1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: Kabbooms. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now in 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: the air. 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: Everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: Radio is underway. We are off to the races, and 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: this a super special edition of the Fifth Hour podcast. 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: Now why is this podcast different than most other podcasts 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: that we do here. Well, the reason is We're gonna 16 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: be chatting in a few minutes with the greatest professional 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: athlete in the entire world. Now that is not hyperbole. 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I'm not embellishing this. In the entire globe, the whole 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: planet that we have here, there is one man that 20 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: stands above all the rest, and that man is going 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: to join us in a few His name is Joey Chestnut. 22 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: Now I would assume the position based on the radio 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: show and the fact that I have talked about this 24 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: guy quite a bit that you are aware of who 25 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut is. But if you buy off chance are not, 26 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: you're not that educated, bad job by you. So we're 27 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: going to talk to him, but I want to kind 28 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: of set this up, give you the full retrospective before 29 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: we bring Joey in here. Joey Chestnut is by far, 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: he's like Secretariat, what many lengths ahead of the field 31 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: when it comes to competitive eating. So that's the first thing. 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: He does twenty to twenty five events each year. Currently 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: Joey chest Nut holds not one, not two, not three, 34 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: not four, not five. How about fifty five world records. 35 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: Fifty five world records in the domain of major league eating. 36 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: Now the biggest of them all, the gold standard, is 37 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, which just took place 38 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: the other day on July fourth in Coney Island out 39 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: there in Brooklyn, and the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest the record. 40 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut did not set a new record this year, 41 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: but he had seventy six hot dogs and buns a 42 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: few years back in ten minutes. Seventy six dogs and 43 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: buns in ten minutes. That is the global record. But 44 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: that is just one of many records, that's the one 45 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: that's the sexiest record, that gets all the attention and 46 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: all that. But did you know, let me give you 47 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: some of these other glazed donuts. Now, back in my 48 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: big eating days, I could get through a dozen glazed 49 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: donuts in no time at all. But after that, I 50 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: don't know if you've tried eating glazed donuts, but after 51 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: about a dozen, even when I was at my fattest, 52 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: when I was porking the pig okaya back in those days, 53 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: even at that point, about a dozen was my limit. Well, 54 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut has the all time record fifty five glazed 55 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: donuts in eight minutes. Here's something I have not eaten on. 56 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: My mom tried to get me to eat one when 57 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: I was a kid. I said, no, Mom, I don't 58 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: want that, And now as an adult, I'm never gonna 59 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: eat it. Hard boiled eggs not a fan. Not a fan. 60 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: And Joey Chestnut, he has the record one hundred and 61 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: forty one, one hundred and forty one in eight minutes 62 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: that Joey Chestnut ate back in the day. I can 63 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: go on and on. How about pulled pork sandwiches? Not 64 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: my thing? I'm not sure how big these sandwiches were, 65 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: but Joey ate forty five of them in ten minutes. 66 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: He did an eating contest with Taco Bell. You know 67 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: those soft shell beef tacos. He ate fifty three of 68 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: those in ten minutes. I'm pretty sure back in the 69 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: day I could have done something similar. They're not that big. 70 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: You can squish them. I think I could have competed 71 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: in that domain. But what else? Twinkies? Now, I love twinkies. 72 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: I was all about the twinkies back in the day, 73 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: and those are pretty easy to eat. They're light and 74 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: fluffy and there's the cream filling in there. Joey Chestnut 75 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: ate one hundred and twenty one one hundred and twenty 76 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: one twinkies in six minutes. How crazy is that? But wait, 77 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: there's more. We're not done. I don't know if you've 78 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: ever had those crystal hamburgers. They're not that big, right, 79 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: crystal hamburgers. So Joey Chestnut a couple years ago ate 80 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: one hundred and three of those in eight minutes. He's 81 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: also the King of the Chicken wing. I'm not sure 82 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: if this is at the old radio promotion the Wing 83 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: Bowl in Philadelphia, which they did for years with a 84 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: guy we've had on the podcast, Angelo Cataldior Dot. But 85 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: either way, Joey Chestnut in the span of twelve hours, yeah, 86 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: not minutes, twelve hours, Hey, four hundred and thirteen chicken wings, 87 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: which is the world record. Is any of this impressing you? 88 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: How about Big Max? We've all had Big Max, right, 89 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: even if you're a vegan, you've eaten a Big Mac, 90 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: the Big Mac for McDonald's, the Classic Sandwich for Mickey 91 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: D's in thirty eight minutes, Joey Chestnut eight thirty two 92 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: Big Max sandwiches, which is also the world record. The 93 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: ice cream sandwich. I love an ice cream sandwich. To me, 94 00:05:54,080 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: the perfect dessert is a big giant glob of vanilla 95 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: ice cream and two properly baked, soft but not too soft, 96 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies, and you slap that ice cream in 97 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: between those two chocolate chip cookies, and you make the 98 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: perfect ice cream sandwich. I don't need all the other 99 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: bells and whistles. I don't need that. I love the 100 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: ice cream sandwich. Now. I can eat a couple of 101 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: those things. 102 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 3: I know. 103 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: If you go to Trader Joe's, they've got like a 104 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: four pack. They're really small. There's another place here in 105 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. There's a bakery in the South Bay that 106 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: makes a Supreme Supreme ice cream sandwich. It's a little 107 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: bigger and it's more expensive, but either way, I love them. 108 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 1: And Joey Chestnut in six minutes, six minutes. Back in 109 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: the day, he ate twenty five and a half ice 110 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: cream sandwiches twenty five and a half. Now that's the 111 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: good news, right, the good news. The bad news is 112 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: that all of these titles, all of these accomplies. It's 113 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: not like the NBA, where you can sit on the bench, 114 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,239 Speaker 1: get hemorrhoids and you're still going to make a gazillion dollars. 115 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: For example, the minimum so I go to baseball, the 116 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: minimum salary in baseball is seven hundred thousand dollars a year. 117 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: Now where I live, if you make seven hundred thousand 118 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: dollars a year, you are rich. You are loaded. Oh 119 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: my god, are you loaded? If you've got that kind 120 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: of scratch, And that's the that's the major league minimum. 121 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm so old. I remember when I was a kid, 122 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: the announcers used to kid around about the fact that, 123 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: you know, these guys have to get other jobs of 124 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: the offseason. They're making the major league minimum. They can 125 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: they can't afford to do anything. Well, if you're making 126 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand dollars plus on top of that you 127 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: get all the bells and whistles, all the perks of 128 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: being a baseball player, you're doing very well well. The 129 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: reason I bring all this up, Joey chestnut does not 130 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: make ridiculous money. He's a man who is amongst the regulars. 131 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: He's not a higher level in terms of financial income. 132 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: In fact, most of these eating events pay one thousand 133 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: bucks here, a couple thousand there. I think the most 134 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: is the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest, which was ten 135 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So you get ten grand at the Nathan's contest. 136 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: But there's other factors involved in that. And so Joey 137 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: chestnutt has made a good amount of money as a 138 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: product endorser, as a pitchman for Pepto bismol. He did 139 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: a promotion with Raising Canes last year. Might beloved Raising Canes, 140 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: and so he's doing okay. He has own line of 141 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: hot sauces that he does there. He does a lot 142 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: of paid appearances. In fact, from what I've heard, and 143 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: Joey did not tell me this, but from what I've heard, 144 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: a number of big corporations I'm talking about Wall Street 145 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:04,599 Speaker 1: corporations have requested that Joey Chestnut come hang out and 146 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: talk to the masses and all that and have a 147 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: grand old time. And he gets paid a good amount 148 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: of money. So he's he's found different revenue streams over 149 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: the years, and he's doing okay. I mean, you think 150 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,479 Speaker 1: he'd be doing better based on all of the dominance 151 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: he's had in competitive eating. Now, as for the event 152 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: that took place this week in New York, the fourth 153 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: of July, what a spectacle, What a spectacle this thing 154 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: has become. And it's really a great credit to the 155 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: people behind the professional eating outfit. And then it's also 156 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: a discredit to Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball, the 157 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: fourth of July was always the day, that's the biggest day. 158 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: There's no NBA, there's no NFL. Training camps don't start 159 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: in the NFL for a fair amount of time, and 160 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: so you had baseball on an island by themselves. It's 161 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: a very hard to screw up an island when you're 162 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: on an island. Now, I realized that the NBA Summer 163 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: League is a thing. I don't quite get the neurosis 164 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: around the NBA Summer League. I don't. I used to 165 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: go to the Summer League when it was in Southern California. 166 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: It was in Long Beach for a while, and in 167 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: Irvine they had the NBA Summer Pro League, and no 168 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: one gave a rats ass. There was hardly anyone there. 169 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: When I say there was hardly anyone there. I would 170 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: go out to the NBA Summer Pro League and some nights, 171 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: depending on which teams were playing, you would see crowds 172 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: of maybe a couple hundred, maybe a couple hundred. I 173 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: flip on the Summer League in Vegas. These games are 174 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: on TV, and I'm looking at thousands of people. The 175 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: fact that the games are on TV is insane to me. Right, 176 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: So that's going on, but that's not that big a draw. 177 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: And then you've got Major League eating and this has 178 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: become the event that everyone talks about. You know, back 179 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: in the day, I had a program director PD and 180 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: this program director he said, you know, Ben, you gotta 181 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: be on the pulse what people are talking about at 182 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: the water cooler, because that was always the argument. These 183 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: radio consultants said, you know, what are people talking about 184 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: at the water cooler. I don't know if people still 185 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: talk about these things at the water cooler. I don't 186 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: work in a cubicle setup, and from the feedback I've 187 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: gotten from you guys that listen to the show, most 188 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: of you do not work in a cubicle situation. Now 189 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: we are a podcast, this is the fifth hour podcast, 190 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: and so it's a little different to the people that 191 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: are podcast listeners, but those that are listening live to 192 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 1: the overnight show, the terrestrial radio show. When we're doing 193 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: it live overnight, it's fair to say that you're not 194 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: in a cubicle, that you're driving a truck, you're rolling 195 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: around in bed because you have sleep apnea or some 196 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: kind of sleep condition where you can't sleep, or you're 197 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: doing some kind of physical labor job. That's most of 198 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: the people that work the third shift, and that's kind 199 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: of been the way that it's happened. So I don't 200 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: work in a cubic situation. So I don't know if 201 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: that they're still hanging around people still hang around the 202 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: water cooler? Is it the vending machine? Maybe you sit 203 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: there and look at the snickers, should I get the Snickers, 204 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: the Nestley crunch bar and all that, but get to 205 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: the point, please. So the point is that the hot 206 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: dog eating Contest is the thing people talk. It's you 207 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: want to strike up a conversation with a family member 208 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: or someone that you're hanging out with friends over the 209 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: fourth of July. Hey, did you see how many hot dogs? 210 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: Joey chest Nune eight? Did you see the hot dog? 211 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: And no, I didn't see it. Oh well you wait 212 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: till you hear about this. And they go on and 213 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: on and it's it's amazing thing. So the hot dog 214 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: contest is on the fourth isly as we say, and 215 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: the build up for this thing is next level. Now 216 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: there's a guy. We had him on the podcast. I 217 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: think it was two years ago or three years ago. 218 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: It might have been three years ago. Now this guy 219 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: named George Shay. Now, if you've watched the Eating Contest 220 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: on television, George Shay is the playing the role of 221 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: the Coney Island Carnival Barker. He's got the straw hat on, 222 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 1: he's got the full outfit, and he's the one that 223 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: is the hype man. And there is no better hype man, 224 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: no better hype man in the entire world than George 225 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 1: Shay and the guy he's fascinating because he's obviously a 226 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: big shot at major league eating that's his gig, but 227 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: he's also got another job which he does not act 228 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: anywhere near the character that he is. He really puts 229 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: on the bells and whistles. And this is the event, 230 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: the Hot Dog Eating Contest, and he introduces all of 231 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: the combatants and it's like a wrestling match or a 232 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: boxing match if you haven't watched it, but to give 233 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: you an eye if you missed it this year, if 234 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: you've never seen this before and you're like, what the 235 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: hell are you talking about? 236 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: Malard? 237 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: All right, fun, So I have a little audio clip 238 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: we're going to play. This is from the Entertainment and 239 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: Sports Network from the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Take 240 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: a listen to George Shay. This is the introduction for 241 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut. And there's a thousands of people. The crowd 242 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: was thirty thousand in a lightning and rainstorm on Cony Isla, 243 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: So there were tons and tons of people. I mean, 244 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: here's a big crowd here, bigger than the NBA or 245 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: the NHL. Get and bigger than most baseball attendances during 246 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: the week. So thousands of people hanging out Fourth of July. 247 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: Everyone's having a good time. The booze is a flowing. 248 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: George Shay is at the microphone from Major League Eating. 249 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: He's the one making the introduction. And here is what 250 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: it sounded like when Joey Chestnut, the gold standard, the 251 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: man we're going to talk up to here in a 252 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: few minutes, When Joey Chestnut got up and he stood 253 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: up there and George Shay introduced him. Take a listen 254 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: to the word magic. One of the great speeches of 255 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: our time in the world of sports. And I don't 256 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: think I'm blowing smoke on this. Here is George Shay 257 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: introducing Joey Chestnut for the event of events in Major 258 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: League Eating. Take a listen. 259 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 4: Fifteen thousand generations of humanity, yet we have evolved, not 260 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 4: at all, found like animals to the laws of physics, 261 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 4: shamed before the universe, and in all of history, only 262 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 4: one man has stood to say that he will dictate 263 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 4: what is and is not possible in this world. 264 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: I speak of this man. 265 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 5: He has broken reality and all the time burst out 266 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 5: around us now and once simultaneous and endless eraising cars 267 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 5: and effect and opening all posibilities before us. And the 268 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 5: ancient flowers are subordinated to their own creations, and they 269 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 5: smile at his achievement, and. 270 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 6: They say he needs shot with forever, for he does 271 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 6: not do it for money, He does not do it 272 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 6: for glory. He does it for his peopels, He does 273 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 6: it for his country. 274 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: He does it for freedom. 275 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 4: I give you the number one ranked eater in the world. 276 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 3: Joy just. 277 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: And the introduction from George Shay, what a scene that was, 278 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: and the audio it's just tremendous, the right he is 279 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: that completely memorized. He told me a couple of years 280 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: you go back into the archive of the Fifth Hour 281 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: podcast that George Shay, who was doing the introductions, we 282 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: had him on, and he says, he writes all that 283 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: stuff down and then he has to memorize it. And 284 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: what a great memory. That is very impressive from George Chesh. 285 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: So that was the introduction, and then the event took 286 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: place Joey Chestnut. It started late. There was a weather delay. 287 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: There was lightning on Coney Island, so the whole event 288 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: got delayed. In fact, at one point it was canceled, 289 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: and people were freaking out. You can't cancel the Nathan's 290 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,239 Speaker 1: Hot Dog Union Contest. What's wrong with here? 291 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 3: Anyway? 292 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: After a two hour weather delay, the event was back 293 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: on and spoiler alert spoiler alert, my man, Joey Chestnut. 294 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: He did win again. Otherwise we would not be having 295 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: him on the podcast. But Chestnut went out and in 296 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: ten minutes a sixty two hot dogs and buns, So 297 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: he did not break his previous record, but in ten 298 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: minutes of time. A couple of fun facts. A that's 299 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,479 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand, four hundred and fourteen calories in ten minutes. 300 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: The carbohydrates, it's almost fifteen hundred carbohydrates. Proteen was I 301 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: six't eighty two was the number that I saw on 302 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: that total fat one thousand, one hundred and twenty nine. 303 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: Any dietitian, any dietitian, will say, what are we doing here? 304 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: My god? But Chestnut one. And so that means now 305 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: that he has won out of the last seventeen years, 306 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut has won sixteen out of the last seventeen 307 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: Mustard Belts, the Great Mustard Belt, and so he's the 308 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: all time king at this and he's added another notch 309 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: to his belt. Now full disclosure, one of the reasons 310 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: I have been going through all of this on the 311 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: podcast is we've been trying to track down Joey Chestnut 312 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: as he is at this time we are recording this podcast, 313 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: he is leaving New York, so the phone communication has 314 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: not been that particularly great as we've tried to track 315 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,239 Speaker 1: down Joy, but we do have them online now. So 316 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:12,719 Speaker 1: we welcome in to the fifth hour podcast, The Man, 317 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: the Myth, the legend, the greatest eater of all time. 318 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: Let's start with this. How would you grade your performance 319 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: in the hot dog eating contest that took place with 320 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: all of the variables, everything that went on, Joey, how 321 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: would you grade your performance in this year's contest? 322 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 3: I didn't break a record, but I got the win 323 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 3: and conditions were weird. Oh everything was delayed. But yeah, 324 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: I'm happy with it, but it gives me I'm a 325 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 3: little bit hungry. They come back and and proof. 326 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: What was going on behind the scenes, because it was crazy. 327 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: At one point they announced the thing was going to 328 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: be canceled. There was a lightning delay and kind of 329 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: walked me through that what was going on behind the 330 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: scenes there. 331 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 3: It was a really really big storm and lighting. There 332 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 3: was lightning strikes, I guess on the beach. So the 333 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 3: city wanted to clear out the crowd, so they Yeah, 334 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: they announced it was canceled for a while, and then 335 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 3: eventually it cleared up and the stayed. So, uh, we 336 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 3: had the contest. 337 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: Now, there was a viral clip of you. I'm sure 338 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: you're aware of it now where you were you were 339 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: storming out there. You had this this look on your 340 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: face like you were not going to allow this thing 341 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: to be be canceled. What was what was going on there? 342 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 3: How? 343 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: How how was the communication to you and and how 344 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: big a role did you play and making sure this 345 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: thing did not get canceled? 346 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: I don't think it was me that much. Try. I 347 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 3: went out there because the crowd was still chanting, and 348 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 3: if they're out there, they were stayed in the rain. 349 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 3: So I went out there and say hi people, and uh, 350 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 3: the crowd stayed. I think that that really it was 351 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 3: really the crowd that did it. Uh if they had left, 352 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: they would probably rescheduled it somewhere else. But uh, like 353 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:54,919 Speaker 3: they like, the crowd might have revolted if if if 354 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 3: the city full one canceled it. 355 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, what was it like, I mean, I saw the 356 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: clip of them channing Joey, Joey Joey. Maybe that happens 357 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: all the time to you. It's never happened to me. 358 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: What's that like when you're walking out there and you 359 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: get a you know, thousands of people chanting your name 360 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: like that. 361 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 3: Oh it's uh, it's insane, and that's awesome. It makes me. 362 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'll do whatever it takes to mega record 363 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 3: or get the wind. So I'm really happy that have 364 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 3: all worked out. 365 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: So they had to boil. I saw they had to 366 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: boil a thousand more hot dogs use of the delay 367 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: and all that you eat so fast. Does the quality 368 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: of the hot dog actually mattered? 369 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 3: Negative? Doesn't boil? I thought they grill them? Maybe they 370 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 3: they're delicious. Yeah, they do a pretty good job. Unfortunately, 371 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 3: some of the dogs they that I got, they had 372 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 3: been sitting out for a little while just because did 373 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 3: they get the delay? And then some other ones were 374 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 3: like super fresh and amazing, So it was it kind 375 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 3: of messed up my rhythm a little bit, going from 376 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 3: old fresh dogs. But uh, yeah, they do a pretty 377 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 3: good job. I'll make sure the quality is. 378 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: Good, but you actually can you actually tell the different 379 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: you're eating so fast. It's it's fascinating to me that 380 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: you can actually tell what's good and bad because. 381 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 3: Absolutely it's like it's like a race car driver driving 382 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 3: on a bad road versus a new a good road. 383 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:10,479 Speaker 6: Uh. 384 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 3: If there's a bomb for something, uh, they hit it 385 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 3: really hard and fast. If there's a flavor or at 386 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 3: sure that's a little bit difficult, I'm going to hit 387 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: and run into it a lot again and again. 388 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: Now we talked to you last year. I know you've 389 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 1: got your routine Joey and all that. Is there something 390 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: specifically that you listen to to kind of get you 391 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: fired up before this is the super Bowl of competitive eating? 392 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: So is there something you tune in music or something 393 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: you tune in to kind of get yourself fired up 394 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: for this thing? 395 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 3: Uh? Some a little bit, a little bit of hard rock, 396 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 3: a little bit of Static X or maybe some rub Zombie. 397 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 3: But yeah, but it really that's one for practice. The 398 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 3: contest day, it's the audience gets me fired up. It's 399 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 3: hard to get fired up for practice, but the contest 400 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 3: day it's Uh, it's it's still a trick. 401 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: How how early do you get up before the hot 402 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: dog contest, like you get up there. 403 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, I make sure I get up early early day out, 404 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 3: because when you sleep, that's when all your muscles work 405 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 3: together to digest everything. That's when your stomachs at the smallest. 406 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: So I made sure I wake up super early so 407 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 3: I can make sure everything stretched and loves by the 408 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 3: time I eat. 409 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: I was trying to explain to somebody, Joey, that the 410 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,239 Speaker 1: preparation that goes into this, like you're I compare you 411 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: to like a boxer, Like how walk us through that? 412 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: How long does it take to get and you do 413 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of these events during the year, But how 414 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: long is it a couple of weeks? Is it a month? 415 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: How long do you prepare for these events? 416 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 3: And I'm a little bit Barras's almost two months, seven 417 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 3: or eight weeks, depending on how I'm feeling. But this year, 418 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 3: this year is full seven weeks and and then once 419 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: a week I'm doing practice, and and there's a before 420 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 3: we practice, and a recovery period after and right right 421 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 3: like right now, I'm still recovering. I won'll be back 422 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 3: to my normal wait for a couple more days. And uh, 423 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 3: it's you try to peek around close to the post 424 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 3: July and it's sometime I love. 425 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that you do. I think you said 426 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: you did like a liquid cleanse type thing in preparation. 427 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: Is that? Is that accurate? You have like a liquid 428 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: diet before the contest. 429 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 3: Cleanse beforehand, lemon juice, water, couple a little oil to 430 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 3: make sure that everything's out in my system and it's easy, 431 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 3: clean highway for it for me to digest. 432 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've done so many of these things over 433 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: the years. Now do you have the what happens to 434 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: your body after? Are you you have that down pass? 435 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,239 Speaker 1: It different every year when you eat this many hot 436 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: tugs or some years easier than other years. 437 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: How did that's the delay? It made it a little 438 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,400 Speaker 3: bit harder of the body. I tried to time out 439 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 3: everything pretty perfectly, how much the liquid I'm drinking, and 440 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: then how much they little bit of caffeine right beforehand. 441 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 3: So uh, I kind of it ended up taking a 442 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 3: little bit more caffeine than I usually just take. So 443 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 3: it's a little bit harder and get Yeah, I love 444 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 3: hydrated after the contest this year, so I'm not getting 445 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 3: the best today, but I'm getting it. 446 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: And I also saw that you you you said you 447 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: take like a long nap when you're done with all 448 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: your media stuff after the kind of how long a 449 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: nap do you take? What's your what's your sleep time 450 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: after this thing? 451 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 3: Well? I think that I passed out for about four 452 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 3: hours and had some crazy dreams and it alon'st feel 453 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 3: like a different day when I wake up. 454 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: Wow. And then how long does it take And you've 455 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: been asked this so much of touch and how long 456 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: does it take for your body to kind of feel 457 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: normal after you eat that much food? 458 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,959 Speaker 3: Different degrees and normal? Like, I'm not feeling great now. 459 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 3: It'll it'll take two more days to feel really normal normal. 460 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 3: But it's something I know, and it's not I'm not 461 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 3: gonna be right for a while. 462 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: Do you eat the day after the next couple days 463 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,479 Speaker 1: or do you fast after that to kind of let 464 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: your body? 465 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 3: A rua salad earlier today? Uh, I actually it wasn't 466 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 3: that good, but I was. I ate it. Uh And 467 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 3: I had a post too. 468 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: When people see you eating a salad, do they say 469 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: what are you doing, Joey? 470 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 3: Why are you Why are you eating a I have 471 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 3: to eat high fiber otherwise otherwise I'm trying to keep 472 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 3: things moving bro, it's not it's not. Yeah, And if 473 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 3: I IF I, if I needy carbs, really that's when 474 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 3: the weight really stays on me. So the high fiber 475 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 3: will help me get everything to get through the systems. 476 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: So what do you do with all these trophies? You 477 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: won a bunch of awards. The hot dog one is 478 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: the big one, but you do a bunch of these 479 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: other things. You've You've won just about all of them, 480 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 1: it seems here. So do you have like the coolest 481 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: man cave in the world. Where do all these things go? 482 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 3: I don't know. I have an office and then there 483 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 3: are a couple of places. There's some friends who own 484 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 3: restaurants who they have a couple of my trophies and 485 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 3: I get to go there. Well, yeah, we trade drinks 486 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 3: for trophies. 487 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, there you go. You should you 488 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: ought to open your own restaurant show that'd be perfect, man, 489 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: you could have your error. 490 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 3: Restaurants are a lot of work, and that becomes your life. 491 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, uh yeah, I don't know, that'd be a no. 492 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: You you know, people, Joey, I could I could see 493 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: you could get hooked up with some restaurants something and 494 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: then you could have like you know, Joey chestnuts buffet 495 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: or something like that. You could that's that could be 496 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: big money for you. 497 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 3: I think we thank you. 498 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: We'll say you told me last time we talked about 499 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: you you came from a family of prolific eaters and 500 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: all that is it is your talent, you think genetic 501 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: or is it a product of environment and how you 502 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: kind of worked yourself into what you've become. 503 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 3: I'm a natural eater, but like any like anybody, have 504 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 3: to practice and phone in your skilled. Uh. There's there's nature, 505 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,640 Speaker 3: but there's all the nurture. I remember the first time 506 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 3: I did a dot contest, I did twenty dogs, and 507 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 3: now now I feel the same way when I actually 508 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 3: I feel better kind of a three yesterday then I 509 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 3: did they did twenty. 510 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: Do you think you could actually teach like a master class, 511 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: one of those type classes if somebody came to you 512 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: said I want to be the next Joey Chess. 513 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 3: I don't know. It's something. Yeah, maybe it's possible. If 514 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 3: somebody really wants to do it, they can learn and 515 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 3: they get if they want to push themselves, they can 516 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 3: get better. 517 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this, Joe, I know you're busy and 518 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: you got stuff going 519 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:21,959 Speaker 3: On, and thank you so much of the bell I'll 520 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 3: put you take care