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October 31, 2024 11 mins
McDonald's and ballot box fires
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, Happy Halloween. Thank you very much for listening.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Mark Blazer over there, Josh Cease, and you know McDonald's hat.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Where did it go? I just had it a second though,
it wasn't. Where did that go? Oh my gosh?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh here it is McDonald's revealing major new value menu
that's gonna debut next year. I guess they can't get
started early. They gotta wait till next year to do this.
It's uh, they're calling it major new holistic value menu.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Have you heard?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
God?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Was it gonna be like alfalfa grass or something stupid?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
The alfalfa mac it's gonna be. They're gonna put the
no a kale Burger, a kale Burger. But oh is
uh do we have Alex?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
There you are?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Okay, Alex Stone's joining us now. I didn't know because
usually Zach will get in my ear and go, you know,
Alex is here.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
We Well, Zac's been a little lax on the button.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I'm just yeah, no, he is. He's very that he
flat out suck today, Alex. He's flat up and terrible
at every aspect.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
He wore the Michael Meyer masket? Is it Myers or
Meyer Myers?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Michael Myers.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's why I was told Michael.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Sitting there behind the board with it on right now.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
No, but he wore it in to the uh he
looked better, actually, Michael Audrey Myers.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
He just gave me. I had no idea that the
serial killer had a middle Does it matter that he has?

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Well, don't all serial killers have a middle name? No,
we all call him by their full three names for
whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
But the real ones they always uh, they their names
always make it up when they're talking about how they're
on death row or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Then yes, for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
Like big killer, like Harvey Lee Oswaldere you go Cereal
COVID Still, why not Harvey Oswald?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, yes, yes, John wing Gacy right, yeah, yeah, yep,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
So anyway, this be similar to Great Britain.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Saverer menu they're calling it, and it features Burger's chicken, sandwiches, sides,
desserts as well as the MC smart menu in Australia
they're comparing it to as well. So currently they have
their one, two, and three dollar menu, but complaints from
the customers say that there's not really anything on that
menu that's actually a dollar.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Recently they've seen a de.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Climb, right, You're like take the dollar part off of
that if you're not gonna have anything that's a dollar, correct.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Correct, unless you just do it occasionally, because occasionally it'll
be like any size soft drink is a dollar, you
know what I.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Mean, Put like a cookie on there or something something
so you can say, well, we have something on the
dollar menu.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I feel like this is something that they're doing
the news as in a positive spin because as we
know recently it looks like class action lawsuit now is
being filed against them, and you know from the e
coal I stuff, because they're you know, people who are
really really ill from this. Did anybody I don't think
anybody passed away from this?

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Did they in Colorado?

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
From the McDonald's They connected it back to us like
an actual McDonald's. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Yeah, one person dead, I think, twenty seven hospitalized and
now the numbers up to like ninety five.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh wait is the person who passed away? Like there
it's like a young girl, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I think the fatality was an elderly person.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh she she'ez.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
I'm way off on that, Okay. I thought I saw
something where there was a picture of anyway.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Uh So, anyway, there, the new value menu is going
to help revive sales and interest, is what they're saying.
I'm like, look, there are so many people who this
is water off a duck's back. I mean, really, when
you start drilling down on this, the thing that you
would have to dodge our onions with them, and then
I feel like you're going to be okay there, So.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
What's the dog? What is the meal deal going to be?

Speaker 6 (03:58):
Cause they've got that meal deal that's expirediring now, the
one that was five bucks, but like in my neighborhood,
all the billboards say six bucks. You're like, wait a second,
I thought that was to be a five dollars meal deal.
But it's six dollars right.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh yeah, And by the way, six dollars is I mean,
that's still you have to be like, wait, what do
you get for that? Because nothing six dollars where you live,
right except the gallon of gas. I think you aren't wrong,
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, this all it does is
just say that they're going to have this new value

(04:29):
menu and it's going to debut next year, and that's
basically the news They this this whole you know, I
don't know that this really wouldn't be a press release.
This is just part of, you know, some of the
stuff that we look into to get ready to be
on the air. But they said, look, this worst outbreak
that's happened now is behind us, and we're working diligently

(04:49):
to get the trust of the customers back and all
of this stuff. So I feel like they kind of
ran this out there and then they just said, you know,
it's similar to the Great Britain Saverer menu and that
make smart menu in Australia.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's what they're chanting.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
To see what it is.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Because you remember when they decided they had to come
out with the current meal deal that it took McDonald's
a long time because their local franchisees set the prices
of the food, and so when they said it would
be a nationwide five dollars thing, and then they had
to agree in some higher areas it would be six bucks.
But a lot of the owners didn't want to do
it because they were saying they were going to lose

(05:24):
money on it and it was so they were going
to do it for a very short amount of time.
They've extended it, but they said this is going to be,
you know, like the rotisserie chicken at Costco, the lost
leader to get you in and buying again and your
family wanting it.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
And it seems to be working.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
And you know that they made the argument this will
pay off for the franchisees in the end because families
will come in and buy more and they'll make money
off of it. But it was hard for McDonald's to
get them to agree to the one they're doing right now.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
My son and Alex, I mean this, this is brilliant
on their part. My son gets that it is all
about the five dollars meal deal now and he's like Dad,
but it's only five dollars, and he thinks this way,
since it's only five dollars, I'll be more inclined to
take him to McDonald's multiple times a week to get

(06:14):
his five dollar meal. So in that respect, and I,
by the way I have it's working because he's got
my son's got a musical practice.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
He's in a big musical play at his school.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
So we're doing a lot of driving back and forth
and he gets home late at night. I'm telling you,
three nights a week he's eating that damn McDonald's deal, Uh, Alex.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Because it's it's we can afford it and he loves it.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah, so it's it's definitely working and uh, you know,
it's getting.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
You in there and getting him what.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
I get something when I'm there that my wife's like, oh, king,
you grab can you grab me a fla fish?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
That's what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Jennisis wants chicken nuggets like yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
So they may not make a ton off the meal
deal right now, but they got you buying the other stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, correct.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, so apparently it's been working and they're going to
bring back, but it'll be interesting to see what the
price is because remember this all came after all the
like social media stuff about the eighteen dollars Hamburger that
like getting a big masks was you know people were
in Massachusetts. Yeah, yeah, it would come out to be
like eighteen bucks and McDonald's was saying, and then Wendy's
got their their what their biggie bag or whatever they

(07:18):
call it, Yes, and Burger King got one and talk
about so that McDonald's.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Had to do it.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
But it was the prices were just they were going
way up there and we went to subway the other
day to give my son a six inch turkey sandwich,
just turkey, and the six inch now was like almost ten.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Bucks dollars sandwich. Wowah here there for a foot long.
It's eight ninety nine for a turkey foot long. And
Arby's has gotten in on this.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
They now have what they call the seven dollars double
meat deal, because you know what, Arby's have three different sizes.
They classic, they have the double, then they have the
half pounder, so you can get a double roast beef
or a double roast beef and chaddar, medium drink, medium fries.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Seven bucks for Arby's.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
That's remarkable because it really has always got a better
Army's out there we do yeah, okay, yeah, and we
have Carls Junior.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Do you guys have had Hardy's Party's.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, it's Hardy's here in Ohio.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Carls Junior out here is way more expensive than anybody else.
You'll you'll get a burger for the kids and be like,
how is that twenty bucks?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
And is it that good?

Speaker 5 (08:18):
I mean, if it's just good?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Okay, you know, because five guys fast food good probably
not five guys does that here? Like it's you know,
it's crazy expensive, but you literally get enough fries for
three people. With the fries that you order, they like
dump them in. Are you familiar with that at all
or no?

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
A little bit. Uh. And we got in an out
Burger and so I.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Was just gonna say, it's in and out Burger. I
don't even know why you have other fast food burger joints.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well yeah, so their fries aren't that great, all right,
So the ballot box fires, the police are closer.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Have they identified the suspect yet.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
No, So this is the ones in the Portland, Oregon
area where they yet they're getting closer. It looks like
to capturing the guy. He's been putting these incendiary devices,
I mean really like fire devices, not bombs really, but
but fire devices into the ballot dropboxes around Portland and
then a few miles away in Vancouver, Washington over the
state line, but the same metro area. There was one

(09:17):
now we know earlier this month, and then on Monday,
the big focus really on two of them, one in
Portland and another in Vancouver. The one in Portland burned
a couple of ballots, to one in Vancouver destroyed hundreds
of them, and firefighters could be seen just raking out
all these burn ballots.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
This isn't Mike Better at Portland Police, but we.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
Can describe the suspect that we believe is connected to
all three cases as a white male between the ages
of thirty and forty years old, faulding or very short hair,
medium to thin build, dark shirt, thin face.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
And so they know that from surveillance video and they've
really been piecing all of the forensics together. They believe
the guy will continue to go after ballot drop boxes
in the area. We've got sources who tell us who
are not publicly saying it, but the devices have a
message of free Gaza on them.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
They don't know if that is the motive, if that's.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
A ruse to go after the ballots, or if this
person is so passionate about the fighting in Israel that
he's doing this. But one of them has now gone
off to a forensic slab. They're going to try to
get a latent print off of it. A lot of
times bombs and then SENDI. Your advice is there will
be a print somewhere on there that the bad guy
doesn't know they got on there.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
But police say they also believe this about them.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
And we believe this suspect has a wealth of experience
in metal fabrication and welding, and.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
They've got a pretty good car description on them. Vehicle description.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
But one thing that was surprising to us this week
that these boxes have fire suppression systems in them, and
the one in Portland worked, the one in Vancouver did not.
They're built to put out a fire if there's a
fire in them, to save the ballots, and so that
they think that the one in Vancouver just flat out
didn't work when it went in there. So they're having
anybody who put their ballots from eight am Sunday until

(11:02):
the fires on Monday morning. They're telling them to contact
them and they'll, you know, make sure that that no
ballot was turned in and then they'll they'll give them
another one.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
But so the FBI, they're a big part of this.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Now.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Sounds like they're getting close, but they're not there yet
on who this.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Guy is man. Sounds like they're they're going to find
him though. Yeah, hot on his toy, Yeah h yeah,
for sure. All right.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Alex Stone, ABC News out of Los Angeles, Alex, thank
you very much, appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Happy Halloween, Man, Happy Halloween.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
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