#307 - Ben De Gros

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Ben De Gros discusses growing up in Vancouver, skating with his brother Ted De Gros, his struggles with addiction when he was younger, starting his YouTube channel, why he doesn’t do brand deals, his main job doing drywall & his other YouTube channel “The Vancouver Carpenter”, why he’s taking a long break from doing YouTube skate content, working with Real Skateboards designing a board shape and much more! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Ben De Gros 00:00:45 Internet skateboarders 00:04:15 Taking a long break from the YouTube skate content 00:05:30 Ben's drywall YouTube channel "The Vancouver Carpenter" 00:13:50 Our Supporter: AG1 00:15:25 Ben wanting to get sponsored 00:22:31 Ben's brother Ted De Gros 00:46:37 The problem with Battle At The Berrics 01:00:57 Ben's idea of a successful video 01:08:35 Working with Real Skateboards designing shapes 01:27:19 Working with Sole Tech 01:35:11 The brand deals (Cariuma) 01:45:17 Being in LA and filming content 01:59:47 Keeping up with the joneses 02:15:13 Does ben fan out on people 02:16:00 Ben's Mount Rushmore of skaters 02:19:34 Negative commenters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We'll talk about that off can.
0:02.0	So with like two thousand...
0:04.0	We can talk about him on camera too if you want.
0:07.0	Why not?
0:09.0	Let's talk some shit, dude.
0:10.0	We're going to retransform your YouTube channel.
0:12.0	All right, we are back. We're going to re-transform your YouTube channel.
0:12.6	Oh, right. We are back, huh? We're back at the Nine Club, everybody. Today, we have a very special.
0:19.6	Special. Special, special guest, Mr. Ben DeGrow is with us. How are you dude?
0:26.5	I'm doing well. Thank you. Hey, thank you for making the trip down here to Vancouver.
0:30.5	I know you skated the whole way. App man just for the nine club I feel like it
0:36.4	No, thanks so much for coming dude. This is amazing bro. Another internet skateboarder on the skateboarder on the internet I should say we've turned into that I like
0:46.0	that's like the politically correct term for skateboarders who are sensitive that they're
0:51.6	youtubers.
0:53.1	A skateboarder on the internet.
0:54.8	Yes.
0:55.8	I'm not a youtuber.
0:57.2	But I think most skateboarders are on the internet anyway.
1:00.3	This is true.
1:01.0	But there is a skater is pretty much on the internet.
1:04.0	There is a stigma with a youtuber.
1:08.0	A lot of people embrace it.
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