Randy Santel texts

Happy July 18th everyone!! Three years ago today, Katina Eats Kilos and I shared our first kiss after a big 10lb Team Pizza Challenge up in Nenana, Alaska!! It’s been a great past 3 years with her, and I look forward to many more!! We are having a fantastic time with my family in Paris, France!! We spent our anniversary day today checking out all the D-Day related sights around Normandy, France. Yesterday we all went up the Eiffel Tower and got this wonderful pic after!! BIG thanks y’all for your support and thanks to everybody watching both our channels!!

Friends all over New Zealand!! I cannot tell you how many people have asked and me if we are coming to New Zealand 🇳🇿 during this trip, and that is awesome and much appreciated!! We only currently know of 1 possibly available in the whole country, which I haven’t verified, and we need all the help we can get finding more challenges to do!! Please, if you live anywhere in New Zealand and know of a restaurant challenge near you, or know a restaurant owner who might be interested in creating a challenge at their restaurant, please let us know so we can start planning our trip there, which will likely start after we finish in Queensland, Australia. Katina and I need to submit for visas and will have to book our flights out before we can do that. Thanks for all help in advance, and we look forward to meeting y’all during our journey. It will be my 3rd time there and Katina’s 2nd!!

Happy Friday everyone!! and I are hungry and very excited for today’s big event at in Alkimos, Western Australia!! The event starts around 4:30pm and we will get there 45 minutes early to start the meet and greet!! We will each be taking on and helping to kick off their new 2.5kg Conti Roll Challenge!! BIG thanks to the owner for bringing us freshly baked lasagna, bread, chocolate cake, and carrot cake a few days ago on the evening we arrived!! It was a delicious welcome gift and dinner with the friends we are staying with down in Atwell, and we look forward to seeing and meeting everyone later today!! Mine will hopefully be Facebook live-streamed and I sure hope it goes better than yesterday’s giant cookie challenge. Sorry to everyone who struggled through watching that epic fail.

Happy Sunday everyone!! BIG thank you to everyone who came up last night to in Seacliff, SA just south of Adelaide, to meet & watch and me take on their 2ft Long Giant Deli Meat Sandwich Challenge!! It was our 3rd and final event here in . Katina went first and then I went after her. I had a one sitting time limit to feast on a 2ft long sandwich with salami, ham, prosciutto, chili mayo, and lots of healthy vegetables on a French baguette, served with over 500g of chips, and I enjoyed an optional Coopers Dark Ale 🍺 along the way. I was trying to win my $39 AUD meal free plus a sweet T-shirt and spot on their Wall of Fame!! Unfortunately, there wasn’t a strong WIFi signal available for me to go live. The produced video will post in a few months and I hope you all enjoy it!!

BIG thank you to everyone who came up last night to Innaloo in Innaloo, Western Australia just outside of Perth, WA!! I think that was the most people that and I have had at an event during this trip, and thankfully the restaurant was huge and did a fantastic job accommodating everybody!! I needed the support haha because the new 20-Patty “Randy Santel” Burger Stack Challenge was HUGE!! I had 1 hour to feast on a 20-patty beef cheeseburger (2.4kg of meat), served with 1kg of their spicy Buffalo hot chicken wings, 500g of their chips loaded with cheese and bacon bits, and then a 500ml strawberry milkshake. I’ve haven’t attempted a challenge that big in a while, so the struggle was real!! Thanks to everyone who watched the Facebook livestream too, which is still available two posts back. The edited video will post eventually, and I hope you all enjoy the suspense!!

Back on Sunday, March 12th
Special shout out to all my friends back in the USA and wherever else!! It’s the 13 year of me taking my final photos to submit for the 2010 American National Men’s Health / Spartacus Body Transformation Challenge!! My friend Dan Graham (the original “Zeus”) helped me all throughout the process, and then came to Overland Park, Kansas where I was living at the time, to be part of the final photo shoot!! 1 week from now, March 19th, will be the 13 year anniversary of me doing my first eating challenge with Dan, beginning my food challenge career. It’s been a very fun journey since taking these photos, and I look forward to taking more like these in 2025 (most likely). We will see what the future beholds!!

I want to give a massive thank you to everyone at in central Melbourne CBD for their incredible food & hospitality while here. It was an absolute pleasure and honor to be there and help show off their 💯 vegan and menu. Thank you to the whole staff for being open-minded and hosting an eating challenge for me last night!! All 7 courses were outstanding and I wish we had a place like it near us back home in Milwaukee. Very reasonably priced, high quality, and delicious plant-based food made with love, which is obviously not something we often have and get the opportunity to enjoy. If you ever get a chance to go visit and eat at , I promise you won’t be disappointed, and tell them that Randy sent you!!

When I left Australia back in 2017 after traveling all around (45+ food challenges), I didn’t intend on coming back as a professional eater. I thought I’d only manage one trip “down under.” Little did I know that I’d thankfully meet my travel partner who loves traveling too, and really wanted to get here. This 2023 tour together will end up being even longer than the 2017 trip, and it’s been so great to see everyone again!! It’s been a few weeks already, but really we have still just begun!! We are excited to meet all our friends tonight and tomorrow, since it’s the first time here for both of us, and then we are excited to get to all the other major areas as well!! Lots of Melbourne, VIC area events are on the schedule now, and more will post soon. Then all the Adelaide events will be announced, followed by Perth and Darwin!! Here are some more pics from our time here so far in , Tasmania together!! ♥️

After a few days of delay, I’ve finally landed in Sydney, NSW, Australia so that tomorrowand I can start my ~2-2.5 month Australia Tour and some big challenges ahead!! We are excited to get all over the great country to do lots of food challenges, help & support lots of restaurants, and meet all our amazing subscribers and friends!! Lots of fun and deliciousness upcoming and I’ll start posting events and more updates tomorrow after a good night of catch-up sleep!!

Friends all around Australia, and especially Sydney. I’m still here in Honolulu, Hawaii waiting for manual ETA clearance. I couldn’t get on this morning’s flight either. I won’t be able to make either of the first two events we had planned at .kitchen and George’s Gourmet Pizzeria. People keep asking where we are going, and really the question is where aren’t we going?🤭 First I must get there though lol. Here are some pics from a few days ago when I conquered Koko Head Trail. The way up is always fun, and the way down is always terrible lol. My sister and I did it back in 2018 too. It’s a great view from the top, but be careful on the way up and down!! I’ll keep everyone updated & thanks to everyone who support our movements and plans 💕

Hey everybody!! My competitive eating friends Josh from Pennsylvania, Dvořáček from Ostrava, Czech Republic, and I each had 30 minutes to feast on three different burgers from their made-to-order menu which were stacked up and surrounded by 50+ ounces total of 5 tasty side items, served with large milkshakes. They added more sides to make the challenge tougher after each time somebody wins. We were each trying to earn our free sweet t-shirts and spots on the Wall of Fame.

We had a very interesting challenge here in NSW, . My British competitive eating friend max attempted the challenge with me too, and we each had just 20 minutes to finish everything. There were two big fried chicken thighs with cheese and streaky bacon between 3 pink waffles, served with loaded Buffalo chicken chips and two deluxe milkshakes. Neglecting his body size he is a very good eater and I'm proud of him as my friend 😊

A few days into our trip here in the Sydney area, my friend and I each took on George’s Big Slice Pizza Challenge hosted by George’s Gourmet Pizzeria in Bella Vista, NSW!! We had 20 minutes to finish just one giant 1.5kg slice, but we each tried to finish TWO slices in the same 20 minutes. The pizza was extra delicious

Today at South of I won another burger challenge 😌
It wasn't easy but I'm RANDY SANTEL😎. I love the way the management was beaming all smiles and I wish y'all where here to see me win.
The restaurant is a really lovely one and I look forward being here again in another challenge to win it all😂
During the challenge, I had 30 minutes to feast on a quadruple bacon cheeseburger with fried mac & cheese patties that served as the buns. It was surrounded with 1.5 orders of tater tots loaded with 2 orders of healthy grilled chicken and 2 orders of creamy macaroni and cheese. I enjoyed an optional Oreo along the way and was trying to become just the first champion to win my meal free plus a sweet t-shirt and spot on their Wall of Fame!!
So lovely 💕

Had some of my best traveling experience with Katina in Italy🇮🇹
Such historic and beautiful place with lots of cuture and memories 🥺
The more I wandered around I discovered that there was a lot more places to cover🤭
It's one of my best sightseeing and trust me the local food here is an amazing delicacy 👍
I look forward being at Italy again😊💙

Several photos taken this year across America, Sydney, Australia, Europe, Italy and many other big kitchens💕
It was a great time eating pizza and burger with y'all☺️
I really appreciate the love and warmth I received and I promise to be back next time 😎🍝
I would be tagging all the kitchens I visited later and I beg everyone to please visit them because the are the best👍

Saying a big hello to everyone. Out here with my whole extended family👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
This was last year when we all assembled for the Christmas together🎄 it was a fun time to us but the kids where so pi**ed that Santa didn't come 😂
Thanks to all who wished us well 😉💕