Hear how Let's Get Real has evolved from a podcast into a TEDx talk on this week's episode. Erica Wides talks about how she went from the world of guerilla PR to the main stage for TEDx Berkeley. Later, Erica performs her TEDx speech for her Let's Get Real listeners. What distinguishes real food from foodiness? Learn how 'the real food movement' falls short and doesn't serve the people who really need it. Erica doesn't preach compromise, but talks about realistic goals for consumers. This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. Music has been provided by Idgy Dean.

"Processed foods are super convenient. All you need is a hand, a mouth, and a dollar." [13:10]

-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

How can Erica Wides afford two places to live? She doesn't drink bottled water, or any other bottled beverages for that matter. Let's Get Real is here to pull you out of that rabbit hole of foodiness, or in this case, drinkiness, that has been perpetuated by beverages that claim to make you smarter, faster, or are 'enhanced' with electrolytes and exotic flavors like 'dragonfruit'. All of this, says Wides, is BS. Tune in for a debunking of drinks such as Gatorade, Neuro, Arizona Green Tea and bottled water like Dasani (it's actually just tap water from Atlanta!), all of which waste your body's resources as well as the environment's. So before reach for that next Vitamin Water at the gas station fridge, listen up and get real about hydration. This episode is sponsored by Fairway Market.

This week on Let's Get Real, Chef Erica Wides exposes the foodiness behind "green" snack food. Why has our country become one giant evil vending machine? What can we do to find real food, as inconvenient as that can be? What drove our faithful good food fighting hero to eat (gasp) Chipotle?!?!? Find out the answers to these questions and hear what Erica's ideal snack food would be on a very relevant and useful episode of Let's Get Real. This episode was sponsored by Savorian Wines.