America's Hot New Sport: Slap Fighting? Made for Streaming & Safer than Boxing, MMA? Joey Chestnut's NOT Competing on July 4th? Is It Easier to Match Chestnut's or an Olympian's Best Performance?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: It’s the replay, caught with super-slo-mo cameras, that makes it exactly the kind of weird I like: We see the hand approaching the face and then the impact. BAM! Phillips’s face is briefly displaced off his skull, his neck skin stretching, his face in this moment deformed like a rubber mask—that’s how unlike a face it looks!—and then suddenly it snaps back on. And in that extended instant we see the light going out. His face is almost peaceful as he falls in the aftermath of such a sudden blast of pain. The clip ends and we don’t see what happens after. This is the money shot that Power Slap—the newer of the two American slap-fighting leagues, the one with the vastly higher budget and bigger footprint—has perfected. It’s shocking. It’s dumb. It’s fun. It’s nuts. It’s barbaric. And it’s brief, so it’s extremely shareable online, which is part of the point. In an age of the unreal and the fake, the AI-doctored and the dubiously sourced, slap fighting—a sport in which two men stand over a pedestal or a barrel and take turns slapping each other and being slapped—is indisputably really freaking real. It’s so real, in fact, and seems so simple that it almost feels like it can’t be. No way, you think. They’re not actually just doing this. Shouldn’t somebody stop them? This is awesome! This paragraph comes from Esquire. The article is titled: "Inside the Savage, Surreal, Booming World of Professional Slap Fighting," The article is written by Ander Monson. You can read the full article here: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a60828501/professional-slap-fighting/ Zac & Don discuss the sport of Slap Fighting. They discuss why the sport is gaining in popularity and how the sport technically work. They also discuss the sport of competitive eating and the recent news that Joey Chestnut will not compete in the 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. They wonder whether it is harder for an average person to match Mr. Chestnut's performance or the feat of a real Olympian.