February 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Before we talk about movies, Jonathan joins me to discuss our top 5 favorite FAST FOOD spots.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell.
Welcome to the film real we are talking films. My
name is Justin and I'm here with Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That is me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What do you think you think we should start a band?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No? No, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Why not I play? I play instruments.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I cannot play an instrument, and I cannot sing. Even
though I sing a lot, I'm not good at it.
Why I do it in my car by myself?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
What are you singing?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Whatever I'm listening to?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What do you listen to?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now, I'm actually a big country guy.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh god, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh no, I went to listen.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I went to college in Virginia for four years and
I didn't listen to one country song.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I was so anti country. And then one of my
buddies from my golf trip in like twenty sixteen just
had me start listening to the songs here and there,
and now that's mainly what I listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But I still like all types of music.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's modern country you're listening.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like the old twangees, good style.
No no, no, my car broke down, my wife left me,
and my dog died.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What are the it's more like Poppy.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Who's who's like a singer?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Luke Bryan, Yeah, Luke Holmbs, Morgan Wallen, jelly Roll good.
We went to his concert. He was really good.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is that? Uh, we're gonna do our first Jackie name
drop is she? Is she a country girl?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But she actually loved the Jelly Roll concert and said
she would go see him anytime he's around. He's more
like a he's country, but he's also rock. And it
was like almost like you were kind of at church
like preaching, like like you just but it was just good.
It was just you were what you were into it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What is the genre that you listen to the most?
Is it a country?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Prior to that, I'm a big eighties guy. I like
eighties freestyle. I used to I listened to rap and
hip hop growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When it was good. Yeah, you know, when you can
understand what they were actually saying and not this mumble rap.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You didn't like the Kendrick Lamar liftime show.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I also didn't know the whole story with him and
Drake and everything that was going on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But nah, I didn't. I didn't care for it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What about you know, your Van Halen's and Guns N' Roses. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I'll listen to some rock, and like I said,
I pretty much listen to everything. The only thing I
didn't listen to is country, and now that's my main So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How far back would you go with music? Because we've
talked about watching older movies. I mean, would you listen
to fifties sixties? Yeah? Absolutely, that's usually my jam, fifty sixties, seventies.
But as far as modern stuff goes, there's just not
much out there mainstream that I like. There is every
once in a while, like a pop song that comes along,
I'm like, it's kind of catchy. I'll listen to it.
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But I don't know if it's just because I'm old
and I don't like the modern stuff and it's not
nostalgic for me. You know, I obviously live off of nostalgia,
not just with movies, but with toys and you know,
watching shows, and the same thing goes with music. So
I just I just don't get this generation.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, no, I mean neither.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I grew up listening to the seventies eighties because that's
why my parents listened to, you know, oldies and disco
and that stuff. So yeah, I'll go back all the
way fifties sixties.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Unfortunately, as far as mainstream radio goes, you know, terrestrial radio,
there's very few stations other than the one that I
work at is one of the few on Long Island
in ninety point three WHPC, the voice of Nasau Community
College that actually plays stuff from the fifties sixties era.
You know, I used to listen to CBSFM all the
time back in the day, and that's an oldies station. Now,
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if you listen to their oldies, it's like, here's Matchbox
twenty and you're like, what, that's oldies, That's that was
a new that was new.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, technically we're old now, so those are oldies. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It sucks getting old. I mean, I'm in so much
physical pain these days. I've talked to you about, you know,
various issues throughout my life, my ass. This was wonderful.
I was mentioning to you about yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You might talk to me about your ass a little
too much, I know now that I think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dude, I ate something just horribly yesterday the day prior
to that, and then it kicked in the next day.
And then you just go to the bathroom like eight
or nine times in like an hour, setting to the
point where I'm literally praying I go. Because we had
bowling later than I was like, I want to bowl.
I can't. I can't bowl like this. It hurts to
you know, continue to go. And then it's just you know,
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you're in hell. And it's my own fault because I
know that peppers give me issues.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like, yeah, so I had peppers yesterday, which I'm allergic to. Well,
maybe there's your first problem.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Sometimes it doesn't do what it did, and then yesterday
it did what it probably normally should be doing, and
that's destroying my insides. And I paid for it. I
paid for it. But I love food. I love eating trash.
I try and eat healthy these days. I've had my
ups and downs as far as my diet goes. You've
seen the fat pictures of young Justice.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I still find it hard to believe that you were fat.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A lot of people, a lot of people that you
know have recent became friends with me to find it
out because I'm very lanky and bony and all of that.
But there was a time where I was pushing two
hundred and fifty pounds and I was eating NonStop. I
was eating anything, but mostly just like treats. Like I'd
get a big pack of Hostess cupcakes. You know, it'd
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come with eight of them. They'd be gone in the day,
you know, eight cupcakes in one fucking day. And I
would wake up in the middle of the night and
instead of like you know, using the restroom, like yeah,
I eat some bread and then just go to sleep,
like after eating half a roll of Italian bread. So
I've changed those habits, but every now and then I
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do like to indulge and eat the fast food. And
I think we should just start out before we get
to some movie talk, and we are gonna be talking
some recent movies that we've watched, and then the main
thing that we're gonna get to, and I think I'm
gonna break this up into two parts. We are going
to get to our favorite action movies of all times,
because me and you both like the genre. But let's
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get to the fast food top top five fast foods,
fast food spots of all time. Where are you going.
Let's let's see if we have some common ground, and maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think we have to.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think we I would find it hard to believe
if we had five different fast food places.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But some people define fast food differently. Okay, so it's
something like Mo's and Chipotle, Is that fast food?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Why because you can't drive through with it? Or yeah, expensive.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Drive through is probably a good uh requisite to have
for it to be a fast food place. So too,
I just think, yeah, I just think of fast food
is yeah, you just drive by, pick it up and go.
Like I feel like if you go to Chipotle or Mo's,
you're probably gonna sit down and eat there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's very rare for me to take it home because
there's not one near me. And yeah, like, first of all,
Mos always has a fantastic music They're always playing like
Prints and Van Hellen. They are playing tracks that I like.
And then they greet you so happily, you know, welcome
to Mos. So I'm gonna stay there because it would
just be rude to leave after such a tremendous greeting.
So I'm going to start off well.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Also, Chipotle they cook everything there per their commercials. Yeah,
well nothing's frozen, everything's cooked.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They also, you know, have E Cola. I feel like
every like every couple of years or so, let's start
off with you know I have my number one, I
have my number two. I don't know if if I
can even think of five that I go to consistently.
I'm going to go with a hot take right here.
Coming in at number five for me is Wendy's. Okay,
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because I don't get it often. I think it's very consistent,
But I don't like that form of burger over some
of the other.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Places that the Square Burger.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
No, and it's just you know, it's fine, you know.
I like their little frosties are cute. We just didn't
have one really that close to me, so I don't
have full nostalgia for it. That's another thing. Even food
is nostalgic for me, and the other places were definitely
something that i'd get more often. But Wendy's I have
no issue with it. Is one just going to crack
your top five. Absolutely, a lot of people have it
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at one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's not my one.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I believe it is my two real I actually went
and got it after I saw you at the Bowl
Alley on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh did you went home? Yep? And they have good
deals too.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I get the five dollar Biggie bag combs with a
junior baking cheeseburger, fries, a four piece nugget.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And a drink for five bucks.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, can't beat it some places, even though I don't.
I'm not a big fan of their fries.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I think their fries are probably towards the bottom of
fast food French fries for me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's another thing. Some of these places aren't consistent. I think,
at least the times I've had Wendy's, it's rare for
Wendy's to just be different, Like Taco Bell is always
the same. I've never been like, this is bad Taco Bell,
Like it's always just Taco Bell McDonald's. Though, when it's perfect,
it's on a certain level. But when it's soggy and
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cold and it's not, even though you're getting it fresh
or fresh in quotation marks, it's different. But I've always
found Wendy's to be, you know, sort of similar. I'm
gonna go with did you have a number five?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That according to Jackie, who's a health person, Wendy's is
supposedly one of the healthier options. But my thing is
so my dad, I remember this all the time growing up,
whenever we would get fast food, he would always complain
that what he got was cold, but he always got
everything as it came. I'm a picky eater, so whenever
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I order things, I always get stuff off of it.
Ninety eight percent of the time. It's fresh because they
got to make it right then and there. Because I'm
getting no tomato, no onion or whatever else. Well, at
least it's hot. At least it's hot so it melts
the spit. My number five is going to be one
that's not from around here. It's called water Burger.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Okay, yeah, where where is that?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
So? I've had it in Texas when I went to
visit my buddy down there a bunch, and then they
opened one in Colorado. And the funny thing is the
one in Texas we all loved when we got it
wasn't the same, So that goes to your consistency thing.
But yeah, we like what a burger a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm gonna go with number four. One that is rare.
It's it's rare to see this one, but it's definitely
one that's very filling. I never left this place with
my stomach feeling good, but it's deliciously tasty. And that
is checkers.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay, I've not had Checkers often.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh me, neither, Yeah, neither. I've probably had it, you know,
fifteen times in my entire life. I usually stick with
the top three that but Checkers is solid and it's
a unique French fry. You can't really get a Checkers
type of French fry anywhere else that I can think of, So.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A regular fry, waffle fry, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
A regular fry, but it's got like this breading over it,
and it has a different style of taste to it
than I've had for any of the other main chains.
So I'm gonna go with Checkers at number four. I
used to get it after going to the Jets practice
over at Hofstra. They used to be at Hofstra and
one of the only few Checkers back in the day
was one in Hempstead. Yeah, and then they have one
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in Baldwin now and that's really the only.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
One in I want to say, it's Amityville.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Okay, because I used to go that's where I work
up off Exit thirty two off the Southern State and
instead of going north, if you go south, there's a
Checkers over there. But I, like I said, maybe a
handful of times I've eaten Checkers, not even enough to
remember it or give an opinion on it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'll have to, I'll have to go back there because
it's been it's been quite a while. You got another
one that stands out for you? Number four?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, number four is going to be Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, that's the controversial one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, Well, just I know they have their their things
that they're against and whatnot, but it is damn delicious.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, there's sauces. They got a lot of salt. I'm
a sauce guy. I like condiments.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And they're making one pretty close to here. Actually, I
just saw one up in construction right near the Asshole Coliseum.
Oh wow, so they're sort of taken over. They're not
open on Sundays though, Is that that's definitely the merit
for you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Which is funny because they are the stadium for the
Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh really, that's the yeah, and they're not open.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's hilarious, and they play ninety five percent of their
games on Sundays. It's like, you probably should have thought
of this a little better. But yeah, we eat it
a lot. When we go to Myrtle Beach to play golf.
That's usually the stop off on the way home after golf,
pick up a quick lunch, and then go hang out
at the house. But yeah, like I said, their sauces
are are very good, and it's good chicken.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, it's it's high quality products for sure. Yeah, and
there's always hot girls in there. I've noticed every time
I swear to God, every time I go into a
Chick fil a, there's like smoking hot college girls in there.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Probably the drinks maybe.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And I think it's a little healthier too, because you
can get the grilled chicken as opposed to you know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They got salads, which is a rarity with a lot
of these other fast food places.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Number three, some people might not declare as fast food.
It is what it is. I'm mark making it fast
food and that's Nathan's.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Now Nathan's fast food.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I would say it's fast food.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I love it. Listen. It's no other fast food place
really sells hot dogs. Yeah, so I don't know why
McDonald's never tried that, but Nathan's has, in my opinion,
the best French fry out there.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
There's a crinkle cut.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I guess that's the technical. You know, they're thicker and
I just have again the nostalgic memories of going there.
We talked about that, I think on one of our
first podcasts when we talked about Blockbuster. I go to Nathan's,
you know, and then the Blockbuster and toys r Us
and Nathan's had these amazing arcade back in the day,
and it's just one of those earlier memories in my
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life that always sticks out with me. In fact, I
saw our ride that used to be at the Nathan's
at a physical therapy place I had to go to.
They had the freaking dino, the dinosaur from the Flintstones,
and I'm like, oh my god, that is the dino,
Like I wonder if that's the exact one that used
to be outside of the Nathans. But on top of
just the nostalgia, I think they have really good food
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and they have a wide variety of things that you
could get your onion rings, your corn dogs, which I'm
a big corn dog guy, and it's his classic. It's
the oldest one out of all these, you know, it's
been around for so long. Do they have burgers there, Yeah,
they have, and they are really good burgers.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'm not a big Nathan's guy.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Probably again, only been there maybe a handful of times too,
And I have a difference of opinion with you. I'm
not a crinkle cut fry guy. I like the more
the shoe string the thinner ones. The McDonald's fries to
me is number one, hands down.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Have you had the fries at the bowling alley?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
We go to the sidewinder ones.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
They're more of just like the thinner kind.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm trying to think because Jaggie's mom always gets the
ones that are like they look like sidewinders, like like
a thick cut spiral one.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Everybody says they're great.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, they've They've really up their game. I feel like
with the food over there.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
People get there.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I'm like, they serve that here at the they have
to like spinach order choke tip. I'm like, first of all,
never getting that at a bowling alley, but I'm just
shocked that they even serve it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So what are you putting in that your number three?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My number three is gonna be taco bell. Okay, That's
been a staple. That's the late night love it as
you're eating it, paying for it. Yeah, hopefully when you
wake up in the morning and not actually waking up
at like three in the morning having to run to
the bathroom. But yeah, I just it's a guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I have Taco Bell at my number two.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, it's a guilty pleasure for me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's always perfection.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What's your go to?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I am. I'm very consistent with all my stuff and
I do want to deviate from what I normally have.
I usually just get three soft tacos, three hard tacos,
and a cheese casadia, and then I try and get
a dessert, you know, depending on what they have, the
little cinnamon crush bands, and then you got to get
a Baja blast. If you're going to go to Taco Bell,
you need that. But I should like actually expand my like,
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you know, appetite and when I go to these fast
food places because I'm just sort of stuck in my
ways of getting the things that I've had for twenty
five years at this point. What do you usually get?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My go to as I get two chiloopas with ground beef,
no sour cream, no tomato, add nacho cheese.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I get a chicken case of dia with no sauce
because I don't like the halopeno sauce they put in there,
and then if I'm really hungry, I'll add a taco.
But usually those three are very filling.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh so you do get filled because I was, Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, the chiloopas are filling.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You got the bigger shell, and then the case of
da I mean is yeah, it puts me over the
top usually.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So I got like I said, I got taco bells
as my number two. It's something I didn't have until
maybe sixth grade or so, which is shocking. It was
very even much more picky of an eater as a child,
and just something about I don't know, like foreign food
scared me.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I don't think that like parents say like all right,
we're gonna go to taco bell. It's usually all right,
we're going to McDonald's, right, we're going to Burger King,
all right, we're going to Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, there wasn't also a Now I have a taco
bell within you know, four or five minutes from me,
and uh it's perfect drunk food as well.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh yeah, late night taco.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Bell is fantastic. So I have that at number two.
Did you have your number two from Jackie's?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I could throw a rock, to a Taco Bell, and
to a Wendy's. Wendy's was my number two.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh really yeah, so we sort of went over Wendy's.
I think we might have the same number one.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Then I'm gonna guess probably a bought up ba ba
ba Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
McDonald's it's the fucking best. It's the best. And again,
the nostalgia of going there is it's it's ingrained in
my just core, you know, getting those Happy Meal toys.
I still collect them to this day. I still collect
the actual Happy Meal boxes because I just I love
what McDonald's once was and was so family friendly and colorful,
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and now you go to these McDonald's and they're just
so dreary and they look like doctor's office as it's
honestly pretty depressing if you've seen, you know, ninety nine
point nine percent of McDonald's are these you know, gray
colored things without a hint of Ronald anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So I don't know they modernized, But who is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The one that they're asking, Like, you know, there had
to have been some board meeting and they polled people,
and there had to have been a various discussion from
different people like presidents and vice presidents, and they all
came to the conclusion that this is what people want,
because I think if the ask the actual people what
they wanted, they would want the Grimace, they'd want the Hamburglar.
They want the bright yellows and reds and all that,
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you know, family fundness.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And you gotta think that most of the people going
there are kids or teenagers. You know, they used to
have the play palaces with the ball pits and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So a good hack for McDonald's. I don't know what
do you usually got when you go there.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Now I get the Big Mac, and I never got
the Big Mac until two years ago. Never had a
Big Mac in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I'm gonna I'm gonna change your life right now, Okay.
So I used to always get the Big Mac as well. Yeah,
and then my buddy gave.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Me this tip.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
First of all, you don't need the extra bread in
the middle, right, And it's like nine dollars for a
big Mac, or if you get the meal, it's you know,
fifth teen dollars or whatever it is. So what I
do is I get two mcdoubles, I get no ketchup,
no onion, and then I add Max sauce. So it's
basically a big Mac without the extra bread in the middle.
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And they're like two eighty three dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Each, so you can add max sauce.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I could add Max sauce anything you want.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh really, yep, why I've never even.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I know I didn't either. My body told me that.
I'm like, wow, really okay.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But I like the onions. You don't like the onions.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm not an onion guy, so no, I get no onions.
Plus there's so many of them, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think that's something I'm gonna have to try. But
I love when they're perfect. The fries, that's McDonald's fries.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They write out salted.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There's nothing better. You don't even need ketchup half the time.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It's just I actually lift them in the barbecue sauce.
I'm I'm a fan of their barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What I like to do is, first of all, my
order growing up was just like a Hamburger happy meal.
Then you eventually graduate to a cheeseburger happy meal. Then
the two cheeseburger meal was my thing. And I take
the French fries, I take the bun off, and then
I'd lay the fries on the actual you know patty
and then put that over it. And my buddy Kenny
taught me that. He was a big fellow. He was like,
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check this out. I'm like oh. And then I started
implementing that and all my you know ways of eating.
I would add different things and concoctions and whatnot. But
it all started with seeing somebody add fries. And then
the ice cream that they have there, if it is working,
is really good. I mean, they have options. I think
their apple pies are fantastic. They got cookies, they have
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like I mentioned the history of me going there. So
McDonald's is just uh, nothing will top it. I hate
when people bash it. I just don't understand it. And
McDonald's sprite, oh my god, what do you get? You
get the sprite or.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I usually get coke? Yeah, I usually get a coke.
And it's just different. It just hits different out of
the you know gun in the McDonald's cup.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But now they're they're fucking with us at least then
the McDonald's that I go to. First of all, I
went to McDonald's and Rockfelle Center, not the hint of
a human being taking order. Now it's all like digitally computers,
and I'm like, how is you know, ninety year old
woman supposed to click buttons?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Like we work everywhere we go now, CVS, check yourself out.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
McDonald's, you place your own order. I'm shocked they don't
ask you to go in the back and cook it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Dude, I went to that place that gave me all
that stomach issues. I'm not going to say what it was.
But then they flip the you know, the little thing
over and the like how much do you want to tip?
I'm like, for what? You're not? I tip if I'm
being served. If I'm sitting at a restaurant and a
waiter or waitress delivers my food to me, you get
the tip. If I'm just waiting at a counter and
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you say, here's your order, why am I tipping you?
And then the suggested tips are like six dollars and
fifty sets. I'm like six dollars. I could get a
full meal at some of these places for six dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And then you're just in an awkward position because you're
like standing there and you're like, do I want to
hit no tip?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Do I want to leave a couple dollars? They see it, right, away,
I think so. I think they probably do.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Do they do anything of like lo But.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Like you said, like I go to the diner before
bowling sometimes and I sit at the counter right, so
somebody's still bringing me my food and I and I
leave a good tip. But like you said, if I
go up there and I just get it to go order,
like why am I tipping you?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Why? When does it end? Yeah, then that's just everything.
You get a tip. Oh you work at Target and
you're ringing someone up, here's a tip, Yeah, for what
you did. She did the same thing, the you know,
the person behind the counter of this other place dead.
So I'm not a fan of that. I feel like
McDonald's doesn't ask for tips though, but a lot of
these newer places the most definitely ask for tips. But
just not a fan of that. But I am a
(22:34):
huge fan of McDonald's and it is it's always going
to be number one. And like I said, I just
I don't get the hate that people have towards fast food.
No one's forcing you to have it, and you know,
it's up to the parents, in my opinion, because a
lot of people are worried about their children being unhealthy.
If you regulate it. And you say we're gonna get
McDonald's once every three weeks.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, it's like a special no issue with that, Like
you do good in school. I'm gonna take it McDonald's.
Three nights a week, we're having McDonald's. And it's but
that's the thing. It's it's easy. They're everywhere. You know,
you just drive up real quick and you got your
food in five minutes. You don't have to go home
cook a meal. Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's kind of expensive though.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, yeah, everything's getting expensive, dude.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know, I remember getting this food when I was younger.
It was like, you know, they had the dollar meal.
You just got like a dollar double cheeseburger. It was like, now,
like you said, you get the big mac meal, you know,
fifteen bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's why I said that that five dollar deal at
Wendy's is can't beat it. And it started out at
four dollars probably maybe like three years.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Ago, so that that already went up.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You look at some of these old menu prices, you're like, damn, I.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Have fifty cents for a hamburger.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Another thing that McDonald's has is a lot of them.
You have to like go up to the people for
barbecue sauce. I mean back in the day used to
be able to just pump the thing and barbecue. Is
there a shortage or are people stealing the barbecue sauce?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So sometimes I'll order from McDonald or Wendy's or Burger
king on like door dash or something. Yeah, And if
you get say you get like a six piece nugget,
they only give you one sauce, and then if you
want more, you actually have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's like a quarter or like fifty cents.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know how many times I pay for extra and
then it comes and there's either none in there or
only one. And I'm just not going to, you know,
argue over twenty five cents because they didn't put it in.
But it's very annoying that they charge you for it
now and then they still don't even give it to
you half the time.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And another one last thing on this because we could
talk about fast food. Actually I have two more things.
I just lied ketchup packets. That needs to end because
the barbecue sauce has it right. You know, you pull
the thing and you could actually dip it in you
open a ketchup packet. First of all, if your hands
are greasy, it's impossible to fucking open. Yeah, and then
you squeeze it out and it's like one thing. So
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what are we doing with this?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm trying to think of where it is. It might
be Chick fil A somewhere they actually have have the
hinds catch up in something, because I exists.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's like the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's like a little container that you just ripped the
top off, like the barbecue sauce of the honey mustard.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But I can't remember exactly. It might be Chick fil A,
but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's It's packets are ridiculous. We need to we need
to change that. And I noticed none of us mentioned burger.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I was actually gonna bring that up to you too.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think that that that's definitely an honorable mention for me,
And I think the whopper itself is probably top three
burgers from a fast food place. Yeah, just like I said,
I don't like their fries. Their their nuggets are fine,
and they're actually very well priced. You can get like
eight for like two seventy and like an eight piece
(25:43):
nugget McDonald's like eight dollars. But some of the places
have deals where you can get like a forty pack
of nuggets. Oh, when we were in Myrtle Beach, they
actually have a basket of fries as well. Oh, here
we only have small medium wors. They have a basket
for like five bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
A lot of places different states have different sort of things,
Like they have a lot of seafood options, I think
for different fast food places you know in Maine and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And usually as you go south, they put ketchup and
mustard on your burgers. Mustard, yeah, not a muster guys.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm not a mustard guy, Pio.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I like Wendy's and they only put mayo on
their burgers. I'm a ketchup mayo guy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I like catchup mayo, like I like on the Whopper.
Tastes so good with the catchup mayo.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I haven't had Burger King in so long because I
felt like it was more adult tasting, if that makes sense, Like, Okay,
that's a real burger.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Like that tasted like I because it's on the Girl exactly,
and I was like.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, yucky. But McDonald's is just it's something different.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Like if I want that, I'll just grow one at home,
Like I want the Nasty Burger.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So, but I'm wondering now, you know, I'm more of
an adult as I'm wearing. I know I am wearing
an adult shirt. It's a Matt shirts. Usually it's like
a Ninja turtle thing. But I wonder now, as my
palate has expanded, if i'd like Burger King because I
couldn't tell you the last time I had it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If you do go with the whopper?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
So what is the whoppers? It's just a basic burger.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, just a regular burger, but it's big. It's flame
grilled lettuce, tomato, onion pickle, catch up mayo, So I
get no tomato, no one I.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Would get no mao. And then their fries you say,
are so far?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, not my favorite.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
They used to have this pie. It was like a
Hershey pie came in like a triangle for me.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think they still have that. Oh that was good man.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, they have the thick fries and sometimes if they're
salted right, they're not bad.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But a lot of times they're not, and they're just
very blah.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're going out to eat tonight, right, you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, Yeah, we're going to restaurant in Rockless.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Is that a burger place? What is it?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
No, it used to be it was the George Martin
Burger Bar, and now it's called the Jewors.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You did it have any affiliation with the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I believe it's still them. They just changed the name.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And what do you get there?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, So we went there once.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We got three or four appetizers and three or four
entrees and just split it between the four of us
just because we wanted to kind of try, you know,
a bunch of stuff out.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not it's not cheap, but it's not like overly priced.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think, uh, maybe like three hundred for the four of.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Us, plus we'll each have get drinks.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, we each had two drinks each, I think.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, and like that sweat tip and everything.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, three or four appetizers and three or four entrees
and everything was delicious.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So that's why we're going back.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I don't know what I want to get now, all
this food talk.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're gonna hit all five of them and get one
thing from each place.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I might try, I might try something different from tak about.
I'm definitely craving something to drink, though, I definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm gonna say, try the chiloopa chilopa, Yeah, and you
get ground beef in that you said I do, Yeah,
that's what I would get.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
All right. This is a movie podcast, by the way.
Thank you all for listening to Film Real. I promise
next week we will be discussing films. We're gonna have
Jonathan back to discuss some new movies you saw in theaters,
and then we're gonna have them back again to discuss
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Welcome to the film real we are talking films. My
name is Justin and I'm here with Jonathan.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
That is me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What do you think you think we should start a band?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No? No, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Why not I play? I play instruments.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I cannot play an instrument, and I cannot sing. Even
though I sing a lot, I'm not good at it.
Why I do it in my car by myself?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
What are you singing?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Whatever I'm listening to?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What do you listen to?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now, I'm actually a big country guy.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh god, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh no, I went to listen.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I went to college in Virginia for four years and
I didn't listen to one country song.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I was so anti country. And then one of my
buddies from my golf trip in like twenty sixteen just
had me start listening to the songs here and there,
and now that's mainly what I listen to.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
But I still like all types of music.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's modern country you're listening.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like the old twangees, good style.
No no, no, my car broke down, my wife left me,
and my dog died.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What are the it's more like Poppy.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Who's who's like a singer?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Luke Bryan, Yeah, Luke Holmbs, Morgan Wallen, jelly Roll good.
We went to his concert. He was really good.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Is that? Uh, we're gonna do our first Jackie name
drop is she? Is she a country girl?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
But she actually loved the Jelly Roll concert and said
she would go see him anytime he's around. He's more
like a he's country, but he's also rock. And it
was like almost like you were kind of at church
like preaching, like like you just but it was just good.
It was just you were what you were into it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What is the genre that you listen to the most?
Is it a country?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Prior to that, I'm a big eighties guy. I like
eighties freestyle. I used to I listened to rap and
hip hop growing up.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
When it was good. Yeah, you know, when you can
understand what they were actually saying and not this mumble rap.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You didn't like the Kendrick Lamar liftime show.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I also didn't know the whole story with him and
Drake and everything that was going on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
But nah, I didn't. I didn't care for it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
What about you know, your Van Halen's and Guns N' Roses. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I'll listen to some rock, and like I said,
I pretty much listen to everything. The only thing I
didn't listen to is country, and now that's my main So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How far back would you go with music? Because we've
talked about watching older movies. I mean, would you listen
to fifties sixties? Yeah? Absolutely, that's usually my jam, fifty sixties, seventies.
But as far as modern stuff goes, there's just not
much out there mainstream that I like. There is every
once in a while, like a pop song that comes along,
I'm like, it's kind of catchy. I'll listen to it.
(02:41):
But I don't know if it's just because I'm old
and I don't like the modern stuff and it's not
nostalgic for me. You know, I obviously live off of nostalgia,
not just with movies, but with toys and you know,
watching shows, and the same thing goes with music. So
I just I just don't get this generation.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, no, I mean neither.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I grew up listening to the seventies eighties because that's
why my parents listened to, you know, oldies and disco
and that stuff. So yeah, I'll go back all the
way fifties sixties.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Unfortunately, as far as mainstream radio goes, you know, terrestrial radio,
there's very few stations other than the one that I
work at is one of the few on Long Island
in ninety point three WHPC, the voice of Nasau Community
College that actually plays stuff from the fifties sixties era.
You know, I used to listen to CBSFM all the
time back in the day, and that's an oldies station. Now,
(03:33):
if you listen to their oldies, it's like, here's Matchbox
twenty and you're like, what, that's oldies, That's that was
a new that was new.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, technically we're old now, so those are oldies. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
It sucks getting old. I mean, I'm in so much
physical pain these days. I've talked to you about, you know,
various issues throughout my life, my ass. This was wonderful.
I was mentioning to you about yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You might talk to me about your ass a little
too much, I know now that I think about it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Dude, I ate something just horribly yesterday the day prior
to that, and then it kicked in the next day.
And then you just go to the bathroom like eight
or nine times in like an hour, setting to the
point where I'm literally praying I go. Because we had
bowling later than I was like, I want to bowl.
I can't. I can't bowl like this. It hurts to
you know, continue to go. And then it's just you know,
(04:21):
you're in hell. And it's my own fault because I
know that peppers give me issues.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like, yeah, so I had peppers yesterday, which I'm allergic to. Well,
maybe there's your first problem.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Sometimes it doesn't do what it did, and then yesterday
it did what it probably normally should be doing, and
that's destroying my insides. And I paid for it. I
paid for it. But I love food. I love eating trash.
I try and eat healthy these days. I've had my
ups and downs as far as my diet goes. You've
seen the fat pictures of young Justice.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I still find it hard to believe that you were fat.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
A lot of people, a lot of people that you
know have recent became friends with me to find it
out because I'm very lanky and bony and all of that.
But there was a time where I was pushing two
hundred and fifty pounds and I was eating NonStop. I
was eating anything, but mostly just like treats. Like I'd
get a big pack of Hostess cupcakes. You know, it'd
(05:17):
come with eight of them. They'd be gone in the day,
you know, eight cupcakes in one fucking day. And I
would wake up in the middle of the night and
instead of like you know, using the restroom, like yeah,
I eat some bread and then just go to sleep,
like after eating half a roll of Italian bread. So
I've changed those habits, but every now and then I
(05:37):
do like to indulge and eat the fast food. And
I think we should just start out before we get
to some movie talk, and we are gonna be talking
some recent movies that we've watched, and then the main
thing that we're gonna get to, and I think I'm
gonna break this up into two parts. We are going
to get to our favorite action movies of all times,
because me and you both like the genre. But let's
(05:58):
get to the fast food top top five fast foods,
fast food spots of all time. Where are you going.
Let's let's see if we have some common ground, and maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think we have to.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I think we I would find it hard to believe
if we had five different fast food places.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But some people define fast food differently. Okay, so it's
something like Mo's and Chipotle, Is that fast food?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Why because you can't drive through with it? Or yeah, expensive.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Drive through is probably a good uh requisite to have
for it to be a fast food place. So too,
I just think, yeah, I just think of fast food
is yeah, you just drive by, pick it up and go.
Like I feel like if you go to Chipotle or Mo's,
you're probably gonna sit down and eat there.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's very rare for me to take it home because
there's not one near me. And yeah, like, first of all,
Mos always has a fantastic music They're always playing like
Prints and Van Hellen. They are playing tracks that I like.
And then they greet you so happily, you know, welcome
to Mos. So I'm gonna stay there because it would
just be rude to leave after such a tremendous greeting.
So I'm going to start off well.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Also, Chipotle they cook everything there per their commercials. Yeah,
well nothing's frozen, everything's cooked.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
They also, you know, have E Cola. I feel like
every like every couple of years or so, let's start
off with you know I have my number one, I
have my number two. I don't know if if I
can even think of five that I go to consistently.
I'm going to go with a hot take right here.
Coming in at number five for me is Wendy's. Okay,
(07:33):
because I don't get it often. I think it's very consistent,
But I don't like that form of burger over some
of the other.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Places that the Square Burger.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
No, and it's just you know, it's fine, you know.
I like their little frosties are cute. We just didn't
have one really that close to me, so I don't
have full nostalgia for it. That's another thing. Even food
is nostalgic for me, and the other places were definitely
something that i'd get more often. But Wendy's I have
no issue with it. Is one just going to crack
your top five. Absolutely, a lot of people have it
(08:04):
at one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's not my one.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I believe it is my two real I actually went
and got it after I saw you at the Bowl
Alley on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh did you went home? Yep? And they have good
deals too.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I get the five dollar Biggie bag combs with a
junior baking cheeseburger, fries, a four piece nugget.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And a drink for five bucks.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, can't beat it some places, even though I don't.
I'm not a big fan of their fries.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I think their fries are probably towards the bottom of
fast food French fries for me.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's another thing. Some of these places aren't consistent. I think,
at least the times I've had Wendy's, it's rare for
Wendy's to just be different, Like Taco Bell is always
the same. I've never been like, this is bad Taco Bell,
Like it's always just Taco Bell McDonald's. Though, when it's perfect,
it's on a certain level. But when it's soggy and
(08:52):
cold and it's not, even though you're getting it fresh
or fresh in quotation marks, it's different. But I've always
found Wendy's to be, you know, sort of similar. I'm
gonna go with did you have a number five?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That according to Jackie, who's a health person, Wendy's is
supposedly one of the healthier options. But my thing is
so my dad, I remember this all the time growing up,
whenever we would get fast food, he would always complain
that what he got was cold, but he always got
everything as it came. I'm a picky eater, so whenever
(09:27):
I order things, I always get stuff off of it.
Ninety eight percent of the time. It's fresh because they
got to make it right then and there. Because I'm
getting no tomato, no onion or whatever else. Well, at
least it's hot. At least it's hot so it melts
the spit. My number five is going to be one
that's not from around here. It's called water Burger.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Okay, yeah, where where is that?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
So? I've had it in Texas when I went to
visit my buddy down there a bunch, and then they
opened one in Colorado. And the funny thing is the
one in Texas we all loved when we got it
wasn't the same, So that goes to your consistency thing.
But yeah, we like what a burger a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm gonna go with number four. One that is rare.
It's it's rare to see this one, but it's definitely
one that's very filling. I never left this place with
my stomach feeling good, but it's deliciously tasty. And that
is checkers.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Okay, I've not had Checkers often.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh me, neither, Yeah, neither. I've probably had it, you know,
fifteen times in my entire life. I usually stick with
the top three that but Checkers is solid and it's
a unique French fry. You can't really get a Checkers
type of French fry anywhere else that I can think of, So.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A regular fry, waffle fry, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
A regular fry, but it's got like this breading over it,
and it has a different style of taste to it
than I've had for any of the other main chains.
So I'm gonna go with Checkers at number four. I
used to get it after going to the Jets practice
over at Hofstra. They used to be at Hofstra and
one of the only few Checkers back in the day
was one in Hempstead. Yeah, and then they have one
(11:10):
in Baldwin now and that's really the only.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
One in I want to say, it's Amityville.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Okay, because I used to go that's where I work
up off Exit thirty two off the Southern State and
instead of going north, if you go south, there's a
Checkers over there. But I, like I said, maybe a
handful of times I've eaten Checkers, not even enough to
remember it or give an opinion on it.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I'll have to, I'll have to go back there because
it's been it's been quite a while. You got another
one that stands out for you? Number four?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, number four is going to be Chick fil A.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Okay, that's the controversial one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, Well, just I know they have their their things
that they're against and whatnot, but it is damn delicious.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, there's sauces. They got a lot of salt. I'm
a sauce guy. I like condiments.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And they're making one pretty close to here. Actually, I
just saw one up in construction right near the Asshole Coliseum.
Oh wow, so they're sort of taken over. They're not
open on Sundays though, Is that that's definitely the merit
for you.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Which is funny because they are the stadium for the
Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh really, that's the yeah, and they're not open.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's hilarious, and they play ninety five percent of their
games on Sundays. It's like, you probably should have thought
of this a little better. But yeah, we eat it
a lot. When we go to Myrtle Beach to play golf.
That's usually the stop off on the way home after golf,
pick up a quick lunch, and then go hang out
at the house. But yeah, like I said, their sauces
are are very good, and it's good chicken.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, it's it's high quality products for sure. Yeah, and
there's always hot girls in there. I've noticed every time
I swear to God, every time I go into a
Chick fil a, there's like smoking hot college girls in there.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Probably the drinks maybe.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
And I think it's a little healthier too, because you
can get the grilled chicken as opposed to you know.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
They got salads, which is a rarity with a lot
of these other fast food places.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Number three, some people might not declare as fast food.
It is what it is. I'm mark making it fast
food and that's Nathan's.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Now Nathan's fast food.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I would say it's fast food.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I love it. Listen. It's no other fast food place
really sells hot dogs. Yeah, so I don't know why
McDonald's never tried that, but Nathan's has, in my opinion,
the best French fry out there.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
There's a crinkle cut.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I guess that's the technical. You know, they're thicker and
I just have again the nostalgic memories of going there.
We talked about that, I think on one of our
first podcasts when we talked about Blockbuster. I go to Nathan's,
you know, and then the Blockbuster and toys r Us
and Nathan's had these amazing arcade back in the day,
and it's just one of those earlier memories in my
(13:39):
life that always sticks out with me. In fact, I
saw our ride that used to be at the Nathan's
at a physical therapy place I had to go to.
They had the freaking dino, the dinosaur from the Flintstones,
and I'm like, oh my god, that is the dino,
Like I wonder if that's the exact one that used
to be outside of the Nathans. But on top of
just the nostalgia, I think they have really good food
(14:00):
and they have a wide variety of things that you
could get your onion rings, your corn dogs, which I'm
a big corn dog guy, and it's his classic. It's
the oldest one out of all these, you know, it's
been around for so long. Do they have burgers there, Yeah,
they have, and they are really good burgers.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'm not a big Nathan's guy.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Probably again, only been there maybe a handful of times too,
And I have a difference of opinion with you. I'm
not a crinkle cut fry guy. I like the more
the shoe string the thinner ones. The McDonald's fries to
me is number one, hands down.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Have you had the fries at the bowling alley?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
We go to the sidewinder ones.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
They're more of just like the thinner kind.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm trying to think because Jaggie's mom always gets the
ones that are like they look like sidewinders, like like
a thick cut spiral one.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Everybody says they're great.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, they've They've really up their game. I feel like
with the food over there.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
People get there.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I'm like, they serve that here at the they have
to like spinach order choke tip. I'm like, first of all,
never getting that at a bowling alley, but I'm just
shocked that they even serve it.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So what are you putting in that your number three?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
My number three is gonna be taco bell. Okay, That's
been a staple. That's the late night love it as
you're eating it, paying for it. Yeah, hopefully when you
wake up in the morning and not actually waking up
at like three in the morning having to run to
the bathroom. But yeah, I just it's a guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I have Taco Bell at my number two.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, it's a guilty pleasure for me.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It's always perfection.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
What's your go to?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I am. I'm very consistent with all my stuff and
I do want to deviate from what I normally have.
I usually just get three soft tacos, three hard tacos,
and a cheese casadia, and then I try and get
a dessert, you know, depending on what they have, the
little cinnamon crush bands, and then you got to get
a Baja blast. If you're going to go to Taco Bell,
you need that. But I should like actually expand my like,
(15:56):
you know, appetite and when I go to these fast
food places because I'm just sort of stuck in my
ways of getting the things that I've had for twenty
five years at this point. What do you usually get?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
My go to as I get two chiloopas with ground beef,
no sour cream, no tomato, add nacho cheese.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I get a chicken case of dia with no sauce
because I don't like the halopeno sauce they put in there,
and then if I'm really hungry, I'll add a taco.
But usually those three are very filling.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh so you do get filled because I was, Oh.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, the chiloopas are filling.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You got the bigger shell, and then the case of
da I mean is yeah, it puts me over the
top usually.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
So I got like I said, I got taco bells
as my number two. It's something I didn't have until
maybe sixth grade or so, which is shocking. It was
very even much more picky of an eater as a child,
and just something about I don't know, like foreign food
scared me.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I don't think that like parents say like all right,
we're gonna go to taco bell. It's usually all right,
we're going to McDonald's, right, we're going to Burger King,
all right, we're going to Wendy's.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, there wasn't also a Now I have a taco
bell within you know, four or five minutes from me,
and uh it's perfect drunk food as well.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh yeah, late night taco.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Bell is fantastic. So I have that at number two.
Did you have your number two from Jackie's?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I could throw a rock, to a Taco Bell, and
to a Wendy's. Wendy's was my number two.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Oh really yeah, so we sort of went over Wendy's.
I think we might have the same number one.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Then I'm gonna guess probably a bought up ba ba
ba Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
McDonald's it's the fucking best. It's the best. And again,
the nostalgia of going there is it's it's ingrained in
my just core, you know, getting those Happy Meal toys.
I still collect them to this day. I still collect
the actual Happy Meal boxes because I just I love
what McDonald's once was and was so family friendly and colorful,
(17:48):
and now you go to these McDonald's and they're just
so dreary and they look like doctor's office as it's
honestly pretty depressing if you've seen, you know, ninety nine
point nine percent of McDonald's are these you know, gray
colored things without a hint of Ronald anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
So I don't know they modernized, But who is.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The one that they're asking, Like, you know, there had
to have been some board meeting and they polled people,
and there had to have been a various discussion from
different people like presidents and vice presidents, and they all
came to the conclusion that this is what people want,
because I think if the ask the actual people what
they wanted, they would want the Grimace, they'd want the Hamburglar.
They want the bright yellows and reds and all that,
(18:27):
you know, family fundness.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
And you gotta think that most of the people going
there are kids or teenagers. You know, they used to
have the play palaces with the ball pits and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So a good hack for McDonald's. I don't know what
do you usually got when you go there.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Now I get the Big Mac, and I never got
the Big Mac until two years ago. Never had a
Big Mac in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I'm gonna I'm gonna change your life right now, Okay.
So I used to always get the Big Mac as well. Yeah,
and then my buddy gave.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Me this tip.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
First of all, you don't need the extra bread in
the middle, right, And it's like nine dollars for a
big Mac, or if you get the meal, it's you know,
fifth teen dollars or whatever it is. So what I
do is I get two mcdoubles, I get no ketchup,
no onion, and then I add Max sauce. So it's
basically a big Mac without the extra bread in the middle.
(19:13):
And they're like two eighty three dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Each, so you can add max sauce.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I could add Max sauce anything you want.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh really, yep, why I've never even.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I know I didn't either. My body told me that.
I'm like, wow, really okay.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But I like the onions. You don't like the onions.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm not an onion guy, so no, I get no onions.
Plus there's so many of them, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I think that's something I'm gonna have to try. But
I love when they're perfect. The fries, that's McDonald's fries.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They write out salted.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There's nothing better. You don't even need ketchup half the time.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It's just I actually lift them in the barbecue sauce.
I'm I'm a fan of their barbecue sauce.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
What I like to do is, first of all, my
order growing up was just like a Hamburger happy meal.
Then you eventually graduate to a cheeseburger happy meal. Then
the two cheeseburger meal was my thing. And I take
the French fries, I take the bun off, and then
I'd lay the fries on the actual you know patty
and then put that over it. And my buddy Kenny
taught me that. He was a big fellow. He was like,
(20:07):
check this out. I'm like oh. And then I started
implementing that and all my you know ways of eating.
I would add different things and concoctions and whatnot. But
it all started with seeing somebody add fries. And then
the ice cream that they have there, if it is working,
is really good. I mean, they have options. I think
their apple pies are fantastic. They got cookies, they have
(20:28):
like I mentioned the history of me going there. So
McDonald's is just uh, nothing will top it. I hate
when people bash it. I just don't understand it. And
McDonald's sprite, oh my god, what do you get? You
get the sprite or.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I usually get coke? Yeah, I usually get a coke.
And it's just different. It just hits different out of
the you know gun in the McDonald's cup.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But now they're they're fucking with us at least then
the McDonald's that I go to. First of all, I
went to McDonald's and Rockfelle Center, not the hint of
a human being taking order. Now it's all like digitally computers,
and I'm like, how is you know, ninety year old
woman supposed to click buttons?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Like we work everywhere we go now, CVS, check yourself out.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
McDonald's, you place your own order. I'm shocked they don't
ask you to go in the back and cook it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Dude, I went to that place that gave me all
that stomach issues. I'm not going to say what it was.
But then they flip the you know, the little thing
over and the like how much do you want to tip?
I'm like, for what? You're not? I tip if I'm
being served. If I'm sitting at a restaurant and a
waiter or waitress delivers my food to me, you get
the tip. If I'm just waiting at a counter and
(21:36):
you say, here's your order, why am I tipping you?
And then the suggested tips are like six dollars and
fifty sets. I'm like six dollars. I could get a
full meal at some of these places for six dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And then you're just in an awkward position because you're
like standing there and you're like, do I want to
hit no tip?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Do I want to leave a couple dollars? They see it, right, away,
I think so. I think they probably do.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Do they do anything of like lo But.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Like you said, like I go to the diner before
bowling sometimes and I sit at the counter right, so
somebody's still bringing me my food and I and I
leave a good tip. But like you said, if I
go up there and I just get it to go order,
like why am I tipping you?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Why? When does it end? Yeah, then that's just everything.
You get a tip. Oh you work at Target and
you're ringing someone up, here's a tip, Yeah, for what
you did. She did the same thing, the you know,
the person behind the counter of this other place dead.
So I'm not a fan of that. I feel like
McDonald's doesn't ask for tips though, but a lot of
these newer places the most definitely ask for tips. But
just not a fan of that. But I am a
(22:34):
huge fan of McDonald's and it is it's always going
to be number one. And like I said, I just
I don't get the hate that people have towards fast food.
No one's forcing you to have it, and you know,
it's up to the parents, in my opinion, because a
lot of people are worried about their children being unhealthy.
If you regulate it. And you say we're gonna get
McDonald's once every three weeks.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, it's like a special no issue with that, Like
you do good in school. I'm gonna take it McDonald's.
Three nights a week, we're having McDonald's. And it's but
that's the thing. It's it's easy. They're everywhere. You know,
you just drive up real quick and you got your
food in five minutes. You don't have to go home
cook a meal. Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
It's kind of expensive though.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, yeah, everything's getting expensive, dude.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know, I remember getting this food when I was younger.
It was like, you know, they had the dollar meal.
You just got like a dollar double cheeseburger. It was like, now,
like you said, you get the big mac meal, you know,
fifteen bucks.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's why I said that that five dollar deal at
Wendy's is can't beat it. And it started out at
four dollars probably maybe like three years.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Ago, so that that already went up.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
You look at some of these old menu prices, you're like, damn, I.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Have fifty cents for a hamburger.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Another thing that McDonald's has is a lot of them.
You have to like go up to the people for
barbecue sauce. I mean back in the day used to
be able to just pump the thing and barbecue. Is
there a shortage or are people stealing the barbecue sauce?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
So sometimes I'll order from McDonald or Wendy's or Burger
king on like door dash or something. Yeah, And if
you get say you get like a six piece nugget,
they only give you one sauce, and then if you
want more, you actually have to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It's like a quarter or like fifty cents.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know how many times I pay for extra and
then it comes and there's either none in there or
only one. And I'm just not going to, you know,
argue over twenty five cents because they didn't put it in.
But it's very annoying that they charge you for it
now and then they still don't even give it to
you half the time.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And another one last thing on this because we could
talk about fast food. Actually I have two more things.
I just lied ketchup packets. That needs to end because
the barbecue sauce has it right. You know, you pull
the thing and you could actually dip it in you
open a ketchup packet. First of all, if your hands
are greasy, it's impossible to fucking open. Yeah, and then
you squeeze it out and it's like one thing. So
(24:52):
what are we doing with this?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm trying to think of where it is. It might
be Chick fil A somewhere they actually have have the
hinds catch up in something, because I exists.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's like the same thing.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's like a little container that you just ripped the
top off, like the barbecue sauce of the honey mustard.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
But I can't remember exactly. It might be Chick fil A,
but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's It's packets are ridiculous. We need to we need
to change that. And I noticed none of us mentioned burger.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I was actually gonna bring that up to you too.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think that that that's definitely an honorable mention for me,
And I think the whopper itself is probably top three
burgers from a fast food place. Yeah, just like I said,
I don't like their fries. Their their nuggets are fine,
and they're actually very well priced. You can get like
eight for like two seventy and like an eight piece
(25:43):
nugget McDonald's like eight dollars. But some of the places
have deals where you can get like a forty pack
of nuggets. Oh, when we were in Myrtle Beach, they
actually have a basket of fries as well. Oh, here
we only have small medium wors. They have a basket
for like five bucks.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
A lot of places different states have different sort of things,
Like they have a lot of seafood options, I think
for different fast food places you know in Maine and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And usually as you go south, they put ketchup and
mustard on your burgers. Mustard, yeah, not a muster guys.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm not a mustard guy, Pio.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
But I like Wendy's and they only put mayo on
their burgers. I'm a ketchup mayo guy.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I like catchup mayo, like I like on the Whopper.
Tastes so good with the catchup mayo.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I haven't had Burger King in so long because I
felt like it was more adult tasting, if that makes sense, Like, Okay,
that's a real burger.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Like that tasted like I because it's on the Girl exactly,
and I was like.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, yucky. But McDonald's is just it's something different.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Like if I want that, I'll just grow one at home,
Like I want the Nasty Burger.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So, but I'm wondering now, you know, I'm more of
an adult as I'm wearing. I know I am wearing
an adult shirt. It's a Matt shirts. Usually it's like
a Ninja turtle thing. But I wonder now, as my
palate has expanded, if i'd like Burger King because I
couldn't tell you the last time I had it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If you do go with the whopper?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
So what is the whoppers? It's just a basic burger.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, just a regular burger, but it's big. It's flame
grilled lettuce, tomato, onion pickle, catch up mayo, So I
get no tomato, no one I.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Would get no mao. And then their fries you say,
are so far?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, not my favorite.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
They used to have this pie. It was like a
Hershey pie came in like a triangle for me.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think they still have that. Oh that was good man.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, they have the thick fries and sometimes if they're
salted right, they're not bad.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
But a lot of times they're not, and they're just
very blah.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're going out to eat tonight, right, you mentioned?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, Yeah, we're going to restaurant in Rockless.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Is that a burger place? What is it?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
No, it used to be it was the George Martin
Burger Bar, and now it's called the Jewors.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You did it have any affiliation with the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I believe it's still them. They just changed the name.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And what do you get there?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, So we went there once.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
We got three or four appetizers and three or four
entrees and just split it between the four of us
just because we wanted to kind of try, you know,
a bunch of stuff out.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not it's not cheap, but it's not like overly priced.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think, uh, maybe like three hundred for the four of.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Us, plus we'll each have get drinks.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, we each had two drinks each, I think.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, and like that sweat tip and everything.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, three or four appetizers and three or four entrees
and everything was delicious.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So that's why we're going back.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I don't know what I want to get now, all
this food talk.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You're gonna hit all five of them and get one
thing from each place.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I might try, I might try something different from tak about.
I'm definitely craving something to drink, though, I definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm gonna say, try the chiloopa chilopa, Yeah, and you
get ground beef in that you said I do, Yeah,
that's what I would get.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
All right. This is a movie podcast, by the way.
Thank you all for listening to Film Real. I promise
next week we will be discussing films. We're gonna have
Jonathan back to discuss some new movies you saw in theaters,
and then we're gonna have them back again to discuss
our favorite action movies of all time. Thank you all
for listening.
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