Men At Work Podcast - Corey B Interviews the CRAZIEST Guests Philly Has to Offer!

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

Comedian Corey B joins us to goof around in Philly and interview sculptors, political protestors, artists, and a creative agency team. Go see Corey at Helium Philly all weekend: https://philadelphia.heliumcomedy.com/events/108208 Check out: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBoyFriendsPod About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for a living? After that the conversation flows from there. We've talked to substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and the Governor of Literal Pennsylvania. And we'll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a furry convention, and more! Whether we like it or not, our jobs are most of our lives - might as well yap about it. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QZOQPc2EU2I If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod *If you subscribe to the Patreon consider subscribing on a desktop or website or an android device, NOT THROUGH iOS (Apple) APP. Apple takes 30% of every month you're subscribed (yea they suck). Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedyhttps://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ Follow Kyle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

I've been an artist my whole life. What kind of art? I carve marble. We went to the museum, the art museum in New York City, and we walk in and they had the little statues. No arms, no legs, just them naked with little d***. And my son walks in and goes, Dad, it looks like yours.

And I'm like, yo, you can't say that. I didn't say that. You can't say that. It's a tiny f***ing house in my life. It's cold in here. Welcome back to another sort of Men at Work podcast. We are here with Corey B. will be in helium all weekend. All freaking weekend baby. Let's go. This is bad for me because I have ADHD and I'm looking at everything.

Yeah, welcome to our life dude. It's brutal out here. I'm a little autistic too so if a train goes by you're screwed. Look at that guy. Look at that. That's my aunt dude. That's your aunt. Yeah, so what's the B stand for the B stands for bitches? No It's my last thing I got a long Polish last name and no one's ever been able to pronounce it and I used to get made fun of For it, so I just cut it all out. Let's go by B now. I like that. I also wanted to be a rapper

I like that is that Polish Polish. Yeah by Levich. Have you been no never never back to the moment? No, I just expected you asked me like you been You know, you never been to fucking come check. It's like a square That's what I think about like it's still like all Eastern block. I'm a parogi. So I've had I've been you've been sure You have one kibosh in you're like, I know what it's all about. It's all about the rogues You're there. They gotta go down to Port Richmond before you get out of here They got a whole Polish neighborhood really say I lived in Chicago for two years too And apparently that was like the largest population of Polans. Polish people were outside

of Poland. Yeah Polish population of Polans. Polish people don't know how to say Polish people. So real quick you wanted to be a rapper. Nah I've always kind of been black and... Yeah for sure. The beast from Florida. Absolutely I'm from Florida so that's very... He's wearing velvet pants in 85 degree weather. I'm from Florida, I wore this last night and I haven't got out of it. I was, we had a show last night in New York City at the stand and it was an 11 p.m. show.

By the time I got out of there, it was like 1.30. I had to catch the train here to be on a radio show. What was it called, the call? Preston and Steve? Preston and Steve, those guys are fucking awesome. Yeah, they rule. Those guys are awesome. Yeah, they're the best in the business.

So I had to be on that show and then I took my kid to the shitty-ass aquarium you guys have here Whoa, and yeah, not a great aquarium. That's Jersey. Yeah Claim for that and you're here with your opener here. Yeah, I got my got Marcus Monroe We have Matt lobes too, but he's uh, he don't want to come he's a guy he want to go take a nap Yeah, man the chub rub. I want to be out here. Yeah, all right I'm late night third floor walk up, so he's he was done I'm sure in the Airbnb. So is that more? What you guys do nowadays?

We were to actually it's cheaper way to I'm sure I bring I bring him with me and then him with me And then Matt so it's like for two hotel rooms. You're paying the shit ton of money Yeah, so an Airbnb. I think we paid thousand dollars for the weekend for four people Yeah, which is just way cheaper than a hotel would have been for yeah, right. It's fun We all hang out at night and do days in like movies a night Yes, it's so fun for we never go out after shows like I go to the bar like yeah We'll meet you at the bar. So we just go to the Airbnb and just watch.

Oh, dude. Sleepovers with your boys as adults. You guys got Korean barbecue here, like Korean barbecue chicken? We got Korean people, I think. I don't know if they have barbecue right now. Dude, they make it this far? Like 14 Korean people are here, yeah. That's crazy.

They're coming on the podcast, actually. Hell yeah, dude. Love it. K-Town. So that's nice, man. So, uh, gotta plug that in. Hello, I'm back. I'm Polish So the Airbnb life I've heard a lot of stuff where you guys can freaked out that they have like cameras and shit No, I want there to be I always hope there are cameras in my room I'm always doing weird shit in there

The thing is I have a lot of pubic hair and my face is showing me Yeah, so my dick just looks like like Homer Simpson going back to the bush right now So if someone posted that dude, I'm going viral. That's true. He's got Homer Simpson Yeah, I'm gonna try to try to tell me that I'm gonna release your dick unless you pay me $10,000 release it I don't think I'm Okay, so I was in ours to release it trying to exploit me for my eggs I've actually had that happen where I got an email someone was like we got proof of you Masturbating on from your webcam to porn it was you know And I literally messaged it back out and I was like,

No you don't, yes we do and if you don't get us $20,000 we're gonna post it. And I was like, well fucking post it then because I watch on my cellphone, you idiots. I don't watch on my fucking webcam. And also, there's no way you do that because I cover the little hole when I'm doing it. You cover the hole while you're macking and slacking? So that the FBI can't see you? I got one of those sliders. You got one of those things that So you hold it like this I got one of those sliders You got one of those things that just slides over the camera

I got one of those Yeah you gotta just tape it I'm an open book Nah Come on You wanna watch me watch me dude If you wanna watch me jacking off Yeah

Then just watch me jack it off It's not a big deal So when's the OnlyFans transition from this to that It could be today When is it men at twerk You know what I mean Hello folks That's the Patreon Hey let me ask you a question, please

Cory says he's kind of black cuz he's from Florida. Yeah, you're ginger. Have you heard about this? Yes, you can say the word. Well, I can whisper it. I'm allowed to whisper it for now I can't quite say something about that. It's been the greatest accomplishment of my life Although I've always kind of related to being a black dude like you're ginger people always want to touch your hair your dad left he's coming back he's coming back he's in Poland right now he's getting milk still I am the milk I'm the pales yeah yeah they judge us by the color of our skin I've always related to my black brother and so it's nice to finally be accepted that's pretty awesome I can't say a lot to say you relate to the video said once, dude. I saw the big mama on the video say that.

Yeah, you know what? I did see the photos of you guys at the museum picking cotton. That was me. Yeah. I was making a scene. Yeah, enslaved. Yeah, I saw that. The gingers. I did see the gingers. Yeah. What's up, man? Hey, can I ask you a question real quick? Come here, come here, come here. Yeah, absolutely. Come here real quick. I want a question. What do you think about, they're saying now gingers are black. Gingers, red-haired people. You see that?

They're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! But they're supposed to be, it's a genetic thing to where they're kind of like albino, they're like, I don't know. But a black lady said it. We're looking for it. What happened to your pigment? It's elusive.

It's a male man. He said that ginger people had to go through the same stuff black people had to go through. same stuff black people had to go through Well didn't say that He left! That's what I'm talking about! Straight from the chocolate milk stores baby I don't know about that but I know chocolate milk stores I think you're probably right

Hey I think you're probably right Corey! Can't even fight back Hell yeah what's your name? I watch your videos all the time Thank you I appreciate that what's your name? Devante Devante I'll fuck with you Yeah? fight back. Hell yeah, what's your name? Thank you. I appreciate that. What's your name? Devontae. I'll fuck with you. Yeah, hell yeah. We try food. Yeah. Yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah.

You know what? I'm on the internet as well, so check me out. Cool. Thank you Devontae. I mean that's your clientele. Maybe you are, Black. You know man, I don't do too well in the city, so I don't think so. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I gotta pop it off. We got freestyle. So can we talk to people who walk by and ask them what they do? Yeah, you're in their seat, asshole. Yeah, you are in their seat. You really took up a spot. Yeah.

Okay. Come on! Sit down! Sit down, papa. Wouldn't it be the first time someone sat on somebody's lap on this podcast? It's happened more often than we're comfortable with. How do you like Philly? I love Philly, man. Philly's like Boston, that's like New York. They're all the same. All these big cities in the mid and the northeast are kind of like you drive around here like it's I've been here before.

And where you from? I'm from Florida. Okay, and you live where now? I live in New York City. You live in New York City? I'm from Tampa, which they call Tampa Delphia because all you motherfuckers move there. Yeah, it's true. It's all Philly people. Big retirement down there. Absolutely. Yep. The migration from New Jersey to Florida is just a romp. You ever been to the Odyssey? Yeah. Eighth one of the world, baby. Eighth one of the world. They got a spaceship on top and if you go to the spaceship, you know you made it. Is your role in the Odyssey? Yeah? They got a spaceship on top and you go to the spaceship you know you made it. What is the Odyssey? What is a strip club? So Tampa Dale maybe right there is known for having the best strip clubs in the world and I don't know about it from being there

I know about it from word of mouth But yeah, they got even got it's a section for gingers. We're in the back. Let's go dude bath salts and everything a section for gingers. Really? Yeah. To the back. Let's go, dude. Bath salts and everything. What's making it happen, bro?

The hookah? No, I like Philly. Philly's cool. People, you know, it's hard to judge people here. They don't really get excited about anything besides, like, you know, wins by the 76ers or the games. Philly's are on a terrible run right now. It's hard to get you guys.

Unless you're like Shane Gillis. Like, you don't give a fuck about people. You know? Which is the funniest thing in the world, because usually if you say you're from Philly, people will be like, get the fuck out of here from like the suburbs and stuff. Shane's from Harrisburg, but he's unequivocally

Yeah, he's your guy now. Accepted by Philadelphia. Yeah, he is. It's the craziest thing in the world, because that's one. Is he from the suburbs, real? No, he's from like two hours outside of Philadelphia. No shit.

Which people do not fuck with that in Philadelphia. People hate that. Yeah, so Pottstown, they don't fuck with like that. Get the fuck out of here. Even though you're 45 minutes away, you can get the fuck. If you were from from New Brunswick and you said you were from like the Bronx or somewhere from Manhattan, they'd be like, go fuck yourself. No, you're not. Yeah, okay. Alright. I like Pottstown. You doing Soul Joles? Have you done Soul Joles?

We're Soul Joles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We sold out five shows there. We can't sell out one show at this fucking motherfucking place. Not yet. Not yet. You guys... We're gonna post this tomorrow. They're gonna be like, that Cory B guy, we gotta help our black brother now. Come on, man! Come on, fellas. I'll give you a discount. Come on man! Come on fellas. I'll give you a discount you can buy with food stamps.

No junk food though, RFK won't let it happen. No, we're only doing celery sticks. Holy shit, so you wanna get some people on? Alright, I will vacate. Thank you. Bro, you're the man. That was just me asking you how you're doing. Hey Marcus, I love you.

This is Marcus Monroe, he's also on the internet. Thank you Marcus, appreciate it man. Great meeting you man. I like the hat by the way. He's good. Oh yeah. You gotta stay here though, you how you're doing. Hey Marcus, I love you. This is Marcus Monroe. He's also on the internet. Thank you Marcus. Thank you, man. Great meeting you, man. I like the hat, by the way. He's good. Hell yeah.

You gotta stay here though. You can't leave yet. Yeah, don't leave. Why don't you help curate people? Yeah, because he's hilarious with it. He stinks out of it. You can't be worse than him. Oh really?

What about the big dog? What about the big dog? Yeah, it's a big dog. You wanna come on? How old's your dog? Eight. Eight. Seven. That's a big dog. He doesn't have arthritis? My dogs got arthritis. You know dogs can get arthritis? Really? My dogs... Wow. Aids? Yeah. Dog aids. I thought dog aids

was the ones that rescued you in the snow. Dog aids is competing with Gatorade as we speak, dude. Only the gay dogs have it What the fuck My dog is a Doberman and he's a he's a hundred sixty pat. No 125 pounds, but he's got right He's only three years old. He's got arthritis. Yeah, that's crazy. I just found out my girlfriend's dog They prescribed her percocet and it's just they do have regular people They just have regular drug like my dog had to give him anxiety medicine for when he had to have his surgery. What's he worried about? Nuts cut off.

Yeah, he felt, I'm a dummy. And they gave him anxiety medicine, because I guess he did a whimper. And yeah, and I took some. Are you still flowing down there? From my wiener? Yeah. My wiener? My wiener works.

Yeah, are you still good? You're not cut off yet? No, no. Oh, you mean, yeah, no, I'm good. Yeah. And sometimes I get afraid, though, because I have the one kid. And another one is just to be a lot of kids, you know? Yeah. One kid, I'm good. Yeah, and sometimes I get afraid though Cuz I have the one kid and like I don't know another one just be a lot of kids. You know yeah one kid I'm fine. I think one's the max you do one good You know we just found out like we did a live show a little while ago and somebody that had two kids say that

They love one of the kids better than the other I'd be scared to have another kid cuz I'm scared I'm not fucked up. You can't say that well. They said it in a live show, but you can't say yeah, I would agree That's bullshit. I would totally agree. That's bullshit. I don't know, I think it's just natural human nature to like somebody more than the other one. I'll definitely be the, if I have two kids, I'll definitely be the dad.

But you're not gonna say it out loud though. Yeah. You're gonna, they're gonna know by the way you hit one and not the other one. Oh, but true. You're not gonna say it. Unless there's some aftermath. You line them up, you hit both at the same time.

They're gonna know by the one you shower with and the one you don't. That's exactly true, That's a good point. People never talk about that these days. Did you see Dad's balls? No. I guess he loved me more. I saw both of them. He showed me how to clean mine. Dude, speaking of the dog, uh,

drug thing, just use your dog to get drugs. What do you mean by that? Just be like, I don't know, my dog has erectile dysfunction, I think he could use like, Viagra. Oh! You know what I'm saying? Just use him to get where you're trying to go. Just be like I don't know my dog has erectile dysfunction. I think you Get where you're trying to go you You think dogs can kiss the Alice? I think it's a real thing. We're trying to repopulate I don't know if they do that. Don't read her do dogs get but I know they get the red rocket But that's not like a it's not I don't know I thought was I know but that doesn't get like have you seen red rockets

They're all the same size. Yes. I don't think I've seen one. It's like yo, that's a giant red rocket Yeah, you have I've seen the giant one on on the on the black lab now actually it was in a white line It was actually ginger lab. Hey, you know what they say oppression You want come on my man He's got a Camden shirt on. That's a sick hat. Is the aquarium sucked?

Yeah, it sucked. But I can't say anything because New York's aquarium is awful. It's in Coney Island. It's all outsized. Piece of shit. All the fish are probably all fenced. The problem is, yeah, it's not that bad, you fucking asshole. Can is tough.

We got a lot of Jew fish though. Can is tough. One fish, two fish, river fish. Big grouper. You're allowed to say it again I think. That's Kanye West's, he hates that fish. They live in riverbanks. Riverbanks. Did you coin that one? So yeah it was good, but I want you to go to Georgia's aquarium in Atlanta. You ever been you've been there No, just shout n words in there. No, no, no, they have they have Great, they're not the great whites, but they have whale sharks. Yeah, and you shouldn't have those inside anywhere. That's a giant That's the biggest shark there is so well sure George doesn't have just great whites wish well well, so they call their grandparents

And they have the man arrays which you know man a is the giant big ones big right they have those Hey, hello, how Charlie de milio and um? How do you not turn around after that's great. That was a great. Yeah, it's a great trip Whatever get out of here lady beat it. How are you man? You want come on? I? Did see I saw you sneak a peek so I had minutes. All right, dude. All right. He's winning. He's winning a badge What's going on? How are you? She's got the she's got the Indiana University warm-ups on this Those are candy canes boy. Get you we'll get you next time. I bet don't taste like peppermint. Yeah Oh, let's get the oh, I mean you're what happened your knee. What happened your knee?

Nothing you just got a knee brace you want to sit and talk with us for a little bit five minutes What you do for a living? Okay, where's your political stance Cory? You're just not this hard dude. Oh my Nishma How are you big dogs? He's from New York Why would that be? You want sit down my Nishma, what do you guys do for a living? What do you do for a living? Yeah Where do you go to school? Sit down.

We'll give you five minutes. Huh? Jewish? I'm Polish and some of my ancestors are Jewish. Yeah. But I'm not currently practicing. I'm sort of size. Your mother or your father side?

My dad side. I'm a little Ashkenazi. Yeah. And then my 23andMe told me that. Ashkenazi Jew. You're gonna need like blood stuff. Blood stuff. Yeah.

Oh yeah. So they got a special thing where you come on it and then you send it in To us called 23 me and then they tell you what you are. Yeah, so like some No, okay, where do we lose you the circumcision or was it the Ashkenazi Jewish one? Yeah, this would be the perfect time to do it. Well, outreach and inreach, baby. We had Mormons on yesterday. Yeah. We had Protestants on.

Okay. I'd rather not have to. Okay. What's your name? Appreciate it, fellas. What's your name? Shmuel. Nice to meet you, Shmuel.

Shout out to Shmuel. I was gonna guess that. I could have called that one. Nice guys. They really dropped the ball there. They were. That was air ball, because they really could have preached. Sir, how are you you want to come on? And just talk about what you do for a living five minutes. I'll be fun. Yeah, could be a blast Good Cory show later on well. How are you miss? I'm sure a lot of be look at that Where you would you usually guys do just like so she's got a mic in the camera. What is she doing filming in here?

Here's our little tip for tat here. This is our turn. This is an anchorman shit We're gonna fucking hit her with a trident. Accordion guy back on our side. A trident? You just killed me with a trident, Rick. You gotta lay low. Dead by trident. Hey, what are you guys doing? You wanna come on? Let's swap. Let's do a, we'll work together. Couple minutes. Cool, cool. Alright. Okay. Is that alright? Yes. Nice. My first name is Carolina. Carolina. I'm a creative director. For what? A creative agency. Oh, for an agency. Okay. Yeah. I'm a creative director. For what? A creative agency. Oh, for an agency.

Okay. Yeah. What do you guys do, like creative stuff over there? What do you guys do over there? A lot of creative stuff. So give us like the rundown. Branding, ads, stuff like that. What are you filming right now?

So right now we're doing a little bit of market research about shopping downtown in Philadelphia, specifically for like luxury or high-end items. What have you learned? Not much yet, but we just started. Pretentious whites? I mean, that goes without saying. There's a lot of exciting whites in this city. They play safety for the Eagles.

Yes. They play safety for the Eagles. Very nice. So what have you seen on the high end? What are the big products that people are looking at now? What have you seen so far? Well, really, we're trying to figure out what makes shoppers comfortable and go into a store.

What is the luxury shopping experience now? Yeah I like when they don't wand you down and there's not security guards out front. Yeah yeah so those are some of the questions I want to... can you... okay those are some of the questions I wanted to ask you all. So when you have to splurge, get a suit, get something to look nice, right? Where do you go? Do you go anywhere downtown? You got the most money you answer this first. I go to the men's place called... Men's warehouse?

No, no, no, no, not that one. Okay. I was like, wait, I thought you had money. Starts with... Sorry. Wow. Indochino? No, Indochino.

What's the other one called? It's a men's one. Suit Supply. I go to Suit Supply. Suit Supply. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it. I one called? It's a men's one. Suit Supply. I go to Suit Supply. Suit Supply. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it, got it. I've heard good things. I got a recommendation for Suit Supply.

Suit Supply is great. Why are you smiling? You know the NLBLists. No, no, no. I've heard of them, yeah. I went to Enzo Custom for my... I'm getting married in a couple months, so... Oh, congrats.

Are you really? Yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. Do you want to come? No. Okay. We'll get you next time. OK. Just send something to the mail. What about either of you? I just bought a suit at Old Navy. Ah.

Oh, you just found that out. I went there. I had to buy a suit to go to a wedding. Did you get the sandals deal, too? I did buy a pair of clogs. I'm not bragging or anything. Nice. I think they only last one wedding suit.

You get one watch, and then they evaporate. That's it. They become a memory. Yeah. OK. Yeah, I was curious, maybe since you, I guess, are the bigger spender, have you ever heard of Boyd's or Joan Shep on Chestnut?

No. He's from New York. I'm from New York City. Oh, really? OK. You've probably never been there. Oh, yeah. It's a big city.

You probably never traveled that far. That is quite far. Market researcher. Have you been in New York to do some market research before? I know there's a lot of high end around there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. We're specifically trying to target Philly. Because a lot of our clients are in Philly. Oh, sorry.

Oh my god. What else do you want to learn? Well, so curious about Boyd's then. What have you heard about them? Have you ever been in? I know it's high end. I know a lot of athletes shop there. I know a lot of rich people shop there. That's kind of all I really know.

Never been in there myself. Oh, okay. Because they have security guards outside? Do they have security guards outside? That one actually makes sense though. Okay. There's a lot, like I'm okay with the security guards if they like, do they have nice suits on?

Do they feel like bouncers at a club? I'm fine with that one. If they're in like the security that I usually see at like a Giants game or like an Eagles game, I'm like, I one. If they're in the security that I usually see at a Giants game or an Eagles game, I'm like, I don't wanna go in that. Yeah, no parts of that. Yeah, I don't want to. Like Cory said, I don't wanna be wanded down.

You look like the person that should be wanded down. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't want my things, like I go to a CVS now, it's like the deodorants behind a plastic container is insane. It's true. The fact that I gotta ping somebody to get my deodorant.

Be fair though, I have seen a guy run out with six detergents before. I've seen it happen. They gotta hustle. That's an opportunity call. You put that into the budget. I am curious though, I've noticed a lot at these high end stores, they serve you alcohol. They'll give you a glass of champagne,

or the men's stores, they give you some whiskey. That feels like a cheat code. I was gonna ask you also about what do you expect when you go to drop money? Like what sort of luxury experience are you expecting to have? When they leave me the fuck alone. That's my favorite.

Yeah. Well are you like a guy that likes to like, do you know what you want? Yeah, I like to peruse, and I don't like when you come up five, six times asking me like if I'm buying the shirt, like this isn't a furniture store, leave me alone. It it is cool to have someone nearby but if they're there just for help and not bug you okay have you ever felt like hounded or followed only

when I steal things yeah yeah I think that's I do think that is a true thing though because I do notice that in sales positions they do feel like they have to be on you the entire time but it can be kind of off-putting where it's just you're trying to look around you're trying to enjoy yourself relax and somebody coming up every they have to be on you the entire time, but it can be kind of off-putting, where it's just, you're trying to look around, you're trying to enjoy yourself, relax. And somebody coming up every five minutes to be like, everything going okay, everything good? It's like, yeah dude, that's fine.

Right, well then you mentioned the whiskey and stuff, so that would be, I feel like, part of a luxury experience. I would just go there and get fucked up. That's really what I wanna do, is just be like, I'm still looking. They might cut you off at some point. Did they cut you off? You're not buying.

Well good thing I'm a one drink chump, dude. That's what I'm saying. That's all I need is one glass of whiskey. Perfect, perfect. If you go to a store and they offer you off? You're not buying. Well, good thing I'm a one drink chump, dude. That's what I'm saying. That's all I need is one glass of whiskey. Perfect. If you go to a store and they offer you a Miller Lite, that'd be pretty nice. I don't need the whiskey, I don't need the champagne. Just like have a 30 rack sitting there,

it's like, do you want one? It's like, you're the chef. Perfect. Give me a 40 ounce of OE. Yeah, dude. That's the kind of shops at Old Navy. I'll take a shot of blue hypnotic if you have it. Blue hypnotic?

I'll take it back to my shop. All hypnotic is blue. We love blue hypnotic. Would you all be okay with also speaking of? Take me back to my childhood. All hypnotic is blue. What do you mean, I'm blue hypnotic? Would you all be okay with also speaking of Reynolds? I feel like you would. Yeah, Reynolds. I would love to, yes. Reynolds is an excellent person to talk to as well. Come on, Reynolds, get out of here.

That'd be awesome. What's up, Reynolds? You sound so good. Yeah, you sound good. What up, player? Just wait till we get going. Yes, sir. What do you do for a living?

So I do a bunch of things. Right now, I'm running a video production company called Sit Down, and we're launching a music festival at Pennsland in the summer. Nice dude. Whoa. Hell yeah. I'm trying to kick it off. Who's gonna be performing? We're getting a bunch of local acts and local artists, local DJs. There's really anybody in the local community that we can help uplift and you know, trying to give them a light to Sean. What kind of music?

So. You all got a smile? We want to play like Afro Be music just any any like black and brown yeah yeah of course no Morgan Wilde and I'm totally cool with that I'm on your side on that one that sounds fire you're gonna have some glass food out there too oh yeah yeah you have like a jerk shack is a sure we got so many so many people. You got the fufu out there We'll try to get it Question you can't bring food outside like that

Can't be bringing food outside. These guys are no food food. They just fool around on time. No, it's not meatloaf If that wasn't the whitish it ever in my entire life Dude meatloaf hits every guy's me loaf a staple in the black community meatloaf. No You know why cuz it's just meat ketchup with bread That's like you want to still live in a great depression. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I said project food. Yes the great depression yeah yeah that's what I said project food yes I'm catching me has some ketchup raised on meatloaf and suckle-tash baby we don't got that anymore that's what the Tasmanian devil said suffer suffer suckle-tash the fluffers Sylvester what's cat one of the cats did that so so what else do you do

just video production so I work in too, and we do a bunch of different types of work. We work with the city and try to just uplift every different couple of projects. Like I could name a project right now, 988 Philly, which is like the mental health lifeline number that people can call and get mental health resources and really get themselves right. How would you advertise a podcast that just sits down in a random park and bothers people? So listen. Yeah, give us your pitch.

We're right here in Rittenhouse Square, and you want to be here. If you're not here, you're square. You are square. Hell yeah. And then talk about meatloaf being good if you could real quick. Don't eat meatloaf. Don't eat meatloaf. Eat Jalof. Jalof? Oh, F would you say meatloaf? Eat jalaaf.

Jalaaf, oh! Jalaaf is African. It's rice, like rice. Damn, I'm fucking, I'm black! For sure. And Ghana jalaaf for sure. Yeah, Ghana jalaaf. How you know all this? Beans and rice, peas, that's Jamaican.

No, peas. That's Jamaican, peas and rice. You do peas and rice in there too in Ghana? I mean, you could. Peas and rice? You could, but it's not, that would be like Niger Jalof, which we don't like. Niger, how do you? Don't trip me to say it there.

I want y'all, man. He's gotta sell some shows this weekend. Don't trip me. How do you know so much about African food? Just for him? I just, I'm, I, I, yeah. You got an African girlfriend maybe? I listen to too much Meek Mill. And yeah, how it happens to you when you do that.

I like culture. I'm into different cultures and different things. And food and what not and I know about that. Being in New York, I feel like. You gotta know everything. Tampa, you were eating meatloaf and suck a tap. In New Orleans, they had an Ethiopian restaurant, which is crazy, because I thought Ethiopian, they didn't even eat.

I didn't know any better. That's what they tell you on the news and the infomercials. I've seen marathon coverage. They don't eat. You gotta adopt this Ethiopian baby. For $0.25 a day, he can have a meal. So you grow up thinking, they don't have food, but they have a whole, they have the whole thing.

They have the spongebob news you're consuming. It's like spongy bread and like dips, a bunch of different dips and curries and spices. That's our Mediterranean, that's our Israeli food. Yeah. Like the spots around here, yeah. Kinda with the, and then like Indian has naan and they have dip and what, do you have like Indian food?

Yeah, Indian food, I just got on an Indian kick recently. Indian food, are you an Indian food fan? We love Indian food. You never had it? No. Oh, dude, get some curry, get some, the naan you talking about? Chicken tikka masala.

Chicken masala. Garlic naan. Yeah, change your life. Honestly, it's like tomato soup and chicken. Yeah, it is, but they add more spices. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because tomato soup's white. But when you add spices, it gets ethnic, you know what I mean?

Yeah, that's exactly right. Gets to be a different culture. Put some meatloaf in there. No fucking meatloaf. Stop with the meatloaf, man. Just try the meatloaf, dude. Just give it one try. No.

Yeah, we'll get them next time. Just try it. Damn, man. We need the meatloaf back. The meatloaf is just getting... Meatloaf's got bad PR right now. Will you see yourself in five years? Yeah.

You know what's so funny? I just had a job interview this morning and they asked me that question. OK, well don't ask that question. Sell me this wallet. So in five years, I just want to see myself grow, learn and grow, stop growing. I don't think you can get any taller, though. You're right.

Not yet. They can get shin and plants. Shin and plants are coming. Grow as a person, learn more, and try to be more accepting, diverse, and understand a person. Amazing, yeah. I wanna ask you a quick question

before we let you run. So you're running this festival. You're, I'm assuming, curating the acts that can perform there, and it seems like you're trying to be more open to marginalized groups and trying to get people, it's a very inclusive experience. Do you have any guild, if you have to turn people away,

that might not fit a certain standard you're looking for? Like, how do you tackle? That so everyone is except that we event this is gonna sound wrong, but we have an Asian DJ so Filipino music and very okay plays a lot of different things so we know we're not turning anybody away We just want to see people there want to see people celebrate once you be happy Set him up for that My Filipino friend. Let's go bro. I do interviews just like this too.

I'm going to fly on the mic just like y'all. You got it. You got it. You're great. Cut his ass. Cut the cameras. We got competition. We invited competition on? I appreciate y'all. Reynolds right? Good luck with the concert to the festival man. Hi first name

My name is Meg Meg. Huh? Nice. How are you? Where are you from? I'm from right here. Really nice born and raised Oh, no, oh grew up in New York. Oh Awesome apart. Well just outside the Bronx. Oh, man. Yeah, Westchester Riverdale Riverdale nice, I try to get my kid to go to school. That's a rich asschester? Riverdale. Well, Yonkers. Yonkers, actually. Riverdale's nice. I'm trying to get my kid to go to that school. That's so rich. This is expensive.

$60,000 a year, they owe that school. Riverdale is? Riverdale. All the private schools are expensive. What kind of math you learning at Riverdale? Yeah, math. It's crazy. That's very, very nice to meet you.

What are you doing on the park today? Well, what I'm doing actually is handing out flyers about this no kings rally. Have you heard about that? No, we have not. Kings rally. No kings. Well, we got no kings rally.

Oh, yes. Mass protest. So it's... Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so it is June 14th starts at noon. Okay. And what we're saying is that Donald Trump is not a king. Okay. No, that's true. That's true. He is not a king. Yeah. But he's acting like one. And so we want to talk to people about how

laws should be followed. Everybody is entitled to their day in court. And so it's all about... That's fair. What kind of government we want to have. OK. Yesterday must have been nuts for you. Everything went down online. Oh, the Elon Musk and the Trump stuff, they broke up. They broke up. You saw they changed it on Facebook.

They changed it to single. Yeah. You ever fought with a friend like that? Or a friend you thought was a friend? Not in public. Millions of eyes to see. Yeah. It's not like millions of eyes to see. Yeah, I don't, I, yeah. It's not productive.

Yes. I mean, you know, if you're, I mean, I don't have that kind of volatile personality that they both have, so yeah, no. I'm a petty boy. But how, who, in your lifetime, who's been your favorite president of all? Oh yeah. That's a hard one. I know.

I don't have any questions. That is a hard one. I would say a Democrat, but maybe it's Harry Truman. Oh! Really? You like the atomic bomb type action. I saw the, by the way, I saw the plane that did that to Nagasaki. Oh did you? Yeah, I went to Dayton, Ohio and they had that plane there. Oh wow. Enola Gay, right? Is that right? Enola Gay, yeah. Whoa, well this was the other one. I mean, it was a terrible thing to do, but he saved many many American lives by doing it. He said he has not lost a day of sleep over it. I know. That's wild. That's wild. Now the other guy did. I think my favorite president's been Bill Clinton. And why is that? He was fun and that was like shook

things up. I was a kid. I was in elementary school and all I kept hearing about was Monica Lewinsky. I was like this guy's crazy. Okay. But like, I thought, you know, I thought it was a fun time back then. It seemed like he did start the trend of politicians being a little like kind of not the Monica Lewinsky thing, but being a little looser, like they're being more personable. Like, he was Obama type. He was very personable.

He was very personable. I think Obama promised a lot. And he did deliver Obamacare. And phones. Which, I'm sorry? And phones, Obama phones. Yeah. Obama phones. Yeah, what's that? Yeah, there was phones that people would get. You probably make too much money. And phones. I'm sorry. And phones. Obama phones. Yeah. Obama phones. Yeah, there

was phones that people would get like for government phones. If people didn't have phones, yeah, if you didn't know about it, you've made too much. Yeah. You're not a tax bracket for an Obama phone. They gave out phones for people to use. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, and he did some other good things. He helped first-time homebuyers. There was a program that gave them money. Okay. so that was good, but I'm in London He got Osama. Yeah Documentary on Netflix. Have you seen that it's in the Citizens Bank? Think about the reaction at the park when they got them USA chance. Yeah, do you think there's been a

Being against him. Do you think there's been one at least good thing he's done? That's a fair question. ask. I love that question. I can't think of anything. No, not even one? Okay. That's fair. You got money in the stock market? Stock market sucks.

2016 to 2020. Okay, we're talking about old school. The stock market was at an all time high when Biden was president. Yeah, it's fair. Post COVID too, yeah. I'm trying to think about it. You know, it would be really hard for me to say that yeah

Grabbing citizens off the street. Yeah, you know people who are the cons outweigh the probe. Yeah, I understand that Yeah, I get you. I can't think of a proper. I mean I think people say he's cutting the size of government. Well No, I mean it would be like you taking your refrigerator and instead of taking the spoiled milk, you took the refrigeration component out of it. Yeah, yeah. If I get to pay less taxes, I will say that is a pro for me. If he ends up doing that, but it hasn't happened yet.

Are you a billionaire? No. Well, you're not going to pay less taxes. Not yet. But that's what's messed up is they pay less taxes than me. That's the, I think you're kind of saying her point, I think, yeah. That is exactly the point.

So what are they, what am I supposed to do? What is their budget doing? Their budget is taking away from SNAP for poor people who can't afford money, who can't afford food. It's taking away Medicare, it's taking away Medicaid, and it's giving a big tax cut to billionaires. So if you're a billionaire, you love that.

I'm not. I thought budget was when you push something. Yeah, we call that the tush push in Philadelphia. How many people are we expecting out this bad boy? I saw the first one was you guys got it was like nationwide, wasn't it? It is. This one's nationwide too. That's awesome. So what we want is for people not to go to D.-hmm because that's the day that Trump is having his military Parade got a raid a military

Like the Antimons Square kind of shit like we're just taking tanks down the road and stuff Wait, really? Yeah, that's kind of sick. What's your name again? Meg that's kind of sick. No, I disagree tanks rolling down Benjamin Franklin Parkway would be sick. I don't care what anyone says. They're rolling down DC. Yeah, that's fine, but I mean, I was just saying that. If I was president, I might do that just for fun. Yeah.

I'm not going to be serious, like, I'm going to show these people's up, but I think that would be a fun time. Do you know how much it costs? $45 million? Oh, yeah, I think about that. That's a rounding error. And wait, in the budget, they also have to repair the streets. That's a rounding error. And wait, in the budget, they also have, they have to repair the streets.

Because the streets can't bear the weight of the tanks. We're gonna build back better. It's his birthday too, isn't it? Birthday party? I know, we're gonna build back better. Build back better. Yeah, it's his birthday too. Birthday party.

He's like the, remember that Sweet 16 show on MTV? That's actually all time. And he's gonna start a funeral. I'm like, I want tanks, daddy. I want fireworks, I want tanks. And I also want you to shoot blanks out of the tank. So it just sounds like you're shooting it, but it's not. Meg, what was your favorite birthday party of all time?

Yes. What'd you do? What was the age and what did you do for the birthday? 70. 70. And what'd you do? Wow, really? I said to the kids, I will not come

if you give me a birthday party. Okay. And so my son flew in from Georgia, brought his kid, it was a total, and actually when I turned 60, they totally shocked me. They brought me, I thought we were just going to lunch and I had a whole bunch of friends in the room. Now imagine they came in on a tank and they took you to Applebee's. Yeah.

That'd be sick. No Applebee's. He flew in on a fighter jet, he took you to Applebee's. That's an all time birthday you're gonna remember and tell, you're gonna stunt on all your girlfriends being like, oh wow, your son took you to a macaroni grill? My son flew on an F-35 and got me and picked me up and we went to Applebee's.

Yeah. Unlimited Eps. Sounds great. That could have fed 500 kids in Baltimore. Yeah, literally. Don't fucking come against me now. We're just on the same side. Join us. That could have fed so many children.

You're being the king right now, Cor. So, Matt, give us a parting thing you'd like for people to know about either the rally or just something, some life advice. Can I ask one more? Oh, yeah, please. Sorry. So you've been around for a little bit. I have.

On the other side of the presidency is one that wasn't a Democrat. Is there anyone that you're kind of like all right that guy was sick that guy was like cool good like yeah that was a good one like you're like a Reagan Republicans of Oh she quivered I wear a except for getting us into Afghanistan bush I guess I would have to say yeah he's got a great PR team except that maybe his father was better except that his father gave us I guess I would have to say Bush. Bush, yeah, George Washington. Yeah, he's goofing. He's got a great PR team. He's not just awful. Except that maybe his father was better, except that his father gave us Clarence Thomas.

Okay. Oh. Oh god, he's still around too, Jesus Christ. Who's that, is he a judge? Supreme Court Justice, right? Is that right? Yes, he's the one whose wife liked all the June 6th, January 6th? January 6th protesters.

Oh, did she? Maybe her finger slipped. Sometimes I double tap things I don't need to double tap. True, I've been there. You guys are so funny. Listen, you go on an S-Girlfriend's profile to see how they're doing. You go down to April 2022 and you're like, oh fuck.

Tell my friend I say that all the time. No, she put it in the wrong spot in the story. She put it right in the middle. She knew I was gonna say that. I did. It's not me. These algorithms are messing with us. You are so funny.

You are so funny. Thank you. I like that. I don't think any president is perfect. No, they're all in cahoots. But yeah. Obama wore that tan suit, dude. How could he?

Yeah. Yeah, can you believe it? No. I like how he could wear it. I like how he could ball though. Obama could ball. He could be impeached for that. How dare him, dude.

How dare you disobey the presidency. Yeah, well, let's be excited. Good luck canvassing. Thank you. And I hope that you'll all come out on June 14th. Yes, go check it out. It starts at Love Park, goes down to the museum, the art museum. We're going to have some really cool speakers.

So, you want to know who? Yeah, yeah, please. Well, at least for now, we have Randi We Randy Weingarten who is that you know who she is? No, sorry, okay? She's the president of the American Federation of Teachers Hey, how are you Randy? I? believe that we're having Martin Luther King whoa you're bringing him up His grandson I believe we're having him

He's getting nuts Yeah Still dreaming though, huh? grandson I believe we're having him. How are you getting nuts? Yeah, and we're having records. They're still dreaming though, huh? We're having Father Barber, who's a big... Cutting hair? Yeah, no. Father Barber, is he cut?

Oh my god. I'm a hack. That's why I'm not performing in helium this weekend. I'm gonna do the same jokes though. Anyway, and we're gonna have some other really big names, but I can't release them. Oh, I like that. So you gotta stay tuned. You gotta come to find out. That's exactly right. Go check it out. You're actually kind of a comedian your way. You're just canvassing people to come to your thing.

Yeah, you're good. That's what you do in comedy. You start off as a barker. You're like, please come to my show. We literally just had a live show last week where we just begged people. You're great. You're great. You come to my show. Yep. You guys are great. We literally just had a live show last week, but we just begged people. You're great. Yeah. You're great. You are so much fun. Thank you, Meg.

I appreciate you having fun. Thank you so much for coming. We really appreciate it. That's a lot. It was really fun. All kings day, June 14th. I want to see each one of you there. Yeah, all right.

We'll be there. Promise. We'll do a podcast. We'll start yelling. Meg! Meg! Megalodon! Yeah!

No kings, Meg! Reverend Barber, sorry. Reverend Barber. Reverend Barber. No kings except for the Latin kings. What's up, man? You wanna sit down and just talk to us for five minutes? Talk about your job, talk about what you do?

This guy's got a story, dude. Yes, sir, you do have a story. Oh, my guy's got a story. Let's go. I love this dude. This lady came up and she just gave us a thing called No Kings Day. And it's a, you know what it is. I'm around No Kings Day. That sounds

good to me. Yeah. How you doing? Good man. Who we here with? I am I'm the director of this art show. Are you really? That's amazing you direct you put it all together. This is my baby. That's crazy. There's some good-ass art out there. Can we ask you we just had earlier on to the podcast Tracy Downing. Okaying, familiar with him? He apparently sells art in Rittenhouse Square, and he said he's a big dog. Didn't have a permit, so I'm guessing you probably don't know him.

Well then nevermind, we never had him on the podcast. No, no, no. I don't know anybody. Listen, the park has its own community. Yes, they're here all the time, God bless them. Let them do their thing. Those are like the special kids, kind of. No, listen, there's different types of art.

You have street art, you have gallery art, have gallery art you have the city murals which Philadelphia is. Yeah the city murals but you got the guys that are scraping and grinding out on the street and. How'd you get how'd you get involved in this? I've been an artist my whole life. I travel the country I do galleries all over the country. started my art I started here in Philadelphia University of the Arts. How long ago? 1988. So what kind of art? You look like you would do like work with steel or like a carved marble. Do you really? That's a great pull. 100%. You do look a little Viking. I'm a full on Viking. I was a Viking in a form in life no doubt there's no doubt about that. What's the most you sold one of your pieces for?

Not in the gallery, myself. And Eddie, yeah, anything. Give us a good number for the clip. 16,000. Oh my. Hell yeah, with Marvel dildo. Yeah, what was it? Yeah, we took it to the garbage.

I'll pay for that. You make that thing vibrate. It wasn't a dildo. You ever had any special requests for something like that? Oh yeah. Really? Do you do them? No.

Really? No, actually the dildos... Not on the website. No, no, no. The dildos tend to be more glass. The glass guys, they'll blow dildos and stuff. I guarantee you back in Rome and in Greece they had the marble ones. Absolutely. You've seen David, the statue. Listen, they probably had some pieces with erect phalluses and somebody would jump on that. Who's to say they didn't? That's the reason why I like going to the museum with my kid. We went to the art museum in New York City and we walk in and they had the little statues with the guys.

And there are no arms, no legs, it's just them naked with a little dick. And my son walks in and goes, dad, it looks like yours. And I'm like, yo, you can't say that. How can you say that? You can't say that. It's a tiny thing out of my life.

Well, listen, that sounds like it. It's cold in here. That sounds like a huge problem. You're looking at it. You can't say that. It's a tiny thing out of my life. First of all, it's cold in here. That sounds like a you problem. You're looking at it and you're like, son, that's you. Shut up. That's a you problem. But yeah, so we have artists from three countries, I think about 35 states here. This is how they make their living. They do galleries, they do festivals like this all over the country.

Well, Corey's a touring comedian, so it's kind of the same way. He has his own special art where he just tells dick jokes and everything. Yeah There's room for dick jokes. You should probably advertise on grinder. Yeah You're the one that grinds the marble. You should be on Grindr. I've been grinding for a long time. My Grindr and your Grindr are completely different grinders. But yeah, so I could sit here with you guys all day. I am working, believe it or not.

But this is helping you promote. I got a badge. Yeah, there you go. That means I'm somebody. You can cock in the walk. You can do whatever you want. Guys, make sure you guys walk the park. I don't do the show.

100%. There's a lot of good. This is the oldest fine art show in the country amazing 98 years Two years hundred years and but yeah, take and it's only fine art. There's nothing functional. There's no prints It's just flat-out fine art Yeah, what was your name again? I'm Chris Appreciate it. Thanks for not kicking nice not We're not getting the security kickers. All right. We appreciate it

We appreciate it. Great fine art Yeah, you're not lying. You're not wrong. What's your name Tracy and what do you do for a living? Yeah, okay, I also work at the ethical society building right over here across the street Yeah. Okay. I also work at the ethical society building right over here across the street. So can we talk to you about the square real quick? Yeah. Because like how do you decide on who gets what position in the square? Because I'll be honest with you, we were setting up and somebody in this square who won't be named yelled at us for setting up in front of them and we did it. I didn't do it disrespectfully. I did it because it was just open and there's a bunch of you know art and stuff today going on. Right. So how do you decide like who gets where in the

square? Yeah. First come first serve. Okay. Okay. A lot of people sell art around here like when they not here at the art show. Yeah. Like all through the year they sell art and if that person got that satisfaction with his art there first, then you know. So I'm in, I was in the wrong. You're in the right Well, no, he was here before me, but I parked it I parked here in front of him it not like I was I can't agree with that Yeah, we're talking about the accordion guy. We kind of fucked a little bit. We fucked around, but you know what we learned Yeah, and that's all that matters right as long as like like people can make mistakes people can make mistakes As long as they learn from I'm sure you've had to step to somebody here there. Yeah, but you know

learned from I'm sure you've had to step to somebody here there yeah but you know solve it without violence exactly I love that he wasn't the greatest arguer yeah he did kind of get a little contentious I thought I was doing great yeah I would say probably I would err on the side of you know being like okay this guy messed up he's not here every day but this guy might be here every day and I kind of I kind of appreciate him coming after me because I will never ever park our table in front of a guy playing music ever again. And now it's a good background soundtrack, but I don't think he wants that. It's kind of beautiful.

So what are some of the unwritten rules of the park? The rules of the park, first of all. Like you're doing art, right? Yeah. So what kind of art you do? I look at these buildings. Like I paint a lot of buildings around here. Yeah. I paint it in my perspective.

And do you sell them in the park? Yes, a lot of my paintings around here. Nice. Yeah. Selling well? Yes Yes, a lot of my paintings around here. Nice. Selling well? Yes. Cool. Right in this hotel right here. This big building over here, the park.

The Dorchester, the trips. I paint here a lot. Well, so being that you're looking at the buildings for your perspective to paint, you ever, because you gotta look at it for a long period of time, you ever see some stuff going on in the buildings and you're like, ooh, that's not going to the painting?

Ever see a window open and something going on in one of the- I don't have the Superman business. Okay. But you know, no, not really. I just see windows. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, just windows.

Are you self-taught or you went to school for this? No, I'm self-taught. Yeah. It's like a family thing. Really? What do you mean by that? Well, everybody in the family can draw. Put it out there.

My fam, Zert, with all due respect, my family fucking sucked at drawing. For real? My family, we couldn't barely draw stick figures. Yeah, everybody can draw something. Yeah, okay. Best thing we could do, we could do like that S you used to draw with like the kind of

tight thing at the bottom and the end. That was the best we could do, yeah. With the two squares, you put the one square in the corner, then you make a cube. Yeah, they sell stuff like that now. You might walk around here and see something like that. I know. Yeah. What got you into painting? Huh? What got you into painting? Like I said, just always had art in me, man. Just loved drawing. Yeah. And one day I just picked up like

20-something years ago, I picked up a piece of board, got me some paint and paintbrush and started painting on it right out here. What's the first thing you ever painted? The first thing was like abstract, something just came to mind, just colors and shapes and Yeah, some Picasso type stuff. You know what I heard about recently? Van Gogh, I'm sure you're familiar with, apparently he didn't become famous till well after he died.

Like his entire life, I think he was pretty dirt poor. Do you ever worry that like your shit's gonna take off 20 years after and you're like, God damn it, I wish I would've seen it earlier No of course, it's times have changed since Van Gross and all that shit Yeah true yeah So you can make yourself famous and your shit can take off while you're here Yeah

I sell two thousand dollar paintings around here God damn out here? Let's go dude I've done it so many times I sell five hundred dollar prints So you know I made that myself by being here and being dedicated and showing these people that I love what I do and I can do what I do. Damn, $2,000 paintings just sitting out here in the square. Sick.

They would easily go and just ATM and just give it to them. Yeah I guess around greenhouse square it is probably the wealthiest place in the city. Yeah, it's worth no money. That's like $2.00. Disposable income of $2,000 is crazy. Yeah, that's pretty nice. Matter of fact, I'm painting this building right here, that new one, the Laura. Oh, so you love construction.

You're like, oh, they're building a new building? Great, that's more money in my pocket. Yeah, architect, I like designing. Check in with you to find out what would be a nice design. I mean, you're looking at the buildings all the time, you probably have a good eye for what would look good where. Yeah, I got a good eye for it. I'm not bragging, but I do. Of course. I can design a building myself. Talk to me a little design. I mean, you're looking at the buildings all the time, you probably have a good eye for what would look good where. I'm not bragging, but I do.

Of course. I can design a building myself. Talk to me a little bit about, like, you've been here for 20 years in the park. Like, how much has it changed? Like, what have you seen, kinda? Like, has there been, would you say there's more creators in the park now?

Because I always see a lot of different painters, so there's gotta be some competition that's risen up. I wouldn't say competition, because they look up to me as the number one artist around here. Oh yeah? We power rank and we go... When the artists come here, they come to me and say, oh, it's alright, I can bring my stuff out here, it's cool.

Damn, Tracy, you're the godfather. Tracy, you're the god, dude. Yeah, they can look at my stuff and tell me if it's good enough to bring out here, you know, they ask these questions of me, right? They kiss the ring? Yes, they do so. Holy shit. That's no lie, They'll tell you that.

That's incredible. Damn, dude. That's awesome, man. Did you kind of have that, I won't say father figure, but a person that you looked up to 20 years ago that was the original godfather? Yeah, when he started selling here, was there a guy that you kind of looked up to yourself?

There's one guy, he's been here, his name's Mark. He was here for a long time. He painted a lot around here and I always looked up to his painting. Sure, yeah. But. Did he paint buildings too or was that, was everybody?

He didn't paint the tall buildings but he painted like houses like, stuff like that. Is he a short guy? He's just going for the short ones? He's trying to highlight the short ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a short guy but I like look up. I like think big.

Yeah. He got cloma. That's right. He could sit, if short, but I like look up. I like think big. Yeah, sure. He got cloma. That's correct. That's it, if only, if only. Oh man, damn dude, that's crazy, Tracy. I love to learn about the old school nature of the park and stuff, about this stuff. Where, when these young guys come up to you,

I guess you've probably had to weed through the guys, because Matt's in comedy, so it's probably like that, where it's like you're reading through the guys that you know that could probably do it, and then you're reading through the guys that you're like, either you don't like them, or you're like, they're gonna give up, or something like that. Because it can't be easy out here.

No, it's not easy. That's why I keep telling a lot of people, you come out here today, and you got good stuff, and you presented to them, they see you have good artwork, you know what I mean? You have to keep coming. You gotta keep showing your face to, because around here, people are funny.

They very, they love art, but they love fine art and they love dedicated people that do art. You just can't be a star when art's coming. I was trying to get a dollar today, and tomorrow or the next day they don't see you out here again, they forget about you. Can you give us one of the sales process stories? Like maybe you didn't get a sale the first day,

but maybe these people kept coming back and stuff. You know what? Man, the first day in our paint I sold out here. Really? Yeah, I sold that to a gallery down here called New Image. OK. Which I had a lot of, a window display that was there for a whole year.

They just took it down. But I had a whole window display. And he bought a lot of my collections. Damn. Bro, you're like a Bobby Fischer of painting. Yeah, this is pretty sweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be reading about a lot of artists that say they don't even

make $2,000, $3,000 a year. I know. And you're making that on a painting sometimes in a park. Yeah, I got to bring a nice painting out here in 10 minutes, the right person, like, it's gone. Yeah. Is there a part of you that, as an artist, you kind of want to be true to yourself,

but you also have to be a salesman? How do you go about navigating those two lanes where you're making your own art, but then you also have to get out there and kind of like shuck true to yourself, but you also have to be a salesman. Like how do you go about navigating those two lanes where you're making your own art, but then you also have to get out there and kind of like shuck and jive a little bit? Well, it's better to do it that way because you get all the money. You're dealing with galleries,

they're going to take half your money. Yeah. And you're going to sell your own art. Your art is going to sell itself. If you got good art, you don't even have to say a word. It presents its own self. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, it's totally silent, the whole sales process, you don't even have to say a word. It presents its own self. That's pretty sweet. Yeah, it's totally silent, the whole sales process.

You don't even have to look at it. And I can tell when people getting ready to buy, just by being out here a long time. You on social media or anything? Yeah. What do you, shout it out. Tracy Downey One. Okay.

Tracy Downey One. Nice. Check them out, man. Damn, did security ever give you a tough time, or are they kind of cool now? Nah, man, they never gave, they even had a time where they ran a lot of artists outside selling art

and I was out there painting and they didn't come to me. No police came to me. You ever give one of the security guys $10, be like yo get that guy out of here? No, no, no, I do that myself. I like you dude, you're the godfather, you're the muscle, like man dude. I love it dude. Yes. I got my art bag right there, I got some art supplies right there.

Sweet. Can people find you anywhere typically in the, do you have one set spot or you just bounce? You might find me, like yesterday I was over here in the grass, you might find me anywhere in this grass. Alright, so look out for Tracy. Yeah, I set up shop and do my thing. What's the Instagram one more time, where you saw it? Tracy, what's your full name? Tracy Downing Art. Yes. One. Just Tracy Downing One. Just Tracy Downing One. Tracy Downing One.

Love it. That's awesome, man. Well, congratulations. T-R-A-C-E-Y-D-O-W-N-I-N-G. Yes, sir. Perfect. Check him out. Yeah, man.

Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you, man. Appreciate your comping on, man. That was awesome. Nice meeting you. Hell yeah, Tracy. Yes, sir, thank you so much, appreciate it. Thank you, man. Appreciate your time at home, man. That was awesome. Nice meeting you.

Hell yeah, Tracy. God, I wish I could fucking draw. I would never have the demeanor to stay out in this park and come back every single day. Yeah, I mean. You tell me no one time. That was my first job out of college was sales. Really?

Someone hung up on me at like a Fortune 500 company, I'd be like, I'm never calling that person ever again. Yeah, I'd get embarrassed. I feel like they hate me and they're like, they're just doing their own business, but I'd be like, I know you're mad at me. If somebody else called you, you would have sold. It's like, why are you bothering me at work? It's like, you're so right, dude But I'm like I know you're mad at me if somebody else called you you would have sold like why are you bothering me? It works like you're so right dude. I'm so sorry for bothering you work. It is your work time, dude

I was thinking about if I was a salesman here would be my process. I'm gonna you're gonna be the guy I'm calling and here's here's how I would do it. Hey, this is Matt people's with solar bullshit I just want to see if you're interested in anything solar if you want to make a change to your current plan You fucking idiot You think I'm not busy enough I've got 15 people like you just calling me every single day except you know what the thing is you fucking suck They're at least good See that work it

And then I think if you actually re bully the person that's what I'm saying They like I kind of respect this guy for making fun of it If you if I started bullying while I'm selling and then they bullied me back, I think I'd fuck the guy So this is on a recorded line I'm sending this to your boss. Where are you from again? Dude, I'm telling you if your salesmen start bullying during the sale It can't go any worse. First of all, you're not making any money. A lot of these places are all commission You're selling half the time a legal shit. Sure. So it's like if and you go to find out as you grow order that your boss didn't fucking care how you did it just get the sale done.

Yes I'm saying I think bullying might be the new sales tactic. Bring your own toilet if you do door-to-door sales find the bathroom in the person's house and be like I'll give you a swirly if you don't fucking buy this. I love that. It's up to you. I love that. Totally your call. You could never do sales respectfully. Yeah whatever dude. Respectfully. You're gonna give me crap. You are in your line of work that you're in your line of work for a reason What do you hear? I mean, there's a reason why Bryce Harper bats in the three hole and there's a reason why you're saying I'm like price JT JT Rio moto bats in the seven hole. Yeah, I don't know what that means

So I guess that kind of lends to your point. Honestly, I'm not a real man is what being Kyler getting it I don't know if this is like something I have in my head I envision every painter has to have a beret and carrying the easel around with them. It's kind of cool seeing painters are kind of just bros. He's like, yeah, whatever, dude, I just kind of paint around here, not a big deal, I'm jammed. Yeah, I'd rather go to that guy's art show

than go to some pretentious asshole's art show. Yeah, exactly. It'd be somewhat relatable, at least. It would just be, yeah, it would be like, I mean, you as a comedian and stuff, you watch a guy go on stage like a top hat. What are you trying to you trying to prove? I just thought to the top had to be totally honest with you Yeah, Abraham laughing. I mean it's it's it's no different than like Gallagher smashing Watermelons and care top pulling gags out of his briefcase. I think I might be evolving into a prop comic really

Yeah, what are you trying to do? I don't know, I'm gonna bring a live shark on stage in water. If I just walked on stage and brought a live shark and put it next to me and I never addressed it for like 25 minutes, I think that'd be pretty sweet. And if you bombed, you just jumped in? Yeah, it's the first time. You guys are gonna fucking laugh at my jokes?

You don't think it's funny? All right, watch this, you wanna see live comedy on? Letting a shark start to nibble at my Achilles because they're not laughing, I'm like, this hurts a lot, I wish you guys would laugh. We'll get them next time. I mean, that's how you, there can't be somebody in Philadelphia who's too far away from doing that.

No, I've seen a lot of them. We are just addicted to the laugh. We do, we do. I mean, it's pretty embarrassing. And it ain't stopping. Dude, we're addicted to the laugh. Dude, that's our heroin. That's why yesterday was so much fun online.

What was yesterday Trump in Girls the girls going tit-for-tat Two guys that are addicted to the left two of the hottest guys in the country going back and forth and then just ending on Like, you know fucking dude, you're a pedophile. How about that? But that's how everything goes like everybody has that friend where it's like you're just joking around you're joking around It's like well, at least my mom's not dead. It's like well at least my mom's not dead It's like what the fuck dude all right. Well. That's the podcast We appreciate you guys all for listening Corey B. Don't man in town on Philadelphia. Yes, go to helium Please the love of God go to helium. Yes, he's got anything else you want to promote go ahead. Yeah, so um

No Check his dates on his website. Look me up. Oh yeah I got a podcast. As well. It's called the Boyfriends podcast, but it's not put together for Boyfriends. We only put it together for Pride Month. It's Boy Space Friends. It's a Boyfriends podcast.

It's got a 30 day shelf life? Yeah, me, Matt Lopes, and my friend Marcus Monroe. Hell yes. Thank you. Check them out, dude. And go buy some tickets to Hellions. Go see Corey this weekend, dude. He's in Philly for the entire weekend. Go see him.

We released $13 tickets, they all sold out, you fucking cheap fucks. It's true, you are in Philly, dude. You gotta know. We can only afford things out of the price of a cheesesteak in this city. That's a month of rent for a lot of people, dude. God damn it.

You gotta go out to the burbs, man. Jesus. Cheers. Peace. that. Cheers! Peace!