Super Bowl Tailgaters on Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game

Jim Lockhart, from Boston:

Did you journey to get right here right now?

Yeah, we got here in early on Friday morning. Planes, trains, and cars from Logan Airport.

And the place are you staying?

The Intercontinental, proper in San Fran, downtown.

Lovely. I am from San Francisco, born and raised, so I’ve a number of hometown pleasure. Hope you are having fun with your keep.

Oh, what? They’ve completed an unbelievable job. San Fran’s been very accommodating. All people’s been superior. Pleasant bartenders, waitresses, concierge, Uber guys. Everybody’s been superior, man. They’ve completed an important job. The town stepped up. We went to Alcatraz yesterday, and what an expertise. We find it irresistible. Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Bridge, all these. It was an important expertise.

What are you most enthusiastic about?

I am excited to see the sport. I’m excited to win some cash on the beneath.

I used to be nearly to ask you. Yeah, did you place any bets right now?

After all I did. I acquired bets on all the pieces. The coin toss, the Gatorade, all the pieces. The primary go, all the pieces. I acquired a mortgage on it.

Did you do any of the prediction markets?

So you’ll be able to’t guess out right here on the Draft Kings. It is a bizarre factor. So I needed to put all my bets in with the bookie. Offline.

Do you’ve any ideas about the potential for ICE brokers in the space?

No, I am from Boston, ? We love ICE. In my drinks and on the streets. Let’s go. Let’s maintain these borders, shut them down.

And do you’ve any ideas about Bad Bunny?

I feel it’s disgusting that there is a man who does not communicate English who’s enjoying at the Super Bowl, at the largest sporting occasion in America. And there is a man singing that does not communicate English, and he additionally stated that he was gonna depart America and by no means do a tour right here once more. My children like him and stuff. I do not even know him adequate to, like, make an opinion, but when he is gonna be singing in Spanish and stuff, I imply, come on.

Will you be watching the halftime present?

No. I’m gonna stroll out.

You’re gonna stroll out?

I’m gonna go to the beer line. In protest. I do know it isn’t gonna make a distinction, however, ?

Have you ever taken a driverless automotive since you’ve got been right here?

We’re making an attempt to get on these, however they form of make me nervous. what I imply? It’s creepy to me to observe a automotive drive by with out any individual driving the automotive. However we did take these scooters final night time. So we had been, like, Sons of Anarchy on these scooters final night time. It was nice. That was so enjoyable.

You might have the scooters in Boston, although, proper?

We do. I’ve by no means taken one. We left a bar yesterday—a Patriots bar, a celebration—and we took all of them the means again to our lodge.

In the event you get an opportunity to journey in a Waymo earlier than you permit, I feel it is a enjoyable expertise for a vacationer.