Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Weekly Business News for May 17 | Elon Musk: The Most Scrutinized Man in the World?

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

First up is Elon Musk. Always into something. Elon Musk announced that X is planning to allow podcast and full film uploads on X (formerly Twitter–how long are we going to have to clarify this?). Elon Musk’s tech company, Neuralink, experimented with the first human brain chip implant and received backlash when they didn’t disclose a tiny hiccup in the experiment. Begging the question–is everything Elon Musk does met with scrutiny?Have you heard of “phantom debt”? If you’re a frequent utilizer of “buy now, pay later” services, you might have some. Listen to why this is becoming a problem in the financial world and could have an impact on our economy.Apple swings and misses big time with their new Apple iPad Pro commercial. Artists and creatives are taking offense to the ad, maybe rightfully so. Do you think Apple’s new commercial is tone deaf?A new tech company claims to be able to create a podcast completely utilizing AI. Voice cloning is becoming the next big thing, but does it sound like the real person?And who doesn’t want to see Mike Tyson in the ring again? Would you see him take on Jake Paul if it cost you 2 million dollars?Finally, McDonald’s is introducing a $5 meal deal in a response to the financial crisis we’re in right now. Low income households are the demographic they’re targeting to try and win them back with a cost effective meal option.This episode is packed with news, insights, opinions, and a touch of humor. So, if you're looking to stay informed and entertained in the world of business and marketing, be sure to tune in to Right About Now with Ryan Alford, the #1 Marketing Podcast on Apple!TAKEAWAYSElon Musk's announcement about uploading podcasts and films on TwitterThe first human brain chip implant by NeuralinkThe rise of "buy now, pay later" servicesApple's controversial iPad Pro commercialAI podcast service that claims to clone your voiceMike Tyson faces Jason Paul in huge fight that will cost you big to attendMcDonald’s is introducing a $5 meal dealTIMESTAMPS The introduction (00:00:00) Introducing the podcast and setting the stage for the discussion.Elon Musk's Announcement (00:02:05) Elon Musk's announcement about uploading podcasts, TV shows, and films on Twitter/X and the potential impact on the platform.Neuralink's Brain Chip Implant (00:07:54) Discussion about Neuralink's first human brain chip implant, its success, and the need for transparency."Buy Now, Pay Later" Products (00:13:35) The rise of "buy now, pay later" products and the potential impact on consumers and the economy.Apple's Controversial iPad Pro Ad (00:19:16) The backlash against Apple's new iPad Pro ad, its tone-deafness, and the impact on the company's reputation.Apple's Innovation Woes (00:23:21) Discussion on Apple's lack of innovation, canceled projects, and the need for tech innovation.AI Podcast Tool (00:25:36) Exploration of a new AI podcast tool, its potential benefits, and the limitations of technology in replicating human creativity.Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight (00:27:00) Conversation about the upcoming fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, the VIP package, and the potential entertainment value.McDonald's $5 Meal (00:31:25) Analysis of McDonald's potential new $5 value meal, comparison with previous offerings, and the impact on low-income consumers.Family Fast Food (00:32:53) Humorous discussion about fast food consumption, inflation, and the convenience of fast food for busy families.Closing Remarks (00:33:52) Final words, including a weekend wish and a request for reviews and ratings, along with promotion of the show's video content. If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over 6 years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts Right About Now. What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday, May 17th, 2024.

We're taking the BS out of business, baby, in our weekly marketing and business news of the week. Joined by my good friend, Chris Hansen, down in the vacay lounge in Miami. What's up, Chris? Just another beautiful Friday in Miami. How are you doing today? How's G-Vegas? G-Vegas is good. We're expanding all kinds of new things in the studio.

Sawyer's got us a nice design on the background there. I'm just feeling like we're just all growns up here. You guys, it's a new look every time we log on. And I'm jealous. I'm just here in my corner with my bamboo plant. Exactly. Still number one. That's why this belt sits here. The day we aren't number one for a six-month period,

we'll take the belt away. We'll store it away. We'll send it to whoever it is. But we appreciate you for listening and keeping us at the top of the charts on Apple. Maybe go hit us on Spotify. like hovering like top 30 over there. We need to be top. Give us a Spotify love.

You can download us anywhere. Just set it to auto download on both platforms. You never know. Some platform could go down or something, and you want to make sure you can catch it. Yeah, catch it on that flight. Exactly, exactly. We appreciate you wherever you are, whenever you are, however you are. On our weekly news, we try to keep it topical.

We like to take the bullshit out and make it a little educating, a little entertaining. This isn't breaking news, but we like to pull the articles that we feel like you should know about, give a little insight into what we think it really means. Sometimes reading in between the lines, that's kind of the story here. Sometimes a story isn't just what it's saying. Sometimes it's what it's not saying. We like to get underneath it. This first article comes from a man that makes the news a lot, Elon Musk,

the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. Announced on Friday that subscribers can upload podcasts, TV shows, or films on X, streaming site Passionflix, by stating that users can now upload their full-length films to X. Going to watch a whole movie on the social media platform. Another platform to upload to. Yeah. Add one more to the list. I always liked Twitter slash X. Maybe one day we'll just be able to call it X, but it's still Twitter slash X.

But just a little statement, like Threads is now. Like it's just a thought of the day. Simple note. Or, hey, you're a reporter. You're on site somewhere. You just saw something. A quick blip, right? But now, no, we're going to have full-length movies.

Tweet about that. Oh, come on, man. And I know why they're doing it. Time on site, they were just trying to catch off for everything. And I think even Elon said he ultimately wanted the platform to be that. But I like what he's attempting to do with free speech stuff and weeding out some stuff i don't know how successful that is but i admire his progress and or ambition i just don't need somewhere junking up like my feed i like my feed being tight on twitter of

like just insightful quips, little bits of knowledge, little quotes. It is the one thing I will say about threads. When I go spend a little bit of time over there, it's at least clean. I agree. I don't know. Slippery.

Twitter is getting very crowded. Yes. If you try to click on someone's tweet, most of the comments below it are just ads pushing you to another account yes that's not even related to the original post it's getting very cluttered and there's people smarter than me there's probably people listening that are agreeing with us i imagine but obviously they have data folks smarter than we are with the algorithm and all that. But at its core though, it's just like, when do you run out of like space and mental energy? Like when you're in the platform and cause just like you said, you used to get on and I could see a few like cool quotes from people

I'm following or insights or news, like just really easy to digest. Now you've got the threads within the comments, within the things, like you said, and a lot of it's got junk ads or whatever. It's just not a clean experience. That UI is not optimal to me right now. And so, again, smarter people that know what they're doing, probably thinking through these things. But my first world experience, call it a focus group of one, is not ideal these days and keeps me from going to the platform more.

I'm right there with you, bro. So. You said it in a great way where it's my go-to app if I just want like a little taste to not be fully overwhelmed with content. Yeah. And now that app, and we used to talk about threads. We didn't think it was super doing anything new. Now I find myself more in threads when I just want to read quotes or something simple. Yeah.

And this is the reason usually why the spinoffs for these social platforms become a different app. Because if you're going to do full-length video that if they need to have like tiles if you think about like on a spreadsheet you have tabs give me the simple tab for x like just a copy if you want to have that full-length movie thing over here have it over here in this column and i could choose to see it or not or whatever. Let me organize my experience, personalize it. Now, I get why they wouldn't do that because they want you and I and everybody to get exposed to that video or those movies. So it fights against it. And look, we are somewhat squabbling over a free app that we don't pay for.

We got to get what we get. But if they want our opinion, it's called KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. We'll see. And look, I don't mind an ad between those quotes. I get it. Baby's got to get paid. You got to have money to make that app.

I get it. You got to make a profit. But give me some motivation. Warm me up. I need some motivational lube on the way down to the ad. Before you hit me over the head. You know what I'm talking about, Chris. I know.

Anyway. There's no finesse on the Twitter ads. It's just in your face. Like watching a video about puppies. And then I actually see a lot of the Delta E gummy ads from Cheech and Chong company all the time. I'm like, how is this related? It's because you went to the website or you searched something. You're in the vortex.

The algos got me, bro. Yeah, the algos got you. They got you. There you go. First article. Neuralink first human brain chip implant experienced a problem. Weird. It is weird.

I'm going to say this before I get into the article. Innovation's messy. These guys are trying to help quadriplegics walk that have a terrible quality of life. And to do things and to have experiences they don't have. So we can beat up on every miss. But the premise here is a good one.

And the intent is right. So before I'm going to beat up on anything, obviously, you want there to be thorough checks and balances for this kind of stuff. And I'm sure the watchdogs out there would say that's what they're doing. laboratories and everything else that we use today had the scrutiny in the news that there is today on everything that this guy does, we wouldn't have many of the conveniences that we have today because just the scrutiny that would have gone into it. And don't get me wrong, there needs to be scrutiny, but the public scrutiny is a different thing than the FDA or something, you know, the people checking behind things. So with that said, this comes to us from Mashable. Elon Musk's medical tech company didn't disclose

the issue until they were pressed, according to the report. It is fair to call Neuralink's first human implant a success as it helped a quadriplegic patient interact with his surroundings in ways that he previously couldn't before. However, until this report on Wednesday, the public had not been informed of a problem that resulted in Neuralink even considering removing the implant. Some of the implant's threads placed in the patient's brain had come out resulting in data loss. Again, obviously things have gone a lot worse, and Neuralink's first implant thus far has been considered a successful endeavor. But they just want more transparency.

So, okay, it's been a success. I don't know what the expectation is. What do the critics want? And what, no more. And what do they owe us? What knowledge of this do they owe us? Do they owe us any of this? I was thinking that too.

There's governing bodies probably behind. 30 years ago, the news wouldn't have been reporting on this until it was a success. Yes. You wouldn't hear the, the practice rounds or whatever, the innovation part. This is the news gone bad right here. This is the perfect example of over-newsing. Yeah. My new term, over-newsing and motivational lube. I did not think I'd get both, either one of those terms in today, but we did. But this is taking the BS out of business, baby. Look, sometimes taking the BS out of business is telling you the facts.

This is too much news too often. Like, I get it. I get it why you could be up in arms on this. But it's not any of your fucking business. Probably. Unless you're the governing body of overseeing all of the health. Like, there's other checks and balances happening here. Or is anyone asking the patient?

Because the guys, he might even still be like, yeah, there was a problem. But overall, this is still a positive thing for my life. And he's probably signed everything to earth. Like that he's written away going, I will be the test experiment here. I'm not, I will hold you unaccountable and unliable. What does he have to lose? And look, here's what the journalist experiment here. I will hold you unaccountable and unliable. What does he have to lose? And look, here's what the journalist will say. If you're going to report good news, then you need to

report all the news. That's what they would say. They would say since Elon has been reporting that the first has been generally successful, then they need to tell everything. You know what? If you're generally successful, then they need to tell everything. You know what? If you're generally successful, then there's probably good and bad they haven't reported.

I haven't seen anything deemed, this was a win overall. They're just saying generally successful, doing things he'd never been able to do before. Anyway, just stop it with the over news. Yeah, cut it out. And if we can get these kind of things implemented in patients, like the upshot of this is incredible. That's the bottom line. Americans. Sorry, Chris. I's the bottom line. Americans.

Sorry, Chris. I was going to say every business. If they reported on every failure every business had, that would be everybody. Yeah. Everyone. How you could spend it. Stocks up this quarter by 18%. Why didn't you talk about the first month when you were down 14%?

Because the quarter we were up 18% because we started a little slow and then we made it up. Well, we needed the negative side of that. That's what we're talking about. A little bit here. We'll see. Bloomberg.com. Americans are racking up phantom debt that Wall Street can't track. This is from Bloomberg.com. Consumers have embraced buy now, pay later products that

allow them to pay for purchases and installments, but it's not clear how many of these loans are out there. It's hard enough for central bankers and Wall Street traders to make sense of the post-pandemic economy with the data available to them. At Wells Fargo, senior economist Tim Quinlan is particularly spooked. He's really spooked. You should see this guy. Boo! By the phantom debt that he can't see, he is staying up at night going, we just gave a house loan and I know that she's got some phantom debt somewhere. Damn it. I know she's hiding that debt. Microfinance that perfume on sackswithdavenue.com.

With Sezzle or whatever the name of the company is. Yeah. She's got 47 payments on that new diamond ring. 47 payments of $9.99. Yes. For the next 47 months. Exactly. With a 22% interest rate probably.

Yeah, exactly. I know she's got a high interest debt somewhere. I know it. I knew it. Yeah. But it's still interesting nonetheless. And I do, it is happening because they have these. It's huge.

Spread the payment out almost at everything you purchase now. I was buying something the other day and it popped up and it was like, they were dying for me to do this. I'm trying to think of what it was. It was like a candle or something. Like it was like something for my wife. And they're offering like zero interest. And it was like a candle or something. Like it was like something for my wife. And they're offering like zero interest. And it was like $14.

And they're like, you spread this out. And I know it's probably just like an automated thing for anything you buy. And I'm like, I was tempted. $3.99 for three months or $14 at once. I don't know. But I chose just to buy it. But nonetheless, I think it will be interesting as this stuff continues to proliferate. It feels like it's already everywhere.

But I'm surprised they haven't figured out how to. They seem to have figured out everything else to hit your credit report. I don't know why they haven't figured this out. They seem to figure out everything else to hit your credit report. I don't know why they haven't figured this out. They hit your soft credit, I think, or something when they offer these things. They're not offering people six months of payments unless they do some kind of soft credit check. So I don't know why these companies aren't reporting your credit back to them if you aren't making the payments. And what that balance is, that will probably be what ultimately gets alleviated,

is the reporting back. But I will say, isn't this a little different? I've bought furniture, like rooms to go, that 0% financing over 48 months or something, we've done that a couple times. I'll take your free money. I'll make those payments. You want to let me keep my cash and spread it out and not charge any interest? Now they're banking that you're going to fuck up

and miss payment and get all that charged. But let me tell you something. I didn't mess that up. I got some free cash off them several times. That new love seat but now but the after pay thing is even more interesting with like you said perfume i mean small purchases but it's also like the three or four hundred dollar purchases that a lot of people have no business making probably and i think that's what we're talking about here is okay people with subpar credit already maybe maybe already in debt, and they're throwing down another four or 500 times three on these platforms. And so.

I would imagine I'm in Miami, the heart of microfinancing where everyone is, you need $500 sunglasses, but you make $25 an hour. Yeah. A lot of that happening in big cities like that it happens everywhere but you have the lure and the influence you get an influence right and left in those big cities because everybody's everywhere there's glam everywhere and so it's bad enough with and my wife can afford it but like getting influenced by every girl on instagram for eight nine ten dollar things left and right all this new way to brush your hair and fold it under and tuck it like oh gotta have that oil slick in the driveway baby from the amazon truck

but we've talked about this i'm a sucker for some of this some of it my amazon prime connoisseur for sure yes but it will we'll see what impact this has you start to see more impacts on because it and this is the point of the article like back to like business and things like that like foreclosures on houses start going up. That credit card balance is over. All that stuff has an impact on the overall economy and the overall kind of business runnings of the country. And that's where Tim Quinlan is spooked.

I hope his friends are giving him some shit. He's spooked by the phantom debt. It's just, I can't deal with it. That just seems, it's just so freaking, like, cringey. Yeah. And then the fact, like, we can't find it. There are billions of dollars probably of this phantom debt. It's just not being recorded there. Yeah, it's sitting out there.

Yeah. Yeah. Something doesn't make sense to me. By the Chinese government. It's a spinoff from TikTok. I know Asia was the first one to do the microfinancing. I think it started in China. I feel like 10 years ago I heard about this.

We knew it. We know it. They're smart, bro. This next article comes from us from Marketing Dive, marketingdive.com. Not crushing it. Apple's new iPad Pro ad met with a wave of backlash. I saw this. It's a little, for Apple, it's pretty tone deaf.

Oh, yeah. And I get it. By the way, I did a similar commercial of this in 2009 for the BlackBerry. We're showing, it's essentially saying it's the Swiss Army knife of the smartphone. But a video showing art objects like a piano and a sculpture destroyed by a massive press marks a rare creative miss for the iPhone maker. To emphasize the slimness, a new commercial titled Crush shows a menagerie of artistic works and tools, including sculptures, a piano, paints, and a vinyl record player getting crushed under a massive metal press.

massive mental, excuse me, massive metal press. Final result is the iPad Pro implying the tablet, implying that the tablet can contain all of those media capabilities in one sleek advice. And so you had all these people come out that are piano players. And look, the artsy fartsy, sorry, it is what it is, crowd. That's the apple crowd. Are you talking to Sawyer? No. The guitarist and producer in the room. Look, I'm artsy fartsy myself sometimes.

I'm just saying, but I don't get my panties in a wad over that shit. And my panties can get in a wad, let me tell you. But I know, but you just got to know who your crowd is. It is is a little tone deaf it's actually for their audience man you're right apple has always been more of an artist's it is it totally is and i guess i consider myself in that audience a little bit it's just dude even think about garage band like it was the only computer to come standard with music production video production software and now you're just like fuck all you guys and your artists abilities yes i know it's just dumb it's just okay because if you watch the commercial too it's the stuff that they chose too it's like

some of this stuff is i hope that there's like someone playing a classical piano in every lobby like i like stuff that's just iconic to our culture someone has a vinyl record player i'm always like dude sick it sounds amazing it's different to get rid of that and especially this crowd so i don't know man anyway that's what i figured they must have done this on purpose to piss people off i can't think that they thought this is a good idea this is a great ad they thought they were making a good ad showing the the metaphor and the swiss army knife that it does all these things and it's but you can do that creatively without smashing them with a metal press like you can show them feeding in and there's a lot of different devices for how you can bring that to life.

Apple CEO Tim Cook posted the video on X where it has been met with a negative response with many users perceiving the ad as hostile to art. Yeah. Metal presses tend to do that. Put your head in the metal press. Well, I know that's a trend too, right? The whole metal press videos, people well i know that's a trend too right the whole metal press videos people like that's a thing people love watching stuff get smashed i feel like they were trying to go off that trend but just completely missed the target

yeah they need gallagher on there with a big hammer that guy the comedy guy that smashed things with the hammer yeah watermelons yeah he's smashing it. That's old. That's old right there. Our young audience may not remember that. Go look up Gallagher. You'll get a laugh. Just smashing things with hammers. Nonetheless, tone deaf.

And look, it pains me to say this. I'm an Apple guy. I hate PCs. Sawyer knows this. He's been trying to talk me into get a PC while for our studio. I do so much more. I'm an Apple guy. I like Apple,

but damn man, are they running? They're not only are they running out of ideas. Now their ideas suck. This is a terrible idea. Like if nothing else, the commercials and the creative has always been good. At least it is high standard. Now the fucking creative stinks.

Shit. It ain't good. They can't come high standard. Now the fucking creative stinks? Shit. It ain't good. They can't come up with any new features. Their AI is behind. They canceled the car. This shit ain't good. And look, I love Apple. I'm not getting rid of them today.

But it's just, again, the smoke. You know what you usually find when there's smoke, Chris? Fuego, baby. Fuego. Fire. Somethinguego, baby. Fuego. Fire. Something ain't right. We might have to get that PC. Damn it.

Happy time. We'll smash it with a hammer. As I'm sitting on my brand new Apple laptop next to me. Yeah, exactly. I say all these things. I'm not off the bandwagon yet.agon yet take a lot to get me to go to a droid bro oh yeah i know not it's not the droid they were back in the day but i'll say this i'm still on the band but man i'm falling i'm like i'm holding on to that bandwagon like i'm holding

on one hand behind it baby you're dragging me behind the buggy. Like, I'm trying to, I'm already giving you shit. We want to support you. We want to. I still love the product, but damn. Let's get the ads back in order. Let's get tech innovating a little bit. Happy girl dancing to New York City with her headphones in, like a good vibe. Yeah.

Now they're just like, crush all of your history. Yeah, pulverized. That's the Apple brand apple brand too pulverizing things in a press come on man what are you fucking ford or dodge ram now stop it yeah oh speak up ai secures 500000 seed investment for revolutionary AI podcast tool. They're coming for us, man. They're trying to get us. The AI podcasting co-pilot offers core functionalities, including instant voice cloning. Shit. Content restructuring.

Damn it. Script preview and editing. Automatic music. It's just the podcast in a box right there, baby. You can't duplicate this, though. You can't get this Southern accent and the highs and lows. I've done the clone. That guy doesn't sound like me.

You can't get this accent. No, you probably can. But it doesn't have no computer is going to have the brain of Chris Hansen and Ryan Alford. Like, it can't think. Let's just say it's not coming up with any of the terms we've had today. Good, bad or indifferent. Definitely not motivational lube. That one's only something a good old fashioned human can spit out.

They're not coming up with that one. Nonetheless, this does sound interesting. Look, let me say this. I like technology that makes life easier to simplify things that takes unnecessary steps out that lets my people do their creative things and not spin wheels on administrative stuff. So I'm all for tools that do that. But the slippery slope is just creation of content and abstract ideas and creative ideas and human thought and human perspective. Consciousness. Yeah. And so that's where the slippery slope is.

But speak up, AI. If you want to get in on that seed round, they're looking for money. Promoters of Mike Tyson, Jake Paul, Netflix fight offer a $2 million VIP package. Chris, you want to split this? I think we're in on this one little piece. Yeah. How many seats do we get? I don't know. We're going to read right now.

Mike Tyson will return to the ring on July 20th to fight Jake Paul. Let's put here a quote, fight. If there's no – if they really do get it on, this is going to be one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen. There's going to be some limitations. There's got to be. I don't think we're going to hit headgear. I don't know what. If they're just wailing, that's going to be awesome.

Anyway, in a boxing match streamed on Netflix, fans are already betting on the fight. Expected to be the most wagered on match of the year. Promoters are offering a $2 million VIP package to the fight. Wow!

This article details does not have what is included in that $2 million, but one could presume it's quite lucrative and quite inclusive. I imagine it's a box, and maybe you would hope. The fight. I imagine it's a box and maybe you would hope. I had clients. If I had the right clients to entertain at this level, I would think about that because that's a once in a lifetime kind of thing. Jake Paul, the prime of his, pun intended, of his career,

whether he's a boxer, influencer, business person, like all these things. And then Mike Tyson, one of the most feared men on the planet when he fought. It's just the once in a lifetime type of thing. No matter what circus it ends up becoming, that would be a nice client experience. If you had the right one, if you're doing this kind of level of business, roll them in there. If you're doing this kind of level of business, roll them in there. So I like it, but it's a lot of fucking money. It's a lot of dough.

Yeah. And I'm like, where are you? Are you sitting ringside? You got to be sitting ringside. I don't want to be up. The box sounds cool, but maybe a pre. You're getting your. Meet and greet.

Meet and greet. Getting your thing on. pre-match meeting, all rubbing shoulders with celebrities, all that you're doing. But I want to be ringside. If I'm going to spend two mil, I want their fucking boxing gloves. Autographed. Yeah.

Yeah. And then flip them for four after the fight. Exactly. It's going to be a good fight. Yeah. It's going to be a good show. I don't know fight exactly it's gonna be a good fight yeah it's gonna be a good show i don't know if it's gonna be a good fight it's gonna be a good show it's the spectacle that's what this is okay anyone out there that's going oh what the fight's gonna be i'm more i'm curious myself but as a marketer i more appreciate the spectacle and the newsworthiness and the buzz that this creates and people might argue you can create buzz but does it have substance it's two of the most popular for different reasons the different differentas. Yeah, that's substance. No matter what that fight does.

If Jake Paul falls down, okay, and lays down, I'll be a little pissed about that. But, like, it doesn't have a high threshold, actually, in the ring. You want it to be competitive or interesting, but the whole spectacle, everybody's going to bring the – there's occasions when the sizzle is big enough. I'm a big sizzle

steak guy. You've got to have some steak behind the sizzle because that sizzle wears off. But something like this, sometimes the sizzle's big enough. And this might be the case. Now, if it actually turns out to be a legitimate fight in the ring,

it might go down as one of the greatest promotions of all time. Just promotions. I'm not saying fights. Hey, if you want to be in the news, make the news. There's your learning lesson. They're making the news. McDonald's, bringing back that $5 meal baby inflation's up it's expensive out there

McDonald's is working to introduce a value meal in US stores to help offset an increasingly challenging environment for consumers the $5 meal could include four items, a McChicken or McDouble, four piece chicken nuggets fries and a drink

that's a lot of damn food for $5 potential new offer A McChicken or McDouble, four-piece chicken nuggets, fries, and a drink. That's a lot of damn food for $5. Potential new offer. Potential, not sold in yet. Offer comes at a time when low-income consumers are beginning to pull back on spending, particularly at fast food brands. This comes to us from CNBC.com. Another reason to go to McDonald's. $5.

I will say all those items used to be on the dollar menu, so they're still getting you for an extra dollar compared to previous years. Oh, ho-hum, Chris. Because I used to live off of McDoubles and McChickens. Yes, the McChicken, the McDouble. The dollar meal will come back. Look, I still want the $5 roast, 5 for 5 roast beefs at Arby's. Those are the days I long for.

That was a deal. 5 for 5 on the roast beefs? Come on, man. Get a 9-9-7. Get a sesame seed bun? Sorry. Cup of chili at Arby's. Sorry, McDonald's.

Giving your thunder away to Arby's here. Get $5 roast beef sandwiches now at Arby's. It's like $15. Like, $20. There's your inflation right there, 300%. That's you plus the boys, right? Oh, yeah. Exactly.

Oh, we can't get out of a fast food restaurant for less than $60. You kidding me? The way the Alford boys eat? Talking like baskets of fries, 40-piece nuggets. It's a gargle down disposal. Like washing that thing down with seven Cokes. And look, we're like on every other week, McDonald's, once every other week. Flapjack Fridays.

Yes. Hotcake Fridays, yes. Plus maybe one extra random Happy Meal here and there. Look, we're a good family, man. It's convenient sometimes. They play every sport. I, work and family, man. It's just convenient sometimes. They play every sport. I don't want any hate meal.

Don't DM me saying you shouldn't feed your kids that shit. Look, my kids are more active than any kids on the planet. Most kids on the planet. But, you got to get that

happy meal sometimes. Sometimes you just ain't got time to cook. Y'all know what I'm talking about. This $5 thing, I'm thinking how many of those I could order to get the whole food. I'm thinking I could get three of those things and feed the whole family.

Good luck. I know. I'll eat a salad or something, though. Tasty McSalad. McSalad. I'll have some McSalad and some McBacon on that. Oh, that's all we got time for today my friends we got work to do around here chris any final words everyone have a great weekend it's getting hot out there stay hydrated

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