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On the premiere episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides teaches us about the glacier that would have eaten New York City and the sex life of barnacles.
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The Naturalist Introduction & Show Summary (7:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, science, industrial arts, teaching, environmental organizations, The Phoenix, coastal ecology, Long Island Sound, Everglades National Park, interpretive park ranger, canoe trips, The Ten Thousands Islands, mangroves, docent, Bernie's areas of expertise are ocean life, butterflies, and earth & space, Central Park, greensward guide, future show topics, The Museum of Natural History, greensward means an open green space in a forest, biography, mosquitoes,Giant Glacier Eats New York! (10:14)
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glacier, New York Times, 12,000 years ago the climate was much colder and we were in an ice age, if New York City existed, it would have been devoured by glaciers, laurentide glacier, glaciers slowly advance and retreat, the leading edge was 1,000 feet thick, Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge, interglacial epic, the earth is still warming up from the last ice age, this is what we mean by global warming, fossil fuels, co2, without humans the next ice age would be 100,000 years from now, there's nothing we can do to prevent ice ages, we don't know why earth goes through these cycles, theories, orbit, the earth's axis is tilted 23 1/2 degrees, the earth's axis wobbles like a top, heat energy, the sun, why was there an ice age?, Milutin Milankovitch, building dimensions in New York City, Chrysler Building, the earth is naturally warming up, but humans are speeding up the process, changes in the tilt of the earth's axis,Glacier Add-On (6:36)
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the glacier stopped advancing at New York City, Bushwick, Brooklyn, everything north of Brooklyn to the North Pole was ice covered, the ice front advanced along the Northern hemisphere, ice sheet, glacial evidence, Eastern Parkway, Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush, Staten Island, Queens, Highland Park, terminal moraine, glacial hills, hills, Long Island, north shore is hilly, south shore is not hilly, sands from the glacier were carried south and formed Flatbush down to Jamaica Bay, beach formations, fresh water, New York City shoreline used to be 100 miles further south, Ronkankama moraine, Inwood park, Marcus Garvey Park,The Sex Life of the Barnacle: Size Does Matter! (10:34)
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barnacle, sex life in the animal kingdom, barnacles look like little white dots, they are volcano shaped, inside the cone is a tiny animal like a crab, they are related to shrimps and blue craw crabs, the shell of a barnacle is made by the animal, calcium carbonate, young barnacles are free swimming critters, plankton are at the mercy of the waters, young barnacle is a millimeter in size, eventually, it let's itself sink to the bottom of the water and finds a hard surface, most settle on rocks, they produce an amazing glue that sets underwater, dentists, the barnacle legs point upward out of the cone, operculum, air would dry them out and kill them, they capture plankton with their legs, dinoflagellates, barnacles have the capability of gender changing, the male has a penis that is long enough to reach over into the next barnacle, the penis is longer than its body, females give off pheromones, reproduction, the male extends its penis all around until it finds a female, the barnacle has the biggest penis per body size in the entire animal kingdom, penis envy, sometimes they attach to whales, barnacles cannot move around, diatoms,The Bulletin Board: Events In New York City (4:44)
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estuaries, 2009 New York State Beach Cleanup, Littoral Society, 1-800-449-0790, http://www.alsnyc.org/, Jamaica Bay Sunset Cruise, September 26th, 3 hour narrated tour, shore birds, shoreline, Don Reape, 718-318-9344, tell him Bernie sent you!, has been going on for 24 years,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/08/2010 12:00PM
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This week on the Main Course Mike Edison and a telephonic Patrick Martins hosted "hambassador" Dan Purdy (of Purdy Foods), Jason Colluci (of Pulino's) and Matt Hamilton (of Belcourt) for a round table discussion on the golden-era of food television, if and when sustainability will become the norm, and the most popular food items in America. Do not miss this inside look at the trial and tribulations of chefs and the deliverymen that tirelessly serve them. Plus Steve Pope stops by with some tips on food for the hottest days of the year.
Photo 1: Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria, Lower East Side of Manhattan. Photo 2: Classic Dr. Seuss Bone-In Ham. Photo 3: Purdy Foods
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The Main Course Introduction: Hambassador Dan Purdy of Purdy Foods (12:48)
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The Main Course, Cherryholmes, Patrick Martins, Patrick is stuck in Great Barrington, Mike Edison, www.mikeedison.com, Jason Colucci, Pulino's, Matt Hamilton, Belcourt, Dan Purdy, Purdy Foods, Dan is a hambassador, ham all sourced from New York State, no nitrate curing, hickory smoked, cured for 8 to 10 days, smoked for 24 hours, ham on pizza, prosciutto and arugula style pizza, prosciutto cotto, pineapple and ham pizza, when does a pizza cease to be a pizza, what makes a ham bad?, people don't know the difference between hams, Mike likes Dr. Seuss hams,Seasonal Produce, Sourcing Locally & The Many Personalities of Food Distributors (19:37)
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Ben Sargent, Catch It Cook It & Eat It, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Scott Gold, The Shameless Carnivore, Scott is from New Orleans, gulf coast oil spill, po' boy, invented due to a labor dispute, transit union strike, contaminated seafood, we don't know how wide it will spread, BP doesn't seem to be trying particularly hard to clean it up, Susan Spicer, restaurants filing suits against BP, tar balls look solid but they leave an oily residue, testicle festival, LeRoy Knuckles, squirrel and dumplings, Americans have been eating squirrel for a long time, Bayona,Oysters, Food Myths & Cooking Temperature (21:23)
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don't eat oysters in months that don't have an R in them, don't eat braised cuts in winter months, which weird rules are true and which aren't, there is more bacteria in water when its warmer, oysters spawn when they reach a certain temperature, Americans used to deplete oyster beds when they were spawning, so it became a rule based on getting sick rather than depling oyster beds, oysters are soft and mushy when they spawn, the best months to eat oysters are when the water is below 58 degrees, overcooked meat is inedible, pork legally can be considered fully cooked to 160 degrees, Matt cooked a loin to 128, can chefs get in trouble for suggesting lower temperatures than the USDA recommends, commodity pork campaign: the other white meat, beef recall, trim from Australia and Ukraine, Jason has been eating local beef, nutrition aspect to freshness of meat, New York is finally catching up to the West Coast in terms of sourcing locally, the infrastructure is still in its infancy, Joseph Bastianich, in New York people understand that the customer is not always right, the demand needs to be there in order for the source to commit, there is a great demand in New York, educated consumers, Dan chargers 2.34 a pound for his burger, the burger sells for $5, Dan is a wholesaler, he's the only one doing what he does, he has a network in place, most people try to find the most economically way to feed their families, supermarkets are a totally different battle, restaurants are much easier, mass production was born out of supermarkets,TV Chefs & The Golden Age of Food Television (20:16)
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what makes a great bacon egg and cheese sandwich, Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse, Jeff Smith, Ultimate Cake Off, Rachel Ray, when was the golden age of food television, Mario's show was awesome, it wasn't dumbed down, it seemed like it was in real time, the audience asked informed questions, most of the people on the show worked in his restaurants, Julia Childs, James Beard, Michael Batterberry, Top Chef, it had it's time but TV caught up to it, what's the value of winning Top Chef?, if you're smart you can get a restaurant out of it, the most talked about show is Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Jamie Oliver, Iron Chef, professional wrestling meets food, Andrew Zimmern, Alton Brown, Gordan Ramsay, Guy Fieri, Food Network, tainted by what gets ratings now, why isn't there a show about slow food and sustainability, if a show doesn't get ratings it will get canceled,Show Wrap Up! (12:44)
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Roberta's, the AC is broke!, everybody's drinking beer to be cool, beer cocktails, Sixpoint Craft Ales, Budweiser is the only thing Mike Edison will drink in the shower, Budweiser is good for drinking when you're already drunk, at least you can say it's very consistent, beer on ice, Presidente is Dominican Corona, Mike Edison is not afraid of Pink wine, Rose, orange wine, Pulino's now delivers!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/29/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Mike Edison sit down with Ron Silver of NYC's (and Japan's) favorite diner Bubby's for a discussion on food safety and how much power the government should (or shouldn't) have over recalling our food. Judy McGuire (author of "How Not to Date") stops by for a discussion on dating in New York and beyond. Plus the gang cover a bevy of far-reaching topics touching on everything from the Mosque at Ground Zero (good?) to blueberry bagels (bad!). Tune in for Heritage Cooking with Chef Steve Pope, who focused this week on crispy skin! This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.
Photo 1: Bubby's in NYC, Photo 2: Judy McGuire
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Ron from Bubby's & The Egg Recall (22:56)
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Ron Silver, Bubby's, Bubb'y's Yokohama, Judy Mcguire, Dating Tips, Huge Food Recall, Egg Recall, the chickens are still sick and still producing eggs, thats still a lot of eggs in the egg stream, the FDA has no power to mandate a recall or mandate the chickens are killed, eggs are treated differently from meat, the FDA are counting on Right Egg Farm and Hill and Dale to do the right thing, the infected chickens may be used as meat chickens and the eggs may be pasteurized and used in things like mayonaise, we've all seen or heard about the way chickens are raised and produced, chickens are up to their little chicken knees in chicken excrement, Patrick saw small disgusting farms abusing animals in farms Upstate, its not about big and small, its not about perfection, was it better in the old days?, milk fever, traveling through the 3rd world Mike has never been sick eating street food or even White Castle, weakening of the American constitution, these big farms are an example of greed corruption and sloth, consumer sloth, a Czar of food, the Egg Secretary, high standards are very expensive, educating consumers to take responsibility to for what they put in their mouths, there's a real awareness of food sources in Salt Lake City, Bubby's is unique, Mike and Ron would have let GM go out of business, its hard to believe there wasn't a viable electric car 50 years ago, Mike is usually labor over management but the unions are way too powerful, corrupt unions, do companies lose the right to exist with a major mistake?, Patrick thinks there should be no Japanese cars in America, when someone put cyanide in Tylenol they invented tamper-proof packaging, what you lose on the swings you make up in the merry-go-roung, built into big business is the idea of paying fines is part of doing business, fines are part of the annual budget, As Bs and Cs in the grading system of NYC Restaurant Health Inspectors, Bubby's last inspection would have been a B, a C is like a Fail, getting a C is bad, there are a lot of weird reasons to get points, having a handsink in a certain location in a certain amount of time can be bad, the rules for hygiene are and aren't stringent in a restaurant, Mike is shocked when a big name restaurant gets a low grade, restaurants play in the top league with lots of violations, the USDA is totally ineffective, the USDA was created because of The Jungle, they closed Bird Bath simply because their sandwiches were room temperature,Dating Tips with Judy McGuire (15:19)
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How Not To Date, dating using terror warnings, Judy McGuire, Mike's go to source as usual is The Post, Exagerdating, people who date online LIE!!, men lie about their height because for every inch a man is below 5 10 he should make 40k more a year, Judy met her boyfriend online and they've been together for six years, did online dating change with dial-up vs broadband?, women's diserablity peaks at age 21, after age 44 the ball rolls off the table, has old-fashioned dating gone out of fashion?, internet dating brough old fashioned dating back in a bit because they made dates official, Judy met one guy who told her that HIV didn't cause AIDS and he doesn't use condoms, a date is two people who could possible have sex being somewhere that is planned, Judy is anti-coffee dates unless you're in AA, deal-breakers - chewing with your mouth open or bad breath or being mean to the staff, bad tippers are so socialy clueless they'll let you know they're a horrible tipper, picky eaters suck, everyone is allergic to gluten, Ron tell his staff anyone who has an allergy should stay home, Cull the Herd!, Ron gets emails from vegans asking what they can eat at Bubby's (which is nothing), everything has meat in it at Ssam Bar, are absolutely perfect dates suspicious?, someone who is too-perfect is Patrick Batemen, if you're hot enough you can get away with anything, intelligence talent and whit are the real aphrodesiacs, whoever asks should pay, if someone has a much better job they should pay, a woman should pay half if they never want to see the guy again, we can blame a lot on Sex in the City, SITC brough the WRONG kind of people to NYC, Murray Hill is filled with Post-Frat Assholes, Carrie's happiness depended on men and shoes,Mike and Judy on Dating Gone Good and Bad (15:17)
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Judy and Mike met when Judy went to MA with Reagan Youth, Mike worked at High Society and Cherry and started Climax and Buxom, sending High Times interns with all the photo-shoot pot wasn't very nice, a sense of impunity at High Times, do one-liners still work to pick up smart girls?, Mars Bar is a great place to pick up Herpes, having sex in the bathroom at Mars Bar, a lot of people have had sex on planes, girls being afraid to eat in front of guys, cooking for girls and ahving them not eat it, if a guy cooks it can be a good first date, if a girl cooks as a first date it can be weird, people are intimidated to cook for chefs, is there anything that could sanction crying on the first date?, no crying after sex or during sex, Bloomberg dated Diana Ross, it takes a brave guy to approach a girl with a bunch of girlfriends, if you have the balls to do it just go for it, the way to pick up a girl at the bar is to get her to buy YOU drinks, everyone in the studio is kinda old, bullshit people tell people in bars,Interfaith Dating and the Ground Zero Mosque (33:27)
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Interfaith dating, Ground Zero Mosque as a potential pickup place?, converting for your partner, Russian Orthodox, dating someone anti-semetic, when you're 22 years old there is more religious pressure from your family regarding your partner and kids, inter-anything couples are normal in NYC, Ron's first wife was Phillipino and it got complicated sometimes, Patrick doesn't think the mosque should be built near Ground Zero, Mike's bitter divorce with the Yankees, Mike won't step foot inside Yankee stadium, the first amendment includes the right to assemble peacefully, people cherry pick the constitution, the Police should not be the only ones with the guns, Judy has a volatile temper so she doesn't own a gun, gun shooting date?, sex on the first date, does dating imply a future?, can you date just to hang out?, sport dating, Mike has been on online dates and has felt like he's being auditioned, below the Blueberry Bagle, Skype dating, Teledildonics, remote control dildos, sex with a robot, in Rocky IV the father was dating the robot, drug use on a date?, smoking pot on the way to Bubby's, Chain Restaurants for dates for the middle of nowhere, don't go to your favorite restaurant with a potential crazy person, public displays of affection, Ron is better than picking out a last date than a first date, breakup dates, Judy says do it over the phone, an ice cold beer in the shower is a panacea, in the last decade Mike has drank 32 beers in the shower, imbalanced dates when one person had lots of fun and the other didn't, if you like film and restaurants that does not make you unique in ANY WAY, Mike's interview with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Spitzer's hooker, why do governors need to pay for sex?, they're paying for discretion and for the girl to leave, Al Goldstein always said you don't pay a prostitute to have sex you pay her to leave, was this show a date?, cereal date where you eat lots of cereal, Mike likes oatmeal, Nat Weiner has been great, How Not To Date, someone accidentally crapped in Judy's bed, Judy's dead boyfriends, Bubbys.com, an excuse to get out of a date- menstruation or food poisoning, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go,Steve Pope on Crispy Skin (4:50)
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Food Now event in Kansas City, the awareness of the Heritage bird is growing, there is a REASON why its called a Heritage bird, Birds approved by the APA, customers are demanding more quality now, Heritage birds are more resistant to disease, heritage birds are watched over, Getting a crisp skin on a roast chicken, rubbing salt on a bird so the salt tightens the skin, baking powder to tighten the skin, low and slow, a nice glossy skin cover, you can see the moisture bubbling underneath the skin, expanding the company, all chicken sausages, a preprepared dinner, the public deamnding to have better quality in their food,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
