Walking Tour Of Philly South Street & Downtown Historic Locations - John’s Roast Pork / Zipperhead
Philadelphia February 2023
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of us Wednesday February 15
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2023 I am on South Street in
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Philadelphia the home the birthplace of
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Larry Fine from The Three Stooges
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there's a mural up there and I figure if
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I'm going to do South Street in
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Philadelphia
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I should get a hold of the one and only
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Philly Captain here we are out in the
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woo we're doing a vlog together dreams
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are coming true here on South Street
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here we usually do it louder than that
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oh listen you're here we are your Vlogs
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you're a little bit more subdued than
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mine but uh yeah I you know what I'm
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really really excited to say
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join me
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shall you nailed it let's go so this
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mural was placed here because he was
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born in this spot Larry faring was born
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if you go down right here his dad owned
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a jewelry store
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and when Larry was a little kid his dad
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had all types of cleaners uh like acid
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stuff to clean jewelry and when Larry
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was a young lad with his curly hair he
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uh he grabbed a jar of like battery acid
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yeah and he burned his arm really really
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bad and because of him burning his arm
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uh his doctor said for like a physical
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therapy exercise he should buy play the
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fiddle because when you play the fiddle
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you work these muscles and the jewelry
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store was right here and the reason
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Larry got the jeweling The Three Stooges
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yeah is because he was a fiddle player
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so because of his the accident that
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happened in his father's jewelry no
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kidding we have Larry Fine as as a a
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Philadelphia hero now I kind of
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mentioned hey should take me down to
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South Street because people always tell
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me you know because I'm a tourist go to
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South Street and you're like really yeah
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South Street isn't what it used to be uh
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20 years ago all these shops that went
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great down were open independent stores
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yeah uh so it's kind of the retail space
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here is dying but things are coming back
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this is Dobbs on South Street this is a
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cool bar back in the early 90s
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Nirvana played here really Green Day
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played here I like Green Day hey this is
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this this is this era of Green Day
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now another thing I've been doing while
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on this little tenure in Philadelphia is
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I'm asking the locals what their
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favorite
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Philly cheesesteak places you have any
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you have any places it's John's Roast
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Fork it's not it's like I don't even
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know why you're having this conversation
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with other people
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um it's it's a known fact John's Roast
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Pork makes the best cheesesteak in the
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world how good is the Cheesesteak at
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John's Roast Fork they don't even have
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it in its name they don't even they
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don't just Philly people know about
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John's Roseburg
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very special lined up for you in just a
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little bit my friend wait till you see
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is it on South Street it's not on South
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Street it's in South Philadelphia it's
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not that far from here now there is a
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cheesecake place right down the street
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called Jim's oh a lot of people have
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suggested jumps but Jim's burned down in
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a fire so we won't be going to jail the
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cheesesteaks will be well done there is
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no shortage of authentic South Philly
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cheesesteaks though here there's a spot
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here I'll tell you I I'll tell you
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there's something wrong with that sign I
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don't think this is South Philly maybe
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it's like the very beginning of South
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Philly but maybe so yeah as a tourist I
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would think this was because I'm on
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South Street be like Oh I'm in South
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Philly yeah but you know what the thing
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about tourist is they don't know
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there's like a mural over here looks
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like a newer mural yeah this is a mural
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of Octavius Cato he
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um oh it has something to do with
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Philadelphia Fire African-American
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firefighters in Philadelphia and you can
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see they're over there putting out the
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fire and Octavius Carter was a man who
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uh fought for uh African Americans to
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have the right to vote in the late 1800s
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okay that's Pizza is Philly known for
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its Pizza also
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or is it more of a just what is what's
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Philly known for cheese steaks yeah no
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we're just we got we got the best food
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in the world
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the best cheese steaks are the best food
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the best food
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it's not we have the best bread it's the
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bread the bread is what makes sense what
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I've been told the bread makes the pizza
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the bread makes the sandwich and there's
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something in our tap water that makes
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our bread taste better than anybody
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else's bread these look like new little
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clings on here but they have like a
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retro vibe to it
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South cleaners so this is South so I
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would think that as a tourist there
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would be in South Philly but this is
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South Street and that's South Street
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Market right okay
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I'm just gonna say it's South Philly
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where was where was uh where was Fresh
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Prince from he's from West Philly West
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Philly born and raised I won the
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playground that's where he's most of his
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days we're now approaching engine
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company number 11.
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which has a lot of glass Arbor now
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yesterday I saw something like this over
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in Camden probably by the same artist
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you see how the Sun is kind of beaming
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down upon this given that the little
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sparkling effect on the glass
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well the reason the the artist his name
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is Isaiah zargaard and he puts mirrors
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in all of his artwork because he wants
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you to see yourself in his arm
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that makes sense
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and he lived around here he lived right
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next two doors down and if you look up
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like there's all kinds of crazy stuff
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plates classes
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um yeah
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the Batman signal right there the bat
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signal come on yeah is this guy is the
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real life Gotham hey
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it could yeah no I didn't sometimes
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Philadelphia feels like Gotham
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even on the ground yeah
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is there glass on the ground
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probably not because the tires
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maybe though well it's flat
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now this right here is interesting
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because it's like carved into the
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pavement but then there's also another
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piece of art there making the face up
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yeah
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now you criticized me a little bit for
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say not just calling it Philadelphia I
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keep saying South Philadelphia
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South Street yeah just call it
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Philadelphia yeah don't be so specific
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and you you might not be wrong that's
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for anything should I call it Philly or
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only locals call it Philly Philly now
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who cares we have Philly yeah I'm the
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Philly captain of course you can say
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Philly yeah all right yeah are you not
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the Philadelphia captain no no
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Philadelphia it's it's a hard word to
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spell Philly very easy if I called you
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to the captain of Philadelphia would
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that would you would you it happens more
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times hey it's the captain here
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I like baseball oh yeah I love first of
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all everybody in the comments tell Adam
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you lost baseball videos because
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sometimes he's like oh I'm gonna stop
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making baseball videos no you keep
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making that I love your baseball videos
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I love the way because you actually get
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food and you go to different stadiums
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and you you do it and you get good seats
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I'm glad you enjoy them everybody hit
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Thumbs Up For Adam give it a big thumbs
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up oh
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yeah when you say you're going to stop
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making them I was like No And over here
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is the Philly fanatic do you think did
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he ever really climb the the top of a
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pole above the walk signal like that on
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Broad Street absolutely thank you and
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just so you know that pool is covered in
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grease that's something we do in
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Philadelphia whenever our teams win
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championships the Philadelphia Police
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Department goes to Broad Street to
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Greece no kidding because people climb
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on the poles isn't that true it is it's
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true can't make that up that's something
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to be proud of how far is the Stadium
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from here not that far can we go by
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there yes I can take it I would be
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awesome I want to see the big pee that's
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laying in the ground they got the the
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pee down yeah yeah I hope my buddy the
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security guards there he'll uh he'll
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yell again because I always like when
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you go hold on
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here we are Citizen Bank Park home of
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the Philadelphia Phillies let's go I
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know he's or NL Champs and the Tampa Bay
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Rays are playing here next year 24 so I
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might come back I can't wait to Heckle
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you and yell at you for wearing stuff oh
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it's gonna be a good time I almost for
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my race cap today and I was like no
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what what no working people think
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Philadelphia uh sports fans are like
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animals and we just hurt people who wear
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other stuff we're not like that so this
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isn't the Bronx no way more classy let's
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go such people I've heard stuff about
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going going to raise and raise gays when
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they're playing the Yankees at Yankee
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Stadium so I don't know yeah why are
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Yankees fans so angry they win every
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other year I don't know angry angry
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people I would be angry too if I lived
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in New York who um are part of uh
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there's people who signed the
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Declaration of Independence
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um uh the guy who read the Declaration
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of Independence first time publicly is
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buried here uh the portrait artists of
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the founding fathers his name is Charles
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Wilson peel he painted every single
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founding father who was uh anybody he's
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here what's that he's he's inheried
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here
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because we're just outrageous look at
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that it is
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yeah look at that it's like a pyramid
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there
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that's Charlie he's the artist
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the Drew hey he was the artist that did
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all the presidents for that every
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Founding Father founding father who had
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a poetry made
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was painted by Charles Wilson peel so he
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was in the room with Ben Franklin George
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wife
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he sat there held conversations with
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them
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and you notice that this
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looks like that steeple and the reason
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why that does is because he paid for the
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steeple to get put on the church
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so when the Declaration of Independence
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was read publicly for the first time
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John Nixon walked out the door of
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Declaration at the Independence Hall and
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he read the Declaration of Independence
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what language do you think he read
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John Nixon what language do you think
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our independence uh declaration that the
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pencils was right in first
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I honestly have no clue Sherman German
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it wasn't English really there was more
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German uh philadelphians at that time so
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he read it in German first and then I
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never knew that in English
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yeah nobody that's a that's an
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interesting fact his name after this guy
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George Mifflin Dallas he was the vice
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president he was the vice president he
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was the film mayor of Philadelphia uh
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the 14th Vice President of the United
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States
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and they named Dallas Dallas Texas is
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named after this guy I don't know if you
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people know out there we hate Dallas
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philadelphians don't like Dallas really
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the Dallas Cowboys so the fact that this
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guy here is the reason Dallas exists
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kind of bothers it's like a thorn in
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everyone's side but so whenever I come
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in here I just go Dallas something so
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the link would radiate more throughout
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the uh yeah
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so this design was invented by Ben
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Franklin yeah it's called the Franklin
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like now when he did it it was a gas
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land right of course electricity yeah
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Ben Franklin wasn't right here like
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putting this in the ground and like yeah
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he had people to do that yeah but this
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is just this is his version of the land
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the Ben Franklin land yes and if you
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come around this side this part of the
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city is called Society Hill and
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um this is one of those areas where the
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founding fathers mingled and uh so they
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thought it would be cool to have these
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uh lights yeah this is actually the
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first section in America that was
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gentrified in 1940 this section was kind
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of run down everything was beaten up and
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there was a developer a Sydney
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controller named Edmund bacon who is the
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father of Kevin Bacon and he uh wait are
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you serious I swear to God yeah Kevin
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Bacon's dad was the controller the city
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controller of Philadelphia and he said
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to the mayor of Philadelphia yo
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these buildings are falling apart yeah
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and it's kind of important to save them
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maybe
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Kevin Bacon's dad are you serious I
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swear I swear that's a grandmother's
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brain that's that's more than six
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degrees of Kevin Bacon that's no I mean
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that's I mean practically he is Kevin
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Bacon all right where these ants are
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what was here this was a punk rock
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T-shirt shop called gained
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notoriety in the Dead Milkmen song
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called punk rock oh yeah I know it well
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and the song goes one Saturday I took a
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walk to zip her head yeah I met a girl
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there and she almost knocked me dead
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girl face look at me this is your travel
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around the world
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oh nice of the graphics and so feel free
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to
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um that's cool that's the old neon down
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this is pretty awesome
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um we had a soft opening of this exhibit
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this is so this is the um the home to
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the South Street and house district okay
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they're the business improvement
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district yeah oversee commercial
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corridor
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and so we rented this the first time
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we've ever had an on-street office
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that's great
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I do and and the Fantastic egg hunt we
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have 60 60 degrees it has the ants I
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said spiders they're ants on the side
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over there too so
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so the ants that are out there they were
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there even back in the days
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oh yeah
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okay they're made of fiberglass
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literally just sitting out out back and
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we've cleaned it up and hung it up
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and all of this ephemera here all comes
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from Rich Private Collection he kept
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every letter anyone ever wrote to him
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this is pretty Amazon you know free
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email and so it even talks about one of
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these notes even talks about when
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Courtney Love came into her store
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because zipper had had some right
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some T-shirts and bad taste okay and
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Courtney didn't like it or Sally store I
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know that means nobody to anything but
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that was a big Philadelphia Legend This
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is interesting Bill Cosby was ordered to
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pay 20 cents to a photographer who sued
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him for roughing him up at a 1992
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benefit but you see the one ant yeah
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that that was the one that was one of
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the ants from and uh
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South Street Art Mart and crashed but so
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they had moved over here yeah well the
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right one South Street is outrageous so
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you just go one block over go a block
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around the corner and you move in here
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gotcha and the space is smaller but it
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it has the zipper head movies you can
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get a VCR movies inside of a library
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it's a free Blockbuster it's a yeah so
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if you have something extra you want to
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throw in there give and take there's one
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in near my house and you know I had
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about a thousand DVDs so every so often
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I'll just drop them in there
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a good deed help people have a good time
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there's Nanny nanu on the side over here
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Morgan Mork
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that's pretty I have seen the libraries
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but I didn't didn't realize they did a
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free Vlog just to read you could just
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watch a movie I like this here you got
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sleep away camp over here and then you
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got Urkel but this is where Kevin Hart
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got his start I didn't mean to rhyme
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and stand-up comedy right here what was
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the name of the video uh either the last
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house or last Factory they had a few
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name changes Uh Kevin Hart was a sneaker
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salesman and uh he was when in here and
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we're like a stand-up comedy competition
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yeah and uh somebody dared them to go up
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and he went up and he won the
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competition he won fifty dollars he came
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back the next week won that competition
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again and then a week or two later he
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started going up to New York to become
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the legend that we know and love today
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and the rest is history yeah
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foreign
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Mandel same thing his whole career
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started on the Dare and with the city
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off in the distance have arrived at the
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home of the ultimate cheese steak
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corner of Snyder and what
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Snyder and wiliko
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weko akoi
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all right we just started that's what
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snyderabad
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John's Roast Pork established 1930
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according to the Philly Captain the best
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cheesesteak in Philadelphia best
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cheesesteak in the world in the world
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first of all if you don't get a good
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Cheesesteak anywhere else besides
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um I'll let the owner tell you his story
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but it
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anybody who knows Philadelphia food
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knows this place is the place you go to
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get the best cheese steak have you
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always been in the same spot oh yeah
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yeah always right always right here you
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go to some cheesesteaks place then you
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order it and they'll have the meat yeah
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and they'll have onions like pre-cooked
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like everything we have all fresh cooked
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fresh like like if you want fried onions
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yeah we'll cook up the onions and like
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we cook everything together like cookies
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like we don't use cheese whiz like we
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don't just put cheese like we use
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American mild or sharp so I'm a tourist
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are you not supposed to have cheese whiz
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is that the it's frowned upon I whatever
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you like I personally don't I just want
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whatever you suggest and they also
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change the formula a cheese whiz
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okay
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I'll get whatever you suggest
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and I suggest you get a pork sandwich
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and then you you guys you split it you
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get a half a beach and there are some
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sandwiches okay yeah the pork is what my
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grandfather started selling here in
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1930. he sold it for the check uh
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roasted pork and meatball sandwich it's
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like passing Ginos and all the other
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places I've been there
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I did that five years ago I'm friends
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with the owner of Pats he's a
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tremendously nice guy Frankie Olive area
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you know those guys are great everybody
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thinks we're a kind of adversarial we're
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really not yeah all those cheesecake
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owners like my dad used to always say
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there's enough business for everyone
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there really is you know and we're only
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open 10 10 in the morning till 5 p.m
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okay Tuesday through Saturday like we're
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truly uh a mom and pop shop it's my wife
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and I run the place with my mom's still
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my boss she'll be 90 next week you know
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so it's uh she still does the daily book
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work my mom yeah I see your mom all the
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time on Facebook yeah it's great you
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know so I mean uh
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all right this is one of two the owners
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suggested not only a Cheesesteak but
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also roast pork a roast pork this is
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what we're dealing with this is it this
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is
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a good thing you're videotaping this I
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like to spin it around that's what I do
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I kind of show it from all angles yeah I
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think you uh you you started that did I
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start yeah I'm gonna give you credit
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we're spending food around
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and it smells so dang good hey
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American cheese onions cut fresh the
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bread you're not going to have a better
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sandwich on a better piece of bread I've
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heard the bread oh it's got the little
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sesame seeds on the side that's good
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this is John Troy's pork this is the
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best one okay it doesn't matter
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and I know you're going to be looking
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for places all week and
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uh yeah this is
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you can't talk the best all right I'm
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ready we gotta dig into this thing let's
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go so this is the roast and this is the
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cheese Cheesesteak so I I think you
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should what you should probably do tell
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me what I should do eat one half of the
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Cheesesteak first okay get that a second
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let that let that settle and then we'll
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uh go get you polish it off yeah let's
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do the cheese thing let's go
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to make sure I'm in the frame
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oh it's a big sandwich you might want to
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put the lens back a little bit because
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there's so much according to the Philly
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Captain the best cheesecake anywhere in
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the world
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I trust your opinion
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come on come on come on go look at his
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face
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and we put 12 ounces of steak
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bits of pots sliced in we use loyaltail
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we don't use red bar like everybody else
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and you use it you know would let me
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work a few shifts you know and my dad
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got weird today he got so mad he was
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like what are you doing he's like you
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could be helping me like and I was like
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little did he know you were yeah I was
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like but Dad this place is like right
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right
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so you know we lost my dad in April 91
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April 2nd 19
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he was the hardest working man alive man
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he really was you know I got it was a
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tough act to follow because my God that
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guy you know he would how proud how
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proud do you think he'd be oh I wish he
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was here because he never got us to see
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a supreme yeah but you know what
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so like uh
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again like
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everybody says look at this see the
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other places like we're only open like I
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said you know 35 hours a week so you
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can't always get our cheese thing so
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like when you're a drunk you know
22:23
because you run out of the bread is that
22:25
what happens
22:26
now because like I'm a I'm a I'm a
22:29
control freak and like I used to make
22:32
every single sandwich you know and then
22:34
the business grew and now it's just not
22:36
logistically possible all right I gotta
22:38
say you were right but it was dang good
22:41
yo I'm the Philly cat
22:48
I like how he put the extra cheese on
22:48
there I like cheese yo we that was
22:51
awesome it was it's like getting a
22:52
painting from Vincent van Gogh painted
22:54
and made for you I see that right the
22:58
guy has a passion for Jesus he
22:59
definitely is very he talked to us for a
23:00
while about his passion pretty awesome
23:02
thank you
23:04
John's Roast Pork
23:06
highly recommended for myself and the
23:08
Philly Camp well Philly Captain first
23:10
and now I'm on board
23:18
across the way
23:18
you see a city skyline down there is the
23:21
USS United States
23:23
which looks like the RMS Titanic it also
23:25
looks like
23:27
in Long Beach the Queen Mary
23:30
I think it's the same shipbuilder
23:32
I think it is made by the same
23:34
shipbuilder of the Titanic and at one
23:37
time in the 40s this was the fastest
23:40
cruise ship in the world
23:43
um
23:45
now it's just sitting here abandoned
23:46
it's been sitting here for years
23:50
um they don't know what to do with it
23:52
and it just rusting away and just out of
23:56
the way can still see the skyline off in
23:57
the distance have arrived
24:08
you want to do it here we are Citizens
24:09
Bank Park home of the Philadelphia
24:12
Phillies you got the poster right there
24:15
of the National League champions the
24:17
statue of the greatest third baseman in
24:20
the history of baseball Mike Schmidt the
24:23
Liberty Bell which used to hang a top
24:25
veteran Stadium
24:26
welcome to my second home Adam this is
24:29
great one day I'll be here
24:32
Rays play next year they play them here
24:34
so I'll be here for that for that series
24:35
you're here now and the good thing is no
24:37
one's going to be yelling at you for
24:38
wearing Tampa Bay stuff I got a crew out
24:41
here that's replacing the scoreboard
24:42
they're putting something new up or
24:44
changing the scoreboard around could it
24:46
be the biggest scoreboard in the
24:47
National League
24:49
uh it's pretty tall
24:51
pretty big they've been working on it
24:53
for a while they better hurry up the
24:54
baseball season starts soon
24:56
they got some remnants of what used to
24:58
be
24:59
yeah I remember seeing one of your
25:01
videos that had like the big p over here
25:04
still over here oh there it is yeah
25:13
now was this on the old scoreboard yes
25:13
and I said Phillies but I think it was
25:16
in a different font than the team uses
25:19
now
25:20
we still use this P so that's uh we're
25:22
gonna keep that you think they're gonna
25:24
put it back up there yes a little bit of
25:27
duct tape in there that's a super glue
25:30
duct tape Super Glue speaking of
25:33
pitchers the
25:34
spring training pitchers and catchers
25:36
just reported yesterday thank God yeah
25:38
let's go and then I think Monday
25:41
all of spring training Begins for every
25:43
team all the players it's time
25:46
it's tough football season's over
25:48
let's start playing some baseball let's
25:50
go all right there he is Mike Schmidt
25:53
so you see more Mike Schmidt jerseys
25:55
than any others is that like the one
25:56
that everybody wears or is that just too
25:58
old school ah you know I like that
26:00
you're saying old school I mean that
26:01
just means old people wear Mike
26:03
Schmidt's shirt I would say Bryce Harper
26:06
and then maybe he's top three Mike
26:09
Schmidt yeah I do like that you guys got
26:12
Brandon Marsh though he played for the
26:13
Angels but I live out in Anaheim yeah he
26:15
was always a really nice guy signing for
26:17
people all the time he's a a big beard
26:21
he reminds me of the running scenes in
26:23
Forrest Gump
26:25
yes yeah
26:26
very true he's the running scenes in
26:27
Forrest Gump but I was so happy that he
26:29
made it to the postseason because the
26:31
angels
26:32
yeah they don't they're never going to
26:34
the first season
26:35
like trout will never be yeah otani's
26:38
like shutting the shedding a little tear
26:39
every year there's a Bambi one hour
26:42
photo and cleaners or no dry cleaners
26:45
whatever cleaners
26:50
we're heading down where we're heading
26:50
the Liberty Bell now the real Liberty
26:51
Bell this is uh Broad Street uh and if
26:54
you see that building directly straight
26:56
with the statue on top yeah that's
26:58
Philadelphia city hall we're going to be
26:59
going there we're going to be seeing the
27:01
Liberty Bell well we you know what we
27:03
might go see where they filmed the movie
27:04
Mannequin what do you think of that all
27:06
right let's do it let's go
27:09
all right here it is the last resting
27:11
place
27:12
Ben Franklin has to win 1790.
27:20
that is amazing
27:23
you see how
27:24
his grave has a crack in it yeah it's
27:28
kind of
27:29
uh
27:31
the Kate the great the Cave the grave
27:33
was a caving in and uh we needed money
27:37
to save uh Ben Franklin's grave so Bon
27:41
Jovi himself donated ten thousand
27:44
dollars to preserve the grave of Ben
27:47
Franklin Bon Jovi Bon Jovi Living on a
27:51
Prayer yeah he's halfway there yeah and
27:54
uh they had to put a special coat on top
27:56
of them because you notice people throw
27:58
pennies yeah because Ben Franklin had
28:01
that save it saying uh not leave a penny
28:04
take a penny a penny shake
28:06
a face a penny shaved leave
28:21
I like how the sculpture of Ben Franklin
28:21
there is like silhouette and out
28:24
on the mural almost looks like a shadow
28:26
if you have any old Keys bring them in
28:28
the school and we're going to make a
28:30
statue of Ben Franklin out of keys have
28:32
the keys
28:34
behind you here
28:37
there is a big blank space and what this
28:42
blank thing was it was a plaque and it
28:45
had the names of every firefighter who
28:47
died in the line of duty yeah
28:50
um and they melted that flap into the
28:52
back of Ben Franklin because he sort of
28:54
started the whole fire insurance company
28:58
fire
28:59
uh he's a big deal of firefighters come
29:02
on
29:07
the key that Ben Franklin got for his
29:07
kite the key that Ben Franklin got for
29:09
his kite
29:10
was he got it from the janitor who
29:14
worked at Independence Hall
29:16
and the janitor Independence Hall lived
29:19
in this building here at Oxley Court
29:22
which is where we're at
29:26
and
29:28
look at this little area is awesome this
29:31
little house here is where the uh
29:33
janitor
29:34
or groundskeeper of Independence hold it
29:37
so he had a bunch of keys I guess Ben
29:39
Franklin was a cheapskate you know when
29:40
the ruling one borrowed a key he
29:43
borrowed the key to do the Titan key
29:44
experiment
29:46
come right over here
29:48
excuse me sir may I borrow your key yeah
29:51
I'm just gonna set a yeah fly a kite and
29:53
maybe uh get electrocuted this is where
29:55
uh uh Betsy Ross's house yeah Betsy Ross
29:58
lived in this house oh right here I sort
30:01
of kipped off by the flags on the side
30:03
credit with making the first Stars and
30:05
Stripes flag
30:06
stated here
30:08
successful upholsterer she had an
30:11
upholstery shot she would make sheets
30:15
and bed clothing uh she made clothes bed
30:18
skirts for uh George Washington so her
30:21
upholstery shop was right here
30:23
you can sort of see
30:25
in there now now she did make the
30:27
American flag she didn't make it in this
30:29
room because making a flag for a new
30:31
country while you're part of another
30:32
country that's treason so she did make
30:35
the American flag she made it in that
30:38
room up there where her bedroom was
30:40
that's the room she made the American
30:42
flag on right I bet you Ross is buried
30:44
right there
30:46
week yeah
30:52
that is now if you notice they say the
30:52
term credit
30:53
there's no real proof Betsy Ross made
30:56
the first American flag because they
30:58
were performing the act of treason he
31:00
didn't really keep much paperwork so
31:03
we're not 100 sure if she did you know
31:05
she didn't design it another man did uh
31:08
who's buried at that Cemetery down the
31:10
street I forgot his name this is her
31:12
grave
31:13
wow 1836.
31:16
uh we had the Centennial of America so
31:19
they had a big uh kind of like a World's
31:22
fair and they had all these buildings
31:25
that they built and they didn't need all
31:28
these buildings so they tore down some
31:29
of the buildings okay you see these blue
31:32
bricks
31:33
there's only like six blue brick streets
31:35
in the city of Philadelphia when you're
31:38
walking with the blue brick streets
31:39
you're walking
31:41
on the World's Fair and uh this is the
31:44
coolest Street in Philadelphia when you
31:46
get here at the end of the street for
31:49
for the church
31:51
and when you turn here it kind of looks
31:52
like uh it reminds me a Little Shop of
31:54
Horrors with uh the uh
32:01
up here yeah I don't know why everything
32:01
oh yeah by here I always want to sing
32:03
Suddenly Seymour uh they call it
32:05
Cobblestone or just they're not
32:07
cobblestones these are Belgian block
32:08
these are like bricks they would put in
32:11
boats
32:13
um from London they would come over and
32:15
they would keep they would like be
32:16
balanced for those they had like extra
32:18
weight for the boats because when they
32:20
would come to America they would replace
32:21
the bricks with tobacco leaves or
32:23
whatever that was so they needed to have
32:25
weight so they would usually just throw
32:27
out the bricks but then Philadelphia
32:29
said you know what we're gonna do
32:30
instead of throwing out these bricks
32:32
we're gonna pave our streets in them
32:34
this was the biggest building in North
32:36
America
32:39
for like for like 10 15 years and Ben
32:42
Franklin uh he is he went to church here
32:46
Betsy Ross went to church here George
32:47
Washington went to church here all the
32:49
founding fathers went to church here but
32:51
Ben Franklin got that steeple installed
32:52
so he could look at the stars a little
32:54
bit higher than from here from ground
32:57
level because that building is I can see
32:59
that so you're I mean obviously it was
33:01
filmed in New York but
33:03
they say this was the inspiration for
33:05
the top of the building where Stay Puft
33:07
came up for the Ghostbusters that's
33:08
that's urban legend in Philadelphia they
33:10
I I don't think that building in
33:12
Ghostbusters is a real building I think
33:14
that was it was a set it was a set and I
33:16
think the design came from that building
33:18
which is
33:20
um some government building yeah
33:29
we're running
33:29
we don't have much time is this is this
33:32
Benjamin Franklin's house this means
33:36
the ghost house of Benjamin Franklin see
33:39
they have got this little structure but
33:41
the structure back there yeah that is
33:44
where Ben Franklin lived when he lived
33:47
in Philadelphia he only lived in it for
33:49
a short period of time do you know what
33:50
a pretty pit is
33:52
no I do not a privy pit is what back in
33:56
the day is like this tunnel
33:58
a little cave where people would throw
34:00
to a waste if you will they're human
34:03
waste yeah so right here is Ben
34:06
Franklin's privy pit which means
34:10
that's where he defecated this is Ben
34:11
Franklin's toilet sort of kind should I
34:14
oh okay it's like a
34:15
it's like a well it's like a well yeah
34:17
you would just dump all the waste down
34:18
instead of throwing a coin in there he
34:20
would throw feces
34:22
well well I wouldn't do that Adam I
34:24
respect the founding fathers I would
34:25
just thank you Ben Franklin I like that
34:28
there's a neon Ben Franklin that makes
34:31
me really happy
34:33
that's pretty cool
34:35
so the Liberty Bell's two blocks away
34:38
so this is Cobblestone this is and then
34:40
horses try the cobblestones into the
34:43
ground you ever see boys and men walking
34:45
around town
34:47
uh they were a Motown Philly back again
34:49
I I saw it I have seen doing a little
34:52
East Coast thing yeah
34:58
one can usually walking around here
34:58
Wanye from uh Boyz II Men the 1800s
35:02
the 1900s and the 2000s this is one of
35:06
the only few spots in America where you
35:09
can see a building in one spot from each
35:12
Century America
35:14
1700s 1800s 1900s and two thousands two
35:17
thousands that glass tower yeah 1700
35:19
that's Carpenters Hall that's where Ben
35:22
Franklin and all the
35:23
first met for the first Continental
35:25
Congress Ben Franklin wasn't part of
35:27
that but the Continental Congress George
35:28
Washington they met there the Second
35:30
Bank of the United States was built in
35:32
the 1800s those buildings are from the
35:34
1900s they're all replicas
35:37
in the 2000s
35:39
incredible and that's an outhouse this
35:42
is an outhouse
35:43
there's nothing inside these they just
35:46
have these here for aesthetic reasons
35:48
yeah and I don't think we need them I
35:50
don't think we need our houses all right
35:52
he just taught me that this was the
35:53
first building to ever have an eagle
35:57
First Bank of the U.S the first building
35:59
in the U.S to have an eagle on the front
36:02
of it that is pretty dang awesome
36:04
now that's like synonymous with America
36:08
and it all started here now for 30 years
36:10
this building was just a storage closet
36:12
for uh the park rangers and then they
36:16
came out with this musical called
36:17
Hamilton and now everybody loves the
36:19
First Bank in the United States and
36:21
they're fixing this up and it's going to
36:23
open up soon to the public for the first
36:25
time in so many years it's really really
36:27
exciting that building's the American
36:29
philosophical society and the
36:32
philosophical Society are the people who
36:34
started the library system so if you see
36:37
that statue of Ben Franklin he's wearing
36:39
a token and that's kind of like a nod to
36:42
democracy Greek and the Democracy that
36:44
they started and he has the scepter
36:46
turned upside down kind of like a thumbs
36:48
down to the king and if you look he has
36:50
his elbow and a big pile of books and
36:53
that's kind of like I want every man to
36:55
learn from from books and that's just
36:58
it's just a cool statue of Ben Franklin
37:06
there's Independence Hall
37:06
that room right there that's where uh
37:12
Ben Franklin George Washington that's
37:13
that's where the room where it happened
37:15
that's where they signed the Declaration
37:17
and all that stuff amazing
37:19
and then right over here is where the
37:21
Liberty Bell is that building across the
37:23
street that is the first Congress in the
37:25
first Senate of the United States in
37:27
that building is where the president of
37:30
the United States George Washington
37:32
peacefully transferred power over to
37:34
John Adams never done before in the
37:37
world the history of the world peaceful
37:39
transition to power happened in that
37:42
building two times once George
37:44
Washington John Adams the other time
37:46
John Adams to whoever he lost it oh
37:50
oh there's making a Spiel here this bill
37:53
has been there it is can you see it oh
37:54
there it is the Liberty Bell
37:56
right inside there it has become a
37:58
symbol now I was here years and years
38:01
and years ago and I stood next to him
38:02
okay it's closed now we're too late in
38:04
the day okay looking through this little
38:05
glass casing here near the Liberty Bell
38:07
this is the foundation of George
38:08
Washington's house when he was president
38:10
can't get any closer than this because
38:12
it's like all fenced off by this glass
38:14
window and the Museum's closed at this
38:16
hour you can see the foundation of
38:18
George Washington presidential home
38:20
right down there all right we have
38:21
stepped inside the world's largest Wawa
38:24
this used to be like a bank or something
38:25
a Publishing Company a Publishing
38:27
Company it's inside one of the downtown
38:29
buildings and I'm gonna get myself a
38:31
coffee from here piping hot caffeinated
38:33
beverage inside
38:35
the world's largest Wawa which started
38:37
in Pennsylvania how far is Wawa from
38:39
here 30 miles 30 miles it was I never
38:41
knew she told me it's named after uh a
38:44
Farm Dairy yeah if you go to the wall if
38:47
you go with your Wawa you can see that
38:48
they have a bunch of milks and Lace teas
38:50
all right a plethora a plethora
38:55
this is on the corner of Sixth and chat
38:58
are you a coffee drinker I drink coffee
39:00
let's get some coffee enjoy sip enjoy
39:03
and repeat
39:04
okay this is the what is this is a
39:06
mosaic piece of art this is the largest
39:08
glass Mosaic piece of art called The
39:10
Dream Garden it was installed in 1910 by
39:13
a guy named Cypress Curtis this building
39:16
was called the Curtis publishing
39:17
building the uh Saturday evening post
39:20
was published here Norman Rockwell he
39:22
would paint here and he put this piece
39:25
apart up so when his workers went into
39:27
work they could look at something
39:28
beautiful every day before they got to
39:31
yeah go to work there's 300 different
39:33
colors
39:35
the dream Garden
39:43
this is not in the same building as the
39:43
Wawa we walked out and went into another
39:46
building this is wild so is this the
39:49
Saturday evening Post building
39:51
this is where they made the Saturday
39:52
evening post the word living room was
39:56
invented in one of those offices for uh
39:58
it was from a magazine lady Home Journal
40:01
they came up with her living room yeah
40:04
no kidding
40:18
I think those are original rock walls
40:18
right there those are original yeah
40:27
1926. there's got to be reprints nah
40:27
there's got to be reprints I don't think
40:28
they got me I think those are Originals
40:31
I would imagine Originals worth a lot of
40:33
money there's a lot of Norman rockwells
40:36
I mean he did a magazine cover every
40:38
week
40:47
that's why the C is in the building up
40:47
there Curtis though this is the kurdist
40:49
right people the original owner it was
40:51
the original owner he and fully that
40:53
like basically
41:02
the work living room was invented in
41:04
this building way so so wait the current
41:06
you ain't noticed I I don't buy jewelry
41:10
Jewelers Row because uh it's expensive
41:12
but it's uh it's night time now so this
41:15
you know what this means what's that
41:16
Kensington here we go flowers and that
41:20
would be the trim the trim around the
41:22
hat so they would add they would
41:24
decorate your hat for free
41:26
hats trimmed free of charge
41:29
says it right up there on that little
41:32
balcony also a little ledge also
41:35
this was the Hat districts
41:38
you get very Dapper through here
41:41
hey the most incredible well it's not
41:44
the most incredible piece of history but
41:48
it's the most bizarre thing
41:50
I just recently discovered is inside
41:53
this building in the in the office of
41:57
Five Below which is just like a like a
41:59
like a dollar store but the prices go up
42:02
to five bucks
42:03
keep in mind this is inside a
42:06
store now called Five Below they have
42:08
the Independence Hall paneling up inside
42:13
around the walls leading into their
42:15
office the stores over there and this is
42:18
the handling from Independence Hall you
42:20
can sit here and eat lunch you could be
42:22
in this paneling you would be by
42:24
yourself for hours nobody comes in
42:27
nobody comes in nobody knows this is
42:28
here it's crazy and you wouldn't even
42:30
know unless you just looked over here
42:31
and saw this or if someone was with you
42:32
and you told them right right
42:36
hey we drove around a little bit a
42:37
little bit more found another parking
42:39
spot
42:40
and we're gonna go by Love Park
42:43
safely
42:49
fingers crossed hopefully we make it
42:49
whoa that guy's driving through on a
42:51
motorcycle he's doing a wheelie
43:03
wow you were telling me this was using
43:03
12 Monkeys the Bruce Willis classic
43:06
yeah that City Hall was used for 12
43:07
Monkeys also the movie Philadelphia Tom
43:10
Hanks that yeah
43:11
yeah this well look at this I think of
43:15
Peter Pan I could just see Peter and
43:17
Wendy flying around this I mean I know
43:18
that was in the UK I believe but yeah
43:21
it's kind of yeah that wasn't here
43:22
that's just Philadelphia yeah but it
43:24
looks like that that's what that reminds
43:25
me of you would see their silhouette
43:27
above the clock yeah well you think
43:29
about Disney all the time Adam I like
43:31
Disney you sure do yeah
43:37
they got rid of all the stuff that
43:37
people would grind on yeah but this is
43:39
like the skaters Mecca of Philadelphia
43:42
this is the spot
43:43
Bam Margera skating I remember the BAM
43:46
footage of Skating here but they've
43:48
removed a lot of the stuff that you
43:49
could grind on yeah they got rid of the
43:51
marble slabs a lot of marble slabs and
43:54
now it's just this is a water fountain
43:57
when it's you know warmer out
43:59
was pretty awesome
44:02
there were I think 70 love statues all
44:05
around the world uh they're made by a
44:08
guy named Robert Indiana
44:10
there were two love statues in
44:17
this is kind of like the Rocky statue
44:17
where a lot of people go get their photo
44:18
in front of us all the time oh yeah oh
44:20
sure sure now what the funny thing is
44:22
people will stand in line
44:24
for like 10 minutes to take their
44:26
picture with the love park statue yeah
44:28
like you all you have to do if you stand
44:30
over here on the side yeah it's all
44:32
about angles right this is probably
44:34
better anyway it's kind of like the
44:36
welcome to Vegas sign there's always a
44:38
massive line and if you just go over two
44:40
feet to the side just get it from the
44:42
end same angle or like when you were
44:43
just down at the keys that big oh yeah
44:46
yeah well that's kind of tough that's a
44:47
little tougher yeah yeah I was
44:48
absolutely I wonder if he could do the
44:50
angle trick there if you could but it's
44:52
tougher
44:53
this is a great view with the skyline
45:03
okay this is pretty exciting the 80s
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film mannequin
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this is the store this is the Macy's
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yeah we are about 50 yards away from the
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same space as stealth get distorted if
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you ever saw the sign where it has it
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yeah right up there
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a mannequin classic
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this was the window they were married in
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at the end it was this window where the
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star rewards us
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we go in and this is looking from the
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other way up at that clock and inside
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Macy's
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pretty much looks the same as it did in
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the movie in fact there's like a big
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foyer when you first walk in with a
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big expanded roof was where they did a
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hang gliding scenes and it kind of also
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looked the same with like a big organ
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kind of going up to the roof and there's
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even like at the top we're doing the
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hang gliding it was like a big pigeon in
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the middle you could see in the movie
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Big pigeon's still here
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inside the Macy's and over there are
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some four wheelers
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that's illegal you're not allowed to
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ride four-wheelers oh you can't but but
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Philadelphia is kind of Lawless it comes
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in that motor vehicle take a look at
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this Benjamin Franklin face here
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all right this is a good enough places
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any do the outro sure is we had a long
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day a great day six and a half seven
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hours yeah driving around barking
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driving around eating looking at stuff
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the Philly Captain check them out
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YouTube's own the Philly Captain hit
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like And subscribe I like to call him
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the captain of captain of Philadelphia
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I'd like to call him the woo of Adam
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it was fun it was great I'm finally glad
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we got to finally meet up after all this
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time this guy's the reason I started
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making YouTube videos if you want to
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start a YouTube channel or start
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anything let me recommend this start
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doing it I started making videos five
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years ago because I started watching
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Adam the woo and now I'm making a video
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with Adam the wig is this really like a
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dream of mine coming true and I want to
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thank you for letting me be part of this
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you know what 20 I would say
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I love you I love you thank you
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oh there's gonna be a wreck right there
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look at this family crossing the road
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that is it's not good those guys are out
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here doing that no well that's probably
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not the safest thing
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all right
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I'll see you in the next video you want
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to do the outro do I want to do the
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outro the Vlog
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is over