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First Aired - 08/30/2009 01:00PM
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This week on a very special Q Report, Mike Edison comes by the studio to talk about wrestling, porn & marijuana. Also, Patrick gives a tribute to Ted Kennedy with friends Renato Sardo & Brian Kenny.
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Q Report Introduction (3:22)
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Will Goldfarb, Gabe Rosner, political figures, Ted Kennedy, first time in 62 years that a Kennedy has not held a high office, you go further if you go slow, The Senate is created with slow decision making in mind, patience brings success, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, the immortal trio, reaching across the aisle, Washington DC, Roberta's, Picnick,Mike Edison Tells Us All About Professional Wrestling (9:36)
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Mike Edison, what does liberalism mean?, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Mike was the editor of High Times, and editor of Screw magazine, Andy Kaufman, wrestling as performance art, theater of the absurd, Saturday Night Live, Bob Backlund, Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert, The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Ernie Roth, Junkyard Dog, Andre The Giant, the 8th wonder of the world, Hulk Hogan is the worst wrestler of all time, he has the pathos of Big Bird, The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke, Darren Aronofsky, New Jersey, Marisa Tomei, strip clubs, Wrestling's Main Event, Mike Edison started a feud with Hulk Hogan, High Times, wrestling, acid, LSD,Mike Edison Shares His Experience Writing Adult Literature (5:17)
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homosexual porn, porn novels, Empire State Building, Vince McMahon, rules to writing porn, Mike used to write a book a week, Mike wrote a gay porn novel based on Hulk Hogan and Mr. T, pornography, CPM, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World,High Times & Marijuana Laws: Slow Change (11:33)
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The Space Liberation Army, John Spencer, Pussy Galore, Knitting Factory, October 17th, Al Goldstein, Screw Magazine, High Times was difficult to work at, stoners didn't get anything done, Mike supports legalization, marijuanna is benign, taxing it, daytime television, meth was designed to win wars, the drug itself is not supposed to be the activity, the war on drugs has been a massive failure, doors of perception open with marijuanna, Mike worked for Heeb magazine, Jewish Cultural Projects, Sarah Silverman, young jews need cultural stereotypes, Marx Brothers, www.mikeedison.com, drugs, prohibition, meth, Motorhead, NORML, dogma, Playboy, Hustler, liberation, Hugh Hefner is a fraud, Hugh Hefner is a cynical marketer, Playboy won't allow the word pornography in the magazine,Ted Kennedy's Partying Days (7:34)
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the Kennedy's were doing drugs, Ted rallied Western votes for JFK, Ted partied as a young man, Ted Kennedy was a rock star, dynasties, swagger & money, women's rights, clean water act, Martha's Vineyard, Andre could drink more than most people, x rated psychedelic beatnik comedy, marijuana, Ted Kennedy was instrumental in getting Paul McCartney out of jail in Japan for marijuana,Ted Kennedy Tribute with Brian Kenny & Renato Sardo (14:27)
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Ted Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, he came to the Senate in 1963, reaching across the aisle, he was the only Kennedy boy to die of natural causes, Ted almost died in a plane crash in 1954, Victoria Anne Reggie, September 11th, Brian Kenny, Voting Rights act, AIDS discrimination act, Freedom of Information act, Renato Sardo, history of the Kennedy's, the infamous car accident, royalty, grass fed beef, California, nature, natural parks conservation, voting power, preservation has lead to a lot of dead forests, grasslands, wildfire is part of a healthy forest ecosystem, name recognition, Chappaquiddick, 24 hour news cycle, most people grow up and go into politics, the Kennedy's go into politics and then grow up, Ted attended ten preparatory schools, there was one filibuster in 1963, Michael Jackson was mentioned more times in the news than Afghanistan,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/07/2010 12:00PM
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Francis Schott of Stage Left Restaurant sparks a lively conversation on the prices of sustainable food. Also on the show, Marissa Sanchez & Mike Edison.
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The Main Course Introduction (14:17)
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Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, The Main Course, Cherryholmes, bluegrass music, art week in New York City, open galleries, Museum of Modern Art, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, e commerce meat industry, Omaha Steaks, pure breeds, custom slaughterhouse, does sustainable food truly cost more?, Pew Center, Whole Foods Market,A Discussion on Sustainable Food Prices (30:47)
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Stage Left Restaurant, Francis Schott, a good food cost is normally 28 percent, restaurant concepts sometimes determing the price point, sustainable business, The Rainbow Room, the start of modern cocktail culture, white linen tablecloth, 26 food points, candlelit, Heritage Foods USA, we have to be smarter to make things affordable, whole animal cooking, high end cuts should cost a lot, in-house skill, fat in dishes, food return cost, $4.24 a pound versus 95 cents a pound, good taste is revolutionary, the economy subsidizes non-sustainable food, no one person benefits, tiny profit margins, 3 pound porterhouse for two costs $45 and is $95 on the menu, Anne Saxelby's cheeses, www.restaurantguysradio.com, Doritos, the solution is not here yet, middle class families, Food Inc, the cost of going to the supermarket is less expensive than going to Burger King, obesity, diabetes, fast food tax, Heritage Foods raises antibiotic free pasture raised and genetically sound animals, institutionalized food, Obama administration, cynical mindset in the Republican party, partisan politics, FDA, Department of Agriculture, legislative action, Roberta's, Marissa Sanchez,Food Advertising & Brainwashing The Public Into Eating Poorly (33:09)
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Abraham Lincoln, externalizing cost, theft against the environment, dumping waste, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, the consumer can make a difference by having good taste, food heritage as Americans, Orange New Jersey, Sanitary Bakery, advertising after World War II convinced people that Wonder bread was good, mass brainwashing, Velveeta, Spaghetti-O's, the good food palate got lost, food stands, Chipotle, anti intellectual movement, Sarah Palin, USDA conference, fresh kale, farmers market, harvest salad in the fall, dried cranberries and walnuts, how to braise a piece of cheap meat, rice and beans, there is a lot of fluff on the Food Network, Gordan Ramsey, Dan Barber, New Brunswick is one of the best urban revivals around, Stage Left employs more people per square foot than any other retail, Johnson & Johnson, real jobs for real people, restaurant business, real blue collar jobs, restaurantuers are very important, promoting farms, closing arguments, www.restaurantguysradio.com, you can make a difference in the community, local produce, local farmers, canning, pickling, Jersey tomatoes are the best in the world, how do you stay local 12 months a year?, Rick Bishop, Oaxaca Mexico, El Saber Del Sabor,MIKE EDISON IS BACK: Stories From Los Angeles (16:01)
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Mike Edison, Los Angeles, San Francisco, eating out in LA, Barney's Beanery, Bars Not Cars, you need to hire a driver in LA, weird subculture of sobriety, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Theater, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, Larry Flint, Wrestlemania, Roberta's, The Farmer's Almanac, Al Goldstein, Chris Benoit, The Fallen Angel, Satan worshiping,Celebrating Spring & New York City (34:27)
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lamb, sausage, beans, WWE, www.gothamgirls.com, velodrome, Momofuku, Newark, Oscars, Avatar, www.mikeedison.com, Back 40, jowl nuggets, the best festivals are in the spring, celebration of spring, free flowing rose wine, May 12th, Ides of March, Blades of Glory, John Heder, Cheech & Chong, Miami Vice, Al Sharpton, wrestling is all about surrealism, roller derby, Gotham Girls, Manhattan Mayhem, Hunter Collage, Saturday morning TV, Heritage Radio Network Calendar, traffic jams in LA, there's only reason to live in New York: you have to love it, we scrap too much for too little, the fighting attitude keeps New York unique, pork buns, racial riots, Howard Beach, Crown Heights, The Blackout of 1977, The Super Bowl, the greatest export America has is its culture, James Cameron, The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Hollywood employs a lot of people, Jay Leno, Governor Paterson, blind jokes, www.back40.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/25/2010 12:00PM
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Food literature legend Peter Kaminsky talks pigs, fire and flavors on the first hour, and Mike Edison defends Manhattan against the Williamsburg hipsters on the second hour.
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The Main Course Introduction (11:55)
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Patrick Martins, The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, Roberta's, White Oak Pastures, selling out to oil companies, gas drilling, African American farmers, New York City Food & Film Festival, George Motz, Hamburger America, oyster shuck and suck, 25 dairy farmers left in Sullivan County, all paid commodity pricing; $17 per hundred weight, paying them $25 per hundred weight could produce an 8 to 9 dollar a pound cheese, Anne Saxelby recommends eight month raised Gouda, the milk from all 25 farmers combined produces 7,000 pounds of cheese a week, institutionalized dining, green market, bodegas,Peter Kaminsky Talks Fire & Flavors (27:53)
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Peter Kaminsky, Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way, 125 recipes, BBQ, cooking with fire, whole cow cooking, Gerald Durrell, Patagonia, preference vs convenience, the ingredients are agnostic, Amanda Hesser, piglet contest, Gershwin Prize for popular song, Paul McCartney, Culinary Intelligence: A Hedonist Guide for Healthy Eating, Peter was rejected for life insurance, 33% of vegetables consumer in the united states are potato chips french fries and iceberg lettuce, eat the best ingredients you can, if you cook one meal a week you will understand more about the food system, maximize flavor through cooking, it's hard to eat on the road in America, Paul Willis, Niman Ranch, Phillis Willis, boiled beets, The Elements of Taste, The Underground Gourmet, meals are experienced one taste at a time and every taste is a short story, there are basic flavors that will elevate and push forth other flavors in a meal, salt, Cajun fish stew, floral herbal, oxtail ragu, when you talk about taste you have to talk about texture,Peter Kaminsky Recounts His Search for the Perfect Pig (32:30)
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whole pig cooking, Field & Stream, Peter was an editor at National Lampoon, fishing books, Peter tried to find the best ham in the world, Pig Perfect, seminal book in gastonomy, it was a labor of love for Peter, barnyard breeds, the English loved improved agriculture, breeding experiments, overpopulation of wild pig, why don't we harvest wild pig?, Nancy Newsom, what's the differenc between American and Italian hams?, Spanish hogs, white pigs, land raised, Sam Edwards, Surryano ham, rise in popularity in the pig, lardo, pork belly, Heritage Foods USA, supporting food by eating it, grass fed beef, know your cuts, grassfed animals are more wild, leaner and tougher, they aren't raised to be cut with a fork, marbling, what's the difference between grass fed and grass finished?, all animals are raised on pasture at some point, advice for tourists taking taxis,Heritage Cooking With Steve Pope: Chicken Broth (11:21)
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Heritage Cooking, Steve Pope, making broth from chicken, leftover carcass, ongoing soup, French cooking, sodium enhances the flavor of the broth, natural flavor of the bird, break up the carcass, break the bones, marrow makes all the difference, carrot tops, simmer, chicken bone flavors start coming out, cook it for two hours, Good Shepherd Poultry, next week: liver and gizzards,Mike Edison Explains Why Manhattan is Still Better Than Williamsburg (33:22)
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Mike Edison, Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World, Space Liberation Army, Edison Rocket Train, Fancy Magazine, Don Pedro's, anti Manhattan rhetoric, NY Post, people in Williamsburg complaining about Manhattanites, Brooklyn, they sell beer on the Staten Island Ferry, PFA's, Post Frat Assholes, Manhattan is new code for douchebag, Katy couldn't find good food in Paris, coffee shop culture, Bougnat, quintesential French finger wave to American tourists, if you live in New York City you never need to eat crap food,More with Mike Edison (14:16)
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top three slices in the city, Joe's on Bleeker, 121st and 1st ave, Rays on 77nd and Columbus, pizza has gotten better in New York City, Second Ave Deli, hot dogs, it should be Kosher style, Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop, Sullivan Country American Cheese, will replace the Kraft single in New York City, Mike's mom didn't know how to cook, Sammy's Romanian Steakhouse, chicken fat, transformation of Bushwick, Bushwick was burned down in 1977, The Olypmia Movie Theater, Cozy Soup n Burger, Happy Burger, Pizza Burger, Tavern on the Green, Trader Vic's, Pisco Sour, beer in the shower, cans only!, Samuel Merrit, Beer Sessions, Tuesday's at 5:00PM, Hester Street Market, Patsys, pastrami, Zagat, s, Katz,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
