Story: when I was at Cal in the 90s, there was a guy (possibly homeless. I was never sure)nicknamed ‘Rare’ who would literally run around the city yelling “RAAAAARRRRREEE!!!”. He was intimidatingly very buff and had wild hair. But he was a sweet guy and always had sports trivia questions for you if you said hi to him. I just assumed he faded away at some point.
Fast forward 30 years, I was standing outside IB Hoagies 3 weeks ago, and this heavyset guy walks by and stops right in front of me and asks: “who is the only major leaguer to have 10 consecutive seasons with 200 or more base hits?” (surprisingly I knew the answer right away and replied with ‘Ichiro’) Then he says “that’s right. Pete Rose has more than 10 seasons with 200+ hits but they weren’t consecutive”
I’m looking at the guy, and there’s no way it’s Rare. But I asked him if he was Rare, and he says “Yeah buddy, but now it’s 'HELLLLLL YEAHHHH!!”
So yeah, it was him. He goes by Hell Yeah now. I know not all interactions with the characters around Berkeley go like this, but this was a fun, nostalgic interaction for me.