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Intro Music: Roar

Credits Music: Dylan Bryne

Graphic Design: Michael Worful

What’s up, skaters?!

Welcome back to another episode of Vent City. Logging on to talk all the good and the bad from 2021, we got Kristin Ebeling, Ryan Lay, Ted Barrow and Ted Schmitz. Is it really easy to forget what happened last year? Yes. Did we remember and catalog everything that was noteworthy? Also, yes—no exceptions. We get into the good stuff with skate parts from our favorite people like Max Wheeler, Jacopo Carozzi and Breana Geering. Then the bad stuff like NFTs and the fact that we are stuck in the slow decline of a dying empire! Maybe not that last part, but it’s still true. And of course, the question on everyone’s mind: Is Cariuma going to save the planet? No. But luckily, skating with the people you love is still pretty much the coolest thing. Listen to this show and if you disagree with any points we bring up on the episode, talk to your folks about it.

Intro music by Roar

Credits music by Dylan Bryne

Logo and Graphic Design by Michael Worful

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What's up skater?!

We are back with another episode of Vent City with Ted S, Ted B, Ryan L and our guest Gifted H. We're hoping in the expensive stretchy car without U. That's right we're talkin' Limosine's "Paymaster" vid and what even a "small board brand" is? Hint: It's Primitive. Also, how do you pronounce "Ventura," the city in California.

Thank you all for listening. And thank you to these fine folks that help the waveforms flowing.

Intro music:

Roar

Credits music:

Dylan Bryne

Logo and Graphic Design:

Michael Worful

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Have a good holidays, everyone.

Skaters, we're back over on the Patreon, 'cause we figured out how to press record on Zoom. Ryan and Ted (not Barrow) talk with Kyle about his trip to Croatia to read at the Vladimir Film Festival.

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Intro Music: Roar

Credits Music: Dylan Bryne

Log and Graphic Design: Michael Worful

What's Up, Skaters?!

Goddamn, got some cobwebs to brush off, but we do it in style with the first-ever FULL-CAST episode about everyone's favorite topic: The 2020 Tokyo Summer Games. You know what is going on. Listen to it, spam the DMs with how bad the takes are. Get blocked. Go out and skate. See us at the spot. Get ignored. Go back into the DMs and apologize. And look at that, we're friends again.

Did the olympics go well? Do they even deserve a capital letter when typed aloud? We discuss the judging, the strange difference in quality viewing between the men's and women's events (spoiler: the dudes suck) and the beauty of Cab back lips. Update: Candy is out of jail. Which kinda sounds like a line from that song Candy Jail. Listen up, have fun and drop a Cab back lip of your own. We love you and we'll be back soon now that the writer of these here notes has settled into his new permanent residence.

Intro music by Roar

Credits music by Dylan Bryne

Logo and Graphic Design by Michael Worful

Feel free to skip the Pro Flow credits, because it's just bananas.

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And, yeah, Kyle's book is out. Go run that shit up!!!

What do we say at the beginning of these things again? Oh yeah, WHAT'S UP, Skaters?!

On this episode we discuss the skateboarding film Lords of Dogtown (no Z). Kyle Beachy (book author), Ted Schmitz (show notes author), and Tim Ward (not at all an author, but he's on another podcast, so that counts for something?) look at the the general failing of skate films by taking apart the characters and story presented in this strange studio feature. How it got made, we may never know, but maybe there was a market maybe? If you liked the film, that's fine; it's good to have joy where you can. We, however, did not enjoy it. And you can hear all about it. We don't really do the timecode thing, but maybe it'll help guide you through this one:

00:00:00 - Cold Open (we do these instead of skits because, the skits weren't funny and they took too long)

00:00:30 - Cold open ends and we hear a nice intro song by Roar

00:01:00 - Introducing the podcast cast

00:04:00 - Introducing the film cast. It's not looking good

00:05:00 - Start talking about the movie. Bummer

00:05:30 - Nothing improves, massive problems exposed

00:05:31 — 01:03:00 - The bad things are discussed

01:08:25 - Tim brings up a trick challenge

That's basically it.

What

's

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skaters?

In this episode we have the ling-awaited return of Ted Barrow along with an esteemed cast of regulars (Alex White, Kyle Beachy and Ted Schmitz) and the auteur of the Upper West Side Curb Club Gregory Navarro. We're talking everything curbs and New York City. If it's been a bit from your last viewing of the vid, check this dang link and follow along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpiC-gXYpY

Intro Music By Roar

https://roarsongs.bandcamp.com/

Credits Music By Dylan Bryne

https://shebco.bandcamp.com/

Logo and Graphic Design by Michael Worful

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What's Up, Skaters?

We hope you're holding up alright. We start this show off on a somber note, as we had to say goodbye to our friend Joe Hammeke. Not much to say here that we don't in the intro, so here's the link to the family's GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/joe-hammeke-family-support-fund?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Getting into the show, we talk with St. Louis legend Jabari Pendleton about growing up on the north side of STL, moving to SF and his involvement with The Blackboard Documentary. His energy and enthusiasm is top-tier and having some of his positivity in your life will surely make your day better. If you haven't seen the film, here's a link for that as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoCieMA5XRw&t=1368s

Make sure you go through some of his footage and trick tips on YouTube, cause they're awesome.

Thank you all for listening.

Intro music by Roar

Credits music by Dylan Bryne

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Trick challenge: Straight up, regular heelflip

Skaters,

Holy shit. What is up? Bizarre times. Where are the days going? Anyways, I'm gonna keep these notes extra short 'cause putting much thought into things these days seems to take about 50 times longer than usual. Oh damn, you noticed we already published #34 and this is #33? That's 'cause we recorded this conversation with the wonderful Trevor Thompson before our Ashly episode. Who cares about a number anyways? Trevor's is 100-percent the best skater from Connecticut who also lived in Florida and also frequently goes to St. Louis but lives in LA and isn't all that fond of skating in LA. He likes to stay low to the ground and says switch flip manuals just make sense. Whatever the fuck that means? Got two more already recorded and on the way. Thanks for your love, everyone.

Trick Challenge: Noseslide to Crooked Grind

Intro Music by Roar

Credits music by Dylan Bryne (https://shebco.bandcamp.com/)

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Oh fuck, you made it to the bottom of the notes? Uhhhh, here's a link to Death Dance I guess? Watch Trevor do hard tricks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gPbD3PmYjE

What's up, skaters?

It would be nice if there would be a rebuttal after that YouTubey "What's Up" greeting. It's very isolating, like having a conversation with your own canyon echo. Damn. This is getting off to a weird start.

Let's get a do over. Welcome back to another episode of Vent City!!!

Too much? Shit. Whatever. We've got a hell of a sincere show here with our incredible guest Ashley Rehfeld who helped us break into this business of mental health crises in skating. Sadly, being a skater doesn't make you immune to depression, or really anything else. So Kristin Ebeling, Alex White, Ryan Lay, and the author of these show notes talk about our individual experiences with mental stuff and what our journey through therapy has looked like. Are hotlines helpful? Maybe. They also might be an extension of the carceral apparatus. You won't get any hard answers, but you will get a few tools, options (openpathcollective.org), and insights into daily practices that help you feel like waking up is alright. Okay, I'm done now. you don't even fuckin' read this far down. Scroll down to see the trick challenge and the people off mic that help us out.

Trick Challenge: Backside bluntslide on a curb or ledge (don't even think about doing it on a rail, you sicko)

Pro Challenge: Backside bluntslide BIG SPIN OUT! It won't look great, but it can be done.

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