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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#23 - Don Brown

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Don Brown discusses being the 1989 world freestyle champion, having to take a "creative retreat" with éS Footwear then bringing éS back, being on the board of IASC, how he came up with the idea for Go Skateboarding Day, skating on the 405 freeway, tough guy shots and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're back. The nine club. Let me guess. We have another special guest. We got another

0:07.5

special guest in the house, you know. Don Brown. And he's staring me dead in the eye. It's

0:12.8

kind of creepy. 1989 World Champion. Don Brown. You know, it's an honor. No one knows

0:19.4

her. Here we are. No one knows that. And of course, we got a, uh,

0:23.3

Raj. And then we got a Kelly Hart on the button over there. Hey guys. Okay. So don't let's,

0:28.6

let's, let's get it, you know, maybe some people don't know who the hell you are. You know,

0:33.6

I don't even know who I am. I don't even know either. Who are you? But I mean, a lot of people

0:40.4

know you. Okay. I'm just saying that some of our tens of hundreds of viewers, maybe not,

0:44.2

you know, so the 20 kids out there watching the 20 kids right. Yeah. Or a huge fan base.

0:49.1

I mean, like Roger said, what, what was it? You're 84. It was 1989 1989 World Champion. Monster

0:56.0

World Champion. Was Rodney Mullen not there at that contest? I took him out. Yeah. He

1:01.0

had diarrhea. Why? Or that the first contest he like just didn't place first. Yeah. There's

1:06.2

some weird stuff happening. Maybe some Tonya Harding stuff. Yeah. You actually like put some,

1:10.7

uh, some stuff in his drink. Yeah. It was a little, yeah. It's a little routy. Back then,

1:15.5

what did you get for winning that? What, it was a free style contest. That was back when

1:19.6

that didn't before the year. I was, I then they gave like 10,000 douche marks. What, what

1:24.4

does that equate to? It was actually pretty good. We're going to have to do some heavy calculations.

1:28.2

Right. 89 was like the peak of scapegoon at that point in the 80s. So for a very

1:33.1

and free style for everything. Yeah. Even street scape was creeping in. Yeah.

1:36.9

Tempton was like one foot and all in possible over and everything, you know. Speaking of

1:40.9

temple, then did you teach Tempton how long possible? Now he's, he's to scapegoos for a time.

1:46.9

Tempton used to come to our house. We used to live in the typical skate apartment,

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