1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 All right. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:09,040 Well, welcome back everyone to the All Things Croatia podcast. 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:11,920 I'm here with Jay Webb, known as Jay Webby. 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,120 He's an Australian competitive eater with Croatian roots. 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,480 He's ranked number one in Australia and number five in the world. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,760 As you can see his food challenges on social media with almost 2 million TikTok followers 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,600 and almost 100,000 Instagram followers. 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,160 Really awesome to have him here with us today. 9 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,720 James, thanks for coming on the podcast. 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,720 Thank you for having me. 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:31,720 I appreciate it. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:32,720 Of course. 13 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:33,720 Yeah. 14 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,720 Super excited. 15 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:35,720 And I know I was just talking to you before we started recording. 16 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,040 You just did another challenge today and definitely want to get in to the competitive eating stuff 17 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,400 and how that came about and what that consists of. 18 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,800 But first of all, if you can sort of introduce yourself, where you're from and then talk 19 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,320 a little bit about your Croatian heritage. 20 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:51,320 Okay. 21 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,320 So I'm James. 22 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,200 Online people know me as Jay Webby or Jay Webby Can Eat. 23 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,760 I do some crazy, pretty ridiculous food challenges. 24 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,160 I'm from Australia. 25 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,360 My mother is Croatian. 26 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:09,060 My dad, my father's actually from England, but my dad never really had family. 27 00:01:09,060 --> 00:01:14,560 So I grew up only knowing my Croatian side of the family, my baba, my daughter, you know, 28 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,560 cousins, things like this. 29 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,520 So actually my, my, my baba is still alive. 30 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,400 She speaks very broken English. 31 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,260 So to communicate with her, you have to at least understand Croatian for the most part. 32 00:01:27,260 --> 00:01:29,240 You know, she's a look, she's getting on. 33 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,240 She's almost 90. 34 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,080 So like it's half English, half Croatian at the best of times, you know. 35 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:41,080 So I've always grown up, you know what, around my Croatian side of my family, my mom, my 36 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,400 uncle, they're fluent. 37 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,040 It's kind of like funny story. 38 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,880 Like when my mom doesn't want my dad to know something or whatever, she kind of speaks 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,280 Croatian, you know, like just kind of like family jokes and stuff like that. 40 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,320 But yeah, I'm from Sydney, Australia and I have a Croatian mom and she's master chef, 41 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,320 man. 42 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,000 I was very blessed growing up. 43 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,560 I had a baba and a mom that man, they can cook a house fire. 44 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,960 So like that's where it all started for me. 45 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:09,960 I believe it, man. 46 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,960 Yeah. 47 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:11,960 Same for me as well. 48 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,400 And that's awesome that your baba is still alive and you're still able to, you know, 49 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,400 speak with her. 50 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,120 You mentioned, you know, understanding Croatian. 51 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,680 Is that sort of what your Croatian is at that you're a little bit better at understanding 52 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,280 than speaking or what? 53 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,880 Yeah, look, so when I was younger, I think from the ages when I was small until I was 54 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,680 about five or six, we actually kind of all lived together as a family. 55 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,120 So I was fluent. 56 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,880 When my mother, I've got a little brother, not so little anymore, but like my younger 57 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,740 brother is three years younger than me. 58 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:45,280 When he was being born, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents and I'll go visit my 59 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,520 mom in the hospital and I'll be speaking Croatian to her. 60 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,200 I think as I got older, I lost confidence. 61 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:59,160 Obviously English being my first language, I have like an Aussie accent or a Twain, however 62 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,520 you want to call it. 63 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,080 So like, you know, my family wouldn't make fun of me, but you know, they'll kind of pick 64 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,960 holes in like the accent. 65 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,680 And I think as I got older, I just spoke it less. 66 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,400 Maybe it was a confidence thing. 67 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:19,200 Obviously where I'm from in Sydney, predominantly like I went to like a white boy school. 68 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,460 So there was no other Croatians or many other ethnics anyway. 69 00:03:23,460 --> 00:03:28,480 So like, I suppose I kind of just lost practice, but it's funny. 70 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,920 Like when I've got to do it, I can do it. 71 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:35,400 Like, you know, my, my Bubba is, she's in a nursing home. 72 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,920 She's not well, she's pretty old. 73 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,580 She's, you know, basically paralyzed. 74 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:44,200 So when we go speak to her and you know, I guess when they get to that age, that can 75 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,960 be a bit, you know, they get hysterical and you know, to calm her down, you've got to 76 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,480 understand what she wants. 77 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,720 And you know, one minute she's speaking English, next minute it's like the fastest Croatian 78 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,760 you could understand. 79 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:02,160 So I guess when it's like life is of the light, I could do it. 80 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,120 But I suppose my brain just opts for English every single time. 81 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 You know what I mean? 82 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,120 Yeah. 83 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,120 Well, yeah, that makes sense. 84 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,000 I mean, I've seen a lot of like Croatian diaspora and a lot of other countries abroad, you know, 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,880 Australia, Canada, U.S. for the English speaking countries, at least just because that's what 86 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:17,880 I know. 87 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,840 It's sort of the same way, you know, that it's and everyone else speaks English and 88 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:23,400 you want to fit in and you know, you're speaking English. 89 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:24,860 So it's, it's different. 90 00:04:24,860 --> 00:04:27,320 You know, I've like, I always was the same way. 91 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,800 Like I grew up, you know, Croatian, Croatian family and you know, being proud of that, 92 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,840 but like never grew up speaking the language and it only was like the last maybe five, 93 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:41,200 six years that I really like wanted to make a conscious effort to like learn it. 94 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,960 And so I actually ended up going to Croatia and living there a couple of years in Zagreb 95 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,600 and trying to learn the language and stuff, which was cool. 96 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,080 But yeah, definitely it takes effort. 97 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,960 I mean, it's a tough language to learn. 98 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:51,960 Yeah. 99 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,240 And they speak so fast. 100 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:54,360 Yeah. 101 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,680 What part were your, so is your Baba that moved over? 102 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:58,680 Yeah. 103 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,000 So my Baba did have moved. 104 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,680 They escaped during the war a long, long time ago, but they lived in Zagreb. 105 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:12,800 And they made their way across a few refugee camps, literally arriving to Australia on 106 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:13,800 the boat. 107 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,560 So they were pretty well traveled, but yeah, they were from Zagreb. 108 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,240 Have you ever been back there? 109 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,240 I never have. 110 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:28,620 So I actually, I was, had a trip planned and that's when COVID kind of, and I always planned 111 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:34,320 to go back, but during COVID is when this competitive eating thing started and took 112 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,840 a massive side track. 113 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,840 Well yeah, I know Australia was real strict too. 114 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:42,440 You guys were basically, you couldn't leave the country for a couple of years. 115 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:43,440 Yeah. 116 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,080 We were locked inside for a long, long time and you kind of just did what you had to do 117 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,360 to kind of keep yourself occupied and insane, I guess. 118 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:51,360 Yeah. 119 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:52,360 Well, you mentioned that's how it started. 120 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,040 I didn't realize it started only that recently. 121 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,560 How did you like, how did you get into competitive eating? 122 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:58,560 Yeah. 123 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:05,960 My first ever food challenge was actually the 3rd of May, 2021 and that was about probably 124 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,020 a month before the whole COVID craziness. 125 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:12,200 But my wife, so I don't drink alcohol. 126 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,600 That's a personal preference. 127 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,180 Just I never found alcohol enjoyable. 128 00:06:16,180 --> 00:06:22,640 My wife wanted to go to a winery about three hours from where we live in Sydney. 129 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,400 So to bribe me to go, she planned like a day trip of eating. 130 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,560 So we went to this pub and then the fudge factory, then the cheese factory, and then 131 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:31,560 we'll go to the winery. 132 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,240 So I get what I want and then she gets what she wants. 133 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:42,320 But we got to the pub and it was a very white Australian pub in a small country town and 134 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,840 they had a big burger. 135 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,560 And I was kind of making jokes like, oh, that's cool, whatever. 136 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,920 And the owner was like, no, that's Australia's biggest burger. 137 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,000 No one's ever going to eat it. 138 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,320 And I'm the kind of guy, don't tell me I can't do something like, I'm going to at least try. 139 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:57,320 Right. 140 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,840 My wife just looks at me and she's just like, no. 141 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:04,160 By the way, I'm the only ethnic, my wife, my wife is Australian. 142 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,220 I'm the only ethnic in this white Australian little town. 143 00:07:07,220 --> 00:07:08,960 It's like one street long. 144 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,160 And then I'm like, yo, I'm going to eat this burger. 145 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,160 My wife's just like, oh no. 146 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,720 Anyway, I ate the burger. 147 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,200 Australia's biggest burger. 148 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,280 I won the prize money. 149 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,600 So every time someone failed, the owner would chuck 10 bucks in the piggy bank. 150 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:23,600 60 people failed. 151 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,760 60, 600 bucks prize money. 152 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,000 I'm like, sweet. 153 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 So I took the prize money. 154 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,320 I took a photo with the owner. 155 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,960 I went and spent like 300 of that money on fudge. 156 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:34,960 I went to the fudge factory. 157 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,240 Then we went to the whiterie and I paid for the white tour and whatever else. 158 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:39,240 Went home. 159 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,160 Thought nothing of it. 160 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:47,900 But in the meantime, the news that circulated of man from Western city conquered Australia's 161 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:50,200 biggest burger and whatnot. 162 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,300 By the next day I was all over the news. 163 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:57,400 And funnily enough, my bubba, who doesn't really understand much English, saw me on 164 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,600 the morning news and she rang my mum. 165 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:01,920 And she's like, what's Jamie done? 166 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:02,920 Is he in trouble? 167 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,640 Like he's on the news. 168 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:05,640 My mum's ringing me. 169 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,480 It's like 730 in the morning on a Sunday. 170 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,000 I'm like, mum, what's wrong? 171 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,680 She's like, bubba said you're on the news. 172 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,680 What have you done? 173 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:12,680 I'm like, man, I'm in bed. 174 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:13,680 Like, what do you mean? 175 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,200 Anyway, turn the TV on. 176 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,120 Lo and behold, man from Western city has conquered Australia's biggest burger. 177 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,960 I'm like, that's friggin awesome. 178 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,400 So much cool. 179 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,680 My friends were texting me. 180 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,400 I'm like, this is awesome. 181 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:27,400 Right. 182 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:28,760 Again, but I thought nothing of it. 183 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:29,760 I'm like, yeah, cool. 184 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:30,760 Five minutes of fame. 185 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:31,760 That's cool. 186 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,560 The next day, my phone was blowing up radio, newspaper. 187 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:38,360 I didn't know newspaper still existed. 188 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,680 Magazines, you know, podcasts, all this stuff. 189 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:49,320 And I was getting messages from other competitive eaters and they're like, hey man, like you're 190 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,360 really good at this. 191 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,640 We want to meet you. 192 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,040 And I wrote right back. 193 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,400 What the hell is this and who the hell is we? 194 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,720 And what are you talking about? 195 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,440 Anyway, there's like a secret society. 196 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,800 I wear it on my shirt. 197 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,600 Competitive Eating Australia in Australia, you know, food influences, competitive eaters. 198 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:06,600 There's a whole league. 199 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,680 They have a secret Facebook group. 200 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,160 I've been invited to this secret Facebook group and they're talking about me because 201 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,560 a newspaper article got released and whatever. 202 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:19,280 And I was not really on social media. 203 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,760 My Instagram, I probably had 10 followers, two photos, my sneaker collection and a half 204 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:25,760 naked gym selfie. 205 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,600 Like that would have been it. 206 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:33,720 And I didn't know this, but one of the guys from my gym, you know, you see people at the 207 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,520 gym, you kind of give them the nod, like, you know, you know each other, but you don't 208 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,000 know each other. 209 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,720 Turns out he was the second best competitive eater in the country and one of Australia's 210 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,960 biggest food influences with like half a million followers. 211 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,360 Because I wasn't in social media, I had no idea. 212 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Right? 213 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,160 I knew him as the guy from the gym that wore the, he wore hamburger socks, like novelty 214 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,160 hamburger socks. 215 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:56,160 That's all I knew him by. 216 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,160 Right? 217 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,160 We'd give each other the nod. 218 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,080 Anyway, so they're like talking about this article. 219 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,760 There's like 150 comments on this article. 220 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,120 I'm like, well, it's me. 221 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,120 It's kind of cool. 222 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,440 And this guy, Jesse, he's like, I know this guy. 223 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,440 He goes to my gym. 224 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,920 Anyway, comes up to me at the gym. 225 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,600 He's like, dude, like you're a wet bed. 226 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:12,760 Like we want to meet you. 227 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,680 We want to come and like do challenges with you and whatever else. 228 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:19,920 I'm like, I've got no idea what you're talking about. 229 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,040 So this was on a Tuesday. 230 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,360 He said, listen, on Thursday, there's a burger contest. 231 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:26,360 We're all going to be there. 232 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,560 I'm like, who the hell's we? 233 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:30,680 Anyway, I'm like, I'll come. 234 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:32,800 I love burgers. 235 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Turned up to this burger contest. 236 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,520 It was about 30 minutes from my work, my day job. 237 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,920 Went to this burger contest. 238 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:44,960 And by the way, I had never filmed content before, never seen a tripod, let alone a microphone 239 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,040 or a ring light or whatever. 240 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,040 Right? 241 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,880 Anyway, so this like, I walked into the restaurant. 242 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,200 I was a little bit early. 243 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,240 This entourage of people came in, cameras, phones, tripods, you name it. 244 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,400 And I'm just kind of sitting there. 245 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,320 They're like, Hey, James, nice to meet you. 246 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,200 And I'm like, how the hell do you know who I am? 247 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,160 Anyway, the 10 of us burger contest, we all kind of lined up. 248 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,160 The food comes out. 249 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,160 I'm like, sweet. 250 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:12,160 I'm hungry. 251 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:14,520 They're like, no, no, don't touch anything. 252 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,520 We've got to take photos and do introductions. 253 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,920 And like, do you mind if you jump in my intro and all this stuff? 254 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:19,920 I'm like, what? 255 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,920 I'm like, all right, whatever. 256 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,840 Anyway, contest starts. 257 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,320 I wiped the floor. 258 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:32,160 To this day, my record still stands a minute 59 for a one kilo burger, one kilo fries. 259 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,200 The close guide to me finished in six minutes. 260 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:36,680 Right? 261 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,360 And these were all rag pro eaters in Australia. 262 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:40,360 Right? 263 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,880 So after this contest, we kind of hung around at the restaurant. 264 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:44,080 Again, I've got my prize money. 265 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,560 I was like, this is kind of cool. 266 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,480 They kind of sat me down like interrogation style. 267 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,920 I like wanted me and they're like, listen, dude, you're really good at this. 268 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,200 You need to start making videos and do challenges. 269 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:56,200 I'm like, what? 270 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,640 I'm like, okay, sure. 271 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,040 They wrote me a list. 272 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,720 And at the time I went home and I'm like, they're having a laugh. 273 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,360 Like this is bullshit. 274 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:09,360 Anyway. 275 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:15,120 So every day for two weeks, I went and did a food challenge on the list and I just knocked 276 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,360 them off one by one. 277 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,480 Right? 278 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,400 And like I said to you, I wasn't really on social media. 279 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,600 So I never posted anything or anything. 280 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,600 Right? 281 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,280 Anyway, about two weeks later, I commented on a Facebook group. 282 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,000 I'm like, Hey guys, like that was pretty far. 283 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Like I've done all the challenges. 284 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,480 Like, is there any more? 285 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,040 And one of the guys pipes up and goes, you're a liar. 286 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,200 I'm like, wait, what? 287 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:43,400 I didn't know, but in the YouTube world, people like edit and cut and shot videos and cheat. 288 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,400 Right? 289 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,240 So it looked like they eat massive food, but they don't actually eat it. 290 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:48,240 Right? 291 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,960 So I'm like, what are you talking about? 292 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,880 So it turns out I ate this pizza challenge. 293 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,600 It's very famous in Sydney where we live. 294 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,400 It's 27 inches by 27 inches square. 295 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,680 Three people, 30 minutes to eat it. 296 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:05,360 I did it by myself with like five seconds to spare. 297 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,360 Right? 298 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:07,480 And everyone's like, that's bullshit. 299 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:08,480 You didn't do it. 300 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:09,480 I'm like, what? 301 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,880 Anyway, me being me, don't call me a liar. 302 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:18,680 So the next day I went back to that pizza shop, ordered the same pizza and I got my 303 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:19,680 phone. 304 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:24,800 I had a, I had one of those Samsung flip phones and I flipped it like halfway up and lent 305 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,960 it against the napkin holder on selfie mode. 306 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:27,960 Right? 307 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:28,960 I had no idea. 308 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,380 Anyway, I ate the pizza this time in like 27 minutes. 309 00:13:32,380 --> 00:13:37,360 And then me being the fool, not knowing anything, I tried to upload this 27 minute video to 310 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,360 Facebook. 311 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:39,360 It took three days. 312 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,280 It took three days. 313 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,240 But I did it to prove a point to these guys in the group. 314 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,280 And they're like, Oh my God, like what the hell? 315 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,840 Anyway, by this time I kind of got in chatting to a couple of the lads in Sydney and we kind 316 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,000 of became friends and whatever. 317 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,320 And Scotty, who's actually my best friend now, one of my closest buddies, right? 318 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,120 He's like, dude, you got to learn how to edit. 319 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,040 Like you don't post a 27 minute long video. 320 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,440 I'm like, man, I literally had to Google how to upload it. 321 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,920 I don't know what the hell I'm doing. 322 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,960 Anyway, so he's like, dude, just keep making videos, man. 323 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,480 Like shit's going to happen for you. 324 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,120 I'm like, dude, I got work to do. 325 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,800 Like I've got a day job, right? 326 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,120 Kind of left it at that. 327 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,000 And then COVID happened. 328 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,040 So you know, it was actually a Saturday. 329 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,280 Funnily enough, I got invited to another burger contest and it was a Saturday afternoon. 330 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,280 But in Australia, what happened was there was like a news bulletin and it was across 331 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,040 like like we're just driving in the car and the radio like cuts out. 332 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,600 It's the government saying it's locked down like COVID, you know, the apocalypse is coming. 333 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,080 Everyone go home, right? 334 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,800 So we kind of turned the car around and just went home and we literally couldn't leave 335 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,600 our houses like from that news bulletin, right? 336 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,480 So I was working from home like on Zoom and then I was bored as hell. 337 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,080 And you know, it was, it was a crap time for everyone, right? 338 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,000 So my wife is like, you want to make some TikTok videos? 339 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Like as a joke? 340 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I'm like, okay. 341 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,120 And because at the time, so I used to be into bodybuilding, so I was jacked as hell, right? 342 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,120 I was ripped. 343 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,080 I was in good shape and it was summertime. 344 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,360 So I was, I love to cook. 345 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,040 I was cooking dinner at home. 346 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,840 And as a joke, I had an apron on with no shirt on, right? 347 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,040 So my wife's like filming me with this apron or whatever else. 348 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,280 And the videos kind of started picking up and I started doing cooking videos. 349 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:22,960 I started doing eating videos like home, like living room challenges and just dumb stuff 350 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,600 like that, right? 351 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,480 Before you know it, TikTok is like skyrocketing. 352 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,800 I'm getting messages from like random restaurants saying, can we send you food and you give 353 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,760 us a shout out and all this stuff. 354 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:35,800 I'm like, okay. 355 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,640 And I'm throughout lockdown, I just made friends with a few other competitive videos. 356 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,400 We started doing like live streams, you know, we'd get through the eats McDonald's and like 357 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,520 smash a Big Mac as fast as we can, like against each other. 358 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,280 Me and Scotty did some dumb shit. 359 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:53,640 Like we got like a box of like sour warheads and see how many we could eat in half an hour. 360 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,360 Just like stupid stuff, right? 361 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,360 Just to pass the time. 362 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,440 And then I never forget this. 363 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:05,520 So in Australia, it was like the 1st of June, right? 364 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,760 And the government announced on the 10th of June, it's freedom day. 365 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:11,760 Everyone go back to work. 366 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:12,760 Everyone go back to life. 367 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:13,760 And it was freedom day. 368 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,560 Like everything was suddenly normal, right? 369 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,840 I'm like mad back to work, right? 370 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,920 I had, I'll promise you every restaurant in Sydney messaging me, trying to book me in 371 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,880 for a food challenge at their restaurant. 372 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:27,020 Wow. 373 00:16:27,020 --> 00:16:29,400 And I'm like, is this real life? 374 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,800 Anyway, so I kind of went along with a few of them and I went to, there was a local Lebanese 375 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,480 restaurant called Two Brothers. 376 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,920 Obviously it's owned by Two Brothers, right? 377 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:38,960 And they invited me down. 378 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:39,960 It was a Friday night. 379 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:40,960 They're like, bring your wife. 380 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:41,960 We've got belly dancing. 381 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:42,960 We've got this, we've got that. 382 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:43,960 We'll give you a banquet. 383 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,960 I'm like, okay, cool. 384 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,800 Friday night, first week back at work. 385 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,320 Went and got a banquet, had a mad time. 386 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,640 Anyway, me being me, like we ate, like obviously we ordered a banquet for two. 387 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,600 They definitely didn't give us a banquet for two. 388 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,040 They gave us the whole farm. 389 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,440 It was huge. 390 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,520 And I went to pay the bill. 391 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:04,520 My wife had a glass of wine. 392 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,840 I went to go pay the bill, as you do. 393 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,320 And the two brothers were at the counter and I'm giving my card, my debit card, and they're 394 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:16,280 kind of looking at each other like, what the? 395 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:22,280 And the youngest sister kind of pushed them out of the way and hands me this envelope. 396 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,280 And I'm like, the fuck? 397 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,720 And she goes, this is for you. 398 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,840 I'm like, seriously? 399 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:30,840 They're like, yeah, man. 400 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,800 I'm like, okay. 401 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,080 So out of pure reflex, I took the envelope and said thank you. 402 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,600 I turned around, bolted. 403 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,000 I walked straight past my wife. 404 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,560 I leapt at the table and women sat outside of the restaurant on a bench. 405 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:45,960 And she's like, what are you doing, you idiot? 406 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:46,960 What's wrong with you? 407 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,040 And I feel like shaking. 408 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,680 This envelope has money in it, like cash money. 409 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,680 And I'm like, babe, I don't know what just happened, but I went to go pay the bill and 410 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,280 they gave me this. 411 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,880 She's like, you got to call Scott. 412 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,680 So Scott is the guy I'm close with and we kind of got talking. 413 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,200 And he pretty much said to me like months ago, your life's going to change, right? 414 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,000 I'm like, Scott, explain to me the whole story. 415 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 He started laughing. 416 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,720 I said, what are you laughing at? 417 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,720 I need help. 418 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:12,720 Like what the hell? 419 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,280 He's like, I told you, your life is going to change. 420 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,800 He's like, listen to me now. 421 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,280 He's like, this is what you're going to do. 422 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,840 He's like, tomorrow you're going to open up a business bank account. 423 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,680 You're going to buy a good camera. 424 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,760 You're going to make up a logo and get some t-shirts printed. 425 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:29,760 I'm like, okay. 426 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,840 He's like, no, no, this time you're going to listen to me. 427 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:33,840 Right? 428 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,240 So my wife went home that night and designed my logo. 429 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,360 She's pretty creative. 430 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,800 She got some t-shirts printed for me. 431 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,680 I went and made a business and did all this. 432 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,120 Started making videos. 433 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:51,320 My wife learned how to edit, like legitimately learned how to edit. 434 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,840 She's very clever. 435 00:18:52,840 --> 00:19:00,000 And within four weeks, I was making more money from food challenges, like skipping out on 436 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,440 my lunch break, doing food challenges and dinners and whatever than my full-time wages. 437 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,440 Right? 438 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,480 Wow. 439 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:11,000 And then I did a contest in Australia, like a competitive eating Australia, like a sanctioned 440 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,120 contest with like all around, like from eaters from all around Australia. 441 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,120 Right? 442 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:19,640 And I won and I broke the Australian record. 443 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,920 And then the Americans, the major league eating contacted me. 444 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:23,920 Right? 445 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,040 And, you know, Americans being Americans, they're kind of like, no Australian has ever 446 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,080 had the courage to compete with us. 447 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,120 Blah, blah, blah, blah. 448 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,120 My wife's like, oh shit. 449 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:35,120 Right? 450 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,880 I'm like, we're going to America. 451 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:38,880 Right? 452 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:44,480 Anyway, booked flights, got accepted into the contest, everything. 453 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,240 Went to work the next day to my boss. 454 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,840 I'm like, hey boss, I need a week off. 455 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:48,840 I'm going to America. 456 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:49,840 He's like, why? 457 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,840 I'm going to go compete. 458 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,960 He's like, no, I'm like, no. 459 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,760 He's like, I'm not giving you time off. 460 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:57,760 I walked out of the office. 461 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,760 I called my wife and my babe, like, we can't go. 462 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,440 She's like, what do you mean we can't go? 463 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,760 I'm like, I'm not getting any holidays. 464 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,760 She goes, just quit. 465 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,760 Like, what do you mean just quit? 466 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,760 She's like, well, just quit. 467 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,840 Because she's like, you're good at what you do, as if you can't get another job. 468 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,040 She's like, what's the worst that can happen? 469 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,000 You come back from America and you've got to go find another job. 470 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,200 I'm like, okay. 471 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,200 I walked back into his office. 472 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,040 I'm like, I quit. 473 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,640 In the meantime, she typed up my resignation letter. 474 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,640 I'm like, why? 475 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,000 He's like, you'll be back. 476 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000 All right. 477 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,160 We ended up staying in America for four weeks because we had nothing else to do. 478 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,160 Right? 479 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,600 I left America with the equivalent of a month's wages. 480 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,600 Wow. 481 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,760 I left Australia, I left with a professional eating contract with the MLE. 482 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,240 I came second and I came fifth in two contests. 483 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,880 And I'm the first Australian to ever sign an MLE contract. 484 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:57,200 And from the moment I touched down back into Australia, my life changed forever. 485 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,200 Wow. 486 00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,200 That is nuts, man. 487 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:00,200 That's a crazy. 488 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,320 So you went from- I went from working, I worked for UFC. 489 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,840 You know the brand, like the Fight brand? 490 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,720 We opened up like 23 franchises in Australia. 491 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,720 I was in corporate. 492 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,720 I have an economics degree. 493 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,120 Like there's a brain in here somewhere. 494 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:20,680 But now I eat food in front of a camera and three years later, this is my third year now, 495 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,560 about to renew my contract with the MLE. 496 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,200 I'm ranked number five in the world. 497 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,600 I've got six world records. 498 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,760 I've got almost 2 million followers. 499 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:31,760 It's crazy, man. 500 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:32,760 Yeah. 501 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:33,760 That must feel surreal, man. 502 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,680 I feel like that's such a quick turnaround too, all within three years. 503 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,680 Yeah. 504 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,640 So look, it's crazy. 505 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,640 Number one, mental. 506 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,080 If you told me ever that I'm going to be making food videos or editing videos or social media 507 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,000 for a living, I would have laughed in your face. 508 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,920 I went to college for seven years. 509 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:53,920 I'm like, nah. 510 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,280 If you told me I could live a life making food videos and my wife sold her business, 511 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,040 she's a mom now, raises a little one. 512 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,360 Doesn't work. 513 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:08,520 We travel the world eating food, making videos, doing food contests. 514 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,040 I would have laughed in your face. 515 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,040 Laughed. 516 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,560 And then if you would have told me I'm going to be ranked number five in the world and 517 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,320 have world records, what? 518 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,160 There's world records for eating? 519 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,080 What are you talking about? 520 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,480 But look, I am somehow, I'm really good at this. 521 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,560 And now look, it's like anything. 522 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,400 You go to the gym, you lift weights, you want bigger muscles, you want to get stronger. 523 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:34,000 Now I'm just learning how to eat, eating pasta, eating better technique, eating more, you 524 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,120 know, things like this. 525 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,440 And it's a sport. 526 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,680 So not only in America and Australia, I'm being flown to Hungary in August. 527 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,720 I'm going to be the first foreigner to compete in the professional Hungarian eating league. 528 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,780 Wow. 529 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:48,920 So it's everywhere. 530 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,100 In Japan, it's massive. 531 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,080 In the middle East, I went to Turkey. 532 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,040 Man, Turkey and the UAE. 533 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,040 Crazy. 534 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,840 So eating my way around the world. 535 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:01,840 Yeah. 536 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,840 So how many countries have you counted that you've traveled to eat so far? 537 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,840 So I've smashed Australia. 538 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:08,840 I've been to Turkey. 539 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:12,840 I've been to the UAE and America. 540 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,720 At the end of this year, August, I'm going to go to Germany and Hungary. 541 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,280 And then next year I want to go to Japan and the UK. 542 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,440 So it's awesome. 543 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:29,280 But to be honest, I last year, so 2023, I spent nine months in America, one month in 544 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,240 the UAE, one month in Turkey. 545 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,720 I was only home in Australia for less than one month. 546 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,840 This year I've only been home for like, so in my house, I've been home for three days. 547 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:40,840 Oh my God. 548 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,680 So like I'm always touring. 549 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,160 I'm always being flown somewhere, eating, doing crazy stuff. 550 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,240 I go home from, I'm in America now. 551 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,960 I get home in August, I'm home for two days. 552 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,400 And that's only to repack my bag because in Germany it's going to be freezing. 553 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,440 So I need to go home and get rid of my singlets and pack some t-shirts and hoodies and stuff. 554 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,440 Right? 555 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:06,000 I'm only going home literally to see my family, see my mom, my barber and staff, my wife, 556 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,280 obviously, and pack my bag and bounce. 557 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:10,280 Wow. 558 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,680 So that's a lot of work too then that's got to be draining. 559 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,560 I mean, both mentally and physically as well. 560 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:21,460 It is a lot, but look, what I get to call work, I'll never complain. 561 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:26,240 Like the worst thing about my job, I haven't got a pee in an aeroplane toilet. 562 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,520 Like that's the hardest thing about my job. 563 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,640 There's people driving trucks, working in factories on job sites, you know, in there 564 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:38,800 working in the weather, the rain, the heat, the snow, you know, whatever. 565 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,720 I'm in restaurants, I'm at food trucks. 566 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,800 I get to travel, meet people, eat food. 567 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,160 And I'm like a walking street directory. 568 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,840 You tell me if I've been to that city, I know exactly where to eat. 569 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,040 Like it's crazy. 570 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,040 It's awesome. 571 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,040 Yeah. 572 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,040 Well, yeah, definitely life could get a lot worse. 573 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,040 That's for sure. 574 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,800 You're, I mean, you're definitely blessed to be able to do what you're doing. 575 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,040 You mentioned earlier, the training. 576 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,920 I wanted to ask, like, how does that, what does the training look like for competitive 577 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,840 eating and what do you do specifically? 578 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,240 I guess there's a couple of aspects to it. 579 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,360 Um, look, first and foremost, you've got to be fit. 580 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:14,120 So if you look at the top 10 in the world, we've all come from some kind of sporting 581 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:15,120 background. 582 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:20,500 Uh, out of the top 10, there's an ex college basketballer. 583 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:23,880 There's two pro current pro bodybuilders. 584 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,040 There's an ex pro powerlifter and ex. 585 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,920 So one of the, one of the, one of the ladies, she was a swimmer. 586 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,720 She quit swimming when she just missed out on the Olympics. 587 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,360 So I don't know what that makes you in America, but I'm sure college swimmer, something elite, 588 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:41,360 right? 589 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,120 Um, the best eater in the world used to run marathon, like just run like marathon style 590 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:46,120 running. 591 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:47,120 Crazy. 592 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,540 So we've all got a kind of discipline. 593 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:56,120 We have to go to the gym, you know, um, look contest are normally in really random places. 594 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:59,640 So we kind of stay in the same hotels or the similar area. 595 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,640 Right? 596 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,880 So the day before we all see each other at the gym, we're all trying to keep fit. 597 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,260 That's one aspect to it. 598 00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:08,260 You've got to be fit. 599 00:26:08,260 --> 00:26:14,600 Um, the second aspect you've got to, okay, let's take, uh, the food for example. 600 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,160 So technique training is very important. 601 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,280 You know, like a chicken wing contest. 602 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,120 You've only got eight minutes to eat as much chicken as you can. 603 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:24,080 So you got to learn how to strip the chicken off the bones really quick. 604 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,160 Or, you know, for example, let's take hot dogs, the biggest event of the year. 605 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,400 You got to learn to separate the hot dog, eat the hot dog while you're dunking the bun. 606 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,800 You know, you got to practice your technique. 607 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,800 That's very important. 608 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,200 And the third aspect is your capacity. 609 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,160 You've got to be able to fit the amount of food. 610 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,360 Like take my world records, 13 and a half pounds of fudge in eight minutes. 611 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:45,360 It's a lot of frigging fudge man. 612 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,640 Like one and a half pounds is nothing to be sneezed at, but you've got to have that space 613 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,920 in your belly to be able to do that. 614 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,840 So stretching your stomach is very important. 615 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,520 You know, I'm very, look, you Americans are blessed man. 616 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,520 Buffets, all these buffets for like 20 bucks. 617 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,520 You go and smash food. 618 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,200 Then you know, leading into a contest, like let's say the contest is a Saturday, Tuesday, 619 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,880 Wednesday, Thursday, I'm at a buffet all like until I can't move. 620 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,720 Like I'm talking like borderline legitimately passing out. 621 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,720 Right. 622 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,200 Food coma. 623 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,040 And then Friday you don't eat, you just hydrate. 624 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,920 So then you kind of let your body relax and obviously pass through. 625 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,080 And then Saturday you're starving as anything ready to chew your armor at the contest. 626 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,080 Jeez. 627 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,760 So you're not starving yourself for like a week before you're doing heavy training and 628 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,480 then only just one day before the competition, not eating. 629 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:40,480 Yeah. 630 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,840 I know some of the boys they'll do two, like two days. 631 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,280 Now, two days without food. 632 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,520 I'll kill someone like, like hang on man. 633 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,600 Like I'll kill someone. 634 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,880 Now do you think that that's like a, it's like a talent that you're born with or you 635 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:56,880 just have inherently? 636 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,560 Cause even before you started training, you know, you were crushing these challenges and 637 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,320 then of course, you know, you're getting better with the training and stuff. 638 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,760 Or do you think that's something like you can like take me for an example, just, you 639 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,440 know, normal eater, normal guy. 640 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,680 Like would I be able to train myself to do what you do? 641 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:17,840 Look, I think there's an element of natural ability. 642 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,000 Look, I was a fat kid growing up. 643 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,320 Like I mentioned, I had a mom and a bubba that their food ridiculous, you know, at any 644 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,520 point in anyone's house in my family, I could go to the fridge and make myself a full-blown 645 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,520 meal of leftovers. 646 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,240 Like, like I had man boobs, like I had boobs bigger than people's heads as a kid. 647 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:38,240 Right? 648 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,000 So I believe food was ingrained into me from a young age. 649 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,440 You know, I was exposed to food, good food. 650 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,440 And you know what it's like, you go to Bubba's house. 651 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:51,040 If you're not eating, you're sick, you know, bread, have this, have that, you know? 652 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,800 So I believe I was a big eater from a young age. 653 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,520 I was really into my soccer. 654 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,880 So I used to eat big after soccer. 655 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:58,880 Right. 656 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,500 And then into bodybuilding again, you eat big. 657 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:08,520 So I always was a relatively big eater, but I never measured myself and be like, how much 658 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,360 do I eat versus how much you eat? 659 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,200 I never really thought to do that. 660 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,200 Right. 661 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,640 And then it's like anything. 662 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,840 Me I don't, I'll be honest with you. 663 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,840 Like I don't have any hobbies. 664 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,080 Like when I quit soccer, I took up the gym. 665 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,440 Then all I did was go to the gym. 666 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,400 Like I don't really have, you know, people have like 10 hobbies. 667 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,260 No, I do one thing. 668 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:29,260 Now eating is my thing. 669 00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:31,900 I'm like, all right, how do I be elite at eating? 670 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,040 You know, like when I was in the gym, I'm like, how do I get shredded? 671 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,840 When I was playing soccer, I was like, how do I be the best? 672 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,560 You know, now I'm just like, I want to be the best eater. 673 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,860 So now I train to eat. 674 00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:48,180 So I probably had a decent base, but now with training on top of that base, like it's crazy. 675 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:52,560 And you got to be a bit crazy up here. 676 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,040 You could trade to be a competitive eater, but you know what? 677 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,720 Competitive eating is like boxing. 678 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:58,720 Okay. 679 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,160 A boxer and elite athlete. 680 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:07,680 Elite as hell, disciplined as hell, loves the sport, trains the house down, puts their 681 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,420 body through hell. 682 00:30:09,420 --> 00:30:12,200 But on game day, they're going to get punched in the face, right? 683 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,200 It's inevitable. 684 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,200 It's a part of boxing. 685 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,200 You're going to get punched in the face. 686 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,280 Now let me tell you, eating 13 and a half pound of fudge in eight minutes is like being 687 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,640 punched in the face. 688 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,640 Right? 689 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:28,040 So up here, you're not all, we're not crazy, but we're like, it's for punishment. 690 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:29,040 You know what I mean? 691 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,400 Like we just love punishment. 692 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,360 Like we want to just push our body to its limits in weird ways. 693 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,360 Right? 694 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,760 I feel like you could practice to do it, but it's like, how much are you willing to go 695 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:41,760 up here? 696 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,760 You know, like I could tell, you know, I could tell you I'm full, man. 697 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:44,760 I'm done. 698 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:45,760 Are you full? 699 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,160 Are you going to tell yourself, no, no, like I want to keep going just for a couple more 700 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:50,160 minutes. 701 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,160 Right? 702 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,160 You know what I mean? 703 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,160 Like that kind of mental aspect, I believe that's the trick to competitive eating. 704 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,600 Like, yeah, obviously it's a lot physical, but a lot of it's mental too. 705 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:00,600 That's an interesting point. 706 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,600 I feel like a lot of that carries over to, you know, like weightlifting, bodybuilding 707 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,620 that you have to, you know, embrace the pain, you know, in order to see the results and 708 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:08,620 get bigger. 709 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:09,620 So that's, that's interesting. 710 00:31:09,620 --> 00:31:13,600 You know, that, that probably has helped you in that aspect. 711 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,740 Sure. 712 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:20,080 So what, so you've done, what do you think hundreds of challenges by now in these last 713 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,080 three years? 714 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,040 What do you think was the hardest or what was the hardest one for you and why? 715 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:33,120 In terms of like quote unquote food challenges, I've got a pretty good record, but now obviously 716 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,680 with social media and my channels and my, my reach getting 40 plus million views a month 717 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,680 across all my channels. 718 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,680 Right? 719 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,120 So my core business now is not so much food challenges. 720 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,680 It's more promotional work for brands and restaurants. 721 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,440 So now restaurants use me as like a virtual menu board instead of eating their 10 pound 722 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,040 or their five pound burger that I can do with ease. 723 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,240 They're like, how about we just give you our whole menu and you can just promote our whole 724 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,240 menu. 725 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,240 Right? 726 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,120 So to be honest, I've done a couple of like, I've tried to take on like four people food 727 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,400 challenges, like a 20 pound pizza that damn near killed me. 728 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,200 I left once, I was so annoyed. 729 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,140 One day I'll go back and eat that pizza. 730 00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:16,360 But now to be honest, like every other day I'm doing something crazy. 731 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,360 That's challenging me. 732 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:25,000 Um, you know, I'll do a, like today I did a barbecue, a barbecue restaurant. 733 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,580 They gave me like their family barbecue pack that serves eight people. 734 00:32:28,580 --> 00:32:30,160 So that's the challenge because that's for eight people. 735 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,160 Right? 736 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,160 It's like 10 pounds, right? 737 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,160 Crazy. 738 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,360 So like, I'm constantly being challenged in that respect these days because it's not a 739 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,360 food challenge. 740 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,400 It's more of a, it's for a video. 741 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,360 It's for social media, PR, marketing piece. 742 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:49,200 So yeah, but like at the same time that's helping me prepare for a contest because it's 743 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,760 strict rather than having to go to a buffet. 744 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,860 I've got 10 pounds of barbecue in front of me and a stopwatch. 745 00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:56,360 I'm going to use this as my training. 746 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,360 Right? 747 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,360 So I'm done a few crazy things. 748 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,600 Like I've tried to eat whole menus or restaurants, you know, 20 pound pizzas. 749 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,360 I tried to eat. 750 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:12,080 So I tried to eat Australia's largest burger, which was nine and a half kilos, which is 751 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,920 over 20 pounds of burger. 752 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,020 I tried to fail miserably. 753 00:33:16,020 --> 00:33:17,680 I ate about 15 pounds. 754 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:18,680 Wow. 755 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:19,680 Yeah. 756 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,840 Look, I've done some crazy things and look, yeah, it all kind of falls under the food 757 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:29,960 challenge bracket, but a lot of it is just customized for me to make a funny video from. 758 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:30,960 That makes sense. 759 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:31,960 Yeah. 760 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,000 But it also doubles as your training, like you said, and you mentioned, uh, you mentioned 761 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,840 the hot dog eating contest, which is big here in the U S for sure. 762 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,800 And there's, I'd say like two household names in competitive eating for people like that 763 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,080 don't even follow that or watch that. 764 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,200 But everyone in the U S knew, you know, Kobayashi and Joey chestnut. 765 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,220 And on that topic, I wanted to ask if you have any sort of people that you looked up 766 00:33:54,220 --> 00:33:58,920 to either in the competitive eating space or just athletes in general, who you sort 767 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,400 of had as role models. 768 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,400 Yeah. 769 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,880 So look, um, look, let's talk about competitive eating first. 770 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,920 When I first discovered competitive eating and I started like watching film and video 771 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,060 and YouTube and whatnot, Kobayashi and Joey chestnut, they are the goats. 772 00:34:14,060 --> 00:34:15,560 They are the goats. 773 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,560 Right. 774 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,800 Um, when it came to hot dogs, no one's matching them. 775 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,120 They're in a league of their own. 776 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,760 I've actually beaten Joey chestnut in a couple of contests. 777 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,760 Wow. 778 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,800 Really hot dogs, different, different animal. 779 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,320 He's a beast when it comes to hot dogs. 780 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,320 Right. 781 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:34,160 So man, as an eater to compete against Joey, look, to be the best, you got to compete with 782 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,080 the best and get your ass kicked by the best. 783 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,800 That's how you learn. 784 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:43,920 Joey has tailed me up more times than I can imagine, but now I've beaten him four times 785 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,040 in other things, not hot dogs. 786 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,560 So he's kicked my ass two years in a row at the hot dog contest. 787 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:50,560 This year I want to match it. 788 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,160 Like I want to, I want to give him a run and see how close I can go. 789 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,720 Knowing what I know now, he's been doing this for 20 years. 790 00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:58,680 I'm in my third year experiences, everything. 791 00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,680 Right. 792 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:04,440 So I want to see how much I match up against him, but whether I get beaten by him, lose 793 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,880 to him, even if I beat him in any contest, it's respect, he's the goat. 794 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,880 Right. 795 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:10,880 So obviously look up to Joey. 796 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,880 He's a beast, man. 797 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,480 He was one of the first to turn eating into a career and make money from it. 798 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,480 Right. 799 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,160 So of course, look up to him. 800 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,840 Before that, I was really into my bodybuilding. 801 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,320 You know, a lot of elite bodybuilders when I first started showing my age now I'm 35. 802 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,840 So when I first started bodybuilding, man, like Branch Warren, Phil Heath, Jay Cutler, 803 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,760 Ben found ways to monetize what they love. 804 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:35,920 Right. 805 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,720 How the hell do you make money from bodybuilding? 806 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:38,720 You know, that's awesome. 807 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:39,720 Getting paid to train. 808 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:40,720 It's freaking awesome. 809 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:41,720 Right. 810 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:43,580 That's what got me into the gym in the first place. 811 00:35:43,580 --> 00:35:45,480 And then before that, I was really into my soccer. 812 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,480 Right. 813 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,800 So looked up to a lot of pro soccer players, you know, actually I was a goalkeeper. 814 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,960 One of my favorite goalkeepers ever was Iker Casillas, his Spanish. 815 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,320 And the guy was a beast. 816 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,600 He played till he was like 42 years old. 817 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,720 Animal. 818 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:04,040 But I've always looked up to people in different respects, but in life, man, my dad, my dad 819 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,840 is the goat. 820 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:11,000 So like soccer, bodybuilding, food, business, whatever. 821 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,740 Like my dad's like my go-to guy. 822 00:36:12,740 --> 00:36:16,960 And I kind of just, I want to mimic what he does in life. 823 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,960 In my eyes, he's a very successful man. 824 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,780 He provided me a great life, my family a great life. 825 00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:27,020 So to be fair, when it comes to role models, it's my dad at the top. 826 00:36:27,020 --> 00:36:33,440 And then depending on what realm of life I have, like people just below that. 827 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,440 That's an awesome answer, man. 828 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,440 Yeah. 829 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,240 I really, I really liked that, that answer there. 830 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:41,160 James, I only got about a minute left here, a minute and a half. 831 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,680 I don't want to take up too much of your time, but sort of last quick two questions for you. 832 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,440 Future plans, future challenges. 833 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:49,640 What are you looking forward to this year? 834 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,520 I know you mentioned Hungary, Germany, Japan coming up, but yeah, talk real quick about 835 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,760 what you got prepared for the future. 836 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,800 Next weekend in DC, I'm defending my donut world record. 837 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,080 I want to defend that title. 838 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,640 I want to win the, I want to go top three at Nathan's one day. 839 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,640 I want to win Nathan's. 840 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,520 I promise you that I'm going to win one day. 841 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:13,740 And then what's, what's next for me, obviously America, then Hungary, then Germany back to 842 00:37:13,740 --> 00:37:15,640 America to defend a few of my titles. 843 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,600 Hey, look, I'm currently ranked number five. 844 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,900 I want to get that top three spot. 845 00:37:20,900 --> 00:37:21,900 That's awesome, man. 846 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:27,000 I'll let you go ahead and shout out your social media handles, you know, your tick tock Instagram 847 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000 right here. 848 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,000 And I'll include links below. 849 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Thank you. 850 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,520 I'm look search jwebby can eat on every platform. 851 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,960 Jwebby jwebby can eat. 852 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:34,960 It's all me. 853 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:35,960 Awesome. 854 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,420 James, the last question here, and I really appreciate you taking the time, but you got 855 00:37:39,420 --> 00:37:41,820 to make it out to Croatia at some point. 856 00:37:41,820 --> 00:37:45,120 And if you had to do a food challenge over there, what would you do? 857 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,120 Well, it's got to be chivapi man. 858 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,960 Like I've had chivapi lots. 859 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,680 I just need the real stuff. 860 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:52,680 And the lepina. 861 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:53,680 Well, forget it. 862 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,320 Oh, you're making me hungry right now, man. 863 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,240 I'm going to go make some lunch or something. 864 00:37:57,240 --> 00:37:58,720 But James, awesome. 865 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,560 Really appreciate you having you on, man. 866 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,560 Thank you for having me. 867 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:22,560 Have a good time.