Jeff Tremaine | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 231

Jeff Tremaine discusses growing up in Rockville MD, going to school with Spike Jonze, moving to Los Angeles and getting a job at Freestylin Magazine, Jason Lee skating to his band’s song “The Knife Song” in Blind Video Days, getting hired at Big Brother Magazine, working with Steve Rocco, what it was like after Big Brother sold to Larry Flint, pitching Jackass to HBO executives, the bidding war between MTV and Comedy Central for Jackass, the early stages of filming Jackass and having the cops called on them, why they decided to leave MTV and start making movies, helping to create Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and also Rob & Big, how Jackass Forever came about 10 years after Jackass 3D, the recent release of Jackass 4.5 and much more!

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Gary Vaynerchuk | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 230

2,313 views May 23, 2022 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!

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Jimmy Wilkins | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 229

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!

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Mark Normand | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 228

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!

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Dave Swift | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 227

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!

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Dan Mancina | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 226

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!

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