RM019Roadkills

28 days. So we just go a little bit deeper, a little bit deeper, a little bit deeper. Yeah, let's go back to that range, another 10 minute flight, 20 minute round trip, we got to pay for whatever. At the same time, most flights, unless we're going super deep, but like, on the daily, you know, when you're just paying for flights, he bought these chips and they were like $25 chips were for the plane. And they had this tiny fucking airplane with pontoons up there. Hit it, it was insane. It would when he landed on the face, like, you know, a steep ass face. And just punch it in on the way up here like skipping 100 feet by you know, when you're coming into land, you're looking directly at the mountain like you're just in he just would chat. This is chat flying, he would just fucking Yeah, jam it. Like it was nuts. It was fucking totally nuts. And then the person sitting shotgun, in the case I'm thinking of was me at that point, you jump out, like right when he can't go up any further. You're basically 10 feet from the saddle, where you get dropped by, you know with a heli. When he can't go any further you just jump out. And there's a little handle on the wing. Just grab that. Just hold on, everyone, everyone calls out, and it was smaller than a Volkswagen bus in there. On this particular day, the plane the plane just burst into flames while we're playing Slayer. And then tape player. It was made farmer inhale, I think and he just put it down the glacier wrenched for half an hour fired back up and and we continued Nothing seemed fucking gnarly about that. To me. It was just like, Yeah, we got to we got to get to the top of the mountain. You know, otherwise we're not gonna be able snowboard to the road, you know. But yeah, so I had so many weeks in a row was such good conditions. And so it was $20 chips and $40 tips for heli rides you know, all told, and probably five nights up at the lodge Thompson pass and maybe some you know, things here and there small things. But you know, the bulk of it was just heli skiing spent I think 13 $14,000 on the Lamar card that that year, I shot one day, and I did get a two page spread out of it. I mean, I could have been out there the whole time shooting not gotten that and so yeah, that basically paid for the trip and it was the best riding I was so not concerned with filming. I just wanted to ride I just wanted to ride the train I wanted to fucking it it was just so heavy to me it was so fucking next level that I you know, you don't be the eager teenager and just run out and just okay fucking you know, get this. Oh, you chill. smoke a joint. fucking have a beer with the locals. You fucking you learn to ride that terrain, because that terrain will fucking kill you if you if you don't. And yeah, Time Well Spent as far as I'm concerned. Hey, Welcome to Rad Matters. Hosted by me, Mike Ranquet. And yeah, you could say just gonna woke up. Pick another slumber. You know, it. My age is not hard to do. And you'll you'll know soon enough, but yeah, there's just some things to wrap up. I feel like not not even not new. I'm sure there's new info stuff. But in general, it's kind of like wrap this fucking up. And let's get on with the show as far as what I've intended to do with this thinking podcast, which is interviews and the like, you know, so yeah, we'll see how that works out. And that's what I want to do. I don't want to sit and piss and moan but it's it's Some things are worth piss and moan about. You know, if there's a hill, I'm gonna die on or that I've already died on. It'd be calling out the snowboard industry as a bunch of fucking pussies right now. Okay. All of you. Every one of you. Yeah, easy to say. From Hawaii, it really is easy to say like, I guess I've been using these words for like 51 years now. So, I mean, maybe not 51 At first start talking to so 49 Yeah, so it is easy to say, Yeah, you know, the same words I've always used and just kind of put him in a different kind of arrangement. And yeah, so we'll get right to it and right on Okay, let's do it. I'm just kind of cruising some porn forums is that what Pete's bringing back? Is like the form like the like written porn. Is that that? Wow. Wow, that's crazy. I didn't even I didn't even occur to me until I said or there was like, whoa. Pete's like, bringing back fucking written form. Kudal fashion fucking porn men. Good one. Good one men. Yes. Pete springing forum back forum. Yeah. So that like pass forums at hustler to long form for like Well, that's cool. I mean, just kind of invigorating all the writers. You know, there's a lot of fucking kind of foreign port foreign port or, you know, board porn writers out there. That, uh, that a need to be writing about porn. And I'm really, really proud of Pete man. He really saw around the around the curve on this one. Well, he's bringing he brought form back. That's so cool. That's why everyone's excited. Form porn for porn. Or Laura. Yay. I get it. Yay. P Yay. fuck in written porn. Good one. That's cool. Remember, when you do all my porn mags in Australia, and I could check off a whole rest of the trip. I was stoked. Right on. He made like dolphins of like things and just everything. Had a fish mouth. And it was and it was a raunchy magazine in he went to town on it. Not just like one little drawing here and let the whole fucking thing like it was. It was pretty. It was pretty goddamn funny. Yeah, dude. I kind of remember back then. That's probably when Internet porn was coming in. And yeah, you seemed a little little miffed. You know, like, you know some things that kind of gone around you lately, you know? But now you get a handle on it. fucking Peter line. Bring him back forum forum port for port or? I mean, yeah. Yeah. It's always good to just say porn. stoked to just read some foreign foreign porn foreign porn or yay. Yeah, get you dude. Like, when you take a crap in the morning you just read about some chick just getting hammered. You know you don't have to look look at it, but fucking you know that's sick. Because now you can't you can you know? Yeah, that's rad. Yeah, pee. Yay. I like pee because he likes passform porn, or is it past four? Or is it just form form porn porn porn or foreigner Kate? Who's edit? Form porn porn porn. Laura. That's cool. Is that what that eight minute like? Whoa, fucking Anaconda. P Dang. Dude, I didn't I didn't know for him pork or pork or pack in eight inches. Wow. Well, you know, you isn't like that but who doesn't like fucking form? Right? Yeah. Foreign porn foreign porn. Or that's when you get your chick into porn. You know? He can be like oh, yeah, no. Oh, no, she's zzgot like a blouse just like yours. Look match. Yeah, it's taking it off. Yeah. But yeah, that's cool. I mean, it was a lot of fucking Yeah. Yeah, yep he good yay P did um, fucking is Jeremy like a foreign porn porn porn porn writer too? Are they all porn writers? Was it just you? That row all the forms? Form porn porn porn or? fuck? That's amazing dude, I didn't I mean you must. Yeah, no wonder you look busy back in the day I get it. Yeah, you're always kind of like you know if there's a contest you're like, you know you didn't get first flat out in the morning you typically flew out that night even now I know why. fucking Yeah, the right porn. Okay, okay, cool. I'm glad I cleared that up before fucking put my foot my mouth. Yeah, and there's a lot of uh, that's cool. I'm just glad. I'm glad that everyone's into Pete writing form porn porn porn or form you know, porn form. That's cool. I like that. And could you send me like foreign porn porn porn or like a sign little you know, thing I put my wall Yeah, aap Good job bringing back to ass forum foreign port foreign port Laura. Yay. Yay. Hey, do you write the girl and girl wants to know okay, what's going on Thanksgiving? 2022 And I think we're gonna it was 30 years ago Thanksgiving, that we were in Utah. Filming for roadkill. Dave Gooch myself, John. I think we got a Thanksgiving dinner at Denny's in Ogden and made our way to Colorado that night. There we were just sitting in this ridiculous fucking Cadillac, you know, getting kinda like filmed all the time. You know, like, yeah, of course not. Not everything. Not everything made it in the movie. Right? But, you know, so they're just trying to, I mean, they was inventing this format in that sense. I mean, he was like, he saw something he had to kind of try to capture everything. And yeah, he had to be pretty fucking organized on that. I mean, I know I wasn't. I know Terry was in. I remember. Okay, this is like, we're just gonna skip all over for a second. But I remember pulling up in that big stupid fucking limo in Glacier. And, you know, we pull into glacier and I'm stoked. I'm home. I'm like, fuck yeah, let's go to Craig's you know, and and so we pull up and let's see Craig wasn't home yet. Maybe. So we just sat in the car. And maybe Kelly Joe came out with in bearing with us, but we just fucking smoke the biggest joint Gooch was set at fucking burner. And yeah, we just got and Terry wasn't much of a burner. I mean, he was like 12 years old or something at that point. I was just like fucking smokey little fucking pussy. Now. We're all gonna head but you know, so we just got Terry super fucking bag. Did I really think about it either. But then Craig rolls up and just looks at gute just keep counting. I think it was the first time he was meeting Gooch. Yeah, it was I remember introducing him those two. So like, You okay, Alicia? guj. He got it looked at me. Definitely got it like yeah, okay. But kind of like Ben looks at Terry and look back at me like, Dude, don't don't do that to him. Like he was bombed on me. He could only be bombed on me he just met Gooch. He couldn't be like, you know, you shouldn't be doing that. He wouldn't even think that like he just looked at me like Mike Come on. Terry and could barely open his fucking eyes. It was so goddamn funny. I yet to feel bad about that. Really, for any motion about that, uh, know that there's some funny shit going on. But yeah, so it was what I mean that I couldn't say 30 years ago today. I don't know what uh, what day Thanksgiving fell on back then. Yeah, who knows? 30 years ago within a week or two? And yeah, it was it was cool. I've every day A Blake, you know, the one we just come out whatever it was writers on the storm are critical. I don't know which one. And then Dave was like, he started filming a little bit on that, that trip that film in was immediately like, let's do a film. I've got this idea and I just I was, you know, okay, you know, let's, let's go it seemed odd to me at the time to go to Colorado and film kind of groomers. I didn't quite get it but at the same time, I didn't know that I was sitting on the fucking like bombshell trick for the, for the big video of, of which I had been doing for years at that point and never filmed in buttering we never never been on film was never even thought of. But what what it did it like if you thought you could snowboard, if you snowboard, if you skated, and over served a little bit and we're thinking about snowball anything. You would see the butters. And basically, like, naturally, you'd be like, oh, yeah, I'll do that the first day. It's a totally natural thing, but like it's it was so adaptable anywhere in the world. Like, you know, the next trips to Japan after roadshow came out. And again, I'm just fucking gonna wing it just throw it all over and play some audio ship from it and but the next trip I went on to Japan, it was it was just not too as like fucking Beatlemania type ships, like, and, but it was more. They were really, really stoked on me or something, everyone but like, I was definitely the misfit. But like, just all the buttering they could do it. You know, it's like, all of a sudden they see video and they see all these tricks cool tricks in this video. And they go do it. He was like, Whoa, yo, could do it for shit. fucking idiots. And I'm just kidding. You know, again, I mean that that's that's what that movie did. That's why it opened the floodgates of what I call you know, the kind of West Coast skaters snowboarder guy NorCal fucking card carrying in some cases. But yeah, suddenly, there was a trick style that really really emulated skating. I mean, it really did. And there was really like a you know, groundswell of say that style writing of which I fucking did. That's all I did. But at the same time, it wasn't getting much it was more about the grand boys. You kind of grabbed the tip of your board arch your back and it just is looks gay. And it mean that it looks gay? But I it's like I lost it right there with the fuck mic talking about row two. What the fuck am I talking about roadkill you pull up what was I say? Yeah, Sione was funny. Innovative? No no, that was funny shit. Let's go back to use out of that Thanksgiving. You know? I don't think we started filming the butters but it was more Colorado when we drove to Colorado that night on Thanksgiving. And that's when we started filming. That was first time we filmed the butter and then yeah, that was like we do before that the kind of boring skerries right now it was such a trip though going around the world and just seeing like fuck there is just you know, a fucking patch of snow somewhere. People get a little speed up and do little buttering and of course it just got beaten to fucking death you know? Of course there was like, you know, just bad bad versions of it everywhere. At the same time, I felt like I saw way more in it I see more like just springing off shit you know just say just getting that pressed. It's that backs it you know, just popping into that backside 180 We call it switching those many would have whatever Vexilar won't win at your fucking nose. And just you know you're riding backwards. Can you just snap off and get like either little half cab or cab five. But that's just it's like realizing that just playing with that going, huh? Oh even really? fucking sneaky I'd maybe say call Roach that night like oh do check it out no. Yeah no you can fucking do to dude because him and Noah were trying to basically trying to learn it because they thought it was super cool could do it on the side for you know a season or two before that and they'd always see me do that so yeah when so we Colorado and that's kind of like once we filmed one of those it was just like on weird filming a lot of that shit and again it the train and everything lent itself to buttering and then I believe we did they go? I think they went back to Tahoe and I went up to Baker to Dave and crew are in Tahoe. I flew to Baker from Colorado. It's like fucking scoundrels. fuck you guys. And so I get up. Let's see. I'm Ryan Baker. Craig fucking stoked. stoked to be home. I was like 21 You know, fucking getting wasted at shadow shooting guns fucking glacier peak, Glacier peak, Ranquet Peak glacier. So, yeah, it was like fucking a big kick, you know, big go back and Baker was opening. Let's see, just trying to remember those days everywhere. I knew Craig for a couple days. And then when everybody showed up, it was like I'd meet him maybe in Bellingham then drive up with him in the car, you know, like, yeah, to hear, I'll just jump in with you guys or whatever. We get up there. And you know, those guys are they're stoked to meet Craig Of course, you know, it wasn't like, oh, foot Craig, whatever. You know, it was like, they're all like, fuck, yeah. And so the next day, yeah, it was sunny. And Baker, at least for me and the people I rode with back then. It was like, it was sunny. That was your day off. You took a day off because a sunny days it doesn't re you don't read it doesn't read up, you know. So you can only do it once. You know, I don't know. It's just kind of funny. So the next day was Sunday, and I was like, I was like, I'm gonna kick it. I've been kind of trapped. I've been writing basically, fucking powder with Craig and like, you know, my legs were all fat that time of year. And like, Dave was bummed on that, that I sat out that day. And they those guys, all the footage from Baker, there's that one shot of me riding Baker there's probably a little shot of me the fucking parking lot some making out some fucking Hardy probably. Now. There wasn't one shot. I mean, I was I was riding with Craig that whole week. Okay, because I was, uh, you know, is at that point when we really started to split up and not be on the same trips and not be doing so like, I think we always appreciated you know, oh, we got a week ride with each other sick, you know, at home. So yeah, that was that was a fucking funny trip. And, and there's some other ones would that pick your part? Let's see. Yeah, see? Okay. So he was pissed. He got up there. Because I was riding with Craig. He probably wanted to get I know it was RPM that I had some good baker shots that Dave and I went out and got some good baker shots. That was the thing is like, a lot of stuff I wrote. It's in the shade and in the dark. And I kind of like, I don't know, kept something sacred, something cool to myself, but only for a couple months. Because we filmed it the next year. I mean, I don't really mean that shit. fuck. So, let's see Dave was up there. Yeah, it was fucking bustling times up there. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Go back. Oh, yeah, cardi L. And my friend. I was up there, James. I've heard James Klinedinst fucking he was so good and funny. We took some acid one night, I mean, a couple of things. But this one night Cardiel and I just I mean, we were fry involved and like, there is like this huge TV. I think it was St. James's house or something. But he had this huge like, old school was a tube TV or whatever. And I was just like, just fucked up couldn't even like you know, fuel my tongue. And there's a giant sledgehammer or just something like that. Just kind of like hanging up over there. And I just went and grabbed it and I just went who just gave me a nice little swing, just like a little young chip shot. And boom, that thing just fucking exploded me and John's face of his fucking so was sick where you're just like, Oh my God. And then then that's kind of like when I met James that night. I know we're partying with bass. We were shooting guns inside his house like in Glacier springs, like it was one up there on the right, whoever you want to take a wall out for some reason. I was cool with that. Yeah, no, that was pretty, some pretty wild, wild times. And so roadkill you know, it was fun to like, be at home and filming even though I wasn't filming. And so this one day, this one that Dave in it, like they were packed up there, like, you know, it was starting to dump again at Baker's start to get gnarly. And like, where I was like, in my head, I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. You know, and so Dave was like, I think, Hey, Mike, you know, if you're coming with us, we're gonna finish this fucking movie. I know, he's pissed that we didn't get shots at Baker of me and like, his like, basically your, you know, you're coming with me. And I was like, okay, but I'm writing today. I was like, fucking, it's sick. And so he, John and I think you just everybody often just take that morning off. It was like probably big, wet heavy morning, and just kick it for a minute. Probably go to the snowboard shop or whatever. And so I get off, and I rode to like 330 I was like, No, I'll just go take couple fucking runs. Are we done by 11? fucking whatever. Yeah. Okay, cool. And, uh, probably roll into the Mount Baker snowboard shopping like you know 313 fi just talk shit with dowless for fucking there now or just like, making you fucking idiot. You know, and then finally looked over it Dave and Dave was just like looking looking at me like, Are you fucking kidding? The we wait, we're waiting all day. Like basically, I could have been in Tahoe by now. Certainly. Way past Portland. And he just taken off this morning like he wanted to. And in that moment Yeah, I felt I felt a little bad. Just in that moment, but not as bad as he felt in the next moment when I told him that Yeah, that sucks. You've waited for me because I'm actually just gonna stay here and ride for the next week. It's like too good fucking sorry. And it was like he did I mean I don't think he's ever let me off the hook for that there's there's a little fucking there's a little burn inside cod I think anytime you here's my Ranquet Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. That and I fucking kicked his ass backgammon game at his house. In in Tahoe. He I mean, it was like four out of seven games or something like that. It was like yeah, one game and two out of three and three out of four or whatever it goes. And he was always pissed about that what I was rubbed that into, but uh yeah, I don't think I've ever lived down this just is at the end of the day again just making them way all day that fucking sweaty, dumb ass car. You know it's got probably had chains on it and shit. And I just I roll in with the fucking crag and you know in his fucking heated whatever he was driving at the time and yeah, to the snow. We're chopping the whole way down Craig and I were discussing it and you know, we both got the implications like fucking how it COD's first but you know you want to fucking show face and at the same time as fucking Baker and we want to ride and that was really funny to me to see when he was so fucking it was a blow out just like steam coming out as fucking nose and ears. Just fuck you Ranquet You know, so I saw them off sciatica wave goodbye to the though they'll film crew they met up with them a week later in Big Bear so they went back to Tahoe like limped that big piece of shit back down to Tahoe. Meanwhile, I'm just fucking doing laps with the Holy One. And like just killing it just having so much fun. And let's see. I think they may be filmed a little in Tahoe. I think that may or may have been where I got. I got them. Dave Yeah, Dave hooked up with Jamie and all them. Yeah, they went to Tahoe. There's a couple of little weird little Tahoe shoots that I was in at. There were Millia Dave only had certain dudes in it. He didn't want he didn't want Damian he didn't want the and Damian knew that Damien was cool. Like Damien got everything at the time. And he understood like, like, you know, I'm the one that like literally got him To ride soft boots finally in soften normal bindings, and but like he kind of knew it was it was too late in that sense like his his image was burned in you know it was it was a cool I liked Damian I used to hang out with him quite a bit like yeah jack to his wife all the time she was fucking out she just slipped the little views nipple shots, he was like really? fuck, I gotta go to the bathroom. You got any lotion? Or just any cooking oil? No, it was yeah, that was some fun shit. But yeah, so this roadkill trip, we go down to Big Bear and I think I flew down there and I was hanging out with vert and probably Yeah, just hold the marker. Trying to think of the Mountain High maybe. Yeah. Okay, yeah, do you remember that trip we went down? I was there for New Year's Eve to hang out with I think Billy Ruff, trying to think who was writing for I was writing for Lamar at that. No. Anyways, did some coke with Billy Ruff on New Year's Eve one of those fucking years in there and then I think that's when we had Bert and I drove up to Big Bear and basically he dropped me off to just filmed with cod and the boys for a week and that was a super fun session. I really liked that shit. It was like that just that little it was the first time we ever really rode stuff that was meant to be written it was it was built to be written like that, like whoa, they built jumps like that's crazy. Or like really the first time you would hit something you'd be missing two or three other little jumps so you're not getting everything like it was a trip there's so many options it was like being in space or something but really fun step up jumps everywhere like seafood like step up into butter things or just a lot of for me being goofy footer a lot of just toe side backside spin like 540s Like you know, just the way the angles of everything on that trip was set up. Set up good for me. It's Friday perilla on then them I mean, what might have been the first iteration of of that park Mahaffey was there I mean, he was still in diapers that's crazy. Now there and so yeah, there's like there's a lot of new different writing going on of which was captured by say, little sections of some films, the foul line films like you know, a freestyle moment with bla bla bla then it was back to fucking this you know, Warren Miller ish type shots, you know, then whereas like Mack dog was it was just that that at that point probably just high a you know, it was so the quality wasn't there. I would just say that you know, definitely had that foul line sheen to it at the time. And but Dave did something different it was the same year release so we filmed it all and it came out weeks later and he would have a lot of shit to go through I remember just thinking kind of like I didn't know what we film that would make it in the film that was it just kind of like doing all these little tricks stuff. But those were the seeds that that that just infected so many people and the reason people remember that with such like you know such good memories is because to a certain extent they could all go do almost every trick in the movie. At least try him or you know, they could probably do them to you know, it probably looked like shit doing it but you know, but that was that was an appeal like even the the mack dog movies at that time and going forward just got really technical kind of like stupid technical it was just such a perfect mix that they the those movies they've made I think they're really important and in kind of like getting that again that West Coast skater guy demographic that's about my age and still rides today and you know, the backbone of the fucking industry you know, like they're looking at this film with like, you know, Terry Eva came and say that fuckers name and you know good for that because you know fuck kill him off in time anyways. Okay couple minor in her shins but uh yeah, roadkill it was it it kicked off a lot of a lot of things spawned a lot of things it was. It was the, like the catalyst you know of just a bum rush on snowboarding I have a lot of people that were on the fence a friends of mine that skated and people I knew basically, you know, the next year like Scott smile, he was living up a baker with me or you know what I mean? My skater friends were actually like, they were snowboarding they saw it now they're like, oh, that sick or, and it wasn't just the tricks. It was like, they're starting to understand that you know, there's a nother like mountain aspect to it. It's not just this and and roadkill didn't show that at all. But RPM did I had a I had some good shots from up in Canada. I was heli skiing up there, like with Glen plake? You know, yeah, sometimes you go on trips. Like say I was up there with Glenn. And we were shooting I forgot. Forgot who's shooting. But yeah, just my footage went to rpm and Glenn's went to whatever ridiculous stupid movie he was doing at the time. And you know, like, there's a lot of okay, there's shots of me in the sessions video. I don't know is from Canada. Blah, blah, blah. But they're cool shots Bill gallon that's who shot the other show whatever. He shot the shots to from the heli all the stuff. But it was it was I saw was it smooth through reception. All of Craig shots. No. Hawk. In fact, I think all Craig shots went into Terry's film and all my shots went into the sessions movie, so I mean, I think I had never actually seen that movie, like, whatever we wanted. It was it was one of the Hockin movies that Dave did. And they're both they're all of them were great. Was for that way. But he has this moment where Terry, you know, like, I don't think I ever watched that movie back then. Or, like, I kind of just didn't watch most of the movies and maybe catch a corner of it, you know, my sections for sure. At the premiere. But, you know, there wasn't like say we were in the in the editing bay. That was a it was a manual app at that point name named Dave. So but yeah, no real kills rad. You know, like I got, I got Cardiel on, on Lamar on that trip. And then after we were done filming that we went to Japan, probably for like, two trips within, you know, four weeks of each other or something. We're just hanging out in writing, like he was up at Baker lot. He was, you know, weif he noticed his shots, he's always got like the Oh, our gloves. You know, from Seattle, we used I would say pick them up at the airport. And, you know, go by my house, probably pick up some boards at Bert center for us. And then the next step would be like hitting the O R. Dude. And it was a pretty small operation at the time that I don't even think they had retail store. I mean, they were sold in some stores. But that was the first year they had like the pre modulated fucking the pre curve in cards is still stoked on that, like, the last time I saw him like, say, a Simon Hawaii a year and a half ago, two years ago. And he was like, Mike, you know, you still got the precursors, like, and he put his hand up like that. Because I would just be like John, he says the stick is oh RS fucking GoreTex pre curve, you know? And it was just funny shit. So, yeah, I'm just flooded with all sorts of fucking bullshit memories before I bury him again for another 30 years. Right. But, you know, the next part like Big Bear, that was a really fun trip, say a couple of different levels. I did go Yeah, Billy rough cocaine thing. That was what I was writing for GNS probably the year before two years before, but that did happen. And I think Steve Kathy was there to Hester would have he would have been overseeing he would have been the liaison between the cartels and us you know, so we had HESTA that's cool. No, does that wasn't wild like that fucking those guys took care good care of me. I was Kid, but then a New Years of Now I had so much fun then. But okay, so getting back to roadkill Big Bear so yeah, I think Palmer showed up to two film there. And at the same time it was like guys like you though. Yeah, there are all sorts of snippets of different writers I remember Mahaffey for sure. And there a couple other was still a couple other dudes, I can't remember exactly who but like, you know, so all these kids, and I would have been like, you know, the biggest of these kids. What do you call it just writing and just doing it? Not different style tricks, but it was starting to really take hold. And, you know, Palmer was he was kind of tripping, like, on their own. He would like, like, we were riding together and he'd be like, damn, Ranquet fucking, and secure fucking Rabbah Yeah, he's he wasn't really it was it was just kind of it was a trip it was I felt like a total changing in the guards. Like, in that moment, you know what I mean? Like. That's the last time I saw her. Pretty much, probably. I'd love to see I did. But you know, it wasn't a bad moment or nothing like that. It was just him just kind of looking around. And realizing like, you know, this is a different kind of scene. And like, I remember the next day, he put a bunch of Ranquet stickers on his board, you know, and everybody hated Lamar. So for any, like Palmer or Craig to put a Ranquet sticker on their boards, I was always stoked on that. You know, it was like, they put fucking they liked me so much. So put verla Mars name on their board too. So yeah, so that was that was a trip though. Another another first on that one. A rented a car la X, you know, some advantage rental, you know, where he just had to be 18 and, you know, have a fucking have given blood and last year or something like that, you know? But anyways, I remember the dude. I remember Burt going get it insured, make sure you get full insurance. And so I was like, Yeah, I need full insurance. And he's like, Oh, yeah. Okay, and then you send me for that. He's like, Oh, that just means. I mean, you could just you wouldn't even have to bring the car back. This thing could just come back on a fucking tow truck. Like this thing's insured to the teeth to and I'm just sitting there listening to this guy gone. Really? Really? Really? Really? Okay, so I can you know, cut to you know, two days later a big bear somewhere. And I can never remember if we're filmed at Snow summit or big bear that those two. Yeah, whatever. You know what I mean? If you've been there, they're the same. But um, yeah, I just slammed it into some fucking some ice wall and a big bear total that fucking hard and had to have it towed away. And, like, it was so sick, though. And you know, completely completely spun that was a spin in this thing out with that in mind, like, Dude, I can do anything with this card. Just kind of like having that realization like, Dude, I can just go rent a car lax and just fucking hammer it and like, take a bag and just, you know, so that was the first of many of those over the years. Yeah, some days if I was say, only in Seattle, just for like four days or five days. I just rent a car in Seattle. You know, for those four days, I would even get a ride home and then drive my car you'd arrive back there. I just get a car rental car like, like I was just staying there for five days, which I was and just rally the fuck out of that rental car to like, because you know, like it was I knew all the roads where I could jump them and shit like that. Cars. Having fun in cars that huge. Huge in my life. I love that shit. Ah, but roadkill that cars and then huge fat that car that's so rad. But now that was the first time really hanging out with Gooch was on that trip, but not really. That was definitely I remember. I had heard of him before that trip. And so it was interesting. He was sponsored by Burton at that point like Burton had picked him up and they wanted him on the strip and say, his you know, he wasn't really known yet at that point. So whoever like advise Dave to put him you know, make sure he gets some time in front of camera. That was that was a good call because yeah, he was a Yeah, a perfect fucking vehicle to for this this new solution no no it wasn't was it was a total changing of the guards and it was it was in yeah just having Sione there filming it just made just made it feel like it wasn't some harsh like fuck you know this is a new shit it was cool like it was all like everyone's part of it and let's see so big bear I think that's last I film price stayed down there big bear for a couple of weeks for went back home and yeah at that point had had already written Alaska in our email so yeah it's funny is I think it was fun to just kind of do that filming in the fall this two or three years in a row. Because it was relaxing. I t wasn't like fucking you know the last time I would have had snowboard it would have been in Alaska and New Zealand. And fucking distress buckets, you know? But yeah, roadkill was a trip the music was fucking it was so fucking spot on. And yeah, that's that was the first year I released my Heineken graphic with the pool table on top, which, like, changed the whole face of snowboard graphics forever. I mean, sure, somebody would have stumbled into something stupid at some point. But I was able to just ride this fine line of like doing a skate style graphic that would still look good on a big ass snowboard and people would actually buy it, you know, because you know skate skateboards are 50 bucks or whatever, you know, feel you know, so you're not that vested but snowboard you know it and you know up to that point the snowboard graphics were just like you know, ski graphics they were just like a little fucking a number just like they are now basically exactly how they are now and someone something had to turn it upside down and and yeah, that's That's why Bert got me. You know, he's like, you know, we knew each other good enough. He knew I had good ideas. He knew I was tuned into skating and knew that yeah, I come up with something good and and that yeah, that was killer. So the film just represented like a lot you know, and again, the I think the marquee Bill was Cardiel just him snowboarding it just legitimized the entire in the entirety of the sport just boom boom. And then you know, I remember there's a shot of him on that ramp in Colorado where he's doing the front side dolly and he's got like fucking to the Ranquet Heineken shirt on I was so stoked that was in the film was like rad and Cardiel was like got my shirt on sick Yeah, do that was some fun shit. Well, I guess that's a that's a good run right? Talk some shit on Roadkill. And we'll see what the responses are like and maybe do a kind of a rpm. Yeah, this could prompt me to do the, my the DVD voiceovers you know, I never come out of character to I'm done with a DVD voiceovers now want to do that, like just pop on Roadkill, or pop on rpm and, and just kind of talk story as it's playing. And you know, just the different part. But I kind of did that today. I didn't really go through the whole I didn't watch the movie today. I got watch a second of it. And I was like, fuck, I ripped now. I totally see why people are stoked on me. No, so All right. Motherfuckers huge cheers to you for fucking being alive. Jaime. tarea everyone in that film Kurt el fucking behalfs has anyone from roadkill? Is there any dead fucking roadkill dudes? Is this a inappropriate question? Okay, we need a road show. rollcall roadshow road called just checking on the dead. Check in on the debt. Oh, yeah. teria I knew somebody Terry is dead. I mean, you know he you know what I mean? With exception Terry a fucking no known for that moves died. So that's a good one. So if you're in that movie, you're stuck because you're still alive. So, you know, maybe next time we watch it just to be like kind of stoked. All those people are still there. But yeah, it was 30 years ago. This week we begin filming it like basically tomorrow. 30 years ago ish. would have been like, the first days in BRAC filming and brackin fucking getting some butters on film. Which is funny. No, but uh but I get it shit that people can do that's what they want to see it connects them to the sport connects everybody you know they're not just like, like under reverse fucking bluff flip and that it's like that that all that talk just fucking just as blown out the window nobody fucking cares about that shit we need to come out with a I mean I've always thought a roadkill fucking 3.0 right now like, basically next year you'll film I mean again we're basically we're all still live I mean except for fucking hocking fucking dead fucking fuck that guy yeah I've alwa ys thought that I've worked in I think I put in the suggestion box Dave suggestion box at some point probably got to just yeah I don't know whatever okay fucking road kill was funny okay When you start to hear that that's pretty much signifying the end of Rad Matters is brought to you by Telos Snowboards pretty much the best fucking boards in the world which is and my unwavering wit . I’m funny as hell. I hate myself and I want to die trying to make the world a better place for I don't know for someone at some point but definitely not the crew that snowboarding right now I tried to make the world a better place and they fucking blew it