Chrissie chats with The Philly Captain about Philly, Kensington (specifically), The Phillies, Zack Hample and more!
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CMP 756 - The Philly Captain
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Put it on while you go to the bathroom or take a shower. I don't care if you actually hear it, just give it a view for Christ's sakes. [LAUGH] Give that a listen. Subscribe to my page as always, you know the thing. This podcast is starting a little bit late because I was chest feeding. No, imagine if I actually really said chest feeding, like seriously, okay. I'm so excited to have this guy on. Frank and I have been a fan of this guy for a minute. We're gonna get into all of the things. We're gonna get into Zach Campbell for sure. We're gonna get into all things, Philly, being a Philly fan. I asked him how I should introduce him, and he was of no help, of course. But he's a bit of a firecracker, he's a true Philly guy, he's a baseball enthusiast. He is perhaps the only foil we have to Zach Campbell. I'm so excited he is joining me today on the show. Welcome, the Philly captain, John is his name, but he is the Philly captain. Now, when you asked me how I wanted to be introduced, I thought you met my name. I didn't know you wanted me to write a bio. I suck at this. I believe the question was not proposed to me properly in my defense. Yeah, so yeah, I'm just a YouTuber. That's all. I'm a YouTuber guy, one of those social media jerk offs I call them. And yeah, that's all. Nice to look at you. We're in the same family. How did you? Let's get a little meaning. We're both YouTubers. We're both. Oh, you, I have, you're actually, you're, you're, you're a working comedian. And I actually, when I was a kid, I wanted to be a comedian when I was a little kid when I was in the sixth grade, my parents gave me Richard Belzer's book, had to be a stand up comic. Oh my God. I carried that with me all the time. And I read everywhere I went with me. And I had Richard Belzer's book. And I have the, the, I definitely sometimes people call me a comedian because I make funny YouTube videos. And I think it's disrespectful to the art of comedians or the comedians themselves, because you have to work on a bit. You have to sit there on those goddamn open mics and rooms. And I've done it. I've done it a few times, but I had ADHD and I can't sit there all night to perform an open mic in front of 20 other comics who don't give a shit about anything else but their own set. Yeah. It's brutal. It's horrific. I don't know why anyone does it. It's absolutely, it's absolute hell. But you're a hilarious, um, you, you, I definitely see an alternate universe where you are a professional state of comic because you, you have the chops, you're quick on your feet. You're naturally gregarious and entertaining and charming. So, you know, and it's never too late is, you can always, you know what I mean? And now you don't even need the open mics. You could have a friggin TikTok that goes viral and then you're selling out a comedy club the next week. So yeah, but I, I, I, I know how other comedians perceive TikTok comedians and, and I know they're like, fuck him. And I don't want to, I don't want to, I, I have so much respect for comedians that I also like occasionally I do professional wrestling and I, I'm really, you actually, I thought you were just saying that because no, no, no, I, I worked on WrestleMania week and Philadelphia in front of a 400 seat house with former WWE wrestlers and, and that's kind of the I see wrestling and stand up comedy kind of the same because you got to pay your dues and work your way up and do anything is when you, you know, if you have a bad set, you don't have a sore back for four or five days. That's the best. Yeah. Absolutely. Wow. Have you ever done any of that stuff? Are you like breaking anything on your head or breaking something? No, no, no. I, I meant to affect when I go to these shows, I wrestle, I was a friend of mine, he's a wrestler. He's a jerk off to his name's Philly Mike and he'll cut himself, he'll go through pains of class and there's like 16 people and he made $25 and I said, you're, you're, you're going to have, you're going to have that score on the back for the rest of your life. And, and what do you, I mean, too, what are you doing? Like have, I, I, like, I hate the guy, but I, I have so much respect for him. I wish he would stop hurting himself, although it is fun watching and he's like, look, he's like, look, $25 is $25. Someone in the chat wants to know what is your wrestling name on the Philly captain. I manage, I manage one slot from a, there's a wrestling league called GTS wrestling. That's the bigger federation I'm part of. I also wrestle in labor of love, which is a new independent wrestling organization out of Philadelphia. I manage one slot, the hairiest, scariest man in wrestling. You know how wrestlers shave off their body hair on slot doesn't do that. And all the other wrestlers get freaked out because he has so much body hair. Oh, I thought could also be like a porn star named to be on it. One slots are pretty horrible name. I told him when I said, but he picked that name before I was his manager, but I did tell him to stop shaving his chest hair and his shoulder hair because it creeps people out. Yeah, if he was, if he was completely shaved, he would be slippery or maybe he could get away easier. I don't know anything about wrestling. He would look like you ever see like a turtle without a shell. It just doesn't look right. You got to, you got to have one slot and hair to, to, I can't believe we're talking one slot. Yeah, one slot needs his hair. It's good. It's a good thing. How did you, how did you get the nickname Philly captain? How did you get into making content for YouTube? So about six years ago, I got one of those roadcoos that had the YouTube attached to the TV and I was watching YouTube and I saw this guy named Adam the Woop and he's, he, he does content every day and he'll go to like Disney World or travel route 66 and show you the back roads and me and my girl were watching TV and she said to me, I said to her, yo, how does this guy make a living? Like, how does he afford and she goes, oh, he's a YouTuber. Like I didn't even realize that was a job and I was like, oh, that's cool. How do you do that? She goes, you just start making videos. So the next day, I started making little YouTube videos, the horrible, I had a piece of shit phone and it maybe was 720, it was really bad. And what I would do is I would make videos about the history of Philadelphia and I spent a lot of time living in Philadelphia and a lot of the stuff that you see like statues and monuments and parks, you don't really know the history to them. So I would do research and then tell my people about the history of Philadelphia and you know, then I cover news stories like if there's a flood or if there's like a cleanup on Kensington Ave, I talk about that and I also go to the Phillies games. But the way I got the name Philly Captain was I was kayaking on the Delaware River and I put my kayak on this pier and this old guy was fishing and he said to me, is that your vessel? And I said, yeah, and I said, what my kayak and he said, yes, kayak, is that your vessel? Yeah. I said, yeah, I guess it is. And then he said, well, I guess that makes you the captain then. And I said, I guess so. And I started carrying the kayak up to the car and he said, all right, captain, I'll see you later. And it just felt right. He does feel right. Captain just felt right. So I was doing a podcast at the time. And I was doing a podcast with another guy named John. So when that podcast, they called me captain and I told them that story and they started calling me captain. And then when I tried to start my YouTube channel, there was already a captain channel. So I was like, what could I call it? And I was like, I'm pretty Philly. So I went with Philly captain. That is so great. I imagine I was picturing the guy like he's a Simpsons character, but he kind of looks like the Gordon's fisherman, like white hairs, one squinty eye, a pipe. He's like, yeah, or is that your mighty vessel? It was probably the exact opposite. It was like an old 80 year old black guy sitting in the chair with like a little bottle of Heineken, like a little pony bottle of Heineken fishing off a pier that people use to tie off their jet skis. You're not really supposed to fish there. So I think the guy just had a good buzz on him. And I wish I could meet the guy because I mean, I must have told that story a few, a few dozen times now in my life and it's such a, it's such a pivotal story. And I don't even know that guy's name, but he really, with, with that little little conversation you changed your life. Yeah, man. I don't know what it is. My friend group, God, maybe like 20 years ago, we would go tubing and there was always a captain. We always had captain's hats, it was always like, yeah, we all just did that voice. We had like little flotation device devices full of beers. And I don't know why, whenever there's like tubing or kayaking going on, people we turn into, you know, seafaring types, I don't know, it's like we got our delays, we got a couple beers in. Yeah. And people like to pretend to be their captains when they have a few beers in them and you're on water. It's, it's just a natural response to say, ah, yeah, it's just, the sea was angry that day and it's just like you're floating down. That was in there. When I first started my YouTube channel, I was, I was leading heavy on the captain gimmick. So I would start my videos with our, how are you me to this day? It makes my asshole tighten up with embarrassment. It's, it's, uh, it's pretty, uh, a douche chilly as they say. It's definitely a douche chilly feeling. I don't know. I hope you bring it back. I think it's charming. Now I, now I, now I say here we are. That's kind of like my, uh, my introduction to everything. When did you become a Phillies fan? Oh, when I fell out of my mother's vagina, I've always been a Philadelphia sports fan. When I was a kid growing up, my dad was a big avid sports watcher, you know, so whenever he was watching, I was watching because he controlled the TV and usually we were watching the Phillies, the Flyers, the Sixers and the Eagles, but, but the Eagles in the 80s, they were in that great. Um, but I remember my dad, like vividly, vividly yelling at Dr. J on the TV and, um, but my, my first baseball memory, I was like four or five years old. No, no, no, I was like four or five years old and I went to veteran stadium, which is where the Phillies used to play. And I remember I was a little kid and I walked through that tunnel, a veteran stadium and there was like a bright light you see before you get to a stadium and you get in that tunnel and you see that bright light and you take a step and it's like you go to heaven and you see that beautiful baseball field, the green artificial turf of a veteran stadium. The first memory I have is Pete Rose having a catch on the field and this thought is ingrained in my brain and I just, I just love baseball. I think I love the summer. I think that's great. The season takes forever. I love that. Um, not every, you know, if you lose a game, 13 to nothing, your season's not over. You can come back the next, I just love baseball and, uh, Billy sports living in Philadelphia. It's a part of who you are, I think. And right. And doesn't baseball spring training start in like February? The pitchers and catchers report, uh, like last, last two weeks of February. Yeah. The pitchers go down. Once there's spring training beginning for the pitchers and get it's kind of like, oh, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you know, it's like, all right, winter is coming to a close. Like the beginning of the baseball season, it's like, all right, it's going to start getting nice things are, things are happening. We made it through. I used to feel that way, but that's bullshit because I live in Philadelphia and it still doesn't get nice still about Memorial Day. Like it's, it's, you get dictized with a nice weather with, um, like, like, you get like an 80 degree day or a 90 degree day, but then two days later, you're back in the 40s. It's true. I'm in New York. It's very smart. It's been very smart weather. Right. Yeah. Smart. Exactly. And I always have to remind myself when spring training starts to not get happy because it's not spring is because spring training's in the title doesn't make it spring in Philadelphia. Don't get excited. There's something really nice. I love the Philly stadium. I've been to Fenway. I've been to Wrigley. I've never been to the original Yankee stadium, but I've been to the new one. I think I've, I've done, I have been to Shea Stadium. My brother was like a tepid Mets fan growing up. He's five years old than me, but like, my husband now Frank is huge Yankee fan. I'm, I'm, I'm only like a slight, I can't say, Oh, I'm a huge, but I'm like, I am sort of by, you know what I mean? Like, like, if you were watching me, if you were watching the World Series and it's game seven and the Yankees are playing the Mets and there's two outs in the bottom of the night. It's your heart beating fish. Like does your heart rate go up a little bit because you're excited to see what's going to happen? Or you just got, okay. Okay, I can't, I can't pretend that I'm like, you know, I was a little kid begging to go to the stadium. Like I, when I was got in 2008, I had this when I first started like being, I'm caring a little bit about baseball. I had an ex boyfriend who was a Red Sox fan. So I was like, I guess I'm a Red Sox fan. And, and I thought part of being a baseball fan was like, you just pick a player that no one really likes and then you're like a fan of that specific guy. So I chose Bill Hall. I was like, oh, yeah, I'm a huge Bill Hall fan, but they didn't have any jerseys for him. Yeah. I don't think he was that good and who knows who knows where he is now, but I've evolved. I would say I'm a genuine Yankees fan and a general overall baseball fan at this point. And I've noticed there's just a real different feeling between the stadiums and between the fan bases. There's something really special about the Philly stadium. It seems very family oriented. I think we were there with our steps on God, maybe just a few months ago. And you know, you, you know, they had this little machine that like, it looked like it was like a hot dog shooting machine, but it was like shooting balls. It was like, it was very family friendly. There were like, there were just a lot of places you could go, like a lot of little games, a lot of little like mascots and stores and stuff, whereas you have Yankee Stadium. I think Frank was telling me there's about 30% of the stadium that, of Yankee Stadium that you can't even go because it's all just like VIP access and, you know, whatever, the, the Audi lounge or whatever, like the Mercedes section where there's the legend suites where, you know, he's gone a couple of times, but you spend, I don't know what it is, if it's like a thousand dollars, you get an insane buffet, you eat everything, you drink everything. It's like Lux VIP treatment, but that's, that's, I'm saying that that Philly doesn't have any of that at all, but it's just a completely different vibe. And I don't know if alcohol is to blame. There's just something very different about a Philly span and say like a Yankee span or even like, I guess I could compare a Philly span more to a Red Sox fan, but there's just something in like the purse. And I think you embody that so perfectly. I think, I went to Yankee Stadium last year and they have the suites that are behind home plate that when you walk behind them, you can't see the field, but that there's like a little wall, I'm six foot tall, and I think the wall six foot six high. So they purposely make it almost so you can see the field. And, and I was like, why wouldn't they want people to watch the game? And that's the one thing I love about the Philly stadium is it's 360 views. No matter where you are, you can walk to stadium and watch the game. I feel really feel like Yankees, that's a business. They don't, they don't give a, they don't care about the fans. They just, they want to win championships. And I just feel like it's, it's all business. Yeah, I remember I was in line waiting for like a frozen lemonade or something at Philly stadium and I could still fully watch what was going on in the game. And then like, if you're in line, getting food or something or in a store at Yankee Stadium, it's, you're, you don't even see the field. Like everything's, you're just blocked with, yeah, if you're lucky. They have a TV screen at the concession stands. Otherwise, you just got to listen to the crowd and you could think it. Tell if something happens by that. But yeah, I really, I went to Yankee Stadium and I had, you know, they're the best franchise in baseball. Yada, yada, yada, all the championships, blah, blah, blah, back when, you know, in the 1920s and the 50s, they haven't won that many recently. But it just, it just doesn't, it's not a fun place to watch a game. I have more fun at shitty field where then that's why it's, it's a, it really is, it's a funder ballpark. They have a nice museum where all the fans could get access to it and they don't have a Yankee stadium. They don't, they have that thing in the outfieldery to see all the plaques, but it's only open for like 35 seconds before the game. You got to get there like two hours before the game even starts to get in there and it's just, it's just, it's just not a fun place to watch a game. Maybe it's not supposed to be fun. I don't know. But I like that had fun. That's why I'm really happy I'm a Phillies fan because it's, it's the best ballpark to watch a game. I feel. You know, the Yankees don't have, they don't have a player who refuses to wash their hair. Uh, like, I believe that hair is groomed and washed and I, I, I, it's always wet. It's always wet. So why is it always wet? I don't know. He says it feels good when it feels right when it's wet and it's not wet. It doesn't feel good. Wrestlers do the same. It's so gross. It looks so gnarly. Oh man. The chicks dig them. They think he. Ew. Yeah. But they like to beard it for a skump walk. I guess. He looks like he smells like Forrest Gump, like he smells like, he smells like, he smells like, he smells like. Take the uniform off. He looks homeless. That's just because he has a beard. I mean, he, he actually, he's in probably really good shape and you don't know what kind of clothes he would be wearing. I don't think, I don't think long, strikely beards make him, uh, uh, he, he doesn't, I don't think he has a super de-duper contract, but he's, he's doing all right. He's not homeless. It's just, I, it's probably luck too, because why the hell would you have a beard that big in, in August in Philadelphia? But if his hair only feels right when it's wet, why wouldn't he just cut it and have short hair? Because that's not his look. I don't know. I'm not Brandon Marsh. You get him one next week's episode. You could ask him about his wet hair and his smelly beard. I would recommend you not saying it. Look, smelly to his face, but, um, he's a super nice guy too. And he, like, I, I got to a lot of games and other stadiums and he takes pictures with people and none of them ever look repulsed because of his body odor. I can report that. I'm, I'm just joking around. I think I kind of like, I love that his hair is like always wet. It's just part of, I think what makes the Phillies kind of like, they don't have anybody like that. I'm, I'm the Yankees. You're not allowed to. You're not allowed to. Yeah. You grow a beard. They kick you off the team. I don't know what happened if you grow a, I don't know how they could even do that. They say, yeah, it's part of our uniform. You can't have facial hair and you're like, okay, I mean, I guess, but yeah, that's part of the, that, that's how unfun they are that you have, you can't have a beard. There's even a few players this year who have like quite a fair bit of tattoos, like some of them are going up their neck and they have like almost like a partial or a full sleeve going on. I'm like, I'm seeing more tattoos than I have in years past. And I went, I went to a doctor's office the other day and the fucking receptionist at the doctor's office had a face tattoo. Oh my. At a girl or a girl, it was a girl, it was a face tattoo. Like right here, I thought there was a tattoo on the neck and that's hard, you go do what you want to do. But when I see that, I go, what doctor goes, you know what, I want that person to be the representative of my doctor's office and yeah, you know what, that was my last doctor visit to that doctor. I think I'm done. I think I'm done seeing doctors. Well, I don't know if she was black or Spanish, then she could say, what are you not hiring me because of my race? So maybe that was her way in. I don't know what she was. Well, I don't know. She was definitely wasn't black, but she could have been like, it doesn't matter. No, no, no, no, she was, she might have been white. I don't know. Everybody has face tattoos. These kids, all these kids, the little, they all, they all want to be the little zen. They got the face tattoos and I tell my kids that if you get a goddamn tattoo anywhere from anywhere where I could see it, I'm going to murder you. Yeah, that's fair. My mom always said like, if you get, if you pierce your nose, I'm going to stop paying for college. I pierced my ear cartilage with my gay best friend at the time. And I tried so hard to hide it. I would like to do like always have my hair covering it until she came to a swim meet and she saw it. And I was like, fuck, yeah, I had this tattoo on my, on my arm. And I got it when I was like 18. And I've had a tough it's the, there's a punk band called the mighty, mighty ballstones. Oh, yeah, it's, it's their, it's their, it's their, a little dog, it's their logo. And that's not so bad. No, it's not. It's just a placement. Like it was the only tattoo I had here. I didn't have this at the time. So I, it was like, I got it in March. So then may comes around, but we were just saying may comes around. It's a little, it's a little, uh, warm out, but for some reason I still keep wearing that long sleeve jacket and my mom is like, I don't understand why you're wearing a jacket. And I said, I just like being warm. And then one day she eventually, you know, you get caught, like you did at the pool and present your own about it, except be disappointed. And that's what I did. I disappointed my mother. Get used to it, parents. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My, my favorite thing about you is that you have confronted, uh, I, I think the, the how do you describe this man? He is, I love him, but I hate him. Also he famously rejected a, a famously turned down a Chrissy Mayer podcast interview invite. So that's it. We're going to take no prisoners. Um, you have met, you have confronted Zach Campbell. You have called him out on, on his wild ways, uh, for people who don't know who Zach Campbell and you've done a couple of videos on him for, for folks who don't know who Zach Campbell is, how, how would you describe him? Uh, Zach Campbell is a baseball super fan who, uh, goes around not just the country. He goes over to Japan and Asia and I think he just went to Asia that, um, uh, to catch foul balls, homerun balls, practice balls, his whole life is balls and, um, he, he makes you two videos going around the world, traveling the country, catching balls and making you two videos about it. And, um, some people would say, uh, he, he could be aggressive sometimes when he catches the balls, some people, um, so a lot of people, because I, I, I, like I said, I, I, you said I made a video where I yelled at Zach because, uh, I have a friend named Butch from Maniank who, uh, he, he's 70 years old and about a year or two ago, he got a ball at, at Citizens Bank Park, but Zach Campbell was going at the ball too at the same time. And, uh, my buddy Butch, he's a little bit crazy. He was like, Oh, I had the box of mail and put my ass out and box out Zach Campbell. And I was kind of, I was kind of taken back by that because I'm like, my, my man Butch is collecting social security and, uh, I'm like, why is Zach Campbell so aggressive about getting balls and, um, the very next day after I hear this story, I see Zach Campbell and whenever I see a famous person and I've been at Zach Campbell has a movie, Zach Campbell has done talk shows like I think he's done Conan O'Brien and, and, and, uh, I think he's even done the Jimmy Fallon Tonight show. So he's done. Yeah, I would rather do Leno or Fallon, uh, I guess Leno, yeah, I would rather do Leno although, no, yeah, I know some of the members of the roots. I used to work at this parking lot where they would park their bus every day. And I would see them take their, because they still live here because it's so expensive at New York so they would take a bus every day and they would meet at my parking lot that I was running and it would be neat to see the roots guys and say, Hey, look, remember the guy from the parking lot? I'm on Jimmy Fallon. But I think Jimmy, but I think Jimmy Fallon laughs too hard at his guests and it drives me insane. Like I can't watch his videos because he laughs too hard. So I think I would rather be on Leno, but I don't like what he did that David Letterman. So I have too much turmoil, I have too much turmoil, none of the shit matters. Anyway, it's actually success, uh, see it. Zach Campbell is successful, uh, but I don't know how many balls he needs to get. He does this thing. We're all good at back practices and they'll catch ball after ball after ball. And I, I believe he keeps one ball every game, but the rest of them, he gives away to little kids. And I've seen it like, you know, he will also be the first person. To tell you that he will be the first person that he's a very good guy. He wants everyone to know. He does say that. Yeah. Um, uh, so it's, it's comical. It's kind of comical to see what he does. So when I saw him, I said Zach Campbell, I mean, I see the celebrities. I don't like, I did this defense Simmons, Angel Hernandez, who's a bad umpire. Um, Alex Rodriguez, I'm a big fan of Jim Norton. And I think you are. Oh, I love Jim. He's a huge fan of Jim Norton and I've gone viral using his joke multiple times. Uh, when I see somebody famous and I don't like them, I go, who I go, uh, Alex Rodriguez, you state and I don't like you and I've done, I've done it to Zach Campbell and it's just the ultimate insult because it's not really, it's not a, it's not offensive and it's just like very, really, it's like the most polite heckle ever. I don't know. I don't remember it though. Right. Right. Like people call me the polite heckler. But yeah, I love, I love Jimmy and I, I, I, I hope one day to give him a high five because I've been using his material for a few years now. I told Sam Roberts, I said, let him know, I, I'm not trying to, uh, steal his content. It's like a tip of the cap. It's like, uh, when people back in the day would see how the news stations and they would say how it's thirds penis, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, Jim's a great guy. So funny. Um, I was so upset when he stopped doing his chip, chip person show. He's just. I love that show. I saw that. I saw that live in concert in Philadelphia with him, Anthony Sam. Oh wow. Great. And I'm a big radio file and, uh, when I, when I got the invite to do this podcast and I saw that you were like under the compound media umbrella, my little heart pitter pattern because like, it's like one step closer to Anthony Kumio who's like one of the greatest yo, that one of the greatest radio personalities in the history of the art form of radio. There's not many people who are as entertaining and as funny as, uh, Anthony. So, uh, once, once I saw you were tagged with him, I was like, Oh, I gotta talk to this lady. It's so cool. Oh, that's so great. Yeah. What is my wiki feed score? Where's it at these days? Seven. I was robbed. No. I mean, seven out of 10 is pretty good, right? I think I would like a 10. Well, nothing. Only nothing's perfect. Only only Jesus is perfect, but no, you can't, you can't, you can't get, you can't get, uh, you can't eat anything above a five is good in my book. Oh, actually one, two, three, four, four and a half. Looks like almost four and a half out of five stars. That's decent. Oh, what did I go to? You had a seven. I must have. Seven. That's my shoe size. Oh, you're sure. Okay. Well, so four out of all right. That's even better. That's that. High praise. Wow. They'll just take any photos from the internet and slap these on here. And then there's people sitting waiting for a foot to come out, uh, a live stream and they'll just, they'll take us a screenshot of it. These people are relentless, but from that camera angle that you're using right now, I would assume that there's not much, not much, uh, foot action going on this podcast. Sometimes I have gone out of my way to, to flash a foot. I don't know. I got to throw the kids something, but yeah, that cable he's caught, uh, more than 12,000 balls. He is attended games at 63 different MLB stadiums. He has, he loves to catch the first of something. He caught Mike Trout's first career home run. Alex Rodriguez is three, uh, three thousand hit. Um, he, he also, I'm like interested in him because I'm like, is he autistic? What's going on? He's a little bit entitled. He comes from old money, like old Manhattan, New York City money. He lives on the Upper West Side. His family owns. He has a, you know, a family book store on like East 59th Street. Near Central Park. So that's like, that's a money location. Um, he's like a rich kid. So he doesn't, you can tell you're like, this is, this is a guy who I don't think has to really work for a living or has never worked super hard for a living. It's, um, yeah, I mean, you can't hate a guy for coming from money and I mean, it's not his fault. Of course. So there are, there are, and here, here's the, there's a plot twist in my Zach Campbell feud is, um, last week, uh, I yelled at him about a year ago or two years ago, and then last week he was at the stadium. He was at the Philly stadium and I am friends with this kid, uh, Luke, who works for the Phillies and he knows I'm a YouTuber and, and he, he always asked me if, if I could get him to meet Zach Campbell. Um, and, um, Luke, uh, Luke doesn't really understand that mean him or feuding or whatever. So anyway, I, I see Zach Campbell at the place where my buddy Luke works and I said, Zach, you got to come meet my buddy Luke and he kind of just stopped and he saw it was me and it was the video that you're, it's that video right there. And, uh, we talked for about five minutes and he was like, I don't understand why you're so mean to me. And I said, I don't think I'm being mean to you. I sort of, I am sort of, it's satirical, it's common, like, uh, I'm just busting your stones. Like, if you don't understand, if you don't understand why it's funny to make funny of you, I don't think I can explain why it's funny to, uh, make fun of you. Oh, I was talking to him. I'm not a doctor, um, but he does seem very laser focused on catching balls, talking about his YouTube channel and, um, like he's very focused on catching baseballs. I don't, I don't, you know, I don't know if he's autistic, um, but I, I just found out that I'm a little bit, I'm on this spectrum and I tested something or did something. Well, I had, I, um, I was talking to a therapist. I was diagnosed bipolar and, um, I was talking to a therapist and another therapist who isn't the therapist, I've been talking to for a long time. And it turns out I might not be bipolar because I never really had a crazy manic episode. I, I, it's crazy. I have such a low self-esteem that sometimes I have confidence and I believe in myself. And I felt like that was being maniac. But it wasn't. I felt good about myself for once and I haven't been having an episode. I had a very low opinion of myself. So once in a while, when I start feeling positive about myself, I feel like I'm manic, but then I, on the news, I'll see Kanye West when he's manic and I'm like, there's no fucking way. I'm the same guy. So I, I have ADHD. I definitely laser focus on my YouTube channel. That's why I make content every day. Like I have to. Otherwise I feel like Rainman when he doesn't see Judge Wopner or something feels wrong. So I don't know if he's autistic, but if he is, um, I kind of, I kind of get it, you know, I kind of. There's anything wrong with that. Yes. Some of my best friends. We all have something. I watched, I watched the Phillies games with a bunch of people called the pandemic crew. And we just realized like recently, we're all fucking autistic. We all, we all love baseball and stats and, um, but yeah, so I, I really, but now knowing that he's autistic or thinking that he may be autistic, I kind of change my opinion a little bit like, Oh, dude, dude, just don't know no better, you know, and that's what he wants to do. And if that's what he wants to do with his life, go around catching balls. All right, I got it, but that's kind of you to show him a little grace. I'm going to play a little bit of this clip of you trying to get Zach to meet your friend. But my parents are here. Let's, um, okay, let's go meet Luke. Who's pitching my brush? Let's go. Let's go. All right. This is Luke, who works in one of the stores, one of the guys who wanted to meet, um, uh, Zach Campbell. It's, it's like, it's like in the second half of the video. Okay. So that's, that's my buddy Luke. I'll, I could keep going. I'll tell you one. Keep going. I love this. Cause you guys sit in like, I always see your videos. You're sitting in like the uppermost corner. You want to hear the crazy thing is my seats are behind home plate. I have, uh, season tickets. I go to every game and my seats are behind home plate, um, first row or second row. They're behind home plate and they're amazing seats. I just go in that section because that's where all my friends are that. Those are my seats. Those are my seats right there. That's where I usually sit, where I could sit, but I'd rather sit in the seats with my friends. So this is where your friends are kind of by up, up in, what would you call this area, the 300s? It's 301. It's always fun in section 301, if you can buy tickets and sit with us, uh, we, anybody could come and watch a game. Uh, this looks like our crew at Sullivan's like after a compound media show. It's like the same vibes. Just. Yeah. I think everybody has a group of friends that you get together and you have a good time and you can just bust balls, a lot of ball busting, a lot of, like, you know, we make fun of each other for our hobbies or, uh, what we're wearing, you know, we just, it's, it's a lot of ball busting. It's a good time. We're like a second family for each other. And then your actual season, uh, season tickets are, it's, it's this view right here. Yeah. That's that view. Yeah. So I could be watching the game from there, but I'm, I'm hanging out with my friends. I love it. That's what you do. Okay. It was looking bad. Yeah. Now it's looking good. You're not gonna be rude him, are you? You two for in, in baseball. Who would you want to meet? Exactly. Guess what? It's right here. Right there. Oh, I ran into what? Yeah. Exactly. What are you doing here? I'm just going to piss you off. I'm very careful. All right. Zach, it's nice to meet you. I'm playing. I'll see you on the internet buddy. See you on the internet. Come on Luke. You're working with Ellie tonight, right? Do you know it? Not for you. Yeah. Okay. All right. I follow you on Instagram. Let's go. He's afraid of you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He is. I felt bad too. I feel bad about it. I don't want anyone. I even in the beginning of that video, know what the crazy thing about Zach camp was whenever he goes to a game at the Philly stadium, I get so many messages on Instagram and Twitter. People slide in my DMS and they're like, yo, he's here. Come get him. Like, like I'm a rabbit dog, like I'm going to attack him and, uh, but he was, he should be scared. Not she should be like, he never saw a sane side of me. So I would be scared of a guy who just yells at me every time he sees me though. He handled it pretty well. It's, it's not just like, you know, you're picking on him for no reason. This guy, he, he, my God, there's so much proof online of different videos, like from you and other folks he'll, he will run somebody down for a ball. He is so focused on, on catching these balls. Catch it. Oh, but he does give it to a kid. It's like a kid would rather catch his own ball. Like kid would rather have his dad catch the ball than have Zach Campbell mow them down only to then hand them the ball. It's a better memory. It's a better experience. If you catch it yourselves and it's like, he's got 12,000s of balls, like he did, I've let somebody else catch a damn ball every now and again, I, I, I, I, I, I, I almost 100% agree with you. I will tell you for a little kid to get a bowl from Zach Campbell, not all of them. But I would say, let's say 25% of the kids he hands that's it. They rather get a ball handed to them by Zach Campbell. Really? Okay. Yes. Yeah. But 75% of the people think this jerk off Rob, I, like I would say he, I used to, it's so hard. I'm so trying to be friendly to the guy because he was nice to my buddy. I would say he doesn't steal Julie every time he catches the ball, but most of the time when he does catch ball and hand handed to somebody, it's not as joyful as catching the ball yourself. But there are some kids that, holy shit, I'd rather have a brace heart for full caught by Zach. Can't pull handed to you. I'm sure there's kids that are thrilled that to have that. Okay. I just didn't know what I didn't know the youth was aware of him. Oh, oh my God. Kids love them. Kids love them. Kids love baseball vloggers. Because he is a kid, he's a, he's a, he's a grown man acting as a kid, I think. Yeah. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he is. You know, I don't know what is dating life is like. I don't know if, you know, what, you know, I don't know if he's laser focused on getting laid ever, but he's, you know, maybe I think he's had a girlfriend, I think. He's late. You can tell. He's got a, he's very, he's a person you can tell is not getting laid. I'll put it that way. Don't feel it. He'll never see this. He doesn't. You don't, I, if I take this clip of me talking about Zach Campbell and I put it on my YouTube channel, which right it's because it, believe it or not, if you're not, if you're not familiar, this is a really, really big feud in the whole little baseball community, people, there's team Zach Campbell and team Philly captain. And most of the people who are on team Philly captain are over the age of 15. That's, that's, you know, although we agree with it. I know what team I am. I'm on. Let's go. That's what I am short. This, I love this clip. This was at the Colorado Rocky Stadium. He's had various run ins with security or different stadium employees. Sometimes he'll catch like an important ball and he'll be like, oh, they're watching me because they, you know, they need to, they need to trade to take the ball and then look at him, whatever, some sort of equivalent bat or other balls or other signed merchandise. And he's always just, he's constantly like, you know, videotaping himself, which is fine. But this was a moment where he was getting reprimanded by an employee at the Rocky Stadium. And he was not too happy about really being told what to do in general. All right, it's a home run ball. I'm going to go for a home run ball. Come on. Don't be that strict. That's ridiculous. I was trying to tell him, like, look, stay in this section and Zach is like, I listened to no one. I'm Zach Campbell. I go where I want. Yeah. They're in here. You stand in there. Right. I can't move 10 feet for a home run is ridiculous. He has rules that you make up on the spot. It's a home run ball. I can try to catch a home run. But his whole reasoning was like, well, that's not where a seat is. I guess he was just trying to be fair and maybe that was a handicap section. Oh, oh, my God. Okay. Stay no more. That is. Yeah. So he was running into, I would say it looked like a half emptied handicap section, but I believe that's where the people wheelchairs sit in that area. And look, if you don't have a ticket for that section and somebody tells you to leave, you get up and leave because you're in the wrong. That's how I do it. My, I have friends that will fight with ushers and I'm like, look, this guy's making $15 an hour. This is his retirement job. He's just doing his shit to leave him the fuck alone. Um, but again, he's laser focused. He's got that laser. He would have knocked over someone in a wheelchair for a ball. I would not put a path to him. I, I, I could set pictures. I never seen anybody. Um, I never saw a wheelchair person knocked over, but whenever he does a fuck up in his videos or if there's something where he takes a ball from a kid, people definitely send me those clips. So he's definitely, he's definitely, he's got 12,000 balls. I'm sure he's knocked over a few people. Right? It has to be. Let's say he's knocked over 10. Boy, that's a lot of people you're knocked the fuck over. I have it knocked over 10 people in my lifetime. Yeah, I just think he's doing too much and, um, I, it's one thing if you're going for a ball and like nobody else is around, like it's like, it's like how many, you have 12,000 you need to go for everyone, uh, with, and he also has on his channel, like him at the, uh, him at the, with the call, the, the hitting tank where you go to hit balls, the, the fucking suck all that hitting tank that cage, the batting cage. Yeah. He's like, look at me. I still got it. I played division three in college. Oh, I mean, it's not division one, but, but listen to the fact I didn't, I didn't even go to college. How about that? Good for him. The fact that he's like, I mean, probably walked, that probably paid for him. They got on the team with the bookstore. Right. Here you go. Stick it. Yeah. It's good. Zach on the team. He's not there's worse things going on in the world than the Zach Campbell knocking over children at baseball games. I get my maybe. I don't know. Now they say very nice about this. I will tell you, I'll let you know. I'll let you know why I'm being nice, uh, me and Zach Campbell started emailing each other. Oh, and, um, we are talking possibly about getting together and making a video together. Yeah. Yes. And, and, um, I also have other friends who are much more popular in YouTube than I am. Uh, I, I, I'm inviting them to come along too to, like, let Zach be comfortable. So I think I have an idea for the video and it's so fucking funny where the entire day he just cuts in front of me. Like I try to, I try to go to the bathroom, he cuts in front of me. I go to the seats. He cuts in front of me. I think it's, it's, it's a funny bit. And I think it would actually, you know, I think maybe I could bulk them and say, listen, this is what's going on. Maybe, maybe you catch one ball and that's it. And then the rest of the time you watch a game, I don't know. But yeah, that's the reason why I'm being such a pussy, um, because I think in the long run that video, um, it would be so entertaining. It would be so fucking funny. Um, and I, I really, I really want to sit there for a few hours. It's just like she, she, the guy, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's just see, like, I, I hung out one for a few minutes talking to him with my buddy Luke and I kind of got it. Like he's like, yeah, my buddy Luke said, yeah, I only, I saw some of your movie. It was really good. And he was like, why did you see all of the movie? And I was just saying, thank you, thanks for watching some of it. I just got to touch with something filthy things. You should bridge the divide with some cheesecakes, um, he aesthetic thinks he thinks you should not become friendly that you should focus and make more drama instead. Oh, I got, I got a kid coming. What are you doing? Oh, that's okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, you'll do that. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. My grandson was about to come in the house. Do you have a grandson? You're too useful for a grandson. I'm 47 and my grandson, my grandson's turning to this month. And yeah, he was going to, he was going to come in. He hates coming in here. So I don't know why he comes in and he'll see me and he'll go, bye bye, I just go to the door and leave. So he's two. He's two. Yeah. Super cute. And he can say bye bye. I don't know anything about kids. Yeah. Bye. He's pretty. Yeah. Most, most two year olds could do the bye bye. I'm not bragging. I'm joking, Kevin. He's kicking ass with the bye bye's. I love that. So here is a video of Zack at his family's bookstore. What is this? What is the bookstore called? It's something with an A, it's on a 59th street. Book store, which you can see behind me across the street. It's actually the oldest independent bookstore in New York City. And I just thought it'd be fun to give you a quick tour of the place. And so he's looking at old. I love this clip. Up here on the fourth floor, third and fourth floors are mostly storage and office space. A thousand dollars. Maybe just do a little light reading on the subway home. Oh, man. I don't know. This is tricky. He's taking out this huge book. He's like, I would love to have this on the subway and just lay it across the two or three people. This is tricky. Oh, Hogarth, a English painter who died in 1764. Yeah. This thing weighs about 30 pounds. He's struggling to hold a 30 pound book. Awesome. To pull this out on the subway and it would like, you know, overlap the people like two people on either side of me. But yeah, I don't know if this is the biggest book in the store, but it's definitely the biggest that I can ever remember seeing. There's a clip on here where he, oh, it's called the Argosy bookstore. He's like, oh, if you really want to get away from it all, come up here. He's kidding. This is only for employees. I think this is. We'll see what I'm talking about. Yeah. Is this adorable or what? You want to get away from everybody and just sit here and relax? Well, you can't because this is employees only, but sometimes they actually come here and I'll just eat a sandwich or eat a book and show out for that. I do what I want. Yeah. I think, I think he, see, he needs a friend like me where I can say that. Yes. You got it, you got to stop rubbing it in people's faces, be grateful, not a dickhead. And I think he would be okay. But then again, he probably doesn't. If somebody says that to him, he probably wouldn't be friends with them. So covered in generational wealth, he needs somebody to shake him out a little bit. He needs to be with the people. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Like, you know what? He also. I love shitting on rich people. Don't don't. He has. He has a camera person. I don't. When I do my videos, I do all my camera, it's not the greatest camera work. But I do all the camera work myself. And I, and I often want like it makes me go, holy shit, this guy is doing so well that he has some. But I guess when he's catching the ball, it must be hard to, but, but yeah, I, I always, when I see youtubers with camera people, I really, I just, I don't, I, it's, it's kind of, I don't, I don't know how they, like, I feel like it's taking a part of me. Out of the art of making a video. Did I just say YouTube videos is an art form sort of kind? Yes, it is. Yeah. It's like having a crew. It's a different than like, sometimes it's, it's fun to see somebody's fucking double chin. Like, yeah, you shot this yourself. You're, you're doing this on the fly. Yeah. And also, we were mean him. We're at that baseball game the other day where he met week. That was four days ago. He still hasn't put up that video from that game because it takes him a long time to, to edit the videos and stuff. And meanwhile, my video has been up for three days up to, I'm not bragging that I edit and post videos daily, uh, nonstop, but yeah, he also, it's much more successful than me. So that's probably why he doesn't have to work his way. Family money. It's, it's, it makes things a lot easier when it does. Yeah. Money makes things easier. They say, Oh, money doesn't cure everything. Like bullshit. Some of that, let me find out. It cures a lot of things. Let's see hundreds, maybe even more than a thousand signed books up here. Right. Um, a lot of it is cataloged. A lot of it, you just have to kind of poke around on the walls and see what jumps out at you. So look at this. Pretty, pretty. Hi. And McCauley. Culkin photo. Wow. Hey. Yeah. I'm kind of entertained by how far down the rabbit hole of Zach Campbell, you've got, like, you know about the bookstore, you know, more about than I though, like, I, I can't walk. You ever come to New York, we're going to go to the bookstore. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to try right now. Do my compound media show. We'll go to the bookstore. We'll get a cheesesteak. I mean, New York, New York or, or, yeah, let me get, don't you guys have the slices of pizza? That's what you guys are. No. Yeah. I'll get you some pizza. Yeah. That's fucked that. Just take me to compound media. Holy shit. That's just one step closer. Like if I really was skilled, I could try to coordinate for a Monday that he's there. And for sure, I could, I could try to make that happen as possible. I can't promise anything, but it's okay. Just it's kind of cool. Like you ever. Well, I'm sure you go into a TV studio of a TV that showed that you're watching. It's kind of neat to see the, like the CD actual place that you've been looking at for years. I just find that shit interesting. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just see how the sausage is made. I, you know, I don't necessarily some, like I, I, I do the wrestling stuff and I kind of hate how much inside information I have. I wish I could go back. Was it ruined wrestling for me? Like I see how the sausage is fixed. I know way too many of, and there were so many tricks. I was a pretty knowledgeable wrestling fan before I got into the industry. There's so many tricks that you don't even realize that, that, that as a fan. And yeah, but no, it's just cool to be in the go to places and see stuff like that. That's neat. No, that's cool. I, I, I hope this collab between you and Zach Campbell works out. We will definitely do a collab in New York. We'll go to the bookstore. We'll have a compound day, but you're, you're definitely, you're a great, you're a great follow because you're just such a great, and also I'm trying to figure out what is, what, where exactly is your accent from that? I was born in a neighborhood called Kensington and Kensington, I lived in Kensington and then I moved to a neighborhood called Port Richmond and they're called the river wards of Philadelphia. And I talk like every single person who from Port Richmond, who was 47 years old, all, all of my friends, we all folk like jerk offs like this, like we all, we have this, this goofy accent and it's pretty bad. It's a pretty, it's pretty atrocious, my accent. And, and, and I didn't notice until I started youtubing, but when I yell, I sound a lot like Gilbert Gottfried and people tell, people tell me that because I make videos where I heckled the baseball players and, and they're like, holy shit, you sound like Gilbert Gottfried. And I'm like, I feel horrible for my fiance because could you imagine fucking Gilbert Gottfried? That must be like the, ah, like, ah, that feels really good. I love what you're doing. Not that I scream all that exacts, but it must be horrible, uh, fucking Gilbert Gottfried. No, it's good. Now we can all fantasize. We all know what you sound like in bed. That's good. You're actually from Kensington, Kensington is one of the most, uh, videotaped places on YouTube. I feel like there's so many videos out like youtubers love to go to Kensington and kind of like, ooh, look out. I mean, it's crazy. There's people there on fucking horse tranquilizer. They're there. Their body parts are decroted. Is that even a word? I got it. Their arms and legs are falling off and they're just so just in the throes of addiction. They'll, they'll do anything. It's just, it's very sad. Um, and I've, I've seen some videos lately about how I think there is a nearby college and like there's sort of plans to maybe gentrify that area. And then so they'll be like a new Kensington or a, the, the people on drugs just have to find a new area. And I guess that's become very popular because it's just, it's become, I guess people know you can get cheap, cheap drugs there. But it's not that the drugs are cheap, the drugs are good. And, and the stuff they have in Kensington ads is so good. People throwing your life away. People go around the country, not just Philadelphia, not just Pennsylvania. We got people from around the country, not, not Baltimore, not, around the country, middle of America. They come here and they get the drugs. And I go down to Kensington, I don't know, like once every two months, once every month I'll make a video, I can't go down there all the time, it's too depressing. But the reason why I, I make videos in Kensington is to hold our politicians accountable and um, no, I, there's other people who'll go down there and they'll drive their car and they'll go with super slow motion and they'll film the drug addicts nodding out and they'll get millions of views. And I, I come at it from a different way where, uh, the politicians were in, they were in, they were in Kensington yesterday and they said they were going to clean up Kensington ad. So I was down there yesterday and I showed the cleanup. And then before I talk to you, I went down there for an hour and realize what they said is kind of bullshit. It's all, it's all political theater. What's going on down there? They, they, all these tents, um, just that one, they, they made all the tents go away. And now they have barricades in front of these businesses. So you can't sit there and shoot up. But if you go down the street, you can sit somewhere and shoot up at the other day, yesterday when I was down there, the people are no longer on Kensington ad. They're two blocks away on Clementine street, which is where I went to school. And now people are shooting up next to a school. So we chased them away and now they're close to a fucking school. I saw a city council person and I, I screamed at them. I said, what the fuck are you guys doing? You can't just, let's have like more cops on the corner of the schools and just show them away. Just show them the fucking way to help them go somewhere else anywhere else but the schools. And then we got to figure a way to get them to fuck out of here, but, um, it really seems like these, the, not only the politician, but the media, not all the media, but some of the media in Philadelphia want to help the drug addicts get better or more worried about the drug addicts than the actual people who live in that neighborhood. Like the fucking kids, these kids live in Kensington, these six year old kids who walk to school every day, they see people shooting up, they see people dying every fucking day. These kids are going to be such a nightmare in the future because nobody, nobody showed any human being respect their whole child. So why would they respect us? It's going to be a nightmare in a decade. I once, I once saw a lady overdose when drugs and I made a video, I had a video of her dying and they brought her back with Narcan. And the most shocking thing in that video that I filmed wasn't that the lady died and did Narcan. And then 20 minutes later was doing drugs again because when you do Narcan, you get sober. The most shocking thing I saw, the most shocking thing I saw was there was three kids walking past the dead body, if they didn't even look at it, it didn't even startle them. It was just, it was just a, it was just fucking Wednesday and they just kept on going. And that's when I was like, holy shit, these kids are, nothing. I know if I saw a dead body on the street in, at sixth grade, it would be the only story I would talk about for the rest of my life. Well, were there anybody around them freaking out about the dead body or were people just acting like nothing? There was an ambulance working on the body. Okay. So there was a scene, you could see it, but there's some use, they're so used to seeing that bullshit that, that it doesn't bother them. And that fucking scares me. Like if you're so, like, I don't know what the word is, but you're, you're sensitized to it. Yeah, that's it. Like, yeah, it's, they're desensitized to it. And it's things. So this is your, this is your video here. You're showing where all the, I guess all the tents used to be, that's where the tents used to be. Yeah. They're all cleared out now. And why did they clear it out? Just for fun. I think, I really do think they're trying to bring back the neighborhood. Yeah. And the way they're doing it is it's going to be two blocks at a time. And let's say the neighborhood has 75 blocks. So two blocks at a time, they're going to set up barriers, no tents, but you could, you could buy drugs. I saw people selling drugs today. You could shoot up in front of cops. I saw that today. So what, to me, for what it looks like to me, and I'm just a guy who goes to baseball games, they're opening up that street for no camping, but they want to get business back in the neighborhood, but they want the drug addicts to go into the neighborhood and not go in the streets with the businesses, because business is more important than residents. It seems to me, I'm just a guy. Well, yeah, a business is not going to come open up if there's tents out, but like sure, if a person on drugs wants to buy something from your business, who can stop them. Right. But they have a lot of corner stores in Kensington that they just closed down. There was a lot of, I think there's a lot of drug dealing going out of the corner stores. There was a lot of illegal gambling going on. So they're starting to close down some things. They're also closing down businesses that some people would consider to be enablers, that people that offer showers to the people, people, places that clean infected wombs, which I, the city's trying to shut down these places, which they're good and bad. Yeah, yeah, because they don't want anybody, they don't want it to make it easy when you down there. They don't want you to get in your, they want you to fucking get away and leave. So there's, there's a one place that they offer to shower, you can get your wombs clean. They all. Oh, like a mobile, like a mobile shower unit. This place was a storefront. This was a store for our Kensington Ave, and they also give out like they did needle exchanges with some people say enables a little bit. They also gave up like free crack pipes because they say like, if you don't have a clean crack pipe, there's another way to get like diseases and some people are like, I think that's a thing. Or to New York and the safe shooting, the safe, like shoot up sites. Well, we don't have that. We don't have that in Philly. You can shoot anywhere you want in a cop loan or rescue. Right here, I'm coming up. There's a city council person in the suit right there. And if you look, I go up to them. There's a hypothermic needle right there, right there, there goes the politician. He's fucking laughing. Have it a good time. Meanwhile, I just told them there's 40 people shooting up drugs right next to the school and you're fucking laughing and giving people high fives. Good for you. Politicians. I once got into a fight with the former mayor of Philadelphia. I didn't get into a fight. I screamed at him. I was like, yeah, we had a shooting on the street and they closed down this street. It's called South Street and they closed it down for months. They just closed it down. No traffic. And I said, yeah, why don't you just fucking close down Kensington Ave. If you could shut down South Street, shut down Kensington Avenue and he just fucking walked off. That's all the people doing drugs next to the school. And wow. Yeah. And that's where I went to grade school. I went to fifth to eighth grade there. So that's the thing like when I when I go to this neighborhood and they make these videos, I know what it used to be like that there's a black fence around that school. That fence wasn't there two years ago. They had to put that fence up because people are shitting and pissing on the school. People will shoot up, pass out on the steps and the kids have to go to another building to go to the school. There's two buildings. So when they have to go to art place, they have to go to the other building. They have to walk over people pissed out on the streets. Oh, wow. So. Oh, my God. So, yeah, it's it's it's a crazy thing. What's happening down there? I think they let it go to out of hand. The last mayor didn't do a fucking thing down there. I don't know why he didn't do anything down there, but he just let it go. And that's one of the conspiracy theories is that they're letting the neighborhood go to shit because then they could drive the property value down. No, but here's the thing. The property value is crazy in Kensington. Row homes go for $400,000. One of the things I do with my videos when I I scoot around and I I if I see a house for sale, I'll say the address that people in my comments tell you the price of the houses and it's you. It's never under $200,000 were row home and a few years ago, a decade, they were going for $8,000. So something must be happening. Yeah, I think they're trying to maybe expand. What's the nearby college there? I saw a video. Yeah, they're looking to expand the borders of temple and maybe add more student how housing and that's probably I heard it's like it's kind of far from there. I think the said state of the world is there's just money in real estate. That's like the only investment that's almost guaranteed. Like you could have a fire, but insurance covers it, but I've never seen property values go down in Philadelphia. They only go up and it does I do hear like the temple university is buying up but there's a documentary I think it's by channel five on YouTube. He did this great documentary explaining how the company colleges just buying up properties and buying up properties at temple university has a history of being scumbags to the residents of the city. There was once a cemetery where there is a parking lot now and they dug up 20,000 bodies and they put in this is like in the in the 40s. They dug up all these bodies and just threw them in a mass grave and like I think there is 20,000 people who got moved and only 7 only 3,000 of 17,000 people didn't get they didn't get notified. So people would go to the cemetery and find that there's a fucking parking lot and meanwhile there's a mass grave and so temple's been fucking over the city for years. They're just about making money. Wow, I mean at least in a sense like you go to visit grandpa, the cemetery, it's like well you can visit grandma, you can visit your whole family, they're all on the same plot. Right. It's very sad. Yeah. I don't know. Do you go to graves? Do you visit graves? Everyone in my family gets cremated. Isn't that a burden though because my girlfriend right she I got half her fucking dead relatives in my dining room sitting on the shelf and so what do we do like three generations from now? Who gives a fuck about Uncle Jim? True. Right. That's why I think it's nice to get it maybe made into something like yeah you're not going to keep a little urn of ashes like toss them in a meaningful area or get them I don't know baked into a photo frame or something like that. I've seen people like put it into jewelry, records you can make it into a vinyl record. I see that that's actually pretty cool but now with my kids they wouldn't take care of the record. They all scratched up and they'll throw it the fuck out anyway so I think it's nice yeah if you're thinking of somebody go to a place where they like to go or do something they like to do that's a nice way to remember them instead of like visiting a cemetery okay that's like that could be anybody it's like all right it's not really like a fun vibe. Yeah I don't want to go to a mass grave and go grandpa is somewhere here. I would like to know exactly where my grandfather is decomposing. I like to be at that space you know it's I physical it's just the physical bones I mean like the spirit lives on and it's like if you believe the spirit's always watching you or that's always with you then it's like you don't need to go to a specific physical place but if you need that for you for your own grieving like I think it's better to just know it's crazy whenever whenever I have somebody dying or I have somebody die in my family whenever I have sex right after they die I often wonder I wonder if grandma's watching I've thought of that yeah like can they see this yeah yeah because like I do some deviate shit and I don't want them to see that stuff grandma doesn't like that the other day I'm like can my dad dad see me breastfeeding right now like is that weird that's fine that's a good thing but you know I don't want to say so I was said something crazy but yeah they don't I don't want my Grandma I'm seeing me do certain things you know but at breastfeeding is not there any kind of like oh how about that I don't know I tried I worked pretty hard my whole life or my dad did not see my boobs you know like it's you don't really want your dad seeing you shouldn't be a struggle I mean like right it's not that it was a struggle but like you know you're not getting dressed willy nilly in a room with an open door right I don't know things like that me and my girlfriend we've been together for a decade and my ex wife and I we were bathroom people not me more her like I was like if I was going to the bathroom she would like if I was you know go with big boy potty as I say if I was yes she would come in the room and like talk to me and I'd be like get the fuck out of the room my family same thing like I didn't even know this wasn't normal until I met my my husband's family and and so we moved in together like I shared a room with my sister growing up so no privacy we couldn't even shut the door if we locked the door one of my parents would think like something's up and they would try to like break it down or something my dad like you could never have a shut door in the house and if I was showering I couldn't lock the door because what if somebody else needed it I had to like we all door unlocked so I would have to set up a system of towels slung over the shower so that like people couldn't see me like I'm in there obviously naked showering I'd always have to have many towels slung over the shower so that like people couldn't see see what you had to keep the door unlocked what if someone has to use the bathroom and you're always showering on edge you're like how do like you're trying to go as fast as you can that's what when I say I worked so hard for my dad not to see my you know what I mean like yeah yeah you're trying to have nobody in your family see you naked yeah I mean I guess it depends on how you're raised yeah my parents are pretty prudish I did have my ex-wife was a you know walking in on me and then in this new world not this new relationship but then relationship them and now we have a rule listen I don't even want to see you I don't want to talk to you you do your thing I'm never going to be part of it I like it like that I think I don't yeah it's it's much better not seeing your significant other shit I think I should be a valentine's take on I think if you could try to do anything yeah do your best to not shit or fart in front of your significant other like if you do one thing you know I mean like come on let some things be sacred let some things be for just you we I we well she never forked in front of me I try my damn this but sometimes I drink but seltzer water so sometimes I'm a gassy little fella but I usually I only for it when she's asleep sometimes I wake her up yeah not I mean if you could not hear the sound of it if you have to do it if you have to let out a silent one in the middle of the night never sleep sure sometimes sometimes you test it to see if it's a silent one I didn't find out it's not so then you try to excuse yourself but you go you try to go downstairs that you know but then you already let it out so now you're walking and it's starting to come out and then you're embarrassed I didn't get you run out of the room of the first week run away and hope like you take it with you but you don't it doesn't matter fact it doesn't it doesn't leave it stays so now it's states and you're going out of the room you've crop dusted everyone I didn't I never thought we would get to these topics I had Bryce Harper written down I had there are a lot of fun players I what I enjoy the most about baseball is following players that have like a real temper that like just get thrown out of games I love bloopers I love like not that I love watching people get hurt but if there's like an insane injury or like a freak accident I like watching that you know it's good there's there's a YouTube channel called John boy media yes he's reading he's a great lip reader yeah he's he's so good and they'll be picked him up he's like he's a mainstream now and they'll be picked up John boy don't they don't they have host his show I'm pretty sure he does something for MLB now I'm so proud of him yo if you're a youtuber you're hearing that the guy got signed by the holy shit that's amazing I don't I don't really I met him once but I don't really know but that's holy shit that guy is just he was just making YouTube videos about lip readings and Yankees and now he's wow what what yeah yeah I'm pretty sure he has something on the yes network yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he's he's a good dude but he's so funny hi and there's also another YouTube channel called baseball doesn't exist he makes like 20 minute documentaries and my girlfriend who knows nothing about baseball loves okay yes network here we go yes not I will be yes network yes excuse me it's it's not that's worked at 40 Yankees that's a step away from that no big it's a big deal it's a really big deal I enjoyed very much brick gardeners anger I really loved how he would like get into the dugout you take a bat and just cram it on the roof of the dugout and just not hit people with it but I don't know why I like watching people be angry maybe because I don't really get angry and lash out like that it's fun to see other people do it Bryce Harper whenever I hate when I see him throw temper tantrums because whenever Bryce Harper throws a temper tantrum the fill is usually lose because he gets in his head and I hate whenever they argue with an umpire I would say they lose 95% of the games oh really yeah yeah but yeah Bryce Harper's a hot head which is cool I kind of like that because that means it means something though it means he actually cares if you're going to get upset about playing a child's game he really wants to win a championship so I love that he's the one that fillies he's the fucking best yeah because it's not he's got to go back and finish high school he doesn't want to do that I don't think he even needs to do that I think he's okay although people say people say he's very underpaid he makes like I think twenty five thirty million dollars a year oh wow but now that guy show Otani who's in the Dodgers he's making 70 million and he's just batting this year he's not even pitching he's just batting so and subtract whatever his translator stole from him so it's even less than that oh I wonder I don't know if that story is true you think it's him you think he gambled the money away yeah I kind of do I don't know much but like I know I know what I got going on in my checking account and if a hundred dollars goes missing I'm very aware if millions of dollars go missing I thought doesn't the bank call you I just I just feel like right how much money do you have to have to not notice ten plus million dollars to be gone right right so I don't know he doesn't seem like Otani does much for fun he doesn't drink I don't know the Asians are very serious they love gambling though so maybe he he did it and I also kind of you know when I sit in my seats at Citizens Bank Park I do notice they have the ESPN bet advertising and all the gambling sites all around like baseball gambling's everywhere and Todd agrees with you John he thinks he thinks it was Otani yeah thank you Todd Todd sounds like a smart guy I am yeah I sort of think something's there but the thing is they make a lot of money off that guy they make a lot of money off that guy I don't know so many people who know Tony jerseys so some I keep an eye on that I see what else I can't see them kicking him out of baseball like Pete Rose but something something interesting good he's just too good well yeah I wonder if the truth was amazing it's just that he did it at the end of his career Otani's at the beginning that Pete Rose you know Pete Rose even though he was a Philly he wasn't the best guy in the world he a lot of people didn't like Pete Rose okay yeah so he could rub people the wrong way Otani he doesn't speak the language so nobody talks to him you know oh you know he has to be very runry when when he leaves the stadium but I was at I was at the Philly stadium last year when he was with the Angels when he left the stadium he was the first member of the Angels to go on the bus and he got on the bus 25 minutes before another player did and I was like God damn that must be very lonely to have him and just the interpreter be the only people you talk to it must be kind of sad but it's the life he chose it's very runry I also want to talk about a story which I didn't know that you had a direct influence in and that is the trade Turner story so trade Turner he what he was at was he at the Washington Nationals where did he start out yeah he started with the Nationals then he went to the Dodgers and then now he's a Philly he signed a massive deal with the Phillies leading into last season leading into the 2023 season like what was it maybe was it 11 years 300 million dollars something like that something yeah he got a very good contract yeah 13 years oh gosh yeah just insane he had hitting problems he had I always like to be like if someone starts doing bad I like saying like is it the yips do they have the yips because I think it's just fun to say but he just underperformed a lot fans were booing him relentlessly and then I thought a local radio station organized it turns out you were directly responsible for this when I explain what you did for him yeah that fucking radio station all right so there's there's a story there's um trade Turner was playing like shit it's pretty much how it comes down though and I am in part of a group chat with all my friends I watch baseball with and my one friend Todd was like yo we're gonna boo the fuck at a trade Turner when he gets back to the stadium and I said I was at a minor league stadium watching a game in Delaware and when I saw that that text message I said ah fuck Todd and I put a video up on Instagram and I had a you know I had like maybe a few thousand followers and I'm friendly with the people who run bar stool sports in Philadelphia and they hit me up and they said yo we love this idea we're gonna share your video and and they shared my video and it went all over the place meanwhile there's this radio guy who had a tweet he puts out this tweet two hours before my post um saying hey let's give trade Turner a standing ovation 2000 people saw his tweet I said in my video let's give trade Turner a standing ovation all weekend and I think over a few million people saw my thing but this guy who's the radio host has a bigger microphone in the city so he got credit for the standing ovation and I'm not saying like I was the inventor of the standing ovation I think my influence was a little bit bigger than that radio host but because he has a more powerful microphone he he had more people give him credit um and um and it didn't bother me until a radio show host on that radio station pretty much called me a liar so then really yeah yeah yeah I was like fuck that radio station I won't talk about them I won't say the name I won't ever say the names of the radio host um but I got a lot of hate because there was an article written by this newspaper called Cross & Broad and they said well Jack Fritz had the idea first I just said his fucking name the radio had his name had the idea first and then the captain had a thing but the ideas were two different things he said let's do a standing ovation and I said let's do the standing ovation all weekend and what happened was a straight turn or got the standing ovation all weekend um during the World Series so yeah so we gave him the standing ovation and he turns it around and it worked it worked the Phillies went far into the playoffs it did pretty good Trey Turner also worked on himself he was in the batting cages he was doing the things he needed to do to get better so um Trey Turner played a part in it I say there I say like the Trey Turner ovation thing was kind of like a fire and I was one of the bigger logs that set that flyer but you need Trey Turner to do good you need all the fans to stand up I need the jerk-off radio host to do a tweet for 2,000 people um so it was it was a lot of people to build that fire and um there's going to be a movie coming out about it we just got done filming it there's going to be a movie coming out about it in a few months it just it just got done filming so if it wasn't for that movie I probably would have lost my mind because so many people were calling me a liar about the standing ovation um it drove me nuts because it was just something nice it was just something nice I wanted to do because I didn't want the guy the guy that Trey Turner's playing for the Phillies for 13 years and it's his first year and I was like I don't want the guy to come here and get booed and play like shit for the rest of the year I want to go to the playoffs with my friends I like going to the baseball stadium and hanging out with my friends so let's just be nice let's just try something instead of booing let's let's because if we do good this that that series if we did good we could possibly still make the playoffs they weren't playing that great and I think that little positivity did a good thing and now other teams are doing it the Mets just did it the Marlins just did it they're giving stating ovation to shitty players so I'm somewhat responsible for starting a new sympathetic ways for shitty baseball players I'm very proud it goes to show you like the power of I guess intention or energy or having that fan support behind you I mean he went from yeah he went from really really sucking it to crushing it he did great what it would his batting average went up to three hundreds or something like he it was batting in the movement it was batting in the low 200s and after the ovation he was batting like 364 something crazy more home runs stolen bases everything he did he did he did fantastic after the ovation and he was doing good this year too he just got hurt for six weeks probably because he's a he's a smooth slider I saw a compilation of him just like sliding into bases and then just like sauntering off it's because he's a smoothest his smoothest slide was against the Phillies and when he was on the Dodgers he did this room cool slide and he stood up and I was like mother fuck I fucking hate this guy he looks like he's on a slip and slide it doesn't even look like he's sliding on it's round it's no big thing it just looks like yeah it's really cool how he does that he and then there was no pocket he rented a bunch of billboards saying thank you Philadelphia like he was so appreciative of the fan support yeah yeah yeah and I've gotten I talked to him and he was he was very nice he's a very nice guy yeah I can't I don't think I was supposed to say that uh it seems to me but he's very nice he's a very nice guy I talked to him last week I saw him at the stadium we dabbed it up for a second um I uh he's he's a cool he's very nice uh and you know the cool thing is Philadelphia sports fans we have a bad reputation we're never we're never going to get rid of our asshole reputation we have his fans and I love that I love that but sometimes people I'll see like oh maybe Philly's Philly fans are changing the way they are and I can guarantee we're not we're fucking jerk offs and nothing's going to change but to our own we could be nice and and I think it was nice to be nice at that one time but I'm never going to do that shit again next time I'm booing them no more standing ovations oh I can't do that I hear credit I did a standing ovation and they made a movie about it I can't top that right I can't top that there's nothing that's going to be better than that so oh I just you don't don't don't fuck around and and not nobody likes sequels or some sequels but the most sequels suck so I'm never going to do that thank you Ron Coleman for becoming a new member what's up Ron Edward in the chat the captain rules FTM donkey steaks are the best donkey steaks are very very good I wouldn't say they're cheese steaks there's a cheese steak spot in New Jersey and it's called donkeys in Camden and they put it when a round Kaiser roll and Anthony Bourdain loved donkeys he said was one of the best and it's kind of it kind of tastes like a French onion soup sandwich because you got these wet onions and this great cheese and it's in Camden and they have beer and tat yeah it's just a cool it's a cool little spot I highly recommend that spot I don't say it's not a cheese steak though because it's not on a warm roll our favorite is gyms and you don't like gyms it's not like it's not it's not it shouldn't be your favorite it shouldn't be your favorite you can get a gym steaks at any cheese steak any pizza shop in Philadelphia kind of makes a gym steaks it's a soft roll it's not there's nothing really special except a location at gyms okay just which it just reopened there's a quick cheese steak spot called john's roast pork in south Philadelphia they're only open Monday through I don't know their clothes on Mondays because he don't he don't want to fucking work the guy just makes cheese steaks because he loves it he'd want a James Beard award so I think he's open Tuesdays the Saturdays 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and that's it it's sometimes he sells out of rolls he'll shut down early oh wow john's roast pork is good angelos is good um you know they're they're you gotta go to john's roast pork so it sounds like gyms is a lesser steak because we thought you know we tried we said we said oh we're we're past pats and ginos now we're venturing out yeah yeah no it's I mean it's it's it's better than ginos and pats because er shit like but Jim I've met gino he's a nice guy he loves meeting any kind of celebrity any kind of person with any fame or uh yeah you know you go up and you see all the pictures and celebrities and stuff uh yeah but that's the food the food shit if anybody ever orders a cheesesteak a Philadelphia just no don't ever order cheese whiz they changed the formula the cheese whiz a few years ago so it doesn't compliment steak the way I thought the whiz was the default that was like the American cheese fried onion that's the way to go oh shit yeah yeah and then uh if you look if we're a good hogi shop there's a place called Richie's on 11th they make this old-fashioned Italian hogi you eat one of them you ain't got to eat for the next two three days they're so big and it's it's right everything's cut fresh so good wow you have come to Philly you let me know I'll tell you guys where to go okay yeah we go we do frequent Philly we go there from time to time Magnum Norse thinks we're super chat love you Chrissy how's the demon baby this guy looks like he eats bears in the woods I think that's a compliment the baby is fucking manly right it's like a man when you eat bears and woods I'll tell you what that demon baby put off this podcast for 25 minutes yeah yeah the baby i was sleeping soundly and then somehow knew i had something to do and we suddenly became starving how old how old's the baby he's a month old really like tomorrow so he does not in but sleep shit and eat right that's yeah that's really i'll tell you one of the best things i ever heard of ice-wise is when you have a baby take a picture of the baby every day because their faces change and you could go it could do like a 365 slide of the year and you can just see how the little the little critter changes all throughout it's a really neat little slideshow though yeah it's it's a lot of you called him a critter i do i think i call him like the little milk muncher he's just like a little and he's like he makes all these little grunty noises it's so cute yeah it's gas yeah very gassy that you you live in new york do you have like a like an apartment or is it a house or no we're in a house okay so like the baby has his own room or you do in the baby will they have the baby in your room actually the first six months to 12 months they say yeah a little like bassinet uh next bed and anytime i always thought i'd have to set my alarm so i could wake up and feed him but the second i hear a little like me i'm like it takes nothing for me to wake up now they're like a guard dog a little noise get you going yeah i'm like dog now when you when you go to sleep at night i remember when i had my first kid and i went to sleep at night i could hear the fucking cry and the baby wasn't even crying but all your hair is the crying and um it's uh um it's a lot of work being a parent and uh the first two years are beautiful they're beautiful and they're and they're a lot of fun um and then when happens they start they learn how to run away and then they they learn they learn the word no and then they become teenagers and then it goes down well what if we just never teach him no yeah well and see it's impossible because they put their fingers in white sockets and they grab dog scales and you have no no they learn it because they hear it so much oh from the chat thank you the chat christy no context just dropping in hard to let you know how much i like you and your talent peace thank you the chat dropping in hard i appreciate it very cool um wow it's so crazy babies are nuts and speaking of babies crying my boobs started leaking today this is a this was a moment like he was crying i was changing him and i was like i was like what's wet i was like did he pee on himself again because a few times i'll be changing me he'll he'll pee up onto his outfit onto his own bet like he'll just pee up and onto himself and how horrible and shocking must that be you're like why am i covered in urine and it's like oh it's mine oh he he doesn't he doesn't know what do you think now he doesn't even want yeah i thought like what is pee falling from the sky what is this and i thought that happened and i'm like oh no like i'm just leaking now because it's like he cries i guess my boobs have some sort of bluetooth and they hear it and then they start well they sell they sell uh uh titty tampons you put them on your nipples and and if you get clapping yeah titty tampons god imagine you have to stick something inside your nipple no it's just like a little bet it has to be so painful uh but yeah it's like they're like pads titty pads and you just wear it at that way because you're you're going to ruin every bra you have um you're going to ruin um yeah everything's destroyed and then you're gonna be burping at baby every shirt's gonna have yeah good luck ever looking cute again never you will never not until he uh unless unless you get away for a few days but as long as you're with that baby you will have some form of liquid on you that did not come from you just like my college days wow it's worth it though it's a labor of love um oh my god we covered everything i wanted to cover this was so delightful philly captain i'm such a fan oh thank you so much i can't wait for this movie to come out i can't wait for your zach hample collab i don't know if the collab's gonna happen now if he sees this interview i think i was pretty yet it's gonna happen or else me and john are gonna we're gonna show up at your family's bookstore and yeah and we're gonna go into the break room and go over you yeah you told us to come here we're gonna go to the area that are that's for employees only because you showed us where it is that's what we're going to do um it's a big book story yes he's very big yeah he's doing all right he's doing just fine um john tell the fine people where they can follow you what is coming up for you okay uh that you find me on the philly captain on youtube and instagram and facebook they pay the most so go to there um fuck i don't care about twitter or tiktok um but i'm on there too i don't really pay attention to tiktok that much um i post stuff there but it's a tool used by the chinese government despite you're not a 13 year old girl no one's no no but i make content that 13 year old boys like uh they like they like baseball content and and and i gotta be honest i don't i got like 40 35 000 followers on there and a lot of people who watch the tiktoks come over to the youtube that's what you know you get you spread yourself thin to get them it like that's my theory that's what i'm trying to do i don't know if it's working but i'm trying my damnedest you guys just yeah spread it everywhere spread your seed all over the internet like uh like uh like nick cannon exactly spread your seed everywhere everyone follow john on youtube at the philly captain uh thank you guys in the chat for your comments and questions this was just a blast and i will talk to you soon and we'll have to yeah we'll have to organize a new york day let's go yay Alright, we'll see you guys next time. 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