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| 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 | legacy | By Ivan Levingston Its time again for Take Five, when HOH talks with a member of Congress about topics relatively unrelated to legislative work. This week, freshman Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., talks about Philadelphia foods, a magical week and the time he was on Russian TV. Q: When it comes to the Philly cheesesteak, is Pats or Genos your favorite or do you have a different restaurant you go to? A: 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. Q: Philly sports obviously are a big deal. Do you have a favorite team? A: 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. Q: Do you ever take the Metro when youre in D.C.? A: 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. Q: Are there any memories in particular from all those years back that pushed you to stay in politics? A: 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. Q: Do you have pump-up music that you listen to before a big vote or rally? A: 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 |