Preston and Steve's Campout for Hunger 2018 - Day 3
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00:00And they made it here in record time.
00:02Oh, man. Yeah, I could have run here faster.
00:04I know. Cecily was texting me literally saying I could have run here faster.
00:08So, yes, Michelle Obama, she has her engagement at the Wells Fargo Center tonight.
00:13And a lot of people are going.
00:14Yes, there are a lot of people going.
00:15So we had a Sixers game last night.
00:17We had a Flyers game the night before.
00:18But fortunately, here at the complex, they've given us the S-lot for free parking.
00:23It's just a little bit of you've got to deal with getting through the traffic to get here.
00:26Accupations.
00:26Yeah, but thank you, guys. We appreciate it.
00:28It's wonderful to see you.
00:29Taking a little break in between newscasts to come over here.
00:32And then you've got to head back to work a little bit later on.
00:34We've had a banner week so far.
00:37And we thought this shot would frame nicely with the mumbers, the Fishtown mumbers.
00:40Love it.
00:41Isn't this great?
00:41Yeah.
00:42Duffy String Band.
00:44Love it.
00:45Hey, I would like to take a moment to compliment your organization.
00:49Cecily, I came down to the 6ABC Thanksgiving Day Parade.
00:54Did you have fun?
00:54I did. I had a great time.
00:56It was a little chilly, and that's fine.
00:57But I am impressed by the operation.
01:01It was my first time going to the whole event.
01:06And I was talking to, is it Bernie?
01:07Yeah.
01:08Bernie Prezenica.
01:08Yeah.
01:09Our general manager.
01:09He's the general manager, and he and I were chatting when it was wrapping up, and he explained to me, and I didn't realize this myself, he said, you know, most people think that we outsource this parade, and we bring in consultants and people who do this for a living, and this is the event that they handle, and we slap our name on it and send our personalities there.
01:28You guys do it all yourselves.
01:31Yeah, we have a parade office, and they work for an entire year.
01:35It's a massive undertaking.
01:37We had no idea.
01:37I'm glad you finally got there.
01:38It's the 99th Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia.
01:41Finally, you made it.
01:42I finally made it.
01:43Come back next year for 100.
01:44Well, he wanted to make sure it would be the coldest one in 100 weeks, and it just happened to work out.
01:48Yeah, pretty close.
01:49That's more impressive, though, that you guys put it on.
01:51I didn't know that either until Preston told me.
01:53Well, it's more than putting it on.
01:57I've been here long enough to remember that the parade, I'm not sure if this was when it was the Gimbles Parade or the Macy's.
02:05I don't remember.
02:06I think it was Gimbles.
02:06It was the Gimbles, and the parade was losing sponsorships, and the parade was in trouble.
02:14And, frankly, Channel 6 said, this is not going to happen.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Philadelphia is not going to lose the Thanksgiving Day Parade, and so Channel 6 took over the parade, and so we are now responsible for its survival.
02:29And as long as there's a Channel 6, there's going to be a Thanksgiving Day Parade.
02:34Well, there was a great montage, yes.
02:35Yeah.
02:35Awesome.
02:36There was a great montage that was presented during the parade going all the way back to what looked like near kinescope levels.
02:42I know it wasn't, but it was archival footage leading to all the years.
02:46But it's also the oldest parade of its kind.
02:48You can't lose it.
02:49So thank you guys for stepping in.
02:50Next year is 100, so can I do a little inside baseball here?
02:54Yes, please.
02:55So the next day, I said to Cecily, man, you must have been freezing.
03:01And she whispered to me so that nobody else would hear.
03:04It was actually on the air, I said.
03:06If you really want to know, it was not on the air.
03:08It was on the air.
03:09Was it on the air?
03:10Yeah.
03:10She said, I was in an enclosed booth with heat.
03:15The broadcast booth.
03:16That's why you shouldn't have come, because they had heaters all over the place.
03:20Oh, I'm sorry.
03:21So, Dick Williams was shedding layers the whole time.
03:23I was just in the VIP tent with the hot coffee and hot chocolate and soup.
03:26Oh, you were russing it, right?
03:27Sandwiches.
03:28That was really, it was tough.
03:29It's tough, though, but you've got to do that to put on the parade.
03:31You have to sweat a little bit.
03:34No, but it's very impressive, and I want people to know that it is a hands-on event for everybody,
03:40from their production department to sales to promotions, whatever.
03:44Every department, everybody was doing something that day.
03:47So it was an impressive endeavor.
03:49Impressive endeavor.
03:50This is kind of our version of that, albeit not with as many of thousands of moving parts.
03:55We do have quite a few moving parts, but it involves every single person at our organization to put this event on.
04:02So I was impressed with that and actually took down some notes of how we can incorporate some of the things that you guys did for this event here.
04:09We wanted to make sure that next time around, we would be sweating as well.
04:13So you have to have some musical performances.
04:15Exactly.
04:16The mummers, everything.
04:17How many years have you been doing this now?
04:19This is the 21st Camp Out for Hunger that we've had.
04:23That's amazing.
04:23Yeah, so 21 years.
04:24A lot of people don't know this, but when we started, we were in black and white.
04:28Yeah.
04:29Black and white radio.
04:30Black and white radio.
04:31I think we said this last year.
04:32I remember when you guys were doing this whole thing out of a truck in front of the Adams Mark Hotel,
04:41and I thought you were squatters.
04:43There was this one beaten down truck.
04:46Oh, my God.
04:47That's when you guys almost hit me on fire.
04:48Well, that's something to stay away from.
04:50Yeah.
04:51We almost annihilated Cecily, but I could see how we would appear as squatters.
04:56Sure.
04:57It was the most rinky-dink thing, and the whole mindset was to be near you guys.
05:02So we figured, well, they'd have to walk across the freaking street, and we were in violation of many city ordinances unbeknownst to us.
05:11We had an open fire and a 50-gallon drum.
05:13But Mayor Rendell came by.
05:14He gave us clearance.
05:15And he gave us the okay.
05:16Yes, after we filled out our family paperwork.
05:19Yeah, whatever.
05:20Do you remember how much money you raised that first year?
05:22Well, we weren't going for money.
05:24We were attempting to raise one single ton of food over five days, and we did it.
05:30We did do it.
05:31And it was just us.
05:32We were the ones.
05:33As president of myself, we were in an RV that would, we've told the story before, the Addams Mark used to have the Marker restaurant.
05:39Yep.
05:39And when the billboard would go on for that, it would shut the power off to the RV.
05:43Yeah, yeah, to the RV.
05:44And so we were sleeping with electric heaters, like, right near our faces, and we would wake up looking like Belgian waffles.
05:51Yeah.
05:51But, Jim, to give you a perspective on how the event has grown over 21 years doing it, one ton that first year, and last year, and I'll get the number wrong, but it was...
06:02839.
06:04839 tons.
06:05Tons.
06:05Like 1.6 million pounds.
06:07Oh, my gosh.
06:08That's amazing.
06:09And a Ferris wheel.
06:11And a Ferris wheel.
06:12But with that said, though, and again, honestly, and I know you say it as well, but what makes the parade a success for you guys, the people coming out that stand there and support and all the people that work, all the people in this tent, people thank us all the time, and we're not being falsely modest.
06:27We're just in the parking lot of people aren't showing up making the donations, and that's what makes it work.
06:30And time and time again, no matter what the economy is like, no matter what people are feeling, they come out, and we are stunned, well, not stunned, but always humbled by the generosity.
06:40Yeah.
06:41It never fails to impress us.
06:41Yep, it's a wonderful thing, so we love it.
06:44Hey, Deuces, how are you doing?
06:45I'm doing well.
06:45You haven't said anything over there.
06:47I just want to say hi to you.
06:48Hello.
06:49I love following you on social media.
06:51You're a very fun guy.
06:52I love your approach to sports.
06:54You're just a great guy.
06:55There's been a lot going on in this city over the past couple of weeks, especially in the Flyers camp.
07:00And we had Drew and Konechny and JVR come by the other day, and they were shaken up by what's going on, so there's a lot to talk about.
07:09They didn't get fired yet, did they?
07:10No, no, no.
07:11Make sure.
07:12Just making sure.
07:12They were visibly, though, they were angry, which was an interesting thing.
07:15Yeah.
07:16They felt a little bit, you know, they were upset by, obviously, everything that was going on, and stuff appears to be still going on, so.
07:23The head coach may still be in trouble.
07:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:26And I do want to mention this about Cecily, another great person to follow on social media.
07:32Well, Jim is amazing to follow on Twitter.
07:35His posts are not only informative, but they're very, very witty and very fun to read, too.
07:39But Cecily posts a lot of action stuff, as you might imagine.
07:44She's amazing.
07:44And is it this weekend that you're going?
07:47Now, you've really turned into a fanatic about water skiing.
07:51Yeah, I am.
07:51Yeah, I'm going to a water ski school in Florida this weekend.
07:54A water ski school.
07:56She's going to get like a super intense, completely, and no pun intended, immersive water ski.
08:01Yeah, it's when, well, you do a course, a slalom course, where you have to go around buoys, and so I'm booked like 36 sets.
08:08So, on Monday, on Action News, I'm only going to be able to point south, because my shoulders are so fried, I won't be able to pick up my boat.
08:15Is this like, are you trailing a boat, or are you on a cable?
08:18No, behind a boat.
08:19By a rowboat.
08:19A rowboat.
08:20Well, no, because they have those cable parts.
08:22They do have cable parts.
08:24That's usually for wakeboarding.
08:25Wakeboarding, yeah.
08:26Jim, in the years working with her, has this woman ever done anything less than 100%?
08:32Oh, 100% is, she doesn't stop at all.
08:36Yeah, yeah.
08:38That's just the beginning still.
08:40That's just the start of it.
08:41I remember when you were pregnant with your first, and you weren't able to run, and I was in the gym, surprisingly, and you were in there doing laps, because you had to do something.
08:54Oh, swimming, yeah.
08:55Yeah, I don't like standing still.
08:56No, I think you were in there for like two hours, just going back.
09:01You said you were incredibly impressed when you started doing the deadlifts.
09:04I love when our worlds intersect, and a few weeks ago, you guys were wrapping up the show, and Jim, the guest, one of the guests on Kimmel that night, was our friend, Mike Birbiglia, who has a difficult last name to pronounce.
09:21I nailed it.
09:21What, Birbiglia, what's the deal?
09:26What's the problem?
09:26It just, for me, it's so funny to see stuff like that on Twitter, because we've been friends with Mike forever and ever, and he makes fun of the pronunciation of his last name.
09:33So you had a little difficulty, minor bit.
09:36The most challenging part of my job is reading the names of the Kimmel guests.
09:42Oh, that's true.
09:43But what you don't know is that these two who are on either side of me and out of camera range torture me, do everything they can to make me laugh, and just by looking at each other and going.
09:58Usually he's a rock, but every now and then we get him.
10:02It's got to be the toughest, because you're held to a higher standard.
10:05We will just, our default is, if we can't pronounce the name correctly, we just say Villanova.
10:11We'll make him somewhere and throw it in there.
10:12It's got to be close.
10:13He said a few times when he cut it out completely.
10:16Oh, yeah.
10:16He knew it was so ridiculous, but then he would start laughing because he knew what was supposed
10:21to be in there, and then he holds his hands up, and then he like blames us, and he looks
10:26at me, why should I blame myself if I can blame you?
10:32You've earned that.
10:33Yes.
10:33That's true.
10:34You guys also recently had your food drive as well, and there were some ties in with 6ABC
10:39with this event too, which is your news app.
10:44If people download that, a dollar of that goes to our Camp Out for Hunger app, which is cool.
10:49So we love that synergy, but you had your telethon, and that went well, I assume, because we've
10:55been here.
10:55I've been busy.
10:55I didn't get a chance to see the results and everything.
10:57It always goes well, and Sarah Blomquist hosts that event every year, and she does a wonderful
11:03job, and we are grateful for our community leaders who are coming out.
11:09Police Commissioner Ross, of course, comes every year.
11:12I saw Ron Jaworski.
11:13Alshon Jeffrey came by.
11:15Yes, and Alshon Jeffrey is just the, I don't know, he's a soft-spoken, quiet, light, a light,
11:24a little too close.
11:25Nice guy, and you think, this guy's going to be a big football player.
11:31He's going to come in.
11:31He's going to sort of own the joint.
11:33Not at all.
11:34He's a very, very nice guy.
11:36That's cool.
11:37Well, I love that you guys are involved in this as well.
11:41Fighting, obviously, is a horrible, horrible thing, and there have been studies that came
11:44out earlier this year that Philadelphia, in particular, as far as the poverty level goes,
11:50is one of the worst in the nation.
11:52Philadelphia has more poverty than any other big city in the nation.
11:56Which is thoroughly depressing, but what we see out here is a whole bunch of people attempting
12:02to fight that, so we know we have the resolve to take that on and do it, and again, we're
12:07not talking just about somebody you may pass on the street, which is a sad situation, someone
12:12living on the street.
12:13Many times, and as Phil Abundance will tell us, it's the person who might be living right
12:16next to you, who is what they call the working poor, so they have to forego something to put
12:21food on the table.
12:22They have to forego the food to keep the lights on and keep the kids warm or whatever, and
12:26that's just a horrendous situation.
12:28We're talking to a gentleman who's one of the volunteers out here, who is kind of living
12:32out in the streets in this area a couple of years ago, like two years ago, and is now
12:36on his feet, working, and now comes down to pay it forward.
12:40So we can do it.
12:41You know, it's not something, if the city has proven anything, it can step up anytime it
12:46needs to, so.
12:47It's interesting how the city really is a study in contrast right now.
12:51There is such vibrancy in Center City and in emerging neighborhoods, like Fishtown and
12:58University City, and there's a great deal of physical development going on, and to take
13:03a quick look at Philadelphia, you'd think this is a very vital city, and of course, it is.
13:09But there is another side to that coin, and it is plagued by enormous poverty.
13:16The opioid crisis has a foothold in this city.
13:20We see it around us, and what you do assaults that, attacks that, and in ways that no one
13:29else really does, and we're very proud of you, and we are delighted to come by and say hello.
13:35Well, thank you very much.
13:35It's the collective, always, and we always say that, and we don't, you know, defer from
13:39that, but it's everybody who comes in and contributes, and you guys always come down, and that means
13:44a lot to us.
13:44Yep, we call in all our favors on this particular week, so we thank you for being a part of
13:48it.
13:48And with that, I'm going to...
13:50You know you're coming.
13:51I'm out.
13:52No, no, no, no.
13:52I'm out.
13:53Jim, I had you in mind with this game.
13:55I'm out.
13:56Preston, is it called Name the Kimmel Guest?
13:58No, no, no, no.
14:00That would be great.
14:02No, it's called Name That Bio, and here's what we're going to do.
14:06So, for every point you guys get, for every one of you that gets this correct, we will
14:11have Bimbo Bakeries USA, our 10th sponsor, donate 100 pounds of food to the effort.
14:17So, this is easy.
14:18It's called Name That Bio.
14:19Okay.
14:19All right, and no help from the audience, by the way.
14:21These are notables.
14:23I'm going to start to read a biography of a person, a celebrity, and if you know who
14:29it is, just say who it is, and if you get it right, you get a point, and that's 100 pounds
14:33that's going to the Camp Out for Hunger and fill a button.
14:36It's very easy, and Jim, you can get a few of these.
14:38I know you can.
14:39Because most of it is hip-hop.
14:41Jim's genre.
14:42That's his word.
14:45He's kidding.
14:46Yes.
14:46All right, here we go.
14:47We're going to start with this.
14:48Our first bio, this person was born April 29th, 1954, and he is an American stand-up comedian,
14:57actor, writer, producer, and director.
14:59He is widely known for playing himself.
15:02Jerry Steinfeld.
15:03Yes!
15:04See?
15:04Look at you.
15:05Jim Gardner got it.
15:06He edged you out by a smidge, Deuces.
15:11That Jim Gardner speed.
15:13There you go.
15:14All right.
15:15Next one.
15:16This person was born July 17th, 1952, is an American actor, singer, producer, and businessman
15:23who actually set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on television.
15:29He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dolores Therese.
15:33He studied at Oakland University before graduating with a degree in theater at the California
15:39Institute of Arts.
15:40He portrayed Dr. Snapper Foster on The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1982, leaving
15:50this series.
15:50Not Bruce.
15:52No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
15:53Okay.
15:53Not Rick Springfield?
15:55Nope.
15:55Leaving the series.
15:56Nope.
15:57She can guess again.
15:58Leaving the series as the show wrote out many of the original characters.
16:02In 1979, he played Simon in Star Crash.
16:06I know you guys don't know any of these.
16:07Don't worry about it.
16:07You will get to it.
16:09He was recruited by then-NBC President Brandon Tartikoff.
16:14Tartikoff, yes.
16:15Who is it?
16:15Oh, yep.
16:16To star in the science fiction series Knight Rider.
16:20Michael, uh, David Hasselhoff.
16:21Oh.
16:21David Hasselhoff.
16:22You got it.
16:23Michael Hasselhoff.
16:24Deuces.
16:26All right.
16:29That was difficult.
16:30One to one so far.
16:31Forever to get to it.
16:33I know.
16:33I should have left out this stuff you wouldn't know.
16:35Well, I think they're all big Star Crash fans.
16:38All right.
16:39Here we go.
16:40Born August 25, 1931.
16:43Our next bio is an American media personality, actor, and singer known for hosting talk and
16:48game shows since the 1960s.
16:51He grew up in the Bronx in a family of Irish-Italian heritage.
16:54After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he served in the Navy and got his television
16:58star-
16:59Irv Griffin?
16:59Who's that?
17:00Irv Griffin?
17:00No.
17:01Mike Douglas?
17:01No.
17:03Shoot!
17:03Oh, I'm wrong.
17:06He served as a page for the Tonight Show in the 50s.
17:09Try Rick Springfield again.
17:11Bob Barker?
17:12No.
17:13He gained his first TV network exposure in 1967 as Joey Bishop's sidekick on the Joey
17:20Bishop Show, and he holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a
17:24television camera.
17:26His trademarks include-
17:27Oh, oh, oh.
17:28You know.
17:28I see, sir.
17:30No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:31The guy, Kelly, Kelly and the first.
17:36Come on.
17:37Live with-
17:38Oh, okay.
17:38Regis Philbin.
17:39Yes!
17:39Oh!
17:40Jim, you gave it to her.
17:41Yeah!
17:42Say it.
17:43Say it.
17:44Say it.
17:45Say it!
17:47Don't need it.
17:48All right.
17:48Regis Philbin.
17:49There we go.
17:49Legendary.
17:50Here's our tiebreaker, because we got one for everybody.
17:53Let me see.
17:53What's one that everybody will have a fair shot at?
17:56First, Rachel.
17:57No.
17:57All right.
18:01Our next bio.
18:03He was born July 26, 1943.
18:07He's an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
18:12His career has spanned over five decades.
18:14He has been described as one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history-
18:19What?
18:19Phil Collins?
18:20No.
18:20One of the most influential frontmen in the history of rock and roll.
18:25He gained press and notoriety for his admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was
18:29often portrayed as a counterculture figure.
18:32Nick Jagger.
18:32Yes!
18:34Cecily!
18:36I'm giving it to Deucey.
18:38Yeah, he said-
18:39You're allowed to guess twice.
18:40I mean, Cecily guessed 17 times last time.
18:44She must have said Rick Springfield 30 times.
18:47All right.
18:48That's awesome.
18:49One, two, three.
18:49She wants them Stones tickets.
18:51Yeah, that's right.
18:51So, those were four of them we got correct collectively, so it's another 400 pounds going
18:57to-
18:57Awesome.
18:58Camp out for hunger, courtesy of Bimbo Bakery's USA, the host of our tent, which is cool.
19:04So, nice job, Jim.
19:05You did well.
19:06Done good.
19:07I like it.
19:09Anything to mention coming up at the station, or anything you guys want us to know before
19:13we move along?
19:14Watch Action News tonight.
19:16Yeah, we'll absolutely do that.
19:18And also, if you could just do one little bit of enticement to your fans and followers
19:22of the-
19:22To come down here.
19:23Just to come on down.
19:24Yeah, I mean, you guys really, I think this time of the year especially, people do want
19:27to give, and you make it easy.
19:30I mean, despite the traffic.
19:31Yes, yes, yes.
19:32Now, but really, I mean, thank you so much for doing this year after year.
19:35And Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods, and you're really helping out your neighbor
19:40by doing this.
19:41You really are, yes.
19:41So, thank you so much.
19:42It's a good point.
19:42Hey, and congratulations to you guys.
19:4440-plus years, number one in the ratings.
19:47That is impressive.
19:48Yeah, yeah.
19:49That's huge, guys.
19:5040-plus years.
19:52By the way, the Nielsen ratings that you guys used was two-plus.
19:56So, if you're two and older, you've got to watch Action News.
19:59Oh, my God.
19:59I didn't know that.
20:00I didn't get a win.
20:01I didn't have any idea.
20:01Two-plus.
20:02We are very, very big with the toddlers.
20:06And we take great pride in this.
20:07You should.
20:08That's wonderful.
20:09So, we're here tonight until, Jackie, what time are we going to cut off donations?
20:12Like 10 o'clock or 9 o'clock or something like that?
20:159.30-ish.
20:159.30-ish.
20:16And then tomorrow morning up until about 11 a.m. is your last opportunity.
20:20So, please come and join us.
20:22And we thank you guys for being here.
20:23Thank you for having us.
20:24Thanks so much.
20:25Our pleasure.
20:25Jim Gardner, Cecily Tide, and Deuces Rogers, 6ABC.
20:28Oh, yeah.
20:30Bumbers, give it up, man.
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