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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#219 - Chris Chann

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Society & Culture

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chann discusses growing up in Echo Pack CA, starting skating at 5 years old, how he got into making YouTube videos, going to college for kinesiology, getting his first check from YouTube, beating Chris Cole in Battle At The Berrics, feeling the stigma of being a “YouTube skater”, how he got sponsored by Adidas and eventually started getting paid, his channel getting demonetized, how he met Danny Duncan, filming skits with Jimmy Fallon and Casey Neistat, how he navigates brand deals, spending a year trying to land switch backside 360 flip on flat and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. Well, we are back. We're back at the 9 Club everybody today. We have

0:35.0

a very special, special guest, Mr. Chris Chan is with us. How are you? I'm great. Thank

0:44.7

you. Thank you. This is awesome. No, thank you, bro. We've talked about this for a while,

0:49.1

and we finally made it happen. Two, three years ago. I came in. Oh, yeah, that's right.

0:53.3

It was a... I think we're doing an experience episode, and I saw you at AirOne, and you're

0:57.7

like, yeah, come check it out. Yeah, you walked in left. There's too many cameras. I only

1:03.7

use one. How's everything going? You good? Yeah, man. Yeah, everything's good. You're

1:09.4

moving around. I can't keep track of you anymore, because we would skate down at the beach

1:13.2

and see you down there and stuff like that. We've known each other for a long time now,

1:17.7

but what, you were in Santa Monica, Costa Mesa, Glendale. What's going on? You can't

1:23.1

sit on the road. You can't sit on the street. It's like I'm trying to figure out what is

1:27.5

the best place to live on my taste testing different areas, you know? Because I'm going

1:31.9

to settle on somewhere and know maybe. But yeah, I don't know. I just taste testing. I miss

1:39.0

our sessions at the curbs. It's so fun. I know. So fun. What, where do you live now?

1:44.6

I'm in Glendale now. Glendale. Yeah. What's your favorite place so far? You've lived in

1:49.9

this process. Yeah, it's tough, but between Glendale and Marina Del Rey for sure. Yeah, it's

1:57.3

tied. Nice. I love the west side. Nice. Anywhere you're near a big, big, water body, I think

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