I’ve known about this for a little over a year now, but frankly I wasn’t sure whether to tell you about it or just keep it to myself. But recent events have convinced me to spill the beans, so here goes. I just hope this doesn’t come back to bite me…

About a year ago I was contacted by HCDN reader Matty Zamofo who told me about a guy in Ames, Iowa who was doing low to mid six figures a year with a single hot dog cart (sorry I can’t divulge the actual numbers for legal reasons). I was pretty skeptical, but every few weeks Matty would email me and tell me some new story about how this guy was just KILLING it.

He told me the guy had semi trucks delivering stock to his house. He said he pulled his hot dog cart with a brand new Porsche Cayenne. Stuff like that.

Last July I finally had to see for myself, even though Iowa is not exactly my choice of summer vacation destinations. Don’t get mad at me Iowans – I used to live there. When I got to this guy’s location I was floored. He was set up on a city sidewalk and there were people lined up down the block, people waiting on park benches, people all over the place.

I sat on one of the benches for about an hour, just watching, trying to figure this out. Was it his hot dogs? His signage? His condiments? No, no, and no. Nothing special. Nothing out of the ordinary that I could see.

And then I noticed something strange. About once every few minutes, everyone walking down the street would move their head at the same time, almost imperceptibly. A lot of them immediately checked their wallets or purses and then got in this hot dog guy’s line. I mean the majority of them. It was weird. Weird enough to freak me out a bit.

I actually caught this on video. Watch what happens. Everyone kind of jerks at the same time and takes a little shuffle step toward the cart, even though first guy in line hadn’t even been served yet. The line hadn’t moved but every two and a half minutes these folks lurched forward like zombies, checking their wallets and purses for the fifth or sixth time, desperately making sure they had enough money for the dog.


This happened every 150 seconds on the dot. What in the world was going on here?

Then I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and a guy in a red and white checkered shirt introduced himself. It was Matty Zamofo. Doctor Matty Zamofo. Turns out Matty is a professor of neuroscience at Iowa State University’s college of Veterinary Medicine.

As Matty explained it to me, the local turkey farmers had been complaining of low weight in their turkey populations and approached Dr. Z about it. After two years of research, his team at ISU developed a transmitter that emits a super high frequency tone on a specific wavelength. Humans can’t hear it, and neither can turkeys, but this frequency stimulates the vagus nerve in warm blooded animals. I had no idea what he was talking about so I asked him to explain it in terms that even I could understand.

The vagus nerve runs from the brain to the stomach and it is very good at detecting blood sugar levels in the body. When it detects low blood sugar, it signals the brain which then triggers stomach pangs. We get hungry, we eat, our blood sugar goes back to normal, and we stop feeling hungry.

Creating hunger on demand. These scientists had discovered how to make any warm blooded animal feel excruciatingly hungry with one pulse of this device. Pretty astonishing stuff. The farmers put one of these tone generators (now known as “The HungerVibe”) in their barns and in three weeks the turkeys had increased their body weight by 36 percent. In other words, this thing worked.

As if waking from a dream, I realized we had reached the front of the line and even though I had eaten just an hour earlier, I was absolutely starving. Then Matty introduced me to the guy behind the cart. It was his brother, Donny.

All of a sudden I understood. These guys were using the HungerVibe to make humans hungry. They had installed it in the side of Donny’s cart.

Matty said that it was completely harmless and that there were no side effects. All I knew was that I had to have a hot dog before I killed someone.

Then the Zamofo brothers made their pitch. They knew I had the ability to reach of thousands of hot doggers with my newsletter. They also knew they had an invention that could change the hot dog vending industry and make all three of us rich if only they could get some exposure. Maybe we could come to some sort of understanding…

But I had ethical problems with it. What about the obesity epidemic? Never mind, I could live with that. However, I wasn’t sure it was right to use this technology to sway the odds so heavily in our favor. No one could resist this thing. In the end it was the mind control aspect of it that made me pull out of the venture.

Until Matty Zamofo made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. It seems that one of my closest readers had sold the Z brothers some pictures of me wearing a pink duct tape cowboy hat while chopping onions with a piece of bread sticking out of my mouth. The shame hit me like a five gallon bucket of sport peppers. Dammit! They had me. And they knew it.

So now I have no choice but to offer you the chance to get a new and improved HungerVibe 3000 to use in your own hot dog business. It’s not cheap, but total market domination carries a pretty stiff price tag. It comes with a money back guarantee and Dr. Z has agreed to provide technical support for one year from the purchase date. It comes with a quick start guide, mounting hardware and a stainless steel speaker grill.

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