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Selema Masekela

Aug 28, 2023

About this episode

Selema Masekela discusses moving to Carlsbad California, falling in love with surfing, working at Transworld, becoming team manager for Planet Earth, Rhythm & Adio Footwear, starting Alphanumeric Clothing, why he first turned down announcing for X Games, getting the call to go on Tony Hawks Gigantic Skatepark Tour, Tony Hawks 900, breaking the Kim Kardashian sex tape story on his E! show "Daily 10”, returning to X Games, his father Hugh Masekela and much more!

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The guest

Chapters

1. 00:00:00Selema Masekela
2. 00:02:37Finding skateboarding
3. 00:05:47Moving to Carlsbad California
4. 00:10:21Falling in love with surfing
5. 00:11:19Selema's first job in skateboarding
6. 00:21:30Our Sponsor: AG1 Athletic Greens
7. 00:23:06Getting back into skating heavy because of Transworld
8. 00:25:13Moving up the ladder at Transworld
9. 00:29:32Working for Planet Earth
10. 00:31:17Becoming team manager for Planet Earth, Rhythm & Adio Footwear
11. 00:32:42The Rhythm video
12. 00:35:20Meeting Alyasha Owerka-Moore
13. 00:38:25Team manager for Reebok's Boks program
14. 00:40:51Starting Alphanumeric
15. 00:46:19What happened with Alphanumeric?
16. 00:50:42Getting into television work
17. 00:52:16Announcing contests and demos
18. 01:01:49Getting the call to go on Tony Hawks Gigantic Skatepark Tour
19. 01:02:13Tony Hawk's 900
20. 01:12:37Leaving and returning to X Games
21. 01:22:45Working for E! entertainment
22. 01:25:27Dealing with taxes
23. 01:28:31Breaking the Kim Kardashian sex tape story on his E! show "Daily 10"
24. 01:42:19Selema's father Hugh Masekela
25. 01:47:10The beauty of working in the thing you love
26. 01:52:10Olympic broadcasting
27. 01:57:22The future of womens skateboarding
28. 02:00:07Being back at X Games
29. 02:07:10Snowboard lingo
30. 02:10:35Selema's dad the musician
31. 02:16:28Skaters doing things that aren't skateboarding
32. 02:20:57From Selema to Sal back to Selema

Links

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• Alekesam website
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Talked about in this episode

Tony Hawk Lands FIRST-EVER 900 | World of X GamesX Games

Music videos

Alekesam - "The Breeze"StrictlyHits

People mentioned

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• Tony Hawk

  Mentioned at 20:55

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• Adrian Lopez

  Mentioned at 23:32

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• Jamie Thomas

  Mentioned at 24:11

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• Ty Evans

  Mentioned at 32:40

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• Mark Appleyard

  Mentioned at 41:59

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• Dave Duncan

  Mentioned at 52:19

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• Jason Ellis

  Mentioned at 1:10:28

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• Chad Muska

  Mentioned at 1:29:53

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• Henry Sanchez

  Mentioned at 1:58:01

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• Mason Silva

  Mentioned at 2:17:22

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