February is packed with events this month, from Lunar New Year celebrations in the streets of Chinatown, Black History Month exhibits under $20 to ideas to celebrate Valentine’s Day. In this episode, you’ll hear Abby’s recommendations of local tattoo artists offering love themed flash sales, Trenae’s idea of a progressive dinner in West Philly, plus free activities for the kids to do. And if you’re cheering on the Birds in the Super Bowl, you’ll love Matt’s watch party idea and Siani’s picks for where to get Eagles merch.  

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Introducing New Year, New You: How to Create Lasting Lifestyle Changes: The A/B Workout Routine, What Should Be on Your Plate, the Truth About GLP-1s, Molly’s Nutrition Plan, and MORE with Celebrity Nutritionist Sarah Wragge from Lipstick on the Rim.

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As we dive into the new year, it’s the perfect time to refocus on your health and wellness goals. This week, Molly and Emese sit down with Sarah Wragge, founder and chief nutritionist of Sarah Wragge Wellness—and Molly’s personal nutritionist—to explore her game-changing approach to nutrition, fitness, and sustainable living that transformed Molly’s life over the past year. Sarah shares practical tips for balancing blood sugar, burning fat, and fueling your body for endless energy—without giving up the foods you love. She also dives into Molly’s personalized nutrition and lifestyle plan. From her signature A/B workout strategy to the power of hydration, mini-meals, and the SWW Daily Protocol, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you build a balanced and empowered lifestyle. Tune in for all the tools you need to crush your wellness goals in 2025 and beyond! 

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It’s our Wednesday politics show. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by Lauren Vidas, our new politics contributor. Lauren works in government relations in the city and writes the City Hall Roll Call newsletter for the Committee of Seventy. They talk about what issues council is taking on now that they’re back in session for 2025, how the city’s preparing to protect immigrants and other marginalized groups during the Trump Administration, and why Philadelphia’s Democratic Party won’t endorse District Attorney Larry Krasner. 

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Introducing What Parents Get Wrong About Money and Their Kids | The Oprah Podcast from The Oprah Podcast.

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In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, financial expert and Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments, ‪Mellody Hobson, offers practical advice to simplify financial conversations for families.

Mellody shares details about struggling with money as a child, lessons she's taught her daughter and fascinating historical facts about money from her New York Times best-selling children's book, "Priceless Facts About Money."

People from around the country join via Zoom to ask Mellody how to address financial questions and situations with their children. 

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Take it from us, Philly is a great place to live – the joy at the Linc and on Broad Street and at Cottman and Frankford Avenues on Sunday night after the Eagles’ NFC championship victory is evidence of that. Today Trenae Nuri talks about heading to the Super Bowl and then replays a show about how it may be wonderful to live here (especially when we’re winning), finding an affordable place to rent is a growing challenge. Our rent is too damn high – and getting higher. So Trenae talks with Justin Forte, realtor for KW Empower & ForteLiving, about where to find the best rentals, what questions to ask, what you should know before signing your lease agreement, and how to avoid scams.

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Introducing Do vitamin D supplements work? | Prof. Tim Spector and Dr. Federica Amati from ZOE Science & Nutrition.

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Vitamin D is the world’s favorite supplement. Governments around the world recommend people take the supplement for at least six months out of the year. But do we really need these pills? Do they even work? And could they actually be harming us?

In this episode, two ZOE scientists - Professor Tim Spector and Dr Federica Amati reveal the truth about vitamin D.

Tim is scientific co-founder of ZOE and professor of epidemiology at King’s College London. Federica is head nutritionist at ZOE and author of the Sunday Times bestseller ‘Every Body Should Know This’.

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00:00 The sunshine vitamin

01:50 Quickfire questions

04:05 What is vitamin D?

07:12 Is sunlight the best source of vitamin D?

09:40 Does vitamin D keep my bones strong?

15:34 Are vitamin D levels a marker of good health?

20:00 What counts as normal levels of vitamin D? 

24:42 Supplement controversy

29:10 Do calcium supplements help bones?

31:29 Can I take too much vitamin D?

37:50 Could vitamin D prevent these health conditions?

42:54 Tim’s sunscreen controversy

46:46 Vitamin D and immunity

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Bennington College, a small college in Vermont, took over the University of the Arts’ dance program after the Philly university closed without warning last year. Why? And how? Host Trenae Nuri talks with Laura Walker, president of Bennington College, and Donna Faye Burchfield, director of the dance program, about how this tiny college hundreds of miles away saved a storied dance program in Center City.

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Introducing Episode 9: Framing the Gambler from Against the Rules with Michael Lewis.

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Michael Lewis gets a glimpse of sports gambling's future by talking with writers in Great Britain and Australia, where the industry is even more entrenched. But the US has its own peculiar history of failing to regulate dangerously addictive new products, and blaming the users instead. Especially when powerful industry advocates are able to pay scientists to sow doubt and delay the day of reckoning.

For further reading: 
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of our World by Dan Davies

Crikey’s coverage on sports gambling in Australia: Punted

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Story of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway.

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It’s the Friday News Roundup! The team is talking about the new court opening in Kensington, how President Trump just let Philly’s top Proud Boy out of prison, and Mayor Parker’s spelling slip-up. Plus, if the Eagles win Sunday we get a Super Bowl. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by Matt Katz, executive producer of City Cast Philly, and Siani Colon, newsletter editor of Hey Philly. Go Birds! 

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Introducing Defeating Trump’s Chaos Playbook with Our New Age of Insistence from Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams.

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Donald Trump has been inaugurated for a second term as President, and the “blitzkrieg” of orders, insults and rhetoric has already begun. Stacey Abrams speaks to Melissa Murray, host of Crooked’s legal podcast Strict Scrutiny and constitutional law professor at NYU, about how much Trump can actually do unilaterally and why his actions–like his order about TikTok–threaten the balance of power between the branches of government. They look at the true impact of using shock and chaos to govern–like his order about renaming Denali–and why we should be concerned about the new “broligarchy” that stood behind Trump at his inauguration. Stacey and Melissa explain the executive orders that run afoul of the 14th Amendment, like the end to birthright citizenship and new government policy on gender, and together, they showcase ways that we can continue to understand what’s coming so we can effectively speak out.

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