{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boyle.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/take-five-rep-brendan-boyle", "Take Five: Rep. Brendan Boyle", "2015-10-07", "2015", "2015-10", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Brendan Boyle", "B001296", "boyle.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "By Ivan Levingston\nIts time again for Take Five, when HOH talks with a member of Congress about topics relatively unrelated to legislative work.\nThis week, freshman Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., talks about Philadelphia foods, a magical week and the time he was on Russian TV.\nQ: When it comes to the Philly cheesesteak, is Pats or Genos your favorite  or do you have a different restaurant you go to?\nA: As a true Philadelphian, I would say that my local neighborhood place is the best and not necessarily Pat and Genos.  As a good Philadelphian too, you have one place where you order your cheesesteak, a different place where you get your pizza and potentially a third place for the best cheese fries, and I take care of all of them.\nQ: Philly sports obviously are a big deal. Do you have a favorite team?\nA: Im feeling very sad these days, but Im what you call four for fourIm a die-hard Phillies, Eagles, Flyers and 76ers fan, and in the main part of the office you can see my pennant from the 1980 Phillies winning team, which I was just barely alive for, and 2008 when the Phillies won the World Series. It was the first time in 25 years Philadelphia won a sports championship, basically the first time in my conscious lifetime and it ended up coinciding six days before I finally won my first election, and it was just an amazing magical week.\nQ: Do you ever take the Metro when youre in D.C.?\nA: I do; I love the Metro. Its interesting, I remember when I came here first as an intern in the late 90s being very impressed with just how well the system was run and clean, and I still think its a good system, but I have noticed just in that time myself that there are more delays now than there used to be.\nQ: Are there any memories in particular from all those years back that pushed you to stay in politics?\nA: I had the full-time internship [at the Department of Health and Human Services] and then worked at a little political memorabilia store called Political Americana, and I just remember that was the year of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the store Political Americana was one block from the White House. And so a lot of international press was coming here  and one time a Russian news crew brought a Monica Lewinsky look-alike and was walking her around town and getting peoples reactions thinking theyre meeting the real Monica Lewinsky, and somewhere theres a tape of me being interviewed on Russian TV [about] what I thought of Monica Lewinsky, so that was definitely one of the more memorable things.\nQ: Do you have pump-up music that you listen to before a big vote or rally?\nA: I love the soundtrack to Rudy and I love the soundtrack to Rocky, and those are both, they are my co-favorites and my two go-tos, and whether  working out, a big sporting event, or campaign time, I will listen to them.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://boyle.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/take-five-rep-brendan-boyle"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.1857630237936974, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}