May 21, 2025 • 10 mins
Thor lets fast food places have it, calling out their increases in prices during this week's Midweek Meltdown
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm or have some respects midweek milkdown.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You know, I was hoping fatherhood would mellow you out
a little bit, you know, And well, yeah, yeah you are. Yes,
I mean you've you've been planted your seed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That is true. That's a fact. We are growing. We
are growing baby boy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And so yeah, that hasn't happened at all. You're still
very upset with everything. Yeah, uh so I have no idea.
What's on your mind this week? What do we got?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Edie?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Every time?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
This is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This is a tough one because there's certain things in
this world. I love, you know, when I'm fat for what?
Do I eat everything?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Everything?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't need everything.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't eat everything. I mean pretty I love fast food. Yes,
I would go to Taco Hit the bell.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Basically I would go to McDonald's Wendy b K for
the Hershey Pie pop Eyes KFC.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it was wild that one day you told us
where you like, picked up the entree here, but you
wanted the fries from there and then the dessert from
another place.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm not the biggest BK fan, but their Hershey pies
special as Sky would at Sky would Chef's Kiss. And
at the time when I was depressed and eating, I
lived near b K, so I would get.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Two or three Hershey pies. I'd have two and then
put one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well just in case.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You know, it's bed when you come home with your
dogs are looking at.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I love fast foods. I'm trying to get out
of here and one. So the other day I had
Jamie Uh, he got Brefects for us. Uh, And I said, Hey,
get me a sausage McMuffin with egg and cheese and
a hash brown.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm thinking it shouldn't be that much. He comes back.
I see the receipt and I almost fell over. What
were you fell over?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What were you thinking?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Nine Bucks?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Which is crazy? Which is crazy? Nine Bucks is crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It was thirteen seventy five. Wow, thirteen seventy five. And
I said that. I said, right then, and there, I'm done.
I am done. I am done getting fast food forever. Honestly,
it's just in less unless, like I have, we're on
a road trip and there's no other way to go.
It just doesn't make sense anymore. This country was founded
(02:41):
on cheap fast and fat, fast and fat.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's what constitution, That's what our country is about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Our country is about cheap food, fast and getting fat.
Oh yeah, And I don't want to live in a
fatless country anymore. And that's so we're becoming because people
can't afford this anymore. I get it. Inflation has gone up.
What has it gone up? It's got up thirty one percent.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's twenty four Look at all those notes. He has
a lot of notes.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Girl, Okay, girls, Inflation has got up thirty one percent
of twenty fourteen. So for me to expect the same
prices since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Madness, madness, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But when you look at the McDonalds or also, by
the way, what California minimum wage seventeen twenty five? Kind
of insane? But I mean it's so expensive to live
out here. I understand it. Like, what are we supposed
to do? So you added thirty one percent?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You know how much I made when I worked at
McDonald's two bucks for twenty five that was close.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I was being funny, I wasny.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
It's gone up from then, it's got up from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, my bad, my bad. It's gone
up from then, it's gone up for twenty fourteen. I
get all that, So the prices are going to go up. Yeah,
But then I started to do a deep dive and
I said to myself, how much was a happy meal?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Let's say you got a couple of rugrat meal rat.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You got a couple of rug rats.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're coming home from an old t ball game, and
Charlie and Sophia they want a happy meal?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Are these are the rug rat?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, a couple of couple of toddlers, you know, and
they want to they want to happy here. I don't know,
Tom don't Yeah, and you go and but you're working
a multiple jobs because maybe mom's sick.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So you have to I follow along with it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So you're working multiple jobs? Why you got it? Mom
sick time, sometimes she's going through chemo.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm still going to go to McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, you you want to treat the kids, Sophia, happy Sophia.
So in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That happy meal was three to five bucks. Three to
five bucks for a happy meal. Really, guess how much
the happy meal is now? Have no idea it's ten
dollars for happy meals probably, but they probably charge it
for the toy. So I was, I was looking, how
is this possible that's more than thirty one percent? Well,
you know why it's possible because McDonald's has raised their
(05:13):
prices one hundred percent since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's insanity.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So then you're saying to myself, can't just be McDonald's, right,
it's not just McDonald's because Popeyes has raised their prices
eighty six percent.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
People want to make money. I'm not stupid their businesses.
Businesses want to make money, but we gotta come up
with laws that stop the price gouging of a burger
and an eight piece okay piece. I don't want to
say it, but it sounds like the mayor's crooked. What mayor,
Mayor mccheese, It sounds like Mayor's crooked. Ronald's on the take?
(05:59):
You get money under the table? Something on here, man,
Something Dorito's Locals taco a, Dorito's taco what has gone
up eighty six percent? Yo, Kiero, my ass, that's what
I said. I can't take it anymore and something needs
(06:21):
to be done because fast food was for like, was
supposed to help people and be fast and quick.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's not anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's not worth it, and it's.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Not like the quality's gone up. Just the other day,
I Eddie hit the bell and he got a blown
out burrito.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It does happen that a.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Blown out burrito for ten more dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How is that fair? It's not.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I don't know what to do. Man, Well, youre in
twenty twenty. Listen to this Popeyes, Popeye's eight piece family meal.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Twenty three bucks, okay, sow much?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It is now five years later, thirty four dollars at
that point, Why why am I going there?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Why don't I go to a restaurant? Why don't I
go down the street?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I think part of we get we get trained.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's you know, quick and easy and all these things,
and you know, it tastes good and so I get
all that. But yeah, the price is now it's not
comparable to what fast food was meant to be. He's right, Yeah,
thirty something bucks for a meal, like that's insanity and
it's such a you know, you could say that about
taco shops too. There used to be like Bucks yeah,
(07:33):
these are all just example teen bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's crazy, and you go get a California burrito at
your local taco shop, take a small loan out. It's
it's it's like it's almost sixteen dollars and it's not
like the quality has gotten better. It's still the same quality. Yeah,
I can't take any out.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yesterday, n T how you were done after McDonald's. You said,
I'm done. I don't understand, and there's nowhere else do
you make these big declarations McDonald's have done? And then
I went in and out yesterday?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Can I say, why what you on a road trip?
My wife had a craving for I couldn't okay, and
I understand. Listen sometimes like McDonald's does like the value man,
you now listen. When I was a kid, the value
meanting was a dollar. Now they have the five dollars
value ben So like they're trying to help.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
A little bit there. So are you not mad at
your idea?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So are you not mad at in and out?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
In the same way, they've raised their prices just not
a ton?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
What's a meal cost there?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That I got? It was it used to be like
what six seven bucks for the number one it used. Yeah,
I thought it used to be like.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now it's ten dollars double double to the meal, ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
For the meal.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really, yeah, it used to be like six. But they've
raised it a little bit. Not one hundred percent. I
mean Chipotle seventy five percent, Taco about eighty one percent,
Wendy's burg King fifty five percent.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's all of them, it's all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
His voice got to that subway. Starbucks only thirty nine percent.
So they're a little over inflation. Okay, I give them
an applause.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I feel like we're a long way from the five
dollars foot long though got gone.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We're ways away from the we're gonna start saying ten dollars.
I think it's ten dollars. That's seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Doesn't have the same ring to it. No, No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I just I can't take it anymore, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And I'm calling on the President to come up with
to come up with a beautiful bill, because he loves.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
The beautiful bill, the best bill, the best.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Beautiful, beautiful and best bill to stop the price gouging
from fast food places.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't think that's gonna happen. But it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
McDonald's too. Trump loves McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Maybe he'll get in there. Yeah. I don't think he cares.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh, he doesn't care how much.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But it's beautiful. I understand. So are you? Are you done?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think we should all take a stand and stop going.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Okay, at least for at least we have a whole
day dedicated.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, tomorrows talk about what and then you talk about Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, it's tough because I I love uh mc cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
A Mick cheeseburger, that's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I love a Taco Supreme. I love an eight piece
that I would eat by myself, a pop ye, And
I don't even like Taco supremes. Yeah, I love all that.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So it's like I'm just regular. It's like I'm cutting
off my nose to spite my face.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don't want to cut the nose to spite the face.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Cut what Oh he didn't like that joke?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Beautiful Bill, all right, I can't wait for it.
And now the show is happy to bring you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm or have some respects midweek milkdown.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You know, I was hoping fatherhood would mellow you out
a little bit, you know, And well, yeah, yeah you are. Yes,
I mean you've you've been planted your seed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
That is true. That's a fact. We are growing. We
are growing baby boy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
And so yeah, that hasn't happened at all. You're still
very upset with everything. Yeah, uh so I have no idea.
What's on your mind this week? What do we got?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Edie?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Every time?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
This is a tough one.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This is a tough one because there's certain things in
this world. I love, you know, when I'm fat for what?
Do I eat everything?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Everything?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I don't need everything.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I don't eat everything. I mean pretty I love fast food. Yes,
I would go to Taco Hit the bell.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Basically I would go to McDonald's Wendy b K for
the Hershey Pie pop Eyes KFC.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it was wild that one day you told us
where you like, picked up the entree here, but you
wanted the fries from there and then the dessert from
another place.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm not the biggest BK fan, but their Hershey pies
special as Sky would at Sky would Chef's Kiss. And
at the time when I was depressed and eating, I
lived near b K, so I would get.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Two or three Hershey pies. I'd have two and then
put one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well just in case.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You know, it's bed when you come home with your
dogs are looking at.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I love fast foods. I'm trying to get out
of here and one. So the other day I had
Jamie Uh, he got Brefects for us. Uh, And I said, Hey,
get me a sausage McMuffin with egg and cheese and
a hash brown.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I'm thinking it shouldn't be that much. He comes back.
I see the receipt and I almost fell over. What
were you fell over?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What were you thinking?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Nine Bucks?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Which is crazy? Which is crazy? Nine Bucks is crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It was thirteen seventy five. Wow, thirteen seventy five. And
I said that. I said, right then, and there, I'm done.
I am done. I am done getting fast food forever. Honestly,
it's just in less unless, like I have, we're on
a road trip and there's no other way to go.
It just doesn't make sense anymore. This country was founded
(02:41):
on cheap fast and fat, fast and fat.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's what constitution, That's what our country is about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Our country is about cheap food, fast and getting fat.
Oh yeah, And I don't want to live in a
fatless country anymore. And that's so we're becoming because people
can't afford this anymore. I get it. Inflation has gone up.
What has it gone up? It's got up thirty one percent.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's twenty four Look at all those notes. He has
a lot of notes.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Girl, Okay, girls, Inflation has got up thirty one percent
of twenty fourteen. So for me to expect the same
prices since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Madness, madness, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But when you look at the McDonalds or also, by
the way, what California minimum wage seventeen twenty five? Kind
of insane? But I mean it's so expensive to live
out here. I understand it. Like, what are we supposed
to do? So you added thirty one percent?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You know how much I made when I worked at
McDonald's two bucks for twenty five that was close.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I was being funny, I wasny.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
It's gone up from then, it's got up from the seventies.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, my bad, my bad. It's gone
up from then, it's gone up for twenty fourteen. I
get all that, So the prices are going to go up. Yeah,
But then I started to do a deep dive and
I said to myself, how much was a happy meal?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Let's say you got a couple of rugrat meal rat.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You got a couple of rug rats.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You're coming home from an old t ball game, and
Charlie and Sophia they want a happy meal?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Are these are the rug rat?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, a couple of couple of toddlers, you know, and
they want to they want to happy here. I don't know,
Tom don't Yeah, and you go and but you're working
a multiple jobs because maybe mom's sick.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So you have to I follow along with it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So you're working multiple jobs? Why you got it? Mom
sick time, sometimes she's going through chemo.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I'm still going to go to McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, you you want to treat the kids, Sophia, happy Sophia.
So in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That happy meal was three to five bucks. Three to
five bucks for a happy meal. Really, guess how much
the happy meal is now? Have no idea it's ten
dollars for happy meals probably, but they probably charge it
for the toy. So I was, I was looking, how
is this possible that's more than thirty one percent? Well,
you know why it's possible because McDonald's has raised their
(05:13):
prices one hundred percent since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's insanity.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So then you're saying to myself, can't just be McDonald's, right,
it's not just McDonald's because Popeyes has raised their prices
eighty six percent.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
People want to make money. I'm not stupid their businesses.
Businesses want to make money, but we gotta come up
with laws that stop the price gouging of a burger
and an eight piece okay piece. I don't want to
say it, but it sounds like the mayor's crooked. What mayor,
Mayor mccheese, It sounds like Mayor's crooked. Ronald's on the take?
(05:59):
You get money under the table? Something on here, man,
Something Dorito's Locals taco a, Dorito's taco what has gone
up eighty six percent? Yo, Kiero, my ass, that's what
I said. I can't take it anymore and something needs
(06:21):
to be done because fast food was for like, was
supposed to help people and be fast and quick.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's not anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's not worth it, and it's.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Not like the quality's gone up. Just the other day,
I Eddie hit the bell and he got a blown
out burrito.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It does happen that a.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Blown out burrito for ten more dollars?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How is that fair? It's not.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I don't know what to do. Man, Well, youre in
twenty twenty. Listen to this Popeyes, Popeye's eight piece family meal.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Twenty three bucks, okay, sow much?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It is now five years later, thirty four dollars at
that point, Why why am I going there?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Why don't I go to a restaurant? Why don't I
go down the street?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I think part of we get we get trained.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's you know, quick and easy and all these things,
and you know, it tastes good and so I get
all that. But yeah, the price is now it's not
comparable to what fast food was meant to be. He's right, Yeah,
thirty something bucks for a meal, like that's insanity and
it's such a you know, you could say that about
taco shops too. There used to be like Bucks yeah,
(07:33):
these are all just example teen bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's crazy, and you go get a California burrito at
your local taco shop, take a small loan out. It's
it's it's like it's almost sixteen dollars and it's not
like the quality has gotten better. It's still the same quality. Yeah,
I can't take any out.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yesterday, n T how you were done after McDonald's. You said,
I'm done. I don't understand, and there's nowhere else do
you make these big declarations McDonald's have done? And then
I went in and out yesterday?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Can I say, why what you on a road trip?
My wife had a craving for I couldn't okay, and
I understand. Listen sometimes like McDonald's does like the value man,
you now listen. When I was a kid, the value
meanting was a dollar. Now they have the five dollars
value ben So like they're trying to help.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
A little bit there. So are you not mad at
your idea?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So are you not mad at in and out?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
In the same way, they've raised their prices just not
a ton?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
What's a meal cost there?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That I got? It was it used to be like
what six seven bucks for the number one it used. Yeah,
I thought it used to be like.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now it's ten dollars double double to the meal, ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
For the meal.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really, yeah, it used to be like six. But they've
raised it a little bit. Not one hundred percent. I
mean Chipotle seventy five percent, Taco about eighty one percent,
Wendy's burg King fifty five percent.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
It's all of them, it's all of them.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
His voice got to that subway. Starbucks only thirty nine percent.
So they're a little over inflation. Okay, I give them
an applause.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I feel like we're a long way from the five
dollars foot long though got gone.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
We're ways away from the we're gonna start saying ten dollars.
I think it's ten dollars. That's seven dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Doesn't have the same ring to it. No, No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I just I can't take it anymore, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And I'm calling on the President to come up with
to come up with a beautiful bill, because he loves.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
The beautiful bill, the best bill, the best.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Beautiful, beautiful and best bill to stop the price gouging
from fast food places.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't think that's gonna happen. But it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
McDonald's too. Trump loves McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Maybe he'll get in there. Yeah. I don't think he cares.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Oh, he doesn't care how much.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
But it's beautiful. I understand. So are you? Are you done?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think we should all take a stand and stop going.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Okay, at least for at least we have a whole
day dedicated.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, tomorrows talk about what and then you talk about Thursday.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, it's tough because I I love uh mc cheeseburger.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
A Mick cheeseburger, that's not a thing.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I love a Taco Supreme. I love an eight piece
that I would eat by myself, a pop ye, And
I don't even like Taco supremes. Yeah, I love all that.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So it's like I'm just regular. It's like I'm cutting
off my nose to spite my face.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
That's the right thing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I don't want to cut the nose to spite the face.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Cut what Oh he didn't like that joke?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Beautiful Bill, all right, I can't wait for it.
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