The Highway Man: Adam Lopez Part 2 — Crime, Culture, Rebellion & Criminal Psychology

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In the second half of This heartfelt & candid interview. Adam gets into the deep waters of philosophical Behavior. He is brutally honest on What his life was like growing up as well as how those life events helped him to become the man he is today. I hope you enjoy legendary singer/songwriter & my friend.
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Speaker 0 (0s): That I've been able to just kind of keep building it up.

Speaker 1 (5s): Yeah. It seems like that part, I find really interesting. And it's something you would only know if you were in the business, there's so much rich history at clubs that you wouldn't even think or clubs are there. There's so much rich history. If you, if you, if you learn about it, like, you know, how many people have played the whiskey to go go, many people have played, you know, different rooms in San Diego. And it's just like, I had no idea that Juul played there or was like a resident there.

And it just, that's just the stuff you would only know if you were in a position like yourself.

Speaker 0 (39s): Yeah. And that, that was, that was, that was where it all started. Like the, we were talking about being self-educated for the purpose of furthering, you know, your life's goals. So if you're not going to do it via school or traditional routes, you still have to do it. Right. You still have to put the work in and not just the hands on work of your craft, but you have to know the history of the people that, that, that did it before you, so you know how to connect the dots and how it got to where you are.

Speaker 1 (1m 13s): Yeah. You know, it's, it's interesting, like there's this book called tech technically, but in the book, the guy makes the argument much like you did that history to be part of every subject, whether you're going to talk about baseball, guitar playing, or surfing, every sport, every activity has a history behind it. And if you want to succeed in that passion, you're doing, you should know the history of the thing you're learning, right? Yeah. From people before you.

Speaker 0 (1m 43s): Yeah. Like I haven't been, this is my first time, like back in California in almost 20 years, like, like, you know, with some roots here. So, but you know, when we were kids, we were surfing and skateboarding. Yeah. I still, I still know my surf history and my skateboarding history and I never, I never really pursued doing any of those professionally. Right. But I love them so much. And I still do that. I couldn't sit here and tell you that I loved them, but then not be able to answer your questions about them.

Yeah. Yeah. I feel weird about that. Yeah. You know, so there's, there's things along the way that whether I try to do them professionally or not, if I, if I really truly love them or care about them, I need to learn about it. Right. And more than just the doing of them. Yeah. You know, I still know my baseball history pretty well. You know, when we were kids, we would nerd out on that stuff. Yeah. You know, baseball cards and, and, and reading or watching this week in baseball and learning our history.

Speaker 1 (2m 46s): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so amazed at like, if you look at where, like North County, San Diego at them, there is so many talented people that came out of there. Like, if you look at the skateboarding industry, the music industry, like just look at the people we went to school with. And like there's some real killers out there. You know what I mean? That just went on to be artists in their own. Right. You know, it's so mind blowing to look back and get up to, I can't believe I used to hang out with them with this guy, this guy's a pro skate or do this guy's a pro surfer or this girl's up.

This girl's like, Oh my God, it just naturals paintings. You know, it's like it's. So to me, I feel so inspired and thankful to have got to play a small role in all these people's lives that are so at least to me, important in artistic and it looking back on your life, I hope everyone can look back on their life. And if they don't see it now, I think they will when they're later. But I hope they can all find some inspiration from the people they have an outlet you think of, was there something in the water in San Diego? What was it?

Speaker 0 (3m 53s): I feel like it was just the right combination of time and place and, and souls like the right people were there. Yeah. You know? Cause it couldn't, I don't, maybe it could have, I don't know, but I feel like it was, it was meant to be that group of people. Like we were, we were really lucky in that there were cliques and there were groups and all that thing. But there was like this inner circle that was bigger than all those little cliques. Right. Where we all had one foot in one circle and one foot in the other circle.

But we were all in this bigger circle where we all had similar interests. And then we all had really different interests, but we were all friends. Yeah. You know, and that's it, wasn't a bunch of closed off small circles of people that didn't interact. We all, we all got along. We all, you know, even like we had a huge gang problem that people don't realize, and we had a huge drug problem that people don't realize. Like, I think it might still stand. Like we had the, like the biggest drug bust in American high school history happened at Rancho.

Yeah. Yeah. While we were there and we had, we had the biggest national gang crisis in junior high. Like we had more gang members per capita registered with like the Sheriff's department than anywhere in the country at the same time that we had the drug thing. But, but we, we were friends with some of those kids and those gangs and some of those kids selling drugs, they weren't all bad people. They were just doing stupid shit. Yeah. It's true. It's true. Yeah.

There was a lot of good people that came out of that.

Speaker 1 (5m 33s): Yeah. It's so weird to think about you haven't exploded. You have the worst drug crisis, but then also an explosion of creativity. You know what I mean? Yeah. Some of the like, like there was, I think a lot of people, maybe it was our circle of friends, but you know, a lot of people were so talented in a lot of ways. I remember. Do you remember Josh and Dylan more? They were like, dude, those guys, they, they were, they went to school with us since we were kids. And like, I remember those guys doing like the stairs at Rancho, the library stare for people yeah.

Was like 25 stairs. And like both of those guys were some of the most articulate men I've ever known. Those guys were like on another level when it came to intelligence level, when it came to skateboarding, like I just remember being like, always look at those guys, go and do they got these guys did it, man. How do they do those stairs? I just doing so good at math.

Speaker 0 (6m 27s): No, they were, they were, I used to go over to their house when I was, cause they were a couple of years younger that are older than me. Right. And I would, I would, I remember going over to their house, like on the weekends, like way too early, like seven in the morning and I live miles away and I would, I would hike my way down the railroad tracks with my skateboard and go knock on the...