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Around the Way: Oakland w/ Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: This episode sponsored by American Express. Now, you guys know
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  Speaker 1: that the Bay Area holds a special place in our
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  Speaker 1: hearts and it's a vibrus city with us and see
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  Speaker 1: and do the art, sports, food, but the people what
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  Speaker 1: makes the city very unique. There's a few must stop
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  Speaker 1: places you have to see. So you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: set you up right. So we have a few ideas
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  Speaker 1: for the best way to experience the city. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm from northern California. Actually Bloomer right next
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  Speaker 1: to the Big Area. Give a chance to play out
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  Speaker 1: here twice was amazing. And one thing I always liked
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  Speaker 1: about the Bay Area was the food spots. What are
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  Speaker 1: some of your favorite food spots. I know you're a
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  Speaker 1: big Shelfish fans that you're always eating crab and shrimp.
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  Speaker 1: Any places come to mind? Yeah? Me, for in the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Wild, I always you know, was it was a
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  Speaker 1: fan of crab and the sea food. For coming out
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  Speaker 1: to the Bay Man, I experienced in a whole different way.
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  Speaker 1: I think the first time at eight Cross Station, I
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  Speaker 1: think the guard of having to guarden news was a
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  Speaker 1: different experience to me that I fell in love with it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's one of my favorite spots I did. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I got a chance to go to the spot call
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  Speaker 1: Aliotto's Freak White, I Don't Boy Frank White and Inspi
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  Speaker 1: the Alioto's Greater Taliable, Great Crab and Seafood. So definitely
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  Speaker 1: my top, my number one place to go. As the
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  Speaker 1: crustaceans in the world. Yeah, I was always really big
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  Speaker 1: off breakfast. But I actually got a crustacean story too,
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  Speaker 1: So it was right when I started dating my ex
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  Speaker 1: wife by tip of the crustaceans in San Francisco. We
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  Speaker 1: were living in Ala Media at the time and I
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  Speaker 1: forgot my wallet, so we went up we ate. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize to have my wallet, I had to go
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  Speaker 1: downstairs that literally scrounds like Andrew. I remember the hundred
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  Speaker 1: to ten dollars able to find another ten dollars and
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  Speaker 1: one of these fifty one's changed just to pay the bill.
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  Speaker 1: So creag Meal had to hustle and getting paid for.
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  Speaker 1: But I was really big on the breakfast spots man
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  Speaker 1: Brenda's Sweet Maples if you ever stopped by their men
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  Speaker 1: get the state a potato breakfast second and none. Plus
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  Speaker 1: they got the million dollars baking which I know you
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  Speaker 1: loved Jack Back on our playing days, I remember we
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  Speaker 1: went out, maybe six or seven of us went to
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant. One person there was our teammate, Aaron Davis.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nice little Italian restaurant right across street
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  Speaker 1: from this house, and I remember he didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: pay all the fans. What happened after? Yeah, man, you
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  Speaker 1: know it was one of those nice you know, we
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  Speaker 1: always go out to you after the games. We was
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  Speaker 1: one of those teams that really started to where brothers
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  Speaker 1: on and off the court. We went everywhere together, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was a night out the beat. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It was Baron David, Baron Davids trying to pay well,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't want to pay fake like he didn't
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  Speaker 1: have his wallet. We had to pat him down like
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  Speaker 1: we were the cops. Ended up biding his wallet. He
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  Speaker 1: still was complained about playing the bill. So we ended
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  Speaker 1: up putting all our amaxes in the hat. Everybody had
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  Speaker 1: put the damas in the hat, and uh we let
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  Speaker 1: the waitress fit who was going to pay since b
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  Speaker 1: he was giving us a hard time. Well coincidence, she
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  Speaker 1: pulled his car and he ended up paying anyway. He
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  Speaker 1: so he tried to get out of pay of it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we all take our tire the best
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  Speaker 1: bad man, but he had to pay that night, and
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  Speaker 1: I think the bill was kind of nice. Absolutely classic
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  Speaker 1: warrior moments off the court. Well, Matt, recently we hit
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  Speaker 1: the bay Man, our second home man, and was able
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  Speaker 1: to to spend some time with one of the future
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  Speaker 1: stars of the Bay Area man the Russell. Uh really
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  Speaker 1: get into a chance to go to the Pergola. That's
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  Speaker 1: when he caused his backyard in the stage. Really the
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  Speaker 1: chance to be around his family. We had a great
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  Speaker 1: experience with a dope breakfast spot called Momos. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember that? You remember Momos, Matt. It was a great experience.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, thank him and his family
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  Speaker 1: for welcoming us. His mom was dad, his family was there.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the Pergola. You don't know the pergola, Google it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a spot in his backyard, in the heart of
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  Speaker 1: the layout where at the all entire city calm Un
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  Speaker 1: listens there and performed. So we got a first hand
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  Speaker 1: experience with that in the chance to interview him. Meeting
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  Speaker 1: his friends and family and really his all inner organs
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  Speaker 1: of his team here really reminded me of nip on
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  Speaker 1: his independent push in this record space, got our creativity
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  Speaker 1: behind getting his music out there. As you mentioned, Momo,
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  Speaker 1: some of the best breakfasts potatoes I've had in my life.
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  Speaker 1: They're still good. Make you want to slap your mama. Man.
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  Speaker 1: We had a time out there, man, but Big passed
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  Speaker 1: off to L Russell in the Stevieavalo Welcome to us.
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  Speaker 1: Good company. Yeah. The one thing that I really found
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  Speaker 1: special about L. Russell and his team is just everything
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  Speaker 1: is in the house, from music productions to take it sales,
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  Speaker 1: to have a concert of his own backyards that showed
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  Speaker 1: me how important it is, or stuff like that to
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  Speaker 1: continue to happen where he's doing a lot of black
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  Speaker 1: owned in house stuff. Well, I call that the Lebraun effect.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talk about how Lebroun is at the
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  Speaker 1: basketball player in history to get it right, to break
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  Speaker 1: his friends a put him up in position to succeed,
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  Speaker 1: and we all went together. I think that's I call
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  Speaker 1: that the lebron the fact, and that's what the Russell's doing.
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  Speaker 1: All these people that he grew up with, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: the talent, Like you said, everybody could be a star
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  Speaker 1: in their own role, and it's it's super dope that
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  Speaker 1: that he's taking that same, that same blueprint and doing
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  Speaker 1: it with good company everybody around him as a talent
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  Speaker 1: to use and you know he's benefited from it all
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  Speaker 1: and then they're all winning together. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the best thing you could do, man, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not putting somebody up and what you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, you know, like I said, Lebron is
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  Speaker 1: a blueprint and everybody else is taking down the Russell's
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job at it as well. I think
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  Speaker 1: she made a great point too. I mean, remember when
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  Speaker 1: he introduced the whole team, it was nobody that hung
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  Speaker 1: around everybody he introduced or it was at least sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty people had, like he said, a talent and
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  Speaker 1: a job and he part of the bigger picture of
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  Speaker 1: what he was kind of build out there. So home Grind,
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  Speaker 1: it's something they're big gone black all. There's something they're
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  Speaker 1: big gone And obviously I think that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: to be to his success as he needs to elevate
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  Speaker 1: in this music space. One thing that is different for me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being from here and out here, is is
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  Speaker 1: the musical inspiration that that the area draws drawn all
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  Speaker 1: the way back from Cheapox, saying that that the Bay
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  Speaker 1: gave him a lot of his game to the great
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  Speaker 1: Slight E forty team short Rest of the Peace mc drey.
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  Speaker 1: All that music and all that energy is really entrench
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  Speaker 1: in the entire area. Is just a different world out here.
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  Speaker 1: When I stay the Bay is different. They don't know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, But talk to people how out of
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  Speaker 1: the Bay is different with the energy and on and
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration they drop from their music out here. You know, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean for me, I mean every every you know culture,
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  Speaker 1: I say, every every side of the map has has
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  Speaker 1: their own side of music. But being on the West
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  Speaker 1: Coast and the Bay, you know this this a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people consider all the same. But for me, I
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  Speaker 1: know the difference because I grew up on the music.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up on Eat Party, I grew up on
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  Speaker 1: Spice One, I grew up on mcmall, I grew up
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  Speaker 1: on all that, all that the click I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up grew up on all that music. So
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  Speaker 1: the base sound was definitely something that that's in the
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  Speaker 1: soundtrack of my life, and it was it was coincident
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  Speaker 1: it was just odd that I was able to play
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  Speaker 1: out there and then have some successive basketball. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bay music that that don't sound. It's just a different
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  Speaker 1: sound that that's that's been standing alone for forever. I
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  Speaker 1: guess that sound of eat party and and and the
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  Speaker 1: clicking the spice one was the was the block sound,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm in the sign that we all
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  Speaker 1: that we all love to that to list to on
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  Speaker 1: the block growing up for barbecues and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it was. It was big in the South,
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  Speaker 1: whether a lot of people know it or not now,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, the Bay the Bay Area music thing
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  Speaker 1: has touched a lot of people worldwide, but me speaking
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  Speaker 1: from the South Broke, I think it is this almost
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  Speaker 1: bigger than our own music. Yeah, it was a evspiration
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  Speaker 1: well obviously scored and what you brought from the Oakland area.
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  Speaker 1: And when I stell people the energy and the Bay
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  Speaker 1: is different. I think obviously it's aspired by the music
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  Speaker 1: that just has to be in it and steal it
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  Speaker 1: to really out of the statu It's hard to explain,
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  Speaker 1: but you know there's a yeas differed from the Bay
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  Speaker 1: area and or lay the area of Sacramento just the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area that's really a standalone place with great music,
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  Speaker 1: great food, great people, all different kinds of way to
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  Speaker 1: get around the city. And there's really something you have
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  Speaker 1: to experience yourself that believe understand how feelable it is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one thing this very special to me about
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  Speaker 1: the Bay is is the way you're able to move around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as a child, I was all around on
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  Speaker 1: my bike or walking. Um, you know I've helicoptered around
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  Speaker 1: the city. Obviously taking cars it's norm but there's trains
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  Speaker 1: one form of transportation. Uh, that was new and crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He was writing the bart out here. My girl at
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  Speaker 1: the time was from Oakland, and we took the bar
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  Speaker 1: from Oakland the surface Cisco and I didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. Uh, there's like an underground tunnel
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  Speaker 1: under the water. It did. You to San Francisco, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: We had a great experience on the boat, uh, traveling
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  Speaker 1: from downtown San Francisco all the way to Maren City
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  Speaker 1: with the former teammate of mine. Um, tons of beautiful
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  Speaker 1: views and uh sites. What were some of your favorite
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  Speaker 1: ways to move around outside of this normal transportation in
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  Speaker 1: the car when you were at the back. For me, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: You know I didn't. I didn't travel much, but but
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  Speaker 1: by car uh and bus. I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: remember one time we draw from from the game. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know when we played Sacramento Kings. We used to
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  Speaker 1: drive back and forth. Um, so you know, I remember
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  Speaker 1: those bus ride, those put bus rides from me. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I used to enjoy putting my rose rods out man,
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  Speaker 1: getting that bridge, getting that bridge, man, saying that beautiful
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  Speaker 1: bridge and that beautiful that beautiful skyline, and then and
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  Speaker 1: the bog and miss sitting, no, the sitting man. I
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  Speaker 1: usually love doing that, going over there to the city
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  Speaker 1: and going in Houston getting something, going to those restaurants
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  Speaker 1: we talked about. You know, I think that that's that's
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  Speaker 1: stuffing you want to experience. You want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to you know what I mean, to get behind that
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  Speaker 1: wheel on a nice side of it, hit that bridge
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  Speaker 1: and just and just see that beautiful saying every man
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  Speaker 1: see alpatrash and all that. So for me, I think
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  Speaker 1: that was that was that was something I really enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Our band in the bay top down or top up,
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was I was full do a hard tip.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't top down, but you know I would cruise
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  Speaker 1: at a low speed so you can feel me as
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  Speaker 1: I'm riding. You know, obviously one thing to really stick
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  Speaker 1: out the racial love that boat ride and you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to stop out there and seeing how therapeutic
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  Speaker 1: being on that water was, seeing all that maying houses,
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  Speaker 1: uh steam, how big bridges are just kind of really
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  Speaker 1: understanding that. You know, the bay is just special to
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  Speaker 1: drive right by Alpatrash. It's really getting this field again,
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