Welcome to the Health is a Skill podcast with host Todd Vande Hei! Todd is the CEO of Stark, which exists to change the future of health and fitness in the communities they serve. For the last 15 years, Todd has been on a journey to discover what it means to be in a state of peak health. After suffering from a series of seizures and being diagnosed with high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation in his early 30’s, Todd decided it was time to make a change. Those changes fell into one of fou ...
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Vox Pop is WAMC's live call-in talk program. Host Ray Graf welcomes guests with expertise in areas ranging from astronomy and birding to taxes and cooking. Our experts take questions posed by WAMC listeners. Every Monday is a "Medical Monday." Every Friday is a "Food Friday."There are several ways to join the conversation:Call in during the show from 2-3 p.m. at 1-800-348-2551 (1-800-34TALK-1)Email voxpop@wamc.org during the showTweet us @WAMCVoxPopYou can subscribe to the podcast here: iTun ...
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Ski Utah's new Last Chair will take you inside Utah's resorts for the story behind the Greatest Snow on Earth®. In a weekly series of audio features, host Tom Kelly will bring you behind the scenes with resort leaders, athletes and fascinating figures who are the stories inside Utah skiing and snowboarding. Whether you're a passionate local snow rider, or a guest to the Utah mountain landscape, you'll learn about mountain life through the stories of the men and women who shape the Ski Utah e ...
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We welcome back travel professional Jean Gagnon to take your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Outdoors with Jeremy Hurst and Angelena Ross 9/17/24
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We welcome back Jeremy Hurst and Angelena Ross of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Ray Graf hosts.
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Medical Monday 9/16/24: Breast Health with Dr. Lynn Choi
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We talk breast health and surgery with Dr. Lynn Choi of Albany Medical College. Ray Graf hosts.
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The annual Hudson Valley Garlic Fest is happening September 28 and 29 in Saugerties, NY. In celebration, we offer you this pungent edition of Food Friday. Ray Graf hosts.
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You have questions? Our team of experts returns to try find answers. Ray Graf hosts.
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Orthopedic health—our ability to move our bodies well and often—affects nearly every other function of our health, from sleep and nutrition to stress and digestion and everything in between. That’s why we’re spending this whole episode of Health is a Skill breaking down exactly what orthopedic health is and how to incorporate it into our health too…
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Cold and flu season will soon be upon us. The summer saw cases of West Nile Virus and EEE in our region. COVID is still on the radar of health professionals. We welcome back Dr. Eric Yager of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences for an estimate of the situation. Ray Graf hosts.
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Automotive repair with Gordon Fricke 9/10/24
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Gordon Fricke is back to help you keep your wheels rolling. Ray Graf hosts.
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Medical Monday 9/9/24: Dementia with Dr. David Hart
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We welcome Dr. David Hart of the Stratton VA Medical Center. A board certified neurologist, Dr. Hart sees general neurology and memory patients, with a focus on Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Ray Graf hosts.
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Food Friday 9/6/24: Peak Harvest with Chef Ric Orlando
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Chef Ric Orlando is back to share his ideas about what to do with all the good stuff that is being harvested right now. Ray Graf hosts.
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The gardening experts are back to take your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Dr. Paul Anderson is back on the show this week, this time talking all about gut health and how to optimize our gut through lifestyle, exercise, nutrition, and stress management. Todd’s own health changed when he cut out gluten and found chronic symptoms like headaches and joint pain were no longer plaguing him. For this episode Todd invites Dr. An…
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Home Improvement with Darren Tracy 9/4/24
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Need a little advice about home maintenance and repair? We've got a guy. Darren Tracy is back to take your calls. Ray Graf hosts.
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Julie Hart and Rich Guthrie are back to answer your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Food Friday 8/30/24: Baking with Chef Gail Sokol
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Chef Gail Sokol is back and she is absolutely mad about Basque Cheesecake. What's that? Your host has no clue. We'll learn about it together. Ray Graf hosts.
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Dr. Valerie Rapson joins us to discuss recent astronomy news and answer your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Hormones, Specifically Women's Hormones w/ Dr. Gordon Gunn
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Dr. Gordon Gunn joins Todd for this week’s Health is a Skill podcast to talk all things hormones, specifically women’s hormones. There are millions of hormones in our bodies, and they all perform different functions to regulate our emotions, body composition, and sex drive, but postmenopausal women may be the most difficult to treat demographic whe…
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Climate change and clean energy with Dan Delurey 8/28/24
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Dan Delurey joins us to answer your questions about climate change and emerging clean energy technologies. Dan is Senior Fellow for Energy & Climate at Vermont Law and Graduate School. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.
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Antiques with Colin Stair and Lisa Thomas 8/27/24
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Colin Stair and Lisa Thomas join us to answer your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Medical Monday 8/26/24: Ear, Nose and Throat with Dr. Nora Perkins
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We're joined by Dr. Nora Perkins from Albany ENT and Allergy Services. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.
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Food Friday 8/23/24: Scandinavian with Julia Joern and Chef Henning Nordanger
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We learn a little about Scandinavian cooking today with Chef Henning Nordanger and Julia Joern of Julia's Local in Round Top, NY. Ray Graf hosts.
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The gardening experts are back to take your questions. Ray Graf hosts.
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Nutrients w/ Alice Nguyen NMD & Amir Mofidi
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Today on the show Todd is joined by the two people who helped transform his body from a nutrient-perspective: Alice Nguyen and Amir Mofidi. Alice serves as the head of naturopathic medicine at Stark, while Amir leads their personal branding. Together Alice and Amir have helped Todd rebuild his body composition from the ground up by focusing on the …
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We explore the world of massage therapy today with Laura Brown of Capital Region Therapeutic Massage. Ray Graf hosts.
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For this week’s episode of Health is a Skill, Todd sits down with Dr. Paul Anderson to talk all things detoxification. A lot of us might think that we don’t need to do much to detoxify, since our bodies are pretty good at that process naturally. But given the amount of chemicals that have been introduced into our environments in the last 70-100 yea…
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Cardiovascular Health w/ Dr. Jack Wolfson
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On this week’s episode of Health is a Skill, Todd is breaking down cardiovascular health, and why this aspect of our health is so important. For most of us, cardiovascular health is something we don’t necessarily think about, unless we have poor cardiovascular health, like high blood pressure. But cardiovascular health impacts the rest of your heal…
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Body Composition & The Difference Between Health and Fitness | Amir Mofidi
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Todd is joined by Stark’s director of personal training, Amir Mofidi. Amir has been in the health and fitness industry for over 24 years, and during that time he’s acquired an eclectic and diverse body of knowledge, including on the topic of today’s episode: body composition. America has a severe body composition problem. We don’t know what a healt…
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The Wheel of Health & Overcoming Barriers to Healthy Living
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Welcome to the Health is a Skill podcast with host Todd Vande Hei! Todd is the CEO of Stark, which exists to change the future of health and fitness in the communities they serve. For the last 15 years, Todd has been on a journey to discover what it means to be in a state of peak health. After suffering from a series of seizures and being diagnosed…
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SE5:EP11 - Winter Games Returning to Utah in 2034
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It’s now official! The Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are returning to Utah in 2034. The International Olympic Committee made the call on July 24. In this episode of Last Chair, we’ll explore the games to come looking at a few venues outside of the traditional skiing and snowboarding realm. With all of the 2002 Olympic venues still in place an…
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Coming Soon! The Health As A Skill Podcast!!
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Welcome to the Health is a Skill podcast with host Todd Vande Hei! Todd is the CEO of Stark, which exists to change the future of health and fitness in the communities they serve. For the last 15 years, Todd has been on a journey to discover what it means to be in a state of peak health. After suffering from a series of seizures and being diagnosed…
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SE5EP10 - Devin Logan & Caroline Claire: Kindred Spirits
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Olympians Devin Logan and Caroline Claire are kindred spirits, finishing each other’s sentences and sharing a common passion for hucking themselves off jumps and poofing through powder pillows in the Little Cottonwood backcountry. So how did the two Long Island girls, seven years apart in age, find each other and make their way to Utah? The duo are…
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SE5:EP9 - Junior Bounous: Living the History of Skiing
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The red tram pulled out of the station, heading up to Hidden Peak on its seven-minute run. Perched along the front left window was the legendary Junior Bounous, looking down and surveying the ski runs he plotted out 53 seasons ago. From his base at the Lodge at Snowbird, the 98-1/2-year-old Bounous still gets out to Snowbird and Alta two or three d…
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SE5:EP8 - OurSundays: Finding the Joy in Skiing
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A big part of the history of skiing is the fellowship of ski clubs. And before you write it off as a thing of the past, meet the OurSundays Ski & Board Club. This started out to be a podcast on diversity, exploring OurSundays’ affiliation with the National Brotherhood of Snowsports. But it quickly became a celebration of why we all love to ski and …
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SE5:EP7 - 2034 Winter Games: Will the Olympics Return to Utah?
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The spirit of the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City still resonates across the state. This July, there will be more cause for excitement as it’s anticipated that the International Olympic Committee may name Salt Lake City-Utah as the 2034 host for the Winter Games. To learn more, Last Chair gathered in the Governor’s Mansio…
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SE5:EP6 - Craig Gordon: Helping Others Understand the Danger
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The Christmas blizzard of 2003 still ranks as one of the biggest winter storms in Utah’s history – legendary enough to have its own Wikipedia page. It dumped four feet of snow in the valley and upwards of twice that in the mountains, closing resorts. But it also brought tragedy. On Dec. 26, 2003 an entire mountainside of snow broke off the flanks o…
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SE5:EP5 - Evan Thayer: Bringing Us Utah Powder
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It’s early season at Alta. OpenSnow forecaster Evan Thayer has left his meteorological screens in the hotel and is bashing his way down some fresh powder under the Collins chair. Life is good. If there is anyone we tens of thousands of Utah skiers owe a ‘thank you’ to, it would be Thayer, a weather nerd who hadn’t really planned his career path thi…
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SE5:EP4 - James Coleman: The Freedom to Ski
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SE5:EP3 - Chris 'Gunny' Gunnarson: Building on Progression
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Head to any Woodward Mountain Center and you’ll immediately be drawn to the kids in the Jib Park and Peace Park pushing themselves to new heights. Since Woodward’s humble beginning over 50 years ago as a gymnastics camp in Pennsylvania, progression has been central to its mission. Today, Woodward centers span the globe including Utah’s Woodward Par…
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SE5:EP2 - Alex Schlopy: Rollercoaster Ride of X Games Champion
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Thinking back on it today, X Games champion Alex Schlopy still shakes his head. A homegrown product of Park City, Utah, in a month-long span in 2011 he won an X Games title in Aspen, became a world champion on his home hill at Park City Mountain and soared to Dew Tour gold in Snowbasin. In a roller coaster decade that saw the highest of highs and l…
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SE5:EP1 - Sophie Goldschmidt: America's Best in Utah
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It was a typical day at the USANA Center of Excellence in Park City, Utah as Olympic and Paralympic athletes were sweating it out on the training center floor, preparing for their winter competition seasons ahead. Sophie Goldschmidt, the president and CEO of U.S. Ski & Snowboard, talked to Last Chair from a meeting room looking out at some of the g…
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SE4:EP13 - Big Snow: Jim Steenburgh & Chase Thomason
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The 2022-23 ski season was the biggest on record in Utah! So, just how big was the snowfall? And what’s the science behind it all? Last Chair got together with Professor Powder himself, Jim Steenburgh, along with KUTV2 meteorologist Chase Thomason to review the records and share their own stories of skiing and riding Utah’s Greatest Snow on Earth.…
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SE4:EP12 - Sandy Flint: Stio on Sustainability
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Over the past few years you’ve probably noticed the brand Stio on the slopes. Born in the Mountain West, the company has become known for its extensive colors and a serious focus on technical materials that are sustainable. Last Chair did a visit with Stio Senior Materials Manager Sandy Flint to learn more about its products, which are both revolut…
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SE4EP11 (Bonus) - Cottonwoods Plow Team: Ride-along with Shawn Wright
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The Ski Utah Last Chair podcast takes a ride all the way up to Solitude and Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon with UDOT Cottonwood plow driver Shawn Wright. A veteran drive, Wright takes us up in a snowstorm riding shotgun in a 30-ton Mack plow truck as he talks about the life of a plow driver and how exhilarating it can be riding the canyons in th…
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SE4EP11 - Cottonwoods Plow Team: Keeping Our Canyons Open
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Utah gets a lot of snow! And as skiers and riders, our objective is to get up to the resorts as quickly as possible. But who takes care of that 30 inches of snow that fell overnight? And who mitigates that cornice hanging a thousand of feet above the highway? Last Chair took a ride with the Utah Department of Transportation Cottonwoods plow team, t…
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SE4:EP10 - Dr. McKenzie Skiles: Science of Snowmelt
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As skiers and riders, we hate to think of melting snow. But to Dr. McKenzie Skiles, snow melt is the lifeblood of existence in the mountain west. Last Chair ventured up Little Cottonwood Canyon to join Dr. Skiles in a three-meter deep snow pit to talk about snow melt, the impact of desert dust and what the future holds in store. An Alaskan native w…
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SE4:EP9 - Henri Rivers: Diversity in the Mountains
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Since the day he found an old pair of skis in his family’s hotel attic, Henri Rivers has found a special joy in skiing. It didn’t matter to him that he was the only black skier on his high school ski team. He just loved to ski. Today, as president of the National Brotherhood of Skiers (NBS), Rivers is making a difference helping the ski industry be…
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SE4:EP8 - Drew Hardesty: Conversation in a Snow Pit
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With each successive two-foot snowfall, skiers and riders at resorts rejoice. But in the Utah backcountry with no avalanche mitigation, that fresh snow often sits on a sugary, crusty weak layer and can be prone to sliding. Last Chair headed into the Utah backcountry with Utah Avalanche Center pro Drew Hardesty for a conversation in a snow pit, anal…
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In October it started snowing in Utah. And it really hasn’t stopped, with over 225 inches in Little Cottonwood Canyon by mid-December. So, what’s going on? Last Chair invited Open Snow forecaster Evan Thayer and atmospheric scientist Jim Steenburgh for a Special Snowfall Edition podcast to dive into the continuous powder forecast and share a few st…
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SE4:EP6 - Bill Wyatt: Gateway to Utah - The New SLC
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The new Salt Lake City International airport provides the closest gateway in the world to such a diversity of skiing and riding. Opened in September 2020, the new SLC is one of the world’s most innovative and eco-friendly airports, providing a welcome mat for upwards of 30,000 passengers a day. Last Chair sat down with Executive Director Bill Wyatt…
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SE4:EP5 - Tim Hawkes: Saving the Great Salt Lake
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When you fly into Salt Lake City from the north, you get a poignant view of the vanishing water in the Great Salt Lake. The problem is real. So what is Utah doing about it? Last Chair traveled to Antelope Island, in the heart of the lake, to speak with Utah state representative Tim Hawkes, a passionate advocate, on the very realistic steps the stat…
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