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My name is Mike Hurley. I'm joined across the Airways by the one and only Jason Snell.

Hello Mike Hurley from the airwaves.

Whoo! Airwaves.

How are those waves of air today?

We're surfing them dude, it's California.

Nobody cares about this Jason because it's time

for hashtag snow talk and this week's question comes from someone named Casey

Casey wants to know has Jason ever lived outside of California? If so, where? If not, where would he consider living?

Well, hi, Lister Casey, Upgrading Casey, it's good to hear from you.

Sounds like the kind of person who's super into the West Coast lifestyle to me.

Yeah, this person. I think that this person is purely asking because they would like to also move to the West Coast because I think so I think they probably

think it's the best coast I think almost certainly they think that so

Lister Casey have I ever lived outside of California? I haven't. I was born in California.

However, I will say that, uh, to put this in perspective because I know some people don't understand this

California is a very large place it's about the size of France it's it's big so I

was born in Oakland, but I grew up in the foothills, which is about 100 miles

east of the Bay Area. I went to college in San Diego which is many hundreds of miles away. It was about a nine hour drive to go from home to school.

And now I live in the Bay Area. So although I have never lived outside of California, I have definitely lived in three very distinct regions in California.

I assume like the climates and the terrain and stuff is very different in those areas.

Yeah. Yeah, it's it's yes. San Diego is quite different and we have seasons up in the

up in the foothills in the mountains. I had a friend who was from Tennessee and

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