Be A Voice 11.16.23

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to be a voice. Thisis Brick carbon Or on USULA Media.
Thanks for joining me today. It'snot often that I get to sit and
enjoy a conversation with somebody sort ofoff the beaten path of what we do
here at be a voice. Butwhat we do here is we talk about
being a voice and being a voicefor what your passion is. And you
know, part of being a partof Philadelphia is having a passion for Philadelphia.

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Being a part of Philadelphia is havinga passion for Philadelphia sports. And
if any of you are a Philadelphiasports fan, and if you're not,
shame on you, but any ofyou, who are you know the guest
that I'm going to be having ontoday as the Philly Sports Guy. I
am sitting here today with the PhillySports Guy also known as Jamie. Hey,
Jamie, how you doing? Thankyou for having me? I'm doing
wonderful. I'm so glad you're heretoday. And not just that I'm not

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just blessed by having you here today. I have your son here today too.
We have James. Hey, James, you got me here, I
got you my guy, Philly sportskid. Yeah, Philly sports kid.
Is that what you go by Doyou have a Do you have an Instagram
accouncil? Oh, I don't know. I don't have anything. He's at
fourteen years old. Okay, Iam you know, tempering that? Okay,
all right, he doesn't he doesn'tneed to get that. I don't.

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You know. I have a lotof fans. I also have a
lot of detractors. I don't wanthim to get involved in that. That's
good parenting right there, That's reallygood. But the best part about it
is he's sitting here with you today. You're both like the hype of Philly
right now with anything right now withyou know, coming off of what we
did with the Phillies recently, theway the Phillies just you know, they

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really did a great job. Regardlessof what anybody says, come on,
look how far they got. Youknow, that's what can we say.
You know, we've been going,but you really were the hype of Philly
during this. You really got thefans going, You got the people going,
tell me, hallm why man?So? I tell you it's it's

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been evolving over time. I've beengetting painted up for Eagles games for years
and I got recognized one game.They put me on TV. I showed
up at the Eagles Saints game whenthey were in the playoffs. Alshon Jeffrey
missed the ball, so but Iwas there three hours early and John Clark

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made a video of me, andthat video went viral and after the game
people are coming up to me.Fans of the Saints are coming up to
me. They're like, man,you went viral, And I'm like,
what does that mean? Like,I have no idea what that means.
I had a production company reach outto me and they wanted me to do
a commercial for a charity. SoI went to go do the commercial and

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I'm there doing my thing and they'relike, your energy is amazing. You're
like the Philly sports guy. Youshould see if that name is available,
and it was, and they said, we'll teach you how to do social
media if you want to learn.And I was like, okay, you
know, I'll start to do this. It's not gonna hurt my mother,

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who was on her deathbed at thetime. She had COPD and emphysima for
years of smoking. Yeah, don'tstart smoking. If you haven't started,
quit if you can, please.Yes. I try to get my mother
stop all the time. She doesn'tit's so Annice, I get it.
I was. I'm a former smoker, and I get it. I worry,
so was I I worry sometimes andI get it. Thirteen years thirteen

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years quit. Now good for you. I finally, I finally have gotten
pissed the point where I have smokedfor less than half of my life.
Oh that's pretty good. Then.Yeah, i started at like twelve years
old, and now I've been quitfor thirteen years. So for you,
like, I've smoked for twenty fiveand have been alive for fifty one,
so that's amazing. And your mother, how long did your mother pass?

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Three years ago? Three years?Yeah, so twenty nineteen, just after
twenty nineteen, okay, And shehad told me, she's like I was
told her, I'm like, yeah, I was thinking about becoming this Philly
sports guy. And she said tome, you know, I've had so
many jobs that I know. Itmade me upset. I was unhappy.

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We're only above the grass for solong. Do what you love. You
know, if it's going to makeyou happy and it's going to make you
money, you can't can't go liveout in the streets and do this,
then then go ahead and do it. Who am I to tell you now?
And then she turned to me andshe goes, you know, when
you were like ten years old,you asked me, how come people don't
get painted up for like Phillies gamesor Flyers games or six Ers games.

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How come it's only for the Eagles? I said, well, what did
you tell me? She goes,I don't know, go outside and play.
It's probably what she is, youknow. And I can hear her
saying that in my head, right, so, and it just and then
it I just started doing it andthen just started going to games. How
many years ago? Was this sixyears? Six years ago? Yeah?

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So you just went into the Eaglesgame. First game ever you painted up
for. It was an Eagles gamein two thousand and two thousand and one.
Do that? And no, evennow, no clue what social media
is was and it wasn't a specialmedia social back then. And things that
started evolving. And you like allPhilly sports, correct, you like them
all? And when Union came about, you're Union fan, totally fan.

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I do. I do all ofthem. I even do the minor ones.
As you see James is wearing thePhiladelphia Phoenix. That's ultimate frisbee.
That we have a professional cornhole teamthat I'm the hype guy for, so
the Philihilly has it, the Philadelphiabell Ringers bell Ringers. So if there's
a professional team out there that wantsto you know, that is a part

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of this community, I want tobe able to support them because I'm I'm
big on sports in general, youknow, and that's that's I like the
competition, I like being a partof it, and I want to represent
Philly UH with everything that they do. So when you're you know, the
day of a game, the dayof a game, get up, like,
is there mind frame you have?Is there like a certain thing in

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your mind that's going through your mindbecause you know, you got to get
yourself ready, you got to getin you know, are you in character
at all times? It seems thatway sometimes I will say that it used
to be a lot different when whenI was starting to do this, and
like the Mohawk came about. TheMohawk came about ten years ago, so

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I was still only doing it forthe Eagles. That yeah, it was
like my fortieth birthday walking around NewOrleans, UH at three o'clock in the
morning where we're around the Red FrenchQuarter and they're like, well, what
do you want to do now?And I'm like, why don't we go
see if there's a bar that's gotclippers and see, you know, see
if they'll shave my head. CoyoteUgly down in New Orleans. If you

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want to go get a haircut atthree o'clock in the morning, Coyote Ugly
has got clippers. So and literallythat's what came about. It was just
like I got the mohawk and wentto a game all painted up. The
guy, you know, like Ilooked at that point, it was this
look. It was playing around withdifferent looks that game is. They specifically
looked like a a green and whitetiger, just because I didn't know what

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else to do. The guy whosits in front of me, who was
a massive Saints fan is Anthony Mackie, better known as the Falcon Or.
He's now Captain America you know,or Papa Doc you know, for nine
Miles and such, and he monsterSaints fan. And he's sitting in front
of me, and we got contentfrom that day that still lives out there

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on YouTube and such. It's awesome. It was great. It was like
a lot of fun, And likeI said, it kind of grew from
there and just as I kept goingand kept doing more. And I want
to know when you're kyrie ugly?Was the mohawk that high or was it
shorter? So I kept my hairfairly short. Okay, you know I

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was a military guy, so Ikind of kept military haircuts. We shaved
it. It's not it's higher nowthan it normally is. Actually, I
just got a couple of inches cutoff. So this, this whole look
has evolved for you. This hasbeen an involved process for yourself. So
while your your look has evolved,you've evolved too correct. You know whoever
thought you know? These always jukearound and saying, what do you think
I can make looks that make moneyoff my looks? You can? Well?

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And it's it's not been simple.No, I have a nothing is
I I have have a much morea larger appreciation to starving artists. I
know exactly what that is. Ihad a business before I started this.
It was a chimney sweep and masonrycontracting company. It was hard to find
people that wanted to work, andif I did find good quality masons,

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I would lose them to larger companies, and it was just becoming a battle
to try to even stay afloat,you know, because you can't work at
your business if you're working on yourbusiness, you know, like it's the
other way around. I think youcan't work you're on and if you're working
at it, working at it.And I was. I was too busy
having to be the one that pickedup rocks and put them down rather than

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hey, this is what we do. And and so it the social media
aspect came at a very opportune time. I was at this point. I
was just like, Okay, it'stime to maybe move on and see if
I could do something with this.And right after the production company says okay,

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we're going to get you to startthis. They're like, you got
to go to the NFL drafts andI'm like, I don't. I don't
want to go to the NFL draft. What do I need to go there
for? And next thing you know, I'm at the NFL draft and I
own the draft, like I fromthe moment I got in there, it
was like I'm like a little kidin a candy store taking pictures with all

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the other super fans and such,and my energy just radiated to everybody,
and so the cameras immediately started tocome towards me because and so did everybody
else. And that's and it's justever since then, it's just taken off
like a rocket. And your energydoes read it like even city here,
like when you speak like there's energygoing on there, there's you know,

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you can see that passion, youknow in your face, you like,
you know some people are doing itbecause they're just doing it. You're doing
because there's a passion for it.And if you're doing something you're passionate about,
it shines even brighter, right,And people could gravitate towards that.
You can't do this job and thisis an absolute job. Everybody thinks that
I just get game, I goto games for free and all this other
stuff. Absolutely not. This isnot simple and you have to love this

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to do it. People say allthe time. It's like, hey,
I want your job, do youYou better love people because I don't get
to turn it off. You know, after the super Bowl, after a
Super Bowl loss, the first peoplethat are in my face is an Arizona
crew camera crew camera right in myface saying how do you feel about the

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super Bowl? It was a toughloss. You know, Kansas City's a
great team. I'm always going tobe gracious, you know, I'm never
going to blame you, oh,a player or a referee. That's not
not in me to do, youknow what I mean. I just congratulate
the other team, because if Icould play, what's it going to do.
It's not going to change the outcome. It's only going to make me

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look like a sore loser, rightAnd and you know what, there's enough
of those out there. There areenough people that are negative. I like
to remain positive. And that's kindof that's kind of the mantra that I
want to go off of. Idon't I don't hate on the other team.
I cheer my team to the nthdegree. And that's what it's all
about. I want the other teamand the other fans to love their team,

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because if we all love the sameteam, we ain't got nothing to
talk about, you know. It'sthat's I want to be able to have
the banter. I want to beable to keep it on the field.
It's never personal. You're not playingif you're another fan of another team,
you're not playing on that team.We don't get paid enough to care,
right, you know, they're actuallypaid to be here exactly so, and

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it's for you that's really cool tohear you say, because you know,
Philly sports fans have had the worstreputation from you know, the dawn of
sports. I believe, I reallydo, especially Eagles fans. I mean,
you know, they are the youknow, everything you want to say
about them, they're the nastiest,the dirty ist, or the meanest or

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the rudest or this or that theother thing. But for you then to
be that energy and then to youknow, not be that Philly guy,
but to be that Philly sports guy, you changed the perception of Philly too
then in a big way. It'sone of the things that I started off.
It was like I would always tellpeople, I'm like, I'm never
going to embarrass myself, my team, or my city ever. So I'm

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always going to be gracious in defeats. I'm always going to be loud and
passionate, but I'm not going toboo. I'm not going to I'll get
frustrated, you know, like Iwill yell at a reth, I'll yell
another player, you know what Imean. But I'm never going to talk
bad. I don't talk bad aboutthe family, and Philadelphia Sports is my

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family. So it's like, that'sjust you know, I kind of took
that right from the Godfather. Youdon't talk bad about the family, And
that's just the way that I've alwayskind of felt about this. So it's
been part of me. And I'vehad fans come up to me and tell
me straight out that they feel differentlyabout Philadelphia fans now after meeting me,

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that it's no longer everybody in Philadelphiais this way because I've changed their mind
about one person. And if there'sone person, there's got to be plenty
more, which is really cool becausehonestly, if I were a fan of
opposing team and I saw you andI heard you, I don't think that
guy's an asshole. Probably right inmy head by judging, you know,

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I'm thinking, like, you know, being another fan, But then to
know that you know you are actuallythen very empty and that you are actually,
hey, it was a good game. You know that to me,
right there speaks volumes well, andI love I love when other fans give
it to me, when they're givingme the business I've won, because now

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I'm taking the attention. I'm takingtheir attention away from the game, so
that makes it, you know,different. They're not cheering for them,
they're cheering against me, which iseven better. But when I tell and
I introduced myself, I'm like,you get me today. You know,
these are my rules. I don'tcurse, I don't sit down. I
don't shut up, which means thatyou're gonna have to hear me all day.

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If you're gonna curse at me,that's fine. I'm gonna let you
you know, and it doesn't good. It's not gonna phaze me a little
bit. You're not going to seeme get angry or irate or upset,
and that means you're not gonna getrid of me either. Because I'm also
not drinking. So if I'm notdrinking and I'm not cursing and all I'm
doing is cheering, you're stuck withme all game long. And you know

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what, the energy brings their energylevel up and it gets them more excited
about the game. I've had peoplehate the fact that I was at the
game next to them because I youknow, all game long, if I'm
not yelling and screaming, I'm clappingand I got some big mits. I
can make a loud clap, youknow, and they're stuck hearing me all
game long, and then afterwards they'retaking pictures with me. Of course,

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of course they're probably really pissed offup front, like I got to sit
next to this the whole game,but throughout it probably made their game that
much better. Regardless of the outcome. For whatever team they're a fan of,
it makes it better because they havesomebody there that was a part of
that. I mean, the sectionsyou at games, you become close as
you can with somebody sitting within likea few seats and rows that you're at,

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you form a bond with them.Whether it is a fan from a
bosing team or not, there's abond that's formed there, and you know
you want to have that because youwant that energy. So can you imagine
man hoving you sit there? That'scrazy. Yeah, I'd be thrilled.
I'd be stoked for that. Andthat's exactly what it is. It you
don't know how to take it untilyou actually see it, and then you
feel the energy and then you becomepart of it, you know. So

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if you're a posing fan that Saintsgame that I was telling you about that.
I got recognized in the entire game. I was there three hours early.
I never sat down, not onetime. The girl who was sitting
next to me was absolutely not happy. She was like a sixteen year old
girl, was really unhappy. Theentire her family, you know, wasn't

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happy initially, but learned to loveme at the end. She learned to
love me because it was you know, it's like, it's how can you
not at the end of that again, when I'm not cursing and I'm just
like, hey, you guys won. It was a good game, and
everybody's taking pictures, you know,And then when I'm not clapping, when
like there's a break and there allof a sudden, the whole section starts

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clapping at me, you know.Or I'm in Minnesota. The year after
we won the Super Bowl, whichthey were not happy, they put me
on the news to show me.They show that Philadelphia fans aren't like the
one guy who threw a beer,you know that, Hey, listen,
we can have fun with each other. We can have a good time.
I sat in the front row inthe corner, and I had four sections

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singing to me, no, no, no, no, Hey, Hey,
hey, goodbye, because we gotspanked that game, and they're all
singing to me because I'm doing mything the entire game, and they appreciated
it. You know. They theylove the fandom, they love the passion.
They don't like they don't like beingrebuted with their passion, you know,

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like they put something on Rocky.You don't touch Rocky here, Like
that's that's sacred grounds because you know, so if you do that, you're
going to get some I tell peopleyou got to wear your thick skin,
you know, like when you comeinto Philadelphia for an Eagles game, not
necessarily baseball, hockey, basketball muchdifferent, but when you come in for

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a football game, I tell people, here are two rules you gotta follow.
I says, you better wear yourthick skin. And if you don't
engage in asshole, you don't haveto become one's. And that's that,
you know, Like those are wordsthat live by too for people coming here
for games, for Eagles games,especially right because there are there I mean,
let's face it, I mean,I'm I love Philly, I love

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Philly sports, but there are someasshole fans. But there are some asshole
fans in every team for every team, you know, so you had to
take it. So with that beingsaid, what is there one of particular
sports that you like dressing up forthe most or painting your face for the
most or no, no, Idon't. I don't really look at it
that way. Okay, I willsay that if I was to take a

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poll of all of the looks,the Union look is the one that people
like best, you know, ofall the things. It has a little
bit of a brave heart look toit and such. But like when it
comes to when it comes to pickingsports over one another, it's like choosing
your favorite kid, you know,like like, oh, I got I

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got five kids, and I youknow, I got to pick one of
those to be my favorite. Ionly have two kids, by i'd say
you have two one of them sittinghere with us. James, all right,
James, how about you? Imean this, first of all,
my dad, when when he wasalive, he he he was a fun
guy. He a lot of fun. But when I was younger, I
got very embarrassed by my father.Easily I did like but all the other

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kids loved him. They all thoughthe was cool, you know, the
coolest guy. But he was mydad, So how did this how did
you take this when you first startedseeing this in this when I when I
heard about this, I didn't hearabout it from him. I heard about
it from one of my friends inschool. I heard about it. I
was like, who is this Phillysports guy? I look and it's my
dad, and I'm just like,wait what. He took me like three
minutes to register that it was withthen and I just went, Okay,

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then this this is either a embarrassingor be very funny and I'm going to
love this. Wait, so youhad no idea this was your dad's PERSONA
was the Philly sports guy. Heloved the Philly sports guy. I knew
he was loud during games, evenat home. I could I could shut
my door in the house blast music. I can still hear him clapping and

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cheering downstairs. So what the wayhe is at the games? And that
that persona who that's him all thetime? That's him at home. Yes,
if he goes to a game orif he watches a game, he's
loud. You hear that. Thisisn't just an act, this is real
life. This is the way thisman is always So that energy level in
the house. I mean, isis everybody else in the house like that?

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No, and my sister did notlike it at first. I've I've
learned to love it, my sister. Obviously you've learned to love it.
Look at you said here painted up? Yeah? Painted. I gottaut of
school for this. I gotta loveit. School this well the first time
that I I mean, I've beenfollowing for a while, I know.
But at the Wildcard Game two youwere there and you were also painted up

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for that game too, which wasso cool because people were stopping you wanting
pictures as well and stuff like that. So you've you've like taken onto this
too. Huh yeah, yeah,that's amazing. How do your friends think
about this? So they like,you got a cool dad? At first
when I told people out, theywere like, that's really cool. And
then it's slowly tapered off, andit's just like I became a lot of
friends with a lot more sports fans, and I learned more about sports from

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them. Very cool. So wereyou a big sports kid? No,
No, not at all. LikeI mean, I guess I played soccer
for a while, but that wasn'tthat big. So like to sit there
and watch it on TV and stufflike, that's not what you shared.
You were in your room listening tomusic. And that's cool. Now with
this has just become a bigger bondingexperience for you and your dad. You
know, it's funny. His mother, she says that I was the reason

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why they didn't become sports fans,because I would We were big Flyers fans.
I met him, his mother.There's a story behind behind her as
well. We met during Flyer season, okay, and I've always been a
big Flyers fan. And with Flyers, you could be sitting around doing nothing
and all of a sudden go fromzero to one hundred because they just scored
a goal. And I would dothat and I would scare the children.

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So and that's what she would saywas the reason why they didn't like sports,
you know, to start off,because I was just very loud and
very you know, it would scarethem, you know, two and three
year old kid. All of asudden, somebody screwed this big guy with
huge hands. So and his motheris a Cadaos Cowboys fan. Oh yeah,

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you can imagine how how that wentwhen they watched games. She Uh,
it's funny because obviously we met pairing. I will say we met in
February. We met in February duringFlyers games and we were we were watching
Flyers games. September came around andshe's like, you know, I'm a
boys fan. I'm like, whatyou know? And of course she's like,

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eight months pregnant, got me ticketsfor my birthday for Game five of
the two thousand and eight World Series. So eight months pregnant with him,
you know, and and they're withme at both halfs of the game of
the two thousand and five World Series. So it was like, it was
amazing, that's awesome, that's verycool. It is here it is.

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She's telling me she's a Dallas Cowboysfan. I'm like, listen, you
choose the religion. I'll choose thefootball team. Fast forward to, you
know, six years old. Jamescomes up to me and he's like,
and James, James is a mama'sboy. You know, James loves his
mother. He's definitely a mama's boy. I've grown out of that. I've
grown as you get older. Thatdoes happen, Yeah, right right,

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was going to be a MoMA's boy. I will tell you exactly. I
mean, I I loved my motherand I were very content, but I
was still a mama's boy, verymuch the same. I get and she's
still I am fortunate, and Iget but I get that, but I
totally, I totally get it.And he comes up to me at six
years old and says, Dad,I'm going to be a Dallas Cowboys fan.

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And I look at him and Iremember this. I remember this clear
as day. I'm like, that'sokay. You know, I'm gonna still
love you, but I'm letting allof your friends know. And she's She's
like, you can't do that,and I'm like, oh, yes we
can, Oh yes I can.He lives in Philadelphia. He better learn
right now what it's like to bea Dallas Cowboys fan in this city,

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you know. A few months laterhe comes he's like, Dad, I
just don't like football. I realizedthe mistake I had made and stopped there.
So fast forward to this time.Are you an Eagles fan? Now?
Yes you are? Are you outof all the sports? And she
weren't in sports? Soccer was sports? What's your favorite sport that you like

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to go with your dad watch?I'd say probably baseball games. It's not
really fun. So it's funny.I liken it too for all you people
that have kids out there. Themovie Rio, in the very beginning of
the movie, it got Blue,who is the parrot that's around and he's

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dancing with all the birds flying around, doing the thing in the very beginning,
and then he falls out of thetree, gets trapped, gets sent
over to Minnesota, and never doesanything. When he goes back to Rio,
they have a little rave scene andhe's dancing. He has no idea
what's going on, but he's justdancing and you're doing the samba and such.
And that's what it was like whenyou saw him at the Phillies game.

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It's the first time he had everbeen in a Phillies game with that
type of energy, and he's shruttinghis stuff, doing his thing, all
paid it up. It was excitingto watch. It was a lot of
fun for me because I don't thinkhe even knew but at three months old,
after being at that game, I'mdoing I would do Phillies, like

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let's go Phillies. And he couldn'ttalk or anything, but he made the
noise like it like he did it. One time I tried to get him
to do it again. Never happenedagain, But it was like I was
there for that, and I'm like, that's ingrained in him. He was
there at that World Series even thoughhe wasn't out yet, you know.

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So it's seeing him at that playoffgame with all the energy. People coming
up and taking pictures with both ofus was a lot of fun for me.
It was just a very cool circlethat that actually is a great bonding
experience. You know, there's nota lot of things that parents can do
together with their children that they reallyappreciate. Where the kids are okay,

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okay, then the parents are okaywith it. Parents will sacrifice for the
kids enjoyment, and the kids willsacrifice for parents. But to have that
the energy and I do remember actually, to be honest, I think I
remember a conversation as you were inthe crowd even saying this this first time
looking like this, or you weretelling somebody and he was just going to
you were going to town, man. You were just having a blast.

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You were just enjoying it. Sothe games you get, how many games
a year do you go to allof them? How do you pick and
choose? You know, you gota killer sixers game but you also got
a Flyers game going on your Flyersfan, Well, if they played in
the same arena, I just stayat a hotel close by and I changed
into both. That's it, youknow. This past weekend. This past

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weekend we had Saturday was a Sixersgame followed by a Flyers game, and
then Sunday was the Eagles game.In twenty eight hours, I was in
three different colors and your face painting, your face make a bond and off?
How long does it take you?Because not all paint jobs are the

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same, are they? Are youstandard? Now? Are you keeping it
consistent? Yeah? So the lookis similar. So I the mohawk,
the eyes, and this will alwaysremain the same color. And then this
is the opposite color of that.So obviously, if I'm wearing a blue
jabe, it's red. Red's thebase color and this is you know,
the blue is the alternate. It'slike your animals for the face painting,

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correct, that's cool. Like sowhen I do Flyers games, I look
like Nemo, you know. WhenI you know, when I think about
Phillies, when I do the thepowder blue Thursdays, I call that the
Papa Smurf look. Oh, geez, because it looks like I look like
a smurf. I have blue allover my face. I have a you
know, white stripe with a redstripe inside, red inside here, and

(28:30):
then a red mohawk, which makesme look like Papa Smurf because you wore
a red hat, so it was, you know. But I keep it.
I keep it looking the same becauseit makes it easier for people to
recognize me. People still come upand be like, are you the Philly
Sports Guy? And I'm like,yep, I am, you know.
And even the back of your jerseysays TS, tpsgsg PSG or Philly Sports

(28:55):
Guy, depending on who got methe jersey. That's awesome. You just
gonn have to say that Philly Sportskid. Yeah, put those that is
on there for you. So,and you're branding yourself. That's a brand.
I mean, you're a brand.You are definitely a brand. And
but you get to have fun atyour brand. You enjoy what you're doing.
You know this is work, butyou're having a blast at it.
You have to travel too, you'retraveling in Minnesota. What was one of

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your best what was your favorite Eaglesgame that you travel to as the Philly
sports guy. I mean realistically,probably the Super Bowl. Yeah, you
know that week was such an amazingweek and you know that and going to
Vegas for the first time as forthe Eagles. So you've had a chance

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to travel in many places. Outof all places you travel to, which
has been your favorite place you travelto? Well, I would have to
say, like going to the SuperBowl. I mean it was my very
first Super Bowl that I attended,was probably one of my favorite. I
went out there for a week.It was literally I got painted up five
days of that week, you know, just going around and taking pictures,

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and you know, it's not justa celebration of the two teams that are
there. A lot of the NFLshows up for that, so it's it
makes it really fun in a lotof ways. Going to the Pro Bowl
was also a lot of fun becauseyou have different fan bases come around.
I like going to the drafts,Yeah, I bet you. The hype

(30:22):
of the draft is probably crazy.I would probably like that would probably make
me like, I don't know,I'd probably get anxiety there. So it's
it's funny. I now, I'dlet the Eagles know that I'm going and
they let me in before. Iused to sneak in. Now imagine me
being painted up, wearing shoulder pads, looking like a football player and having
to sneak anywhere. You know.I literally would do that, and it's

(30:47):
it was funny that I would getaway with it like I would. I'd
be like, oh, I gottamake this happen. I'm like, I
can't find my ticket, and nextthing you know, I'm inside and there
I am. And the moment thatI get into these places, all the
other super fans know me so andthey want to be close. They want
to be around me because one thecamera likes to find me. And even

(31:10):
the camera guys tell me, like, if we need a shot, we
go to you because you are youget it. You know what happens when
the red light comes on, youcan just start to go nuts. You
don't have to do it for verylong. Red light goes off, I'm
heading out. You know you're wrongexactly, And that's a good thing.
That's a good place to be.And I also, I don't I don't
pander to a camera. I don'tneed to do all of that. I

(31:33):
will sit there and I'll start andthen I push the other person in because
it's not all about me, soit can't be about me all the time.
That's really cool to hear because whenyou think about it, when you
look at the big screen, whenyou look at the jamatrons and stuff like
that, you see people waiting waitingfor that camera to pan on them,
and then they start to go crazierwhatever the case may be. They wait

(31:56):
for that that instant gratification there youpush away. You give it to others
for their time to shine, right, because you have yours right? People
know you? Are there any other? Uh? You know, I would
say, you know, ultimate sportsfans like yourselves, like that paint up
for other teams? Is there anyother There's a guy in Houston who wears

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he goes by, you know,to can Dan and he doesn't paint his
face, but he's he's she supportsall the Houston teams. Other than that,
there really isn't there is. Thereisn't many locations that a fan can
do this and it work. Like, you can't be in New York and

(32:42):
be the New York sports guy becausethere's too many teams. You got to
baseball to football, to hockey,you two soccer teams even like Chicago,
same situation. You got to pickand choose, right, Philadelphia is the
only real location. I thin it'sshort of Dallas. I'm sure somebody could
do it in Dallas as well.That there's only one team in you know,

(33:05):
all five of the major sports,and you know, you could paint
up for it. But I'm thefirst one that ever really took this as
a said Okay, I'm gonna makethis a profession. So do you have
Do you have like a makeup companythat you work with that sends you the
makeup, that sponsors you. YetI would love for somebody to start sending

(33:27):
me stuff from Meron. I doa lot with Meron. I tag them
all the time. They never lookout for me. I'm looking right at
the camera at you there, Meron. Uh. Yeah. Unfortunately, no,
they don't give them to me.I gotta buy it. And it's
expensive. That and the hairspray,so like, I don't dye my hair,
it's it's all hair spray. Uh. And you know I've tried a
whole bunch of different hairsprays. Thethe cans at Party City, the four

(33:52):
dollars cans at Party City are theones that are the best the costly one
of the ones because you you can'tdie because it's different cars. You need
to wash it out. Correct.Wow, what what's your hair like now?
Is it? Is it brittle?Or sometimes it was funny as I
especially when you're going from one tothe next to the next and within like
you know, you said, youwent. Actually, my hair does better

(34:13):
when it has product in it,now, you know, when it doesn't
have when it doesn't have any product, like last night when I went to
go pick him up, I didn'tdo anything with my hair at all,
and it looks like I stuck myfinger in a socket and it just was,
you know, it was like abig frisball And his mother comes down
and she goes, whoa hair?You know, So it's part of it's
part of you know what it is. But once it's product in there and

(34:36):
I like put some conditioner and it'snot so bad. So the mohawk is
twenty four to seven with him whenhe's out. Yeah, that's his hairstyle
all the time. How about you. Well, only a few days ago,
I got a very bad haircut,and so we tried to make it
like a decent mohawk. Didn't workvery well. But it was better than
what it looked like when it wascut normally. So you go to school

(34:58):
with your hair like that like this, Yeah, no, no, so
this was done. This was donetoday, specifically for today for the President
and Steve camp out for hunger.Yeah, so you're doing that right now,
correct. So I go down.This is my third year doing it.
They've been doing it for twenty sixyears, but this is my third
year and I went there the firstyear I started to do this, when

(35:20):
I started to really get known,I was probably I probably had about twenty
thousand followers in all of the socialmedia, and I was like, all
right, I want to go supportPhiladelphia. I'm going to paint my face
up every day differently for the PresidentSteve Show. And so they were like,
who is this guy? And nowthey're like, here's the Philly sports

(35:43):
guy again, you know what Imean. It's just now I'm becoming a
fixture and they appreciate the fact thatI'm putting out content and I'm trying to
get people to go down and donatebecause although I've made this profession, I'm
just starting to get paid. I'mstill in the recovery phase of you know,
hey, look at this is whathappens when you start to make a

(36:04):
little bit of money. You gotto pay it all out because I owe
everybody. But that's why he needssponsors for makeup and things like that hair
product exactly give it to him.He's a starving artist now. But the
one thing I do have is Ihave energy and I have time. So
even though I don't have the moneyto donate or like, I don't have

(36:29):
the ability to be everywhere and goand get cans from a whole bunch of
different places and such, I dohave the time and the want to be
able to be a part of this. And I make videos for them.
Man, that's what they appreciate becauseit's not a matter again, it's not
a matter of me, and it'snot a matter of Hey, I can

(36:49):
give them ten bucks and I canwalk away and I can feel a little
bit good about myself and that tendollars will get used in a proper way.
But now I'm going down there andI'm putting in the work for them.
You know, they're getting paid tobe there, right because they're getting
paid to be their job. PresidentSteve, I am not, and I'm
taking pictures with the people I ambringing up some excitement. You know,

(37:12):
they had some game and I'm theone yelling, screaming, you know,
and traveling, you know, runningdown the obstacle course with these guys,
just because again, it's bringing someenergy and it's bringing some excitement and that's
valuable to them. That's worth morethan the twenty dollars, ten dollars that
I could give them. You know, it's worth more than a little bag

(37:35):
of groceries. Because maybe there's agroup of people that wouldn't have come down
and given anything at all if theydidn't see my video. And that's what
being a voice is all about,utilizing it for something good, something positive,
being able to use your platform thatyou have now is a Philly sports
guy, to pay it forward toothers that are in need of something here.
So you're actually working for our community. Correct, you're doing it just

(38:00):
for the sports community. You're doingfor all Philly community because you're being a
voice for that because there are peoplewho are following you for you and we
know nothing about what President and Steveare doing each year at the can't you
know? And if you can getone person, that's worth it for them,
right, But you know, somethinglike yourself. There's probably a lot
of people saying I want to bea part of that, right well,
And that's that's the great thing aboutdoing this. Like I said this,

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it's still a phenomenon to me.I still you know, I I know
that I have an outreach. Butwhen parents come up to me and they
say, you know, my kidsshowed me you on TikTok and my kid
loves you, and now I getto share videos with him because they get

(38:42):
the joke. They both think I'mfunny because all I'm doing is yelling at
my phone. You know, I'msitting here like this is my phone and
I'm like, what's up everybody,you know, and and going over my
thing and then ended with yeah,you know. And so I get that
all the time. Like people comeup to me and they're just like,
oh, oh yeah, and I'mlike, yeah, I'm not I'm not
the you know, the Hawaiian punchguy. But that's okay, it doesn't

(39:05):
matter. Just go to smile andgive him a high five. I get.
That's awesome. Though you have toonce again play the role you got
you know, you do it,but also you have the genuine, genuine
anything about it. You are verysincere about what you're doing. It's you're
not doing Once she said, youknow you're not doing it for for the
Big Bucks because it's not coming inyet, as it will. I am
confident that it will. That's somethingyou know. You know. So do

(39:30):
people recognize you without makeup more frequentlynow? Yeah? It's people are so
I always talk about my living room, which is Dolan's Bar. You know,
It's like I like, I referto it as my living room.
I you know, I live rightabove it. So it's like it's literally,
it's quite literally my living room.But you know, so people start

(39:53):
coming into the bar now because I'malways talking about it and how much of
a good time it is. Andso people come into the bar all the
time from not just local They'll comefrom different parts of the country. They're
like, I got to see whatthis Dolen's Bar is like. So it's
it's it's it amazes me that howfar my outreach gets. Like I've had

(40:15):
people for my birthday. I hadsomebody call me from Dallas, Texas who
I've never heard of before. Hisname was Miguel. He called it like
two o'clock in the morning. Ourtime, which is one o'clock in the
morning, is time to just sayhappy birthday to me. And like the
owner, it just was like,wow, this is unexpected a little bit,

(40:37):
you know, just like so youhad to tell me the next day
he's like, I got a footcall for you last night from Miguel from
Texas. He's like, that's mybar when I come to Philly and that's
my bar, you know. Soit's just like, okay, it's just
it. It's fun for me.I'm glad that people are you know,
and be able to influence them,not just for sports, but hey,

(41:01):
I'm going to introduce you to goodspots. I'm going to introduce you to
good people. And if you're goingto follow me, you're never going to
hear me do things wrong, youknow. So that's why you can feel
confident as a parent to share thosevideos with your kids, because it's going
to be fun for both of you, and well you have to because you

(41:22):
are Sports is a family environment.You know something, Baseball most definitely,
you know, you look at thingslike that. Basketball, you know,
most definitely you look at stuff likethat, and you know, knowing that
you have kids, you know whatyour limits are you know, what you
want to say, what you shouldn'tsay because you don't want to be that
guy, right, you want tobe that guy, the cool guy.

(41:44):
Not that. Well, not onlythat, but it's like there's so many
like oh, i'd have to onething could tear this all down, Like
one bad thing could tear this alldown. Absolutely, you know, it's
like I and you have to beprotective nowadays. This is a whole different
world. Like when I take pictureswith a bunch of people, most of

(42:04):
the time my hands are out thisway because I don't want to put my
hands on them. I don't wantto, like I can't have somebody misconstrue
anything. And that's it's just partof this business right now. I am
everywhere. You see me everywhere,and I take pictures with many, many

(42:25):
people. You know. It wasdetermined last year for the month of October
and November that we took I tooksomewhere in the neighborhood of fifty to sixty
thousand pictures, and I touched morepeople than anyone else in the world because
of all the travel I did betweenthe Eagles and the Phillies and the Union

(42:47):
and given high fives and fist pumpsand shaking hands and just going like this,
you have to take pictures with peopleand such that there was more.
I touched more people than anyone elsein the world. And I'm thinking about,
like, that's a lot of people, you know, because there's a
lot of people to compare me to, or that's all that. That's actually
a really good honor too though.That's a great honor. It's it.

(43:14):
I don't I don't take myself tooseriously, you know. I tell people,
when you paint your face for aliving, you better get the joke,
you know, And and I doget the joke. I've given myself
a very big microphone. And you'reright, you said it a little bit
ago. If you're going to havethat type of microphone, you better use
it for good, absolutely, becausethere's no point in having it if you're
not going to People will remember whatyou use it for, right, And

(43:36):
you're right, they'll remember that onelittle thing that you did that was shouldn't
have been done or said, andthey're gonna blow it up in your face
and they're gonna use that against youfor the rest of your life. Right,
So you've got to watch that andI love that you said that.
I'm talking to the camera because ofthe fact that there are so many people
out there that think that they havethis shield of armor and they can say
and do what they want and itcomes back to haunt them or hurt them

(43:59):
or somebody else, right, SoI love that. But you also do
you also are involved with a withtickets correct ticket company, so I one
of my sponsors, ye tickpic soI do. Uh. You know commercials.
I love those commercials. And it'sso funny because people it's funny that
people start laughing at me, likein the middle of an eagle's touchdown,

(44:19):
like everybody's cheering, and I startto go into a commercial right then and
there. It's it's always funny tome to think about it like that.
It's just like, oh, Igotta remember who's allowing me to be able
to feed the kids, you knowwhat I mean? Because kids like sandwiches,
you know what I mean. Soyou better make sure to be able
to make something. You know,absolutely you're gotter give them something right exactly,

(44:42):
So you have to remember to dothose things. So it's kind of
funny where you know, people willgive me a little bit of a you
know, ribbing afterwards and then wantto be in the next one. Yes,
they realize the reach is going tohave to then and what we're doing
and who you are. It's youknow, So do do anybody? Does
anybody ever call you Jamie or theyalways just call you? I get a
lot of both. Now you donow Philly Stwortsky or Jamie, I get

(45:06):
him both. I think it's prettycool that they call you Jamie because they
have a connection to you now,like they know you personally right now.
There's more of a personal level andnot just that dandom sort of level.
So that's pretty cool too. Doyou just wake up each day and you
still like pinch yourself like is thisreal? No? No, I don't.
Every once in a while I getlike a smack in the face of

(45:27):
reality for me in terms of somebodywill give me like a letter that's like
really heartfelt, Like not too longago, I received a message through Instagram
where this I want to say.He was probably I think he's about thirty
years old. Boy guy, andhe was sharing videos with his father and

(45:50):
they would watch me every day,and he was on his deathbed and as
I guess, he was on hospicefor the last I think to eight weeks,
and every day they'd watch my videosand laugh together, and that was
what was able to keep him closeto his father at that, you know,
at the last moments of his life. And that chokes me up,

(46:15):
you know what I mean, Likethat hits in ways that no sports game
is going to do, you knowwhat I mean. That's what really makes
it all real for me and makesme want to do it more. I
love it. That's the human touch. Yeah, that's the human touch.
You can't fake this, No,this is not the passion that I have.

(46:36):
Can't be faked. You can't belike, yeah, let's go team.
You know, it just doesn't workthat way. You gotta you have
to. You have to be heregood though. Yeah. And it's funny
because I can turn it off andon, like I can flip the switch
like that, and it cracks meup like that. I'm out an Eagles

(46:59):
game. I'm not even at thegame. I'm tailgating and I'm stretching because
it's a long day for me.When it's when it's like a four o'clock
game, I started at eight o'clockin the morning, I start stretching because
I'm gonna be like that until aboutmidnight. So I'm wearing shoulder pads football
gear. People are banging my shoulderpads every you know, ten minutes or

(47:20):
five minutes or you know, thousandsof people coming to do that. So
I just prepare myself and somebody fromNBC comes over and she's barely awake,
you know, she's carrying this monstrouslyheavy camera. She comes up to me
and she sees me, and shestarts walking over to me like and puts

(47:42):
the camera up on her shoulder andshe goes, are you ready? And
I looked at my buddy and Ijust started laughing and I jumped into it.
I'm like, what's up, everybody, Philly sports guy here, and
you know what? And she waslike, taking aback. She's like,
that was the most amazing thing Iever just witnessed, you know, like
that you went from nothing to everythingback to nothing again. Hey, you

(48:06):
know, and just that quick momentof time. And I was like,
that's and you are not scripted,you are real live, You're just you
know, there is nothing. Thisis total like reality, all one take
all one takes stuff. I neverI won't say never, I've had to
do a couple of second takes,but very rarely it's like I get my

(48:30):
camera, I say what I'm goingto say. If I start to stumble
a little bit, I just passedthrough it and just get it out.
Post it. Love it. Ilove it. That's reality. That's reality
right there right. Do you everthink when you're younger, you know,
and you're a checking boxes the wayyou're gonna be when you got older,
that this is where you would bewell from here and my mother at ten
years old, it was something thatI wanted to do. So it's like

(48:51):
maybe this was my calling, youknow. It's like that kind of yeah,
you know, and you never thoughtabout it like this, like,
oh well, maybe I could paintmy face for a living and go to
sporting events. The only person thatI know of that goes to as many
sporting events as me is John Clark, you know, and he gets paid
to do that, Yes, hedoes, you know. So I am

(49:15):
just now starting to get paid todo it. But that was always my
goal. My goal was to bringthe in game experience to the people who
can't get there, whether you're inPhiladelphia or not, whether you are financially
capable, of doing it or not, anybody can watch my videos and enjoy

(49:37):
and know that I'm there for them. That's kind of what it is that
I'm trying to do. I don'twant to be the voice of Philadelphia.
I know that right now I amone of the three or four people that
is the main face of Philly sports. But that's just kind of what was

(49:59):
the cause of all the that I'vedone. Not I didn't say, Hey,
I'm going to be the Faye.Every time you google paint faced guy
in Philly, You're going to seemy face guy. Yeah. You know,
like because there's like the There's there'sthe Philly Captain, There's Dumpy,
There's you know Sean who's done itfor the Eagles for for twenty five plus

(50:19):
years. You know, like allof these guys have helped mold a little
bit about what it is that I'vebecome. You know, my mother worked
at the Spectrum. My grandmother workedat the Spectrum in the Vet. You
know, I have stories that goback, you know, when sports was
just sports and not big business likeit is today. You know, my

(50:39):
my mother would work at the VetStadium for Phillies games, and my father
was a concrete finisher, so hewas working part of the union. Sometimes
he'd have to work late. Momwould have to take me to work.
Bartender would get done a little bitearly, and the bartender be like,
hey, I'm going to take himdown to the bull, you know,
to the dugout, to to gomeet some of the phillies. Think about

(51:01):
that just in general, a bartenderworking at the stadium is going to now
get into the dugout. Impossible todo now, but that's the way it
was back then. So I haveI have this story like where I got
to meet you know, Schmidt andyou know Boa and stuff like that.
And I'm like holding hands with thisbartender who knows my mother, but I

(51:24):
don't really know him very much.And you know, the guy's like and
he goes, I'm looking to seethis big monster guy and it's the bull,
Greg Lizinski. And I'm looking athim and he goes and this guy,
this is the bull, this isGreg Lizinski. And he looks down
at me and he goes, Ieat little kids for breakfast. He takes

(51:45):
me and just pushes me asign andwalks past me. Yeah, it's like
six seven years old. I neverforgot that. You know, that's something
that to forget either. Yeah,goal, that's really I told him the
story. When I told him thestory, you know, like a few
years ago, He's like, youmust have been small. This is epic.
You get to meet some iconic people, you get to connect with,

(52:08):
you know, some people all overthe world. At this point, you
know you are you definitely are somebodywho is using what you're doing for good.
It's a power of influence. Yes, it really is. I mean,
and like I said, we've onlyreally just talked to the tip of
the iceberg. I said that I'mdoing like the president Steve camp out for

(52:29):
hunger. I mean, I alsodo public speaking where I am I've set
up a program where I'm going tobe going into schools to talk about bullying
and where a lot of schools arehaving a bullying issue and bullying problems.
You know, when you think about, well, who do we want to

(52:51):
come in to talk to the kidshere? You think about like I was
talking to one school and they're like, well, we're going to get a
police officer and I'm like, yeah, but you don't get arrested for bullying.
And then I explained to him andlisten because of their program did so
well well, and that's that didso well. They told you what drugs
were called, where you could getby them them, and how to get

(53:15):
away with having them. And thisis spoken. This is a fourteen year
old in the school, the publicschool system. So who's better to come
in and talk about it. Probablyhim, because you know he everyone knows
him, and what better reference thanhis own son. I mean, come
on, that is not But soyou're doing public speaking, you're getting out

(53:37):
in the community. You're doing goodthings in that aspect. And if people
want to connect with you and contactyou and bring you to their events and
bring you in as a Philly sportsGuy or Jamie to an event, how
do they contact you? So ifyou google the Philly sports Guy, google
me the Philly Sports Guy. Ishow up on all the social media.
I have the Philly Sportsguy dot net. You can go ahead and contact me

(54:00):
right there and book me for anyevent and such. Really, like I
says, I'm not hard to find, no, no, and you're not
hard to miss either. That's foran arm shore, right. So if
you're just walking there, you know, and I'm very grateful for you taking
your time I know your days arecrazy. I know they're busy. You've
been up since you know, fiveam. You know, I and you

(54:23):
as well, painting you coming onyour day off from school in joining him
sitting here with me. I hopewe can get together again, you know,
as you evolve and talk more aboutwhat you're doing, because I see
really good things in store for you. But I really do appreciate it.
It's just was great to come inand do this. Like I said,
it's funny that everybody gets to seeme at twenty seconds at a time and
thirty seconds at a time, butI really enjoyed doing the one to one

(54:45):
because it's I feel like it saysI may be larger than life, but
I'm just a human like everybody else. And I love this because it's being
on a peel layers back and findthat humanity part of it exactly. Thanks
so much for coming in, Jamie, You're awesome. Thank you for Jay
James. Thanks for spending your dayout of school with me as well,
and keep doing what you're doing becauseto have this bonding with your dad,

(55:07):
I got to tell you, youknow, my dad gone five six years
almost now. I wish I hada little bonding experience like this, because
this is pretty cool, and it'sit's it's not too late, you know.
For I learned how to play Fortniteto be able to start to try
to be able to communicate with them. You know, I suck at video

(55:27):
games in general, you know whatI mean. I'm in Fortnite. I'm
great at coming to second place becauseI was always good at hiding. But
anytime somebody had to go shoot somebody, I get shot up in the air,
like all right, forget it,I'm dead, you know. But
but I would talk, and that'show we would communicate. We communicate it
for Fortnite and things like that.So and so now I'm going to his
side of things. I know basicallynothing about sports in general, and so

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now I'm in his world just likehe was in mind. That's awesome.
That's awesome. This is some goodstuff you got going on here. But
if you're not following the Philly SportsGuy, get out there. Make sure
you're following the Philly Sports Guy.Like I said, if you google it,
you won't miss that space at all. Thank you so much for joining
me today. I truly appreciate it. James, once again, Jamie,
thank you so much. Awesome andeverybody else out there. This is Brick

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Carpenter on Nusula Media. Thanks tomy guys there behind the booth taking care
of what they take care and keepme on track at all times. Danny
and Justin and the rest of youall remember whatever it is you stand for,
be a voice. Have a greatrest of your day.