UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: As long as there's not a medical emergency. I feel like it's some kind of, like, inaugural part of their culture at this point, like, hot dogs, so.ĭETROW: Alejandra Marquez Janse and I walk around to the back of the stage, where staffers are stacking up plates with five hot dogs apiece.ĭo you think one of us could stand, like, right in the wings or something to record the actual contest? HARRIS: I mean, God only knows, right? God only knows. Thier is excited - his friend, Becca Harris, not quite as pumped.īECCA HARRIS: I was just warned to stay out of his splash zone, so I'm backing up a little bit because I am very apprehensive about how this is going to go down.ĭETROW: Harris has the same question as so many others in the crowd. The top finishers would punch a ticket to the big event at Nathan's on Tuesday. That's still a significant number.ĭETROW: In just a few minutes, nine people would take the stage to gorge on as many hot dogs as they could fit in their mouths.
UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER #1: Joey hits the 50 mark - still a magic number, even though he blows by it every year. You probably know it, the annual July Fourth contest at Nathan's New York's Coney Island, the one Joey Chestnut has won year after year after year. WILLIE THIER: I had my tonsils out last September, so there's a lot more space to - in terms of just like airway ability.ĭETROW: We met Willie Thier in downtown Washington, D.C., last week, gathered at the foot of a big outdoor stage, waiting for a much more serious hot-dog-eating contest to begin - the final qualifying event for the Super Bowl, Olympics and World Cup of competitive eating all wrapped up in one bun. We're going to have all of us do a hot-dog-eating contest. And we're learning techniques because he's going to host another hot-dog-eating contest at his house. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Willie's hosting a Fourth of July party.
The extra long July Fourth holiday weekend is here, and people are making plans.
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