May 15, 2026 • 53 mins
We got the band back together. Just the crew this week, catching up before heading to WOF.
- Ruby Lily goes PRO for Foundation
- Kylie Frank wins the Olympic video contest
- THERE Skateboards on tour
And a viral parenting clip that broke the internet in maybe the worst way. Plus Nora's Muna concert review and so much more
Four wheels. Two axles. Xoxo, GLWT
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's sports production
in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Hey everybody,
this is good Luck with That, a podcast about skating, women, skaters,
gender expressive skaters, skaters in outer space, astronauts, skaters and
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skaters that just want to cry a little bit or
a lot. I'm Nora of Asconcelos, one of your hosts.
We're also here with Alex White and Ashley Ray Felt.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
God, you nailed it. Why haven't we made you do
this sooner? Thank you, Nora.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
To our outer space skaters, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're ready to rip it up with you in zero gravity.
That was incredible. Also, I just want to ask skaters
I just want to cry a little bit? Does that
include members of this pod?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's me? That's me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Listening to Noah Kahn and then it turned into like
a lot because he has a new album out and
I was not particularly like I didn't know anything about him,
which is like embarrassing as a new Englander. But my
girlfriend really got me into him, and I didn't fall
asleep until two thirty the other night because I was
listening to his music and it put me in a
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really dark place.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So yeah, a dark place, like because it was so emotional.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's just like endless, like every song is good, but
it's just all sad, and then you start trying to
like decipher it, and then it's like reminding you of
like really fucked up shit that you did to like
your brother, Like it just like really just pulls it
all out of you. And then I couldn't sleep. So
I was on TikTok and then TikTok did that psycho
thing it does where all of a sudden, because I'm
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listening to his music on Spotify, all I'm getting is
literally tiktoks of like the Goofy movie with like one
of the songs, like clips of from the Goofy movie
with like the saddest song You've ever heard, And I'm
just like sobbing. Remember this happened to me with like
Land Before Time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, it's the same obsession, Okay, Goosey movies like really
in people's brains right now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Culturally relevant, it's coming tack TikTok. Yeah. Oh it's because
the TikTok got it. I mean, wow, all of us.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wait, what are we all drinking? I'm drinking a uzu
iced tea from Sixes in Silver Lake. What are you
guys drinking?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm drinking a fridge sig Aka and diet Coke.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have some beautiful water filtered, of course, with some
electrolytes in it, because last night I went out to
dinner and decided to have one too many martinis. Okay, Ashley,
we get it. You're from SF. I don't think I've
talked to all of you all in a minute.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, you've been out.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was in Georgia, not the state, the Republic of Georgia,
and it was wild. I do recommend. Actually there's skateboarding there.
I mean there's skateboarding everywhere that there is concrete. But
it's always like a pleasant reminder when you go somewhere
not for a skate trip as a normal civilian would travel.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And then you're like, I can't believe how.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Double this city to Bleasy would be to go skate
I'm ready to go. Let's get the pot out there.
Everything is perfect. It's all really small, like incredible street
spots that are like coated for us, US for us,
for us, everything was adorable, cute and gnarly all at
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the same time, it was like beautiful. I'd walk around,
I'd be like, how is that a perfect spot? Granite
limestone everywhere, and then it's not like you're not going
to die and it would look sick. So anyways, shout
out to Blasi, Shout out to Georgia in general and
Rony for that epic trip. So yeah, I've been out offline,
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but I have been watching skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think you all have been too. How can you
avoid it?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I close my eyelids skateboarding. I opened my eyelids skateboarding.
I look in the mirror skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Shout out to our new pro, Ruby Lily anyone, Oh shit,
Ruby's pro her foundation. Did you guys know that was coming?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But I mean I think I figured. I saw the
I didn't make it to the premiere, but I saw
the foundation video and I was like, I mean, if
they don't turn her pro, like, what are we doing? Nora?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We hung out with her at dime last year.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Ruby is like killing herself for skateboarding, like the slams
that she took last year, the trips that she was on, like.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The just like hell ride that her last year has been.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
She is like true diehard skateboarder, Like, yeah, she's cut
from the cloth. I think that we all want to
be cut from Maryland, Maryland. She's like the second youngest
of eight kids. She's just like like super supportive mom.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, she had a story like yours, Nora.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
She moved out here with her mom, sharing a one
bedroom studio in Oceanside, wanting to be a pro skater.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And that's what dreams are made of.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
There actually have been a lot of stories that have
been like this, specifically in women's skateboarding, of like parent
and child moving cross country to support. I can think, obviously, Nora,
at you we're talking about Ruby. I mean Shiloh had
that moment too, shilakatory with her mom, page high page
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hid with her father. Is this a reality TV show
that we need or not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
In theory? Yes, but I feel like no.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Speaking of parents in skateboarding, did you guys catch the
seven point three million viewed Times video of the small
eight year old girl who's trying to learn her first
ever board slide down a pretty legit handrail at a
skate park and she has parents on both sides of
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her on the stair set as like Guardian Angels as
she completely like tries to attempt this board side and
destroys herself.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I hated it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, Like I don't know, am I clear enough in
this visual?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Like is there more that we need to get people
up to speed so they can understand that like this
is a really weird era of skateboarding and children and
parents helping get these kids to a more extreme competitive space,
Like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Getting a little dangerous and a little.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Scary to watch. I have a lot of thoughts on it. Unfortunately,
it was like sent to me multiple times.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I wasn't the only one that sent it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, it was like it was like also sent to
me as like this is amazing, and I'm like, oh
my god, like by like relatives, you know. It was
just like it is to me. It was so like
not not it. I have a really hard time watching
parents who are obviously not skateboarders push a child in
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the single digits to do things that are like really
actually dangerous. And I also feel like it's super inauthentic
to the journey of skateboarding when you have a gymnastics
styled way of practice or way of learning Potters, Spotters Spotters,
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it's just coaches at this point. I just feel like
everyone is trying to monetize skating and monetize a way
to get their kid farther ahead in life. I mean,
we are in late stage capitalism, so I kind of
am like, of course, have a fetus, maybe they'll get
you paid. But I just feel like it's so gnarly
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because I would be so pissed off if I was
at the skate park trying to enjoy skateboarding in whatever form,
and there's like parents like like if if somebody can't
do that safely by themselves, they shouldn't be doing it period.
And I think like that kid, obviously, I think did
the slide, but like at what cost? Like the first
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slam is like a backbending slam.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
A scorpion to child shouting out in pain and then crying,
and like the kid is like meat, like on the ground,
like visibly upset.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I hate it, Like there's no part of that that
you're going to convince me is like like the right
way to be doing it. Granted, I'm stoked that this
child has two supportive parents who are brought bringing them
to a skatepark and all that, but it is so
that is so over the line, and then it just
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really isn't authentic to what skateboarding is about, like at all.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I thought it was interesting seeing like street League and
Barracks like reposts.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Obviously we know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What I mean. Is it interesting?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Like here's why. It's, as you said, monetizing everything. Like
that clip generated so much attention because it just divides.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You right down the middle.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You're either like, Wow, that's really inspiring or oh my god,
this is so dangerous what are we doing? And I
thought it was like not rad to see the like
giddy up of barracks and sols like being like cool,
if we post this, the attention is going to go
off the charts for this. So yeah, it was just
like all the wrong reasons, all the wrong reasons were
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happening within this clip.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I just think it's super gross and it completely takes
away from like what what the what? Everyone has this
like intrinsic drive if you're a skateboarder. Every single skateboarder
has felt the need to want to ali the stair set,
to learn a kickflip, to drop in to boardsider rail.
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But you get there on yourself by yourself and that's
how you develop safe boundaries. That's how you don't get hurt.
And that's like the pure Like I'm a purist, that's
the pure essence of skateboarding. You don't get there with
two people ready to catch you, even though they don't
even know what it is like, they're not actually going
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to do anything if it's just grows like, it's gross whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
There's a value to learning the tricks on your own
and stepping to them as you progress, because then you
learn how to fall properly as you progress. The one
thing I've noticed, and more of the elite competitions too,
is that in the Olympic rules you have to wear
a helmet if you're under eighteen, in street, in park,
you have to wear a helmet, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
A lot of these young.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Girls, their abilities so exceed their ability to slam that
they are taking head smacking, terrible slams and thank God
that they have to wear a helmet at these elite
competitions because they don't know how to fall yet. And
I think the nuance is lost on coaches and parents
and people that are new to it that your ability
to fall is leveling up with your ability. If you
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throw a child there and she thinks that she can
do that, she's going to need to wear pads her
whole life and it's not always going to be the case.
So I think actually letting kids slam on their own
prevents terrible injuries down the road.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I have another hot take. I don't think these parents
would be doing this if they weren't filming it on
their phone.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're with you on that hot take.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I hate the idea that we are supporting our kids
and pushing our kids because of the way it's going
to be received and perceived by the greater audience of
the internet in the world. And like, I don't want
this to be purely negative, because I think that there
is like we are living in a time where when
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I go to the skate park there's just as many
little girls. They're super supported, they are thriving, and like
I just want to throw out to the world. I
got so stoked this weekend seeing an Instagram clip of
this young girl from Canada. Her name is thrash Lynn
with three ends and she's probably like nine, and it's
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like a before school warm up. Like I also love like, oh,
she's going to school, Like, we love that. And it's
her just skating this like her driveway skate park that
is like segmented dy. Yeah, and I don't know, I'd
love that she's skating obstacles that are like appropriate for
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her size. She's in a helmet. I don't think she
has pads on, but she's just like you can tell
she's discovered skateboarding by herself, and she is moving through
the world on a skateboard in that like truly authentic
way that is going to like also keep her a
healthy skateboarder probably her whole life, which is cool. But yeah,
that got me stoked, Like, yeah, that's what I want
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to see get seven million views. And again, we don't
know these people. We can't really nitpick everything. But I
hated that other video.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the Olympic
online qualifier video contest that was going on.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I thought it was like a cool way to.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Engage and invite more skateboarders into the process if they're
interested in going down that path. And I was surprised
and also not surprised to see who got the top
spot in the women's street style of it. Kylie Frank,
like she really knows how to show up in contest
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format and has like just like epic style on the board.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right now, I feel like at such a young.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Age, shout out Mimi Nupe for throwing together that entire
online qualifier for the US skateboarding team, which she is
basically holding up on her back.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But she did this online qualifier.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So everybody is competing at parks at their own park,
right and they're setting a video qualifier in and Kylie
did it at Pood's Park, which is notoriously a really big,
wide open park with a lot of space between obstacles.
And Poe did one two at her home park. She
came in second. Shout out Poe two. But Pos already
an Olympian, but Kylie's like the new blood. She's the
fresh face. And Kylie's ability to hold speed and like
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power and understand how to do it like a big
park like that, watching her whole confidence through it, I
don't know, Like sometimes the hardest part is like just
chilling out in between tricks, and you have like hours
between tricks at foods. So yeah, the power that Kylie
Frank has I'm really interested in, Like the street skaters,
the women's street skaters that are coming up with a
lot of power, because I think that's been missing from
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the comps and so like looking at Kylie Frank and
Abuki Matsumoto being really powerful skaters is like setting them
apart from the rest of the field.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Shout out Kylie, She's sick.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, Kylie's amazing and just like a cool kid. Like
I met her at one like I think it was
like the real video down at Rose Street skate shop.
Shout out Ensanita's Rose Street. But she just like came
up to me, and it's just like I remember being
that age so well, and like it's so cool to
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see these kids who are engaged in the world and
like are around all these people and you forget, like
I think we watched so much of them skating that
forget like, oh, I haven't met this person, and like
she's just a rad kid a super good attitude and
super gnarly and she.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Can lock up a good high five. I feel like, yeah,
she's a little gene dude.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's when you know like this person has got it
going on, Like she just can like throw down for
being so young in different environments and that I'm always like, Okay,
you're a real one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can't wait to watch how this unfolds. Well, we'll unfold.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Next is that Kylie and the top skaters that qualified
and the USA team will go to the first Olympic
qualifying event, which is Rome coming up in June. So
they're going to get their first big international trip. They're
going to get some monetary support from Team USA, and
they're gonna get to start their journey.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So excited to see what comes next.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Whenever I think of Rome, I think of the Lizzie
McGuire movie, and I just want to know how many
people out there feel that way as well. So like
in subscribing comment, I've.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Never seen it? Should I watch tonight?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yes, by yourself in a locked room with Paddie.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Listeners, will be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I got to go watch the Lizzie McGuire movie in
a padded room.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Everyone, If you've been paying attention, you know that Wheels
of Fortune thirteen is happening. I think we'd say it
every podcast for the last like I don't know how many,
but it's this weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Be there or miss out. We'd love to see you there.
We'll be there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
In the flesh. It's such a good weekend. Their skateboards
is on tour. They're hitting Portland, Seattle and then Vancouver, BC.
Check out the calendar for them. The meetups are always
super fun to show up. You'll get some swag. You
don't even need to skate if you do skate awesome
hop in the mix. It's such a great group of people.
I think they're popping in at Antisocial skate Shop and
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doing some cool stuff up there. The other night, someone
asked me a really funny question. Do you ever like,
is it awkward? I find this awkward when someone goes,
what do you do? And then I'm like, I work
in skateboarding, and and then it's just like a bizarre
like maze of questions that ensue from there. And then
I did get though, asked a really cool question like
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immediately after it, which was what's the hardest trick you
can do on a skateboard? And I just looked at
her and I was like, nobody's ever asked me that
question before, And I honestly had like no idea how
to answer it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So, yeah, Alex White, what is.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
The hardest trick that you can do on a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A Miller flip.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Bro, I will give you one hundred dollars cash if
you do a Miller flip this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I got, I got money on it. I try to
run on the small court.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But yeah, you could totally do it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh my god, please be brave and post this. We
need we need to watch Alex White miller flip.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That's outrageous.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I you're a funny answer to this. And I've used
this before and it's always thrown people off, but I
always use it, like if it's more of like a
I usually use it when like a man asks me
this question. But I go, like give or take, depending
on the time of the month. I could get pregnant
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and like have a baby, and like I've done this
like a few times, just like to be sweep. That's
your hardest skateboard trick. That's my hardest trick. No, because
it's never skateboard trick. They never specify. They never specify.
They say what's your hardest trick? And I'm like, if
I'm ovulating, I like break it all down. And I've
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like because I like, bro, I've been doing this for
twenty something years. The way that like you get interacted with.
Sometimes is so insane, and sometimes I just like to
like be a dickhead, but like funny, I like to
be a little goofy, a little silly, hardest trick for real,
for real, Yeah, let me think, let me think.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I thought it was like a crazy it like kind
of like shook me. That question. I was like, I've
been asked a lot of questions this one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
What is the hard is dude, I don't know because
I feel like I've done a basic Yeah, like what
does this even mean? Like I can do basically ship
on like spots that I think are gnarly or yeah,
I don't know, I know, it's it's just a funny question.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was super subjective. What did you say?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Like I said, I was kind of annoyed by the questions.
I was like, I don't know, Like what's the heart?
No one says I can do this. I think my
most consistent like good looking trick is a kick flip
for me that I'm just like very satisfied with the
outcome and I'm like cool, I'm happy there. Also this
is so basic, but like I love my push I
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don't care like I like that and it's a hard
it's a hard thing to to stylize and and make
it your own and make it look good. So I
guess I'm going more like style flex than like technical.
Uh I'm not like a technical skater. I like kind
of just like how to make something simple look good
and stylish and have like motion. That's my vibe. So
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I don't know. I just thought it was such a
funny question that I'm now going to ask people constantly
and watch them just like kind of like melt.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Score the hardish trick you can do.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think I refuse to answer it, nor what's your
life update report?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I have actually another question for you, Nora.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So, as a Moona fan, what's it like to finally
go to a Mona concert as a gay personally no
longer a straight person?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I was like, finally, I was like, this is like
my third or for show.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, but now now with a girlfriend involved, what was
it a different experience?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I felt like I wasn't lying. I was like, just
makes so much sense?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was that so funny?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But yeah, it's like you're inside of the It's like
why you hate from outside the club? You're in the
club or what is the fucking lyric. Do you know
what I'm saying? I don't know, it said it perfectly
in the Clareborol fan. That's like what it felt like personified.
It felt great. It was also this was the first
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time that I saw them and wasn't like within like
fifteen feet of the stage. No big deal. I've seen
them and I've like been in the pit. I've actually
seen them twice with Cheesy and who knows a pit.
They had a pit at the Greek Fuck yeah, dude,
and we had like wristbands that said like the pit,
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and I was like, anyway, I feel like it was awesome.
But we were like we saw them at the Shrine,
which I'd never been to. It's like like USC It's
like a really long ga like auditorium style venue, and
we were like definitely like way in the back, but
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it was like we were just dancing and I don't know,
it was freaking awesome. I Also, the album came out
like the day or two before, so it was really
fun to rush learn lyrics and like play it on
repeat for twenty four hours to like really bite down
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on what it is and it was so much fun.
And then basically they had like their first set was
all the new stuff, and then the second set was
like their favorite picks or fan favorite picks, and it
was just like so perfect. They have they say they
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have a lot of good shit to say, which is
pretty important, and I don't think a lot of pop
artists or people and now we're in their wheelhouse of
music are doing that, and I think it's really refreshing
and you feel proud as a fan to get to
listen and be like hell yeah, and everyone is in
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like Unison being like hell yeah. But going as a
queer person with my girlfriend and our other friends was
pretty like yeah, it's like magical. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Use those platforms as we saw. I don't know how
to segue into the Caitlyn Clerk bit.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's no way to segue.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Speaking of the opposite side of concerts, did anyone catch
Caitlyn Clerk she like walked out on the stage.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was just like, I was just kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Like a knowen racist.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I was just kind of like when women like say shit,
especially like when black women say shit, we should probably
fucking listen. Because there were so much of this, like
there's always been talk about who she is, and I
feel like her lack of personality on and off the
court has never done anything for me. So I'm even
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though she's like maybe one of the best players that
doesn't like I'm a skateboarder, like, I want to see personality.
I want to see all of that over the technicality,
especially because I'm not the biggest basketball fan and I
don't know a ton about it, but I like, I
like personality, so that's what I want to see. She
never gives me that, and then she gave me literally
(24:21):
nothing with this. With this, I was like, congrats on
giving absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay. So for context, Nora and for the listeners, if we're.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Talking about Kaitlyn Clark walking out on stage for Morgan Wallen,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And Morgan Wallen is a country singer who's been engulfed
in many, many different on record racist slurs, issues, problematic
politics that we definitely don't align with.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And for those that maybe.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Aren't following the WNBA, Kaitlyn Clark, she's not on your radar,
that name hasn't surfaced. I mean, she's the face of
a predominantly black w You know when you're definitely the
face of something and you do something like that it
says a lot without you saying anything. I think that's
the general conversation we're trying to have about this.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's giving like nineteen sixty two, it's like giving like
pre title nine. That's the energy she gives.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, well we're going backwards these days.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I feel like this is just like a negative complaint session.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But I do in the world of skateboarding, as anyone
else noticed that it's like two thousand and six right
now for women's skateboarding in terms of like major footwear
companies going on tours, doing demos, teaming up with Thrasher
fronting the bill, going on these major like destination stops,
doing great promotion for it, awesome lineup of skateboarders invited,
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missing women, and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It just like blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
This is solely a decision that is happening from sports
marketing that is just I don't know, at a certain point,
just choosing not to and I don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I also think it's weird because it's just like in general,
everyone's skating with everyone right now.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
It's not actually showing what skating is like. It's not
indicative of the environment. They're not mirroring what actual skate
crews are these days and how integrated it is. Instead
they're just again doing their boys club. It's just not
good for anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And yeah, like you said, it's not a right mirror
of what's going on, and then it's not good for
the business.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So anyways, if any like tms do listen, well I'll
call them out.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I mean, it's Nike doing the bask Tour and it's
a new balanced tour, not including any of their women
writers either too.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But has been behind. They've been they have been behind
for so long. Like yeah, every day I wake up
and I every clean over my bed in this position
like this, and imagine, imagine I'm wearing like a tiny nightgown,
like my nightgown is Monday, right, my nightown. My nightgown
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is like where my fingertips end, you know, on my legs.
And I'm thinking, I say, dear skate gods, thank you
so much for allowing me to be part of Adidas.
And that's like I'm being funny, but I'm not kidding,
Like I literally every single day of my life, I
am so thankful for where I have been, the space
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that I've allowed to take up in skateboarding and to
be partnered with people who I feel like stand behind
what they're doing and who I think, especially like in
recent light of what I think has been happening, campaign wise,
has really come back to like their grassroots efforts of
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like even the World Cup stuff they've done, like that
Huge Can Pay with Trinity Rodman and talking about how
like football soccer, American soccer football has like started. It's
like a really accessible thing that has started in streets
for all of these professional athletes. It has started like
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in just pickup games, and like they did this insane
campaign based around that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Incredible but Adidas Wow hit a fucking home home run
run If you guys haven't seen it, like you know,
the internet's at your fingertips type in the Adidas like
football three on.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
There's so many sick cameos in it as well. Yeah,
it's insane, like it was.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
The brief was executed to perfection and it felt kind
of skate vibe because it started in the streets right
Like you said, Nora.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I also think the creatives. I think so many of
the creatives behind these projects have a lot of different
things that they pull from, and I think skateboarding is
always something that gets pulled from in these spaces like
it doesn't matter. Like I was in New York last
week and we were shooting a really quick thing for
Adidas in Nordstrom around the World Cup, and they had
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Jen Sodo and I and we were the two skaters,
like we were the representation of this whole part of skateboarding,
you know, and it's like two chicks. And I feel
like that's what it means to do the things that
you say you're going to do when you execute it
in that way of being like you need skaters for
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this campaign, here's our two skaters. They happened to be women.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, how was in New York with Jen?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And this trip was really quick. It was like less
than forty eight hours and just in and out. But
it was really fun because I think anytime I get
to do something that's like out of the normal day
to day with one of my sponsors, I get like
really fired up because I'm like, whoa hair and makeup?
Getting to like work with people I wouldn't work with
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on an average day is really fun. It was super easy.
We shot like the first half of the day and
then we had the second half of the day to
do whatever we wanted before we flew out in the morning,
and yeah, I just got to like catch up with
some friends.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I got to eat really good food.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It was funny. It rained like at the end, like
we shot in the morning and it rained probably like
from one o'clock on, which was like a funny, weird vibe.
To be in the city and like walking around with
like an umbrella. I don't know, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I like.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I like walking around the city and eating pizza and
eating food and.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Giving such main character energy right now.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm nice your umbrella in the city.
Like I put my skull candies on, I have my
Nicks and watch on and I just walk. I walk
around the city and I stumble into a bakery. I
don't whatever. I'm here for it. I'm gonna do it.
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I like hit my knee on the Monday. I think
I left. I did the shoot Wednesday, toasted my knee
Monday skating and I brought my board but it rained,
and I don't think I could have skated anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dude, your knee looks like a planetarium right now.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It was sick some other like like interlactic space bruise
of yeah, every color of purple, yellow and mixture thing
where Alex on the group chat was like, dude, are
you okay?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It was so funny. I was just like skating South
Pass and I was just skating like a quarter pipe
and I was trying to do like kickflip no stall
and I'm not a nose staller by any means or
really a nose slider, but I got into one and
like wasn't locked in and I tried to jump off
my board. I like basically did like the knee splits
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the ground, and it was this very refreshing thing of
I should have gotten really hurt, but I'm also really
stoked that I'm that flexible. But I bruised my shit
so bad. It was like, I don't know, we're all skaters.
We just like there's this there's this sense of gratefulness
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that you get when you when you like hurt yourself
but not severely like you get humbled, right, But that
was fun. So I was just like I had this
like hematominy that I was walking around.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
With all last week. Were you self filming? Like little
Tripod is a the slam.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I tried, and then I didn't like even capture the slam,
which sucked because it was like it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Was like when you fell out a frame.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Though I fell out a frame and you can yeah
you go like my yeah, my front knee, like.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
My front knee did that split thing, and then my
back knee did it worse, but it did it like
on the board again and on the ground. And then
I was like, oh, I was like with Jared skating
with my friend Jared and Paul, and I was just like, dude,
I almost tore both my meniscuses.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Like that was great.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Maybe that's your hardest trick. That's that's your most trick.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I'm walking around the streets in New York getting lost
and eating a lot of food. I'll be right back
with good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Also, zero days since the last incident of stalker harassment.
Sounds like you got back, oh yeah, back at it
despite restraining orders. These are two separate individuals with the
same name, in the same level of mental unwellness.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So this this guy will comment multiple things on top
of each other and they're all directed towards me. And
he tagged me and was like, this is why I
said I wanted to impregnate you, and it's a video
of me talking about wanting to have kids one day.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
What did he send you or try to send you.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
A private message from an unblocked account. So again, these
guys make accounts. I block, they make more accounts. And
he sent a message and it's like this guy was
in jail for stealing a car and trying to come
to my house. Okay, this guy like traveled thousands of
miles from Michigan, and I'm just so sick of it
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because I'm just at the point where I'm like, is
this like do I have to do like gorilla self
protection because it just feels like the consequences for.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
This behavior is like zero.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Like he was in jail for two and a half
months on grand theft auto and then he's now backstocking me,
even with a restraining order. And yeah, it's just like
commenting on posts he commented saying, hey, I got a
gift for you. I got you mace in a whistle
in case I like, and you're like back to jail,
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straight to jail, I am. But now it's like okay,
that's the issue too. But now I'm like, okay, so
I have to go to the police again and say,
here is here's like the comments where I could just
email it to them. Here's the case number, here's the
like literally, this is the file. These are examples, this
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is the restraining order and examples of.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So this is what it's like being a woman, super fun.
Here's female privilege. This is female privilege right.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
There, and all other like female and transkaters out there
who deal with just like so much harassment and bowling and.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Just like just like lack of safety.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It's so unfair you need to be online to promote
you as a skateboarder. It's like in the job contract.
And the lack of brand protection I think is something
that like, as skateboarding continues to grow and monetize the
individual ip of a skateboarder, how do we keep them
one with health insurance to protected and what is your
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responsibility to that when you're requiring this availability and like accessibility,
Like the idea is that I can access your life visually, Nora,
that's the point I get to follow along as a fan,
But then it comes at what cost and the safety
for many others what you're saying, but like so many
others who have to eventually just kind of like get offline,
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which then at the stake of their sponsorship opportunities and
just their own mental health.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I find it so impossible right now.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I mean, Latisia Bufani's been battling this forever, and Latisia
is a global superstar. She has her own security, a
lot of tours, which is like pretty guard.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I want to know, like I have not gone down
that route, and I've not because I just feel like
for me, I'm not going to do it anymore, Like
it's not worth it for me to have to exist
in that way. There needs to be stronger, like when
you say shit online that threatens someone's safety, you don't
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you should not get like you have to be on
a list, like I think you need to be. This
dude traveled basically to my house and committed like felons,
Like is a felon felony's along the way, and I'm
just like, what.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Like what are we doing? When I've sat in court
for six days and it's just like, well, just did
you feel like this is a threat to your life
and your livelihood? And I'm like, yes, this is the threat.
It's happening and this happens to people all the fucking time.
But the whole like we can't do anything until they
physically do something is insane because every person who has
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been a victim of like homicide, that like most of
the time, there were so much there before hopeful times. Bro,
I'm freakin done.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I'm gonna be a song where you should reverse stalk.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Literally, I'm gonna start stocking myself.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Leading all these comments under your own video. Dude, I'm
so into that. Did I tell you my idea though?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Okay, here's what I want us to do as a collective.
I don't think men understand what it is like to
be a public person like Nora, right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
I think we should pick some random guy that's gonna have.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Some part dropping on Thrasher, and we coordinate an effort
of all the women to just light up the comment
section with the sexual like quote unquote, just quote the
things that have been said back to you back into
those comment sections on this random person, just so that
they know what it feels like they don't get.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
It, And the result of that would be like an
actual like World War three, Like we just change maybe
men's egos and their emotional state, like they're far more
emotional than women.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
We're always like told women.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Are too emotional to be in leadership roles, and this
is not and really, uh behind that is actually a
fragile males ego.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
They don't care until it happens to them. It's like
they really are.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And so like I think back about all the sexual
abuse allegations that were coming out about Chris Cole and
his wife Christine, right, and you know, Rob Rank was
like lighting them up and like doing all these interviews, right,
and then finally they got like a male person that's
been like bullied and sexually harassed, and then the slat
message boards lit up and then the men were in it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Oh, that's so messed up that that happened to him.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
And it's like, this happens to us, Like we have
receipts of this happening to us, but you only care
when it happens to one of your boys.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
So why don't we make it happen to one of
their boys again?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I'm the boy. I want to be the I want
to pull them back. Hey, I want them back, Hey,
I want to be the boy.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I also just want people to have fun skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Oh god, we talk about it. We've been able to
work in it, we live in it. It's it's but
at the end of the day, like the one thing
we're all like in agreement on is like the pure
joy of skateboarding and the gift that that is and
it's just so unique and why can't that be enough
to just unite us and like be so simply stoked that,
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like the way you express yourself on a skateboard inspires
other people to skateboard and it looks like you're having fun,
Like hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Like I get so so lit up when I see
someone in their moment of joy, Like that is all
it is for me.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Like I'm like, but the moment of joy always comes
with a lot of overcoming ship. That's why we're joyful
for them because we know how hard that they work
to get to that point.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
At least for me, that's the enjoyment. As a viewer, I.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Just love seeing someone smile when they skate or like
shout out, Amy Corone, I got to go see here's
here's where I'm going with this. Everyone buckle up if
you don't. Amy Coron has given so much to women's
skateboarding in the history.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Oh my God, don't give her that. Okay, well, Amy's
one of my best friends. I'm just giving you ship.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
An she does this, She's given exactly as much as
she's willing to give, and what she over extend herself.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
She will never get put out there and like she
will never.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Be made the fool because she's very, very ridiculous about
what she's giving to the situation.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
But guess what, it's not nothing. It ain't not nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
No, she's she's awesome.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But like, yeah, I'm envious of Amy's ability to not
give her all to something in a way that's self destructive.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Okay, hold up, let me I want to clap back.
All I was trying to say is Amy's window. Uh
that she gave receipts with video parts in skateboarding was
still really influential at the time and full of style
and progression.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Sure might have been a little anyways, shout out to
those contributions.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I got to see her play a show, play music
in front of an audience the other night, and it
was just so sick to see like the like skateboarder
in her like translate to the musician and performer and
just like full class act, like so good, so unbelievably
good and talented and funny and awesome and just she
was just happy. And it was like that again, the
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core of expression is like when you can see someone
like just like lighting up in a public display of
an art form on wheels.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Or on a stage with the guitar. It was just sick.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
And I guess I don't know why we just ruin
everyone's fucking joy? Why is everyone killing joy in this world?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
Well, I got a thing about Amy. I want to
get bring in there too. Amy is so good at
winning jams, like like jam format contests, and you know
what her tactic was. She like so she like is
playing it like a show, like an audience. She will
start off really strong, she backs down during the middle
section in the set, and then she ends well, she
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always has like a good closer, so the last and
she'll wait until they're doing the buzzer beater the last
ten seconds and she'll do her hardest trick too. So
it's like right in the judge's memory at the end,
takes her bow and walks off stage.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Hey, but would that work in today's like judging standard.
I don't think you could score well enough strategically.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I mean depends on the format. I mean, Wheel's fortune
is a jam, right, so like save it for the
last ten seconds. We go ten not like and then
you land something. Everybody's gonna explode. It's like she's got
it down. She's a good performer, she really is.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I like this. I like this.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I forgot to say that I had a dream the
other night that I was doing nosegrinds like Ruby.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
In the bowl. It was sick. Okay, tell us about
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Nosegrind like Ruby's Ruby. She does them in a particular way.
They're super like light footed.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah floats you know who had a nosegrind that was
like really light footed and like super gnarly and could
do them like in the craziest parts of Coombe Daniel Vargus.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Oh yeah, well yeah, come on, But like you to
bring up your first boy friend here, you always gotta bring.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Up this is on. This is only the tenth time
I've brought him up.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
You are right though about his nose grind is like
it's a kind of disbelieve.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
That just happened. Yeah, you really missed that boat, Nora.
You let that nose grind go for what muna conference
concerts with.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Your first friend shitty surfer Dudes.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
It was a fa It was just a phase.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
I co signed that though he does have one of
the better nose grinds out there.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I want to do a whole podcast where we just
talk about video parts. Yes, yeah, oh okay, all right, everybody,
you have three guesses.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Of what I'm doing on camera. Right now, you're holding
a pencil. I'm I'm doing the trick, the wopply pen trick.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we love that trick. Who doesn't
love it? That's your best trick?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, that's my best trick. Guys, ready for my best trick?
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Okay? Wait, so you want next episode for us to
all holler at our favorite video parts within women's skateboarding
or in general women. Can we go beyond Nora Fetish
Alexis Sablonecarpe, DM Vanessa Torres save it?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Or next okay episode, can we go?
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Can we like make a case for like a cross
sport that we throw in there, or solely skateboarding?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Okay, that skate a wave. In my opinion, like Katie Simmers.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
I think we start off with just skate but then
I think we can empty. We can flush the toilet
into other things, whether it's surfing, snowboarding, art, music, into
like other women who have done creative projects that inspire
us to film video parts, because that's that's a huge thing.
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Like I have been inspired to film video parts from
weird shit like a charcooterie board.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
I thought was so good, it was the best.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
It was the best guda I've ever had, And I
was like, wait, I need to go film three and
a half minutes of the hardest shit I've ever filmed.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Can we get some listener contributions on this, Like, I
think we should engage. I want to know if you
are listening, do you guys want to in on this conversation
or should we just talk at you?
Speaker 4 (46:54):
I think we should put something some skin in the game.
What do we think the top five of all time are?
Top three?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
I hear top five, top three.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
We're going to figure out how to get our GLWT
heads out there incorporated in this so we can have
a pretty good conversation.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
I think, yeah, we have got a lot to pull from.
So well.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
The opinion is, I think this is really good too,
because Number one. A lot of times whenever a new
women's video park comes out. The guys don't know how
to talk about it because they have no criteria and
understanding of the context of women's video parts. If we
could contextualize our criteria for that, like what do you
guys think makes a really good video part?
Speaker 2 (47:32):
You know, like what are we basing this on?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Okay, well, I'm down.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Let's get organized and listeners out there stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
We're going to give you some homework and you're going
to want to turn it in on time.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Anyone else needing some luck for this coming week beyond
wheels of fortune, things like what are we looking for?
Speaker 2 (47:55):
What do we need in our lives right now?
Speaker 1 (47:58):
A lobotomy?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Dude? Straight up, I'll take one. I'm down.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
I gotta say though on a positive note though, like
we can go to the good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Sa Mario Bravard's been killing it.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
I don't know, if you get watching, she's looking so
strong and like so back after like you know, she
was on the pod a couple episodes ago, you know,
like hurt her knees, hurt her back really bad. The
last four or five reels she's posted are just like
everything bolts barely he'll flipping Chevy Chase trade flips, no
problem like linking lines, just looking so strong. And I'm
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really excited to see Samria this week and get to
see her in person.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
What doesn't kill you makes you?
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Thanks you strong? I don't know me when I'm do.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
You know who I also want to say is having
an epic comeback right now that I'm like, thank you
for coming back on the scene, Jasmine Elvarez, she writes
for TACKI yeah, no, I know, congrats on that back
that bag of.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
My low boards that she's getting.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
I shipped her an entire box of boards to Bogata
that just disappeared like three.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
You know you want to hear a crazy thing. Pedro
Barrows used to have to get his vans shipped in
two separate shippings, and he would get all of his
left shoe shipped and all of his right shoes shipped separately,
so that when they went through and tried to steal
his stuff, they're like, what am I going to do
with a bunch of left shoes? Ye, so cut the
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boards in half, cut those boards and then have the
fancy lad guys. Have the fancy lad guys screw them
back together.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
The point was, I'm I'm so thrilled to see her
recovery and how much stronger she looks on the board,
and how much more there is to come in the year.
And I totally co sign a Samaria Brevard come back.
She's looking fierce right now. So what I'll see you
guys in Seattle. And then after that, let's let's get
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together in La, Let's get back in the studio, let's
go skate together.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I think.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Let's go to Nora's house and Alex, I really cannot
wait to see your miller flip.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Oh boy, I really got I really talked myself into
this bucks baby girl.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
During the comp, I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Outside of it.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I'm yeah, Ahash, you want to help me, judge, maybe
sign me up, coach, thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I need some judges.
Speaker 4 (50:31):
I texted Nicole and Fobby and they're gonna be holding
down the loop tent and they're not sure if they're
going to make it out to the comp.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
I'm like, okay, well need some I'm like.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
The tent. Are you literally holding the tent down? Yeah,
it's gonna be super winday. They have to physically hold
the tent all the time.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Well, listeners, thanks for hanging out with us on another
episode of Good Luck with That. We're sending you all
the strength and willpower and what Nora you take us
out today?
Speaker 8 (50:59):
And that's another episode of good Luck with That.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
My name's Nerves and sell us. We're out here in
the streets skateboarding using a board with four wheels and
two axles in order to create life in which we live,
and in.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Order to create a soul and for which.
Speaker 8 (51:13):
Our divine selves can speak to the greater mindset of
the masses. I would like to shout out to Alex
White and Ashley Rayfield for being part of what will
be the greatest thing that has ever seeped into the
iHeartRadio podcast world. And I just want to thank my
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cats for using their litter boxes today and also for
peeing into the shower instead of the couch because the
shower is significantly easier to clean.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
You can find.
Speaker 8 (51:54):
Us at wherever you get your podcasts. I get mine
under my bed. You can also find that doesn't make
any sense?
Speaker 1 (52:02):
It did?
Speaker 2 (52:03):
It didn't? I was down.
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Wait what No, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's sports production
in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Hey everybody,
this is good Luck with That, a podcast about skating, women, skaters,
gender expressive skaters, skaters in outer space, astronauts, skaters and
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skaters that just want to cry a little bit or
a lot. I'm Nora of Asconcelos, one of your hosts.
We're also here with Alex White and Ashley Ray Felt.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
God, you nailed it. Why haven't we made you do
this sooner? Thank you, Nora.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
To our outer space skaters, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We're ready to rip it up with you in zero gravity.
That was incredible. Also, I just want to ask skaters
I just want to cry a little bit? Does that
include members of this pod?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's me? That's me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Listening to Noah Kahn and then it turned into like
a lot because he has a new album out and
I was not particularly like I didn't know anything about him,
which is like embarrassing as a new Englander. But my
girlfriend really got me into him, and I didn't fall
asleep until two thirty the other night because I was
listening to his music and it put me in a
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really dark place.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So yeah, a dark place, like because it was so emotional.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's just like endless, like every song is good, but
it's just all sad, and then you start trying to
like decipher it, and then it's like reminding you of
like really fucked up shit that you did to like
your brother, Like it just like really just pulls it
all out of you. And then I couldn't sleep. So
I was on TikTok and then TikTok did that psycho
thing it does where all of a sudden, because I'm
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listening to his music on Spotify, all I'm getting is
literally tiktoks of like the Goofy movie with like one
of the songs, like clips of from the Goofy movie
with like the saddest song You've ever heard, And I'm
just like sobbing. Remember this happened to me with like
Land Before Time.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, it's the same obsession, Okay, Goosey movies like really
in people's brains right now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Culturally relevant, it's coming tack TikTok. Yeah. Oh it's because
the TikTok got it. I mean, wow, all of us.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wait, what are we all drinking? I'm drinking a uzu
iced tea from Sixes in Silver Lake. What are you
guys drinking?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm drinking a fridge sig Aka and diet Coke.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have some beautiful water filtered, of course, with some
electrolytes in it, because last night I went out to
dinner and decided to have one too many martinis. Okay, Ashley,
we get it. You're from SF. I don't think I've
talked to all of you all in a minute.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, you've been out.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It was in Georgia, not the state, the Republic of Georgia,
and it was wild. I do recommend. Actually there's skateboarding there.
I mean there's skateboarding everywhere that there is concrete. But
it's always like a pleasant reminder when you go somewhere
not for a skate trip as a normal civilian would travel.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And then you're like, I can't believe how.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Double this city to Bleasy would be to go skate
I'm ready to go. Let's get the pot out there.
Everything is perfect. It's all really small, like incredible street
spots that are like coated for us, US for us,
for us, everything was adorable, cute and gnarly all at
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the same time, it was like beautiful. I'd walk around,
I'd be like, how is that a perfect spot? Granite
limestone everywhere, and then it's not like you're not going
to die and it would look sick. So anyways, shout
out to Blasi, Shout out to Georgia in general and
Rony for that epic trip. So yeah, I've been out offline,
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but I have been watching skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think you all have been too. How can you
avoid it?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I close my eyelids skateboarding. I opened my eyelids skateboarding.
I look in the mirror skateboarding.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Shout out to our new pro, Ruby Lily anyone, Oh shit,
Ruby's pro her foundation. Did you guys know that was coming?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But I mean I think I figured. I saw the
I didn't make it to the premiere, but I saw
the foundation video and I was like, I mean, if
they don't turn her pro, like, what are we doing? Nora?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
We hung out with her at dime last year.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Ruby is like killing herself for skateboarding, like the slams
that she took last year, the trips that she was on, like.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
The just like hell ride that her last year has been.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
She is like true diehard skateboarder, Like, yeah, she's cut
from the cloth. I think that we all want to
be cut from Maryland, Maryland. She's like the second youngest
of eight kids. She's just like like super supportive mom.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, she had a story like yours, Nora.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
She moved out here with her mom, sharing a one
bedroom studio in Oceanside, wanting to be a pro skater.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And that's what dreams are made of.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
There actually have been a lot of stories that have
been like this, specifically in women's skateboarding, of like parent
and child moving cross country to support. I can think, obviously, Nora,
at you we're talking about Ruby. I mean Shiloh had
that moment too, shilakatory with her mom, page high page
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hid with her father. Is this a reality TV show
that we need or not at all?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
In theory? Yes, but I feel like no.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Speaking of parents in skateboarding, did you guys catch the
seven point three million viewed Times video of the small
eight year old girl who's trying to learn her first
ever board slide down a pretty legit handrail at a
skate park and she has parents on both sides of
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her on the stair set as like Guardian Angels as
she completely like tries to attempt this board side and
destroys herself.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I hated it.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, Like I don't know, am I clear enough in
this visual?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Like is there more that we need to get people
up to speed so they can understand that like this
is a really weird era of skateboarding and children and
parents helping get these kids to a more extreme competitive space,
Like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Getting a little dangerous and a little.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Scary to watch. I have a lot of thoughts on it. Unfortunately,
it was like sent to me multiple times.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I wasn't the only one that sent it to you.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, it was like it was like also sent to
me as like this is amazing, and I'm like, oh
my god, like by like relatives, you know. It was
just like it is to me. It was so like
not not it. I have a really hard time watching
parents who are obviously not skateboarders push a child in
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the single digits to do things that are like really
actually dangerous. And I also feel like it's super inauthentic
to the journey of skateboarding when you have a gymnastics
styled way of practice or way of learning Potters, Spotters Spotters,
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it's just coaches at this point. I just feel like
everyone is trying to monetize skating and monetize a way
to get their kid farther ahead in life. I mean,
we are in late stage capitalism, so I kind of
am like, of course, have a fetus, maybe they'll get
you paid. But I just feel like it's so gnarly
(07:40):
because I would be so pissed off if I was
at the skate park trying to enjoy skateboarding in whatever form,
and there's like parents like like if if somebody can't
do that safely by themselves, they shouldn't be doing it period.
And I think like that kid, obviously, I think did
the slide, but like at what cost? Like the first
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slam is like a backbending slam.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
A scorpion to child shouting out in pain and then crying,
and like the kid is like meat, like on the ground,
like visibly upset.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I hate it, Like there's no part of that that
you're going to convince me is like like the right
way to be doing it. Granted, I'm stoked that this
child has two supportive parents who are brought bringing them
to a skatepark and all that, but it is so
that is so over the line, and then it just
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really isn't authentic to what skateboarding is about, like at all.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I thought it was interesting seeing like street League and
Barracks like reposts.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Obviously we know.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What I mean. Is it interesting?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Like here's why. It's, as you said, monetizing everything. Like
that clip generated so much attention because it just divides.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
You right down the middle.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You're either like, Wow, that's really inspiring or oh my god,
this is so dangerous what are we doing? And I
thought it was like not rad to see the like
giddy up of barracks and sols like being like cool,
if we post this, the attention is going to go
off the charts for this. So yeah, it was just
like all the wrong reasons, all the wrong reasons were
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happening within this clip.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I just think it's super gross and it completely takes
away from like what what the what? Everyone has this
like intrinsic drive if you're a skateboarder. Every single skateboarder
has felt the need to want to ali the stair set,
to learn a kickflip, to drop in to boardsider rail.
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But you get there on yourself by yourself and that's
how you develop safe boundaries. That's how you don't get hurt.
And that's like the pure Like I'm a purist, that's
the pure essence of skateboarding. You don't get there with
two people ready to catch you, even though they don't
even know what it is like, they're not actually going
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to do anything if it's just grows like, it's gross whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
There's a value to learning the tricks on your own
and stepping to them as you progress, because then you
learn how to fall properly as you progress. The one
thing I've noticed, and more of the elite competitions too,
is that in the Olympic rules you have to wear
a helmet if you're under eighteen, in street, in park,
you have to wear a helmet, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
A lot of these young.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Girls, their abilities so exceed their ability to slam that
they are taking head smacking, terrible slams and thank God
that they have to wear a helmet at these elite
competitions because they don't know how to fall yet. And
I think the nuance is lost on coaches and parents
and people that are new to it that your ability
to fall is leveling up with your ability. If you
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throw a child there and she thinks that she can
do that, she's going to need to wear pads her
whole life and it's not always going to be the case.
So I think actually letting kids slam on their own
prevents terrible injuries down the road.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I have another hot take. I don't think these parents
would be doing this if they weren't filming it on
their phone.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're with you on that hot take.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I hate the idea that we are supporting our kids
and pushing our kids because of the way it's going
to be received and perceived by the greater audience of
the internet in the world. And like, I don't want
this to be purely negative, because I think that there
is like we are living in a time where when
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I go to the skate park there's just as many
little girls. They're super supported, they are thriving, and like
I just want to throw out to the world. I
got so stoked this weekend seeing an Instagram clip of
this young girl from Canada. Her name is thrash Lynn
with three ends and she's probably like nine, and it's
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like a before school warm up. Like I also love like, oh,
she's going to school, Like, we love that. And it's
her just skating this like her driveway skate park that
is like segmented dy. Yeah, and I don't know, I'd
love that she's skating obstacles that are like appropriate for
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her size. She's in a helmet. I don't think she
has pads on, but she's just like you can tell
she's discovered skateboarding by herself, and she is moving through
the world on a skateboard in that like truly authentic
way that is going to like also keep her a
healthy skateboarder probably her whole life, which is cool. But yeah,
that got me stoked, Like, yeah, that's what I want
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to see get seven million views. And again, we don't
know these people. We can't really nitpick everything. But I
hated that other video.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the Olympic
online qualifier video contest that was going on.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I thought it was like a cool way to.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Engage and invite more skateboarders into the process if they're
interested in going down that path. And I was surprised
and also not surprised to see who got the top
spot in the women's street style of it. Kylie Frank,
like she really knows how to show up in contest
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format and has like just like epic style on the board.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right now, I feel like at such a young.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Age, shout out Mimi Nupe for throwing together that entire
online qualifier for the US skateboarding team, which she is
basically holding up on her back.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But she did this online qualifier.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So everybody is competing at parks at their own park,
right and they're setting a video qualifier in and Kylie
did it at Pood's Park, which is notoriously a really big,
wide open park with a lot of space between obstacles.
And Poe did one two at her home park. She
came in second. Shout out Poe two. But Pos already
an Olympian, but Kylie's like the new blood. She's the
fresh face. And Kylie's ability to hold speed and like
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power and understand how to do it like a big
park like that, watching her whole confidence through it, I
don't know, Like sometimes the hardest part is like just
chilling out in between tricks, and you have like hours
between tricks at foods. So yeah, the power that Kylie
Frank has I'm really interested in, Like the street skaters,
the women's street skaters that are coming up with a
lot of power, because I think that's been missing from
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the comps and so like looking at Kylie Frank and
Abuki Matsumoto being really powerful skaters is like setting them
apart from the rest of the field.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Shout out Kylie, She's sick.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, Kylie's amazing and just like a cool kid. Like
I met her at one like I think it was
like the real video down at Rose Street skate shop.
Shout out Ensanita's Rose Street. But she just like came
up to me, and it's just like I remember being
that age so well, and like it's so cool to
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see these kids who are engaged in the world and
like are around all these people and you forget, like
I think we watched so much of them skating that
forget like, oh, I haven't met this person, and like
she's just a rad kid a super good attitude and
super gnarly and she.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Can lock up a good high five. I feel like, yeah,
she's a little gene dude.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's when you know like this person has got it
going on, Like she just can like throw down for
being so young in different environments and that I'm always like, Okay,
you're a real one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Can't wait to watch how this unfolds. Well, we'll unfold.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Next is that Kylie and the top skaters that qualified
and the USA team will go to the first Olympic
qualifying event, which is Rome coming up in June. So
they're going to get their first big international trip. They're
going to get some monetary support from Team USA, and
they're gonna get to start their journey.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So excited to see what comes next.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Whenever I think of Rome, I think of the Lizzie
McGuire movie, and I just want to know how many
people out there feel that way as well. So like
in subscribing comment, I've.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Never seen it? Should I watch tonight?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yes, by yourself in a locked room with Paddie.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Listeners, will be right back.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I got to go watch the Lizzie McGuire movie in
a padded room.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Everyone, If you've been paying attention, you know that Wheels
of Fortune thirteen is happening. I think we'd say it
every podcast for the last like I don't know how many,
but it's this weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Be there or miss out. We'd love to see you there.
We'll be there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
In the flesh. It's such a good weekend. Their skateboards
is on tour. They're hitting Portland, Seattle and then Vancouver, BC.
Check out the calendar for them. The meetups are always
super fun to show up. You'll get some swag. You
don't even need to skate if you do skate awesome
hop in the mix. It's such a great group of people.
I think they're popping in at Antisocial skate Shop and
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doing some cool stuff up there. The other night, someone
asked me a really funny question. Do you ever like,
is it awkward? I find this awkward when someone goes,
what do you do? And then I'm like, I work
in skateboarding, and and then it's just like a bizarre
like maze of questions that ensue from there. And then
I did get though, asked a really cool question like
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immediately after it, which was what's the hardest trick you
can do on a skateboard? And I just looked at
her and I was like, nobody's ever asked me that
question before, And I honestly had like no idea how
to answer it.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So, yeah, Alex White, what is.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
The hardest trick that you can do on a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
A Miller flip.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Bro, I will give you one hundred dollars cash if
you do a Miller flip this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I got, I got money on it. I try to
run on the small court.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But yeah, you could totally do it.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh my god, please be brave and post this. We
need we need to watch Alex White miller flip.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That's outrageous.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I you're a funny answer to this. And I've used
this before and it's always thrown people off, but I
always use it, like if it's more of like a
I usually use it when like a man asks me
this question. But I go, like give or take, depending
on the time of the month. I could get pregnant
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and like have a baby, and like I've done this
like a few times, just like to be sweep. That's
your hardest skateboard trick. That's my hardest trick. No, because
it's never skateboard trick. They never specify. They never specify.
They say what's your hardest trick? And I'm like, if
I'm ovulating, I like break it all down. And I've
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like because I like, bro, I've been doing this for
twenty something years. The way that like you get interacted with.
Sometimes is so insane, and sometimes I just like to
like be a dickhead, but like funny, I like to
be a little goofy, a little silly, hardest trick for real,
for real, Yeah, let me think, let me think.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I thought it was like a crazy it like kind
of like shook me. That question. I was like, I've
been asked a lot of questions this one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
What is the hard is dude, I don't know because
I feel like I've done a basic Yeah, like what
does this even mean? Like I can do basically ship
on like spots that I think are gnarly or yeah,
I don't know, I know, it's it's just a funny question.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was super subjective. What did you say?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Like I said, I was kind of annoyed by the questions.
I was like, I don't know, Like what's the heart?
No one says I can do this. I think my
most consistent like good looking trick is a kick flip
for me that I'm just like very satisfied with the
outcome and I'm like cool, I'm happy there. Also this
is so basic, but like I love my push I
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don't care like I like that and it's a hard
it's a hard thing to to stylize and and make
it your own and make it look good. So I
guess I'm going more like style flex than like technical.
Uh I'm not like a technical skater. I like kind
of just like how to make something simple look good
and stylish and have like motion. That's my vibe. So
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I don't know. I just thought it was such a
funny question that I'm now going to ask people constantly
and watch them just like kind of like melt.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Score the hardish trick you can do.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think I refuse to answer it, nor what's your
life update report?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I have actually another question for you, Nora.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So, as a Moona fan, what's it like to finally
go to a Mona concert as a gay personally no
longer a straight person?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I was like, finally, I was like, this is like
my third or for show.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, but now now with a girlfriend involved, what was
it a different experience?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I felt like I wasn't lying. I was like, just
makes so much sense?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Was that so funny?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But yeah, it's like you're inside of the It's like
why you hate from outside the club? You're in the
club or what is the fucking lyric. Do you know
what I'm saying? I don't know, it said it perfectly
in the Clareborol fan. That's like what it felt like personified.
It felt great. It was also this was the first
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time that I saw them and wasn't like within like
fifteen feet of the stage. No big deal. I've seen
them and I've like been in the pit. I've actually
seen them twice with Cheesy and who knows a pit.
They had a pit at the Greek Fuck yeah, dude,
and we had like wristbands that said like the pit,
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and I was like, anyway, I feel like it was awesome.
But we were like we saw them at the Shrine,
which I'd never been to. It's like like USC It's
like a really long ga like auditorium style venue, and
we were like definitely like way in the back, but
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it was like we were just dancing and I don't know,
it was freaking awesome. I Also, the album came out
like the day or two before, so it was really
fun to rush learn lyrics and like play it on
repeat for twenty four hours to like really bite down
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on what it is and it was so much fun.
And then basically they had like their first set was
all the new stuff, and then the second set was
like their favorite picks or fan favorite picks, and it
was just like so perfect. They have they say they
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have a lot of good shit to say, which is
pretty important, and I don't think a lot of pop
artists or people and now we're in their wheelhouse of
music are doing that, and I think it's really refreshing
and you feel proud as a fan to get to
listen and be like hell yeah, and everyone is in
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like Unison being like hell yeah. But going as a
queer person with my girlfriend and our other friends was
pretty like yeah, it's like magical. I'll never forget it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Use those platforms as we saw. I don't know how
to segue into the Caitlyn Clerk bit.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
There's no way to segue.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Speaking of the opposite side of concerts, did anyone catch
Caitlyn Clerk she like walked out on the stage.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was just like, I was just kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Like a knowen racist.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I was just kind of like when women like say shit,
especially like when black women say shit, we should probably
fucking listen. Because there were so much of this, like
there's always been talk about who she is, and I
feel like her lack of personality on and off the
court has never done anything for me. So I'm even
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though she's like maybe one of the best players that
doesn't like I'm a skateboarder, like, I want to see personality.
I want to see all of that over the technicality,
especially because I'm not the biggest basketball fan and I
don't know a ton about it, but I like, I
like personality, so that's what I want to see. She
never gives me that, and then she gave me literally
(24:21):
nothing with this. With this, I was like, congrats on
giving absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay. So for context, Nora and for the listeners, if we're.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Talking about Kaitlyn Clark walking out on stage for Morgan Wallen,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And Morgan Wallen is a country singer who's been engulfed
in many, many different on record racist slurs, issues, problematic
politics that we definitely don't align with.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And for those that maybe.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Aren't following the WNBA, Kaitlyn Clark, she's not on your radar,
that name hasn't surfaced. I mean, she's the face of
a predominantly black w You know when you're definitely the
face of something and you do something like that it
says a lot without you saying anything. I think that's
the general conversation we're trying to have about this.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's giving like nineteen sixty two, it's like giving like
pre title nine. That's the energy she gives.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, well we're going backwards these days.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I feel like this is just like a negative complaint session.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But I do in the world of skateboarding, as anyone
else noticed that it's like two thousand and six right
now for women's skateboarding in terms of like major footwear
companies going on tours, doing demos, teaming up with Thrasher
fronting the bill, going on these major like destination stops,
doing great promotion for it, awesome lineup of skateboarders invited,
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missing women, and.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It just like blows my mind.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
This is solely a decision that is happening from sports
marketing that is just I don't know, at a certain point,
just choosing not to and I don't understand why.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I also think it's weird because it's just like in general,
everyone's skating with everyone right now.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
It's not actually showing what skating is like. It's not
indicative of the environment. They're not mirroring what actual skate
crews are these days and how integrated it is. Instead
they're just again doing their boys club. It's just not
good for anyone.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And yeah, like you said, it's not a right mirror
of what's going on, and then it's not good for
the business.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
So I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So anyways, if any like tms do listen, well I'll
call them out.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I mean, it's Nike doing the bask Tour and it's
a new balanced tour, not including any of their women
writers either too.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But has been behind. They've been they have been behind
for so long. Like yeah, every day I wake up
and I every clean over my bed in this position
like this, and imagine, imagine I'm wearing like a tiny nightgown,
like my nightgown is Monday, right, my nightown. My nightgown
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is like where my fingertips end, you know, on my legs.
And I'm thinking, I say, dear skate gods, thank you
so much for allowing me to be part of Adidas.
And that's like I'm being funny, but I'm not kidding,
Like I literally every single day of my life, I
am so thankful for where I have been, the space
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that I've allowed to take up in skateboarding and to
be partnered with people who I feel like stand behind
what they're doing and who I think, especially like in
recent light of what I think has been happening, campaign wise,
has really come back to like their grassroots efforts of
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like even the World Cup stuff they've done, like that
Huge Can Pay with Trinity Rodman and talking about how
like football soccer, American soccer football has like started. It's
like a really accessible thing that has started in streets
for all of these professional athletes. It has started like
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in just pickup games, and like they did this insane
campaign based around that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Incredible but Adidas Wow hit a fucking home home run
run If you guys haven't seen it, like you know,
the internet's at your fingertips type in the Adidas like
football three on.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
There's so many sick cameos in it as well. Yeah,
it's insane, like it was.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
The brief was executed to perfection and it felt kind
of skate vibe because it started in the streets right
Like you said, Nora.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I also think the creatives. I think so many of
the creatives behind these projects have a lot of different
things that they pull from, and I think skateboarding is
always something that gets pulled from in these spaces like
it doesn't matter. Like I was in New York last
week and we were shooting a really quick thing for
Adidas in Nordstrom around the World Cup, and they had
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Jen Sodo and I and we were the two skaters,
like we were the representation of this whole part of skateboarding,
you know, and it's like two chicks. And I feel
like that's what it means to do the things that
you say you're going to do when you execute it
in that way of being like you need skaters for
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this campaign, here's our two skaters. They happened to be women.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, how was in New York with Jen?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
And this trip was really quick. It was like less
than forty eight hours and just in and out. But
it was really fun because I think anytime I get
to do something that's like out of the normal day
to day with one of my sponsors, I get like
really fired up because I'm like, whoa hair and makeup?
Getting to like work with people I wouldn't work with
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on an average day is really fun. It was super easy.
We shot like the first half of the day and
then we had the second half of the day to
do whatever we wanted before we flew out in the morning,
and yeah, I just got to like catch up with
some friends.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I got to eat really good food.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
It was funny. It rained like at the end, like
we shot in the morning and it rained probably like
from one o'clock on, which was like a funny, weird vibe.
To be in the city and like walking around with
like an umbrella. I don't know, it's nice.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I like.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I like walking around the city and eating pizza and
eating food and.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Giving such main character energy right now.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm nice your umbrella in the city.
Like I put my skull candies on, I have my
Nicks and watch on and I just walk. I walk
around the city and I stumble into a bakery. I
don't whatever. I'm here for it. I'm gonna do it.
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I like hit my knee on the Monday. I think
I left. I did the shoot Wednesday, toasted my knee
Monday skating and I brought my board but it rained,
and I don't think I could have skated anyway.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Dude, your knee looks like a planetarium right now.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It was sick some other like like interlactic space bruise
of yeah, every color of purple, yellow and mixture thing
where Alex on the group chat was like, dude, are
you okay?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It was so funny. I was just like skating South
Pass and I was just skating like a quarter pipe
and I was trying to do like kickflip no stall
and I'm not a nose staller by any means or
really a nose slider, but I got into one and
like wasn't locked in and I tried to jump off
my board. I like basically did like the knee splits
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the ground, and it was this very refreshing thing of
I should have gotten really hurt, but I'm also really
stoked that I'm that flexible. But I bruised my shit
so bad. It was like, I don't know, we're all skaters.
We just like there's this there's this sense of gratefulness
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that you get when you when you like hurt yourself
but not severely like you get humbled, right, But that
was fun. So I was just like I had this
like hematominy that I was walking around.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
With all last week. Were you self filming? Like little
Tripod is a the slam.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I tried, and then I didn't like even capture the slam,
which sucked because it was like it.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Was like when you fell out a frame.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Though I fell out a frame and you can yeah
you go like my yeah, my front knee, like.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
My front knee did that split thing, and then my
back knee did it worse, but it did it like
on the board again and on the ground. And then
I was like, oh, I was like with Jared skating
with my friend Jared and Paul, and I was just like, dude,
I almost tore both my meniscuses.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Like that was great.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Maybe that's your hardest trick. That's that's your most trick.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
I'm walking around the streets in New York getting lost
and eating a lot of food. I'll be right back
with good luck with that.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Also, zero days since the last incident of stalker harassment.
Sounds like you got back, oh yeah, back at it
despite restraining orders. These are two separate individuals with the
same name, in the same level of mental unwellness.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So this this guy will comment multiple things on top
of each other and they're all directed towards me. And
he tagged me and was like, this is why I
said I wanted to impregnate you, and it's a video
of me talking about wanting to have kids one day.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
What did he send you or try to send you.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
A private message from an unblocked account. So again, these
guys make accounts. I block, they make more accounts. And
he sent a message and it's like this guy was
in jail for stealing a car and trying to come
to my house. Okay, this guy like traveled thousands of
miles from Michigan, and I'm just so sick of it
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because I'm just at the point where I'm like, is
this like do I have to do like gorilla self
protection because it just feels like the consequences for.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
This behavior is like zero.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Like he was in jail for two and a half
months on grand theft auto and then he's now backstocking me,
even with a restraining order. And yeah, it's just like
commenting on posts he commented saying, hey, I got a
gift for you. I got you mace in a whistle
in case I like, and you're like back to jail,
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straight to jail, I am. But now it's like okay,
that's the issue too. But now I'm like, okay, so
I have to go to the police again and say,
here is here's like the comments where I could just
email it to them. Here's the case number, here's the
like literally, this is the file. These are examples, this
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is the restraining order and examples of.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So this is what it's like being a woman, super fun.
Here's female privilege. This is female privilege right.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
There, and all other like female and transkaters out there
who deal with just like so much harassment and bowling and.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Just like just like lack of safety.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It's so unfair you need to be online to promote
you as a skateboarder. It's like in the job contract.
And the lack of brand protection I think is something
that like, as skateboarding continues to grow and monetize the
individual ip of a skateboarder, how do we keep them
one with health insurance to protected and what is your
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responsibility to that when you're requiring this availability and like accessibility,
Like the idea is that I can access your life visually, Nora,
that's the point I get to follow along as a fan,
But then it comes at what cost and the safety
for many others what you're saying, but like so many
others who have to eventually just kind of like get offline,
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which then at the stake of their sponsorship opportunities and
just their own mental health.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I find it so impossible right now.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
I mean, Latisia Bufani's been battling this forever, and Latisia
is a global superstar. She has her own security, a
lot of tours, which is like pretty guard.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
I want to know, like I have not gone down
that route, and I've not because I just feel like
for me, I'm not going to do it anymore, Like
it's not worth it for me to have to exist
in that way. There needs to be stronger, like when
you say shit online that threatens someone's safety, you don't
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you should not get like you have to be on
a list, like I think you need to be. This
dude traveled basically to my house and committed like felons,
Like is a felon felony's along the way, and I'm
just like, what.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Like what are we doing? When I've sat in court
for six days and it's just like, well, just did
you feel like this is a threat to your life
and your livelihood? And I'm like, yes, this is the threat.
It's happening and this happens to people all the fucking time.
But the whole like we can't do anything until they
physically do something is insane because every person who has
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been a victim of like homicide, that like most of
the time, there were so much there before hopeful times. Bro,
I'm freakin done.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
I'm gonna be a song where you should reverse stalk.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Literally, I'm gonna start stocking myself.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Leading all these comments under your own video. Dude, I'm
so into that. Did I tell you my idea though?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Okay, here's what I want us to do as a collective.
I don't think men understand what it is like to
be a public person like Nora, right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
I think we should pick some random guy that's gonna have.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Some part dropping on Thrasher, and we coordinate an effort
of all the women to just light up the comment
section with the sexual like quote unquote, just quote the
things that have been said back to you back into
those comment sections on this random person, just so that
they know what it feels like they don't get.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
It, And the result of that would be like an
actual like World War three, Like we just change maybe
men's egos and their emotional state, like they're far more
emotional than women.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
We're always like told women.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Are too emotional to be in leadership roles, and this
is not and really, uh behind that is actually a
fragile males ego.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
They don't care until it happens to them. It's like
they really are.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And so like I think back about all the sexual
abuse allegations that were coming out about Chris Cole and
his wife Christine, right, and you know, Rob Rank was
like lighting them up and like doing all these interviews, right,
and then finally they got like a male person that's
been like bullied and sexually harassed, and then the slat
message boards lit up and then the men were in it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Oh, that's so messed up that that happened to him.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
And it's like, this happens to us, Like we have
receipts of this happening to us, but you only care
when it happens to one of your boys.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
So why don't we make it happen to one of
their boys again?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I'm the boy. I want to be the I want
to pull them back. Hey, I want them back, Hey,
I want to be the boy.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
I also just want people to have fun skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Oh god, we talk about it. We've been able to
work in it, we live in it. It's it's but
at the end of the day, like the one thing
we're all like in agreement on is like the pure
joy of skateboarding and the gift that that is and
it's just so unique and why can't that be enough
to just unite us and like be so simply stoked that,
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like the way you express yourself on a skateboard inspires
other people to skateboard and it looks like you're having fun,
Like hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Like I get so so lit up when I see
someone in their moment of joy, Like that is all
it is for me.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Like I'm like, but the moment of joy always comes
with a lot of overcoming ship. That's why we're joyful
for them because we know how hard that they work
to get to that point.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
At least for me, that's the enjoyment. As a viewer, I.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Just love seeing someone smile when they skate or like
shout out, Amy Corone, I got to go see here's
here's where I'm going with this. Everyone buckle up if
you don't. Amy Coron has given so much to women's
skateboarding in the history.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Oh my God, don't give her that. Okay, well, Amy's
one of my best friends. I'm just giving you ship.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
An she does this, She's given exactly as much as
she's willing to give, and what she over extend herself.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
She will never get put out there and like she
will never.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Be made the fool because she's very, very ridiculous about
what she's giving to the situation.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
But guess what, it's not nothing. It ain't not nothing.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
No, she's she's awesome.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
But like, yeah, I'm envious of Amy's ability to not
give her all to something in a way that's self destructive.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Okay, hold up, let me I want to clap back.
All I was trying to say is Amy's window. Uh
that she gave receipts with video parts in skateboarding was
still really influential at the time and full of style
and progression.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Sure might have been a little anyways, shout out to
those contributions.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I got to see her play a show, play music
in front of an audience the other night, and it
was just so sick to see like the like skateboarder
in her like translate to the musician and performer and
just like full class act, like so good, so unbelievably
good and talented and funny and awesome and just she
was just happy. And it was like that again, the
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core of expression is like when you can see someone
like just like lighting up in a public display of
an art form on wheels.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Or on a stage with the guitar. It was just sick.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
And I guess I don't know why we just ruin
everyone's fucking joy? Why is everyone killing joy in this world?
Speaker 4 (43:05):
Well, I got a thing about Amy. I want to
get bring in there too. Amy is so good at
winning jams, like like jam format contests, and you know
what her tactic was. She like so she like is
playing it like a show, like an audience. She will
start off really strong, she backs down during the middle
section in the set, and then she ends well, she
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always has like a good closer, so the last and
she'll wait until they're doing the buzzer beater the last
ten seconds and she'll do her hardest trick too. So
it's like right in the judge's memory at the end,
takes her bow and walks off stage.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Hey, but would that work in today's like judging standard.
I don't think you could score well enough strategically.
Speaker 4 (43:45):
I mean depends on the format. I mean, Wheel's fortune
is a jam, right, so like save it for the
last ten seconds. We go ten not like and then
you land something. Everybody's gonna explode. It's like she's got
it down. She's a good performer, she really is.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I like this. I like this.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I forgot to say that I had a dream the
other night that I was doing nosegrinds like Ruby.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
In the bowl. It was sick. Okay, tell us about
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Nosegrind like Ruby's Ruby. She does them in a particular way.
They're super like light footed.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah floats you know who had a nosegrind that was
like really light footed and like super gnarly and could
do them like in the craziest parts of Coombe Daniel Vargus.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Oh yeah, well yeah, come on, But like you to
bring up your first boy friend here, you always gotta bring.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Up this is on. This is only the tenth time
I've brought him up.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
You are right though about his nose grind is like
it's a kind of disbelieve.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
That just happened. Yeah, you really missed that boat, Nora.
You let that nose grind go for what muna conference
concerts with.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Your first friend shitty surfer Dudes.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
It was a fa It was just a phase.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
I co signed that though he does have one of
the better nose grinds out there.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I want to do a whole podcast where we just
talk about video parts. Yes, yeah, oh okay, all right, everybody,
you have three guesses.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Of what I'm doing on camera. Right now, you're holding
a pencil. I'm I'm doing the trick, the wopply pen trick.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we love that trick. Who doesn't
love it? That's your best trick?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, that's my best trick. Guys, ready for my best trick?
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Okay? Wait, so you want next episode for us to
all holler at our favorite video parts within women's skateboarding
or in general women. Can we go beyond Nora Fetish
Alexis Sablonecarpe, DM Vanessa Torres save it?
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Or next okay episode, can we go?
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Can we like make a case for like a cross
sport that we throw in there, or solely skateboarding?
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Okay, that skate a wave. In my opinion, like Katie Simmers.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
I think we start off with just skate but then
I think we can empty. We can flush the toilet
into other things, whether it's surfing, snowboarding, art, music, into
like other women who have done creative projects that inspire
us to film video parts, because that's that's a huge thing.
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Like I have been inspired to film video parts from
weird shit like a charcooterie board.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
I thought was so good, it was the best.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
It was the best guda I've ever had, And I
was like, wait, I need to go film three and
a half minutes of the hardest shit I've ever filmed.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Can we get some listener contributions on this, Like, I
think we should engage. I want to know if you
are listening, do you guys want to in on this conversation
or should we just talk at you?
Speaker 4 (46:54):
I think we should put something some skin in the game.
What do we think the top five of all time are?
Top three?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
I hear top five, top three.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
We're going to figure out how to get our GLWT
heads out there incorporated in this so we can have
a pretty good conversation.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
I think, yeah, we have got a lot to pull from.
So well.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
The opinion is, I think this is really good too,
because Number one. A lot of times whenever a new
women's video park comes out. The guys don't know how
to talk about it because they have no criteria and
understanding of the context of women's video parts. If we
could contextualize our criteria for that, like what do you
guys think makes a really good video part?
Speaker 2 (47:32):
You know, like what are we basing this on?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
You know?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Okay, well, I'm down.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Let's get organized and listeners out there stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
We're going to give you some homework and you're going
to want to turn it in on time.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Anyone else needing some luck for this coming week beyond
wheels of fortune, things like what are we looking for?
Speaker 2 (47:55):
What do we need in our lives right now?
Speaker 1 (47:58):
A lobotomy?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Dude? Straight up, I'll take one. I'm down.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
I gotta say though on a positive note though, like
we can go to the good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
Sa Mario Bravard's been killing it.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
I don't know, if you get watching, she's looking so
strong and like so back after like you know, she
was on the pod a couple episodes ago, you know,
like hurt her knees, hurt her back really bad. The
last four or five reels she's posted are just like
everything bolts barely he'll flipping Chevy Chase trade flips, no
problem like linking lines, just looking so strong. And I'm
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really excited to see Samria this week and get to
see her in person.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
What doesn't kill you makes you?
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Thanks you strong? I don't know me when I'm do.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
You know who I also want to say is having
an epic comeback right now that I'm like, thank you
for coming back on the scene, Jasmine Elvarez, she writes
for TACKI yeah, no, I know, congrats on that back
that bag of.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
My low boards that she's getting.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
I shipped her an entire box of boards to Bogata
that just disappeared like three.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
You know you want to hear a crazy thing. Pedro
Barrows used to have to get his vans shipped in
two separate shippings, and he would get all of his
left shoe shipped and all of his right shoes shipped separately,
so that when they went through and tried to steal
his stuff, they're like, what am I going to do
with a bunch of left shoes? Ye, so cut the
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boards in half, cut those boards and then have the
fancy lad guys. Have the fancy lad guys screw them
back together.
Speaker 3 (49:39):
The point was, I'm I'm so thrilled to see her
recovery and how much stronger she looks on the board,
and how much more there is to come in the year.
And I totally co sign a Samaria Brevard come back.
She's looking fierce right now. So what I'll see you
guys in Seattle. And then after that, let's let's get
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together in La, Let's get back in the studio, let's
go skate together.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
I think.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Let's go to Nora's house and Alex, I really cannot
wait to see your miller flip.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Oh boy, I really got I really talked myself into
this bucks baby girl.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
During the comp, I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
Outside of it.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I'm yeah, Ahash, you want to help me, judge, maybe
sign me up, coach, thank you.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I need some judges.
Speaker 4 (50:31):
I texted Nicole and Fobby and they're gonna be holding
down the loop tent and they're not sure if they're
going to make it out to the comp.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
I'm like, okay, well need some I'm like.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
The tent. Are you literally holding the tent down? Yeah,
it's gonna be super winday. They have to physically hold
the tent all the time.
Speaker 3 (50:46):
Well, listeners, thanks for hanging out with us on another
episode of Good Luck with That. We're sending you all
the strength and willpower and what Nora you take us
out today?
Speaker 8 (50:59):
And that's another episode of good Luck with That.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
My name's Nerves and sell us. We're out here in
the streets skateboarding using a board with four wheels and
two axles in order to create life in which we live,
and in.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Order to create a soul and for which.
Speaker 8 (51:13):
Our divine selves can speak to the greater mindset of
the masses. I would like to shout out to Alex
White and Ashley Rayfield for being part of what will
be the greatest thing that has ever seeped into the
iHeartRadio podcast world. And I just want to thank my
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cats for using their litter boxes today and also for
peeing into the shower instead of the couch because the
shower is significantly easier to clean.
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You can find.
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Us at wherever you get your podcasts. I get mine
under my bed. You can also find that doesn't make
any sense?
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It did?
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It didn't? I was down.
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You can find us wherever you get your podcasts at iHeartRadio.
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Wait what No, wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
You can find us.
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Wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to like, subscribe,
and share with your friends and also please follow at
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Good Luck with That is an iHeart women's sports production
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We are your hosts Ashey Rayfeld, Nora Bascnzlos, Alex White,
and Mimi Neu. Our executive producer is Jesse Katz, supervising
producer Tari Harrison, video producer Daniel Goodman, and video production
by School of Humans.
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This podcast was created by Ashley Rayfeld.
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Listen to good Luck.
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