Are these healthier fast food swaps actually worth it? Let’s talk about that. Good Mythical Morning The internet is full of fitness influencers, – first of all – Like us. Yeah. Uh, but a lot of them make suggestions for allegedly healthier swaps you can make to your fast food orders. We’re gonna find out. Are these even worth it? Okay, boys. Your first matchup is from @Frankie PFW. Okay. Oh, this is the same guy looking at himself. Oh, he can do a split screen. Nice D Frankie. Yes. Let’s see. Yeah, you see how it works. Um, so on Rhett side, you’ll pull in the quote, default meal, this is a Big Mac, medium fries, and a medium coke for 1,170 calories. Wow. It adds up fast, doesn’t it? Yes. – And then on… – Yes, please. Link side is Frankie’s swap suggestion. A McDouble with a McChicken inserted into the McDouble with a Diet Coke for a calorie total of 630 So that’s a difference of 540 calories here. Okay. Okay. – Why we gotta insert… – I’m gonna eat this while you’re talking. Why we gotta insert a McChicken into a McDouble when we can just get a McChicken with the McDouble toppings. Is it the bun’s different? Frankie, come on. What do you know that we don’t? I have another question. Yep. The coke of it all. Do we really need to take that 270 calories away from the Coke to the Diet Coke? I mean, just get the Diet Coke with this. And that’s, that’s the 270 calories gone. – 540 minus 270 is how much? – I mean, you know… what you’re saying is we’re not gonna do the math, but – What you’re saying is… – It’s not 540 calories really. Basically going to Diet Coke is a obvious choice. First of all, it’s an obvious choice, so don’t puff up your calorie deltas, Frankie Also not getting fries. Well, Uhuh, I mean, don’t you say that. No, no, no, no. But hold on. – No, but what I’m saying is… – I ain’t gonna… not get, if I get a Big Mac, I’m getting fries. The most significant things that Frankie has done here is a Diet Coke and no fries. The weird thing that Frankie has done is stuffed a McChicken into a, into a McDouble. Frankie, are we being hard on you? Are you starting to, to get a little panty bunched? I, hold on. You need to, we care about you. You just crossed a line because. I was questioning Frankie’s decisions and you now are questioning Frankie’s response to our talking about him. – Well, I was also – That’s a whole different thing. I thought you were saying, you, I was questioning whether – he wore panties – And that too. I’m not trying to bring what your underwear into this, Frankie, he is all, Hey, listen, Frankie, just like you, this show is a split screen, okay? And anything that happens on the, this side of the split screen is not my business. If he says something that gets you upset, that gets us canceled. There’s still this half of the show. Frankie, get your panties outta your crack. Oh, come on. And start just doing stuff that’s actually, don’t puff your numbers up just like you do your pushups right before you do your tiktoks. – Don’t talk assumptions about… – To puff up your chest or whatever y’all do. Can you put the Diet Coke on the other side of the split screen please? What? – Hey, hold on first of all – And look at this. Hold on. – He literally put… – This is crazy. Hold on. Is that what he’s asking us to do? Literally? Yeah. Oh, I thought he was taking the chicken out. He’s just putting it inside. Yeah. What, Frankie, I take everything back. You’re a genius. No, hold on. With no mayo. They would like to, to me to, uh, and no cheese, let you know. No cheese. Yeah, no mayo, no cheese. So it’s not dry at all. So do you want to, do you want to eat it fast? Why not just eat two sandwiches? Like, okay, why not eat this? Don’t why you gotta always mess with things. – Just eat the thing… – I’m illustrating. – Just eat the thing the way that it… – Are you on Frankie’s side or my side? I don’t know. Other thing’s about as dry as Frankie’s panties though. I’m sorry. Why’d you bring me into this? Why’d you bring me into this? Frankie Frankie, we love you. This is how we show love. Frankie. We love you. We know what you’re capable of. Was that confessing? We know what you’re capable of. Keep pushing. Hold yourself to a higher standard. Hours. It got stuck in my throat. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don’t drink that Coke. You gotta drink the diet Coke. Actually, I just need water to get this down. Do you wanna use my, I’m gonna eat some more fast. It’s like a pill. How’d you make eating McDonald’s? Like taking a pill? So this is, this is really less than a, this is like a 250 calorie. What’s the math? Well, they already did the math for us. Okay, well, but I’m taking the diet Coke out of it. Well, let’s just, let’s just take Frankie at his word, 540 calories. To put that into perspective, I would have to watch television for five and a half hours to burn that much. Can you imagine me sitting there for five and a half hours? That’s hard. That’s like a sick day for us. Yeah. I’ve never watched television for five and a half hours at any point in my life. One full hour of weightlifting. That’s no fun. Two hours of grocery shopping while pushing the cart. Are you willing to do that for this, now that you put it like that? No, because I did not have any fun. Trying to get that pill of a sandwich down this Big Mac is wonderful. The answer therefore would be yes. Yes. The answer is yes. These extra calories are completely worth it. It is a. And that means I’m gonna get this right, and that means that the low Cal version make it stop. Your next matchup is from @FontyFitness. At Raisin Canes. And on Rhett side you have the default meal, which according to Sean at Fonty Fitness is the most popular raisin cans meal. Yes, it is so good. I’m saying Raisin canes. Yeah, you are. But, cause Raising canes doesn’t sound, how do you say it? Raising Canes. Raising canes. Yeah. Okay. Raising cane. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, it is the box combo for 1,790 calories, and then on Link side is Frankie’s swap suggestion for naked bird tenders, which is a menu item you can ask for, uh, to get chicken without the breading. Um, yeah, I guess it’s secret if you have to ask for it. It’s, it’s something more than secret. Yeah. What you think they put a picture of that on the menu? It’s sad. Oh, look at that. Um, as well as coleslaw, cane sauce, a Coke Zero and Texas toast for 720 calories. So the calorie difference is 1070 calories And Link, hate to tell you, 430 of those calories are in the drink. I understand that it, it seems easy to me, but if you haven’t made the switch, it wasn’t an easy switch for me to make. I just made it a while back. So in my head it seems like it was already made for everyone. But I do recommend making that switch. If you can. You can train yourself to like, especially Coke Zero, but training me not to eat fries or breaded chicken, it’s gonna be tough. Look at his face. I’m about to choke again. I mean, at least he still has the canes sauce. – He has the sauce – Which is the only thing that’s saving this. It’s not doing any saving. – Listen… – The cane sauce is so good. You expect me to go to Raising Canes where I’m surrounded with pictures of perfectly fried chicken tenders, and to get that, that’s tough. Boy. This is just not a path that you should find yourself on. Yeah, well you’re going to Raising Cane’s and ordering that. I mean, what if you have to, what if you have to meet a friend there? There’s been plenty of times… There’s many places to meet friends other than Raising Cane’s. I’ve insisted on going to Raising Cane’s and Rhett’s more – the healthy boy… – believe it or not About half the time he is like, no, man, we can’t do that. I’m like, come on, you can get, you can get… We eat like this on this show. You can get something healthier there. Going to a Raising Cane’s and, and getting this naked chicken is like some weird form of edging Right It’s a thousand calories. It’s like, what? Why are we doing this? What are you trying to prove? Your mastery You’re on a road trip and you’re with your whole family, and so, you know, four people or three people were like, we’re going here. And so then you were forced. Okay. Well, don’t make it reasonable. I felt good about my logic. It’s a thousand calories, dude. That’s one and a half hours on a rowing machine. Two hours of chopping and stacking wood. Hmm. Sexy. But it’s four and a half hours of billiards. Oh. So I mean, we could enjoy that. I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed more than like 20 minutes of billiards. Well, you never tried. Tomorrow afternoon. Listen, it just looked like I wasn’t trying Tomorrow afternoon. Me and you half day of billiards. What do you, what do you say? I don’t think I can do it. I mean, what? Who can eat anything we want? Because we’re gonna burn so many calories What’s the opposite of edging? Because that’s what that feels like to me. But not in a good way. I believe it. – Like so much of the opposite of it – Completing the act, it really… So much so that like I’d never want to do it again. – Okay, so… – We’ll discuss that later. I think we’re passionate about this and we’re saying is this Low Cal version make it stop. Quick reminder, over on the Mythical Society, Emily has a series called Emily. Have you seen this? You should check out the latest episode where she reacts to all types of stuff that she sees online. Okay, your next matchup is from at @HemPatelFitness on Rhett side, you have what Hem is claiming to be a common Wendy’s breakfast order. The breakfast baconator, a four piece of french toast sticks, and a medium vanilla frosty cold brew for a total of 1,360 calories. Good gracious. And on Link side is Hems Swap suggestion, a bacon, egg and cheese muffin. Apple slices and a medium cold brew for a total of 420 calories, which means the calorie difference is 940. Whoa, that’s a lot of calorie difference. A breakfast baconator. Have you heard of this? Never had it. That’s scary. That’s a lot for breakfast. But that’s a burger. No, that’s a square sausage. It should be a sausage, right? Taste. Taste it. I’m gonna taste this because I’ve never had vanilla, frosty, cold brew. Hmm. So there’s actual frosty in this. I don’t, I don’t think there’s actual frosty in it. Vanilla, frosty. I think it’s got frosty flavor. I think it’s just got the flavor. It’s sausage or, right. I think we agree They still do the square meat and the burgers at Wendy’s is, it’s all still square. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? That’s the, that’s the cornerstone. I know, but I heard somebody say that it wasn’t square anymore. I, maybe it was a dream. I feel too, I feel too guilty to eat this now. He’s, it’s working. But look at that. This doesn’t look good. French toast stick That’s no apple slice. That’s not tempting to me. It’s just a pile of too much. It really needs to be a biscuit. Mm-hmm. And that doesn’t actually have frosty in it, so I’m disappointed. – It just tastes like a nice coffee – Which is okay. What do you got over there? The Wendy’s version of a Egg McMuffin taste exactly how you would expect but in a way, not really much worse than that. I thought you guys were getting angrier, but now you just feel like sad. – We’re crashing – We were crashing. This stuff is so bad for you. I’m, I don’t always eat like this. I eat this way on the show, but I don’t know is, I mean this, think about it. This is what we do. – This is just – We create all of these choices for ourselves that just kill us. I actually feel like. I need to eat Apple,. Stevie, ultimately, what we’re sad about is the fact that we are in, in the dwindling states of an empire and really a worldwide dwindling of capitalism, late stage capitalism, and we’re just, everyone is just trying to do something to just make a dollar. Doesn’t matter what the impact is, let’s just make a dollar. Make a holler. Are you talking? You’re not talking about us. All of us, all of us are just cogs in this great big machine that is slowly poisoning and killing all of us. We’re supposed to, we’re supposed to be like a comfort show for people. Yeah, can, can, can you just be happy? But the thing about it is supposed be happy. It’s fun. Can you, can you, there you go. Let’s just focus on the decision at hand. Oh, okay. Sorry. Is this worth. Spending two and a half hours playing with kids. Hell no. No. This one is actually I, I think we’re on the other one. Hold on. But what about five hours of horseback riding? – I mean, and hold on… – That’s a lot for the crotch. Hold on. If you combine horseback riding with billiards, isn’t that just polo? Oh. And more calories burned. So I think we could do three hours of polo. I don’t know how the math works. This stuff just isn’t good enough. Um, so yeah, I think what you’re saying is that you don’t like these things. You like apple slices better than fake french toast. That’s the only thing that’s really any good. Okay. So it’s not really that this is good, it’s that this is not great. And it’s breakfast so you can get over it. So we’re gonna say for the first time ever, this LowCal version is a worthy swap. I think I said slop this LowCal version. Is a worthy, worthy swap. I mean, my mouth won’t lie. This local version is a worthy swap. Your final matchup of the day was made by our very own in-house fitness team. Oh, we have one of those. No. What’s our who? What is, who is our fitness team? Brittany. Brittany, our head writer is our fitness team. Brittany. All right. Brittany What are you doing? You’re doing some, um, I don’t know, curls? Oh, Brittany used to work at Starbucks, so… Okay, got that. Makes her the in-house fitness team at Mythical. Yep. That’s all it takes. We get it. What’s this? On Rhett side you have a Starbucks Grande Cinnamon Dolce latte, and a double bacon breakfast sandwich for a total of 840 calories. And on Link side you have a grande cinnamon dolce latte, customized with non-fat milk, only three pumps of syrup, no whip and no sprinkles. Plus A bacon gouda, an egg sandwich for a total of 529 calories. So the difference is 311 calories. This has a chance of working for us because me and the Linkster here, that’s what I call it sometimes. What’s up? We like our coffee drinks, low cal Now we will do some fat milk in there, but we don’t. But we don’t do sugar. That tastes good, but that’s dessert. Oh, it’s so good. We should have tasted this one first. Forget, we just tasted that I’m not as, I’m not a cinnamon boy, as the cinnamon uh syrup. It is a lot. It’s not really my thing. I, I would ask, um, well, that we could ask – for even less pumps of that but… – How about zero? Here’s the thing that our in-house fitness team has done that these TikTok people haven’t done, is we’ve made a thoughtful comparison. Yeah. Thank you for being thoughtful. This, this right here is apples to apples. That’s right. You know, this is an, an actual alternative to that. Yes, and I think. It works. You know what y’all should do? You should work on the internet, uh, double bacon breakfast sandwich. Mm-hmm. so I mean, there is quite a bit of bacon on that, but… it is also a little dry. Is it only two Bacons? What is it? What’s in it? It’s like four bacon strips. An egg. – And an egg – A really flat egg. This one’s got two bacon strips and a scrambled egg. And no cheese. No cheese. Cheese. No cheese. No. It has, it has guta. Oh, gouda. The invisible cheese. So the sandwiches are actually not that much different. I mean 500 calories and 360. I mean that’s, yeah, I mean every little bit counts. It’s really in the drink though. And I think it tastes, I mean, the bread’s not as good, but again, it’s breakfast. You’re just trying to get something in there. But let’s put this in perspective. Mm-hmm. The difference is 311 calories. So to burn that many calories, you’d have to do 45 minutes of sledding. Okay? Not in my region. Go on. One hour of mowing a lawn with a push mower. Hmm. Okay. What’d you think about that? You’re not really a push guy. You’re a ride guy. I’m a ride guy, but I’m, well, I’m in, I don’t even have a lawn. Yeah. We don’t, yeah. People out here. Well, hold on. You’ve been, you’ve been sitting on the big one. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, one hour of sex, which, which sometimes I call sitting on the big one. I’m the big one. – You don’t… – That’s not gonna work. I apologize for the, I apologize for the Linkster. Um, one hour of sex. – Now first of all… – I will say that… I just say something? Can I just say something? Can I just say something? Pushing a lawnmower for one hour… Is the only way that I get sex. And having sex for, I’m just gonna tell you right now, I feel like I’m working harder at sex than pushing a lawnmower – No, you’re not. – One hour of sex. First of all, I don’t think I can do that. – But second of all… – Sex can mean a lot of things. So, I mean, you talking about the foreplay, of course I’m not burning a lot there, but I’m just saying like one hour of sex. Like if we’re actually having sex, not me, not me and the Linkster, no. Uh, just people that’s. You’re burning more than 311 calories. I’m sorry. Unless you’re doing it wrong. I mean, I, but is the big one being sat on or I, I don’t know. Sex is a real muddy term. It’s a spectrum. Because if, if it’s sitting on the big one, if that’s what you’re currently doing and you’re the one with the big one, you’re not burning much. You’re not burning much. You’re not burning much. You should, you should be paying attention though. You don’t wanna lose focus. Right. This is fine. This is great. This isn’t that much better. So what do we say? Agreed? Low Cal version, worthy swap Alright, so we, we put in work today. I mean, we burned some calories. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for Good Mythical Weekend right here on this channel. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Rhett and Link This is Ed and Rachel Powers. We live in Western Pennsylvania. We’re celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary at a Hobbit house in Ohio, Ohio State Park. Thank you for coming on this adventure with us. And now it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality I thought that was me in the background. Hobbit house. That’s pretty cool. Okay, we’re gonna think of a number between one and 10. Yes. If we say the same number, we’re gonna have a great day. Okay. Stevie, count us in. 3, 2, 1. 4. click the top link. Let just compete to make the best taco for Jordan, for Sporked in Good Mythical More, it’s gonna be a good one. Don’t miss the final episode of Wonderful Season two this Sunday at 2:00 PM Eastern, 11:00 AM Pacific. On the Rhett and Link YouTube channel, or stream it early and ad free exclusively on mythical society.