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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don, how are you Don Fondu Lac Wisconsin's greatest person ever?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Don Gorsky.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Gorsky, how many big Macs have you eaten to date?
Here to date?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Right now, I'm at thirty four, six d and fifty.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You you're in the You've been in the Guinness Book
of World Records for like twenty five years because if
your your your big Mac eating correct.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
That's correct. They'n't always list a record in the book
every year, but it's been a record for them for
the twenty five years since they first acknowledged it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Don uh, anybody ever does say anything to you about
about it and only have a problem with the three pieces.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Of bread about having a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, Like, I mean I would do that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Just can't do the burger with the three pieces of
bread in it. That's that. That would be my only
hold back Cantara.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay, Like for me, it's not a problem at all.
I say, I like the Big Max sandwich. Just the
way it is sold. The three pieces of bread doesn't
bother me.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now, Don Gorsky, big Mac world record holder, you were
seventy now and I hear you down to two big
Macs a day. But when you were when you when
you were young and looked like John Lennon, how many
big matches were you crushing per.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Day when I first started eating them? Uh oh, this
is kind of embarrassing. It kind of growth too. I
was eating nine a day when I first started eating them,
because it's kind of like weird. Yeah, it's kind of
like you know, when you eat chocolate for the first time,
you can't get enough chocolate, and then finally, after a while,
you can't eat that much chocolate anymore because you know,
(01:29):
your mind tells you that's too much, you know. So
I was eating about nine a day for about a
month and before my body slowed down, and then I
went five for a few days, and then I was
down the.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Two so two for fifty two years.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As someone who's had some addiction issues, Canta, I would
say that you probably didn't talk in public with people,
didn't you didn't have conversations. You would say maybe six
a day when you were in the company of people
that you know and respected, Right, you never like copp
to nine a day?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well, oh yeah, I'll admit. You know, somebody asked me
what's the most eat in the day. I'll tell him
it was nine because that's what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So where where does it get gross between three a
day and nine a day?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it six?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh? Like I say, uh, And it just seems like,
you know, like for me, like you know, for me,
if I had to eat nine now it's take me.
You know, it probably could be done, but it's just
you know, it's just not the right thing to do.
Like for me, what's gross is when you eat more
than that then you're hungry for okay, Like for me,
I handle two Big every day, real fine, and then
(02:32):
there is no craving for a third one.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You got to listen to your body guards? Are you
fat shaming me?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What that means?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's gross if you need more than you're hungry. For
a lot of people eat more than their hungry.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's but you asked him the definition of gross eating.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
To excess fair enough?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So right now, don you eat two Big Max a day?
Do you buy them at the same time? Or do
you go to McDonald's twice a day?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
All the the way that I eat him is kind
of you one day be you know you're gonna consider
this girls too, But I buy six stig Macs on
Monday and that would be my two for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then I buy eight on Thursday, and then on
my two for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I eat
one fresh Big Mac on Monday, and I eat one
(03:17):
fresh Big Mac on Thursday. The rest are microwaves.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
To me, I don't think that's gross at all.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
No, I'm I going with cheeseburgers be otherwise. So don like,
were you eating all these Big Macs like before you
met your wife or after? Like how does she feel
about this?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, yes, I was eating the Big Max like crazy
before I met my wife. I actually met her almost
a year after I I was about a year and
a half after I started eating Big Maxes when I
met my wife, and she knew right away that I
really had this thing for Big Max. It was kind
of cool because I was working in the city about
forty miles from Fonolac and she lived in Fonolac and
(03:59):
she actually drive to Hartford and give me a couple
of Big Macs before I'd go to work and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I mean, come, she's a keeper. She's a keeper.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, she was a keeper. So and uh, you know
the thing is too like, well, she doesn't like me
to say that she's a lousy cooker, can't cook. But
she's a really smart lady. But she doesn't cook at all.
When we got you know, when we got married and
stuff like that, we she under she said it was
fine if I ate Big Macs every day as long
(04:30):
as I never blamed her for not cooking. And so
that's the agreement we made. And I love my Big Max.
And then she eats her kind of food and I
eat myself, so she does.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
She hasn't followed you into this world like I followed
my wife into the world of frozen meatballs, and now
here I am a frozen meat Yeah, so that's nice
to know. She's her own person.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What about vegetables? Does she eat vegetables? Do you eat vegetables?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, we both eat vegetables. She's got a garden that
she's got out and back here and h like for me,
I'll usually have a vegetable with my second Big Max
at night when I have it for supper. Lately, I've
been eating a lot of French style setscreen beans. Oh
that's what all leads. But my Big Mac for most nights.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Lately, fellas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's a pairing. Ray McDonald didn't see we're vegable.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We're talking about like at least forty eight maybe eighty
thousand Dell pickles. We got some lettuce and tomato on there,
for sure. I mean, you've got it all covered.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You've got it covering, right, That's how I feel, of course.
Now you must be a really great indicator. And I'm
not even kidding of inflation. I mean, you've seen the
costs when what were Big Match running when you started
eating them? And where are they at now?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, when I started eating them, they were forty nine
cents each, And what was nice is there was no
sales text or anything back then. But now they're five
to twenty nine apiece, so they've gone up quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Quite a bit. Is that what led you to endorse Trump?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
No, I'm not. I won't talk politics with you, right.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Smart movie.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Do you do you have like a do you have
like a like a like a like a special card
where you can walk into any shop and get day
as many burgers as you want?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, I don't get as many burgers that I want.
Are you wondering if I get any free food from
mc donald Yeah, No, I don't. I don't get any
free food. And that's fine because I've worked hard my
whole life, and I say, my retirement pieces and stuff
like that, and I just don't feel right getting free food.
If there's people poorer than me that are in McDonald's
not getting free food, so getting them free doesn't matter.
(06:40):
You know that one's do nothing for me, so I'm
happy to pay for them.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We're talking to Don Gorsky, who's eating nearly thirty five
thousand Big Macs over the course of fifty two years
on his own dime. If you had to Don, if
you had to eat a burger from another fast food chain,
what would it be. I have no clue now that
tell me. Not even like a whoppers and a whopper
equivalent to the Big Max.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm not in, you know, I say. I'm just not
interested in other burgers and stuff like that. I say,
for me, I know they're not gonna stop making Big Maxville.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Gone to the head.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Come on, otherwise I'm gonna think you're paid secretly by McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh I'm not. I say they don't. They don't do
you know what. They'll send me a thank you letter
once in a while for the free advertising, but no,
like for me, it's I love Big Maxis stuff like that,
but other double burgers, let's see. Uh uh. If I
couldn't find a McDonald's, i'd probably see if I could
find a Big Boy. I don't know if there's a lot
of those around your Yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The big statue out front right?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Would you ever do like? Did you ever go to
California to do the inside out? Inside out? What is
it in and out burger?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I've never been to an in and out burger place.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Story don't be something interesting?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Sorry, just interesting. I'm from the Midwest, and I'm loving
the accent so much. John, It's nice to hear. I
feel like it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Will McDonald's be involved with the day you die, like
the funeral?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Will they? Will they be around? Are you gonna get
or will they?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah? We getting buried in a mic box? Yeah, because
you should work on that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No, I don't think McDonalds will be interested when I
die or whatever the white jokes about that. When when
I die, she's going to have me cremated and put
in one of those cybrofoam big containers with me in
the backyard.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I asked you smell that smells so good. And last
time we talked to you, I asked you this honestly likes.
How's your blood work?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
My my cholesterol they considered it almost too low. The
last few times I've had to check it. It's been
like one for fifty two and they even saying stuff
that they're a little bit worried in my cholesterol just
too low.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Do you snack like for me?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Uh, my genets are very good. Yeah. I guess I'm
lucky to have the you know, the genetics that I
was born with. I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Quinn asked a question, do you snack or is that
all you eat all day?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, I'll snack or whatever. Let's see yesterday, okay for
everything that. Everything that I ate yesterday was my two
big macs. I had some French style green beans, and
then right before bed, the wife had made a pizza,
so I ate a slice of pizza. Pizza right before bed.
So I did have a snack last night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Big Max Harry Covert and pizza.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
He's eating Big Max all across this country at the
stadium's nascarbage. You are a national treasure. Don Gorsky, I
love talking to you, man.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Keep it up.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Thank you for the compliment.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Good luck out there, Don.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
All right, Don, thank you for having me on your
show anytime.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Pal, it's Quinn and Cantara and John Gorsky.
Don, how are you Don Fondu Lac Wisconsin's greatest person ever?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Don Gorsky.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Gorsky, how many big Macs have you eaten to date?
Here to date?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Right now, I'm at thirty four, six d and fifty.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You you're in the You've been in the Guinness Book
of World Records for like twenty five years because if
your your your big Mac eating correct.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
That's correct. They'n't always list a record in the book
every year, but it's been a record for them for
the twenty five years since they first acknowledged it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Don uh, anybody ever does say anything to you about
about it and only have a problem with the three pieces.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Of bread about having a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, Like, I mean I would do that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Just can't do the burger with the three pieces of
bread in it. That's that. That would be my only
hold back Cantara.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Okay, Like for me, it's not a problem at all.
I say, I like the Big Max sandwich. Just the
way it is sold. The three pieces of bread doesn't
bother me.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Now, Don Gorsky, big Mac world record holder, you were
seventy now and I hear you down to two big
Macs a day. But when you were when you when
you were young and looked like John Lennon, how many
big matches were you crushing per.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Day when I first started eating them? Uh oh, this
is kind of embarrassing. It kind of growth too. I
was eating nine a day when I first started eating them,
because it's kind of like weird. Yeah, it's kind of
like you know, when you eat chocolate for the first time,
you can't get enough chocolate, and then finally, after a while,
you can't eat that much chocolate anymore because you know,
(01:29):
your mind tells you that's too much, you know. So
I was eating about nine a day for about a
month and before my body slowed down, and then I
went five for a few days, and then I was
down the.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Two so two for fifty two years.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
As someone who's had some addiction issues, Canta, I would
say that you probably didn't talk in public with people,
didn't you didn't have conversations. You would say maybe six
a day when you were in the company of people
that you know and respected, Right, you never like copp
to nine a day?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Well, oh yeah, I'll admit. You know, somebody asked me
what's the most eat in the day. I'll tell him
it was nine because that's what I did.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So where where does it get gross between three a
day and nine a day?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it six?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh? Like I say, uh, And it just seems like,
you know, like for me, like you know, for me,
if I had to eat nine now it's take me.
You know, it probably could be done, but it's just
you know, it's just not the right thing to do.
Like for me, what's gross is when you eat more
than that then you're hungry for okay, Like for me,
I handle two Big every day, real fine, and then
(02:32):
there is no craving for a third one.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You got to listen to your body guards? Are you
fat shaming me?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
What that means?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's gross if you need more than you're hungry. For
a lot of people eat more than their hungry.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's but you asked him the definition of gross eating.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
To excess fair enough?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So right now, don you eat two Big Max a day?
Do you buy them at the same time? Or do
you go to McDonald's twice a day?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
All the the way that I eat him is kind
of you one day be you know you're gonna consider
this girls too, But I buy six stig Macs on
Monday and that would be my two for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and then I buy eight on Thursday, and then on
my two for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I eat
one fresh Big Mac on Monday, and I eat one
(03:17):
fresh Big Mac on Thursday. The rest are microwaves.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
To me, I don't think that's gross at all.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh you don't.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
No, I'm I going with cheeseburgers be otherwise. So don like,
were you eating all these Big Macs like before you
met your wife or after? Like how does she feel
about this?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, yes, I was eating the Big Max like crazy
before I met my wife. I actually met her almost
a year after I I was about a year and
a half after I started eating Big Maxes when I
met my wife, and she knew right away that I
really had this thing for Big Max. It was kind
of cool because I was working in the city about
forty miles from Fonolac and she lived in Fonolac and
(03:59):
she actually drive to Hartford and give me a couple
of Big Macs before I'd go to work and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I mean, come, she's a keeper. She's a keeper.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, she was a keeper. So and uh, you know
the thing is too like, well, she doesn't like me
to say that she's a lousy cooker, can't cook. But
she's a really smart lady. But she doesn't cook at all.
When we got you know, when we got married and
stuff like that, we she under she said it was
fine if I ate Big Macs every day as long
(04:30):
as I never blamed her for not cooking. And so
that's the agreement we made. And I love my Big Max.
And then she eats her kind of food and I
eat myself, so she does.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
She hasn't followed you into this world like I followed
my wife into the world of frozen meatballs, and now
here I am a frozen meat Yeah, so that's nice
to know. She's her own person.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
What about vegetables? Does she eat vegetables? Do you eat vegetables?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, we both eat vegetables. She's got a garden that
she's got out and back here and h like for me,
I'll usually have a vegetable with my second Big Max
at night when I have it for supper. Lately, I've
been eating a lot of French style setscreen beans. Oh
that's what all leads. But my Big Mac for most nights.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Lately, fellas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's a pairing. Ray McDonald didn't see we're vegable.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
We're talking about like at least forty eight maybe eighty
thousand Dell pickles. We got some lettuce and tomato on there,
for sure. I mean, you've got it all covered.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
You've got it covering, right, That's how I feel, of course.
Now you must be a really great indicator. And I'm
not even kidding of inflation. I mean, you've seen the
costs when what were Big Match running when you started
eating them? And where are they at now?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, when I started eating them, they were forty nine
cents each, And what was nice is there was no
sales text or anything back then. But now they're five
to twenty nine apiece, so they've gone up quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Quite a bit. Is that what led you to endorse Trump?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
No, I'm not. I won't talk politics with you, right.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Smart movie.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Do you do you have like a do you have
like a like a like a like a special card
where you can walk into any shop and get day
as many burgers as you want?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
No, I don't get as many burgers that I want.
Are you wondering if I get any free food from
mc donald Yeah, No, I don't. I don't get any
free food. And that's fine because I've worked hard my
whole life, and I say, my retirement pieces and stuff
like that, and I just don't feel right getting free food.
If there's people poorer than me that are in McDonald's
not getting free food, so getting them free doesn't matter.
(06:40):
You know that one's do nothing for me, so I'm
happy to pay for them.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We're talking to Don Gorsky, who's eating nearly thirty five
thousand Big Macs over the course of fifty two years
on his own dime. If you had to Don, if
you had to eat a burger from another fast food chain,
what would it be. I have no clue now that
tell me. Not even like a whoppers and a whopper
equivalent to the Big Max.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm not in, you know, I say. I'm just not
interested in other burgers and stuff like that. I say,
for me, I know they're not gonna stop making Big Maxville.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Gone to the head.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Come on, otherwise I'm gonna think you're paid secretly by McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh I'm not. I say they don't. They don't do
you know what. They'll send me a thank you letter
once in a while for the free advertising, but no,
like for me, it's I love Big Maxis stuff like that,
but other double burgers, let's see. Uh uh. If I
couldn't find a McDonald's, i'd probably see if I could
find a Big Boy. I don't know if there's a lot
of those around your Yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
The big statue out front right?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Would you ever do like? Did you ever go to
California to do the inside out? Inside out? What is
it in and out burger?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I've never been to an in and out burger place.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Story don't be something interesting?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Sorry, just interesting. I'm from the Midwest, and I'm loving
the accent so much. John, It's nice to hear. I
feel like it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Will McDonald's be involved with the day you die, like
the funeral?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Will they? Will they be around? Are you gonna get
or will they?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah? We getting buried in a mic box? Yeah, because
you should work on that.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
No, I don't think McDonalds will be interested when I
die or whatever the white jokes about that. When when
I die, she's going to have me cremated and put
in one of those cybrofoam big containers with me in
the backyard.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I asked you smell that smells so good. And last
time we talked to you, I asked you this honestly likes.
How's your blood work?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
My my cholesterol they considered it almost too low. The
last few times I've had to check it. It's been
like one for fifty two and they even saying stuff
that they're a little bit worried in my cholesterol just
too low.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Do you snack like for me?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Uh, my genets are very good. Yeah. I guess I'm
lucky to have the you know, the genetics that I
was born with. I guess.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Quinn asked a question, do you snack or is that
all you eat all day?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
No, I'll snack or whatever. Let's see yesterday, okay for
everything that. Everything that I ate yesterday was my two
big macs. I had some French style green beans, and
then right before bed, the wife had made a pizza,
so I ate a slice of pizza. Pizza right before bed.
So I did have a snack last night.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Big Max Harry Covert and pizza.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
He's eating Big Max all across this country at the
stadium's nascarbage. You are a national treasure. Don Gorsky, I
love talking to you, man.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Keep it up.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Thank you for the compliment.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Good luck out there, Don.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
All right, Don, thank you for having me on your
show anytime.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Pal, it's Quinn and Cantara and John Gorsky.
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