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First Aired - 04/07/2013 02:00PM
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Today is Wrestlemania! This week on The Mike & Judy Show, Mike Edison and Judy McGuire are joined in the studio by two wrestling enthusiasts/experts. Keith Elliot Greenberg is a former writer for the WWE, and Maura Johnston is the founder of Maura Magazine. Tune into this episode to hear some predictions about tonight's main event. Who will win? The Rock or John Cena? The Undertaker or CM Punk? Tune into this installment of The Mike & Judy Show to learn more about camaraderie in wrestling, and the changing demographic of the wrestling audience. Listen in and find out why Mike is disappointed by the lack of gimmicks in professional wrestling these days, and how wrestling is one of the only sports that speaks in favor of progressive ideals. This program has been sponsored by Roberta's.
"Wrestling is getting diverse. We look at the world; we have a bi-racial president. You look at the wrestling audience, and there are a lot of people of Hispanic ancestry in that audience." [27:10] -- Keith Elliot Greenberg on The Mike & Judy Show
"Wrestling is getting diverse. We look at the world; we have a bi-racial president. You look at the wrestling audience, and there are a lot of people of Hispanic ancestry in that audience." [27:10] -- Keith Elliot Greenberg on The Mike & Judy Show
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The Undertaker Goes Down (16:04)
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Ric Flair, Keith Elliot Greenberg, Maura Johnston, The Undertaker, Nassau Coliseum, The New York Islanders, zombie, CM Punk, Paul Bearer, death, Wrestlemania, The Dudley Boyz, The Ramones, Hell in the Cell, fire, Kane, John Cena, Hulk Hogan, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, WWE, Vince McMahon, Long Island, Peter Maivia, Rocky Johnson,Progressive Wrestlers (17:09)
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I Like to Hurt People, throwing fire, salt in the eyes, North Korea, Kim Jong Il, standup, The Iron Sheik, G.G. Allin, music writing, John Soloman, pay per view, television recaps, Girls, Williamsburg, retro, Chris Jerico, Fozzy, Shawn Michaels, Fandango, Queens, ballroom dancing, rookie, Alberto Del Rio, Dutch Mantell, Jack Swagger, race, heel, marriage equality, progressive, queer,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/28/2010 12:00PM
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We are we disconnected to our food? Patrick Martins hosts a discussion with Peter Hoffman, Damien Sansonetti & Shanna Pacifico. Mike Edison & Keith Elliot Greenberg preview Wrestlemania 26 on the second half.
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The Main Course Introduction: Damian Sansonetti of Bar Boulud (19:47)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Paradise Locker Meats, www.paradisemeats.com, disconnection to food, Sullivan County, why are we disconnected?, Bar Boulud, Peter Hoffman, Anne Saxelby, Bob Lewis, Steve Pope, Mike Edison, 100 year anniversary of Ringling Brothers Circus, Damien Sansonetti, traditional French food, Charcuterie, high end cuisine, pasta, Italian vs French, ingredients, what it takes to run a restaurant, restaurateurs, theater district, cooking techniques, turnaround time in the theater district, New York Times, rabbit slaughter at Roberta's, Novella Carpenter, supermarket food, commodity meat, processing, price points, quality of living for farmers, we want everything cheap and fast, Michael Pollan, Flying Pigs Farm, farm cap, Erin Fairbanks, local sustainable cuisine, whole animal cooking, butchering, is meat too cheap?, David Chang, good clean and fair, Slow Food, not that much more expensive than commodity, everybody wants to sell in Whole Foods now, hunting, Boy Scouts, wine renaissance, we need more young farmers, dairy farmers, American Farmland Trust, couldn't get New York State apples at the event, Shanna Pacifico,Challey Comer of Watershed Agricultural Council (15:46)
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Watershed Agricultural Council, Catksills, Challey Comer, there is good aggregation behind New York State apples, you can't hold a sustainable food event without serving sustainable food, green markets, beef production, breeds, production methods, helping people from a business perspective, feeding styles, Sysco Corporation, New York State pork and veal, pork belly, veal head, pork shoulder, Sam Cass, everybody knows how to prepare a pork chop but it takes skill to work with lesser cuts, cheese making, are conferences that discuss problems helping?, audience questions from farmers, multi generational farmers, equal access, Saxelby Cheesemongers, www.purecatskills.com, Pure Catskills,Peter Hoffman of Savoy & Back Forty (24:14)
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Peter Hoffman, Back Forty, Savoy, cooking from the marketplace, sustainability, locavore, unpretentious easy going atmosphere, from SoHo to the East Village, price points, culture, bike riding, whole animal cooking, half steer a week, braising cuts, Erin Fairbanks, Guy Jones, Blooming Hill Organic Farm, farming, cash flow problems, Flying Pigs Farm, Mary Cleaver, Cleaver Company & The Green Table, accessible food, Farm Camp, Washington County New York, smaller portions, higher prices, sustainable pork for BBQ's, is good clean and fair food much more expensive than commodity?, jowl nuggets, is Slow Food more expensive than fast food?, what's the real cost of food?, working on tighter margins to buy better food, flavor concentration, improving distribution and slaughterhouses, you don't have to spend a lot of money to eat good food, disconnect with upstate New York, farmers across the nation are struggling, there is a long history of dairy farming in New York, massive confinement dairy operations, the price to produce milk in the northeast is higher than it is in the southwest, local cheeses, Mateo Kehler, Vermont, Jasper Hill Farm, value added items, Zak Pelaccio, shrimp paste, bread, pig heads, head cheese, prosciutto, Red Wattle legs, case hardening,First Hour Wrap Up: Expanding Slow Businesses (18:25)
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expansion, how do you expand a slow concept, staff, growing the people who work with you, giving them the opportunity to expand, business expansion, harnessing talent, Daniel Boulud, French cooking, traditional cooking, Daniel NYC, promoting workers who understand the ideology behind the restaurant, quality control, Roberta's, community, Back Forty, No Farms No Food, rally in Albany, American Farmland Trust, buy real produce that's in season, it's always spring somewhere, buy real food!,Heritage Cooking with Steve Pope (9:16)
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Kansas City, Steve Pope, Heritage breeds, submitted recipes, diversity, cowboy chicken, rare breeds, sustainability, Good Shepard Ranch, Texas, social dinners, church activities, BBQ, New Hampshire bird, the chicken to use for eggs and meat, broiling, rotisserie, one can of creamed chicken soup, one can of creamed mushroom soup, one can of rotel, three to four pound chicken cut up after its been roasted, into bite sized pieces, chopped onion and grated cheese, casserole, chicken broth, animal protein, Heritage Foods USA, www.heritagechef.com, www.goodshepherdpoultryranch.com,Mike Edison & Keith Elliot Greenberg: WRESTLEMANIA 26! (48:10)
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Keith Elliot Greenberg, Rick Flair, To Be the Man, New York Times Bestseller, Perfect Beauty, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, Wrestlemania I, Liberace dancing with The Rockettes, Gorgeous George, Wendi Richter, Cyndi Lauper, The Fabulous Moolah, Lou Albano, Hulk Hogan, Bruce Beefcake, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Macho Man Randy Savage, Dick the Bruiser, Killer Kowalski, wrestling in Spanish, The Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase, storyline connection, Batista, John Cena, female wrestling, Diva tag team match, The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels, dead man gimmick, Paul Bearer, if Shawn Michaels loses he will retire, Wrestlemania 10 Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon, Wrestlemania 14, Wrestlemania 12 Shawn Michaels vs Bret Hart, The Ultimate Warrior, Junkyard Dog, Iron Sheik, blinding angle, Rick The Model Martel, Chris Adams, Gino Hernandez, Freddie Blassie, Vince McMahon, XFL, Rollo, Golden Terror, Jerry Lawler, foreign objects, roll of quarters, brass knuckles, Bobby Heenan, midget wrestlers, dead wrestlers, Hornswoggle, Wrestlemania 26, Muhammad Ali, Mike Edison,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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
