#259 - Kelly Bird

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Kelly Bird discusses growing up in Houston, meeting Rick Howard and the Blockhead team, turning pro for New School Skateboards, getting on Real Skateboards, moving towards the industry side of skateboarding, working for DC Shoes, leaving DC and working with Rick Howard and Mike Carroll for Lakai Footwear, the Fully Flared video, going to work for Nike SB, what it’s like working for a huge corporation, pro shoes vs. colorways and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we are back home. We're back in the nine club everybody today. We have a very special.
0:06.0	Special.
0:08.8	Special guest, Mr. Kelly Bird is with us. How are you?
0:14.4	Good to be here.
0:16.0	It's been a while, dude. I haven't seen you in years.
0:20.0	I know. It has been a minute.
0:21.4	I've been Portland and you disappeared from the SoCal lifestyle.
0:26.0	I miss it. I have to ask you do you have a standard special protocol? Or do you just,
0:33.2	it just comes out like whatever you're feeling in the moment or you're like, okay, this guy
0:36.8	I gotta give him at least three.
0:38.4	Yeah, what? Three! No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:41.4	I can get to five, but it has to really be like.
0:44.0	I used to be all over the place and now I have to do three.
0:46.6	Okay. Because I can't do two and five and then two, you know what I mean?
0:50.0	And anyway, listen, it's a whole thing.
0:52.9	I'm always wondering if the brand standpointed for like, okay, uh,
0:57.1	I fully branded it out in my head.
0:59.1	Yeah, but you got that, you got the brand manager hat on.
1:04.4	I mean, ever since, uh, working for DC and LeCai and now Nike,
1:10.1	but even skating before that, did you ever, when you were skating, you know,
1:14.8	back in the day, we're talking early 90s.
1:16.9	Yeah.
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