Show notes
This episode is on The Founder (2016), John Lee Hancock’s story on the evolution of McDonald’s from a pioneering fast food restaurant run by two brothers to the global juggernaut it later became. Centred on Michael Keaton’s portrayal of Ray Kroc, it follows him as he comes across the McDonald brothers’ place and their seminal Speedee system, upon which he has to get his hooks in and whore their creation out with gay abandon.
The episode includes sections on the story, cast and crew, production, history versus fact, release and reception, the film itself and 2016 in film. All that and more on…
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