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Speaker 1: in the podcast Joe Joe for another edition The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. And we
Speaker 1: are in for a special treat. Someone that I have
Speaker 1: been hoping to chat with. I have said I need
Speaker 1: to talk to this person, and Danny G has been
Speaker 1: able to make this happen. He has booked a person.
Speaker 1: We're about to talk to, one of the greats. And
Speaker 1: you talk about greats, you talk about Leggis, and that
Speaker 1: gets tossed around a lot in what we do. But
Speaker 1: this is a bona fide signified, a living icon in
Speaker 1: the world of sports. Do you think of the the
Speaker 1: all time greats? I don't do Mount Rushmore's, I don't
Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff. But Tom Brady, Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Joey Chestnutt, Mainbane. That's right, Joey
Speaker 1: chestnut the greatest eater in the history of the recorded world,
Speaker 1: and the hot dog eating contest. The Nathan's hot Dog
Speaker 1: Eating Contest is coming up on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: So I said, well, this is the perfect time we
Speaker 1: need to talk to Joey. Just not the Bay Area legend,
Speaker 1: the man that went to San Jose states. We must
Speaker 1: talk to him. I like the extended winner. How dare
Speaker 1: you to set this up? If you're not a fan
Speaker 1: of competitive meeting, Joey Chestnutt is like Secretariat compared to
Speaker 1: all of the other competitive eaters, He's light years ahead
Speaker 1: of everyone. He has world records for all kinds of things,
Speaker 1: and the hot dog records the most famous. This is
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl my man, Joey Chestnut eight seventy four
Speaker 1: Nathan's famous hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. He
Speaker 1: set that world record back in But it's not just
Speaker 1: hot dogs. This is what this guy does, this is
Speaker 1: his life. He ate fifteen sixteen ounce bowls of gumbo.
Speaker 1: He has the world record for gumbo in eight minutes. Uh.
Speaker 1: He he ate thirty six ounds tacos, fish tacos, he
Speaker 1: has that record. How about hard boiled eggs in eight minutes?
Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut, the man, We're about to talk to a
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty one hard boiled eggs. It's insane,
Speaker 1: Holy CANNOLLI. Uh so there is no debate that Joey
Speaker 1: Chestnut is the all time greatest eater. Come on in
Speaker 1: man joining us here on the fifth hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g. Joey, thank you for doing this.
Speaker 1: I know you're training and you don't like to do
Speaker 1: a lot of these things before the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest,
Speaker 1: But can you paint the picture for us? What is
Speaker 1: practice like for the hot dog contest over the years
Speaker 1: has changed a little bit. When I was younger, I
Speaker 1: could practice like every third day. Now it's now every
Speaker 1: sixth day, and full on practices are. They're hard on
Speaker 1: the body. It takes wild to recover. The practices are
Speaker 1: are pretty much a simulated contest. I'm eating, oh my god,
Speaker 1: seventy plus hot dogs towards towards the last few practices,
Speaker 1: and then then it takes time to recover and then
Speaker 1: preparation for my next practice and right now to two
Speaker 1: days of fastening pretty much to cleanse so joey, like
Speaker 1: when you're before. I had seen stories where you had
Speaker 1: been quotas in like you did a lot of like
Speaker 1: stretching your stomach out with like water and things like that,
Speaker 1: but you actually eat seventy five hot dogs or so before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So there's there's water training in the mornings all every morning.
Speaker 1: I'll wake up. First thing I do is I drink
Speaker 1: a gallon of water and then I count how many
Speaker 1: gulfs and it takes you do that. I'll drink a
Speaker 1: little bit of milk, and there's just there's there's tricks
Speaker 1: to keep the stomach stretched and loose. Even even if
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a ton of calories. At least once
Speaker 1: a week, I have to do an actual eating eating
Speaker 1: practice that it's uh runners, after run, I have to eat.
Speaker 1: So who cooks the hot dogs for you? You have
Speaker 1: like a team of people that make them. You have
Speaker 1: to make them yourself. Like, how's that process work? I
Speaker 1: was awesome to fiance and she's she can cook hot dogs, dude,
Speaker 1: she almost Sometimes she makes them too tasty. It's it's
Speaker 1: the trouble. So I have to make sure she had
Speaker 1: has to undercook. I'm a little bit because sometimes on
Speaker 1: the Fourth of July, Uh, if it's super hot, the
Speaker 1: hot dogs get undercooked a little bit, and uh sorry,
Speaker 1: I have to make sure that I'm not making them
Speaker 1: too good. So when do you like get to New
Speaker 1: York for the Are you there? Now? Do you go
Speaker 1: in last minute? Like, yeah, yeah, you're there, I'm already
Speaker 1: in New York. It helps me stay focused, uh while
Speaker 1: while while I'm prepping and and doing my last last
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, just just keep getting ready for this event. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So would you compare yourself? Like, I'm fascinated by this year.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk to you because I've followed the
Speaker 1: competitive eating for a long time and I remember the
Speaker 1: days before you showed up on the scene and uh
Speaker 1: and since you've been there, you're just dominated. But you're
Speaker 1: so you'd say you're kind of like a boxer. Would
Speaker 1: that be an accurate portrayal? Like a boxer before fight
Speaker 1: you kind of spend a month getting ready or but
Speaker 1: you do this year round, so you're always kind of enstraaining, right.
Speaker 1: You do events throughout the year. It's not just the
Speaker 1: hot dog contest. You're doing stuff all the time, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're kind of right. Um, it's kind of both was Uh.
Speaker 1: For this contest, it's definitely more like a boxer marathon runner.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my body, every everything in tune
Speaker 1: for for that for that tenaminent contest or that event. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to peak make sure my capacity is perfect.
Speaker 1: And then there's other contests throughout the year, smaller ones
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to practice for nearly as much,
Speaker 1: but i still want to do my best. But by
Speaker 1: by far, this this is the biggest contest of the year,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I'm putting all going all in on
Speaker 1: this one. So you've dominated over the years. You are
Speaker 1: the gold standing, not even close with this hot dog
Speaker 1: eating coust and the Anthans Hot Dog Eeting contest. Do
Speaker 1: you ever get nervous anymore? You've done so many of
Speaker 1: these things and you're just like the back of your
Speaker 1: hand at this point. Or do you still get a
Speaker 1: little nervous for something like this. I definitely get nervous. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a shy guy naturally, but uh, I get I
Speaker 1: get gumped up getting on stage in front of I
Speaker 1: think there's like twenty five thousand people they're watching. Dude,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I'm nervous and I'm just adrenaline is pumping
Speaker 1: and I can do feel like I can do, uh,
Speaker 1: whatever I need to do, I'm willing to do it.
Speaker 1: So you're like, I'm an introvert. I do a radio show, right,
Speaker 1: I have a radio show some pretty well. But when
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, I'm kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: I keep to myself. And are you that kind of you?
Speaker 1: You're like me just to kind of keep to yourself, don't.
Speaker 1: You're not an out there Yeah, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: super outgoing. Uh, and I'm not my mom. I was
Speaker 1: seeking attention outside. Uh, it's just I'm really laid back.
Speaker 1: But this one setting, I don't have a choice. I
Speaker 1: gotta go out there and uh the phone, you're in
Speaker 1: the Goldilocks zone with all the food. Right. I love
Speaker 1: the story too. Right. I was reading your and I
Speaker 1: heard this a while ago. Your brother kind of dragged
Speaker 1: you into this, right, You did not anticipate in this
Speaker 1: life that you have created that it wasn't right, That's exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't my idea at all once, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: like I was, I was kind of ashamed how much
Speaker 1: I could eat fairly growing up, But I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was always like I'm not not ashamed as much
Speaker 1: as I was just like self conscious that I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't don't want to go wild, make it,
Speaker 1: make a fool of myself, embarrass myself. But as soon
Speaker 1: as I got on stage that first time, it was
Speaker 1: like it was it was like I found true love.
Speaker 1: And uh, it was like I was like I was
Speaker 1: bade for this and I don't have to hold back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can push it to the limit. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: actually I wanted to ask you about that because you
Speaker 1: were so much far ahead of everyone else who does
Speaker 1: this in most of these contests, Like it's the old
Speaker 1: nature versus nurture debate, Right you was it you were
Speaker 1: just born with this? Or did you did you at
Speaker 1: some point develop this? It sounds like you were born
Speaker 1: with it, right, you just had to There's definitely there's
Speaker 1: there's definitely some part of it. I was born with it,
Speaker 1: and then uh, and then then after that's that's with
Speaker 1: most things. Uh A natural runners naturally gonna be a
Speaker 1: good runner, but to be on an Olympic runner have
Speaker 1: to be naturally good and you have to you have
Speaker 1: to train. My first contest for hot dogs, I did
Speaker 1: twenty and a half and then uh and then as
Speaker 1: flow as the train mean and figuring out my body.
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing seventy six. So it's uh, there's definitely
Speaker 1: nature and nurture. There's a combination. And uh, I think
Speaker 1: anybody who trains, I could definitely train them up to
Speaker 1: probably be about thirty hot dogs. But it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of work. And uh, you have to love to eat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when so when you were going up and I
Speaker 1: heard the story that you would come home from from
Speaker 1: school and just pig out right, you just go for it. Uh?
Speaker 1: And does anyone else in your family have this skill?
Speaker 1: Do you think you're the only one? Is it pass
Speaker 1: down from generation? Oh? My god, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a running joke like if a chestnut was gonna get
Speaker 1: famous for something, it would be eating, because everybody in
Speaker 1: our family is if we're huge eaters, like that's great,
Speaker 1: Like we we we would have like we if we
Speaker 1: brought friends over like for dinner, like they would be amazing.
Speaker 1: Like the entire family just eat big portions for dinner.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know it was like our the
Speaker 1: only thing we have a huge family dinner every night.
Speaker 1: That's great. And so this could be like the next generation,
Speaker 1: like you know, Lebron's trying to get his kids in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Joey Chestnut right down the line and the
Speaker 1: next great competitive eater right it's in. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the world, I don't know if the world needs
Speaker 1: another crazy chestnut right around. Well well, but but down
Speaker 1: the life you to see what we could have a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty hot dogs right the next the next way,
Speaker 1: the next generation all that stuff. So now the other thing,
Speaker 1: this comes up every year because the Hot Dog Contest
Speaker 1: on the fourth of July, Nathans Hot Dog Contest, the
Speaker 1: Great Joy Chestnut here but the debate of are you
Speaker 1: an ath and I have I have seen some of
Speaker 1: the stories about what happens to your body after an
Speaker 1: event like this? Do you do you consider yourself an athlete?
Speaker 1: Joe Oh, I have to the amount of the amount
Speaker 1: of energy and thought and sacrifice aftertly I'm willing to
Speaker 1: do for this. Uh, I definitely see myself an athlete,
Speaker 1: and uh, some people don't. That's all right, right. I
Speaker 1: remember when I was younger, there are people who have said, oh,
Speaker 1: golf golfers. Golfers aren't athletic. It's not even a real sport.
Speaker 1: So it's things change, people's perspectives change. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: to just yeah, but I suffering. Yeah, you're testing your body, right,
Speaker 1: you're testing the limits of your body, and and uh
Speaker 1: and you also, I mean you're competing with other people.
Speaker 1: So those are a lot of that. To me, it's
Speaker 1: a sport. But what does your doctor say, do you
Speaker 1: does your doctor say, what are you doing here? Knock
Speaker 1: it off? Or is he cool? So so I moved
Speaker 1: last year, so I finally found a new doctor, put
Speaker 1: in some works finding a doctor. And he's a good dude. Uh.
Speaker 1: He actually run my blood. I think it was like
Speaker 1: just this year alone, He's running my blood four times.
Speaker 1: Make sure all my organs are working right. Whatever I'm doing,
Speaker 1: he said, they can keep doing it. He's a good guy. Right.
Speaker 1: He used to have another doctor. She was she was
Speaker 1: amazing back in California. She she's she was all about
Speaker 1: how many brains from a new ideas to push myself
Speaker 1: and how to state how to recover after the contest.
Speaker 1: But they're looking at the numbers and uh, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're making sure that I'm actually healthy, not not just
Speaker 1: then I worried so much about the one time contests.
Speaker 1: You're now in the Hoosier State, right, What the big
Speaker 1: move to the to the Midwest? Is that for g
Speaker 1: geographical reasons or I mean, you know, I get into it,
Speaker 1: But that's a big move. It was a big move.
Speaker 1: But so I travel so much for the eating contests
Speaker 1: and UH and the appearances. It was great to be
Speaker 1: in the middle of the country. I go to Florida,
Speaker 1: I go to New York, Texas. It was just way easier.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of friends out here. I
Speaker 1: miss California. I missed parts of it. It's it's great
Speaker 1: to be on the East Coast time zone. And now
Speaker 1: now I can do UH if I have to do
Speaker 1: radio interviews early in the morning, it's so much easier. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm thirty eight. Who knows. I might.
Speaker 1: I might move back to California eventually. Yeah, it reminds
Speaker 1: me doing the radio show. I the show seon Kid
Speaker 1: and I got dragged Enjoy to the program director's office
Speaker 1: and he had a big map right over his desk,
Speaker 1: and he he pointed out where the population is in
Speaker 1: the United States, and there's a lot of people live
Speaker 1: in California obviously, but most of the population obviously in
Speaker 1: the Eastern time zone. That's where people living. That's your
Speaker 1: business and all that, But I wanted to ask you, now,
Speaker 1: you went to San Jose State, when you were like
Speaker 1: in college years ago, how did you envision your life
Speaker 1: and you think you would have just like a regular
Speaker 1: job and construction or engineering or something like that, or yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that was the plan. I was getting the
Speaker 1: civil engineering degree and I aage avanging myself working for
Speaker 1: a general contractor working on project management. I was I
Speaker 1: was on track for that, and uh then then I
Speaker 1: fell in love with the competitive eating and it's just like, uh,
Speaker 1: it just changed my direction completely. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I was one of the things about competitive beatings that
Speaker 1: I had never imagined that I that I enjoyed, is
Speaker 1: I get to I get to make other people happy.
Speaker 1: That there's people who drive for hours to come see
Speaker 1: me and enjoy watching the contest. And I never imagined
Speaker 1: that I have a fan base and that that I
Speaker 1: enjoyed making happy. So it's a I would never would
Speaker 1: have I mean I would have been a good, good
Speaker 1: project manager, and I never made anything happy. I was
Speaker 1: always arguing over money and schedules and and changes. It was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was completely different and uh different, just different feel Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I wanted to. We talked about you're an
Speaker 1: introvert like I am. We have that in common. And
Speaker 1: but you've met so many people because of this. You're
Speaker 1: you're a pop culture You're in pop culture every year
Speaker 1: at the hot Dog and the Nathan's hot Dog Contest
Speaker 1: every year, Joey. So, who's the coolest celebrity? Who's a
Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut fan that you were very surprised to find out?
Speaker 1: Is there somebody that pops in your head, somebody that
Speaker 1: we know of celebrity or somebody from from pop culture?
Speaker 1: Like why can't that guy's a fan of competitive eating?
Speaker 1: He kind of enjoyed what I do. It was, it
Speaker 1: was it was completely random. Uh. So a woman comes, oh,
Speaker 1: Mr Crystal would like to meet you, and it was
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal And then you help me, Mr Cheta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal. I mean I'd never expected him to want
Speaker 1: to meet me, and uh and he was super nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have good questions and and uh it's a really
Speaker 1: nice guy. That's cool. And then a leggie in Hollywood
Speaker 1: and and that's alute legend and comic legends. So how
Speaker 1: many events? Now this is your full time gig, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you are you are the King of competitive leaders,
Speaker 1: So you don't this is your job. You're training year around.
Speaker 1: So how many events on average do you do in
Speaker 1: a year? Is your number A sweet spot? It's that's
Speaker 1: actually eating contests or about twenty uh during the summer.
Speaker 1: It will pick up. I think after hot Dogs on
Speaker 1: July twenty seven, they'll be in I'll be in Vegas
Speaker 1: getting Raising Cain's chicken fingers. Yeah, there you go. That's
Speaker 1: my spot. Joe, you gotta do bet Joe, you gotta
Speaker 1: do me proud. That's my that's my chicken finger place.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's like it's like I'm a kid.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's like I'm Peter Pan chicken fingers.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to break a record and trying to get
Speaker 1: I want to get fifty in five minutes and uh so,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's I got that one coming up in July.
Speaker 1: I got a rib contest in August, uh in Minnesota
Speaker 1: and it's so oh chicken wings and buffalo and late August.
Speaker 1: So it's so I get to eat all. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the summer. I'm gonna eat a
Speaker 1: ton of good food that I love. You're like, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like Willy Wonka, but with food with not
Speaker 1: just chocolate. You're you're doing now, you do not Sometimes
Speaker 1: you eat really things that are kind of nasty. Brain
Speaker 1: pacos does not sound just so that was all right.
Speaker 1: So the only reason why I agree to go to
Speaker 1: that contest was it was a a It was at
Speaker 1: a huge zombie pub crawl and it was a big party,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a great party. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you it was. It was a fun time and uh
Speaker 1: but it was it was brain tacos and they looked
Speaker 1: brains and they were rough. I had to pretty much
Speaker 1: eat with my eyes closed and just only open them up,
Speaker 1: just make sure I was one ahead of the guy
Speaker 1: next to me. That there is that the worst thing
Speaker 1: you've eaten in a contest. There is there something more
Speaker 1: worse than that, and worse than Unfortunately there's one that's worse.
Speaker 1: There was early on in the creation. Then it shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been worse. It should be. It should have been delicious.
Speaker 1: I was eating crab cakes, uh casino and it was
Speaker 1: in Delaware, and I remember I arrived at the event
Speaker 1: and they already had the food sitting out and I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, that's weird. And then when they when
Speaker 1: we got called up, I announced that I could smell.
Speaker 1: It was like there was fish in there and they've
Speaker 1: been sitting out for and it was. I almost got
Speaker 1: sick during the contest, and I it was the only
Speaker 1: time I had to run off stage. After the contest.
Speaker 1: They literally get food poisoned everybody, and Uh, I'll never
Speaker 1: go We'll go back to midway slots in Delaware. Shot fired.
Speaker 1: So that's the one you have nightmares about. You don't
Speaker 1: have nightmares hot dogs or anything else, but that's the
Speaker 1: one that pops. That's the one. And I love crab cake.
Speaker 1: I turned me off for crab cakes for quite a while,
Speaker 1: but now I can't even eat them again. But d
Speaker 1: it was I'm not calling any punches with that. That
Speaker 1: that that's like, I'm not a fish guy anyway, but
Speaker 1: the idea of fish shitting out, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: that's that is horrible. That's a stomach ache waiting to happen. So, now,
Speaker 1: what is the easiest food eat you? What's the one
Speaker 1: that you can just NonStop in a contest setting that
Speaker 1: you have no problem with it? That is, people would
Speaker 1: say hot dogs because you're so good at it. But
Speaker 1: is there something else that's just easy to eat in
Speaker 1: the contest? Yeah, how do how dogs are naturally good
Speaker 1: for me? But it's such a big contest. I'm putting working.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not going easy on it. Uh, once in
Speaker 1: a while checking wings. Chicken wings are it's not a
Speaker 1: capacity food, it's a technique food. And uh it's it's
Speaker 1: a fun one. If they're usually Buffalo, they're amazing Wingfest
Speaker 1: and uh the people who show up to that event
Speaker 1: are always there there. They love love, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a huge event and uh I always have a great
Speaker 1: time there the chicken wing guy. But you're gonna be
Speaker 1: You're gonna sit a record. I'm so exciting. I you're
Speaker 1: going to the Canes thing later the summer, after the
Speaker 1: hot dog thing, And yeah, I can polish off six
Speaker 1: Joey in about twenty minutes at my when I eat lunch,
Speaker 1: the candy at combo. But you're you said fifty and
Speaker 1: how what's the time on that? I want to I
Speaker 1: want to make sure I want I'm gonna have five
Speaker 1: minutes to five. I'm really hoping I can do. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to hustle. Oh yeah, that's gonna be cool.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the the Nathans things this weekend
Speaker 1: on the fourth of July. So the question when I
Speaker 1: I talked about this every year. I'm fascinated about what
Speaker 1: you do and I want to know it kind of
Speaker 1: walk us through post contest, because that's the one people
Speaker 1: ask many questions about what happened when a human being
Speaker 1: pushes the limits like the Great Joey Chestnut. It's seventy
Speaker 1: plus our talks. So right after, how many hours does
Speaker 1: it take for your shall we say, to things to
Speaker 1: exit out of the fireworks? Yes? Yes, the light of
Speaker 1: the light show. Uh, it's a I I've never exactly
Speaker 1: timed it, but yeah, I would say it's roughitly five
Speaker 1: hours before nature starts working. But it's it's weird because
Speaker 1: so after after the contest, I have to do interviews
Speaker 1: for about an hour afterwards, and they put it for
Speaker 1: me this weird like bullpen and they bring more people
Speaker 1: up every every five minutes interview meanings. So it takes
Speaker 1: it takes about an hour to get through that. Then
Speaker 1: then it takes an hour to get to get back
Speaker 1: to the hotel in Manhattan. So and then I pass
Speaker 1: out about I say, about five hours after the contest.
Speaker 1: I wake up with a look in my eye that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm running, you're running? And then are we
Speaker 1: talking hours on the iron portion or yeah it's people
Speaker 1: are like people thinking that it's not it's not the
Speaker 1: way it works is uh, there's no, it's not coming
Speaker 1: out all at once, so there will be different waves
Speaker 1: and uh, it comes in waves, and yeah it's And
Speaker 1: then I would I'm I'm happy, I dode, I got
Speaker 1: I gotta dude. Wife sponsors sponsorship the went wives for men.
Speaker 1: You joke, that's what That's what I'm putting them the
Speaker 1: use I love it. I love it. And then uh,
Speaker 1: and how long until before before you you feel normal? Like?
Speaker 1: Is there? Is it a couple of days? Is it
Speaker 1: a week? How long it's it takes it? And no,
Speaker 1: it's if it's a good uh portagely and I'm not
Speaker 1: be hydrated, it'll take me about a day and a
Speaker 1: half to feel pretty close to normal. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: then and then another another day or another day and
Speaker 1: a half uh to get back to my normal weight.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, it takes it takes about three days
Speaker 1: to get get pretty close to normal normal. Um. But
Speaker 1: there's different degrees of and when recovering. Have you pushing
Speaker 1: the body that hard? Uh? Definitely takes some time to recover.
Speaker 1: So what's your diet like normally like when you're out
Speaker 1: just like during when you're not training for an event?
Speaker 1: You just are you doing fasting? Like eat like pretty
Speaker 1: I hate pretty clean and unless i'm unless I uh,
Speaker 1: I try to once a week, I'm definitely having uh.
Speaker 1: Just I wouldn't say reward days as much as like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm enjoying enjoying food. I'm not. I'm not holding back,
Speaker 1: but I try to keep it pretty uh pretty pretty
Speaker 1: strict diet, low carb, high protein and uh and and
Speaker 1: and and it allows it so that I, uh that
Speaker 1: once a week, I during the weekends and I can
Speaker 1: push it with whatever food I want, whether it's contest
Speaker 1: or or or just pure pure pleasure. So do you
Speaker 1: have a man cave with You've one like these belts
Speaker 1: and these awards and all this all over the country.
Speaker 1: You have like a big man cave in your house
Speaker 1: in Indiana, a trophy room or what do you do
Speaker 1: with all this stuff? Oh? My god, I have Uh
Speaker 1: so I have a couple of boxes I never unpacked
Speaker 1: from California, a lot of my trophies. I I have
Speaker 1: an office with with with a ton of my trophies.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so so yeah, they're kind of spread around.
Speaker 1: I need a man cave. Uh, I need to put
Speaker 1: some work into that. But it's uh, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Uh and uh, yeah it was. It was okay,
Speaker 1: it was. It's weird. You don't realize. I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how many contests I did until I
Speaker 1: was actually packing up all the all the trophies. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you never know until you move how much
Speaker 1: stuff you have. Right, Yeah, it's weird. It's a pain
Speaker 1: in the pain the behind there. Man. Alright, So, how
Speaker 1: many more years you're doing this show? You you said
Speaker 1: you're thirty eight, right, you're gonna be your forty before
Speaker 1: you know it and all that. So how many more
Speaker 1: years you have in this? I don't know. I feeling
Speaker 1: I feel good. I looked at Tom Brady he's still
Speaker 1: going at forty three. Uh there forty four now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's uh, I need to make sure that I
Speaker 1: remained healthy, so I gotta keep putting work in. Uh
Speaker 1: it'd be nicer to be nice to start working out
Speaker 1: a little bit more so that I can. Uh that
Speaker 1: I can. And there's a couple of things I need
Speaker 1: to do to make sure that I can stay healthy
Speaker 1: and keep pushing it. But uh, I know I got
Speaker 1: at least at least two more years. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: and you're you got the website there you're selling Is
Speaker 1: that your sauce? Right? Your name is that? Yeah, that's you.
Speaker 1: How's that going? And people buying the sauce. It's fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people buying sauces. Uh, and people who
Speaker 1: love to eat. So, yeah, we've got the Cony sauce,
Speaker 1: which is like it's's kind of like a catch up.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's not not not quite a sweet to
Speaker 1: catch up, a little bit more tang to it. And uh,
Speaker 1: then my spicy muster that which I'm in love with,
Speaker 1: I'll put that on. I love that hot dogs or
Speaker 1: anything that. Yeah, any sandwich, that's cool. And then I
Speaker 1: saw you can get in an autograph or you'll autograph.
Speaker 1: People buy stuff on there, And I mean, this is
Speaker 1: I guess a cheap commercial. Why not? But on your website,
Speaker 1: Joy Chestnut's website you can buy sauce, you autogo something.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned it. So I just wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of wrap up with this. So you said you could
Speaker 1: train someone like as a coach, a competitive eating coach.
Speaker 1: Do people ask you about coaching? Do they say, hey,
Speaker 1: help me out, I need some pointers on this and
Speaker 1: and uh and would you get into that Once you're
Speaker 1: done physically doing the eating, would you teach other people
Speaker 1: how to do it? Yeah, I've definitely there's definitely been years.
Speaker 1: Have helped over the years, uh and helped it and
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I enjoy seeing them, uh push their
Speaker 1: bodies to a new new level. Uh, it's it's a
Speaker 1: weird kind of Uh. Yeah, I I enjoy seeing other
Speaker 1: people do it. Um. Sometimes I'm definitely against it. I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think there's enough. It's not I
Speaker 1: don't want to make a career out of that, but
Speaker 1: I I still love the contest. But you think thirties
Speaker 1: about the limit? Right? You said about when you could
Speaker 1: teach somebody. I think I think most Yeah, most people
Speaker 1: who I've seen a lot of people who who had
Speaker 1: no like natural ability, and it drew just sheer determination.
Speaker 1: They were able to get to thirty uh and they
Speaker 1: eat like a bird naturally and then they student doing
Speaker 1: practices and some jaw exercises and throat and swallowing exercises
Speaker 1: and uh that they they're able to work up their capacity.
Speaker 1: So it's uh an ability. So so it's uh that
Speaker 1: anybody can be trained. Gosh, And so what's the goal
Speaker 1: Monday fourth or July? Do you have a number in
Speaker 1: your head that you're looking for for the hot dog contest? Joys, Oh,
Speaker 1: I got. I'm really hoping just to find a good rhythm.
Speaker 1: If I find a good rhythm and the hot dogs
Speaker 1: are fast, they're good hot dogs, I'll be close to
Speaker 1: a record. But I just want to I want to
Speaker 1: find that rhythm where my body is happy and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting to breathe that I'm feeding off the
Speaker 1: energy in the audience for the last couple of minutes
Speaker 1: and I'm pushing to the limit. Let it flow right, yeah,
Speaker 1: my flow state, and uh, it's just gonna hopefully if
Speaker 1: I have to do that. I'll be pushing our record
Speaker 1: listen Joy. It's great to talk to you. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited we did this and I'll be watching. We'll all
Speaker 1: be watching on the fourth of July. And good luck
Speaker 1: and continue to Thanks for doing this, Jo, I appreciate it. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you. Do you take care