Philly Superfan and Content Creator Rossi Takes Joins the Show

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Live at Fanatics Fest, the only thing better than New York being great at sports and winning championships is when Philadelphia sucks.
It's like, they're almost like on the same level. Like if I had a choice, win a championship or watch Philadelphia suffer, I might have to conjure that for a few minutes before deciding which would be better for me. So, I like many people else, devour TikTok videos when I'm driving home, because there's never any traffic on my ride home and I'm video after video after video. I come across this very young, I think young, I don't know, but really entertaining young gal who's a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan. It caught my eye because I'm always looking out for talent, your content creators, etc.
I start watching her videos more and more and more. I find that there's a common theme in her videos. She's a very unhappy Philadelphia sports fan and has this great ability to curse, yell and scream and get angry all on camera. Yeah, while eating. It's almost like we're married and we live in different cities. Because I come home to that all the time. Except this time, it's not my fault.
Rossi is her stage name or her TikTok channel. We'll give that out in a second. And she joins us here today. It's a pleasure to meet you.

**Rossi Takes** (1:27)
Yeah, very nice to meet you.

**Craig Carton** (1:28)
I'm legitimately a big fan.

**Rossi Takes** (1:30)
Oh, goodness.

**Craig Carton** (1:31)
I'm looking for the next great talent provider, content provider, because there's not a lot of good people out there. And I'll admit, part of what I love about you is that I only see you when things go wrong.

**Rossi Takes** (1:43)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:43)
I've never seen you after a Big Eagles win. I've only seen you after Joel Embiid on the floor again.
Or the Sixers not getting past the second round again. And on and on and on. So, nice to meet you.

**Rossi Takes** (1:58)
Nice to meet you.

**Craig Carton** (1:59)
Tell me a little bit of your background. What part of Philadelphia are you from?

**Rossi Takes** (2:03)
So, I'm actually from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

**Craig Carton** (2:06)
So, not even from Philadelphia.

**Rossi Takes** (2:08)
So, that's where all the Amish people are. No, I'm not Amish. Let the record show. I am not Amish.

**Craig Carton** (2:13)
You're not good with wood. You can't whittle. And build houses and barns.

**Rossi Takes** (2:17)
Absolutely not.

**Craig Carton** (2:19)
That's, that's. Love it. There's something there.

**Rossi Takes** (2:22)
But I claim Philadelphia because I went to college on the main line.

**Craig Carton** (2:26)
Was you going to Villanova?

**Rossi Takes** (2:27)
I was at Eastern University.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
I never even heard of it.

**Rossi Takes** (2:30)
It's small.

**Craig Carton** (2:31)
You sure it's at the main line?

**Rossi Takes** (2:32)
I think so.

**Craig Carton** (2:34)
I lived in Philly for six years.
No, she's real. But I lived in Philly. I was on the radio in Philly from 93 to 97 Came back a couple of years later before you were born, probably. I never heard of Eastern University.

**Rossi Takes** (2:48)
It's a small die on the map for sure.

**Craig Carton** (2:50)
It's like this like small Jesuit school or something.
Who are the people that come to your house and knock on the door? Jehovah's Witness School. Is it a Jehovah's School?

**Rossi Takes** (3:00)
No, but you might be able to compare it to that.

**Craig Carton** (3:03)
It's very small.

**Rossi Takes** (3:04)
It's very small.

**Craig Carton** (3:05)
So like graduating class, how many people? Ballpark?

**Rossi Takes** (3:07)
Maybe like 200

**Craig Carton** (3:08)
Oh, that's small.
Got it. All right. So were you an athlete growing up? Did you play sports?

**Rossi Takes** (3:15)
Yeah, I played sports my whole life. I have three brothers, so they really got me into the fandom for sure. And when I was, you know, I have no sisters. So growing up, we weren't playing Barbies. We were playing tackle football.

**Craig Carton** (3:25)
You had no shot.

**Rossi Takes** (3:26)
They were telling me about Brian Dawkins and tackling me like Brian Dawkins as well.

**Craig Carton** (3:31)
You're also going to tackle, right? So how old are you now?

**Rossi Takes** (3:34)
So I'm 24 currently.

**Craig Carton** (3:35)
OK.

**Rossi Takes** (3:35)
Sometimes people say I look 32 Sometimes people say I look 12
I don't know. I get mixed opinions about that.

**Craig Carton** (3:42)
And what was the genesis of the channel before it became popular and viral? When did you start it? Why did you start it?