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>>> TIME FOR THE REDICULIST.
A MAN IN WISCONSIN DARED TO
DREAM, DARED TO IMAGINE, DARED
TO WALK INTO McDONALD'S AND SEE
NOT JUST A MENU BUT A
POSSIBILITY.
HIS NAME IS NICK AND HE ORDERED
ONE OF EVERY KIND OF SANDWICH
FROM THE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH
MENU AND CREATED THE
McEVERYTHING.
GLORIOUS MONUMENT TO WHAT CAN BE
ACHIEVED WHEN ONE IS WILLING TO
SHAKE OFF THE SHACKLES OF
CONFORMITY.
I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF
QUESTIONS.
WE'LL GET TO ALL OF THEM.
FOR INSTANCE, HOW DID NICK GET
THE IDEA FOR THE McEVERYTHING
AND WHAT PHILOSOPHICAL
CHALLENGES DID IT PRESENT AS HE
PONDERED WHETHER TO MOVE
FORWARD.
>> OBVIOUSLY EVERY SANDWICH AT
McDONALD'S STARTED WITH Mc.
I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO BUY
ONE OF EVERYTHING AND CALL IT
THE McEVERYTHING.
I NEVER DID IT.
YOU SHOW UP AT McDONALD'S AND
YOU WANT ONE OF EVERY SANDWICH,
THEY'LL HATE YOU.
>> NICK HAD TO PUSH THROUGH HIS
INITIAL TREPIDATION AND ONE DAY
NOT LONG AGO HE JUST DID IT.
>> I SAID I WANT ONE OF EVERY
SANDWICH.
THIS WILL SOUND WEIRD.
BREAKFAST AND LUNCH.
I THINK THEIR MAIN REPLY WAS WHY
DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS?
>> THAT IS THE BIG QUESTION.
BIGGER THAN A BIG MAC AND
HEAVIER THAN A DOUBLE POUNDER.
THE QUESTION IS WHY?
>> WHY NOT.
THE FIRST GUY CLIMBED MT.
EVEREST ASKED WHY?
NO ONE HAD.
>> IT ONLY SET HIM BACK $141.43
FOR ONE OF EVERY SANDWICH AND A
LARGE DIET COKE AND HE'S EATING
IT ALL.
>> I'VE BEEN EATING IT FOR
BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER
SINCE.
I'VE TWO OR THREE DAYS LEFT TO
GO.
>> COLD LEFTOVER McDONALD'S
SEEMS McNAUSEATING BUT THIS GUY
HAS AN IRON STOMACH.
HE RUNS A FOOD BLOG CALLED DUDE
FOOD AND MOST EVERYTHING HE
MAKES HAS BACON INCLUDING BACON
WRAPPED CHICKEN NUGGETS AND THIS
BACON WEAVED TACO.
LIKE ALL INNOVATORS, NICK DID
FACE NAYSAYERS WHEN IT CAME TO
THE McEVERYTHING.
HE HAS THIS TO SAY ABOUT
EVERYTHING.
>> I'M NOT WASTING IT.
I'M EATING THE ENTIRE THING.
IF I BOUGHT IT AND THREW IT
AWAY, SURE.
IT'S THE SAME AS GOING GROCERY
SHOPPING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE