Joey! Joey! Joey! Joey Chestnut, American hero, defeated the Japanese destroyer Takeru Kobayashi, eating 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. The Gaskets played 4 songs to open the contest and we all got back stage passes. I took a ton of photos and now, you can see them. It was an amazing day. I was going to spend it with my girlfriend, but she blew me off because she took a bunch pills so she could sleep and couldn’t wake up. That wasn’t rad. We did go to Coney Island yesterday in prep for the show and we had a lot of fun, but still ditching me at 7 am was not cool. Everything else about the day was. Plus my friend Sam came down, and he got her back stage pass. We ate tons of free hot dogs. It was amazing. I talked to Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas for a while and tried to talk to Kobayashi, but he does not speak English good like I do. Rich Lefever is this really old time eater and after he ate a disappointing 31 hot dogs, he just kept eating food back stage. It was amazing. What a good day.

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