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Nov 6, 2026
Chris RobertsHOST
Dude, this part's really good.
Chris RobertsHOST
It came out on Thrasher a couple days ago.
Chris RobertsHOST
Let's check it out.
Chris RobertsHOST
We pulled a couple of our favorite clips from it.
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Kelly HartHOST
You could just tell that he was super good.
Jeron WilsonHOST
Little prospect came to fruition.
Chris RobertsHOST
Well, that part is on Thrasher Magazine.
Chris RobertsHOST
Link's in the description below.
Adam BaughHOST
when you've invested your millions of dollars yeah you can't afford that risk i think that's what i'm trying to get at is here's like identifying that and having like your council sort of Find those landmines before you invest the multimillion dollars into it, before you build it and develop it.
speaker_1HOST
You remember Thrasherland? Yeah.
Adam BaughHOST
I mean, tell the story.
speaker_1HOST
Are you familiar with this site at all? Okay.
speaker_1HOST
It's right by the dump that's out there, right by Glendale Municipal Airport.
speaker_1HOST
And it is immediately adjacent to a giant aggregate pit.
speaker_1HOST
And the reason it's called Thrasherland is way back in the day when I was a 90s kid, it had a skate park.
speaker_1HOST
I was going
Amelia BrodkaGUEST
And skateboarding was even more gatekeepy then, you know, than it is now.
Amelia BrodkaGUEST
Like very few had had access to grace the website of Thrasher, let alone the
Ashley RehfeldHOST
magazine.
Ashley RehfeldHOST
So exposure started 15 years ago and you have been skateboarding majority of your life.
Ashley RehfeldHOST
Haisa Leal built an audience of 8.2 million people following along and fanning out to see what she would do next.
Ashley RehfeldHOST
For comparison, Thrasher Magazine, skateboarding's official bible, only has 6.4 million followers as the collective voice of skateboarding.
Ashley RehfeldHOST
So it's a pretty remarkable thing to give someone very little access to your world and then question their legitimacy when they find another way in.
Ashley RehfeldHOST
And another layer to all of this, we give so much authority to lived experience in skateboarding.
Brian HarperGUEST
Yeah, maybe even 81, 82, 83.
Brian HarperGUEST
Like, Thrasher just came out.
Brian HarperGUEST
Right.
Brian HarperGUEST
And I had every one of them.
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Brian HarperGUEST
But it was a Kidwell, probably that board or maybe a version before that.
Brian HarperGUEST
And went to Wolf Creek, entered the contest.
Brian HarperGUEST
Of course, all these people are there that are just like you started to see in some of Thrasher and some of the magazines.
Brian HarperGUEST
ISM was there.
SkyeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was introduced to Kid Rock in 1992.
SkyeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I subscribed to a skateboard magazine called Thrasher Magazine.
SkyeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And one week, they sent me this kasingle of the song Back From The Dead by Kid Rock, an artist I'd never heard of.
SkyeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Kasingle.
Jared PolinHOST
The skateboarding magazines.
Jared PolinHOST
Publications such as Thrasher, Transworld.
Jared PolinHOST
Ooh, Transworld.
Jared PolinHOST
Nice.
Justin PearsonGUEST
So like, yeah, late 80s and discovering skateboarding.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And that was the vessel to everything was skateboarding because in Thrasher magazine was punk stuff.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And, you know, a good reference would be Puss Head, the artist who was also in Septic Death and then like started figuring out music and the Thrasher skate rock comps kind of like catching on to like absurd music and And it's funny because people, like, when I get interviewed for band stuff, they'll say, like, oh, what are your influences? And they're expecting, like, me to say, oh, you know, the birthday party and PIL or whatever, you know.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And, yeah, I like all these weird bands.
Justin PearsonGUEST
But, like, I want to know, like, why people like those things.
Eric BlehmGUEST
And you have that creative and then you also, and a lot of entrepreneurs, you know, they see like how Larry Balma started Transworld after, uh, as Transworld Skateboarding from making Tracker Trucks trucks for skateboards, but he wanted a place to be able to advertise his stuff.
Eric BlehmGUEST
So he thought, "Well, we need a magazine." And at that time there was only Thrasher, which was more the hard l- hard edged-
Ryan WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Kevin KentHOST
Yeah
Ryan WilliamsHOST
... you know, skateboarding?
Kevin KentHOST
I love Thrasher.
Eric BlehmGUEST
And so Transworld wanted to offer something a little bit more to the mainstream I think.
Eric BlehmGUEST
And so he, but he was also an entrepreneur and so he thought, "Okay, I could, instead of paying a shit ton of money to advertise somewhere else, why don't I just make a magazine, I'll always have the back cover ad-" [laughs]