Eric "Silo" Dahl will attempt a donut eating challenge during tomorrow's episode of What' Ya Know on Wisconsin Public Radio.
2013 San Gennaro cannoli contest
update Sept 15 Tania Fuentez has a flickr gallery
update Sept 13-2 Gothamist has a gallery with full results.
update Sept 13 The NY Daily News has a report.
update Joe Depace has a video
Crazy Legs Conti has a preview for the Huffington Post that was posted after the contest was finished according to the timestamp.
Demotix has a gallery
The Top 3
1) Yasir Salem 31.75, 1st non-qualifier victory
2) Marcos Owens 31
3) Eric “Badlands” Booker 28
4) Crazy Legs Conti 20
NPR has a podcast of Eric “Badlands” Booker and Crazy Legs Conti appearing on Ask Me Another.
BunchoJunk has an interview with Matt Stonie. At around the 16 minute mark of the podcast, Matt announces he will be competing in the Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Northern Ireland next month.
Bleacher Report has an interview with Joey Chestnut about competing in the Hooter's Wing finals tonight. Tampa.CBSLocal.com also has a podcast of Joey's appearance on the Fabulous Sports Babe Show yesterday.
The latest podcast of Indiana Public Media's Earth Eats has an interview with former IFOCE MC Ryan Nerz (starts at 10 minute mark), who cites "elements of unhealthfulness" as a reason he left that job. The interview makes no mention of Marijuanamerica, Nerz' latest book.
Rich Shea will be on Mike & Mike this morning at 9:15 eastern.
The In One Day podcast has an interview with Pat Bertoletti (runs from minute 87 to 120). He says that he is still taking a break from competitive eating to focus on his Glutton Force 5 food truck and Stuffed youtube program, which will run for 12 episodes with a possibly live finale in late June.
The Awkward Moments podcast did an interview with Pat Bertoletti.
Tim Janus talked about his wing eating techniques on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday yesterday.
Molly Schuyler has started a twitter at http://twitter.com/MollySchuyler announcing she finished the 12.4 pound Big Joe challenge at Frank's Pizzeria with partner Tyler Danforth. WTBX has a podcast of an interview with Molly recorded last week. update Oct 19 Molly was the first person to finish the spicy "Death" pizza challenge at the Nebraska Brewing Co. yesterday, which is now called "Molly's Humble Pie" (Omaha.com article | facebook post)
The Bookcast has a podcast of an interview with Ryan Potter, author of the competitive eating themed novel, The Cleaner. (First 10 pages | Amazon.com link).
The Hatchet Job video games podcast has an interview with Johnny Excel about competitive eating.
Johnnie Excel, Naader Reda and Kevin Ross have started State of the Plate: a competitive eating video podcast discussing topics in competitive eating.
America's Test Kitchen has a podcast with a segment about competitive eating containing interviews with Crazy Legs Conti and Sonya Thomas (interviews are in segment #2).
A podcast (begins at 31:40 mark) of an interivew Pete and Mia Davekos did on WROR to promote the Boston Nathan's qualifier is available. Mia "Meatballz" Davekos was a competitor on CBS' Survivor in 2004. (via email)
A podcast of the March 12 Andy Troy Show is available. The guests were Eric "Badlands" Booker, Crazy Legs Conti, Tim Janus and Yasir Salem (picture) . Probably the most interesting new information is Conti's claim that Pepto-Bismol's sponsorship has not been secured for the 2012 Nathan's circuit (minute 41). Crazy Legs also announces he will produce two new videos for Badlands Booker. When the topic of "Furious" Pete was brought up (minute 48), he was dismissed as a "minor leaguer".
A podcast of Joey Chestnut's interview on WRMF this morning is available. update WPTV.com has an article about Joey Chestnut. He says that he will graduate from San Diego State in May and might retire in 2013 if he wins seven Nathan's hot dog contests in a row.
The Andy Troy Show will interview several competitive eaters on http://centannibroadcasting.com/ starting at 8pm eastern tonight. Expected guests include Tim Janus, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Yasir Salem.
The Fringe Collective has an audio interview with Joey Chestnut.
640Sports.com has a podcast of an interview "Notorious" Bob Shoudt did today about Saturday's meatball eating contest in Hollywood, FL (via MLE facebook).
Don Sturdy has a new podcast containing an interview with Naader Reda and a discussion of their Power Rankings.
EatMoreGyoza has a link to a podcast of an interview Sonya Thomas did this morning on the Mark and Brian Morning Show to promote Saturday's gyoza eating contest. Damon Wells will appear on Good Day LA tomorrow morning. update Aug 17 A video of Well's appearance is available.
2011 Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge
update August 5 Furious Pete has a travelog which includes his opinion about Brad Sciullo.
update August 4 OC Weekly has a blog entry and gallery about the challenge. Brad Sciullo now has a beard. A podcast of Takeru Kobayashi’s appearance (35 min) on the Loveline radio show with Dexter Holland of the Offspring is available (via ultimate guitar)
Naader Reda has the official top 4)
1) Takeru Kobayashi 81 tacos
2) “Furious” Pete Czerwinski 49
3) Brad Sciullo 45
4) Johnnie Excel 41
Videos from the webcast can be viewed online.
6:16 The second head is over. Kobayashi appears to have won easily with an unofficial count of 81 tacos.
6:06 The second heat has started.
5:14 The first heat of the main contest has started
4:32 A women-only undercard contest has started.
The Gringo Bandito Taco Challenge will be the first United States contest against other competitive eaters for Takeru Kobayashi since the Krystal Square Off 6 finals in September 2009. The contest is expected to start at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm eastern and can be viewed online at http://www.livestream.com/gringobandito.
DonSturdy.com has a podcast of an interview with Larell Marie Mele.
Pat Bertoletti appears on the Sklar brothers (hosts of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats) recent podcast (Pat's appearance starts around the 5 minute mark) to talk about his runner-up finish in the men's Nathan's finals. (Pat's "Henderson" headband was a tribute to the Sklars.) Pat announces that he and Tim Brown have purchased a food truck and calls Joey Chestnut "washed up" and "burned out" despite losing to Chestnut 9 of the last 11 times he has faced him (see comments).
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