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:

• Dr. Phil,
• The Morton Downey Jr. Show,
• the Atkins Diet fad,
• Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher,
• a Paul Reiser update,
• a Sonya Thomas update,
• the 96 oz. Colossal Cheeseburger Challenge Champion Kate Stelnick,
• the upcoming Die Hard 4: Die Hardest,
• the Smart Mug electric cup,
• a get-rich-quick scheme (hot beverages),
• Michael Jackson on Robot Chicken,
• and The Old Jingle of the Episode (“We’re not Candy!” PSA, a public service announcement by the Poison Control Center, quality varies).

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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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In this episode:

• Sonya Thomas’s Thanksgiving turkey-eating championship,
• an interview with the Screaming Orphans at Tir Na Nog in NYC (www.screamingorphans.com),
• Circles and “Circles,”
• Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig,
• the video game James Bond 007: From Russia with Love,
• an interview with the fake Sean Connery,
• The Matrix (1999) starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne,
• Harrison Ford,
• sleep-inducing NPR radio DJ voices,
• and an Irish reel.

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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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