How native speakers pronounce “chestnut”

"If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it happen?" Remember that old chestnut? I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said,

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And there's one more iconic species that could come back to this forest. That's the American chestnut tree. Historically, this majestic tree

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