WEBVTT - Competitive Eating, the Bullet Catch & Five Words that Changed Reality TV 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:11.560 Now really now really. Welcome to another episode of Really 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.080 No Really. I am Jason Alexander. You may know me 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.040 from my work on television or in the theater, or 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.360 my role as pool Shark Number two in the movie 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:26.320 of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Really No Really. I am joined 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.480 today despite my objections. I am joined today by my 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.479 good friend mister Peter Tilden, who is not only a 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.160 very talented writer, producer, and a beloved talk radio host, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.640 he has also been my creative partner for nearly thirty years, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.160 and together on this show we explore the things that 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.880 perplex us, or fuddle us or intrigue us. I'm out 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.239 of us the saurus, but they generally make us go 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.880 really no Real. Hello, mister Tilden, how are you? Good morning? 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.840 I'm fine, but you didn't mention Amaza Sinius confound those shakus. Oh, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.280 and I brought daiway Today the thing that has made 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.160 us go really no really This week begins in the 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.880 world of competitive eating. Now, even if you take a 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.240 quick glance at my generous figure, it might lead you 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.840 to believe that I am a competitive eater. That is 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.920 not what we mean. We mean these crazy people who 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.880 pound down massive quantities of food as quickly as they 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.319 can to win cash prizes and a very very specific 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.839 kind of famine notoriety. And Peter recently informed me, I 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.080 was told these competitive eaters the way they get hot 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.360 dogs down and food down so fast is they don't chew. Supposedly, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.680 they just swallow. Really, both Peter and I were told 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.920 by our mothers, who could yell at a level that 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.880 could crack a safe that so fast and cho, Cho, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.160 you got chunk uncle's daily. First of all, Jason condulces 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.920 to cousin Stevie, but I gotta tell you competitive eating. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.400 These guys will down fifty sixty hot dogs in under 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.840 ten minutes, Which how do you do that? It's like 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.560 a conveyor bolt of food, and we would be hearing 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.360 about deaths, multiple deaths from choking, I would think. Because 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.760 as Nathan's hot Dog Championship contest to Coney Island has 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.680 been around, they say allegedly like a hundred years that 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.880 I would never have guessed that, by the way, it 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.919 feels much more recent than that. But that's yeah, that's amazing. So, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.600 in search of the definitive answer to whether competitive eaters 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.680 true or just swallow. We reached out to two of 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.360 the reigning champions and superstars of competitive eating. So the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.760 first is Mickey Pseudo, the number one ranked female competitive 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.920 eater in the world, who just returned from eternity leave 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.440 and she just captured her eighth Nathan's hot Dog Eating 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.960 championship by eating forty hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. Now, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.720 Mickey has competed in a multitude of timed eating competitions 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:51.400 where she has eaten. She's eating fifty fifty eight tacos, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.480 one hundred and ninety two chicken wings, one hundred and 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.120 forty five voicters. I can't fathom the body blew one 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.280 hundred and four dumplings, And of course there was that 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.160 one hundred and nine hardball egg day, were she eat 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.320 one hundred and nine hardball eggs in eight minutes. Oh 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:17.359 God bless her. Mickey Sudo hello and welcome to Really 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.959 No really, So starting out, apparently the myth is or 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.000 the legend or the story that you ate a twelve 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.640 pound ball of Vietnamese noodle soup. I did the urging 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.440 of some friends and one fifteen hundred bucks and said 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.560 I can do this. Yeah, but wasn't going to do 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.720 it again until some haters were like just giving you 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.120 some stuff, and you went, I bet I can do 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.600 this again, and then we went for the eight pounds 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.920 of ramen. Is that is that? Whatever I did? So 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.880 I started collecting the jack potts all over the Las 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.680 Vegas Valley, you know, the man versus food type challenges 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.680 where if you eat a large portion, you collect some cash. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.160 And I really thought that was going to be the 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.560 extent of it. But I got talked into doing my 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.600 first ever had to head competition, and I was so 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.480 nerves us walking into my first event because I was 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.760 competing against a field of about thirty five guys. A 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.840 lot of them were larger, and I just felt like 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.400 I didn't belong here. But long story short, I ate 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.920 more ribs than all of them and ended up winning 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.680 that contest. And I just told myself, you know what, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.839 I belong here more than anyone else. So how many ribs? 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.080 How many ribs was that? And everybody listening in vision 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.560 you're eating like four or five ribs at a place, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.559 what that's like, what it feels like, how your face 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.720 is the dirty, the sauce, the whole bit, And how 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.600 many did you eat? It wasn't pretty. I want to see. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:38.520 It was about nine racks of ribs in an I 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.680 had no idea what I was doing, but it was 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.760 good enough to win that day, and I decided to 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.480 take on the professional start getting who we are. So Mickey, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.520 Jason and I when we discussed doing the show, We're 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.360 fascinated by your ability to get so much food down 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.719 in such a little amount of time in all of 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.800 these competitions, and I feel like I've been training for 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.800 it all my life in some way, But now I 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.800 I'm not a professional. Do you know that, Jason, as 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.719 a child, as a matter of fact, whenever there was 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.679 a food in the house that was of value, cake, pie, ribs, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.359 value of food. Tell her about what your family would do. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.480 So maybe I actually set an alarm for two forty 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.120 five am so that I could sneak downstairs and eat 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.400 the last of the good ice cream before my family 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.719 got it, only to find sneaking down at two forty 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.400 five am that my father had said his alarm clock 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.240 for two thirty am and had polished it all off. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.599 And it was it was like it was like you know, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.960 the sharks and the Jets meeting in the kitchen. They 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.080 were just fighting again. I like how you said the 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:46.520 good ice cream. Yeah, exactly exactly what you're talking about. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.080 You did ice cream. Ice cream is one of the 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.680 things that you've eaten a volume of no ice cream headache. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.880 I take two fast bites and I'm down for the count. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.680 How do you do I think it was fourteen or 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.839 fifteen pints? Fifteen, I'm right, fifteen and a half. Remember, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.320 I hardly believe it myself. It was actually sixteen and 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.280 a half pint, and I believe it was an eight 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.400 minute an eight minute contest, a shorter contest, so over 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.719 two gallons of ice cream, which is one of my 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.680 world records. Is this you know, fully ready to serve, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.520 you know, solid ice cream. It's not like melty. You're 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.400 not drinking it, you're actually eating it. This was with 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.080 a spoon. Definitely not as soft as a milkshake. That's 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:30.120 that's amazing. So so Peter's right, So you're chugging ice cream. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.040 Is there no brain freeze element to this or is it? 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.960 Is it just an eating issue now? To be honest, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.440 I think brain freeze only sets in if the roof 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.400 of your mouth starts to chill. But even if it 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.200 had said it. I think the adrenaline was so overpowering 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.440 that I just kind of I kind of put that 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.839 to the side. Um, you know, I was more concerned 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.240 about my core body temperature dropping and I was shivering afterwards. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.080 Brain freeze was the least of my worries. Oh, I 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.360 don't remember it. So you win the contests, they give 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.039 you a belt and they come out you're running with 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.000 the milar blanket. Is that? Oh my gosh, that's not 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.720 even funny, because actually that contest ran a little bit 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.920 long and I was cutting my travel really tight, so 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.480 I literally had to run after taking first place, I 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.400 had to run about half a mile to my car 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.120 with two gollons of ice cream in your stomach. That 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.000 is a terrible idea. I'm just oh, yeah, I know, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.840 no running involved, right, Mickey, Let's move on from ice 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.760 cream to the hot dogs. If you haven't seen it 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.360 at home, I watched the Nathan Championship. I have it 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.720 on tape. I rewind. You're you're downing forty hot dogs 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.160 and buns and under ten minutes and I can't tell 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.120 what you're doing with your chewing or swallow. How do 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.000 you do what you do? And you are going so fast. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.680 You're putting the hot dog in your mouth, and you 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.320 do this right jerk thing where your head turns to 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.560 the right. I guess to jiggle it down. Yeah, exactly. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.400 And then you dip the roll in the water and 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.280 then shove that sucker in and you are moving. It's 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.880 like a machine because you know you have no time. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.600 Thank you, because I know some guy just jump up 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.040 and down to make it go through. If I have 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.600 to ever jump up and down to send for meal. Yeah, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.760 just trying to help, trying to get gravity to work 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.560 for you moving through. So what's the movement? Thank you 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.120 for not saying it's like one a nervous twitch or 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.280 some people think that I have. You know, I'm obsessed 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.680 with hygiene and I want to get I want to 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.920 wipe my mouth. It looks like you're working it down exactly. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.640 It's I think it's the way my throat shaped, or 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.080 I don't know. Just turning my head to the side 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.640 helps me swallow those larger pieces because I don't choo 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.719 any of the hot dog in the competition. Yeah wait, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.600 now a sword swallowing. What do you mean you don't 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.000 you don't shoot you you literally just like a I'm 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.120 not kidding, like a sword swallower. You just hold. So 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.800 when when when Peter said it was almost mechanical, that's 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.960 a huge compliment because it's it's very very thought out. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.400 I bite and sever these First of all, I ate 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.240 the hot dogs two at a time, so they're two 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.360 going down vertically, and I bite and sever in thirds 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.240 so that, yeah, those two pieces are going down almost 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.439 like a conveyor belt. There's no chewing or mascation, nothing 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.559 that Really the more you chew, the more you taste it, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.360 and the more time you're wasting time chewing. Who's chilling 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.240 exactly exactly and the signals to your brain that you're 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.280 getting full fast. Do you know what? It's still really 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.839 hard for me to wrap my head around how much 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.080 you can cram into your tiny little five foot four 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:28.319 inch body. I have eaten not quite you know, dainty 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.880 portions of certain foods that you have eaten competitively. And 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.520 I have gotten really ill, just where I felt like 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.160 I was gonna die. I don't know why. I don't 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.040 know if it's just your genetics. I don't know if 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.520 it's the way you've trained. I don't know why. You 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.880 and I react so differently to this kind of food 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.360 that would be really fun to figure out. I don't know, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.559 I mean maybe just everybody's good at something and this 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:58.000 is my weird talent slash you know something that I'm 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.640 I don't know cut out to do this planet. You 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.560 were placed on this planet to eat seven point two 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:12.600 five pounds the world defried asparius. Is there you have, Jason? 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:22.559 We got the answer to both things. Number One, they 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.440 don't they Oh my god, they don't chew. I can't 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.600 even imagine. Can you, like, Joe, how do you not 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:34.920 chew a double hot dog and snarf that that they 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.320 come with warnings on the label? Hey shoot, don't eat 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.880 the rapper and chew the inst I mean, it goes 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.720 against every instinct we were told about. You know how 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.160 they do it? You know I'm doing Come on that. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.200 There's got to be a moment. Is it the water 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.840 that just softens everything up and it slides? What they do? 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.000 Drink olive oil before they start the thing. Yes and yes, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.560 but when they train, they do it so much. To 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.040 be a competitor to your competitor, you have to get 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.640 past the guy grieflick. You have to do so many 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.240 if you want Joey Chess not do seventy six. He's 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.720 not gas. It's like a continuous conveyor belt of dog. Okay, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.480 I got you, but there's still it's a pipe. If 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.280 you stuff the pipe, the pipe doesn't gag. It just 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.520 gets stuffed. How do you I mean no, seriously, you 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.960 probably you watched more of this than I have. Do 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.319 you ever see somebody go into they don't breathe that 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.319 they give you the gig they have They have guys here, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.320 they have guys here the Heimlich you and when they're heimlocking, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.800 what's coming out it's fourteen pounds or something and hit 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.240 somebody in head of to buy. I don't. I don't 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.560 want to compete in something where the Heimlich guy is 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:44.040 on standby. He's integral Park. Say hi to lou he's 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.679 the Heimlich guy. So but let me ask you one 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.800 quick question, because there are other things to go go 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.240 on here. Um like chipmunking, which means at the end 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.960 of the contest you stick as much in your cheeks 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.240 as you can. There's narfing, which is no zomit, which 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.760 you're eliminated for it comes out. Why that like it's 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.720 a term we should all know, nose Vomit is that 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.680 part of the competition. You don't want it to be, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.280 but at times it can be. So it's to be avoided. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.560 I'm assuming, well, if you hear a rough yard large 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.280 fifteen yards, I guess you're penalizes your sent back at 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.640 least another kind of a record that way, right, this 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.600 is all the suf record. I don't care what it is. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.160 If we imagine I'll narf for fifteen feet, just a 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.520 curiosity to get its people I want in one way 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.720 or the other. Not a curiosity, you know, like my 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.080 son in lawn and other people do this every once 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.240 in a while to go. You know what, I decided, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.680 I'm going to run a five k, and the whole 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.880 family's excited and it's God. Could you imagine if you 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.839 said to Dana, hey, Danny, you know what I was 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.000 thinking about it talking to Peter, I'm gonna go to 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:54.040 Nathan's and compete. What would her reaction be? Proud of you? 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.880 It would be like every other day where she starts 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:02.840 the morning with you fat and moving on, moving on, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.679 nothing about my eye, eating habits with surprise my wife. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.200 It would be more. It would be more of a 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.600 really if I said, honey, I'm not going to Nathan's today. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.040 So talking about choking, we got another competitor, a winner. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.800 This is a second time he's won in a row. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.640 He's a rapper. He's six foot five and quarter inches, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.000 four hundred pound rapper and competitive leader. He set the 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.880 world record talking about shoving stuff down for chugging by 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:37.240 chugging an entire time and chugging. Yeah, go ahead, Ruth Leader, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.440 bottle of soda in eighteen point four five seconds. Oh, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.120 come on, and Erk bed Lands Brooker. Well, first of all, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.839 you know what he has over three million YouTube subscribers, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:51.160 which is two million more people watching him than CNN. Okay, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.000 so these two million of them about eighteen seconds, he's 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.760 doing a two leader bottle of soda. Yes, Jason, Yes, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.600 he happens to be a super start. And I know 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.360 you have some questions read the chugging obviously, so say hello, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.720 oh I have questions, Yes, I have questions. As chugging champion, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.360 Eric bad Lamb's booker aka Chugs and if you watch 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.040 his yourtube videos, he could also be called the burp 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.360 heard round the world. So Eric, you you just won 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:24.840 your second Nathan's chucking championship congratulations by by downing an 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:29.080 entire gallon of lemonade virtually NonStop in under thirty seconds. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.800 I have watched you gulp down eighty ounces of carbonated 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:37.280 Mountain Dews from a giant glass bigger than my head. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.960 I forget physically, mentally, how do you do this? From 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.520 the moment I started drinking, you know, your mind starts 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.240 playing tricks. Tony. You're like, how are you going to 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.400 finish this? You know this is impossible? You know, seeing 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.640 you're running out of air. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.040 You know, how are you going to feed and drink? 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.000 Especially when you get to like a ass two to 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:06.000 three ounces? Then you're like, everything is telling you no, no, no, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.320 you can't do it. Stop. You know what I'm saying. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.800 You're about the blow right, Okay, speaking in the lot 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.960 Wait wait wait, speaking in the last couple of ounces. Day, Jason, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.280 Picture that and I reading home, Picture that drinking that thing, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:22.040 but now fill it with instead of liquid, the Hobonaro saucer, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:28.600 chunky sauce that much in a glass that big? That Yeah, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:34.560 oh my lord, Yeah, I've chugged Hobbonaro south Side Chuck 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:40.120 sarachach hot sauce. Yeah, I do well. I love all 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.880 the hot sales. But the most disgusting, difficult food I 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.760 watch you eat Eric, for a number of reasons, was 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.680 the octopus, because on your first attempt, you tried to 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:54.800 eat three octopi octopuses, Pole and may I and Jay. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.640 They're they're raw and still moving for quite some time, 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.760 even after they're cut up. They look like they're fighting back. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.080 He's eating food fighting back. Wouldn't you you'd be fighting back. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.480 I mean I tried to eat it like, you know, whole. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.280 But then then it's just you know, you think about 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.240 the face ugger from Alien. You think about what's his 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:18.880 name called Davy Jones from from from Theban. But they 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.920 had to cut it up for me, so I just said, yeah, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.880 just cut it off right. But even though it was tough, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.040 it was like the freshest seafood I ever had. It 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.320 was really good. I mean, I love it. I don't 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.200 want my food fighting me that way. Now. The other thing, Eric, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.320 correct me if i'm you also remember are you're not, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.040 I'll do a little bit of rapping. Yeah, So can 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.640 you wrap a sound? Do you do you have a 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.280 do you have a rap about about competitive Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.320 what's good eating fans? They called me bad Lands Top 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.640 Break American Eating Champion a k a. The Old Day buffeting. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.960 When it comes to eating the hot dogs, I don't play, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.600 but you're eating the week I eat in merri minutes. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.200 But all you can eat the face out of this. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.440 Just in case you forgot, who the heck is this 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.760 a bad Lands booker in effect, bear with this. I 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:15.240 love thank you. Some locksto was great. I can't, I can't, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.800 you know, it's so sad. In the other episode we did, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.600 we were talking about intelligence of animals and they're such 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.160 a smart animal. Octopus. Yeah, and this is almost instead 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.280 of like my Octopus teachers, like my Octopus Appetizer. It's 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.000 a new movie. It's coming out. I mean that's hard. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.719 I feel so horrible and you had to see it. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:37.879 They're moved. Could you eat anything moving? I don't think so. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:48.800 I'm Jello Jello, I get that anything moving right? Yeah right, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.119 I mean if it's moving, it's alive. Yes, yeah, I 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.800 will tell you. I mean I'm not oysters. No, it's 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:01.080 not that. Yeah, he's you know I went for once oysters. Yeah, okay, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:09.119 they're not moving. They're not moving when I Most restaurants 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.200 keep their oysters alive on ice up until they are 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.440 shocked and served fresh for superior taste in your safety. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.840 Since dead oysters may contain dangerous bacteria. Still up for 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.640 debate is exactly when they die, when shocked or when 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.119 you eat them. Oysters are low in calories, contain an 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.879 impressive amount of vitamin B twelve, and can live up 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.880 to twenty years, and they can change their sex more 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.080 than once. Often considered an aphrodisiac. There's little, if any 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:50.680 support scientifically for this assertion. As we're talking about competitive eating, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.440 people still love after some maybe a hundred years watching 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.840 competitive eating, and that's part of the carnival arts that 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:02.080 were around two hundred carnivals. We're touring our country's entertainment 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.040 with fire eaters and psychics and feats of strength and 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:09.400 pie eating, etc. Those things lasted until World War One 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.320 hit and people are to go off the war, and 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.879 of course the influenza epidemic which took out tens of 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.439 millions of people and shut it down the entertainment industry 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.199 much like COVID did us. Those people where would they 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.040 end up well as It turns out TV came along, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.359 specifically reality TV, and said wait a minute, and figured 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.320 out they could use these people because we love watching, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.880 we can't turn away. And the guy who many say 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.399 is the godfather of reality television, who understood best how 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.160 to use these kind of acts is mister Woody Fraser, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.520 and the reality show that he produced, which many consider 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:48.880 to be the first reality show, is called That's Incredible. Hey, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.320 what do you? Honestly fantastic to meet you, so I'm 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.520 just going to jump right into you. That's an incredible 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.000 time four years worth. Is there one act that stands 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.840 out for you? The one I regurgitator. He was a 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:08.760 Scottish guy and he would take a penny, a nickel, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:14.359 and a dime and he would swallow them and then 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.680 you would call the order that he would spin him 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.280 back out and they say, okay, I want nickel, I 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.320 want penny, I want dime, and he'd get ready to 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.440 do it, and then I would have one of the 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.000 John or somebody say no, no, I'm changing it, I 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.959 want dime nickel, and he'd go okay, and he wopped 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.600 the back of his head and he had a glass 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.960 and I would come the three we'd replay it in 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.480 SloMo and damned if he didn't do it. Every done. 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.159 So when I did this in the taping, standards and 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:56.280 practices were very big. Then, very big woman named Susan. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.000 She was a former if you can't believe this, kindergart 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.879 and teachers, so she was tough. So she said, well, 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.560 you can't do that. Children will do that. You can't 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.120 do that. We had a big rowt So, Jason, I 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:14.040 want you and everybody listening to just take a moment 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:18.040 and guess what game changing solution? What do you Fraser 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.680 came up with so he could show death defying acts 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:24.159 on Teleshion and something I gotta give. It's so simple, 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.200 it's so impactful and revolutionary that it's still used today 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.680 thankfully to allow us to watch dangerous and outrageous stunts. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.840 Any ideas, where do you come up with it? Is 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:41.159 it commercial for Jacobean Barnes personally? I know it is. 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:46.880 I know we'll say don't try this at home, as 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:51.000 she went, oh, that's a pretty good idea. You created 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.159 the don't try this at home warning on that show 0:21:55.280 --> 0:22:00.680 because of that phrase that you guys would never want 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.280 cleared the way, don't shry this in them. That's like 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.600 on Seinfeld. You know, we had to do disclaimers all 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.960 the time. We did the episode where some reporter thought 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.359 Jerry and George were gay lovers, and you know, we 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.560 tried to disavalid and the network note was, well, you know, 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.439 don't make it sound like that's a bad thing. You know, 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:25.240 if they were gay lovers, don't make it sound like 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.159 it's a bad thing. Their solution was, every time we 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.560 said we're not gay, we'd go not that there's anything 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.160 wrong with it. You know, that was the simple solution. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.639 Did those guys do that and come up with that 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.000 to say, okay, they want that, we'll show them. Well, 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.800 I'm sure it was a a solution and be a 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.679 little bit of a really really really you feel like 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.399 we have to say that that it's not implicit in 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.720 some way, Okay, we'll say it. And then they would 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.920 just say and because again I produced shows with you, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.000 the network is you a note like that, like you 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:56.879