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  • Mar
    22
    Tyler Mac
    by mike at 9:50am

    So in my mid to late 20s I paid my bills working at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside CA. I got the job there because the owner (Jamis) who’s a bit of a loon doesn’t hire on experience but hires people because they’re likable. The place is a hodgepodge of stuff with a real honest to god Russian Cosmonaut space suit hanging from the ceiling. The owner likes to find crap and stick it on the walls and call it memorabilia. Some of it’s really cool like the mugshots of old Alcatraz inmates, some of it’s bullshit like the tennis racquet “broken by John McEnroe on center court at Wimbledon” (Hint, I doubt Johnny Mac was using a Billy Jean King model tennis racquet). Rumor had it the owner’s wife had to put aside a secret fund to buy herself a car in order to keep Jamis from buying more stuff to adorn the walls with.

    Anyway I got home last night and turned on the telly and CBS Amazing Race was on. I was going about my business and then did a double take. “Hey I know that kid!” Sure enough there’s Tyler the owner’s middle son running backwards to a finish point.

    I still remember Tyler as that gawky kid in his later years of high school when his career goal was to be president. He wanted to be president, not in that kindergarten “I want to be an astronaut or a fireman!” kind of way, but in a real “I need to go to a top tier school and do the right things on this path” kind of way. At that point he was trying to get into Stanford for college and was right on the cusp of acceptance so his dad rented him out a billboard on 101 pimping him to the admissions committee.

    Apparently after college he fell in love with a Japanese girl and decided to walk across Japan where he became a bit of a celebrity and made a documentary about his trip Kintaro walks Japan ostensibly searching for his Dad’s birthplace of which he only has a picture, I’m taking this with a grain of salt though ;)
    And now he’s on TV while apparently pursuing an acting career. Well good luck Tyler!

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