(Thanks Badlands Booker) The New York Daily News has 10 questions with Eric “Badlands” Booker.

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Badlands Booker reports that Hungry & Focused III is available for sale from the IFOCE store in his myspace blog. Badlands describes his third CD:

H&F III is more than an competitive eating-themed hip-hop album, it’s a journey into making positive lifestyle changes in all aspects of my life. Produced by
13 year old music prodigy Brandon “OK Hip Hop” Booker and Loser’s Lounge musician Julian Maile, the album’s production is top notch as well as it’s lyrical
content. H&F III also features special guests Lil. Bran & Primo, The Godfather Hungry Charles, CrazyLegs Mom and many others. Album is available online at the IFOCE Store: www.ifoce.com , my website: www.badlandsbooker.com , you can listen to full songs off the album on my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/badlandsbooker , and coming soon to iTunes. Order your copy today and get Hungry & Focused!

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Google Video has footage of the 2004 Pumpkin Pie Eating contest, won by Eric “Badlands” Booker at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2212699343578141015

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Brian Seiken has a new television show out and his guest is Eric “Badlands” Booker.

In other Badlands news, the preview for Hungry & Focused III on IFOCE.com says that Badland’s son Brandon (seen on Wife Swap) will perform on it.

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If you had difficulty listening to Eric “Badlands” Booker’s newest single, “Ya Must Be Loco” at beautifulbrain.com due to format incompatibility, it is now available at myspace.com/badlandsbooker/ Hungry & Focused III will be available for pre-order at that site on Halloween.

updatedBerenice Baker has a myspace blog entry about recording her guest appearance.

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From Badlans Booker:

The winners for the “Gimme A Call III” Song Contest are as follows:

-Jason Satterwhite
-Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz
-Berenice Baker

Congrats to all the winners! They will receive a official Autographed Badlands Booker T shirt and a copy of H&F III before you can buy it. And all the other entrants will receive 2 songs from the new album via email. Thanks for all who signed up for the drawing and remember, Hungry & Focused III – The Reframing comes out on Thanksgiving 2006. pre-order your copy on Halloween at the badlands booker store and at the ifoce store at http://www.ifoce.com .
Stay Hungry & Focused always!

updated Berenice Baker has a myspace blog entry about her appearance

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

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email from Eric “Badlands” Booker:

I want to say Thanks to all the fans who emailed me interested in making an
appearance on “gimme a call 3”. Due to popular demand, I will extend the contest
registration period to Wed. Oct.11th. Every fan who registers will receive a
download of 2 songs from the forthcoming album. The 3 finalists will receive a
free official autographed Badlands Booker T. shirt and a copy of Hungry & focused
III before you can buy it. The drawing will take place on Oct. 13 and will be
aired on my myspace page via YouTube. Hungry & Focused III – The Reframing will
be in stores on Thanksgiving, Pre Order your copy on Halloween on
www.badlandsbooker.com and on www.ifoce.com . Good luck and stay Hungry and Focused

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Kobayashi has a tribute to Eric “Badlands” Booker on his blog, just having recently received news of his retirement. The entry praises Booker’s CD. If you would like to have your voice on Booker’s next CD, there are two days left to enter the drawing for three guest appearances on Hungry & Focused III

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Eric “Badlands” Booker sent me the following email:

I would like to select 3 Competitive eating fans from the Eat Feats site to make an appearance on “Gimme A Call III” and make Competitive Eating History! The track is called “Gimme A Call III” and it’s basically a skit in which i’m checking my voicemail. I’ve attached a mp3 of “Gimme A Call II” from the Ingestion Engine album to give you an idea of how the song will go. 3 fans will be selected at random, and if you’re interested, send a email to badlandsbooker@aol.com . Registration will end Friday Oct. 6th at 8pm. and the results will be announced on Friday the 13th. (10.13.06). Hungry & Focused III – The Reframing will be in stores Thanksgiving. Thanks for all of your previous posts regarding the happenings of Badlands Booker and Take Care.

Stay Hungry & Focused:
Eric “Badlands” Booker

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IFOCE.com announces that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on “Wifeswap” on Monday October 9 at 8 pm eastern.

According to the Yahoo TV description, the Booker family will swap spouses with the Alcorns, one of whom is a boxer:

“Alcorn/Booker”
A former undefeated champion boxer trades families with a mother who champions competitive eating.

Booker will apparently live with Jenifer Alcorn, who retired from boxing without a loss in 2004. The (The only undefeated male championship boxer I am aware of is Rocky Marciano)

ABC has a press release about the episode. Eric’s wife, Regina, will take over Jenifer’s fighter training while Jenifer will try to get the Booker family to adopt healthier habits.

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Krista has emailed me that she has written a tribute to Eric “Badlands” Booker containing quotes from several eaters.

Krista has also informed me that a recent episode of “Miami Ink” featured the discoverer of the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich bought by GoldenPalace getting a tattoo of that object, so you might want to check out a rerun of that if you are interested in competitive eating themed tatoos.

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azcentral.com has a preview of this weekend’s college football games which says that Eric “Badlands” Booker will do a wing eating contest against students before the University of Buffalo game against Temple. The two teams combined to go 1-21 last season.

Booker has a statement on his retirement on his myspace blog. He says that his third album is expected around Thanksgiving and it will include the anti-AICE track.

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competitiveeatingnews.com has an announcement that Eric “Badlands” Booker has retired from competitive eating. Neither badlandsbooker.com or Booker’s myspace page have any mention of Booker retiring and Booker’s myspace calendar says he intends to defend his Buffalo Wing Festival title Labor Day weekend.

If Booker has competed in his last eating contest, the competitive eating scene will defenitely miss one of its greatest champions who had a career spanning almost a decade during which he helped raise the profile of competitive eating as much as any other American gurgitator. Hopefully Booker will continue his pre-contest rapping.

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Thanks Brian Seiken

NYC Civil Service qualifier, South Street Seaport, Manhattan, NY
1. Eric “Badlands” Booker 30.5 HDB
2. John Sclafani 12.5 HDB (spelling updated 7/1)
3. Frank Fumanante 10 HDB

Booker turns in an impressive performance and indicates he is still a force to be reckoned with despite not having competed in many contests recently.

Updated June 28 12:53 pm – Digest has posted an interview with Badlands.

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The News & Advance has a preview of Saturday’s Virginia Ham biscuit contest in Lynchburg, VA. Sonya Thomas and Eric “Badlands” Booker will compete against twelve of the best Harley riding eaters in an 8 minute contest.

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The calendar on Badlands Booker’s myspace page announces that he will appear at the Virginia State Lottery Ham Steaks Contest in Richmond on June 24. This contest does not appear on the IFOCE list of contests.

Updated June 12 1:50 PM Ian Hickman has confirmed that the Virginia Lottery will sponsor a contest on the 24th in Lynchburg, not Richmod. Sonya Thomas is expected.

A new goldenpalace rib contest in Memphis on July 3 has also been announced.

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Eric “Badlands” Booker will perform at Mo Pitkin’s in the East Village on June 7 at 7:30 (tickets are $5) Booker has also placed some of his songs on his myspace page.

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Nichelle Newsletter has pictures from last night’s “Eat This Book” release party and mini-cupcake contest results, which Eric “Badlands” Booker won by eating 29 mini-cupcakes in 2 minutes without water.

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If you are curious how Eric “Badlands” Booker managed to upset Sonya Thomas at the Buffalo Wing Festival last year, cluckbucket.com has detailed information on his personal wing eating technique along with over a dozen other wing eating styles.

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Megamunch has done further analysis on the picture of Eric “Badlands” Booker wearing a helmet. The photograph with the helment and without the helment are exactly the same except for Booker’s head. The odds that large areas of two pictures taken at different times would be exactly the same are miniscule, but other unlikely things have happened at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub.

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Dave Shoffner of the megamunch blog has posted rather conclusive evidence that the famous picture of Eric “Badlands” Booker eating Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound burger in a helmet decorated with a cartoon dog was modified.

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