The True Philadelphia Podcast with Matt O'Donnell
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The True Philadelphia Podcast with Matt O'Donnell

Summary: Philadelphia's morning news guy for 6abc Action News talks to the "true" people of Philadelphia and the surrounding region. They are tough, they are frank, they fascinating and they are ours!

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  E15: Preston Elliot's Life Drumming in a Popular Cover Band and What It Did to His Hearing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:48

Preston Elliot of the popular Preston and Steve Show on 93.3 WMMR had the time of his life drumming in a successful cover band as he finished high school. Decades later, he discovered just how much of a price he paid for having so much fun. Preston tells Matt what led him to become a musician, relives his days playing glam rock tunes in beer-soaked bars and explains how he lives his life with hearing loss and deals with the ringing sensation known as tinnitus. Plus, Matt and Preston engage in a drum off (and Preston wears his ear plugs, of course).

  E14: Action News Fitness Expert on Why You Need to be Selfish Sometimes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:50

Shoshana Vitale, who provides Action News Mornings with fitness tips twice a week, immediately comes across as purely motivated - and a pure motivator. She tells us how she got into fitness, how the mother of four boys prioritizes her super-busy life, how there can be an obesity epidemic when so many people seem to be living healthy, and why you don't need expensive equipment to stay in shape. Prepare to sweat with The Travel Mug!

 E14: Action News Fitness Expert on Why You Need to be Selfish Sometimes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:50

Shoshana Vitale, who provides Action News Mornings with fitness tips twice a week, immediately comes across as purely motivated - and a pure motivator. She tells us how she got into fitness, how the mother of four boys prioritizes her super-busy life, how there can be an obesity epidemic when so many people seem to be living healthy, and why you don't need expensive equipment to stay in shape. Prepare to sweat with The Travel Mug!

  E14: Action News Fitness Expert on Why You Need to be Selfish Sometimes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:50

Shoshana Vitale, who provides Action News Mornings with fitness tips twice a week, immediately comes across as purely motivated - and a pure motivator. She tells us how she got into fitness, how the mother of four boys prioritizes her super-busy life, how there can be an obesity epidemic when so many people seem to be living healthy, and why you don't need expensive equipment to stay in shape. Prepare to sweat with The Travel Mug!

 E14: Action News Fitness Expert on Why You Need to be Selfish Sometimes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:50

Shoshana Vitale, who provides Action News Mornings with fitness tips twice a week, immediately comes across as purely motivated - and a pure motivator. She tells us how she got into fitness, how the mother of four boys prioritizes her super-busy life, how there can be an obesity epidemic when so many people seem to be living healthy, and why you don't need expensive equipment to stay in shape. Prepare to sweat with The Travel Mug!

  E14: Action News Fitness Expert on Why You Need to be Selfish Sometimes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:50

Shoshana Vitale, who provides Action News Mornings with fitness tips twice a week, immediately comes across as purely motivated - and a pure motivator. She tells us how she got into fitness, how the mother of four boys prioritizes her super-busy life, how there can be an obesity epidemic when so many people seem to be living healthy, and why you don't need expensive equipment to stay in shape. Prepare to sweat with The Travel Mug!

  E13: Going Too Far Out With Philadelphia's "Cool Astronomer" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:55

Prepare to blow your mind, or at least bend it really far! Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, tells us why he's always looking up, updates us on what will be the world's largest land telescope, why he thinks conspiracy theory groups like "Flat Earthers" gain traction these days, if he's worried we're living in a computer simulation, if time travel is possible, his favorite science fiction movie and whether he'd agree to go to Mars. There's far out, and then there's going too far out - which is why we have Derrick Pitts on the Travel Mug Podcast!

 E13: Going Too Far Out With Philadelphia's "Cool Astronomer" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:55

Prepare to blow your mind, or at least bend it really far! Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, tells us why he's always looking up, updates us on what will be the world's largest land telescope, why he thinks conspiracy theory groups like "Flat Earthers" gain traction these days, if he's worried we're living in a computer simulation, if time travel is possible, his favorite science fiction movie and whether he'd agree to go to Mars. There's far out, and then there's going too far out - which is why we have Derrick Pitts on the Travel Mug Podcast!

  E13: Going Too Far Out With Philadelphia's "Cool Astronomer" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:55

Prepare to blow your mind, or at least bend it really far! Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, tells us why he's always looking up, updates us on what will be the world's largest land telescope, why he thinks conspiracy theory groups like "Flat Earthers" gain traction these days, if he's worried we're living in a computer simulation, if time travel is possible, his favorite science fiction movie and whether he'd agree to go to Mars. There's far out, and then there's going too far out - which is why we have Derrick Pitts on the Travel Mug Podcast!

 E13: Going Too Far Out With Philadelphia's "Cool Astronomer" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:55

Prepare to blow your mind, or at least bend it really far! Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, tells us why he's always looking up, updates us on what will be the world's largest land telescope, why he thinks conspiracy theory groups like "Flat Earthers" gain traction these days, if he's worried we're living in a computer simulation, if time travel is possible, his favorite science fiction movie and whether he'd agree to go to Mars. There's far out, and then there's going too far out - which is why we have Derrick Pitts on the Travel Mug Podcast!

  E13: Going Too Far Out With Philadelphia's "Cool Astronomer" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:55

Prepare to blow your mind, or at least bend it really far! Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, tells us why he's always looking up, updates us on what will be the world's largest land telescope, why he thinks conspiracy theory groups like "Flat Earthers" gain traction these days, if he's worried we're living in a computer simulation, if time travel is possible, his favorite science fiction movie and whether he'd agree to go to Mars. There's far out, and then there's going too far out - which is why we have Derrick Pitts on the Travel Mug Podcast!

  E12: Inside Story 'Deep Dive' with Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:20

We ask Council President Clarke what stopped him from running for mayor in 2015 (he is very candid about this), if the Democrats need to 'break the glass' when it comes to the 2020 presidential election (he says they do), why he doesn't like the term "millennial," and if the city is too hyper-focused on attracting Amazon's second headquarters. This Inside Story 'Deep Dive' takes a newsmaker from the program and goes deeper into the conversation. We spoke to Council President Clarke in our "green room" at the 6abc studios ahead of an Inside Story broadcast.

 E12: Inside Story 'Deep Dive' with Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:20

We ask Council President Clarke what stopped him from running for mayor in 2015 (he is very candid about this), if the Democrats need to 'break the glass' when it comes to the 2020 presidential election (he says they do), why he doesn't like the term "millennial," and if the city is too hyper-focused on attracting Amazon's second headquarters. This Inside Story 'Deep Dive' takes a newsmaker from the program and goes deeper into the conversation. We spoke to Council President Clarke in our "green room" at the 6abc studios ahead of an Inside Story broadcast.

  E12: Inside Story 'Deep Dive' with Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:20

We ask Council President Clarke what stopped him from running for mayor in 2015 (he is very candid about this), if the Democrats need to 'break the glass' when it comes to the 2020 presidential election (he says they do), why he doesn't like the term "millennial," and if the city is too hyper-focused on attracting Amazon's second headquarters. This Inside Story 'Deep Dive' takes a newsmaker from the program and goes deeper into the conversation. We spoke to Council President Clarke in our "green room" at the 6abc studios ahead of an Inside Story broadcast.

 E12: Inside Story 'Deep Dive' with Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:20

We ask Council President Clarke what stopped him from running for mayor in 2015 (he is very candid about this), if the Democrats need to 'break the glass' when it comes to the 2020 presidential election (he says they do), why he doesn't like the term "millennial," and if the city is too hyper-focused on attracting Amazon's second headquarters. This Inside Story 'Deep Dive' takes a newsmaker from the program and goes deeper into the conversation. We spoke to Council President Clarke in our "green room" at the 6abc studios ahead of an Inside Story broadcast.

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