KSOV Podcast: The Pat Bertoletti Interview

Pat Bertoletti (above left) is ready to face off against Joey Chestnut (above right), Takeru Kobayashi and other top eaters this Sept. 28 in Chattanooga.

For this week’s audio podcast, the Krystal Square Off Blog had the pleasure of chatting with competitive eating’s mohawked master of mastication Pat Bertoletti. The Chicago native known as “Deep Dish” is heading to the ATL tonight in advance of tomorrow’s Krystal Square Off V Qualifier at Lenox Square Mall, where he’ll look to repeat as the Atlanta champ and earn a seat at this year’s final.

During our interview, Bertoletti talks about everything from his hectic travel schedule to the girls in Prague to why the heat doesn’t bother him when it comes to chowing down Krystals. He also gives his opinion on what the top numbers will be at this year’s Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship and how his 94 Krystals at last year’s championship was an “off day” for him.

What you won’t hear is what Bertoletti told us after the podcast, which is that he plans to head to the nearest Krystal restaurant as soon as he lands tonight and eat 30 plus Krystals and wash them down with a Krystal MilkQuake. A good warm-up for tomorrow? Completely insane? Or both?

Stay tuned as we’re hoping to get video of this Atlanta Qualifier eve chowdown.

Listen to our full audio interview with Pat by clicking the play arrow on the right below.

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Relatedly, check out the video of Pat Bertoletti training for the Krystal Square Off over at our sister site Krystalist.com here.

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