The Main Course

This week on The Main Course, Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by PR pro Jennifer Baum, where the conversation soon turns to... ringworm (by its many names).

Also on the docket: dreams of Bill Murray, morning routines, and the (d)evolution of reality television.

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This week on The Main Course, host Alexes McLaughlin is joined in the studio by Trigg Brown and Joshua Ku of Win Son, a Taiwanese-American restaurant located in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tune in to hear them talk about what it takes to open a new restaurant, how to win over the local community, and the culture of Taiwanese food, all while the party jams from Roberta's last party of the summer shake the studio.

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This week on The Main Course, hosts Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by Rebecca Greenfield of Bloomberg News. She co-hosts the network's Game Plan podcast which reports on workplace culture – from how we started speaking office jargon to the strategic value of being nice to your coworkers.

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This week on The Main Course, Alexes and Phil take a trip down memory lane to earlier this summer, when they attended the (RED) Supper, which raises money and awareness for the Global Fund to fight AIDS. Tune is to hear Alexes and Phil interview chefs in attendance at this event from around the country, including Nancy Silverton, Tom Douglas, Kristen Kish, and more!

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This week on The Main Course, hosts Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by Matt Jacobson, executive director of The Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative (MLMC), and Chef Kwame Onwuachi, executive chef/owner of The Shaw Bijou, which will open in Washington, D.C. this year. Also crawling around in the studio today: a live new shell Maine lobster!

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This week on The Main Course, hosts Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by Jermaine Stone and Julia Gilbert of the new podcast Taste the World, which premieres on August 1st.

TASTE THE WORLD podcast is here to celebrate the new generation of wine drinkers. Each episode pairs stars of the fine wine industry with popular culture figures to experience and discuss wine and spirits in a language we can all understand. Along the way, they find commonalities between people from all walks of life: wine is, after all, the great social equalizer. Led by auctioneer and fine wine logistics expert Jermaine Stone, the team behind the Taste The World podcast has over 35 years of fine wine experience, with a network spanning a robust array of worldwide personalities in all aspects of wine production, procurement and sales.

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This week on The Main Course, host Phil Gilmour is joined in the studio by Kenneth Belkin, an attorney based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Belkin is also running for a Democratic New York State Assembly seat this September. Tune in to hear them discuss his punk rock roots, his legal career, and his progressive platform for the fall election.

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This week on The Main Course, hosts Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by Anya Fernald, a sustainable food expert and the co-founder and CEO of Belcampo. She has appeared as a judge on the Food Network's Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef. Her new book, Home Cooked: Essential Recipes for a New Way to Cook, is available now.

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This week on The Main Course, Alexes and Phil are joined in the studio by Govinda Angulo, one of the subjects of the 2015 documentary film The Wolfpack. The film is about a family who homeschooled and raised their seven children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. Locked away for fourteen years, the Angulo family's seven children—six brothers named Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna (Glenn), and Jagadesh (Eddie), and their sister Visnu—learned about the world through watching films. They also re-enacted scenes from their favorite movies.

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This week on The Main Course, friend of the show Kamrooz Aram sits in as guest host alongside Alexes McLaughlin to interview...Phillip Gilmour! Tune in for a fascinating glimpse inside the mind of one of Bushwick's most gregarious residents and businessmen.

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