Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Meet Randy Santel: The World Class Professional Eater
during a challenge I wear headphones
because I like to listen to music I love
girly pop music Miley Cyrus Katy Perry
Taylor Swift frickin awesome music helps
me get my mind off the massive amount of
food that's sitting in front of me it
allows me to eat more eat faster without
even noticing my name is randy santel
i'm a professional eater in the United
States I specialize in food challenges
competitive eating and nutrition my goal
is to have food challenge wins in all 50
states along with all 27 and hopefully
by the time it gets to that over 30
countries with food challenges you've
got to have the proper strategy you
can't just take a five pound burger
pick it up and eat it you got to be able
to break it down know that you have to
eat that meats first then the veggies
then the breads then you usually add
your fries or onion rings or whatever
your sides are there's a whole lot to it
that most people don't understand that's
why over 90 percent of people lose food
challenges it's all about being ready
train strategize dominate we are at meat
liquor and I am freakin starving so it's
definitely time to you
okay that's really cool you're
on
probably on Facebook what's nice about
your little like routine that you like
okay what can I get fine can I get it my
friend hey everybody
this is Randy santel Atlas with Atlas
and Zeus promotions
I'm here with my friend Vicky and I
think Vicki's gonna try the challenge -
yeah that would be good that would be
cool to watch but let's get this
challenge started the whole flexing
thing I get a lot of flack about that
Alice Atlas Alice that's just more fun
than anything it was more just flexing
on it cuz I was basically showing the
food who's daddy ah appreciate you guys
coming today this is awesome
holy cow hey everybody this is randy
santel atlas' with atlas & zeus
promotions and proud owner of
foodchallenges.com i'm here at meet
liquor in central London I'm taking on
their triple chili challenge now I'm
going for overall win number 246 and win
number 36 of my 2015 UK & Ireland tour
we've got all kinds of deliciousness
over here we're going to do I think the
burger first then the hotdog and then
work on the chili cheese chip I've got
10 minutes to do it
the record is frickin 2 minutes and 47
seconds I'm gonna try to break the
record so even if I lose I'm still gonna
get it free if I win in under 10 minutes
oh I had my hat on wrong I need to
redo that hey everybody this is randy
santel atlas' with atlas & zeus
promotions and proud owner of
foodchallenges.com let's get this
challenge started a lot of people ask
about who Atlas is I'm a big Sylvester
Stallone fan and I love the movie over
the top before every big armwrestling
match he turns into his alter-ego he
calls a machine he basically takes his
cap does this and then you can just see
in his eyes that he's just complete
focus ready to dominate the task at hand
he's ready to destroy anybody in
armwrestling that even comes up to the
table
when I turn my hat around and turn into
Atlas rub my hands together any food
sitting in front of me is going down all
right one two three go
the big thing to eating fast is not
chewing it's about swallowing basically
take a lot of small bites almost like
CPR they tell you to open the throat you
just do that maybe with a little water
pushing it through just and then just
swallow you're able to move on to the
next bite it's all about practice
training strategizing and then soon
you'll be able to if you work hard
enough down there I was born in st.
Louis Missouri throughout my life I've
always been kind of a big kid I used to
be about 205 pounds which is over a
hundred kilos back when I was in fifth
and sixth grade so I've always been able
to eat a lot my very first job I was
working at Subway I was a senior
sandwich artist is to eat three double
meat footlongs with extra vegetables and
everything within about a five-hour work
period then I went on to Burger King I
used to basically fill up an entire tray
of just everything and I was able to eat
that because I was wanting to gain
weight so I can be better at American
football as a big guy I've always wanted
to just be really really ripped I mean I
think a lot of people that have been
really really big they always have that
oh man I would look so freakin good just
all cut up sexy physique ripped up body
well I've always wanted that
in 2010 I found out about this national
USA Men's Health sponsored body
transformation contest I compete it in
this big big transformation and then in
two months I was able to lose 26 pounds
I got down from 250 down to 220
basically the results that I got were
really incredible I mean I've never seen
myself like that before
I was so just stoked to be really really
rep that I ended up getting all oil DUP
I did a 10-day tanning package and I
bought this gladiator Halloween costume
and tighten up winning once I finished
with the transformation contest my buddy
had done this pizza contest before this
pizza challenge he lost it with another
partner but he knew that I was very very
good at eating so to celebrate and to
treat ourselves we did the big pizza
challenge we got 500 American dollars
for that no lie mr. Minetti it's the
real thing so you're watching on youtube
it's the real thing brother
yeah after that I was like hey I'm
really really good at this we borrowed a
camera from one of my friends turned a
40-minute challenge into a 10-minute
actual video we posted that people
started to watch a month later I did
another challenge more people started
watching the videos friends were like oh
yeah that's freakin awesome I cannot
believe you can do that
if I could say there's any one thing
that bothers me sometimes is to call
competitive eaters wasteful I may eat a
lot of food but it's my one meal for the
day obviously it's not that healthy to
eat 7,000 calories of fried breakfast
food but doing it every now and then is
not going to do any sigh any kind of
long-term health effects the big big
trick is to keep up the exercise the
cardio a little bit of the weightlifting
when you're fit trim feeling good you're
able to eat a lot more than when you're
a lot heavier obviously you can see
there's a little bit there but it's only
going to take about two or three months
to get it all back before all my big big
tours I always get my blood levels
tested to make sure that my cholesterol
is fine
blood pressures doing great everything
else is great cuz obviously I'm not
doing this to hurt myself
my first time traveling out of the
United States was back in 2010 for that
I never even really had a passport
whenever anybody asked me what I do I
say I'm a professional leader and people
were like what the hell does that even
mean the hardest part was deciding to
just leave what I went to school for to
focus full-time on all this food
challenge stuff
I really don't own anything anymore
other than my camera gear my piece of
crap car that's sitting at home all my
stuff actually just fits in a small
vehicle I'm not really money driven I've
got some investors and I still live with
them my parents yeah mom and dad they
just want to see me happy and I'm very
very happy doing all this different
stuff and that's kind of why they're
helping financially right now my sister
she's single I'm obviously single they
just got a little bit of money stashed
away for our weddings and as far as I
know there's not really anybody that
even likes me
so we got all this money that obviously
isn't going to go to any weddings
anytime soon it's a double room ah very
nice I'd say definitely when you're on a
tour like this in order to be able to do
a challenge every day not only do I have
to drink a lot of water but I have to
drink a lot of fiber or eat a lot of
fiber too and since I can't really have
any other meals other than the food
challenge I supplemented with this thing
that I've got I got in the states I
brought it over here called super colon
cleanse
it's basically just full of plant fibers
and sterols and stuff like that along
with some natural laxatives and just to
make sure that my intestines and
everything are empty in there I can just
fill it all up again with the new
challenge that I do on that day look at
how frickin awful that looks it's just a
whole bunch of just plant sterols just
running through the water it's going to
clear me out pretty good
ah-ah-ah
is so gross now it's finally time we're
going to be heading into wicked waffle
I'm going to be taking on their wicked
waffle challenge I'm very very excited
because as I can already see there's a
whole lot of different posters
advertising I'm going to be there and
there's going to be a lot of people
watching so it's going to be a good time
let's go on ahead in Harry Hey nice to
meet you yeah you tell you too haven't
eaten today so now I get to see what
kind of ice cream there is do we get to
choose yeah what it is you get to choose
two scoops of each flavor obviously if
you've got people choose tell vanilla
thank you it'll be a little bit easier
oh yeah yeah
Ferrero Rocher very very delicious but I
don't know if I'd want to eat two
massive scoops along with all the other
stuff so that would be more once I
finish I'll get it for dessert today for
the wicked waffle challenge I've got to
eat for massive Belgian waffles I've
also got to eat 12 scoops of ice creams
all stacked layered up in between all
the waffles so I'm really going to have
a pretty simple strategy in order to
avoid brain freeze I am going to be
drinking some warm water I will also be
using a really really big spoon so I can
get as much ice cream in my mouth as I
can and then chase it with the warm
water found out Randy through YouTube
discovered one of his videos which was
this hot dog instant challenge it was
the biggest hot dog that I'd ever seen
yes since watching that videos does just
hooked it defies logic the fact they can
eat all of that seems like you and I a
genuine person and seen his
transformation from the used to be like
to the man-mountain that he is now is
just incredible almost gold connection
with the bloggers I've known of him for
a couple of years I heard about the
challenge through Facebook I tried twice
last year completing it once and failed
the first time I saw Randy was coming
down and thought I'd come down and have
a go again this is going to be win
number 248 throughout my life since 2010
and I'm going to be doing it the same
way as I've done all the other ones when
before you begin I won this challenge
before I even walked into the door and
that's because I trained I strategized
and I'm about to dominate
holy hey everybody this is randy santel
atlas' with atlas & zeus promotions and
proud owner of foodchallenges.com very
very excited tonight I'm here with my
buddy Simon we are in Portsmouth England
down south of London at wicked waffle
taking on the wicked waffle challenge if
we fail it's 25 quid but if we win we'll
get the meal free I think we may even
get t-shirts we got 45 minutes let's get
it started all the way
to all these different families these
kids all these people that have been
watching all my videos I'm not going to
lose it in front of them
one challenge there were probably 50
people there was cheering Randy Randy
Randy Randy when it's like that it's
just like I am not about to let these
people down
thank you is nice neutral you to run you
take technique I appreciate yet there's
a lot of things that I've sacrificed in
order to go anywhere I need to go do
anything I need to do there can't be any
type of serious relationship involved
spend a lot of time alone which kind of
sucks but I've learned to cope and be
able to be fine with that
I ended up making myself single we'll
call it that most of my friends that I
went to high school in college with
they're all doing what society calls
growing up
they've all got families and they've got
babies along the way and it was kind of
pissing me off that every time I get on
Facebook somebody's getting engaged
somebody's doing this having a baby
buhbuh buhbuh blah so I ended up just
for myself getting a ring and died
basically just says married to my dreams
it can't get lonely sometimes but I mean
I've got my music and my career that I'm
always working on there are some days
where something bad might happen like at
the end of every day I'm really really
broke cuz I mean I've spent thousands
and thousands it's probably over 30
grand over the past couple years on all
this different foodchallenges.com stuff
randy santel calm stuff but at the end
of the day I would rather sleep in a
freaking gutter than ever really quit on
giving up on my dream so they're going
to happen it's not a question of really
whether they are going to happen once
somebody gives me that call of that
email and says Randy I think I really
got something that we need to be doing
needs you to be here
you don't even need to give me more than
a few hours notice how be there I'll be
packed up and ready to go
this is what my life is dedicated to hey
everybody this is randy santel atlas'
with atlas & zeus promotions and proud
owner of foodchallenges.com just want to
remind you guys if you wanting to do a
food challenge never forget when before
you begin train strategize and dominate
just like I do you do those three things
you'll be able to do too
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