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INTERVIEW BY JASON JESSEE<\/strong>
\nINTRODUCTION BY DAN LEVY<\/strong>
\nPHOTOS BY DAN LEVY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greyson Fletcher was not just born into the world of skateboarding and surfing, he was conceived in it. To say he rips on a skateboard is an understatement. With raw speed and power, Greyson tears through lines that most would not even attempt. He has this uncanny ability to see right through the bullshit and his passion for skating burns non stop. Most days you will find him working in the family business over at Astrodeck with his father Christian and his grandparents Herbie and Dibi. Greyson is a one of a kinder and he is not in this for the fame or the fortune. He is in this for the love.<\/p>\n

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“The only weight I lift is when I pick up my skateboard to drop in.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Greyson, how are you doing? Are you awake?<\/strong>
\nYep.<\/p>\n

Radical. So you and Christian carpool to work?<\/strong>
\nYeah, of course, I don\u2019t have a license yet. I\u2019m slacking on it. I\u2019ve had a permit for a while now, but I never got a license because I\u2019m retarded.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not retarded. You\u2019re not even partial. Did you see Smut Peddler?<\/strong>
\nYeah. I watched it a week and a half ago.<\/p>\n

Did you ever see it before? It\u2019s all right there at Astrodeck.<\/strong>
\nI never saw it before. I\u2019ve seen bits and clips of the video before, but I liked the part where the guy shoots his face off. It\u2019s pretty funny.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best. That was live too, I think. It\u2019s like he\u2019s pulling out a sandwich from a brown bag. It\u2019s insane. The cartoons are pretty good too.<\/strong>
\nHe bleeds so much too.<\/p>\n

How old are you?<\/strong>
\n19.<\/p>\n

Where were you born?<\/strong>
\nI was born in Laguna, on March 8, 1991.<\/p>\n

No way. I was born in Newport Beach. You didn\u2019t have a clown at your hospital did you?<\/strong>
\nNot that I remember. I hate clowns. They\u2019re scary looking. Their faces are insane.<\/p>\n

It sucks. So you live at Trestles down there?<\/strong>
\nNo. We live at Cottons.<\/p>\n

Is there still a break there?<\/strong>
\nYeah.<\/p>\n

Radical. Do you surf ever?<\/strong>
\nI started surfing a bunch this summer and then the water got cold so I had to bitch out on it.<\/p>\n

Do you and your dad ever get into arguments?<\/strong>
\nNo, not really.<\/p>\n

Do you ever argue with Herbie?<\/strong>
\nOh, of course. Everybody argues with Herbie.<\/p>\n

Cool it. Really?<\/strong>
\nYeah. It\u2019s about just the most random stuff too.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s bitchin\u2019. I have work release coming up and I would like to spend a couple days there. You guys could just sign off for me. I\u2019ll sweep. I\u2019ll clean up. I\u2019ll do invoices or data or whatever. I just won\u2019t talk because who is the boss there?<\/strong>
\nDibi and Herbie.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t see me. You\u2019ll only see me working. I won\u2019t even fuck around.<\/strong>
\nYou\u2019ll be here, but you won\u2019t be here.<\/p>\n

Exactly. I\u2019ll be like a ghost. So you\u2019ve been skateboarding your whole life, right?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve been skateboarding ever since I can remember.<\/p>\n

Wow. Same here. That\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s weird how fast time goes. It\u2019s not even worth keeping track of it.<\/strong>
\nIt goes slow and then, all of a sudden, it just starts going into hyper speed.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think we control it. It\u2019s way different then we think it is, but that\u2019s just when I\u2019m going through acid flashbacks. No. I\u2019ve never taken acid. Okay. Wait. You lived in Bali for how long?<\/strong>
\nI lived in Bali for seven months and then my dad lived there for a year and three months. It\u2019s the best place ever. You go skate a bunch of rad bowls and then you can go surf.<\/p>\n

Wait. There\u2019s concrete?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. There\u2019s concrete. There are lots of good bowls there. It\u2019s good. You know what\u2019s crazy? Bali has the first all teak bowl. It\u2019s all made out of teak wood.<\/p>\n

What? That\u2019s crazy. Teak is expensive. Did you ride it? Was it a good surface?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. It felt really good. It was really fast and smooth. It didn\u2019t really give me splinters when I fell, so it was good.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so glad we don\u2019t have one here because I would be wet sanding it and shellac-ing it all day. I can\u2019t help it. I would just be fully into making it super smooth and glossy.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

It would be pretty good for everyone else though.<\/p>\n

Everyone would be sliding out and the sun would make it peel because I put on too many coats of shellac. Has your dad ever grounded you?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. My mom tried to a long time ago, but that didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n

Are you guys in the same place you\u2019ve been in?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. We moved up one street.<\/p>\n

Herbie had to move all the surfboards?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. They had to move all of their stuff.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of work. I have the same problems, so I understand what it\u2019s like to move all your shit.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. It sucks.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re borderline hoarders but not really because it\u2019s really neat shit.<\/b><\/p>\n

If everybody else had all the same shit that we had they would keep all of their stuff too.<\/p>\n

For sure. It\u2019s insane. Tell me about your family. They\u2019re pretty gnarly, like your grandpa and your uncle and all of them, starting with Walter.<\/b><\/p>\n

Walter is my great grandpa and Tutu is my great grandma. Dibi is my grandma and Herbie is my grandpa. Christian is my dad and Nathan is my uncle. Joyce is my great aunt, and there\u2019s Uncle Marty. We are all related somehow. I don\u2019t know how. I\u2019m not too deep into math or anything.<\/p>\n

That rules. It\u2019s\u00a0mathematics and DNA probably.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. It\u2019s some of that random dumb school stuff.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s just your destiny to do frontside ollies overhead. Do you like doing frontside ollies?<\/b><\/p>\n

I like frontside ollies and frontside smiths.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best.<\/b><\/p>\n

What do you like better, frontside ollies or backside ollies?<\/p>\n

I never did backside ollies. I think I\u2019ve done them over hips barely. I couldn\u2019t get into them because they just never felt right to me. Christian Hosoi did really great backside ollies. Do you like backside ollies at all?<\/b><\/p>\n

I do like backside ollies. They\u2019ve been growing on me lately.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re fun if you can control them good. I think the only way I could do them is maybe an alley-oop, but I\u2019m almost coming in like a frontside ollie, so it\u2019s like cheating maybe.<\/b><\/p>\n

You can do a backside ollie and slide in, and if you\u2019re going to hang up, then you just land sideways.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done that. I was doing them at coping level, so I was pretty safe. I made almost four out of 18. Frontside ollies felt great though.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

They do feel good.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t believe every park we went to in Oregon. That was crazy.<\/b><\/p>\n

Those parks are so rad, huh?<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even get used to one of them and we were gone. They were so gnarly. I came back here and I tried to skate Buena and I was like, \u201cWhat the fuck?\u201d It\u2019s the roughest. It\u2019s like going outside to skate the freeway. That\u2019s what it felt like. The parks in Oregon are fucking perfect. It\u2019s weird.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. That\u2019s what it felt like going back to the San Clemente park too because it has a bunch of weird kinks and stuff that you have to get used to.<\/p>\n

Monk and Red know how to do shit perfect.\u00a0 They\u2019ve got it wired. It seems like California is just a bummer for skateparks compared to Oregon and Washington.<\/b><\/p>\n

I heard they have a height limitation here.<\/p>\n

What about Razors? Do you have to do battle?<\/b><\/p>\n

Razors are lame.<\/p>\n

They are the worst. They all put the rollerblades away and got Razors. It\u2019s insane.<\/b><\/p>\n

There really are pro Razorers at the San Clemente Park.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the corniest thing I\u2019ve ever heard. So you have a skatepark with pro Razor locals?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a pack of 20 scooterers that come to my park all the time. They trade scooter parts out for other scooter parts and they wear lame purple colors and match their shoelaces to their Razors and helmets.<\/p>\n

Are they all under age six to eight or something?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. The age range is like four to 30 on Razors.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s embarrassing. It\u2019s okay though. One day someone will show them pictures of themselves from way back when and they will realize that they should have committed suicide. Sad. Or maybe they will run for fucking mayor.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Hopefully not.<\/p>\n

Do you and your dad have an office together?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

How cool. Who are your sponsors? I\u2019m curious.<\/b><\/p>\n

I get flowed by AntiHero, Spitfire, Independent, Vans, Skull Candy, Stance Socks and Team Astrodeck for skating. Hopefully, I didn\u2019t leave anyone out.<\/p>\n

That rules. Okay. The reason I\u2019m stressed right now is because I walked out to the cliff and looked down to where I buried that dolphin, and someone dug it up. I was so pissed. I was ready to reassemble it on up here with stainless steel and make it all scientific with its Latin name and everything, but it\u2019s not there anymore.<\/b><\/p>\n

That sucks. Somebody left a dead deer on our dumpster\u00a0 \u00a0 outside of work. It had its head chopped off.<\/p>\n

What the fuck? Maybe Cal Trans dumped it there. Where\u2019s the head though? That\u2019s gross. Sacrifice.<\/b><\/p>\n

I have no idea where the head went. Somebody probably mounted it on a wall or something. That\u2019s gnarly shit.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s gross. I saw a deer on the side of the freeway. A guy hit it, so I got off at the exit and went and got a hacksaw at Ace Hardware. I got back on the freeway and then pulled over in front of the deer and hacksawed its horns off. People were honking at me. It was funny. I still have the horns. His tongue was out and it was looking at me.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

No one stopped?<\/p>\n

It was creepy. They were honking like, \u201cWhat are you doing psycho?\u201d Have you thrown your axe?<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s nowhere really to throw it, but I threw it and smashed a couple of skateboards with it.<\/p>\n

What about your Grandpa Walter? Have you ever seen his collection of neat guns or knives?<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. I\u2019ve seen his knife collections. They are crazy. He has so many of them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty bitchin\u2019. Did you go to high school?<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t go to high school. I did home schooling, so I never really went to school. School sucks.<\/p>\n

Completely. I\u00a0went to San Clemente High for two weeks and then wrote notes and quit. Are you left handed or right handed?<\/b><\/p>\n

Right handed.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re left-handed they used to be like, \u201cUse your right hand.\u201d It was corny. If you\u2019re left handed, you\u2019re left handed. Fuck it. You\u2019re regular foot? I\u2019m regular foot.<\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019re regular foot and left handed? Oh, you\u2019re all mixed up.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. Maybe that\u2019s why it was easier for me to go backwards, maybe not though.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Do you play pool with your left hand?<\/p>\n

I shoot right handed.<\/b><\/p>\n

I shoot left handed. I hold my skateboard in my front hand so that\u2019s the hand I hold the pool stick with too. It\u2019s weird.<\/p>\n

Crazy. It\u2019s a right-handed world. If you hold a Bic pen in your right hand, you can read it, but if you put it in your left hand, it\u2019s upside down. So what park did you grow up skating at the most?<\/b><\/p>\n

It was probably the Vans Skatepark in Orange and the San Clemente Park.<\/p>\n

Did you skate the Combi pool there?<\/b><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really skate it when I was little, but I started skating it about a year ago. It\u2019s a sick bowl. It\u2019s easy because it\u2019s concrete and now it\u2019s all smooth. It\u2019s not really slippery\u00a0 \u00a0 anymore, so no one\u2019s really scared of it anymore.<\/p>\n

So they just changed the whole thing, right?<\/b><\/p>\n

They changed the roll in, but the Combi bowl stayed the same shape. They took out the channel and made it regular, and the coping is epoxy coping now.<\/p>\n

Do you like it or not?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. I don\u2019t. It\u2019s fake coping. It\u2019s plastic. You might as well be riding plastic trucks or something. It\u2019s weird. What parks did you start skating when you were younger?<\/p>\n

It was Big O and Del Mar. Big O was super good.<\/b><\/p>\n

Is that where you perfected your frontside ollie?<\/p>\n

No. That was at some ramp in Dana Point. Where did you learn frontside ollies?<\/b><\/p>\n

I have no idea. I just did them. I learned them from doing them and watching them on videos I guess.<\/p>\n

Have you ever noticed the difference between surfers that don\u2019t skateboard and surfers that do skateboard?<\/b><\/p>\n

Surfers have a weird skate style. I always thought it was funny, but John John, Nathan and Ivan [Florence] all skate good. They have good skate style.<\/p>\n

Some surfers do double-handed grabs and stuff and it\u2019s just weird.<\/b><\/p>\n

They get the weird wrists when they skate and they hang up a lot too. Nobody likes to hang up.<\/p>\n

So can you do frontside ollies surfing?<\/b><\/p>\n

Not really. Can you do ollies on a surfboard?<\/p>\n

Barely. Once. It was a long time ago.<\/b><\/p>\n

I can do them randomly.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not like your dad or Nathan. That\u2019s insane. I can\u2019t even understand it at all. It\u2019s just ridiculous.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. They are ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Have you ever wanted to learn how to noseride or do the side slip boogie?<\/b><\/p>\n

I have.\u00a0I actually went longboarding for the first time last summer. I started surfing everyday and I went longboarding. It\u2019s a lot harder than it looks. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

The way your dad and grandpa do it is insane. They were hauling ass at Pipeline and Backdoor.<\/b><\/p>\n

I heard you were responsible for the stalefish on a surfboard.<\/p>\n

No. I just watched Christian do it at Log Cabins.<\/b><\/p>\n

My dad said that you were responsible for the stalefish on a surfboard though.<\/p>\n

No way. Your dad just wanted to do it. It seemed like it took an hour and a half to walk down there, but it was probably only 10 minutes and then he did it on exposed boulders. It was gnarly. I just wandered off after that. It was nuts. Has your dad done kickflips on a surfboard and pulled them?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll ask him\u2026 He says he\u2019s done kickflips on skateboards and surfboards. Oh, he said he wears tight pants too.<\/p>\n

Oh, he does?<\/b><\/p>\n

No, he doesn\u2019t. I think kickflips look cool on tranny though, like kickflips and frontside flips on a ramp.<\/p>\n

What kind of trucks do you ride again? I forgot.<\/b><\/p>\n

Independent. I have a question for you. Do you think of skateboarding as an art or a sport?<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s art. What do you think?<\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really have an opinion on that. I\u2019m kind of confused.<\/p>\n

Okay. We\u2019ll wait. Go ahead and think about it.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s both. It\u2019s kind of art. I\u2019m not really into art, so I\u2019m going to have to say it\u2019s a sport.<\/p>\n

So are you looking forward to entering the Extreme Games? Are you good under pressure?<\/b><\/p>\n

Hell, no. I\u2019m not good under pressure in skateboarding. I don\u2019t do contests or anything because I\u2019m horrible at being under pressure. I don\u2019t even like to skate when there are too many people watching.<\/p>\n

It just gets harder as you get older. I heard about that contest you just did. J.J. Rogers said you should have won, but some other kid won.<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. I got second at West Linn.<\/p>\n

J.J. says you should have won.<\/b><\/p>\n

Competition is a weird world. Hey, we have a crazy video to send you. This guy jumps off a bridge and he has to clear a concrete path across the water and he lands on his face on the concrete. He pops up out of the water like 20 seconds later. His friend gets him and it shows him at the hospital with his face all split open sideways just laying flat like a piece of paper and then you can see his teeth and stuff and hear him breathing. It\u2019s fucked.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s like Duane\u2019s leg in a bag. That was gnarly. Do you remember when he was going to lose his foot no matter what and he had to sign something just in case they took his leg off up to his knee. Someone had to have pulled the doctor aside like, \u201cThis is Duane Peters. If you take his foot off, you might as well kill him, because that\u2019s insane. He needs to dance and sing and skateboard, so save his foot.\u201d And they fucking saved it. He woke up with a foot and he thought he was going to wake up without a foot. How crazy is that?<\/b><\/p>\n

That would be shocking if you think you\u2019re going to wake up without your foot and then you wake up and see it.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t even imagine it. He doesn\u2019t even have a limp, right? He wasn\u2019t even limping.<\/b><\/p>\n

No, he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Have you gone on a lot of trips with him?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been going on a bunch of trips with him and Jamie Prescott. We\u2019ve been doing the Skull Candy stuff for a while now. We go up to Oregon twice a year. It\u2019s pretty sick.<\/p>\n

We just went to rad parks in Oregon. I don\u2019t know how many skateparks they have up there, but I swear there is one in every town.<\/b><\/p>\n

There has to be. That\u2019s what it seems like. It\u2019s so great. You didn\u2019t even see Lincoln City, did you?<\/p>\n

No. I\u2019ve never been there. I have to go there soon.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lincoln City is so good. It has a crazy snake run in it. The snake run leads into a 14-foot half bowl. It\u2019s pretty crazy.<\/p>\n

Have you ever seen your dad do a wheelie skateboarding?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yep.<\/p>\n

Can you nose wheelie a long time?<\/b><\/p>\n

I can nose manual kind of a long time.<\/p>\n

You guys have to go for Guinness Book of World Records because it would be funny. You could be snacking on hot dogs or sandwiches and then Christian can be smoking. He could be doing a manual and smoking and handing you a sandwich for a mile and a half. You could both get in the Guinness Book Of World Records.<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen him manual uphill and then across a bunch of streets and then downhill and then up another hill. I don\u2019t know how he can go up a hill.<\/p>\n

He can do probably 50 to 100 city blocks, right?<\/b><\/p>\n

Easily. My leg would be fucking dead after that.<\/p>\n

Did you know that your grandpa skated the first pool ever?<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard.<\/p>\n

How crazy is that? Skateboarding is not very old.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. What was the first pool you skated?<\/p>\n

My first pool could have been Pomona or San Clemente. Have you skated backyard pools a lot?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve skated a bunch of random ones. They\u2019re fun to skate.<\/p>\n

Do you ever get really angry and break shit?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I was little, I used to break my skateboard a bunch when I got angry. I learned how to control it now. Now I smash the coping with my trucks instead or I\u2019ll do an air and smash my feet down when I land on the tranny.<\/p>\n

Ollie to tails are nice.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

They feel good. Have you ever done an ollie nose to fakie?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done it to my front truck, like a frontside ollie 180. Chris Miller would do the back truck and grind it. I\u2019d do a frontside 180, land on the front truck and come in to fakie. I guess it\u2019s an ollie 360, but you hit your front truck on the way in.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a 270 nose pivot to fakie, huh?<\/p>\n

Yeah. I don\u2019t even know how to talk anymore either. It\u2019s sad.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all good. My vocabulary is really small, so I\u2019m on the same level with that one.<\/p>\n

Okay. Do you have any tattoos?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. Not yet.<\/p>\n

Wait. You\u2019re stoked if you don\u2019t have any.<\/b><\/p>\n

I know. There are too many idiots that have them already.<\/p>\n

Completely. What do you think?<\/b><\/p>\n

I try not to think too much.<\/p>\n

Well, you\u2019re smart. It\u2019s so much easier not to think. There are people that think so much they can\u2019t even function. They can\u2019t even sleep and stuff. Do you go to bed pretty early?<\/b><\/p>\n

If 1AM or 2AM is early, then yeah, I go to bed early.<\/p>\n

Is it hard for you to wake up in the morning?<\/b><\/p>\n

I usually wake up around 9:30AM. It\u2019s kind of hard to wake up though because I\u2019m grumpy when I get up, and sore. Are you a morning person?<\/p>\n

I think so. I can just wake up whenever and I\u2019m pretty much ready to go. I\u2019m a light sleeper. If there is pressure to be somewhere like a court date or a meeting it\u2019s almost impossible. I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, really? I can\u2019t work.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

So you can just wake up at 5:30 in the morning and go skate?<\/p>\n

Yeah. If I think about exactly what time I have to wake up, I\u2019ll wake up without an alarm clock. It\u2019s kind of weird. My dad was the same way.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a pretty good thing to have. I wish I had that.<\/p>\n

What about Kelly Slater? He just won for the tenth time, huh?<\/b><\/p>\n

I heard something like that. That\u2019s ridiculous, right?<\/p>\n

Yep. Wait. Okay. I don\u2019t think Razorers is a word.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a word either. Where did you get the resources?<\/p>\n

These are all just off the top of my head.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Interesting. I just know I don\u2019t like scooterers.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s perfect. It\u2019s so weird. They had to invent something because they never let disco die, so they had to invent Razors or diapers or whatever.<\/b><\/p>\n

Scooterers are people who can\u2019t skate. If they can\u2019t skate, they go to biking. If they can\u2019t bike, they go to rollerblading. If they can\u2019t rollerblade, they go to scooters.<\/p>\n

Totally. If they can\u2019t deal with stuff on their own, they go to the cops. It\u2019s just ridiculous. Are there any long-term goals you have?<\/b><\/p>\n

I want to get Astrodeck up and running with my family. I don\u2019t know if it is a long-term goal, but it\u2019s a goal.<\/p>\n

Wait. Billabong doesn\u2019t own Astrodeck?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Basically, Astrodeck is the only company that\u2019s not owned by a mega corp?<\/b><\/p>\n

That sounds about right.<\/p>\n

That rips.<\/b><\/p>\n

Do you have a motto, Jason?<\/p>\n

It would probably be a Chevy Biscayne. No. I\u2019m just kidding. It\u2019s motto, not moto. I\u2019m retarded.<\/b><\/p>\n

Most people are retarded. They just don\u2019t know it. So you have no mottos? I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve had them before. Come on.<\/p>\n

\u201cDie when you die when you die you\u2019re gonna die.\u201d That\u2019s from Kevin Michael Allin. My other motto is \u201cShit right out of a dog\u2019s ass. Dog shit.\u201d I\u2019ve been trying to be more positive. \u201cDon\u2019t leave the mayonnaise out too long or it will turn beige.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

I thought there was nothing worse than mayonnaise, but I\u2019m sure beige mayonnaise is even worse. Are you secretly trying to say you like rotten mayonnaise?<\/p>\n

No. I like reggae. I don\u2019t mind reggae.<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, you like reggae mayonnaise? Wait. I\u2019ve got a random question for you. How would you define soul?<\/p>\n

I probably wouldn\u2019t. I would just think of food, like soul food. It\u2019s probably good. I never watched Soul Train, so that\u2019s a weird one. I don\u2019t know how I would define it. I would probably just be really quiet and let somebody next to me define it. I would pretend I didn\u2019t hear the question.<\/b><\/p>\n

Okay. We\u2019ll move on to a different question. You have to fill in the blank. The easiest way to piss me off is_______.<\/p>\n

Shit the bed.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good one. I have another fill-in-the-blank for you. What do you do to piss people off?<\/p>\n

Where was the blank?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s at the very end. What I do to piss people off is _____.<\/p>\n

Wait. Okay. Is it a question or a fill-in-the-blank?<\/b><\/p>\n

What do you do to piss people off, Jason?<\/p>\n

What do I do?<\/b><\/p>\n

I know you can probably get on people\u2019s nerves somehow. Your communication skills are stellar.<\/p>\n

My communication\u00a0skills are terrible. I\u2019ve been working on them, but they are terrible.<\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019re communicating though.<\/p>\n

Thanks. I\u2019m working on it, but it\u2019s definitely a challenge. There are so many ways to \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 communicate and I try to not use any of them. If I see you in person, I\u2019m all for it. It\u2019s all of the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 different forms of communicating I have a hard time with.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard. You send people a message and then they\u2019ll send you one back and you just forget about it.<\/p>\n

Someone will send me a text message on my phone, and I don\u2019t see my phone for a few days. Then I see the message and I have to digest it for a few days and then I\u2019ll be able to handle it. If it\u2019s a yes or no question, it could take two days. If it\u2019s more than that, it could be two weeks.<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, that\u2019s useful information. Is that why you haven\u2019t been getting back to me as soon as I would like?<\/p>\n

Wait. I\u2019ve never gotten a message from you. Have you ever called my phone?<\/b><\/p>\n

No, but maybe I will in the future.<\/p>\n

Knowing what you know now, you\u2019ll go easier on me?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yep. This interview has really helped. Now I know it\u2019s going to take a couple days to get the answer to the question I asked you.<\/p>\n

I have to digest it all. The lamest part is that it\u2019s much easier to just drive here if you really want to get a hold of me. Just drive here and it\u2019s done.<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll send my message boy over there.<\/p>\n

Well, whoever you\u2019re going to send is going to be here for a little while because they are going to have to look for me around here and then I\u2019ll sidetrack them with, \u201cHey, wait. Help me pet this petting zoo. Help me corral these goats.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice though because these message guys are cyber stalkers, so they can find you really fast. I don\u2019t know how they are working with goats.<\/p>\n

That sucks. Do you have any brothers or sisters?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. Not that I know of.<\/p>\n

The first time I met you was at my wedding a long time ago. You were like one day old.<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh. You can bring one-day-olds to a wedding?<\/p>\n

You were just an infant child. It was crazy. You skateboard every day, right?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

That rips. Have you broken anything?<\/b><\/p>\n

Not really. I\u2019ve gotten pretty lucky. I snapped my thumb in half and stretched out the tendons in my arm. My friend had a launch ramp by his house and there was a big bush. He kept telling me to do an airwalk and I was like, \u201cNo. Airwalks are lame. I don\u2019t like airwalks.\u201d He was like, \u201cDo an airwalk.\u201d I did a couple tricks and then I was like, \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll do one airwalk for you.\u201d So I went up and did an airwalk about shoulder high. My feet were probably up to my shoulder and my foot got stuck in the bush and I fell on my hand.<\/p>\n

Wait. You got caught in her bush.<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, no, not her bush, a bush.<\/p>\n

Then what happened?<\/b><\/p>\n

I fell straight onto my thumb and left hand. I was holding my skateboard with my broken hand and then I started walking and it felt really weird. I looked at it and I was like, \u201cWhat the fuck?\u201d I just kept saying, \u201cWhat the fuck? What the fuck?\u201d I was like a broken record. My thumb was pointing down at the ground and some chick screamed. It was funny.<\/p>\n

Have you ever gotten any tickets skateboarding?<\/b><\/p>\n

I just got a ticket for $260 at the San Clemente Park for no helmet.<\/p>\n

What the fuck?<\/b><\/p>\n

I put on my helmet when I saw him coming, and I was like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the problem?\u201d He was like, \u201cOh, I saw you. I was spying on you from my secret spot with my binoculars.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did not say that.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, he did.<\/p>\n

What really was going on was that he was jacking off in his car.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I was going to say. He was beating off around the bush up in the hills.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s usually what they do, I guess. A lot of times they just hide in their cars and jack off. So you had to pay $260 for him to see you. Fuck that guy and his job.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. It\u2019s retarded. I ran all the way to the golf course and hid in the golf course.<\/p>\n

What a fucking creep to be hiding in his car \u00a0 looking at young boys, and he has a gun too, so that\u2019s great. You have to take care of that ticket though because you don\u2019t want it to escalate into anything else.<\/b><\/p>\n

I already paid for it. My grandma paid for it, actually.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good thing to fight every ticket you ever get. You might as well give it a shot. It ties up the courts and it\u2019s great. There\u2019s so much unfair shit.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. It\u2019s bullshit that you can\u2019t skate without a helmet.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s corny. So do you live by that guy Ryan that lives in San Clemente? Do you ever see him around?<\/b><\/p>\n

Ryan Sheckler? I skated with him a couple of times at the San Clemente Skatepark.<\/p>\n

I walked through some room this morning and the TV was on and it was Saving Little Ryan or \u00a0 \u00a0 whatever. I looked. This guy is skateboarding. Whoa. That guy is good. Oh, no. He\u2019s talking now. Wait. I was just in awe. He\u2019s as smart as a bologna sandwich. So how are you doing?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing all right. I\u2019m just getting ready to go skate the Combi bowl.<\/p>\n

No way. I got kicked out of there.<\/b><\/p>\n

You did?<\/p>\n

No, but it sounded cool, right?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah, until you said you didn\u2019t, and then it sounded lame.<\/p>\n

There are so many places to skate in Oregon. I can\u2019t even take it. I never wanted to leave. I never want to grow up.<\/b><\/p>\n

You never want to leave to go to the next skatepark in Oregon because you never get to get used to any of them?<\/p>\n

I never want to take anything to the next level.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to. You already did.<\/p>\n

How do you stall in mid-air when you do frontside airs?<\/b><\/p>\n

It just kind of happens.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty crazy. It\u2019s like you can stop time.<\/b><\/p>\n

If I could stop time, that would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Have you been taking photos and stuff?<\/b><\/p>\n

My grandpa took some photos of me last night at the Bible Bowl. He took some of my dad and I skating. My dad has some good smiths in the deep end at the Bible Bowl. He did a layback smith in the deep end too.<\/p>\n

Rad. What about Herbie? Did he skateboard too?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yep. He rolled around. It was fun.<\/p>\n

Did you ever go on trips with Jamie Prescott\u2019s kids when they were on tour with the band?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been on a couple of those trips with the band. We just cruised from Southern California up to Oregon. The next trip they had was a pretty long one. It was California to Oregon to Washington and then Florida. It was a bunch of places.<\/p>\n

Have you ever been on any trips with Grosso?<\/b><\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

Did you know he rides for Anti-Hero now?<\/b><\/p>\n

I heard that. He\u2019s great. How were your trips with him?<\/p>\n

They were great. He\u2019s hilarious. I\u2019m trying to cut words out of my vocabulary like BMX, dude and radical.<\/b><\/p>\n

You can keep radical in there.<\/p>\n

Radical works. There\u2019s an ad with Jay Adams and it said, \u201calways radical.\u201d That legitimizes it.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s funny. Righteously radical. Radically righteous.<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re getting into the \u201870s beach vibe. When I think of your grandpa I think \u201calways radical.\u201d Let\u2019s move on to your fucking ecological footprint? How are you reducing that in your life?<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, first of all, I don\u2019t know what the fuck an ecological footprint is, so you\u2019re going to have to explain it for me first.<\/p>\n

Well, British Petroleum released a lot of dinosaur bones and oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It was a full disaster, so there is nothing that you or I could do that could even amount to one hour of their destruction, so who cares? Do whatever. Who cares? Die when you die when you die you\u2019re gonna die.<\/b><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t there a GG Allin song like that?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favorite band or what have you been listening to lately?<\/b><\/p>\n

Dubstep. The best part is they don\u2019t have singers.<\/p>\n

Does your dad listen to it?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. He hates it. He fucking hates it, which is even better.<\/p>\n

If your dad liked it, you\u2019d have to re-evaluate everything.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. That\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

Do you ever get really sick of Southern California\u2019s mentality?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. I don\u2019t really hang out with anybody here. I just hang out with my family. I have a couple good friends that I hang out with, so I don\u2019t have to deal with a bunch of retards around Orange County.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s cool. What was your first memory of seeing Cardiel on video or live or anything?<\/b><\/p>\n

That was at my Uncle Nathan\u2019s house when I was like 14. Right when I saw him he became my favorite skater.<\/p>\n

What about that thing that Jamie took you guys on 10 years ago? Everyone was little kids, and everyone is good at skateboarding.<\/b><\/p>\n

That was the Next Invasion tour. Everyone was like 11.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s crazy. There\u2019s only one guy that just disappeared. Everyone else is really good.<\/b><\/p>\n

Which one disappeared?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t remember his name.<\/b><\/p>\n

How are you supposed to do an interview if you can\u2019t remember any names? C\u2019mon.<\/p>\n

I lost my notes. I don\u2019t\u00a0know where I left them.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, that sucks. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to get really super into animals that\u00a0 people eat for lunch, like Chicken Mcnuggets.<\/b><\/p>\n

Dirt Nasty can get into animals pretty easily.\u00a0Have you heard some of his songs?<\/p>\n

Yeah. I like Andre Legacy. He rules. Dirt Nasty reminds me of this kid from junior high, so it kind of fucked me up. I can\u2019t stand him.<\/b><\/p>\n

Thank God I didn\u2019t go to junior high.<\/p>\n

Has anyone ever blown up at you there at work or burst into tears in front of you?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen tears, but I don\u2019t get involved with that. I don\u2019t have to tell you about grown men crying. It\u2019s a sad touchy subject.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s not raining or I\u2019m not in the shower, you are not going to ever see me cry.<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, all right. Is that your disguise?<\/p>\n

Well, it rains a lot up here, so it\u2019s kind of cool, and I definitely take the right amount of \u00a0 showers.<\/b><\/p>\n

Do you shed some tears in every shower?<\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m just saying that if it\u2019s raining that\u2019s the time to go ahead and burst into tears.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s some valuable information. I\u2019m going to take that along with me.<\/p>\n

If anyone sees you they may say, \u201cOh shit. It\u2019s raining.\u201d If they look at you too long, and they\u2019re like, \u201cAre you crying?\u201d You can slap their face because they got that close and asked you that way. You say, \u201cOf course it\u2019s raining, asshole!\u201d Then you slap them.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty funny.<\/p>\n

Okay. Do you have to pay the screen actors guild?<\/b><\/p>\n

I used to.<\/p>\n

Why did you quit paying it?<\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know what happened.<\/p>\n

Was it a good experience at all because you were on TV for a while, right?<\/b><\/p>\n

I guess it was a good experience. It\u2019s a lot harder than it looks, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

Once you get to that point, you kind of wonder if you really wanted to get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I quit. It\u2019s really weird. Everybody in that whole scene is fake.<\/p>\n

For losing hope in humanity, that\u2019s definitely a good route.<\/b><\/p>\n

Definitely. You can learn to be two-faced or three-faced or four-faced, and then you don\u2019t even have a face. No face.<\/p>\n

Ass face. I want to shave all my animals\u2019 asses. I\u2019m going to shave them and get faces tattooed on them and make them walk backwards.<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s kind of fucked up. That sounds like a big personal problem you have if you want to shave your turkeys and tattoo a face on them.<\/p>\n

Well, not the turkeys, just the chickens. I\u2019ve been battling partial retardation, so you have to go easy on me.<\/b><\/p>\n

Sometimes I wonder if I have full retardation. My dad just said that he knows that I do.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not supposed to tell you that until you\u2019re 30.<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s already over then because everyone already told me. Do you have a stand up skateboard, like a SUP or SUK?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s that?<\/b><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know about stand up paddleboards? Buttons has a model. He does stand up paddling on a skateboard. It\u2019s a new sport. Stand up skateboarding. Everybody is into it.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that how you always do it? I remember the last time I skated, I was standing up.<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019d rather stand up skateboard then lay down skateboard.<\/p>\n

Your clothing would get caught in the wheels. What a nightmare.<\/b><\/p>\n

Your hair would get dragged into your bearings and you\u2019d face plant into the wall.<\/p>\n

I do stand up eating and stuff like that, but\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s a pretty extreme sport, or so I\u2019ve heard. I haven\u2019t tried it yet.<\/p>\n

I had no idea it was a sport. It\u2019s just what I do. Do you ever lift weights?<\/b><\/p>\n

No. The only weight I lift is when I pick up my skateboard to drop in.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s great. Let\u2019s wrap this up. Tell your family I said goodbye. Hug each and every one of them and tell them I\u2019ll call them in fifteen minutes.<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. I can\u2019t do that. No. Jason says bye to everybody. They all said, \u201cLater, Jason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rad. Nice. Bye everybody.<\/b><\/p>\n

Bye.<\/p>\n

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