Tom Burgoyne

You may have saw my post.

I had the opportunity to meet both David Raymond and Tom Burgoyne.

And that right there was was special.

It really was, you know, again, shout out to Hogue Kepner, Dave Kepner.

Therefore, if it didn't work out, it just was water under the bridge, but Holy shit.

Did it take off? And to this day, the Philly fanatic is essentially one of the best sports mascots in all the sports, in all of five sports, if you want to include soccer.

And it's just, um, it's cool to see that whole full circle experience for me, have an opportunity to take a picture with David Raymond and Tom Burgoyne shout out, you know, Tylenol kids classic back in the day.

If you remember the Tylenol kids classic in Commonwealth where, um, david raymond would play i'll never forget my dad was like that's the philly fanatic i'm like yeah he's like no that's like the real philly fanatic i think i was old enough like i just scarred my daughter the other day i can't believe i did this oh my god shame on me shame on me 10 years old and she actually believed that the philly fanatic was real and i told her she he's still he she he's real we're not sure what he is but I fucked up.

And, you know, I just think that is, you know, the balance of all those things is what brought us this personality in the beginning.

And then to have somebody like Tom Burgoyne, who's a brother from another mother.

And that's what this story is about, is about the two of us who are not the fanatic and the fanatic's not us.

But man, when I look at, and I'd stop and stop watching the game when the fanatic comes out, I watch it.

Citizens of the Week.

Tom and Judy Kleinman.

by Christina Griffith.

Less than 10 minutes into my interview with Tom and Judy Kleinman, Mr. Kleinman is recounting their foray into the hospitality industry where the two met.

This was after he graduated from law school and then became president of a publicly owned hotel group, next pivoting to what he called urban inns.

That basically became a full-time gig for both of us, he says.

The federal government has eliminated much of the funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

And show attendance itself hasn't quite recovered from the COVID pandemic.

Since its birth in 1992 as the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, what is now called the Philadelphia Film Festival embarked on a non-ideological mission that most moviegoers can embrace.

Where else could one find both widely discussed NAZA, a documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor in which they interview members of Israel's Defense Forces about their actions in Gaza, and also Big Fan, Hoag Kepner's profile of Tom Burgoyne, the longtime best friend of our one and only Philly Phanatic.

The festival opens this week on Wednesday, October 15th, with Noah Segan's disarming, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, starring the delicately grizzled John Turturro.

[upbeat music] You gotta take it day by day.

Since its birth in 1992 as the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, what is now called the Philadelphia Film Festival embarked on a non-ideological mission that most moviegoers can embrace.

Where else could one find both widely discussed Nazah, a documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor in which they interview members of Israel's Defense Forces about their actions in Gaza, and also Big Fan, Hoag Kepner's profile of Tom Burgoyne, the longtime best friend of our one and only Philly fanatic? The festival opens this week on Wednesday, October 15th, with Noah Segan's disarming, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, starring the delicately grizzled John Turturro.

[upbeat music] You gotta take it day by day.

We're everywhere if you keep an eye out.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to Phillies Backstage.

Tom Burgoyne and John Brazer here on a very momentous...

Is that the word, John? Uh-

It's a very good word, Tom.

It's a momentous, uh, day.

It's a momentous episode, uh, basically for two reasons.

So we talked about this a little bit.

In 2020, it seemed like, oh, you know, the, the pandemic hit, and now everybody has a podcast, but we were ahead of the curve, weren't we?