05 29 2024 Is fast food a LUXURY?

Episode Transcript

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Hello, Keilly Nash. There,it's tomorrow's show. Twoday, Tomorrow will
be the thirtieth. Then we gotone more day. I may right,
we have thirty one days, Ibelieve so again. I never could remember
it as a kid, didn't learnit as a kid. Don't remember what
months have thirty one days? Whatthe Lord has blessed us with phone couary.
We got a calendar that says thethirty first will be Friday. Okay,

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June first will be Saturday. Juneis here this weekend? Wow,
time's flying. Yep, yep,yep, yep. Okay, so let's
talk about when we talk about iton Thursday. Tomorrow's already shi t so
ready for the weekend? Are youready? Actually so happy? It's Thursday
is the acronym. But I amready for the weekend. I haven't even

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really thought about the weekend. Jet. I guess I got to start planning
that. One of the things I'llbe not doing is going to a fast
food restaurant. I have not beento a fast food restaurant in a while.
I don't know why I had tocar a craving the other morning,
but I did. At like tentwenty, I thought Ooh, I can
make it. And the closest fastfood restaurant was a McDonald's and I got

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a sausage egg biscuit. Well,you have experienced luxury. Is that what
it was? I thought it wasjust sausage and a piece of egg that
looks like it was pre made foldedover. That will be the question that
we put to the Morning Russia Egglersbecause lending Tree ran a survey of two
thousand Americans. Oh yeah, esand according to Americans HU, seventy eight

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percent said the ability to buy fastfood is now a luxury item. Wow.
In case you're wondering. In twentytwenty, it was eighteen percent of
Americans felt that buying fast food wasa luxury item. Okay, and what
is it now? Seventy eight percentthe overwhelming majority, more than three quarters

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of Americans saying you can afford BurgerKing. And we're not talking about olive
Garden, We're talking about fast foodtypical McDonald's, Burger King, those kind
of places. The most luxurious fastfood restaurant is Chick fil A, followed
by Starbucks and then Chipotle. Okay, those are your three most luxurious restaurants

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in America according to the survey.Yeah, inflation has made it insane and
according to now, we don't havedata to back this up other than just
how people feel. People feel thatthe prices at fast food restaurants are now
the same equivalent as a sit downrestaurant. So if you were to go

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to outback or something, I'd tellyou you would pay just as much as
what they That's what they feel.I don't know if it's true or not,
but they're saying that an average percost per person is about eighteen dollars
at a drive through. Now it'seighteen dollars a person to go through a
drive through. I guess that's right. I think I paid like I got
the combo meal for breakfast, SoI got a coffee, that little McDonald's

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uh tater tot cake thing whatever theycall that, Okay, and a sausage
egg biscuit. And I believe itwas like eight something because I remember thinking,
Wow, that's a lot of moneyfor what I'm getting. But I
wanted it. I was hungry,so I bought it. You are a
luxury shopper. I'm a luxury shopcan afford these types of luxuries, you

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know, with Sally watching her weightlike this as she gets ready for Lee's
wedding. She's very excited about that. She's picked out her dress and it's
one size too small, so shehas to lose some weight. We go
everywhere, everywhere we go. Ifwe have to eat somewhere outside of the
houses, what kind of salad dothey have there? So we were going
to go see a movie about twoweeks ago. She said, I want

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to go to Olive Garden because Iwant to get that salad. So we
went to Olive Garden and I gotwhat she got. She got a soup
in a salad deal. Right.I think I got out of there for
like twenty three dollars. Okay,now, I thought, I remember saying
that is that is unexpectedly reasonable forthe unlimited salad because we got two balls

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of it. Well, keep eatingsalad, yeah, right, salad is
one of the cheaper I don't tryto get drilled chicken. Don't. Don't
you go for the grilled chicken.That'll well that Chick fil A was number
one, right, Chick fil Ahas always been according to Americans. They
ranked Chick fil A as the mosthigh end fast food chain in America,

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followed by Starbucks, so it's uh. Twenty five percent of Americans say Chick
fil A is the highest end fastfood chain. Twenty two percent of Americans
say it's Starbucks, twenty one percentsay Chipotle. I like Chapote. You
know, I don't know what's happenedlocally here because, like I say,
I've been on the Sally diet.We eat a lot of salads, sin

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stuff. But I haven't had anopportunity to go to Russia's or Zesto for
like a double chili cheeseburger basket ora cheeseburger basket at Zesto. I don't
know what the price is. Iknow the prices have had to go up
because all the food's expensive, sothey're paying more. I don't even know
what it costs now to go.Well, you were a little frustrated yesterday

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that neither Zesto's or Rushes was doinga special for hamburger. I would have
thought, I mean, given thefact that that's what really what built their
business, and I guess, didyou get a hamburger anywhere from it?
I thought about it. I didnot get a hamburger, you know where,
I had a really good burger recently, surprisingly was at a place called
Tasa in Forest Akers. Have Ibeen there? I don't send the same

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shopping center there as Public's. Youget the one that's kind of like on
the end there by. Okay,I've been there. Uh huh. Yeah,
my wife likes that spot. Yeah, Sally gets some kind of salad
kind of something there. I didget the burger I was. She said
it was good. It was surprisinglygood. The place that used to be
kind of next door to it,maybe like one business between it. It

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was like breakfast, lunch and dinnerPLD. They went out of business.
My wife loved that place. Idon't know why they went out of business,
you know, I just thought bysomething I had lunch together the other
day at Hall's. Okay, youcan get a burger with fries and a
like an iced tea for like eighteendollars. And you're telling me that eighteen

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dollars was the average cost for whereagain any drive through? Wow, the
average drive through order is now eighteendollars and her person, Halls has an
incredible burger. I mean it's nowbasically it's nine dollars for a large hamburger.
It's like five dollars for fries,it's four dollars for SODA's. I
mean, we're out of flipping controlover here. Yeah, when you take

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your receipt look at it and yourealize how much you're paying for a glass
of iced tea, I could havebought a gallon of this at Public's for
that prob Well, one of thethings they brought up in the survey is
it's now more expensive to eat ata fast food drive through than it is
to go home and make the mealfor yourself. And that had it Usually
when I was a kid, itwas about forty percent of the cost of

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a home cooked meal was to gothrough the drive through. It has now
risen to one hundred and fifteen percentof the cost of a drive through.
And the drive through meals are outpacinginflation since twenty fourteen by like another eight
percent. So whatever inflation is,tack another eight percent on it, and

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that's your drive through. Good lord. Yeah, that's why the dollar menu
at McDonald's is now the five dollarsmenu. Well, this is why the
ninety nine cent stores had to goout of business. And maybe you're going
and charging this and you're paying waytoo much on interest charges because you have

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shaky credit. It turns out thatConsumer Reports has found and they've took forty
three hundred people to work as creditcheckers, and they went through thousands and
thousands of people's credit reports and fortysix percent of them have errors. Forty
six percent of the credit reports inAmerica. Now, I haven't pulled a

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credit report on million years, soexpect one if you pull it. So
you're saying what I thought, thisexperience and TransUnion all have mistakes on them.
So after like five or six,maybe ten years, you can expect
like twenty things on the air thatdon't even associate it with you. Yeah,
they're they're dinging you for things thatyou either never did or should have

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been forgiven by now or whatever.But they're they're filled with errors. So
they and we got on the MorningRust blog three things you can do to
try to fix your credit reports.But you would have thought it had been
cleaner by now because they got somany different applications. So for your phone
now, how you apps are availableright now to check your credit it's like

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fifty of them. You would havethought that with all those people now doing
it, that you would have beenwell, I guess not. They say
this is the worst it's ever been. Wow. Government government, that's what
it is. Government age. UntilI thought they were here to help.
We're from the government, and we'rehere to help. Ronald Reagan uses that
as a punchline. If you neverheard it, you got to google it.

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It's pretty funny the way Reagan deliversthe line. But uh, yeah,
what did you find on your creditreport? That's good. Now.
The one thing that I will neverforget that I found on my credit report.
It's kind of mistake, but Iguess it was really more my mistake
than anything else. Okay, sonow we're going all the way back.

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I found this in like two thousandand five. Back in like nineteen ninety
eight, I was dating a younglady and that was the very first time
I got a company phone. So, back in nineteen ninety eight, my
company, which was clear Channel,which is now I Heart, gave me

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a phone and said we're going tobe covering the bill on this. Basically,
if you've ever gotten a company phone, it's so we can contact you
whenever the hell we want. That'sright. It's an electronically that can't be
shut off. You will respond toall calls, text messages, emails at
all times of the day and night. So that was in nineteen ninety eighty.
So I have another phone that i'veI've taken out a contract on like

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I had done it like two monthsearlier. The girl I was dating was
working at the radio station as asalesperson, and she was struggling in the
position. And one day she wasexplaining to me that one of the big
problems, and it's if you're notif you're not from the if you weren't
born in the seventies or the eighties, you wouldn't understand this. But the

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majority of the salespeople didn't have salesphones yet. They didn't have They had
a desk phone, but not notas something they could drive around in their
car. And she said, Imiss out on so many deals because I
don't have a phone that I can. I have to drive so much that
I'm not at my desk probably sevenout of every eight hours of the day.
Gotcha, But if I had acell phone, that would change my

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whole business. And I said,well, as luck would have it,
I have an extra cell phone.I have to pay for it the minimum
anyway, which is like fifty dollarsa month. If you want the phone,
I'll give it to you no charge, and then you just I'll have
them put it in your name,mail it to your house, you pay
the bill. Perfect dated her fortwo years, never had a problem.

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Seven years later, on my creditreport it says you owe Verizon or whoever.
It was like two thousand dollars andthat's why it's dinging my report.
And I was like, what that. I never even had a con what
are you talking about. I've gotI've had a free company phone since ninety
seven or whatever. You'd even forgottenabout that girl? And then they were

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like, I was like, wheredid you say? You were bailing these
notices too? And they're like twotwelve West seventy third Street or something.
I'm like, I never lived onWest seventy third. I lived on West
fifty six. I never lived upon seventy third. I lived on Houston.
And they're like, no, thisis West and we've spoken to you
many times, Kelly. I'm like, you've spoken to me many times.

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I've never spoken to you people.And then the lady said, well,
let me go through the notes again. She's you can hear typing away,
and she said customer's name Linda,Linda Linda. So even though I had
mail started mailing it to her house, it was technically still in my name.

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Even though the bill went to Linda, it was still in Kelly Nash's.
So when she just quit paying thebill, like four years after we
broke up, she stopped. Igot screwed on that thing. You think
she thought about you every time shegot it all, I don't know.
I'd forgotten about her years earlier.I just read something interesting on and I'll

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read to you from the posting courier. Taylor Swift fans in South Carolina went
to Sweden and France for bedddal's andconcert tickets for Taylor Swift. I was
talking to a girl Saturday at aparty. Took her, her child,
her husband, and I think hermother. They went to I want to
say Brazil or Portugal. It wasPortugal. We went to Portugal to see

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Taylor Swift. They said airfare,hotel, concert tickets, dining was less
than the two tickets in the UnitedStates. Wow, And that was face
value. Face value in Atlanta wasgoing to be like three thousand dollars.
So for one hundred and fifty buckseach. The swifty swifty fans. These

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are friends in middle school and theywent to the concert. There, I'm
skimming through the article here. Well, you know that's why the US Congress
is acting now. Yes, Soif you haven't heard that, a Live
Nation and Ticketmaster are being sued bythe US Congress, the Department of Justice,

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and the long Arm of the Lawbecause legislatures apparently were not able to
get tickets for their grandkids at affordableprices. At affordable price, that was
the problem. Taylor Swift tickets drovethem insane. And so now we have
this, they're going to try tobreak up Live Nation ticket Master. There's
no way I could get tickets inthe US, so we went to Sweden.

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That mean it's a great way tohave a vacation. Sure, I
mean instead of giving her all yourmoney, you get to fly to a
different country. Okay. Found othershave had to open their wallets as well.
Bailey Lark, and, founder ofthe Taylor Swift Fan Club in Charleston,
South Carolina, went to one ofthe Atlanta shows. She was able
to get a pair of tickets aredollars for four seats. That was a

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bargain some sucker on the day ofthe show of the seats right next to
us for onself for four thousand,So I ended up talking to people next
to me had paid eight thousand dollarsfor two seats. We had paid six
hundred. Wow. Yeah, andI'm sure Congressman I remember because we were

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laughing about it. The other day. I was talking to somebody the MS
Appreciation day. We were talking aboutthis decree because the decree had just come
down from Merrick Garland. He wasvery upset. He remembered going to see
a very young Bruce Springsteen and knowingthat he had just witnessed the new sound
of rock and roll? Did yousee Merrick Garland getting crazy at a concert?

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Anyway, we were laughing about it. I can't remember whether the group
was maybe ninety eight Degrees as oneof the boy bands that we had booked
to come to the South Carolina StateFair or somewhere. Maybe I've forgotten where
it was. Maybe it's coliseum andthe NK was sponsoring the show. As
soon as we announced that, myphone got flooded with like twenty legislators wanted

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to make sure that they were ableto get concert tickets for their grandkids.
And I'm like, I get backto you, Okay, did you?
But yeah, yeah, you hadto get all that done. This probably
comes down to the fact that somebodyin DC wasn't able to get tickets,

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so they got hacked off and calledMary Garland and said, launch an investigation
into ticket Master coast. They're scalpingus over here. Yeah, tell them
that all members of Congress get complimentarytickets and they all got to be floor
seats, right, We're not goingto sit out there with the riff raff.
Yeah, I want to sit upthere with the regular people intermingling with
the comedy exactly. All right,So we got I want to talk about

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the other story that we I thinkwe touched on yesterday but we're going to
get to tomorrow. Is the studyabout once a cheater, always cheater.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And maybe you've had the experience.
I don't think somebody cheated with youand now they've been true forever. Science

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says that's not really possible. ButI mean there's always you know, there's
always the something that breaks the rules. Are you the one off? But
if that happens, it is aone off? If you cheat with somebody,
meaning if you know that they're involvedin a long term relationship or married,

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and you begin a relationship with themand they obviously they participated in that,
then they are now known as acheater. And there's no way you
could say you were surprised if thatever happened to you. And then they
are like more than ninety five percentlikely to repeat that pattern at some point
in your relationship. Wow, theywants a cheater, always a cheater.

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