Rocky had Apollo and the streets of Philadelphia to help him train. Jason Reedy chose Fred Flintstone, Captain Crunch and his mom's spaghetti as his training partners.

It was 2002. The Osbournes was the hottest show on television, Kobayashi had just set a world record at Coney Island, and Reedy had found his calling — a 30-inch, 10-pound pizza challenge at a St. Louis restaurant with $500 and a Wall of Fame spot on the line.

He trained. He strategized. He kept a notebook.

This episode is the story of what happens when a man applies genuine, obsessive, almost-respectable preparation to an absolutely insane goal — and the moment those kitchen doors swung open and reality arrived on a cart.

Bill Roseberry Stories — fact and fiction from a time before social media and cell phone scrolling.

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