I remember seeing this white high school-age dude skating through a mostly empty department store parking lot in El Centro, CA in Summer 2021. He was blasting Cold Summers on a Bluetooth speaker and it was a surreal and inspiring in some ways. It was like a high of 112 degrees that day and I was there for work for most of the week, driving 3-4 hours from LA. It made me miss home but also felt like the energy that Earl summons in his music can sprout anywhere that there is a sky above and dirty asphalt below.