Episode 54 with Aaron Meza, skateboarder, filmer and producer from San Francisco, CA.

Together we discussed him growing up in South San Francisco and picking up his first board in the 80's, filming his friends skating at EMB and crossing paths with a young James Kelch who asked if he could film him, making the iconic videos "Finally" and "Penal Code 100A" for FTC, connecting with some of the World Industries and Plan B guys who eventually left to start Girl Skateboards in 1993, working on the first Girl and Chocolate videos with Spike Jonze, Tim Dowling and Rick Howard (among other people), being the editor of Skateboarder Magazine for a few years, coming back to Girl to work on digital content for Crailtap as well as tour videos (among other things), going to Vice to work on the production of Epicly Later'd and King Of The Road, assisting Jonah Hill in the making of his first film "Mid 90's", his current role at Nike SB... 

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