As a skateboarder from Mississippi me and my entire skate crew looked up to and respected Jamie Thomas immensely. He wasn't just someone from the south who became pro he was literally one of the best of that era. It was proof you didn't have to be from Cali or a big city to make it in skateboarding.
Same, albeit a couple years younger (38). My brother who’s a year younger than me were huge JT fans. My 5 year old daughter has taken an interest in skating so I actually just bought a Zero deck to get back into it and skate with my kid!
I remember going through the little booklet thay came with THPS and seeing that he was also from Alabama and being so stoked. Started skating again this year and of course got back on a Zero board
Jamie Thomas, my favorite pro skater since I was a kid. Everything from his skills to his style and aesthetics and his attitude and his brand resonates with me.
Jamie has always and will always be my all time favorite skater. Dude doesn’t get the credit he deserves for the level of skill he had for late 90’s early 2000’s. No one was skating huge rails the way Jamie was. Misled Youth, for the time is one of the hardest hitting parts. Baba O’Riley leading into The End by the doors… man. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it or watching it. It’s insane. The fact that Jamie never won Skater of The Year is a massive shame. Because no one was skating the gaps and rails he was skating at the time.
Jamie Thomas is such a pillar in skating not just because of his stand-out career as a pro skater but because of his business acumen, sense of aesthetic, and contributions to skating culture. The cherry on top is his soft-spoken humility. It's interesting about how being bullied is sometimes the fire that either forges or breaks a human being. While bullying is bad, it also can ignite the kind of resilience it takes to land the Leap of Faith. If the Embarcadero crowd was like, "you got this" instead of barking after every trick, would we have Zero and Fallen and all the other video parts and things Jamie has created? Great interview. Loved it.
Dude was my hero. I was casually into skating at a certain point when i was younger, and then I saw Dying To Live, and I remember being so mind blown, I became absolutely obsessed. Nothing mattered at that point in my life except the next sesh. Man the nostalgia.
That's what I love about these. I always find out new info you can't find anywhere else. That story about Jamie getting the first two pairs of half cabs was mind blowing.
Always glad to see an interview with jamie. My skating yesrs were 97-07, so i always was a big zero fan in general. But awesome to hear jamie speak some more
Just might be one of the greatest interviews in the history of RUclips. Jamie, if you ever see this comment, THANK YOU!!! Your impact on skateboarding is impossible to measure.
Ellis &Hawk who would have ever thought 🤷♂️ . It couldn’t be better. Squeaky clean front man with the Wild Card ! These guys separate would be good but together it’s magic !! JT so glad you’re a humble dude. Skated with you at the Brooklyn Banks Got a sneaky pic. I don’t know why but you were on an updated GONZ board with the updated old VISION graphic. Nice to see all these guys getting their due. Much Love to Tony ,Jason and of course JT. You guys are all part of my childhood and therefore part of my life. I’m 50 and I still skate out here in the ATL. Thank You Tony the parks are amazing ! Way better than NYC . lol.
Merle Haggard said it best in the song In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad). "No amount of money could buy from me The mem'ries that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again"
Hearing you guys talk about premature satisfaction hit home for me lately because that’s been my problem lately and I’ve been working on it but hearing this made me not feel like a weirdo or alone haha
One of my favorite skaters ever. My friend had Jamie sign his Volkswagen dash board haha. He would tell me Jamie sat right there!!! Haha. Watching Mislead youth or Fulfill the dream was a ritual before skate sessions. Thank you Jamie!!!
Started skateboarding because of my half brother who is younger by a month, Tony hawks game and Thrasher skate and Destroys game.. also main influence to me is because of Jamie Thomas. Been skating for 23yrs
Here here, one of those skateboards from the studio that are looking for new homes would be cherished & displayed in my home proudly FOREVER!! I won't get into the nitty gritty of what you're podcast helps me get thru but I'd be stoked to have one of the boards!! 🤞🏼
First time watching your podcast and it's good that I got to see this interview with Jamie Thomas. Whom I respect and who has always been a great inspiration. Congratulations on your Podcast.
Still got a copy of 'Welcome to Hell' on VHS. Jamie Thomas is such a legend and his part in that video is one of my all-time favorites. And his part is soundtracked to 'Hallowed be thy name' by Iron Maiden which makes it even better. Still so awesome to this day.
Wow I can relate to Jamie more than I expected. I used to jump off my roof for fun as a kid I noticed my friends would do it once and be pumped but I would eventually keep going higher and higher. Now I can drop huge cliffs on the snow and its def nd nature.Also I respect and relate to him with those trials qnd tribulations. Being homeless just to pursue your passion is so awesome. Definitely had a similiar time moving to the mountains with no home, just a ski pass.
Uau what AMAZING history !!! , i remember the first time i saw Jamie Thomasin in movie , and a hear the history about him he was homeless ... , but now i see how was his AMAZING TRIP and ADVENTURE !!! i admire him MORE THAN EVER !!!
This is a dream guest for a kid like me who was stoked out of his mind when he found a real life “bloody nose” board and thought it was so cool that I had a board from the game. I kick myself for skating on it and not just hanging it on a wall 😭 You’re a legend, Jamie!
I was so excited when JT arrived on the scene, total breathe of fresh air, then I began to think after a few years he wasn't that cool, and now many years later I like him again. Hearing him on here and the Nine "no way - sick" Club has been eye-opening. He's very self-aware.
Such a great ep. The first board I could pick out for myself at a skate shop was a zero board, and my first skate video was Misled Youth. I have been inspired and stoked on Jamie for 20 years now!
This podcast was amazing especially for the boys 😂😂😂😂 the 80s and 90s babies who grew up watching these dudes it’s pretty awesome we’re watching them on w podcast we’re all blessed
Damn he is right about the visualizing it and losing it. It’s like being so used to the dream that the dreaming it is better or knowing you could and knowing you don’t have to prove it to anyone else anymore. I used to skate in a wasteland and was good for my area and going back my body won’t let me but when I have tried I faced this.
Growin up on tony getting to see him sit down with other legends is great hope i can get one them decks bin 12 years since I’ve touched one but would be fun to get into it again
Currently dealing with a staph infection from being a grungy skater too and this podcast is helping me deal w my anxiety regarding the issue. Might need that penicillin shot like jamie
I didn't know Jason had learned to read. That's awesome at such an age. It takes guts also Jason has shown all the people from his home city that anything is possible ❤ Jim from Melbourne.
Jamie often replied that he would not grab, if he had done the leap of faith again... Why not, Jamie? Ollie Grabs are cool and his ones looked always stylish and really good! Jaws does them too.. And I love it.
@@HawkvsWolf loved it! You're all legends and I'm a big fan of all three of you but Jamie has been my favorite skater since the toy machine days. thanks for all that you guys do for skateboarding
Mannn Jamie Thomas was my favorite skater when I was a kid . I saw him one times in mtl and because of him , I made it in a skater magazine .. he did a 5-0 on a 25stair nrail .. crazy and yeah I was in the background of that pic 😂😂
When thps came out I was 10 and literally everyone that was on that game was automatically in my mind the greatest of the greats and the secret videos were legit the first skate videos that I watched and I used to watch them every morning before I went and skated. When I was 16 I was playing skate with the owner of the local board shop and I had beat him on flat ground and I said does that mean you’ll sponsor me and he said if you beat me in a game of skate on everything in this skatepark then yes we’ll talk and on his 3rd letter I frontside flipped the bank and he wanted me to redo it bc it was sketchy so I did and tore my acl. I put absolutely everything I had into coming back as fast as possible and even got the patella tendon graft bc the doc I had was the sports medicine doc of the Indiana colts back in the day and he said that specific graft uses my own tissue and I don’t have to wait for my hamstring to heal to start getting stronger so I did that came back even better and then senior year on prom night I broke my spine multiple times per vertibre from s1 to L4 and crushed all the discs in between I was told minimum of 2 years before I was back on the board at full strength and that was no exaggeration, so I got a titanium rod on either side of my spine 3 carbon fiber mesh implants and 18 screws crisscrossed in ever direction through the rods and into my spine. Came back from that in 20 months better than ever and then shattered my knee and broke my collarbone and had to have a full tibial plateau reconstruction but luckily my new acl was still intact and so was my pcl mcl so it was just bones but broke my femur fibula and tibia in 22 pieces and had to have 13 screws and a big 4 inch wide plate put in and all the cartilage and everything reshaped and by that time I was 23 years old and the reality of needing to pay bills was there and I couldn’t get hurt anymore like that and my dream was finally defeated. The weird thing was though that the first 2 injuries caused me lot more fear in my life but after the third one I realized all the worst things that I feared were conquered and I wasn’t afraid anymore but then of course I was prescribed to fentanyl patches and oxycodone for chronic pain and was supposed to take them for the rest of my life but it wasn’t gonna work bc I became a junkie after only few years after being prescribed to them and I then had to overcome that. I’m 33 now and I am a lead sunroom installer I’ve been sober for 7 1/2 years and I’ve been working this extremely physically demanding job for 6 years and I decided to buy a complete and start skating again and of course bc of the mental agony I went through everytime someone tried to tell me about what was happening in skateboarding or when I saw people skateboarding I couldn’t keep up with skating after I stopped bc it was torture to do so and I didn’t watch any of the skate videos I was in that my and friends were doing back then even though I had all the dvds of them. So when I started following skateboarding again this year it was a different world and all of the things that I imagined doing when I was growing up was the level skateboarding had reached but the one thing that had stayed the same that brought me great comfort was that tony hawk, Jason Ellis, Jamie Thomas, Ryan Reynolds’s, Elisa steemer, Eric koston, Paul Rodriguez, muska, Rodney Mullen and all my heroes were still skateboarding and I was just thinking to myself back when I was a little kid that all you guys were these larger than life amazing tough skaters that were just makin it at the highest level but doing it with humility and respect and a never give up attitude and it made me who I am today and I wouldn’t change anything that’s happened to me bc it gave me the open perspective and perseverance and drive that I wouldn’t want to live without. Thankyou for all that you do.
My stepbrother and I once went to a demo around 2000 to 2002 and saw Jamie at the end of the night eating an in n out burger. We were staring at him in awe and couldn’t believe it was him. He said wtf are you staring at?! Good times!
I’m from Marietta and remember hearing rumors of Jamie skating South Cobb High school all the time; never saw him or any of the Zero guys there but it’d be cool to get confirmation if they actually did frequent that school or not. (The school has a pretty nice 16 and several other sets.)
Tony is killing this amazing story _ there is so much Jaime is leaving out and having to skip parts of Jaime's story _ let the guest freaking talk for F' sake ...
You have to understand that as much as they do this for us, they don’t see each other all the time, so from their perspective, they’re just hanging out, chilling, and having some good 2/3 way conversations. Think about sitting with your best friends. If you’re anything like me, every story they tell resonates with me, and leaves me with stories of relevance hanging in my head, and I just get so excited by what’s being said, I’m constantly looking for any openings to share my views, before I forget them, and we move onto the next topic. Could just be me, tho 🤷♂️
@mitchellgreene867 I hear you but how much history does Tony and Jaime have? It's like Templeton and Jaime or Muska and Jaime. Maybe it's the fact that the show is usually around 45min to a hour. These dudes have stories for days and can't be fit in a 1 hour sitting....
I know it’d be taxing as all hell, but it’d be dope Jamie hit a different trick at an iconic spot (if applicable) in all 50 states for his “50 for 50” video.
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Just met Jamie at a signing this year at a local skate shop. He literally fist bumped every single person in line. I was blown away. 🙌
I've never picked up a skateboard in my life and I find this podcast absolutely riveting. Thank you.
So glad you enjoy it, thanks for saying that!
THE TIME IS NOW. TIME TO PICK ONE UP
Hawk & Wolf is just class .
Same, I've pushed on a few boards years ago and ate shit so I have a deep appreciation for skateboarding in general. It's truly an art
The tricks they are talking about are impossible, especially going down handrails and huge gaps, so these guys are amazing
As a skateboarder from Mississippi me and my entire skate crew looked up to and respected Jamie Thomas immensely. He wasn't just someone from the south who became pro he was literally one of the best of that era. It was proof you didn't have to be from Cali or a big city to make it in skateboarding.
JT was my favorite skater growing up. This was an absolute gem to watch. As a 42 yr. Old it definitely gave inspiration.
Same, albeit a couple years younger (38). My brother who’s a year younger than me were huge JT fans. My 5 year old daughter has taken an interest in skating so I actually just bought a Zero deck to get back into it and skate with my kid!
I remember going through the little booklet thay came with THPS and seeing that he was also from Alabama and being so stoked. Started skating again this year and of course got back on a Zero board
Jamie thomas is who i usually picked on THPS
This 1 was special. Thank you to the 3 of you for the history and memories.
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Jamie Thomas, my favorite pro skater since I was a kid. Everything from his skills to his style and aesthetics and his attitude and his brand resonates with me.
Jamie has always and will always be my all time favorite skater. Dude doesn’t get the credit he deserves for the level of skill he had for late 90’s early 2000’s. No one was skating huge rails the way Jamie was. Misled Youth, for the time is one of the hardest hitting parts. Baba O’Riley leading into The End by the doors… man. It still gives me goosebumps thinking about it or watching it. It’s insane. The fact that Jamie never won Skater of The Year is a massive shame. Because no one was skating the gaps and rails he was skating at the time.
Jamie Thomas's story is really inspiring to me.
Full Respect to Jamie!
Dude let's go THE CHIEF IS HERE
Ask and you shall receive!
Love listening to Jamie Thomas and hearing about his journey. He could do 5 podcasts talking about the same thing and I'd listen to all of them.
He’s the best
Jamie Thomas is such a pillar in skating not just because of his stand-out career as a pro skater but because of his business acumen, sense of aesthetic, and contributions to skating culture. The cherry on top is his soft-spoken humility.
It's interesting about how being bullied is sometimes the fire that either forges or breaks a human being. While bullying is bad, it also can ignite the kind of resilience it takes to land the Leap of Faith. If the Embarcadero crowd was like, "you got this" instead of barking after every trick, would we have Zero and Fallen and all the other video parts and things Jamie has created? Great interview. Loved it.
Ahh. Best thing to wake up to, new ep with Jason and Tony with another LEGEND.
Enjoy!!
Could listen to a 6hr episode with these guys! Jamie is a legend and such a cool guy. Respect
Thanks for watching!
Dude was my hero. I was casually into skating at a certain point when i was younger, and then I saw Dying To Live, and I remember being so mind blown, I became absolutely obsessed. Nothing mattered at that point in my life except the next sesh. Man the nostalgia.
That's what I love about these. I always find out new info you can't find anywhere else. That story about Jamie getting the first two pairs of half cabs was mind blowing.
Always glad to see an interview with jamie. My skating yesrs were 97-07, so i always was a big zero fan in general. But awesome to hear jamie speak some more
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jaime Thomas is a true OG! Love you Jaime
Thanks for bringing Jamie on, I remember the first time I watched him on dying to live and the new blood part has a special place in my heart.
This was the best podcast so far, thank you guys so much for this historical interview!
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Just might be one of the greatest interviews in the history of RUclips. Jamie, if you ever see this comment, THANK YOU!!! Your impact on skateboarding is impossible to measure.
What an inspiration you all are. And to hear all the back stories is so inspiring and amazing. Kids pay attention to these goats.
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Hands down, jamie Thomas is the true king of skateboarding, long live ZERO
Ellis &Hawk who would have ever thought 🤷♂️ .
It couldn’t be better. Squeaky clean front man with the Wild Card !
These guys separate would be good but together it’s magic !!
JT so glad you’re a humble dude. Skated with you at the Brooklyn Banks
Got a sneaky pic. I don’t know why but you were on an updated GONZ board with the updated old VISION graphic.
Nice to see all these guys getting their due.
Much Love to Tony ,Jason and of course JT.
You guys are all part of my childhood and therefore part of my life. I’m 50 and I still skate out here in the ATL.
Thank
You Tony the parks are amazing ! Way better than NYC . lol.
I just redone Tony's and Jamie's challenges on THPS 1+2 to get me in the mood for this😂
I’ve never related to something so specific when he was talking abt getting ahead of yourself abt telling your favorite person, happens to me so much
Jamie was my favorite skater growing up! Loved watching him hit all the gnarly gaps and long rails
Merle Haggard said it best in the song In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad).
"No amount of money could buy from me
The mem'ries that I have of then
No amount of money could pay me
To go back and live through it again"
Hearing you guys talk about premature satisfaction hit home for me lately because that’s been my problem lately and I’ve been working on it but hearing this made me not feel like a weirdo or alone haha
One of my favorite skaters ever. My friend had Jamie sign his Volkswagen dash board haha. He would tell me Jamie sat right there!!! Haha. Watching Mislead youth or Fulfill the dream was a ritual before skate sessions. Thank you Jamie!!!
He's great!
Started skateboarding because of my half brother who is younger by a month, Tony hawks game and Thrasher skate and Destroys game.. also main influence to me is because of Jamie Thomas. Been skating for 23yrs
Here here, one of those skateboards from the studio that are looking for new homes would be cherished & displayed in my home proudly FOREVER!! I won't get into the nitty gritty of what you're podcast helps me get thru but I'd be stoked to have one of the boards!! 🤞🏼
Thank You Tony, Jason and Jamie! Such an amazing episode
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First time watching your podcast and it's good that I got to see this interview with Jamie Thomas. Whom I respect and who has always been a great inspiration. Congratulations on your Podcast.
Still got a copy of 'Welcome to Hell' on VHS. Jamie Thomas is such a legend and his part in that video is one of my all-time favorites. And his part is soundtracked to 'Hallowed be thy name' by Iron Maiden which makes it even better. Still so awesome to this day.
Wow I can relate to Jamie more than I expected. I used to jump off my roof for fun as a kid I noticed my friends would do it once and be pumped but I would eventually keep going higher and higher. Now I can drop huge cliffs on the snow and its def nd nature.Also I respect and relate to him with those trials qnd tribulations. Being homeless just to pursue your passion is so awesome. Definitely had a similiar time moving to the mountains with no home, just a ski pass.
Uau what AMAZING history !!! , i remember the first time i saw Jamie Thomasin in movie , and a hear the history about him he was homeless ... , but now i see how was his AMAZING TRIP and ADVENTURE !!! i admire him MORE THAN EVER !!!
Nice one - great episode. I'm just at the bit about jumping off roofs for the fun of it. I used to do that too 😂
😂
This is a dream guest for a kid like me who was stoked out of his mind when he found a real life “bloody nose” board and thought it was so cool that I had a board from the game. I kick myself for skating on it and not just hanging it on a wall 😭
You’re a legend, Jamie!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was so excited when JT arrived on the scene, total breathe of fresh air, then I began to think after a few years he wasn't that cool, and now many years later I like him again. Hearing him on here and the Nine "no way - sick" Club has been eye-opening. He's very self-aware.
Jamie Thomas biggest inspiration to all skateboarders out there
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Such a great ep. The first board I could pick out for myself at a skate shop was a zero board, and my first skate video was Misled Youth. I have been inspired and stoked on Jamie for 20 years now!
This podcast was amazing especially for the boys 😂😂😂😂 the 80s and 90s babies who grew up watching these dudes it’s pretty awesome we’re watching them on w podcast we’re all blessed
Making it pretty damn hard not to love Zero… I don’t like their shapes too much, but maybe I will buy some shirts or somethin lol
Damn he is right about the visualizing it and losing it. It’s like being so used to the dream that the dreaming it is better or knowing you could and knowing you don’t have to prove it to anyone else anymore. I used to skate in a wasteland and was good for my area and going back my body won’t let me but when I have tried I faced this.
Thanks so much y’all, always the perfect thing to end the day with!
Our pleasure!
Growin up on tony getting to see him sit down with other legends is great hope i can get one them decks bin 12 years since I’ve touched one but would be fun to get into it again
Love this podcast! Great guest as usual! You know it’s a killer show when your bummed its over!🤘
Glad you enjoyed it!
Met Jamie thomas in Ottawa with some of the zero team, He is the man !
Currently dealing with a staph infection from being a grungy skater too and this podcast is helping me deal w my anxiety regarding the issue. Might need that penicillin shot like jamie
Grew up watching all of you! Amazing episode. Love the channel! Your impact on skateboarding is nothing less the legendary! 😊
Thanks so much!!
Jamie is great, but can we all just talk about how inspiring it is that Ellis has learned to read?
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Oh leave Jason alone 😂❤
Cheers to literacy. I have a 2 year old that I'm teaching to read. She gets excited when she gets words right, just like Jason!
I didn't know Jason had learned to read. That's awesome at such an age. It takes guts also Jason has shown all the people from his home city that anything is possible ❤ Jim from Melbourne.
Favorite episode thus far! So great to see you guys with Jamie!!
Thank you!
Love it, recent subscriber but i love you guys chemistry and joking around! Think i have about 10 episodes left to binge watch!
Yes!!! Enjoy them :)
28:30 this is why I quit skating. I just wanted to skate because I loved it and it was fun. Others skaters ruined that.
Never too late to start again.
Great episode, loved the stories. He could fill up a whole week with stories
He definitely could
Is the goal to have the entire cast THPS on the show? There's only a few left...
You guys are legends!!!!!! Thanks so much for the episode, have a good one guys!!!
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Jamie often replied that he would not grab, if he had done the leap of faith again... Why not, Jamie? Ollie Grabs are cool and his ones looked always stylish and really good! Jaws does them too.. And I love it.
one of the best eps. i’ve seen on TVH! keep up the majic, boys🤘🏻💚
Absolute legends! 2 of my favourite skaters in the same room!
Does Birdman say, "described", or, "Subscribed?".
~~~Just watched “Tapes… and gonna watch again right now!!! Well done!!! Ride on!!!~~~
Amazing episode guys!!! Much Love ❤️🇿🇦🤘🏻🛹
Love this dude. Met him once met Hawk once too! Both encounters, they were super cool snd and il never forget it. 🤙
I'm so stoked for this right now
Enjoy it :)
@@HawkvsWolf loved it! You're all legends and I'm a big fan of all three of you but Jamie has been my favorite skater since the toy machine days. thanks for all that you guys do for skateboarding
My favorite skater of all time. Love for all everywhere
Room FULL of Legends !!! Great job guys
Thanks for watching!
@@HawkvsWolf much love and respect
Im so sick that i thought this might be a fever dream, NO its real! chief, hawk and Wolf thanks yall
Enjoy!!
Another awesome episode! You hit the jackpot every time!
Glad you enjoyed!
Mannn Jamie Thomas was my favorite skater when I was a kid . I saw him one times in mtl and because of him , I made it in a skater magazine .. he did a 5-0 on a 25stair nrail .. crazy and yeah I was in the background of that pic 😂😂
Legend, big fan of Thomas and Cole, for years I’ve stuck to Fallen clothing and Zero decks
I love this podcast and I would also love one of those boards from the studio🎉🎉 I have liked and subscribed 😊❤
When thps came out I was 10 and literally everyone that was on that game was automatically in my mind the greatest of the greats and the secret videos were legit the first skate videos that I watched and I used to watch them every morning before I went and skated. When I was 16 I was playing skate with the owner of the local board shop and I had beat him on flat ground and I said does that mean you’ll sponsor me and he said if you beat me in a game of skate on everything in this skatepark then yes we’ll talk and on his 3rd letter I frontside flipped the bank and he wanted me to redo it bc it was sketchy so I did and tore my acl. I put absolutely everything I had into coming back as fast as possible and even got the patella tendon graft bc the doc I had was the sports medicine doc of the Indiana colts back in the day and he said that specific graft uses my own tissue and I don’t have to wait for my hamstring to heal to start getting stronger so I did that came back even better and then senior year on prom night I broke my spine multiple times per vertibre from s1 to L4 and crushed all the discs in between I was told minimum of 2 years before I was back on the board at full strength and that was no exaggeration, so I got a titanium rod on either side of my spine 3 carbon fiber mesh implants and 18 screws crisscrossed in ever direction through the rods and into my spine. Came back from that in 20 months better than ever and then shattered my knee and broke my collarbone and had to have a full tibial plateau reconstruction but luckily my new acl was still intact and so was my pcl mcl so it was just bones but broke my femur fibula and tibia in 22 pieces and had to have 13 screws and a big 4 inch wide plate put in and all the cartilage and everything reshaped and by that time I was 23 years old and the reality of needing to pay bills was there and I couldn’t get hurt anymore like that and my dream was finally defeated. The weird thing was though that the first 2 injuries caused me lot more fear in my life but after the third one I realized all the worst things that I feared were conquered and I wasn’t afraid anymore but then of course I was prescribed to fentanyl patches and oxycodone for chronic pain and was supposed to take them for the rest of my life but it wasn’t gonna work bc I became a junkie after only few years after being prescribed to them and I then had to overcome that. I’m 33 now and I am a lead sunroom installer I’ve been sober for 7 1/2 years and I’ve been working this extremely physically demanding job for 6 years and I decided to buy a complete and start skating again and of course bc of the mental agony I went through everytime someone tried to tell me about what was happening in skateboarding or when I saw people skateboarding I couldn’t keep up with skating after I stopped bc it was torture to do so and I didn’t watch any of the skate videos I was in that my and friends were doing back then even though I had all the dvds of them. So when I started following skateboarding again this year it was a different world and all of the things that I imagined doing when I was growing up was the level skateboarding had reached but the one thing that had stayed the same that brought me great comfort was that tony hawk, Jason Ellis, Jamie Thomas, Ryan Reynolds’s, Elisa steemer, Eric koston, Paul Rodriguez, muska, Rodney Mullen and all my heroes were still skateboarding and I was just thinking to myself back when I was a little kid that all you guys were these larger than life amazing tough skaters that were just makin it at the highest level but doing it with humility and respect and a never give up attitude and it made me who I am today and I wouldn’t change anything that’s happened to me bc it gave me the open perspective and perseverance and drive that I wouldn’t want to live without. Thankyou for all that you do.
I love this podcast Tony and Jason!!
Love hearing the details about THPS!
Looking at my hanging klansman deck right now. Awesome episode
My stepbrother and I once went to a demo around 2000 to 2002 and saw Jamie at the end of the night eating an in n out burger. We were staring at him in awe and couldn’t believe it was him. He said wtf are you staring at?! Good times!
Suuuure.
I’m from Marietta and remember hearing rumors of Jamie skating South Cobb High school all the time; never saw him or any of the Zero guys there but it’d be cool to get confirmation if they actually did frequent that school or not.
(The school has a pretty nice 16 and several other sets.)
Jason rock the dress and just own it don't let them tell you how to live!fight the power! Thanks for starting my year out awesome
Been waiting for this!
Enjoy!!
Tony is killing this amazing story _ there is so much Jaime is leaving out and having to skip parts of Jaime's story _ let the guest freaking talk for F' sake
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Check jamie on nine club he tells the whole story in more detail
You have to understand that as much as they do this for us, they don’t see each other all the time, so from their perspective, they’re just hanging out, chilling, and having some good 2/3 way conversations. Think about sitting with your best friends. If you’re anything like me, every story they tell resonates with me, and leaves me with stories of relevance hanging in my head, and I just get so excited by what’s being said, I’m constantly looking for any openings to share my views, before I forget them, and we move onto the next topic. Could just be me, tho 🤷♂️
@mitchellgreene867 I hear you but how much history does Tony and Jaime have? It's like Templeton and Jaime or Muska and Jaime. Maybe it's the fact that the show is usually around 45min to a hour. These dudes have stories for days and can't be fit in a 1 hour sitting....
That hanging clansman board is hauntingly interesting.
About to order boards from both Birdhouse and Zero! Don’t need one but I have to support. Appreciate the f outta all 3 of you guys. Epic people
Thank you!!
i wonder if the clinic doc was propositioning him and he was just oblivious 😭 like he was expecting jamie to come back with "what are you offering?"
Awesome! The man is here!!
Sure is!
You guys got that new gnarkill cd. Handicapped handtie? Woody woo woo
Jamie is a bad MFer. "Its like being in a fight and after the first punch you realize it isn't that bad." LEGEND.
he's a try legend
Love this show. Any chance of a another Black Francis interview.
3 legends in one room
Excellent podcast!! Jamie is a living legend! 😎
Thanks for listening!
he is bloody intense but you can't deny his heart is in the right place 24/7
Awesome skateboards Hawk vs Wolf..... Come skate Fireman's Skatepark Houma,La. ..Great podcast.
Another great show!!! Rad stories!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview. He is a legend.
I know it’d be taxing as all hell, but it’d be dope Jamie hit a different trick at an iconic spot (if applicable) in all 50 states for his “50 for 50” video.
This felt special ❤. Keep up the great work
Thank you! Will do!
Those decks are siiick maaaates 💯 and the street Tony yarns lolz. Oh an lesss not forget the chief
Thanks for watching!
Tim Baron is dope!