From the Newsroom: Suburban Philadelphia Podcast

JD and Phil discuss the Coronavirus, who’s to blame and whether “sheltering in place” becomes a recurring feature whenever a pandemic hits.

Philadelphia suburbs, Bucks County, Montgomery County and Burlington County local content from buckscountycouriertimes.com, theintell.com and burlingtoncountytimes.com, with JD Mullane, columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times and Phil Gianficaro, columnists for The Intelligencer. A Gannett owned company.

Bucks County Health Department Director Dr. David Damsker talks to reporter Marion Callahan about testing for the Coronavirus, supply shortages, local cases and what support he's hoping to get from the state and federal government.

From the Bucks County Emergency Services Operations Center, director Scott T. Forster and his team are fielding calls from municipalities, senior care centers and other agencies looking for direction and supplies. Here, Forster talks to Intelligencer reporter Marion Callahan about the current situation and the challenges they are facing. He also talks of ways people can join organizations to help respond.

When Sone Saysana needed a kidney transplant to survive, up stepped his friend, Howard Reid Jr.

On this Friday the 13th, Phil and J.D. discuss some common superstitions, including some of their own.

Phil and JD welcome Republican lawyer Dean Malik to discuss the “two Republican parties” in Bucks County – the country club party in Doylestown, and the upstart People4Trump.

Phil and JD chat with Andy Meehan, conservative and supporter of President Donald Trump, and his plans to defeat incumbent Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick in 1st District of in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Regional experts in cybersecurity and an investigator with U.S. Secret Service share their take on the rising number of ransom attacks, the scope of the damage it causes, the challenge in prosecuting them and what consumers and businesses can do to protect themselves. Multimedia reporter Marion Callahan hosts the podcast from the Bucks County Justice Center, joined by U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Sunny Notani, Michael Bannon, director of Bucks County Consumer Protection, Blake Lertzman, owner of DTown Tech, and  Alan Herr, owner HPT Systems in Upper Southampton.

After he called out J.D. Mullane and Phil Gianficaro's discussion on Bernie Sanders' chance in Bucks County "obtuse," 1st District Democratic candidate Skylar Hurwitz was invited on the podcast. Fireworks followed.

Kanishk Nazareth, 17, a senior at Central Bucks West High School, has invented the OD-Box, which supplies Narcan and summons first responders to the scene.