Speaker 1: Hi, I'm James and I'm a competitive eater. Let's hear
Speaker 1: from the expert.
Speaker 2: So today we have a professional eater, you know, something
Speaker 2: close to our heart.
Speaker 3: We love eating and this guy really loves eating. He's
Speaker 3: not just an eater.
Speaker 2: He is Australia's number one ranked competitive eater if you
Speaker 2: don't mind, and he joins us from Dallas, Texas in America, America.
Speaker 3: James Web, good morning.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for having me, so let.
Speaker 3: Me give on.
Speaker 4: So you're an Aussie, but you're in America.
Speaker 2: That's correct because everything's bigger in Texas, so you're only
Speaker 2: over there to do these competitive eating challenges.
Speaker 5: You you're technically making a career out of it.
Speaker 1: Competitive eating is my life.
Speaker 4: You're right, is a future for you. After reading that.
Speaker 5: Nobody's so lean. Look at him on facetim he's lean.
Speaker 1: No, I wear a baggy T shirt and bag you
Speaker 1: clothes to hide there belly has.
Speaker 4: One become a eating expert.
Speaker 1: Looked to be honest.
Speaker 6: This started off as a complete joke, just something for fun.
Speaker 6: But in America they find a way to turn everything
Speaker 6: into a sport. And like every other sport, it's a sport.
Speaker 6: We do sponsored events twenty times a year that my
Speaker 6: last three events have been on national TV.
Speaker 1: We compete on ESPN. So yeah, it's a sport.
Speaker 5: So and then how are you getting coin out of it?
Speaker 5: How are you making a living?
Speaker 1: So US dollars is pretty nice.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of prize money, a lot of sponsorships,
Speaker 6: endorsement deals. Obviously I create social media content in my
Speaker 6: days off. So yeah, I've got a pretty pretty good following.
Speaker 6: That kind of you know, gets me paid pretty well.
Speaker 7: And so you've got sponsors to eat, So who's sponsoring you?
Speaker 1: Well? Last year sports Bet sponsored me for the Nation contest.
Speaker 3: Of course, how can we go back to the start?
Speaker 2: When did you when, where did you figure out that
Speaker 2: you were a good or a big eater?
Speaker 6: Well, I guess if you want to really go back,
Speaker 6: I was a fat kid growing up. I've got a
Speaker 6: ethnic mother, a great chef, master master chef, brilliant cook.
Speaker 6: So I always grew up with food in abundance, and
Speaker 6: I probably had man boobs until I was about sixteen
Speaker 6: and then so like I always loved my food, always
Speaker 6: loved my food. And then being a semi professional soccer player,
Speaker 6: I was always a decent eater. Because like, obviously you're
Speaker 6: training like a maniacid eat And then when I found
Speaker 6: bodybuilding and really got into bodybuilding, food is life. You know,
Speaker 6: probably you obsess a little bit too much over food,
Speaker 6: but you know, with with like everything, food is fun
Speaker 6: and food was always my fun.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really into partying.
Speaker 6: I would be like to my missus, that's like, who's
Speaker 6: now my wife? Obviously it's like, let's go out for dinner,
Speaker 6: Like where we're gonna eat this weekend? Like I'll be
Speaker 6: researching like place to see right, And then to be honest,
Speaker 6: when I did this food challenge, that was her.
Speaker 1: That was completely her fault. She got me into this.
Speaker 5: What was the first one you did?
Speaker 1: So the Cartoon Hotel in Cesnok.
Speaker 6: Basically, my wife bribed me to go to the Hunter
Speaker 6: Valley for a weekend, right because I don't. She wanted
Speaker 6: to do the whole cheese wine tasting like cute boose
Speaker 6: day out, so to bribe me, she planned like a
Speaker 6: whole day trip of eating so I would be fat
Speaker 6: and happy before we got it to the wineries. Smart
Speaker 6: we stopped at the Cartoon Hotel for lunch and they
Speaker 6: had at the time, I didn't know this, but Australia's
Speaker 6: biggest burger challenge and no one had ever completed it,
Speaker 6: like ten years deep. I'm like five kilos of burger
Speaker 6: and one five hundred grams of wedges and five hundred
Speaker 6: grams of onionings.
Speaker 3: Oh my, that's a lot of food.
Speaker 5: That's big.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: And you did it.
Speaker 7: Hey, James, have you ever been to Massive Wieners in Fitzroy? Sorry, well,
Speaker 7: there's a shop, there's a hot dog shop in Fitzroy
Speaker 7: here in Melbourne called Massive Wieners and you used to
Speaker 7: be able to. You had to eat a twenty five
Speaker 7: inch dog within five minutes and then they'd put your polaroid.
Speaker 3: On the wall as like no, sorry, have you.
Speaker 4: Done that one yet? The Massive Wieners Championship.
Speaker 1: I have not done that, but it seems like a challenge.
Speaker 3: On next time.
Speaker 4: I'm your home.
Speaker 2: So seven world records? What world records do you hold
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 1: Actually make that eight? I just broke one on the weekend.
Speaker 4: What's your latest record?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 6: I did twenty four seven ounce pulled pork sandwiches in
Speaker 6: ten minutes, Amy twenty four.
Speaker 4: I hate pulled pork.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're no, no smoke meats, your don't taste it, run
Speaker 8: through the other ones.
Speaker 5: What was the other world records?
Speaker 6: Okay, so I've got fifty three Texas smoke sausages in minutes?
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 1: Fifty three and ten minutes?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 4: What else?
Speaker 1: I've got thirteen and a half pounds of chocolate fodge in.
Speaker 4: Eight minutes that I could get around it?
Speaker 3: Does dessert too?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, My other world records are three hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty six donut holes in eight minutes.
Speaker 4: You could get around that one.
Speaker 5: I could take you there, but you do the donuts.
Speaker 6: And then that's seventy original glazed donuts in eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Hang on seventy seven zero yeah, eight minutes. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So in America there's a brand called Bakemark. They're like
Speaker 6: super famous. They basically make all the donut mix for
Speaker 6: like everywhere that makes doughnuts, like distribute donut mixture.
Speaker 1: Right, So Bakemark. A Bakemark donut.
Speaker 6: Is four ounces, So four ounces is about one hundred
Speaker 6: and fifty gram so maybe double the size of a
Speaker 6: Christma Kreme donut.
Speaker 4: Give it right? So you're eating seventy donuts in eight minutes?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 4: Do you chew or did you shove it out?
Speaker 1: How do I answer this nicely? Now?
Speaker 6: Look to be honest, It's like you have to minimize
Speaker 6: chewing because the more you choose, the more time wasting. Right,
Speaker 6: You're kind of so you're using your teeth to break
Speaker 6: off the food like in your mouth. Like you get
Speaker 6: the food, like say it's a donut, you use your
Speaker 6: teeth to break it off, and then you use your
Speaker 6: tongue to like mash up, and then you're kind of
Speaker 6: swallowing as efficiently as possible.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jane, can you open your God give us a
Speaker 3: look at how big your mouth is. It's a big man.
Speaker 4: What's your proudest record?
Speaker 1: Oh? Look to be honest.
Speaker 6: So, I don't know if you guys know much about
Speaker 6: competitive eating, but the goat of competitive eating is Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 4: And what a cute name for such an aggressive Joey
Speaker 4: Chestnut Nut.
Speaker 6: Joey Chestnut is the goat all time, best ever competitive eater,
Speaker 6: and I beat him in a contest and I broke
Speaker 6: the world record of that two hundred and seventy. It
Speaker 6: was good, It was honestly, it was one of the
Speaker 6: highlights of our life to be honest, what was it?
Speaker 6: What was the record to two hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 6: Buffalo wings in twelve minutes?
Speaker 8: Oh sorry, hang on, I got a one hundred and
Speaker 8: seventy eight wings in twelve.
Speaker 7: Minutes, seventy eight by twelve twenty three a minute?
Speaker 2: That is, How does that impact on you? Like what
Speaker 2: helpens to your guts? And this is more a generic
Speaker 2: question about how your digestive system works.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're not all to vomit after that, like
Speaker 5: you are.
Speaker 1: Nothing can leave your body, nothing can leave your body
Speaker 1: back or front.
Speaker 4: For how long?
Speaker 6: Well, so after a contest, normally you're on stage for
Speaker 6: about fifteen or twenty minutes after a contest, you know,
Speaker 6: by the time they do presentations and whatever else?
Speaker 3: Right and truth fluid during the presentation of a warbling.
Speaker 7: I trust you, Like I could stand up for fifteen
Speaker 7: minutes after having seventy donuts or fifty three.
Speaker 6: So going back to going back to the sporting aspect
Speaker 6: on my on the weekend, I did two hours of
Speaker 6: media straight after my contest.
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to wipe my face. And what
Speaker 1: did you just using photos?
Speaker 4: What did you just down at that point?
Speaker 6: Twenty four pulled pork sanwiches, bloating Jesus, how are you
Speaker 6: so lean?
Speaker 3: How do you get rid of it?
Speaker 1: They personally thank you. I look too. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying I'm fat, but look if you saw
Speaker 6: me three years ago, I was shredded. I was four
Speaker 6: percent body fat. I was ripped from head to toe.
Speaker 6: Now I'm I like to call it fluffy. My wife
Speaker 6: calls it fluffy. To be honest, I spent a lot
Speaker 6: of time in the gym.
Speaker 1: I love the gym. I love to train. The truth
Speaker 1: is you're never going to outtrain this crazy lifestyle I live.
Speaker 1: So the fact is stameless plug. I'm sponsored by my
Speaker 1: mascle Chef.
Speaker 6: So when I come back to Australia after contest season,
Speaker 6: I diet hard.
Speaker 7: I trained seventeen of those. Even I'm angry after one
Speaker 7: of those in.
Speaker 6: My off season. It's it's more about getting back into
Speaker 6: shape too.
Speaker 1: Well. Truthfully, it's contest season now right.
Speaker 6: I got a contest every other weekend until September now,
Speaker 6: and last year this time last year, like after September October,
Speaker 6: I came back to Australia, I was thirds heavier. So
Speaker 6: I have to get back into shape for the next
Speaker 6: contest season, which starts in January.
Speaker 8: James, what's the one food that you you find it
Speaker 8: the hardest?
Speaker 5: To throw it down quickly?
Speaker 6: Oh? So, look, this month has been a tough one,
Speaker 6: to be honest. Look, the toughest food is the food
Speaker 6: you don't like. That's the easiest way to answer it.
Speaker 6: But in America they have foods Okay, last week I
Speaker 6: did the Boloney contest, right, So.
Speaker 1: Baloney is like think of like microwaved devon.
Speaker 6: The bottom of the barrel kind of stuff, smoke with
Speaker 6: some kind of weird sauce.
Speaker 1: I did eleven and a half, didn't win. I came second.
Speaker 3: James, how do you reckon? You'd go with vanilla slices?
Speaker 1: Sign me up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sign me up. I have the biggest in the
Speaker 3: vanilla slices.
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What tips would you give for someone like you?
Speaker 4: Two can race?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not doing it. I've got idea.
Speaker 5: I'm not telling this.
Speaker 7: I'm going to no sugar, no, No, We're going to
Speaker 7: see how long it takes you to eight three?
Speaker 2: What advice do you have for Jason as he contemplates
Speaker 2: his vanilla slice eating competition, What a messy food.
Speaker 1: How big is the vanilla slice?
Speaker 4: That's that's not that's even big to get your go around.
Speaker 6: So I would recommend turning it on the side because
Speaker 6: if you just bite straight down like it's going to
Speaker 6: go everything.
Speaker 4: Don't even straight down.
Speaker 3: We'll keep talking to come on. Your time starts now?
Speaker 7: See how long it takes just one? Okay you ready,
Speaker 7: I'm going to be sick.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 4: Hang on to stop.
Speaker 7: Watch time starts now? James, what do you expect me?
Speaker 4: I reckon.
Speaker 2: It's quite horrific to You're got to push it down
Speaker 2: with his tongue, remember advice, and yeah, you doing wrong time?
Speaker 3: Do you know what, James, Jason's got a really small
Speaker 3: little mouth. Keep going comedy, keep going to.
Speaker 1: Give this amount of glass of water?
Speaker 7: Are you allowed to drink water? And you're eating contexts?
Speaker 1: You're allowed to drink anything that's non alcohol.
Speaker 3: It's good, isn't it? Big boy?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But what would you go for? Something smooth?
Speaker 6: So definitely just finish it, mate, I said for a
Speaker 6: sugar free cranberry juice most of the time, or sugar free.
Speaker 7: Power forty seconds and Jason's throwing the towel in. Oh
Speaker 7: you've got it all over your face. It's a messy food,
Speaker 7: the vanilla slast Ye. Hey James, now you said your
Speaker 7: mum's a good cook. Yes, what's his signature edition? How
Speaker 7: much of it would you just eat casually when you
Speaker 7: have dinner at mum's house.
Speaker 6: Oh that's look look coming from a Croatian household.
Speaker 1: When mama cooks, she cooks for a village.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, So, like, to be honest, we've never had
Speaker 6: a shortage of food.
Speaker 1: It's not about how much he needs to cook.
Speaker 7: You think like, would you eat if you're just going
Speaker 7: to family dinner? Are you eating a ridiculous amount? Or
Speaker 7: do you just eat a normal amount of food like
Speaker 7: everyone else at a normal dinner.
Speaker 6: I can I can be sensible. I can be like, look,
Speaker 6: whatever's on my plate. I can happily be cool with
Speaker 6: that and walk away and be cool.
Speaker 4: You're not get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a gannet where I'm like, where's the food?
Speaker 1: You know? I can.
Speaker 6: I can control myself. I can be civilized that, you know,
Speaker 6: depending on the setting. However, the other side of it
Speaker 6: is like, okay, so my family you're actually small eaters,
Speaker 6: but so growing.
Speaker 1: Up always it's like my dad would finish his meal. Hey, James,
Speaker 1: finish this. My mom will be like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't really want the rest of my stake finished this.
Speaker 4: So I'm always a big eater.
Speaker 1: Garbage disposal man. Like I just get food handed to me.
Speaker 6: So when I'm at a family occasion, like saying my
Speaker 6: grandma's full, my brother's full, whatever, they kind of and
Speaker 6: my wife's worse at this, they just like slide.
Speaker 1: It in front of me. So I'm just like James,
Speaker 1: pown whatever's there.
Speaker 8: James, do you ever have a hooon on the old
Speaker 8: scissler buffet back in the day, You'd be good at it.
Speaker 5: You would have been great.
Speaker 1: In America, you can go to this place called Golden Corral.
Speaker 1: It costs you twelve dollars, unlimited soda and unlimited food.
Speaker 1: It is like Silo, and.
Speaker 5: They would hate you when they see you coming.
Speaker 1: Finally enough they don't they don't mind.
Speaker 6: They think it's hilarious because don't forget, in America, owners
Speaker 6: aren't around.
Speaker 1: They're all workers, right, they think it's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Guys like putting away plates right, and the thing is
Speaker 6: as well, I'm not about wastage. If I take food,
Speaker 6: I eat it. I don't take and then leave it,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So I'm very against food wastage.
Speaker 6: So when people see what is this going eating that
Speaker 6: he's actually eating it, they think it's actually hilarious.
Speaker 4: Hey, James, have you ever pushed yourself too far?
Speaker 8: I was just thinking what happened because I almost checked
Speaker 8: on living thee So.
Speaker 1: Look, I've actually been disqualified.
Speaker 6: I actually got disqualified for my first ever contest last
Speaker 6: year I did. I would have broken the world record
Speaker 6: for tamali's. I did ninety six tomalis in ten minutes.
Speaker 6: But I had food.
Speaker 1: I had literally tamali, and it came.
Speaker 7: Out of my nose and so you got to saud
Speaker 7: because it came out of you.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, like a chunk of tamali, like think of
Speaker 6: like a piece of corn, like a corn on the cob,
Speaker 6: piece of corn, like out.
Speaker 1: Of my nose.
Speaker 4: And so Tomali's like a corn dog.
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 6: Tomali's is like it's called it's called like a husk.
Speaker 6: It's like it's kind of like a like a mince,
Speaker 6: is it?
Speaker 4: I think?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And it's it's got a bit of a bit of tang,
Speaker 6: a lot of paprika, turmeric, you know a lot of spices.
Speaker 1: That was that was not pretty.
Speaker 5: James, Have you ever done a chicken nugget eating challenge?
Speaker 1: I have last year.
Speaker 6: I came second in the Wendy's Nuggets contest and two
Speaker 6: hundred and seven in eight minutes.
Speaker 3: Did you raw dog them or did you have sauce?
Speaker 1: You don't have time for sauce. You just use your.
Speaker 4: So how did just quickly? How does it work?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: If you're doing the chicken nugget eating contest, it's like
Speaker 7: you've got a certain amount you've got to get through,
Speaker 7: and it's how quickly you can do it or is
Speaker 7: there a time?
Speaker 4: And then you say how many you get through?
Speaker 6: Well in a contest, right, because you're eating against others.
Speaker 6: So what they do is they late up. So each
Speaker 6: plate will have like ten nuggets on it, for example,
Speaker 6: and they and you have you have your own plate counter,
Speaker 6: so every time you eat a plate, they'll reach for
Speaker 6: your table. And yeah, so normally any contest go between
Speaker 6: eight and twelve minutes on the contest, right, So then
Speaker 6: at the end of like ten minutes or whatever, they'll
Speaker 6: count how many plates you've got or how many plates
Speaker 6: you've eaten. And then you know you have a stack
Speaker 6: inew of plates that you've eaten and they just count
Speaker 6: the man.
Speaker 1: Obviously they know.
Speaker 6: Ten nuggets per bowl. Twenty bowls, that's two hundred nuggets.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 8: Whatever, Well, look you can check him out online. Jwebbycneat
Speaker 8: dot com.
Speaker 4: Great website, you know it.
Speaker 8: Great website, Australia's number one competitive eater and our guests
Speaker 8: this morning for the experts, James, when you come back
Speaker 8: to Australia.
Speaker 5: Swing past the studio, we should we should try and
Speaker 5: take him on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh no, we won't take you.
Speaker 8: But the three of you versus me, you go, oh,
Speaker 8: we work as a team.
Speaker 5: No hope, we can get him with nuggets.
Speaker 7: May remind you fifty three smoked sausages seventy donuts in
Speaker 7: eight minutes.
Speaker 4: You reckon, you can still beat him.
Speaker 5: I reckon. If we work together, we could take him.
Speaker 4: Maybe the whole team, the whole team, production and all verse.
Speaker 5: James, You're up for it?
Speaker 1: Sounds good to me.
Speaker 5: Done.
Speaker 6: Let's go as long as as long as we get
Speaker 6: the cameras out so when I beat you this.
Speaker 8: Brush James this morning.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks to being a part of the experts, James.
Speaker 1: Thanks James thanks for having you guys. Have a great day.