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Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hi James, how are you guys?

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Speaker 3: Nice to meet you great, how's it going good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing great? We're such big fans. We're

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Speaker 3: really excited about this. We we love your work and

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Speaker 3: I have so many questions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we love hot dogs, but we love food.

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Speaker 2: In general, so we can be friends.

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Speaker 1: It's looking like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, congratulations third place at the Nathan's

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Speaker 3: Hot Dog Championship. I mean that's that's the thing an

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Speaker 3: amateur eater like me dreams of. So congratulations that is massive.

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Speaker 1: Really, yes, like you want to do professional eating?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that is living the dream. Yes, I want to

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Speaker 3: do this so badly.

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Speaker 1: How did you get into this? How did it all start?

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Speaker 2: It's kind of my wife's fault, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not a drinker, personal choice. But my wife

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Speaker 2: wanted to go visit a winery, a famous vineyard and winery,

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Speaker 2: like three hours from where we live in Australia. So

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Speaker 2: to bribe me to go, because she knows I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to sit in a car for three hours to

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Speaker 2: go like do some bougie wine tasting thing, she planned

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Speaker 2: like your day trip of beating. Anyway, So fudge factory,

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Speaker 2: cheese factory, you know, pub for lunch. Whatever. Turns out

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Speaker 2: the pub had a food challenge, and I had no

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Speaker 2: idea about food challenges. I didn't know the caliber of

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Speaker 2: food challenge or the levels. But the owner of the

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Speaker 2: pub was a little bit maybe one too many beers

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Speaker 2: for morning brunch and you know, a bit mouthy. When

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Speaker 2: I went to order my lunch and he was bragging

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Speaker 2: about this burger challenge, I'm like, I'll try it, okay, whatever,

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Speaker 2: Like what's the worst that can happen? You know. He's like, well,

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Speaker 2: it's going to cost you eighty bucks. I'm like, okay, anyway,

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Speaker 2: So did this burger challenge unbeknownst to me, Like every

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Speaker 2: time someone fails, the owner puts like ten bucks in

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Speaker 2: the piggybank. Fifty five people had failed, so the piggybank

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Speaker 2: was aut five hundred and fifty bucks, right, going to

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Speaker 2: what do you give this a go? Pretty much it's

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Speaker 2: five kilos, so that's like ten pounds a big burger

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Speaker 2: and I ate it in twenty three minutes, and not

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Speaker 2: understanding what I had just kind of done, I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I won five hundred bucks. Like cool, let's get on

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Speaker 2: with our day, you know. But the video that the

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Speaker 2: biggest news outlets in Australia, and like within twenty four hours,

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Speaker 2: I had all these messages from like competitive eaters messaging

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Speaker 2: me saying you're really good at this. I'm like, what

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Speaker 2: the hell is this? And honestly, like they invited me

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Speaker 2: to like a contest, and I went to the contest

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Speaker 2: like three days later. I won the contest and it

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Speaker 2: kind of just started this competitive eating thing.

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Speaker 1: What was the first contest? Would you have to eat?

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Speaker 2: It was a cheeseburger and fries, so like two pounds.

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Speaker 2: I did it in like one minute twenty and I

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Speaker 2: beat like all the competitive eaters in Australia without even

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Speaker 2: realizing who these people were. Like these guys were like

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Speaker 2: big time like four years ago, like half a million

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Speaker 2: followers doing exactly what I'm doing now, but like in Australia,

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Speaker 2: and I beat them all without knowing who these people are.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't on social media. I just kind of did it.

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Speaker 2: Never seen a tripody in my life or a microphone,

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Speaker 2: and I kind of did it. And to be honest

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Speaker 2: to this day, the record still stands, and it just

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Speaker 2: it just kicked off everything.

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Speaker 1: So you went into it with no strategy, nothing.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, for the contest, I actually left work early and

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Speaker 2: And yeah, because I didn't I didn't know, Like I

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Speaker 2: kind of just like I love burgers, like I'll go

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Speaker 2: down and do it, meet these people like whatever. At

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Speaker 2: the time I was, I was pretty introverted, believe it

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Speaker 2: or so, like I'm like, oh, yeah, these guys wan like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I had some lunch, went to this burgs test and like, honestly,

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Speaker 2: like that like three or four day period, it really

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Speaker 1: Wow, the burger and fries. Did you eat the fries

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Speaker 1: first or the burger first?

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Speaker 2: The burger first? Okay, it just choice because the burger

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Speaker 2: So I'm like, eh, if I get the burger out

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Speaker 2: of the way, I'm pretty clumsy, so I'm like, knowing me,

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Speaker 2: I just didn't want to be embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so curious, Like, so, I mean speed is

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Speaker 3: like that first one, the very first one you did

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Speaker 3: can you finish it?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: That wasn't like a you weren't you were timed, but

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Speaker 3: like you didn't have to do an underserard amount of time.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so you get thirty minutes.

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Speaker 3: Thirty minutes okay, and then after that's just like how

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Speaker 3: fast can you do it? Are you doing like are

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Speaker 3: you trying to shove the entire thing in your mouth?

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Speaker 3: That I'm curious what's the strategy there?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, right, So I really had no idea

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Speaker 2: what I had signed up for, like, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: all they did they make you sign this waiver, so

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Speaker 2: if you like choke, you know, it's not on them

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Speaker 2: that they make you sit at this table like in

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Speaker 2: the courtyard, like in the middle of the courtyard, so

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Speaker 2: like you can't get up off the table. The whole

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Speaker 2: place is watching you say you know, you can't cheat

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Speaker 2: or whatever, So I'm like, okay, whatever. Cool. I literally

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Speaker 2: up because it was too big to hold. Actually, during

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Speaker 2: that challenge, my mom actually called and I'm like, hey, mom,

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Speaker 2: like my hands are actually full like putty back soon.

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Speaker 2: I didn't really understand what I was doing. I just

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Speaker 2: kind of ate it, like you know the video. It's

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Speaker 2: funny now watching back that video because from time to

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Speaker 2: time it still circulates. I was like getting all the

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Speaker 2: like the rest of the vegetables and stuff, like with

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Speaker 2: my knife and fork and like shoveling it in and stuff.

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Speaker 2: I honestly didn't know what I was doing. I just

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Speaker 2: ate it like as neatly as possible. And I did

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Speaker 2: it in twenty three minutes without even understanding any strategy,

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Speaker 2: redo it. I've done it in twelve minutes, so like

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Speaker 2: almost half the time, and now I know what I know. Right.

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Speaker 3: This is why it's so it's so interesting. Okay, this

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Speaker 3: may sound like a damn question, but like does it

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Speaker 3: does it even taste good when you're when you're like

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Speaker 3: doing it competitively, Like are you like, oh wow, this

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Speaker 3: this is good? Or is it just like I need

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Speaker 3: to get this inside of me as fast as possible.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of both, to be honest. Take it forward.

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Speaker 2: It is in a lot of contests the food isn't great, yeah,

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Speaker 2: because you know, like like, for for example, I have

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Speaker 2: a rib contest this weekend. There's going to be twelve competitors.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to try and eat ten pounds of ribs,

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Speaker 2: so they're probably cooking like one hundred pounds of ribs.

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Speaker 2: So inherently it's not going to be great, you know.

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Speaker 2: But like when it comes to like a food challenge

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Speaker 2: or when I do my social media content, you know

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Speaker 2: by the second bite if it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: good or bad time. And honestly, for the most part,

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Speaker 2: like it's it's a blessing because like if it's good,

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Speaker 2: you get to you get to the best part faster,

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Speaker 2: but if it's bad, you kind of get her of

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Speaker 2: and done with, Like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting, get across the board.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What is your favorite food to eat in a competition?

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Speaker 2: The easiest way to answer that is it's all dependent

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Speaker 2: on what you like. So I love pizza. I love sweets,

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Speaker 2: so I have two doughnut World records. I love chicken wings,

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Speaker 2: so I've got two chicken wing World records as well. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: like contest food, it's always about like you always do

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Speaker 2: better in the contest where you enjoy the food, you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? So for me, I'll always opt

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Speaker 2: for the chicken wings, donut or pizza contests.

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Speaker 1: So on the chicken wing, what defines how much you're eating?

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Speaker 2: Like do you have to eat the gristle to so

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Speaker 2: you start with everyone starts with a twenty pound bowl

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Speaker 2: and it's weighed, and basically like, look, you're not so

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Speaker 2: you can't eat the bones obviously because you're freaking you know,

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Speaker 2: you'll end you But like, honestly, you pick up a wing,

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Speaker 2: you get as much of the meat and gristle whatever

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Speaker 2: you put it back in the bowl. Because the end

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Speaker 2: of the contest, they weigh the bowl so as bowl wins.

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Speaker 2: So if you just take one chunk out of a

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the contest, obviously whoever's eating

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Speaker 2: the most meat wins, you know, So it's all that

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Speaker 2: technique actually, like how quick you can strip the meat

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Speaker 2: as soon as possible.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you said you had a rib contest, I

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Speaker 3: was wondering if it was like like when you watch

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's a lot of technique, right yeah, because

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Speaker 2: again it's all weighed, right, so the lightest bowl will win. Right.

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Speaker 2: You start with like a tray. I think they do

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Speaker 2: trays of ten pounds, So you start with like a

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Speaker 2: You know. That's obviously the more meat you eat. Sorry

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Speaker 2: that didn't mean to didn't mean to rhyme, but the

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Speaker 2: more meat you can get in a lot of time.

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Speaker 1: Like you're gonna you're gonna win, right, Yeah, yeah, Well

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Speaker 1: do you still like like going out for dinner?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I love food. I've always loved food.

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Speaker 2: If anything, I enjoy food a lot more now because, like,

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Speaker 2: for example, like my wife super indecisive, So when we

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Speaker 2: go out to eat, she can't decide do I want beef,

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Speaker 2: do I want chicken? Do I want pasta? I'm like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: get it all and we'll just share everything. Right, So

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Speaker 2: going out actually is super fun because like I just

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Speaker 2: create like a buffet on the table and like you

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Speaker 2: can choose whatever.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to pace yourself when you're at dinner,

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Speaker 1: are you like wo wait, wait.

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Speaker 2: Slow noodnest The funniest part, honestly, the funniest part is Okay.

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Speaker 2: So when you're in a contest, right, your only tool

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Speaker 2: is your drink, So you're programmed never let go of

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Speaker 2: your cup, right, because that's your only thing if you're

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Speaker 2: choking or you need to get it down faster. You

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Speaker 2: got this cup of drink. You got to get it

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Speaker 2: down right. But obviously when you're eating fast, you make

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Speaker 2: mess whatever. Your hands get greasy, so if you drop

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Speaker 2: the cup and you have to pick it up again,

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Speaker 2: like it's hard. So you're programmed to grip your cup

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Speaker 2: and never let go of it right. I go to

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Speaker 2: a restaurant with my wife and I don't even know

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Speaker 2: what's going on. My hand's on my cup, like on

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Speaker 2: the table, and she's like, idiot, it's not a competition.

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Speaker 2: You can like let go of your cup, and I

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Speaker 2: look down my forearm is like pulsating, like gripping the cup. Right.

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Speaker 3: Like ready, well we're talking to James Web. James can

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Speaker 3: I'm so jealous of you that you have these stats,

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Speaker 2: Honestly, Like you Americans, you find a way to turn

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Speaker 3: Seriously, Yes, we're very proud of our eating here.

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Speaker 3: I did, and actually, James, I'm curious what you think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, chocolate's hard, man, that's rough, like the dessert.

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Speaker 2: Had to have the second fastest time, the one in Amarilla, right.

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Speaker 1: Wow, wait what does that mean? Like use your hand?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So like okay, so I look, we could like

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Speaker 2: just smashed it. Right. But actually, when I went to

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Speaker 3: So let's get to methodology. So we're before we hopped on,

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Speaker 3: Is that how you do it too?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So obviously dunking is not a good time, but

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Speaker 1: Be, like doctor Pepper like coke that would be good though, Yeah, but.

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Speaker 2: Like thinking when you lose by like a mouthful of food,

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Speaker 3: Are you just like sitting in your house, like eating

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Speaker 3: I love it. It's like pumping iron. It's great, all that

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Speaker 2: It's exactly like that.

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Speaker 1: What happens following a contest?

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Speaker 1: In as much details you can just so like like

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Speaker 2: Like a volcanic eruption?

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Speaker 2: Can be rough, like to be honest, usually like maybe

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Speaker 1: Have you ever pooped yourself? I do? I mean you

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Speaker 2: Was that a kind of when you say poop yourself?

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Speaker 3: Hey, it's the angels of the trade. You know, we

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a pickle eating contest? We

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Speaker 2: I've never done a pickle eating contest, but I've done

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the spicy ones, they are like they're never a

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Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah I am. I didn't do the contest,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what about sour candy?

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Speaker 2: No, no, So I've got a sweet tooth. I've got

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Speaker 1: But like the sour candy, if you ate too much,

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Speaker 2: finished for like a week.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you truly suffer for this. You have such

434
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,879
Speaker 3: a passion for it. Is do you want to be

435
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,640
Speaker 3: the best in the world? Is that what we're going

436
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 3: for here? I mean, weather option is there of course?

437
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,159
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, competitive eating. Competitive eating changed my life, right like,

438
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 2: it changed the trajectory of my life, my family's life.

439
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 2: It's given us this unbelievable opportunity, this crazy platform. And yeah,

440
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 2: like I'm super competitive. I want to be the best.

441
00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 2: That's no disrespect to the other competitives, competitors. Joey's the goat.

442
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 2: We all know that I've beating Joey before in contests.

443
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 2: He's better me, you know, But that's what we do.

444
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 2: We want to compete to be the best, and we

445
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 2: all kind of have this mutual respect, but we all

446
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 2: know it's like all bets are off in that like

447
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:15,440
Speaker 2: ten minutes.

448
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:15,719
Speaker 3: You know.

449
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 1: Wow, do you guys hang out with each other like socially?

450
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, a bunch of us do. Like any kind of community,

451
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 2: let's call it, there's always like little quicks, right, people

452
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 2: don't like each other. Some people really do. A few

453
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 2: of us are super closed and we hang out. A

454
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 2: few of us keep our distance, and then a few

455
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 2: people just kind of keep to themselves, kind of just

456
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 2: roll with it.

457
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:44,840
Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, So I'm seeing here that you ate nearly

458
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 3: sixty donuts while recovering from a near paralyzing illness. I mean,

459
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 3: that's more than I can do at a peak health.

460
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 3: Tell us more about that. What was the story there?

461
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 2: So Gian Barre syndrome. I was diagnosed in October twenty seventeen.

462
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 2: Basically I went to sleep, pro soccer player, I work

463
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: up paralyzed. That's the long I'm short of it. I

464
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 2: spent the next two years in hospital. They obviously Gainbarr

465
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 2: syndromes are super rare autoimmune disease. Basically, my body, my

466
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,199
Speaker 2: immune system attacked my body and I went through I

467
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,200
Speaker 2: went through it. I was paralyzed. I was on a ventilator.

468
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 2: I was like crazy crazy, But actually I went through

469
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 2: a stage where I was paralyzed. I only had one arm,

470
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: Like I literally had one arm from my elbow down

471
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: on my left side. That's all I could move. So

472
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 2: I could only eat things, and being fed is so demoralizing, right,

473
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,760
Speaker 2: So I could only eat things that required one hand.

474
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 2: So all my friends and everyone bought me boxes of

475
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,719
Speaker 2: like Krispy Kreme donuts, so like that was just there

476
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: all the time. I could just get a donut bang

477
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 2: and eat it, and like, you know, there is that

478
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 2: you're you know, serg in pain or going through whatever

479
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 2: you don't actually eat. But I hate wasting food, so like,

480
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: you know, there was a time where the boxes of

481
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 2: donuts just kind of built up, and I'm like, it's

482
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: going to eat them, you know. It's I could have moved.

483
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 2: I was suck in bed, so I was just like

484
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,360
Speaker 2: eating donuts with like my one workable arm.

485
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 3: Wow, it's I mean, again, what an incredible story. And

486
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: you have this documentary that's come in in August, James

487
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 3: can he What can people expect to see in that film?

488
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: And I just want to say it is a. It

489
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: is a true honor to be a part of the

490
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 2: whole Generation Iron organization, like to be involved with them.

491
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 2: I've been watching Generation I since I was a teenager. Crazy,

492
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 2: but I'm obviously Amazon Amazon Prime August twenty second, so

493
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: equally excited and nervous. I'm not sure what to expect,

494
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 2: to be.

495
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: Honest, Well, you've seen it obviously.

496
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, But when you watch it back, each time, you

497
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 2: notice something different, you know, because it's me, I'm paying

498
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 2: super attention. I'm like, I really said that or did that? Really?

499
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 2: Like you when you when you look at the whole story,

500
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 2: it's actually kind of crazy. I'm living it. So sometimes

501
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,199
Speaker 2: like when you look back, you're like, oh, yeah, that

502
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: really happened. That's me up there, you know what i mean,

503
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: Like it's super shocking, Like you know, I know for you,

504
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 2: like you kind of had this crazy you know, you've

505
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: done some crazy cool stuff. You know, I'll watch you

506
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 2: on TV as a kid, you know what I mean,

507
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 2: Like nothing else you've done. Now as a regular dude

508
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 2: that's done all this crazy stuff. Now I'm like, whoa,

509
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 2: Like that's actually me up there. And it's like you

510
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: notice you fixate on certain things and to be honest,

511
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 2: Like my friends are, like, I haven't let anyone watch

512
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 2: it yet, friends or family, because I just want everyone

513
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 2: to watch it when it comes out, and I don't

514
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 2: know be inundated with the crazy feedback. I guess I

515
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 2: don't even know what to expect.

516
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: Well, we're excited to see it, So what is next

517
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: for you? Like what's on your bucket list?

518
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: Look? Well, firstly, what's next is I've got to get

519
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 2: through the next two and a half months. It's a

520
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: contest season starting up again. We have a small break

521
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 2: after the fourth of July contest. I've got a few

522
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: titles to defend in September, so I'm super excited. I

523
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: got my RIB title to defend this weekend in Minnesota.

524
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 2: So the next two and a half months is going

525
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 2: to be I'll be in a different city every week, traveling, competing,

526
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 2: doing my thing. But in terms of competitive eating obviously,

527
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 2: besides the Nathan's Contest, like that's massive, right always, I

528
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 2: got to qualify for that. That's like the Grail. But

529
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 2: there's also a kind of cool event in Singapore at

530
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 2: Comic Con. I want to I want to try to

531
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 2: get it get an invite to that, so I've got

532
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: to get some cool performances and some cool videos ready

533
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 2: to send it off to them, so hopefully get a

534
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 2: spot at the Comic Coon contest. This this Decembi in Singapore.

535
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 3: I mean, what, yeah, what's the food there?

536
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 2: So every year, every year it changes, but it's so

537
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 2: Asia is massive for competitive eating. Like they're crazy. They

538
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 2: do like forty five minute contests. Now I'm about a

539
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,360
Speaker 2: ten hot dog contest. They're eating for like forty five

540
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 2: minutes to an hour, right, so bang right, but they

541
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 2: turned muck bang into like competition, right, So I just

542
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 2: want to go and experience that and just see how

543
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: I kind of match up against the Asian eaters because

544
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 2: you watch on YouTube they're wild, man. So I just

545
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 2: want to go and compete. So that's definitely a bucket

546
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 2: list for me because like not many, not many Westerners

547
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 2: have had the opportunity to be a part of that contest.

548
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 3: Is like summertime. The I know you have different seasons

549
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: down under, but like it is like summertime like the

550
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: peak season for these competitions.

551
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, so definitely the warmer months. So usually

552
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 2: normally we have one so we have one or two

553
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,360
Speaker 2: contests at either end. So for example Vegas in January

554
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: it's freezing, but there's a very popular contest there and

555
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: usually descend by in Indiana again freezing, but there's usually

556
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 2: a contest either end, but the core contest is from

557
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 2: May all the way through to July fourth. Then we

558
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 2: get a small break and then usually it's the end

559
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: of July through to like mid October, so we get breakes.

560
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 2: But definitely the hotter months is the more popular months.

561
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: And especially like back home in Australia, right it's actually

562
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: winter right now in Australia, so freezing cold. The contest

563
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 2: in Australia start like end of August when it does

564
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: start getting a little warmer in Australia, I think as well,

565
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 2: like when it's good weather, people are going to turn

566
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 2: out to watch. Where it's raining and cold, no one's

567
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: really gonna watch a bunch of maniacs on stage smashing

568
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: a bunch of food, right.

569
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 3: You never know, it's a hell of a draw. Sorry,

570
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 3: And when you're like if you go out of town

571
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: on like a vacation or something, and you go into

572
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 3: a restaurant and you just just by a chance you

573
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 3: see on the menu like oh, finish the finish the

574
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: burger and you'll get your picture on the wall. Do

575
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 3: you ever just do like I mean, that's gotta be

576
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 3: child's played for someone like you. Is your picture on

577
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 3: the wall and like a million restaurants across the world.

578
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty crazy how many challenges I've done, how

579
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 2: many records I've got. To be honest, it really depends

580
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: on how I feel or what i'm doing, Like when

581
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 2: I'm so for example, I've been with my family for

582
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: the past three weeks. After that, they came over for

583
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 2: Nathan's and we kind of stayed together, went to Disney World,

584
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 2: had the family downtime vacation. So I consciously made the

585
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: decision to not do any stupid stuff. I just want

586
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 2: to spend time with my wife and little one and

587
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: catch up because I haven't seen them in five months. Right,

588
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 2: So for the last three weeks, I've been taking it

589
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: super easy. But like, for example, I'm in Minnesota now.

590
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 2: So if I go if I'm going out for dinner

591
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 2: tonight and there's a burger challenge on the menu, hell yeah,

592
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: I'm going to smash it.

593
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 3: I love it.

594
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: That is awesome. Wait, do you get trophies?

595
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? To be honest a lot of a good contest.

596
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: They have the wrestling belts. So I've got a bunch

597
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: of I've got a bunch of belts. I've got a

598
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: bunch of trophies. It's actually super cool. You're Americans clause,

599
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: you guys take it seriously, like you guys love memorabilia

600
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 2: and stuff, right, So I've got some super cool wrestling belts.

601
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: I've got some massive trophies. Honestly, competing winning stuff in

602
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 2: this country is awesome.

603
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: O Hey, where do you put it all? Do you

604
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: have a room for it?

605
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, So I've got at home in Australia, I've

606
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: got like this big shelf, but it's now gone to

607
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 2: three shelves and it's taken up like a big chunk

608
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: of our living room wall. So I've just recently, because

609
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: I've launched my clothing line, I've built a gym and

610
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: a warehouse and for the clothing I'm going to make

611
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 2: like a section for all my memorabilia because my wife's

612
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: got some. I've got some super sentimental stuff. My wife

613
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 2: got it all framed up and stuff. So I'm going

614
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: to on the wall of the gym in the warehouse,

615
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 2: I'm going to chuck it all on the wall, and

616
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a corner for my trophies and

617
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: my belts and stuff because it's taken up so much

618
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: of our apartment.

619
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: So cool. Wait, tell us about your clothing line.

620
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so the can syndicate basically. Obviously, my handle

621
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 2: on social media is Jweb you can eat, But I

622
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 2: guess the backstory along and the short of it. When

623
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: I started doing this, everyone's like, you're a maniac, Like,

624
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: don't do this, Like you can't make a living from

625
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 2: eating and blah blah blah or social media. I'm like, no,

626
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: I can and I will, right, So you can do

627
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: anything right. I dress a certain way, I have a

628
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 2: certain style about me, and everyone's like, you shouldn't wear that.

629
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, I can wear it. I can do what

630
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: I want, right. So the whole image of the brand

631
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: is you could do what you want, right, And so

632
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: I made this brand. Can for example, like I like

633
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: oversized T shirts, so I made oversized T shirts. I

634
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 2: like mid length shorts and crew socks. So I kind

635
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: of just made clothes that I like to wear. But

636
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: it kind of it started off as just I want

637
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 2: clothes for me. That's it. Then it started, it escalated.

638
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 2: Now I've got half a warehouse full of clothes that

639
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: people seemingly want to buy. It's pretty wild. It's a

640
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 2: cool story. But yeah, it honestly started because like I

641
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 2: just want to stick it to the man, and you

642
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 2: can do what you want. And I'm moving through for

643
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 2: if you try hard enough, you can make it happen.

644
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 3: I love that so much. That's awesome, that's so inspiring.

645
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: Well do you have to worry like medically about like

646
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Speaker 1: cholesterol and yeah, things like that.

647
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Speaker 2: So obviously health, I've been through it with my health.

648
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: Health is everything I understand. With health, you've literally got nothing.

649
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 2: So I get checked up every time I go back

650
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 2: to Australia. The routine. My wife picked up from the airport.

651
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: So I'm my mama's boy. I have to go home

652
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: for coffee and cake with my mama. But first things first,

653
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 2: I have to go to the doctor, get my bloods done.

654
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: Then I can go see my mom. So I always

655
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: every time I come back to Australia, I get my

656
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: blood work done, calcium score, cholesterol, blood sugar, all that

657
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. To be honest, last blood test, I

658
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: actually was fine, Like everything was in mid range. Everything

659
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: was okay for the most part. Like I had a few,

660
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 2: like you know, you know, a few like deficiencies, but

661
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: not crazy crazy, you know, taking a month off when

662
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: I go home. It kind of fixed everything. But my

663
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: dentist hates me. My dentist absolutely hates me because I'm

664
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: a left hander, so I chew across my mouth, so

665
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: I always chew on my right side. I'm starting to

666
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 2: get a receding gum on one of my teeth and

667
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: my dentist is like, chew on the other side. I'm like, no, no,

668
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 2: I can't because I need to win. And she's like,

669
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 2: you know, she's trying to explain it to me, like

670
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 2: you know, habits, if you have to have a gum

671
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 2: graft and whatever. I'm like, yeah, I'll just go to

672
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 2: Turkey and get some veneers. Don't worry about it.

673
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Speaker 1: Wait, when you're like in the height of competition, what

674
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: is your libido? Like does it affect Like after competition,

675
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: do you want sexy time? Or now.

676
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 2: You need to ask my wife. But to be honest,

677
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: it does you get affected? Like you're so lethargic, And

678
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: to be honest, even preparing for a contest because you're

679
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 2: depleting your body, trying to like make maximum space in

680
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: your body. You know, Like, let's be honest, for the

681
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: month of June, every second day I was eating hot dogs.

682
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 2: That is not nutritious at all, Right, So, like, yeah,

683
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: you go through like periods of like lethargy and like

684
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 2: you don't want to like you know, you're just existing,

685
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 2: like oh, you think you're so and that's I guess

686
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: that's the weird part with what we do. You obsess

687
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: over things like your technique or whatever, right, and it's

688
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 2: all you think about. So yeah, honestly, I do know

689
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: that like libido goes down, anything goes down. That's why

690
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 2: my wife is such a geek. She's just my supporter.

691
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: She just knows, like I need to help. Like, for example,

692
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 2: when they came over in June, we've got to go

693
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: to Walmart, We've got to get to hot dogs, we've

694
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: got to cut the hot dogs, we've got to plate

695
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: up the plates. And she just knows, like for this month,

696
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: it's game time, right, So she helps me thing. And honestly,

697
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 2: without my wife, I'll be so screwed. Man. I'm just boy,

698
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: I'm a man, Like I can only do so much, right,

699
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: my wife is the brains of the operation.

700
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Speaker 3: Ain't that the truth?

701
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: Man?

702
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 3: That's how it is. Yeah. What, And I know you

703
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 3: probably have an allegiance to Nathan's a little bit, but like,

704
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Speaker 3: is there a brand of hot dog that you that

705
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 3: you like that you prefer when you're training?

706
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 2: To be honest, I'm not sorry if I should say this,

707
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 2: but I actually don't like hot dogs. Wow. But for

708
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: the life of me, I don't know how you Americans

709
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: spend money on hot dogs. Like, I get it. It's

710
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: it's an American It's a delicacy. It's a thing. Right.

711
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: In Australia we do meat pies. Again, not the greatest food,

712
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 2: but it's kind of iconic, right. I'm the biggest fan

713
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 2: of hot dogs, so, to be honest, I think I've

714
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: only ever eaten Nathan's hot dogs because of the event.

715
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,959
Speaker 2: Like I've never actually bought the other brands, because I

716
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 2: actually don't want to eat hot dogs in my spare time.

717
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 3: I get it. I completely understand. Really, yeah, I mean,

718
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: if you're doing it that hard and that competitively, I mean,

719
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Speaker 3: I probably the other thing is we don't have.

720
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Speaker 2: Hot dogs in Australia, like what you guys call a

721
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: hot dog, we don't really have in Australia, So I no,

722
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 2: So like I didn't grow up eating the hot dogs

723
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: that you guys call a hot dog, right, Like, so

724
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 2: we we do like a thing called a sausage sizzle.

725
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: It's like a beef sausage in a bread like a

726
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 2: slice of bread, right, or our hot dogs. If you

727
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 2: go to Australia and buy a hot dog from like

728
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: a restaurant or whatever, it's like a Frankfurt. But like

729
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 2: what you guys physically call a hot dog, we don't

730
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: have that in Australia. We have a beef sausage or

731
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: like a Frankfurt, right. But this hot dog thing you

732
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: guys have is like a hybrid of both.

733
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Speaker 1: Cocktail winnies like pigs in a blanket.

734
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 2: So we don't really so pigs in a blanket aren't

735
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 2: really a thing in Australia. We have like cocktail frankfurts,

736
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: and again you put it in like a bread roll.

737
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: But like I was trending in Australia, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah,

738
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: like I know what a hot dog is. I got

739
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: here and I had no idea what I was doing.

740
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 2: I had no idea what I was looking at like, honestly,

741
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 2: what you guys call hot dog is is not what

742
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 2: we call a hot dog, and I it sounds really crazy,

743
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 2: but it's different. Wow.

744
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 3: I mean that makes what you do is all the

745
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 3: more impressive.

746
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Speaker 2: I think.

747
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Speaker 1: Do you eat sushi?

748
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 2: I love sushi.

749
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: You've been in a sushi competition?

750
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Australian record is one hundred and two pieces of

751
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 2: sushi in two minutes and twenty three secs.

752
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 3: One hundred pieces and two minutes. Oh my god, Oh

753
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: I just got.

754
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 2: Not Yeah, that's Australia and hopefully never be beat in.

755
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Speaker 1: That doesn't even sound okay for your body, like your

756
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: mercury level.

757
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 2: Look, the best way I can describe what I do

758
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 2: or what we do, it's kind of like a boxer, right,

759
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: or any kind of combat sport. They put their body

760
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 2: through hell in preparation for the fight or the game day. Right,

761
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 2: for game day, you're going to get punch in the face.

762
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: Now we all know face is not necessarily good for you, right,

763
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 2: and they recover and go again. Competitive eating is the same.

764
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: You put your body through hell in preparation or game

765
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 2: day to be punched in the face by a bunch

766
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 2: of hot dogs or a massive tray of sushi and

767
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 2: then you recover and then you go again like a

768
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 2: week later.

769
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Speaker 3: I mean it's a sport, it's an athletic athletic feet wow,

770
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 3: and it hurts. Yeah, yeah, I mean you're yeah, you're

771
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 3: putting your body through hell. James, this is so fascinating.

772
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 3: We have enjoyed talking to you so much. Again. J

773
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 3: Webb Kenny on Instagram. The documentary James Kenney that is

774
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 3: on Prime Video August twenty second.

775
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: I am sake to watch it.

776
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 3: We're so pumped.

777
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Speaker 1: Last question for you, when I excited after we talked

778
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: to you that we would do a little competition between

779
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: the two of us eating hot dogs, do you have

780
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: any tips for us?

781
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 2: If it's just one hot dog, I would not recommend

782
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: dunking it. I would just try eating it.

783
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: The dunking. I can't do the dunking, but.

784
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: Drink in one hand, hot dog in another. Drink Bye

785
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: bye drink.

786
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 3: Okay, bite bite drink. That's a good rhythm.

787
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: Bite whoa yeah, bite.

788
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: Two small bites a sports of drink to like soften

789
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: it up right and then swallow it and then bye

790
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: bite drink, bite, bite drink. Hopefully you can do the

791
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: hot dog in like six bites, right, so like one

792
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: to drink one to drink one to seelander the champions.

793
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: What if I throw up?

794
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 2: Then you're just qualified? Any best?

795
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 3: What interesting?

796
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 2: Nothing can leave, nothing can leave your body. So I've

797
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: got a random story for you. I got to qualify

798
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 2: for my first contest last year in a Tamali's contest.

799
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 2: I managed to eat ninety seven Tomali's in ten minutes,

800
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: and I had so much Tamali in my body it

801
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 2: actually came through my nose. But but like chunks of tamali.

802
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: It looked like porn shot out of my nose. And

803
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: I got to qualify.

804
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: Do you say porn or corn?

805
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: Corn? Corn? That is insane? Oh my god, the visuals

806
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: are like horrifying. I can't believe you experienced that in

807
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 3: real life. That's crazy.

808
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: Wait, you give food porn a whole new name.

809
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 2: Wait, I think there should be I think there.

810
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: Should be a channel called only food instead of only

811
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: fans any people Like I don't know if.

812
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 2: I should say this or not say this or not,

813
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 2: but there's people out there that ask for bloat of

814
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: belly pictures and burd.

815
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: Videos and they are and what videos?

816
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, they offer cash and.

817
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: Oh, I can make a lot of money.

818
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know when you drink some soda and

819
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 2: you but right, so I'm not joking. There's I know

820
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 2: some people that have been paid to do this kind

821
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: of crazy stuff. So it's kind of like it's kind

822
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 2: of like only food but like marketplace style.

823
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: Hey, we don't want to yuck anyone'sym. We're not here

824
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 3: to kink sheen. But that's uh. You know there's something.

825
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 1: We bloated videos. I would do really well with one

826
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: of those right now, really bloated. I don't know how

827
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat these hot dogs. Deep breaths.

828
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: To be honest, you hold your breath a lot in

829
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: a contest, so you breathe when you drink.

830
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: Interesting hold your breath bye bite drinks so.

831
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: You says bye bite, take a small breath, drink, swallow,

832
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 2: breathe out, bye bye.

833
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm not that coordinated to that rhythm.

834
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: That's what we that's what but see that that's what

835
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 2: we practice, honestly, Like, that's what goes into preparation of

836
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: a contest. Right, you got to pick your time because

837
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 2: you feel they're just the guy next to you is

838
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 2: going to be eating more food. Than you, right, so

839
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 2: you've got to kind of coordinate your breathing that doesn't

840
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 2: affect the rhythm.

841
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: Is there one food sorry before we go? Is there

842
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: one food you absolutely hate but you will have to

843
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 1: eat it one day to go through all these competitions?

844
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I think the hardest contest for me is baloney.

845
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 2: So it is a very very pat and big baloney contest.

846
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 2: I did thirteen pounds in eight minutes. Joey beat me

847
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: by just one. I think it was one and a

848
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: half or two pounds, and I don't but bony is

849
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: next level harsh, like it's it's just like smoked baloney.

850
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 2: It's not even like bread or nothing. Right. I understand

851
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 2: a bloonney sandwich is a quite popular just autumn here

852
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 2: in America, But this is just juice and I was

853
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: just trying to get as fat as I could and

854
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,720
Speaker 2: it's just the flight and all.

855
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 3: Super Oh god, well some hot talk. Yeah, Well, we

856
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 3: are such big fans of you, James again, James Webb

857
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 3: James can Eat. Watch the documentary foll him on Instagram.

858
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 3: He is he is the goat. If you ask me,

859
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 3: this guy is a hero. J Webby can Eat on

860
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 3: Instagram thank you so much for joining us today and

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Speaker 3: thank you for all the tips man, thanks for sharing

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Speaker 3: your secrets with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys for having me. I honestly I really

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Speaker 2: appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much, and good luck

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Speaker 2: with Thos.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, James. Bye.