No Rain Date

Welcome to Episode 39 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and interviews. This week, publisher and NRD host Josh Popichak is joined by Brittany DeCheine, owner of BB DeCheine Fine Men’s Salon & Beauty Co. in Hellertown, on her business’s one-year anniversary. You’ll learn about what makes BB DeCheine unique, how they’ve adapted to help keep customers safe during COVID-19 and much more. As always, Josh has a roundup of the biggest headlines from another busy news week.

Don’t forget that No Rain Date is available for download on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer, RadioPublic, Tunein, Google Play and other apps, in addition to Saucon Source. Each episode of No Rain Date features news, information and interviews with people who are making a difference in our area. To learn more, suggest a guest or share feedback, please email

Welcome to Episode 38 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and interviews. This week, publisher and NRD host Josh Popichak is joined by co-owner of Monocacy Coffee Company and Lit Coffee Roastery & Bakeshop, Matt Hengeveld. Matt shares his insight into the local coffee scene as well as his knowledge of how the right beans can be roasted to achieve flavor perfection in your coffee cup. In our second interview, Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley CEO Vicki Coyle shares some of her organization’s history as well as information about how Meals on Wheels has adapted to meet challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, while continuing to serve thousands of local seniors each month. You’ll also learn how you can become a volunteer or refer someone in need of assistance to the organization. As always, Josh has a roundup of the biggest headlines from another busy news week.

Don’t forget that No Rain Date is available for download on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer, RadioPublic, Tunein, Google Play and other apps, in addition to Saucon Source. Each episode of No Rain Date features news, information and interviews with people who are making a difference in our area. To learn more, suggest a guest or share feedback, please email

Welcome to Episode 37 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and interviews. This week publisher and NRD host Josh Popichak is joined by chef and entrepreneur Joe Stout to discuss his version of clean eating, which is now available from his ChefMeals menu. Joe also discusses his recent move to Dewey Fire Company, where he is the new caterer. In our second interview, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lehigh Valley CEO Susan Bartels shares her organization’s history as well as information about how BBBSLV has adapted to meet challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll also learn how you can become a mentor to a local child in need of a role model. As always, Josh has a roundup of some of the biggest headlines from a very busy news week.

Don’t forget that No Rain Date is available for download on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer, RadioPublic, Tunein, Google Play and other apps, in addition to Saucon Source. Each episode of No Rain Date features news, information and interviews with people who are making a difference in our area. To learn more, suggest a guest or share feedback, please email

Welcome to Episode 36 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and interviews. This week publisher and NRD host Josh Popichak is joined by Main Street Gym owner and former state representative candidate Kevin Branco to talk about fitness, politics and the important role you can play in helping to keep our local economy vibrant in 2021. Our news roundup is a bit different these week because of the unprecedented, deadly insurrection that occurred at Capitol Hill Jan. 6. (Note: Kevin’s interview was recorded Jan. 5.) Josh shares some of his thoughts about what this tragic, historic event means for our nation, and why honesty in news reporting matters now more than ever.

Don’t forget that No Rain Date is available for download on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer, RadioPublic, Tunein, Google Play and other apps, in addition to Saucon Source. Each episode of No Rain Date features news, information and interviews with people who are making a difference in our area. To learn more, suggest a guest or share feedback, please email

Welcome to 2021 and to Episode 35 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and interviews. This week publisher and NRD host Josh Popichak and reporter/producer Jonny Hart take a look back at some of the biggest stories Saucon Source covered in 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-racism protests of last summer. There’s a lot of ground to cover and we only just scratch the surface in our discussion, but we hope you enjoy our reflections and our effort to put 2020 in some context. It was a historic year in many ways, and we feel privileged to have had a role in keeping you up to date on it all. Since the news never sleeps, Josh has a roundup of some of the last headlines of 2020. We wish all of our listeners a happy and healthy New Year!

Don’t forget that No Rain Date is available for download on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Deezer, RadioPublic, Tunein, Google Play and other apps, in addition to Saucon Source. Each episode of No Rain Date features news, information and interviews with people who are making a difference in our area. To learn more, suggest a guest or share feedback, please email