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Let's Get Real

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On Let’s Get Real Chef Erica Wides walks you down the aisles of the surreal world of food, serving up a heaping dose of reality by separating the food from the foodiness so you can forage, h...

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Episode 164: Color Me Freaked Out...

There’s nothing left to say. I’ve read every editorial, every FaceBook post, every HuffPo screaming front page rant. I’m done. I’m done with...

00:34:25Oct 11, 2016

Episode 163: Scary Clowns, Apricot-Faced Barbarians, and Gluten; Who Ya Gonna Call?

We're all really, really scared these days. Scared for the future, scared for the planet (well, some of us), scared of scary scaring clowns...

00:39:40Oct 4, 2016

Episode 162: Let's Get Real...And Sharp. And Blunt!

It's special guest day here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter! My new, once-in-a-while co-host, Emily Peterson, has taken time out from her b...

00:43:08Sep 27, 2016

Episode 161: This Foodiness Was Made For Walking!

@KarlMeltzer just broke the world record for the being fastest ever finisher of the entire Appalachian Trail, you know the Appalachian train...

00:33:12Sep 20, 2016

Episode 160: Welcome back to the Fallout Shelter, now climate controlled by Foodiness!

Today, on the season premiere of Let's Get Real !!! Ok, so a couple of changes are afoot here in the Foodiness Fallout Shelter. Well, no, ac...

00:33:33Sep 13, 2016

Episode 159: Cod Worms and Devil Dogs – extended edition

Today, on Let's Get Real ... It's the extended live version of "Cod Worms and Devil Dogs"! Can't remember what that is? It's the live theate...

00:29:45Jun 21, 2016

Episode 158: Pollen-Whacked? Maybe You Need a Shot of Lawn-Grass Juice!

I’m hiding out down here in the fallout shelter this week. I’m safe here, since we’re so deep underground and we filter our air. I can’t go...

00:34:06Jun 7, 2016

Episode 157: Today's Drink Special, is the Saddam Slam!

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a very dark, grim place in my past... I waited tables at TGI Friday's. Yes, really. Hard to beli...

00:36:31May 31, 2016

Episode 156: We Hold These Foodiness Truths to be Self-Evident...

Here, in corporate Big Food America, we apparently hold certain Foodiness truths to be self-evident, which is that all industrially produced...

00:30:31May 24, 2016

Episode 155: Babies & Cake

So I’ve got babies on the brain. Everywhere I go, everyone I know and see is breeding, birthing, being fruitful and multiplying as if babies...

00:34:44May 17, 2016

Episode 154: I’m Not Licking MY Fingers…

Today, an ALL-NEW episode of Let's Get Real ! Yes, it's a new show, after a long break to develop the new weekly Heritage Radio Network News...

00:32:32May 3, 2016

Episode 153: Cod Worms

I like to write, and I like to talk into a microphone. And I also like to talk in front of a live audience, I’ve discovered. Teaching all th...

00:24:29Mar 29, 2016

Episode 152: To Everything There Is a Season, and a Dry, Crumbly Cookie to Match

On this week's episode of Let's Get Real , Erica celebrates the eve of the joyous holiday of Purim, aka "The Jewish Halloween." Among many o...

00:30:35Mar 22, 2016

Episode 151: Go West, Young Man, But Don't Forget to Bring Your Insulin

On this week's episode of Let's Get Real , Erica waxes nostalgic about the classic film Annie Hall , and its derisive depiction of Californi...

00:34:43Mar 15, 2016

Episode 150: We’re 150, But We Don’t Look a Day Over 100!

On this 15oth episode of Let’s Get Real , host Erica Wides opens with a revelation she had about cooking while swimming, before diving into...

00:32:57Mar 1, 2016

Episode 149: One of These Things Does Not Belong

On this week’s Let’s Get Real , the theme is “one of these things does not belong.” Chef Erica Wides reminisces about the darker, grittier d...

00:32:43Feb 23, 2016

Episode 148: In Space, No One Can Hear You Pickling

Can you make make pickles in space? Can you rely on your dreams to write your shows? Do you get gloomy in February? All this and more this w...

00:27:26Feb 16, 2016

Episode 147: A Holiday Card Against Humanity

Today is February 9, 2016. We are now 39 days into the year. At the end of this week, on the 14th of February, the “holiday” season, will be...

00:35:23Feb 9, 2016

Episode 146: What’s On Your Plate?

Erica Wides is back for a brand new episode of _ Let’s Get Real _ with her good friend Kristin Wartman ; Let’s Get Real’s resident nutrition...

00:38:21Feb 2, 2016

Episode 145: You Can’t Make Soup Dumplings with Blue Raspberry Flavored Jello…

From Erica Wides: So I had to go to Whole Foods a few days ago, to buy unflavored gelatin. You know, like Knox gelatin in the little packets...

00:34:10Jan 5, 2016