In Philadelphia, professional competitive eater Joey Chestnut devoured a record 182 chicken wings to win his second consecutive Wing Bowl, a gut-busting annual event that draws thousands of revelers to the city’s sports complex in the pre-dawn hours.

Links:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/web/COM1057416/index.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-03-wing-record_x.htm

In this episode:

• Italy’s 2006 FIFA World Cup victory,
• Tony Meola,
• constant downtime in American sports,
• demolition soccer,
• celebrity deaths (Syd Barrett and Red Buttons),
• Frank Edward Nora and The Overnightscape’s 500th episode (www.theovernightscape.com),
• more about Tom Green’s new show,
• Shock the Man video podcast (www.shocktheman.com, currently offline),
• another physics experiment with the fake Julius Sumner Miller,
• the 2006 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest,
• and a Sonya Thomas update.

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In this episode:

• listener audio (The Transformers theme song by GT in Brooklyn),
• Uno,
• VH-1′s I Love Toys,
• The Godfather video game,
• an International Federation of Competitive Eating update (www.ifoce.com),
• celebrity deaths (Kirby Puckett, Peter Tomarken, and Slobodan Milosevic),
• old sitcoms (Empty Nest, ALF, and My Two Dads),
• Max Wright,
• The Old Jingle of the Episode (Tootsie Roll commercial),
• Tina Turner,
• and another interview with the fake Sean Connery.

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In this episode:

• a Sonya Thomas update (the GoldenPalace.com Grilled Cheese Finals and World Chili Cheese Fries Eating Championship),
• celebrity deaths (“Grandpa” Al Lewis and Chris Penn),
• remote control hunting web sites,
• the differences between Charles in Charge season 1 and 2,
• Larry King,
• Get a Life starring Chris Elliott,
• and a skit featuring the Paunch Stevenson Show reporter.

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With 27 world titles, 105 lbs. “The Black Widow” Sonya Thomas is the number three overall competitive eater in the U.S. and is ranked number four in the world. At the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2005, she ate 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes.

In this episode:

• Minute Maid fruit punch,
• the book So You Want to Be a Dancer (1979) by William E. Thomas,
• Gallagher,
• water up the nose,
• the International Federation of Competitive Eating world records (www.ifoce.com),
• champion eater Sonya Thomas,
• old video games (Airwolf, River Raid, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, etc.),
• Michael Jackson and his web site (www.michaeljackson.com),
• and a skit about customer service call centers in foreign countries.

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