ABC has an information page about yesterday’s Wife Swap episode featuring the Booker & Alcorn families. The family instruction manuals offer some information that was not shown in the broadcast:

• Badlands wanted to appear to promote his rap career. Regina did not want to appear at all
• Badlands leaves for work at 2am
• The Bookers are very active in their church, which was not mentioned
• Regina works for a major phone company as a supervisor in business collections and says “Being stern with customers all day means when I get home the last thing I want to do is be a disciplinarian”
• Brandon has contributed beats to his father’s CDs
• The episode was filmed during the summer, so Brandon did not need to go to school. (I thought the show made it look like the Bookers were condoning Brandon skipping school
• The Alcorns have 23 pets, which were not displayed probably because it would have made them appear softer

Video captures of the episode are available after the jump:
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(Thanks Skinnyboy) “Wife Swap” was not Eric “Badlands” Booker’s only appearance on television last night. The Food Network reran a show about record breakers. One of the segments of that show was about a burrito contest from 2002 won by Booker. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane recorded clips from that show and uploaded them.

The plugins did not work for me in Firefox. Here are the direct links to the videos if you need them:
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/IFOCE.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Steak.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Hamburger.ASF

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In his latest blog entry, Wing Tut predicts that some ranked IFOCE members will leave IFOCE because the loss of GoldenPalace’s sponsorship will decrease the amount winnable by eaters ranked outside the top 10.

The new poll asks if you think the standard prize distribution for IFOCE contests should be changed to award more to lower finishers to prevent this possibility or is there another change (if any) you would more like to see.

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In a recent blog entry, Dave “megamunch” Shoffner announces that for every item of food he eats in competition, he will donate the list price of that item to America’s Second Harvest

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(from Mike Merrill) Liz’s receives a mention in urbanhonking’s blog for publicity received by its members.

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A live blog of Badlands Booker’s appearance on “Wife Swap” occurs after the jump:

updated beautifulbrian.com has an article about the episode and reality TV calendar has a longer synopsis than can be found in the liveblog. I will try to post some video captures later today.

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(from “the Hangman” & “Wild Bill”) The ifoce schedule no longer lists the chicken strips contest that was to be held at the South Carolina State Fair on Friday, so it is safe to assume it will not take place. This denies Dale Boone an opportunity to see if his momentum continues from his Krystal win.

A posole eating contest will be held at the Sky City Casino in New Mexico on November 18. This is the second posole contest held at that site.

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The Meathaus blog has an entry about Jenny Drumgoole’s video projects. I addition to her documentary about Sonya Thomas at the 2005 Wing Bowl, she has also done a more non-linear project called “Husky” (Part 1/2, Part 3):

In Husky, Jenny weaves together a dream/ reality hybrid that combines the real-life footage of herself drunkenly harassing the cops, riding a tow-truck, and taping her gynecology check-up from a secret camera hidden in her bag with the elements of her other-self, a leopard-print unitard wearing hoagie-loving “husky bitch” who wears her lipstick all over her neck and loves to fling thousand island dressing all over herself and the frat boys who mistakenly think that they are about to get a free-show.

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Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on ABC’s “Wife Swap” tonight at 8pm.

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online-gambling-insider.com reports that GoldenPalace.com will continue to accept online bets from the United States for at least 30 days while they determine a course of action. GoldenPalace.net canceled all of its sponsorships for October IFOCE contests this week.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane received a message from IFOCE headquarters:

I am extremely sad to announce that the breakfast burrito eating championship in Albuquerque on October 11, and the pickle eating championship in Raleigh on October 16 have been canceled. It is likely that the chicken strip contest in Columbia on October 13 will also be canceled, but that is not yet confirmed.

I would assume the AZ contest on the 28th is in serious jeopardy as well. If the SC and AZ contests are canceled, hopefully the jalapeno contest on Sunday will be a fitting end to the series.

updated from the Sicilan IFOCE.com has an official statement about the cancellations saying that the AZ contest will take place without any prizes. The jalapeno contest Sunday will be sponsored by Major League eating instead of golden palace.

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Con Chapman of thespoof.com has a preview of public television’s first televised sports programming with a quote from Eric “Badlands” Thomas.

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megamunch has a new blog entry about the role of raw inherent eating ability versus training, technique and experience in becoming a top eater. The new poll asks what percentage of the population could become a top ranked eater with essentially unlimited training and resources.

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Eye On Gambling has a forum thread about the fate of Golden Palace’s US operations. The official position is apparently that the company will announce a decision when the port security bill is signed by the president.

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On competitiveeating.net, IFOCE has a response to Brian Seiken’s call for a competitive eating division for eaters over 40:

“While I think the concept of a masters league as proposed is not viable, it is in no way an admission by retired eaters that they cannot compete with a new breed of competitive eater,” said IFOCE Chair George Shea. “The retired eaters are giants upon whose shoulders the younger eaters stand.”

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All videos for part 2 of “Gluttonous King” are now available on youtube.

TV Tokyo got youtube to remove the videos for earlier Gluttonous King / Queen shows, so the videos will probably not be available for a long period of time if you are interested in watching them.

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(From BB Bits & Pieces) Heeb Magazine has an article on gastrointestinal afflictions more common in Jews than in the general population. The first part of the article is about Jews in competitive eating with quotes from Brian Seiken, Don Lerman and Kevin Lipsitz. There are some minor inaccuracies in the article. (Isn’t Shredder Goldstein a top 20 ranked Jewish IFOCE member?)

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MarketWatch reports that PartyGaming (PartyPoker) and 888 Holdings have announced that they will stop their internet gambling operations in the United States as soon as the port security bill banning transfer of funds to online casinos is approved by the president. UK shares of companies involved in online gambling lost as much as 75% of their value Monday and the total paper wealth loss is estimated at $7.5 billion. Online casino GoldenPalace.com/.net is a major sponsor of IFOCE events.

While Congress succeeded in attaching a completely unrelated measure to the port security bill, it failed to attach a provision to that legislation that would have barred serious felons from working in sensitive dock security jobs.

updated pokerplayernewspaper has an analysis of the legislation which mentions Golden Palace’s sponsorships

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The singing group Morning Musume, consisting of 13 girls, had a cake eating contest against Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota in their Christmas special. The totals of all 13 girls were combined and Shirota only ate for about 5 minutes of the 10 minute contest. (I hope Shirota got paid well for his appearance)

Part 1, Part 2 (videos are subtitled)

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With the new month, beautifulbrian.com has added some new material which include:

A video of Brian Seiken rapping on “Calling All Night” filmed at the IHOP with Badlands Booker

A weight loss update

A call for an IFOCE senior league

competitiveeatingnews.com reports that Brian Seiken and Krazy Kevin Lipsitz might appear in the pickle eating contest at the North Carolina State Fair October 16.

Eater X’s cigarette brownies might have been a more appropriate food for the North Carolina State Fair than pickles.

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You would assume a passenger on JetBlue would experience fewer tribulations than a pioneer travelling in a covered wagon, but that assumption does not appear to hold in Liz’s move to Denver.

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From Much & Fast

“Gluttonous King” final:
1) Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota
2) Takuya Yamamoto, fails to threepeat
3) Natsuko “Gal” Sone
4) – 6) ?
7) Tomoko Miyake – ate french fries with chopsticks while everyone else uses hands, later
drops chopsticks

Shirota has an entry about his victory in his blog.

updated R Suzuki has round by round results: Part 1, Part 2

Videos of the preliminary round can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ec4s

Part 1 – Tokyo preliminary round
Part 2 – Osaka preliminary round
Part 3 – Shirota does a restaurant’s eating challenge cheered on by his groupies
Part 4 – Yamamoto works out in a boxing gym
Part 5 – Gal Sone meditates in a Buddhist temple
Part 6 – 1st round – french fry eating contest in Hokkaido farm

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(from The Observer) Tom Parker Bowles, son of the wife of Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, has a written a book called The Year of Eating Dangerously, which he describes as a “travel book about weird food”. The book describes his participating in a chili eating contest in New Mexico.

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The Washington Post reports that a measure banning US banks from making payments to online casinos was attached to a Senate port security bill that passed today. The House passed a similar measure earlier this year so the bill awaits presidential approval. The prohibition will not take effect until after a 270 day window for the financial industry to figure out how to prevent transactions to online casinos. Internet gamblers will still be able to use foreign financial institutions. The online casino / card game site GoldenPalace.com/.net is a major sponsor of IFOCE events.

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The Whaler has moved his Eater X tribute site to urbanhonking.com/eaterx/ from blogspot. Hopefully the new address will see a higher frequency of posting than the old site recently did.

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