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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Coming to you straight from California.
This is Earth.
I'm Gary Williams and I'm theeditor scheduling and making
interviews by Sarah S.
You should subscribe to ourYouTube channel Alright, so
how's everyone?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
feeling today.
I take all the back roads, youknow, try not to get on the
freeway too much.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Just out for a little ride in the morning.
What do you see when you takethe back roads?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Just a lot of beautiful scenery.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Anything specific, just everything.
The trees.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know the road, the fresh air.
You know the road, the freshair.
I just enjoy the freedom ridingone of these things Beautiful,
crisp, sunny morning.
Nothing like unwinding andblowing away all the stress that
(01:04):
builds up all week.
So that's what I do on theweekends.
It's my hobby.
What do you do during the week?
I'm a carpenter Do youspecialize in anything Homes,
houses, framing houses.
Yeah, basically I can build thewhole thing.
I've been doing it for 43 yearsKind of semi-retired now, I
(01:26):
don't you know, at my age slowdown a little bit, but I'm still
building things.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You've been working for 40 years, roughly 43.
43.
Exactly, yeah.
What's different about buildinga house now than say, maybe 30
years?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
ago.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
The cost yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's unbelievable what a piece of wood costs now.
Well, it's like everything butwood tripled it probably, I'd
say, in the last five or sixyears.
Lumber's tripled in price.
Everything sheetrock, lumber,you name it, roofing, you know
(02:08):
it's just cost your fortune tobuild anything now.
It cost your fortune to build afence, just a redwood fence you
know.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Have you ever built outside of California?
Have you ever had on the groundexperience building in another
state?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, no, I haven't.
I've been here my whole life.
Don't travel either, don'treally care to, except on the
motorcycle.
Yeah, but I mean I don't do.
I don't like go to like Europe,or you know places like that,
you know which a lot of peoplelike to go.
I've been on a cruise.
That's about the extent ofleaving the state.
(02:43):
I went on a 10-day cruise toMexico about 15 years ago and
I'm good I've done it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
You came in from Dublin.
You're here now in Fremont.
What's the plan for the rest ofthe day?
Now that you've parked?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'm just sitting here stretching my legs, having
something to drink and somepeanuts had a tamale from inside
the store there and justcruising back.
Be back in Dublin in about 40minutes Awesome, I'll leave you
to it.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Thank you for your time, sir.
I appreciate it.
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
How hard is it, the scalpel?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It's pretty hard.
Yeah, it looks it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's a little physical.
Got to stay in the gym everyday, got to go do the other
muscles that you forgot about.
But yeah, it's a heavy job.
It's all labor.
It's about 75% of it is labor.
You know what I mean and that'swhat I tell a lot of guys.
So it's really hard to get help.
You know, if you're in thebusiness, I did 20 years in the
(04:13):
union.
I worked for the union beforeand then I kind of branched away
and I did my own, opened my owncompany.
Nobody notices the scaffold.
You know.
You see this building go up butnobody knows this temporary
platform that sat outside.
It's almost like a chain orwhatever you want to, you know a
ladder, whatever you want tocall it, but nobody's ever
noticed it and we've alwayswanted to bring it like, make it
(04:34):
more like you know, like youknow, like you think of an iron
worker, right, and you'd be likeiron workers, you know, and
they're cool and they got thisbig old hand and stuff, and
we've always tried to do thatwith this because this is just,
it is dismissive people, justlike scaffold.
What is that?
I would like you to get upthere and try it.
You know what I mean.
I'll just let you know.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's just I'll do it if you let me it's very you know
, just it moves.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So you know, you got to know your uh, your lumbar
system's got to work pretty good.
You know, and just you know,make sure that everything's good
, because you're the you're theone putting it together.
You're not the guy actuallyworking on it, right?
So when you get to that level,there's nothing there, right?
So you're gonna have to grab itand put it together, and that's
where this part you're bymaking it safe for others
(05:21):
exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
You got to be on it when it's not safe, and then you
gotta, while it's not safe, yougotta make it safe you gotta
make it completely safe.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's what our job is.
Our job is basically uh, butyou don't safety you don't.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You don't get to make it safe from the ground.
You got to get up on something.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh no, you're gonna have to get up there and get
safe.
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have togo up and the higher you go,
the more safe you're gonna haveto make.
Make it, you know what I mean.
And then it's like, right here,we were going to put the net
and you get like a debris youknow for debris and we cover it
up.
So you know, out of sight, outof mind kind of thing, because
it is, you know, an ugly view,but it is what it is.
But it's going to make thisplace nice.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Hey, how many people stop you and ask you what you're
doing today?
Six zillion.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
A few, but a few more , like mad, while I was blocking
the road.
Oh, that's a lot of people.
We're almost going to be done,I got another two men coming in.
Really, yeah, we're all goingto get it done.
We're just going to get itsecured.
Okay, okay, it's going to be itdone.
We're going to get it secured,okay.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Sure, yeah, it's going to be done today.
Oh, it's a circle.
It's a circle.
Can you see a circle A?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
circle A.
Circle A circle A circle Acircle A circle A circle A
circle A circle A circle Acircle A circle, oh, for sure.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That is a dead end.
That is a dead end.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Okay, all the fun stuff is thatway.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
We came all the way from, oh, which side Close to
Clorid Lakes actually?
Oh, from Clorid Lakes.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah, and how long did it take you to get here?
Five minutes.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I think a little more than five minutes.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Five miles.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Five miles yeah, five miles.
20 minutes yeah 20 minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Awesome.
What do you guys besides biking?
What do you guys do on theweekends?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
We usually go for a walk around Quarry Lakes.
We have a dog, so we take himaround.
Other than that, I think theweekends are spent in chores at
home, so this is a welcomechange.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You live in Fremont over by Coral Lake you said yes
we live near Brookwell.
What do you guys like to dowhen you're not going to school
and you're not headed to workEither in the evenings or on the
weekends, when you're not doingchores, we like going out to
restaurants sometimes.
(07:44):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Olive Garden, but we don't go there often because
it's really expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Any places that you enjoy.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
We like Indian places .
I think that's why the kidsdon't like us, because we keep
taking them to a lot of Indianeat-outs.
What restaurants do you like?
There is a new one calledRameshwaram Cafe.
We like that, and this Fridayactually, we went to this.
Downtown Fremont there are abunch of food trucks and this
happens to be a new Indian foodtruck as well.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
We like that there's also Chatbavan.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yeah, Chatbavan too.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
What did you see on the way here that caught your
interest?
Speaker 11 (08:23):
What, what did you see on the way here that caught
your interest A lot of?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
squirrels, a lot of squirrels.
Mallard ducks and the waterseemed very clear here at this
part of town as opposed tocloser to.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Brookwell, so it was actually enjoyable to see this
part of Alameda Creek.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I just like seeing people out and about and
enjoying themselves and enjoyinggood food and company.
I mean it just Is this notnormal?
Well, until these tworestaurants opened, I didn't
really, you know, you'd see likea couple of people here or
whatever, Like we would bringour dim sum over here.
I love joyful dim sum, butmaybe an occasional person or
(09:02):
you know a party or two fromthat Japanese place.
But I've never seen it this, youknow, with this much energy and
this many people as I have inthe last couple of weeks, since
both the tea place and the TastyHut opened, yeah, yeah.
So it's just nice, I don't know.
I mean, it's just got a goodenergy to it.
I've always liked this outdoorspace and felt like it was
(09:24):
underutilized.
To begin with, I'm going to tryAlmost 20 tables out here, yeah
.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
This is kind of unusual for this neighborhood
because classically becauseclassically they did the
neighborhood here has a tendencyto fight against.
You know restaurants and anightlife right and it's
lunchtime, so it's not anightlife.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
But true, true, well, and I think that that's what
also, you know, makes me happy.
It's just you can tell there'sa need for it, obviously.
I mean, even though it may seem, you know, there's been maybe
pushback, right, in some ways,there clearly is a need.
I feel like I see people,definitely local.
These are local people here,right, this is not just people
(10:16):
driving down mission boulevardoh, I think I'll stop and eat
here.
These are people utilizing theshopping center for other
purposes, maybe to go to thetutoring place or the Kung Fu
test prep.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And there's like a lot of bicycle parking for the
kids, for anybody.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Right, it's very accessible and it also feels
very safe because there's a lotof.
I mean, it's a small parkinglot and it's tucked away and
it's not like you have to worryabout you know dealing with cars
and traffic do you get thisvibe anywhere else in?
fremont to this level.
No, I've always.
I said I've always really likedthis space.
(10:58):
I've always felt, evenespecially during covid right,
where you were seeking places toeat outside, but maybe in
aisles a little bit, but no more.
This would be it, I would thinkDid you want to go get yourself
(11:21):
a straw?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
It's interesting that when, now that people are here,
a lot of the things that workfor pedestrians are getting
utilized, Like this alleyway isa lovely, clean alleyway and
just nobody ever used it ever.
Because why?
(11:54):
And now people use it all thetime as a safe, clean, pleasant
alleyway that gets you from oneside of the building to the
other without having to drive.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
No, that's a good point.
I mean, I didn't even reallynotice it, I kind of knew it was
there, but I forgot, but it wascool to see people just walking
there right now, just exploring, looking around.
I mean there's.
The shopping center has alwayshad some potential and I'm just
glad to see it.
Oh, food is here.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I have been saying sorry to bother so much.
It just came out sorry tobother.
I literally said sorry tobother.
I mean I know what a sorry is,not know how to debauch.
How long does it take to cleanup after each farmer's market?
(13:25):
Like, how long are you guyshere after it's done?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Usually an hour to an hour and a half.
Try to be an hour.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What's the hardest part about the breakdown?
Speaker 11 (13:39):
You know, for me I've had market this market, for
example takes a much longerclose down.
I think one of the reasons forthat is because some of the
vendors want to stay.
They want to get those lastminute sales.
They kind of take their time,wait for those last minute
shoppers to get those lastminute sales.
I kind of take their time, waitfor those last minute shoppers
to yeah, to make their lastminute sales.
But I have markets that areespecially um an afternoon.
(14:01):
It'll be like closing at seven.
It gets dark later in theevenings nowadays and so people
I've the quickest.
I've had everyone go and leaveand the market is clean 45
minutes, yeah, and if people, ifit's the weather is bad or it's
dark, people can clean upreally quickly and it makes it a
(14:23):
lot easier.
But here people really taketheir time.
They don't have marketstomorrow, so they're trying to
get rid of the produce that waspicked this morning or last
night before it goes bad in afew days.
Trying to get rid of theproduce that was picked this
morning or last night before itgoes bad in a few days.
So this market is unique inthat sense versus other markets
might take 30 to 40 pounds.
What's your favorite photo?
(14:52):
Any photo.
What's your?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
favorite photo.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Do you like the photo ?
Yes, I like the photo.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
So you don't get to pitch your candidate, okay,
without telling me who you'reworking for.
Tell me why each of you wantedto spend your time doing this.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I came out doing this for this candidate because I
want to be more civicallyengaged and I want to be able to
help out members in thecommunity by advocating for a
candidate that I think issomeone who is very
community-oriented, for acandidate that I think is
someone who is very communityoriented.
And because of that, I, as ayouth, as a member of the youth,
I want to just make sure that Iexercise my right as a citizen
of the United States.
And by doing this, by walkingout, by talking to people, I'm
(15:43):
not only building my ownpersonal portfolio, I'm also
just being someone in thecommunity that I live in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I just wanted to come out here to connect with my
community and talk to others andsee what they think of what
needs to be improved upon orwhat they think is going good
and what they really wanna seein the future with their
community.
And being able to connect witheverybody is really helpful in
learning on how to be anadvocate for yourself and as
well as people that you surroundyourself with, and I think
(16:11):
that's really important.
So that's why we're here today.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
What research did you do before you picked this
candidate, without telling mewho it is?
But what research did you dothat said oh, that's that one.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
Absolutely so.
I looked on his own website,obviously, but I'm not going to
take sources just from thecandidate himself, so I looked
at his opponents.
I looked at unbiased newssources as well.
I really wanted to get anoverall, like well-rounded feel
for what he actually does.
So now, as an informed I'm not avoter yet, but as an informed
volunteer, I know his policiesthat I like, his policies that I
(16:47):
don't like and his policiesthat I'm neutral on, and I feel
that that makes me a really goodvolunteer and a really good
member of the community as well,because I am able to speak up
for the change that I want tosee.
And if I see a policy of histhat I don't like, I can go
directly to him.
I can talk about it, we canhave a discussion, I can see
where he's coming from, he cansee where I'm coming from, and
so, yeah, that's what I wantapproachable.
(17:08):
They're ready for change and,in addition to your original
question, I really want theyouth to know that they have a
voice.
I feel like it's a reallycommon misconception that if
you're a youth, you don't reallyhave a say in anything, and I
want people to know that they dohave a voice.
The youth can make a differencein local politics and
nationwide politics as well, butspecific to local politics, I
really want the youth to knowthat they have a voice and they
(17:30):
can speak up and they can createchange in their own communities
.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
If it were not an election year, and this that you
are doing is not an option.
What would you be doing on aSaturday?
To help your community, ifanything?
Or would you just be having anice time on a Saturday?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
So I'm actually currently hereentering and I think it's like
really important for students toget involved, even in their
city, when it's not electionyear.
So I mean it's getting involvedwith city council and
volunteering in different places.
I think volunteering isespecially important, especially
like at your local library orplaces that maybe are not
necessarily community centers,but you can turn into community
centers and I think that'sincredibly important for
(18:11):
students and like you have to beinvolved in like government and
local government and seeing whoyou can kind of participate
with, who you can learn from,who you can speak to and share
your voice, even if it'snecessarily not an election year
, I think it's still impactfullater on.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Thank you all for your time.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Have a good day.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That is correct.
This is why we can't record inthe Ardenwood neighborhoods.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
This is not my equipment.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
It hurts my ears.
The Good morning Good.
How are you Good?
We see you here all the time.
I was just curious, like, howlong does it take you to set up
in the morning?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Like 45 minutes, yeah, yeah, everything.
Then the oven is going to takelike 90 minutes to get it warmed
up for being ready for makingpizza and the dough is going to
be ready in like five minutes.
The pizza is going to be readyin five minutes after the oven
is at 500 degrees.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
What time do you wake up and get out here?
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Like 5.30.
Where did you get the oven?
It's custom made.
My wife and me designed it andand somebody else did it for us.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, everything that's awesome.
Good luck today.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Oh, thank you, Appreciate it.
Thank you, have a good one.
Yeah, you too.
There is a little section ofsidewalk that I always have to
go past that's by these treesthat let off the worst sticky
sap and it basically makes thissection of sidewalk like
impassable unless you want tohave sticky shoes for the rest
(20:39):
of the day, and it's all clean.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
How are you, charlie, andrew?
It's always a pleasure, sir.
Yeah, yeah, how's it going Ilike that man.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Thanks.
How are you today?
What are you up to today?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I'm up to just relaxing today.
I worked on the weekends,weekdays.
Today's my day off.
Been here 57 years, mom and dadbeen here since the 40s, and I
got six sisters, nine brothers.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Tell me something that's changed, not from the
beginning to the end, but likein the last 10 years.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Bars, bars.
There used to be a lot of bars,a lot of bars, because Mr Clay
was down there so they used tobuild the bricks down in
Shillings Park so they had thefactory down there.
So the guys would come up andtear up the bars and then go
(21:54):
home Because my dad used tobounce from there.
Come Derby Club, nautilus Club.
Keep going on this way.
Hit all these bars up.
Now, devil's Workshop.
I work for Devil's Workshop.
I maintain the area in the backthere, all the studios back
there and all the storages.
You're on your day off.
(22:19):
Yeah, you're sitting here, butwhat else do you do to relax?
Oh, where should you relax?
I?
Good question, I.
I build bikes.
Oh cool, yeah, what kind ofbikes.
Anything I build, whatever youwant, it's great.
Everybody gives me bikes.
They're like can you rebuildthis?
I'm like, yeah.
They're like, well, sure, takeit.
I'm like, really.
They're like, yeah, take it.
I'm like, cool, I rebuild it.
(22:41):
And I'm like you sure?
They're like, dude, I want itout of my garage, I want it out
of my more.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's awesome.
Have you been to the bike shop?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Nicole, nicole, nicole, am I going to be on the?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
You will be on the Fremont podcast.
Cool yeah, right on, bro.
Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Nice to meet you, man .
Nice to meet you.
Hey, come see me anytime, man,I'll let you know the info.
Awesome, you catch me awesomehey, thanks man, later man see
ya.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
This is a Muggins Media Podcast.
Coming to you straight from California.
This is Earth.
I'm Gary Williams and I'm theeditor scheduling and making
interviews by Sarah S.
You should subscribe to ourYouTube channel Alright, so
how's everyone?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
feeling today.
I take all the back roads, youknow, try not to get on the
freeway too much.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
Just out for a little ride in the morning.
What do you see when you takethe back roads?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Just a lot of beautiful scenery.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Anything specific, just everything.
The trees.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You know the road, the fresh air.
You know the road, the freshair.
I just enjoy the freedom ridingone of these things Beautiful,
crisp, sunny morning.
Nothing like unwinding andblowing away all the stress that
(01:04):
builds up all week.
So that's what I do on theweekends.
It's my hobby.
What do you do during the week?
I'm a carpenter Do youspecialize in anything Homes,
houses, framing houses.
Yeah, basically I can build thewhole thing.
I've been doing it for 43 yearsKind of semi-retired now, I
(01:26):
don't you know, at my age slowdown a little bit, but I'm still
building things.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
You've been working for 40 years, roughly 43.
43.
Exactly, yeah.
What's different about buildinga house now than say, maybe 30
years?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
ago.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
The cost yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's unbelievable what a piece of wood costs now.
Well, it's like everything butwood tripled it probably, I'd
say, in the last five or sixyears.
Lumber's tripled in price.
Everything sheetrock, lumber,you name it, roofing, you know
(02:08):
it's just cost your fortune tobuild anything now.
It cost your fortune to build afence, just a redwood fence you
know.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Have you ever built outside of California?
Have you ever had on the groundexperience building in another
state?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
No, no, I haven't.
I've been here my whole life.
Don't travel either, don'treally care to, except on the
motorcycle.
Yeah, but I mean I don't do.
I don't like go to like Europe,or you know places like that,
you know which a lot of peoplelike to go.
I've been on a cruise.
That's about the extent ofleaving the state.
(02:43):
I went on a 10-day cruise toMexico about 15 years ago and
I'm good I've done it.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
You came in from Dublin.
You're here now in Fremont.
What's the plan for the rest ofthe day?
Now that you've parked?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I'm just sitting here stretching my legs, having
something to drink and somepeanuts had a tamale from inside
the store there and justcruising back.
Be back in Dublin in about 40minutes Awesome, I'll leave you
to it.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Thank you for your time, sir.
I appreciate it.
Have a great day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
How hard is it, the scalpel?
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It's pretty hard.
Yeah, it looks it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's a little physical.
Got to stay in the gym everyday, got to go do the other
muscles that you forgot about.
But yeah, it's a heavy job.
It's all labor.
It's about 75% of it is labor.
You know what I mean and that'swhat I tell a lot of guys.
So it's really hard to get help.
You know, if you're in thebusiness, I did 20 years in the
(04:13):
union.
I worked for the union beforeand then I kind of branched away
and I did my own, opened my owncompany.
Nobody notices the scaffold.
You know.
You see this building go up butnobody knows this temporary
platform that sat outside.
It's almost like a chain orwhatever you want to, you know a
ladder, whatever you want tocall it, but nobody's ever
noticed it and we've alwayswanted to bring it like, make it
(04:34):
more like you know, like youknow, like you think of an iron
worker, right, and you'd be likeiron workers, you know, and
they're cool and they got thisbig old hand and stuff, and
we've always tried to do thatwith this because this is just,
it is dismissive people, justlike scaffold.
What is that?
I would like you to get upthere and try it.
You know what I mean.
I'll just let you know.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
It's just I'll do it if you let me it's very you know
, just it moves.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So you know, you got to know your uh, your lumbar
system's got to work pretty good.
You know, and just you know,make sure that everything's good
, because you're the you're theone putting it together.
You're not the guy actuallyworking on it, right?
So when you get to that level,there's nothing there, right?
So you're gonna have to grab itand put it together, and that's
where this part you're bymaking it safe for others
(05:21):
exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
You got to be on it when it's not safe, and then you
gotta, while it's not safe, yougotta make it safe you gotta
make it completely safe.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's what our job is.
Our job is basically uh, butyou don't safety you don't.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
You don't get to make it safe from the ground.
You got to get up on something.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh no, you're gonna have to get up there and get
safe.
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have togo up and the higher you go,
the more safe you're gonna haveto make.
Make it, you know what I mean.
And then it's like, right here,we were going to put the net
and you get like a debris youknow for debris and we cover it
up.
So you know, out of sight, outof mind kind of thing, because
it is, you know, an ugly view,but it is what it is.
But it's going to make thisplace nice.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Hey, how many people stop you and ask you what you're
doing today?
Six zillion.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
A few, but a few more , like mad, while I was blocking
the road.
Oh, that's a lot of people.
We're almost going to be done,I got another two men coming in.
Really, yeah, we're all goingto get it done.
We're just going to get itsecured.
Okay, okay, it's going to be itdone.
We're going to get it secured,okay.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Sure, yeah, it's going to be done today.
Oh, it's a circle.
It's a circle.
Can you see a circle A?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
circle A.
Circle A circle A circle Acircle A circle A circle A
circle A circle A circle Acircle A circle, oh, for sure.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
That is a dead end.
That is a dead end.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Okay, all the fun stuff is thatway.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
We came all the way from, oh, which side Close to
Clorid Lakes actually?
Oh, from Clorid Lakes.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yeah, and how long did it take you to get here?
Five minutes.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I think a little more than five minutes.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Five miles.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Five miles yeah, five miles.
20 minutes yeah 20 minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Awesome.
What do you guys besides biking?
What do you guys do on theweekends?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
We usually go for a walk around Quarry Lakes.
We have a dog, so we take himaround.
Other than that, I think theweekends are spent in chores at
home, so this is a welcomechange.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You live in Fremont over by Coral Lake you said yes
we live near Brookwell.
What do you guys like to dowhen you're not going to school
and you're not headed to workEither in the evenings or on the
weekends, when you're not doingchores, we like going out to
restaurants sometimes.
(07:44):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Olive Garden, but we don't go there often because
it's really expensive.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Any places that you enjoy.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
We like Indian places .
I think that's why the kidsdon't like us, because we keep
taking them to a lot of Indianeat-outs.
What restaurants do you like?
There is a new one calledRameshwaram Cafe.
We like that, and this Fridayactually, we went to this.
Downtown Fremont there are abunch of food trucks and this
happens to be a new Indian foodtruck as well.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
We like that there's also Chatbavan.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yeah, Chatbavan too.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
What did you see on the way here that caught your
interest?
Speaker 11 (08:23):
What, what did you see on the way here that caught
your interest A lot of?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
squirrels, a lot of squirrels.
Mallard ducks and the waterseemed very clear here at this
part of town as opposed tocloser to.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Brookwell, so it was actually enjoyable to see this
part of Alameda Creek.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I just like seeing people out and about and
enjoying themselves and enjoyinggood food and company.
I mean it just Is this notnormal?
Well, until these tworestaurants opened, I didn't
really, you know, you'd see likea couple of people here or
whatever, Like we would bringour dim sum over here.
I love joyful dim sum, butmaybe an occasional person or
(09:02):
you know a party or two fromthat Japanese place.
But I've never seen it this, youknow, with this much energy and
this many people as I have inthe last couple of weeks, since
both the tea place and the TastyHut opened, yeah, yeah.
So it's just nice, I don't know.
I mean, it's just got a goodenergy to it.
I've always liked this outdoorspace and felt like it was
(09:24):
underutilized.
To begin with, I'm going to tryAlmost 20 tables out here, yeah
.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
This is kind of unusual for this neighborhood
because classically becauseclassically they did the
neighborhood here has a tendencyto fight against.
You know restaurants and anightlife right and it's
lunchtime, so it's not anightlife.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
But true, true, well, and I think that that's what
also, you know, makes me happy.
It's just you can tell there'sa need for it, obviously.
I mean, even though it may seem, you know, there's been maybe
pushback, right, in some ways,there clearly is a need.
I feel like I see people,definitely local.
These are local people here,right, this is not just people
(10:16):
driving down mission boulevardoh, I think I'll stop and eat
here.
These are people utilizing theshopping center for other
purposes, maybe to go to thetutoring place or the Kung Fu
test prep.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And there's like a lot of bicycle parking for the
kids, for anybody.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Right, it's very accessible and it also feels
very safe because there's a lotof.
I mean, it's a small parkinglot and it's tucked away and
it's not like you have to worryabout you know dealing with cars
and traffic do you get thisvibe anywhere else in?
fremont to this level.
No, I've always.
I said I've always really likedthis space.
(10:58):
I've always felt, evenespecially during covid right,
where you were seeking places toeat outside, but maybe in
aisles a little bit, but no more.
This would be it, I would thinkDid you want to go get yourself
(11:21):
a straw?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
It's interesting that when, now that people are here,
a lot of the things that workfor pedestrians are getting
utilized, Like this alleyway isa lovely, clean alleyway and
just nobody ever used it ever.
Because why?
(11:54):
And now people use it all thetime as a safe, clean, pleasant
alleyway that gets you from oneside of the building to the
other without having to drive.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
No, that's a good point.
I mean, I didn't even reallynotice it, I kind of knew it was
there, but I forgot, but it wascool to see people just walking
there right now, just exploring, looking around.
I mean there's.
The shopping center has alwayshad some potential and I'm just
glad to see it.
Oh, food is here.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I have been saying sorry to bother so much.
It just came out sorry tobother.
I literally said sorry tobother.
I mean I know what a sorry is,not know how to debauch.
How long does it take to cleanup after each farmer's market?
(13:25):
Like, how long are you guyshere after it's done?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Usually an hour to an hour and a half.
Try to be an hour.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What's the hardest part about the breakdown?
Speaker 11 (13:39):
You know, for me I've had market this market, for
example takes a much longerclose down.
I think one of the reasons forthat is because some of the
vendors want to stay.
They want to get those lastminute sales.
They kind of take their time,wait for those last minute
shoppers to get those lastminute sales.
I kind of take their time, waitfor those last minute shoppers
to yeah, to make their lastminute sales.
But I have markets that areespecially um an afternoon.
(14:01):
It'll be like closing at seven.
It gets dark later in theevenings nowadays and so people
I've the quickest.
I've had everyone go and leaveand the market is clean 45
minutes, yeah, and if people, ifit's the weather is bad or it's
dark, people can clean upreally quickly and it makes it a
(14:23):
lot easier.
But here people really taketheir time.
They don't have marketstomorrow, so they're trying to
get rid of the produce that waspicked this morning or last
night before it goes bad in afew days.
Trying to get rid of theproduce that was picked this
morning or last night before itgoes bad in a few days.
So this market is unique inthat sense versus other markets
might take 30 to 40 pounds.
What's your favorite photo?
(14:52):
Any photo.
What's your?
Speaker 8 (14:54):
favorite photo.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Do you like the photo ?
Yes, I like the photo.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
So you don't get to pitch your candidate, okay,
without telling me who you'reworking for.
Tell me why each of you wantedto spend your time doing this.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I came out doing this for this candidate because I
want to be more civicallyengaged and I want to be able to
help out members in thecommunity by advocating for a
candidate that I think issomeone who is very
community-oriented, for acandidate that I think is
someone who is very communityoriented.
And because of that, I, as ayouth, as a member of the youth,
I want to just make sure that Iexercise my right as a citizen
of the United States.
And by doing this, by walkingout, by talking to people, I'm
(15:43):
not only building my ownpersonal portfolio, I'm also
just being someone in thecommunity that I live in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I just wanted to come out here to connect with my
community and talk to others andsee what they think of what
needs to be improved upon orwhat they think is going good
and what they really wanna seein the future with their
community.
And being able to connect witheverybody is really helpful in
learning on how to be anadvocate for yourself and as
well as people that you surroundyourself with, and I think
(16:11):
that's really important.
So that's why we're here today.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
What research did you do before you picked this
candidate, without telling mewho it is?
But what research did you dothat said oh, that's that one.
Speaker 12 (16:26):
Absolutely so.
I looked on his own website,obviously, but I'm not going to
take sources just from thecandidate himself, so I looked
at his opponents.
I looked at unbiased newssources as well.
I really wanted to get anoverall, like well-rounded feel
for what he actually does.
So now, as an informed I'm not avoter yet, but as an informed
volunteer, I know his policiesthat I like, his policies that I
(16:47):
don't like and his policiesthat I'm neutral on, and I feel
that that makes me a really goodvolunteer and a really good
member of the community as well,because I am able to speak up
for the change that I want tosee.
And if I see a policy of histhat I don't like, I can go
directly to him.
I can talk about it, we canhave a discussion, I can see
where he's coming from, he cansee where I'm coming from, and
so, yeah, that's what I wantapproachable.
(17:08):
They're ready for change and,in addition to your original
question, I really want theyouth to know that they have a
voice.
I feel like it's a reallycommon misconception that if
you're a youth, you don't reallyhave a say in anything, and I
want people to know that they dohave a voice.
The youth can make a differencein local politics and
nationwide politics as well, butspecific to local politics, I
really want the youth to knowthat they have a voice and they
(17:30):
can speak up and they can createchange in their own communities
.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
If it were not an election year, and this that you
are doing is not an option.
What would you be doing on aSaturday?
To help your community, ifanything?
Or would you just be having anice time on a Saturday?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.
So I'm actually currently hereentering and I think it's like
really important for students toget involved, even in their
city, when it's not electionyear.
So I mean it's getting involvedwith city council and
volunteering in different places.
I think volunteering isespecially important, especially
like at your local library orplaces that maybe are not
necessarily community centers,but you can turn into community
centers and I think that'sincredibly important for
(18:11):
students and like you have to beinvolved in like government and
local government and seeing whoyou can kind of participate
with, who you can learn from,who you can speak to and share
your voice, even if it'snecessarily not an election year
, I think it's still impactfullater on.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Thank you all for your time.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Have a good day.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That is correct.
This is why we can't record inthe Ardenwood neighborhoods.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
This is not my equipment.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
It hurts my ears.
The Good morning Good.
How are you Good?
We see you here all the time.
I was just curious, like, howlong does it take you to set up
in the morning?
Speaker 10 (19:41):
Like 45 minutes, yeah, yeah, everything.
Then the oven is going to takelike 90 minutes to get it warmed
up for being ready for makingpizza and the dough is going to
be ready in like five minutes.
The pizza is going to be readyin five minutes after the oven
is at 500 degrees.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
What time do you wake up and get out here?
Speaker 10 (20:06):
Like 5.30.
Where did you get the oven?
It's custom made.
My wife and me designed it andand somebody else did it for us.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, everything that's awesome.
Good luck today.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Oh, thank you, Appreciate it.
Thank you, have a good one.
Yeah, you too.
There is a little section ofsidewalk that I always have to
go past that's by these treesthat let off the worst sticky
sap and it basically makes thissection of sidewalk like
impassable unless you want tohave sticky shoes for the rest
(20:39):
of the day, and it's all clean.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
How are you, charlie, andrew?
It's always a pleasure, sir.
Yeah, yeah, how's it going Ilike that man.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Thanks.
How are you today?
What are you up to today?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I'm up to just relaxing today.
I worked on the weekends,weekdays.
Today's my day off.
Been here 57 years, mom and dadbeen here since the 40s, and I
got six sisters, nine brothers.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Tell me something that's changed, not from the
beginning to the end, but likein the last 10 years.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Bars, bars.
There used to be a lot of bars,a lot of bars, because Mr Clay
was down there so they used tobuild the bricks down in
Shillings Park so they had thefactory down there.
So the guys would come up andtear up the bars and then go
(21:54):
home Because my dad used tobounce from there.
Come Derby Club, nautilus Club.
Keep going on this way.
Hit all these bars up.
Now, devil's Workshop.
I work for Devil's Workshop.
I maintain the area in the backthere, all the studios back
there and all the storages.
You're on your day off.
(22:19):
Yeah, you're sitting here, butwhat else do you do to relax?
Oh, where should you relax?
I?
Good question, I.
I build bikes.
Oh cool, yeah, what kind ofbikes.
Anything I build, whatever youwant, it's great.
Everybody gives me bikes.
They're like can you rebuildthis?
I'm like, yeah.
They're like, well, sure, takeit.
I'm like, really.
They're like, yeah, take it.
I'm like, cool, I rebuild it.
(22:41):
And I'm like you sure?
They're like, dude, I want itout of my garage, I want it out
of my more.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
That's awesome.
Have you been to the bike shop?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Nicole, nicole, nicole, am I going to be on the?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
You will be on the Fremont podcast.
Cool yeah, right on, bro.
Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
Nice to meet you, man .
Nice to meet you.
Hey, come see me anytime, man,I'll let you know the info.
Awesome, you catch me awesomehey, thanks man, later man see
ya.
Thank you.
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