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Video: Daily Show Reveals Dangers Of Hot Dog Addiction With Takeru Kobayashi
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Nov 4, 2011
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Last night, Daily Show reporter Aasif Mandvi delved deep into a hidden danger poisoning the nation's youth: hot dog addiction. According to Science, there's a link between hot dogs and cancer, and hot dogs are as addictive as...somewhere between The Wire and crack. Just ask special guest star and unrepentant addict Takeru Kobayashi, who tries his darndest to scare the kids straight.
It seems that the only way to save the next generation is with gonzo Truth-inspired scare campaigns that spew cold, hard knowledge all over the unsuspecting pedestrians of Union Square. Will YOU ever eat a cancer tube again? Maybe not after learning the truth: that 100% of people who eat food die. Take it away, Mandvi:
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