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Gary Vaynerchuk discusses growing up in Queens NY before relocating to Edison New Jersey, hustling as a kid selling lemonade and baseball cards, seeing skateboarding explode in the 80’s, starting his media company Vayner Media, his take on marketing in the skateboard world, making decisions that are conflicts between the business opportunity and what your all about, keeping your authenticity, why TikTok is surpassing Instagram & how to utilize it by adding value, core skaters vs YouTube skaters vs TikTok skaters, what he would do if he skated a skateboard company and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sour Solution III video, éS T.J.I.F TJ Rogers Part, Dickies Skateboarding welcomes Guy Mariano, Eldy’s Pick Of The week, Mark Suciu loveletter to PJ Ladd, Budget Or Buttery, adidas Skateboarding Presents Adimatic by Jamal Smith and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jimmy Wilkins discusses growing up in Columbus Ohio, getting into skating by playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, having to drive 2 hours to skate a vert ramp, building a vert ramp in his backyard then being sued by the city, moving to San Diego when he was 17, getting on Creature Skateboards through Darren Navarrette, skating for Lakai Footwear, breaking both arms and his pelvis trying the loop, skating Tony Hawk’s ramp almost everyday, leaving Creature and not having a sponsor for over a year, how getting on REAL Skateboards came about and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Braun's "Pier 7" Part, Budget Or Buttery, Converse CONS' "Veredas" Video, Vans Skateboarding Presents: LIZZIE, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, Jimmy Wilkins On Real Skateboards, Ricki The Dude's 50th Birthday Part, “Papi” by Tangram Division and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Normand discusses growing up in New Orleans, starting to skate around 13 years old, his local shop Humidity, going to film school at the New York Film Academy, starting to do comedy right after college, moving to New York, the many parallels between comedy and skateboarding, how he goes about writing his comedy bits, perfecting his jokes in front of a live audience, his skate footage getting lost during Hurricane Katrina, opening for Amy Schumer early on, Jerry Seinfeld seeing his Tonight show appearance and reached out him, keeping up with all the new skaters coming up and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thunder Welcomes Hermann Stene, Jamie Foy Sweeps Tampa Pro and Best Trick, Budget Or Buttery, Should there be a “tip jar” option in YouTube skate videos for the skater, Nick Tucker Vs. Kelly Hart Battle, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, Postcard from Harry Lintell video, the Rogue one video and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Anderson's "Blackhole" Spitfire Part, Tyshawn & Na-Kel Smith Leaving FA, Dan Mancina's "Keep Rolling" Part, The “Light Years” Video, Budget Or Buttery, Could there ever be an American professional skateboard league, Should more skaters tone down their Instagram accounts and focus solely on putting out video parts, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Mancina discusses growing up in Michigan, moving to Los Angeles, working at the skateshop ZJ Boarding House, getting diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa when he was 13 years old, starting to loose his vision at the age of 20, first getting flowed by Real Skateboards & Adidas, how he uses a white cane to skate, getting an Actions Realized board with Real Skateboards, starting his nonprofit “Keep Pushing” to get more visually impaired kids into skating, raising money to build the world's first accessible skatepark in Michigan, filming for his new video part and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baker Video with Tyson and T Funk, Unwritten rules to running photos in magazines or on the ‘gram, Budget Or Buttery, the "I Missed You" video by Rassvet, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, the Gas Giants “Orion’s Belt” video, SLS Resurrection: Hubba Hideout, The Violet Promo by William Strobeck and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madars Apse discusses growing up in Latvia, selling flowers to buy his first board, getting on Element flow through his local shop, going to college in Barcelona, gettin on DC shoes, moving to London for a year to finish school, getting Kingpin Magazine’s European skater of the year award in 2012, turning pro for Element, filming for his Element “Peace” part, working on projects in Latvia to make skateboarding legal at some Museums and Library’s, his Red Bull series “Skate Tales” season 2 and much more! Uganda Skateboard Society Fundraiser: https://donorbox.org/fundraiser-to-buy-land-for-the-next-skatepark-in-uganda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Union Square Video, There Skateboards “Ruining Skateboarding” Video, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, what makes a “good” or “bad” team manager, Budget Or Buttery, “Money Time” video, what sells boards? And much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Oblow discusses growing up in Hawaii, skating early on with Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Mark Gonzalez, Natas Kaupas, getting his photos published in Thrasher Magazine when he was in the 9th grade, skating for Vision Skateboards, why he turned down going pro, skating with Gator, working for Think Skateboards, filming and editing the Color video, Mike Ternasky being a mentor to him, creating Prime Skateboards along with Kris Markovich, why Vita Footwear ultimately went out of business, building the Quicksilver team, being with Dylan Rieder while he was battling leukemia, doing fashion photography, getting into chain stitching, his new upcoming line with RVCA and much more! *We have removed a portion of this episode out of respect for the family, friends and everyone affected by the tragic loss of Jessica Bergsten. We sincerely apologize Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Mo Capaldi & Paul Rodriguez sit in to discuss Mark Suciu SOTY Trip: “Game On” video, Riley Hawk's "Nepotism" Part, Budget Or Buttery, Usual Suspects video, the CK1 Palace collab, Mark Gonzalez’s YouTube channel and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chany Jeanguenin discusses growing up in Switzerland, skating in vert Swiss Cup contests, getting on Real distributer flow, coming to San Francisco for the first time not knowing that vert had died, focusing on street skating since no vert ramps were around, getting on Planet Earth then Rhythm Skateboards, filming for the Transworld video “Modus Operandi”, coming in hot with a 6 page ad introducing Expedition Skateboards, skating for Converse & the helium shoe, dealing with knee issues due to ACL surgery, studying Kung Fu, moving back to Switzerland, working at Alaia skatecamp in the Swiss Alps and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel DuBois' "Madness" Part, Bobby Worrest's "STYX" Krooked Part, Jhancarlos Gonzalez 1st Place Run at Phoenix Am, Budget Or Buttery, Skater Owned: Mikey Taylor's Commune Capital, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lee Smith discusses growing up in San Fransisco CA, meeting Karl Watson at age 13, going to Embarcadero for the first time, staying with Mark Gonzales and getting on ATM Click, filming for the FTC video “A Fine Line Between Love & Haight”, skating for Menace Skateboards, filming for the City Stars video “Street Cinema”, turning pro for City Stars, riding for Santa Cruz, moving to Barcelona, starting his podcast “Mission Statement”, getting into oil painting and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shake Junt & Hijinx Net Present "SHRIMP BLUNT”, REAL presents Ishod, Eldy’s Pick Of The Week, Sierra Fellers's "Finn Salem" Part, Budget Or Buttery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Lee discusses growing up in Southern California, first learning 360 flips in his backyard, meeting Mark Gonzales for the first time, skating Christian Hosoi’s backyard vert ramp, getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for “Video Days”, starting Blue Skateboards with Chris Pastras, why they ended Blue and started Stereo Skateboards, skating with Julien Stranger in San Francisco, how quickly skating was progressing in the early 90’s, why he “retired” from skating and started acting, shooting his first movie, doing voice over work for video games and being in Skate 3 as Coach Frank, getting the lead role in the TV show “My Name Is Earl”, taking up photography, his photography books and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Mo Capaldi sits in with us to discuss Kader’s Adidas part, Red Bull’s DIY, Emerica's "Emerge" Video, Manny Santiago’s Welcome To JART Part, Budget Or Buttery, Hawk Vs Wolf - Tony Hawk Recounts his Bad Fall at the Ramp and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices