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McDonald's is a Scam (with Danny!)
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We're excited to introduce our new co-host, Danny! In this week's episode, we dive into the elusive quest for financial security and share our thoughts on why McDonald's prices are hitting our wallets hard. Tune in for an engaging discussion! Questions or comments? Reach out to us at MildlyFrustrating@gmail.com.
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Introduction and Theme
00:00:04
Speaker
Yeah, welcome to the show, it's Miley frustrating We got free hosts here, keep the vibes elevated Two brothers and a buddy, yeah, we're navigating Through daily grind, it keeps our patience deflating Inflation's on the rise, man, the price is just a joke Traffic jams, tech fails, it's enough to make choke Relationships, the weather drops that make you broke Sit back, relax, listen in, let's provoke Miley frustrating, we're here to vent and shout
00:00:35
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talks that Movies let us down and we're always feeling poor Discussing all the moments that make us wanna roar But we keep it light, find the humour and the lore Three friends on a mic, yeah
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I'll be frustrating. Come along for the ride. We're turning all the rats into something bonafide. Join the crew, hit subscribe. We're here to provide. I'll be frustrating. Let's take it all in stride. We get Danny's face. Went from smiling to really. I really just want to start this. show Like he's already almost done with the cup. It's been 40 minutes. 40. We're trying to get you frustrated at it out for the podcast. You don't need to. but
00:01:38
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God.
Host Introductions and Podcast Origins
00:01:40
Speaker
Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast. The podcast for all things you guessed it mildly frustrating. and We're here actually not again. Cause that was mildly hot source. We're here with Nick again. How are you doing, man? Doing all right. and Same as always. Same as always. And then our new co-host, Danny, how's it going? What's up, guys? Hey, welcome. um Yeah, like I said, we did mildly hot source last week. It was intended to be this podcast, but that didn't really work out. It took a turn. Yeah, it didn't get as frustrating as we had hoped it would. That was frustrating. The frustrating didn't really come out in this one, so we're going to try at that again ah before before we move on to our first topic. Is there anything ah new with you guys?
00:02:25
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Nick, I know things kind of been status quo with you. Besides your AC problem, which should have been your first topic. That should have been, yeah. The fact that I've tried to have this guy fix it and it still does not work. I don't think there's anything more frustrating than having no air conditioner in the summer. I will not stay in the house if it doesn't have air conditioner. If there's no air conditioner with the wife, I'd say would be worse. I can endure it. She wouldn't be able to. I'm probably worse
Nick's Air Conditioner Woes
00:02:55
Speaker
than she is. We can cut this by just wanting to make that joke.
00:02:56
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Did you say Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi? Wife. Wife. You had me at Wi-Fi. Wife. And I got wife.
00:03:07
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Yeah. I just wanted to make it here. Earlier, I had mowed the front lawn. because I thought it was a good idea to do that in 90 degrees. And I came in and the air conditioner wouldn't turn on for took an hour for it to turn on. And now I have no idea it was on upstairs, but it wouldn't turn on downstairs. And I've never been overheating more angry. It could be because it's in direct sunlight mode. Yeah. But it wouldn't turn on. And she was cooking. So it was hot. I got out of a cold shower for all in the lawn.
00:03:42
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Essentially she was making tacos. That's the same thing. And I got out of the shower for mowing the lawn and came downstairs and it was 75 and it was just stuck on 75 and I was losing my mind. Yeah. I thought it wasn't supposed to rain today. present actually I don't know how you just deal with. 79 or whatever you said it gets to that's with the with the air conditioner if you get down to 78 So what is it every now man? I'm 85 for well, whatever the temperature it is outside, you know, plus maybe 10 degrees depending cuz 10 degrees open a window and it won't be plus no I did I do open a window but no air circulation and it retains a lot of the heat still you should get a fan and I was just about to say that. I've thought about that. I've looked at one of those like AC units as well. Like a window unit. Wow, true. Dude, I have one. Yeah, I was thinking just do a window unit and then I can keep my door closed and it'll be a lot cheaper anyway. I'll bring it to you.
00:04:48
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How much also get them to fix the AC, but I'll bring well, yeah How much but yeah how much uh, I don't know. We'll work out a monthly thing. Um, but i'll bring it to you and That's fair. Whatever whatever I can do. I mean you have to fix it. There's uh, there's I mean, yeah, that's that's the end all but I mean that would be of course be better but not in carolina nonetheless I will the thing is is I i'm used to the heat i've always like at my dad's house. No ac unit either i mean we we never had that and it was pretty hot there as well like in the hundreds why was there not me seeing the house my dad was cheap and he said don't touch the ac even if it was like that like even if we touched it a little bit he'd say he's frugal
00:05:34
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Oh, he has a lot of money, but he's frugal about certain things. Like he'll spend a lot of his money on what this is his third bobcat. The last time I've, I've seen him, bobcat, the machinery, not the, not the no think animal. What is he buying bobcats for? We have, uh, well, we have one, uh, house that has 60 acres and then we have one that has 17. So he likes to do a lot of the yard work stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Um, are the ones that we mainly live at, that one was a lot of hills and trees and stuff. So his idea was since I bought it for, uh, I think they said it was, he says it was like close to a million. He said, if I buy it like this for that much money, if I flatten it out and make it more livable, I could sell it for more. So that was his thought process. So that's just what he's been doing. and So you, you guys have like a hundred acres of land.
00:06:27
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No close 60 and 17. Yeah. So close to 80. I mean, yeah, so which is close to a hundred. yeah And you're, and and you're in an apartment with no air conditioner. Something doesn't add up. I refuse to take his money and stuff. Yeah.
Financial Independence Dilemma
00:06:47
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You're right. All right. I hate my father i hate my father it's true It's not that I hate him I just refuse to take his I've already forgiven him and you know, you know, I've already went through that process. I don't Hate him or anything anymore. I just don't I do I don't believe in taking his money and Every time every dollar of his comes with a tag or price tag Greater than that dollar. a dollar Oh, I was going to say a dollar right around a dollar. Hopefully right around a dollar. No, it's, uh, you know, ah you owe him stuff, you owe him parts of your life and you know, he he may he really kind of gets into your guilt. He tries to play, like he uses that as ah as a tool. So I just don't, I deny him that tool. Maybe you're racking a discipline. That's, that's the whole reason why my brother is essentially under his thumb and running the restaurant is because.
00:07:37
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That pays for a lot of the stuff. My sister works and lives with my dad, even though she shouldn't have to do that, but he buys her stuff. He makes, it makes everything easy for her. I don't, I don't like that. I don't want to be anybody's property or anybody's. I mean, that's also their choice. Whatever that's. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's just not, it's not a choice I choose. Yeah. So you don't want to work for the reward that's given. I know. Well, what do you mean? I do want to work for all the reward that's given to me that I've not that's given from by him. But that is earning. You don't think it's earning just because it's from your dad?
00:08:19
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That's still earning. Yeah. Well, I'd be earning it his way. I don't want to run the restaurant that he has. I don't want to have, I want i my destiny. What I want out of my life is separate. He doesn't see that. He can't yeah see that. And he refuses to see that. He would have to work at the restaurant. I would have to, yeah, I would have to stay with him. and I'd have to work at the restaurant and take care of it. I would have to, I'd be stuck at the other land. And that's far away from everybody else. I can't do much. It, and yeah, I would get some money and get, you know, and it would be an easy way, but that's not the life you're in a faraway land right now. Well, yeah, I'm in a faraway land, but I'm still around people. Like that's a big, or it's like that's a farmland area as well. Gotcha. Yeah. There's nothing around there. No, not even really internet. So count me out. Where is it? I mean, that's all you have to say. Um, it's like.
00:09:18
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Like when I asked him, he said he, he doesn't know the name of the area. He just know, he says he just knows the way and like the address. And he said, he'd give me the specific address one day, but I never got it. Um,
00:09:32
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I want to say it's actually kind of close to here. He said it's about 30 to 40 minutes away from here. So it's somewhere kind of closest away from here. ah too Too bad. you You should just get that address and just go stay there. Is anybody there? No, it's a vacation house. Okay. So it sounds like you should just go stay there most of the time, but you'd have to get to work, but yeah. There, there's a lot of, I mean, yeah, I, again, without telling him, I could be essentially given, well, no, I could ask him and he'd let me stay there. Oh, I know. I'm just saying, but then you wouldn't have to deal with the whole consequences of it. You just go and stay there. Yeah. But I mean, that's just not a life I choose. I just don't want, I don't want any of
Spending Habits and Impulsive Shopping
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that.
00:10:12
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I respect him as a person, but everything I get is mine. I worked for it. I got it. It's mine. I bought it. It's hard to argue. No, I get it. I was just saying um if there's a house I can take advantage of, I'm probably just going to go stay there until he's like, hey, I'm going to go to the house and I'm going to leave. I mean, it's just, you know, I, I don't want to be dictated based off of like a generational wealth. You know, I don't want that to be my fancy. I don't want to have to take an easy road and then kind of, I like, I don't know. I like I like getting. You like noisy. You like a struggle.
00:10:55
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a little bit of a life struggle, I guess. It'll make when I'm on my deathbed, I'll have something to ruin. I'm like, yeah, I did that. It worked. You're going to be on your death floor, not on a deathbed. At least I struggled a lot. That'll be my death floor. That'll be my death floor. At least life sucked. At least you're concrete. I'll probably go out of a plane or something. What? I'll probably go out of a plane or something. I can just take everybody with them.
00:11:28
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Who's going to crash? Just do it on your dad's land. Yeah, it's true. We're into the restaurant right through. I'll put a bullseye through the roof. Hello. um
00:11:48
Speaker
Take order pee. Yeah, the the no AC is a would be frustrating. Like if it's as soon as the AC goes out, if it If it's gonna get over like 77, then we're not staying here. We're going somewhere else. Mine didn't work for an hour and I was thinking about calling the realtor and putting the house up for sale. It's probably, yeah. That's worth it. have Making somebody else's problem. I just can't take it. I've learned that with enough time you can get used to pretty much anything. You're not wrong. But I don't want to deal with the struggle. I don't enjoy the struggle like you do.
00:12:23
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and know No, but also I don't think you can get used to 85. That's, I don't think that's, I don't think you're supposed to get used to that. yeah You wake up with a oh but a lot of the times being like, damn, it's Stephanie. You sure that's sweat? No, he was in the tub again, getting cool. It's okay, I sleep shower. Just didn't light spritz. I sleep during my 12th shower. I don't have an AC. I do a cold spritz. You're a lunatic. It's a little crazy, but it's he's, it's normal for him. I see that, but that is probably one of the most frustrating topics. You know, I honestly could make something out of this and just get like a kiddie pull or one of those inflatable hot tubs.
00:13:12
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and just put it in my living room since I'm on the ground floor. Well, you can just put any amount of water in anything and it would be a hot tub. And make sure you're laying in it when people come in to like move in. Just be make sure you're sitting in your kiddie pool in the middle of the living room. What's up, guys? How's it going? No, put that in front of the mail slot. No, just be like, no, that here we are. That couch or this bad boy? Yeah, that's true. Just scoot over. But if you if if we keep the pool, we got enough room for a pool table as well. Come on. and Nice. We can really make this work. Sure. Anyways, we got a little bit of drink. I'm drinking blends. I think you are, too, Danny. I am. Oh, delicious. The emerald is there. Oh, I just assumed it was like sake. My bad. No. Ha ha.
00:14:07
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and it's It's rice amaretto though, right? Oh, very rice, very rice. Amaretto? Yeah. Amaretto. I don't know if I ever told you that, but one of the...
00:14:22
Speaker
He's too good at it. That's racist. You can't do that. yeah You have to get him from the source. Yeah, that was pretty good. No, but that's racist of you to say that. I don't know if I can compete with that. I hope not. That was good. um One of the first things that I. Got pretty tipsy. up I don't know if I was drunk or not Well, it was one of the first things we drank was sake because that's what he he had in his house yeah yeah yeah i remember that He came over and I was like, what is this he's like that we had We had like Six or seven mini bottles of that that was like I
00:15:04
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Yeah. They've been here for quite a while, so might as well. I don't think they're getting any of these. He was like, I brought Saki. I was like, what is, what's that? Like, I know most alcohols I've never heard of Saki because I was like, what, 15, 16? I was like, where is Saki? I thought it was like T. Do you like it? i yeah he He enjoyed it a lot more than I did. I already knew I hated sake, but it is. Really? Oh, I enjoy sake. Too bitter for me. No, I've had flavored sake and I actually do like some flavored sake. Flavored sake is delicious.
00:15:43
Speaker
There's the lychee sake that I think is fantastic. I love lychee in general, so yeah. And there's a green apple one that's amazing. Yeah, the apple one's my favorite. I'm sure you've been there because you live near there, but the H Mart? Mm-hmm. Yeah, they had the apple sake there. That's where I tried it for the first time. Really? I've never looked for sake there. That's where we get our cabbage and our kimchi for our tacos at work. So that place is pretty awesome because you can go there, get the sake, but they'll, you know, the cafeteria that they have, you can get their order food and they'll allow you to open up the bottle and drink. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I've never gone in. That's where we did it. And then you just bring the bottle up and you can, you can pay for it.
00:16:30
Speaker
It's pretty fun. It's pretty dope But yeah, I don't remember if I liked like the first sit but I remember liking it like eventually plug in by the way Yeah i'm going get apologize for that i'm just go
00:16:43
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Yeah, plug-in is from Glade,
Alcohol Preferences: Sake Stories
00:16:45
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by the way. Yeah, it's just a plug. Close enough. There's a Glade plug for you.
00:16:54
Speaker
But yeah, the apple ones, I will kill the whole thing of that. This stuff is dangerous. It is. It is. You can drink the whole bottle in 10 minutes. Yeah. it I mean, it just tastes like whatever it's flavored as. Yeah. Like apple, it tastes like apple juice. I like the, uh, the, like the unfiltered ones that are like, uh, they look like milk. Yeah. Man, those are delicious. Yeah. Yeah. And I know what you're talking about. I forgot that one has a little bit more of a ricey tone for my taste. It does. It does. It's got like almost a texture to it. It's delicious. I don't know if you've had rice soup, but, uh, you have.
00:17:30
Speaker
I have. it's ah It's a legitimate thing, so I don't know if you know what a raw is, but you can get something that's raw. It's like a shredded beef, dried shredded beef. Honestly, if you love beef jerky, you would love this stuff, but it is, I think, high in, um, sodium. Sodium. Yeah. So you could like, you could take that thing in and just, it's almost like big league two or something like that. You just put that in there. Yeah. It's so good. Oh man. You just let that the juices simmer and look the it's good. It's like dip, but.
00:18:02
Speaker
That being said, you can put some of that in rice, rice soup, essentially, and it becomes like this whole legitimate Asian meal, essentially. Right on. That sounds amazing. That being said, rice soup on its own tastes like crap, at least to me. And since I've had that... What is it? Rice with water? With way too much water. So it's rice and water. Is it is there anything done to it? I don't know exactly. I think his dad lied to him. That was a rice in soup. yeah So my stepmom always made it for him for like late night snacks. I don't know. So when I was young, he would be like, here, come, come get some. Come get them.
00:18:47
Speaker
being the household that it is, you, as a respectful thing, you go ahead and do it even if you don't like it. So I'd always get some and it would always tasted not that great to me. My favorite. Like really watered down. Rice and water. Yeah. So when I taste the, that sake that he's talking about, the unfiltered sake that it tastes, yeah, it's too similar to it. And it makes me Not, not, not good. Yeah, fair enough. Hey, Rick, would you like a great night's snack?
00:19:21
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And the answer is yes. Well, they could, they could say the N, so. Hey, Nick. Hey, come here.
00:19:33
Speaker
Nick's diving into his pass. Let's get out of here. Well, that's how we learned that he used to chase him with the kendo stick. Oh, geez. Yeah. I'm already getting the freaking... He's crying. What's it called? When you stare at the screens too much. Dry eye? Like the stinging. Yeah. My eyes are getting that itchy sting. Because I got the widescreen over here. I've been watching this and I've been looking at cameras for about 10 hours a day. So the first ah thing that I wrote down as a subject for something that's been frustrating me, I mean, frustrates all of us, I think, is how every time that there's something, either every time you're about to buy something or every time you think you've paid off,
00:20:23
Speaker
All the stuff that you need to pay off and that you'll start to kind of catch up on bills or Like after you make a big purchase, you'll be like, okay, that's the last big purchase I have for a long time now I can I can chill out for a bit. This might not be as big of an issue for you Nick It is on a much smaller scale It's true. I'm like I could not buy ramen this week. Never mind. Yeah, I got ramen already. So we're good here. I Um, but yeah, every time that happens, that it it never lasts very long. It's like, no, no. Cause like, um, the last couple of big purchases, I mean, it's like, Oh, I'll spend a thousand dollars. Okay. Now for the next like two months, I can't think of anything that will come up that would make me spend some money. And so I'll just be able to to save now. Cause that purchase is out of the way and it just doesn't work. It doesn't. And mysterious oh sickness.
00:21:18
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Like something. And if there's nothing that happened, like if you wake up with a broken leg, what happens if there's nothing scheduled? It just happens. Yeah. But what Dylan I think is going at is she just doesn't work that way. So you say I just bought a. Shut up. You know, anything. you I just bought a TV and it was fifteen hundred dollars. I'm not i'm going to pay this off and I'm good. I finally have the TV. We're good to go.
00:21:51
Speaker
And then five days later, you're like, that's a nice Jersey. I should probably buy that Jersey. Who did they sign? I should get that person's Jersey too. Also the new hats came out and I'm going to get one of those hats. Sure. Well, because they're nice. Yeah, you can get the jersey with and it just piles on and piles on. You're you're correct. But I'm also thinking of like, you know, you get the fifteen hundred dollar TV and then your air conditioner breaks. Well, like the next month, I need new tires on my car. Well, yeah.
00:22:26
Speaker
Or I took Jazzy's car to get an oil change. It was a,000 bill for my oil change. Yeah. Um, like there's the Diego just got sick. Like every time you think that there's nothing, uh, like you're in the clear for at least a little bit where you can recover. It just never seems to work out. It doesn't work like that. No, I can say this though. When you add a woman, a dog and a bitch in your life.
Unplanned Expenses and Family Responsibilities
00:22:55
Speaker
He going with this When you got a frickin woman they spent all your money you sound really tolerant though there was disdain in your voice But when you bring these things these
00:23:14
Speaker
and You sound like you're looking for a slur. The opportunities just triple, you know? They multiply. That was your whole point. Well, yeah, if you just let me finish without interrupting me, we would have got there a lot faster. Maybe you wouldn't realize that's where we're getting. You kept having breaks, so I had to come up with something. You broke it. So what? Okay, now you're mildly frustrating. This is the damn woman over here distracting me.
00:23:48
Speaker
I see what he's saying though. If you buy yourself, those don't tend to add up. But when you have a wife, she wants something or you just happen to scroll past something. It's like, oh, I could buy that. I do that with mine all the time. Probably I'll just buy myself something. And then, you know, like, ah you know, if it's, you know, for NFL or and MLB or anything, and you go to the website. It's always sports or bourbon. But kind of. I have a habit of buying or like sweatpants, shoes, tops. I like to shop for clothes for as well. So I'll go on like, you know, John Barbados and buy myself some John Barbados clothes. I don't know what that is. It's just a designer. I got it from Howard Stern. And now I have a whole closet full of John Barbados.
00:24:32
Speaker
yeah Yeah, it's obnoxious. And to build further on the frustration is when you shop and you buy something and like an expensive gadget or something like a TV, and then you know you buy it from a store, and then the store sends you like, oh, thanks for purchasing. Here's a $50 coupon for your next purchase. And you're like, ah I have to use this. Well, I did want to get speakers for it, so. Yeah, and you buy a subwoofer and you buy a sound card. That's $100 or $250. Yeah. And you have a brother who has a podcaster and goes, Oh, you should buy this microphone. Here's some screens that go with it. Well, also to be fair, I explicitly texted you not to buy it is what happened. You just, but I have a problem as well that I just want to purchase things. He saw an Amazon link and click buy before it came up.
00:25:23
Speaker
twice. Yeah, I did. and So what I did was I texted him, hey, you don't need to buy a mic. I already have this one. And I sent him an Amazon link. And the next text was I just bought it. I trust you. So I just don't read it. Why would you send me a link for a purchase? You could have sent me a picture of the microphone. Do that next time. Send me a picture. I feel like that's a problem we should all have. So I was like, why did you buy it? Like, I didn't read what you said. I saw the link. think Yeah, I thought it said like, it's this one. That's fair. I'm just going to buy it. I'm an impulsive shopper. Yeah, I I'm. ah An impulsive planner.
00:26:09
Speaker
Like I decide that there's something that needs to be done like one day. No, you know, it comes based off of something, but there's just the day where I'm like, OK, the day has come. We need a new TV. That's needs to happen. And that's that's the next purchase. Yeah, I'm not a I don't browse a ton. I'm usually looking for something specific. Yeah, I'm the quintessential. They sent you an email. I'm that guy. No problem. Or I look, so do I. But after 19 purchases, I'm the guy that watches TV and will be sitting on the couch and like, I just bought a new vacuum. And it'll just be because, you know, the Dyson commercial just scrolled through. That's yeah, they get me. And that's why they advertise. They get me every time.
00:26:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's true. I also don't have a lot of um exposure to those ads um because and unless it's an email, I'm not really going to see it because I don't everything I do is ad free. Yeah, I don't even I don't watch TV either. Yeah. Well, mine's mostly from Howard, from listening to Howard every day. I don't listen to radio at all. Yeah. And he plugs a bunch of stuff. And he also just talks about his randoms, you know, stuff that he uses in life, you know, without getting paid for it. He just talks about it. And I listen to him all the time. I have an hour drive every day back and forth. Plus, it's been, you know, a really long time. I've been listening to him with dad since I was little.
00:27:42
Speaker
Yeah, you know, and I just listened to all the stuff and it's hard not to just yeah, go try some stuff that yeah, I just go buy it and then I you know, you like it because he's a bajillionaire. Yeah. So, you know, it's going to be good. So you buy it and then you love it and then you buy more and then you buy more. The one mistake I made was, you know, Jake and Amir. Yeah, Jake had started a podcast. Yes, but they their ads are only like mattresses and you know flowers that's expensive That's the same thing with Howard. It's mattresses Flowers, it's literally the same stuff. Yeah, but yeah, that's not stuff I'm gonna buy I'm not gonna buy a mattress like I'm not in the market for one
00:28:21
Speaker
Oh, I'll buy a mattress on that guy. Like what kind of things it's. Yeah, that and ah they just like did like car stuff like it's usually bigger purchases that I'm not interested in. um They don't advertise like household products, really. The one thing I did was a picture frame like one of the digital ones. That was the only thing they advertise for. That was like a consumer product that everybody could buy. um But they so Jake started another podcast with his brother called The Goat Show. And, uh, um, you know, goat stands for greatest of all time. Um, so there, each podcast was a different subject of trying products. So the, like one of the first, uh, podcast was about, uh, t-shirts, like what's the best just plain t-shirt brand. Another one was pillows. What's the best pillow that you can buy? And they would just try like 30 of them for like a week.
00:29:15
Speaker
and talk about them, which one was the worst, which one was the best, like all of that crap, and that sold me on a couple things. Stuff like that where they reviews tend to send me and sell me on stuff, um because all of the information, that's that's that's what gets me, and I don't really have many other sources of that where I get sold on things. I don't listen to Howard or anything like that, but like they recommended a pillow. They were like, this is the best pillow we saw, and I saw it and got it, and I was like, I need that. Yeah smart purchase Yeah, well, yeah, you can talk yourself into it. It's like well, I need a pillow I use it. Oh, yeah We have 19 of them in my house I Need another one exactly. I need I need these these new cups with the new technology Yeah, that's me. I am the clickbait
00:30:07
Speaker
Yeah, that's I could see that. Yeah, it's not good. You want. You want to like something. Mm hmm. Yeah. That's how people get into the whole shopaholic. Yeah. ah Well, one, you know, that maybe that's slightly different, but the whole wanting to like something can be a portion of it. um But anyways, I don't know what extent you deal with that, Nick, but and the maybe not the the the buying money or the buying money, the buying things on a regular basis. But maybe the there's always something that comes up. Well, yeah, I mean, there i could be a couple things. Yeah, I'm a adrenaline seeker so you can take that how you I like adventure.
00:30:55
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I'll save a lot of money, but it's usually for a vacation that I'm planning. And I usually spend it for that. And I get spendy when I get on vacation. So I'm like, Oh, let's do this. Let's do that. Whatever like keeps us going. But I mean, other than that, I don't really, um, I mean, hockey now, uh, that's where a lot of my money has gone to is just making sure, that's okay um, yeah, well equipped for hockey. Um, urban. That's a huge one. We skipped right over that. I bought. Yeah. Those couple bottles of and expensive bourbon not long ago, you know, like the heaven Hill 18. Yeah. That wasn't cheap. And I was like, all right, I'm buying this one and that's it for at least a couple of months. I'm just not going to buy.
00:31:39
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Any bourbon, I came home with four bottles today. And I just, literally, I came home with four bottles. Unfortunately, you're forced to be exposed to it. I know, I can't not do it. You know, I see them. It's something I don't have. It's something I do have. I just have to get it if it's good and it's rare. I have to buy it. I have no choice. It's hard to pass on it. Yeah, they had the benchmark single barrels. I bought three of them. One's for you. One's for me and the other one's for the homies. I just had to buy what they had. Pulling out. Whenever Jimmy comes out. Pulling out for dad. ah He said he can't drink anymore. Period? on that Yeah. No, that's not true. That's what he told me today. He said he can't have alcohol. No, that's not true. I mean, that's Christy. She drinks. I mean, not regularly, but she can. Christy? Yeah, she had a gallbladder out.
00:32:40
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Drinks alcohol? Yeah. I mean, not like regularly, but she can. I don't think she does. I believe. um It's best to avoid alcohol for at least two days. And then drink moderately once you're recovered. I think with like all the other problems. I think they're telling him to avoid alcohol altogether. Alcohol isn't involved, isn't metabolized. That's the liver, obviously. Yeah. However, alcohol can make acute pancreatitis caused by, gu which yes, that's alcoholism can cause gallstones slash pancreatitis, which is what he has. But yeah, I mean, he could should never, he shouldn't get drunk with his issues. Well, he's a raging alcoholic.
00:33:25
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I know, but I like that about him. Um, but yeah, money. I mean, yeah, I get that. Just, um, always having that one extra thing that you didn't know you needed until you saw it. And then not being able to yeah like and keep money. And then you're right. It's multiplied by however many people you're responsible yeah for. Yeah. And animals. Yeah. It just, and it's never ending. Or, you know, an anniversary, you know, that you didn't put together the dates. You know, it just keeps getting worse. Yeah. It's true. There's always something going on. Yep.
Managing Budgets Amidst Rising Costs
00:34:09
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Oh yeah. They didn't really didn't do any favors with the endless holidays that are gift giving holidays. Fantastic. There's too many of them.
00:34:19
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um And then like we're going. We're going to the convention in July and we have to pay for an Airbnb and there's, you know, there's just one thing after another. Yeah, Airbnb, then food. Yeah. And then, you know, gas. Gas, yeah. You know and the oh we want to go out to dinner and everybody's going out to dinner and everybody's going out for breakfast everybody's going out for lunch is just gonna keep adding up and adding up and adding up. You're gonna be looking at a thousand bucks. Yeah. And I don't want to do that drive with one of our cars so I might get a different one. What is that. What just because we you know that went on to buy tires or anything.
00:35:00
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your
00:35:03
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and I thought you were serious.
00:35:07
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Yeah, I went to Colorado and I pre got I got the Airbnb and paid for that before the trip. Got the plane tickets before, you know, any of that. I brought fourteen hundred dollars just for the trip itself. Gone in three days. Fourteen hundred. Where did it all go? Yeah, that's a good question. We didn't do we didn't do much. You did something. You know, we we went. Well, we went to the museum. We ate at a couple of places and we weren't skiing. Well, no, this is the miow wolf museum. This is the ah the crazy thought abstract art museum. That's like for is a it was a fetish museum.
00:35:49
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So, I mean, you can you can tell by the name of it. it's so It's a weird museum. It's an interactive five-story museum that's just full of abstract art and stuff that you can enter. in it's It's pretty interesting. really It's really cool. That's kind of cool. Yeah, there was a refrigerator that was like a secret door and there was like multiple secret doors like that that you can go into. If you know like a combination you can go through and like find if find these lures and like the lure I'll give you hints and like what's going on. You can feel like a Yeah, that's fun. We we spent like kind of three or four hours there. Yeah um so, you know we went there and we went skiing of course like the the Skiing in snowboarding. That was the most expensive part of it
00:36:33
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Like just getting checked in. Oh, yeah. It was like a hundred bucks. Really expensive. Yeah. to rent Jesus. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I was like, what the heck? Yeah. I'd imagine a day of skiing is several hundred dollars. So yeah, that'll do it. lots one That's different. The activity that you were there and the Airbnb. Well, so we had to get an extra Airbnb because she wanted to stay that extra one day. And I was like, fine. And the thing is, if it was up to me, I wouldn't have spent that, but since she wanted it, of course. Yeah. So that was, that was the last thing. You couldn't have gotten in a hotel room? Not, not all the way out there. I mean, the, the, the best place, like the, if you were to get something, I would imagine the cheaper places would be there. Cause it's like a mountain. It was in the mountains. Yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. That's lame. It was nice though. I mean, there was a picture perfect, uh, snowy or like a icy pond and everything was pretty nice.
00:37:29
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But really expensive, three days and 1400 gone. Don't go on vacation with Danny. He would have doubled that. Immediately. They don't spend 1400 on dinner. jesus Done that. and yes I think that two times ago when I went to New York, I spent 1400 on one bottle of bourbon. Yeah. And I bought two.
00:37:59
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Yeah, that all right. And do they got resell value or? Yes. Okay, cool. As long as you're buying them as. Well, they gave me a little bit of a break. They gave me one for 1400 and the next one for nine instead of 15 and yeah a thousand. So it was nice. Nice guy. A break for you. For them. It's like a drop in the water. And they're like, Oh yeah, it was like $50 for them. No, let me borrow $5. Yeah. No, but yeah, like when we went to, uh, was it the last time we went to Florida and ah you guys wanted to go to Capitol grill? That's not that expensive. It's expensive. It's not that expensive. and I mean, not compared to some places, but it was like 150 bucks a person.
00:38:45
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Yeah, that's like pretty expensive. Yeah. Okay. It was delicious. I think the best place I've been to is probably like 90 bucks a person. Yeah. And that's, we just went, yeah, that's expensive. Yeah. Well, that's just the best place. I don't know about the governor's mansion, but, um, I didn't pay for it. So yeah. I think we were, we were just in New York and we bought went to, uh, a steakhouse and there was four of us and our bill was like, like almost 700, like 680 for the four of us. It was brutal. That's not bad for New York. No, I mean, it is not good here. I thought that would be the pizza pizza prices. I feel like it's not that expensive. New York's not that expensive. I assumed it was. What is that expensive? No, it's not.
00:39:37
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and It isn't a good amount of parts. where or Where did you go? Like what is what kind of placement a steakhouse is Smith and Walensky. Yeah The gases are super expensive. Yeah Stakes that's expensive Yeah, seventy seven hundred dollars for four people to eat dinner is pretty expensive Well, if you get any appetizers and or drinks that crap. has Yeah, well two of us weren't drinking. Yeah, but it was fun. It was good. I hope so. I The service was awful. No, you told me. Oh man, it's just awful. Danny's a spender on vacation. Yeah, that's where I spend a lot of money. That's where I just get fruitless with it. I don't know why.
00:40:23
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Maybe that's what you're out for. The the theme is, yeah, I'll let loose. The thing is I don't want to be one of those people that puts out a loan to go out on vacation. Apparently people do that. and' that risk and That was what I was going to say is you have the benefit of not having a credit card. Oh, you don't have a credit card. but No, he spends all right on debit. Yeah. Nice. My credit and stuff, I get it throughout what time I just do credit builders through there.
00:40:53
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Yeah, so you can only spend what he has yeah so we don't have that So it's hard not to spend it Like he didn't I'm i'm sure he didn't have $2,500 in this bank account, but he spent it who mean Yeah. Oh yeah, that's kind of urban. You don't have to have to spend it. No, he's going to have to pull out a LLC real quick. Oh, the only way, the only reason why I got the discount was for paying cash. We pay cash. Cash does make things cheaper sometimes. Yeah. Not all the time. Now we have to pay cash for the discount. Well, that's nice. Yeah. It was 10%.
00:41:35
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I got you. So yes, I had the money. But generally, it's all credit card. Yeah. Well, because you get all the points and the miles and the cash back. I make so much money in cash back. It's insane. You spend so much money to make the cash back. That's true. Yeah, but it's free cash. So I feel like you have to spend money. And just so I just want $53. So I have to spend 500. Oh yeah. If you go buy one, get one a half off of cars. app a freak card Yeah. and i buy it Well, I would put it this way. You have to buy groceries, right? So if you're going to pay groceries and pay for groceries, why not get a little back? That's what we do. We have an Amex about 3% back on every purchase at a grocery store. You know how much money you made off of that? It's insane. Spent a lot of money on groceries.
00:42:33
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yeah I do not. I've adopted the bear refrigerator thing. I buy my week stuff. I don't eat anything but what I bought and I have to make sure it's empty before I buy the next one. I don't think you adopted that. I think it adopted you. yeah We adopted you and spit you out.
00:42:54
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And there's a lure in there. It's part of the puzzle. Yeah,
00:43:00
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um yeah and money interesting, but there's it's now regardless of. Whether it's, uh, spending or just bills popping up or whatever, it never goes the way you think it's going to go. Yeah. No. Life has a way of knowing. Yeah. That's good stuff. Um, ah the, you know, we've been on here a while.
Fast Food Affordability Crisis
00:43:26
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So the last thing I'll bring up is, um, uh, the McDonald's sauces. Uh, wait, McDonald's sauce. Oh, being 90 cents. Yeah. That's some bull crap. What kind of crap is that?
00:43:39
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it That's absurd. I spent like $80 on sauces the other day. No food. no and if i get offensive If I could afford McDonald's, I would be furious.
00:43:55
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if You know, McDonald's honestly is about the same as a regular burger joint. You can go to 55 and get, uh, about the same price or cheaper meal for a burger drink and fries. Oh, well, yeah. Highway 55. If you go and get a double. Highway 55 burgers. So they have that everywhere in North Carolina. Yeah. Oh yeah. I guess 55 isn't everywhere in the US, huh? I have never been there. Really? there's There's several in our area. Um, but, uh, shake, uh, sugar, uh, wait, no, burger, shake, shake, shake. Yeah. There you go. I guess for for everybody that's around there, Jack on the box, those kinds of places, I like that. Um, no, the, the fries is where they get you. The fries are more expensive than the burgers.
00:44:48
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and McDonald's. Mm hmm. The fries are more expensive. When there were dollar fries. Yeah, there's no there's no dollar or anything. There's dollar sauces. yeah That's the dollar menu now. It just says make a honey mustard, barbecue, sweet and sour. That's the dollar menu. It's bullcrap. It's crazy to think that when I was in high school, I could buy a whole McChicken for the same price that I can get a sauce now. Yes, it's not anywhere close to how it used to be. um Like I'm pulling up there. It's a value menu now. There's no, uh, no, there's no dollar menu. I thought you called the sauces, the value, like they put the side of the picture of the sauce is value. They should know value menu. Do they offer a just valueless menu?
00:45:40
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A regular plain cheese, yeah. A plain cheeseburger is $2.50. 1.6 ounces of meat. Yeah. That's their cheapest option. If you want no cheese, it's $1.90. That's the cheapest thing they have. 60 cents for cheese? For cheese. That's because it's more popular. For fake cheese. Nobody's buying just the hamburger. That's not even good cheese. No, but nobody's buying a hamburger, that's why. I think they make the wrappers out of the same thing they make the cheese with. They're heavier. oh You know, on Howard, just been on the heat longer on howard stern they bought a...
00:46:23
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just a regular hamburger, that hamburger, just a hamburger with cheese and left it in the office for three years. It was probably yeah know normal identical, identical, three years and nothing happened to it. It looked the exact same when they unwrapped it. They just talked about it like last week because they were talking about the prices of McDonald's going crazy because it used to be for, you know, people that don't make a lot of money. So you can go get a good meal, you know, you're not a ah millionaire you can go get a man, you know, some yeah, just your basic, you know, for me have it you know most of the most of America, you know, that could go get good food at a good price and get it quickly.
00:47:05
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And they're they're stripping that for you. spoke Yeah, now they now you have to go. That's what I'm saying. You can get it. It's like $12 for a meal. You might as well go to... I've been to what? ah Bad Daddies. Bad Daddies, you can get a burger, tots, and a drink for, I think, $15. So for $3 more, you can get ah not just a ah better burger, but a burger you can decide if you want medium rare. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a pretty big burger too, generally. Yeah. Yeah. That thing is saucy boy. Now make a McChicken is now 230 And four-piece chicken nugget is 270 That's just so 50 cents a nugget more Plus um So a medium are or a medium for they were nowhere near as good as the tofu nuggets a medium fries three dollars not even close.
00:48:00
Speaker
Honestly, that's crazy that they said that the tofu nuggets were not good for you, so they made it real chicken. Or no, not not that they were not good for you, but that they just weren't real chicken. So they made it with real chicken and they taste worse. That ain't real chicken. Huh? They say real chicken. I don't believe it. Yeah, exactly. And still, i would I would have taken the tofu with the better taste. I mean, come on. Just the 90 cents for the sauces are killer. That's just obnoxious. So think about that. And my chicken is $229. A small french fry is $260. So that's that's my point. of they That's where they make their money is the fries because they... They're the best fries in the world. That's what everybody... that's yeah The majority opinion is that they have the best fries. So you're not going there and not getting fries. Yeah.
00:48:50
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Yeah, it's you can't so we used to mean Jazzy used to go there because when I started at Like one of my other jobs where I wasn't making a ton of money and you know, obviously she doesn't make a ton of money um So we were like super paycheck to paycheck um so but there would be some days where we had like 20 dollars in our bank account, and we needed dinner, so I'd be like, okay, so we need, and we called it a poor people meal. um And it was a set couple of things that we would get from McDonald's. And I would, we would get like.
00:49:28
Speaker
I think I would get a McChicken and a and and a yeah burger and I think we would like share a large fry and we'd each get a drink and she would get a like two burgers or something like that. But the like the value burgers and we'd spend like eight dollars. Yeah, I mean, that's what it's supposed to be for. It's for supposed to be for the people that work hard yeah that, you know, don't have a lot to go eat decent food. That's and they're just taking their stripping that from people. What happens to the people with. You know, no means, no income, you know, no parents, you know, kids that are taking care of their. I mean, it's what's their problem, but good ramen and hot dogs.
00:50:16
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I don't know about the, the hot dogs part, but the rest on you gotta to have the hot dogs and they gotta get a little protein. can have Yeah. But you know, everybody should be able to go out and enjoy somebody cooking for them. Yeah. yeah And I agree, but yeah you can't do that anymore. Yeah. They're making it impossible for, you know, the single mom of four, you know, or five or six or one, you know, who doesn't have a, you know, a pot to piss in. and you can't go get your kids a happy meal because it's, you know, a three ah-quarter of your paycheck.
00:50:53
Speaker
Mm-hmm for nothing if you want extra sauce, that's a dollar. Yeah, it's a dollar extra Yeah, if you got four kids, you're just been four dollars on sauces Yeah for their like you can get like two solids and I guess which is not and they're still not gonna have enough You can get one cut it for me. I think you can get like two sauces per meal. You can get two sauces per meal Yeah, like and you're complaining about 90 cents free extra Yeah I didn't know about the two sauces. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Rewind. Okay. Well, first of all, I told you that. No. Yeah. Nobody's ever said you get her back into the you read my text. No, there's a good chance of that. Well, I might not have read it either because I didn't see that. I don't know if I told you. No, I think you said you get one with your meal. Or maybe I feel like I said you can get some.
00:51:45
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I don't know what you said. What's the difference between one and two? They're so small. If you, they're not small. Well, to be fairly honest, I get two with my meal. Typically I don't get three. So I mean, if they come with two, I'd be satisfied. I mean, just on principle of them used to, I don't care how many they give you. A fair. Charging any amount of money for for that. But things are getting more expensive. I wouldn't be as annoyed. Yeah, things are getting more expensive. But if you get two with each with each meal. It's hard to argue 90 cents for a third. Who needs a third?
00:52:26
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Yeah, to be fair, like when I was younger, I did, I know we used to be able to just get a handful of ketchup and go on or marry way. They left it out there for us. But even then I was a little iffy on doing that. I kind of felt bad. I was like, why are we taking so many? I mean, two to Danny's point. I mean, I, I personally would agree. We should stop people from just taking as much like ketchup as they want. Well, I mean, if they're going to use it, I don't care. If they're just taking it to like have, but if they're going to use it, they, I feel like they, is ketchup included in this? I don't think ketchup ketchup is generally not included. Yeah. I thought it'd be all sauces, like ketchup, mustard. No, no. Like so anything that would you would like the barbecue and whatnot. Anything of those little plastic containers, yeah which have gone through the roof in price, which is crazy. Yeah. Just the container. But ah yeah, I'm sorry. If they're giving you two,
00:53:25
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You shouldn't be asking for a third. You know who asked for a third? Diabetus. So the first point is I'm not debating that they shouldn't cost money period. If they want to charge, you know, that's, I am not fully against it because I get that it does cost some money. You're free. You know, you can't always expect free, but 90 cents just feels absurd. You know, you used to be able to get food for that. Yeah, that's fair. But now Steven, who fries the fries, makes $15 an hour. So you have to get to make money somewhere. He's not making that. What? Oh, I see. what you Yeah. The labor has gone crazy. So which makes a business like McDonald's with the low price is not profitable.
00:54:18
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because not as probably unprofitable the 16 and 17 year old are now making 15 bucks an hour, which they should. Maybe not at 16, 17, but everybody that works a full time job should be making a livable wage. And $15 still isn't livable, but it's better than seven. You know, so, you know, they've stepped up their game wage wise, but places like there's they have the difference. If it's like a restaurant that they're, they have margins to keep and like, it's a little bit more of a to to the restaurant. McDonald's is a chain that is insanely profitable.
00:55:03
Speaker
Yes, but lost half its profits. here's Here's what I would say though, I guess in order to just make an argument toward that, um, we would all agree that inflation has been exceedingly higher than wages, correct? Yeah. Are we all on agreement with that or any disagreements with that? The inflation has been now doing wages. Oh, yes. So that being said, I mean, McDonald's has inflated themselves on the same par as everybody else, but they have not inflated the wage. So I think that they can have the profit to make the wages what they are and still make the profit that they. Oh, I'm sure.
00:55:45
Speaker
I'm sure, but you're sitting at the top of the food chain in the McDonald's chain. Well, and that's that they're seeing money leave their pockets. I get that. but But that's the thing is you're saying that because they they raise the wages, that that's why they're that they need to rate, like put money on the sauce from their point of view to see their. Numbers go down. If you see your profit goes down numbers go down, things start to go sideways. People start to pull out. Your stock starts to go down. Yeah, but that's where greed goes over. It's not the working person's fault for making more. It's honestly the uptight person for being greedy about it. It's only the working person's fault when they start to make $15 an hour and now they have money so they don't care.
00:56:33
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Oh, well that part, yeah. That I agree with. Because I find that to be true. is That's why I feel like if you you make $15 an hour, you should just keep doing your best. you just make a best hack in yeah yeah just That just doesn't happen because now you're paying some kid or or man or woman that only wants to fry fries because they don't want to do anything else and they don't want to learn anything else. $15 an hour and they're going to do it to the least of their ability. Yeah. And that's where we're at. and see that' It only works if everybody works together. but and people Because like they'll go to Taco Bell the following week and do that job all fully for $15 now. we'll go to Chick-fil-A the following week and do that poorly for $15 an hour. That shouldn't even be a problem.
00:57:22
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because that's always existed. It's just not to this extent. Not to this extent. Maybe. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty it's pretty brutal. There's no more pride in what we're carrying. I'm not. Oh, I know you're not. Well, hey, Danny, don't don't don't be afraid. You're actually high enough into it. So you would actually be making the profit. and Yeah. Yeah. But so it takes all the it takes all the You know, the point of going out and going to eat is the experience of eating somebody's food that they've never seen. Oh, well, I mean, I never said you had to show the people the kitchen. No, just just put put on chef's hats on the robots. and just and Yeah, they're real. It just takes you. You can take some
00:58:15
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Um. Yeah, it's I get the whole and that's the big problem with it is they're already making this money. They can't. They're not going to tolerate not making that same money. Yeah, no. But that's, you know, unacceptable. It should be. But it's I also that's just there's no way around that. Yeah. This is 15 billion this year. I'm not going to accept 14 billion. Yeah, that means correct. I didn't make enough money. 14 billion is unacceptable. I took a pay cut. yeah Yeah, but as as a customer, I'm not going to take that. Now, of course, um in general, we're taking it slowly, but eventually there is a line that people will be like, all right, well, we're just not even going to work. Like, I mean, it's already starting now. There's people like me who I just don't even eat there because it's not worth it for me anymore. But that only lasts so long.
00:59:03
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I mean, because everybody else will catch them and then you'll have no choice. And then you go to ask, screw it. and hard and i think That's super effective. So long. Yeah. I mean, well, the thing is, is it happens to stores all the time. I mean, once you have products that are no longer worth it, it's just kind of, you die out. I mean, if you're, if you're competing with other restaurants that are about the same price as you, but have a better product, why, why are we going to still keep going with you? But I don't think. True, but I don't think you can lump a McDonald's. You can't lump a worldwide phenom into that kind of category because McDonald's isn't going anywhere.
00:59:47
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You know like you said once everything so like if McDonald's ups their cheeseburger to ten dollars like I'm not going in there anymore But then in a year when every restaurant ten every restaurant that's gonna be the next quo Of where you were two years and you're going to McDonald's Yeah, those you it just everything evens out and you're back to the same exact spot You were two years ago when you said I'm not going there anymore cuz now it doesn't matter but It's just that it's a loop and it's it can i I think it can only be affected from the top down it can't be from the bottom ah that just doesn't like nothing's gonna change from because he we start raising the wages of the people and then the prices go up which shouldn't be the case most of the time for a lot of these companies for some companies that's fair because that's just in order for them to get say How's the ah how's the theater business going
01:00:40
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That's working a lot.
Grocery Budgeting Strategies
01:00:42
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Really expensive. Are movies better now? yeah so there's yeah' There's not a lot of them doing too well. I mean, not really as far as they used to. But there are some that don't charge astronomical prices. Yeah, well that yeah exactly. They had to to step it back a bit. Yeah. And kind of re so that's what I'm saying is I hope that, you know, McDonald's will eventually kind of i see what you're saying. hey Let's, let's, let's take some of these prices off. So with a place like McDonald's, that's what I meant by there's no, there is none of that because McDonald's is a, is in a league of its own. They have no reason to step back. They're not going to step back. They're not going, Oh, sorry. We'll move our.
01:01:26
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$2.50 cheeseburger back down to $1. It's it'll never happen. There's no reason because there's a line at McDonald's every day. Yeah. And movie theaters was kind of an industry issue, not necessarily. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying, I mean, you could hear it was a pandemic issue. Well, that is what money exacerbated it, but it doesn't matter where you lived or what the movie theater was. It would, nobody's the industry in general has just gone down a ton. Exactly. But that, that's just what I was getting at is when you put a need that is no longer necessarily a need and people find out it's not necessarily a need that they have, they can get the same product.
01:02:08
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If in some ways better, because i people have found that they actually prefer being able to watch those movies where they can just eat real food and drink and do whatever they want. um You know, and also not have to pay that huge ticket price with the huge food money price that, you know, it was just a better option to stay in and watch it that way, not go out to the movies for new movies. But same with I think McDonald's in particular, if if the food is the same as everywhere else or not even as good, but it's ah just as expensive, then I feel like... I i mean, of course, i'd I'd like to think that less people would go to that place and just be like, alright, well...
01:02:51
Speaker
Let me go ahead and give other people my business that, you know, that are more worth my dollar and then McDonald's would have to take a step back and be like, okay, so maybe our model is not working where our poopy burgers are. Also, poopy prices. Well, that implies that it's only a mcdowald's problem and McDonald's McDonald's is one of them. McDonald's is the glaring issue because they make an insane amount of money. Yeah. Well, I mean, you go to um Wendy's, they still have the $4 baggy bag. You know, you can still get a couple of things for way less than ah what you would get at McDonald's. And honestly, I kind of like their burgers better than McDonald's burgers as well. Where?
01:03:35
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wendy's Oh. Yeah. And, uh, I mean, well, I don't really go to Burger King, but some people like it. And I mean, it's, it's definitely the price that you're expecting for that kind of burger. So I mean, they're still hitting it on the nail and staying alive. I mean, obviously they've never been as big as McDonald's, but no, I think a lot of them are closing as well. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Wendy's? No, Burger King. Oh, Burger King, yes. some of them It's always been a distant cousin. but truth Not the same. But that on the movie theater thing, what really frustrates me about when you ask people if they go to the movies, you know, in places that serve food now, which is most of them,
01:04:21
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You don't have servers and whatnot. And they, everybody says, no, I can't go there. The food is crazy expensive. And the frustrating part is whatever happened to just don't order the food, you don't have to go there and order a dinner. You can just, you can just do what you've always done. And why watch the movie if I'm not going to apply for it? Just eat dinner like a human or eat before or go out to eat before you go to the movie like you've done since the beginning of time Just because you go to a movie theater that serves food doesn't mean you have to order food. You're going to see a movie I have something called ADHD
01:05:00
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And you want some nachos. I get i yeah the popcorn, essentially, because it's just the most for the least. yeah so i weren I just get anything that I could pick at or play with, you know, just something to keep me occupied. I can't sit still. impossible Yeah, but popcorn is different. that's That's not eating dinner. I'm talking like you go there and you get chicken tenders and fries. Popcorn has taken a jump, yeah. Popcorn, it's 12 bucks for a large, but if you want bottomless, it's $16 and you can have it. They just bring you the machine and put it next to you and you can reach in.
01:05:36
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If you order bottomless, it better come with an IV. They do. They have bottomless all the time. Almost all of you get a large... You can refill it. Yeah, you can refill it. I know. If you refill it, you should have two IVs. Yeah, you can't refill that thing. Nobody ever does. It's shenanigans. but It's called you said something else. Um, oh like the the chicken tenders Like the chicken tenders and fries are like fifteen dollars Yeah, it doesn't come. like Oh, yeah, and they're kind of did they taste like Tyson a hot dog. It's like 10. They are Tyson
01:06:10
Speaker
You just don't order food when you go to the movie theater. You don't not go to the movies. You just don't order the food when you go there. You get a soda and you get some popcorn and some candy like you always have. it's You kind of have to. It's also like, OK, I have a lot better. Like, I don't even really like to eat popcorn most of the time, but you just say the exact opposite. Well, no. So the thing and this will make sense here in a second. I don't go to movies theaters by myself. This is where the multipliers come in. All right. And I go with the girlfriend and guess what? The girlfriend always wants the stuff and you can't say no. I was really, I was really wanting to save some money on the movie. You know, you don't do that on a movie. So you get the popcorn. So I get the popcorn because again, most for the least money I can, I can do it too. If I have my option, I always sneak in a bunch of crunch. I sneak in food. That's what I do.
01:07:08
Speaker
You sneak in food and your choice was bunch of crunch. Hell yeah. I mean, it's pretty delicious. Bunch of crunch is pretty good, dude. Or the- They still make that? Yeah, I just- I haven't bought it in 30 years. Oh, yeah, I just threw it away, but yeah. You threw it away because it was expired. No, I didn't know that in his house. Yeah, it did. Actually, that is why I threw it away. I bought it because my girlfriend- well, not my girlfriend, but a girl came over and, you know- What was his name? She sat on the bed and it was melted chocolate. Yeah.
01:07:41
Speaker
um What burger did you say at Wendy's? You said you can get something for $4 at Wendy's. No, I say you can get the $4 baggy bag, which comes with a few items. I don't know what's in there. Oh, that's a bag. Yeah, if you a few, a $4 baggy bag, which comes with stuff. I know it's supposed to come with like, uh, I guess I don't know. I don't get it. My, my co-workers get it and they talk to me all the time about it. They're like, you know, this, this was a thing. um
01:08:13
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Biggie bag. That's what they call it. the cheapest one is $5 which you know okay so it's happy yeah I mean that's pretty decent deal we get ah ah we just went to McDonald's and um
01:08:31
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There is a Wendy's at one of them um we went and I think it was McDonald's. I got a meal for um It was one of their deals. It was two. It was 20 nuggets. Oh Yeah, 29 or $10 or something. Yeah, 20 nuggets fries and two drinks two fries and two drinks for $10 and it's Still bad, but it's not bad. It's not so bad. I will say, at least in the heyday, especially McDonald's has been good with nugget prices. Like if you get a 20 I or 40 bucket of nuggets or something, they'll... If you start going at the bulk, then it gets a little better. But like I said, the four piece was like 270 or something. Because me and my ex would go in there and get 40 nuggets, I think, for $10 or $20 at the time. And that was like about seven or eight years ago. What is it, Wendy, that has the 50 piece bucket now? I think it's like $12.
01:09:23
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that's not bad and you should probably do that and you get for the week ah thisgerator get some rice i'm sure that's what a lot of people then some water put in some rice soup ah rice i have to make some magicin on cha sauce That's racist. Well, Taco Bell still is the $5 cravings box. I'm pretty sure I haven't been to Taco Bell in so long, but that's usually a pretty good deal. It's like, uh, there's, there's always like a couple of different options and you can pick like out of the options they have. And it's like a crunch wrap Supreme and a taco and a burrito and some nachos or they all come with the cheese at crunch wrap.
Taco Bell Price Hike and Nostalgia
01:10:06
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Nah, I haven't been to Taco Bell in a while.
01:10:08
Speaker
So there's there's craving stuff, but there's not like a combo. There's like they're like five dollar boxes. There's boxes. They're not craving boxes. Let me find them. and They could not be a thing anymore.
01:10:23
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There's there's combos that come in boxes, but they're uh, they're not, you know, they have like the tailgate box or something. Gotcha. They they are called cravings box. Um, are they still $5? No, they're not. no what um I'm looking through them here. Um, the cheapest one, which is build your own cravings box is six 50. That's not bad. It's not, yeah, it's not a huge difference. Um, I talked to tacos, nachos and drink. Yeah. So that's not bad. Those nachos are amazing. That's some pretty good nachos and actually pretty decent case. Just the cheese. Just the cheese. Cheese is just, I could drink that cheese. Just the cheese. Yeah. Extra solid.
01:11:13
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Man, that cheese. I don't care if it's sawdust. Cheese is phenomenal. Yeah, it's all right. I i don't love the nachos. I'll eat them. but I don't love them. I don't know. They just taste... ah Maybe it's the... I don't have the nostalgic factor that maybe you guys do. That's really cheese. I will eat. There's not a little tiny... You can't visibly see any nacho cheese in that little ramekin after I'm done with it. is not a trace to be found. Do you know what it's like? um nick I remember that kind of cheese I would lick it it off the chair.
School Food Memories
01:11:51
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Do you remember the answer ah little ah things of crackers and cheese? That yeah a tiny red stick? that's That's what that cheese reminds me of. No. It's like frozen cheese. No, it's not the same.
01:12:06
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he's a bit better It reminds me of more of like the nacho cheese I got from school. No, we had nacho day. Well, I had a pretty good school. I don't know about you. I don't remember nacho day. I don't think I ever had that. It was in high school. So it was after you left. I didn't have enough. We had food from actual vendors.
Air Circulation Solutions: Fan vs AC
01:12:27
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Like um we had Domino's pizza and we had Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches. and so and It was pretty good. It's nice. Fancy. Must be nice. It was a new high school. It was only three years old when I went in there. So I guess they were doing it up. Nice. That's pretty sweet. You guys got anything else you want to say before I wrap it up? No. No. No. Look forward to talking some frustrating things next week. What do you mean? So I'm looking forward to talking about more frustrating things next week.
01:13:03
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Yeah, so there's a plethora of things we could talk about. Yeah, I have a few ideas. Um, mostly it's just Nick, but that's fair. Yep. That's fair. Are you going to go take a cold spritz now? I probably i was don't know if you can see your we there's thing to behind you. No, obviously not. That's an open window. What about the window next to it? Well, I have the windows open. I just don't have the curtains open because I don't want people like this.
01:13:35
Speaker
Yeah. What's the, also talking about being there as a, there's a lot of bugs, like bugs everywhere. Well, I have screen have screens. Yeah. But they they get there and complex. The way it is, is like, uh, this is where my window is. My door, theirs is their window and their door is right there. So we're just facing each other. So you're facing each other. That's lame. Yeah. I'll have the windows open, but I'll keep the blends cracked a little bit. You work tomorrow? and In the morning, yeah. You should make it a point to go to get somewhere to buy a fan. Oh. It would be a game changer, like an oscillating fan. It's like $50.
01:14:24
Speaker
Maybe cheaper at Walmart. He's not going to spend the money. It's probably cheaper at Walmart for an oscillating fan, but just to stand up, it's probably like $30. I'll probably, I'll probably save the money and wait for the, uh, um, I'll get the, uh, window thing. Cause I mean, if I buy a fan, it's only going to help like what, two, two or five degrees maybe. Yeah. But the air will be moving. Then I'll be $50 down when I can just wait and get a $150 window, you know, unit. Well, I haven't decided how much I'm going charging, but we'll talk about that. Yeah. Well, I was talking about Amazon, but yeah, if that, if I go that route, then yeah. Amazon and AC window unit. They sell them for about like, well, ah the the one that I like is about 500, but the one that I can afford is a 150. Cause there's one, there's one that you can actually close your window all the way and, um, it'll work, but.
01:15:23
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How does it work if you close your window all the way? It's kind of weird. I'll have to send you a window to it if it's closed. You just have to hold it and run into the wall so it sticks in. It's a fan.
01:15:42
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um ah Yeah, send it to me. awesome Or you just have to hold it. You plug it in, you just hold it. It's a non-window unit. 80s movie. Interesting. Yeah, I can get mine to you. It's nice. it has that It has a thermostat on it, so you can set the temperature you want. But it has to fit the window. It fits every window. That's not true. Look at the windows behind him. So?
01:16:07
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Those are different when kind of windows. It doesn't mean that they're standard. But what wouldn't fit about it? I think they're about standard windows. The sides extend. No, they don't. No, on the window unit. On the AC unit. Oh, I was like, what are you going to decide to tell from here? Because those windows could be really skinny. No, they're they're not skinny. They just look skinny on on the camera. When I saw it on the camera, I saw what you meant. they're They're not skinning windows. It'll fit. um Shoot. Yeah. So anyways, well, thanks for like for being here, guys. And next week would be yeah we'd probably be aiming at mildly hot sores. Nice. No, I'm saying we'll go for that. Thanks, everybody, for listening. um Hope you enjoyed. a Feel free. We have an email. I don't know if I've mentioned this last time.
01:16:58
Speaker
Five years later, we have an email, by the way. I haven't been getting anything. could Not that anybody will email it, but I forget we have an email that I'm going to email it. yeah I was about to say, what is it?
Listener Engagement and Conclusion
01:17:08
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but I feel like Wally might have it once um ah mildly frustrating at Gmail dot.com. Sick. If the three people who listen feel like emailing just say hey, what's up? I'll send you a much more solicited Sure, I'm gonna get on a spam list um Yeah, well, thanks for listening everybody. Thanks for being here guys. um Thank you. Well, uh, thanks for having me I'll be back next week in one form or another and We'll see you all next time. He's out. We'll be our true form
01:17:44
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i but ah that was very asian you destroy
01:18:09
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01:18:35
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yeah