Welcome to this special pre-recorded episode of the Culture War podcast. Everybody is out to having fun Thanksgiving with the family, so we recorded this one early for you. But we got some interesting stuff to talk about. In the culture war, a couple big issues revolve around popular culture, prominent individuals who are not speaking up or allowing culture to be taken over by illiberal

forces and people who are not a part of of your culture and of course i'm talking about

skateboarding specifically and we also of course have the issue of male athletes competing in

female sports so we've got a lot to talk about as it pertains to skateboarding most of you know know, I've been skateboarding, man, most of my life since I was late 13 years old.

It was when I started, traveled around the country, skating to a certain degree, always skateboarding, even to this day filming a lot of skate videos.

And one of the things that I noticed that was particularly interesting over the past several years is the wokeification of skateboarding.

And I don't know how this happens. You end up seeing ads, right? And so for those that don't skate, just put this in the context of any other major sport. You end up with advertisements promoting brands where they're not doing any kind of athletic feat. Individuals who are doing what we would describe as

rudimentary or basic tricks, but because the advertisement fits some kind of woke diversity quota,

they think that's going to sell product. But then you end up with these weird circumstances

where there's no energy because what people want in competitive sports sports they want to see they want to see

the boundaries be pushed they want to see something new and creative but with the i guess the

diversity version of skateboarding it's can we all hold hands and have fun and smile because we're

all different and you end up with people being praised not for skill or creativity but for their

identity now i don't know i don't know how that persists but we're certainly more end up with people being praised not for skill or creativity, but for their identity.

Now, I don't know, I don't know how that persists, but we're certainly more fans of,

hey, man, do you want, skateboarding can be punk rock, you can be whoever you want, but we like

doing tricks. We like seeing good skateboarding stuff. So we're going to talk about that.

And now we got a bunch of really awesome people. So I'll just throw it to you guys to introduce yourselves. First, we got this guy over here who looks like some kind of weird rock star.

I am Richie Jackson, and I am of the controversial opinion that we can all get along.

That is very controversial, because I'm not so sure.

Well, let's see how we go.

Yeah, to add to that, I'm only half joking. I was having a conversation with a friend last night, and it's like, my friend from the city,

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