The Nine Club #221 · Show notes.
Jason Lee
About this episode
Jason Lee discusses growing up in Southern California, first learning 360 flips in his backyard, meeting Mark Gonzales for the first time, skating Christian Hosoi’s backyard vert ramp, getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for “Video Days”, starting Blue Skateboards with Chris Pastras, why they ended Blue and started Stereo Skateboards, skating with Julien Stranger in San Francisco, how quickly skating was progressing in the early 90’s, why he “retired” from skating and started acting, shooting his first movie, doing voice over work for video games and being in Skate 3 as Coach Frank, getting the lead role in the TV show “My Name Is Earl”, taking up photography, his photography books and much more!
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The guest
Jason Lee
Jason Lee is a skateboarder, actor and photographer who co-founded Stereo with Chris Pastras. He discusses Video Days, acting and his photography books.
Chapters
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- Jason Lee joins The Nine Club
- Learning 360 flips
- Skaters who change the next generation
- Pressure and progression in skating
- The speed of change around Video Days
- Tricks, contests and skateboarding memories
- Music and skating with Mark Gonzales
- Hill bombing with Julien Stranger
- Acting and My Name Is Earl
- Rodney Mullen’s influence
- Individuality and pressure on skaters
- How quickly street skating evolved
- Pressure flips and personal style
- Working with film directors
- Almost Famous and its music
- My Name Is Earl ending
- Meeting fans
- Learning outside the classroom
- Blind, Steve Rocco and the industry
- Following new creative interests
- How television projects reach the screen
- The My Name Is Earl cast
- Keeping Stereo going
- Coach Frank and Skate 3
- Watching Mark Gonzales skate
- Vert footage and Video Days
- Christian Hosoi’s backyard ramp
- Growing older in skateboarding
- Returning to skating after focusing on acting
- A new generation of skaters
- Airwalk, etnies and shoes
- Supporting new skaters
- Photos with Spike Jonze
- Keeping old pro-model boards
- Reminiscing with skateboarders
- Sharing skateboarding history
- The Stereo television pilot
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People mentioned
Selected names and timestamped moments checked against the episode’s English auto-generated captions.
Mike Carroll
Henry Sanchez
Jacob Rosenberg
Lance Mountain
Tony Alva
Jay Adams
Chris Rock
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