The Rock Town Podcast

Michael D'Andrade is a New York City native now living in the Bay Area who's always going picking for vintage gear.

On a sunny July morning, Mike and his girlfriend, Liz, give me an insider's tour of the Oakland Coliseum flea market.

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Mike Torres is a cinematographer and Big Wheel sensation living in New York City. Rock Town Podcast correspondent Levi Sebastian talks with him about the early Wizard frames, Big Wheel trick names, and more.

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Jon Ortiz is a New York City rollerblading legend. After a short session at the Chelsea Piers skate park, Rock Town Podcast correspondent Levi Sebastian talks with him about the pre-ASA days of skating, Go Sports USA skate camps, and more.

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Late last year, Kennan Scott went rollerblading and hit his head. Now, seven months into his continuing and dedicated recovery, he talks about what it means to be head-injured and his new YouTube series, "Blading on the Brain."

You can check out the episodes — including video snippets of us recording this podcast — on his You-Tube channel.

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Rollerblading may be a visual sport, but there are wonderfully rich sounds generated while doing it, from the ting and hum of skates locking onto a rail to the thunderous applause when a trick is landed. That's what this episode is all about.

So, here's a Saturday session in Northern California with skaters like Philip Moore, Korey Waikiki, Erick Garcia, Challe Walle, the White Wolf, Biz and Rock Town correspondent Levi Sebastian.

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For lack of a better description, Brian Bina is a nomadic adventurer, back in the States on a brief hiatus from his international travels. We talk about the creation and future of Haitian Mag, growing up as a Chicago kid, and his many, many travels.

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From blistering hot concrete to icy cold lakes, the Northwest Shred Tour, yet again, brought us together to shred, camp, and remind ourselves why we're all alive. Reported extensively by Levi Sebastian — with limited help from Philip Moore and Brian Krans — the Rock Town Podcast gives you a complete look at the full four-day weekend through California's wine and weed country north of the San Francisco Bay.

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Photographer and bladie Megan Petersen tells us about her ambitious Bladies project. Starting out with a few T-shirt designs, she hopes to expand it out into a central hub for bladies content and possibly get some money into hands of bladies. Joining us in the conversation is Detroit native Stephen Durasa.

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Drew Costley is a born-again rollerblader. Born in D.C., raised in Virginia, and currently being educated in Berkeley, he is also photographer, multimedia journalist, and a fun person to be around. We talk about how the Disney movie Brink got him started rollerblading, why he recently took it up again, and what he's been doing in the middle.

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Ryan Lindsay was the first friend I made as we both earned our masters' degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. She, too, likes to use sports as window into the bigger picture.

You can follow her on Twitter as @RLindsayReports

We talk about her early days of rollerblading, representation in action sports, gun violence in America, and much more. During our conversation, we, unfortunately, picked up the sounds of gunfire in my neighborhood.

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