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We watched 2016's The founder

with Michael Keaton based on the true story of

McDonald's, can we call him the founder? Isn't that ironically the name of the movie? So about the guy who helped turn McDonald's

into one of the biggest restaurants in the world,

Ray Krak.

All right, I'm coming out quick of the hot takes here.

Ray Krak is to the 1960s as Mark Zuckerberg is to the 2010s.

Ray Crock is the original Mark Zuckerberg.

Very good.

If you have not seen this movie, it sounds like they kept pretty good to the actual story.

So there were two brothers, the McDonald brothers, who started a small restaurant in San Bernardino, California, and there was no fast food in the 50s or 60s.

How did people survive back then? I guess they didn't have anything else to do most of the time, but I mean people just waited a lot for everything

Come on they had nothing to do I mean they just they talked about how that you'd go to a drive in and they'd have the person bring the food up to your car and

it would take a minimum of 20 minutes.

These McDonald brothers figured out, why don't we try to do things faster?

And we'll get into the categories because I think this was by far my favorite scene. I thought the best scene of the movie.

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