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 recovery not growth
• Restaurant reviews:
• J&E Rootbeer Stand, Middletown, OH
• Savoia Cookies
• What's on the the Roch Food Guide Pyramid?
• Thanksgiving in the Springtime?
• Meat Hot Sauce is Rochester's Hope
• Confessions from the McQ Chapel:
• Marc ate Mark's Pizza and Dunkin' Donuts
• Mike eats HOW MANY coneys?
• Tangent: 90s Minivans
• Tangent of a tangent: Reminiscing about old cell phones
• Turning malls into apartment buildings: How the rest of the world does it, and how Rochester managed to botch it
• Guns, cash, and drugs - Normally that's a tagline for an action movie, but for Roc, it's our Mayor's house.
• 3 governors (and 1 atty gen) in a row fired for, em, misconduct
• The may 2024 protest that disrupted the kite event for poor kids
• I Leave New York t-shirts
• Pizza, Carryout, and Pool Supplies!

Thanks for telling your fellow inmates and escapees about the show!

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 Rochester's I-Squared scandal
• Restaurant reviews: McDonald's HEADQUARTERS, Ming Hin Chicago, Amiel's Subs Rochester
• Marc is a whole different person in non-Rochester
• Why we love Waffle House, its food, and its people
• Would WH survive in Rochester?
• What would a McDonald's garbage plate look like?
• School Lunches then and now

Thanks to our friends at Waffle House for letting us eat there and keep telling your friends about the show!

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 buffet.
• While most magazines discuss retirement and estate planning, Rochestarians discuss what happens to all their debt when they die.
• The Waffle House Egg Surcharge: Will we stand by them?
• Charlie's Sloppy Plate - Indecisive Marc has a Janus moment and orders his with 2 chicken parm cutlets (one marinara one with Roch hot sauce), Square Potatoes (good ones), baked beans, raw onions, and fried cauliflower.
• That one time when Roch unleashed a robocop on 490 that sent out 25k surprise speeding tickets
• Restaurant Review: Honshu Greece Ridge
• How Rochester people utilize their dashboard navigation systems
• Mike's March Madness - The Shamrock Shake
• What's a typical late 90s meal?
• Marc's Reluctant List of Rochester Hidden Gems
• Spam on Sushi?

In Memoriam:

• Bada Korean
• Wegmans Taj Mahal's Tea Bar
• Macy's at Greece Ridge

This marks the conclusion of our second year on the air, er, grease waves! Stay tuned next month as we begin Season 3!

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 Canadian radio stations, handheld TVs, and more.
• Our AIM names, our 90s computers and video games, and how new and fun they were.
• What's Marc wearing in his bedroom?
• Does Rochester have a dress code?
• What's the hottest real estate market right now?
• What Rochester company is buying up an OH competitor, much to Mike's chagrin?
• Rochester Real Estate - what one listing actually said about living downtown.
• What classic Roch food did the Norks ban?
• What Rochester cola is making a comeback?
• Marc reviews Thali of India buffet, and makes his own (very healthy) Indian plate
• What are the top cuisines in the world, according to pea-brained journalists? (We set the record straight afterward, and Mike explores which ones bring him joy.)
• Marc asks: What are Midwest Noodles??? Delve into their mystical world as Mike explains their variants.
• Where do we say we're from when we are traveling?
• Tonight's hilarious comedy segment: A 2012 D&C article claiming Kodak and Roch have some life left in them! We also discuss HOW Rochester companies do business, which is like a combination of a gambler on his last penny, and a bunch of crabs in a bucket.
• Finally, we have a combo Restaurant Review and In Memoriam segment - Yes, an incredible Korean restaurant called Bada went out of business BEFORE Marc could even review it on the show.

Thanks for telling other escapees about the show!

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 alone)
• Is NC part of The South?
• Mike's hero enters the Guinness Book of World Records
• Fan Mail
• A funeral home that sells what?
• What makes a good or a bad onion ring
• Unbeknownst to each other, we each brought Christmas poems

Restaurants we review:

• The science of eating a Waffle House All Star Special
• Buffet City, St Petersburg, FL
• Iron Chef II, Mason, OH
• Sushi585
• Kocina Stingray Sushifusion's OG Trashplate
• Empire Hots Trash Plate
• J&E's Rootbeer Stand, Middletown, OH
• Skyline Chili Dogs
• Great Wolf Lodge Christmas Buffet
• Ponderosa, Somewhere, OH

Once all three of our fans download this episode, we'll have broken past the 500 download mark!!!!

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 Luncheon (with pasta and what Mike calls Italian Pillows!)
• Emotional Support Ponies - how they're treated at Wegmans vs how they're treated at Tops
• The Rochester Train Station is called what???
• Make Rochester Great Again?
• Our New Year's Resolutions
• "We're teetering on the edge here, people"
• "Fat Guys: They know what's up"

Restaurants We Review:

• Stockholder's Boston
• Schooner's Boston
• Bello Valentino's New Smyrna

We Memorialize:

• East Roch funeral homes (there's nobody even left to die!)
• Sticky Lips BBQ
• Chappy's Hots
• Bertucci's Corner Chicago
• Pizza Mafia in Fairport
• Democrat & Chronicle printing press in Greece
• Combo Shutdown: Ken's Pizza Corner and Brownstein's Bagels
• Golden Fox Diner on Culver
• and a special surprise business Resurrection!

As always, thanks for telling your friends about the show!

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 driving. He then spends around half an hour outlining the ways Rochester drivers are clueless: None of them have ever heard of turning on your inside lane when turning onto a four-lane road. Also, when turning off of a main road, most of them slam on the brakes, make their turn, then signal afterward, not realizing the purpose of signaling.
• Dr. Mike goes to New Orleans to sample its cuisines. Baked Alaska at Antoine's, Po Boys, Gumbos, and a surprising connection to Rochester.
• Fox's and House of Guitars achieve well-earned listings in a historic registry.
• We lambaste CNN's "Top 10 American Foods" which should be titled "Top 10 of the most obscure non-American foods you've never heard of".
• Mike discusses the food-related Project 2025, calling for the resurrection of Pizza Hut Buffets, Blockbusters, 1987 airline breakfasts, Salisbury steak, and more.
• Restaurant Reviews: Fairfield's Chicken French Sandwich, CoreLife
• Tonight's Plate: The Olympia Barnyard Plate. Scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped raw onions, mac salad, Roch hot sauce, and buttered rye toast. Delicate and delectable.
• Mike makes homemade Philly Cheesesteaks for his family
• In Memoriam: Canalside Jewelers, Bamboo House, Benucci's, The Diplomat, Big Boy (Roc and OH), and the resurrection of FYE!
• We finish up by discussing our FOPpy plans for Halloween.

As always, thanks for listening and telling inmates and escapees!

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 run (very) wild as we describe our ideal Jewish food plate.
• Marc reviews the food at Whiskey River and WHY YOU NEED TO GO
• Mike reviews
• The unbeatable $1.38 hot dog combo at Sam's Club
• Oreo Coke Zero
• Mom Jeans Radio
• How you can score a hamburger dinner for only $1... at most restaurants.
• Restaurants discussed:
• Friendly's
• Dahlia's
• Sicilian Delight
• Pizza buffets & white pizza
• We memorialize:
• James Earl Jones
• Alpha & Omega (just Penfield)
• Kenny Rogers Roasters
• Cici's Pizza (just Rochester)
• and we also anti-memorialize a nonRochester business that's actually GROWING!
• Amazon, which is struggling in western NY because it has no employees
• We Debate:
• Paying your bill in cash vs credit
• What flavors "take over" a meal?

So, come find the joy in life with Flyover Plates. Thanks for telling other escapees about the show!