You know what this means?

In a world of nothing, a barren hills and cracked earth and once proud oceans drained to sand,

there will still be a monument to our existence,

bleached by the sun perhaps and blunted by time but everlasting.

Because this man represents all that is eternal in the human experience.

The courage to stand for a nation when all others fail or turn away.

The strength to recognize the value of freedom and to accept its cost no matter how great.

Through the curtain of the Aurora, a comet blazes to herald his arrival,

and his victories shall be transcribed into every language known to history, including Klingaw.

The Bradworth and Klerogi and Hooter's chicken wing eating champion of the world.

Eight-time Nathan's famous hot dog eating champion of the world.

The number one eater in the world I give you America itself.

T.C. and Jake.

Welcome in, folks.

This is T.C. Fleming.

Fresh episode of It's Just Banter. Apologies about nothing being published last week.

I, uh, you know, I'm trying my absolute best to get throughout a week.

And, uh, hopefully that's the pace will keep up, uh, going forward here. I am with, uh,

our treasured listener, John. John, how's it going? Good, good, good to be here. excited.

Um, just trying to get, you know, know, whatever we initially started doing interviews with listeners,

we got a treasure trove of amazing people volunteering with interesting stories.

And looking through those emails, they were sent an embarrassingly long time ago,

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