L.A. Beast
Kevin Thomas Strahle (born January 6, 1984), better known as the L.A. Beast, is an American professional competitive eater who hosts a challenge-based channel on YouTube. Strahle started making videos in his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey, before moving to Los Angeles, California. After several years at his home in California, he moved back to his hometown of Ridgewood. As of 2024, his channel has over three million subscribers & over 500 million total views. In addition to his online presence, he has made appearances on '' The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', '' The Today Show Australia'' and '' Tosh.0''. In 2015, Strahle led a successful campaign to bring back the soft drink Crystal Pepsi. His accomplishments also include earning 12 Guinness World Records, eight of which he currently holds. Early life Kevin Thomas Strahle was born on January 6, 1984, and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. As a child, Strahle developed a love for eating and later used his natural bulk to jo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood is a Village (New Jersey), village in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Ridgewood is a suburban commuter town, bedroom community of New York City, located approximately northwest of Midtown Manhattan. As of the 2020 United States census, the village's population was 25,979, an increase of 1,021 (+4.1%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 24,958, which in turn reflected an increase of 22 (+0.1%) from 24,936 in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. It has been one of the state's highest-income communities. In 2000, its per capita income of $51,658 was ranked the List of New Jersey locations by per capita income#New Jersey places ranked by per capita income, 35th-highest in the state. Based on data from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey, it had a per-capita income of $67,560, 31st in the state. Based on data from the American Community Survey for 2013–2017, it had a median household income of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bob Shoudt
Bob Shoudt (born October 16, 1966), also known as "Humble Bob" or "Notorious B.O.B." (the name of his YouTube channel), is an American competitive eater from Royersford, Pennsylvania. He holds numerous eating records, including the most food ever eaten by weight and/or volume: 23.4 lbs or 312 fluid ounces of salmon chowder, consumed in 6 minutes. He also holds the record for the most food ever eaten in four hours (59.6 lbs) at The Reading Phillies Gluttony Night on June 12, 2018, and the most hot dogs ever eaten at the Fish Tales 4 July hot dog eating contest (52) in Ocean City, Maryland. In 2017 he won WIP's Wing Bowl, eating 409 wings and claiming the largest prize ever won in an eating contest - $50,000 (Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, $10,000 USD, ring, pendant, crown). Outside of YouTube and eating contests, Shoudt is an IT manager. He is an avid mountain climber and fitness fanatic who has scaled Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Pikes Peak, Colorado and Mount Haleakala, Maui; he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takeru Kobayashi
is a retired Japanese competitive eating, competitive eater. Described as "the godfather of competitive eating", he is a six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion and widely credited with popularizing the sport. Competition and records Born in Nagano (city), Nagano, Japan, he won the 2000 Japanese variety show ''TV Champion'' Gluttony Championship by eating 16 bowls of ramen in 1 hour in the final. Also competing in the popular TV show ''Food Battle Club'', he went on to win the final round of several stages, besting his mentor and previous champion. This resulted in a frenzy of fame for him in Japan and Asia before he appeared in the United States. Kobayashi set his first world record in western culture in his rookie appearance on July 4, 2001, when he ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest, almost doubling the previous record of . The record was so unexpected that the organizers ran out of sig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fatburger
Fatburger North America Inc. (doing business as Fatburger) is an American fast casual restaurant chain owned by FAT Brands. Its tagline is ''The Last Great Hamburger Stand''. While it is a fast-food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order. Some Fatburger restaurants have liquor licenses as well as "fat bars". Its franchise headquarters are located in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to the United States, the chain operates in 19 other countries. The Fatburger menu is centered primarily on hamburgers, offering various sizes and numbers of patties, along with add-ons such as cheese, bacon and eggs. History Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey (1912–2008) in the neighborhood of Exposition Park (Los Angeles), Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California, in 1947. It was originally named "Mr. Fatburger" (on behalf of Yancey's boyfriend), until Yancey removed the "Mr." in 1952. At that time, she bought out her start-up partners and retained sole ownership of the Fat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Milk Chugging
Milk chugging, or the gallon challenge or milk challenge, is the "sport" of consuming a large amount of milk within a set period of time. Although procedures vary, the general requirements are that a person is given 60 minutes to drink of whole milk without vomiting. A gallon milk jug is a common size of milk container in the United States. History The first recorded occurrences of competitive milk chugging date back to early 1997(2005-2007)"History of the Annual Gallon Challenge." ''Gallon Challenge Foundation''. Retrieved 2010-07-12. ''the GALLON CHALLENGE''. Retrieved 2010-07-12. with several explanations for the challenge’s origins. American baseball pitcher Bill Lee mentioned the challenge in his autobiography ''The Wrong Stuff'' as one of the activities that relief pitchers used to pass the time in the bullpen as far back as the late 1960s, and presumably has been independently discovered many times in the past. Undoubtedly, the most highly publicized competition was one ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New York Daily News
The ''Daily News'' is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, and reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. For much of the 20th century, the paper operated out of the historic art deco Daily News Building with its large globe in the lobby. Today's ''Daily News'' is not connected to the earlier ''New York Daily News (19th century), New York Daily News'', which shut down in 1906. The ''Daily News'' is owned by parent company Daily News Enterprises. This company is owned by Alden Global Capital and was formed when Alden, which also owns news media publisher Digital First Media, purchased then-owner Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and then separated the ''Daily News'' from Tribune to form ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach
''New Times Broward-Palm Beach'' is a news website that, until 2016, also published a weekly print newspaper; it is part of the Voice Media Group chain. The original paper split off from the ''Miami New Times'' in 1997 under the auspices of then editor-in-chief Tom Walsh. Walsh was succeeded by Chuck Strouse, who was replaced in 2005 with Tony Ortega. In March 2007, Ortega was appointed editor-in-chief of the company's flagship paper, ''The Village Voice''. In April 2007, Robert Meyerowitz was named editor-in-chief, though he departed the following May to take an endowed chair at the University of Alaska. In 2009, Eric Barton was hired as editor; in June 2012, he left the company when the paper's editorship was combined with that of ''Miami New Times'', where Strouse became editor. Tom Finkel is currently the editor of both papers. In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fordham University
Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located. Fordham is the oldest Catholic Church, Catholic and Jesuit universities, Jesuit university in the northeastern United States and the third-oldest university in New York City. Founded as St. John's College by John Hughes (archbishop), John Hughes, then a coadjutor bishop of New York, the college was placed in the care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become a Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Jesuit-affiliated independent school under a laity, lay board of trustees. While governed independently of the church since 1969, every List of Fordham University presidents, president of Fordham University between 1846 and 2022 was a Jesuit priest, and the curriculum remains influenced by Je ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fordham Rams Football
The Fordham Rams football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Fordham University, located in the borough of The Bronx in New York City. The team competes in the NCAA Division I NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Patriot League. Fordham's first football team was fielded in 1882 Fordham Rams football team, 1882; the team plays its home games on campus at 7,000-seat Coffey Field. Since 2018 Fordham Rams football team, 2018, the Rams have been led by head coach Joe Conlin, previously the offensive coordinator at 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team, Yale. He is a distant relative of Ed Conlin (1933–2012), Fordham's all-time leading scorer in Fordham Rams men's basketball, basketball who played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association, NBA. History Fordham, then known as St. John's College, played its first official intercollegiate football game in 1882. The Rams ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |