Ep 054 : Jason Rothmeyer - CLASSIC CLIP - The 411 on professional skateboarding's most renown Star Wars fan
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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When then professional skateboarder Jason Rothmeyer repped his vintage Star Wars collection on the 2nd issue of 411 Skateboard Video Magazine it lit a fire under many Star Wars loving skateboarders to do the same.
Jason talks about professional skateboarding & Star Wars fandom in the 90's, rejected Star Wars graphics and how 20 years later he can't go to any skateboard event in the world without being asked about Star Wars.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this |
| 0:08.7 | classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars. |
| 0:19.8 | It actually parallels Star Wars quite a fair bit because in that early 90s, it was kind of like skateboarding and Star Wars had both died. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:31.9 | They were, 100%. |
| 0:32.9 | Two of the biggest things in the 80s. |
| 0:34.8 | Yep. |
| 0:35.4 | And I think that's what in both, in both the like subcultures, it brought people together |
| 0:42.7 | because so many people had gotten out of it. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.5 | You know, for whatever reason, they've gone on to other things. |
| 0:49.7 | They've gotten a bit older. |
| 0:50.8 | They've gotten girlfriends. |
| 0:53.1 | And that, that moved out of it. And you had, there was a |
| 0:58.6 | skateboarding videotape, if everyone remembers videotapes, they were great. And it was called |
| 1:06.5 | 4-1-1. It was like a video magazine that would come out maybe every, I think at the time, |
| 1:11.2 | maybe every three months. Yeah, they tried to make them every two months. They tried to do six |
| 1:16.1 | issues a year. I know just because Josh Friedberg and Chris Ortiz are the guys who started it. |
| 1:20.6 | And they were the ones who, that was their goal. So it was like two to three months. Really, |
| 1:25.2 | only three because they'd lag a little bit, you know? |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | Being skateboarders. |
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