Matthew Tuerk

So Yaco's, I think is, he and I went back and forth a little bit.

We're very good friends now, but we struggled a little bit.

Because I'm the first Latino mayor of Allentown, so the other thing that makes the Billy Joel song so wrong in 2026 is that in 1982, it was a very homogenous, basically everybody in Allentown was white, European,

Today, we're 55% Latino.

Like, we are a very different city.

And his case was like, well, you know, it ain't like it was.

And, you know, it felt to me like kind of a rejection of our new city that I just love.

So we went back and forth a little bit on that.

There's probably other Yakko's controversies out there.

He has a big hot dog statue that's been drowned a little bit.

But it's a good hot dog.

If you come to Allentown, I will treat you to a Yakko's hot dog.

I will teach you how to order it.

And there's a special like Lehigh Valley version of the cheesesteak as well that the Philadelphians would want nothing to do with.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I really had a good time.