In the latest Breaking Beard podcast, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran announces that he will not extend his MLE contract and is retiring from head to head eating contests. He will continue to make restaurant challenge videos.
Leah Shutkever is the guest on the latest episode of the Beautiful Struggle podcast.
Joey Chestnut did an interview on yesterday's Hochman & Crowder show to promote today's Wings for Wishes contest in Miami. The most interesting part starts at 4:00 where Joey discusses his MLE contract status. He says he is not currently signed for the 2024 Nathan's finals. He is willing to do a one year extension, but is balking at a four year term that MLE is apparently demanding. At the 6:10 mark Joey praises James Webb but also appears to cast doubt on his victory in last month's pistachio eating contest: "He is notorious for swallowing things whole, like he will swallow nuts whole."
In the latest "Between the Buns" podcast, Derek Hendrickson and Darron Breeden preview Monday's pistachio eating contest in Santa Monica.
Derek Hendrickson discusses Las Vegas restaurant challenges on the latest episode of the Visit Vegas Places podcast.
Derek Hendrickson and Darron Breeden rank the three worst food challenges they have ever done in the latest episode of the "Between the Buns" podcast.
The fourth episode of the "Behind the Buns" podcast co-hosted by Derek Hendrickson and Darron Breeden is a recap of Saturday's bagelmania eating contest in Las Vegas.
Brett "The Branimal" Healey is the guest on the third episode of the "Behind the Buns" podcast co-hosted by Derek Hendrickson and Darron Breeden.
In the second episode of the new "Behind the Buns" podcast, Darron Breeden interviews Derek Hendrickson about his competitive eating career.
Derek Hendrickson and Darron Breeden have started a new competitive eating podcast: "Behind the Buns". The inaugural episode is a retrospective of Darron Breeden's competitive eating career.
Awful Announcing has posted a segment from a recent podcast in which Adam Amin discusses calling Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest on ESPN.
BBC CWR has an interview with Leah Shutkever.
Wisconsin Public Radio has an interview with Katina DeJarnett about returning to the United States after a months-long food challenge tour of the world with Randy Santel.
Derek Hendrickson discussed food challenges at Las Vegas restaurants in a recent City Cast Las Vegas podcast.
NPR on history of competitive eating
NPR’s “All Things Considered” did an episode about the history of competitive eating that includes coverage of last week’s Nathan’s qualifier in Washington, DC and an interview with Jason Fagone, author of “Horsemen of the Esophagus”. With Kobayashi’s retirement, all the protagonists of his 2006 book are now out of competitive eating:
- AICE / All Pro Eating, last contest 2018
- Wing Bowl, terminated in 2018
- Bill “El Wingador” Simmons, arrested for drug distribution
- Tim “Eater X” Janus, last contest 2015
- Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, radio silent since 2018
Erik "the electric" Lamkin and his girlfriend Kristie are guests on a recent Shane Dawson podcast. Around 26:00 he says he would like to separate himself from the competitive eating community because he thinks that eating contests are gross.
The Yorkshire Post has an article about Josh Gudgeon, co-host of the "Breaking Bread" podcast with Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran.
Australian competitive eater James Webb has started a podcast called "Bloated".
Raina Huang is the guest on the latest 411 Lounge podcast.
The VooDooChef Podcast has an interview with Miki Sudo.
The Food Network Obsessed podcast has an interview with Casey Webb, the current host of Man v Food. MSN has an article about the podcast.
Jon Senior's FunkQuest podcast has an interview with British competitive eater John Dawes.
Katina Eats Kilos is the guest on the latest episode of "Breaking Bread", a podcast co-hosted by Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran.
The Running Times podcast has an interview with Dave "US Male" Goldstein about running road races with his son Josh, who suffers from Joubert Syndrome, a condition which restricts him to a wheel chair.
Raina Huang appeared on Ryan Seacrest's radio show.