Coates Connections

🚨PODS ARE BACK!!!!!!😆🎙🎉 NEW PODS! NEW GUESTS! NEW TIMES! NEW FUN! This week we will be kicking off pods going until the Christmas holidays! Pods will be released each week on select days and times. Audio from each pod will be posted on Anchor in the days to follow each pod. With the excitement of yesterday’s Eagles game, we are kicking it off with some birds talk with former awesome guest to the show, Mike Baumgarten! 😆🏈 The passionate and intelligent sports mastermind is back with his analysis on the game and offering some spicy hot takes for the season ahead! 🔥 You won’t wanna miss this show! 🦅💚 #GoBirds #Passion #PhiladelphiaEagles #FlyEaglesFly #CoatesConnections #NewPodWednesday

GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME! 😤⚽️⚾️🏀🏈 Join us for a special podcast with Pat Housman! Pat, Father Judge grad class of ‘01, is the official head CYO Director at St. Martha Parish School and coaches baseball and basketball! ⚾️🏀 Pat has an extensive knowledge of philly sports and much more! He is also a big and longtime fan of the New England Patriots! Learning coaching from his Dad, the awesome Jim Houseman, Pat took what he learned and put it into practice today! He believes every child has their own special abilities and loves to see his student athletes succeed😃❤️! He is married to his wife and fantastic SMS eighth grade teacher Nora Houseman, and has two great kids in Patrick Jr. and Averie! Pat fills us in on his special coaching techniques and sports knowledge (with hot takes🔥), while also giving us some great political takes as well🇺🇸! It’s an informative and entertaining episode you won’t wanna miss! Also be sure to listen onto our crazy question segment to find out why Pat labels himself as an official “weirdo magnet”, lol! 🤪😆🎙

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!🥰❤️ Joining us on the show this week are the talented and fabulous Danny Lodes (pronounced Lo-dis) and Marissa Tankekewicz! Danny and Marissa will be our first couple to join the show! They have been dating for many years since they graduated high school and have many fantastic tips to share in order to maintain relationships and sticking together through thick and thin💜! The two are such a beautiful and sweet couple and are extremely intelligent! 😃 Seriously, every time I see them together they are so happy!!! #GOALS🤩🥰 Danny is an alumnus of Father Judge🔵🔴(Class of ‘19) and was well known for his work at the school as a full time anchor on the Crusader News Network(CNN). Now Danny is doing exciting things at La Salle University, while also following his favorite team of the Philadelphia Phillies⚾️, religiously! Danny gives us the lowdown on all his thoughts on the team and holds back nothing!! 😤🔥 Meanwhile his amazing counterpart Marissa, a St. Hubert’s Bambi (Class of ‘19🟡🟤), is also doing special thing at La Salle University! She is studying food science/nutrition with hopes of becoming a nutritionist! Marissa is so kind and sweet and believes in keeping your body the way you want to maintain it/what you are most comfortable in! 😊 She loves exercise and hiking, and whips up so many tasty creations! We’ll have to listen as she shares them all! 😋 And of course our crazy questions segment will be had as well! 🤪😆

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK AND ROLL?!😤🔥🎸🥁 We are pleased, delighted, and extremely excited to be joined on the show by the special and talented local Band of Frankford Fitler! Tyler Cole, Randy Willson, and Mike McCullough joined forces to create this awesome band! As you can find on their Facebook and Insta pages, Frankford Fitler is an original rock band based in the city of brotherly love. They thrive on making music that is relatable and energizing while maintaining the ability to spread a message and help change the world for the better. They have been and are currently booked to perform at many local pubs, bars, and arenas and are continuing to grow their large fan base. You seriously won’t wanna miss out on what this amazing band has in store! Listen as bandmates Tyler and Randy, both Father Judge Class of ‘18 Alumni, join the show to explain all about the process to create, brand, and perform music for their band! It’s one of the best interviews I have had the pleasure to do so far, and very excited for you all to listen and rock out! 😆🔥🎸

YOU READY TO PLAY?! 👀🎮 This week’s episode features an episode with the long lost Coates Brother (from Another Mother😜😂) of our host Paul, in the great Isaiah Coates! While Isaiah is not technically related to Paul, the two actually resemble each other and have an unique style of laughter! 😂 Isaiah graduated Father Judge High and has a very high IQ especially in the world of all things gaming! 🎮 Gaming is a huge industry today in age and Isaiah gives all the techniques/secrets to his gamer skills, as well as deliver the “cheat codes”😜 on how to be successful in the gaming industry! Isaiah also is a man of faith✝️ and aims to bring faith into his work with gaming and on his popular Instagram posts. 🙏 (Be sure to give him a follow @comp_o_sure) Other fun and of course our crazy questions 🤪 are had that you won’t want to miss! Isaiah is ready to move to a new level as he reveals his amazing self to our audience!

This week’s episode features a Special EXCLUSIVE interview with the brand new State Director of Blexit PA, Ms. Sylvia! 😃🎙 Ms. Sylvia has lived in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia area most of her life and has had a lot of interesting experiences which allowed her to become a free thinker. Ms. Sylvia will explain the importance of having an open mind and being awakened to study and be educated on many topics. These ideals of Sylvia truly match hand in hand with the values of Blexit PA! Blexit PA is a wonderful organization that works to better communities, particularly minority communities, in PA! Some of the goals are to promote school choice, cleaning and making communities safer, and to of course promote freethinkers. The match between Sylvia and Blexit was truly made in Heaven! And we can’t wait for you to hear her wonderful background and all the fun things she has planned for the Blexit PA organization in the weeks to come! 💜 You won’t wanna miss it! (If you wish to become a Blexit member contact the host of our show, Paul, at the email [email protected])

The wonderfully talented, smart, sweet, amusing, and one of a kind... Ms. Stella Chiavon joins the show this week! 😃🎙 Stella is a fellow St. Joseph’s University Hawk(Sophomore) and majors in English. Stella is an amazing writer and is in the process of publishing some of her wonderful creative pieces! During the episode we talk about a specific piece of hers that details a true story of her deathly fear of what she calls “winged demons👀😬”(aka butterflies,lol😂🦋) and how her fear came to be after a simple family trip to the Smithsonian Museum, turned into lifelong (hilarious😭🤣) trauma with most insects! 🐛 Stella details some of her fav authors including Cassandra Clare(whom she meets in a picture on the poster below) and shares many other tips of how she comes up with great ideas for writing. Stella is not only a talented writer, but she’s a special dancer as well! 💃 Stella has danced and instructed students at the Babylon School of Dance in Chalfont, Pa. She’s also, lowkey, a magnificent car karaoke singer as well🔥🎤🤣, which was discovered after her multiple trips of commuting to campus during the pandemic times, lol! A chat on attending college during a pandemic, as well as a Crazy Question segment will be included! Be sure not to miss out on this very amusing and entertaining episode! 😉👍

Aubrey Haggerty, talented and wonderful cousin of our host Paul, joins the show this week as our first guest calling in from a whole different country! Aubrey has soo many interesting things going on in her life right now, including living across the globe in Australia!! 🇦🇺 Aubrey details all about Koalas 🐨, P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way 🐠, and how life is going in the Aussie world! Aubrey lives in Australia with her wonderful boyfriend Douglas who is a trained dog nanny and whisper! 🐶 Aubrey is taking agriculture classes with the hopes of living on a farm with loads of amazing farm animals! 🐷🐮🌽 She currently has a family of baby chickens named after Peter Pan characters🐣✨, but is looking for many more cute creatures to raise! ❤️☺️ From learning about visas, time zones, and finding love after dropping your laptop😂, and our famous Crazy Questions🤪 segment.... Our episode with Aubrey includes so many interesting and entertaining moments you won’t want to miss!

Shannon Haggerty Berends joins the show this week to give the lowdown on all things sweets. As a celebrity Baker who attended a prestigious culinary institute in NYC, Shannon has learned so many tips and tricks to make the most amazing desserts! You will be salivating while you listen, so be prepared! From working at previous Bakeries, Pepperidge Farms, Pepsi Co, and many other great foods factories... Shannon had learned so much and now has her own store in the Salted Baking Co.! Listen how Shannon shares her inspirational story in creating that company and how you can go and purchase some of her delicious treats on her Salted Baking Co. Etsy website page today! As one of the most happy and fun people I know, listen as Shannon gives some great stories about her amazing family, talks about the fun of Disney as the Superfan she is, and of course hear as she completes our famous Crazy Question segment! All this and much more on a jam packed pod you won’t wanna miss!

We welcome to the show Jimmy Friel-Wall! Jimmy is the awesome cousin of our host Paul, and is the Strategic Account Manager at Marlin Capital Solutions in New Jersey! Listen to Jimmy’s amazing story of becoming the very successful person that he his today! As our first guest from the LGBTQ community, Jimmy details the story of how he came out as gay to his family and society! Jimmy lets us in on all the details with his special and beautiful family, including mentioning the great process of adoption! Jimmy and Paul have a civil, joyful, and loving discussion on political topics of the day! Listen as Jimmy gives his personal perspectives (with a leaning democratic/liberal tilt) and how we can use different perspectives to understand both sides and try our best to come together! And of course there is our famous crazy question segment that Jimmy undertakes as well! It’s one loaded and extremely fun pod you won’t wanna miss!