#283 - Chad Caruso

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Chad Caruso discusses growing up in Long Island, getting sober, 50 tricks in 50 states, what the 50 tricks in 50 states budget looks like, skating 3,000 miles across the country alone, planning his route but not hotels, emergency bathroom breaks on the road, having to push switch when his leg got tired, a moth getting stuck in his ear, running out of water in the desert, editing a video a day at the hotel after skating 50 to 60 miles, enduring the elements and different types of paved roads, achieving a Guinness Book Of World Records for fastest crossing of America on a skateboard, raising money for “Natural High” a drug prevention nonprofit that inspires and empowers youth to find their natural high and develop the skills and courage to live life well, Chad Caruso day in Virginia Beach and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Chad Caruso 00:02:33 50 tricks in 50 states 00:05:31 Getting sober 00:16:00 Having relationships while being a skateboarder/YouTuber 00:18:59 Our Sponsor: Athletic Greens 00:20:34 Traveling alone 00:22:26 What the 50 tricks in 50 states budget looks like 00:31:34 Skating across the country 00:32:52 Chasing cows 00:38:58 Bathroom breaks on the road 00:44:27 What did chad pack for his trip across the country 00:46:17 Enduring the elements 00:47:19 Pushing switch when his leg got tired 00:49:00 Lessons learned from skating across the country 00:51:22 Using a website called Kamoot for the trek 00:54:44 Chad is now a Guinness World Record holder 00:57:37 Raising awareness for the causes of addiction and mental health 00:59:37 Trials and tribulations during the skate across America 01:00:41 The moth in the ear 01:06:04 Shin splints / Injuries 01:07:17 Skating now after having skated across the country 01:11:24 What was the worst stretch of the trip 01:13:05 The wheels Chad used to skate across the country 01:13:43 People coming to see chad during his skate across the country 01:15:58 Making a documentary about the trip across America 01:16:57 Running out of water in the desert 01:23:38 Would he do it again 01:25:01 The final stretch on the skate across America 01:32:14 Chad Caruso day in Virginia Beach 01:34:00 Slim Jim wouldn't sponsor him 01:42:58 Falling during the skate across America 01:45:37 Chad's production method for daily YouTube updates 01:48:01 What's chad doing now 02:08:25 The most important thing chad learned on his journey 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 at the nine club everybody today. We have a very special
0:07.9	special
0:09.9	Special guest Mr. Chad Caruso is with us. How are you dude? Do a good thing to have me on of course
0:15.7	Sorry to make you skate all the way back from
0:19.0	The East Coast to here just to come on, but that was I said listen. You got to skate back if we're gonna do this
0:25.0	Yeah, I want to buy you a round trip
0:27.0	No way I'm doing that again
0:30.0	Once is enough. I'm sure
0:32.8	No, we got to talk we have so much to unpack with
0:37.2	Skating cross country 3000 miles
0:42.3	Two months. Yep, right?
0:44.6	Road 57 days. Yeah 57 days just under
0:49.4	Literally like wet 50 something 55 miles a day
0:52.8	Yeah, something like that. That was the average. Okay. I made sure my goal was like 50 every single day 50 every day and then but you would have to
1:00.9	Schedule you have to like there's got to be a hotel at the end of that. Yeah, it could be 57 60 it could be whatever
1:07.0	Yeah, I'd wake up open Google maps and be like okay skating 80 miles today. That's where the closest hotel is
1:12.4	No, you had you come on you had you had you had it more planned out for that. I mean I did but I didn't know where the hotels were at all
1:20.7	I had like a route planned out, but I didn't know where I was staying. Oh
1:25.2	My Jesus, I would think that that's one of the most important things
1:28.7	It is but you can figure it out if you have like a doubt I
1:32.4	Grays if you're I've never been through like the desert
1:37.0	The next stop is 400 miles away
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