February 2020 - The Philly Blunt

Cornbread the Legend – The World’s First Tagger

Philadelphia is a city of firsts. The first public library. The first Fire Department. And, the first person anywhere to graffiti or tag their own name—not a gang name. That person is Darryl McCray, better known as Cornbread and he’s our guest on this episode of The Philly Blunt.

Cornbread sat with us at new Loco Pez at 20th & Bainbridge. He talked about his time in juvenile detention, how he got his Cornbread nickname, and how he came to tag that name everywhere including animals at the zoo and jets. He’s candid about his struggles with addiction and turning his life around to where he now works as a youth advocate and with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

The Philly Blunt round was a little challenging but that’s probably because we made Cornbread wait like an hour before he could his burrito and I think the Yacht Rock music in the background threw him a little off his game a bit.

Whether you love graffiti or hate it, it’s quite possible that it would not exist as we know it without Cornbread.

LINKS:

Cornbread – Instagram

Loco Pez 20th Street

Cecelia The Cuddler: Inside the World of Professional Cuddling

February 3, 2020 38:45

In this episode we sit down with a professional, certified, cuddler named Cecelia. Cecelia is a student who pays her bills cuddling people. Yes, cuddling.

We have become an isolated society with the help of electronic devices, headphones, in-home entertainment options like Netflix and Hulu, and online gaming. Human touch has become harder for many of our population to experience. A recent study by The Guardian found that there is a growing population of individuals who have no human interactions outside of the workplace. For these folks, they do not talk, let alone touch, another person between the end of the work day Friday and Monday morning.

As a result, many individuals are deprived of any meaningful human touch. That’s were professional cuddling comes into play.

Cecelia informs and educates us on the history of professional cuddling, her training, and her clients. Safety is a major issue for many and having someone cuddle you without the pressure of sexual interactions can often help.

We also discuss how she deals with clients who may become aroused during sessions and cuddling clients with poor hygiene.

Cecelia is a Philly-lifer from Northeast Philly, near the Roosevelt Mall. She is very candid about her journey to professional cuddling, which started as an exotic dancer right out of high school.

This is a fascinating interview about a world most of us know nothing about or have never heard of.

We conducted this interview at The Post at 30th & Chestnut Street, which happens to be the same location as our two-part interview with John Bolaris.

LINKS:

Cuddlist.com

The Post

Cecelia Instagram