WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Joey Chestnut, the World's Greatest Eater! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.880 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.640 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere back 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.400 in the podcast Joe Joe for another edition The Fifth 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.800 Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. And we 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.839 are in for a special treat. Someone that I have 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.080 been hoping to chat with. I have said I need 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.720 to talk to this person, and Danny G has been 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.480 able to make this happen. He has booked a person. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.320 We're about to talk to, one of the greats. And 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.800 you talk about greats, you talk about Leggis, and that 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.600 gets tossed around a lot in what we do. But 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.720 this is a bona fide signified, a living icon in 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.920 the world of sports. Do you think of the the 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.000 all time greats? I don't do Mount Rushmore's, I don't 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.679 do that kind of stuff. But Tom Brady, Michael Jordan's 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:31.480 babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Joey Chestnutt, Mainbane. That's right, Joey 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:38.480 chestnut the greatest eater in the history of the recorded world, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.920 and the hot dog eating contest. The Nathan's hot Dog 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.160 Eating Contest is coming up on the fourth of July. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.160 So I said, well, this is the perfect time we 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.760 need to talk to Joey. Just not the Bay Area legend, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.880 the man that went to San Jose states. We must 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.640 talk to him. I like the extended winner. How dare 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.680 you to set this up? If you're not a fan 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:07.320 of competitive meeting, Joey Chestnutt is like Secretariat compared to 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.840 all of the other competitive eaters, He's light years ahead 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.120 of everyone. He has world records for all kinds of things, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.239 and the hot dog records the most famous. This is 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.600 the Super Bowl my man, Joey Chestnut eight seventy four 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.560 Nathan's famous hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. He 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.040 set that world record back in But it's not just 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.000 hot dogs. This is what this guy does, this is 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.000 his life. He ate fifteen sixteen ounce bowls of gumbo. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.720 He has the world record for gumbo in eight minutes. Uh. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.519 He he ate thirty six ounds tacos, fish tacos, he 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.280 has that record. How about hard boiled eggs in eight minutes? 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.079 Joey Chestnut, the man, We're about to talk to a 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:58.160 one hundred and forty one hard boiled eggs. It's insane, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:03.560 Holy CANNOLLI. Uh so there is no debate that Joey 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:08.959 Chestnut is the all time greatest eater. Come on in 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.440 man joining us here on the fifth hour with Ben 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.760 Maller and Danny g. Joey, thank you for doing this. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.320 I know you're training and you don't like to do 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.840 a lot of these things before the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.840 But can you paint the picture for us? What is 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.760 practice like for the hot dog contest over the years 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.880 has changed a little bit. When I was younger, I 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.960 could practice like every third day. Now it's now every 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.240 sixth day, and full on practices are. They're hard on 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.960 the body. It takes wild to recover. The practices are 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.119 are pretty much a simulated contest. I'm eating, oh my god, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.320 seventy plus hot dogs towards towards the last few practices, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.560 and then then it takes time to recover and then 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.080 preparation for my next practice and right now to two 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.880 days of fastening pretty much to cleanse so joey, like 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.320 when you're before. I had seen stories where you had 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.000 been quotas in like you did a lot of like 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.120 stretching your stomach out with like water and things like that, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:12.720 but you actually eat seventy five hot dogs or so before. Yeah, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.360 So there's there's water training in the mornings all every morning. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.080 I'll wake up. First thing I do is I drink 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.440 a gallon of water and then I count how many 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.080 gulfs and it takes you do that. I'll drink a 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.520 little bit of milk, and there's just there's there's tricks 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.880 to keep the stomach stretched and loose. Even even if 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.600 I'm not taking a ton of calories. At least once 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.039 a week, I have to do an actual eating eating 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.240 practice that it's uh runners, after run, I have to eat. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.360 So who cooks the hot dogs for you? You have 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.120 like a team of people that make them. You have 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.320 to make them yourself. Like, how's that process work? I 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.760 was awesome to fiance and she's she can cook hot dogs, dude, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.320 she almost Sometimes she makes them too tasty. It's it's 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.840 the trouble. So I have to make sure she had 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.840 has to undercook. I'm a little bit because sometimes on 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.200 the Fourth of July, Uh, if it's super hot, the 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.960 hot dogs get undercooked a little bit, and uh sorry, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.680 I have to make sure that I'm not making them 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.520 too good. So when do you like get to New 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.480 York for the Are you there? Now? Do you go 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.839 in last minute? Like, yeah, yeah, you're there, I'm already 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.440 in New York. It helps me stay focused, uh while 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.360 while while I'm prepping and and doing my last last 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.480 Uh yeah, just just keep getting ready for this event. Yeah, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.800 So would you compare yourself? Like, I'm fascinated by this year. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.960 I'm excited to talk to you because I've followed the 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.480 competitive eating for a long time and I remember the 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.960 days before you showed up on the scene and uh 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.520 and since you've been there, you're just dominated. But you're 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.719 so you'd say you're kind of like a boxer. Would 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.040 that be an accurate portrayal? Like a boxer before fight 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.720 you kind of spend a month getting ready or but 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.839 you do this year round, so you're always kind of enstraaining, right. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.400 You do events throughout the year. It's not just the 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.200 hot dog contest. You're doing stuff all the time, right, Yeah, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.599 you're kind of right. Um, it's kind of both was Uh. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.560 For this contest, it's definitely more like a boxer marathon runner. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.040 I'm trying to get my body, every everything in tune 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.040 for for that for that tenaminent contest or that event. Uh, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.599 And I'm trying to peak make sure my capacity is perfect. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.160 And then there's other contests throughout the year, smaller ones 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.039 that I'm not going to practice for nearly as much, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.640 but i still want to do my best. But by 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.840 by far, this this is the biggest contest of the year, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.960 and I'm I'm I'm putting all going all in on 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.200 this one. So you've dominated over the years. You are 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.920 the gold standing, not even close with this hot dog 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.000 eating coust and the Anthans Hot Dog Eeting contest. Do 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.080 you ever get nervous anymore? You've done so many of 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.000 these things and you're just like the back of your 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.400 hand at this point. Or do you still get a 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.240 little nervous for something like this. I definitely get nervous. Uh. Yeah, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.840 I'm a shy guy naturally, but uh, I get I 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.360 get gumped up getting on stage in front of I 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.480 think there's like twenty five thousand people they're watching. Dude, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:59.400 it's awesome. I'm nervous and I'm just adrenaline is pumping 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.840 and I can do feel like I can do, uh, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.800 whatever I need to do, I'm willing to do it. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.320 So you're like, I'm an introvert. I do a radio show, right, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.960 I have a radio show some pretty well. But when 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.160 I'm not doing that, I'm kind of like, you know, 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.920 I keep to myself. And are you that kind of you? 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.120 You're like me just to kind of keep to yourself, don't. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.040 You're not an out there Yeah, I'm not. I'm not 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.880 super outgoing. Uh, and I'm not my mom. I was 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.520 seeking attention outside. Uh, it's just I'm really laid back. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.720 But this one setting, I don't have a choice. I 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.080 gotta go out there and uh the phone, you're in 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.880 the Goldilocks zone with all the food. Right. I love 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.160 the story too. Right. I was reading your and I 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.760 heard this a while ago. Your brother kind of dragged 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.400 you into this, right, You did not anticipate in this 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.800 life that you have created that it wasn't right, That's exactly. Yeah, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.840 it wasn't my idea at all once, but uh yeah, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.240 like I was, I was kind of ashamed how much 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.240 I could eat fairly growing up, But I was like, oh, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.440 I was always like I'm not not ashamed as much 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.720 as I was just like self conscious that I was like, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.160 all right, I don't don't want to go wild, make it, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.040 make a fool of myself, embarrass myself. But as soon 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.400 as I got on stage that first time, it was 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.840 like it was it was like I found true love. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.000 And uh, it was like I was like I was 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.920 bade for this and I don't have to hold back. Yeah, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.840 I can push it to the limit. Yeah. So I 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.360 actually I wanted to ask you about that because you 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.560 were so much far ahead of everyone else who does 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.720 this in most of these contests, Like it's the old 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.440 nature versus nurture debate, Right you was it you were 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.400 just born with this? Or did you did you at 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.720 some point develop this? It sounds like you were born 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.240 with it, right, you just had to There's definitely there's 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.360 there's definitely some part of it. I was born with it, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.959 and then uh, and then then after that's that's with 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.400 most things. Uh A natural runners naturally gonna be a 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.640 good runner, but to be on an Olympic runner have 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.079 to be naturally good and you have to you have 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.200 to train. My first contest for hot dogs, I did 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.200 twenty and a half and then uh and then as 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.640 flow as the train mean and figuring out my body. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.120 Now I'm doing seventy six. So it's uh, there's definitely 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.160 nature and nurture. There's a combination. And uh, I think 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.760 anybody who trains, I could definitely train them up to 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.199 probably be about thirty hot dogs. But it takes a 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.040 lot of work. And uh, you have to love to eat. Yeah, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.199 and when so when you were going up and I 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.360 heard the story that you would come home from from 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.559 school and just pig out right, you just go for it. Uh? 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.200 And does anyone else in your family have this skill? 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.199 Do you think you're the only one? Is it pass 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.040 down from generation? Oh? My god, it was. It was 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.280 a running joke like if a chestnut was gonna get 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.160 famous for something, it would be eating, because everybody in 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:47.000 our family is if we're huge eaters, like that's great, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.280 Like we we we would have like we if we 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.199 brought friends over like for dinner, like they would be amazing. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.199 Like the entire family just eat big portions for dinner. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.079 It was like, you know it was like our the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.560 only thing we have a huge family dinner every night. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.080 That's great. And so this could be like the next generation, 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:08.920 like you know, Lebron's trying to get his kids in 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.800 the NBA. Joey Chestnut right down the line and the 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.000 next great competitive eater right it's in. I don't know 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 if the world, I don't know if the world needs 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.520 another crazy chestnut right around. Well well, but but down 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:21.959 the life you to see what we could have a 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.959 hundred and forty hot dogs right the next the next way, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.080 the next generation all that stuff. So now the other thing, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.480 this comes up every year because the Hot Dog Contest 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.520 on the fourth of July, Nathans Hot Dog Contest, the 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.599 Great Joy Chestnut here but the debate of are you 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.719 an ath and I have I have seen some of 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.960 the stories about what happens to your body after an 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.720 event like this? Do you do you consider yourself an athlete? 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.200 Joe Oh, I have to the amount of the amount 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.120 of energy and thought and sacrifice aftertly I'm willing to 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.040 do for this. Uh, I definitely see myself an athlete, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.520 and uh, some people don't. That's all right, right. I 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.679 remember when I was younger, there are people who have said, oh, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.640 golf golfers. Golfers aren't athletic. It's not even a real sport. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.719 So it's things change, people's perspectives change. Yeah, I have 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.160 to just yeah, but I suffering. Yeah, you're testing your body, right, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.920 you're testing the limits of your body, and and uh 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.120 and you also, I mean you're competing with other people. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.600 So those are a lot of that. To me, it's 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.839 a sport. But what does your doctor say, do you 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.400 does your doctor say, what are you doing here? Knock 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.600 it off? Or is he cool? So so I moved 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.040 last year, so I finally found a new doctor, put 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.360 in some works finding a doctor. And he's a good dude. Uh. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.679 He actually run my blood. I think it was like 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.800 just this year alone, He's running my blood four times. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.800 Make sure all my organs are working right. Whatever I'm doing, 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.240 he said, they can keep doing it. He's a good guy. Right. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.719 He used to have another doctor. She was she was 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.880 amazing back in California. She she's she was all about 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.160 how many brains from a new ideas to push myself 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.320 and how to state how to recover after the contest. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.480 But they're looking at the numbers and uh, they're they're 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.760 they're making sure that I'm actually healthy, not not just 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.680 then I worried so much about the one time contests. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.520 You're now in the Hoosier State, right, What the big 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.439 move to the to the Midwest? Is that for g 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.480 geographical reasons or I mean, you know, I get into it, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.199 But that's a big move. It was a big move. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.240 But so I travel so much for the eating contests 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.959 and UH and the appearances. It was great to be 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.120 in the middle of the country. I go to Florida, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.600 I go to New York, Texas. It was just way easier. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.079 And I have a lot of friends out here. I 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.960 miss California. I missed parts of it. It's it's great 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.760 to be on the East Coast time zone. And now 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.559 now I can do UH if I have to do 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.760 radio interviews early in the morning, it's so much easier. Yeah. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.360 I don't know. I'm I'm thirty eight. Who knows. I might. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.560 I might move back to California eventually. Yeah, it reminds 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.240 me doing the radio show. I the show seon Kid 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.960 and I got dragged Enjoy to the program director's office 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.319 and he had a big map right over his desk, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.199 and he he pointed out where the population is in 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:09.640 the United States, and there's a lot of people live 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.319 in California obviously, but most of the population obviously in 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.440 the Eastern time zone. That's where people living. That's your 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.360 business and all that, But I wanted to ask you, now, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.439 you went to San Jose State, when you were like 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.280 in college years ago, how did you envision your life 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.000 and you think you would have just like a regular 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.240 job and construction or engineering or something like that, or yeah, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.480 that's that's that was the plan. I was getting the 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.079 civil engineering degree and I aage avanging myself working for 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.439 a general contractor working on project management. I was I 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.920 was on track for that, and uh then then I 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.360 fell in love with the competitive eating and it's just like, uh, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.200 it just changed my direction completely. And like I said, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.719 I was one of the things about competitive beatings that 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.760 I had never imagined that I that I enjoyed, is 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.040 I get to I get to make other people happy. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.840 That there's people who drive for hours to come see 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.199 me and enjoy watching the contest. And I never imagined 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.760 that I have a fan base and that that I 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.280 enjoyed making happy. So it's a I would never would 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.400 have I mean I would have been a good, good 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.559 project manager, and I never made anything happy. I was 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:22.720 always arguing over money and schedules and and changes. It was. Yeah, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.440 it was completely different and uh different, just different feel Yeah, yeah, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.840 I know I wanted to. We talked about you're an 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.040 introvert like I am. We have that in common. And 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.480 but you've met so many people because of this. You're 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.040 you're a pop culture You're in pop culture every year 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.080 at the hot Dog and the Nathan's hot Dog Contest 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.280 every year, Joey. So, who's the coolest celebrity? Who's a 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.240 Joey Chestnut fan that you were very surprised to find out? 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.040 Is there somebody that pops in your head, somebody that 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.480 we know of celebrity or somebody from from pop culture? 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.000 Like why can't that guy's a fan of competitive eating? 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.160 He kind of enjoyed what I do. It was, it 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.040 was it was completely random. Uh. So a woman comes, oh, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.000 Mr Crystal would like to meet you, and it was 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.240 Billy Crystal And then you help me, Mr Cheta. Yeah, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.080 Billy Crystal. I mean I'd never expected him to want 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.280 to meet me, and uh and he was super nice. Yeah, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.360 I have good questions and and uh it's a really 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.840 nice guy. That's cool. And then a leggie in Hollywood 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.760 and and that's alute legend and comic legends. So how 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.520 many events? Now this is your full time gig, right, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.800 I mean you are you are the King of competitive leaders, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.760 So you don't this is your job. You're training year around. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.600 So how many events on average do you do in 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.840 a year? Is your number A sweet spot? It's that's 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.160 actually eating contests or about twenty uh during the summer. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.840 It will pick up. I think after hot Dogs on 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.000 July twenty seven, they'll be in I'll be in Vegas 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.920 getting Raising Cain's chicken fingers. Yeah, there you go. That's 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.240 my spot. Joe, you gotta do bet Joe, you gotta 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.640 do me proud. That's my that's my chicken finger place. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.160 I love it. It's like it's like I'm a kid. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.560 I was like, it's like I'm Peter Pan chicken fingers. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.720 I'm trying to break a record and trying to get 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.760 I want to get fifty in five minutes and uh so, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.200 so yeah, it's I got that one coming up in July. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.080 I got a rib contest in August, uh in Minnesota 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:23.040 and it's so oh chicken wings and buffalo and late August. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.480 So it's so I get to eat all. Oh yeah, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.480 I'm looking forward to the summer. I'm gonna eat a 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.560 ton of good food that I love. You're like, it's 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.680 like it's like Willy Wonka, but with food with not 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.720 just chocolate. You're you're doing now, you do not Sometimes 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.600 you eat really things that are kind of nasty. Brain 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.920 pacos does not sound just so that was all right. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.960 So the only reason why I agree to go to 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.680 that contest was it was a a It was at 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.520 a huge zombie pub crawl and it was a big party, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.920 and it was it was a great party. I'm telling 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.200 you it was. It was a fun time and uh 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.920 but it was it was brain tacos and they looked 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.600 brains and they were rough. I had to pretty much 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.760 eat with my eyes closed and just only open them up, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.840 just make sure I was one ahead of the guy 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.159 next to me. That there is that the worst thing 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.000 you've eaten in a contest. There is there something more 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:18.040 worse than that, and worse than Unfortunately there's one that's worse. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.920 There was early on in the creation. Then it shouldn't 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.280 have been worse. It should be. It should have been delicious. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.359 I was eating crab cakes, uh casino and it was 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.640 in Delaware, and I remember I arrived at the event 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.680 and they already had the food sitting out and I 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.520 was like, Oh, that's weird. And then when they when 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.679 we got called up, I announced that I could smell. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.600 It was like there was fish in there and they've 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:51.639 been sitting out for and it was. I almost got 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.640 sick during the contest, and I it was the only 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.880 time I had to run off stage. After the contest. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:02.959 They literally get food poisoned everybody, and Uh, I'll never 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.240 go We'll go back to midway slots in Delaware. Shot fired. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.440 So that's the one you have nightmares about. You don't 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.080 have nightmares hot dogs or anything else, but that's the 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.880 one that pops. That's the one. And I love crab cake. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.359 I turned me off for crab cakes for quite a while, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.560 but now I can't even eat them again. But d 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.720 it was I'm not calling any punches with that. That 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.800 that that's like, I'm not a fish guy anyway, but 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.360 the idea of fish shitting out, Oh my god, that's 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.000 that's that is horrible. That's a stomach ache waiting to happen. So, now, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.000 what is the easiest food eat you? What's the one 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.920 that you can just NonStop in a contest setting that 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.680 you have no problem with it? That is, people would 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.639 say hot dogs because you're so good at it. But 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:50.680 is there something else that's just easy to eat in 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.520 the contest? Yeah, how do how dogs are naturally good 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.840 for me? But it's such a big contest. I'm putting working. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.760 I'm I'm not going easy on it. Uh, once in 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.440 a while checking wings. Chicken wings are it's not a 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:07.080 capacity food, it's a technique food. And uh it's it's 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.000 a fun one. If they're usually Buffalo, they're amazing Wingfest 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.480 and uh the people who show up to that event 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.679 are always there there. They love love, I mean, it's 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.480 a huge event and uh I always have a great 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.359 time there the chicken wing guy. But you're gonna be 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.800 You're gonna sit a record. I'm so exciting. I you're 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.320 going to the Canes thing later the summer, after the 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.480 hot dog thing, And yeah, I can polish off six 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:36.120 Joey in about twenty minutes at my when I eat lunch, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.920 the candy at combo. But you're you said fifty and 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.560 how what's the time on that? I want to I 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.560 want to make sure I want I'm gonna have five 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:48.720 minutes to five. I'm really hoping I can do. I'm 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.400 gonna have to hustle. Oh yeah, that's gonna be cool. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.520 Let's get back to the the Nathans things this weekend 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.879 on the fourth of July. So the question when I 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.399 I talked about this every year. I'm fascinated about what 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.639 you do and I want to know it kind of 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.640 walk us through post contest, because that's the one people 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.920 ask many questions about what happened when a human being 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.840 pushes the limits like the Great Joey Chestnut. It's seventy 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.880 plus our talks. So right after, how many hours does 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.879 it take for your shall we say, to things to 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.040 exit out of the fireworks? Yes? Yes, the light of 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:32.040 the light show. Uh, it's a I I've never exactly 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.320 timed it, but yeah, I would say it's roughitly five 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.080 hours before nature starts working. But it's it's weird because 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.000 so after after the contest, I have to do interviews 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.960 for about an hour afterwards, and they put it for 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.359 me this weird like bullpen and they bring more people 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.200 up every every five minutes interview meanings. So it takes 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:51.920 it takes about an hour to get through that. Then 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.080 then it takes an hour to get to get back 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.960 to the hotel in Manhattan. So and then I pass 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.840 out about I say, about five hours after the contest. 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:03.960 I wake up with a look in my eye that 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.879 I'm I'm I'm running, you're running? And then are we 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:17.520 talking hours on the iron portion or yeah it's people 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.680 are like people thinking that it's not it's not the 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.840 way it works is uh, there's no, it's not coming 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.879 out all at once, so there will be different waves 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:32.159 and uh, it comes in waves, and yeah it's And 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.320