Joey Chestnut does KNBR interview on 26th birthday
(from Paul Davis email) Joey Chestnut spent a portion of his 26th birthday today doing an interview with KNBR. A 30 minute podcast of his appearance is available. Some notes from the podcast:
- Joey attributes his defeat at the 2009 Asparagus Festival to the first wave of the swine flu
- Joey says he receives $30,000 – $40,000 for competing in Nathan’s
- Joey calls Pat Bertoletti his “little brother” (Joey’s comments about Pat, Eater X, Sonya Thomas and “El Wingador” occur at the 15 minute mark of the podcast.)
- A caller asks Joey how he compares to Eddie “Bozo” Miller
Steve Dahl proposes old school CE organization
A podcast of Pat Bertoletti’s appearance on the Steve Dahl show Friday is available (minutes 37-44) Pat Bertoletti says that a part of his body hurt after the jalapeno eating contest that had never previously experiences post-competition discomfort. Steve Dahl says that dunking in Nathan’s repulses him and proposes an “old school” competitive eating organization that would ban dunking.
Man vs. Food clone proposed on ESPN.com podcast
In a recent podcast, Bill Simmons of ESPN.com (not El Wingador) proposes a program called “House Record” in which his friend Joe House would travel the country and attempt to break restaurants’ eating challenge records. After being informed the concept is basically the same as Man vs. Food, Simmons calls Adam Richman “annoying” and claims his program would be better.
(“House Record” segment begins around the 32 minute mark)
Lord of the Wings wins Wing Madness
Wing Madness top 5:
1 Lord of the Wings, 158 wings
2 6Burgh Psycho, 124 wings
3 Broken Wing
4 or 5 Brad Sciullo
4 or 5 Mark Lyle
update Wing Tut has posted a contest report
A live blog of the 1250 AM streaming follows:
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Don Lerman on NPR’s This American Life
(from Joey B comment) An audio clip of Don Lerman recalling the first eating contest he won was played on the most recent episode of This American Life on NPR. The program was a rerun that originally aired in 2005. Lerman’s segment also appeared in a 2005 episode of Morning Edition. The clip can be listened to on the StoryCorps website.
Joey Chestnut macaroni record video

A video of Joey Chestnut’s apparance at the San Jose Stealth game on Saturday in which he set the IFOCE macaroni & cheese record is available, along with a podcast of an interview on KNBR he did the day before to promote the event. TheIFound5Dollars blog says that Saturday’s game had the seventh largest crowd in Stealth history.
A video of another Joey Chestnut appearance from January where he ate 5 burritos at a scout troop meeting can also be viewed on youtube.
update A flickr gallery of the contest with a picture of the bobble-head (see above) is available
Skinnyboy was impressed with the burrito video
Link Buffet: January 6, 2009
- MosesNews.com will return to covering competitive eating
- Crazy Legs Conti podcast on Strangeland Radio
- Video of eating contest with #9 ranked “MILF”
- Arkansas Krispy Kreme eating contest results – video
- Laredo jalapeno eating contest on February 20 or 21
Link Buffet: December 15, 2008
- As of 10:30 am eastern, Wing Bowl 17 tickets appear available on ComcastTix.com Here is the direct link to the ticket buying page
- Pat Bertoletti ranks his favorite Chicago pizzas
- “Kid” Cary DeGrosa has a new column about OJ which embeds a video from September 2007 (from “Beautiful” Brian email)
- (from Wasted Food) Rich Shea podcast (starts at about the 50 minute mark) Shea continues to assert that competitive eating is the world’s fastest growing sport, but admits he has no factual basis for that statement.
- Encounter (in English) with Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara at a restaurant
- Cameron McKirdy (now known as “Consumption”) has updated his website http://www.deathbyconsumption.com/
- Adam Richman of Man vs. Food to do a live online video chat on Wednesday at 11 pm eastern
- Mario’s Flying Pizza in Galveston, TX to celebrate reopening after Hurricane Ike with eating contests Wednesday
update As of 1:30pm eastern, upper level Wing Bowl tickets appear to be available
Link Buffet: November 6, 2008
- Pat Bertoletti has some videos from the Trnkobrani Festival in the Czech Republic
- AICE ranking of the top collegiate eaters
- Beautiful Brian says he will return at an undisclosed date
- Video of Denny’s Beer Barrel 2 pound burger attempts
- Podcast about a 50 apples in 90 minutes proposition bet
- Report on Denny’s Belly Bruiser contest for 12 person teams