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Your listening to Fox Sports Radio. He is my piccolo Pete. He is my Roman candle. He is Brady Quinn. I was just going to ask you this weekend's a big weekend because the 4th of July and I think no matter how old you get. You can sit back and you can relate to a time when you were a kid and it involves fireworks. All right. Some for some kids it's just sparklers.

Maybe their parents were overbearing they wouldn't let them have much more for others. It's Roman candles. You know and maybe they took that a step further. Maybe they used to have a Roman candle fight which if you haven't. It's a big give me a lot of fun or maybe they're used to the mortars. You know we're actually putting those things in there shooting up like you typically see at your you know communities fireworks display or you go to your high school wherever you may go to do it. It's a joyous weekend. It's a joyous occasion. But it doesn't come without

the warnings. Okay. Remember JPP has eight fingers for a reason folks. Okay. Be careful out there. It starts today. All right. It starts today on Friday. Heading into 4th of July weekend. Don't go blowing off any of your body parts. Okay. Yeah. And also don't get too liquored up and start playing around with that stuff because that's that's a dicey proposition. You know there was a remember a story years ago this these couple of guys like in on the East Coast decided it would be a good idea to rip a case of beers and then a lot of

people are going to get a bite of mortar bomb off one of their heads. And you know that guy at the you know was 5 10 you know that'll get you down to 4 8 in a hurry. You know what I mean. Yeah. That's a big head. So big head long. Yeah. Yeah. It's a yeah. That's not not is so just be be careful out there. All right. You know leave it to a professional or somebody who's at least sober. If they're not a professional just don't be an idiot. All right. We need you back on Monday. We need to hear what

we want you feeling confident and not nervous about dealing with this stuff and making mistakes afterwards. So yeah. Look here's the key. Okay. And I think you brought up a great point. Jonas. So thank you for doing that. Yeah. I think I was going to just gloss right over that. Okay. There's two things that play this weekend. There's alcohol. And there's fireworks. Yeah. Okay. The combination of the two seems like it's a good idea. But it's not. Okay. So whoever's operating

the fireworks maybe limit their alcohol and whoever's just guzzling alcohol probably want to limit all right how close they are to the fireworks. All right. So that's kind of our sliding scale for where you need to be. And by the way, all include with alcohol. Other legal drugs. All right. I realize there are some you know some states out there where marijuana is legal and all that. Maybe it's not. You know your beer or whatever. Maybe it's you know I spoke to do beer something whatever the case may be. So for those people. All right.

Just just be careful. All right. We want your reaction time to be 100% when it comes down to whiskers, do's, whiskers, don'ts, whatever the case may be. Yeah. You just got to be careful out there. Man. You know nothing. There's nothing quite like opening up a cooler full of beers on 4th of July. There's dogs grilling. There's baseball on the background. And hopefully that's slob. Joey Chestnut loses this weekend and we have a brand new competitive eating champion in the world of USA and beyond. And then

I didn't want to call the world of sports. I was about to and then I realized that's not the sport. You're your shoving food in your mouth. So okay. Quick pull, quick pull because you brought up his name. And so now we got to go there. If if Joey Chestnut is your friend or if you are a competitive eater, you're in Joey Chestnut shoes. And let's just say you're the greatest in the country. Do you tell people that especially if you're single, do you tell girls that? No. No. What do you say to them when you go on a date? What's your line to them when you go on a date?

Well, it's like the it's like meeting somebody in the first time you meet him. You go, oh, by the way, I'm a bed wetter. It's like, oh, that's cool. Like, the good one, man. Like, I can't wait to have this conversation move forward. I don't know. I don't know what you just a bit of a difference because the bed wedding situation may actually impact that individual. If you're a competitive eater, outside of them having to watch you, you know, look like you're an elephant on steroids up there eating hot dogs. Enjoy Chestnut's case. I'm not necessarily sure that it really impacts their life. Like,

well, if there's good cash flow from that and I have no idea, by the way, how they get compensated outside of sponsorships, you know, but again, it still begs the question, are you telling your family? Are you telling, you know, your significant other that you're in a date with. If you were one of the greatest of what you do, but it ends up being competitive eating.

Yeah, well, and it's not even just the fact that you're a competitive eater because I feel like, oh, you know, I'm a competitive either a travel around because it's not just the Nathan hot dog eating contest. These guys would do Buffalo wing contest.

Pizza slices, all sorts of stuff. Yeah, all sorts of so it's not even just the competitive eater thing. It's the, how do you look when you do it?

You know, like, like, how do you have swag if you're a competitive eater? Like Fernando Tatees, Fernando Tatees has got swag for days. That guy could strike out and it just looks good.

Like, there's a like aesthetically pleasing to some people in sports. They make things look good. How do you look good when you're a competitive eater?

You're a slob. Okay, you're a human garbage disposal. And we celebrate this slob every single year. And I'm tired of it. I'm betting against him. And at some point during the course of the show, I'm going to announce who I'm betting on as the competitive eater.

I will take the underdog and I will ride that like a rocket ship to outer space because I'm tired of Joey Chess not winning this tournament.

Well, you're going to be riding that in outer space to nowhere because you're not going to be able to cash it in then. Joey Chess not to be a heavy favorite. He always wins. I am with you though on the, the, the visual that is

hitting a hot dog with a cup of water and a bun. Like, even people who like hot dogs can't think that that looks appetizing, which I am not one who likes hot dogs. Okay. I'll never forget. All right. I was scarred as a kid. I came home one night from playing with all my friends.

My mom was mad. I was late for dinner. And so she made some hot dogs. I didn't for whatever reason. I had I had probably had two hot dogs. Big thing of potato chips and orange juice. That was what I ended up eating for dinner. God.

And I always would get up early. I was for that from the youngest time. I've been like a six o'clock wake up type person, right. And the rest of my family would be like, no, we're staying in bed. Go downstairs, go outside and play. If you want in the backyard, that's it.

So I remember when I was six years old. Okay. I get up early. I'm outside. I've got my little Fisher price basketball hoop that I'm shooting on. I'm sure the neighbors appreciate to be bouncing that thing at 6 a.m. in the morning. And all of a sudden my stomach feels like there's a NASCAR race going on inside.

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