This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

I love punk rock. I loved it since I was a kid in Central Ohio when wearing a Hoosker-Doo

T-shirt resulted in me being threatened by dumb jocks. I still wore that

t-shirt every day because fuck them. First and foremost I love the music. I love the power and the purpose it gave me. F

and foremost, I love the music. I love the power and the purpose it gave me. I loved reading about scenes from other cities that were way better than my dumb town.

I loved everything about the punk scene.

Okay, maybe not everything.

One punk thing that I did not do that most of the punk and hardcore kids around me were super

into was I did not ride a skateboard.

In that time and in that place punk was inextricably linked to

skateboarding, but I didn't have the athleticism nor the initiative to be an actual skateboarder. One person I know who loves skateboarding

when he was a kid is 99 p. I producer Christopher Johnson. Hell yeah. I was

super into skateboarding especially back in the late 1980s, I think when we were both getting into punk rock.

I mean, I love to skate. I watched all the skating videos. My mom got me a subscription to Thrasher magazine, and I would lay

on my bed and look through all those dope pictures of all the skaters, and I was just fascinated.

I'm actually still a pretty big skateboarding fan, although now mostly just as a spectator.

But you, Roman Mars, you are not into skating, and you never have been.

Nope, not at all.

I mean, you know, I appreciate it, but no.

And that's totally cool.

But I still think you'll be into this story that I have for you today.

It's about the history of the modern skateboard as an object.

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