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February 27, 2013 Episode 57: Trending Now: Bloody Butchers, Severed Pig’s Feet, and Microwavable Lasagna Tainted with Meat
Why are Americans so afraid to eat horse? This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking about the trendiness of meat, and falsehoods in the industrial food system. Would horse meat be a problem if it weren’t hidden in microwavable lasagna? Erica thinks not! Later, tune in to hear Erica talk about the invasion of tattooed and moustachioed butchers in Brooklyn and beyond. Why has working with real food become an identity marker? Shouldn’t eating food be the norm? Erica wraps up the show by explaining how foodiness has infiltrated vegetarian and vegan food and made it wholly unhealthy! This episode has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“While nobody is up in arms about the pesticides, estrogen, antibiotics, or cancer-causing artificial colors and flavors intentionally put in our food, everyone is up in arms, or hooves, that food has been found in our food.” [6:00] — Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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31 min
February 13, 2013 Episode 56: 7
Will anyone stop the 7-Eleven invasion of the East Village? This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica Wides is talking with two activists from the No 7-Eleven group, Bob Holman and Rob Hollander. Tune into this episode to find out how gentrification and foodiness are intertwined in the case of the 7-Eleven infestation in Downtown Manhattan. How is corporate control of neighborhoods related to the corporate influence in food? 7-Eleven’s infiltration of the East Village and the Lower East Side undermines decades of rich cultural history. Don’t become a victim of foodiness; tune into Let’s Get Real. This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“To Pringle-ize is to force conformity and stick humans in a tube for easier shipping.” [9:15] — Bob Holman on Let’s Get Real
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1 hr
January 30, 2013 Episode 55: If Your Nutritionist Just Bought A Cadillac Escalade, You Might Want To Consider Switching
Dieticians are in bed with Foodiness, Incorporated! Erica Wides is once again joined in the studio by nutrition expert Kristin Wartman to talk about her recent article in Civil Eats about big food’s influence on The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Hear how companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills fund nutrition studies on sugar and processed food. Doesn’t that just seem like a conflict of interest? Kristin spoke with a dietician employed by Sodexo off the record; hear how a food professional deals with the contradictions of health and foodiness? Later, Erica challenges Kristin to a game of foodiness truth-or-dare! This program has been sponsored by Whole Foods.
“People whose jobs it is to look out for people’s health are…for sale?” [7:00] — Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
“There’s nothing whole about whole grain cereal. It’s highly processed!” [11:20] — Kristin Wartman on Let’s Get Real
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35 min
January 22, 2013 Episode 54: Jews Don’t Control the Media, Foodiness Does
Propaganda creates reality. Foodiness exists because we continue to consider it real food. Erica is here to continue in her quest to destroy all things foodiness, and convince listeners that real food is real food – and nothing else. Tune in for an exploration into the stranglehold Hollywood and television has on our decision making when it comes to food, and find out how her appearance on Dr. Oz helped move things just so slightly in the direction of what’s right. This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“You can’t have art without enduring suffering.” [7:30]
“The turnip growers of America aren’t sponsoring shows like the “Biggest Loser” or “The Voice” – foodiness companies are.” [11:30]
“Yogurt is a living thing. If you powder it – it’s not yogurt anymore.” [19:30]
— Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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33 min
January 09, 2013 Episode 53: Omega 3’s Come From Fish, Not Cookies
Today’s Let’s Get Real is all about fake food nutrition- stuff like enhanced peanut butter & low-fat dairy. Well, Erica Wides is here to tell you that these products are not food! Joining Erica in the studio is a nutrition educator Kristin Wartman, and she’s on the show to debunk the mythology of foodiness nutrition. Learn about the differences between Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, and why skim milk cannot be considered a whole food. Hear about some food products that are some of the biggest culprits of false foodiness nutrition! This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“Foodiness has robbed us of nutrition and replaced it with nutrition… because this is radio you have to imagine the air quotes I’m putting over the word.” [2:05] — Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
“Big food corporations and advertising have done a great job convincing people that these foodiness foods are what we should be eating.” [11:25]
“Yogurt is a live food. You can’t put it in a cereal.” [22:05] — Kristin Wartman on Let’s Get Real
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40 min
December 19, 2012 Episode 52: The End Is Near (Again) And You Better Get Used To Eating People And Protein Bars
The apocalypse is imminent! What- or should I say ‘who’- are you going to eat? Erica Wides is back with another episode of Let’s Get Real to teach you how to survive the end of times. Hear how the apocalypse will eliminate the irony from Brooklyn rooftop farming, and why it’s better to eat a pigeon than a rat. Looking to make a reservation at the Foodiness Fall-Out Shelter? Hear what skills are necessary to learn in an post-apocalyptic New York City. New York has been hit with storms and blackouts, but are the city’s residents really ready for Rapture? Find out this episode of Let’s Get Real! This program has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“Foodiness takes care of what you eat for you so you don’t know how it came to be!” [15:20] — Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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32 min
December 11, 2012 Episode 51: Foodiness Reeducation Camp, Part 2
Are you ready for week two of Foodiness Reeducation Camp? Do you have what it takes? Well then get in line and tune into this week’s episode of “Let’s Get Real”. This week at “camp”, listeners live in a world where food is not a product. Breakfast is tiny and meat must be hunted. The raspberries aren’t flavored, they taste like…. raspberries! There are no garden burgers or vegan lasagna. The veggies are not made into chips and there are no protein bars. By the time you’re “de-programmed”, you’ll never mistake foodiness for food again! This program was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
“Nowhere in history of dystopian science fiction have the words ‘apocalypse’ and ‘vegan’ been put together.” 10:15
“Foodiness doesn’t go bad, because it was never good in the first place.” 13:00
–Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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34 min
December 05, 2012 Episode 50: Foodiness Reeducation Camp, Part 1
Are you the “right” kind of person? Lucky for you, Erica Wides is here to sign you up for a session at Foodiness Reeducation Camp! Are you getting hungry after Erica’s boot camp regiment? Well, Foodiness Reeducation Camp only serves real food in its cafeteria, so you better be hungry for rabbit legs and greens! Breakfast will consist of real, organic oatmeal… with no artificial sweeteners! After breakfast, you will be helping build a stone wall to keep out the GE Monsanto militia! Re-train your palate to forget the fake fruit-corn syrup flavors you’ve known since birth! This episode has been brought to you by Tabard Inn.
“If you’re hungry, you better eat what you’re given. That’s part of reeducation… and part of maturity.” [17:20]
“Foodiness is everywhere- even in your bath products!” [30:00]
— Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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37 min
November 21, 2012 Episode 49: Thanksgiving is Fake Enough Without Eating Tofu Turkey
This week on Let’s Get Real, Erica is talking about her favorite non-secular, genocide-filled holiday: Thanksgiving! But Thanksgiving has really changed since the days of The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. Foodiness has co-opted another American tradition, and Erica is here to tell you what “food” to steer clear of on your family’s Thanksgiving table. How will Erica survive this year’s Thanksgiving on Long Island- the bastion of foodiness? Fight the power, and have real food this Thanksgiving! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery
“If you can’t bash your Republican relatives in the media, then what’s the point of being a part of the liberal elite?” [28:20] — Erica Wides on Let’s Get Real
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36 min
November 14, 2012 Episode 48: Christopher Howell of Cain Vineyard & Winery
How does “foodiness” relate to wine? Friend of the show and sponsor of the network, Christopher Howell of Cain Vineyard & Winery in Napa Valley joins Erica Wides for this week’s episode of “Let’s Get Real”. Learn what goes into making “real” wine – from fermentation to “organic” or “biodynamic” grapes and everything in between. Chris and Erica discuss scale of production, ingredient labeling, regulation, and authenticity as they relate to wine – and dispel many common myths. Get real about what’s in your glass on this week’s episode of Let’s Get Real! This program has been sponsored by HeritageRadioNetwork.org.
“The real funny thing about wine is that even if you are the size of coca cola everybody wants to trade on the idea of Mom & Pops in the vineyards crushing grapes.” [12:00]
“Some of the smallest scale wines are the highest controlled. It’s all about needing to be known.” [20:00]
“The idea that there should be no control and no thought would imply that there’s no cooking in the kitchen!.” [24:00]
“Natural wine is wine’s contribution to the raw food world.” [25:00]
“In order for wine to be real – the key is going to be providence.” [27:00]
“If you think the wine is trying to be cool – perhaps it’s the least likely to be something that hasn’t been manipulated.” [30:00]
— Christopher Howell on Let’s Get Real
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35 min

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