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# Joey Chestnut and Hot Dogs: By the Numbers

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_Published 2016-07-01. Joey Chestnut, 8-time champion of the Nathan's Hot Dob Eating Contest, talks all things hot dogs._


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## Transcript

Are you ready for the Fourth of July? [ MUSIC ] My hotdog technique is really pretty simple, just two meats, then bun, bun. [ MUSIC ] My ideal hotdog at home or at a baseball game, just raw onions My ham. [ MUSIC ] And deli mustard. [ MUSIC ] If I can get a big enough lead on the 4th of July I'll only eat my last one with [ BLEEP ] mustard on it. I'm really lucky. There are some people who don't like them. I'm like what kind of goofy person are you? But I like them and it makes it a lot easier for me to practice and I'm really lucky. This is the most important contest of the year. I was in college and I didn't want to do a contest because I was too weird to eat in front of people.

I ended up tying for third and I was like," my god I can do so much better ." and it was on. The Fourth of July contest is without a doubt it's the biggest contest of the year for me. It's the one that if I do great it follows me throughout the year, if I do bad it haunts me. Last year it haunted me really bad all year long. I've been putting in a lot of work this year and I feel like I'm ready. Baseball and hot dogs it doesn't really matter the brand as long as it tastes good. Hot dogs and beer. It works. In the beginning of the game I'm definitely going a hot and beer an inning. I did have, they were like foot- long hot dogs.

That's a corn dog actually. In Arizona. That was like 25 bucks. It was easy. It was fun. Last year I just sucked. 160. I got tons of excuses, but really it was just I was lazy. Lazy, fat and lazy and I didn't deserve to win. This year I put in some work and it's I wanna punish him. [ MUSIC ]

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