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We sat down with Mike this weekend and asked him some questions to learn more about our winner:

Outside of consuming burgers full-time, what are your interests:
"I enjoy television and shaving. I also put a lot of time into trying on clothes in department stores. I like to imagine I’m being watched and admired from afar."

What was the inspiration behind the name, Cousin Oliver?
"For those of you who didn’t learn everything you know from sitcoms, Cousin Oliver is the character addition to the later years of "The Brady Bunch" once they "jumped the shark" (began to suck). He may have never touched as many hearts as the producers would have hoped but there is certainly a cult following that believes he was the lasting taste that made "Brady Brides" possible."

Are you dedicating this award to anyone who was influential in your decision to name our burger?
"Besides Cousin Oliver? I suppose I would have to dedicate this triumph to my parents whose defiance of conventional parental concerns over full-time television watching for six to ten year olds gave me a head start on preparation for life’s little pitfalls, i.e. never take statues from Hawaii and don’t get lost in the Grand Canyon."

How many burgers will you attempt to consume this year?
"Five hundred. I’m debating whether to tattoo notches into my stomach to keep track."

How many years do you think you will live?
"With a lifetime supply of healthy burgers? I can honestly say I will live well into my 130’s but I intend to be cryogenically frozen and have my handlers liquefy Cousin Oliver’s to be poured into my carcass after the procedure to preserve the victory."

According to our math, that means, over the course of your life, you’ll eat 50,000 burgers at b.good. How do you feel about that?
"Truly blessed. I’ve always felt my life would be defined by extreme meat ingestion."