now they're in that house. Now, 423 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: fast forward forty years, that's nineteen eighty Now in southern 424 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 2: California in twenty twenty six, the average wage is sixty 425 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. It's a little more depending on where, but 426 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 2: on average sixty thousand dollars, three times what it was 427 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 2: forty years ago. Average cost of a first time house 428 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 2: eight hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. There is no way, 429 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 2: no way you're saving and now they won twenty percent down. 430 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 2: There's no way you can save a down payment on 431 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 2: an eight hundred thousand dollars house making sixty thousand dollars 432 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 2: a year. Ever, you can be intentional about it. You 433 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 2: could be laser focused. And by the way, I'll give 434 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 2: you two earners. Both you and your wife work, and 435 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 2: you both make sixty thousand dollars a year. Now that 436 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: it's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars coming into the house, 437 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 2: you're still never gonna be able to put aside twenty 438 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 2: percent of eight hundred thousand dollars. Never. So it isn't 439 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 2: that the cost of houses have gone up. They have, 440 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: they've appreciated, and that's a pretty magical thing here in 441 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: southern California. But it will always happen, and if you 442 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 2: are a homeowner, you want it to happen. You certainly 443 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 2: don't want to depress the appreciation of your house. But 444 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 2: what what what's the one component of that equation. The 445 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 2: wages just haven't gone up anywhere near the expenses have 446 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 2: gone up. We just are not getting paid enough. And 447 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 2: that's a tricky solution, right, because you immediately start paying 448 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 2: people a lot more money than the cost of everything 449 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: goes up. So it has to be done gradually. But 450 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: I think they slipped one bias. I think we were 451 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: just working hard and then they handed us a BlackBerry 452 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 2: and then we're like, okay, great, so now they can 453 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 2: email me a day off and email me at home. 454 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 2: And then you know, then they got you to work 455 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,920 Speaker 2: from home. But now you have a computer at your home, 456 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 2: and now all the software is downloaded on your PC 457 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 2: at home that you would have at the office. And 458 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 2: you thought, well, this is great, I can work from home. Yeah, 459 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 2: but now you have to work from home. Now they 460 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: hand you a cell phone, and now the boss is 461 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 2: texting you and you're on your time off and you know, oh, 462 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: I'm sorry to do that. I know it's the weekend, 463 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 2: but it would save me a lot of time. Can 464 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 2: you remember did we how much we charged that client? 465 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: And I know you know the answer, and you think, oh, 466 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 2: it's a big deal. Yeah no, and we charged the 467 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 2: client three hundred dollars an hour, And you shoot a 468 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 2: text to your boss and you're on your own time. 469 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 2: It's two day off, but the job, right, the problem 470 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 2: was solved. Whatever the boss was on the golf course 471 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 2: and he needed that number real quick, and you don't 472 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: think anything of it. Surely that is very productive, right, 473 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 2: you may have just saved the company a lot of money. 474 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: You are a little bit of knowledge and the ability 475 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: of you to give it in real time to answer 476 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 2: the question right then and there. That's way more valuable 477 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 2: than you're getting paid. And you think, wow, it's no 478 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 2: big deal. I mean, I had my phone on, the 479 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 2: boss asked me a question. Right. That level of that 480 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 2: dynamic connection between workers, work, the job, the industry and success, 481 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 2: that is very valuable because back in the day, he 482 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 2: wouldn't have been able to answer the question on the 483 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 2: golf course. He would have forgot by Monday morning and 484 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 2: whatever good came from knowing that answer, just like that 485 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 2: was a lost opportunity. So like, if you think about 486 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 2: it in those terms, we are all way more valuable, 487 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 2: We're far more efficient, and the wages just haven't kept up. 488 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: And I don't know how to solve that problem. It's 489 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 2: certainly not a problem you can solve by mandating a 490 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 2: federal minimum wage or mandating that everybody gets a pay increase. 491 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 2: But we probably ought to be better advocates for ourselves 492 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 2: when we're sitting in that chair, right And it shouldn't 493 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 2: be the obnoxious position of I don't want a company 494 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 2: owned phone because I don't want to have to answer 495 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 2: the phone on the weekend. It should be I'm happy 496 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 2: to be as available to the company anytime there's an 497 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 2: opportunity for the company to be successful. The company success 498 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 2: is my success, but I want to be compensated for that. 499 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: That's the direction we have to go. 500 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 501 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 2: Good to have you along with this on a busy 502 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon. Stay with KFI all afternoon long. Alenconzalez is 503 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 2: live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom with the 504 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 2: latest on the war in the Middle East and now 505 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: demonstrations in Westwood. I understand, and that's affecting traffic and 506 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 2: we'll give you all the information. 507 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 6: Hey, Lou, I'm from the Sanferdana Valley and I must say, 508 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 6: as a tradesmen, no company has given you any annual 509 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 6: reviews anymore, because they're gonna have to either tell you 510 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 6: why you're not gonna make more money, or they're gonna 511 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 6: have to give you more money. The only way that 512 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 6: you can make more money is by continuing your education 513 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 6: and get another certification. 514 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, but that's different, right, that's 515 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 2: a change in business culture. You used to get raises 516 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 2: and not just merit raises. You got raises every year 517 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 2: because you become more valuable. You are a mature employee, 518 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 2: so businesses do well with a mature workforce. So you're 519 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 2: more valuable. Just time on the job, that's number one. 520 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 2: Number two, you should be getting better at what you 521 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 2: do every year. You did it like all year, so 522 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 2: you should be more efficient. And people retire, so you 523 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: should be able to move up and have more responsibility, 524 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: more obligations and therefore worth more money. But you're right, 525 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: that model doesn't exist anymore. You sign up for the job. 526 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 2: This is the pay. Go to work, and if you 527 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: want more money, you gotta quit and go get another job. 528 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 2: But your expenses go up every year. Your health insurance 529 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 2: premium goes up every year, the light bill goes up 530 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 2: every year, the water bill goes up every year. The 531 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: rent goes up every year. So the equation doesn't work out. 532 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 8: Hey, it's Lombardy here. You were talking about people telling 533 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 8: that they're saving up for a house, or saving up 534 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 8: for they're not buying a car to save up for 535 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 8: a house, and so on and so forth. Are you 536 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 8: aware that Sacramento, the politicians are putting forth a bill 537 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 8: to tax your savings. I thought you want to know. 538 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 2: They're always looking for more tax money. There's no question 539 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 2: about it. 540 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 9: I've got a bachelor's degree in business from a university 541 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 9: a year and a half ago, and I can't even 542 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 9: find a job. 543 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 2: What are you skilled in a bachelor's degree in business administration? Uh, 544 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 2: that's in and of itself not enough. But be careful 545 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: what you study and always work, always work. I tell 546 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 2: my sons this all the time. People that are struggling, like, 547 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: I don't know what your circumstances, but you are looking 548 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: for a job. You should be working while you're looking 549 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 2: for a job. 550 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 5: Right. 551 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 2: It doesn't take eight hours a day to look for 552 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: a job. It's pretty much making telephone calls, shooting resumes 553 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,479 Speaker 2: out said it, and then you do that via email. 554 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 2: Maybe you have to go for an interview, but you 555 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: have time to earn. Always work, and if that means 556 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 2: working at Jack in the box, are working at Burger King, 557 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 2: then that's what you're doing. Do you know what goes 558 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: on at work? People talk about work. It really is amazing. 559 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 2: People talk people that work in fast food cost I 560 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 2: know this only because I worked at a Burger King, 561 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: but I assume it's the case whether it's a restaurant, 562 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 2: or whether it's any of the service industries, or whether 563 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: you're working at a Marriotte, you know, folding towels, whatever 564 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 2: it is that you're doing. The people there are always 565 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 2: talking about work and money. Working people know work and money. Right, 566 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: they're having a conversation in the break room. It's inevitably 567 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 2: oh you know, do you see that so and so 568 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 2: is opening up over there? You know they're paying twenty 569 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 2: six dollars an hour. Like, there's opportunities all over the 570 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 2: workplace because people talk about work and money. So while 571 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: you're waiting for working money, go get a job, because 572 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: I guarantee you those people are talking about work. 573 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 9: Bloomer here that used to have a house head to 574 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 9: get an apartment in Rancho Pepe. My rent is less 575 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 9: than two thousand dollars a month? What is she going 576 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 9: to do when the rent goes up? Also, no one 577 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 9: asked her how much she and her boyfriend. 578 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 2: Are spending on weed. Have a good day, bye bye. 579 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: I don't know how much they spending on weed, but 580 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 2: weed's pretty expensive. 581 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:19,080 Speaker 10: Yeah, Hey, Lou, I honestly think I've been living here. 582 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 10: I'm fifty nine. I've been living in California since nineteen 583 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 10: eighty seven. I really believe that there is probably either 584 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 10: a I don't know, a quarter to a third of 585 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 10: a trillion dollars in fraud in California. I think what's 586 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,479 Speaker 10: gone on in Minnesota that it is just that is 587 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 10: nothing compared to what's happening here. And I hope that 588 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 10: they're uncovering it. 589 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 2: I do too, and said I certainly do. There will 590 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 2: likely be more. Are we going live to president? Is 591 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:53,239 Speaker 2: he making a statement? Okay, just getting some updates from 592 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 2: the newsroom. We'll get an update from I think Gonzales 593 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 2: and the KFI twenty four newsroom here in just just 594 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 2: over nine minutes. Your best and cheapest food is to 595 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 2: produce his Mexican food and Chinese food, mostly vegetables and rice. 596 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 2: There you go over and out, over and out. You 597 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 2: are spot on regarding McDonald's Jack in the Food. 598 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 7: The changes period change is good, but there's too much 599 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 7: stuff on the menu at Jack in the Box. 600 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 9: Also, when I go to McDonald's and I just got 601 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 9: done feeding the horses and it's just a little after 602 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 9: ten thirty and I get told breakfast is over. 603 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the unkindest cut of all, isn't it. The 604 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 2: breakfast is over thing hurt McDonald's in a way that 605 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 2: Jack in the Box was able to capitalize on and 606 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 2: order off for breakfast all day. So the Big Arch 607 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 2: is Tuesday, and people are getting very excited about it. 608 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 2: This is McDonald's is spending a lot of time. There 609 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 2: is a video of the CEO demonstrating his first bite 610 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 2: of the Big Arch and he does not look like 611 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 2: he likes it, which is a problem. Head of the 612 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,720 Speaker 2: company should like that burger. But there's reviews all over 613 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 2: social media. Choles is bringing the big archburger to the US. 614 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,919 Speaker 11: You've got two quarter pound patties, three slices of white 615 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 11: cheddar cheese, you got slivered onions on the top, you 616 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 11: got the crispy onions on the bottom, and then the 617 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 11: new big Arch sauce that's bolts on the top and 618 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 11: the bottom. 619 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,560 Speaker 4: With three pickles? 620 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,720 Speaker 2: Why three pickles? That's an interesting uh choice? 621 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 3: There? 622 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 2: Why three? Like there are four pickles on a whopper 623 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 2: and there are four pickles on a quarter pounder with cheese. 624 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 2: Why are they skimping on a pickle? You're supposed to 625 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 2: be able to have a taste of the pickle in 626 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 2: every bite. Did you know that there's a rule the 627 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 2: pickles are circles, but they're not supposed to touch. So 628 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 2: if you go get a double cheeseburger at McDonald's and 629 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 2: the pickles are on top of each other, somebody made 630 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 2: a mistake. Mario's laughing. You know that to be true. 631 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,960 Speaker 2: The pickles are not supposed touch. You're supposed to supposed 632 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 2: to be spaced out. So there's no way you can 633 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 2: cut the entire quarter pounded with cheese patty with only 634 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,879 Speaker 2: three pickles. I don't know, man, this is a this 635 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 2: is a chancy a chancey burger for McDonald's. It's gotten 636 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 2: a lot of attention because of its size. Two a 637 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 2: half pound of beef. Let's see calorie count, Oh boy, 638 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 2: fifty seven calories, which is more than three times the 639 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,319 Speaker 2: calorie count of the McDonald's cheeseburger at three oh three 640 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 2: and double the Big Mac at five oh nine. No 641 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:33,520 Speaker 2: info on price, but the meal could be anywhere from 642 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 2: twelve to fifteen dollars. 643 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 11: McDonald says this is the burger that could overtake the 644 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 11: Big Max. 645 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:38,399 Speaker 4: So let's find out. 646 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 11: This big archburger is ginormous. It's basically a double quarter 647 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 11: pound of cheese with a new big arch dolege. 648 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 2: You got the new bun. 649 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,360 Speaker 4: This thing is better than the Big Mac, without question. 650 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 2: Wow, better than the Big Mac without question. Lots of 651 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 2: takedowns on Burger King. Here is Tate Brown. He does 652 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 2: a podcast. He says that burger King deserves all the 653 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 2: heat they're getting for spying on their employees. Plus, you 654 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 2: shouldn't be going to burger King at all. 655 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 12: If you go to Burger King and your order comes 656 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,800 Speaker 12: out correct, you're going to buy lottery tickets. 657 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,919 Speaker 4: That's the next move you're making because it's your lucky day. 658 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 12: By and large, the makeup of fast food employees over 659 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,800 Speaker 12: the last ten to fifteen years has moved from teenagers 660 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 12: the elderly. It's moved from that to what should be 661 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 12: the prison population. If you're going there, you don't have 662 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 12: a great self conception of yourself. And this isn't an 663 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,520 Speaker 12: anti fast food point, because I think people that go 664 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 12: to Taco Bell, people that go to McDonald's, these are 665 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 12: people that do have a sense of self worth. Burger King, 666 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 12: who's going to Burger King? I mean, can we be 667 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 12: honest here? Who's going to burging? Why do you not 668 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,840 Speaker 12: think you're worthy of going to McDonald's. 669 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 4: That says more. 670 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,719 Speaker 12: When I see someone pulling into a Burger King, I 671 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,279 Speaker 12: see someone crying for help. 672 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 2: Wow, that's tough. McDonald's price increases from twenty nineteen to 673 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, so just in five years, the medium 674 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 2: French fry went from a dollar seventy nine in twenty 675 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 2: nineteen to four nineteen in five years. So before COVID, 676 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 2: a medium fry was a dollar seventy nine. The big 677 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 2: mac was three ninety nine. I remember that three ninety 678 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 2: nine for the Big Mac was pretty much the standard price. 679 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 2: Now that's so in five years it's gone from three 680 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,760 Speaker 2: ninety nine to seven forty nine. Ten piece chicken McNugget 681 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 2: from four to forty nine went to seven fifty eight. 682 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 2: Who is paying eight dollars for chicken McNuggets? Are you crazy? 683 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 2: That's a side. The cheeseburger was ninety nine cents, it's 684 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 2: now three point fifteen. This is a two hundred percent 685 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 2: increases in prices, according to Fox News. So it is 686 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 2: absolute robbery. It is kind of expensive, but you have 687 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 2: to know how to order. And on every single McDonald's 688 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,640 Speaker 2: receipt there is a free burger. Did you know that? 689 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 2: Look at your receipt. They'll ask you to take a survey. 690 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 2: You don't actually have to take the survey, but I 691 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 2: took the survey all the like during COVID, my kids 692 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 2: were home because they couldn't go to school, and that 693 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 2: was the incentive to stay focused online because it was 694 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,319 Speaker 2: boring as hell. And I said, guys, just you know, 695 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 2: do your best, and when it comes to lunchtime, I'll 696 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 2: run out and get McDonald's for lunch. Would be a 697 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 2: treat and so I had these like so I had 698 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 2: receipts all the time, and I went and did the 699 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 2: survey for fun ones. And then I realized that if 700 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,200 Speaker 2: all you have to do is answer like two questions 701 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,200 Speaker 2: and you get a free birth and it's any sandwich 702 00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,759 Speaker 2: you want. It used to be buy one Big Mac 703 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 2: at one free. Now it's any sandwich in there. So 704 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 2: you can get a double quarter pound of cheese for 705 00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 2: free by just showing them the receipt from the last 706 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,080 Speaker 2: time you purchased it. Now that offer doesn't come on 707 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 2: the receipt that you get when you go and take 708 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,319 Speaker 2: advantage of this deal. So don't think you could just 709 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,759 Speaker 2: do this forever and eat for free for the rest 710 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 2: of your life. So every time you make a purchase, 711 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 2: you open yourself up for an opportunity to get a 712 00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,000 Speaker 2: free quarter pound of cheese or a big Mac. Most 713 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,919 Speaker 2: participating McDonald's still do Big Mac Monday, which means buy 714 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,560 Speaker 2: one Big Mac at one free, So that could be 715 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,359 Speaker 2: two Big Macs for six bucks, which is a hell 716 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 2: of a deal. So learn the system, take full advantage 717 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 2: of it, eat well, and let me know if you 718 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,040 Speaker 2: go and have the Big Arch on Tuesday. How it 719 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,280 Speaker 2: was I can't see I can't see myself getting past 720 00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 2: the poppy seeds. Lou Penrose on kf I AM six 721 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 2: forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio 722 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: App, KFI AM six forty on demand