Cancer. Death. Skateboarding. w/ Rob Dyer

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rob Dyer lost a lot of very important people to cancer in a very short amount of time. He was young, devastated and ambitious, so he decided to channel all of his emotions into one big idea: a skate marathon that started on the west coast of the United States and culminated in his hometown near Toronto. The whole idea was to prove that anything can be done with enough determination, and he hoped that this philosophy would inspire people to stay optimistic about dealing with cancer in its various forms. Needless to say, it did just that. Over the last 10 years Skate 4 Cancer has skated across multiple countries, joined forces with major bands and tours, and visited schools around the globe all raising awareness and spreading knowledge of early cancer prevention and detection. Through clothing sales, community events, and the S4C Shop they have donated over $150,000 to Wellspring to help fund educational and support programs for individuals and families affected by cancer. Rob Dyer is one gem of a human being and we hope you fall as deeply in love with him as we did.

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0:46.1	Yeah.
0:49.8	It got out of hand.
0:53.3	Just thinking about it, I get like a smile. my face. As would a summer camp, if you gave children all alcohol. Oh, okay. Of course. Which you just would never do. Which you would never do. Never, ever, ever do. Rob, just take the mic a little closer to your face.
1:11.1	Yeah. Closer up to your face.
1:12.8	Yeah. Is that better? Yeah, that's perfect. That's actually perfect.
1:15.0	These are awesome microphones, by the way.
1:16.5	They're, they, I love them.
1:18.8	They're great. They are fantastic.
1:20.4	Yeah, we don't know much about sound equipment, but we do know that these were probably
1:26.2	the best purchase we could have made.
1:27.7	Oh, 100%, especially for everything you're doing. I think Carly Ray Jessman uses them. Oh, yeah? Oh, right. I also believe Salindian. These are Salindian's chosen Mike. Do you know that the heart will go on was one take? No way. Actually, and the craziest thing about it, I read this the other day, and I blew my mind. she refused to redo it
1:45.8	because she didn't like the song
1:47.6	and then actually and the craziest thing about it i read this the other day and i blew my mind um she refused
1:45.2	to redo it do it because she didn't like the song and then she like they finally said okay well
1:50.5	we're using it for stuff we're going to use this for this movie we're going to use it for this
1:53.4	she's like fine i'm not redoing it like pissed off about it and and then it like went out it was
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