{"id":172363,"date":"2026-02-10T20:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:43:30","slug":"mass-bro-loves-laidback-san-jose-then-gets-car-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172363\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. bro loves &#8216;laidback&#8217; San Jose, then gets car stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts bro fell in love with \u201chella underrated\u201d San Jose while visiting for the Super Bowl \u2014 only to get a double dose of hard reality when his rental car was stolen after his beloved Patriots lost.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Lewis, a digital content creator and podcast host,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUdAOf1jUuB\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> gushed<\/a> about the South Bay on Instagram Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super pleasantly surprised with San Jose. This city is cool. Straight up,\u201d he said, praising the city\u2019s \u201cLatino flair\u201d and comparing it to his hometown of Lawrence \u2014 \u201cbut laidback, calmer, and more colorful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts resident Marc Lewis gushed over his time in San Jose. Instagram\/marclew1s<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like loud but laidback at the same time. It\u2019s like loud but quiet at the same time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis\u2019s lovefest didn\u2019t stop there. He called the city \u201cdope and hella underrated\u201d and even hinted he\u2019d be back: \u201cI f\u2013k with heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Sunday morning, reality hit harder than the Seahawks\u2019 defense. His rental car, parked at Saint James Park, was missing. At first, Lewis thought it had been towed \u2014 until a helpful commenter spilled the beans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/massachusetts-guy-went-viral-for-video-about-loving-the-bay-area-then-his-rental-car-got-stolen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4 Bay Area reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super pleasantly surprised with San Jose. This city is cool,\u201d Lewis said on Instagram. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney, it was stolen. Not towed,\u201d the comment read. <\/p>\n<p>Lewis<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUgcC5jEYHd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> confirmed <\/a>the worst: \u201cAfter talking with San Jose PD, my rental car was actually stolen. So you people that called in the comments section \u2026 you\u2019re 100% right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boston bro was disappointed, but not defeated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not home,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis is my first taste of bulls\u2013t since I\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis posted about his car getting stolen in San Jose. Instagram\/marclew1s<\/p>\n<p>Despite the double whammy of a Patriots loss and a vanishing vehicle, Lewis still has love for the city. He thanked the Bay Area community for their support and promised he\u2019d be back for another round of San Jose\u2019s \u201cchill, cool aesthetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He took his Super Bowl heartbreak in stride, as well. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo excuses, the better team won today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Massachusetts bro fell in love with \u201chella underrated\u201d San Jose while visiting for the Super Bowl \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6996,17085,88,90,89,79196,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-172363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-massachusetts","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-super-bowl-2026","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}