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2026-0518 FOOD TRAVEL USA WITH ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY The TRUTH About Food and Travel Album: The TRUTH About Food & Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/2026 FULL SHOW: In 2001 just weeks after the events of 9/11, the TSA and the Patriot Act reshaped American life. Elizabeth Dougherty asks the question nobody on the anniversary specials will ask... how is it possible that such a huge piece of legislation was written, passed and put into place so quickly... unless it was pre-arranged! The Justice Department is finally looking at the Big Four meat producers and the price-fixing that's been emptying your wallet for years. Grocery Pet Peeves is back and the anger is loud and justified. Hantavirus gets the trivia treatment and the answers are more unsettling than you'd expect. Ring cameras turn out to be the easiest sell in the history of mass surveillance, and you installed it yourself. The organ transplant system is not the fair, altruistic network it was sold as. Travel news tracks hantavirus as it moves from health story to travel advisory. And ten famous restaurant failures get the autopsy they deserve, with the real cause of death on every one. Fifteen years. One mission. The TRUTH about food and travel. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency and homesteading-related topics to help protect to us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm-7pm (eastern) / 2pm-4pm (pacific) we produce and distribute a dozen podcast / segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Saturday, 5 PM Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 Twenty-five years ago in the weeks after September 11th, two pieces of legislation changed the way Americans move through the world forever. The TSA was born and The Patriot Act became law. Elizabeth marks the anniversary by asking the question that never gets asked on the commemorative segments: did it work? Not whether it made us feel safer, but rather whether it actually made us safer. The shoe removal, the body scanners, the no-fly lists, the surveillance architecture built around the promise of never again. A quarter century later, the apparatus is larger than ever, the civil liberties conversation never fully recovered, and the average American traveler is still taking off their shoes in a fluorescent-lit line. Twenty-five years in. It's time for an honest accounting. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 Hantavirus started as a health story. Now it's a travel story. Elizabeth has the latest information travelers need to make informed decisions. Are we seeing a replay of 2020? There's an old saying that suddenly seems appropriate... "fool me once, shame on you... fool me two, three, four, and five times, shame on you!" FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 The four companies that control the majority of America's beef, pork, and poultry supply have operated like an untouchable cartel for years. Now the Justice Department is looking. Which companies are in the crosshairs, and what price-fixing and market manipulation at this scale means for every American who buys groceries. The Big Four didn't get this powerful by accident. They got there through consolidation, regulatory capture, and decades of making sure the people watching them were also depending on them. The investigation is overdue. Whether it produces accountability or just produces headlines is the question. Either way, the next time you look at a meat price at the grocery store, you'll know exactly why it is what it is. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 Twenty-five years of security theater, shrinking seats, disappearing amenities, and an industry that used tragedy as cover to become something passengers didn't vote for. Elizabeth counts down the ten most significant ways air travel has changed since September 11th and the verdict is not a mixed bag. It's a one-sided ledger. The airlines got bailouts, consolidation, and a captive customer base legally required to submit to screening before boarding. The passenger got less legroom, more fees, longer lines, and a flying experience stripped of anything that used to make it feel like an event. Some of these changes were sold as safety. Some were sold as efficiency. All of them made flying worse. This is the list that names it FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 Opening a restaurant is hard. Keeping one open is harder. And some of the most high-profile restaurant failures in American history had nothing to do with the food. Elizabeth counts down ten restaurant failures — names you'll recognize, concepts that seemed bulletproof — and the actual reasons they collapsed. Bad locations. Ownership ego. Concept drift. Debt structures that never made sense. Celebrities who thought fame was a business plan. The restaurant industry has a failure rate that should terrify anyone thinking about entering it, and the reasons are almost always the same ones nobody talked about while the place was still open. This list is a masterclass in what not to do — told through the wreckage of places that didn't survive long enough to learn the lesson themselves. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 he organ transplant system in America is supposed to be built on altruism, medical necessity, and a waiting list that plays fair. It isn't. Elizabeth pulls back the curtain on how transplant networks actually operate — who moves up the list and why, what role money and geography play in outcomes that are supposed to be purely medical, and what happens to the organs of people who die in hospitals that have financial relationships with procurement organizations. The horrible truth is that the system designed to save lives is riddled with the same conflicts of interest, opacity, and institutional self-dealing that corrupt every other corner of American healthcare. The waiting list is real. The fairness is not. And the people who die waiting deserve better than a system that was never fully honest about what it was. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Food Travel USA with Elizabeth DoughertyAlbum: The TRUTH About Food and Travel 051826 Original Broadcast Date: 05/18/26 You bought it for your front porch. You didn't know you were buying into a facial recognition network. Elizabeth breaks down how Ring cameras — sold to millions of American households as a home security product — are now part of an industrial-scale facial scanning infrastructure that operates well beyond your property line. The data doesn't stay local. The partnerships with law enforcement are broader than the terms of service suggested. And the footage captured by your neighbor's Ring is part of the same system whether you own one or not. This is what surveillance looks like when it's sold as convenience and installed voluntarily by the people being watched. The doorbell camera was the easiest sell in the history of mass surveillance. You paid for it yourself. FOOD TRAVEL USA FAST FACTS About the Show Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency, and homesteading-related topics to help protect us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm–7pm (Eastern) / 2pm–4pm (Pacific), we produce and distribute a dozen podcast segments each week. Website & Social Media Website: FoodTravelUSA.com Social Media: Facebook | X (formerly Twitter) | Truth Social | YouTube Broadcast Details Live Broadcast: Monday 9am (ET) / 6am (PT) Listen Anytime Production Team Executive Producer: Michael Serio Email: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
Using the chassis of a food and travel show, Elizabeth Dougherty has carved out her own lane in Talk Radio, covering the contamination of the food supply and the travel restrictions placed upon us by an overreaching government. The show also covers data protection, self-sufficiency and homesteading-related topics to help protect to us from this evil, corrupt system. With Elizabeth as the host, the show has a very different sound from the typical male-oriented talk radio. In combination with terrestrial stations that carry the show, we reach people who don't normally listen to politically-driven talk radio. In addition to the LIVE FEED of the show on Saturday afternoons from 5pm-7pm (eastern) / 2pm-4pm (pacific) we produce and distribute a dozen podcast / segments each week.Website: FoodTravelUSA.comHost: Elizabeth DoughertyLive Broadcast: Saturday 5pm Executive Producer: Michael SerioEmail: FoodTravelUSA@proton.me
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