Men At Work Podcast - The Most Delco Podcast of All-Time

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

Kyle Pagan and Matt Peoples are outside The Most Delco Bar of All-Time in The Most Delco Town of All-Time to record The Most Delco Podcast of All-Time. After participating in a crab race at Dolan's Bar (shout-out Donovan McCrabb) Kyle and Matt talk to the Philly Sports Guy about the life he's created as a Philly sports superfan, the perks of the job, his future political aspirations, fights at games, and do the ladies love PSG? We then talk to Matty Ice who is a screenwriter by day and a bartender at Dolan's by night who just finished his first project on MOVE and is currently shopping it around. We then talk to a guy who is definitely not the spokesperson for the Duffy's Cut Project, but who has for a decade helped spread the truth behind one of PA's largest mass murders in the 1830s involving Irish immigrants. We finish with Delco Jesus who gives us the BTS on how he got his nickname, fought back from homelessness, managing technician egos in an auto body shop, and the best part about living out of your car. This is the most Delco episode of all-time. 00:00 - How the Delco Accent Became Famous 9:25 - Philly Sports Guy 31:48 - Bartender/Screenwriter 40:41 - Duffy's Cap Project 1:00:42 - Delco Jesus About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for work? After that the conversation flows from there. We’ve met substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and more. And we’ll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a baseball game, a bar crawl, casino, and more. We like to find out what people do for a living. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] Listen to the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Hf2xk8HParE If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod Follow Us: The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcast https://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedy https://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

Three, two, one. Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pagan. This is Matt Peoples. Matty, where are we? Dude, you better believe we're here at Dolan's Bar in what I just learned is not Ridley, Pennsylvania. Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. Delco, Delaware County, the new most famous county in all of the United States.

We're invited here to the NASCRAB race, dude. How did that look? Dude, it was awesome. It was great up there. Donovan McCrab, he did the best he could. He didn't puke on himself. He did lose in the first heat, but he won in the second heat. And finally, McCrab has won something in his life he can hold his hat on.

So, yeah, we're here at Dolan's Bar. We want to thank everybody for tuning in again. If this is the first time you have tuned in, it's a pretty simple concept. We just go around to random places like a crab racing spot, and we ask people what they do for a living. So I feel like we're going to have a little blue-collar babies out here in Delco. But, yeah, I'm looking forward to the impression, the accents. I mean, look, I'm a Jersey boy boy both in heart and in dialect and something about

the delco accent has rubbed me not the wrong way but it certainly has rubbed me without consent and i will tell you this i'm pretty excited to hear like what the fellas sound like what the ladies sound like like a beautiful damsel in distress who's from delco i can't imagine what that sounds like she's pulling like a new port out of her mouth. She's like, yeah, I'm stuck in here. You can come get me from this castle. Holy shit. Yeah. That was good. Not bad, right?

That was really good. Holy shit. No, dude, I love the Delconians. I just don't know them well enough. And I hate to say it, like Delco and New Jersey, and if you're from different parts of the country watching the episode, Delco, Jersey, South Philly, all these areas have a similar dialect, and it's becoming kind of famous now.

But we all make fun of each other for the fact that we think we all sound different i try to train myself out of it i think i kind of just talk like a normal gay dude but i actually have gone the complete opposite once i started going to temple and once i started doing like interviews and man on the street and stuff i've actually taken the accent basically have you do you think so yeah like sometimes i'll be like it's all day or like water started doing interviews and man on the street and stuff, I've actually taken the accent, basically. You think so? Yeah. Sometimes I'll be like, it's all David.

Or like water. True. Hoagie. Yeah. Like crown. You don't have it that much. But sometimes if you get me going, you work me up into a lather. Buddy.

It comes out. What is Aquafina and Dasani? What do they sell? Water. Water. Water. Yeah, dudeani? What do they sell? Wooder. Wooder. Wooder. Yeah, dude. No, man, they popularize it.

It came from my boy Bam Margera. He's the one who put them on the map. You think Bam put them on the map? The OG Delconian. If you watch Viva La Bam or Jackass- What would Bam sound like, Matt? Right now? Yeah.

He'd be like, yeah, we're doing a podcast and we're in the driveway. Yeah, they're pissed. They're about to yell at us. And then Don Vito goes- Speaking of, we have our own Don Vito behind the camera. We're going to go put Vito in a garden in front of the shop right now. I can't do it. We're going to put some fireworks inside Vito's parents.

We're going to wake them up with a big blast. Huh? Phil Margera, too. Yeah. But I do think, I think he does not get enough credit for him putting the delco accent on the map because i remember like i would tell people in my life as a kid about viva labam and jackass bits and i would just be doing his accent not realizing i'm talking like an insane person yeah which again it's insane accent it's a crazy but it's it's probably the

most likable no no i would say like uh like a michigan like a youper yeah but they feel like they're lying oh you think so i think the michigan people are like oh hey how you doing over there oh wow your car broke down hopefully some come help you like adelka was like yeah what did you do jackie it's getting a little change for once i'll be here in 20 minutes i'll come pick you up we'll go to wawa what about chicago chicago's a little bit a little bit like southerner youper um southern accent is probably the worst accent of all time long island is a little bit like us they'll like uh they'll get a little animated like yeah but they sound a little bossy too yeah i think the long island all the new york accent the long island thing like i don't really like how ice spice has made the

new york accent kind of cool again i don't appreciate the way that she says just about anything. Like what? Bacon, egg, and cheese, salt, pepper, ketchup. It's a kid. One thing that I love is the London accent. The London drill kind of rapper accent. Let's hear it. I'm trying to think of it off the top of my head right now.

It kind of sounds a little bit like... We can go band for band. How does that sound? We can go band for band. We can go amp for amp. We can go back... I got the main back truck in the... It's got to be racist. It's got to, right?

Can we fast? Jiggy pop. Whoa. Jiggy pop. What the hell? I thought we were horsing around here. Big up, big up. That's it. That's the... Big ups to the man that I'm going to go to Delco.

Get over here. To the crab race real quick. Don't have a crab. Don't have a crab. Holy shit. Big ups to the boy. Big ups to Don McRab. He's getting boiled right now. That was...

I love... I fucking love that. I was watching the Drewski video where he goes over there and people audition for him and stuff. And it's so funny because once someone makes something popular, they all do the same shtick now.

So all they rap like that. Yeah. Who is it? It's like... Central C. Central C is the big one over there. And there used to be another guy who was really big.

And he was the first one to do it. But, yeah, I don't know. Oh, he was on a lot of Drake songs. I want to say it's Skrilla or Skrillex. I know who you're talking about. He was on Drake's albums. Skepta. Skepta.

Yeah. Thank you, big dog. That's the train I take to get from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Yeah. But, oh, man, I do love that. that's the train I take to get from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Yeah. But oh man I do love that. And Philadelphia accent was the

the eighth sexiest in the country. That's unbelievable. It is unbelievable. I've you know before my beautiful girlfriend I dated around and dating a girl

with a Philly accent is the most intimidating thing that I've ever been a part of. Well fuck dude. She's like yeah if you're not gonna pick me for dinner what are we talking about?

Oh my God. I love it dude. But it's good. Like we said we're excited to be here. I'm like, what are we talking about? Oh, my God. I love it, dude. But it's good. Like we said, we're excited to be here. I'm excited to kind of learn more about the Delconian culture. And that's what I think we're here to do. Besides the crab race, the crab race is one thing. We'll see who wins.

It'll be a good time. But we're here to learn, dude. We do. We go man on the street. We go man on the podcast. And we just learn. We love learning and asking dumb guy questions. Especially getting home.

Yeah. Getting home from Wildwood, New Jersey. I mean, I was in Wildwood for the entire weekend. Boy, OG Wilkers, does that hurt pretty bad. Why? Financially, physically. Because you get down there and like, I think every couple has this conversation. At least mine, me and my girlfriend do.

When you're an adult and you go on vacation, you hit a point like midway through and it's like, what can we do that's not drinking? Dude, I'm telling you, that's the hardest thing about being sober. And that's why I've quit three times in the last three weeks. Yeah. I hate that, dude. I don't want to hear anything. You drank while you were on vacation, too. I'm the best 96-hour sober guy of all time.

You're up there. You're definitely top five. Monday through Thursday, I kill. Yeah. Crush. Yeah, but I will say you kind of have like a Wilt Chamberlain effect where it's like nobody really saw you do it. Got it.

Yeah, you know? It's like, yeah, maybe it happened, but there's no footage. Yeah. I drank 10,000 beers. Or did I? Did I? Oh, you're talking about the 100-point game. Yeah, whatever you said.

I was talking about the 10,000 women. He said he apparently screwed. No, dude. All Wilt could get back then. There's no videos. He's got to have somebody painting him making love to 10 000 women yeah yeah but i'm telling you dude the vacation thing we're ending summer and thank god we are because my i can't afford summer anymore i can't wait to hunker down and just watch 15 hours of endless football am i am i a shithead that i just hate

i hate maybe i'm growing older but people are starting to film themselves giving like uh messages to their significant others of being like sorry i can't parent for the next five months because i'm watching football yeah i hate that stuff so much i'm like oh i can't sorry that your grandmother died maybe she shouldn't have died during football season yeah can't go to the funeral i'm just like shut the fuck up you dork It's just, it feels like it's an accepted joke that everybody agrees that no one likes. Yeah.

But it's just, it's office talk that's made its way pervasively into like the normal zeitgeist where it's like, we all make the same like platonic jokes

just to get through a conversation in the office and now people think like, oh, I can make this a real thing and it's like, no. We all say that in the office

because we don't mean it and it's trying to move to the next thing where it's like, oh, you know, it's Sunday. I we don't mean it and it's trying to move to the next thing. Or it's like, oh, you know, it's Sunday. I wish I didn't hit the bag that hard, but football. Yeah, I mean, it's like,

it's like, no, your wife is still making you cut the grass before the game. You're still going to your son's zero-zero soccer games during the birds game

and stuff. Like, I don't know. You still had to sneak off while she cooked a jerk off because it's the only time you have alone. We know you're fibbing there, Don. Don't lie to us.

But what do you say? What do we get into these interviews and talk to these folks and see what the heck's going on here? It's a great outro, man. Grab the mic. Put the headphones on and let's get to work.

I love you, dude. It's a long time for you to be. It's a long time for you to be in Delco, bro. I know. What are we going on like three hours now? I feel like I'm part of, I feel like I'm one of them now I feel like a Delconian I feel like you're one of them Dude, don't let them get their claws in you

The hoagie mouth is catching on We had this one girl, she's like, I hate it here I was like, okay, so why don't you leave? She goes, what? Exactly I mean, that's the thing I'd be disowned 20 years ago, Delco wasn't a thing Why don't you leave? She goes, what? Exactly. I mean, that's the thing. I'd be disowned.

20 years ago, Delco wasn't a thing. It wasn't like a moniker. It wasn't a meme. Right. And now it's everything. And, you know, we leaned into it big time, like five, six years ago, especially with Delco Live when they did the most Delco bar. And we begged bar, cheated and stole every way we could do to win. And we're like, yeah, we get caught. You know, that's kind of the most Delco thing you we begged bar cheat it and stole every way we could do to win and we're like yeah we get caught you know that's kind of the most delco thing you can do is cheat

the win but then they they redid it and did it honestly and we still won anyway so good shit why do you think the delco thing is taking off racing like what about it is it like obviously the media is kind of catching on to it but what do you think made them interesting hbo had to be a big one yeah i i just think it's that that blue collar like i don't give a shit attitude where it's you lean into i don't want to say it but it's almost like we're proud of our mediocrity almost yeah you know what i mean it's almost like we are who we are unapologetically i wouldn't say mediocrity i think think, I think that Delco is, is its own, its own extremes. And I think that people just lean into, um, the authenticity of who we are around here. And, you know, now there's Delco flags everywhere. I have a place down the shore. We call it the Delco Riviera, you know, on route nine, one of those campgrounds. And it's

everybody in Delco goes down and hang out with people from Delco. And you're not at the shore, but you say you're at the shore. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, Northeast and Delco is very similar. Let's be honest. I always say like people that leave Northeast, they go to Delco. Bro, I've been three minutes in Northeast in my life.

Yeah. Real's. I went to Real's. Real's. Oh, that's where I went after the Phil's clinched. Yeah. That place is an interesting spot, man. Yes, it is.

It's definitely a little bigger than us, but it's kind of the same feel. And then our most famous hangar outer here is the man. Yeah, you might not recognize this guy if you're from the Philly area. Yes, they do. They all know. You just got face paint on. Normally. Normally you got face paint on.

That's when I'm working. Sundays are, you know. The Lord's Day. Exactly. That's when I'm working. Yeah. Sundays are, you know. The Lord's Day. Exactly. It's the Dolan's Day. Sometimes, you know. PJ is the Lord. No, no.

He's the Lord. He's the Lord, bro. He's the Lord. That's awesome. Gotta lay your hair down. I love it. That's awesome. Well, you know what?

It's like the Mohawk still gives me away. Out of all the times when I'm unpainted, people still recognize me as, you know, just because of the hair. If you have a hat on, do you not get recognized? I do not. Okay. If I have a hat and sunglasses and I can go anywhere. Roger that. Yeah, so there's probably

the least amount of pictures I've ever taken at a Phillies game was in a hat and sunglasses and, you know, two people recognized me all day long. It was great. That's cool. Oh, you prefer it that way? You enjoy not getting that? No, it's not like I prefer it that way. It's just when your life is taking pictures with other people, there are days that you don't want to be at work.

That's a deal. Can I tell you, during the Eagles or the Phillies playoffs last year, I said, Jamie, how many pictures did you take at a game? And he said, it's funny you say that. He said, I took one of those tickers with me, and he said it was the fourth inning. He stopped counting, and it was like 3,500. Holy shit.

And, like, I had never seen him at a game. Like, I know Jamie. Like, he's a buddy. And he started doing it, you know, right around the same time we met or started, you know, being buddies again. I'd known him my whole life, more or less. But he, just watching him jump over seats to take pictures with everybody, like, I was like, this is a workout, man. Like, nonstop.

He's going all the time. And he doesn't drink when he does that. For people who might not be familiar with Jamie, he's a Philly sports guy, social media personality. You know, at probably almost, I mean, every Eagles game. Every. But I would say, what, 75, 80, 90% of Phillies, Sixers? So the home games, I probably am there about 80% of the time for Phillies.

I go to Sixers and Flyers games kind of more after football season's over because all the travel really starts to get to me. However, like if there's a bad loss for the Eagles, I go to the fastest Sixers or Flyers game I can get to just because I want the bad taste out of my mouth. You know what I mean? It just makes it easier to kind of just move on. And then when the Flyers

or Sixers lose, is it just an even worse taste in your mouth? Well, it just starts to count down. You have three losses in a row that I'm at and people are starting

to say, stop going to the games and I'm a push. So it has nothing to do with me, but it's still, people are going to talk. I don't know if you

went down the wrong way. After that, it's like, I'll go to a union game. Maybe the Wings are playing. Just keep working your way. Yeah, the Phoenix might be in town.

Exactly. And I do them all. This is your full-time job. It is. It is my full-time gig. And that's just you building it off of just social media, right? Correct. And now I get a lot of sponsors.

I also get appearances. I do some public speaking. So I set up a program Where I do Conversations with high school or middle school Students about either Living your passion Because obviously I created this job This wasn't a job beforehand

And or bullying Where I have a bullying program To go into schools and discuss How people can be different Someone points their bully out, you go kick their ass exactly oh yeah upon initial review you saying you had a bullying program i thought you were like teaching bullies to be better better bully well no it's it's funny in high schools they have police officers come talk to students about bullying but you don't get arrested for bullying true so it's it's not as relatable as what I could be, where I don't just do it in Philadelphia, but I'll go to other cities.

Imagine going to Tampa and going into a high school over there and me coming out yelling, go birds. Immediately, I get all boos. Well, that's a great segue into what it is we're talking about when you're talking about bullying. Just don't go to Dallas. Actually, Dallas people love me down there. Jerry Jones trolls me. Which is hysterical to me. Every time he talks about the Eagles,

he uses my picture. And he's got a couple of pictures where I look like, you know, just like, I'm like... Do you remember anything that he said specifically i'm sure he talks shit all the time but anything so he did he when he did that one thing where he goes i know some philly people and they know that i know that they're not as bad as they think they are um when we had covid i was next to the dallas cowboys counterpart. And he, there's only like 7,500 people in the stadium. He sends down his two security guards and they come down with a signed game

day magazine by Jerry Jones, just one that they gave to him. And he's like, they go compliments of Mr. Jones. And they just stood there and I'm like, they're just looking at me. I'm like, well, where's mine? And they're like, and I just stood there and I'm like they're just looking at me I'm like well where's mine and they're like and I just walked away I'm like you bastard and it was funny because obviously I do a podcast with that guy the NFC East show and we talked about that for like three weeks how he you know that it's fun for him to troll me yeah and I guess there's worse things in the world than to be getting trolled by a billionaire yeah true yeah it's like it's like a respect thing are you um have you had any like shocking interactions where it's like i can't believe this guy knows who i am like maybe with

a player with a famous avenge sevenfold oh hell no idea i never heard any of their music. Yeah. Was deciding to go to their concert. And what's his name? I want to say Sid, but that's not it. There is a Sid. Yeah, there is a Sid in there. I can't think of his name. But one of the guitarists is. Yeah. The main guitarist.

Yeah, he's the man. Sinister Gates. Sinister Gates. Sinister Gates. That's him, yeah. Big Philly sports guy fan. No shit. So I wound up, they wound up giving me great seats and stuff like that.

And it was the beginning of their concert series. And they had to like run out. So I didn't get a chance to meet them. Yeah. It was just kind of, I don't even know who Sinister Gate is. But, you know, now I'm a fan. Now I'm following him and things like that because I had no idea. How cool is that, man?

Can I give my mic over to Matty Ice who came up with this lunatic thing today sure gentlemen thank you so much yeah no thank you for letting us let these two founders of the the nascrab take over thanks again shout out dolan's bar here in uh ridley park yes what you got what do you got crab meat all over your hands yeah yeah it was a long day it's got a strong hue to it, dude. Sorry. He called me. Sorry. So you guys started the Dummers, am I calling it right?

So the Dummers was started, I guess it's what, six years ago now. And it was COVID. They weren't having the Mummers Parade. And we said, we're going to walk anyways. And 13 guys showed up drunk walking around Ridley Park. Nice. And all Mummers kind of costumes? Yeah.

So they did Mummers. I did the Philly sports guy. Yeah. And it was a little rainy. People are honking at us. It looked ridiculous, but it was, it was fun. And, you know, started 13 and then 25, and now it's grown after six years. Now it's more of a charity.

Sweet. Yeah, I wasn't one of the original founding fathers. I came in year three when I started doing a little more for PJ at the bar. He gave me a little more responsibility doing some managing, preparing for events, and I fell in love with it, man. I've been bartending at Dolan's for four years coming up on five about a year now i've been managing and uh that first numbers parade man i was hooked yeah i couldn't i couldn't wait till the next year and then it kind of grew we started doing events throughout the year like

like this one today the nascrab we did a pigs in a blanket eating contest jay jamie got beat by two twin girls nice cool two people beat me in the eating contest were they conjoined or were they no they were as big as i was and maybe a little bigger put together or individually individually wow and they just and i kept it really Yeah? I did keep it really close. Nice, nice. Damn. And then, so you guys sponsor a child, right? A child who's going through a sickness or whatnot every single year?

Correct. Yep, correct. Got it. And all the events you guys do. Yeah, so the godfathers and dumbers get together. You know, we bring, anyone can come to the table. We're not going to make you write an essay or prove how sick you're who's kids sicker than that like we just we we open it and people come and you know we do some research and and the godfathers sit down and they pick a family and yeah that's sweet yeah it's a

young ridley the one that the one that maybe is i don't want to put it out there yet but it was it's a young kid with spina bifida who's in the ridley school district and young younger parents you know and definitely shoot whatever they do, vacation or whatever the heck they do with it, you know. That's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty cool. You get to put on fun-ass events with a charity angle. Yeah, you can't beat that.

It's pretty cool. Exactly. You know, and Dolan's is one of the spots where it's kind of, like, known throughout Philly now. You know, obviously it's the most Delco bar, but PJ is really strong on making sure that people come here. Like obviously Hollis Thomas is a regular here. Mickey Morandini comes here all the time.

I live here. You know, I mean, I got to imagine that was done a little bit. Okay. I asked, hey, is the apartment available? He's like, yeah, for you. Perfect. You know, love to have you here because it's you know ridiculous when i come down at nine o'clock in the morning all painted up to go to tailgate or whatever you know it just starts the day off

right yeah no or come back or i come back afterwards and you got people from the from the game who were just stopping by you know but it's it's it's known But it's known to have unique events. So Matty's done the kickball, and the NASCRAB was really his idea. Came to me in a dream. Did it. Oh, beautiful. Yeah, Martin Luther. We did it.

I'm not lying. Because we did the first one. This is the year I really got into it. Ronnie Fisher, one of the captains of PJ, let me run. And Jamie gets on board. And once we get the right pieces in the puzzle, it comes together. We did pigs in a blanket eating contest. And then we did a kickball.

And the night of kickball, I was thinking of going to bed. And what's the next one going to be? And yeah, crabs racing. What do you think the next one's going to be? I think we're going to let it breathe Until the new year We're doing some stuff for Ridley Park does a massive fall festival

And it's Columbus Day weekend I think October something Yeah I think they did it on our bye week On a Sunday So we'll do some stuff We'll have a tent out there for that and then uh yeah we're gonna let it marinate by that time it'll be almost ready for new year's and then we'll start it all over again yeah what are you guys trying up and down

so it kind of goes down the street here uh there is obviously the castle which is right across the street here we go around the castle down the streets and across the street here. We go around the castle, down the streets, and around the triangle. So we kind of do a figure eight in the triangles. Yeah. I'm kind of curious. I mean, I feel like I see more and more now. And you're at a ton of games per year for a bunch of different sports. It feels like there's more fights in the stands than I've ever seen.

Maybe it's just like because everybody has their phone out, taking videos. Are you noticing that a lot of times you're at games, you're hearing, like, oh, there's a their phone out, taking videos. Are you noticing that a lot of times you're at games, you're hearing, oh, there's a fight here, a fight there. Are you seeing that more and more or not really? I don't. No?

I don't at all. In fact- You've got to go to more 49ers games. Well, yeah. I guess so. But I've stopped a couple of fights myself. I don't like to get in- I'm sure people have looked at you

and been like, what are you, you got to do something? Right. Never. Really? ever. I'm sure people have, like, looked at you and been like, what are you, you got to do something? Right. Never. Really? Never. I've never had. I had almost gotten into one fight down in Tampa Bay.

Got it. Most of the time, people have been really good. Yeah. I guess because it's now people know me. So it's a little bit easier. I can say if somebody's cursing, you know, you curse once or twice, I can let that slide. If every other word is coming out of your mouth is a curse, people get angry about that.

I'm like, yo, there's kids around. So, and then they're like, if they start to yell back at me, everybody else who couldn't say anything or didn't want to say anything now speaks up. So it makes it a lot easier. And it's just kind of turns down the volume a little bit, which may stop that fight. But I've protected, you know, other fans.

You know, when they come in and somebody wants to get in their face, I'm like, calm down. Calm down, buddy. What are we doing? I'm like, now you've got to go through me. You're going to go through me to do this? Because you're going to lose that. Right.

So have the teams opened up to you? So they all know me yeah you know i i've done some stuff like just this past weekend we did some filming with the eagles for the tailgate uh the phillies know me and they will sometimes like help me out with tickets they give me standing room only because they know i don't really get to watch the games i assume you don't yeah yeah so it's like for playoffs, I make it more deliberate to try to watch. But for the most part, it's me. All right.

You know, taking pictures. I mean, there's so many times I miss moments because I'm taking a picture with somebody. Yeah. And that's just how that goes. You know, I'm not I'm happy to be in the building and getting to do all the things that I do. Yeah. I'm happy to be in the building and getting to do all the things that I do. The flyers, again, they know me, but they let me go sit at a specific spot, and they don't care that there's a line of people that want to take pictures. So that's really what I'm known for is that I'm accessible,

and I make the kids happy. So the parents start to follow me because the kids are following me. And then they realize that, hey, this guy's funny. And I don't think I'm very funny, but it's just because I yell at my phone. It's, you know, comical to them. It's definitely catchy. Fun, relatable, yeah. Yeah.

But, you know, I tell people all the time, when you paint your face for a living, you can't, you can't, you got to get the joke. Yeah. You know what I mean? Got it, okay. You can't be, I can't take myself too seriously. And it's, I you know what i mean okay you can't be i can't take myself too seriously and that's i'm just a fan like everybody else i just have better makeup yeah that is true not taking yourself if you started in like political campaigns i'd say

what the hell's going on here well you know what it's funny when people ask me what's the evolution yeah of this i i mean i have a really strong base in pittsburgh p Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh loves to hate me. Oh, really? When I think about where this could go in the future, I'm talking like 8, 10, 12 years from now. I mean, am I still going to be painting my face? Maybe and hopefully, but I can't guarantee that. I'll be like 64, 65 years old. But running for governor wouldn't seem so ridiculous.

I mean, just because I have a strong base out in Pittsburgh, I have a strong base in Philadelphia, you know me, you know the face, and if I had a good platform to kind of run on, it would be something worthwhile. And I do public speaking, so like talking to high school students and talking to college students.

I'm doing my first TED Talk at Rowan university on the 18th of september uh it's you know i i have a good message to spread yeah it's just not the easiest in the world to get into those places you know it's like it's very difficult even with like the players when you have the face paint on for them to look past it yeah because the hard part is is that when they see me they feel that they're still working so they don't want to because they don't know who i am you know once they start to realize me without the face paint and then then they can actually stick a human to it then they realize that it's i mean we all put our pants on the same way i don't need to fanboy you and you know it's it's more it's more i care more about what you're interested what are your

charities are like what's your family like and you know let's go have a beer rather than oh man it sucked that you missed that catcher that was a great home run i mean they talk shop all day long they don't need me to talk shop with them so we can see we can see a potential government run by the philly sports guy uh i would say i i wouldn't hold your breath on it but it's you know you never know 10 to 12 years i've thought about it a few little bit if trump could paint his face orange we could have somebody else in office paint their face i got no issues with that holy i would love i'd vote for that guy what was the craziest offer you you've got where you're kind of like, oh, fuck. Like an offer of like a, like obviously I'm sure bar mitzvahs or something like that have come out.

Like maybe others. So I've done one bar mitzvah up in New York. Like it was like, it was all Giants and Jets fans. Yeah. And you still showed up as like an Eagles? I showed up in Eagles because the girl and the father were Eagles fans. Wow. So they had me show up there and I'm, all right, awesome.

This is a great time, and I'm getting my balls busted the entire time, but they paid a lot of money for me to be there, so I'm going to show up. I love it. I haven't really gotten any crazy requests. There was a play that happened over in media, like a one man play who was, it was kind of like back in the days of the stadium and the spectrum, like vet stadium and stuff like that.

And they had me come and kind of get the crowd riled up beforehand. I had no idea about it. And that was the last second call and do that. But now I do like fantasy football drafts. Yeah. Yeah. That's like the thing. You go on Cameo and, hey, call out our draft. And, you know, I bust their balls in the process.

Yeah. Is the Philly sports guy married? No. Does he have a girlfriend? No. What are you outing him for here? Dude, let the man live. I just want to know.

How are the ladies with the Philly Sports Guide? It's a common question that I get. I make the joke all the time that the Philly Sports Guide does not get laid. Jamie gets laid. The Philly Sports Guide does not get laid. I have not. No one's ever asked for the face paint? Oh, they have asked, but I'm not doing it yet.

You've got to be very, very special to get that. I'm not a furry. You know what I mean? Which is fine if you are. Shout out furries. Two episodes ago, we were at the furry convention. They're paying our bills right now. PSG always stays on brand.

I'm always egging them on. Yo, Gene, let's do this. Let's do some weird video with Mrs. Met in the bathroom. He's like, no, that's not my brand, Matty. It's not my brand. I hear you. Trying to talk to the philly sex guy yeah yeah yeah if the governorship doesn't work maybe

true psg and amary sports porn only fans well he had a he had a cool one uh remember the mets came at you with one of their promos oh yeah and we i wanted to come right back at him with a mrs met in the bathroom video but he didn't he sticks to his brand man because a lot of his most of his fans are younger pictures and oh my god i mean that's why i don't drink at the games like any game i go to i don't drink i mean obviously i drink before and after but it's like when i'm at the games i just i don't want to smell like a brewery uh the parents are trusting me to touch you know be with their kids and take the picture uh i'm very like I don't touch anybody.

Like, that's always bad for my hand. Big hover hand guy? Yep. Well, I do that, but I just do this so that I'm not, you know, because I don't need some girl who's like, uh. Miss construed, yeah. You know, you touched me, and it's like. You're not even hot.

You came up for the picture. What do you want me to do? It's so, but it's. How long does it take for the face paint to get off? It's an hour to put on. It only takes about 10 minutes to come off. Oh. Yeah, I spend a lot of money on the face paint for two reasons.

One, when I put it on, I want it to stay on. But when I want it to come off, I want it off as quickly as possible. Sure. All right, so, Matty, what do you do for a living? Matt McGinley. I go by Matty Ice in the bar world. In the bar world. In the underworld, I go by Matty Ice.

That's my moniker. That's my pen name. Yeah. My pseudonym, yeah. It is, too. I do have a pseudonym. But it is. Yeah, sick.

Pardon my voice. It was a pretty wild weekend. Friday, Bruce Springsteen, Citizens Bank. The boss. First time I saw him. What did he play for, six hours? Yeah, it was a good three and a half, man. Jesus Christ, man.

Great. Saturday, bachelor party in Annapolis, and Sunday was NASCRAB. So we just had a little raspy. Yeah. But now, what do I do? I'm 38. I manage a bar for pj pj i can safely say pj saved my life because i was miserable with my nine to five i was a quality control and safety manager at a manufacturing plant dusty dirty what were you guys doing like screws and shit we do know it's actually a pretty cool german technology that we brought here seven like eight years ago now nine years ago even

um we turned recycle they turned aero all right i'll be there in a minute um it turned recycled glass into a lightweight rock it was like really innovative it was actually the rocks that saved the 95 yeah yeah there were joko rocks daddy stone he rocks but yes i was there i thought that was my forever job and it just started to beat me down my back started hurting and and i got out and i i always side hustled i always bartended my whole life my i love the movie cocktail with tom cruise and uh yeah so my mom got me to bartending school as a graduate high school graduation gift so i always had that as my side hustle really so your mom paid for you to go to bartending school right yeah right so fucking dope that was my grad party so not even 21 you're in bartending school that's it i don't even think you do that yeah

it's manny young uh center for bartending it's really. It's interesting. And I've always done that. And so I was miserable with the other job. It was a great company though. Great company. Arrow was awesome. I love them guys. But I always wanted to write. Got it.

So I sat down with PJ. I said, can I have a couple more shifts? Anything else I can do? He was like, well, Matt, you know, events manager, more socials, stuff like that. Here's one of the founding godfathers of the dummers. The dummers. But, uh, yeah. And so, and I said, P, I want to get out of this nine to five and I want to start writing screenplays. I'm a big movie guy. The day I quit my job, I, I made a choice. I was sitting watching Netflix, a show. I think it was like Narcos, one of them, Narcos Mexico.

And I'm like, that's what I'm going to do. And I put myself on a strict schedule. I write six hours a day. Holy shit. Yeah. It's cool. I bartend at night, manage for pee. You write more than he does.

It's hard to stick to it. It's really, it's hard to stick to it. Sometimes you just don't have a good day and you're just like pissing yourself. Yeah. You're trying to think of like something creative yet. You shut your Sometimes you just don't have a good day, and you're just, like, pissing yourself. Yeah. You're trying to think of, like, something creative yet. You shut your phone off. I'll have a couple drinks. Like, you know, I'm my own boss, so I do what I want.

Whatever gets the juices flowing. But I just finished my first pilot. It's on Osage Avenue in the move bombing in the 80s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the Philly cops and the government went toe-to-toe with the move organization. Yeah. And it culminated. They dropped the only police force to ever drop a bomb on a home in philly wow so it's a really untapped there's a couple cool documentaries and i use them as motivation

and uh but yeah it's cool i finished the pilot and i'm working on some uh i'm learning everything about hollywood and i have a whole new friend group of Hollywood folks. We're going to go to the Diddy party soon. The Diddy party. So is this like a drama that you're working on? I'm assuming it's like a on-screen... It's a comedy. Bombed. The story about John Africa. It used to be sunny in

Philadelphia. Fiery in Philadelphia. But yeah, dude, that's insane. So now what goes into like, is it just a bunch of cold calls and emails, but yeah, dude, that's insane. So now like, like what goes into like, like, is it just a bunch of cold calls and emails to be like, Hey, will someone please read this and try to, and try to develop this? It is, you kind of, um, you kind of just got to freaking Bob your way in. Like I hooked up with the Philadelphia screenwriters group on Facebook and I met a lot of cool people who have little ins and outs in the industry and, and's tough i'm not there yet right now i'm doing some like legal stuff with like a life

rights contract before i can tell the story of kyle or matt i have to have your written permission so you got to go to this uh john africa's family i guess like a states or not even them i'm actually gearing it towards um birdie africa it's called birdie. It's a six part mini series. It's outlined for that. And, uh, it's the only surviving child of that fire was little kid named birdie Africa his, and, uh, he passed away in 2013. So I couldn't talk to him, you know, cause a story with me and something I've learned after I did it, you could, the move and the cops and the, you know, racism, that's all just background noise.

You need like a heartbeat for your story. And I found my heartbeat in the father and son relationship between Birdie and his father who wasn't in move. Oh yeah. His name's Andino, which it's very ironic because Andino has dreadlocks down to his waist like move did, but he, he's really not crazy about them. Cause his son was taken into their group away from him. So I really found a good heartbeat in the story. And yeah,

I'm almost there. I get with me and Andino, we're meeting this week or next week, we're going to finish off the contract and the next, we got to start gathering producers and getting the money up for it. So walk us through it. So now you got like a production company or like what, what happens? Like what's the next step?

I don't, one of my writing mentors said I should do that. You get an LLC for a production company just so you can be a part of it. Like, you know, in the beginning of a show you see like three or four different weather, you know, whatever it is,

Amblin or, you know, you see three or bad robot. And so, yeah, I would essentially get it. I think I'm going to call it ice house productions. Why ice house productions? I don't know.

It might be a pseudonym. Who knows? But, uh, yeah, so that's, that's pretty much where I'm at. I still have to cross those bridges. I don't, I don't know. Like I'm literally at the point with a life rights contract. So that's where I'm at. One bridge at a time, you know. I try to keep myself. Yeah. Are you going to star at all in the program at all? Are you going to get some acting chops up or anything? What does this look like?

Maybe some classes? I'm definitely going to pull a, who does it? Tarantino. M. Night Shyamalan? Alfred Hitchcock. A little cameo? Just a little cameo. Listen, if this ever gets off the ground, you need a little bit of extras, all right?

Yeah. Right here. Absolutely. Vito's looking for work, too. He'll be the background, yeah. Yeah. You'll be some racist cops. Yeah.

And then we'll start acting, yeah. We do have racist cop things. We're going to try to film a scene. It's a dream, you know, me and PJ. I wrote a scene specific. It's a really cool cop scene. Like, you got your good cops and you got your bad cops yeah and uh it's a big bar fight between cops and it took place in it's a real story it took place in northeast philly but we're gonna film it i wrote it

specifically for that shape of a bar so what went into the research a lot of research i did a project on it in college and one of my professors told me uh special collections down at temple has a really their library has all the old archives and old videos and i must have read 30 40 like newspaper articles really cool man but they recently were in the news because weren't the bodies moved or something like that and they're really pissed off about something yeah the remains of two of the children uh i don't want to mess the names up doesn't matter anymore but uh the remains were the cops they did a terrible job with like cleaning up that whole thing and but they just took the remains of the kids and they didn't tell

their parents and uh i think upenn had one of the bodies and princeton had had the bodies as a uh whatever the anthropological study. Got it. Yeah, so they were using these kids' bones. It's messed up, but they were using these kids' bones without the permission of the parents for quite a few years. Yeah, and you got to sign a damn contract just to do a series on them and stuff.

And they're fucking crazy. Yeah, just to write about them. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah, I tried to reach out to a couple of the MOVE folks, but nobody got back to me. So I'll cross that again. I'd love to sit down. I'll talk to anybody about it. I mean, that's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, I tried to reach out to a couple of the Move folks, but nobody got back to me. So I'll cross that again. I'd love to sit down.

I'll talk to anybody about it. Like, I want to hear both sides. I want to tell both sides of the story. So, yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. It'd be great to hear. Well, good luck with everything.

Excited to hear about this. Hope someone maybe sees this and is like, well, you know, I'm going to reach out to Matt. Yeah. We'll see. Thank you very much, guys. Dude, this was great.

Thanks again. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, P. Good luck with everything. That's my buddy. I'm his consigliere to Matt. Yeah. We'll see. Thank you very much, guys. Dude, this was great. Thanks again. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, P. Good luck with that. That's my buddy. I'm his consigliere.

That's my guy. Thank you, guys. Matty, thank you. Thanks again. Who are we here with? Matt. Matt. And Matt, what do you do for a living?

I teach. uh, nonprofit that, uh, basically gives people, gives, um, what is it? That's the best way. Is this a new job? You still work there?

No, that's the best way to describe it. Are you lying? It's a sales pitch, man. Take a swig. I want to give, I want to donate right now to your,

your nonprofit. And you kind of suck at describing it. I know, I know. Dude, Kyle, wait until you come to Tuesday practice, bro. kind of suck at describing it. I know, I know. Dude, Kyle, wait until you come to Tuesday practice, bro. He's trying to get me to play rugby. What's that? He wants me to play rugby.

Yeah, come play rugby, bro. I'm a huge pussy. Is that the nonprofit? No, the nonprofit is called Duffy's Cut Project. Break dudes' skulls. A bunch of Irish immigrants came over in the 1830s, and they were murdered by the townsfolk in Malvern, Pennsylvania. So I uncovered their bodies. We got seven

and we reburied them and we got another 50 to go after, but we don't have the funding to really go after them. This is a non-profit? Yeah, non-profit. It's called Duffy's Cup Project. Duffy's Cup Project? Duffy. Duffy's Cup Project. Whoa. Okay. Yeah, nobody It's big in the Irish community.

Back this shit up. Yeah, we need a lot more content. We're a couple Irish. I mean, our family was affected by the crowd. What's he doing? Look at him. This is unbelievable. He couldn't describe his fucking non-profit.

Now he's coming after me. This is the worst first day that I ever watched. Oh, yeah. All right, all right. We're going to bust balls. So what happened here happened here what happened here i'm a clipping boy let's go what happened for tat what happened here uh so they came over expecting a better life and they all thought they died of cholera so what happened is they were working on a railroad mile 59 the railroad in malvern and they all contracted cholera and they ended up killing them all.

They quarantined them because they didn't know how. You should look this up. The crazy shit is they were like, hey, don't eat candy. Don't eat crawfish. Like dumb shit. And they were like, if you don't do this, you won't get cholera. Because they didn't know that it was in

their drinking water. So they ended up uh getting contracting cholera and they didn't know how to deal with it so instead like it's a 50 percent uh fatality rate back then yeah yeah back then it's 50 and there's 57 people even a baby and she would wash the clothes and they didn't murder them all. They quarantined and hung them down. They didn't murder them all. It's a big story in Malvern right now. It's a big story in the Irish community.

Holy shit. How'd they murder them? They just capped them out. They came... Like, execution style? Like, up against the wall? Yeah, the first... Well, they were trying to get away.

One guy escaped. We got another post out towards, like, Downingtown. We got another post out there. But they ended up just murdering all these people. So they brought the first seven back in coffins because they capped them. They were literally, like, we had to go to bat for it. How did you figure that? How did you come?

You have so many questions. Holy shit, dude. Well, we had. I'm just going to drop another bomb. I don't even give a fuck that you're a teacher anymore. I don't care about this. I love rugby, man. Who cares? Who gives a shit at this point?

No, I love, I love, I love all the ruggers, man. Careful, careful. Hey, careful there. You talk to anybody who plays rugby and they're your best friend right off the bat. You go, hey, I play too. That's why I'm trying to get you to come out Tuesday night. There's no shot, unless you tell me more about Duffy's cap project. Unless I tell you, I think you're bullshitting me.

I know you're trying to calm me with this one, Kyle. I was bullshitting with you earlier. I'm sorry, bro. I didn't even meet you yet. Fuck you, dude. Suck my balls. Dude, how about that? Sit down, play your rugby bullshit. meet you yet. Fuck you, dude. Suck my balls. Sit down, play your rugby bullshit.

Tell us how the fuck you're on here. I want to hear about how you're digging these people up. How the fuck you find these people? My professors found... I'm not laughing at you now. What a dickbag, right? What a cockbag. I'm totally getting fired for this podcast.

They're like, yo, that's how your guy acts? That's really good for the kids. You couldn't even describe the non-profit. No, no. This has been great so far. So your professors told you about this? Yeah, so their grandfather worked for the railroad in the 30s. And a lot of shit broke down. Oh, so this only happened in the 1930s?

No, no, no. They had documentation. So what happened was the town was like, oh, blah, blah. They just like died, whatever. And what they, superstitious back then in the 1830s was like, hey, ghost on a railroad. Like, holy shit, this is wild. Like, and they wouldn't have people take a railroad because it was now it's the, what is it? It's Amtrak running it now.'re the same the same line and um what happened with them is they thought nobody would give like because people shoot fish they thought they're like oh we all these people died they're not going to come in so they covered up like ah seven people died blah blah it's all whatever so my professor's grandfather run it uh had a documentation before 30th street

station burnt down like the early 30s and got documentation out saying they killed all these they killed all these people and it's a big deal it doesn't get much clout to the area uh i i've been working on it since 2010. wow number 2010 they've been doing it since 2002 they found found, like we literally sent people back to Ireland cause we found the shit that they were coming off of. Cause what happened was they'd come from, they'd be like, hey, better life. But they had like indentured servitude.

They were like, hey, you gotta work this off because we sent you over here. They came themselves and like, they were like offered a better life. And it wasn't a better life. Hey, it's not a better life and it wasn't a better life hey man come to america uh yeah yeah we're gonna kill you later but uh yeah so in the first the first like the first eight weeks of being here yeah so what they had it covered such a big thing that they came to the lazarado down in uh tenencom and they would they would do like doctors would be like hey they do

quarantine checks and all these people coming on the john the boat they came off from was the john stamp they were literally like hey um these people are all good to go so none of them had it when they got here they were trying to say that they came over here and they had it but you would have died before you got here wow before you even got to america you would have died and so they would have been ghost ships what's your next uh like big like what are you trying to do with this like just get it more notoriety or no we're just trying to like it's almost like this all right people think we're trying to like scam people or people think we're trying to get more money no it's like you got a bunch of people were buried in a trashy damn oh my god they just basically yeah they basically just capped them off threw them in a mass grave and said fuck off

and so you and so you've gotten seven of them seven we've recovered seven so far how do you go about finding their remains like is it kind of like a long cert like what does this look like going and finding them so a lot of it was like uh gpr i don't know if you guys are familiar with that uh ground penetrating radar okay so like you would go you would run a little it almost looks like a lawnmower yeah it's like a little lawnmower looking thing and it bounces the it bounces the sound off to where you can you can um uh see images in the ground and you see like pockets of like air or pockets of anything. Yeah.

And you're like, oh, there could be something there. It could be. And we have like guys who like are like professionals. Right. It's not just like, oh, me and Kyle are going to go out in the woods. I didn't think you guys were just out there with a shovel. I think he's down here. Yeah.

I think he was a dick earlier. But anyway. What the fuck? He introduced himself 15 minutes into the podcast and he goes, what's the hard part? What's hard feelings? It's like we get a lot of

shit because they think we're not being professional. They think we're not trained. They think we're not doing what we can. And we get a lot of people who think that they weren't murdered because there's a lot of ancestors in the area. So they think reparations or they think their name's going to get slandered. If they come out, they come out with anything.

So even the people who are relatives of the people are kind of against this? Yeah, they're kind of against it because they don't, like, I get it. You don't want your name slandered, but it's also like we're just trying... We're not trying to gain some fame out of this. There was a couple of documentaries that came out. There were a couple of books that came out. Not many people know about.

When I talk to people, they're like, ah, you're bullshitting me. Nah, it's the biggest mass murder... In Pennsylvania? I think in I think in when it comes yeah I could be Pennsylvania yeah gotta be it's gotta be up there like yeah the same group of people cat all crazy yeah they literally they literally thought they were gonna spread it to other people and they just and

when you say they is it like local government like it's just a local town local town there's it's i don't want to i don't want to say the wrong name because i always say the wrong name when it comes to the horse company there's a horse company out in that area um if you go off uh i don't know how familiar you guys are with like not at all that not all like off of 30 or off of um uh called king road okay down like maverick area there's a lot of there was a lot of prominent figures in that area who kind of participate in this this shit because they thought it was that nativism like they were like oh immigrants come see your jobs like that bullshit got oh yeah

so like back back then and they were just murdys like they they're like oh you guys are sick and they were just literally cat people off they like, oh, you guys are sick. And they would just literally cap people off. They killed a woman. They killed a baby. Crazy. Yeah, like crazy shit. But we uncovered all this. And you just want to bring honor to their families and their name.

Yeah, honor to the name. Like we have, if you go up to the cemetery, Lower Hill Cemetery and like Fowler-Kinwood area, they were usually all the rich, famous people are buried. Yeah, hairy cows. There's a huge cross. There's a huge cross. It costs like 15K of all the names, where they're from, what counties they're from.

And no one really knows about it. I've been working on it since 2010. My first work in 2002 yeah um we still got another 57 we still got another 50 bodies yeah cover and it's at the railroad is helping us now and nice oh so yeah it's just it we not we might not be able to uncover everybody because it's too close to the track so like got it from where the bodies are probably where that bush is so the bushes would be the tracks down there and the bodies would be like where we're at right now how these bodies like held up like i mean we're almost talking like almost 200 years fragments fragments because that it washed out a little bit too uh so like when you are collecting

dirt you would you would just you use a sifter yeah and try to find everything you would identify bones bones kind of it's it's bad because they kind of look like sticks yeah but they're not it's just the way they feel and like the way they're touching their own lives like a lot of us went in for training so like this is where we get this credit like no we did training with with one of the biggest we did training with pen. Penn held our sup. There's a there's a There's a museum at Immaculate University We got a beer that came out to try it. So Locust Lane brewery in Malvern made us a beer. I can show you the picture They made us a beer. It's an Irish red ale. Okay

They made us a beer that they were like hey you don't shotgun this oh do you want shotgun one of these no i'm saying you don't shotgun the red ale you drink that slow out of respect when you go when i say you drink out of a beer you drink out of a shoe and you go you go oh shooey no shoot the boot bro no shooey and shoot the boot it's a shooey shooey's australian as hell shooey no it's shoot the boot you're wearing a a sneaker. It doesn't... I'm wearing a sneaker now, but when you actually do it on the rugby field, it's a cleat. You call it a cleat?

Yeah. You call it a boot? It's a boot. Shoot the boot. What are you, a fucking EPL fan? Shoot the Timberland, dude. Shoot the Timberland. I don't know.

We were going to bust balls this whole thing? I want to hear about my ancestors getting capped at the Amtrak. This is fucked up, dude. I want to beat somebody's ass. What was the Italians? Was it the Italians who did it? Nah, nah.

Protestants. Oh, there's fucking Protestants. There's goddamn Protestants. Don't believe in anything. But, yeah, like, they're basically just trying to get the name out there. They're basically, like, we're trying to get these people a proper burial, and people give us shit all the time. And I go, what if your relatives put it in, like, a trash can?

Yeah. You're like, what the fuck? Of course. People just, like, donate and shit and that's people yeah you can donate uh he's getting funny we have we have merch that we sell too damn um they have uh a couple documentaries uh blackthorn did uh blackthorn did uh a couple songs for us uh it's an irish band from around here uh dropkick murphy's did a song about it okay yeah no shit wow so like and um who's the other band like a couple prominent bands like actually did like you guys are doing a kill me that's a fucking pretty good job like

raising awareness and letting people know what would happen it's it's it's hard because like it dies out too like people are like ah there's nothing new coming out of this type of deal and we we're up in uh downing uh downingtown uh we call it northwood project and there's a whole nother site up there where they did the same exact thing like one of the guys escaped and they're like oh you got collar and just capped them off so like the shit's messed up oh Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's terrible. Do you guys have a website or anything where people can kind of go donate or just put something towards us?

I don't know if it's.org or .com, but it's Duffy's Cut Project. Just search for it with everybody. Look at this idiot freaking trying to explain a few beers deep. You're not the spokesman, right? I'm getting fired tomorrow. It's cool.

Don't worry about it. I had no idea about this. This is pretty... It's an infuriating thing to hear. It's crazy. It's literally 23 minutes away. But, like, that and then just spreading awareness about that. Try to get that out. I didn't mean to waste your guys' time.

No, this was very interesting. Anything we can learn on this pod, that's all we're about. Yeah, like you definitely want to come out, play some rugby. No way, dude. I'm going to stay at home and fucking with my legs crossed and have a glass of wine. That's what I do. That's me. I don't know what to say to that.

Do you know what to say? I don't know what to say. I'm right there next to him with a glass of wine, but I got fuzzy slippers on. Fuzzy, fuzzy slippers. Oh man, I want to make fun of you guys so bad. Do something, dude. Let's hear it. You want to talk shit there? No, I don't want to get fired, man. You want to make fun of you guys so do something i'm probably getting fired tomorrow i think you made it he's a really good boy 50 more mixed he's got he's got to dig up our boys my grandpa's in there go get him dude yeah but they had they had a lot of good people and i still got family over there so like uh i got family from the north

so i got family in toronto and like uh they're probably gonna be like oh dude this dumb shit but um i think you're selling yourself short i thought that was like a really nice explanation of it i had no idea about this yeah there's a couple books about it i'm gonna go home and research this yeah a lot of people don't a lot of people don't know too much about it a lot of it was funding because we don't have too much funding. We had people donate resources. Like a guy came out and he, Mike Burns came out and donated his time with an actual, what are they called? Not a bulldozer, but like the one with the crane. Excavator.

Excavator. There we go. Who's Delco? Yeah, true. Who's more blue collar? He brought out anvator. Excavator. There we go. Who's Delco? Yeah, true. Who's more blue-collar? He brought out an excavator. And usually, if you rent them, they're like, you're paying close to 10 grand for like a week or something like that. And he waived it for you?

Yeah, he helped us out. He came out. All we did was pay for the gas. He came out. He had the machine. And we're doing that. And then the other guy we had was Jimmy Phillips. He came out he had the machine and we're we're doing that and then uh the other guy we had was jimmy phillips he came out with another machine uh it's clifton boy yeah he was like

yeah we're gonna find we're gonna find some stuff but like a lot of it a lot of it is donations and we're too close to the tracks like it we gotta have an engineering plan we had a guy uh joe Joe DuBois out in Lancaster who owned Telus 360 out there. And he helped us out too. And a lot of people do. A lot of people come in. Like, I can sit here and rifle off names, but I'm not going to do that. Like, I just don't want to upset anyone. Like, yo,

this gained a little bit of traction. And you see this idiot had a couple beers and he's talking on his podcast. Where do you think they buried Hoffa? Hoffa? Hoffa oh dude I got a story for you on that one a guy worked with uh was in a pen with uh his son and they were saying I don't know how true this is but I'm probably Irish. I don't care. I'm not Italian. They were saying under the old Giant Stadium. The Meadowlands?

Yeah, they were saying there is where he's at. Wow. That's it. What's wrong with it? What's wrong with that? Under the old Giant Stadium. Old Giant Stadium. That's where he's at. All right.

Yeah. And we'll leave it at that. Thank you, man, for coming on. This was great. I appreciate you guys. I'll see you Tuesday. You're not coming Tuesday. I'm not coming Tuesday. That's where he's at. All right. Yeah. All right. And we'll leave it at that. Thank you, man, for coming on. This was great. I appreciate you guys. I'll see you Tuesday. You're not coming Tuesday. I'm not coming Tuesday. You're such a little bitch.

I am a huge pussy. I'm a huge pussy. Yeah, but they would love it. If you came out, they'd be like, no fucking way. That's why I was bullshitting with you. And they'd tackle me one time, and I would be like, I'm out of here. We don't do live practice. We do it occasionally.

We don't do it all the time. But, yeah, I play for Schuylkill River Axles. We actually make championships every year. No, we do. I believe you. It's just funny how you said we make championships. Yeah, we do. And how many do you win?

We lost to Dallas two years ago. How many of you won? Before I got on the team, I have no idea. Okay. But we usually go to sevens. We do sevens. Sevens is a big thing. I know you guys are coming.

I don't like sevens. I like 15s. You like 15s? Yeah. Come on out. All right. They would love your tall fucking ass out there. Paul, his brother?

What the hell, dude? Boy's tossing me around. What's going on out there? Yeah, they'd be like, I don't know. You look like you'd be a good jumper. They'd lift you up. Yeah, and then after all that, you'll start playing rugby. Oh, yeah, it's 15 feet in the air, and you're good.

But no, boys, thanks for having me. Thank you again, man. Thanks for bullshitting me, too. No, that was great. Thanks for letting us know that. That was very interesting. I'm going to research that. Yeah, research that shit out of that, and then hit me up if you want.

Yeah. Thanks, bro. Thank you, dude. Appreciate it again, man. Thank you so much. Hoffa at the Giants Stadium, dude. Yeah, I like that. The Maroon at the Meadowlands. There you go. Thank you, dude. Appreciate it again, man. Thank you so much. Hoff at the Giant Stadium, dude. Yeah, I like that. The Maroon at the Meadowlands.

There you go. There you go. Oh, my God. What a story. That's awesome. I had no idea. I had never heard about that before. No, me neither.

I hear that stuff, and it gets me darn riled up. Yeah, my people are underneath an Amtrak right now. Yeah. My people are getting on the Northeast Extension getting just run over. It's unbelievable. And just they had cholera was like a like a dysentery type

disease from my understanding you ain't talking to the guy who knows anything about cholera I want to say it was just like an unfiltered water type thing I mean I've been drinking

you live in Philadelphia you drink unfiltered water all the time water's great here that's why the bagels are so good but like dying of cholera

when like the Spanish flu was on. Crazy. Dysentery was big. Yeah. Like, you know, there wasn't any OSHA. So like just falling off a skyscraper. Die of fucking cholera.

And he brought it up. It was like 1930s. It's like, we need the fellas to go to war right now. Did you hear about Jimmy? He died of cholera. That fucking pussy. That's unbelievable, dude. It's like die of something sick.

They're like, we got to kill the guys with cholera. Have you heard what Germany's doing? You don't want to take care of these guys. These guys are... You just drank bad water. You want to keep this going? You want to come on? Come on down. Yes, sir. Come on this side. We got... Who are we here with? Delco Jesus. Delco Jesus.

Hey, guys. Dylan. Delco Jesus. What makes you Delco Jesus? Oh, man. It's technically... I always say it's a multi-part story. Okay. So yeah, there's chapters to this. When I was 14, I was walking across Westchester Pike and Upper Darby. I was working at St. Lawrence Rectory at the time, closed up at nine o'clock, walking home, crossing the street. I got hit by a 15 seater church van. Oh, coming home from like a picnic, like a church picnic.

And threw me, cracked my skull, ended up in chop at 14. And I came out. It was Friday when I got hit. Came out Sunday. It was good Friday when I got hit. Came out Easter Sunday. So you rose again. So I rose again out of the hospital.

And then when I was like, I don't know, like 22, 23, I was drinking at this bar called, at the time it was called Cantina Diablos. Um, I think it's called McSorley's now in Ardmore, Delco side of Ardmore. Um, we were drinking there and, uh, Philly Jesus got arrested in the Apple store. And I had real long hair at the time. And I said, well, F it. If this dude's Philly Jesus, then I'm Delco Jesus. Yeah. And I've just carried the story since then. How about that? Well, it makes sense because I'm sure your parents are named Mare and Joe.

So I think it kind of adds up. Close enough. Close enough. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so I've been doing the Delco Jesus thing now for probably about like 10 years close to. Wow.

Yeah. So what's that entail? Like what are the Delco Jesus obligations? So right now all i do is i mostly just make memes okay um i try to upset wawa with very delco wawa memes but i love wawa i always say i love wawa like delco girls love their baby daddy like i talk trash all day on facebook but when it's 4 a.m you can can find me there. Yeah. So there's that. I used to do, I do food reviews.

So I go around Delco. I try places, hoagies, pizzas, cheesesteaks. Anytime anyone's got like something different, Wolf Superior Pizza, which is a big one that I go to, I actually used to work at. They have a sandwich there called the Delco Jesus, which is a cheesesteak with long hots, pepper jack cheese, and bacon it's delicious but yeah i do that i used to do a podcast called delco live we did the most delco town bracket which was huge back in geez what was that 2018 who won uh ridley ridley won year one right now right well we're in, right? Well, we're in Ridley Park. Oh. There is a difference. Ridley

is a township. Ridley Park is a borough. Got it. It's in the school district. Got it. But it's technically its own thing. Got it. I like that. Delco is very strange with its borders. Sure. Yeah. I mean, the accents are insane. The accents are wild, yeah. I mean, that's what you guys are probably most known for, right?

The accents. The accents, yeah. I think Philadelphia is starting to get, actually, because i see these in like the comments sometimes on social media where they're like so we're just gonna make the philly accent be the delco accent i see it all the time people are like really mad that like it's not the philly accent anymore oh wow it's becoming more uh synonymous with delco yeah i guess so but that's gotta be i mean you guys i feel like that we did i mean we, we had mayor of Easttown, which I think a dude I used to do a podcast with, this dude Holbrook, he had a great point on that where the one thing that really made it feel like Delco is a lot of people would say Crick in it, but you have the occasional

people that say Creek. Because that's the big border here is the accent's not 100%. There's people that like deny wanting to do the accent. And the one thing that's the big difference is that's the Darby Creek, but then it's the Ridley Creek. That was a big thing that you saw on the show. It is interesting that you are the Delco Jesus, but you have, like, no accent. So I have, like, some. You have, like, a thespian accent.

You have, like, an actor who's been trained on the accent. Oh, yeah, yeah. I've been doing podcasts for years. So I think I got my first podcast was RDR back like 2015. Sure. So I've been on radio, doing podcasts and everything. So I've learned to speak a certain way. But at my job, it gets called out all the time how talk I sound.

Okay. Yeah. And what do you do for a living? So I actually run a Tires Plus in Westchester. It's a block of, you guys seen Tires, the show? Yeah, it's this shop up the street from where they film. Oh, so you like see the guys all walking around and stuff? So I saw them film and I never like hung out with them,

talked to them, anything like that. But I saw there's the episode where they have the bikini car wash, where they had to put all the girls into the container. I remember when they showed up with the container, I was like, why do they have that back there? Because that's like our competitor. So anytime I see anything, I'm like, what are you guys doing?

What's going on? What am I missing here? And I saw that show up, and then I saw that episode, and I was dying. I was like, they just put all those girls in that container. Was there any, like, when they said they were going to start filming, did they let you know, like, we'll be in this area

for a little while or anything? No, they were so quiet about it. No one knew. And the way they shoot it, it's in a shop. It's while or anything? No, they were so quiet about it. No one knew. And the way they shoot it, it's in a shop next, it's a closed shop technically that's like connected to a shop that's running. So the area they go into, very quiet.

The closest thing that like you'll see is they'll shoot outside sometimes. Tommy Poe shops in one episode and they're like the Italians or something like that. And like they're outside for that. that majority of the show it's inside so no one even knew they were shooting wow yeah you never tried to jump on you were like did you try to be an extra at any point try to hop in there i'm hoping yeah i had um mckeever and pope when they were doing a pilot for uh it was called delco proper del Proper. They were on our podcast.

Nice. So we interviewed them. So I remember like shooting them a message being like, oh, if you're doing anything and no answer. So I don't think

you're seeing Delco Jesus in anything. I'm going to keep trying. They're playing hard to get. They're playing the long game. Yeah, they're hoping. Yeah. That's got to be.

So you're your manager of the tire space? Yeah. Oh, man, dude. Those guys are insane. It's a weird job. The grease monkeys are wild so that's the thing is like technicians are the strangest job i've ever met because like it's the only job where you could straight up just quit and then walk into another shop and they'll hire you right away oh really there's like because there's such a need

for there's no resumes in the mechanics world there is but we're not really checking too hard i mean my job does, unfortunately, so it gets a lot of people not hired, but like, I have people on the street, especially if it's a mom and pop shop, you just show up,

they're like, all right, like fill out this I-9 and get your box here by Monday and we'll be ready to rock and roll. But those guys know they have power,

so if they don't want to do something, they're going to find a way not to do it. Really? Oh, it's crazy. I mean, it's such an egotistical job.

There's some that are great dudes, but I've dealt with so many techs that are just... Why are they so egotistical? Because they know that I can't do the job. They know that if I'm like, you got to go. If they want to like, you know, oh, I don't want to do this. Why wouldn't they hire a manager who is another mechanic?

So that's the thing. A lot of us don't. Yeah, when you get into... You're like a software manager that lot of us don't. Got it. Yeah. When you get into, I mean, there's some. You're like a software manager that doesn't know how to code, basically. Yeah. That's crazy. I know how to train people. I know how to, like, coach people. I've been in management since I was, like, 18.

So, like, literally, I graduated high school and I worked for this company called DNM. So I managed the basement of a wholesale company. I had, like, two people under me. But my whole life, that's all I ever did is manage people. And every job I ever did, I worked at Wagmans, I worked at Target. I could do those jobs, but I'm not just going to learn how to start putting spark plugs in a car and stuff like that. So I was like, all right, so you have to like learn how to find like good techs. Got it. But what's the upselling like, do I always need the new

rotator? So the rotors, the rotors the rotors so i will say it really depends um that sounds about right and here's the big thing is the way i always i always let people know i always let people know because i never want to be the guy especially because i have a social media presence the last thing i need is people like starting problems and be like this dude's a cheap so i just be as honest as possible if your pads have good thickness and the rotors are good and you're good on your your brakes you're not hitting your brakes hard you usually can just do pads okay but if you wear them down to like a two like two millimeters on your pads it's always good and it's not that it's a safety concern as much as you're going to get some pulsation.

You're going to get a lot of noise because the rotors are now warped and usually have some grooving on it. So if you put flat pads on them, what's going to happen is it's going to make noise and then you're going to complain. And we just don't want you to come back and complain a lot of times. When it comes to state inspections, I'm very honest about that on what actually fails and what doesn't, because I was someone that was like straight up homeless at one point living out of a car that I would have to take. And when he was like, yo, you need like two grand worth of work. I was like, I need my house back. Yeah.

I guess we're getting it done. Wow. Oh my God. So what was that like? Let me just talk about that briefly. What was that like living out of the car? Like how did you make do? Yeah.

I mean, it was one of those things where I got kids, so I have them on the weekends so i'd go to like my mom's house but during the week there was too many of us i come from a big irish catholic family there's eight of us um so like i couldn't just be there all the time so i did a podcast that was across the street sometimes i would just crash there i had a band where we had a uh 24 hour rehearsal studio in upper derby sometimes i would just crash there, and then a lot of times I would just chill in my car. And that was good, like two years. Yeah, that'd be like you during the week,

you'd just find different places to crash at, and then on the weekends, kids go to Mom's house. Wow. Pretty much, yeah. Did anybody have any idea that that was what was going on during that? Not really, no. How do you hide something like that? You don't talk about it.

Really? If you don't talk about it, no one knows. Nobody asks? Yeah, that's the most guy thing. Just like, hey, this is what I got to do. I knew i knew it wasn't forever i was like i'll work my way out of this but you do a podcast you wait for your podcast partner you would be the band you'd wait for your band to leave and be like yeah i'd go out and then sometimes i just go back and pass out there and that was life wow but it was kind of like it was weird because i got great stories

from it so what's what's like a tip you could tell people that like might be living out of their car like that you wouldn't understand people who just don't give up just never give up like that's the crazy thing is like you if you give up then that's it but if you decide to be like i'm just gonna keep going like no matter how shitty it gets no matter how much you're like i can't do this just you can how to turn around what did you get a job or something like that or like um so i was working at the time um i worked at target like late 2019 and i just couldn't stand it i quit i started working at this place called wolf's delivering pizza and from there it was great like two months i made more delivering pizza than i did as a manager at target like just great money december it fell off and i had to get a real job and And I did that for a few months.

I ended up meeting my now wife, and, like, literally, she's what turned my life around. That's awesome. Just like she was, like, you know, just great chick, awesome, and just helped me out. She was, like, you know, I pretty much moved in with her. And ever since then, like, everything, I got a job at this tire place and started out just customer service four years ago. And about a year ago, I took over a store. Now, obviously, there's always negative connotations when people are talking about, like, you living out of your car and stuff. Was there anything sick about living out of your car?

Oh, I just, I mean, it does suck. Yeah. Like, you know, you're not living in a place where you can, like, shower. Luckily, we got wawas. So, like, you got to go to the bathroom. You just had to do a wawa, shit like that. But anything he's saying anything was there any like obviously again like you said a lot of bad stuff anything kind of like this kind of rules is there any good oh any good out of it yeah yeah i mean i didn't have a mortgage i didn't have to pay pico ever like i didn't have any bills

i was trying to figure out all i had to do is pay for my car pay for the insurance and like i did literally do whatever I wanted. Like if I wanted to go somewhere, it was more likely I would do something than someone that can just stay at home. So like I'd hang out at Dolan's a lot. Um, I got the tattoo because of it. Um, it's gotta be, I mean, you kind of had like a bit ready to go as Delco Jesus to be like, Oh, I'm living in my car. I can't stay in a hotel. There's no room in the inn. It's very authentic. Yeah. What car was it? It was a 2017 Kia Forte. Okay. And the reason I had that, the funny thing is I had a 2010 Sonata.

Yeah. And I blew the transmission at like 100,000 miles, like right outside of warranty. Yeah. I had no money. Fuck. Couldn't get this car fixed. I showed up to Kia in Westchester and just bought a car. No cash down. Just took whatever payment they gave key in westchester and just bought a car no cash down

just took whatever payment they gave me and was like i need a car i ripped out the transmission on that doing uber one night at 777 miles i was up on 202 making the right on to not mall boulevard the one afterward and i fell asleep i was up uber and all night fell asleep went over a medium hit like the triangle part of it ripped out the transmission the whole undercarriage and I fell asleep. I was up Ubering all night. Fell asleep, went over a medium, hit the triangle part of it, ripped out the transmission, the whole undercarriage. Luckily, the warranty of that car took care of everything. It was like $7,000 worth of damage.

Brand new car. And then I was in that for a couple years and then I got it repoed in February of 2020. They repoed your house? They repoed it, but here's the best part. When you get a repo, right? Repo ruins your credit. I got mine repoed your house. They repoed it, but here's the best part. When you get a repo, right? Repo ruins your credit. I got mine repoed by Ally, and Ally got hit with some major lawsuit because

they were taking cars before 90 days. And they can't take a car before 90 days, so anyone's repo got written off. So they took it, but like... Credit score's back? Credit score's perfect. That's got to work, baby. Yeah. So it ended up working out. But like Credit scores back? Credit scores perfect That's got to work baby Yeah So cool Yeah

So It ended up working out Holy hell man Damn How do you sleep in a Kia Forte? Because you're what like I'm like 5'8 So I guess

In the back Yeah just in the back seat Just crunched up Yeah Nice It is what it is It's crazy Yeah

I got to throw it It wasn't too bad I'm here now Now I'm here Yeah Probably wish you could Well I guess it's good that you weren't able to be a mechanic because you would have just fixed your transmission. I would have fixed mine, yeah.

And I wouldn't be here today. I wouldn't be here today. Full circle. Holy shit. That's crazy, man. Well, hey, take care of the grease monkeys down there. I will. The ones I got are good.

Give them some crazy. Yeah, okay, good. I got one from Afghanistan. Nice. He worked okay, good. All right. I got one from Afghanistan. Nice. Yo, he worked in the military. They had to pull him out when everything fell. He's one of the ones they got out of there. So he's in the process of getting his family out of there still.

Holy shit. Yeah, so we're trying to figure it. That's literally a quarter of my day is him bringing me emails from the government being like, translate this. Oh, my God. That's crazy. Yeah, and he's the man. I love that, too.

Are there hard workers oh my god yeah yeah also i thought afghanistan this whole time i was always like what is it like hot over there it's cold as shit constantly what yeah they're in the mountains had no idea oh yeah i was thinking the whole time every image of my of my head was like yeah desert it's got a sock hot as shit he's like no it's like 62 degrees right now. And that's a hot day. So Afghanistan is mostly like a mountainous higher elevation. Yeah, they're part of that

mountainous region. It's kind of like Khabib. You know? Yeah, same thing. The more you know. Yeah, I had no idea. Damn. I thought the entire time definitely desert. No deserts at all. He's got to have some stories. Oh, he's got great stories, but he just doesn't speak any English.

So it's all through translation apps. It's great. You can draw some pictures of them. Yeah. Damn, that's crazy. Yeah. Well, thanks for coming on, Doug. Yeah, dude.

It's crazy, man. We appreciate it. It was a great time. Yeah, man. Thanks for hanging out. All right, that's the podcast. We appreciate everybody from Dolan's Bar coming on and talking to us. Thank you to Dolan's.

Thank you to NASCRAB. Thank you to the guys. I'm going to go check on Donovan McCrab. You got any dates or anything? Yes. So this comes out on Wednesday the 29th. I'll be at Big Little Comedy Show. That is at Karant.

It used to be Karant Brewing in Fishtown. Somewhere around there. It's a different place now. Ego Genius? Maybe so. Something around there. Somewhere in Fishtown. Check around there. It's a different place now. Ego Genius? Maybe so. Something around there. Somewhere in Fishtown. Check my Instagram.

I got the dates on there. September 7th, we'll be at a coffee shop in Philadelphia. I don't know the name, but again, check the dates. I post them all the time. What's that like? Bad. Bad. Not good.

What time is that at? 8.30. Oh, so the coffee shop will be closed. Yeah, it's BYOB. You're not telling jokes around someone's macchiato. They're doing their own work call. They're like,

this dude's talking about he's making fun of abortion over here. I'm trying to do my work call. Well, if I did a joke about abortion in Philadelphia, I'd just get snaps back. They'd be like,

mm-hmm. Kill that John. Anyway, okay. Kill that John. My God. They're doing comedy shows in coffee shops now? Yeah, man. Things are not doing great. So guys, please get on the Patreon for the love of God. They're doing comedy shows in coffee shops now? Yeah, man.

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