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Speaker 1: find out more. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. With me as always this Charles W. Chuck

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Speaker 1: Chucker's chuckle Head, Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Chuck Bryant. You

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Speaker 1: can just call me Kobayashi. No, okay, good, that was

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Speaker 1: a great set of Chuck. Let's talk about a competitive

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Speaker 1: eating go. Wow, you had something better than that plan out, didn't,

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Speaker 1: you know? Not really? Okay against talking about like, oh

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Speaker 1: I'm awful. I remember in high school, back when I

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Speaker 1: a plaque with people's names on it. They would like,

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Speaker 1: Did not know that? Did you know anybody who went

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Speaker 1: you go? I went to read Ann oh Over in

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Speaker 1: most famous person that went to my high school? Holy cow?

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Speaker 1: How cool would that be? Chuck, Well, Chuck, what's the

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Speaker 1: most you've ever eaten? I have no idea. It had

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Speaker 1: to be some like Chinese food buffet or something. I'll

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Speaker 1: just say, yeah, yeah, those things will kill you, especially

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Speaker 1: the big ones. I have like seven buffets in one restaurant.

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Speaker 1: One of my friends had to be helped out. I

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Speaker 1: yeah close? Really wow, yeah that was close. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: I don't do the buffet thing anymore. That's I learned

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Speaker 1: that from my dad, you know, how to master the

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Speaker 1: buffet when I was very young. But I get your

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Speaker 1: money's worth. Yeah, yeah, and I have since learned. You know,

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Speaker 1: my dad was busy gorging himself. My mom was stuffing

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Speaker 1: buffets have come a long way since then. And why

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Speaker 1: where I'm going, because that's where you're going to get

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Speaker 1: more let's let's talk about competitive eating. There's nothing competitive

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Speaker 1: were there were other eating competitions. There was this one

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Speaker 1: know exactly how this symbiotic relationship came about, but these

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Speaker 1: What are they called chuck gurgitators, gurgetators. That's right, it is.

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Speaker 1: talking about someone who pukes, and we'll we'll get into

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Speaker 1: the thing, and I know I can't wait, just to

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Speaker 1: like I think, starting in about two thousand two, a

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Speaker 1: of Japan named Takaro Kobayashi, which is why you said,

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Speaker 1: attorney in um the usual suspects it Okay, die hard,

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Speaker 1: I'm an idiot, die Hard Kobayashi, the usual sub suspects. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this part out? Okay, thanks for leaving it in chuck,

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Speaker 1: I'll be wrong. Um. So, Takiro Kobayashi hits the scene

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Speaker 1: and man, I guess just through physics, you know, yea

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Speaker 1: probably not Kobayashi, but I bet he uses those techniques.

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Speaker 1: I think they all do. They have to do. You

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Speaker 1: And Exploration of the impact of adipose tissue and competitive eating?

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Speaker 1: So it sounds very intelligent. Unfortunately, the medical community rejected

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