February 13, 2025 • 12 mins
Famed competitive eater Joey Chestnut swings by the Fox Sports Radio set at Media Row during Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. Joey discusses the world of competitive eating, his decision to sit out on the Nathan's Hot Dog eating content, and dives deeper into his every day life. One of our favorite hangs with Joey so far
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey, we are Carpino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio
and we're joined by competitive eating icon like that. I mean,
I let's welcome Joey Chestnut O.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good beyond with you, guys. What's up? It's just a
goofy dude that like to eat. You know what.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We've interviewed you so many times throughout the years. You're
such a legend. I'm not even sure we ever got
the story of how you got into it. Is it
because you love to eat? Did you have a natural
knack for it?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Growing up? I was always the fastest eater in the family.
My mom would actually get mad. And uh So when
I went away to college, I was kind of ashamed
of it. All Right, I eat normal, pretend I'm like
everybody else, but every once in a while I'd let
let it out and like my friends in the dorms,
They're like, oh my god, Joey can eat. And then
eventually I got signed up to a contest a couple
of years later, and uh and I was like, all right,
(00:56):
I'll do it, and I was like I fell in
love with it. It was like it was like I don't
have to be ashamed of it. I'm like, lean into it. Yeah, dude,
I just went in and uh yeah, people are just
yelling at me to eat, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
put him down.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That means rich. You kind of have a natural knack
for this.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Rich I finish before everyone else, notice, purposely have to
slow down.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's when I eat. Oh yeah. So like with my
fiance now, she's awesome. She uh we order three entrees
all the time we go out, so it's not that weird.
So we say we're sharing one, but really just ends
up be in mine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You know, It's funny would say that I'm a big
advocate of splitting food and with his buddies, though not
with his wife, his buddies, his friends.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, yeah, I'll steal food. It's not stealing. I'm really
I'm just making sure it's safe. Like if the if
the food makes him sick, I want I want to
Yeah good, It's like no, no, it was definitely the
food that made him sick, because I got sick too.
You know what's annoying about it?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Not you, Joe. You're a great guy, You're a professional.
He's just an annoying friend. He's eyeing up my food
the whole time, and I'm like, dude, wait until like
get your nose out of my place.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Shouldn't be neglecting your food there, you should, Joey. Don't
stare at it, eat it, Joey.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I feel this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will sometimes encourage my wife to order something I
know she won't finish so that I know I'll get
a little taste.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He knows by the way, I know how Cavino is
a guy that always says the four major sports football, Baseball, basketball,
and eating. Because I feel like we talk about you
a lot. You had a big year. You got that
Netflix money this year.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
How was that? Oh? Netflix is awesome, I mean beyond
the money, was really just going against my old rival.
How crazy was Kobash? She was dodging me for years?
And uh, it really sucks that I couldn't go with
the Fourth of July this year. Dude, the Major League
eating was not happy that I was doing the Netflix thing.
But uh, hopefully we can figure it out for this year.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And I'm not just kissing your ass without you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It really was so weak.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, you felt that we had to feel that way,
like you getta hope to come back next year.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I hope we can figure it out. Uh. It's uh,
it was weird because they did some weird things. But uh,
I'm I'm hoping that they I don't have I'll have
hurt feelings for long. Yeah, but you know what, you know,
then's the return of I mean, this is America. You
gotta have the best person there. Yeah, it's a big
it's on TV. You gotta have the best Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah. We got a question from one of our listeners.
Mercerman in Pittsburgh, who's an amateur eater, has a question
for you, Joey Chestnut here, how did you train to
eat bagels? Fifteen and eight minutes? Was at it fifteen minutes?
He says, because it doesn't seem like a lot, but
they're so tough to chew your jaw tires fast, They're
so dense, and there's always the danger of the choking
(03:37):
hazard of eating bagels.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How do you train for something like that? Like like
all eating contests I had, I had to do practice
with bagels. I tried to so my first year, yeah,
I didn't know what kind of bagels that were. This
year was a lot easier to practice with. I found
some New York style bagels. They were they kind of
it's like really dense on the inside, but there's like
almost a crispy shell on the outside. It's like a
it's a real New York bagel. But uh, just practice
(04:00):
and the jaws usually get stronger.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
We always see the physical strategy when you're competing, tell
us about the mental strategy, and you know the moments
where your body's saying no, but you're still pushing.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's weird because like I've always been like, like you,
there's a lot of big eaters, fast eaters out there,
but that's fun. I go in knowing, like you gotta
be like a football player. They know that they're gonna
be injured even if they do not really, they're gonna
feel like garbage for days after after a game. I
once I started realizing, all right, I have to go
in really really isn't accepting that I'm gonna feel like
garbage for three days. Then I was like, all right,
(04:36):
it's not about eating for fun, It's about eating just
to do whatever it takes. And uh it's and then
I was able to push harder.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Joey, are people ever offended if you turn down food?
Because imagine, imagine someone's like, try my wife's pie or
and you're.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like, oh, no, thanks, that's like this weekends about the
five layer dip.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, that's a super Bowl food.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
If you say no, thank you, that's like, man, okay, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of times I'm like super like some people
are oh, like, do the restaurants want to kick you out?
Like no. Usually, usually the chef comes comes and brings
over like their their their favorite thing that they're proud of. Yeah,
and most of the time it's really good and they're
super happy actually eat it because they're used to people
like just taking one bite and wasting the food. But
they're super happy. But once in a while they bring
out something that's a little bit funky, it's just a
little bit different that that doesn't agree with. It's very rare.
(05:23):
I'm not a picky eater, but I just feel like, yeah,
I feel like, oh my god, I'll force it down.
I don't want to make anybody feel bad because you know,
I'm a terrible cook and having anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But you know what, I actually wrote that like a
cooking skills you eat a lot, you know, so no
skills in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Actually I'm terrible, dude. It's just a great eater. It's pathetic.
So so I have respect for anybody who actually can't cook.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Joey, I'm not sure we ever asked you this man.
When you're out and about at a restaurant, people recognize
you anyway. They've been watching you for years. They know
you're the guy. But they're also watching to see how
you eat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Is that annoying?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Like do you notice that they're like, oh, let's see
how he finishes. Like you can't even go out and
public and just enjoy a nice meal without people wondering.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's I mean, it's not that bad of a gig
when you really take a bigger re loook, right. I
heard remember like Charles Barkley getting people the people like
yelling at him in the bars, and you get in
fights people commenting about my eating. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You're a big eater, Are you a big guzzler?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like? Can you throw some back?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Does that quinetify for you being a big travel Really?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean can you really drink a lot or not?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Yeah, go down really? Yeah? One time I did
something for Pat McAfee before he was this Pat mcife.
Yeah yeah, yeah, he had he lined up twelve pints
of beer and and I rank him in like seventy seconds. Damn.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I gotta ask, of all the things that I know,
the different categories, is there one that you're like, it's gross.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'll set this one out.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh yeah, bull testicles, dude. So yeah, it was a
casino contest. You mean they're not delicious? I didn't. I
didn't do it, but I was like, so the casino
was the tour is for making bad food, right, And
I was like, no, I don't trust him to make
him and the eaters they told me that they were
like undercooked and and like stretchy and they were not. U. Yeah,
I'm lucky I didn't do that one.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I mean, I'm glad he didn't either. Joey Chestnut here
on the Cavino and Rich Show Fox Sports Radio, and Joe, you're,
as far as I see it, responsible for the popularity
of competitive.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think, you know, competition, I think the Golden era
like me and Kobeyashi, right, and that's what really like.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh my god, that's sure we always can.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Actually be competitive, Like like there were contests where he
started out ahead and I caught him and I overtook him.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Angel Rees, Caitlin Clark, Ali Frasier.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You need, you need, you need a good rival.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's a I mean it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Would he give you that credit?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh? He I mean no, he might cry. Dude crying.
Oh my god. I was like, dude, I feel like
I'm abusing him. I didn't even make him crazy. I
didn't even say anything mean to him. But he cries,
like like that Netflix thing. He had to change, he
had to change the rules. He didn't want to dunk,
so I had to eat the hot dogs. No dunking.
It's uh, that guy is he needs Yeah, I still
(08:09):
love him. I respect the competition.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But he cries alone.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh he cries a baby.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sports baby, I don't know, sports baby.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What I was gonna ask you is I see you
as responsible for the popularity of the sport. How do
you see it evolving?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I think, uh, you know, I think part of the
biggest the biggest thing is Fourth of July. It's America. Yeah,
it's uh, you know, you know, you don't have apologize
for being American. You don't have to apologize for eating
twenty hot dogs. It's it's like it's the perfect Uh,
it's the perfect storm of like yay, I'm we're we're
loving this thing. We're loving hot dogs, he love fireworks,
and uh, we're gonna push it to the limit.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We're here with a lot of football players, you know,
media row, Yeah, Joey in the NFL thirties, forty ish
tops is like, you know, that's time to call quits.
Is there a retirement age for competitive eating? Is that
something like, you know, golfers could go into their fifties
or sixties if they wanted to, Like you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Know what, I keep looking towards Tom Brady. I think
he won the Super Bowl at forty four. Yeah, I
am forty forty one right now. It'd be really nice
to be on top at forty four. That'd be really rad.
At forty five that'd be unheard of. That'd be nuts.
So that'd be really cool. I'm just and it's taking
more work.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I was gonna say, as as just nature and life
and your body takes all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
If all the time is a jerk. When I was younger,
I could do a practice like every three or four days.
Now it's like seven or eight days to the recovery period.
It takes so much longer to recover. You know what
I was gonna ask you, Joe.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
There's so many football teams that take a lot of
pride in eating those uncrustables, right, Like, what was the
Broncos here?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
The Broncos team, I think it was like seven hundred
on crustables they put back in.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
A week, like they're pounding those. Like, maybe that's an
angle for you. How many of those PBJSN yeah, team,
but the whole team bush league?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Right? What going on that?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm wondering how many you could eat again? Peanut butter
and jelly with the bread and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's one I haven't done it, but it's.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Become a big thing because all these young football players
now they grew up eating that. So it's a big
thing in the locker room. That might be an angle
for you that you could take on an entire team.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm thinking, or like.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The offensive line, Joey versus the offensive line take on
the Denver Broncos. I'd put my money on you, man,
I'd bed no. Seriously, have you have you ever tried that?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I've done a couple of contests me versus a group
of people, but I think uncrustables that that sounds it
needs to be done. Right, add that to the list
of records.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Let us promote it. Let's get some money. Yeah, charity
Smucker's got some flow.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Let's do this.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, Joey here at the Super Bowl. Is it funny
when people in different sports recognize you, like NFL players
or you know, celebrities passed by, like, hey, Joey Chestnok,
that's got to be a weird feeling, right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean it's weird. But then they then they tell me, oh,
I've been watching you since I was a kid. It's like, damn.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Speaking of the youngsters, man, Joey Chestnut here with Cavino
and Rich, do you have advice for aspiring eaters, like
the young guys out there that are like, you know what,
I'm good at this?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What sort of advice would you give them? I think
it's really it's figuring out your body because it's not like,
you know, these guys play football. They knew five six
years old they were going to be a professional football player.
Like me, I didn't really think I was gonna be
It wasn't even when I was champion. I didn't think
it was gonna be my jobby job. Right, it was?
And you were embarrassed by Yeah, it was insteading into something.
(11:26):
It was something I grew up like, all right, I
have to hide it from the world. But a competitive
eater like these days, like if they if they know
they're a good eater and they start figuring out their
body when they're young, trial and error and learning how
to go from absolutely empty to one hundred percent full
and then make their body yeah, make it yeah, make
it go through your body fast. If they can figure
out their body, they I think that's the biggest thing,
(11:49):
is like keep a food journal, how you're feeling and
knowing that you don't actually have to feel good to
do good.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I want the Fox Sports Radio nation to always
remember as Tom Brady, Michael j Jordon Gretzky, Alie and
Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's the go this year the return hopefully, let's put
some pressure on it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Always a pleasure to have you on the show Man
for
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You guys, Joey Chestnut Coveno on Rich Fox Sports Radio
Hey, we are Carpino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio
and we're joined by competitive eating icon like that. I mean,
I let's welcome Joey Chestnut O.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good beyond with you, guys. What's up? It's just a
goofy dude that like to eat. You know what.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We've interviewed you so many times throughout the years. You're
such a legend. I'm not even sure we ever got
the story of how you got into it. Is it
because you love to eat? Did you have a natural
knack for it?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Growing up? I was always the fastest eater in the family.
My mom would actually get mad. And uh So when
I went away to college, I was kind of ashamed
of it. All Right, I eat normal, pretend I'm like
everybody else, but every once in a while I'd let
let it out and like my friends in the dorms,
They're like, oh my god, Joey can eat. And then
eventually I got signed up to a contest a couple
of years later, and uh and I was like, all right,
(00:56):
I'll do it, and I was like I fell in
love with it. It was like it was like I don't
have to be ashamed of it. I'm like, lean into it. Yeah, dude,
I just went in and uh yeah, people are just
yelling at me to eat, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
put him down.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That means rich. You kind of have a natural knack
for this.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Rich I finish before everyone else, notice, purposely have to
slow down.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's when I eat. Oh yeah. So like with my
fiance now, she's awesome. She uh we order three entrees
all the time we go out, so it's not that weird.
So we say we're sharing one, but really just ends
up be in mine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You know, It's funny would say that I'm a big
advocate of splitting food and with his buddies, though not
with his wife, his buddies, his friends.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, yeah, I'll steal food. It's not stealing. I'm really
I'm just making sure it's safe. Like if the if
the food makes him sick, I want I want to
Yeah good, It's like no, no, it was definitely the
food that made him sick, because I got sick too.
You know what's annoying about it?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Not you, Joe. You're a great guy, You're a professional.
He's just an annoying friend. He's eyeing up my food
the whole time, and I'm like, dude, wait until like
get your nose out of my place.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Shouldn't be neglecting your food there, you should, Joey. Don't
stare at it, eat it, Joey.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I feel this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I will sometimes encourage my wife to order something I
know she won't finish so that I know I'll get
a little taste.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
He knows by the way, I know how Cavino is
a guy that always says the four major sports football, Baseball, basketball,
and eating. Because I feel like we talk about you
a lot. You had a big year. You got that
Netflix money this year.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
How was that? Oh? Netflix is awesome, I mean beyond
the money, was really just going against my old rival.
How crazy was Kobash? She was dodging me for years?
And uh, it really sucks that I couldn't go with
the Fourth of July this year. Dude, the Major League
eating was not happy that I was doing the Netflix thing.
But uh, hopefully we can figure it out for this year.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And I'm not just kissing your ass without you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It really was so weak.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I mean, you felt that we had to feel that way,
like you getta hope to come back next year.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I hope we can figure it out. Uh. It's uh,
it was weird because they did some weird things. But uh,
I'm I'm hoping that they I don't have I'll have
hurt feelings for long. Yeah, but you know what, you know,
then's the return of I mean, this is America. You
gotta have the best person there. Yeah, it's a big
it's on TV. You gotta have the best Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah. We got a question from one of our listeners.
Mercerman in Pittsburgh, who's an amateur eater, has a question
for you, Joey Chestnut here, how did you train to
eat bagels? Fifteen and eight minutes? Was at it fifteen minutes?
He says, because it doesn't seem like a lot, but
they're so tough to chew your jaw tires fast, They're
so dense, and there's always the danger of the choking
(03:37):
hazard of eating bagels.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How do you train for something like that? Like like
all eating contests I had, I had to do practice
with bagels. I tried to so my first year, yeah,
I didn't know what kind of bagels that were. This
year was a lot easier to practice with. I found
some New York style bagels. They were they kind of
it's like really dense on the inside, but there's like
almost a crispy shell on the outside. It's like a
it's a real New York bagel. But uh, just practice
(04:00):
and the jaws usually get stronger.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
We always see the physical strategy when you're competing, tell
us about the mental strategy, and you know the moments
where your body's saying no, but you're still pushing.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's weird because like I've always been like, like you,
there's a lot of big eaters, fast eaters out there,
but that's fun. I go in knowing, like you gotta
be like a football player. They know that they're gonna
be injured even if they do not really, they're gonna
feel like garbage for days after after a game. I
once I started realizing, all right, I have to go
in really really isn't accepting that I'm gonna feel like
garbage for three days. Then I was like, all right,
(04:36):
it's not about eating for fun, It's about eating just
to do whatever it takes. And uh it's and then
I was able to push harder.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Joey, are people ever offended if you turn down food?
Because imagine, imagine someone's like, try my wife's pie or
and you're.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like, oh, no, thanks, that's like this weekends about the
five layer dip.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, that's a super Bowl food.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
If you say no, thank you, that's like, man, okay, Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A lot of times I'm like super like some people
are oh, like, do the restaurants want to kick you out?
Like no. Usually, usually the chef comes comes and brings
over like their their their favorite thing that they're proud of. Yeah,
and most of the time it's really good and they're
super happy actually eat it because they're used to people
like just taking one bite and wasting the food. But
they're super happy. But once in a while they bring
out something that's a little bit funky, it's just a
little bit different that that doesn't agree with. It's very rare.
(05:23):
I'm not a picky eater, but I just feel like, yeah,
I feel like, oh my god, I'll force it down.
I don't want to make anybody feel bad because you know,
I'm a terrible cook and having anybody.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
But you know what, I actually wrote that like a
cooking skills you eat a lot, you know, so no
skills in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Actually I'm terrible, dude. It's just a great eater. It's pathetic.
So so I have respect for anybody who actually can't cook.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Joey, I'm not sure we ever asked you this man.
When you're out and about at a restaurant, people recognize
you anyway. They've been watching you for years. They know
you're the guy. But they're also watching to see how
you eat.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Is that annoying?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Like do you notice that they're like, oh, let's see
how he finishes. Like you can't even go out and
public and just enjoy a nice meal without people wondering.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's I mean, it's not that bad of a gig
when you really take a bigger re loook, right. I
heard remember like Charles Barkley getting people the people like
yelling at him in the bars, and you get in
fights people commenting about my eating. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You're a big eater, Are you a big guzzler?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like? Can you throw some back?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Does that quinetify for you being a big travel Really?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I mean can you really drink a lot or not?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah? Yeah, go down really? Yeah? One time I did
something for Pat McAfee before he was this Pat mcife.
Yeah yeah, yeah, he had he lined up twelve pints
of beer and and I rank him in like seventy seconds. Damn.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I gotta ask, of all the things that I know,
the different categories, is there one that you're like, it's gross.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'll set this one out.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh yeah, bull testicles, dude. So yeah, it was a
casino contest. You mean they're not delicious? I didn't. I
didn't do it, but I was like, so the casino
was the tour is for making bad food, right, And
I was like, no, I don't trust him to make
him and the eaters they told me that they were
like undercooked and and like stretchy and they were not. U. Yeah,
I'm lucky I didn't do that one.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I mean, I'm glad he didn't either. Joey Chestnut here
on the Cavino and Rich Show Fox Sports Radio, and Joe, you're,
as far as I see it, responsible for the popularity
of competitive.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think, you know, competition, I think the Golden era
like me and Kobeyashi, right, and that's what really like.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh my god, that's sure we always can.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Actually be competitive, Like like there were contests where he
started out ahead and I caught him and I overtook him.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Angel Rees, Caitlin Clark, Ali Frasier.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You need, you need, you need a good rival.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It's a I mean it's really nice.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Would he give you that credit?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh? He I mean no, he might cry. Dude crying.
Oh my god. I was like, dude, I feel like
I'm abusing him. I didn't even make him crazy. I
didn't even say anything mean to him. But he cries,
like like that Netflix thing. He had to change, he
had to change the rules. He didn't want to dunk,
so I had to eat the hot dogs. No dunking.
It's uh, that guy is he needs Yeah, I still
(08:09):
love him. I respect the competition.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
But he cries alone.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh he cries a baby.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Sports baby, I don't know, sports baby.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What I was gonna ask you is I see you
as responsible for the popularity of the sport. How do
you see it evolving?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I think, uh, you know, I think part of the
biggest the biggest thing is Fourth of July. It's America. Yeah,
it's uh, you know, you know, you don't have apologize
for being American. You don't have to apologize for eating
twenty hot dogs. It's it's like it's the perfect Uh,
it's the perfect storm of like yay, I'm we're we're
loving this thing. We're loving hot dogs, he love fireworks,
and uh, we're gonna push it to the limit.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We're here with a lot of football players, you know,
media row, Yeah, Joey in the NFL thirties, forty ish
tops is like, you know, that's time to call quits.
Is there a retirement age for competitive eating? Is that
something like, you know, golfers could go into their fifties
or sixties if they wanted to, Like you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Know what, I keep looking towards Tom Brady. I think
he won the Super Bowl at forty four. Yeah, I
am forty forty one right now. It'd be really nice
to be on top at forty four. That'd be really rad.
At forty five that'd be unheard of. That'd be nuts.
So that'd be really cool. I'm just and it's taking
more work.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I was gonna say, as as just nature and life
and your body takes all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
If all the time is a jerk. When I was younger,
I could do a practice like every three or four days.
Now it's like seven or eight days to the recovery period.
It takes so much longer to recover. You know what
I was gonna ask you, Joe.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
There's so many football teams that take a lot of
pride in eating those uncrustables, right, Like, what was the
Broncos here?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
The Broncos team, I think it was like seven hundred
on crustables they put back in.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
A week, like they're pounding those. Like, maybe that's an
angle for you. How many of those PBJSN yeah, team,
but the whole team bush league?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Right? What going on that?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm wondering how many you could eat again? Peanut butter
and jelly with the bread and everything.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That's one I haven't done it, but it's.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Become a big thing because all these young football players
now they grew up eating that. So it's a big
thing in the locker room. That might be an angle
for you that you could take on an entire team.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm thinking, or like.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The offensive line, Joey versus the offensive line take on
the Denver Broncos. I'd put my money on you, man,
I'd bed no. Seriously, have you have you ever tried that?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I've done a couple of contests me versus a group
of people, but I think uncrustables that that sounds it
needs to be done. Right, add that to the list
of records.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Let us promote it. Let's get some money. Yeah, charity
Smucker's got some flow.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Let's do this.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, Joey here at the Super Bowl. Is it funny
when people in different sports recognize you, like NFL players
or you know, celebrities passed by, like, hey, Joey Chestnok,
that's got to be a weird feeling, right.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean it's weird. But then they then they tell me, oh,
I've been watching you since I was a kid. It's like, damn.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Speaking of the youngsters, man, Joey Chestnut here with Cavino
and Rich, do you have advice for aspiring eaters, like
the young guys out there that are like, you know what,
I'm good at this?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What sort of advice would you give them? I think
it's really it's figuring out your body because it's not like,
you know, these guys play football. They knew five six
years old they were going to be a professional football player.
Like me, I didn't really think I was gonna be
It wasn't even when I was champion. I didn't think
it was gonna be my jobby job. Right, it was?
And you were embarrassed by Yeah, it was insteading into something.
(11:26):
It was something I grew up like, all right, I
have to hide it from the world. But a competitive
eater like these days, like if they if they know
they're a good eater and they start figuring out their
body when they're young, trial and error and learning how
to go from absolutely empty to one hundred percent full
and then make their body yeah, make it yeah, make
it go through your body fast. If they can figure
out their body, they I think that's the biggest thing,
(11:49):
is like keep a food journal, how you're feeling and
knowing that you don't actually have to feel good to
do good.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I want the Fox Sports Radio nation to always
remember as Tom Brady, Michael j Jordon Gretzky, Alie and
Joey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
He's the go this year the return hopefully, let's put
some pressure on it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Always a pleasure to have you on the show Man
for
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You guys, Joey Chestnut Coveno on Rich Fox Sports Radio
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