Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest eater

Joey Chestnut is the worlds greatest eater

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Fact of the Day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Do do do do do do do do do do
do do do dooo doo No.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
No, yesterday, I promised you were a cheese based fact
of the day for eating fact like world records.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, all right.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Then I started researching and I was like, this is
just far more interesting. Joey Chestnut, according to Major League
Eating dot Com, is the number one in the world eating. Okay,
Joey Chestnut, you proadly hurd him. He's the guy that
always wins the hot dog eating competition. Yeah, I have,
And I'm looking at this list going through Americans.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Fairly well representatives.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, Florida, Georgia, Las Vegas. But then number four is
James Webb from Sydney, Australia. Oh, thought that was very interesting.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Mayor Ebin Haara from Japan isn't at place eleven female now,
so it's not until you if you were strolling on
the list, who you get to number twenty six, Eric
bad Lands Booker, that you would come across someone that
you're like that would be classes obese, which is pretty crazy.
You can get that far down the list of the
world's best competitive eaters who specialize in eating as much
as they can and the shorter times.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
A lot of them are stick thin. I don't know
where they fit it well.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Joey Chestnut's forty years old, and yeah, he just doesn't
look like a competitive eater.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Do they train the burn it off? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
He don't mean trained to eat that much food? Train
you lift some weights up to its. Yeah, they might
be doing that. What's it called fasting? Then they eat
all day?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is this insane stuff? No?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
You know, they're definitely trying to stretch their stomachs, but
that have to do exercise calor. He has. The reason
he's number one is he has so many records for eating. Okay,
I'm going to go a few of them now. He
ate one hundred forty one hard boiled eggs in eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Geez, that's a lot of protein.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
He ate forty five pulled pork sandwiches and ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh my god, forty five sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ym He ate fifty three soft beef tacos for the
Taco bell ones in ten minutes. He is the world
record holder in the men's division of seventy six Nathan's
famous hot dogs and buns in ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
That's the same sex.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right, he ate one hundred and three crystal burgers, which
are hamburgers from crystals, and eight minutes he ate one
hundred and eighty two chicken wings shirty minutes and.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know American chicken wings, a.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Lot big inflated pompa chicken.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, he ate thirteen point seven pounds of pork ribbed
meat and twelve minutes, Yeah, ribs.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Do you think he hit the little dipping bowl to
wash his fingers?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I think about his sticky fingers.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I reckon he just waged space at the end.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
And ten minutes he ate twenty three meat pies. Oh
my god, this guy's cholesterol levels that must be through
the roof.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's never wrecking fish tacos. Yeah, thirty fish tacos in
five minutes? What he ate one hundred and eighteen kilipenno
poppers and ten minutes you're saying that.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
You're saying that wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Hilipinos, p purs I bet ap.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Did you le after that.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
He had one hundred and twenty one twenties you know twenties?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I know, like soft year skinny fat. Pretty usually under.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
No, you'll think of something these cream filled like ultra
process like, yeah, spnge logs, they are discussed one hundred
and twenty one of those and six minutes. Oh yeah,
like a lot of diaries have them. America. Yeah, he ate.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Eighteen and a half canteen sandwiches and ten minutes or like,
can't like this is normal, it's a place in themselves.
Is Yeah, he ate forty he's even grilled cheese sandwiches
and ten minutes it'swiches. He ate twenty eight pounds. Now
I don't have twenty eight pounds? Is can we all
please just get on a universal or America is literally

(04:11):
the only country still doing my.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
We still do babies and pounds, which is so weird.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Twelve point seven kilograms of poutein and ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, and so.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
He ate whole turkey? How is he still alive? This man?
It's no good. Eh, it's not good. It's no good.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
He he ate if we're talking, Oh, that's all right.
He ate four point two kilograms of turkey. So he
just got stuck into a turkey basically, and he ate
four point two kilograms of it in ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Okay, okay, yeah, I've.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Lost a bit of respect.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I'm hungry. But also discussed that I'm so hungry for person.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, I just want one more because it's apple pie,
so it's a sweet one. These apple pies weighed one
point three kilograms, jeez, and he ate four and a
half of them.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh my god, my cool hobby man.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
The dude he ate ten cups of ramen noodles and
one and at fifty that's insane.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's the next level.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, that's insaney.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
So today's back to the day to finish off competitive eating.
It nearly did this man age of forty. We don't
know how long he's going to be with us eating
like that. Might not be long at all. The world's
greatest eater is Joey Chestnut.