#76 WE INTERVIEWED JOEY CHESTNUT! 🌭⚡️
The Makeshift Podcast
The Makeshift Project
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We had Joey Chestnut, the most dominant athlete of all time, on the podcast! In this bonus episode, we talked about his toughest world records, played our classic games like random food rankings and getting rid of world cuisines, debated if Joey could beat Usain Bolt in a hot dog eating, 100M race, and more!
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0:00 INTRODUCING, JOEY CHESTNUT!
0:49 TOUGHEST WORLD RECORD!
4:14 WHICH WORLD RECORD WAS HARDER?
9:46 QUESTIONS FOR JOEY!
11:54 HOW MANY HOT DOGS CAN WE EAT?
13:45 HOW TO EAT HOT DOGS FAST!
16:16 WHAT DOES AFTER COMP LOOK LIKE?
17:16 WHAT JOEY EATS DAILY!
20:19 JOEY CHESTNUT VS USAIN BOLT!
22:32 WHAT DOESN’T THE AVERAGE PERSON KNOW?
24:42 GET RID OF WORLD CUISINES!
28:16 RANDOM FOOD RANKING!
30:32 JOEY’S IDEAL SANDWICH!
32:39 HOT DOG TARGET THIS YEAR!
32:36 DMS AND OUTRO!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to podcast number 76 on the makeshift podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Today we have a huge special guest. |
| 0:05.6 | He is the most dominant athlete of all time. |
| 0:07.7 | He holds 55 world records, one being 76 hot dogs and buns, eaten in 10 minutes. |
| 0:14.2 | The Man, the Myth, the Legend, Joey Chestnut. |
| 0:17.1 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:18.0 | We got an applause. |
| 0:19.2 | We've got an applause. |
| 0:20.6 | Guys. |
| 0:20.8 | Raise me on you guys. So we're excited for this. chestnut. Thanks for being here. We got an applause. It's got an applause. Guys. |
| 0:27.2 | Raise me on you guys. So we're excited. We're excited for this today. We have a few questions. |
| 0:33.1 | We want to get to know about you and your background with the eating competitions and everything in general. Do you want to start it off? Yeah. And Joe, if you're not familiar with a podcast about everything you didn't know you cared about. So sports, entertainment, pop culture, food. We're pretty much on food on this podcast. Yeah. I think it makes sense for us to be on food. So we're going to pretty much focus on food. I'm going to ask the first question here. Which food world record was the most challenging for you? Which one? I think, well, hot dogs is by far the biggest contest of the year. |
| 0:57.2 | It's one we, if you're a competitive eater, |
| 0:59.9 | you have to be there eating and you have to do well |
| 1:05.1 | because everybody goes off of hot dog numbers. |
| 1:08.4 | So that's the one I put the most work in too. |
| 1:12.3 | And it's also one of the ones that, dude, I'm like usually like 15 to 20 percent ahead of everybody else. |
| 1:18.9 | So it's, it's, it's, yeah, that one's I put the most work into and, uh, I'm probably the most |
| 1:25.6 | proud of. That's, I mean, it's, it's, it's also the one that I want to break the most. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | So do you think that you'll ever break that record? |
| 1:32.8 | I think the answer is yes. |
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