{"id":254203,"date":"2026-07-29T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:50:07","slug":"philadelphia-streamer-activist-hmblzayy-completes-3000-mile-walk-to-california-why-not-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254203\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia streamer, activist &#8220;HMBLZAYY&#8221; completes 3,000 mile walk to California: &#8220;Why not be great?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia native Isaiah Thomas, known online as HMBLZAYY, has completed his 3,000-mile journey to California after 124 days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/isaiah-thomas-small-wins-willow-grove-stay-hungry-stay-humble-clothing-brand\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Nicetown native<\/a>, known in the region for his clothing line, HMBL, has garnered national attention for his cross-country walk.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas left Philadelphia on March 26 and reached Needles, California, June 27, live-streaming every moment of his journey on Twitch.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration came from his seven-day peace walk to the Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia for Black History Month. The funds he raised allowed him to send five kids from Philly to Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These kids having fun right now, but how can we be able to influence and impact these kids&#8217; life forever?&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas then decided to challenge himself by walking across the country and raising money to start HUMBL University, a trade school to empower the youth.<\/p>\n<p>The 3,000-mile journey was not without its challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PA mountain were the hardest,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;It was like 28 degrees up there when I started. The elevation was crazy, but once I got towards the end I was so conditioned because of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, in April, on Day 34 of his journey,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-streamer-hmblzayy-hit-car-cross-country-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thomas was struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Richmond, Indiana.<\/a> The incident was captured on his livestream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first thought in my head is like, &#8216;I know this not happening, like this can&#8217;t be,'&#8221; Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was hospitalized for more than a month but escaped the crash without a single broken bone.<\/p>\n<p>He crossed California&#8217;s border in San Bernardino County on Day 124 of his journey, accomplishing his goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not nothing clich\u00e9 really, just lock in with yourself, lock in with God and just understand that you can do anything you wanna do in this world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We all get one life, and why not be great?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three thousand miles later, Thomas said the journey was absolutely worth it.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia native Isaiah Thomas, known online as HMBLZAYY, has completed his 3,000-mile journey to California after 124 days.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4172,108413,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-254203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-california","tag-live-streaming","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}