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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our number three of our radio program.

And we take a spin around the world of competitive eating where Joey Chestnut sets a new record.

You might have seen it, maybe not over the weekend.

76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes.

So the question comes up every year.

Is Joey Chestnut an athlete or a side show?

And we have our position on the great Joey Chestnut right now.

That and more.

In hour number three, here it is.

Gobble, gobble, gobble, welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere as we fly under the radar,

coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the land.

We're not at Disneyland.

It's Radio Land, an imaginary place where listeners like yourself dwell here, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Good to have you hanging out with us on the long holiday weekend. We are doing it live. Doing it live. And our lead this hour comes from something we do

every year at about this time. It is an American sporting tradition. It is one of the events I

always look forward to. It is a staple of the July

4th holiday weekend here in the United States. We're talking about the Coney Island

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, and I do one competitive eating monologue a year, and this

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