#168 McDonald's Prices THEN vs NOW
The Makeshift Podcast
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Comparing McDonald's current prices to 6 years ago, building the perfect Thanksgiving meal with $15, which Spiderman made the most money, Gamestop's greatest idea ever, and more!
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0:00 MCDONALDS PRICE INFLATION!
4:44 MAKESHIFT UPDATES!
6:49 $15 PERFECT THANKSGIVING MEAL!
11:33 WHICH SPIDERMAN MADE THE MOST MONEY?
16:43 PAST 5 WORDS OF THE YEAR
20:20 WHAT SHOULD BE WORD OF THE YEAR?
24:04 SALARY TO AFFORD AVERAGE HOMES?
28:33 DECEMBER 6TH GAMESTOP’S BEST DAY!
32:33 MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY, CHINA OR USA?
36:18 BRIAN’S MONOLOGUE COMES BACK!
37:58 LEAST HARMFUL ALCOHOLIC DRINK!
41:17 MEMBER SHOUTOUTS AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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| 0:00.0 | Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus. |
| 0:04.5 | We're having a baby. |
| 0:05.5 | We're having a baby. |
| 0:07.2 | I've always wanted to be mom. |
| 0:09.4 | And we're bringing you on our journey through everything. |
| 0:12.4 | I have no idea what we're doing. |
| 0:13.6 | Thank you. I have more of an idea. |
| 0:15.6 | I think of it like a Tamagocchi. |
| 0:17.8 | At the end of all of this... |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu |
| 0:23.1 | original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply. |
| 0:30.1 | Guess the difference of price of these McDonald's menu items from 2019 to now. Okay, let's go through |
| 0:35.4 | with them, Brian. I feel like... Inflation! |
| 0:54.6 | I feel like they've gone up. All right. First one, you got a medium French fry. What do you think it was in 2019? 2019, I feel like a medium fry was on the dollar menu. Or maybe the small fry was, so maybe slightly more expensive. Let's go. Let's go a dollar 25 cents. I don't think that the dollar menu exists anymore. I don't think it does either. |
| 1:10.8 | It's a real shame. It's really fricking sad. Yeah. You know what invented the dollar menu? The guy? Tom Ryan. Oh, did we ever get back to him? No. I feel like he emailed us. Oh, we got to get back to that. I emailed him back. He didn't answer. Oh. That has to be, right? In 2019, a medium French fry was $1.79. |
| 1:12.3 | What do you think it cost now? |
| 1:27.7 | I'm just going to go with the rule of doubling it, right? So if my math is correct, $1.79 would be $3.80, $3.40. Okay. It's even more than that. It's a hundred and thirty four point one percent increase. |
| 1:28.5 | $4.19. |
| 1:30.7 | It would have been $3.60. |
| 1:33.4 | $4.19 for a medium fry. |
| 1:37.1 | I feel like I go to Wendy's now and like the Bacconator meal is like $15. |
| 1:38.3 | It's so stupid. |
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