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Flyover Plates Podcast
by Dr. Mike Brondon
This show is for people who've escaped Rochester, NY, but miss the city's signature cuisine, the PLATE. Hosted by Rochester expat Dr. Mike Brondon and co-hosted by Rochester radio legend Marc-Anthony Arena, we reminisce about the weather, the people, and the institutions of Rochester of yesteryear. You know, back when we had industry... and hope.Everybody has a friend who escaped Rochester, so tell them about the podcast!
Episodes
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45 Accordion Night at the Red Wings
Tonight on FOP! We discuss: Move over Netflix Queue... Dr. Mike has a Rochester Hot Sauce Queue! Toys R Us is coming back... but their demographic is now... Kidults Tacos & non-alcoholic Margs... no regrets At McD's, Pumpkin Spice is gone, but what flavor is in? If you were given food vouchers…
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44 Who's More Desperate?
Tonight on FOP! This has got to be one of the funniest episodes we've ever done. We discuss: Flamin' Hot Cheetos Nonna Bella's in Boston (featured meal!) Pies & Pints Caucasian Cultural Cuisine Pizza Squares Driving Alfresco Waffle House 24 Hour Challenge Most Affordable City in NY Highmark…
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43 Drive-Thru Episode
No, we aren't reviewing drive thrus per se, but this is a drive-thru episode in that we made it relatively soon after the last one! We Discuss Dr. Mike's Workout Routine Those stupid Jeep ducks Top foods of all 50 states NY Renaissance Faire The new Odyssey movie The Life Cycle of a Song on...
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42 United Plates of America
Happy 250th, Foppers! Tonight, we discuss: Midwest cookouts and their ubiquitous crockpots Dr and Dr Mrs Mike's creative American Flag cake The Happy Carnivore Homemade Chicken French Featured Plate: The Cincinnati Reds hosted a Doctor Buffet What was the center of your Plate Universe? # of…
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41 Planet of the Goats
Tonight on FOP! Foodyseus takes us on a food odyssey through the midwest, where most restaurants are actually still in business. We discuss: Goats. Not the Greatest of all Time, but real live goats. Walking around our malls. Because there are no more businesses or human kids left here. What NY...
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40 Mike's Mini Me - 2hr special!
TONIGHT ON FOP! It's probably the best one we've ever done. Mike's Mini Me joins us as our special guest to explain his: Top 3 Chicken Strips Top Rochy Spots Top homemade foods Smuggled cans of Sprite I Can't Believe It's Not Banana Pudding Deep Dish Debate We discuss: Heated seats and long…
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39 Take Your Date for a Plate
Tonight on CEP! We reminisce It's prom night - which formerly-classy Roch establishment do you pick for dinner? Benucci's? Crescent Beach? Well, those two are now defunct. What is White Lady Castle and has it been bulldozed yet? High School graduation cookies and cakes Getting our drivers…
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38 State of the Plate
We ring in Season Four of FOP with a 2-hour special! Marc meets a local celebrity Mike gives his State of the Plate address It's Easter, which means another homemade plate. This one looked incredible. Mike also shattered his previous record for how quickly he ate the whole thing. What NYers…
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37 Mike's Mt Rushmore of Fast Food
Tonight on FOP! We discuss Why Antarctica is better than Rochester Mike's Mt Rushmore of Food: What are your Top 4 big fast food favorites? What are your Top 4 obscure chains? Brinner: Why is it so venerated, and why do we frown on its opposite: Leftovers for Breakfast? Why did Wegmans slip in...
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36 Tears of Joy
Tonight on FOP! We celebrate achieving 1000 downloads the only way we can - by ripping into Rochester's rottenness and fawning over the food. We reminisce: B&W television (Marc still owns one) Local TV news and their anchors "500 Anytime Minutes" Mike's HS nickname Back when life was finite and...
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35 Christmas Special: The Straight Up Plate
Tonight on FOP! A surprise episode where we clear our consciences and cleanse our palettes in anticipation of a new year. We Remember Bad 2 the Bone BBQ, Ontario NY QDOBA Webster #Snap Burger in Greece ER Sweetland ER's cursed building: Odyssey/New Yorker/CornER Diner/Broken Yolk - currently El...
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34 FINALLY, The Italian Plate.
TONIGHT ON FOP! Thanksgiving - where we went, what we ate. What's the most annoying Christmas gift? What passes for salad in Rochester Are Mac & Cheese and Green Bean Casserole appropriate for Thanksgiving? Mike eats stuffing... by itself? Italian barbers having cookie trays at Christmastime What...
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33 Thanksgiving Flavored Oreos?
Tonight on FOP! Italian contact lenses Mike attempts TV repair in honor of Marc's bday Bills fans are now spreading their ruckus across the country What's the common secret ingredient in Jewish and Italian food? Thanksgiving-Flavored Oreos? Find out which flavors they offer. A Pumpkin Spice radio...
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32 What would you bring back?
Tonight on FOP! It's a tangent-filled nostalgia fest filled with the usual food and folly. Scandals What two high-ticket items Rochester people throw away every fall Pumpkin spice... pumpkins? Buffalo Bills uniforms and logos in church UofR tries to anti-improve its brand Savastano's & Papa Joe's...
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31 The Second Homecoming
Tonight, on the long-awaited Sept episode of Flyover Plates, we review: Pumpkin Spice flavored... WHAT? NY State does the most ironic thing in history Mike actually likes keeping some foods from mixing Flaherty's Nick's Italian Feast Buffet Great American Ballpark's Doctor Appreciation Buffet...
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30 Hazardous Summer Festivals
Tonight on FOP! Why Marc was actually happy to come home to Roch We bemoan the return of Pumpkin Spice Everything Rochester Schools start later because there's no risk of being too hot next spring NY State Fair celebrates charity and fights hunger by wasting 800 lb of food Cruise Ships landing...
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29 Auxiliary Kitchens
Tonight on FOP! Put on your 1993 "Bud at the Glen" cutoff shirt and get ready to enjoy. Our buddy Jason joins us to give his take on Plates, life in Nonrochester, Wegmans, and more "What does the plate mean to you?" We memorialize Penfield Hots, a senseless loss Driving through middle IL…
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28 Unhealthy Debates
Tonight on FOP! Rochester flooding in June Mike reports on his Alaskan Cruise Why Marc thinks Alaskans are so happy and peaceful Restaurant reviews: Macadamia Nut Encrusted Chicken at The Hangar on the Wharf - Juneau, AK, Finger Lakes Casino Buffet Father's Day Buffet, Der Dutchman Amish Buffet,...
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27 Rochy Stereotypes
Tonight on Flyover Plates! It's the Summer Fling Edition... Except Roch still hasn't been warm enough to wear shorts. Cousin Pasquale eats the plate of the month, the Genny Plate, and provides his expert critique (Marc's excited mainly because this saved him from having to shell out $20) Marc...
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26 Easter Confessions, Pizza, and Pool Supplies
Tonight on FOP: Mike makes another traditional Easter plate, and wears his Rochester Red Wings Plates hat! Huge apologies for the sound quality - all technology is complicated garbage! Controversies: Waffle House Delivery? Rochester and Buffalo are in the hottest housing markets, but it's…
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25 From Awful to Waffle
Tonight on FOP: It's a very special Season 3 Premiere! WE RECORD LIVE IN THE BOOTH AT WAFFLE HOUSE! Cousin RG joins us for his first WH experience, and the waffle he ordered arrived in less than 40 seconds. We discuss an article called "What not to order at Cracker Barrel", and then an article on...
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24 Date Plates
Tonight on FOP! This Valentine's Day, Dr. Mike is here to get you in the mood... for food. What is the Raaachester Eaccent? How do we pronounce werds? We realize Rochester never emerged from The Great Depression Mike travels to a resort in Mexico, and reviews the only part that matters, the…
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23 The 500 Download Celebration!
Tonight on FOP! We celebrate the milestone of 500 total downloads! Do we have a lot of fans, or just two dedicated loyalists who listen over and over? We take a boat ride to Tangent City tonight, going down memory lane with printed TV Guides, the mystique of Syracuse and Buffalo TV stations and...
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22 The Pathetic, Poetic Christmas of Crime
It's Christmas Night, and guess who has nothing better to do - us! There's no room for FOP at the inn, so here we go: Topics we lambaste: The Rochester indoor heating dilemma Marc's Incident (Rochester crime affects us all, directly) Christmas Eve Church Car break-in spree (16 cars at one church...
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21 A Thanksgiving Resurrection?
It's our second annual Thanksgiving episode! Where did Marc go to eat for his birthday? Our Thanksgiving Reports Thanksgiving pizza? Why Celery Sucks - ended up doing that segment twice Confessions from the McQuaid Cafeteria Plate of the Month: Italian American Community Center Thanksgiving...
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20 The 2 Hour Halloween Marathon!
Tonight on Flyover Plates! Marc's recording software crashed, so we lost track of time and ended up doing an inadvertent 2-hour marathon mega-episode! We discuss: The long-awaited Tribute to Coach Mike. Marc expresses gratitude for our driver's ed (and tennis) coach who taught us defensive…
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19 Fantasy Football Plate
After two hours of fighting with his new-to-him computer, Marc cobbled things together enough to start recording. Tonight: We lament new pumpkin spice "innovations" What's your ideal Plate? Tonight we debut a new segment called Fantasy Football Plate: For Rosh Hashanah, we let our imaginations…
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18 A Flight of... Hot Dogs?
Tonight, on FOP! Mike drops off his family at the airport, just so he can go down in the basement and record an episode. Marc enjoys his new back deck before the snow flies next week. Sampling a flight of... hot dogs? (Where else besides FOP would you hear that?) It's Mike's turn to review a…
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17 Flyover Debates
It'll be hard to live up to the last episode, but we'll try. Tonight we welcome our first special guest! Cousin RG is our biggest fan and has a lot to say about Rochester - its crime, its food, its mystique. We discuss: A Rochester Legend: Red Fedele's Brook House What's the best part about...
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16 Homecoming Plates
Tonight, the Prodigal Doctor comes HOME! Luckily for him, it's just for a visit. We drove along Empire Boulevard, looking for a Plate place that would let us record a live episode in the dining room. Eventually, Webster Hots said "come on in!" We ordered some very unique plates - shredded Philly...
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15 Dr. Mike's Morning Circus
TONIGHT on FLYOVER PLATES! We discuss: A recap of Don Alhart's final news broadcast in all its classiness The nightmare of dating in Roch Emus wandering the suburbs of Cincinnati Church summer festivals Rochester Radio Stations and the 6 songs they play on repeat Who is Brother Wease? Steve...
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14 Tribute to The Don
He's the tie that binds all Rochestarians together. He's one of the few things that East-siders and West-siders agree on. He's on Rochester's Mount Rushmore, alongside George Eastman, Walter The Accordion Man, and Brother Wease. He's about to retire after a record-smashing career. He's Don…
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13 FINALLY, THE POLISH PLATE
Tonight commences Season 2 of Flyover Plates! First, we look back on the past year and discuss such highlights as: The Great Debate: Do baked beans belong on a garbage plate? The Flying Alharts Our explanation of Chicken French Wood Paneling in Basements and so much more! Then we discuss: Marc...
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12 Easter Plate Hunt
Tonight on Flyover Plates! Marc comes back refreshed from his trip to NonRochester! The plane back to Roch was less than packed, and people were less than thrilled to be on it. The Plate makes it all the way to Nairobi! Dr. Mike makes himself an Easter Plate! The base ingredient was bacon grease,...
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11 The Initiation Plate
Tonight! On Flyover Plates! Mike obtains a secret family recipe for Rochester hot meat sauce He conjures up the Jurassic Plate and promises to make it on a future episode People obsessed with Charlie Sheen vs People obsessed with Don Alhart Where Marc wants to be buried and why Is there ANYWHERE...
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10 Healthy Rochester Plates
It's the tenth episode of Flyover Plates! You get to hear: Dr. Mike's experience with pork tenderloin in IA (and what condiment from east of the Mississippi might've worked with it) What happens when you refrigerate homemade Rochester hot sauce His encounter with a Rochester sports team down in…
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9 Greasy Synergy
Tonight we enjoy a post-Christmas discussion, with requisite leftover Italian cookies. Mike makes his own homemade Plate - not his first rodeo, but it's the first time he EATS it on the air. Will he finish the whole thing by the end of the show? What's the most important (mostly inedible)...
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8 Thanksgiving Cioppino
In tonight's episode of "Let's forget about politics for a few minutes and go back to enjoying life", er, I mean, Flyover Plates: Dr. Mike's stepmom made Cioppino for Thanksgiving. Yes, it was amazing. Dr. Mike, an emigrant to Ohio, made Chicken French for his family so they could learn what…
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7 The Circle of Meat
Can you believe it's our seventh episode? Mike encounters yet another Rochester escapee hiding in the Flyover States Marc enjoys a Thirsty Turtle Plate on his last day in Victor, NY. Mike asks a hard-hitting question and then points what out is lacking! Marc just moved to the Can of Worms... What...
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6 What is Chicken French?
This month we talk about: What Rochestarians do when Labor Day comes round. (It usually involves buying another Chevy and hunkering down for another 14 months of grey skies.) Marc goes off on a tangent about those giant 80s satellite dishes, because, well, this is FOP Dr. Mike loses his golf bag…
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5 Salt Potatoes of the Earth
It's the middle of summer here at Flyover Plates and that means escaping technology through: Driveway parties, neighborhood outdoor movies, and gatherings in your Italian neighbor's obligatory secondary kitchen. Tonight our Field Reporter Marc tests out a plate from Favored Flavors Catering, and...
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4 Plates on Plates
Tonight on Flyover Plates! We're now available on many Podcast Directories, so tell your friends to search for the show Catholic School carnivals and the sense of belonging you get from participating in them NY State announces regional license plates. We discuss what stereotypes should go on…
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3 Podcast Alfresco
Tonight we broadcast from our back porches - well, Mike does because he's in OH. Marc goes inside because it's too cold to sit on your porch in Rochester, even in May. We discuss a veritable parade of Rochester topics: Does Sheet Pizza exist outside of Rochester? Rochester loves its annual...
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2 Low-Budget Commercials and 80s Basements
The fans seem to like the show, so we'll keep going! Tonight we discuss: Jerry Springer & Bob Barker Top 4 Best Low-Budget Local Commercials Stuff you'd see in the typical Rochester basement in the 1980s Explaining what a garbage plate is to Iowans Explaining what White Hots are to you It's…
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1 Pilot
This is the pilot episode! Today we discuss the Three Major Things that Rochester people bond about - no matter where they are in the world. (You'll have to listen to find out what they are!) Dr. Mike and co-host Marc-Anthony Arena dive down the rabbit hole of Rochester institutions, and somehow...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This show is for people who've escaped Rochester, NY, but miss the city's signature cuisine, the PLATE. Hosted by Rochester expat Dr. Mike Brondon and co-hosted by Rochester radio legend Marc-Anthony Arena, we reminisce about the weather, the people, and the institutions of Rochester of yesteryear. You know, back when we had industry... and hope.Everybody has a friend who escaped Rochester, so tell them about the podcast!
HOSTED BY
Dr. Mike Brondon
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This show is for people who've escaped Rochester, NY, but miss the city's signature cuisine, the PLATE. Hosted by Rochester expat Dr. Mike Brondon and co-hosted by Rochester radio legend Marc-Anthony Arena, we reminisce about the weather, the people, and the institutions of Rochester of yesteryear....
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