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No jumper, coolest podcast in the world. And today I'm in here with I think probably

the first person I interviewed from Bakersfield. Sure. Running up J-Bo in the building. How

you doing, man? Sure as gangland, you know. One of those places like up north there that

we're all kind of curious about what's going on out there. Is this north or is it east?

No, we didn't. Central. Right. Okay. We only like an hour away from Melody. Central, California.

It's only an hour. Like an hour, 30 minutes. See, I got fucked up that is I live here for

10 years and I'm that confused about how far away it is. That's hilarious. Okay, but yeah,

you've been doing your thing in the music game and I see you going up very rapidly. So,

you know, I definitely felt like we had to get the conversation in. For sure. For sure.

Definitely. Okay. So tell me a little bit about growing up in Bakersfield. What was

going on? I only grew up in Bakersfield. I'm like 11 years old. I had more to stock think

because my mom had found a little situation with a boyfriend. We got to follow suit, you know,

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