Ben De Gros discusses growing up in Vancouver, skating with his brother Ted De Gros, his struggles with addiction when he was younger, starting his YouTube channel, why he doesn’t do brand deals, his main job doing drywall & his other YouTube channel “The Vancouver Carpenter”, why he’s taking a long break from doing YouTube skate content, working with Real Skateboards designing a board shape and much more!

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Ben De Gros

00:00:45 Internet skateboarders

00:04:15 Taking a long break from the YouTube skate content

00:05:30 Ben's drywall YouTube channel "The Vancouver Carpenter"

00:13:50 Our Supporter: AG1

00:15:25 Ben wanting to get sponsored

00:22:31 Ben's brother Ted De Gros

00:46:37 The problem with Battle At The Berrics

01:00:57 Ben's idea of a successful video

01:08:35 Working with Real Skateboards designing shapes

01:27:19 Working with Sole Tech

01:35:11 The brand deals (Cariuma)

01:45:17 Being in LA and filming content

01:59:47 Keeping up with the joneses

02:15:13 Does ben fan out on people

02:16:00 Ben's Mount Rushmore of skaters

02:19:34 Negative commenters

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