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What Temperature Is Your Summer Thermostat? · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: LFM Cubby and Christine. The big debate, what do you
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  Speaker 1: put the thermostat at during the summertime without air conditioning?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we turned to the experts, Cubby, because we want
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  Speaker 2: to keep the energy bills as low as possible, right,
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  Speaker 2: because they go crazy this time of year. But we
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  Speaker 2: need to be comfortable. So for most people, the experts
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  Speaker 2: are suggesting the thermostat is set between seventy two and
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  Speaker 2: seventy eight degrees.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty big range, that is, that's.
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  Speaker 3: A big window.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it depends on how much your households the
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  Speaker 2: heat correct right, Yeah, my house gets.
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  Speaker 3: Really really hot, so we have to keep it to
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  Speaker 3: the lower.
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  Speaker 1: If your air conditioning is at seventy two degrees at
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  Speaker 1: eight am and you turn off the air conditioning, how
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  Speaker 1: quickly will it go up?
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  Speaker 3: Within five minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Really, it goes back crazy mid seventies and then higher.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wow, it gets really hot in our house.
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  Speaker 1: The upstairs will get really warm. But if we're at
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  Speaker 1: seventy two degrees at eight am and I turn the
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  Speaker 1: AC off, it won't get to like seventy eight downstairs
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  Speaker 1: till maybe one or two o'clock. But you also don't
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  Speaker 1: want to wait till it gets that high. I know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to fight it to get it back down, right.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the thing. So where do we set the
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  Speaker 2: ac when we leave the house. Now, according to these guys,
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  Speaker 2: we can. We can make it seven degrees warmer when
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  Speaker 2: we're out. So if you had it at seventy two,
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  Speaker 2: you leave it at seventy nine when you go out, okay,
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  Speaker 2: which sounds really hot to me because I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when I'm going to be able to cool my house down.
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  Speaker 2: Then we turn to the National Sleep Foundation, who says
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  Speaker 2: that we're supposed to sleep in a room between sixty
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  Speaker 2: and sixty seven degrees sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a little I like it cold. That's a
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  Speaker 1: little too.
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  Speaker 3: That's really really cold, that is.
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  Speaker 2: So now let's go back to like trying to save money.
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  Speaker 2: What you're supposed to do, according to the experts, is
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  Speaker 2: you turn the thermostat down by four degrees from where
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  Speaker 2: you were during the day.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: They say you can save even.
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  Speaker 2: More if the air is cool outside, you open your
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  Speaker 2: windows and you run a f But it's not cooling
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  Speaker 2: down at night anymore, not really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've had a couple but not really. And
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  Speaker 1: also you deal with the pollen issue still.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, pollen noise pollution is really bad, right for some
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  Speaker 2: of us. Yeah, there's a I don't know, I think
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  Speaker 2: I overrun the AC and there's I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: else to do about it.
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  Speaker 3: We're kind of stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Is your power bill kind of like oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, like I'm scared to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Text US at four four three six three. What is
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  Speaker 1: your sweet spot for the air conditioning? Want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you,