going to do this thing. i don't know if it was him or not but lo and behold at 2:00 p.m. the contest went on. >> what a leader. what an absolute leader. you put him there in the halls of, you know, joe montana and john elway, and joey chestnut, man. >> can we just point out the obvious, too, i love that they are pretending to care about anybody's health at a hot dog eating contest. don't worry about this rains, somebody might get pneumonia, but 83 hot dogs what could go wrong with your health? >> why has nobody else trained hard enough to beat the guy? can somebody try harder. >> physical anomaly. >> i listened to a podcast a couple of days ago and joey chestnut was being interviewed and he did say the weather does have an impacts on his performance. >> on his gut. >> because he said if it get too hot the buns dry out and it's hard to eat them. if it's too cold, the hot dogs get cold, it's hard to eat so it was a perfect forecast, 84 and