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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#78 - Spike Jonze

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

Spike Jonze discusses growing up on the East Coast, how shooting BMX lead him into skateboarding, starting “Dirt” magazine with Andy Jenkins, moving to LA, filming his first video for World Industries “Rubbish Heap”, what it was like filming Blind “Video Days”, how he got into making music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, Weezer and so many more, starting Girl Skateboards with Rick Howard, Mike Carroll & Megan Baltimore, Winning an Academy Award for his movie “Her” starring Joaquin Phoenix, car trouble in SF filming “Goldfish”, Blowing shit up for the Lakai video “Fully Flared” and much more! 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 9 Club everybody today. We got a special, special guest. Very special. Very special.

0:13.0

Two time special. Two time, three time, four times.

0:16.0

Mr. S. Bik Jones. Yes. All right. Yes. Thank for having me. How are you? I'm psyched to be in the 9 Club. Yeah.

0:24.0

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. I just just explored all the set, nerded out and saw the switch flip, manny. And I also noticed that you all you put like whoever the guest is you put up. Yeah.

0:35.0

Special shit. Oh, yeah. We always do. Try to cater to them. You know, we're coward here right behind me. Rick Howard. Yeah. Yeah.

0:42.0

Yep. The guns, the guns, jackass and our girl videos. Yeah. Mike Mo's explosion where you almost killed him. And the fun, the fully flared. Oh, yeah.

0:53.0

Yeah. And Spike, don't forget the best work you've ever done that was kind of skipped by the Academy. Yes. Hot chocolate tour. Yeah. Yeah. That was a, that was a big one. I don't know what the Academy. I don't know why they they overlooked that. Yeah. They were, it was political. I'm sure. Oh, yeah.

1:09.0

Thanks for coming, dude. Yeah. This is amazing. I'd be here. I texted you the day and I was like, Chris, when do I get on the 9 Club? I know. I know. I was like, who's this?

1:19.0

You know, Spike Jones is hitting me up. This is crazy. Yeah. But you watch the show. I mean, I sent you out on the, yeah, on the podcast. So I'm mostly just, you know, it's like I actually, you know, like first time I've seen the scene on YouTube, but like mostly I just know Kelly's voice. I'm like, that's his face.

1:35.0

That's Andy Mac. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's really hearing that after all these years, like skating like, oh, yeah. I know your voice. Yeah. Now I just know your voice. Yeah. And you're laughing, of course.

1:47.0

So born and raised, well, not raised. You moved around a lot, but in Maryland, right? You were born in Maryland. No, no, it was born in New York. Oh, you were born in New York. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you got a fire researcher. No, but yeah, we moved. And then my dad always lived in New York. So I'd go back and forth there.

2:04.0

But then my mom moved around. So we lived in New Jersey and Philly, oh, okay. See a right outside of DC and Bethesda, Maryland. Oh Bethesda. Wait, who was talking about that? Bobby Worist. Yeah. Oh, see from there.

2:16.0

Yeah. But you go skate there. Right. Right. So East Coast East Coast. East Coast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you started off BMXing, right? Yeah. You start off like taking photos or filming or both BMX riding. Like when I was like 13. There's this BMX shop called Rockville BMX.

2:33.0

And it was like this, the spot. And I started working there. And yeah, so yeah, I got into it. Yeah, I was like riding bikes. And you know, but you know, I had a bunch of friends. It's gated. And actually, I knew that's when I met Tremaine. Oh, really? Yeah, he was like the local legend. I can't actually listen to my own voices. It'll drive me crazy.

2:50.0

You got it. This is fucked up. That's what I sound like. I'm fine. He's going to take off the second time. You know, Christian didn't wear me there. Christian of Soyer. Yeah, it's. I know. I can't know you guys. That's that's better for me. Spike, when you're on a Hollywood set. Yes. And you're watching the screen. You're watching the actors do their thing. You got to have the headphones. Yeah. Right. But I'm not. I don't need to listen to myself.

3:20.0

Actually, even. Yeah. I mean, I can hear you guys talking. Okay. You're like, that's fine. Feed away from me. So you met Dr.

3:28.2

Oh, yeah, I met remain back then when I was like, you know, 1314 15 16. I've basically like BMX then skated. And we go to like most of the ramps were skate ramps.

3:37.8

Yeah. And when I was 15, I started going on these tours with Harrow with the BMX company Harrow. Brian Blighter, Ron Wilkerson, Dave Norrie, these like.

3:48.6

Were you going on tour? I was kind of sponsored. Yeah, but I wouldn't ride in the shows, but I was sponsored like just like going to

3:54.8

Or ride in. What do you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually. Yeah. It was. Well.

4:01.5

Getting a free bike is insane. Your first free bike. That's crazy. I'm sure because I went there like three, four hundred

4:07.2

bucks. Yeah. Yeah. They call it factory sponsored back then. Yeah. That's very factory sponsored. Yeah. So you're getting free

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