Ashley and Alex catch up with Amelia Brodka to talk life on the road with the X Games League, broadcasting skateboarding, the league’s inaugural season, the changing business of competitive skateboarding, her own X Games origin story, the return of vert, and what’s ahead for Exposure.

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This week Ashley, Nora, and Alex catch up after a busy stretch of travel to cover the X Games League finale, Sky Brown's historic week, bad internet opinions, and one tiny wet hippo.

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We've had a lot of new listeners finding the show lately, thank you! It felt like the right time to revisit one of our favorite conversations with Alexis Sablone.

One of the most respected to ever do it. Chiseled into our skateboarding Mt. Rushmore. We talk process to obsession, where it helps and where it gets in the way. Early childhood attempts at Frankensteining the perfect specimen (via bugs). The time Alexis brokered a deal with an injured skater to buy her way into the X Games. Showing up to a contest in Shanghai with only two left shoes. Everything from welding to coaching to all of her new projects. And why skateboarding is just cool... and always will be.

We also finally crack the code on Alexis' IG handle @suminaynay. If you've ever wondered where it came from, you're not alone.

So if you're new to the show, this feels like a pretty perfect place to start. And if you've heard it before, I think you'll hear it with fresh ears.

Hope you enjoy -

-GLWT 

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Lau Willems is having a breakout year. We talk about growing up skating in Belgium, leaving a career in engineering, and going all-in on skateboarding. We also get into the story behind her L.A.U. Unity part, filming Postcards From Lisbon with Adidas, navigating online hate, joining THERE, and what comes next.

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- Rockstar Energy Open — Video Qualifier Open. (Ria Tanno Breakout video submission)

- Jackalope Canada preview

- Adjacency Bias Conference

- Street League Takeover: Rio & Tempe

- World Skate adds Vert World Championships. Could Vert become an Olympic discipline?

- X Games League.— Sacramento & Chiba recap, Championship Finals next week in New Orleans

- Shout out Amelia Brodka appreciation corner

- Postcards From Lisbon now streaming, featuring Lau Willems & Lilli Werner

- Nora Vasconcellos on the road with Adidas - If you're in Boston, go say hi!

Next week's guest: Lau Willems.

XOXO, talk soon

- GLWT

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News Desk

•  Chloe Covell wins the first Olympic qualifier of the LA 2028 cycle in Rome
• First-ever Women of Washington takeover at Washington Street
• X Games League debuts in Sacramento on June 26
• Show & Tell

Ariana Spencer joins GLWT. We talk about moving from the Midwest to California with her young daughter and betting on herself to become a professional skateboarder. Everything from Jacuzzi vs Converse trips, filming video parts, managing self-doubt to the realities of being one of the few women in the van.

And a few dream sponsors make an appearance too. 

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World Skate Rome Podium: Mizuho Hasegawa — 96.33 - Highest Score in WST Women's Park History!

-Rayssa Leal Named to TIME100's List of the Most Influential People in World Sport

-The Una Farrar Half Cab Wafflecup

-Thrasher x Spitfire Presents SF Burning : Elissa Steamer, Breana Geering, Una Farrar

-SQUEAKY — Bill Strobeck : Efron Danzig & Orin Curtis

-Abnormal Communications: Ep. 6 : Jenn Soto & Anna Shea

-Jenkem Piece on European Skate Shops

-New artist segment: Yeoubi"Lullaby" music video featuring Lizzie Armanto and Allysha Le

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Cata Díaz left Chile at 18 with a three-month visa and never went back. She's been building a life city by city ever since — Barcelona, London, Los Angeles, Miami, and now New York. She talks about finding skateboarding through a skate shop job at 16, surviving cancer at 22, and what it took to get back on a board after chemotherapy.

Plus: astrology and tarot as a practice versus as a superstition, and all the emotions in between.

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Born and raised in Queens, Elisa Martini is holding it down at NYU while spending every spare minute chasing clips and hunting for spots. We talk about growing up first-generation Albanian, balancing school and skating, and why the love of skateboarding has very little to do with a name on a board. Let's go Knicks. Plus, it's back tail summer.

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Ruby Lilley — Today Tomorrow Forever pro part. Jessie Darnall makes her debut. 

Fiona Wessely — Phi Phi. 

Lau Willems insane new part for THERE. 

Ciel Carillo sums up her recent footage with the quote of the week: “I moved to SF, and it’s brutal and awesome.”

Plus: the ASICS women’s video project is heating up, World Skate Rome is around the corner, and we're making podium predictions, talking video parts, and catching up on everything happening in between. 

We dare you to listen.

-xoxo GLWT 

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