What A Week!

About What A Week!

What A Week! is a long-form conversation from Northeastern Pennsylvania. Neighbors, candidates, doctors, and people who got tired of waiting. Data centers, schools, housing, informed consent, and whatever actually happened this week. Two to three hours. No script. Hosted by Mark. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatAWeekPodcast X: https://x.com/WhatAWeekNEPA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhatAWeekPodcastNEPA Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/WHATAWEEKPODCAST Patreon (unedited): https://www.patreon.com/whataweekpodcast Mark: https://x.com/markieD2

Publisher

WHAT A WEEK! PODCAST

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

22 Jun 2022

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

84 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Episode 114: Dwayne McDavitt – Bikers for Trump, Faith Family Freedom & PA Politics

   Episode 114 of What a Week! features Dwayne McDavitt — longtime NEPA resident, 27-year law enforcement officer, founder of Bikers for Trump in Pennsylvania, and leader of Thunder and Liberty PAC — in a wide-ranging, no-spin conversation.Dwayne shares the story of meeting Donald Trump in Harrisburg in 2016 (the day Prince died), how he built a local Bikers for Trump group focused on community support rather than trouble, and why faith, family, and freedom remain his core principles. He talks about Trump’s early reputation as a builder and generous figure, the media’s later shift, and the importance of family involvement in business and life.The discussion covers PA politics and culture: criticism of modern Democratic policies and figures, support for local Republicans like Rob Bresnahan and Stacy Garrity, education shortfalls in Pennsylvania, welfare and family breakdown issues, Scranton leadership under Mayor Paige Cognetti, energy resources, and opposition to data center expansion. Drawing from his corrections and law enforcement experience, Dwayne discusses trauma and PTSD among first responders and veterans, the impact of fatherless homes, and the need for empathy and accountability.He also touches on voting, election closeness, online attacks, socialism concerns, taxes, immigration, and the value of community service through biker runs and local aid.No filters. Just one man’s perspective on America, Pennsylvania, and the values that hold it together. Watch the full episode and weigh in below. Subscribe and hit the bell for more.#WhatAWeek #DwayneMcDavitt #BikersForTrump #FaithFamilyFreedom #NEPAPolitics #ThunderAndLiberty

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Ep. 113: Joe Sabia – Archbald, Data Centers, and Why He’s Running for State Rep

   In Episode 113 of What A Week!, Joe Sabia of Archbald sits down for a long conversation that starts with a data center in his backyard and ends in a yurt. He is running for Pennsylvania’s 112th House seat. He says he never planned on it. The project is about four-tenths of a mile from his house. He went to a meeting, got furious, and joined neighbors in a lawsuit. When a council seat opened he put in a résumé — 21 years in the military, two businesses, a bachelor’s from SIU and two master’s degrees from Marywood — and got turned down. So he ran. The local fight is specific. Kids getting off the bus toward Jermyn on a 45-mph state road. A lawsuit with about eight neighbors now in limbo after a motion to dismiss over “proximity.” Two-hundred-foot setbacks. Council dinners. NDAs. Water, a mine fire, lithium and hydrants that cannot keep up, pump trucks toward Moss Lake. A five-hour tour of the Dunmore landfill — radiation detectors, test wells, methane piped off-site — and his argument that people aim their anger at the nearest name instead of the people who wrote the rules. Then the conversation leaves the campaign. Dunmore childhood. An alcoholic mother, a workaholic father, grandparents next door and on Chestnut Street. Motocross he was barely allowed to race. A family that told him to join the military and then stopped inviting him home. Rescue-swimmer school. Raising his own kids — travel softball, gymnastics, a stepdaughter finishing an engineering master’s at Penn State — the way nobody raised him. In 2024 he did a psychedelic retreat. He talks about the anger he carried, a vision of his mother, and coming out of it without taking every stranger’s bad day personally. He closes with what he says a state rep should actually do: listen, post a weekly update from Harrisburg, keep data centers out of residential neighborhoods, and not let seniors get taxed out of the houses they already paid for. He does not sound like a brochure. He sounds like a neighbor who got tired of waiting.

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Ep. 112: Jessica from PCIC – Informed Consent, School Exemptions & the Fight in Harrisburg

   Jessica from the Pennsylvania Coalition for Informed Consent sits down on What A Week! and does not start with a slogan. She starts with a kid who was always sick. She grew up fully vaccinated. Allergies, sinus infections, a list of antibiotics that made her break out in hives, sinus surgery at ten. Three miscarriages by 25. Pregnant with her oldest, her doctor said get the flu shot or the baby could die — and that was the entire briefing. Her husband, also in healthcare, sat her down with a documentary. They selectively vaccinated: Hib, DTaP, polio. Six to eight doses. She says she regrets it. There was no overnight “change.” There were little things, a child who wasn’t talking, a year waiting on a diagnosis, then autism, a severe speech delay, ADHD. Pediatricians who told her to give Tylenol before the appointment. Practices that kick families out. Parents who used to hide on secret message boards. Mark and Jessica go from that kitchen-table story into the machinery around it: the 2014 Disneyland measles outbreak and the nationwide push to kill religious exemptions, why PCIC formed in 2015, what COVID dragged into the open, pharma ad dollars on cable news, MTHFR and folic acid in the food supply, school lunches that are Pop-Tarts while kitchens sit empty, a mom who taught middle school for 23 years and watched an autism classroom explode, and two years of pulling her kids into a cyber charter rather than send an autistic son back into that. Under all of it is the same test: informed consent only counts if you can say no and still keep the pediatrician, the job, and the school. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw53ujAi8LA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw53ujAi8LA) Pennsylvania Coalition for Informed Consent (PCIC) PCIC is a volunteer, nonpartisan grassroots group founded in 2015. Jessica is legislative director and a state director. They are not a political party and they are not an “anti-vax” PAC — they say they are neither for nor against vaccination. The mission is to preserve informed consent and transparency in health decisions, including medical procedures, data privacy, food, soil, water, and air, and to hold Pennsylvania legislators to that duty. Chapters, volunteers, and advocates meet legislators in Harrisburg about once a month. Website: https://informedconsentpa.org (https://informedconsentpa.org/) Join / volunteer: https://informedconsentpa.org/join (https://informedconsentpa.org/join) Email: InformedConsent2015@gmail.com (mailto:InformedConsent2015@gmail.com) Donate: https://informedconsentpa.org/donate (https://informedconsentpa.org/donate) #WhatAWeek #PCIC #InformedConsent #Pennsylvania #NEPA #WhatAWeekPodcast

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3.7 / 5

3 ratings

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3.4 / 5

5 ratings

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