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Mac & Bone Show - Joey Chestnut Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody. It is the Mac and Bone Show,
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  Speaker 1: live on Sports Radio ninety two to seven w FNZ.
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  Speaker 2: Mac and Bone with You.
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  Speaker 1: Bone teased this interview on yesterday's show and said, we
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  Speaker 1: are getting ready to talk to one of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: athletes of all time. You might be able to argue
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  Speaker 1: he is the most dominant of all time and he
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  Speaker 1: is with us right now. He's making an appearance tonight
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  Speaker 1: at the Charlotte FC game in right here in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 1: He is the eighteen time Nathan's Hot Dog eating champ,
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five world record holding man, and the number
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  Speaker 1: one ranked major league eater in the world. He is
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  Speaker 1: Joey Chestnutting. He's nice enough to hang out with us
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  Speaker 1: before he heads to the FC game tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Joey, thank you for coming on man. How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Thank you. That was a good introduction. Brother.
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  Speaker 2: I try.
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  Speaker 1: I try to be like the Shay Brothers, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, hyping you up there. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I was that good. He doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: cool hat. Hey animal, His intros are hilarious when he intros,
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  Speaker 1: y'all for the hot dog eating contests?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Joey.
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  Speaker 1: First question I have to ask you because I have
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  Speaker 1: so many your job is so different than ours, is
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  Speaker 1: when was that moment, like how old were you and
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  Speaker 1: what was the moment where you realized, Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I could eat a lot of food and make a
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  Speaker 2: living off this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. So they were kind of different, Like
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  Speaker 3: I knew early on I could eat a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: my mom and my dad they yell at me my siblings,
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  Speaker 3: so it wasn't something that I was like proud of
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  Speaker 3: at first. I was kind of like self conscious of it.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I got to college, my friends they
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  Speaker 3: were like, oh my god, this is awesome. And then
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  Speaker 3: I was like, so they made me do my first contest,
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  Speaker 3: So I was like once I did my first contest,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god, I get paid
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  Speaker 3: to eat. It's wild. So for a while, it was
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  Speaker 3: like it was like a weekend hobby. And then eventually
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  Speaker 3: once I was I think it was even after I
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  Speaker 3: was champion, I was I still had a day job
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  Speaker 3: working in construction management. So I think I gave up
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  Speaker 3: my day job when I was like twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 3: and it just kind of just it's kind of snowballed
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  Speaker 3: and it's got bigger and.
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  Speaker 4: Bigger obviously in your career Coney Island and Nathan's and
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  Speaker 4: that event is your on the marque for you. But
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  Speaker 4: as Max said on the intro, you hold fifty five records.
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  Speaker 4: What other one of the records that you hold do
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  Speaker 4: you think you cherish the most outside of the dogs?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? My god, I think one of my favorites is
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  Speaker 3: Hardworld Eggs. It's I mean, I grew up watching cool
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  Speaker 3: Hand Luke with my grandpa and when I did that
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  Speaker 3: one forty one Hardworld Eggs, that was one that that
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  Speaker 3: made him proud.
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  Speaker 2: That is great? Man?
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  Speaker 4: Was that one hundred and forty one in like eight minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Was that the Was that the record?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Hundred forty one in eight minutes? I was just
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  Speaker 3: a couple of shy for some cweul doesen't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh still eating at you?
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  Speaker 1: I could tell what in your free time, like, what
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  Speaker 1: is your what are your favorite foods in your free time?
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  Speaker 1: And do you like totally like pig out in your
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  Speaker 1: free time or do you or is that only a
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  Speaker 1: work thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now for you?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: It's uh oh, and so's my free time. Usually I'm
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  Speaker 3: recovering from a contest or prepping for the next one.
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  Speaker 3: So I try to eat clean in between. But if
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  Speaker 3: I have a free weekend or if i'm if I'm
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  Speaker 3: at a game, I'm gonna have be thrown down hot dogs,
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  Speaker 3: have some beers. If I have a free if it's
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  Speaker 3: a free weekend, I really strongly believe I if I'm
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  Speaker 3: eating clean all week, then then Saturday Sunday coming.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Those are my free day. Free days where either I'm
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  Speaker 3: where I'm doing a contest or I'm uh, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: it's it's a I can do whatever the heck I want.
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  Speaker 4: If you ever see a hot dog vendor at a game,
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  Speaker 4: do you ever mess around and say, hey, hey, give
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  Speaker 4: me seventy six please.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know seventy six, but dude, I don't. I
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  Speaker 3: don't need to mess around, but I get so many
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  Speaker 3: hot dogs sent to me. Well on my game, hot
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  Speaker 3: dogs and beers. It's a I uh, it's never ending.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of beers, I was watching you last year. You
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  Speaker 4: did the nine to nine to nine challenge with the
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  Speaker 4: barstool guys, and I think Bigcats said recently after Coney Island,
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  Speaker 4: do you do you throw down like twenty beers or
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  Speaker 4: is he just messing around.
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  Speaker 3: I've been known to have a couple a couple of beers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm definitely on a liquid diet afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: That's celebrated, Like you do you party? Well now you're
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  Speaker 1: probably so used to it. It's probably just another day
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  Speaker 1: in your life. You want eighteen of them. But like,
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  Speaker 1: are there parties to celebrate I won the Mustard Belt again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always party. So it's in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty easy to find a bar that stays open
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  Speaker 3: pretty late, and so I can go out, Like usually
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty good right around eleven BM and then
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  Speaker 3: then and then I can go out and have a
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  Speaker 3: cold drinks. But it's this year was a little bit rough.
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  Speaker 3: That heat really really got to me. So I got
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  Speaker 3: out a little bit late. But I can always get out.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to Joey Chestnut. He mentions hot dogs at
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  Speaker 1: games Charlotte f C.
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  Speaker 2: With Joey.
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  Speaker 1: At tonight's game against Atland f C, Charlotte f C
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  Speaker 1: will be you know, selling dollar hot dogs. Right so everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Fitty and I are gonna be out the game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody eat a ton of hot dogs, maybe not seventy,
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  Speaker 1: but eat a ton of them in honor of Joey Chestnut,
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  Speaker 1: who will be there tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Joey, What like are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a sports fan like you mentioned being at
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  Speaker 1: a ball game, a baseball game? Like? What are your
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  Speaker 1: favorite sports? Who the teams you root for? What do
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  Speaker 1: you like as sports?
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  Speaker 3: I grew I grew up in Oakland as Sam uh
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  Speaker 3: and I went to Asian Giants games all all, all
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  Speaker 3: the time. And uh, now I live in Indiana, so
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  Speaker 3: I go to Red games. I love the Colts we
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  Speaker 3: call Colts now that I live in India, They're awesome. Uh. Well,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, so I love I love real football and
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  Speaker 3: uh in baseball. Uh, you said you mentioned nine nine
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  Speaker 3: nine earlier, it will be cool today there's uh, here's
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  Speaker 3: there's dollar hot dogs, five dollar beers. I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 3: to find a soccer equivalent of the nine ninety nine tonight.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hell of question. What would that?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it's gonna be, I have a feeling you could
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  Speaker 1: pull up. We had a guy, Joey that texted the show.
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  Speaker 1: It said, it's him and four buddies and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to do ninety hot dogs in ninety minutes as
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  Speaker 1: a foursome in honor.
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  Speaker 2: Of you being there.
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  Speaker 1: So you you are aspiring inspiring eaters in Charlotte for
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  Speaker 1: tonight's game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's pretty awesome. I think that that is pretty wild.
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  Speaker 3: There's four guys who do ninety ninety that that'd be
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  Speaker 3: every minute, Joey, Oh my god, those guys are animals.
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  Speaker 4: If Joey chess that's calling an animal, then you've done something. Here, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Mack and I here whenever we talk about food and
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  Speaker 4: condiments and hot dogs, like I admit I like my
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  Speaker 4: hot dogs rather playing only catch up, I think Mac,
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  Speaker 4: you are mustard and catch Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we get ripped all the time for being very plain.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do you put down on us, Joey for
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  Speaker 4: the plainness of the dogs? Or and what do you
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  Speaker 4: like on your dog? On a regular dog, not what
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  Speaker 4: you're doing at Coney Island or in the competitions.
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  Speaker 3: I can never talk trash about how people eat, what
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  Speaker 3: people put on their hot dogs, because I during contest,
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  Speaker 3: I'm dunking buns and water. As long as as long
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  Speaker 3: as you're eating hot dogs, you're okay. But in my book,
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  Speaker 3: I I love uh. I'm I'm a mustard kind of guy.
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  Speaker 3: I love raw onions. Also if I can get them. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it just is very low calorie, so I don't feel
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  Speaker 3: guilty about adding more stuff on there. But yeah, dude,
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  Speaker 3: you put whatever the heck you want on a hot dog.
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  Speaker 3: This is this. Uh, these people will just being super judgy.
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  Speaker 3: I do that.
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  Speaker 1: I like that you got our bat it is? How
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  Speaker 1: is the is the water the bun dipped in water?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that's the part that because some people Joey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm amused by you and the hot dog eating, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's kind of funny what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy, right, it's also impressive in a way where
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  Speaker 1: it's like most of us can't do that. But there
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  Speaker 1: are some people I'm sure you've heard of this that
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  Speaker 1: are just like, that's gross and but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the buns dipped in water? Is that was that gross
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  Speaker 1: to you? Like, at least the first time, was that nasty?
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  Speaker 2: Like? How does that? Because that look that does look
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  Speaker 2: like the roughest part of it.
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  Speaker 3: You're actually right, it's terrible. I hate that I have
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  Speaker 3: to do it. It's competition, but it's competition and it's uh,
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  Speaker 3: then that's what really separates the competition from pleasure eating.
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  Speaker 3: You have to. It makes it a little bit faster.
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  Speaker 3: It's it takes the air out of the bun, makes
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  Speaker 3: it easier to swallow. Using warm water helps helps bring
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  Speaker 3: it to the bottom of your stomach. And uh, just
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  Speaker 3: it's I when I started doing the contest, I tried
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  Speaker 3: to do it without dunking, and it was just clear
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  Speaker 3: that the dunking was a little bit faster, especially that
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  Speaker 3: the buns are been sitting out in the sun at all.
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  Speaker 3: But then they're like super stale. Even if you dunk them,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't quite work right. But uh yeah, yeah, that
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  Speaker 3: was the July. The buns are always they're they're rough,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, it's just so much faster. And then that's competition.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you're a beast.
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  Speaker 1: Though you ain't gonna be denied no matter how nasty
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  Speaker 1: it is, You're gonna you're gonna win. And now it's
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  Speaker 1: eighteen belts, all right, real quick, before we let you go,
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  Speaker 1: these are some questions that I got to ask you
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  Speaker 1: while we have you on the line, just rapid fire.
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  Speaker 1: One is, how does it like are you in the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom the whole day? I'm trying to figure out the
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  Speaker 1: best way to phrase this. Are you in the bathroom
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  Speaker 1: like the whole next day.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it comes in around, it comes in like waves.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but I'm four hours.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sleeping, Like it's like four hours later, four and
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  Speaker 3: a half hours later, it's I'm sleeping and then and
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  Speaker 3: uh I wake up and there's a look and round
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  Speaker 3: one is coming. It's not it's uh yeah, I'm definitely
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  Speaker 3: putting baby wives to work.
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  Speaker 1: My other thing is who is the most famous person
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  Speaker 1: to like be a fan of yours and be excited
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  Speaker 1: to meet you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh famous? Uh Like I was really really surprised,
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  Speaker 3: Like I was gonna film festival in New York and
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  Speaker 3: Billy Crystal, Uh yeah, his like I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 3: publicist about to meet and that say, hey, mister Crystal
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  Speaker 3: would love to meet you. And I was like the
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  Speaker 3: billyst like, oh my god, yeah, it's awesome to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: And I was really really it was awesome to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, I liked awesome all right, Last, but
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  Speaker 1: not least, what do you what do you know? What
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  Speaker 1: what you're gonna be doing? You already said you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to do not you know, kinda try to do
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  Speaker 1: the challenge some sort of soccer version of the challenge tonight.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with you and your appearance tonight at
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  Speaker 1: the Charlotte f C game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I can't really tell all the all
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  Speaker 3: the details, but you can. I can get to see.
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  Speaker 3: There's a meeting hot dogs. There's gonna be intermission. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna it's gonna be fun. We're gonna we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have a great time. And it's uh, it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be hot dog hot dog mayhem and the yeah sweet,
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely worth coming out and having a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. All right, Well we'll be there tonight. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Look for Joey tonight and look for the one dollar
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  Speaker 1: hot dogs at the bank tonight for the Charlotte f
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  Speaker 1: C Atlanta match, and honor Joey.
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  Speaker 4: Those are cheap dogs, Joey, don't eat them all out
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  Speaker 4: there now. They gotta they gotta have some of everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna, we're gonna, yeah, we're gonna put up a
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  Speaker 3: high number tonight. Is a crowd, definitely, well, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: All right, maybe we can set a record tonight, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we can. All right, Joey, be good man, and thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for coming on.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, oh thank you.