#290 - Selema Masekela

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Selema Masekela discusses moving to Carlsbad California, falling in love with surfing, working at Transworld, becoming team manager for Planet Earth, Rhythm & Adio Footwear, starting Alphanumeric Clothing, why he first turned down announcing for X Games, getting the call to go on Tony Hawks Gigantic Skatepark Tour, Tony Hawks 900, breaking the Kim Kardashian sex tape story on his E! show "Daily 10”, returning to X Games, his father Hugh Masekela and much more! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Selema Masekela 00:02:37 Finding skateboarding 00:05:47 Moving to Carlsbad California 00:10:21 Falling in love with surfing 00:11:19 Selema's first job in skateboarding 00:23:06 Getting back into skating heavy because of Transworld 00:25:13 Moving up the ladder at Transworld 00:29:32 Working for Planet Earth 00:31:17 Becoming team manager for Planet Earth, Rhythm & Adio Footwear 00:32:42 The Rhythm video 00:35:20 Meeting Alyasha Owerka-Moore 00:38:25 Team manager for Reebok's Boks program 00:40:51 Starting Alphanumeric 00:46:19 What happened with Alphanumeric? 00:50:42 Getting into television work 00:52:16 Announcing contests and demos 01:01:49 Getting the call to go on Tony Hawks Gigantic Skatepark Tour 01:02:13 Tony Hawk's 900 01:12:37 Leaving and returning to X Games 01:22:45 Working for E! entertainment 01:25:27 Dealing with taxes 01:28:31 Breaking the Kim Kardashian sex tape story on his E! show "Daily 10" 01:42:19 Selema's father Hugh Masekela 01:47:10 The beauty of working in the thing you love 01:52:10 Olympic broadcasting 01:57:22 The future of womens skateboarding 02:00:07 Being back at X Games 02:07:10 Snowboard lingo 02:10:35 Selema's dad the musician 02:16:28 Skaters doing things that aren't skateboarding 02:20:57 From Selema to Sal back to Selema 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 nine club everybody today, hmm, hmm, hmm. We have a very special
0:09.4	Hmm, special
0:13.7	Take a sip of his coffee special guest mr. Salema Masakayla is with us. Yes, I am
0:22.0	I'm I'm really great
0:24.7	I walked down the sidewalk to come here and I started to really appreciate the
0:31.4	What this moment is for me in my journey period in life, and I'm I'm really humbled man. I'm humbled and honored to be here
0:39.8	So to answer your question. I'm great. Well
0:43.6	To spin it back on you we are humbled and
0:47.4	Stoked that you are here. Yes, no doubt because you have been a part of our lives as well for the past
0:54.1	However many years, you know what I mean
1:00.1	That's time since both of us had didn't have grazing of
1:13.6	See that's something old folks can say to each other because now we're those dudes and I remember when I used to see like
1:21.5	Older dudes when we were younger like whatever 30 have those conversation be like old ass my fuckers like and now
1:28.2	I'm like. Oh, yeah, that's that's me. That's we we have arrived
1:34.0	This up. I'm sure this episode will be time out laundry. We'll be talking about all the weather
1:41.6	I was talking to my mom the other day, man
1:44.0	My mom is such she's that person where we have to have a seven-minute conversation
1:49.8	About the weather in Carl's bed that in her mind's eye is so much different than what's happening in Los Angeles
1:56.2	Yeah, and it's it's it's its own thing. That's you know how it is down here. It's it's different
2:01.4	But you know the clouds sit there, you know, it's I don't know if it's global warming
2:10.5	Right into it. And I'm like I guess that what I have to look forward to from me
2:15.5	Amazing. Yeah, but not no, I'm honored to be a man. Oh, we do we're honored to have you
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