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We recently went to New York and had breakfast with Bobby Worrest. Between coffee and eggs, we talked to him about being one of the first guys on Krooked, NYC vs. West Coast skateboarding and about growing up in Washington D.C. at Pulaski Park and getting hassled by the cops regularly.
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