Danny Minnick | The Nine Club – Episode 333

Danny Minnick discusses growing up in Seattle & living in San Francisco for 6 years, making sponsor me videos with Leigh Peterson, living at the H-Street house, filming with Chad Muska & Peter Smolik for the Shorty’s videos, living with Christian Hosoi, getting sober, being a stunt double for Shawn White for a commercial, Robert Downey Jr commissioning him to do art for his private gym and much more!

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Toan Nguyen | The Nine Club – Episode 330

Toan Nguyen discusses how he got hooked up with Shorty’s at the Huntington Beach park, doing magic tricks at Denny’s & spinning things on his fingers, getting photo incentives as an Am, getting sponsored by LRG by meeting the owner Jonas at a rave, why he got kicked off Osiris, Shorty’s adding new riders after the “Guilty” video, why he got let go from Shorty’s, buying cars from auction and selling them on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace and much more!

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Paul Schmitt | The Nine Club – Episode 329

Professor Paul Schmitt discusses downsizing his factory in Tijuana & working through COVID, working on boards for Cordano Russell, should board sizes be like shoe sizes, the most difficult & important thing to do while manufacturing a skateboard, what advances are being made for adhesives & glue to better our planet, hot press or cold pressed boards, will there come a point when brands sell boards that are based on peoples height, his proudest innovation in skateboard manufacturing, how many boards he’s made over his lifetime, how many people touched a board in the process of it being manufactured and much more!

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Aaron Snyder | The Nine Club – Episode 328

Aaron Snyder discusses growing up in Wisconsin & started to skate at 8 years old, Meeting Dave Mayhew & Tyrone Olson, getting on H-Street just before it transitioned to Evol skateboards, quitting Evol & riding for Maple Skateboards, hanging with Chad Muska & Tom Penny at the Carson Velodrome & getting on Shorty’s, being the original Am on Osiris, why he got kicked off Shorty’s after the Fulfill The Dream video came out, Ryan Kenrich getting him on Darkstar, got hired editing for UFO Hunters & MTV True Life TV shows, being a judge for SLS for a bit, working for Pepsi energy / Rockstar as an editor and producer and much more!

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