The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Local Hour: America Was Built On McDonald's Breakfast
Fri, 02 May 2025
The crew advises Chris Cote on his upcoming Best Man speech, and Billy Gil wants you to know he'll NEVER play for JJ Redick. Today's cast: Stugotz, Izzy, Chris, Billy, Jeremy, and Roy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is McDonald's breakfast considered a cornerstone of America?
Fast food, probably me, if we're going to be honest. You're right.
You know what? You're right, Billy. Did you have some of that McDonald's? I had three hash browns. Amazing. Yeah.
And I'd have another one if I didn't feel like I was being gluttonous and taking it from everyone else. Even though here we have some people that are like, oh, fast food, I could never. Oh, McDonald's breakfast, I could never. Let me tell you something, gang. America was built on McDonald's breakfast. Okay?
Take that for whatever it's worth, because some people aren't happy with America right now, so you can blame McDonald's breakfast.
When they started allowing breakfast past like 10.30, the world had changed for the better.
I'm going to look up the date that that happened, because I think you're right. So, Izzy, I have something. I don't know where you want to go, but because we're on the subject of McDonald's, McDonald's breakfast, I did this with two guys. By the way, if you're going to get this conversation, we did this on God Bless Football. Follow us on our socials and our feeds and all that stuff. So,
There's this thing that I saw that Mr. Beast is paying a million dollars to anyone. Well, I guess you'd have to come in contact with him. It's not just a random person that does it. But he's paying a million dollars to someone if they can eat $1,000 worth of McDonald's in 36 hours.
That's a lot easier now than it used to be. Do you know who Mr. Beast is? Can I say this? I don't like Mr. Beast. Really? I like that he gives other people money. I have no idea where he gets all this money from. I don't like his sort of contrived enthusiasm to, I can't believe this is happening. And it's just like, I just don't love it.
That was actually a decent Mr. Beast.
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Chapter 2: What is the Mr. Beast McDonald's $1,000 challenge?
Yes. Social media. From that act, that shtick you don't like.
Well, it's like sponsors, too, right? So a lot of these are sponsored by people. So they're the ones fronting the bill on these giant things that he would do. But he does crazy stuff where he's like, I'm burying myself under the ground for seven days. And it's like, why? You're a multimillionaire. You don't need to bury yourself under the ground anymore.
I've put a circle in the middle of this room. The last person in it gets a million dollars.
He's like a very, now that we're talking about this, he's like a very PG, G-rated jigsaw, right? Like, he comes up with these horrific things to have people do, and it's like, if you survive... You'll get eighty seven dollars and fifty cents. And they're like, I would love that. Eighty seven dollars and fifty cents.
And it's like you don't think about it going into it's like, wow, I had to like decapitate three people to do that.
Or you had to curse out your best friend and you'll never be able to speak to them again.
So McDonald's started serving all day breakfast in October of 2015, just two months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency. We needed it. And they stopped all day breakfast in March of 2020.
Unbelievable. I did not know that. I guess I hadn't been often enough. But thank you for bringing us back there because there was a little bit of a Mr. Beast type of situation to my story here. We weren't supposed to have McDonald's for breakfast this morning. We were supposed to have another place. And I thought, hey, I'm coming in. It's Friday.
Oh, yeah, that feels like McDonald's Friday breakfast. We weren't supposed to have that. We were supposed to have something else with some smoothies or whatever. Apparently, somebody else from the hotel went to this breakfast place and took our order. picked it up, thought it was for him, this giant order. Seems impossible. Well, right.
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Chapter 3: When did McDonald's start and stop serving all-day breakfast?
Yeah, we're the bougie ones. Well, he stole from us. Here's what I asked Chris. Because if Chris would have walked through the lobby and saw a wagon full of smoothies and said, I know that's our breakfast. I don't want that. Let me give this away to the staff and then we can circle back and I know what we're going to get as a backup. McDonald's.
Wow. We're all here playing checkers. And what we've learned is that Billy really would have been the one who did that. It would have been Billy.
I think that's the twist. I don't begrudge this guy at all. I got hash browns out of this. Right. Like, instead, what would we have gotten? Like, the same old bread with the peanut butter and, like, a pickle in the middle. There's way too much pork for breakfast in this place.
Wait, so, Billy, what's the latest challenge here from the Beast? What is the latest challenge of McDonald's?
Yeah, Mr. Beast.
The Beast. The Beast.
The one that I saw people talking about was, like, you have a 36-hour seat, $1,000 worth of McDonald's.
$1,000 worth of McDonald's sounded like a lot of food, like, 10 years ago. It's a lot. Now what is that, like, 10 Big Macs? I mean, you'd have to have like 100 Big Macs in 36 hours. How you get to it, it's crazy. Because if you're eating for like a family of three, now at McDonald's it's probably close to like $30, which is insane, right? But even that, three, what would you have to do that times?
I don't know. Like $3,900. You'd have to have 30 meals for a family of three to get to $1,000. In an hour. No, 36 hours, a day and a half. In an hour? Wait, what? What do you keep saying in an hour? In 36 hours.
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Chapter 4: What happened with the hotel breakfast mix-up involving smoothies?
uh but a day and a half you can't like choose if it's just you know a thousand big mac you can choose whatever you want okay just a thousand dollars also again i saw this like on like instagram or tick tock so i don't even know if this is real but we're running with it which i'm fine with because it's a good challenge yeah mr beast yeah right let's see the beast um
Chris, you are going to be a beast man this weekend? A best man this weekend?
I have to give a best man speech. First time I'm ever doing it. I've been preparing for weeks, but I'm feeling the pressure of the last couple days. And I'm wondering if anyone here has any advice for me. Anyone given any best man? Stugatz, have you given a best man speech? Who's getting married? Your brother? My brother's getting married. Oh. My younger brother.
Stu, have you given a best man speech?
I am mesmerized because Billy just informed me that Mr. Beast has 390 million followers. Oh, he's like, that's what I mean.
He's like the biggest guy on the internet. He's the biggest guy on YouTube. And his latest video was from five days ago. It's to Godson. It's labeled, would you risk drowning for $500,000?
And just so you know, that's television for young people now. When I was a counselor at the camp that I volunteer at, every single time I left the room and told the kids, yeah, you guys can just watch TV or whatever, what they would do is they'd pull up YouTube and they would watch MrBeast videos.
So here's the teaser. I just started the video. It's a 25-minute video. Here's how just the start of it starts, right? And there's a bunch of things that you need to do. But the first thing is just a boulder that he throws off of this floating thing with a chain. And it's like a hundred feet of chain, and it's strapped to someone's feet. And it's locked on them.
He just threw a boulder into a lake. And then for some reason, we haven't gotten there yet, there's a bear. And the guy has to grab duffel bags away from his bear. Like... This is all fun and games until it's not.
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Chapter 5: Who is Mr. Beast and why is he influential on YouTube?
Yes, like you can do Spotify, Kidz Bop Kids.
So they could just put out songs like every month if they wanted. They could just cover the most popular song like that week.
Oh, there's Pink Pony Club. Like they have all the latest songs. Why would you have to change Pink Pony Club?
Yeah. To make it kid friendly.
I mean, just the kids sing all the popular songs.
Oh, boy.
Not Kidz Bop.
There's a knockoff version.
It's not all hip hop songs. It's like every song you've ever heard. I didn't know this.
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Chapter 6: What advice is given for delivering a best man speech?
So there's nothing in your stand-up routine, which I find it funny that you already have it.
Well, I have jokes written. I have not gotten up on stage yet.
There's nothing that has to do with family. Nothing has to do that you can insert your brother into the conversation or the joke. No, there's nothing really there.
I think just... Doing this job, I'm not that nervous about doing it. It's more of like, what's the tone? How mean do I want to be? I don't want to make this about me. It's about them. So it's really just the balance of how many jokes is too many. I've never done it before. Schefter's kid works for Nickelodeon. So no advice. No one has any advice for me.
No, I got nothing for you.
Sorry.
I have to do the hard work for my kids to get.
Maybe take a trip through the ex-girlfriends. Use that as like a time marker for each piece of his life as you're trying to tell his life story. Top five ex-girlfriends. Yeah, these are bad suggestions.
Don't make this about you.
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Chapter 7: How can humor and family stories be incorporated into a best man speech?
You're not going to do a stand-up comedian routine. You're not going to try it out there. No, don't.
His brother would like it, though. I'm going to roast my brother a little bit friendly. A couple jokes, a couple singers. Isn't your brother known as the funny one? Well, that's actually one of my lines. I'm Chris, the older brother. Also the funnier one.
No poop jokes. That's the big one. I went to a wedding where the... Best man sort of didn't really write a speech and was just going off the cuff. I don't like notes. And somehow ended up down a path where he was making fart jokes and poop jokes. And that's not going to do well at a wedding. So just make sure to avoid that.
Try to do it off the top of your head, too. I think, and people will disagree with me, I think the staring at your phone the whole time, a bit tacky. I hate staring at my phone. A little tacky.
I would rather you actually just print out something. No. Or you can come in hard than just your phone. I'd rather nothing.
Last night was the rehearsal dinner, and one of her, not her maid of honor, she'll speak at the wedding, another one of her very close friends, and then my dad spoke. And it was funny. She went first, and she had it on a phone, and then my dad went up, and he made the joke of the young whippersnapper over there looking at her phone. I have, and he pulls out a scroll.
He's just like, I've done this. Longhand. I have bad news for you. You're set up for failure. Oh, I know. My dad's speech was great. Follow your dad. Luckily, he went last night and not at the wedding. Because if he was going, yes, he was great. How much room did you leave for sap at the end? My dad got emotional. Of course.
He presides over that family.
Guess what?
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Chapter 8: What are the pros and cons of using notes during a best man speech?
Yes, and he's a writer. The best columnist in Florida. I honestly thought while he was doing it, it might be funny on Saturday for me to just read what my dad wrote. Just start it.
Well, yeah, because there's a lot of people that didn't hear it at that time. Most people will have not heard it. Exactly right. You really should just do your dad's exact speech. How long do you think it would take before he noticed? Yeah, that's a good question, because if he's drinking a little bit, he might not right away.
I would have to start with the joke of, like, she used her phone, and now I will use... Yeah, you got to go second.
He would love that.
You got to do this.
He would be so happy, Chris. He would be honored, but his brother would hate it. You got to do this. About... Four minutes in, he'd be like, this speech is amazing, and then it won't be until after he's done and you tell him that he'll realize that. He'll just think it's the greatest best man speech of all time.
Just every time that the word son is referenced, you just monotone replace it with the word brother. Actually, you can just get Roy to record the word brother, and then every time it's supposed to say son, you just play out loud from your phone, Roy saying brother. I mean, that's a...
So far, that's the best advice. It makes it easy on you. You don't have to write anything. And you get a laugh. You get a little inside joke. Dad is honored. And probably a little bit of an overall joke because some people will get it.
It puts to waste all. I have put work into this, and I do have a speech of my own.
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