Randy Ploesser discusses growing up in Ballwin, early trips to California, getting on Birdhouse, Slap's One in a Million contest, wild days in Chino, filming for "The Beginning", the start of The High Five skateboards, what happened with NHS distributing the brand, the transition from The High Five to Send Help, and how Randy and Todd Bratrud helped name the Rusty Bearings podcast.

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cover pic – Bart Jones @bartjones

Christian Koppel discusses the highly anticipated Bane video, a behind the scenes look at what has gone into the making of the video, who has parts, his start in skateboarding in O'Fallon, the Live Hard video "Neighborhood", what goes into a wedding video, and everything else in between.

***BANE VIDEO COMING SOON***

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cover pic – David Flotte @daved_and_confused

Kyle Craren discusses Altered Skates, getting on BBC, contests at Rotation Station, moving to Rockford, riding for New School, riding for Dogtown, stuntman work, and all things in between.

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cover pic – Steve Vallie @sittinsilly

Reggie Colvin discusses growing up in South County, relocating to Los Angeles, Corporate Skateboards, the ups and downs of the skateboard industry, his clothing brand Huey Lewis, designing product, and plans for the future.

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cover pic – Andy Wissman @oldirtywiss

Jonathan Harms discusses copy editing Concrete Wave magazine and A Secret History of the Ollie book. Also discussed is the Transworld Skateboarding November 1994 issue featuring an article on St Louis and how this came to be. There was way too much to fit into one episode. Enjoy.

PART 2

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cover pic – Pete Bibelhausen

Jonathan Harms discusses starting to skate in the late 1970's, living in Wisconsin, Earth Surf Skatepark, the first ramps in the St. Louis area, attending the MESS contest series, the first skate shops in St. Louis, slalom racing, and published photos in Transworld, Poweredge, and Thrasher.

This is one for the history books of St Louis and beyond.

PART 1

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cover pic – Steve B @sk8steveb

Sal Orlando discusses the early days of skating out west, mobbing up in O’Fallon, the positive impact of Altered Skates, spending many days at the Elm Skatepark, hoping on a tour with SK8Mafia, powering through a knee injury, doing graphics for SK8Mafia, and his journey into doing tattoos.

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cover pic – Michael Worful @worful

Jabari Pendleton discusses skating Kirkwood in his early years, being a part of many crews as kid, taking a seven-year break from skateboarding, moving to San Francisco, help from FTC, getting on Turf Skateboards, Anti-Hero, turning pro for Western Edition, his time in Barcelona, LRG clothing, moving back to St Louis, and his new role in the cannabis industry.

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cover pic - Ando Nesia @ando_______________

Jason Sides discusses growing up in Jackson, MO, first time

Apologies for the first time audio.

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cover pic - John Harms @jbh_stl