

Competitive Cycling and Eating with Yasir Salem
You Know Too Much by Pamala Buzick Kim and Eva McCloskey
S1 · E9
Jun 30, 2026
17:44
Episode notes
I went to a hypnotherapist to get past my gag reflex.
What’s the Venn diagram between endurance sports and competitive eating? Yasir Salem and the Tour de Donut. Yes, this exists — and Yasir tells us about ultramarathons, the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest qualifier, and the gag-reflex hypnotherapy that made it all possible.
Keywords
donuts
cycling
competitive eating
rabbit hole
niche
weird
subculture
obsessed
deep dive
underground