Sundays With Poppi

Sundays With Poppi

Life stories over bagels & lox with our Poppi, Dr. Rick Cohen.

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July 18, 2022 12 mins

Welcome back to another episode of Sundays With Poppi, this time live from THE HAMPTONS! That's right folks, Poppi is out in the Hamptons on vacation for a whole week (thank you, Bilzins!). Join us today for a trip down memory lane of Poppi's favorite memories in the Hamptons, including his summers at Lenny Ehrlich's house in Amagansett, and of course his favorite spot, LUNCH (AKA Lobster Roll). Bear with us for this episode...it's...

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Welcome to another very special episode of Sundays with Poppi! Today's episode is extra special, because today we celebrate Father's Day with our Poppi! Tune in to hear some of Poppi's favorite stories about his own father, Phil Cohen, and some of his favorite parts about being a father and a poppi himself. Happy Father's Day everyone!

Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Korn) and Grandchild #3 (Jamie Korn) live from Westport, CT!

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April 18, 2022 10 mins

We are back with another episode of Sundays with Poppi! In honor of Passover, we hear about all of Poppi's passover memories of his childhood seders (spoiler alert: he hated them!) and how he feels about the holiday today. We also check in on what he's reading & of course a few trivia questions...enjoy!

Hosted by grandchild #1: Jordan Korn. 

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August 19, 2021 32 mins
Welcome back to an EXTRA special episode of Sundays with Poppi…today is our Poppi’s Natal Day! 84 years young! Tune in for a trip down memory lane of Poppi’s childhood birthdays. Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Korn), Grandchild #5 (Emily Korn), and Grandchild #8 (Ali Korn). Special guests: Shari Korn and Mema!
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July 30, 2021 14 mins
In today’s episode, Poppi hosted his very own game show with rapid fire “did you know” trivia questions for our listeners! The listener who answers the most correctly wins a…wait for it…kiss from Poppi! Keep us posted on how many you know :) enjoy! Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Korn)
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June 27, 2021 17 mins
Welcome back to Sundays with Poppi! Today we chatted with Poppi about one of his favorite topics: Movies & Books! We all know Poppi reads more (and faster!) than anyone, but we bet you can’t guess his favorite book…tune in to find out! Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Korn) and Grandchild #8 (Ali Korn).
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January 22, 2021 10 mins
Welcome to another very special episode of Sundays With Poppi, this time coming to you live from Florida with Mema & Poppi in person! Finally! In honor of the big inauguration of our new President Joe Biden (thank god!) this week, we got Poppi’s take on the inauguration and heard about all of the inauguration he remembers watching throughout his life. Tune in for more! Hosted by Jordan Korn, Emily Korn, Ali Korn, and Nicki Blitzer....
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December 27, 2020 16 mins

On today's episode of Sundays with Poppi, we hear all about Mema & Poppi's wedding day in honor of their 59th wedding anniversary this week! Tune in for some great stories about the wedding day, night and honeymoon. We also hear about Poppi's NYE resolutions (spoiler alert: he doesn't have any lol). Keep listening after the sign-off for a quick bonus clip from Poppi - he had a few more memories about how beautiful Mema is, so w...

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November 17, 2020 11 mins

Welcome to another episode of Sunday's With Poppi!

Today we did a special birthday episode to celebrate Jordan's birthday (which was last week!). We hear all about the day she was born through Poppi's eyes. We also come full circle and talk about the current presidential election, since President Trump was elected on Jordan's birthday in 2016 and president Biden won the election on her birthday in 2020. What a time to be alive! Tun...

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September 14, 2020 10 mins

Welcome back to Sundays With Poppi (coming to you live from Ithaca for the first time!) and thank you for tuning in! As we approach Rosh Hashanah and a new Jewish year (Year 5781 - let the record show that I knew the year before Poppi did!), we took this episode to chat with Poppi about his high holiday memories from childhood and get some words of wisdom on the current state of the world. Of course there are plenty of jokes and tr...

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August 18, 2020 10 mins

Welcome to a VERY very special virtual episode of Sundays With Poppi. Why is this episode so special, you ask? Well, it is a BIRTHDAY episode in honor of our very own Poppi's special day! We are celebrating Poppi's belated Natal Day (it was yesterday!) by hearing about some fun memories from the birthdays of his childhood. While he can't remember many of them, he'll always remember his mom visiting him for his birthday every summer...

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June 29, 2020 20 mins

Welcome back to yet another virtual episode of Sundays With Poppi! We are still going strong in quarantine and have loved catching up with Poppi over FaceTime. We've already heard about the most special women in Poppi's life, but today we hear about the three most important men in his life: his Son-in-Laws! Gary, Marc and Jonny, this one's for you! We hear about Poppi's early memories about each son-in-law and how he grew to love e...

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June 3, 2020 29 mins
Welcome back to Sundays With Poppi for yet another VIRTUAL episode! After 85 days of quarantine during a global pandemic, our country is now in a state of emergency and crisis as the death of George Floyd has sparked anti-racism protests around the nation and the world. As this is by far the craziest thing we have ever experienced in our lifetime, we of course turned to Poppi for some much needed words of wisdom. Poppi not only sha...
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April 5, 2020 15 mins
Welcome back to Sundays With Poppi for our first ever VIRTUAL episode! While we are all stuck at home in self quarantine during the COVID-19 crisis, we have been missing our weekly Poppi podcasts and decided to make it happen via FaceTime. Tune in to hear Dr. Cohen’s take on the virus along with some words of wisdom to help us through. Thank you for bearing with us through this temporary version of the pod! Hosted by Grandchild #1 ...
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February 11, 2020 21 mins
Welcome back to Sundays with Poppi! For our first episode of 2020 (!) we have a very special vacation episode. Since I am lucky enough to be on vacation in Florida visiting Mema & Poppi, we got to do our first off-site episode at their house in Boca. Tune in to hear all about Poppi's vacations growing up, his European adventures with his kids & the Newmans and even his St.Barts getaways with Mema. Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Ko...
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December 1, 2019 28 mins
On this week's special Thanksgiving episode of Sundays with Poppi, we had many special guests (almost all of Poppi's grandchildren, except we were really missing miss Ali Korn!), to catch up with Poppi before our Turkey day feast. We learn all about the birth of Mema and Poppi's three daughters: Shari, Lorin and Caryn. Tune in for fun facts about each daughter, a long awaited interview led by Poppi's only grandson, Evan Blitzer, an...
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September 22, 2019 19 mins
After our Summer hiatus, we're finally back! In honor of the last day of Summer, we decided to dedicate this week's episode of Sunday's with Poppi to the Summers of Poppi's past! We hear about how Poppi spent his childhood summers in Brooklyn, at camp (where he won Color War with little Ralphie Lauren!) and on fun family vacations at The Concord. We even learn that Poppi and Mema attended the SAME camp when they were little! Hosted...
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June 2, 2019 19 mins
After a brief hiatus, we're back! On this week's episode of Sundays with Poppi, we dive into Mema and Poppi's early years in Great Neck. We hear about how Poppi got his pediatric practice started (thanks to the help of his beautiful wife and daughters!), what it was like to be the coolest couple in Great Neck and hear about "Mystery Nights" with their crew.  Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan) with special guest, Ellyn Cohen (Mema!) 
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February 19, 2019 22 mins
On this week's episode of Sundays With Poppi, we hear all about the rest of Poppi's life in DC and his move to Great Neck (or 'Big Neck' as he likes to call it!). Tune in for some great stories about cousin Harold Brown (U.S. Secretary Defense from 1977-1981), Poppi's first house calls as a pediatrician in Great Neck and the birth of aunt caryn! Hosted by Grandchild #1 (Jordan Korn), Grandchild #7 (Rachel Bilzin) and Grandchild #9 ...
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February 18, 2019 27 mins
This week's episode of Sundays With Poppi is all about falling in love with Mema. We learn about their dating life (which was very different back then), their wedding day and their time in D.C. with Shari and Lorin. Happy listening! Hosted by Grandchild #3 (Jamie Korn) and Grandchild #4 (Bari Blitzer) with special guest, Mema (Ellyn Cohen)!
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