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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Kelly Nash, Good morning, Welcome to Tomorrow show. Today
more hot tickets up for grabs Jason Aldean. We start
that at six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's gonna be so hot. The idea is clicks for tics.
If you go to ninety seven to five to BCS
dot com. We have been tasked with driving traffic to
our website. How can we do that? We bribe you
to go and click the website and then go specifically
to the Morning Rush blog, and then inside the Morning
(00:31):
Rush Blog, I have the cleverly titled here's the answer
to win Jason Aldeane concert tickets Wednesday morning. That's the
name of the blog post. Now when you click that,
it describes Jason Alden and the Full Throttle Tour at
the credit Ie Stadium, Daniel Island, Saturday night, September twenty seventh,
and you get a pair of tickets if you can
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answer what is the word metanoia mean?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh, that's an easy one. I'm going through that right now.
Meta noia, I am paranoid that meta Facebook and Instagram.
But Facebook in this particular instance will not relinquish and
let me regain access to the Morning West page or
Jonathan Mush's page. It's metanoia, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And it's interesting because Jesus used that word metanoia, so
he too was hacked, maybe a cryptocurrency guy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Walking into the steps of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So for here, yes, it can be used for spiritual conversion,
but on a bigger scale, metanoia just means to change
your mind, have a new perspective, either on the world,
an issue, or even about yourself. So maybe you have
a new perspective. It's a new year, new you. You
got a medanoya going on in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's good. Jeris share that epiphany and now how you
have repented from your old ways.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Perhaps it'll be that deep, or perhaps it's just I
like Donald Trump. Now I don't know a medanoya. Something
has changed?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What is it? Beginning tomorrow? I think I got to
find a bonus prize. If you tell us that you
click three or more times, I'll throw at a bonus prize.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Now, would this be the Garth Brooks Collector's record.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, we can't give that a way yet. That's the
grandest of all grand prizes.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The grandest of all prizes.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'll come up with something. You get a bonus price
if you click on the Morning West blog more than
three times, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Just have this is on the honor system.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's right, of course it is.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Because I don't know that we can prove that you
did or.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now our most honorable listeners would not lie to me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Probably. So okay, we've got Starbucks having a pretty big change, Jonathan.
We've put this on the Morning Rust blog. Customers are
now going to have access to a condiment bar. So
they haven't had that since twenty twenty. So it's been
five long years since Starbucks had this. So if you
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don't want them handling your milk and sugar and those
types of things, uh huh, you are the boss again,
and are you ready for this? I don't know how
they're going to do it because it's only what thirty
dollars a coffee.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Free refills are back, they brought it back.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't know that ever existed, and I thought that
they've always had to condom ba bar. But as I mentioned,
I would go to Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Condiment bar went away in twenty twenty, as did the
free refill.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I go to Starbucks once a year, and that is
Christmas morning because Dunke and Donuts is not open.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
If you choose. When you're asked, is this a I get?
I've been to Starbucks, I don't. I actually went like
two weeks ago for my wife, and I don't even
remember the conversation that I had, but apparently the conversation
has changed. So now when you're in the store, if
you say I'd like the whatever, the frape latte.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Whatever, coca Juba baba, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
They're then going to ask you is that for here
or to go? Now, if you say it's to go,
you get the traditional Starbucks cup and out the door
you go. But if you say it's for here, you're
now going to get it in a ceramic mug.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh really there like a regular cafe and have a
cup of coffee out of that mug.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And that's how they know that you're eligible for the
free refill. If you're if you got the disposable cup.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No refill for you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Excluded from the free refills would also include their cold
brew nitro cold brew iced tea lemonade, and there it
says flavored iced tea Starbucks refreshers. I don't know what
the difference is between an iced tea lemonade and a
flavored iced tea refresher.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But either or the hot drinks are in the cup.
I guess the cold drinks do not come in the cup,
and they don't get the free refill the ceramic cup. Right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And they've also got a new coffeehouse Code of Conduct.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh, now now we're starting to Now we're starting to meddle.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
This is designed to provide clarity in our spaces, including
all of our cafes, patios and restrooms that are being
used by customers and our partners. Means that you aren't
welcome to hang out in the store. You're not allowed
to just come in, so if you wanted to. In
the past, there was a time not that long ago
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where people might say, hey, I'll meet you at Starbucks. Yeah,
and you'd go to the Starbucks and neither one of
you would even go to the counter and order something.
You would just sit down and have your discussion there
because it was a cool place to hang out. Well,
that's that has ended officially today.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's understandable. We don't provide tables. It's like we don't
provide restrooms to non customers. They did. I had a
meeting last week at a restaurant and we plainly were
going to eat anything. It was three o'clock in the afternoon.
But I did order a coffee, and so did the
other people order something to drink. And I think the
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total bill was like nine dollars, and I think I
tipped her ten.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You tipped her ten or you tipped her a dollar.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I tipped her ten.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So the bill was nineteen dollars. Suddenly, yes, you doubled it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, because she would not have had an opportunity to
make money off of us eating food since it was
three o'clock in the afternoon. She was very well attentive.
So I just ad, like, you know, we had ordered
like it, I'd ordered like a sandwich. I tipped her
ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thank you, wow, mister big Bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And it did help me. It made me look very
honorable in the business meeting, I thought.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But again, if I go to McDonald's, they don't ask
me if i'm here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's different. Well, if I go to McDonald's is a
revolving door for society.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
If I go to TGI Fridays, if I go to
Outback Steakhouse, I am allowed access to the restroom. Starbucks
is now saying no, sir, you try to walk in
and use our restroom. We got a man at the door.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I thought they always did that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, Remember that was a huge deal when they arrested
that guy in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Huh wow.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well now you will be told no because of the
coffee house Code of Conduct which they put out yesterday,
so that bans you from using their restrooms unless you're
a body.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You can't just walk in with your laptops anymore and
sit down and take a seat and.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
News, and they will kick you out if they hear
any swear words. What about the word Trump doesn't say?
But if you have any what they would consider foul language,
you will be removed from the facility. Anybody panhandling on
the property will be arrested. If they see any drug use,
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the law enforcement will be called. Anything that we deem
as disruptive behavior will get you arrested.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This only means that women stop going to Starbucks for
whatever reason. And they think it's because women don't think
it's safe.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Could it also be people in general stop going to
Starbucks because it's overpriced.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, they're willing to pay the price. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I visit their sales are down, that's my guess. That's
my guess because if the women, if they love the
price or they love the coffee, they can go through
the drive through.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But this, this is interesting, Okay, this is a.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
This is a new bie. The condiment bar is back,
the free refills there.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They're anything in there about talking to people on their phone.
Because I see people sitting there talking.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess that could be under disruptive behavior, which they do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
If they talk loudly, forbid, that'd be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So get ready for a whole new Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When you said there were changes coming, I thought you
were going to mention the changes like Russia's with a
final countdown going on. They're changing the French fries on
the thirty first.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I've gotten four texts since you brought that up, all
of them negative. Everybody's pissed about this.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I told you I was nervous, but I was also
nervous about ordering the potato salad, which I mean I
realized that was a new item. Yes, they didn't take
anything away, but that's one of the best potato salads
you'll find.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's not that hard to add crinkle fries. You don't
have to take away the ones. We love to see
if maybe we like these as much.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I think they're just looking for a way to make
sure they get social media pushed, whether people are screaming
to bring back the regular fries.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, this has got New Coke written all over.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, and I guess you know that did turn out
to be a good thing for Coca Cola in the
New Coke.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But I'm definitely getting the chili cheeseburger basket to go
with my fries. You can't just get fries. I mean,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Say you can't.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I have been known to get fries, but McDonald's fries,
especially once they got the basket thing going.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, and he owns who owns Rushes anymore? I mean
it used to be like George Rush or whatever was
his name.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's his family. They haven't sold it to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I don't know. I mean, is it a corporation now
or what happened? I mean, he's he's no.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Longer with this, but his family is.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So I hope that whoever is running the Rushes will
say we're we're gonna just keep the fries.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I see people go through the through the drive through,
but for the life of me, only because I always
ordered the double chili cheeseburger basket. There's no way you
can eat that in your car unless you're gonna go
directly to the car wash and get the interior cleaned,
because you have to be positioned in such a way
that that chili and those condiments are gonna it's gonna
ooze out of that burger. I mean, it's just no
way around it. You don't want to lap full of that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I just found the story in the state newspaper. I
guess the guy who's in charge, the guy who's making
in the call as Don Alcorn, who's been with the
company since the nineteen sixty Ever, we've been debating this
for quite some time. Ever since COVID, we've seen more
drive through activity, more door dash orders and all that. Typically,
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the fries don't travel well, so we're getting requests from
customers to try a crispy er fry. So we found
a fry that we think is crispier, that will hold
its heat longer, will travel better. So we're going with
the crinkle cut fries, which we also believe has a
better flavor, and if you're a ketchup lover, we also
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find that it holds the ketchup better.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It does. No argument there. The crinkle fries do have
more crinkle area to be crispy, and if you dip
them in the ketchup, it grabs bro a. It's like
a tractor tire. He's just grabbing all that ketchup.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They posted that on their Facebook page actually seven days ago,
January twenty first, two hundred and fifty comments so far,
according to the State News paper, overwhelmingly now. As one
commenter said, this has been my favorite French fry in
town forever. Why in the world would you change them
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just for people who want home delivery. You can get
special home delivery fries, but give me my damn rushes
French fries.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is Please don't change your fries thereof these are
these are the best fries to eat with vinegar. Crinkle
fries suck.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And that's the outside of the State Fair because one
of the only restaurant I know of there could be
more that puts a container, the little squirt bottle of
vinegar right there available for you for your table. But
I don't. I'm not a big vinegar eater, vinegar fry eater.
I like to catch up and mustard.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I dip it in both, and I don't know why
you would just get rid of one. You could add another.
You don't need more grease, you don't need more or anything.
Just add it. But it's their restaurant. Do what you
would like.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If we're going to hold a protest, let me know,
not because I'm into protesting, but I'm looking for another
reason to go there and have a double chili cheeseburger basket.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Maybe you'll order Rush's. Well, I guess you won't be
getting the regular Russi's French fries if you have a
super Bowl party. But a lot of people were having
Super Bowl parties were now less than two weeks away
from that, and according to a new breakdown of foods,
what will you spend if you're a typical American on
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your Super Bowl party? The answer is one hundred and
thirty nine dollars. The price is now ten cents more
than it was last year. Ten cents, my gosh. The
biggest price increases include cherry tomatoes, which are up almost
twelve percent, avocados up eleven and a half percent. So
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expensive red bell peppers are up seven and a half percent.
But to help knock that down. Lots of the vegetables
like broccoli and celery are down about eight percent, chicken
wings seven percent. Chips and dip being a game staple,
they were up one and a half percent. But things
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like cheese dip, salsa, corn chips, potato chips are down
anywhere from one to five percent from twenty twenty four.
So and beer and wine is almost steady from last year.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And don't be bragging about your party is so good
you can afford deviled eggs now you can't. Eggs are
the Asia, the Asian whatever the flu is, it's taken
over chicken farms. It's starting to have a huge impact.
And I wonder what's going to happen with the cost
of chicken. Here in South Carolina and across about five
Southeastern states. Amyx Poultry was had a devastating fire apparently
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Saturday night. I mean they were at the firefighters from
like Freamwood, Lexington to Bitsburg wherever. They were out there
like twelve hours putting that fire out. And I know
that amic poultry produces I think, if I remember correctly,
it's one point five billion pounds of chicken a year,
billion pounds billion.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But We're not having a problem with the chickens, right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
No, I'm just saying, huh.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We're having a problem with eggs, right, Yeah, the eggs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Have got the flu problem and they're having to put
the chickens now. But we just took one point five
billion pounds of chicken out of the market per year,
just based on one fire at Amic Poultry in Saluta County.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, let's see. It says that if you were to average,
my gosh, you freaking Americans, you love your damn eggs?
Are you kidding me? You want to guess how many
eggs are eating in America on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I can tell you that Sally boils four eggs every morning,
she eats two. Maybe maybe she eats too, but I
can always look on the fridge and find a bulled egg.
I eat one of those, like every day.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, we currently have in the United States about forty
million hens that are dropping eggs every day. Commercially, According
to this, the average American will eat two hundred and
eighty five eggs per year. That's a freaking lot of eggs.
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That's basically almost one a day for all three hundred
and forty million.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Of US that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We're eating, like three hundred million eggs a day in
this country. Back off the eggs.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I made a omelet Saturday. I made a four egg omelet.
The thing was huge, and was it stuffed full of
vegetables and ham? Absolutely? Did it have way too much
cheese on it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes, And we haven't really changed a whole lot. This
is a year by year graph. So in the year
two thousand we were averaging two hundred and fifty one
eggs per year. We peaked in twenty nineteen at two
hundred and ninety three eggs per year, and now we're
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at two hundred and eighty four eggs per year. So
I mean, basically, just dial us up an egg for
two hundred and fifty to three hundred eggs per year
per person.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Co Lee, Hey, how many eggs you eating? What's going
on in your neighborhood? What should be talking about over here?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We didn't even get to our other story, the one about.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The one about crying, and I love this one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We know a guy who cries and films himself doing
it and then puts it on social media for I
get what is that called? Like sympathy likes? I guess
or something encouragement. I'm going through a hard time, let
me sit in my car and film myself crying. Yesterday,
a very well known celebrity, Selena Gomez, filmed herself crying.
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I'm not going to get into the political part of that,
but you know, to film yourself crying not a good
look and then post it. That's I mean, that's a
conscious thing. That's not like it inadvertently. You caught me at a.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Week almost totally conscious.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, and like that guy, you know, I'm going through
a rough time. Blah blah blah. And I've seen other
people who post pictures of themselves crying, or pictures or videos.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
My favorite video of crying was Lead Britney alone.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
By the way, I just looked. That used to be
fella up. It's now apparently has become a female really
and is now I think, if I understand correctly engaged
to be married three weeks ago, got engaged.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It looks coming.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I mean it looks exactly. I mean like there's nothing
spectacular about that person, meaning, you know, it looks like
a somewhat frumpy, middle aged woman. If you remember the
name was Chris Crocker when they were leave Brittany Alone.
And that's a very memorable looking individual, and you know,
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just the bleached top of the hair.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He was inconsolable, really inconsolable.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Which, by the way, I also did not know this
that that video was posted exclusively to MySpace. I thought
I saw it on YouTube, but I'm guessing somebody stole
it off to my Space and put it on YouTube
or something. The original video had over five hundred thousand
comments on the leave Brittany Alone, So that was the
video of like two thousand and nine or whatever it was.
(19:42):
But yeah, I mean, now I would not Sometimes when
people they transition, you don't you recognize that they're still
their original gender. This individual just looks like a somewhat chunky, frumpy,
middle aged woman.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But when people post their sharing and they're sharing their emotions,
is this the best way to share share your I
have never seen anybody crying on video, but this was
a good way to share your emotions. You should have
really gotten through that first and then tried to explain
it to us when you could actually speak English. So
matthaa or so, so what's her name? Who is this?
(20:21):
Selena Gomez Selena Gomes could not even speak English.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Maybe she diverted to her native Mexican.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
She couldn't speak, but she couldn't speak anything because she
was crying. She was talking through her tears. That's never
a good sound, never a good look. Nobody wants to see.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That she's not from Mexico, by the way, and I
know that she's from Texas, but she had a grandparent
from Mexico, so she went Mexican on this yesterday. But
the point we were making is do you post any
videos of yourself crying or what the friends did to
one of your friends when they're crying. I tend to
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not even comment. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I don't do anything with it. Hey you call him
on the phone. Hey take that down. Yeah, you're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You didn't do that, did you?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Did you call? I would have done that as some
one of my friends put a picture of cry in
a video crying. Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean, we all talked about that one video.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That's what I'm saying. We just left that one alone.
And I I just I don't know. I think I
have an I don't. I don't want to get into it.
My wife says I have an aversion to weakness. It's
not a good look when somebody is showing signs of weakness.
It's like it's like rain x with water. It repelled.
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I'm repelling it. I just I can't be around it.
If you're that week that you're going to cry about
something that you shouldn't be crying about. If you want
to cry, that's fine, do it in private, or do
it in a in a little family circle. Right, don't
film yourself. No, that's always the thing to be Isa Mane.
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You had to think about it and say, wait a
minut it no, I think I'm getting emotional.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Let me pull out my phone sharing stuff and actually shed.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It to hear and usually try to get to commercial
as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Absolutely, get out of this.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You're making everybody in the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
First time that happens. When John Belushi died, I actually
cried on the eightp paper.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then who is the next? What was that phrase that
you used to say, Who's going to be the next?
Fat funny man? Found dead? At sorry line?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Chris Farley?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Chris Farley was next in line?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yes, he was all right? So and we laugh about it. Now, Hey,
did your friend cry in a post? Did you call
him you do him a favor. You just laughed at it.
But did you post up to take that down? Did
you post it? I feel your pain? How did you?
Or you like Kelly, you can't look at it. You
can't look at it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Maybe you responded to the crying video by crying yourself
about something that bothered you and said, gigs are nine
nine dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's a great way to respond. We should all do that,
even if if you have to fake it, fake it,
but do it. If you like this, go mezzine and
make it so bad I can't understand what you're saying
that we have to play it several times to try
to make sure I get your message.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Put like an Egg's meme on it or everything so
they know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh tell me about that or what else is going on.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's gonna be so hot. The idea is clicks for tics.
If you go to ninety seven to five to BCS
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our website. How can we do that? We bribe you
to go and click the website and then go specifically
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to win Jason Aldeane concert tickets Wednesday morning. That's the
name of the blog post. Now when you click that,
it describes Jason Alden and the Full Throttle Tour at
the credit Ie Stadium, Daniel Island, Saturday night, September twenty seventh,
and you get a pair of tickets if you can
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answer what is the word metanoia mean?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh, that's an easy one. I'm going through that right now.
Meta noia, I am paranoid that meta Facebook and Instagram.
But Facebook in this particular instance will not relinquish and
let me regain access to the Morning West page or
Jonathan Mush's page. It's metanoia, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And it's interesting because Jesus used that word metanoia, so
he too was hacked, maybe a cryptocurrency guy.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Walking into the steps of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So for here, yes, it can be used for spiritual conversion,
but on a bigger scale, metanoia just means to change
your mind, have a new perspective, either on the world,
an issue, or even about yourself. So maybe you have
a new perspective. It's a new year, new you. You
got a medanoya going on in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's good. Jeris share that epiphany and now how you
have repented from your old ways.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Perhaps it'll be that deep, or perhaps it's just I
like Donald Trump. Now I don't know a medanoya. Something
has changed?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
What is it? Beginning tomorrow? I think I got to
find a bonus prize. If you tell us that you
click three or more times, I'll throw at a bonus prize.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Now, would this be the Garth Brooks Collector's record.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, we can't give that a way yet. That's the
grandest of all grand prizes.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The grandest of all prizes.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I'll come up with something. You get a bonus price
if you click on the Morning West blog more than
three times, and we'll.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Just have this is on the honor system.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's right, of course it is.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Because I don't know that we can prove that you
did or.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now our most honorable listeners would not lie to me.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Probably. So okay, we've got Starbucks having a pretty big change, Jonathan.
We've put this on the Morning Rust blog. Customers are
now going to have access to a condiment bar. So
they haven't had that since twenty twenty. So it's been
five long years since Starbucks had this. So if you
(02:58):
don't want them handling your milk and sugar and those
types of things, uh huh, you are the boss again,
and are you ready for this? I don't know how
they're going to do it because it's only what thirty
dollars a coffee.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Free refills are back, they brought it back.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I didn't know that ever existed, and I thought that
they've always had to condom ba bar. But as I mentioned,
I would go to Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Condiment bar went away in twenty twenty, as did the
free refill.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I go to Starbucks once a year, and that is
Christmas morning because Dunke and Donuts is not open.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
If you choose. When you're asked, is this a I get?
I've been to Starbucks, I don't. I actually went like
two weeks ago for my wife, and I don't even
remember the conversation that I had, but apparently the conversation
has changed. So now when you're in the store, if
you say I'd like the whatever, the frape latte.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Whatever, coca Juba baba, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
They're then going to ask you is that for here
or to go? Now, if you say it's to go,
you get the traditional Starbucks cup and out the door
you go. But if you say it's for here, you're
now going to get it in a ceramic mug.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh really there like a regular cafe and have a
cup of coffee out of that mug.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And that's how they know that you're eligible for the
free refill. If you're if you got the disposable cup.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No refill for you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Excluded from the free refills would also include their cold
brew nitro cold brew iced tea lemonade, and there it
says flavored iced tea Starbucks refreshers. I don't know what
the difference is between an iced tea lemonade and a
flavored iced tea refresher.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But either or the hot drinks are in the cup.
I guess the cold drinks do not come in the cup,
and they don't get the free refill the ceramic cup. Right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And they've also got a new coffeehouse Code of Conduct.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh, now now we're starting to Now we're starting to meddle.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
This is designed to provide clarity in our spaces, including
all of our cafes, patios and restrooms that are being
used by customers and our partners. Means that you aren't
welcome to hang out in the store. You're not allowed
to just come in, so if you wanted to. In
the past, there was a time not that long ago
(05:30):
where people might say, hey, I'll meet you at Starbucks. Yeah,
and you'd go to the Starbucks and neither one of
you would even go to the counter and order something.
You would just sit down and have your discussion there
because it was a cool place to hang out. Well,
that's that has ended officially today.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's understandable. We don't provide tables. It's like we don't
provide restrooms to non customers. They did. I had a
meeting last week at a restaurant and we plainly were
going to eat anything. It was three o'clock in the afternoon.
But I did order a coffee, and so did the
other people order something to drink. And I think the
(06:08):
total bill was like nine dollars, and I think I
tipped her ten.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You tipped her ten or you tipped her a dollar.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I tipped her ten.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So the bill was nineteen dollars. Suddenly, yes, you doubled it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, because she would not have had an opportunity to
make money off of us eating food since it was
three o'clock in the afternoon. She was very well attentive.
So I just ad, like, you know, we had ordered
like it, I'd ordered like a sandwich. I tipped her
ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thank you, wow, mister big Bucks.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And it did help me. It made me look very
honorable in the business meeting, I thought.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But again, if I go to McDonald's, they don't ask
me if i'm here.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's different. Well, if I go to McDonald's is a
revolving door for society.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
If I go to TGI Fridays, if I go to
Outback Steakhouse, I am allowed access to the restroom. Starbucks
is now saying no, sir, you try to walk in
and use our restroom. We got a man at the door.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I thought they always did that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, Remember that was a huge deal when they arrested
that guy in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Huh wow.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well now you will be told no because of the
coffee house Code of Conduct which they put out yesterday,
so that bans you from using their restrooms unless you're
a body.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You can't just walk in with your laptops anymore and
sit down and take a seat and.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
News, and they will kick you out if they hear
any swear words. What about the word Trump doesn't say?
But if you have any what they would consider foul language,
you will be removed from the facility. Anybody panhandling on
the property will be arrested. If they see any drug use,
(07:52):
the law enforcement will be called. Anything that we deem
as disruptive behavior will get you arrested.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This only means that women stop going to Starbucks for
whatever reason. And they think it's because women don't think
it's safe.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Could it also be people in general stop going to
Starbucks because it's overpriced.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
No, they're willing to pay the price. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I visit their sales are down, that's my guess. That's
my guess because if the women, if they love the
price or they love the coffee, they can go through
the drive through.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
But this, this is interesting, Okay, this is a.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
This is a new bie. The condiment bar is back,
the free refills there.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They're anything in there about talking to people on their phone.
Because I see people sitting there talking.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I guess that could be under disruptive behavior, which they do.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
If they talk loudly, forbid, that'd be a good thing.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So get ready for a whole new Starbucks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
When you said there were changes coming, I thought you
were going to mention the changes like Russia's with a
final countdown going on. They're changing the French fries on
the thirty first.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I've gotten four texts since you brought that up, all
of them negative. Everybody's pissed about this.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I told you I was nervous, but I was also
nervous about ordering the potato salad, which I mean I
realized that was a new item. Yes, they didn't take
anything away, but that's one of the best potato salads
you'll find.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's not that hard to add crinkle fries. You don't
have to take away the ones. We love to see
if maybe we like these as much.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I think they're just looking for a way to make
sure they get social media pushed, whether people are screaming
to bring back the regular fries.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, this has got New Coke written all over.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes it does.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, and I guess you know that did turn out
to be a good thing for Coca Cola in the
New Coke.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But I'm definitely getting the chili cheeseburger basket to go
with my fries. You can't just get fries. I mean,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Say you can't.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I have been known to get fries, but McDonald's fries,
especially once they got the basket thing going.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, and he owns who owns Rushes anymore? I mean
it used to be like George Rush or whatever was
his name.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's his family. They haven't sold it to my knowledge.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I don't know. I mean, is it a corporation now
or what happened? I mean, he's he's no.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Longer with this, but his family is.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So I hope that whoever is running the Rushes will
say we're we're gonna just keep the fries.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I see people go through the through the drive through,
but for the life of me, only because I always
ordered the double chili cheeseburger basket. There's no way you
can eat that in your car unless you're gonna go
directly to the car wash and get the interior cleaned,
because you have to be positioned in such a way
that that chili and those condiments are gonna it's gonna
ooze out of that burger. I mean, it's just no
way around it. You don't want to lap full of that.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I just found the story in the state newspaper. I
guess the guy who's in charge, the guy who's making
in the call as Don Alcorn, who's been with the
company since the nineteen sixty Ever, we've been debating this
for quite some time. Ever since COVID, we've seen more
drive through activity, more door dash orders and all that. Typically,
(11:15):
the fries don't travel well, so we're getting requests from
customers to try a crispy er fry. So we found
a fry that we think is crispier, that will hold
its heat longer, will travel better. So we're going with
the crinkle cut fries, which we also believe has a
better flavor, and if you're a ketchup lover, we also
(11:36):
find that it holds the ketchup better.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It does. No argument there. The crinkle fries do have
more crinkle area to be crispy, and if you dip
them in the ketchup, it grabs bro a. It's like
a tractor tire. He's just grabbing all that ketchup.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They posted that on their Facebook page actually seven days ago,
January twenty first, two hundred and fifty comments so far,
according to the State News paper, overwhelmingly now. As one
commenter said, this has been my favorite French fry in
town forever. Why in the world would you change them
(12:12):
just for people who want home delivery. You can get
special home delivery fries, but give me my damn rushes
French fries.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
This is Please don't change your fries thereof these are
these are the best fries to eat with vinegar. Crinkle
fries suck.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
And that's the outside of the State Fair because one
of the only restaurant I know of there could be
more that puts a container, the little squirt bottle of
vinegar right there available for you for your table. But
I don't. I'm not a big vinegar eater, vinegar fry eater.
I like to catch up and mustard.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I dip it in both, and I don't know why
you would just get rid of one. You could add another.
You don't need more grease, you don't need more or anything.
Just add it. But it's their restaurant. Do what you
would like.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
If we're going to hold a protest, let me know,
not because I'm into protesting, but I'm looking for another
reason to go there and have a double chili cheeseburger basket.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Maybe you'll order Rush's. Well, I guess you won't be
getting the regular Russi's French fries if you have a
super Bowl party. But a lot of people were having
Super Bowl parties were now less than two weeks away
from that, and according to a new breakdown of foods,
what will you spend if you're a typical American on
(13:36):
your Super Bowl party? The answer is one hundred and
thirty nine dollars. The price is now ten cents more
than it was last year. Ten cents, my gosh. The
biggest price increases include cherry tomatoes, which are up almost
twelve percent, avocados up eleven and a half percent. So
(13:59):
expensive red bell peppers are up seven and a half percent.
But to help knock that down. Lots of the vegetables
like broccoli and celery are down about eight percent, chicken
wings seven percent. Chips and dip being a game staple,
they were up one and a half percent. But things
(14:19):
like cheese dip, salsa, corn chips, potato chips are down
anywhere from one to five percent from twenty twenty four.
So and beer and wine is almost steady from last year.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And don't be bragging about your party is so good
you can afford deviled eggs now you can't. Eggs are
the Asia, the Asian whatever the flu is, it's taken
over chicken farms. It's starting to have a huge impact.
And I wonder what's going to happen with the cost
of chicken. Here in South Carolina and across about five
Southeastern states. Amyx Poultry was had a devastating fire apparently
(14:56):
Saturday night. I mean they were at the firefighters from
like Freamwood, Lexington to Bitsburg wherever. They were out there
like twelve hours putting that fire out. And I know
that amic poultry produces I think, if I remember correctly,
it's one point five billion pounds of chicken a year,
billion pounds billion.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But We're not having a problem with the chickens, right.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
No, I'm just saying, huh.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
We're having a problem with eggs, right, Yeah, the eggs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Have got the flu problem and they're having to put
the chickens now. But we just took one point five
billion pounds of chicken out of the market per year,
just based on one fire at Amic Poultry in Saluta County.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, let's see. It says that if you were to average,
my gosh, you freaking Americans, you love your damn eggs?
Are you kidding me? You want to guess how many
eggs are eating in America on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I can tell you that Sally boils four eggs every morning,
she eats two. Maybe maybe she eats too, but I
can always look on the fridge and find a bulled egg.
I eat one of those, like every day.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, we currently have in the United States about forty
million hens that are dropping eggs every day. Commercially, According
to this, the average American will eat two hundred and
eighty five eggs per year. That's a freaking lot of eggs.
(16:33):
That's basically almost one a day for all three hundred
and forty million.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Of US that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We're eating, like three hundred million eggs a day in
this country. Back off the eggs.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I made a omelet Saturday. I made a four egg omelet.
The thing was huge, and was it stuffed full of
vegetables and ham? Absolutely? Did it have way too much
cheese on it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes, And we haven't really changed a whole lot. This
is a year by year graph. So in the year
two thousand we were averaging two hundred and fifty one
eggs per year. We peaked in twenty nineteen at two
hundred and ninety three eggs per year, and now we're
(17:18):
at two hundred and eighty four eggs per year. So
I mean, basically, just dial us up an egg for
two hundred and fifty to three hundred eggs per year
per person.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Co Lee, Hey, how many eggs you eating? What's going
on in your neighborhood? What should be talking about over here?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We didn't even get to our other story, the one about.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The one about crying, and I love this one.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
We know a guy who cries and films himself doing
it and then puts it on social media for I
get what is that called? Like sympathy likes? I guess
or something encouragement. I'm going through a hard time, let
me sit in my car and film myself crying. Yesterday,
a very well known celebrity, Selena Gomez, filmed herself crying.
(18:01):
I'm not going to get into the political part of that,
but you know, to film yourself crying not a good
look and then post it. That's I mean, that's a
conscious thing. That's not like it inadvertently. You caught me at a.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Week almost totally conscious.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, and like that guy, you know, I'm going through
a rough time. Blah blah blah. And I've seen other
people who post pictures of themselves crying, or pictures or videos.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
My favorite video of crying was Lead Britney alone.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
By the way, I just looked. That used to be
fella up. It's now apparently has become a female really
and is now I think, if I understand correctly engaged
to be married three weeks ago, got engaged.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It looks coming.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I mean it looks exactly. I mean like there's nothing
spectacular about that person, meaning, you know, it looks like
a somewhat frumpy, middle aged woman. If you remember the
name was Chris Crocker when they were leave Brittany Alone.
And that's a very memorable looking individual, and you know,
(19:11):
just the bleached top of the hair.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
He was inconsolable, really inconsolable.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Which, by the way, I also did not know this
that that video was posted exclusively to MySpace. I thought
I saw it on YouTube, but I'm guessing somebody stole
it off to my Space and put it on YouTube
or something. The original video had over five hundred thousand
comments on the leave Brittany Alone, So that was the
video of like two thousand and nine or whatever it was.
(19:42):
But yeah, I mean, now I would not Sometimes when
people they transition, you don't you recognize that they're still
their original gender. This individual just looks like a somewhat chunky, frumpy,
middle aged woman.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But when people post their sharing and they're sharing their emotions,
is this the best way to share share your I
have never seen anybody crying on video, but this was
a good way to share your emotions. You should have
really gotten through that first and then tried to explain
it to us when you could actually speak English. So
matthaa or so, so what's her name? Who is this?
(20:21):
Selena Gomez Selena Gomes could not even speak English.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Maybe she diverted to her native Mexican.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
She couldn't speak, but she couldn't speak anything because she
was crying. She was talking through her tears. That's never
a good sound, never a good look. Nobody wants to see.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That she's not from Mexico, by the way, and I
know that she's from Texas, but she had a grandparent
from Mexico, so she went Mexican on this yesterday. But
the point we were making is do you post any
videos of yourself crying or what the friends did to
one of your friends when they're crying. I tend to
(20:57):
not even comment. I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I don't do anything with it. Hey you call him
on the phone. Hey take that down. Yeah, you're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You didn't do that, did you?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Did you call? I would have done that as some
one of my friends put a picture of cry in
a video crying. Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean, we all talked about that one video.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That's what I'm saying. We just left that one alone.
And I I just I don't know. I think I
have an I don't. I don't want to get into it.
My wife says I have an aversion to weakness. It's
not a good look when somebody is showing signs of weakness.
It's like it's like rain x with water. It repelled.
(21:37):
I'm repelling it. I just I can't be around it.
If you're that week that you're going to cry about
something that you shouldn't be crying about. If you want
to cry, that's fine, do it in private, or do
it in a in a little family circle. Right, don't
film yourself. No, that's always the thing to be Isa Mane.
(21:58):
You had to think about it and say, wait a
minut it no, I think I'm getting emotional.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Let me pull out my phone sharing stuff and actually shed.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It to hear and usually try to get to commercial
as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Absolutely, get out of this.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You're making everybody in the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
First time that happens. When John Belushi died, I actually
cried on the eightp paper.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Then who is the next? What was that phrase that
you used to say, Who's going to be the next?
Fat funny man? Found dead? At sorry line?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Chris Farley?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Chris Farley was next in line?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yes, he was all right? So and we laugh about it. Now, Hey,
did your friend cry in a post? Did you call
him you do him a favor. You just laughed at it.
But did you post up to take that down? Did
you post it? I feel your pain? How did you?
Or you like Kelly, you can't look at it. You
can't look at it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Maybe you responded to the crying video by crying yourself
about something that bothered you and said, gigs are nine
nine dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's a great way to respond. We should all do that,
even if if you have to fake it, fake it,
but do it. If you like this, go mezzine and
make it so bad I can't understand what you're saying
that we have to play it several times to try
to make sure I get your message.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Put like an Egg's meme on it or everything so
they know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh tell me about that or what else is going on.
You need to be talking about it. We need to
be talking about You tell us what you want to
talk about, then you talk about it. At ninety seven
eight ninet two sixty seven. You also use the same
number if you want to win the Jackson Aldean tickets
at eight O three ninet seven eight w COS tomorrow
in the morning, Rush
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