#401 - Greg Carroll

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

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🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Greg Carroll discusses starting the Think archive Instagram account, the return of Think Skateboards, why skateboarding needs to reel itself back in, the amount of money it takes for a brand to build up a rider, why he left Think Skateboards, getting a position at Girl Skateboards, the Carroll brothers, the progression of skateboarding in the early 90s, what he's doing nowadays and much more! Greg Carroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greg.s.carrollThink Skateboards Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/think.skateboards Become a Channel Member & Receive Perks: https://www.youtube.com/TheNineClub/joinNine Club Merch: https://thenineclub.com Sponsored By: AG1: Get a FREE Welcome Kit worth $76 when you subscribe, including 5 AG1Travel Packs, a shaker, canister, scoop & bottle of AG Vitamin D3+K2. https://drinkag1.com/nineclub LMNT: Grab a free Sample Pack with 8 flavors when you buy any drink mix or Sparkling. https://drinklmnt.com/nineclub Woodward: Purchase camp with the code NINECLUB and receive a $150 discount off of summer camp. https://www.woodwardpa.com Monster Energy: Monster Energy’s got the punch you need to stay focused and fired up. https://www.monsterenergy.com Yeti: Built for the wild, Yeti keeps you ready for any adventure. https://www.yeti.com Richardson: Custom headwear for teams, brands, and businesses crafted with quality in every stitch. https://richardsonsports.com Etnies: Get 20% off your purchase using our code NINECLUB or use our custom link. https://etnies.com/NINECLUB éS Footwear: Get 20% off your purchase using our code NINECLUB or use our custom link. https://esskateboarding.com/NINECLUB Emerica: Get 20% off your purchase using our code NINECLUB or use our custom link. https://emerica.com/NINECLUB Find The Nine Club: Website: https://thenineclub.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenineclub X: https://www.twitter.com/thenineclub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenineclub Discord: https://discord.gg/thenineclub Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nineclub Nine Club Clips: https://www.youtube.com/nineclubclips More Nine Club: https://www.youtube.com/morenineclub I'm Glad I'm Not Me: https://www.youtube.com/chrisroberts Chris Roberts: https://linktr.ee/Chrisroberts Timestamps (00:00:00) Greg Carroll (00:01:13) Think Skateboards (00:09:55) The trademark (00:21:11) The skateboarding industry dictates to the world (00:23:48) Skateboarding needs to reel itself back in (00:37:13) How Think Skateboards started (00:48:43) Think archive Instagram (00:52:31) Dart Skateboards?? (00:54:46) The amount of money it takes for a brand to build up a rider (01:00:45) Why he left Think (01:06:36) Getting a position at Girl Skateboards (01:08:31) Did he ever make peace with Fausto (01:11:14) The Carroll brothers (01:20:01) The progression of skateboarding in the early 90s (01:24:56) Skating EMB (01:35:03) What's Greg Carroll doing now (01:52:54) How to get in contact with Greg (01:54:40) Has he talked with PJ Ladd? (01:58:19) Cement C block Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.4	tail around all right we are back home we're back at the nine club everybody
0:44.4	today we have a very special special special guest mr. Greg Carroll is you? Oh, doing good, man. It's just blown away that I'm even sitting here, man. The magnitude of, like I said before we started, the magnitude of the progress that you guys made is just profound to me, dude. And I'm really happy for all of you. And the thing, you know, the contribution that you guys all have for skateboarding in our culture yeah it's it's profound man and i just dude sitting in this seat i'm just like what
1:16.1	thank you i'm psyched yeah i feel like a little kid man we're psyched to have you dude but appreciate
1:22.2	the kind words um it's just a labor of love you know all we want to do is celebrate skateboarding
1:27.2	and the people who make it possible you know it's like they i think a labor of love. All we want to do is celebrate skateboarding and the people who make it possible.
1:29.5	You know, it's like, I think a lot of people out there forget that it takes such an army to, like, make skateboarding happen.
1:35.7	Like, it's the skaters, but then there's photographers and team managers and filmers and artists.
1:40.9	And it's such a deep cave, cavernous, you know. you know it takes a tribe to raise a family it takes
1:47.4	it takes a community to keep this this love that we have there it is big there it is unity speaking of
1:54.4	love um i want to just jump right into because like um you, you, you recently created, like, a Think
2:01.8	Skateboards Instagram, and you've been posting on there and, and really kind of drive,
2:08.2	people are hyped, man.
2:09.5	I mean, like, Think Now is like a legacy brand.
2:11.9	It started in what, like...
2:13.1	1990.
2:14.7	Yeah, I was right out of high school, man.
2:16.6	Cheesh.
2:18.3	Yeah. That's a trip. Yeah. Yeah, I was right out of high school, man. Sheesh. Yeah. That's a trip.
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