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Matt McGarvey: Writer, Etc. · philly has heART

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Robert? Oh, super fun. Super fun. This is my
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favorite holiday. I love Thanksgiving. So low
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pressure. I mean, except for like nailing the
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meal. Yeah. Yeah, we hosted 14. So there was
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a little pressure. I hosted four and they're
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all my immediate family and I loved it. I made
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oyster stuffing this year. Wow. Yeah, where's
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my medal? How does one? You buy a jar of oysters
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at Whole Foods. Okay. And you coarsely chop it.
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And, you know, I used Lucy Buffett's recipe.
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That's Jimmy Buffett's sister. Oh, that sounds
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great. How'd it turn out? You know, I didn't
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bite into a piece of oyster, which is what I
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was hoping for. It was more of a briny. Kind
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of stuffing. Oh, okay. Yeah. Nice. I would do
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it again. Perfect. I think one of my favorite
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parts about this holiday is that my employer
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makes it a four -day weekend. Same. Best. I got
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so much done. Yep. Also, they call it on Wednesday
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at 2 p .m. However, I had Petit Garçon with me
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in the office on Wednesday because his school
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was closed. And, you know, he decided to barf
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in front of a minority partner. Oh. Shout out
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Joe. Poor Joe. But we did hit a few galleries
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on the walk home on Wednesday. Oh, gosh. He needed
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some fresh air. Is it? Is it? So we stopped at
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Bridget Meyer Gallery and we saw the materiality
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exhibit. This is the group show? Mm -hmm. Lovely.
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And then we stopped at Locke's Gallery. Oh, great.
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The second floor is the same one that was installed
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the last time you and I went. Yep. I think it's
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Pat Steer. Beautiful pieces. Yeah. Amazing. And
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then, guys, believe it or not, Robert and I are
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not attached at the hip. And yet, I think we
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had near identical Fridays. 100%. LOL at either
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of us thinking that we had an original thought
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unique to ourselves. Because our Black Friday
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plans were... The same. The same. I'll tell you
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where I went, and then you tell me where you
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went, and we can discuss. Perfect. Paradigm.
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I went to Paradigm. Museum for Art and Wood.
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Almost. Arch Enemy Arts. Yes, for the first time.
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Same. So many great things. Fan Gallery. Same.
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Said hated Mr. Fred. Yes. Larry Becker, Contemporary
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Art. Can we talk about that? We're gonna. Okay.
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And Third Street Gallery. And I understand that
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that one probably is a little too far south.
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Yeah, I didn't hit the last two. Robert, ask
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me if I bought any art. Um, Lucinda. Did you
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buy any art? I bought two pieces of art from
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Third Street Gallery. No, you did not. I FaceTimed
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my husband. I was like, I need you to walk over
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here real quick because I know that they're going
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to be really busy this weekend. Wow. I bought.
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This was opening. Was this like opening day of
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their group show? No, that's this upcoming week.
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Oh. So this was the conclusion. And there were
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still pieces left? Not a lot. Talk me through
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it. Talk me through it. Okay. Sharon Jassar.
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I bought her poppies in acrylic and Bluebell
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in mixed media. And I'm going to put them right
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next to each other. Beautiful. At some place
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in the house. I don't know. I hope you have pictures
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to show me. I do. Okay. All right. Let's go back
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to where you went. Did you go anywhere that I
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missed? Well, we originally wanted to go see
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the fashion exhibition at the African American
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Museum. But it was closed on Friday. The costume
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with the woman who she did Black Panther. Yes.
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Her name's Ruth. Ruth E. Carter, Afrofuturism
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and Costume Design at the African American Museum.
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Would have loved to see it. Closed on Friday.
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How long is that exhibition open for? November
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2nd to September 6th, 2026. Oh, we have time.
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So we got some time. Okay. We got some time.
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That was close, so I went for the very first
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time to the Weizmann National Museum of American
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Jewish History, which was beautiful. Yeah, they're
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a client of Becker and Frondorf. Lovely. Went
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there, had lunch at Fork, and then hit up our
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lovely galleries of Old City. Okay, tell me what
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you thought. First of all, paradigm. That artist.
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First floor? First floor. Beautiful. Amor Fati.
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That was the name of it, the exhibit. Yes. So
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great. Bringing to life the city of Philadelphia.
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In 3D. In 3D with every facade and so many great
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memories. Just of like signs of places that you
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might pop into or a dive bar. I was, oh, I wanted
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the little propane tank. It was $50. Already
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sold. So many red stickers already. It was great.
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Did you see the second floor? Yes. Oh, powerful.
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So great. I loved that little assemblage of prints.
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Yes. Next to the fire door. Yep. And then at
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FAM, that blue bird on the first floor. Gorgeous.
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That is. Gorgeous work. Incredible detail of
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a bird on a cattle lily. It was stunning. And
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guys, Robert is talking about Tom Palmore. If
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you're listening to this now and you haven't
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seen it, you're probably not going to see it
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because I think we went on the last day of it.
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Oh, wow. Okay. Talk me through Arch Enemy Arts.
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Oh, so great. bring your five -year -old in there
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well you know i went with my friend brooke and
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we saw one that was called get in loser about
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these maybe these two figures that were on top
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of a unicorn like flying off for the night i
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mean it was It was some great work in there.
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Do you know they've been there for 13 years?
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No way. Yes, I asked. What? I know. Such an amazing
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collection there of just like oddities, which
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were beautiful and so thoughtful, but also all
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over the place, which was great. The curation
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there was beautiful. I will say this, Robert.
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There was a lot of galleries closed for being
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Black Friday. And question, did it feel like
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it was a little slow in Old City to you? Until
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it wasn't. Really? So, yes. Early in the morning,
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which I believe you started your day in through
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the galleries before I did. Post lunch, that
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area was bustling. Okay. I'm wondering if we
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just got out of there in time then. Yeah, this
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was closer to like two o 'clock -ish. And it
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started to pick up, especially even on Market
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Street. Oh, okay. There were a lot more people
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out and about. And as we even went into Anarchy
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Gallery. Arch Enemy Arts. Arch Enemy Arts. There
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were a bunch of people that were coming in after
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us. Oh. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. For the rest
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of the weekend, no art, but I ran into last week's
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guest, Andrew, and his lovely family on the way
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to the Starbucks stop before my med spa morning.
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No way. And that's what I love about living in
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Philadelphia. It's the best. By the time this
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goes live, we will have had our Emerging Collectors
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Night at the Print Center. Sending thank yous
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in advance to everyone who supported the Print
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Center's 110th anniversary and Philly Has Heart
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for joining us for the evening. Did you spot
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Philly Inquirer's piece on Jake Weinstein's show
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at Works on Paper Gallery? Yes. How incredible.
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What a happy Thanksgiving for everyone involved.
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Yes. I mean, good for them. And I have to tell
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you that Evan... The owner was hoping this was
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going to happen and he mentioned it a few weeks
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ago and he was like, kind of hold back on some
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of the stuff that I told you because we're trying
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to get this piece in the press. And I was like,
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understood. But how fascinating that your father
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is a doctor who has used robotics to help treat
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patients and you go on to have like this blockbuster.
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gangbusters exhibition around that topic. It's
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huge. It's huge. I mean, way to take your family
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story and create beautiful pieces out of it.
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Yeah. And did you see Bezos is bankrolling the
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Met Gala? Do I have that right? Take the money.
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Eat the rich. I say it every week now. Figure
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out a way to put it in next week. On to the conversation.
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On to the convo. Greetings. This is Robert Marsh,
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and you're listening to Philly Has Heart Podcast.
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In this podcast, we sit down with the artists,
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gallerists, educators, curators, and other creatives
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who comprise the Philadelphia art world to discuss
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upcoming performances, exhibits, and other events
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and initiatives that are not to be missed. The
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art scene in Philadelphia is so rich that it
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can seem daunting. Consider this your weekend
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cultural recommendation. With me always is my
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producer, Lucinda Daggerlin. Bonjour. And today
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we have Matt McGarvey. Hi. We're so happy to
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have you today. Very happy to be here. Good.
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Great. Great. Matt. Take us through your journey.
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What brought you to the written word that you
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explore today? I started off writing. I don't
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remember the first thing I've ever written. It
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was after Temple. So I started a collection of
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writing called Horses. And they were like prose
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poetry, heavily inspired by like William S. Burroughs
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and writers like that. Okay. Like B generation
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guys. Yeah. I'm a huge B generation. Kerouac.
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Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, all those people.
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And so, yeah, I started writing, and I don't
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remember when I started. When I was writing Horses,
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I teamed up with my friend, The Magician, who
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unfortunately moved to Missoula, and we made
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a music album in his basement called Horses in
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the Basement. And it was all my prose poetry
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on top of his electronic music. Wow. And that
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was the start. This is on your website, right?
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Absolutely. Okay. I think I listened to it last
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night or parts of it. Oh, my gosh. It's very
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interesting. It's very different, experimental.
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No one's ever done it before. It's like spoken
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word on top of electronic music. Wow. Anyway,
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so that was my thing into music. But let's talk
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about writing for right now. I started off at
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Vinyl Closet Records. and their open mic thing.
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And I saw online they had this thing going on.
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And I called them because I'm a big customer
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of theirs. It's a record store in Norristown.
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I called and I said, you know, I realize this
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is all music. Can I like do poetry here? They're
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like, yeah, of course. This is great. And that's
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how I got my start. I started doing open mics
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at the Vinyl Closet Records in Norristown. Wow.
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Gaining confidence. This was like, I was very
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shaky. I didn't know what I was doing. But in
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a sense, I like to think I graduated to being
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a feature reader now. I did Moonstone Arts Center
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two summers ago, and it's a poetry organization
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led by this person, Larry. So I called him, and
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I said, hey, man, I'm interested in interning
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for you guys, right? Right. And I told him my
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credentials and everything. He's like, well,
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Matt, we'd love to have you. But I met so many
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friends through there, not through the internship
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necessarily. So I started off at Munson Arts
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Center, and I didn't know what I was going to
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do for them at all. I was just like, I'll do
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anything. And ultimately, they chiseled me into
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the spot of, doing like the filming of fergie's
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pub on 13th and samson oh yeah and there's there's
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there's a moonstone poetry night every wednesday
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so i started interning there and i was filming
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and everything like that and um and i made a
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lot of friends and like i and that's when i got
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sucked into the philly art scene wow and i worked
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my way up and um i i was writing my first book
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of poetry called alien vestibule and it's like
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i said very william s burroughs expired and stuff
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like that like this is like language and just
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his sinister use of vocabulary. It just really
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reaches me. But anyway, so I published Alien
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Vestibule and Larry Robin, the Moonstone Arts
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Center guy, we were heading back to his office,
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dropping all the film equipment away. And he's
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like, Matt. how would you like to be a featured
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reader next month? And I'm like, yes, I do want
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to be a featured reader next month. That's incredible.
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So that was my first featured reading spot. And
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I started getting used to them. I was doing them
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almost every month for about a year or two. And
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it's so cool to see like my name on the flyers
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and everything like that. And just, you know,
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I started making a name for myself. That's excellent.
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Can we go back a little bit? You mentioned...
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Temple. You went to Temple for school? Absolutely.
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Did you study something along the lines of writing?
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I didn't know I was a writer until after Temple.
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Wow. I went for communications. Uh -huh. And
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I started in 2009. I graduated in 2014 in the
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Klein Media Studies and Production. Okay. And
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I did the production track. It was like easy,
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I guess. I don't know. It was intuitive. It was
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interesting. I got to create things. I had my
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own radio show on the Ambler campus. What did
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I do? Just like video work, audio work, stuff
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like that. And like I said, I graduated in 2014,
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but I didn't start writing until like... What
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year is it? 2025? I've been writing for like
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a decade. Wow. Like afterwards. That's great.
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I would love to talk about it. Yeah. That makes
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total sense now that I think about it. Yeah,
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let's talk about your works. Yeah. The Sun Went Behind
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a Cloud is my big thing right now. It's my
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first full -length fiction novel. It's not poetry.
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It's very serious, and I think I've been marketing
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incorrectly lately as like a stoner comedy adventure,
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but it's not. It's a serious work of literature.
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It was heavily inspired by my time at Temple.
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The main character is a Temple student. He's
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just about to graduate in May, and he's on the
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Orange Line down Broad Street on the subway,
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and God reaches him. And he says, look, man,
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you're the only one I can reach, right? he's
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like and there's three reasons for this there's
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three reasons you can reach god according to
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my book so you have to be an atheist to reach
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god you have to be a schizophrenic to reach god
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because you have to like kind of like think abstract
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yeah right and then you also have to be a solipsist
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to reach god now that's that's a that's a philosophy
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that i've struggled with during my life um it's
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it's it's um it solipsism is like like there's
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no proof outside of yourself So you know for
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a fact that you live, but what about the people
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outside of you? And now that was the basis for
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The Sun Went Behind a Cloud, basically. And so
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the character gets reached by God, and God tells
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him, look, man, the coronavirus was brought to
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our dimension through black holes. So the coronavirus
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is on Earth from aliens from different dimensions.
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They brought the virus through a black hole.
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I am asking you as God, because you're the only
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one I've ever been able to reach to save them.
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the freaking planet that's dying on us. And I
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think a lot of the imagery in that book is inspired
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from my time at Temple. Yeah. I partied a lot.
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I did. I did. It was a freaking party for me,
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if I have to be candid about it. Yeah, you had
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a good time. I had a good time. Every semester
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I focused more on my studies. Yeah. And it inspired
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your art. It inspired my art. I mean, at least
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you got that out of it, you know? Yeah. People
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are sorry. to call me out on this book saying
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like is this a semi autobiography of you i'm
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like no not necessarily okay it's fiction there's
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no aliens there's no god talking right now okay
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but um some of the the partying aspects that
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the characters go through marijuana use and drinking
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and all that stuff and um it was it was very
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inspired by my time at temple wow you're layering
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in philadelphia As well. Yes. And the different
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elements of the city. I love Philly so much.
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Yeah. Did you grow up in Philly? I was born in
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Foxchase. Okay. Nice. I went to school at Temple.
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I lived in Philly for a few years. Right now
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I'm King of Prussia. Oh, nice. But my friend
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calls me a day tripper. Because I come to Philly
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a lot. So is he. Yes, I do. In the summer, I'm
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here like every week. Yeah. Doing featured reading
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spots, dipping mics, hanging out with my friends,
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whatever. Nice. There's just like, the whole
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thing takes place in Philly. The guy's about
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to graduate college. That's great. It dwells
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in the themes of like existentialism. Like, I'm
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a college student. I don't know what's going
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on anymore. You know, that kind of stuff. So
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actually sex life is a huge thing in the book.
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And like, okay, so I have a background story
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to my life as well that I should probably talk
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about because I'm like the beekeeper. This was
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a week after I graduated from Temple. And a bee
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lands in my car. And I had my first panic attack.
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I didn't know what a panic attack was. I jumped
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out of my moving vehicle. I crashed my car into
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this garage. That messed me up. Oh, wow. So,
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like, all these pieces in my life, like, started
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to connect. I became the beekeeper after that.
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I really overcame my fear of bees lately. I'm,
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like, buying bee paintings. I'm putting them
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in my apartment and stuff like that. Wow. So,
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it's cool. It's all good. It's great. Yeah. I
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would like to plug in that, like, my book for
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Temple, I think it's so relevant to our times
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right now. I think it can really speak to the
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kids. The college students, especially. It's
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a college read. I mean, honestly, I think it
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should be, like, in Temple's curriculum. I think
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it should be required reading. Because, like,
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there's just so much to learn from it. And, like,
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every chapter ends with a bang. There's plot
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twists throughout the whole thing. It's not a
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comedy novel at all. It's very, very serious.
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There's a lot of, like, societal insights. So,
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you know, what inspired the transition from the
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poetry to the longer form? You know what? what
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man i started writing the Sun Went Behind a Cloud
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i didn't intend to publish it i caught the coronavirus
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myself gotcha so i was out of work for 10 days
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right i had nothing to do i started writing it
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for fun i i didn't even i didn't even plan for
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this to be published right and i and i and i
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take from stephen king his advice is um don't
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know the ending to your own story wow don't know
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the ending you got to find that along the way
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you got to write to the end So I made this whole
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book up as I went along. Yeah. Where can our
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audience find your book? All over the place.
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Okay. It's officially on Amazon. Nice. Okay.
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Which was not easy. A lot of trial and error
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trying to get that on there. Take that, Bezo.
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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But I got it on the internet.
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But it's in plenty of stores. I spent the day
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in Philly re -upping Giovanni's room. The Wooden
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Shoe. Wooden Shoe. Iffy's Books. Iffy Books.
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Iffy Books. Yep. The Artist's Loft. Artist's
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Loft. Rock Shop. Rock Shop at the Mall. Vinyl
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Closet Records. That's where I got my start.
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They also carry it. Town Book Center. Town Book
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Center in Collegeville. I made most of my sales
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there. I don't know why. Oh, wow. Okay. And where
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can people find you online? Oh, my God. Okay,
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so I have my own website, Matt McGarvey, thebeekeeper
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.com. We're going to post it in the show notes.
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That'd be wonderful. It's Google -able. I know
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it's a long domain name. I tried so hard to make
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it thebeekeeper or Matt McGarvey, but they were
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both taken because of a temple class, actually.
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I used mattmcgarvey .com for something on, like,
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WordPress, and, like, I couldn't get it to work.
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Oh, my God. I know, right? Yes. It's like one
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of my terrible karma, I guess. There's a lot
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on my website. I'm starting a new writing project
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on it called Drunk Secret Ghosts. It's written
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exclusively on my phone and it's only going to
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be available on my website. And it's more prose
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poetry. While I'm talking about future projects,
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I have my next book coming out. It's called Banana
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Suit Wallpaper and Other Short Horror Stories.
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And it's a horror story collection. And it's
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pretty good so far. I've written eight of the
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short stories. They range from things like...
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This one guy in Philly, he's running away from
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all the screens because of screen time. So, like,
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cell phone screens. It's giving black mirrors.
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Yes. Yes. Like, all the cell phone screens, and
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he's, like, ducking into bars to get away from
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the cell phone, but there's TV screens everywhere
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in the bar. Oh, my gosh. And he's, like, running
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down an alleyway just trying to get away from
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all the screens. Well, thanks, Matt. We're going
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to roll into some rapid fire questions with you.
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Okay. Sounds good. Nice. What's your favorite
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Philadelphia neighborhood? Can I say South Street?
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Does that count? Definitely. I love Repo. It's
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a strong vibe. I love Repo. Yeah, I'm a shopper,
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dude. I love that. I'm a shopaholic for sure.
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Slip on Philadelphia -based artists that the
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city needs to know about. I recently purchased
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a record by Kurt Weill. He's awesome. He's from
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Philly. He's getting pretty well -known, but
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more people need to hear him. His music is so
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chill. Excellent. Yeah. All right. Cheesesteaks,
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with whiz or without? Oh, dude, I just had a
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Jim's cheesesteak today, man. No whiz, man. No
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whiz. American, sorry. All right, all right.
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If you could work in any other medium and achieve
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the same success that you currently have, what
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would it be? Music. That's great. Music. My album
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Late Bloomer is kicking off. Nice. It's my solo
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album. Is it anywhere available to stream? It's
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on SoundCloud right now. Excellent. And on my
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website. And it's like a multi -genre experiment.
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It's very experimental. It's very like electronic
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hip hop. I don't want to use too specific genres.
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I don't want to limit myself. But it's really
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good. It's a stream of conscious album. I made
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all the lyrics and all the music by myself. I
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took voice memos on my couch of me playing the
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electric guitar and the acoustic. I uploaded
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the voice memos on my computer. I added the keyboards
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and the vocals. And I'm very excited about my
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project Lake Bloomer. That's great. We'll link
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that too. Yes, please. And do you listen to a
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soundtrack when you work? uh when i write yeah
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absolutely not no you have to write to silence
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because that that's the land of purity yeah but
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i would like to say that on The Sun Went Behind a
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Cloud i did make my own sound loop on my computer
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with my keyboard like it's like eight seconds
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long yeah and i wrote the entire book listening
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to an eight second sound on repeat starting from
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like chapter five and um and it really put me
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in a trance i was in i was in a trance when i
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wrote the book dialed in love it Well, everyone,
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check out Matt McGarvey. Matt McGarvey, writer,
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et cetera. Yes. Thank you so much, guys. Thank
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you so much. You guys, Robert just admitted to
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me that he didn't know any of Matt McGarvey's
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literary references. I'm not a big reader. I
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can't. So I vote you... Check some out? Yeah.
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Go to your local library. Get a Jack Kerouac
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on the road. Or the Dharma Bums. Okay. You might
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need an Adderall because he goes on and on and
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on. I'm not condoning prescription drug abuse,
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but you might need an aid in helping you concentrate.
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Okay. All right. Maybe I'll check out an audiobook.
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Yes. Love that. Audiobook, Jack Kerouac on the
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road. You got that? I like it. Okay. Can you
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believe it is December? So much holiday programming.
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Philadelphia Ballet's The Nutcracker runs from
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December 5th through the end of the year at the
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Academy of Music. I have my tickets, Robert.
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Do you? December 9th, one night only, Philadelphia
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Chamber of Music Society presents Anthony McGill
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on clarinet, Randall Goosby on violin, and John
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Mahoon on piano at the Kimmel Center. Materiality,
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a group show at Bridget Meyer Gallery, is ongoing.
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Hey, who's in that group show? So glad you asked.
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Tim McFarlane, Rebecca Rutstein, and Petit Garçon's
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personal favorite, Jason Woodside. In other news,
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my five -year -old wants a $3 ,000 piece of art.
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Who's going to tell him? The last of 2025 First
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Friday in Old City is going to be popping. Colors
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of the Season, the Muse Gallery annual member
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show, opens ahead of First Friday today. Pie
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Gallery's opening Patricia Moss Vreeland's The
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Stillness Between Us on Friday. Steve Riddell's
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I want the West at Larry Becker Contemporary
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Art ongoing into December. And FYI, that is only
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December 20th. A few blocks south of Old City,
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3rd Street Gallery will open the Under 500 show,
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an annual member show. And finally, of Black
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Womb Hood is at its last stop at Thomas Jefferson
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University Helix Gallery. And with that, Philly
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