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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/what-a-week-podcast/subscribeWhat A Week! is a weekly podcast recorded in Northeastern Pennsylvania focusing on local, national, and personal topics with a wide range of guests.
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Ep. 113: Joe Sabia – Archbald, Data Centers, and Why He’s Running for State Rep (opens the original)
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In Episode 113 of What A Week!, Joe Sabia of Archbald sits down for a long conversation that starts with a data center in his backyard and ends in a yurt. He is running for Pennsylvania’s 112th House seat. He says he never planned on it. The project is about four-tenths of a mile from his house. He went to a meeting, got furious, and joined neighbors in a lawsuit. When a council seat opened he put in a résumé — 21 years in the military, two businesses, a bachelor’s from SIU and two master’s degr
Ep. 112: Jessica from PCIC – Informed Consent, School Exemptions & the Fight in Harrisburg (opens the original)
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Jessica from the Pennsylvania Coalition for Informed Consent sits down on What A Week! and does not start with a slogan. She starts with a kid who was always sick. She grew up fully vaccinated. Allergies, sinus infections, a list of antibiotics that made her break out in hives, sinus surgery at ten. Three miscarriages by 25. Pregnant with her oldest, her doctor said get the flu shot or the baby could die — and that was the entire briefing. Her husband, also in healthcare, sat her down with a doc
Ep. 111: Rik Little – Xerox, Belushi, NYU Film, Eviction & Why Scranton Feels Broken (opens the original)
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In Episode 111 of What A Week! , Rik Little sits down for a long, looping conversation that starts in Wheaton, Illinois and ends in a Scranton housing fight. Born in Dallas and raised outside Chicago — Billy Graham’s town, Goldwater signs in the yard, his father on city council and selling Haloid machines before they became Xerox — Rik talks about growing up inside “the rectangle.” TV, Twilight Zone, the feeling of watching his own life from outside his body. He went to school with the Belushis,
Ep. 110: Chef Von & Marcus Moody – Coming Home, Food, Race in Scranton, and No Filter (opens the original)
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Chef Ryan “Von” Smith is back on What A Week! with cousin Marcus Moody. They eat, talk trash, and then go where a chef interview usually will not. This episode is about coming home after you’ve already seen the rest of the world, growing up Black in Scranton, East Side versus West Side, family history that does not make the brochure, and why Von still will not pretend the city is easy just because he built a restaurant here. Next Level Chef is in the mix. So are God, church, slurs, old-school di
Ep. 109: Dr. William Dempsey– Family Medicine, Faith, Fatherhood & Healing NEPA from the Front Lines (opens the original)
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In Episode 109 of What A Week!, longtime Northeast Pennsylvania family physician Dr. William Dempsey sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on medicine, family, and community. A University of Scranton grad and board-certified family doctor with more than four decades of experience, Dempsey serves as medical director of The Wright Center’s Clarks Summit practice and chief population health value-based care officer. He’s also a Pennsylvania Medical Society trustee, educator in the family medici
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