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MALE SPEAKER: Whoo!
MALE SPEAKER: You gonna go to a strip club in Portland?
ALEX OLSON: No.
MALE SPEAKER: Why not?
ALEX OLSON: You can't ask me that question.
I have a girlfriend.
MALE SPEAKER: John, you hyped to go to Portland?
JOHN ALDEN: Yeah, I'm hyped.
It's gonna be fun.
MALE SPEAKER: What's good about it?
JOHN ALDEN: Well, you already went and
got ones at the store.
MALE SPEAKER: I made that up.
JOHN ALDEN: You know what's good.
MALE SPEAKER: I made that up, but what's the best place?
JOHN ALDEN: I'm planning Union Jack's right by our fucking
hotel, it's the shit.
MALE SPEAKER: What about--
JOHN ALDEN: Mary's Club's good, too.
MALE SPEAKER: It's on your shirt.
JOHN ALDEN: Been repping the shirt the whole trip.
MALE SPEAKER: You gonna go to a strip club in Portland?
ANDREW ALLEN: Fuck, man.
MALE SPEAKER: Greased lightning.
ANDREW ALLEN: Yeah.
I'll be there.
For a second.
I actually won $40 today playing dice, so.
Yeah.
MIKE CARROLL: Yes.
I just don't know if tonight's the night.
MALE SPEAKER: Why not tonight?
MIKE CARROLL: Tonight?
Tomorrow's the demo.
MALE SPEAKER: Glad you could make it, man.
MALE SPEAKER: Thanks.
MALE SPEAKER: So hyped.
So hyped.
MALE SPEAKER: You stoked for the first demo?
MIKE CARROLL: Yeah.
I just don't know where my board's at.
MALE SPEAKER: You excited to join the tour?
ERIC KOSTON: Yeah, totally.
I wanted to take a cab right into a campground.
Unfortunately it didn't work out that way.
MALE SPEAKER: Dude, you can smell the sawdust.
MALE SPEAKER: I can smell it.
FRANK GERWER: Am I supposed to even be on this course?
Holy shit.
FRANK GERWER: This is his fist demo.
ROBBIE RUSSO: Yeah.
MALE SPEAKER: First demo?
FRANK GERWER: Feel the heart.
Boom, boom, boom.
MALE SPEAKER: You never skated a demo?
ROBBIE RUSSO: No, I just don't know what to do.
FRANK GERWER: Just do what you usually do when all these
people aren't around.
For me, that would be nothing.
ROBBIE RUSSO: That would be nothing.
FRANK GERWER: Are you nervous?
ROBBIE RUSSO: Naw, not that much.
I just don't know where to skate.
Where am I gonna skate?
Fucking big ass rail.
JOHN ALDEN: Oh, this is Robbie's first demo, huh?
Wow, I didn't even think about that.
I'm gonna have to have a little heart to
heart with the kid.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah.
JOHN ALDEN: Make sure he's on track, make sure
he's not too nervous.
Try to suss out some weird spots for him to get weird on.
Not seeing too much Robbie obstacles here, but--
MALE SPEAKER: 10-foot corners.
JOHN ALDEN: Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, they've got concrete on the ground, but
not so much on the trannies.
MALE SPEAKER: Did you win anything?
ROBBIE RUSSO: I did a split on a ledge for once.
MALE SPEAKER: Hey, kid.
Are you the little guy?
MALE SPEAKER: Are you the little guy?
What's your name?
ROBBIE RUSSO: Robert.
MALE SPEAKER: What's up, Robert?
MALE SPEAKER: Robert!
Can I have your autograph?
MALE SPEAKER: Can I have a signature?
ROBBIE RUSSO: For what?
MALE SPEAKER: Can I have a signature?
ROBBIE RUSSO: Can I use your pen after you're done?
RICK HOWARD: I saw him signing his first
autographs ever, too.
MAX SCHAAF: Was it?
Did you catch it?
RICK HOWARD: This is his first demo ever.
MALE SPEAKER: That's insane.
RICK HOWARD: He was on the demo.
MAX SCHAAF: He signed the wrong name.
RICK HOWARD: I didn't know what to do.
I was like, do what you usually do.
JULIEN STRANGER: And he didn't know that there was a ball
back there, either.
MALE SPEAKER: Tony, your demo's in the other room.
TONY MIORANA: Oh, is it?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, why aren't you skating?
TONY MIORANA: Because there's Body right there, and there's
like, [INAUDIBLE]
right there.
It's going off in here.
This is where some fun stuff's gonna happen right now.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah!
[CHEERING]
MALE SPEAKER: Right here, right here.
MALE SPEAKER: Who's your favorite skater out there?
ROBBIE RUSSO: Mike [INAUDIBLE].
MALE SPEAKER: Mike.
MALE SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE] not here.
That's here.
MALE SPEAKER: I know, well--
MALE SPEAKER: Alex Olson's here.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, Alex Olson, definitely.
MALE SPEAKER: Alex Olson.
MALE SPEAKER: Alex Olson.
Hey,
RICK HOWARD: Alex is chilling.
MAX SCHAAF: No, he's skating.
RICK HOWARD: He's ripping.
MAX SCHAAF: He'll throw out little like--
RICK HOWARD: Little teasers.
MAX SCHAAF: Teasers.
[INAUDIBLE].
[CHEERING]
MALE SPEAKER: Which skater do you like here?
MALE SPEAKER: Sean Malto and Eric Koston.
MALE SPEAKER: Sean Malto's the shit, yeah!
MALE SPEAKER: What happened?
SEAN MALTO: I had to hard flip the stairs.
Dude, it sucked, too.
The park was getting so fun.
[CHEERING]
MALE SPEAKER: Frank, how come there's no
chicks in the VIP room?
FRANK GERWER: Was I in the VIP room?
MALE SPEAKER: This is the VIP room right now.
FRANK GERWER: Oh, that's why there's no chicks.
MALE SPEAKER: Power to the stick.
Over there?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, because it--
JOHN CARDIEL: All right, let me see what graphics--
let me see whose boards are what.
Who's doing what?
MALE SPEAKER: Black label.
JOHN CARDIEL: I'm going to have to go
with the label board.
Sorry, bro.
MALE SPEAKER: Hey, can I have that one?
JOHN CARDIEL: No disrespect, but that's the way
it goes, all right?
That's the way we roll.
MALE SPEAKER: What are you doing, John?
JOHN CARDIEL: Giving away boards to the
most thrashed boards.
MALE SPEAKER: What are those, your old boards?
JOHN CARDIEL: No.
MALE SPEAKER: These boards from the van?
JOHN CARDIEL: Everybody else's boards.
MALE SPEAKER: How's it going?
ALEX OLSON: Tired.
It's kinda crowded.
I don't know.
Everyone's skating the [INAUDIBLE].
Not so nice.
I'm not good at the [INAUDIBLE].
I like watching Andrew.
He's fun to watch.
MALE SPEAKER: Who's your favorite skater
out of the guys here?
MALE SPEAKER: Eric Koston!
MALE SPEAKER: Koston.
MALE SPEAKER: Eric Koston.
MALE SPEAKER: Portland!
ERIC KOSTON: Dude.
It's just too much.
This is just too much.
All the cameras.
Human hallway.
MALE SPEAKER: I'm filming Preston.
ERIC KOSTON: I'm claustrophobic.
This is phenomenal.
It's for the kids, so I'm gonna keep them here a little
longer so they buy more shit.
Basically, the longer they're here, the more money they
spend, right?
MALE SPEAKERS: Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
Koston!
MALE SPEAKER: All right, what's he doing wrong?
MALE SPEAKER: He's going on the wrong side.
The whole feng shui of this trick, and you're going this
way on the right side of the rail.
It's a lot, just mentally makes it work.
Eric Koston likes to challenge himself.
Do it on this side, he'll do it.
MALE SPEAKER: Koston!
MALE SPEAKER: He said this kid gave him like, the gnarliest
motivational speech.
Hey, what did you tell him?
MALE SPEAKER: Huh?
MALE SPEAKER: What did you tell him to try to
get him to do it?
MALE SPEAKER: I said if he doesn't get it, Sean's gonna
get his wife, his dog, and his house.
And his [INAUDIBLE].
MALE SPEAKER: And then when Sean landed
the trick, he said--
MALE SPEAKER: Oh, I said do it right now, or you're a bitch.
MALE SPEAKER: What did you tell him?
ROBBIE RUSSO: Do it for cribs.
[CHEERING]
MALE SPEAKER: There's an American Apparel store on
like, 12th and Burnside.
MALE SPEAKER: I think I went there today.
MALE SPEAKER: You can just get geared.
MALE SPEAKER: And I think I just got it today.
MALE SPEAKER: Sick.
MALE SPEAKER: From the same place you got it.
MALE SPEAKER: You guys were just kicking it, huh?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, I got this sick ass [INAUDIBLE] jacket.
MALE SPEAKER: Dude, I live downtown, man.
I know where all the fucking sickest spots are.
MALE SPEAKER: What's that shirt about?
MALE SPEAKER: Oakland.
MALE SPEAKER: Dwight, look at that.
You see the back?
MALE SPEAKER: Oakland.
MALE SPEAKER: The lines?
MALE SPEAKER: Let's see what I got.
MALE SPEAKER: Cardiel got this one.
Pete got this one.
MALE SPEAKER: It's only the dudes that are fucking in the
master's division.
30 and up.
ERIC KOSTON: This was made by my friend Lorenzo.
And it's a grown ass man fan t-shirt.
I mean, everybody rips, but I think everybody has to be over
30-years-old to be on this thing that and just fucking
ripped, so.