Eating Competitively

Episode Transcript

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The sport that I certainly feel like, I mean, I guess we have
to add so, like, howdo we feel about calling competitive eating a
sport? Yay or nay? Iwould have to look at the pure definition
of sport, and I don't believethere's any physical exertion other than the expanding
stomach, you know. Ah,on the side of No, it's a

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strategy though, right, Like andit's chess a sport? No, it's
a game right because there's no there'sno athleticism required. You could play chess
with no arms and legs realistically.Okay. Sport definition this is from the
Oxford Dictionary and activity involving physical exertionand skill, in which an individual or

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team can beat against another or othersfor entertainment. So I do not think
this qualifies, in my opinion,as a sport. How not? What
part of that? Does this not? How is it physical exertion? He's
eating seventy hond dogs in ten minutes. He's breaking a meat sweat, but
he's not he's not exting. Youhave to train your stomach to do this,
I mean, like grain is stomach, Yeah, look it up.

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You've got to train your liver tohandle all that alcohol is alcoholism a sport?
It's a little different, I think, is that Get a bunch,
Get a bunch. It's not thesame thing. Get a bunch of sad
sacks up there? No, no, no, don't do that. No,
I'm not going to finish that analogy. We don't need to have other

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competitive are you? Are you sure? Just imagine think about anything else you're
binging on in front of people,and would you call that a sport?
It's it's entertainment. Okay, Soso go through one point by point,
point by point, I'll tell youwhen to stop. Go ahead. The
definition of sport go and activity involvingokay, wait, activity, yes,

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no, involving physical exertion, yes, okay. Not everyone can do what
he's doing here. Not everyone.And there is a documentary out there that
you can go find. It's athirty for thirty about the competitive eaters.
It has Kobyashi and Joy Chestnut heavilyfeatured. And you know what you should
do. You should watch that.You realize the training that they do for
these things. It's not like you'reborn and you're an awesome competitive eater.

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So I say yes, The definitionof physical exertion. I give this to
the court here, the activity ofexerting your muscles in various ways to keep
fit. Is your stomach a muscle? I rest my case a muscle.
The stomach is a muscular, holloworgan. You gotta be kidding me.

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You gotta be kidding me. Next, Okay, an activity involving physical exertion
and skill, and skill, absolutely, he's skilled. It takes skill to
learn how to and teach yourself howto do this in a way that your
body can handle. And they alldo it different. We talked about Kobeyashi

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and the two handed hot dog,then bun technique. Joey just grabs a
handful of stuff and stuffs it inhis mouth and keeps his mouth hand over
his mouth like until he's fin chewingand he gets his mouth empty so he
could do the next thing. Givenall of this knowledge, I am going
straight to the Golden Corral. Iam gonna make some T shirts and I'm
gonna get one of those foam fingers, and I'm gonna root those people on.
That's my new favorite team. Whatthe people at the Golden Corral.

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That's not a team though they're notcompeting in anything I say they should.
They're competing in business. That's howI for it. I'm gonna go into
the Golden Corral. I'm gonna picka table, and I'm gonna sit next
to them and root them on thewhole the whole time. You mean the
people eating, that's my spectators.Okay, but you're not like, like,
we're not done with the definition.We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll
take back to this analogy. We'lljump back into this analogy after we finished

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the definition. It's physical exertion Andwhat was the next one? And skill?
Yes, in which an individual orteam competes. Yes, they're competing
against each other, aren't they others? Yes, for entertainment. And this
is entertainment. It's on national television. There are people that care about this.
This is the only reason we knowthis happens entertainment. And you mentioned

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another important word in the definition,compete. The people at the Golden Corral.
Guess what who are they competing against? Anyone? Now? If they
like eyeballed the family across the way, they just got food from the buffet
and they're like, hey, yourfood's about the same amount as our food.
Yeah, I want a race,Yeah, yeah, we're in a
sport. Now we're talking. That'scompetitive eating. I'll see at the Golden

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crowl later tonight. Let's do thisme. Yeah, I can't do this.
I don't have the skill to dothis. You can't pack in as
much mashed potatoes as I can.Oh, there's absolutely no way I know
this. It's just like somebody who'san incredibly you know, thin and weak
kind of like me who gets intothe boxing ring with Mike Tyson. I
mean, you wouldn't do that.You wouldn't volunteer yourself to do that.

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That's insane. I wouldn't. Iwouldn't try to gorge myself on something that's
like just an irresponsible thing. Sobottom line is competitive eating sport. Give
me, give me the gabble,Come on there, it is. What
about what about the golf sport?Yeah? I mean Charlie Hole. Have

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you seen Charlie Hole. She's thetwenty eight year old woman from England.
She's been like seeing smoking cigarettes theentire time that she's golfing at the Women's
US Open and in the in thelast month and a half. People are
just like, wow, she's justgoing to town on those things, ripping
them left and right? Is shestill an athlete? John Daily Style?
Right, yeah, no, I'mnot discrediting any of that. What about

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darts, Yes, right, Iguess so it has to be right,
it's physical, I guess. Sowhat about billiards bowling? Yes, right,
I'm gonna have to you know what, I'm gonna have to take this
one away. I'm gonna have todo some research because I know I'm gonna
come up with something a way tomake competitive eating not a sport. Yeah,

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that's that's the that's the thing you'reon. Well, we'll talk about
why we think Joey Chestnut or whyhe's important and why he's in the news
here in a second. But Eric'son our phone line at four oh two,
five five, eight eleven ten.Eric, what's on your mind?
You were talking about the competitive beating. You're you're missing one of the biggest
muscles of the body, muscle usingmuscles as a sport, the jaw.
The mandible is one of the strongestmuscles in the human body. Man,

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you've got to have a big muscleto chew that fast. Matt thoughts do
they use the shaw he dips thebun in the water. It just slides
straight down. That that's not howthat works. Go watch some film,
Matt, go do some film study, and you'll see he is chewing as
hard as he can, and hechews so hard he has to put his
hand over the opening of his mouthto make sure nothing falls out. I

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feel like, given this loose definition, any competition could be considered a sport,
and I don't agree with that.That's not true. There's no physical
exertion in games. There's physical exertionto playing chess. You got to move
the pieces around. No you don't, that's great. He got to use
your finger muscle, not necessarily that. That's not exertion, though. That's

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you're not exerting anything. You're notexerting anything like you have to you move
it, but you're not exert It'snot exertion. Jall got to get tired
after doing that much, That's whatI'm saying. I mean, I if
somebody does the stake just a littletoo well done, my jaw hurts after
the second bite. I couldn't imaginewhat this guy is doing halfway through a
pack of beef. Jerkey's killing meexactly. Imagine this guy how many times

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he has to to in ten minutesto win the hot dog geating contest.
Come on, Matt, where arewe at? Thanks? Eric, appreciate
the support. Thanks, but uhyeah, there you go. Yeah.
The stomach is also has muscles aroundit that are also affected by him working
the muscle out physical exertion, likelike playing clue. Not a sport,

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but it's a game, playing anyversion of like poker, not a sport,
but it's a game. The hokeypokey is that a sport? How
how do you compete in the hockeypokey? I mean if there's like you
put your left foot in, youtake your foot out. I know,
you put the left foot in andthen the left foot back out. You
can't put the right foot out whenthe left foots that's not how that works.

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Then you end up doing the splits. Yeah, it hurts everywhere.
No, but seriously, the hokeypokey is there competitive hokey pokey out?
There is there a way that youcan compete with people during the hokey pokey?
See, like, you got tocheck all the boxes here, Matt.
You're sounding you're sounding like you're confusingyour definition that you gave me.
I had you find the definition thatdoesn't check mark the competitive box. And

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if you can find me competitive hokeypoke out there, then I guess it's
a sport a verdict over there.Well, I googled if there's competitive hokey
poke and are you finding any?I am seeing some hokey pokey competitions?
Oh for real? Yeah, howdoes that even work? Do they get
judged on how good they do thehokey pokey? If so, what makes
a good hokey poke? How arewe talking about this like they pay us

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to be in here? It's fourforty seven. If you got thoughts on
Joey Chess that I didn't even say, like the whole reason we're talking about
him, he's banned from the hotDog Eating Contest. He's banned, he's
banned. He's won sixteen of thesebad boys and they're not letting him back.
And why is that? Because heis representing vegan brand Impossible foods Now.
If you're familiar with the Hot DogEating contest, Nathan's hot Dogs is

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the sponsor and has been the sponsorfor this since its inception. So Nathan
says, hey, if you're goingto represent or endorse a different brand,
if you're going to go into competitionagainst us, Well, you can't take
part in the Nathan's Hot Dog EatingContest. So if that's the case,
then I want to see Joey Chestnutt, the sixteen time eater eating champion,

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at this particular competitive eating event.I want to see him create an alternative
on July the fourth, give mesomething to compete against the Nathan's Hot Dog
Eating Contest, because it's like livegolf essentially, right, like the PGA
Tour is losing Tiger Woods. LiveGolf just got Tiger but you got to
bring some more people over and makeme watch it. Can they call up

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Kobeyashi and say, hey, youwant to get back into the game,
sun, we got some space foryou. If you got some ideas about
what they should be eating as well, go ahead and give us a call.
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retired from competitive eating because of healthconcerns. Gee, I wonder why,
hmmm, isn't that why all athleteseventually retire, either they're at not at
the top of their game anymore,or their health can't withstand the perils of
the sport that they compete in.Sounds like the game he was playing wasn't
a very good idea, and wegot to talk back from Jordan here seems

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to have an idea of maybe,uh, what we're looking for. Hey,
angry Bennington, Dad, Here,competitive eating is not a sport.
Oh come on, let's think ofsports as if I can have a pickup
game and people are gonna watch it, then yes, that's a sport.
But no one's gonna around and watcha pick up eating competition. Oh come
on, yes, you watch thebest in the world do it. But

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that's more like a clown show.What more like a circus? That's not
a sport. What are we talkingabout here, Angry Bennington, Dad,
that's a perfect example. Do circusesphysically exert themselves to do tricks and have
fun for your entertainment? Absolutely,so they're not competing against anyone. I
can't do this. I'm trying reallyhard. I don't have it in me.

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Are you eating those guardettos competitively?No, because nobody's competing. But
I'm practicing. I'm trying to practicefor our eating competition later, which by
the way, is a pick upeating competition for anyone who wonders. I'm
going down to the Golden Corral rightafter the show, and I am choosing
sides and we are picking teams.I'm finding my table, I'm picking just

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the right one. Well, forit to be fair, there's got to
be an arbiter there. We've gotto measure the food, make sure that
both sides have equal amount of food, and make sure that there's an equal
amount of people trying to eat it. Somebody's got to be there to make
sure everything is eaten properly. Imean, you have to have rules.
It's a sport. So honestly,all of this is just a really good
idea. If anyone working at theGolden crowds listening, this is how you

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get people to your restaurant. Didthey hire you? Is there an endorsement
deal in this program? I guessI should probably come clean. That's why
I took this job. I'm actuallyrepresentative from the Golden Crow, and I
was waiting for this very moment.Yeah, you know how bowling alleys have
bowling leagues every Tuesday night. Yeah, competitive eating leagues at the Golden Coral.
Why not? Why not? What'sstop at us? Let's do it.

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I don't know what healthy that'll be, but like, hey, you
know what, every week we havelike a different contest. How fast can
you eat you know, fifteen bananas? How fast can you eat three cheeseburgers
that has like two patties and abunch of other stuff on it. Yeah,
look, it's a sport and Idon't care what anybody says. And
I don't even care. We coulddo a pick up eating contest during the
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