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The Watercooler

William Spencer | Stuntman, Skateboarder, Spider-Man

The Watercooler

Watercooler Podcast

Comedy

4.3857 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

William Spencer joins the show to trace his journey to becoming a stuntman in Hollywood and one of the most original skateboarders in the world. He talks about being influenced by Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton and landing the gig as Andrew Garfield's stunt double in the latest Spider-Man movies. And of course, he recalls some of his former jobs such as making pet caskets, pulling weeds in raw sewage, and teaching 7th grade P.E. For more on William, go to IWilliamSpencer.com and SEE William's skateboarding and stunt work by checking out the videos at ChrisLaxamana.com Host: Chris Laxamana

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0:00.0

This is Corolla Digital.

0:05.0

This is Corolla Digital. The It's resume.

0:29.0

Resme.

0:30.0

Welcome to the show.

0:31.0

Welcome back guys.

0:32.0

I am Chris Lachmana, your host and once again this is a show where we

0:37.5

I invite interesting people at least I think are interesting and we go over some of the old jobs they had growing up to see how

0:44.3

they got from there to here and today I am very excited I have someone who I

0:49.3

respect greatly William Spencer welcome to the show.

0:54.0

Thanks, man.

0:55.0

William is a Hollywood stun man.

0:58.0

He was Andrew Garfield stunman in the most recent Spider-Man movies and he's also an incredible skateboarder which I want to talk about because he's doing things that I have never never seen before.

1:10.0

He's so far out of the box that the box is just a blip in his universe as far as skateboarding goes because I've been following skateboarding for a long time and what he's doing is completely insane.

1:21.0

So we're going to start from the very very beginning because you

1:23.4

sent us your resume right here. So tell me about working at a peach orchard.

1:26.2

Where you from actually?

1:27.6

You know what I spent part of my childhood in kind of around Tyler, Texas, and then actually moved when I started high school to

1:38.7

love in Colorado. So it's like a weird, my parents are originally from Colorado, and then then just kind of moved to Texas for a little

1:45.0

little blip there and then went back so so you're back and forth from for Texas to

1:49.1

Colorado yeah as a the parents you you're going back forth between parents?

1:54.0

No, no, we just kind of, you know, my parents love Colorado and whatever else.

1:59.3

So moving down there, they was kind of, they're just a thing.

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