July 1, 2024 • 55 mins
Covino & Rich have the "Dan Slam," 4 days filling in for Dan Patrick! They talk Rich's travels & recognize Bobby Bonilla Day. Not everyone is a fan! Is there a weird love for it? That sparks a fun conversation about guys who are late on annoying sayings. A Joey Chestnut military fundraiser story & Aaron Judge is suddenly having an MVP season. Plus, the GOAT of Major League Eating, Joey Chestnutt calls into the show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, welcome to what we're calling the Dan Slam.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
All Yeah, Day.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One of four shows in for Dan Patrick, Cavino, and Rich.
I'm Steve Cavino. That is Rich Davis on site. Hop along, Dicky,
We're calling you. Huh at twenty gallon Hada. I'm in
the land of fireworks that are legal. I just drove
past a fireworks stand this morning. I'm like, what is
going on?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Buy some Husker duos and Husker donts, Husker donts mostly
oh nice? So yeah, Rich is in Texas for the
holiday week. I guess you're going to be away for
most of July the rest of us. The premiere sports
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So lots to get to it. Gonna be lots of fun.
But first and first, mostly, how is your weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
How are your travels? Oh dude, I drove with a
four year old and a seven year old from southern
California to South Texas. So I'm like exhausted, to be honest,
but I'm in a good mood because I'm here with you.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Like it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's a long time, man. There's only so many things
you could do on an iPad for a kid. Hope
everybody had a great weekend. Hope everybody has their fingers intact.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was sort of confused, was this weekend fourth of
July weekend or it's next weekend? Right, because I heard
a lot of fireworks, a lot of celebrating this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I just think people were using it as an excuse
to get tipsy.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Look at your coltan. It was June this past weekend.
How can you celebrate? I heard a lot of celebrating.
Look even you you're away. But hope you enjoyed your games,
Hope all your team's won.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And again me just living dad life for the most part,
was my chauffeur for most of the weekend and trying
to enjoy my games in between trying to watch Aaron Judge. Really,
that's why I'm watching at this point because the Yankees
are so inconsistent, trying to watch Aaron Judge still making
time for Caitlin Clark. She got the big win rich
so lots to get to. But drove my daughter to
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six Flags, that whole routine, that whole thing, just driving
all the kids around with their half baked teenage plans.
Had a day at the pool, so I got a
nice little tan going on. I over eight, which is
what you're supposed to do on the weekend. So I'm
feeling puffy on this Monday morning from all the people
and all the fixins.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
How can I what? How could you say something like
I only watch you Yankees because of Aaron Judge. I
mean they're tied with the Baltimore Orioles for first place
I know race, so you're on pay for on pace
for a hundred wins, Like it's just team is doing something.
He is the guy though he's the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, obviously Soto's playing great too, but there's only three
dudes that are really pulling their weight on that team,
and that's Aaron Judge, Soto, Stanton's injured or else it
would be him maybe Vulpy because he's still playing well.
Everyone else man, I don't know. They run around with
loading their pants, you know, like Gabor Torres. Sorry what
(03:18):
meaning like it looks like he's wearing a diaper. Oh yeah, okay,
Gabor Torres not running things out, they're playing lazy.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So anyway, I hope you have to see that meme.
I have seen that meme where it's uh, or the
little TikTok videos where I'm doing my part. I'm doing
my part. It's it's like the group project. Well that's
Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is doing it all and everyone's like,
oh no, it's due tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He's carrying the team for the most part. Dude, for
the most part. And of course Garrett Cole got the
win yesterday. He's back. But they've been so inconsistent. Wasn't
for Judge, they'd be in a lot of trouble right now.
But that being said, I bring up baseball. I bring
up the weekend because I hope you had a good
one and today is a special day rich for you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's why I'm uh, That's why I'm visiting family in Texas,
not the fourth of July. Being a baseball fan, today
is a day that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Floods your social media timeline with lame o's on Facebook, especially,
Oh yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's the Facebook lame o rage every July first.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, you gotta, you gotta figure it this way. We're
all on Facebook, but it's more of an older platform,
meaning I think that people on Facebook are later to
the trends and they hold on to corny er jokes.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh, I've seen the meme that says, uh, I'm a
normal forty year old. I watch I watch TikTok trends
a month later on Instagram reels, right, I mean, and
then your parents se it two months later on Facebook.
But it's July first. And because it's July first, and
I'm a Mets fan, my timeline already already it's six o'clock.
(05:04):
Copy you on the West coast. It's only nine am
on the East coast, and I'm already bombarded with happy
Bobby Bania to day. God give it up. I hate
to hold Bobby Benia thing. He's being paid by the
Mets until twenty thirty five, until he's seventy two years old.
But people love it. I don't get it. It makes
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no sense to me why people love rubbing it. It's
taking in front of those things.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's the same guy that wants to have small talk
with you in the elevator about the weather. It's that
type of guy that loves to bring up Bobby Beni
a day. I would think you're that type of guy.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Rich.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I just know what annoys you as a Mets fan
out there, but I believe that you're that type of guy.
You know, that guy that just loves and leans into
the corny and on this date, Bobby Beanie a day.
He's paid forever and people love to laugh the Mets
about it because it's such a Mets thing. But here
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on the Covino and Rich Show, and for Dan Patrick,
we're trying to tell you a few things. There's a
few examples of those, you know, things that people love
to say. And it's like, all right, man, we get it.
We know, we heard of it. It's not that funny,
but other people think it's funny. And the Mets are
not the only team. Bobby Beni is not the only guy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, got to still give credit to him, though, I mean,
first of all, thanks for saying I'm the type of
guy that leans into corny stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What the hell are you talking about? I feel like
you are you meant research? No, like Rich loves on
this date. Like I hear Rich on pop two K
on serious ExM.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm sorry, that's his top forty format radio guy personality.
Like we all think hawk to a girl is funny,
Rich is still talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It and she still hop it on stage for country stars.
I beat it. No, this is what I mean, and
I say this respectfully. If you're in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Rich is the type of guy that that that points
at you and he goes.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hawk to a girl. Am I right? Hawk to it? Joel?
Have you seen by the way, let's say good morning
to Joel. Hi, Joel, Joel?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Great to see?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What great to see? Joel?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know here with Dan Patrick, we got Danny g
super produced and at eight seven seven ninety nine m
Fox spots on the videos if you want to play
long at home at Covino and Rich And again Rich
is in Texas, so it's really not a knock Rich.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm just trying to build up that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Type of guy who, uh, I don't know, loves to
talk about his coffee in the morning, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, because I hate that person. I hate the person
that says, don't talk to me. Until I have my coffee.
I hate that person. So you're describing someone I hate
and telling him, telling me it's me. I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know. But anyway, Bobby Benite right, yeah,
back one point one point one nine million dollars until
twenty thirty five. So we have Hey, here's a good news. Comno,
we've been working together a long time. We have another
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decade if you and I celebrating at least Bobby Benhette together.
So that's every July first. But let me let Red
Sox fans know that you're paying Rafael Devers seven point
five million dollars until twenty forty three. Let me tell
Reds fans that you're paying Griffy Junior three and a
half million dollars until this year. You're finally off the hook.
(08:19):
And Baltimore Oriole remember when this guy was hot for
a second coven on that it's like what happened? Remember
Chris Davis? Yeah, they're paying Chris Davis three and a
half million year until twenty thirty two, and then one
point four a year after that until twenty thirty seven.
And Danny g you shut your mouth too, because you're
paying Otani and Freddy Freeman until until you got diapers,
(08:43):
you've got great hairs.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A lot of these guys still play with the team,
so it's not as bad as now. Ken Griffy's a
Hall of Famer. Bobby Bonia never really did much for
your Mets, to be honest.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Rich, And the other joke is Bonio is also getting
paid by another team. I believe it's the Indians Little Guardians. Now,
I'll have to look that it. I know I've seen
that meme where he's getting paid by a second team.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Also, still, your son co is gonna have grand kids
and you'll be paying Otani.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But Rich, I feel like you would be more into
this if it if he if he wasn't getting paid
by your favorite team, you know, But.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He is right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
As as much as you know, we're dumping on Rich
a little bit. It's always easier when he's not here
to make up, make fun of him and gang up.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
As much as we're doing that, He's not wrong in
that it never goes away. People love to bring it
up like it's one of those those memes that people
sit on and they're ready to precend the moment. The
day hits like the moment May hit. You knew you
were gonna see it, justin Timberlake meme. It's gotta be
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May And it's the same thing with Bobby Benia day.
And I don't know why people love it because it's
not that great anymore because again, like we've seen it
so many times. But we're gonna add some things to
the list. We're gonna call out more teams and more players.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Cove really quick. It's the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They also still pay Bonia five hundred thousand dollars a
year for twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's insane. And for the record, you know Benia had
a long career sixteen years.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
One of the Killer Bees. We all remember that, but
he got it around. You had a Killer Bees poster
in your room. I should the hell did not, and
still wear your Barry Bonza dangling year in.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Six years with Pittsburgh, five with the Mets, two with Baltimore,
two with Florida, one in Atlanta, Saint Louis Dodgers, Chicago,
Like he bounced around a lot, so it's always there.
It's that day. It's sort of fun to laugh the Mets.
Rich is saying this is the stop making fun of
the Mets plea for Mitch Davis.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it's the reminder, don't go for the low hanging joke.
And by the way, when you just listed the teams
that Bobby Benia was on, if we played a round
of Cavino Rich on the road again, Oh no, I wouldn't.
I would never have got Bobby Bennia correct. I would
have said, obviously, Pirates, Mets, Orioles and Mayoe have found
(11:04):
another team. Can you name that again? Bobby Benia played
for how many teams? Man a lot?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Again?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
He played fifteen years in the NL, three in the AL.
He played for Pittsburgh. We remember that for sure. The
Mets we all remember were celebrating it today. Of course,
Baltimore for two years. I remember that, still getting paid.
Florida for two years. I remember that too.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, me too. Here's where I don't remember. He played.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
For Atlanta for a year, Saint Louis, the Dodgers, and
the White Sox all for a year.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, I must have been in a coma. I don't
remember any of after the Marlins in my mind he retired.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, that was ninety eight through two thousand and one
and what's things about it too a little more Like
you mentioned other examples, Raphael Devers tears it up for
the Red Sox Ken Tifrey Junior is a Hall of
Famer sho Heyo Tani last I checked one of the
greatest of all time. Okay, right, So there's the difference
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is sort of like it's.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Only a step It's only a step above if the
Mets are paying mo vawn is what you're saying. Yeah,
kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's like, ah, such a Mets sort of thing, and
that's where the funny and fun comes from. True, But
I do agree, and that's what I was getting at
that people lean into it in a odd way where
it's all right, guy, it's not that funny. And we
have other examples of that type of guy in those
type of jokes. And you could add to the all right,
we heard this joke. If you repeat this joke, you
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deserve a kick in the nards, You deserve a karate
chopping to sternam, you deserve a I don't know, flick
in the ear. Yeah, you deserve us a wet willie.
Like all right, we heard this joke, we get it,
but some people just love to lean into it. And
our favorite example here on the Covino and Rich are
our favorite number one example of hey, happy Bobby BENI today?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Am I right? You heard it's Bobby? You never heard? Yeah?
I heard John? I heard.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The best one is is when some guy feels like
he's the inventor, the inventor of this joke. And our
classic example is when a guy goes, I don't know
if you ever heard this one, but for every hot girl,
there's some dude who's sick of getting with her?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Am I right? And you're like, you think you invented that?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I heard that a million times Since the late nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There's there's always someone that has said that to you,
as if you're right that you've never heard, Like, I
don't know if you got hey, have you heard this one?
For every hot girl, it's the same guy that says,
I'll give a couple others were, the same guy that says,
hot dog down a hallway? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's like going a hot dog down the hallway? And
you're like, yeah, all right, dary, I heard that one.
But they look at you like, I bet you never
heard this one, and you're like, of course I have.
It's like it's like you're lame friends sending you a
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viral video that you saw as you know, ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You know about that butt fumble.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's like, hey, man, you ever see the butt fumble?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's like, of course I have a million times, I
got one, But it's annoying because they feel like, well,
because it's new to them, you're an idiot, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You're the idiot, the same guy that brings up Bobby Benidde. Yeah,
you said, our favorite one is for every hot girl
there's a guy that's sick of banging her. Yeah, and
you know I have.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's a bad one because it's it's a true and
funny sentiment. Right, it's a funny statement. But we've heard
it a million times. You're not breaking the glass on
that one.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, you're right. The sentiment that Kamina describes as true.
It's the person that says this is usually the person
that acts like you may never have heard this. I'm
gonna lay one on you. Buckle up, man, I got
one that's gonna change your life. Man, you said his
good dude? Can you believe that? Can you believe that
j Lo and Ben are gonna get divorced. Well, I
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don't know if you ever heard this. For every hot girl,
I got one better, I got even a better one.
You think that's the legal I thought down.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The Hallway was a good one too, And we don't
need to explain. I think most people get it and
have heard that before. And this all ties into Bobby
Benia Day. It's like, yeah, we know, we get it
every year. You guys love it. You guys love it. It's
a weird, weird love for it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So you mentioned one before, which was people that love
to point out like, don't talk to me un till
I had my coffee. We're sort to talk about those
phrases or sayings or things that people make. It seem like.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's not even just phrases and sayings rich. It's like
people that lean into Bobby Bonilla Day and love it
so much. Like that strange love for this is the
same guy who like loved bacon in a weird way
when that was a craze beer and bacon. It's like,
all right, dude, we all love beer and bacon.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh yeah. The person where there's an event, if there's
an event, then the person's like, who is there beer?
There right right, Bacon, Hankeny, but bacon on my Sunday Bacon,
all right, bacon guy. We all love bacon. We all
think Bobby Benia Day is funny. We all get it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
But you were just crazy about it, and you just
texted it to fifty different people.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I got two more. I'm gonna I got this is.
I love this conversation because we talked to so many people.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
By the way, picture that guy Rich when he's sending
out his mass text to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh wait till they get a load? Wait? Did they
get a load of this one? Happy Bobby Boony a Day.
I don't know why I made him Southern novs. Oh,
because you're in Texas. That's why I'm in Texas. Yeah,
that's why hop along Dickey. Sorry, go ahead, you're messed.
I got I got two more. Give I'm gonna give
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you one now. And I was just about to talk
about how I'm feeling it this morning. I already just
forgot the other one I had in my head. Oh,
I got it, you ready, No, I got the one.
I got the best one of them. I got the
best one. The best one might be when someone says
to you as if you've never heard it as if
they are breaking the glass or giving you some great advice.
(17:25):
When it's in the form of a best man's speech,
it's even worse. I know it, you're taking mine. When
someone stands up and says the following phrase, well you know,
happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And you give him, you give him clap, I mean, well,
he's right. I guess, I mean, I guess he's right.
I guess he's right.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
It's such a stupid saying.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Because it's it's great.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I love it, but god, we've heard that a million
times again, million times.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Same thing with Bobby Benia.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
The guy that says that the best man speech is
the guy you know that loves Bobby ben women. You know,
I got that written down the hawk to a thing. Eventually,
it's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We've had buddies like this for real, Like we had
buddies that hung on to jokes way too long after
the fact after they were funny. Like we had a
buddy we kind of stopped being friends with him because
he was that annoying. He he was saying winning. Remember
when the Charlie Sheen winning thing was a thing winning?
You remember when when Tiger's blood or whatever he was
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talking about was a big thing. This dude was saying
winning for like the next three or four years. It's like,
all right, maybe he's one of those Bobby Bonia type
of guys. And I'm not saying that's the reason, but
it's part of the reason. So again, today is Bobby
Benia Day. We explained why it is different. But the
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Mets aren't the only team, but it's a very Mets thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You're right, Dever's Otani, Freddie Freeman, they're all franchise players. Yeah,
and Griffy just got done being paid and Chris Davis
might be the only equal one because he was good
for a second and the Orioles are paying that guy
until the twenty forties.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, that's insane. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
So it's the memes that you've seen a million times,
the jokes that people love to tell you, the expressions,
and Rich is just saying in the same breath, stop
making fun of his Mets.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It's so it's so easy. It's fun. It's easy. You
know what, though they did have a fun weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, one of their players is a big time performer,
not only on the field, but off the field. I
want to mention that too when we get back.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But you know what, though, I have a thought on
that as well, and it's very mets. So we got
more covinon Rich and for the great Dan Patrick next
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I ordered a bagel this morning, Rich with some stank
on it. Know what I ordered this morning? I have
a favorite coffee shop where I'm at in Texas, and
it's an embarrassing order because they call there. They're like
French vanilla, like good coffee is called the dude and
I get it. I'd say, I get it the Umber seven, please,
(21:00):
thank you? Yeah, Kavino's the guy that won't call a
Starbucks drink or like a Jumba juice drink. What was
the thing that you refused to call its name? The
Orange dream Machine?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I got into it like a like a standoff with
the Jamba juice girl.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I'm like, can I get that one? She's like, which one?
I'm like the orange one. She's like, you mean the
Orange dream Machine?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Like you won't say it? She knew I wouldn't say it.
And I'm like, no, I want to say. She's like,
why won't you say? I'm like this this stupid the
dream Machine.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Get out of here. Isn't it true you never used
to order the Rudy two d fresh and fruity when
you went.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
To die hop No, or the moon's over his Hammi
Moon's over in an old fashioned and like, do you
mean the whiskey business?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm like, can I just get the freaking ruty old
booty please?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Fresh and fruity pancakes with the fruit on it, you know,
thet fresh free So tell me how good that one
dude was you had this morning? No? So? I uh
so I ordered the coffee is called the dude. I
wanted a tasty dude, wasn't it? So I got it.
I wanted an extra large and I wanted it ice,
So I had to order an extra large ice dude,
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Extra largethy dude.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Please coming right up, so Riches in Texas drinking dudes.
I come up a little what and the rest of
us are here in Los Angeles, slide up in the nation.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, exactly, explains his tasty dude this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
WHOA The best way to start a day, Rich Davis explains,
is with a dude.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Again.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
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Speaker 3 (22:33):
Hot?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We're talking about Aaron Judge and we'll take your phone
calls as well. We got Danny g and Joel on
the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
at Covino and Rich Again, when you look at the stats,
they're insane. He's out doing his own pace at this point,
which is hard to do when it's it's hard to
live up to yourself sometimes when you're Aaron Judge. But
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they're comparing his season through June to Bryce Harper's twenty
twenty one MVP season. The entire season in twenty twenty one,
Bryce Harper batt at three z nine. Aaron Judge's batting
three sixteen again and roly in June, well July now,
but this is as of yesterday. Bryce Harper had thirty
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five home runs in his MVP season. Aaron Judge already
has thirty one home runs. Bryce Harper had eighty four
RBI in his MVP season. Aaron Judge already has eighty two.
He's been consistent, he's been healthy, and that's been the difference.
But it's insanity. He's Babe Ruth Josh Gibson level of mammoth.
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And we glorify these names in the past, not that
we shouldn't, but we don't really look at today's numbers
and give the credit to today's athlete the way we should.
Because we hear some sort of old name, we're like, oh, yeah,
those guys are the best. It's like, no, the guys
you're seeing now are the best.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You know. I'm so curious and by the way, I
think the most impressive thing that Aaron Judge is doing. Besides,
like I said, every ball he hits like a what
should be a line drive to left center field just
carries because he just rips the ball with an exit
velocity that's absurd. Yeah, I think the one hundred and
fifty RIBI pace one sixty he's on pace that I
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feel like MVPs are like one twenty one thirty RBI
over one hundred's fantastic. The fact that this dude's on
pace for a buck fifty more in the RBI department
seems to me like that that's the most impressive stat
of all. Does that make it a shoe in without
a tat? I mean the fact, yeah, why would Why
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wouldn't he?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I mean, I'm sure you've been snubbed before, you know,
in your little league dating.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was politics, right, like the other the other kid
who may have won, his dad.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Was the coach or something is dad about the trophy? Right?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, exactly, So politics would be one him not staying healthy,
them not winning. But we've seen it in the past,
we see it with RANI. There's always guys that are
just as good or maybe more impactful to the team.
But what Judge is doing is impactful to the league.
Forget about the team. But you know, Otani beat him out.
We saw Altuve beat him out. There's always guys with
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great impact for their team that could give him a
run for his money.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But what he's doing now is just unheard of. Speaking
to your boy, Altuve, did you see him getting really mad?
He thought he hit a ball off his foot and
he's like, of course I did, and he didn't run
the first and they're like, oh, no, fair ball.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I think that was the second ejection in his career.
You know, it was odd to see him that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Man, do you think people don't believe him because of
the stigma of the cheating astros? Like any other player,
you'd be like, of course, I believe him if he
says his foot got hit, his foot got hit. But Altuve,
you're like.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hey, rich, and I'm not calling out other superstars. That's
not my point here. My point here isn't to diminish
the past. Right, know your history and give these guys
they were the best at their time. My point's not
to diminish these amazing accolades. You can't take them away,
they won and they're great. Is just to really uplift
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what we're seeing before our eyes instead of glorifying the
past all the time. Oh, no, doubt, dude, Steve Garvey again, legend,
Danny g No disrespect I say disrespectfully. I'm just looking
at any numbers, so I'm not caught out. Steve gre
I like Steve Garvey nineteen seventy four, he had a
three forty two. I mean, that's a monster year. Wait wait, wait, wait,
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hold on, no he didn't. He got it three twelve.
He's on base percentage of three forty two. It's not
even that great. But he had twenty one home runs
and one hundred and eleven RBI. Twenty one home runs
three twelve. Aaron Judge basically has that. Now, you know
what I mean, that's insane and the numbers, Honestly, if
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you look at other MVP Award winners rich again, and
they're the best at the time or the most impactful
at the time. I get there's some people up there
like I'll never ever, especially as a Yankees fans, say
anything bad about Phil Rizzuto, but his MVP season, it's
like kind of meager.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
When you look at it. Oh yeah, no, I agreed.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So when we glorify these old names and numbers, got
to really pay attention to what some of these young
guys are doing. And it's unbelievable. And it's not just
Aaron Judge. Of course, there's the sho Heyo tanis. There's
plenty of people playing well putting up crazy numbers. So
I see a few people calling about it, and uh,
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we'll take a few phone calls.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Hey, I had a couple thoughts for you. Number one,
The bummer is that I was looking up the all
time RBI leader and it's one of those, like early
nineteen hundred's unbeatable ones. Otherwise I'd say, yo, could Judge
do it? Because I know there was a year I
believe where like Albert Bell or Manny or someone was
like had like a buck fifty Hack Wilson one hundred
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and ninety one in nineteen thirty. That's unbeatable. No one's
getting one going to outpace that. I mean, that's you're
talking about over a over an RBI a game. I
think that just seems not likely.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But it's not only in sports rich it's in entertainment.
It's in pop culture. It's it's it's everywhere. It's like
when you talk about, like a the greatest movies of
all time, not to take away from the Gon with
the Winds and the Casa Blancas of the world, right,
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but like, shouldn't we be at the point in time
when we're like.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Ah, shush, shank, good fellas.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You know, we bring up all these old ones because
we glorify the past.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Some of these tell me you tell me, you tell me,
cool hand, Luke or something like that's better than bars Gump.
What I'm telling you is back to the future could
be an answer, yes, you know, And and we glorify
these older ones because they're older for no other reason
other than yes, they were great and they're classic. But
that doesn't mean that the ones now are closer in
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recent history aren't just as good, if not better.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
When you factor in the athleticism and sports, or you
factor in special effects and the technology and the acting
and how it's evolved now, it's kind of safe to
say that it is better. And we just don't want
to disrespect the past, and we don't have to, but
we could really just embrace an uplift what we're seeing
before our eyes today.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's It's true people love to glorify the past, and
by the way, to sort of enhancer what you're saying.
I have a great movie example, but I looked a
couple stats up from our childhood because I'm thinking, who
did I sweat as a kid? Like y'all they're hitting bombs,
They're awesome. I looked up Dale Murphy's kid Alf and
Hulk Colgan. Yeah, as what you're gonna do? Brother? Are
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you drinking? Are you drinking some real American beer this week?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
For uh?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
What the July Holkster's got like a good looking younger
wife these days? Anyway, Calm down, Yeah, Dale Murphy, you
see hawk to a girl. Dale Murphy in his prime
when we were playing RBI baseball, bases load and you're like, man,
Dale Murphy, I know he had.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
He had forty four home runs, I believe one year
because I remember I know stats do RBI baseballn and so.
But let me hit you on the superstation TBS.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Let me hit you up with his MVP season.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Now, compare these to Aaron Judge. Now his MVP year
thirty six home runs, one hundred and nine riby's and
he bet at two eighty one.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Solid, right, solid for you would take that any day
of the week. But what you're seeing now is on
a different level of Austin.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, you know who's on pace for that this year?
I got like Pete Alonzo, right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, a
guy you know, let me give you one met Yankee Dodger,
a guy who swing was the smoothest in the world
other than Ken Griffy Junior, maybe Dual Whoa. Darryl hit
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two sixty nine. His best year was two sixty nine,
thirty nine and one hundred. Like, do we glorify these
guys because they were part of our childhood. We do, and.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
That's fair because they dominated their era and they won
at that time. But again, this is about embracing what
we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I think both of you guys would agree that pitchers
were a lot more dominant at that time. We had
pitchers throwing more innings, and it seems like we had
more races.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And if you look back, there's a lot of pitchers
that were winning MVPs too back then. I mean they
still do, but they were winning a lot back then.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, Danny brings up a good point. There is a
reason to glorify some of these pictures. I saw stat
the other day and said, Nolan Ryan's best stat that
no one talks about. He pitched a thirteen inning game
two hundred and thirty pitches for the win or something.
Someone's like, imagine someone doing that today and that's like
three starts based on pitch counts. Now, Dick wrote won
the MVP in nineteen sixty, what are you right? In
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the NL?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Rodger Maris won it in the AL. So again we
glorify these names. Did Crop atted three twenty five and
had two home runs and fifty rbi?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, so, I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Maybe at the time, I don't know. I don't know
that story. But I'm just looking at numbers like that's
an MVP season. What Aaron Judge, what these guys are
doing today are insane And we're not even halfway there.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I got two for you, and we could move along.
Talk about uh, NBA, talk about NFL, talk about HOWK
to a girl? Whatever the heck? You want to talk
about hot dogs, fireworks?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I want to talk about this big heist, this big uh,
this big bust in gardena.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh, I want to talk about big bust. Sure, how
do there's two examples of glorifying the past. I' llah
all these past sluggers. Meanwhile, Aaron Judges, you know, doing
historic things before our eyes. We just need to, as
you said, respect the past, but also observe what's going
on in front of your very eyes. And and Aaron
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Judge is unbelievable. You watch him day in and day
out as a Yankees fancamino. But if you're a fan
of the Cubs or the Astros or Tigers or some
other team, taking a take a look at some of
this guy's highlights, they're absurd. Really, It's like, if you
don't watch Aaron Judge day to day, you'd be shocked.
Two examples. I would take, Yeah, you might call me crazy.
(33:18):
I would take Ed Sheeran and put him against any
other like singer songwriter, guy from other generations, James Taylor,
all these other people that people that are known as
like man singer songwriter Dylan, Bob Dylan. Ed Sheeron is unbelievable,
like me, So I think Ed Sheeran's a guy that
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we're looking at. Make a beta day just you and me.
Great job, Bob, all right, somebody walk this guy out
the studio. He seemed brain dead in that documentary about
We o the World that was weird. We are the
worm me great.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Job, Bob, and he is legend, so yeah, let's not
dump on the pass legend singers, well not singer, but songwriter, legend,
and Rich is saying, you know, here we are we
we glorify these names.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
What Ed Sheeran does and is doing.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Is comparable, if not better, especially with the use of
technology in the way he loops things live. I'm not
even a big Ed Shearon fan, but it's undeniably awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
You're right. I took my kids two weeks ago to
see the movie Inside Out too. It's the first billion
dollar movie of twenty twenty four, and ye know that
movie start to finish, graphics, the animation, the storyline, heartfelt
for the kids. For the adults, you're telling me that's
not better than Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh may again. Great for the time, but you'll your
kids will fall asleep before. Your kids will start complaining
before it starts because they're like, why are there credits
in the beginning of the cartoon? Why are there crazy
Over didn't even start yet because kids don't like credits
in the beginning of their movies and by the time
what's that, we love to laugh. By the time that
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hits at Mary Poppins, your kids are sleeping.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Bro. I was on this road trip with the kids,
so I'm flipping around the radio channels on Sirius XM,
and the kids wanted to hear Disney Radio for a
second and just a spoonful of sugar next to medicine
and go out, and my kids like that. Change it.
I'm like, of course, this is the lame as hell
speaking of Disney the way, do you yeah? That was great, bro,
(35:34):
the most delightful way.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
At the time we got to go no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
But you know how we glorify the past. How many
people are like, let's go on. It's a small world,
and You're like, are you serious? Have you seen the
rides today? And you want to go on a stupid
ride and it is endearing and is adorable, and I'm
not let's.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Go in the cars ride. Let's go on the cars.
That's called glorifying the past.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Aaron Judge has done with MVPs, have done for an
entire season, in half a season. It's insane to see.
And I'll tell you what I see. Some people on
the phones. We will get to your phone calls next again,
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Speaker 3 (36:47):
All. Yeah, Well, in a second, we're going to talk
to him, the man of the hour, the guy that
we talked about every fourth of July. Joey Chestnup. But comean,
I one thought. I looked this up and there's no
real answer as to why everyone passed on Aaron Judge
back in the day, because he's doing just remarkable things
in baseball now. The only thing I could take out
of it is he was six 't seven skinny and
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struck out a lot. But even when he was drafted
by the Yankees, you know what the sentiment was. The
sentiment was Aaron Judge, he probably won't have him played
for the Yankees because they have such a deep roster.
His agent said, don't get too comfortable with the pinstripes.
You're probably not gonna stay here. And that's exactly what
was said to Aaron Judge back in the day.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
All right, well, without further ado, let's not make the legend. Wait,
it's that Joey Chestnut time of the year everybody, So
with glory and renown, we have a surprise guest visit
from the Man, the mid the Legend. Let's welcome Fox
Sports Radio Nation. I'm building it up. You like this
build up?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Joey Chestnut, Welcome Bayley.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Oh you guys.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yeah, man, congrats on everything. I want to talk about
what's going on this weekend and all the news. But
what's it like for you when you're Joey Chestnut and
you just open up social media or just Google news
and you see stories about yourself everywhere?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Do you read them? Are you? Do you care? Do
you get excited about that?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Yeah? I care? It's it's it's the whole thing's crazy,
and I, uh, this whole what it's been a wild ride,
and I'm I'm still loving competitive eating and I don't
know where it's gonna take me, but I'm I'm all in.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Hey, Joey, does the Nathan's Contest even matter now that
You're not in it? Is it like just sort of
does it have any cred with no Joey Chestnut in it?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
I mean, it's it's still an awesome contest fourth of July.
It's the way people celebrate that people celebrate for the
July competitive eating and their love of hot dogs. So
it definitely has the place in my heart. But uh, dude,
they they kind of banned me for reasons that they
didn't don't still don't make sense. I mean they can
(38:54):
twist and turn it, but uh, they changed the terms
of our agreement and they uh and they banned me
leaguing conversations and that's the way it went.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Do you think they're gonna feel the impact and your
value because you were sort of the hype You were
the hype man and reason most people tuned in. So
is there a part of you that wants them to
miss you. It's like you don't want them to carry
on and do great without you, right, so what are
your feelings about that?
Speaker 5 (39:20):
You know, it's it's like a weird breakup. As soon
as a girlfriend says they don't want to be with
you anymore, it's like, oh, good luck. I'm not I'm
not trying to make them regret it. I'm moving on
and I'm I'm having a great time. I'm just gonna
celebrate for July and I'm gonna still be eating hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
You know. It's, uh, the analogy of the breakup's good
because when you break up, you're like, yeah, I wish
you well, but not too well. And what's what's interesting,
It's like I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Stealing it for Dan Patrick. I'm sure he wants us
to do well, but not that great, not that well, right.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Joey, would you say have all your highlights back in
the day in the world of competitive eating. We were
talking about this just the other day mid contest, when
some guy jumped on stage and you like stiffed arm.
You stiff armed him mid hot thought, do you feel
like that's your best? Is that your coolest moment? Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
That was that was one of the wildest moments. It
didn't make sense. I had a broken leg at the time,
and uh it was. It was crazy. Yeah, I I
remember thinking to do what's happened? And once that once
that timer starts, that doesn't stop. So I had to
get back to eating and h pull out the whip.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
You know what I love about that? You're in your
zone right, like you're sowing your zone.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
And it was just a natural reaction because most people
don't know how they would react in the moment, and
your natural reaction was that of an action star. So
I give you a lot of credit for that, Joey
Chestnut the badass, because I don't know what I would
have been in that moment. I really don't asked them
to leave, who knows.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
I'm sure you would have done it, because I, like,
I've been training for the event for almost two months
and I wasn't gonna let anybody get in between me
and the dogs.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Now, now let's break this down, because we heard that
you weren't doing the Nathan's Competition, right, we heard this,
But then a few weeks before, maybe even about a
month before, we heard that Kobyashi was retiring to focus
on his health. Then out of nowhere, we read you
guys are doing this big Netflix special?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Was that Labor Day? Weekend day?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Labor Day? You're doing this Netflix deal? So a part
of me and I'm just saying how I felt in
that moment, felt like, what did he have this up
his sleeve the whole time?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
How did that work? Give us the scoop?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, we've been working on. Me and Kobyashi have been
talking for over a year and trying to figure out
a way to do it. And he had a falling
out with Major League Eating and Nathan's years ago, and
I was I was hopeful there was a way we
could all I could do this event and uh, and
I was excited. It's uh, it's uh, it's a big deal.
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Is this like my biggest rivalry, my biggest rival ever?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Does he have a shot? Like?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I know, he's your greatest competition, he's one of the
biggest names out there, But in reality, does he have
a chance to beat you?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Oh? My god, I don't want to. There's one person
crazy enough to do it, to push himself to that
crazy limit, it's him. And like you said, he was
putting out with this information like he was going to
retire and that came out right because he was Also
it took him a while to sign the contract, and
then he told his manager and told my manager that
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he's all in. He's trying to go for records. And
I believe that way more than believing that he was
ever close to retiring.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Joey, this is you know, your own personal, private sort
of deal. But I'm imagining your Netflix deal to do
this was big. Does it matter how many people watch?
Or did they just work out one sort of contract
with you?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
You know, usually I don't don't talk about contract, but
it is uh yeah at a at the I think
there's a prize involved, which is will be the biggest
prize in competitive eating.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Cool okay, and uh.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Yeah, this is the biggest showdown ever and it's uh
and and Netflix is not messing around. They they they're
they're making this the biggest hot dog eating contract ever.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Only time, I mean, Netflix got the cash. So I
can only imagine Joey Chestnut hanging with Camino on Richie
on Fox Sports Radio. Now, you said, Kobyashi and you
both have beef no pun attended with competitive eating, with
major league eating. That would be like the NFL saying,
you know, Mahomes Josh Allen like, yeah, we don't need
you a big mistake. Is there someone still in that
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world that you that that maybe you mentored or something like,
is there an up and comer because I don't know
anyone besides you, Kobyashi. I remember back in the day
we interviewed a guy crazy Legs Kanti. Is there like
some new guy that anyone should have been looked out for?
Speaker 5 (43:59):
You know, there's some awesome There's a guy out of Australia.
He's very very good. This guy, he's a sweetheart, good dude.
I would hate to see the Mustard belt leave America,
but there's a very good chance he'll be going. It'll
be going to Australia.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
There there's a guy out of Boston, very very good dude,
Jeff and Jeff Esper. Nice guy, he's capable of a
mid fifties And and it's one of the things that
I'm talking to these guys and now that I'm not there,
they feel like it's time for them to they can
hopefully get their personal bests and uh and I understand
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that they can feel like they can spread their wings
because they have a chance.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
We now remember reading that Asper said if he won,
he'd put an asterisk next to the victory because he
wasn't competing against the best.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That had to make you feel good.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
He's a great dude. He's a class act and he man.
We messaged each other and I'm I would spot for him.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
You eat a nice guy, Hey, Joey.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Second in line, as far as like, we get excited
about the hot dog contests and everything, So what's second
after that? As far as competition in major league eating?
What's the next big thing that you think might blow up?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
After hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Oh? After hot dogs? They they just had a bloone
eating contest in May and it was pretty awesome. They
actually almost got it on the ESPA, which which might have.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
The all time record. Didn't you go up just eating
blowney sandwiches?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Rich?
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Well, dude, I think I hold the record in nineteen
eighty nine third grade. Yeah record, that's all his mom
made for. Yeah, Joey, let me ask you this, if
you are to recommend the right way to eat a
hot dog, like, if you're not you know, dipping them
in water and you know, shoving them down your throat,
you know, winning records and money and breaking all these
you know breaking these records. Are you grilling it on
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the barbecue? Do you like a boiled hot dog? Or
is that grossy? Like if you would actually try to
enjoy a dog? How does Joey Chest not eat? And
what do you put on it? Mustard? Ketchup relish some
of those red New York City onions, like what's a
Joey chest not perfect dog?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:09):
I'm a boiled hot dog. Grinds my gears I love.
I love a flat top griddle, I'll do. I like
charcoal grill, although we can taste the charcoal a little bit. Uh, toppings, nions, mustard,
I'll get. I love going Southern California getting getting the
street dogs wrapped in bacon with onions and peppers and
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even mayonnaise on there. I yes, I love to eat.
But yeah, you're absolutely right for pleasure. I'm not dipping
those things in water.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Did you cut slits in them when you're you're grilling them?
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Do you cut slits at the end or like, you know,
do you have a special technique we should try out
this holiday weekend?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
No cutting slipped and that's that's our chilter. You want
flowers on there too?
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Joey Chestnut. Hey, Joey, tell us about what's going on
at Fort Bliss.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Oh yeah, yeah. So after I got uh told I
couldn't compete on at Coney Island, Fort Bliss reached out.
I've been doing some uh some work with the military
in the past, and they reached out and invited me
to their four the July celebrations. So I'm going down
to l Passo, gonna be eating hot dogs against a
group of soldiers. I'll be hot dogs and uh, it's
gonna be great. I'm gonna be pushing hard and uh, dude,
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on top of that, my partner, Impossible, They're gonna be
donating one thousand dollars to Operation Homeland for every every
hot dog I eat. And there it's gonna be yeah, yeah,
there'll be donating Oh my god, I'm gonna putting down
at least fifty hot dogs in those five minutes.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
That's awesome, awesome, Yeah, that's cool to have something to
check out this weekend.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Joey, let me let me ask you one thing about
the Impossible Mathan's relationship or lack thereof. Tell us how
it actually did go down. Was it did your company
did impossible foods. They say, hey, listen, we're we're open
to this work, We're okay within competing. And Nathan's was
the one that shut it down.
Speaker 5 (48:10):
Like what was the detail that sort of blew this Yeah,
it's well, my relationship is Impossiblely, it goes back a
little while because I I've told people for years and
years that after I after I eat tons of hot
dogs or tons of blowny, I am on a super
clean diet and and I do meatless Mondays and so
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so it was it was kind of a natural thing.
I can't eat eat pounds and pounds of meat every day,
and and I, uh, and I enjoy impossible product and
impossible it's it's different enough from from hot dogs, and
that it wasn't it was never part of it was
never excluded in any of my agreements with Nathans, Nathan's
and major Lely eating and well, as soon as they
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found out that I was working with them, they they said, no, no,
you have to you have to cancel that agreement. They
they were very controlling, and then uh, then they started
leaking things to the press media saying I was vegan,
and it was it was, it was, it was weird
the way they handle it. And uh, most people can say, well,
you know, a plant based hot dog is not the
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same as I'll be a hot dog, and they shouldn't.
They shouldn't feel so threatened. I have.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
For you, Joe, each bummer man. It is a bummer man.
But you know what, I'm glad we still get to
see you this weekend.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Since you're talking about hot dogs and vegan hot dogs
and bologna and all these crazy things you eat. Have
you ever had I'm from Jersey. Have you ever had
Tailor Ham? Are you a fan of Tailor Ham?
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Some cool it? Pork roll?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Oh my god? Yeah, well pork roll? Yeah, I hold
the record for in southern I no, no, let's be.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Clear, I'm from Jersey. I hold the record in pork
roll sandwiches. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
But do you like it?
Speaker 5 (49:57):
I love it? You know, it grills up nice and
it's that perfect degree of fat and oily and salty.
Oh yeah, no, it's so great, amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
I'm so guy.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, what other records? A lot of people here wondering
what other records do you hold?
Speaker 5 (50:12):
Oh too, I have some awesome ones. So I got
I said that baloney one for elm Hill baloney. That
was fourteen pounds of blowy and eight minutes, thirteen pounds
of rib meat and twelve minutes, and one of my favorites,
harbled eggs one hundred and forty one harble days eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
That's that's amazing, dude. And you know what, that's absurd?
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I can't imagine, because you know what, we all did
some damage this past weekend and we're probably going to
do that again this holiday weekn coming up. So my
last question for Joey Chestnut here on the Cavino and
Rich Show and for DP is how do you balance
that out? Like, you know, we've met you a few times.
You're in great shape, But what's your gym routine like
to balance out all this damage you do?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
Oh? The big the biggest thing is cutting calories before
and after. As soon as soon as I can start
eating a super high fiber diet in greens, no sugar,
and it's it sucks. I even have to stop bringing
beer afterwards because as soon as I start having carved
that's when the weight really stays on me. But if
I clean afterwards, I can, uh, I can lean back
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to my normal wait in about four days. And uh yeah,
it takes. It takes a little bit of a discipline
to make sure that uh I wait doesn't stay on me.
And uh because if I if I start gaining weight
every weekend, then I start losing contests and and uh
it's losing sucks.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Hey, Joey, I gotta ask because we we bumped into
uh all, you know, back at serious XM days. I
remember one year I hosted a Hooters pageant and you
and Covino were two of the judges. You, I, do
you feel like I feel like everywhere I go people
love to talk to Joey Chessna. Do you love your
level fame where you're not like some A list guy.
Everyone's just sort of like, but they know who you are. Like, Hey,
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Joey Chesna, do you sort of love that pocket?
Speaker 5 (51:59):
Oh, it's it's a great pocket. Because there are critics
of competitive eatings, and very few of those critics ever
recognize me. It's not like like we're a regular athlete.
Like Charles Barkley. There's people who hate him and then
they yell at him and you have to get in
the fights. They're usually the people who hate, don't don't
ever let they don't recognize me, and I don't have
to get into fights about it. Usually it's only it's
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great dudes, and it's usually a party and we get
to talk about food.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Well, it's always a pleasure running into you and having
you on the show. And I want to say this.
You know, we often talk about.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Goats, Tom Brady's, Michael Jordan's, but there's some people that
are left out of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
You know, who brings up Michael Phelps.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Not too many people, right, you want to talk about
Gretzky moving forward, Guys, especially around this time of year,
we always got to remember there's only one Joey Chestnut
and he is the goat, and he's on our show.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
And we thank you very much man, look forward to
show this weekend.
Speaker 5 (52:56):
Oh, thank you so much. She has a great holiday.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
No, thank you man so again, catch Man Courtless El Paso,
and again we're really happy Danny g got him on
the line this morning. As you know, he's a regular
in the fifth hour of Ben Maller and we were
glad to spend a few minutes with Joey Chestnut n
LBP show.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Because of that, I don't know. If you know the
deal Danny G made, you now have to compete against
Ben Mallard in a hoto getting hot test. Yes, I
don't know who's got that one. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (53:25):
Oh, Ben, he's on these fasts for like sometimes half
a week. It seems like really yeah, I think Covino
could take him out unless Ben is just coming off
his last fast.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yo. Ben is a big boy man. And again we
borrowed mean he's Moneyball Mallard. Do you have a nickname
like that? Do you mean Moneyball Mal?
Speaker 2 (53:43):
People call him Moneyball Mal And we borrowed disappearance from
Moneyball Maller. And again thanks again to Danny G and
Ben for letting us have Joey Chestnut here for this moment,
because again every day there's like breaking news on Joey
Chestnut and we share that with you today. So something
look forward to in the world of competitive eating and
all the controversy surrounding it.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
You know what, not talking out of both sides of
my mouth. I take it back, because he's eating beef
dogs on the fourth of July. They're not vegan dogs.
He is the goat and from you know, I do
make fun of El Paso. Sorry, I'll passo. But from
what Joey Chestnut described, it does seems like it does
seem like Nathan's. It's clear they're the ones that sort
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of we're reluctant to let this happen, like if impossible
Foods and Joey Chessnut were like, hey, listen, we're I'll
still do it. I want to do it, And Nathan's
took like a weird hard stand, like we're not doing it,
Like aren't they like aren't they screwing themselves over it?
Speaker 2 (54:41):
In a bit obviously, because I don't think it's much
of a he wants to not put it down because
it meant so much to him and it built his career.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
But it's not much of a competition without Joey chestnut Man,
no doubt, no doubt. Well, listen, we have plenty to
get to here on Covino and Rich Listen, there's a
hilarious guest that attended a sports wedding over the weekend,
and I want to talk about unlikely friendships in the
world of sports and entertainment. We'll get to that. Plus
some big trades already going down. Not trades, more free
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agent signings in the NBA, So a little NBA, little football,
a little of everything. Fourth of July week, Covin and
rich In for the great Dan Patrick from the Mercedes
Benz Studio
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey, welcome to what we're calling the Dan Slam.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
All Yeah, Day.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One of four shows in for Dan Patrick, Cavino, and Rich.
I'm Steve Cavino. That is Rich Davis on site. Hop along, Dicky,
We're calling you. Huh at twenty gallon Hada. I'm in
the land of fireworks that are legal. I just drove
past a fireworks stand this morning. I'm like, what is
going on?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Buy some Husker duos and Husker donts, Husker donts mostly
oh nice? So yeah, Rich is in Texas for the
holiday week. I guess you're going to be away for
most of July the rest of us. The premiere sports
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So lots to get to it. Gonna be lots of fun.
But first and first, mostly, how is your weekend?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
How are your travels? Oh dude, I drove with a
four year old and a seven year old from southern
California to South Texas. So I'm like exhausted, to be honest,
but I'm in a good mood because I'm here with you.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Like it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It's a long time, man. There's only so many things
you could do on an iPad for a kid. Hope
everybody had a great weekend. Hope everybody has their fingers intact.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was sort of confused, was this weekend fourth of
July weekend or it's next weekend? Right, because I heard
a lot of fireworks, a lot of celebrating this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I just think people were using it as an excuse
to get tipsy.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Look at your coltan. It was June this past weekend.
How can you celebrate? I heard a lot of celebrating.
Look even you you're away. But hope you enjoyed your games,
Hope all your team's won.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And again me just living dad life for the most part,
was my chauffeur for most of the weekend and trying
to enjoy my games in between trying to watch Aaron Judge. Really,
that's why I'm watching at this point because the Yankees
are so inconsistent, trying to watch Aaron Judge still making
time for Caitlin Clark. She got the big win rich
so lots to get to. But drove my daughter to
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six Flags, that whole routine, that whole thing, just driving
all the kids around with their half baked teenage plans.
Had a day at the pool, so I got a
nice little tan going on. I over eight, which is
what you're supposed to do on the weekend. So I'm
feeling puffy on this Monday morning from all the people
and all the fixins.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
How can I what? How could you say something like
I only watch you Yankees because of Aaron Judge. I
mean they're tied with the Baltimore Orioles for first place
I know race, so you're on pay for on pace
for a hundred wins, Like it's just team is doing something.
He is the guy though he's the guy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, obviously Soto's playing great too, but there's only three
dudes that are really pulling their weight on that team,
and that's Aaron Judge, Soto, Stanton's injured or else it
would be him maybe Vulpy because he's still playing well.
Everyone else man, I don't know. They run around with
loading their pants, you know, like Gabor Torres. Sorry what
(03:18):
meaning like it looks like he's wearing a diaper. Oh yeah, okay,
Gabor Torres not running things out, they're playing lazy.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So anyway, I hope you have to see that meme.
I have seen that meme where it's uh, or the
little TikTok videos where I'm doing my part. I'm doing
my part. It's it's like the group project. Well that's
Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is doing it all and everyone's like,
oh no, it's due tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He's carrying the team for the most part. Dude, for
the most part. And of course Garrett Cole got the
win yesterday. He's back. But they've been so inconsistent. Wasn't
for Judge, they'd be in a lot of trouble right now.
But that being said, I bring up baseball. I bring
up the weekend because I hope you had a good
one and today is a special day rich for you.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's why I'm uh, That's why I'm visiting family in Texas,
not the fourth of July. Being a baseball fan, today
is a day that.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Floods your social media timeline with lame o's on Facebook, especially,
Oh yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's the Facebook lame o rage every July first.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Well, you gotta, you gotta figure it this way. We're
all on Facebook, but it's more of an older platform,
meaning I think that people on Facebook are later to
the trends and they hold on to corny er jokes.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh, I've seen the meme that says, uh, I'm a
normal forty year old. I watch I watch TikTok trends
a month later on Instagram reels, right, I mean, and
then your parents se it two months later on Facebook.
But it's July first. And because it's July first, and
I'm a Mets fan, my timeline already already it's six o'clock.
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Copy you on the West coast. It's only nine am
on the East coast, and I'm already bombarded with happy
Bobby Bania to day. God give it up. I hate
to hold Bobby Benia thing. He's being paid by the
Mets until twenty thirty five, until he's seventy two years old.
But people love it. I don't get it. It makes
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no sense to me why people love rubbing it. It's
taking in front of those things.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's the same guy that wants to have small talk
with you in the elevator about the weather. It's that
type of guy that loves to bring up Bobby Beni
a day. I would think you're that type of guy.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Rich.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I just know what annoys you as a Mets fan
out there, but I believe that you're that type of guy.
You know, that guy that just loves and leans into
the corny and on this date, Bobby Beanie a day.
He's paid forever and people love to laugh the Mets
about it because it's such a Mets thing. But here
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on the Covino and Rich Show, and for Dan Patrick,
we're trying to tell you a few things. There's a
few examples of those, you know, things that people love
to say. And it's like, all right, man, we get it.
We know, we heard of it. It's not that funny,
but other people think it's funny. And the Mets are
not the only team. Bobby Beni is not the only guy.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, got to still give credit to him, though, I mean,
first of all, thanks for saying I'm the type of
guy that leans into corny stuff.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
What the hell are you talking about? I feel like
you are you meant research? No, like Rich loves on
this date. Like I hear Rich on pop two K
on serious ExM.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I'm sorry, that's his top forty format radio guy personality.
Like we all think hawk to a girl is funny,
Rich is still talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It and she still hop it on stage for country stars.
I beat it. No, this is what I mean, and
I say this respectfully. If you're in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Rich is the type of guy that that that points
at you and he goes.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Hawk to a girl. Am I right? Hawk to it? Joel?
Have you seen by the way, let's say good morning
to Joel. Hi, Joel, Joel?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Great to see?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
What great to see? Joel?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know here with Dan Patrick, we got Danny g
super produced and at eight seven seven ninety nine m
Fox spots on the videos if you want to play
long at home at Covino and Rich And again Rich
is in Texas, so it's really not a knock Rich.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm just trying to build up that.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Type of guy who, uh, I don't know, loves to
talk about his coffee in the morning, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, because I hate that person. I hate the person
that says, don't talk to me. Until I have my coffee.
I hate that person. So you're describing someone I hate
and telling him, telling me it's me. I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know. But anyway, Bobby Benite right, yeah,
back one point one point one nine million dollars until
twenty thirty five. So we have Hey, here's a good news. Comno,
we've been working together a long time. We have another
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decade if you and I celebrating at least Bobby Benhette together.
So that's every July first. But let me let Red
Sox fans know that you're paying Rafael Devers seven point
five million dollars until twenty forty three. Let me tell
Reds fans that you're paying Griffy Junior three and a
half million dollars until this year. You're finally off the hook.
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And Baltimore Oriole remember when this guy was hot for
a second coven on that it's like what happened? Remember
Chris Davis? Yeah, they're paying Chris Davis three and a
half million year until twenty thirty two, and then one
point four a year after that until twenty thirty seven.
And Danny g you shut your mouth too, because you're
paying Otani and Freddy Freeman until until you got diapers,
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you've got great hairs.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A lot of these guys still play with the team,
so it's not as bad as now. Ken Griffy's a
Hall of Famer. Bobby Bonia never really did much for
your Mets, to be honest.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Rich, And the other joke is Bonio is also getting
paid by another team. I believe it's the Indians Little Guardians. Now,
I'll have to look that it. I know I've seen
that meme where he's getting paid by a second team.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Also, still, your son co is gonna have grand kids
and you'll be paying Otani.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
But Rich, I feel like you would be more into
this if it if he if he wasn't getting paid
by your favorite team, you know, But.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He is right.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
As as much as you know, we're dumping on Rich
a little bit. It's always easier when he's not here
to make up, make fun of him and gang up.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
As much as we're doing that, He's not wrong in
that it never goes away. People love to bring it
up like it's one of those those memes that people
sit on and they're ready to precend the moment. The
day hits like the moment May hit. You knew you
were gonna see it, justin Timberlake meme. It's gotta be
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May And it's the same thing with Bobby Benia day.
And I don't know why people love it because it's
not that great anymore because again, like we've seen it
so many times. But we're gonna add some things to
the list. We're gonna call out more teams and more players.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Cove really quick. It's the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
They also still pay Bonia five hundred thousand dollars a
year for twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's insane. And for the record, you know Benia had
a long career sixteen years.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
One of the Killer Bees. We all remember that, but
he got it around. You had a Killer Bees poster
in your room. I should the hell did not, and
still wear your Barry Bonza dangling year in.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Six years with Pittsburgh, five with the Mets, two with Baltimore,
two with Florida, one in Atlanta, Saint Louis Dodgers, Chicago,
Like he bounced around a lot, so it's always there.
It's that day. It's sort of fun to laugh the Mets.
Rich is saying this is the stop making fun of
the Mets plea for Mitch Davis.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
No, it's the reminder, don't go for the low hanging joke.
And by the way, when you just listed the teams
that Bobby Benia was on, if we played a round
of Cavino Rich on the road again, Oh no, I wouldn't.
I would never have got Bobby Bennia correct. I would
have said, obviously, Pirates, Mets, Orioles and Mayoe have found
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another team. Can you name that again? Bobby Benia played
for how many teams? Man a lot?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Again?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
He played fifteen years in the NL, three in the AL.
He played for Pittsburgh. We remember that for sure. The
Mets we all remember were celebrating it today. Of course,
Baltimore for two years. I remember that, still getting paid.
Florida for two years. I remember that too.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yeah, me too. Here's where I don't remember. He played.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
For Atlanta for a year, Saint Louis, the Dodgers, and
the White Sox all for a year.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
No, I must have been in a coma. I don't
remember any of after the Marlins in my mind he retired.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, that was ninety eight through two thousand and one
and what's things about it too a little more Like
you mentioned other examples, Raphael Devers tears it up for
the Red Sox Ken Tifrey Junior is a Hall of
Famer sho Heyo Tani last I checked one of the
greatest of all time. Okay, right, So there's the difference
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is sort of like it's.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Only a step It's only a step above if the
Mets are paying mo vawn is what you're saying. Yeah,
kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's like, ah, such a Mets sort of thing, and
that's where the funny and fun comes from. True, But
I do agree, and that's what I was getting at
that people lean into it in a odd way where
it's all right, guy, it's not that funny. And we
have other examples of that type of guy in those
type of jokes. And you could add to the all right,
we heard this joke. If you repeat this joke, you
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deserve a kick in the nards, You deserve a karate
chopping to sternam, you deserve a I don't know, flick
in the ear. Yeah, you deserve us a wet willie.
Like all right, we heard this joke, we get it,
but some people just love to lean into it. And
our favorite example here on the Covino and Rich are
our favorite number one example of hey, happy Bobby BENI today?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Am I right? You heard it's Bobby? You never heard? Yeah?
I heard John? I heard.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The best one is is when some guy feels like
he's the inventor, the inventor of this joke. And our
classic example is when a guy goes, I don't know
if you ever heard this one, but for every hot girl,
there's some dude who's sick of getting with her?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Am I right? And you're like, you think you invented that?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I heard that a million times Since the late nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There's there's always someone that has said that to you,
as if you're right that you've never heard, Like, I
don't know if you got hey, have you heard this one?
For every hot girl, it's the same guy that says,
I'll give a couple others were, the same guy that says,
hot dog down a hallway? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He's like going a hot dog down the hallway? And
you're like, yeah, all right, dary, I heard that one.
But they look at you like, I bet you never
heard this one, and you're like, of course I have.
It's like it's like you're lame friends sending you a
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viral video that you saw as you know, ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
You know about that butt fumble.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's like, hey, man, you ever see the butt fumble?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It's like, of course I have a million times, I
got one, But it's annoying because they feel like, well,
because it's new to them, you're an idiot, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You're the idiot, the same guy that brings up Bobby Benidde. Yeah,
you said, our favorite one is for every hot girl
there's a guy that's sick of banging her. Yeah, and
you know I have.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It's a bad one because it's it's a true and
funny sentiment. Right, it's a funny statement. But we've heard
it a million times. You're not breaking the glass on
that one.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, you're right. The sentiment that Kamina describes as true.
It's the person that says this is usually the person
that acts like you may never have heard this. I'm
gonna lay one on you. Buckle up, man, I got
one that's gonna change your life. Man, you said his
good dude? Can you believe that? Can you believe that
j Lo and Ben are gonna get divorced. Well, I
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don't know if you ever heard this. For every hot girl,
I got one better, I got even a better one.
You think that's the legal I thought down.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The Hallway was a good one too, And we don't
need to explain. I think most people get it and
have heard that before. And this all ties into Bobby
Benia Day. It's like, yeah, we know, we get it
every year. You guys love it. You guys love it. It's
a weird, weird love for it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
So you mentioned one before, which was people that love
to point out like, don't talk to me un till
I had my coffee. We're sort to talk about those
phrases or sayings or things that people make. It seem like.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's not even just phrases and sayings rich. It's like
people that lean into Bobby Bonilla Day and love it
so much. Like that strange love for this is the
same guy who like loved bacon in a weird way
when that was a craze beer and bacon. It's like,
all right, dude, we all love beer and bacon.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh yeah. The person where there's an event, if there's
an event, then the person's like, who is there beer?
There right right, Bacon, Hankeny, but bacon on my Sunday Bacon,
all right, bacon guy. We all love bacon. We all
think Bobby Benia Day is funny. We all get it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
But you were just crazy about it, and you just
texted it to fifty different people.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I got two more. I'm gonna I got this is.
I love this conversation because we talked to so many people.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
By the way, picture that guy Rich when he's sending
out his mass text to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh wait till they get a load? Wait? Did they
get a load of this one? Happy Bobby Boony a Day.
I don't know why I made him Southern novs. Oh,
because you're in Texas. That's why I'm in Texas. Yeah,
that's why hop along Dickey. Sorry, go ahead, you're messed.
I got I got two more. Give I'm gonna give
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you one now. And I was just about to talk
about how I'm feeling it this morning. I already just
forgot the other one I had in my head. Oh,
I got it, you ready, No, I got the one.
I got the best one of them. I got the
best one. The best one might be when someone says
to you as if you've never heard it as if
they are breaking the glass or giving you some great advice.
(17:25):
When it's in the form of a best man's speech,
it's even worse. I know it, you're taking mine. When
someone stands up and says the following phrase, well you know,
happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And you give him, you give him clap, I mean, well,
he's right. I guess, I mean, I guess he's right.
I guess he's right.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
It's such a stupid saying.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Because it's it's great.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I love it, but god, we've heard that a million
times again, million times.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Same thing with Bobby Benia.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
The guy that says that the best man speech is
the guy you know that loves Bobby ben women. You know,
I got that written down the hawk to a thing. Eventually,
it's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
We've had buddies like this for real, Like we had
buddies that hung on to jokes way too long after
the fact after they were funny. Like we had a
buddy we kind of stopped being friends with him because
he was that annoying. He he was saying winning. Remember
when the Charlie Sheen winning thing was a thing winning?
You remember when when Tiger's blood or whatever he was
(18:34):
talking about was a big thing. This dude was saying
winning for like the next three or four years. It's like,
all right, maybe he's one of those Bobby Bonia type
of guys. And I'm not saying that's the reason, but
it's part of the reason. So again, today is Bobby
Benia Day. We explained why it is different. But the
(18:56):
Mets aren't the only team, but it's a very Mets thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You're right, Dever's Otani, Freddie Freeman, they're all franchise players. Yeah,
and Griffy just got done being paid and Chris Davis
might be the only equal one because he was good
for a second and the Orioles are paying that guy
until the twenty forties.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, that's insane. That's insane.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
So it's the memes that you've seen a million times,
the jokes that people love to tell you, the expressions,
and Rich is just saying in the same breath, stop
making fun of his Mets.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It's so it's so easy. It's fun. It's easy. You
know what, though they did have a fun weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, one of their players is a big time performer,
not only on the field, but off the field. I
want to mention that too when we get back.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But you know what, though, I have a thought on
that as well, and it's very mets. So we got
more covinon Rich and for the great Dan Patrick next
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I ordered a bagel this morning, Rich with some stank
on it. Know what I ordered this morning? I have
a favorite coffee shop where I'm at in Texas, and
it's an embarrassing order because they call there. They're like
French vanilla, like good coffee is called the dude and
I get it. I'd say, I get it the Umber seven, please,
(21:00):
thank you? Yeah, Kavino's the guy that won't call a
Starbucks drink or like a Jumba juice drink. What was
the thing that you refused to call its name? The
Orange dream Machine?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I got into it like a like a standoff with
the Jamba juice girl.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I'm like, can I get that one? She's like, which one?
I'm like the orange one. She's like, you mean the
Orange dream Machine?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Like you won't say it? She knew I wouldn't say it.
And I'm like, no, I want to say. She's like,
why won't you say? I'm like this this stupid the
dream Machine.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Get out of here. Isn't it true you never used
to order the Rudy two d fresh and fruity when
you went.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
To die hop No, or the moon's over his Hammi
Moon's over in an old fashioned and like, do you
mean the whiskey business?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I'm like, can I just get the freaking ruty old
booty please?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Fresh and fruity pancakes with the fruit on it, you know,
thet fresh free So tell me how good that one
dude was you had this morning? No? So? I uh
so I ordered the coffee is called the dude. I
wanted a tasty dude, wasn't it? So I got it.
I wanted an extra large and I wanted it ice,
So I had to order an extra large ice dude,
(22:06):
Extra largethy dude.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
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Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, exactly, explains his tasty dude this morning.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
WHOA The best way to start a day, Rich Davis explains,
is with a dude.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Again.
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We're live from Mercedes Benz Studios. Hey, whatever floats your
boat or do you like them?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Hot?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We're talking about Aaron Judge and we'll take your phone
calls as well. We got Danny g and Joel on
the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
at Covino and Rich Again, when you look at the stats,
they're insane. He's out doing his own pace at this point,
which is hard to do when it's it's hard to
live up to yourself sometimes when you're Aaron Judge. But
(22:55):
they're comparing his season through June to Bryce Harper's twenty
twenty one MVP season. The entire season in twenty twenty one,
Bryce Harper batt at three z nine. Aaron Judge's batting
three sixteen again and roly in June, well July now,
but this is as of yesterday. Bryce Harper had thirty
(23:17):
five home runs in his MVP season. Aaron Judge already
has thirty one home runs. Bryce Harper had eighty four
RBI in his MVP season. Aaron Judge already has eighty two.
He's been consistent, he's been healthy, and that's been the difference.
But it's insanity. He's Babe Ruth Josh Gibson level of mammoth.
(23:39):
And we glorify these names in the past, not that
we shouldn't, but we don't really look at today's numbers
and give the credit to today's athlete the way we should.
Because we hear some sort of old name, we're like, oh, yeah,
those guys are the best. It's like, no, the guys
you're seeing now are the best.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You know. I'm so curious and by the way, I
think the most impressive thing that Aaron Judge is doing. Besides,
like I said, every ball he hits like a what
should be a line drive to left center field just
carries because he just rips the ball with an exit
velocity that's absurd. Yeah, I think the one hundred and
fifty RIBI pace one sixty he's on pace that I
(24:19):
feel like MVPs are like one twenty one thirty RBI
over one hundred's fantastic. The fact that this dude's on
pace for a buck fifty more in the RBI department
seems to me like that that's the most impressive stat
of all. Does that make it a shoe in without
a tat? I mean the fact, yeah, why would Why
(24:40):
wouldn't he?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
I mean, I'm sure you've been snubbed before, you know,
in your little league dating.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I was politics, right, like the other the other kid
who may have won, his dad.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Was the coach or something is dad about the trophy? Right?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, exactly, So politics would be one him not staying healthy,
them not winning. But we've seen it in the past,
we see it with RANI. There's always guys that are
just as good or maybe more impactful to the team.
But what Judge is doing is impactful to the league.
Forget about the team. But you know, Otani beat him out.
We saw Altuve beat him out. There's always guys with
(25:16):
great impact for their team that could give him a
run for his money.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But what he's doing now is just unheard of. Speaking
to your boy, Altuve, did you see him getting really mad?
He thought he hit a ball off his foot and
he's like, of course I did, and he didn't run
the first and they're like, oh, no, fair ball.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I think that was the second ejection in his career.
You know, it was odd to see him that.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Man, do you think people don't believe him because of
the stigma of the cheating astros? Like any other player,
you'd be like, of course, I believe him if he
says his foot got hit, his foot got hit. But Altuve,
you're like.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Hey, rich, and I'm not calling out other superstars. That's
not my point here. My point here isn't to diminish
the past. Right, know your history and give these guys
they were the best at their time. My point's not
to diminish these amazing accolades. You can't take them away,
they won and they're great. Is just to really uplift
(26:10):
what we're seeing before our eyes instead of glorifying the
past all the time. Oh, no, doubt, dude, Steve Garvey again, legend,
Danny g No disrespect I say disrespectfully. I'm just looking
at any numbers, so I'm not caught out. Steve gre
I like Steve Garvey nineteen seventy four, he had a
three forty two. I mean, that's a monster year. Wait wait, wait, wait,
(26:30):
hold on, no he didn't. He got it three twelve.
He's on base percentage of three forty two. It's not
even that great. But he had twenty one home runs
and one hundred and eleven RBI. Twenty one home runs
three twelve. Aaron Judge basically has that. Now, you know
what I mean, that's insane and the numbers, Honestly, if
(26:52):
you look at other MVP Award winners rich again, and
they're the best at the time or the most impactful
at the time. I get there's some people up there
like I'll never ever, especially as a Yankees fans, say
anything bad about Phil Rizzuto, but his MVP season, it's
like kind of meager.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
When you look at it. Oh yeah, no, I agreed.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So when we glorify these old names and numbers, got
to really pay attention to what some of these young
guys are doing. And it's unbelievable. And it's not just
Aaron Judge. Of course, there's the sho Heyo tanis. There's
plenty of people playing well putting up crazy numbers. So
I see a few people calling about it, and uh,
(27:34):
we'll take a few phone calls.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Hey, I had a couple thoughts for you. Number one,
The bummer is that I was looking up the all
time RBI leader and it's one of those, like early
nineteen hundred's unbeatable ones. Otherwise I'd say, yo, could Judge
do it? Because I know there was a year I
believe where like Albert Bell or Manny or someone was
like had like a buck fifty Hack Wilson one hundred
(27:56):
and ninety one in nineteen thirty. That's unbeatable. No one's
getting one going to outpace that. I mean, that's you're
talking about over a over an RBI a game. I
think that just seems not likely.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
But it's not only in sports rich it's in entertainment.
It's in pop culture. It's it's it's everywhere. It's like
when you talk about, like a the greatest movies of
all time, not to take away from the Gon with
the Winds and the Casa Blancas of the world, right,
(28:28):
but like, shouldn't we be at the point in time
when we're like.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Ah, shush, shank, good fellas.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You know, we bring up all these old ones because
we glorify the past.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Some of these tell me you tell me, you tell me,
cool hand, Luke or something like that's better than bars Gump.
What I'm telling you is back to the future could
be an answer, yes, you know, And and we glorify
these older ones because they're older for no other reason
other than yes, they were great and they're classic. But
that doesn't mean that the ones now are closer in
(29:01):
recent history aren't just as good, if not better.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
When you factor in the athleticism and sports, or you
factor in special effects and the technology and the acting
and how it's evolved now, it's kind of safe to
say that it is better. And we just don't want
to disrespect the past, and we don't have to, but
we could really just embrace an uplift what we're seeing
before our eyes today.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's It's true people love to glorify the past, and
by the way, to sort of enhancer what you're saying.
I have a great movie example, but I looked a
couple stats up from our childhood because I'm thinking, who
did I sweat as a kid? Like y'all they're hitting bombs,
They're awesome. I looked up Dale Murphy's kid Alf and
Hulk Colgan. Yeah, as what you're gonna do? Brother? Are
(29:48):
you drinking? Are you drinking some real American beer this week?
Speaker 5 (29:50):
For uh?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
What the July Holkster's got like a good looking younger
wife these days? Anyway, Calm down, Yeah, Dale Murphy, you
see hawk to a girl. Dale Murphy in his prime
when we were playing RBI baseball, bases load and you're like, man,
Dale Murphy, I know he had.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
He had forty four home runs, I believe one year
because I remember I know stats do RBI baseballn and so.
But let me hit you on the superstation TBS.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Let me hit you up with his MVP season.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Now, compare these to Aaron Judge. Now his MVP year
thirty six home runs, one hundred and nine riby's and
he bet at two eighty one.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Solid, right, solid for you would take that any day
of the week. But what you're seeing now is on
a different level of Austin.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You know, you know who's on pace for that this year?
I got like Pete Alonzo, right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, a
guy you know, let me give you one met Yankee Dodger,
a guy who swing was the smoothest in the world
other than Ken Griffy Junior, maybe Dual Whoa. Darryl hit
(31:01):
two sixty nine. His best year was two sixty nine,
thirty nine and one hundred. Like, do we glorify these
guys because they were part of our childhood. We do, and.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
That's fair because they dominated their era and they won
at that time. But again, this is about embracing what
we're seeing.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I think both of you guys would agree that pitchers
were a lot more dominant at that time. We had
pitchers throwing more innings, and it seems like we had
more races.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
And if you look back, there's a lot of pitchers
that were winning MVPs too back then. I mean they
still do, but they were winning a lot back then.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, Danny brings up a good point. There is a
reason to glorify some of these pictures. I saw stat
the other day and said, Nolan Ryan's best stat that
no one talks about. He pitched a thirteen inning game
two hundred and thirty pitches for the win or something.
Someone's like, imagine someone doing that today and that's like
three starts based on pitch counts. Now, Dick wrote won
the MVP in nineteen sixty, what are you right? In
(31:55):
the NL?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Rodger Maris won it in the AL. So again we
glorify these names. Did Crop atted three twenty five and
had two home runs and fifty rbi?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah, so, I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Maybe at the time, I don't know. I don't know
that story. But I'm just looking at numbers like that's
an MVP season. What Aaron Judge, what these guys are
doing today are insane And we're not even halfway there.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I got two for you, and we could move along.
Talk about uh, NBA, talk about NFL, talk about HOWK
to a girl? Whatever the heck? You want to talk
about hot dogs, fireworks?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I want to talk about this big heist, this big uh,
this big bust in gardena.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh, I want to talk about big bust. Sure, how
do there's two examples of glorifying the past. I' llah
all these past sluggers. Meanwhile, Aaron Judges, you know, doing
historic things before our eyes. We just need to, as
you said, respect the past, but also observe what's going
on in front of your very eyes. And and Aaron
(32:55):
Judge is unbelievable. You watch him day in and day
out as a Yankees fancamino. But if you're a fan
of the Cubs or the Astros or Tigers or some
other team, taking a take a look at some of
this guy's highlights, they're absurd. Really, It's like, if you
don't watch Aaron Judge day to day, you'd be shocked.
Two examples. I would take, Yeah, you might call me crazy.
(33:18):
I would take Ed Sheeran and put him against any
other like singer songwriter, guy from other generations, James Taylor,
all these other people that people that are known as
like man singer songwriter Dylan, Bob Dylan. Ed Sheeron is unbelievable,
like me, So I think Ed Sheeran's a guy that
(33:38):
we're looking at. Make a beta day just you and me.
Great job, Bob, all right, somebody walk this guy out
the studio. He seemed brain dead in that documentary about
We o the World that was weird. We are the
worm me great.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Job, Bob, and he is legend, so yeah, let's not
dump on the pass legend singers, well not singer, but songwriter, legend,
and Rich is saying, you know, here we are we
we glorify these names.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
What Ed Sheeran does and is doing.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Is comparable, if not better, especially with the use of
technology in the way he loops things live. I'm not
even a big Ed Shearon fan, but it's undeniably awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
You're right. I took my kids two weeks ago to
see the movie Inside Out too. It's the first billion
dollar movie of twenty twenty four, and ye know that
movie start to finish, graphics, the animation, the storyline, heartfelt
for the kids. For the adults, you're telling me that's
not better than Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh may again. Great for the time, but you'll your
kids will fall asleep before. Your kids will start complaining
before it starts because they're like, why are there credits
in the beginning of the cartoon? Why are there crazy
Over didn't even start yet because kids don't like credits
in the beginning of their movies and by the time
what's that, we love to laugh. By the time that
(35:08):
hits at Mary Poppins, your kids are sleeping.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Bro. I was on this road trip with the kids,
so I'm flipping around the radio channels on Sirius XM,
and the kids wanted to hear Disney Radio for a
second and just a spoonful of sugar next to medicine
and go out, and my kids like that. Change it.
I'm like, of course, this is the lame as hell
speaking of Disney the way, do you yeah? That was great, bro,
(35:34):
the most delightful way.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
At the time we got to go no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
But you know how we glorify the past. How many
people are like, let's go on. It's a small world,
and You're like, are you serious? Have you seen the
rides today? And you want to go on a stupid
ride and it is endearing and is adorable, and I'm
not let's.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Go in the cars ride. Let's go on the cars.
That's called glorifying the past.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Aaron Judge has done with MVPs, have done for an
entire season, in half a season. It's insane to see.
And I'll tell you what I see. Some people on
the phones. We will get to your phone calls next again,
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Speaker 3 (36:47):
All. Yeah, Well, in a second, we're going to talk
to him, the man of the hour, the guy that
we talked about every fourth of July. Joey Chestnup. But comean,
I one thought. I looked this up and there's no
real answer as to why everyone passed on Aaron Judge
back in the day, because he's doing just remarkable things
in baseball now. The only thing I could take out
of it is he was six 't seven skinny and
(37:09):
struck out a lot. But even when he was drafted
by the Yankees, you know what the sentiment was. The
sentiment was Aaron Judge, he probably won't have him played
for the Yankees because they have such a deep roster.
His agent said, don't get too comfortable with the pinstripes.
You're probably not gonna stay here. And that's exactly what
was said to Aaron Judge back in the day.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
All right, well, without further ado, let's not make the legend. Wait,
it's that Joey Chestnut time of the year everybody, So
with glory and renown, we have a surprise guest visit
from the Man, the mid the Legend. Let's welcome Fox
Sports Radio Nation. I'm building it up. You like this
build up?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Joey Chestnut, Welcome Bayley.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Oh you guys.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yeah, man, congrats on everything. I want to talk about
what's going on this weekend and all the news. But
what's it like for you when you're Joey Chestnut and
you just open up social media or just Google news
and you see stories about yourself everywhere?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Do you read them? Are you? Do you care? Do
you get excited about that?
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Yeah? I care? It's it's it's the whole thing's crazy,
and I, uh, this whole what it's been a wild ride,
and I'm I'm still loving competitive eating and I don't
know where it's gonna take me, but I'm I'm all in.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Hey, Joey, does the Nathan's Contest even matter now that
You're not in it? Is it like just sort of
does it have any cred with no Joey Chestnut in it?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
I mean, it's it's still an awesome contest fourth of July.
It's the way people celebrate that people celebrate for the
July competitive eating and their love of hot dogs. So
it definitely has the place in my heart. But uh, dude,
they they kind of banned me for reasons that they
didn't don't still don't make sense. I mean they can
(38:54):
twist and turn it, but uh, they changed the terms
of our agreement and they uh and they banned me
leaguing conversations and that's the way it went.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Do you think they're gonna feel the impact and your
value because you were sort of the hype You were
the hype man and reason most people tuned in. So
is there a part of you that wants them to
miss you. It's like you don't want them to carry
on and do great without you, right, so what are
your feelings about that?
Speaker 5 (39:20):
You know, it's it's like a weird breakup. As soon
as a girlfriend says they don't want to be with
you anymore, it's like, oh, good luck. I'm not I'm
not trying to make them regret it. I'm moving on
and I'm I'm having a great time. I'm just gonna
celebrate for July and I'm gonna still be eating hot dogs.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
You know. It's, uh, the analogy of the breakup's good
because when you break up, you're like, yeah, I wish
you well, but not too well. And what's what's interesting,
It's like I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Stealing it for Dan Patrick. I'm sure he wants us
to do well, but not that great, not that well, right.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Joey, would you say have all your highlights back in
the day in the world of competitive eating. We were
talking about this just the other day mid contest, when
some guy jumped on stage and you like stiffed arm.
You stiff armed him mid hot thought, do you feel
like that's your best? Is that your coolest moment? Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:15):
That was that was one of the wildest moments. It
didn't make sense. I had a broken leg at the time,
and uh it was. It was crazy. Yeah, I I
remember thinking to do what's happened? And once that once
that timer starts, that doesn't stop. So I had to
get back to eating and h pull out the whip.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
You know what I love about that? You're in your
zone right, like you're sowing your zone.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
And it was just a natural reaction because most people
don't know how they would react in the moment, and
your natural reaction was that of an action star. So
I give you a lot of credit for that, Joey
Chestnut the badass, because I don't know what I would
have been in that moment. I really don't asked them
to leave, who knows.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
I'm sure you would have done it, because I, like,
I've been training for the event for almost two months
and I wasn't gonna let anybody get in between me
and the dogs.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Now, now let's break this down, because we heard that
you weren't doing the Nathan's Competition, right, we heard this,
But then a few weeks before, maybe even about a
month before, we heard that Kobyashi was retiring to focus
on his health. Then out of nowhere, we read you
guys are doing this big Netflix special?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Was that Labor Day? Weekend day?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Labor Day? You're doing this Netflix deal? So a part
of me and I'm just saying how I felt in
that moment, felt like, what did he have this up
his sleeve the whole time?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
How did that work? Give us the scoop?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Yeah, we've been working on. Me and Kobyashi have been
talking for over a year and trying to figure out
a way to do it. And he had a falling
out with Major League Eating and Nathan's years ago, and
I was I was hopeful there was a way we
could all I could do this event and uh, and
I was excited. It's uh, it's uh, it's a big deal.
(41:57):
Is this like my biggest rivalry, my biggest rival ever?
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Does he have a shot? Like?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I know, he's your greatest competition, he's one of the
biggest names out there, But in reality, does he have
a chance to beat you?
Speaker 5 (42:09):
Oh? My god, I don't want to. There's one person
crazy enough to do it, to push himself to that
crazy limit, it's him. And like you said, he was
putting out with this information like he was going to
retire and that came out right because he was Also
it took him a while to sign the contract, and
then he told his manager and told my manager that
(42:32):
he's all in. He's trying to go for records. And
I believe that way more than believing that he was
ever close to retiring.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Joey, this is you know, your own personal, private sort
of deal. But I'm imagining your Netflix deal to do
this was big. Does it matter how many people watch?
Or did they just work out one sort of contract
with you?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
You know, usually I don't don't talk about contract, but
it is uh yeah at a at the I think
there's a prize involved, which is will be the biggest
prize in competitive eating.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Cool okay, and uh.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Yeah, this is the biggest showdown ever and it's uh
and and Netflix is not messing around. They they they're
they're making this the biggest hot dog eating contract ever.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Only time, I mean, Netflix got the cash. So I
can only imagine Joey Chestnut hanging with Camino on Richie
on Fox Sports Radio. Now, you said, Kobyashi and you
both have beef no pun attended with competitive eating, with
major league eating. That would be like the NFL saying,
you know, Mahomes Josh Allen like, yeah, we don't need
you a big mistake. Is there someone still in that
(43:45):
world that you that that maybe you mentored or something like,
is there an up and comer because I don't know
anyone besides you, Kobyashi. I remember back in the day
we interviewed a guy crazy Legs Kanti. Is there like
some new guy that anyone should have been looked out for?
Speaker 5 (43:59):
You know, there's some awesome There's a guy out of Australia.
He's very very good. This guy, he's a sweetheart, good dude.
I would hate to see the Mustard belt leave America,
but there's a very good chance he'll be going. It'll
be going to Australia.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
There there's a guy out of Boston, very very good dude,
Jeff and Jeff Esper. Nice guy, he's capable of a
mid fifties And and it's one of the things that
I'm talking to these guys and now that I'm not there,
they feel like it's time for them to they can
hopefully get their personal bests and uh and I understand
(44:36):
that they can feel like they can spread their wings
because they have a chance.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
We now remember reading that Asper said if he won,
he'd put an asterisk next to the victory because he
wasn't competing against the best.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
That had to make you feel good.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
He's a great dude. He's a class act and he man.
We messaged each other and I'm I would spot for him.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
You eat a nice guy, Hey, Joey.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Second in line, as far as like, we get excited
about the hot dog contests and everything, So what's second
after that? As far as competition in major league eating?
What's the next big thing that you think might blow up?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
After hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Oh? After hot dogs? They they just had a bloone
eating contest in May and it was pretty awesome. They
actually almost got it on the ESPA, which which might have.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
The all time record. Didn't you go up just eating
blowney sandwiches?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Rich?
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Well, dude, I think I hold the record in nineteen
eighty nine third grade. Yeah record, that's all his mom
made for. Yeah, Joey, let me ask you this, if
you are to recommend the right way to eat a
hot dog, like, if you're not you know, dipping them
in water and you know, shoving them down your throat,
you know, winning records and money and breaking all these
you know breaking these records. Are you grilling it on
(45:56):
the barbecue? Do you like a boiled hot dog? Or
is that grossy? Like if you would actually try to
enjoy a dog? How does Joey Chest not eat? And
what do you put on it? Mustard? Ketchup relish some
of those red New York City onions, like what's a
Joey chest not perfect dog?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (46:09):
I'm a boiled hot dog. Grinds my gears I love.
I love a flat top griddle, I'll do. I like
charcoal grill, although we can taste the charcoal a little bit. Uh, toppings, nions, mustard,
I'll get. I love going Southern California getting getting the
street dogs wrapped in bacon with onions and peppers and
(46:32):
even mayonnaise on there. I yes, I love to eat.
But yeah, you're absolutely right for pleasure. I'm not dipping
those things in water.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Did you cut slits in them when you're you're grilling them?
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Do you cut slits at the end or like, you know,
do you have a special technique we should try out
this holiday weekend?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
No cutting slipped and that's that's our chilter. You want
flowers on there too?
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Joey Chestnut. Hey, Joey, tell us about what's going on
at Fort Bliss.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Oh yeah, yeah. So after I got uh told I
couldn't compete on at Coney Island, Fort Bliss reached out.
I've been doing some uh some work with the military
in the past, and they reached out and invited me
to their four the July celebrations. So I'm going down
to l Passo, gonna be eating hot dogs against a
group of soldiers. I'll be hot dogs and uh, it's
gonna be great. I'm gonna be pushing hard and uh, dude,
(47:30):
on top of that, my partner, Impossible, They're gonna be
donating one thousand dollars to Operation Homeland for every every
hot dog I eat. And there it's gonna be yeah, yeah,
there'll be donating Oh my god, I'm gonna putting down
at least fifty hot dogs in those five minutes.
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
That's awesome, awesome, Yeah, that's cool to have something to
check out this weekend.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Joey, let me let me ask you one thing about
the Impossible Mathan's relationship or lack thereof. Tell us how
it actually did go down. Was it did your company
did impossible foods. They say, hey, listen, we're we're open
to this work, We're okay within competing. And Nathan's was
the one that shut it down.
Speaker 5 (48:10):
Like what was the detail that sort of blew this Yeah,
it's well, my relationship is Impossiblely, it goes back a
little while because I I've told people for years and
years that after I after I eat tons of hot
dogs or tons of blowny, I am on a super
clean diet and and I do meatless Mondays and so
(48:31):
so it was it was kind of a natural thing.
I can't eat eat pounds and pounds of meat every day,
and and I, uh, and I enjoy impossible product and
impossible it's it's different enough from from hot dogs, and
that it wasn't it was never part of it was
never excluded in any of my agreements with Nathans, Nathan's
and major Lely eating and well, as soon as they
(48:54):
found out that I was working with them, they they said, no, no,
you have to you have to cancel that agreement. They
they were very controlling, and then uh, then they started
leaking things to the press media saying I was vegan,
and it was it was, it was, it was weird
the way they handle it. And uh, most people can say, well,
you know, a plant based hot dog is not the
(49:16):
same as I'll be a hot dog, and they shouldn't.
They shouldn't feel so threatened. I have.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
For you, Joe, each bummer man. It is a bummer man.
But you know what, I'm glad we still get to
see you this weekend.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Since you're talking about hot dogs and vegan hot dogs
and bologna and all these crazy things you eat. Have
you ever had I'm from Jersey. Have you ever had
Tailor Ham? Are you a fan of Tailor Ham?
Speaker 3 (49:40):
Some cool it? Pork roll?
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Oh my god? Yeah, well pork roll? Yeah, I hold
the record for in southern I no, no, let's be.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Clear, I'm from Jersey. I hold the record in pork
roll sandwiches. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (49:55):
But do you like it?
Speaker 5 (49:57):
I love it? You know, it grills up nice and
it's that perfect degree of fat and oily and salty.
Oh yeah, no, it's so great, amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
I'm so guy.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, what other records? A lot of people here wondering
what other records do you hold?
Speaker 5 (50:12):
Oh too, I have some awesome ones. So I got
I said that baloney one for elm Hill baloney. That
was fourteen pounds of blowy and eight minutes, thirteen pounds
of rib meat and twelve minutes, and one of my favorites,
harbled eggs one hundred and forty one harble days eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
That's that's amazing, dude. And you know what, that's absurd?
Speaker 4 (50:32):
Did you hear that?
Speaker 3 (50:33):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I can't imagine, because you know what, we all did
some damage this past weekend and we're probably going to
do that again this holiday weekn coming up. So my
last question for Joey Chestnut here on the Cavino and
Rich Show and for DP is how do you balance
that out? Like, you know, we've met you a few times.
You're in great shape, But what's your gym routine like
to balance out all this damage you do?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
Oh? The big the biggest thing is cutting calories before
and after. As soon as soon as I can start
eating a super high fiber diet in greens, no sugar,
and it's it sucks. I even have to stop bringing
beer afterwards because as soon as I start having carved
that's when the weight really stays on me. But if
I clean afterwards, I can, uh, I can lean back
(51:18):
to my normal wait in about four days. And uh yeah,
it takes. It takes a little bit of a discipline
to make sure that uh I wait doesn't stay on me.
And uh because if I if I start gaining weight
every weekend, then I start losing contests and and uh
it's losing sucks.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Hey, Joey, I gotta ask because we we bumped into
uh all, you know, back at serious XM days. I
remember one year I hosted a Hooters pageant and you
and Covino were two of the judges. You, I, do
you feel like I feel like everywhere I go people
love to talk to Joey Chessna. Do you love your
level fame where you're not like some A list guy.
Everyone's just sort of like, but they know who you are. Like, Hey,
(51:56):
Joey Chesna, do you sort of love that pocket?
Speaker 5 (51:59):
Oh, it's it's a great pocket. Because there are critics
of competitive eatings, and very few of those critics ever
recognize me. It's not like like we're a regular athlete.
Like Charles Barkley. There's people who hate him and then
they yell at him and you have to get in
the fights. They're usually the people who hate, don't don't
ever let they don't recognize me, and I don't have
to get into fights about it. Usually it's only it's
(52:21):
great dudes, and it's usually a party and we get
to talk about food.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Well, it's always a pleasure running into you and having
you on the show. And I want to say this.
You know, we often talk about.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
Goats, Tom Brady's, Michael Jordan's, but there's some people that
are left out of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
You know, who brings up Michael Phelps.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Not too many people, right, you want to talk about
Gretzky moving forward, Guys, especially around this time of year,
we always got to remember there's only one Joey Chestnut
and he is the goat, and he's on our show.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
And we thank you very much man, look forward to
show this weekend.
Speaker 5 (52:56):
Oh, thank you so much. She has a great holiday.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
No, thank you man so again, catch Man Courtless El Paso,
and again we're really happy Danny g got him on
the line this morning. As you know, he's a regular
in the fifth hour of Ben Maller and we were
glad to spend a few minutes with Joey Chestnut n
LBP show.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Because of that, I don't know. If you know the
deal Danny G made, you now have to compete against
Ben Mallard in a hoto getting hot test. Yes, I
don't know who's got that one. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (53:25):
Oh, Ben, he's on these fasts for like sometimes half
a week. It seems like really yeah, I think Covino
could take him out unless Ben is just coming off
his last fast.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yo. Ben is a big boy man. And again we
borrowed mean he's Moneyball Mallard. Do you have a nickname
like that? Do you mean Moneyball Mal?
Speaker 2 (53:43):
People call him Moneyball Mal And we borrowed disappearance from
Moneyball Maller. And again thanks again to Danny G and
Ben for letting us have Joey Chestnut here for this moment,
because again every day there's like breaking news on Joey
Chestnut and we share that with you today. So something
look forward to in the world of competitive eating and
all the controversy surrounding it.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
You know what, not talking out of both sides of
my mouth. I take it back, because he's eating beef
dogs on the fourth of July. They're not vegan dogs.
He is the goat and from you know, I do
make fun of El Paso. Sorry, I'll passo. But from
what Joey Chestnut described, it does seems like it does
seem like Nathan's. It's clear they're the ones that sort
(54:26):
of we're reluctant to let this happen, like if impossible
Foods and Joey Chessnut were like, hey, listen, we're I'll
still do it. I want to do it, And Nathan's
took like a weird hard stand, like we're not doing it,
Like aren't they like aren't they screwing themselves over it?
Speaker 2 (54:41):
In a bit obviously, because I don't think it's much
of a he wants to not put it down because
it meant so much to him and it built his career.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
But it's not much of a competition without Joey chestnut Man,
no doubt, no doubt. Well, listen, we have plenty to
get to here on Covino and Rich Listen, there's a
hilarious guest that attended a sports wedding over the weekend,
and I want to talk about unlikely friendships in the
world of sports and entertainment. We'll get to that. Plus
some big trades already going down. Not trades, more free
(55:14):
agent signings in the NBA, So a little NBA, little football,
a little of everything. Fourth of July week, Covin and
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