TPM Episode 234: Robert Guerrero, Pro Skater
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Robert Guerrero grew up during the intersection of the internet and inline skating. Meaning he made friends all over the world via AOL chat rooms and lived a double life…Loner student during the weekdays and popular street skater on the weekends. Eventually, Rob G became a legend within the sport, known for both insane rails as well as some of the most creative skating ever seen. Throughout this time, Rob lived a spiritual, nomadic lifestyle that eventually takes him to an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru. This is where he ends up getting shot in the face at point-blank range. Hear all the details in the podcast
Robert Guerrero Show Notes:
3:00: Ben Weis, the Midwest influence, growing up in San Jose, and roller hockey
10:30: HS Football, picking skating, skate culture, and the start of nomadic life
15:00: Influential bladers, AOL chatrooms, and VG Videos
19:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
22:00: The naming of his “JSF” Crew, Rob G is everywhere, and video exposure
25:00: Living a dual life, the energy of the session, contests, street skating, and IMYTA
31:30: 2001 is a huge yeah but he’s still an AM, and money
33:00: Where is home, being nice, people-pleasing, losing all his sponsors, and health insurance
39:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Getting you outside for over 70 years
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
41:30: Getting on Rollerblade, retiring from sponsors for spiritual awakening, and his Ayahuasca retreat experience
50:00: Going to a retreat for himself, getting shot in the face, the GoFundMe, and getting out of Peru
59:00: Waking up in the US, karma, the progression of getting better, what he’s doing now
55:00: Woodard investing in the youth, setting a Guinness Record, and winning awards
66:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tom Hyser
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to the Powell movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and I know a week has passed, |
| 0:20.0 | but I hope everyone had an amazing 4th of July. |
| 0:22.9 | For me and my family, the holiday marked the first time in a long time that everything felt normal. |
| 0:28.1 | It was like the pandemic didn't happen. |
| 0:30.5 | We spent our day on the water. |
| 0:31.9 | A good friend of mine has a waterfront pad on Al-Qaai Beach, and I've been spending a ton of time there. And we headed down for |
| 0:37.9 | the 4th July and I brought down eight pounds of tri-tip that I'd been smoking on my Traeger and my |
| 0:43.2 | wife made her famous Stars and Stripe Cake and we celebrated all that is great about America. |
| 0:48.6 | And while this country has sucked for a while with all the outright racism, hate on gay people, |
| 0:53.5 | divisiveness in politics, issues |
| 0:55.3 | with police. You know, it felt like the America I used to know. It seemed gone. But like my wife's |
| 1:01.2 | famous cake that we haven't had in a couple years, the 4th July made all that is great about |
| 1:06.1 | America feel like it was back, even though it isn't. But what can I say? I really do love this country |
| 1:11.4 | and that's how things felt from my little bubble. But I know everyone has a different experience. |
| 1:16.4 | And speaking of a different experience, my guest this week has an absolute bat-shit crazy story. |
| 1:22.0 | Robert Guerrero is a skater, an inline skater, meaning he became professional in a sport |
| 1:27.0 | that was also looked at as a fad, |
| 1:29.1 | and he experienced his share of hate from it. |
| 1:31.4 | But Rob G is a loving guy, one of those super nice, deep, thoughtful, caring people that are really |
| 1:36.9 | few and far between. |
| 1:38.6 | He's a guy he wasn't concerned about being a pro skater. |
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