Speaker 1: This episode is sponsored by American Express. Now, you guys
Speaker 1: know that the Bay Area holds a specially placing our
Speaker 1: hearts and it's a vibrus city. Would us to see
Speaker 1: and do the art, sports, food, but the people what
Speaker 1: makes the city very unique. There's a few must stop
Speaker 1: places you have to see, so you know we're gonna
Speaker 1: set you up right. So we have a few ideas
Speaker 1: for the best way to experience the city. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm from northern California. Actually bloom right next
Speaker 1: to the Big Area. Give a chance to play out
Speaker 1: here twice was amazing. And one thing I always like
Speaker 1: about the Bay Area was the food spots. What are
Speaker 1: some of your favorite food spots. I know you're a
Speaker 1: big Shelfish fans that you're always eating crab and shrimp. Uh,
Speaker 1: any places come to mind? Yeah? Meve in the Southern
Speaker 1: Wild I always you know, was it was a fan
Speaker 1: of crab and the sea food. But coming out to
Speaker 1: the Bay Man I experienced in a whole different way.
Speaker 1: I think that the first time at eight Quest Station,
Speaker 1: I think, uh the guard of happened to Garden, Newis
Speaker 1: was a different experience to me that I fell in
Speaker 1: love with and uh, I think it's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite spots I've done. Also, I got a chance and
Speaker 1: up to the spot called Aliotto's break White. I don't
Speaker 1: boy Frank White's by the Alioto's Greater Taliable, Great Crab
Speaker 1: and sea Foods, So definitely my top. My number one
Speaker 1: place to go was a Crustaceans in the World. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was always really big onf breakfast, but actually got
Speaker 1: a crustacean story too. So it was right when I
Speaker 1: started dating my ex wife, I took at the Crustaceans
Speaker 1: and San Francisco. We were living in Ala Media at
Speaker 1: the time, and I forgot my wallet, so we went
Speaker 1: up we ate. I didn't realize to have my wallet,
Speaker 1: I had to go outstair that literally scrouns like undrew.
Speaker 1: I remember the undrew the ten dollars. I be able
Speaker 1: to find a ten dollars and one of these fift
Speaker 1: the ones changed just to pay the bill. So Greg
Speaker 1: Meal had the hustle and getting paid for But I
Speaker 1: was really being on the breakfast spots Man Brenda's Sweet Maples.
Speaker 1: If you ever stopped by there, mentioned get the steak,
Speaker 1: a potato breakfast second and none. Plus they got the
Speaker 1: million dollar baking, which I know you loved. Jack. Back
Speaker 1: on our playing days, I remember we went out, maybe
Speaker 1: six or seven of us went to a restaurant. Uh.
Speaker 1: One person there was our teammate, Aaron Davis. It was
Speaker 1: a nice little Italian restaurant right across street from this house,
Speaker 1: and I remember he didn't want to pay. Uh hell
Speaker 1: the fans. What happened after? Yeah? Man, you know it
Speaker 1: was one of those nice you know, we always go
Speaker 1: out to you after the games. We was one of
Speaker 1: those teams that really started the well brothers on and
Speaker 1: off the court. We went everywhere together, so you know,
Speaker 1: it was a night out to be You know, it
Speaker 1: was Baron David, Baron Davids trying to pay what he
Speaker 1: don't want to pay, fake like you didn't have his wallet.
Speaker 1: We had to pat him down that we were the cops.
Speaker 1: Fid end up biding his wallet. He's still I was
Speaker 1: complaining about playing the bill. Uh So we end up
Speaker 1: putting all our mxes in the heat. Everybody had put
Speaker 1: the dams in the heat, and uh we let the
Speaker 1: waitress fit who was going to pay? Since be he
Speaker 1: was giving us a hard time, Well coincidence she pulled
Speaker 1: this car he end up paying anyway. He so he
Speaker 1: tried to get out of pay a bag. But you know,
Speaker 1: we all take our time the best beaty man, but
Speaker 1: he had to pay that night, and I think Bill
Speaker 1: was kind of nice. Absolutely classic warrior moments off the court. Well, Matt,
Speaker 1: recently we hit the bay Man, our second home man.
Speaker 1: It was able to to spend some time with one
Speaker 1: of the future stars of the Bay Area, man the Russell.
Speaker 1: Uh really get it to chance to go to the pergola.
Speaker 1: That's when he caused his backyard in the stage. Uh really,
Speaker 1: the chance to to to be around his family. We
Speaker 1: had a great experience with a dope breakfast by called Momos.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? You remember Momos? Matt? It was
Speaker 1: a great experience. I mean, first of all, thank him
Speaker 1: and his family for welcoming us. His mom was dad
Speaker 1: and family was there. Obviously the pergola. You don't know
Speaker 1: the pergola, Google it. It's a spot in his backyard,
Speaker 1: in the heart of the layout where at the whole
Speaker 1: entire city com un listen they're performed. So we got
Speaker 1: a first hand experience with that in the chance interview
Speaker 1: him meeting his friends and family and really his all
Speaker 1: in the organs of his team. You'really reminded me of
Speaker 1: Nip on his independent push in this record space, creativity
Speaker 1: behind getting his music out there. Um, as you mentioned, Momo,
Speaker 1: some of the best breakfasts that they don't I've had
Speaker 1: in my life. They're still good to make you want
Speaker 1: to slap your mama. Man. We have a time out there, man,
Speaker 1: but big cast off to uh the Russell and instead
Speaker 1: of aalleo, welcome in us. Good company. Yeah. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I really found special about the Russell and
Speaker 1: his team is just everything is in the house, from
Speaker 1: music production to taking sales, to have a concert of
Speaker 1: his own backyards. That trught me how important it is
Speaker 1: or stuff like that to continue to happen where he's
Speaker 1: doing a lot of black owned in house stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: I call it that them Lebraun effect. You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about how Lebroun is on the basketball player of
Speaker 1: history to get it right, to bring his friends along,
Speaker 1: put in position to sus seed and we all went together.
Speaker 1: I think that's I call that the lebron the fact,
Speaker 1: and that's what the Russell is doing. All these people
Speaker 1: that he grew up with. Everybody has the talent, Like
Speaker 1: you said, everybody could be a star on their own
Speaker 1: role and it's the the super dope that that that
Speaker 1: he's taking that same that same blueprint and doing it
Speaker 1: with good company everybody around him as a talent to
Speaker 1: use and you know, he's benefited from it all and
Speaker 1: they're all winning together. And I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: best thing you could do, man, because you know, if
Speaker 1: you're not putting somebody up and what you're doing and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, like said, Lebron is a blueprint
Speaker 1: and everybody else is taking down the Russell's doing a
Speaker 1: great job at it as well. I think she made
Speaker 1: a great point too. I mean, remember when he introduced
Speaker 1: the whole team, it was nobody that hung around. Everybody
Speaker 1: here introduced or was at least sixteen to twenty people had,
Speaker 1: like he said, a talent and a job and he
Speaker 1: part of the bignor picture of what he was trying
Speaker 1: to build out there. So it's something they're big, gone
Speaker 1: black owned. There's something they're big one and obviously I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the d to his success
Speaker 1: as he needs to elevate in this music space. One
Speaker 1: thing that is different for me, you know, being from
Speaker 1: here and out here is the musical inspiration that that
Speaker 1: the area draws drawn all the way back from Cheapox
Speaker 1: saying that that the Bay gave him a lot of
Speaker 1: his game to the great Slight forty uh team short
Speaker 1: Rest of the Peace mc dre. All that music and
Speaker 1: all that energy is really entrench in the entire area
Speaker 1: is just a different world out here. When I stay
Speaker 1: to Bay is different. They don't know what I mean,
Speaker 1: But people how at the Bay is different with the
Speaker 1: energy and and and the inspirational they drop from their
Speaker 1: music out here. You know, well, I mean for me,
Speaker 1: I mean every every you know culture, I say, every
Speaker 1: every side of the maps as their own style of music.
Speaker 1: But the being on the West Coast and the Bay,
Speaker 1: you know this this a lot of people consider all
Speaker 1: the same. But for me, I know the difference because
Speaker 1: I grew up on the music. I grew up on
Speaker 1: Eat Party, I grew up on Spice One, I grew
Speaker 1: up on mcmall, I grew up on all that, all
Speaker 1: that the click I grew I grew upon, grew up
Speaker 1: on all that music. So the base sound was definitely
Speaker 1: something that that's in the soundtrack of my life and
Speaker 1: it was. It was coincident. It was just odd that
Speaker 1: I was able to play out there and then have
Speaker 1: some successive basketball. But the Bay music that that don't sound.
Speaker 1: It's just a different sound that that's that's been standing
Speaker 1: alone for forever. I guess that sound of eat party
Speaker 1: and and and and the clicking the spice one was
Speaker 1: the was the block sound. You know what's in the
Speaker 1: sign that we all that we all love to that
Speaker 1: to so list to on the block growing up for
Speaker 1: barbecues and stuff like that. And uh, it was. It
Speaker 1: was big in the South, whether a lot of people
Speaker 1: know it or not now, so you know, the Bay
Speaker 1: the Bay Area music thing has touched a lot of
Speaker 1: people worldwide. But me speaking from the South Broke, I think,
Speaker 1: is this almost bigger than our music? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a ev'sporation so well obviously scored and on what we
Speaker 1: brought from the Oakland area. And when I tell people
Speaker 1: the energy and the Bay is different, I think obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's aspired by the music. This half to be
Speaker 1: in it and steal it to really out of the
Speaker 1: state of it is hard to explain, but you know,
Speaker 1: there's a yeasts differed from the Bay Area and orl
Speaker 1: the area Sacramento, just the Bay Area that's really a
Speaker 1: standalone place with great music, great food, great people, all
Speaker 1: different kinds of way to get around the city. Uh.
Speaker 1: And there's really something you have to experience yourself that
Speaker 1: believe understand how failable it is. I mean, one thing
Speaker 1: this uh very special to me about the Bay is
Speaker 1: is the way you're able to move around. You know.
Speaker 1: I was a child that was all around on my
Speaker 1: bike or walking. Um, you know, I helicoptered around the
Speaker 1: city obviously taking cars norm but there's trains one form
Speaker 1: of transportation. Uh that was new and crazy. He was
Speaker 1: writing the part out here. My girl at the time
Speaker 1: was from Oakland, and we took the bar from Oakland
Speaker 1: the surface Cisco and I didn't know how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Uh, there's like an underground tunnel under the water.
Speaker 1: It gets you the San Francisco. YEA. We had a
Speaker 1: great experience on the boat, uh, traveling from downtown San
Speaker 1: Francisco all the way to Maren City with the former
Speaker 1: teammate of mine. UM, tons of beautiful views and uh sites.
Speaker 1: What were some of your favorite ways to move around
Speaker 1: outside of this normal transportation in the car where when
Speaker 1: you were at the back. For me, Matt, you know
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't travel much, but but by car
Speaker 1: uh and bus. I mean, you know, I remember one
Speaker 1: time we draw from from the game. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: when we played Sacramento Kings. We used to drive back
Speaker 1: and forth. Uh. So you know I remember those bus ride,
Speaker 1: those bus rides from me, Man, I used to enjoy
Speaker 1: pulling my rose wards out man getting the bridge, getting
Speaker 1: the bridge, man saying that beautiful bridge and that beautiful
Speaker 1: that beautiful skyline and then and the bag and missed it.
Speaker 1: No the stating man, I usually love doing that, going
Speaker 1: over there to the city and going in Houston getting something,
Speaker 1: going to those restaurants we talked about. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that that's that's stuffing you want to experience. You
Speaker 1: want to be able to you know what I mean
Speaker 1: to to get behind that wheel on a nice sidey
Speaker 1: it hit that bridge and just and just see that
Speaker 1: beautiful saying every man see alprotrash and all that. So
Speaker 1: for me, I think that was that was that was
Speaker 1: something I really enjoy. A band in the bay hop
Speaker 1: down the top up I was, I was, I was
Speaker 1: full of door, a hard tip. I wouldn't top down,
Speaker 1: but you know I would cruise at a low speed
Speaker 1: so you can feel me as I'm riding. You know.
Speaker 1: Obviously one thing that really sticks out the race gonna
Speaker 1: of that boat ride and you know, being able to
Speaker 1: stop out there and seeing how therapeutic being on that
Speaker 1: water was, seeing all the may thing houses, uh steeing,
Speaker 1: how big bridges are, just kind of really understanding that.
Speaker 1: You know, the bay is just special. Driving right by Alpatrash,
Speaker 1: it's really getting this field again, the history and a
Speaker 1: significant um of the baby travel. I mean, it's always
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