Does San Jose Deserve the Nickname ‘Man Jose’?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Big Apple, Sin City, the Big Easy -- all famous nicknames for American cities. But have you heard of Man Jose? This week we explore if San Jose should be called Man Jose. Reported by Jessica Placzek. Produced and edited by Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour and Julia McEvoy. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice. And use the #BayCurious hashtag!

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0:00.0	From K-QED. You're listening to Bay Curious, a podcast exploring the Bay Area one question at a time.
0:12.0	I'm Olivia Alan Price, and I'm Jessica Plachik. Today we're talking
0:16.1	about a city nickname right? Well how much do you know right now? I know virtually
0:21.3	nothing. You have really kept me in the dark about this. It's kind of made me nervous.
0:25.6	Well, this is going to be great. I guess I should start with meeting the question asker.
0:31.6	Right. His name is Paul Schindler,
0:34.0	and I went and met him down in San Jose on Santana Row.
0:38.0	That's an outdoor shopping center
0:40.0	with lots of lounges and restaurants and bars.
0:45.0	You see a lot of men walking around in groups
0:48.0	sort of congratulating each other
0:50.0	and how awesome everybody is.
0:52.0	Which brings us to Paul's question.
0:54.1	The San Jose really deserve the nickname, Man Jose.
0:57.5	What made you ask this question?
0:59.3	Definitely with my guy friends.
1:01.0	It's been a topic of conversation. Full disclosure I do have a fiance so this is not this is not relevant to me anymore.
1:09.0	Oh, that's I like how you put that caveat in.
1:13.0	So if the fiance is listening, like don't be alarmed.
1:16.0	Totally, he's asking for a friend, right?
1:19.0	Sure. So I looked at the numbers, it's not true.
1:22.0	Okay. Yeah, lay it on me at's not true. Okay. Yeah.
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