#298 - Andy Jenkins

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Andy Jenkins discusses wanting to leave Wyoming at the age of 13, meeting a young Spike Jonze, working for Rocco at World doing graphics including Jason Lee’s first graphic “The Cat In The Hat”, how much graphic artists gets paid now vs then, his comic Wrench Pilot, working as the art director for the newly formed Girl Skateboards, finding Evan Hecox, leaving Girl Skateboards then returning after 7 years, 30 years of Girls Skateboards and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Andy Jenkins 00:01:08 Wanting to leave Wyoming at the age of 13 00:03:23 BMX brought Andy to California 00:06:49 Meeting a young Spike Jonze 00:14:35 What caused Andy to go from BMX to skate 00:17:03 Our Sponsor AG1 (Athletic Greens) 00:18:38 Getting his first job in skateboarding 00:21:15 Working for Rocco at World doing graphics 00:24:42 Jason Lee's cat in the hat graphic 00:27:57 Skateboard graphic artist pay rates 00:34:31 Graphics that Andy did that maybe he wasn't too proud of 00:41:22 Wrench pilot 00:46:13 Working for the newly formed Girl Skateboards 00:54:41 Finding Evan Hecox 00:57:33 Chris bummed on his Chocolate portrait board 01:01:35 The difference between doing graphics for Girl and Chocolate 01:07:54 Working with Rick, Mike, Megan and Spike 01:17:04 Going back to Girl and Chocolate 01:24:09 Andy's mural at the Berrics 01:32:18 Andy's favorite board graphic that he's done 01:33:29 The Girl Skateboards basketball series 01:35:54 Competitive nature between the artists in the art dump 01:39:07 Working with riders on graphics 01:47:44 30 years of chocolate 01:49:20 The OG Chocolate logo 01:51:03 Deckaid 01:56:53 Lakai video intro shot by Spike Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, we are back home. We're back at the nine club. Everybody today. We have a very special
0:07.2	special
0:10.5	Special guest Mr. Andy Jenkins is with us. How are you dude? Hello people? I'm good, man
0:16.6	Dude, good to see you guys. Yeah, this is gonna be amazing. I'm so stoked that you're on the show 30 years of girl
0:23.6	I mean listen we were there for all 30 but we're close
0:26.8	We're close
0:28.8	I don't know why my phone's out on the table
0:33.5	But this is gonna be great, man. I'm so curious how a young boy from Wyoming
0:40.2	Makes his way out here becomes our director for girl skateboards
0:44.1	That's a good question a lot of luck a lot a lot of being the right place the right time. I'm telling you this is I
0:50.0	I don't want to down like you're very talented, but I think a lot of that is true though. Yeah, I think it is a lot of it's true
0:56.8	But you kind of you put yourself in situations, you know, yeah, that is also true might make things happen
1:03.9	Like you were just sitting on your couch waiting for a call exactly you were doing stuff
1:08.5	Yeah, I'm doing stuff. I have dreams. You know, I stuff I wanted to do
1:11.6	I kind of had these goals in the back of my head that you don't necessarily think you have them there
1:16.4	But they're there the seed is planted back there
1:19.4	Like my thing was I really wanted to get out of Wyoming. So how old would you help? Let's figure out how to do this
1:26.1	But how old were you when you had that thought I need to get the hell out of here? Oh probably 13 seriously that young why I
1:33.6	don't know I I
1:35.6	mean
1:36.8	Wyoming is a great place don't get me wrong. It's like a you know, it's in Cheyenne where I grew up for the most part is a small town
1:44.9	You know and people are friendly there. It's pretty good spot
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