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ESPN PR reports that an average of 1.62 million viewers watched the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4, the highest total since 2014. July 9, 2025 at 7:32 pm by
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George Shea, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Miki Sudo appeared on CUNY-TV's "A Slice of New York" program to discuss Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. June 30, 2025 at 10:06 pm by
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June 26, 2025 at 6:30 pm by
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The ESPN schedule for the men’s and women’s 2025 Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest is finally out. Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo will have personal cameras. The documentary, “The Good, The Bad, The Hungry will also be rerun three times.

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June 7, 2025 at 8:49 am by
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The ESPN schedule for July 4 is out. The men’s Nathan’s contest will be televised live on ESPN2 at noon. The women’s contest is not listed, but will probably be streaming only since ESPN2 will be showing First Take from 10am to noon and ESPN will broadcast Wimbledon.
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TWU Local 100 has a post about Eric "Badlands" Booker recent appearance on America's Got Talent. He recently retired from his day job as a New York City subway conductor. June 7, 2025 at 8:37 am by
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Eric "Badlands" Booker is expected to appear on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent on NBC at 8pm Eastern. updateA video of Booker's appearance doing a hot sauce chug is online. May 27, 2025 at 6:46 pm by
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May 5, 2025 at 9:53 am by
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Results from the final round of today’s “King of Gluttony” contest televised on TV Tokyo. (video of program, results start at 2:50)
1 Teinei Kinoshita 23 bowls of ramen
2 Kawaxile 22 bowls
3T Geoff Esper 21
3T Pat Bertoletti 21
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Paramount has uploaded a clip from the 2012 film, "The Guilt Trip" of Barbra Streisand attempting a 72 ounce steak challenge at a Lubbock, TX restaurant resembling The Big Texan. Barbra did not eat any actual steak for the scene, watermelon was substituted. April 26, 2025 at 8:28 am by
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The contest page for Big Eater Championship 2025, to be televised May 5 on TV Tokyo, has been released. Geoff Esper will look to defend his title and Takeru Kobayashi will serve as commentator.April 25, 2025 at 3:33 pm by
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Zermatt Neo has uploaded a video of his video of his trip to Osaka, Japan to compete in the qualifier for "Big Eater Championship 2025" that will be televised May 5 on TV Tokyo. April 20, 2025 at 8:34 am by
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The competitive eating themed "King of the Hill" episode that originally aired on November 10, 2002 can be viewed on youtube. Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson guest star as competitive eating fans. April 19, 2025 at 8:32 am by
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Food League Singapore announced it will be releasing music by the Backshot Boys, a quartet consisting of Geoff Esper on vocals, Zermatt Neo on guitar, Sean Lee on bass guitar and Pat Bertoletti on keyboard. April 8, 2025 at 7:32 am by
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Takeru Kobayashi will appear on tonight's episode of David Blaine: Do Not Attempt at 9pm Eastern. April 6, 2025 at 6:39 pm by
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Barstool Chicago produced a mini-documentary about 70 year old Frank Wach and his three decade long competitive eating career. The spaghetti and meatballs eating contest that concludes the video took place in March 2024. Joey Chestnut and Tim "Gravy" Brown make cameos. March 29, 2025 at 1:30 am by
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Boardroom reports that Netflix claims that Unfinished Beef, the Labor Day matchup between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, had more viewers than Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN July 4. March 10, 2025 at 9:11 pm by
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Business Insider has a mini-documentary about Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry's preparation for Norm's hotcake eating contest held in Las Vegas in November. January 26, 2025 at 8:25 am by
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The audience Q & A session after the premier of "No One Died: The Wing Bowl Story" has been uploaded to youtube. The panel consisted of five time champion Bill "El Wingador" Simmons, WIP Radio Host Angelo Cataldi, director Pat Taggart and producer Frank Petka. January 13, 2025 at 1:06 am by
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The ESPN Throwback youtube channel has uploaded a video of the 5 hot dog overtime eat-off session between Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi at the 2008 Nathan's Famous finals. January 6, 2025 at 1:00 am by
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An episode of "Hurl!" a competitive vomiting deferral program that aired on the G4 Network in 2008, has been uploaded to youtube. Participants tried to be the last person to throw up. January 3, 2025 at 12:37 am by
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The A & E Network has uploaded the series "Airline", an unscripted program about Southwest Airlines passengers, to its youtube channel. In the May 16, 2005 episode, "A Hard Days Flight", Don "Moses" Lerman travels cross-country to compete in the Golden Palace grilled cheese eating contest in Venice Beach.
January 1, 2025 at 1:26 am by
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Josh Brett produced a mini-documentary titled "Why Competitive Eaters Don't Get Fat" containing interviews with Joey Chestnut, Matt Stonie, Adam Moran, Leah Shutkever, Katina DeJarnett, Nela Zisser and others. The brief segment about intentional vomiting appears at the end (around 10:20) and consists of clips of eaters denying that they reverse. December 27, 2024 at 2:36 am by
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December 26, 2024 at 1:26 am by
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Mashed.com has compiled a list titled "Man V Food Challenges That Got Gross". December 23, 2024 at 12:19 am by
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The latest BWAAA! podcast is about the "Fat and the Furious" episode of "King of the Hill" that was televised on November 10, 2002 in which Bill attempted to qualify for Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson guest starred as competitive eating fans. December 13, 2024 at 1:16 am by
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