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=== Juan Gonzalez ===

One of Carl's longtime associates is '''[[Juan Gonzalez]]'''.

One of Carl's longtime associates is '''[[Juan Gonzalez]]'''. Carl and Juan have appeared together in numerous contexts, primarily centered around quasi-legal mobile food service ventures, such as their ill-fated food truck business [[Taco Jabronis]].

Carl and Juan have appeared together in numerous contexts, primarily centered around quasi-legal mobile food service ventures, such as their ill-fated food truck business [[Taco Jabronis]].

Juan is among the relatively small number of people whom Carl appears to regard as a genuine friend rather than a potential source of transportation, alcohol, money, or temporary housing.

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=== Zutroy Zagreb ===

'''[[Zutroy Zagreb]]''' is a Hungarian American booking agent and entertainment-industry connection who has arranged work involving Carl, usually with poor outcomes.

'''[[Zutroy Zagreb]]''' is a Hungarian American booking agent and entertainment-industry connection who has arranged work involving Carl, usually with poor outcomes. Zagreb's humorless, transactional personality frequently clashes with Carl's improvisational approach to contracts and scheduling. Zagreb once described Carl as "a fucking clown".

Zagreb's humorless, transactional personality frequently clashes with Carl's improvisational approach to contracts and scheduling. Zagreb once described Carl as "a fucking clown".

=== Darnell Watson ===

Carl has repeatedly crossed paths with promoter and entrepreneur '''[[Darnell Watson]]'''.

Carl has repeatedly crossed paths with promoter and entrepreneur '''[[Darnell Watson]]'''. Watson is associated with the [[Darnell Watson Funk Experience]] and many other haphazardly arranged events.

Watson is associated with the [[Darnell Watson Funk Experience]] and many other haphazardly arranged events.

The two possess fundamentally different approaches to business: Watson typically attempts to construct an actual promotional enterprise, while Carl tends to identify opportunities for free admission, alcohol, merchandise resale, side gambling, or unauthorized participation. However, given that Watson's endeavors are frequently quasi-legal, he occasionally relies on Carl to handle some of the event management. (Chasing away people who are asking too many questions, event security or taking the fall in case something goes sideways.)

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=== Mike Jorpa ===

'''[[Mike Jorpa]]''' is ~~one of Carl's most persistent antagonists.~~

'''[[Mike Jorpa]]''' is is an officious security supervisor known for an unusually rigid interpretation of his limited authority, and someone against whom Carl has declared a personal vendetta due to a series of parking lot loitering incidents throughout the 2020s.

~~Jorpa~~ is an officious security supervisor known for an unusually rigid interpretation of his limited authority.

Carl ~~regards Jorpa with open contempt~~.

Their encounters often involve:

* parking regulations;

* loitering

* loitering;

* open alcohol

* unauthorized vehicles;

* smoking

* open alcohol;

* fires

* smoking;

* littering

* fires;

* trespassing

* littering;

* trespassing;

* and Carl's insistence that privately employed security personnel "aren't real cops."

~~Jorpa, for his part, appears to view Carl as a personal challenge to the entire concept of rules.~~

~~One notable encounter occurred in an '''Elgin strip-mall parking lot''', where Carl established an informal campsite beside his van despite a prominently posted '''NO LOITERING''' sign.~~

~~Carl sat in a folding lawn chair drinking a tallboy of Miller High Life beside a small burn barrel while Jorpa confronted him from a security golf cart with its amber warning lights activated.~~

~~The surrounding area contained substantial litter.~~

~~The incident has become one of the most recognizable examples of the Carl-Jorpa rivalry.~~

== Vehicles ==

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 === Juan Gonzalez ===
-One of Carl's longtime associates is '''[[Juan Gonzalez]]'''.
+One of Carl's longtime associates is '''[[Juan Gonzalez]]'''. Carl and Juan have appeared together in numerous contexts, primarily centered around quasi-legal mobile food service ventures, such as their ill-fated food truck business [[Taco Jabronis]].
-Carl and Juan have appeared together in numerous contexts, primarily centered around quasi-legal mobile food service ventures, such as their ill-fated food truck business [[Taco Jabronis]].
 Juan is among the relatively small number of people whom Carl appears to regard as a genuine friend rather than a potential source of transportation, alcohol, money, or temporary housing.
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 === Zutroy Zagreb ===
-'''[[Zutroy Zagreb]]''' is a Hungarian American booking agent and entertainment-industry connection who has arranged work involving Carl, usually with poor outcomes.
+'''[[Zutroy Zagreb]]''' is a Hungarian American booking agent and entertainment-industry connection who has arranged work involving Carl, usually with poor outcomes. Zagreb's humorless, transactional personality frequently clashes with Carl's improvisational approach to contracts and scheduling. Zagreb once described Carl as "a fucking clown".
-Zagreb's humorless, transactional personality frequently clashes with Carl's improvisational approach to contracts and scheduling. Zagreb once described Carl as "a fucking clown".
 === Darnell Watson ===
-Carl has repeatedly crossed paths with promoter and entrepreneur '''[[Darnell Watson]]'''.
+Carl has repeatedly crossed paths with promoter and entrepreneur '''[[Darnell Watson]]'''. Watson is associated with the [[Darnell Watson Funk Experience]] and many other haphazardly arranged events.
-Watson is associated with the [[Darnell Watson Funk Experience]] and many other haphazardly arranged events.
 The two possess fundamentally different approaches to business: Watson typically attempts to construct an actual promotional enterprise, while Carl tends to identify opportunities for free admission, alcohol, merchandise resale, side gambling, or unauthorized participation. However, given that Watson's endeavors are frequently quasi-legal, he occasionally relies on Carl to handle some of the event management. (Chasing away people who are asking too many questions, event security or taking the fall in case something goes sideways.)
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 === Mike Jorpa ===
-'''[[Mike Jorpa]]''' is one of Carl's most persistent antagonists.
+'''[[Mike Jorpa]]''' is is an officious security supervisor known for an unusually rigid interpretation of his limited authority, and someone against whom Carl has declared a personal vendetta due to a series of parking lot loitering incidents throughout the 2020s.
-Jorpa is an officious security supervisor known for an unusually rigid interpretation of his limited authority.
-Carl regards Jorpa with open contempt.
 Their encounters often involve:
-* parking regulations;
+* loitering
-* loitering;
+* open alcohol
-* unauthorized vehicles;
+* smoking
-* open alcohol;
+* fires
-* smoking;
+* littering
-* fires;
+* trespassing
-* littering;
-* trespassing;
-* and Carl's insistence that privately employed security personnel "aren't real cops."
-Jorpa, for his part, appears to view Carl as a personal challenge to the entire concept of rules.
-One notable encounter occurred in an '''Elgin strip-mall parking lot''', where Carl established an informal campsite beside his van despite a prominently posted '''NO LOITERING''' sign.
-Carl sat in a folding lawn chair drinking a tallboy of Miller High Life beside a small burn barrel while Jorpa confronted him from a security golf cart with its amber warning lights activated.
-The surrounding area contained substantial litter.
-The incident has become one of the most recognizable examples of the Carl-Jorpa rivalry.
 == Vehicles ==

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