An Interview With the Owner of the Sex Shop Next to Four Seasons Landscaping

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Slate interviewed the owner of the sex shop next to Four Seasons Landscaping and it more than surpasses my expectations

An Interview With the Owner of the Sex Shop Next to Four Seasons Landscaping
“One of our customers said, there's something happening, it looks kind of crazy out there.”
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https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/11/interview-fantasy-island-sex-shop-four-seasons-landscaping-philadelphia.html

Shortly before the AP and other news outlets called the election for Joe Biden on Saturday morning, the Trump campaign held a now-infamous press conference at Four Seasons in Philadelphia. That’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping of course, a landscaping company located in an industrial corner of Philadelphia, nestled between a crematorium and an adult bookstore. So to find out what it was like on ground zero of FourSeasonsGate, Slate caught up with Bernie D’Angelo, owner of the adult bookstore and sex shop Fantasy Island. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Rachelle Hampton: When did you find out about the Trump campaign’s press conference?

Bernie D’Angelo: I was inside and we didn’t know what was going on. One of our customers said, there’s something happening, it looks kind of crazy out there. And I walked out and we saw all these vehicles pulling in. And I [thought] they were definitely in the wrong location, because we’re an industrial commercial area. I couldn’t understand why they would bring something of this caliber to our location, because there’s no real venue that would support something of this sort.

We started seeing the sheriff’s department, all the cop cars, trucks, looked like secret service or some type of security for Rudy, I’m assuming. We were kind of laughing at first because we knew there had to be a screw-up somehow, because why would you pick a spot like this? And then when we heard it was the Four Seasons, I laughed. I knew exactly what it was then. They wanted the Four Seasons in Philadelphia, inside town, not on the outskirts of the Northeast Philadelphia area. [Editor’s note: The New York Times has reported that the campaign actually always meant to hold the event at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, but the president misunderstood which Four Seasons was hosting when he first tweeted about it.]

I can’t imagine Rudy Giuliani, the former big-time mayor of New York, 9/11, you know, handled that and then all of a sudden, now he’s in someone’s backyard, so to speak. To think that he’s in an industrial commercial area where there’s no one here except a landscaping business and an adult bookstore and a crematorium across the street. There was no reason why they would be in this area. It’s funny. I’ve stayed at the Four Seasons. I know the difference between the two Four Seasons. One’s a landscaping business, and one’s a nice hotel.

What was the general mood outside your store on Saturday?

I would say there was about 40-ish people. Hard to tell because I didn’t want to go down the street and get involved in anything. Because I didn’t know exactly what was going to break out or turn into. Plus, I have regular customers that, you know, didn’t want to get involved. The customers who were there couldn’t leave because they couldn’t get out. But the Bidenites, I call them, were yelling back and forth to the Trumpers across the street. There was a lot of foreign press. Because the location, there were not a whole lot of places to actually park. They were parking in my parking lot. [So my customers] were trying to sneak through the Sunoco to come down the street to come into my business.

*snip*

[underpants]

1. So we're following CDC guidelines.

Family owned since 1978.

[NCjack]

2. How much time was Rudy in the sex shop?

[Nevilledog]

3. Just long enough to tuck his shirt.

[coti]

4. Yeah, they ALWAYS MEANT to be holding the presser at a landscaping garage, you guys.

Always!! As one does!!

It's ALL landscaping garages, these days. And sure, obviously, you prefer to have one that just so happens to share a name with an extremely fancy hotel brand.

"It's so simple, maybe you need a refresher course!!"

[Hugin]

5. I need some help casting my vanity film cast/crew I'm working on...

Working title: "The Rise and Fall of the Turd Reich".

I see it as a LMN - Infomercial - Chiller crossover.

The Four Seasons scene is critical. It is the Fall! The bunker! The climax! La vérité, c'est que t'es un con fini!

Of course, the obvious picks for directors are Sacha Baron Cohen, Spike Lee, or Frank Darabont. But, I want someone really edgy and new.

The screen play by Stephen King and the Marquis de Sade. I've figured out Jim Cary will have a major role. That's a given. Cameos by Robert De Nero and George Takei.

This will be my masterpiece. My magnum opus!

Trump's "Cleopatra"!

[Hugin]

6. KnR n/t

[yardwork]

7. "Plus, I have regular customers that, you know, didn't want to get involved."