Speaker 1: Now really now really. Welcome to another episode of Really
Speaker 1: No Really. I am Jason Alexander. You may know me
Speaker 1: from my work on television or in the theater, or
Speaker 1: my role as pool Shark Number two in the movie
Speaker 1: of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Really No Really. I am joined
Speaker 1: today despite my objections. I am joined today by my
Speaker 1: good friend mister Peter Tilden, who is not only a
Speaker 1: very talented writer, producer, and a beloved talk radio host,
Speaker 1: he has also been my creative partner for nearly thirty years,
Speaker 1: and together on this show we explore the things that
Speaker 1: perplex us, or fuddle us or intrigue us. I'm out
Speaker 1: of us the saurus, but they generally make us go
Speaker 1: really no Real. Hello, mister Tilden, how are you? Good morning?
Speaker 1: I'm fine, but you didn't mention Amaza Sinius confound those shakus. Oh,
Speaker 1: and I brought daiway Today the thing that has made
Speaker 1: us go really no really This week begins in the
Speaker 1: world of competitive eating. Now, even if you take a
Speaker 1: quick glance at my generous figure, it might lead you
Speaker 1: to believe that I am a competitive eater. That is
Speaker 1: not what we mean. We mean these crazy people who
Speaker 1: pound down massive quantities of food as quickly as they
Speaker 1: can to win cash prizes and a very very specific
Speaker 1: kind of famine notoriety. And Peter recently informed me, I
Speaker 1: was told these competitive eaters the way they get hot
Speaker 1: dogs down and food down so fast is they don't chew. Supposedly,
Speaker 1: they just swallow. Really, both Peter and I were told
Speaker 1: by our mothers, who could yell at a level that
Speaker 1: could crack a safe that so fast and cho, Cho,
Speaker 1: you got chunk uncle's daily. First of all, Jason condulces
Speaker 1: to cousin Stevie, but I gotta tell you competitive eating.
Speaker 1: These guys will down fifty sixty hot dogs in under
Speaker 1: ten minutes, Which how do you do that? It's like
Speaker 1: a conveyor bolt of food, and we would be hearing
Speaker 1: about deaths, multiple deaths from choking, I would think. Because
Speaker 1: as Nathan's hot Dog Championship contest to Coney Island has
Speaker 1: been around, they say allegedly like a hundred years that
Speaker 1: I would never have guessed that, by the way, it
Speaker 1: feels much more recent than that. But that's yeah, that's amazing. So,
Speaker 1: in search of the definitive answer to whether competitive eaters
Speaker 1: true or just swallow. We reached out to two of
Speaker 1: the reigning champions and superstars of competitive eating. So the
Speaker 1: first is Mickey Pseudo, the number one ranked female competitive
Speaker 1: eater in the world, who just returned from eternity leave
Speaker 1: and she just captured her eighth Nathan's hot Dog Eating
Speaker 1: championship by eating forty hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. Now,
Speaker 1: Mickey has competed in a multitude of timed eating competitions
Speaker 1: where she has eaten. She's eating fifty fifty eight tacos,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety two chicken wings, one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five voicters. I can't fathom the body blew one
Speaker 1: hundred and four dumplings, And of course there was that
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine hardball egg day, were she eat
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine hardball eggs in eight minutes. Oh
Speaker 1: God bless her. Mickey Sudo hello and welcome to Really
Speaker 1: No really, So starting out, apparently the myth is or
Speaker 1: the legend or the story that you ate a twelve
Speaker 1: pound ball of Vietnamese noodle soup. I did the urging
Speaker 1: of some friends and one fifteen hundred bucks and said
Speaker 1: I can do this. Yeah, but wasn't going to do
Speaker 1: it again until some haters were like just giving you
Speaker 1: some stuff, and you went, I bet I can do
Speaker 1: this again, and then we went for the eight pounds
Speaker 1: of ramen. Is that is that? Whatever I did? So
Speaker 1: I started collecting the jack potts all over the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Valley, you know, the man versus food type challenges
Speaker 1: where if you eat a large portion, you collect some cash.
Speaker 1: And I really thought that was going to be the
Speaker 1: extent of it. But I got talked into doing my
Speaker 1: first ever had to head competition, and I was so
Speaker 1: nerves us walking into my first event because I was
Speaker 1: competing against a field of about thirty five guys. A
Speaker 1: lot of them were larger, and I just felt like
Speaker 1: I didn't belong here. But long story short, I ate
Speaker 1: more ribs than all of them and ended up winning
Speaker 1: that contest. And I just told myself, you know what,
Speaker 1: I belong here more than anyone else. So how many ribs?
Speaker 1: How many ribs was that? And everybody listening in vision
Speaker 1: you're eating like four or five ribs at a place,
Speaker 1: what that's like, what it feels like, how your face
Speaker 1: is the dirty, the sauce, the whole bit, And how
Speaker 1: many did you eat? It wasn't pretty. I want to see.
Speaker 1: It was about nine racks of ribs in an I
Speaker 1: had no idea what I was doing, but it was
Speaker 1: good enough to win that day, and I decided to
Speaker 1: take on the professional start getting who we are. So Mickey,
Speaker 1: Jason and I when we discussed doing the show, We're
Speaker 1: fascinated by your ability to get so much food down
Speaker 1: in such a little amount of time in all of
Speaker 1: these competitions, and I feel like I've been training for
Speaker 1: it all my life in some way, But now I
Speaker 1: I'm not a professional. Do you know that, Jason, as
Speaker 1: a child, as a matter of fact, whenever there was
Speaker 1: a food in the house that was of value, cake, pie, ribs,
Speaker 1: value of food. Tell her about what your family would do.
Speaker 1: So maybe I actually set an alarm for two forty
Speaker 1: five am so that I could sneak downstairs and eat
Speaker 1: the last of the good ice cream before my family
Speaker 1: got it, only to find sneaking down at two forty
Speaker 1: five am that my father had said his alarm clock
Speaker 1: for two thirty am and had polished it all off.
Speaker 1: And it was it was like it was like you know,
Speaker 1: the sharks and the Jets meeting in the kitchen. They
Speaker 1: were just fighting again. I like how you said the
Speaker 1: good ice cream. Yeah, exactly exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: You did ice cream. Ice cream is one of the
Speaker 1: things that you've eaten a volume of no ice cream headache.
Speaker 1: I take two fast bites and I'm down for the count.
Speaker 1: How do you do I think it was fourteen or
Speaker 1: fifteen pints? Fifteen, I'm right, fifteen and a half. Remember,
Speaker 1: I hardly believe it myself. It was actually sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half pint, and I believe it was an eight
Speaker 1: minute an eight minute contest, a shorter contest, so over
Speaker 1: two gallons of ice cream, which is one of my
Speaker 1: world records. Is this you know, fully ready to serve,
Speaker 1: you know, solid ice cream. It's not like melty. You're
Speaker 1: not drinking it, you're actually eating it. This was with
Speaker 1: a spoon. Definitely not as soft as a milkshake. That's
Speaker 1: that's amazing. So so Peter's right, So you're chugging ice cream.
Speaker 1: Is there no brain freeze element to this or is it?
Speaker 1: Is it just an eating issue now? To be honest,
Speaker 1: I think brain freeze only sets in if the roof
Speaker 1: of your mouth starts to chill. But even if it
Speaker 1: had said it. I think the adrenaline was so overpowering
Speaker 1: that I just kind of I kind of put that
Speaker 1: to the side. Um, you know, I was more concerned
Speaker 1: about my core body temperature dropping and I was shivering afterwards.
Speaker 1: Brain freeze was the least of my worries. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't remember it. So you win the contests, they give
Speaker 1: you a belt and they come out you're running with
Speaker 1: the milar blanket. Is that? Oh my gosh, that's not
Speaker 1: even funny, because actually that contest ran a little bit
Speaker 1: long and I was cutting my travel really tight, so
Speaker 1: I literally had to run after taking first place, I
Speaker 1: had to run about half a mile to my car
Speaker 1: with two gollons of ice cream in your stomach. That
Speaker 1: is a terrible idea. I'm just oh, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: no running involved, right, Mickey, Let's move on from ice
Speaker 1: cream to the hot dogs. If you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: at home, I watched the Nathan Championship. I have it
Speaker 1: on tape. I rewind. You're you're downing forty hot dogs
Speaker 1: and buns and under ten minutes and I can't tell
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your chewing or swallow. How do
Speaker 1: you do what you do? And you are going so fast.
Speaker 1: You're putting the hot dog in your mouth, and you
Speaker 1: do this right jerk thing where your head turns to
Speaker 1: the right. I guess to jiggle it down. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then you dip the roll in the water and
Speaker 1: then shove that sucker in and you are moving. It's
Speaker 1: like a machine because you know you have no time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, because I know some guy just jump up
Speaker 1: and down to make it go through. If I have
Speaker 1: to ever jump up and down to send for meal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just trying to help, trying to get gravity to work
Speaker 1: for you moving through. So what's the movement? Thank you
Speaker 1: for not saying it's like one a nervous twitch or
Speaker 1: some people think that I have. You know, I'm obsessed
Speaker 1: with hygiene and I want to get I want to
Speaker 1: wipe my mouth. It looks like you're working it down exactly.
Speaker 1: It's I think it's the way my throat shaped, or
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just turning my head to the side
Speaker 1: helps me swallow those larger pieces because I don't choo
Speaker 1: any of the hot dog in the competition. Yeah wait,
Speaker 1: now a sword swallowing. What do you mean you don't
Speaker 1: you don't shoot you you literally just like a I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding, like a sword swallower. You just hold. So
Speaker 1: when when when Peter said it was almost mechanical, that's
Speaker 1: a huge compliment because it's it's very very thought out.
Speaker 1: I bite and sever these First of all, I ate
Speaker 1: the hot dogs two at a time, so they're two
Speaker 1: going down vertically, and I bite and sever in thirds
Speaker 1: so that, yeah, those two pieces are going down almost
Speaker 1: like a conveyor belt. There's no chewing or mascation, nothing
Speaker 1: that Really the more you chew, the more you taste it,
Speaker 1: and the more time you're wasting time chewing. Who's chilling
Speaker 1: exactly exactly and the signals to your brain that you're
Speaker 1: getting full fast. Do you know what? It's still really
Speaker 1: hard for me to wrap my head around how much
Speaker 1: you can cram into your tiny little five foot four
Speaker 1: inch body. I have eaten not quite you know, dainty
Speaker 1: portions of certain foods that you have eaten competitively. And
Speaker 1: I have gotten really ill, just where I felt like
Speaker 1: I was gonna die. I don't know why. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just your genetics. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the way you've trained. I don't know why. You
Speaker 1: and I react so differently to this kind of food
Speaker 1: that would be really fun to figure out. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe just everybody's good at something and this
Speaker 1: is my weird talent slash you know something that I'm
Speaker 1: I don't know cut out to do this planet. You
Speaker 1: were placed on this planet to eat seven point two
Speaker 1: five pounds the world defried asparius. Is there you have, Jason?
Speaker 1: We got the answer to both things. Number One, they
Speaker 1: don't they Oh my god, they don't chew. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine. Can you, like, Joe, how do you not
Speaker 1: chew a double hot dog and snarf that that they
Speaker 1: come with warnings on the label? Hey shoot, don't eat
Speaker 1: the rapper and chew the inst I mean, it goes
Speaker 1: against every instinct we were told about. You know how
Speaker 1: they do it? You know I'm doing Come on that.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a moment. Is it the water
Speaker 1: that just softens everything up and it slides? What they do?
Speaker 1: Drink olive oil before they start the thing. Yes and yes,
Speaker 1: but when they train, they do it so much. To
Speaker 1: be a competitor to your competitor, you have to get
Speaker 1: past the guy grieflick. You have to do so many
Speaker 1: if you want Joey Chess not do seventy six. He's
Speaker 1: not gas. It's like a continuous conveyor belt of dog. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got you, but there's still it's a pipe. If
Speaker 1: you stuff the pipe, the pipe doesn't gag. It just
Speaker 1: gets stuffed. How do you I mean no, seriously, you
Speaker 1: probably you watched more of this than I have. Do
Speaker 1: you ever see somebody go into they don't breathe that
Speaker 1: they give you the gig they have They have guys here, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have guys here the Heimlich you and when they're heimlocking,
Speaker 1: what's coming out it's fourteen pounds or something and hit
Speaker 1: somebody in head of to buy. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want to compete in something where the Heimlich guy is
Speaker 1: on standby. He's integral Park. Say hi to lou he's
Speaker 1: the Heimlich guy. So but let me ask you one
Speaker 1: quick question, because there are other things to go go
Speaker 1: on here. Um like chipmunking, which means at the end
Speaker 1: of the contest you stick as much in your cheeks
Speaker 1: as you can. There's narfing, which is no zomit, which
Speaker 1: you're eliminated for it comes out. Why that like it's
Speaker 1: a term we should all know, nose Vomit is that
Speaker 1: part of the competition. You don't want it to be,
Speaker 1: but at times it can be. So it's to be avoided.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming, well, if you hear a rough yard large
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, I guess you're penalizes your sent back at
Speaker 1: least another kind of a record that way, right, this
Speaker 1: is all the suf record. I don't care what it is.
Speaker 1: If we imagine I'll narf for fifteen feet, just a
Speaker 1: curiosity to get its people I want in one way
Speaker 1: or the other. Not a curiosity, you know, like my
Speaker 1: son in lawn and other people do this every once
Speaker 1: in a while to go. You know what, I decided,
Speaker 1: I'm going to run a five k, and the whole
Speaker 1: family's excited and it's God. Could you imagine if you
Speaker 1: said to Dana, hey, Danny, you know what I was
Speaker 1: thinking about it talking to Peter, I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: Nathan's and compete. What would her reaction be? Proud of you?
Speaker 1: It would be like every other day where she starts
Speaker 1: the morning with you fat and moving on, moving on,
Speaker 1: nothing about my eye, eating habits with surprise my wife.
Speaker 1: It would be more. It would be more of a
Speaker 1: really if I said, honey, I'm not going to Nathan's today.
Speaker 1: So talking about choking, we got another competitor, a winner.
Speaker 1: This is a second time he's won in a row.
Speaker 1: He's a rapper. He's six foot five and quarter inches,
Speaker 1: four hundred pound rapper and competitive leader. He set the
Speaker 1: world record talking about shoving stuff down for chugging by
Speaker 1: chugging an entire time and chugging. Yeah, go ahead, Ruth Leader,
Speaker 1: bottle of soda in eighteen point four five seconds. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, and Erk bed Lands Brooker. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: you know what he has over three million YouTube subscribers,
Speaker 1: which is two million more people watching him than CNN. Okay,
Speaker 1: so these two million of them about eighteen seconds, he's
Speaker 1: doing a two leader bottle of soda. Yes, Jason, Yes,
Speaker 1: he happens to be a super start. And I know
Speaker 1: you have some questions read the chugging obviously, so say hello,
Speaker 1: oh I have questions, Yes, I have questions. As chugging champion,
Speaker 1: Eric bad Lamb's booker aka Chugs and if you watch
Speaker 1: his yourtube videos, he could also be called the burp
Speaker 1: heard round the world. So Eric, you you just won
Speaker 1: your second Nathan's chucking championship congratulations by by downing an
Speaker 1: entire gallon of lemonade virtually NonStop in under thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I have watched you gulp down eighty ounces of carbonated
Speaker 1: Mountain Dews from a giant glass bigger than my head.
Speaker 1: I forget physically, mentally, how do you do this? From
Speaker 1: the moment I started drinking, you know, your mind starts
Speaker 1: playing tricks. Tony. You're like, how are you going to
Speaker 1: finish this? You know this is impossible? You know, seeing
Speaker 1: you're running out of air. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know, how are you going to feed and drink?
Speaker 1: Especially when you get to like a ass two to
Speaker 1: three ounces? Then you're like, everything is telling you no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't do it. Stop. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You're about the blow right, Okay, speaking in the lot
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, speaking in the last couple of ounces. Day, Jason,
Speaker 1: Picture that and I reading home, Picture that drinking that thing,
Speaker 1: but now fill it with instead of liquid, the Hobonaro saucer,
Speaker 1: chunky sauce that much in a glass that big? That Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my lord, Yeah, I've chugged Hobbonaro south Side Chuck
Speaker 1: sarachach hot sauce. Yeah, I do well. I love all
Speaker 1: the hot sales. But the most disgusting, difficult food I
Speaker 1: watch you eat Eric, for a number of reasons, was
Speaker 1: the octopus, because on your first attempt, you tried to
Speaker 1: eat three octopi octopuses, Pole and may I and Jay.
Speaker 1: They're they're raw and still moving for quite some time,
Speaker 1: even after they're cut up. They look like they're fighting back.
Speaker 1: He's eating food fighting back. Wouldn't you you'd be fighting back.
Speaker 1: I mean I tried to eat it like, you know, whole.
Speaker 1: But then then it's just you know, you think about
Speaker 1: the face ugger from Alien. You think about what's his
Speaker 1: name called Davy Jones from from from Theban. But they
Speaker 1: had to cut it up for me, so I just said, yeah,
Speaker 1: just cut it off right. But even though it was tough,
Speaker 1: it was like the freshest seafood I ever had. It
Speaker 1: was really good. I mean, I love it. I don't
Speaker 1: want my food fighting me that way. Now. The other thing, Eric,
Speaker 1: correct me if i'm you also remember are you're not,
Speaker 1: I'll do a little bit of rapping. Yeah, So can
Speaker 1: you wrap a sound? Do you do you have a
Speaker 1: do you have a rap about about competitive Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's good eating fans? They called me bad Lands Top
Speaker 1: Break American Eating Champion a k a. The Old Day buffeting.
Speaker 1: When it comes to eating the hot dogs, I don't play,
Speaker 1: but you're eating the week I eat in merri minutes.
Speaker 1: But all you can eat the face out of this.
Speaker 1: Just in case you forgot, who the heck is this
Speaker 1: a bad Lands booker in effect, bear with this. I
Speaker 1: love thank you. Some locksto was great. I can't, I can't,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so sad. In the other episode we did,
Speaker 1: we were talking about intelligence of animals and they're such
Speaker 1: a smart animal. Octopus. Yeah, and this is almost instead
Speaker 1: of like my Octopus teachers, like my Octopus Appetizer. It's
Speaker 1: a new movie. It's coming out. I mean that's hard.
Speaker 1: I feel so horrible and you had to see it.
Speaker 1: They're moved. Could you eat anything moving? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I'm Jello Jello, I get that anything moving right? Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I mean if it's moving, it's alive. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: will tell you. I mean I'm not oysters. No, it's
Speaker 1: not that. Yeah, he's you know I went for once oysters. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: they're not moving. They're not moving when I Most restaurants
Speaker 1: keep their oysters alive on ice up until they are
Speaker 1: shocked and served fresh for superior taste in your safety.
Speaker 1: Since dead oysters may contain dangerous bacteria. Still up for
Speaker 1: debate is exactly when they die, when shocked or when
Speaker 1: you eat them. Oysters are low in calories, contain an
Speaker 1: impressive amount of vitamin B twelve, and can live up
Speaker 1: to twenty years, and they can change their sex more
Speaker 1: than once. Often considered an aphrodisiac. There's little, if any
Speaker 1: support scientifically for this assertion. As we're talking about competitive eating,
Speaker 1: people still love after some maybe a hundred years watching
Speaker 1: competitive eating, and that's part of the carnival arts that
Speaker 1: were around two hundred carnivals. We're touring our country's entertainment
Speaker 1: with fire eaters and psychics and feats of strength and
Speaker 1: pie eating, etc. Those things lasted until World War One
Speaker 1: hit and people are to go off the war, and
Speaker 1: of course the influenza epidemic which took out tens of
Speaker 1: millions of people and shut it down the entertainment industry
Speaker 1: much like COVID did us. Those people where would they
Speaker 1: end up well as It turns out TV came along,
Speaker 1: specifically reality TV, and said wait a minute, and figured
Speaker 1: out they could use these people because we love watching,
Speaker 1: we can't turn away. And the guy who many say
Speaker 1: is the godfather of reality television, who understood best how
Speaker 1: to use these kind of acts is mister Woody Fraser,
Speaker 1: and the reality show that he produced, which many consider
Speaker 1: to be the first reality show, is called That's Incredible. Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you? Honestly fantastic to meet you, so I'm
Speaker 1: just going to jump right into you. That's an incredible
Speaker 1: time four years worth. Is there one act that stands
Speaker 1: out for you? The one I regurgitator. He was a
Speaker 1: Scottish guy and he would take a penny, a nickel,
Speaker 1: and a dime and he would swallow them and then
Speaker 1: you would call the order that he would spin him
Speaker 1: back out and they say, okay, I want nickel, I
Speaker 1: want penny, I want dime, and he'd get ready to
Speaker 1: do it, and then I would have one of the
Speaker 1: John or somebody say no, no, I'm changing it, I
Speaker 1: want dime nickel, and he'd go okay, and he wopped
Speaker 1: the back of his head and he had a glass
Speaker 1: and I would come the three we'd replay it in
Speaker 1: SloMo and damned if he didn't do it. Every done.
Speaker 1: So when I did this in the taping, standards and
Speaker 1: practices were very big. Then, very big woman named Susan.
Speaker 1: She was a former if you can't believe this, kindergart
Speaker 1: and teachers, so she was tough. So she said, well,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. Children will do that. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. We had a big rowt So, Jason, I
Speaker 1: want you and everybody listening to just take a moment
Speaker 1: and guess what game changing solution? What do you Fraser
Speaker 1: came up with so he could show death defying acts
Speaker 1: on Teleshion and something I gotta give. It's so simple,
Speaker 1: it's so impactful and revolutionary that it's still used today
Speaker 1: thankfully to allow us to watch dangerous and outrageous stunts.
Speaker 1: Any ideas, where do you come up with it? Is
Speaker 1: it commercial for Jacobean Barnes personally? I know it is.
Speaker 1: I know we'll say don't try this at home, as
Speaker 1: she went, oh, that's a pretty good idea. You created
Speaker 1: the don't try this at home warning on that show
Speaker 1: because of that phrase that you guys would never want
Speaker 1: cleared the way, don't shry this in them. That's like
Speaker 1: on Seinfeld. You know, we had to do disclaimers all
Speaker 1: the time. We did the episode where some reporter thought
Speaker 1: Jerry and George were gay lovers, and you know, we
Speaker 1: tried to disavalid and the network note was, well, you know,
Speaker 1: don't make it sound like that's a bad thing. You know,
Speaker 1: if they were gay lovers, don't make it sound like
Speaker 1: it's a bad thing. Their solution was, every time we
Speaker 1: said we're not gay, we'd go not that there's anything
Speaker 1: wrong with it. You know, that was the simple solution.
Speaker 1: Did those guys do that and come up with that
Speaker 1: to say, okay, they want that, we'll show them. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was a a solution and be a
Speaker 1: little bit of a really really really you feel like
Speaker 1: we have to say that that it's not implicit in
Speaker 1: some way, Okay, we'll say it. And then they would
Speaker 1: just say and because again I produced shows with you,
Speaker 1: the network is you a note like that, like you
Speaker 1: can't do that, And you go back to your office
Speaker 1: and you just agonize and call Lloyd, whatever, I love
Speaker 1: that you said, We'll say, don't try it. You know
Speaker 1: how you see acts with a guy who has his
Speaker 1: wife on a turntablis stolen knives, that are people are
Speaker 1: on fire, people who are jumping over moving cars or
Speaker 1: all cause don't don't at home. Yeah, really that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. So speaking speaking of things, perhaps perhaps we
Speaker 1: shouldn't try at home or on the road or anywhere.
Speaker 1: Is this age old? This is an ancient magic act.
Speaker 1: It's called the bullet catch, and many magicians have attempted it.
Speaker 1: Many have done it. Some who have attempted it have
Speaker 1: actually died from it. Penn and Teller feature it in
Speaker 1: their Vegas show. They do a brilliant version of it
Speaker 1: that certainly I don't know how they do it, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure many people do. But Woody, this gentleman
Speaker 1: Carl's skemes is its skemes. Did the bullet catch on
Speaker 1: your show? So how do you do it? So he's
Speaker 1: going to catch a bullet in his mouth, a rifle
Speaker 1: bullet of twenty two. So we set it up in
Speaker 1: front of the honest to do it live in front
Speaker 1: of the audience, and we took his He had his
Speaker 1: friend who I had no idea who he was, and
Speaker 1: we bolted the rifle into the ground so that he
Speaker 1: could hold it and he was only he was twenty
Speaker 1: feet from him. Now, you know, look how big is
Speaker 1: your mouth. Once you open your mouth, you're going to
Speaker 1: shoot something in there. So what he hand was a
Speaker 1: little box in there that they used the police, like
Speaker 1: the police use when they're testing guns. They shoot into
Speaker 1: it and it goes everywhere and then it doesn't come out.
Speaker 1: So he had one build for his mouth. So it
Speaker 1: took us a long time to get it straight. And
Speaker 1: then he come out and stands on this spot and
Speaker 1: a guy lines it up and he's taking for frigging ever,
Speaker 1: So wait, after taking an ordinate amount of time to
Speaker 1: line up the shot perfectly, they figured the most prudent
Speaker 1: way to let the shooter now he's ready, is by
Speaker 1: moving his head and nodding up and down and guessing
Speaker 1: that's gonna be in the exact same place they lined up.
Speaker 1: It went down, came back up, but it was only
Speaker 1: off by like a half inch. A guy shot the
Speaker 1: bullet and it took half of his lip. There's frigging
Speaker 1: blood everywhere. So I stopped the tape and we went
Speaker 1: in and are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that happened. Well, I know how
Speaker 1: it because you're an idiot, because you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, this is I would think that would be
Speaker 1: the most scientific part of this and to you is
Speaker 1: the less the least. Oh my god, So what how
Speaker 1: are you allowed to do that? Based on insurance? We
Speaker 1: had a lot of insurance problems. But thank you the
Speaker 1: godfather of reality television, mister Woody Fraser, thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on. Woody, appreciate it. You take care well. First
Speaker 1: of all, I love, I love I risk my life
Speaker 1: for a television show. I get hurt and the guy
Speaker 1: I go, I don't know what happened, and the producer goes,
Speaker 1: what happened, idiot. What I love is that one I
Speaker 1: pitched the act. I loved it. They're lining it up
Speaker 1: so that what he's going, you're gonna do it, You're
Speaker 1: gonna do it. I gotta tell you, I cannot let
Speaker 1: it go. I gotta pay homage to my former boss Jerry,
Speaker 1: who's one of my favorite routines he ever did, was
Speaker 1: about watching this act on that's incredibly goes a guy
Speaker 1: caught a bullet in his teeth, and I'm thinking, how
Speaker 1: do you learn that? Do you start with the guy
Speaker 1: just tossing you the bullet and then when you get
Speaker 1: that down, does he put it in the chamber clicking?
Speaker 1: Go all right, Phil, this one's coming in a little faster.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the what's the learning curve? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: So Jason, I guess to some things that we learned
Speaker 1: the competitive leaders, basically swallowing and not showing, and that
Speaker 1: there's no shortage of people willing to do stunts and
Speaker 1: stuff to become famous. And today with the Internet and
Speaker 1: TikTok famous and Instagram and YouTube famous, the bar of
Speaker 1: entry so low. I think that many many people out
Speaker 1: there think they can become celebrities, that they got the
Speaker 1: delivery system already with the Internet. Let me just figure
Speaker 1: out my thing obvious celebrity too, because everybody I see interviewed,
Speaker 1: every teenager, every young adult thinks I want to be
Speaker 1: our Kadashian. I want that celebrity. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: over the hill, over that next bridge. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, and I'm not saying anything profound here. There
Speaker 1: are two things that people who think famous celebrity is
Speaker 1: the end all be all don't realize. One is you
Speaker 1: have no control over it. Once you belong to the public.
Speaker 1: The public controls it, and that is startling, and it
Speaker 1: can be it can be crippling if your image or
Speaker 1: your participation in this has taken the wrong way. The
Speaker 1: other thing that people don't understand is it's not something
Speaker 1: you can turn on and only the audience can turn
Speaker 1: it off. And when it is turned off, for many,
Speaker 1: many people, it's been like a drug. And you they
Speaker 1: keep wanting to get back to that high. And let
Speaker 1: me just say, and I say this from they say
Speaker 1: to seriously, from my heart. The reason and don't interrupt.
Speaker 1: The reason that Jason and I are best friends is
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have an ego that way. There are
Speaker 1: many other annoying things about you. I can listen, but
Speaker 1: I can't interrupt. I'm not allowed to interrupt statement. Thank
Speaker 1: you now now, really, hey, a big thank you to
Speaker 1: all of our guests today are champion competitive eaters, eight
Speaker 1: time Nathan's Hotdog Gating Women's champ, Mickey Pseudo. You can
Speaker 1: follow Mickey on Instagram at OMG It's Mickey and on
Speaker 1: YouTube at Mickey Pseudo. Eric Badlands Booker, who's a Guinness
Speaker 1: World Record holder for their fastest time to bring two
Speaker 1: leaders of Soda, also a Nathan's Chugging Champ. Follow him
Speaker 1: on Instagram at Bedland's Booker and on YouTube at Badlands Chugs.
Speaker 1: A Major League eating dot Com is the place he
Speaker 1: goes you want to learn about the sport, and of course,
Speaker 1: Emmy Award winning producer and director Woody Frazier wood He's created, developed,
Speaker 1: and produced many of TV's most successful talk, variety, news, comedy, reality,
Speaker 1: and yes, even children's shows. Thank you, Woody for your
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