#286 - Patrick O'Dell

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Patrick O’Dell discusses growing up in St. Louis, moving to San Francisco, getting a job at Thrasher Magazine, starting his blog called Epicly Later’d, how he came up with the name Epicly Later’d, going on his first tour with Baker, working for VBS.tv, writing into his contract that he cannot be fired from his own show, why some people got mad about their Epicly Later’d episode, the end of his Epicly Later’d show & Vice going bankrupt, going down the Mississippi in a boat with Heath Kirchart, directing the Big Brother documentary "Dumb”, 25th anniversary for Nixon watches Documentary and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Patrick O'Dell 00:02:10 Getting his start in skateboarding 00:04:11 Going to college to study photography in San Francisco 00:05:46 Getting a job at Thrasher Magazine 00:08:11 The history of Epicly Later'd 00:15:19 Going on his first tour with Baker 00:22:54 The John Cardiel Epicly Later'd episode 00:31:43 Our Sponsor: Athletic Greens 00:33:18 When Epicly Later'd got on TV 00:34:44 Meeting Spike Jonze for the first time 00:39:59 Getting paid more now that Epicly Later'd was on TV 00:40:44 Job security (not being able to be fired from his own show) 00:43:45 Vice going bankrupt 00:46:54 Episodes of Epicly Later'd that never came out 00:50:34 People getting mad about their episode 00:53:01 Patricks personal favorite episode of Epicly Later'd 00:55:03 The Ali Boulala Epicly Later'd episode 01:00:45 The Antwuan Dixon Epicly Later'd episode 01:08:10 Feeling the love (and hate) for Epicly Later'd 01:16:57 The end of Epicly Later'd 01:22:08 Working with Heath Kirchart 01:25:59 Going down the Mississippi in a boat with Heath Kirchart 01:33:07 Patrick's new book "Big River" 01:36:29 The Epicly Later'd episode that got away 01:37:27 Directing the Big Brother documentary "Dumb" 01:40:56 How Patrick felt when Epicly Later'd ended 01:40:56 Working for Vans 01:50:26 Directing music videos 01:54:42 25th anniversary for Nixon watches 02:05:40 what's Patrick up to now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we are back, huh? We're back at the 9 Club, everybody. Today, we have a very special.
0:07.4	He's shaking his head. Special. Special guest, Mr. Patrick O'Dell, is with us. How are you, dude?
0:14.5	I'm pretty good. Yeah. It's you're coming, dude. Yes. I'm nervous. I feel like I like being behind
0:22.5	the camera better. We all know you from behind the camera. I mean, you've been behind the camera
0:27.7	a long time, you know, from your days at Thrasher, New York, vice, VBS, even, you know, which is
0:35.4	interesting. I want to get into a lot of that, epically, latered stuff, because it's fascinating what
0:41.1	you made from a blog into a show. So definitely talk about all that. But for those of you out there
0:48.3	in TV, YouTube, bland, I just want to mention that Heath Courchard is sitting here behind the
0:52.7	scenes right here. Maybe we have high hopes that that will be the case. So thanks for coming. Are
1:03.1	you currently in Oakland, Oakland? Nice, dude. How do you like it out there? I love it for the
1:13.1	the geography. Like 10 minutes from my house, there's a hike you can hike through Redwoods.
1:17.9	Really? I've been going camping a lot. Oakland, I don't picture camping and hiking.
1:23.6	I Oakland, I picture just driving and walking and a bunch of others are right in the
1:29.2	park. Yeah, right in the park. Yeah, I think the Oakland that I knew back when I lived in SF
1:34.1	and from skating, it's probably the same Oakland in the skatable areas. But yeah, there's a Redwood
1:40.7	Forest. And I go hiking sometimes in Marin. It should be a barrier is beautiful.
1:48.0	So do you like your nature guy? You like to be outdoors and all the nature stuff?
1:53.1	Is it moving up there for work or just like I'm going to okay?
1:56.8	Well, work thing. What's up with work? It's my wife's work. Oh, nice.
2:02.8	It's kind of a random place to move for a Oakland kind of, but yeah, I wasn't filming
2:08.0	epically later. When you were filming epically later, I mean, we should talk about,
2:14.8	I mean, we could talk about how you got your start in all this, you know,
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