#68 - Jamie Thomas

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 218 minutes

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Jamie Thomas discusses growing up in Alabama, working at Wendy’s, driving cross country with hotdogs and a microwave, sleeping at Embarcadero, his first board sponsor Experience, panhandling in San Francisco, riding for Invisible, getting a cold call from Ed Templeton to ride for Toy Machine, filming for Welcome To Hell, starting Zero, why he quit Emerica to ride for Adio, the rise and fall of Fallen Footwear, Straye Footwear, dealing with his “hoarding” of skate memorabilia, the scariest tricks he’s ever done and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we are back. We're back at the nightclub, huh? Listen.
0:07.0	Everybody, I'm being serious and everybody laughs. I don't understand.
0:13.0	I like watching you do the intro. It's fun.
0:16.0	But we got a special guest here today, Jamie Thomas.
0:22.0	The chief. The chief is here. What's going on? How are you doing?
0:27.0	I'm doing good. Yeah. I can't complain. Life's good.
0:30.0	Well, first of all, thank you for coming. That's my pleasure.
0:32.0	You know, where'd you come from?
0:34.0	Incinitas. Incinitas. Okay.
0:36.0	So, let me just start off with asking you, right?
0:39.0	How, what the chief? Where does that nickname come from?
0:42.0	What's the story behind that? You know?
0:45.0	Well, I used to be the guy who always coordinated the missions.
0:49.0	I don't know. Got everybody motivated whether they wanted to be motivated or not.
0:53.0	I would be the one of the guys who motivated.
0:56.0	Yeah. And it started off in the early zero days.
0:59.0	Okay. And me going to pick up Ellington, Alyssa, and Jim Greco.
1:05.0	Ellington and Alyssa all lived at this house in San Diego called Albatross.
1:10.0	Okay. And anyway, I just drove up one day to pick them up.
1:14.0	And they're like, chiefs here, chiefs here.
1:17.0	Yeah. I didn't think maybe they had a conversation in the night.
1:21.0	And they were just talking about that's what I did.
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