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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#85 - Jeff Grosso

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Grosso discusses growing up in Eagle Rock CA, moving to Arcadia, quitting high school a credit short a month before graduation, his first sponsor Variflex, getting on Powell Peralta, leaving Powell Peralta to turn pro for Schmitt Stix, his heavy drug use, smuggling a ball of hash through airport security for Hosoi, partying on Robitussin, nearly killing Ross Goodman, leaving Santa Cruz for Lucero Limited which turned into Black Label, overdosing and almost dying multiple times, working normal jobs to get by, getting on Vans and Antihero, how he feels about skateboarding in the Olympics, Love letters 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 nine club. We got a special

0:08.0

special guest here today. You know, we got Jeff Grasso. Yes. Now I'm gonna look so

0:16.0

good for you. Azina. Hey, thank you so much for coming, dude. This is amazing. Thanks

0:21.6

for having me. We get a lot of fucking Jeff Grasso requests. Yeah. Do we do? Definitely

0:27.1

do. Now you know, you're here. You're here. It's beautiful from Jason Dill to me. Yeah.

0:32.3

Yeah. Do you think about that, huh? You're the biggest fucking loudmouths in Skateboarding.

0:36.4

Let's breeze through the old young Grasso, you know. Born and raised out here in

0:45.0

Southern California, Eagle Rock, right? Yes. I'm a native Angelina. You know, I did a

0:50.0

great trick on in front of people. Yeah. We had a working back. Yes.

0:56.4

Nolly Heal over the bear anyway. What video? What video was that in the hot chocolate

1:01.4

tour? All right. Yeah. Yeah. We got it in. No, it wasn't that it was just the chocolate

1:05.2

tour. Oh, the hot chocolate tour. Was it? Oh, the chocolate tour. Yeah. Cool. I

1:09.8

don't even know my history. Both of my parents went to Eagle Rock High. So yeah,

1:14.4

yes, we're all we're all connected. That's right. That's right. Now did you go to

1:18.5

Eagle Rock? Did you follow the family? No, no, I lived in I started skateboarding in

1:23.4

Eagle Rock. Okay. I lived in Eagle Rock until I was about five, I think. And then we moved

1:31.0

to Las Vegas for a short period of time. Oh. And I lived in Vegas for a year. And that's

1:37.8

really where I I was introduced to skateboard parks. Okay. Yeah. This was, uh, 77 or something

1:46.2

like that. Okay. You know, I had to do math, but I suck at math. Um, and then we moved

1:53.4

to Arcadia, California. Oh. And I did most of my, yeah, you know, from like fifth grade,

2:00.9

you know, all the way through, you know, while I was supposed to graduate high school, but

2:04.8

I didn't know why skateboarding maybe. Yeah, skateboarding got in the way. And back

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