knew where we really were. we were almost home. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la anthony: oh, enchanted land of my childhood. a cultural petri-dish, from which regularly issues forth greatness. new jersey, in case you didn t know it, has got beaches, beautiful beaches, and they re not all crawling with roid-raging trolls with reality shows. i grew up summering on those beaches, and they are awesome. jersey s got farmland. beautiful bedroom communities where that woman from real housewives who looks like doctor zaius does not live, nor anyone like her. even the refineries. the endless clover leaves of turnpikes and expressways twisting in unknowable patterns over the wetlands are, to me, somehow, beautiful. to know jersey is to lov
i m very hopeful and there s no doubt in my mind that there is going to be a positive camden. no doubt. anthony: you re going to stay? tawanda: i m not going anywhere. my pop pop didn t leave. i m not leaving. anthony: yeah, i know. philadelphia is right over there. right across the ben franklin bridge, the center of the cheesesteak universe, but what if it isn t? they re better than that, they re bigger than that, and the best cheesesteak in the area might well come from new jersey. donkey s, opened by leon lucas 71 years ago. a heavyweight contender in the 1928 summer olympics in boxing, he was known during his time in the cavalry as the donkey. robert: they said he had a punch like the kick of a mule. so somebody gave him the handle of donkey. and he kept it. anthony: his son robert runs the joint now and this is what
actually think that i can save all the kids. i know that s not the case, you know? um, i just do the best that i can do and i just pray that the next kid doesn t, you know, fall by the wayside. anthony: how do you not become cynical? do you harden your heart or just tawanda: no, actually i have to replenish myself or i m not going to be any good to them or my own family. these kids are like precious cargo to me. some have pretty tough lives. some of them have the responsibility of a 30-something year old. they re holding down their homes and they re only kids. no kid should have to go through that. anthony: 25 years down the road, what do you think camden is going to be like? tawanda: wow, i m praying that it turns into the camden that i remember and i know that i m helping our future leaders to become a part of that change. i m very hopeful and there s no doubt in my mind that there is going to be a positive camden. no doubt. anthony: you re going to stay?
to become a part of that change. i m very hopeful and there s no doubt in my mind that there is going to be a positive camden. no doubt. anthony: you re going to stay? tawanda: i m not going anywhere. my pop pop didn t leave. i m not leaving. anthony: yeah, i know. philadelphia is right over there. right across the ben franklin bridge, the center of the cheese steak universe, but what if it isn t? they re better than that, they re bigger than that, and the best cheese steak in the area might well come from new jersey. donkey s, opened by leon lucas 71 years ago. a heavyweight contender in the 1928 summer olympics in boxing, he was known during his time in the cavalry as the donkey. robert: they said he had a punch like the kick of a mule. so somebody gave him the handle of donkey. and he kept it. anthony: his son robert runs the joint now and this is what they do here.
i m helping our future leaders to become a part of that change. i m very hopeful and there s no doubt in my mind that there is going to be a positive camden. no doubt. anthony: you re going to stay? tawanda: i m not going anywhere. my pop pop didn t leave. i m not leaving. anthony: yeah, i know. philadelphia is right over there. right across the ben franklin bridge, the center of the cheesesteak universe, but what if it isn t? they re better than that, they re bigger than that, and the best cheesesteak in the area might well come from new jersey. donkey s, opened by leon lucas 71 years ago. a heavyweight contender in the 1928 summer olympics in boxing, he was known during his time in the cavalry as the donkey. robert: they said he had a punch like the kick of a mule. so somebody gave him the handle of donkey.