Podcasts by The Rock Town Podcast

#143: Social Distancing with Philip Moore from 2020-04-20T18:32:27

Philip Moore and Brian Krans talk about how Phil broke his arm just before laying low in quarantine, cruising around our neighborhoods (separately) on some big w...

#142: Dr. Dave Tran, MD from 2020-04-14T22:31:14

Dr. Dave Tran, MD, is a rollerblader who also works with a vulnerable population during a pandemic. We talk about good skating tips during a global medical crisis, wearing masks while out and ab...

#141: Two Rollerblading Health Journalists on the Coronavirus from 2020-03-17T15:02:41

There’s a lot of information going on around the novel coronavirus, so Krans — who is now under a shelter-in-place — spoke to fellow rollerblading health reporter...

#140: Blader Union Live-streaming Pow-wow 10 from 2020-03-06T17:01:16

Daniel and Travis are the brains behind Blader Union, who will be live-streaming all of the action at the 10th Annual Pow-...

#139: Pow-wow 10 Primer from 2020-02-10T17:17:15

The 10th Pow-wow Pro/Am is going down March 12-15 at the historic Kona Skate Park in Jacksonville, Fla. Blake Taylor talks with Phil and Krans about what to expect that long weekend, including t...

#138: Kevon Thompson from 2020-02-03T05:48:29

Kevon Thompson is the host of This Week in Blade (or TWIB), a regular roundup of all things blading news available on YouTube and Blader Union. 

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#137: Jon Julio from 2020-01-27T07:12:14

Jon Julio is the owner of Them, a longtime skating legend, and among the oldest professional athletes in all of sports, according to Wikipedia. 

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#136: Caleb Smith from 2020-01-22T15:37:12

Caleb Smith is a Team Rollerblade rider currently “ultraskating” the 470-mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles along California’s infamo...

#135: Dan Collins from 2020-01-17T15:09:44

Dan Collins is a U.K.-born shredder who was visiting the U.S. last year to skate in the Blading Cup. Rock Town co-host Levi Sebastian caught up with him on the last leg of his adventure to talk ...

#134: An Actual Podcast Episode from 2020-01-15T21:41:33

We know it's been a long time, so Brian and Phil catch up on a variety of topics, including Phil now riding for Rollerblade, why a JSF pro skate is overdue, Be-Mag's blading awards, fake news, a...

#133: Filthy Fiesta 3 Primer from 2019-09-23T14:30:27

Filthy Fiesta 3 is going down at noon on Oct. 12 at Third and Army in San Francisco Calif. The last two events have been hella fun because they’re not competitions. They’re fiestas.

Phil,...

#132: Phil in Australia from 2019-08-10T00:19:58

Rock Town co-host Phillip Moore recently traveled to Australia to visit his partner's home and meet many of her friends. He took along his skates and a recorder to talk with some Aussie locals a...

#131: Nate Herse (Akerue) from 2019-07-31T06:35:36

Nate Herse is an engineer and a rollerblader who made some frames called Akerue that look like aluminum skeletons. He tells us about his thought process behind their design and construction and ...

#130: BFree's #731 from 2019-07-09T03:50:06

Two years ago, Brian "BFree" Freeman started skating every day, first recording clips using a shoe tripod and soon developing a thesis: Let’s Get It Forever.

Rock Town Podcast Co-Host Lev...

#129: Hit It Whet from 2019-06-23T17:51:10

Taylor Kobryn is a college student and blade filmmaker living in San Francisco. He’s current filming for Hit It Whet, a video with an impressive amount of talent, largely filmed in the lovely Sa...

#128: Grant Hazelton from 2019-05-06T13:53:35

Grant Hazelton is a skater out of Rochester, New York, who was in the Bay Area for the Gold Comp. Despite feeling under the weather that day, he was still able to skate some iconic spots in the ...

#127: Gold Comp from 2019-05-05T20:20:20

The Gold Comp was held April 27th, 2019 in San Jose, Calif. With $2,500 on the line, it brought out some talent from far away. Levi was there recording most of it, so he and Brian go through som...

#126: Gold Comp Primer from 2019-04-10T13:48:05

The Gold Comp is a new NorCal park contest by Josh Goldberg. It’s being held April 27th at the Stonegate Skatepark in San Jose with $2,500 in cash on the line, so, if you’re coming, make sure to...

#125: Super Bowl Special from 2019-02-08T17:36:59

Phil and Brian talk about the death of Rollernews, blade books, blade memes, Filthy Fiesta 2, fresh Skookum Tunes, our recent skate sessions, and podcasting at Winterclash.

#124: Intuition Skate Shop from 2019-01-15T05:30:12

Matt Mickey, Cody Norman, Chad Tannehill and Anthony Luna are the local core of the Intuition Skate Shop in Bakersfield, California.

Since Luna and Tannehill are on a streak of winning th...

#123: Cam Got a Pro Wheel from 2018-12-18T15:45:06

Cameron Talbott recently got his first rollerblading product with his name on it: a 60-millimeter wheel from Sic Urethane. Since Philip Moore also has a pro wheel from Sic, we needed to sit down...

#122: butterTV from 2018-11-30T07:26:35

J.P. — better known as butterTV — quit his construction job to become a professional filmer and his recent contest edits have shown it. Phil and Brian talk with him and BFree, who has now skated...

#121: Theresa Choi from 2018-11-18T22:34:28

Theresa Choi is a 17-year veteran rollerblader who actually did her first grind BEFORE she could even skate. We talk about the daunting task of finding skates that fit small feet and her first t...

#120: Phil Won Blade Cup from 2018-11-08T23:49:42

Philip Moore won the Blading Cup last weekend in Santa Ana, Calif., earning him the title of professional rollerblader. Back home in Oakland, Phil talks about his win, diversity in rollerblading...

#119 Cavin Brinkman from 2018-11-08T16:16:29

Cavin Brinkman is a rollerblading filmmaker from Amsterdam whose latest full-length feature is the Adapt Brand Team Movie. While visiting the United States, Cavin came up to the Bay Area after t...

#118: Veteran's Cup from 2018-11-07T00:38:06

Held as part of the Blading Cup in lovely Santa Ana, Calif., the Veteran's Cup is for people over the age of 35 with a bunch of adult responsibilities. 

For those of us who qualify, it’s ...

#117: Lux Street Open from 2018-10-10T01:22:25

On this episode, the whole Rock Town crew heads out to the Lux Street Open.

Held in some pretty iconic old-school spots, the second installment of the Lux Street Open was another day of s...

#116: Filthy Fiesta Primer from 2018-09-25T15:00:26

Held Oct. 13 at Third & Army in San Francisco, the Filthy Fiesta is a new contest put on by Cameron Talbott and Erick Garcia. They say it’s not solely for aggressive skaters, but it will involve...

#115: Lux Street Open Primer from 2018-09-12T15:35:29

Held Sept. 29th in San Jose, the Lux Street Open is a street competition organized by Mike Jiminez and Kirk Chang, and the after party is hosted by BJ Bernhardt.

We talk about everything ...

#114: Adam Johnson from 2018-08-27T03:38:07

Adam Johnson is a prolific filmmaker and brand connoisseur in rollerblading. Forever linked with legendary skaters and legendary skate videos, Adam just also happens to be a really good dude. Listen

#113: Michael D’Andrade from 2018-08-13T15:34:33

Michael D’Andrade is a New York City native now living in the Bay Area who's always going picking for vintage gear.

On a sunny July morning, Mike and his girlfriend, Liz, give me an insid...

#112: Mike Torres from 2018-08-06T14:12:04

Mike Torres is a cinematographer and Big Wheel sensation living in New York City. Rock Town Podcast correspondent Levi Sebastian talks with him about the early Wizard frames, Big Wheel trick nam...

#111: Jon Ortiz from 2018-08-03T18:33:10

Jon Ortiz is a New York City rollerblading legend. After a short session at the Chelsea Piers skate park, Rock Town Podcast correspondent Levi Sebastian talks with him about the pre-ASA days of ...

#109: Blading on the Brain from 2018-07-15T20:32:20

Late last year, Kennan Scott went rollerblading and hit his head. Now, seven months into his continuing and dedicated recovery, he talks about what it means to be head-injured and his new YouTub...

#108: Saturday Sounds from 2018-06-19T22:18:15

Rollerblading may be a visual sport, but there are wonderfully rich sounds generated while doing it, from the ting and hum of skates locking onto a rail to the thunderous applause when a trick i...

101: Brian Bina (Repost) from 2018-06-18T02:47:57

FOR SOME REASON, THIS EPISODE WAS DELETED. THAT'S NOT COOL, SO HERE IT IS AGAIN. 

For lack of a better description, Brian Bina is a nomadic adventurer, back in the States on a brief hiatu...

#107: NWST 2018 from 2018-06-13T14:37:05

From blistering hot concrete to icy cold lakes, the Northwest Shred Tour, yet again, brought us together to shred, camp, and remind ourselves why we’re all alive. Reported extensively by Levi Se...

#106: Megan Petersen from 2018-05-31T01:29:19

Photographer and bladie Megan Petersen tells us about her ambitious Bladies project. Starting out with a few T-shirt designs, she hopes to expand it out into a central hub for bladies content an...

#105: Drew Costley from 2018-05-24T23:13:39

Drew Costley is a born-again rollerblader. Born in D.C., raised in Virginia, and currently being educated in Berkeley, he is also photographer, multimedia journalist, and a fun person to be arou...

#104: Ryan Lindsay from 2018-05-22T00:30:35

Ryan Lindsay was the first friend I made as we both earned our masters’ degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. She, too, likes to use sports as window into the bigger picture. 

You can fo...

#103: Grilling by the Lake from 2018-05-16T18:27:33

Phil Moore and Brian Krans discuss current events, including the racist incident at Lake Merrit that went viral, Kanye, Phil’s picky eating, and his new dog.

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#102: NWST '18 Primer with Preston and Shawn from 2018-05-08T18:17:06

NWST founder Preston Villanueva and Northern California’s Shawn Oberg talk with me over Skype about what’s in store for this year. We cover the parks we’ll be skating, where we will be camping, ...

#100 from 2018-04-16T14:51:26

What some podcasters could do in a year, we did in three and a half. We — Erick Garcia, Kennan Scott, Philip Moore, and I — take the show back to its roots in Kennan’s garage. We count down the ...

#99: Derek Henderson from 2018-04-12T13:56:05

Derek Henderson may be Razor’s latest pro, but he’s been holding it down in California’s Central Valley for decades. We talk about S9 bearings, his true top souls, what being pro means to him, a...

#98: Blade Havasu from 2018-04-02T20:36:12

Rock Town correspondent Levi Sebastian guides us through his weekend of skating and camping in “Arizona’s playground,” otherwise known as Lake Ha...

#97: Charles Dunkle&Friends from 2018-03-22T00:35:31

While back home in Alabama for his engagement party, Phil sat down with Alabama legends Charles Dunkle, Matty Schrock, Mike Buckalew, Shane Thompson, and Malcolm Heard.  

Talking around a...

#96: The Iowa-California Connection from 2018-03-05T18:55:29

Like me, Phil Austin and Josh Goodell were Iowans who fled the state in search of warmer winters, diverse topography, and burritos. We talk about food, Iowa skating OGs, and what Phil does not w...

#95: Black Panther from 2018-02-26T04:19:15

Phil Moore watched Black Panther with his father in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Brian Krans watched it in Oakland, California, which is important in the film. It's also where both Phil ...

#94: Skookum from 2018-02-10T17:50:40

Skookum is an all-blader band out of Oakland, California. Phil sits down with Brian Shima, Pat Catilung, Sean Salazar, and Brendan Tidd to talk about all sorts of fun stuff, including, possibly,...

#93: Philip Moore #cohost from 2018-02-05T22:37:09

Hashtag-cohost was a resounding success, so now Philip Moore is officially in the Rock Town family. In this episode, I share some of my best mistakes as a blade podcaster, who really deserves th...

#92: Hermanos from 2017-12-04T01:29:28

After four years of painstaking labor, Ivan Narez and his friends — or should I say Hermanos — debuted the first of what will hopefully be many more video and book combos. We talk about all the ...

#91: Gav Drumm from 2017-11-20T17:38:25

Hailing from Australia, Gavin Drumm was in the States for nearly three weeks when he took home first place in the Blading Cup, went down to Mexico, and filmed for the upcoming Valo 6 video. We t...

#90: Malm, Levi&Noah from 2017-11-13T04:13:19

Danny Malm, Levi Sebastian, and Noah Neuber are three wonderful human beings who rollerblade and live in Northern California. After a rousing afternoon of doing sweet tricks at a skate park, I i...

#89: Nick Riggle from 2017-10-07T18:15:10

Nick Riggle is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego whose book — On Being Awesome: a Unified Theory of How Not to Suck — recently hit bookshelves. Previou...

#88: Philip Moore&Matty Schrock from 2017-10-03T14:42:56

Philip Moore and Matty Schrock are two Southern shredders mulling around the Bay Area. We talk about Phil’s recent contest winnings, BARS, and a lot about the different types of skating. 

#87: Stephen Babcock&Cody Clark from 2017-10-03T03:51:48

Stephen Babcock and Cody Clark are both Bay Area natives living up north in Oregon. They were in town for the Lux Street Open, so we talk about that, the Portland skate scene, and a whole bunch ...

#86: Jaren Grob from 2017-09-26T05:53:32

Jaren “The Monster” Grob is a huck-it and chuck-it legend in rollerblading. Since he’s in NorCal performing at Great America in Santa Clara, he came by to talk about his more than two decades pe...

#85: Challe Walle from 2017-08-31T02:30:02

Charles Solano — sometimes called Challe Walle, other times called the Exotic Animal — is a Bay Area blade scene staple known for, among other things, just being his damn self. We talk about Sky...

#84: B. Free (w/ Challe Walle and Augustin) from 2017-08-07T21:35:02

B. Free recently moved back to Oakland from San Francisco, and, as of this recording, was 34 days into a long-term blading binge. Flanked by Challe Walle and Augstin, we talk about blading love,...

#83: Steven Johns from 2017-08-02T01:48:17

Steven Johns is a long-time SoCal staple in skating, tattooing, and general blade culture. He’s started his own podcast, called The TruSpin Podcast, so we talk about that, as well as hear from h...

#82: Gary Magill, Erik Beltran, and Coty Dobbs from 2017-07-23T01:54:45

Gary Magill, Erik Beltran, and Coty Dobbs are three Fresno skaters currently living in the Bay Area. We talk about Fresno’s beloved and now gone Art House, the documentary they made about it, an...

#81: Jon Fromm from 2017-07-18T04:37:45

Jon Fromm is a Florida-raised shredder living in San Diego who rides for companies like Razors and Sic Urethane.

We talk about his many, many travels, Razor's new Shift skate, catching a ...

#80: Kirk Chang&Mike Jimenez from 2017-07-17T03:03:54

Looking back ­on NorCal blade history, Kirk Chang & Mike Jimenez noticed a deficit in street contests. So they’re doing something to fill the void by throwing the Lux Street Open on Sept. 30 in ...

#79: Andrew Scherf and Dan Howard from 2017-06-28T07:17:23

When there's a city experiencing record-breaking high temperatures, what's a good investigative journalist to do? Oh yeah, you go to that city. 

Phoenix bladers Andrew Scherf and Dan Howa...

#78: Adam Bazydlo from 2017-05-02T04:01:07

Adam Bazydlo (a.k.a. Bladezilla) is a hammer drop-rail skater from the South. You may recognize him from his solo sessions on Instagram, the cover of ONE Magazine, or from the new VOD, “Moments ...

#77: Blader Union from 2017-05-01T05:55:34

For a long time, rollerblading has deserved a better solution to aggregating blading content besides Rollernews. Daniel Nodzak and Travis Stewart—the moderators of /r/rollerblading on Reddit—bri...

#76: Feet Four from 2017-04-24T20:10:57

Lonnie Gallegos, Jeremy Soderburg, Jonathan Labez, Rob Guerrero, and Mike Obedoza were in town filming for Lonnie's latest video, Feet 4. 

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#75: Ian Walker from 2017-03-12T03:34:36

Hailing from Denver, Ian Walker is an avid filmmaker, the king of the Scumpire, and an overall really nice weirdo. Our conversation goes many places, not stopping shy of guns, gimps, and other f...

#74: Boschi Pope from 2017-02-26T19:37:50

Boschi Pope is a New York City skate legend. In August, he hosted the Boschi Pope Skate Off at the Hamilton Bridge Skate Park next to the Harlem River. It was a month after his release ...

#73: Chad and Brad Anthony from 2017-02-14T05:34:38

Chad and Brad Anthony hail from Kentucky, but this last year, they were everywhere. From the A-Town Stomp and the Blading Cup to Schmidty’s Ramp and Camp to the Windy City Riot, the Southern Scr...

#72: Matt Murphy from 2017-01-29T20:00:28

Matt Murphy and I were heading to skate and BBQ in St. Helena, so I hooked up the audio gear in my truck and we recorded on our way north.

Along the way, we inevitably talk about politics...

#71: Shredpool from 2017-01-20T05:24:49

Shredpool is, well, a Ryan Reynolds joke gone too far but handled so well. Shred and Deadpool both stab people for a living and love showing the kids at the skatepark how it’s really done.

#70: Jason Reyna from 2017-01-03T22:12:53

Jason Reyna was in Oakland for work, so we took the opportunity to talk about being grown-up grommets, what’s in store for the Forecast trade show, how he manages to be everywhere, and other thi...

#69: The Ghost Ship Fire from 2016-12-31T17:45:10

On Dec. 2, 36 people were killed when a fire broke out during an electronic music show in a warehouse known as the Ghost Ship in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood. 

Oakland's arts and musi...

#68: Michael Braud and Philip Moore from 2016-12-16T02:08:15

Philip Moore and Michael Braud are two southern gentlemen who have been skating and filming together over the last few weeks here in the Bay Area. We talk about Making America Blade Again, 2016 ...

#67: Kevin Chow from 2016-11-23T01:23:10

Kevin Chow has been everywhere forever. 

Kevin is a mainstay in rollerblading, from writing profiles for Daily Bread to being part of FISE in France, this Canadian-born Barcelona resident...

#66: Trump and the Riots from 2016-11-13T20:53:31

In this episode, host Brian Krans talks to himself about covering the 2016 election, rollerblading through the protests and riots that followed in Oakland, and the ramifications of underestimati...

#65: Omar, B. Free, and the Oakland Blade Jam from 2016-10-10T04:36:57

Now in it’s fourth year, the OBJ is getting back to the streets this Saturday, starting at Madison Park in Oakland. Right near the Lake Merritt BART station, if you’r...

#64 Matt Lewis from 2016-09-13T04:22:50

Matt Lewis is the founding editor of the zine-turned-literary journal, The Radvocate, which publishes poems, fiction, non-fiction, art, photography, and illustrations...

#63: Aaron Powell from 2016-08-23T04:18:18

Aaron grew up in the Bay, but took some prime time off from skating. Now that he’s all in again, he’s been a consistently great homie for a session. Now, he’s heading...

#62: BVDJ: Children of the Night from 2016-08-13T07:16:25

Medium’s “Children of the Night” featured skaters like Dustin Latimer, Brian Shima, Pat Lennen, Robert Lievanos, Jake Elliot, and featured music from Metallica, Stepp...

#61: Michael ‘Obe’ Obedoza from 2016-07-24T19:22:44

Michael ‘Obe’ Obedoza is a major source of positivity in rollerblading. We talk about what’s left of Xsjado, his Thrive Inline skate classes in Carson, getting new pe...

#59: Octavio ‘Paco’ Montano from 2016-07-17T07:15:25

Octavio, better known as Paco, loved his time in Montana during the NWST so much he’s moving there next month. We discuss Montana, food, blading styles, wheel manufac...

#58: Forecast from 2016-07-12T14:10:51

The Forecast Trade Show was held July 9 at the Skate House in Chatsworth, Calif. Feat. interviews with Michael Obedoza, Dave Lang, Matt Mickey, Robert Lievanos, Geoff...

#57: Steve Collis and Patrick Ridder from 2016-07-06T05:01:22

Steve Collis (UK) and Patrick Ridder (DE) spent some time in the USA lately, so we talked about the European Union and its feelings about rollerblading.

#56: Housewarming Antics from 2016-06-30T06:37:48

We recently hosted a housewarming BBQ. Erick Garcia, Kennan Scott, and Korey Waikiki, and others wanted to say a few things. #JSF FilthJuice.com

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#55: Stephen Babcock (feat. Paco) from 2016-06-28T05:18:34

Stephen Babcock, a.k.a, The White Wolf, is a 19-year-old shredder from Brentwood, California. 

Steve’s been racking up some ...

#54: NWST 2016 from 2016-06-16T14:06:13

The NWST 2016 started on June 2 in Missoula, MT. Featuring interviews with Cameron Talbott, Chemi Simiyu, Kellen Zinkgraf,...

#53: Kai Carlson-Wee from 2016-05-23T14:33:45

Kai Carlson-Wee is a rollerblader originally from Minnesota and is the Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. He’s most known for his skating in the Life Pl...

#52: Jon Julio from 2016-05-16T14:27:42

Jon Julio has been a pro skater for more than half his life, and is the man behind the Valo Brand, Them Goods, and the Blading Cup. 

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#51: Trap House (feat. Ivan Narez) from 2016-04-20T05:24:04

Krans talks to himself inside his new place about messing up a podcast with Jon Julio, donating to Schmidty’s Ramp & Camp, buying but not watching Cayenne, and more. ...

#50: Goodbye, Rock Town Garage from 2016-03-21T06:31:37

Yay! It's episode 50, but it's not all celebration: the Rock Town Garage is closing down. Well, it's moving at least. Krans talks about losing his house, where he's going, podca...

#49: Victor Arias from 2016-03-14T16:48:39

Victor Arias is the latest Valo skater with a pro boot bearing his name. His edit, filmed in his home country of...

#48: Black Market from 2016-03-11T06:36:17

Black Market was Kevon Thompson’s first skate video, influencing him musically as well as in blading. He’s our co-host the latest installment of the Blade Video DJ se...

#47: AMall Glen Cove Comp from 2016-03-02T20:24:08

The AMall Glen Cove Comp was held Saturday, Feb. 27 at Glen Cove Elementary School in Valencia, Calif., a legendary Bay Area spot. Competitors included Ivan Narez, Vi...

#46: Shawn Oberg from 2016-02-24T17:40:45

Shawn Oberg (@shawn.oberg) is a master of full-boot utilization, usually doing tricks that would drive a contest MC nu...

#45: Cameron Talbott&the NWST from 2016-02-18T15:32:03

Cameron Talbott returns to the podcast to talk about the Northwest Shred Tour coming to his hometown of Missoula, grizzly bears, and good spots to hit up in Montana. We also give our immediate r...

#43: Dr. Hazel Bain from 2016-02-08T17:02:26

Dr. Hazel Bain is a Scottish solar physicist who recently returned from a three-month expedition to Antarctica with NASA to launch the G.R.I.P.S. balloon. It gathered...

#42: Jeremy Raff&John Vossoughi from 2016-02-03T20:06:13

Jeremy Raff and John Vossoughi will soon release their video, "Characters," which debuted at the Blading Cup. Besides the video, we discuss Raff's journalism career, caucuses and primaries, and ...

#41: Erick “ESG” Garcia from 2016-01-21T07:53:59

Erick Garcia is an American rollerblader and photographer. Known better as ESG, he’s “El Presidente” to the Juiced Sucka Foos. He talks about Oakland life, K2 skates, cess slides, and skitching ...

#40: Kevon Thompson from 2016-01-19T03:44:49

Kevon Thompson is an American rollerblader, filmmaker, and music maker. In 2013, he made the blading documentary “I’m Still Here.” We discuss NorCal and SoCal, Black Market, modern campus life, ...

#39: Pat Lennen from 2016-01-06T09:36:33

Wonder what happened with Pat Lennen? Most known for his stunt skating in videos like Leading the Blind and Drip Drop, he got his start flipping over Ferraris, but now at 34, skating makes him u...

#38: Ivan Narez and Valo 4Life from 2015-12-25T17:47:22

Ivan Narez is an American rollerblader and filmmaker. We talk about the making of Valo 4Life, what skates spots are off limits, acquiring music rights, and other topics. Following the Q&A portio...

#37: Korey ‘Sneaky’ Waikiki from 2015-12-17T17:19:10

Korey Waikiki is an American rollerblader who recently received his first pro skate from Razors. We talk about Korey’s blading childhood in NorCal, his travels, brotherly influence, oversensitiv...

#36: Joey Scannella from 2015-12-15T19:38:23

Joey Scannella is a rollerblader from Staten Island, New York. After taking a break from blading, he started back up in 2009. 

As I took a similar break in college, we talked about what ...

#35: Chris Haffey from 2015-11-12T18:34:40

Chris Haffey is one of the best rollerbladers ever.

Before his Nitro Circus stop in San Jose, Chris gives us the full story behind his newly-revitali...

#33: The 2015 Blading Cup from 2015-11-10T17:47:52

The 2015 Blading Cup took place Nov. 7 in downtown Santa Ana. Host Brian Krans takes you through his weekend, including skating in the Veterans Cup, helping build a street course, and getting a ...

#32: Aaron Schultz, Zach Savage, Ben Forsythe from 2015-11-04T07:47:10

Aaron Schultz, Ben Forsythe, and Zach “Savage” Waszkiewicz visited the Rock Town Garage after their trip to AIL at Woodward West and before we all head to the Blading Cup. We get an AIL report a...

#31: Tony Watt from 2015-10-21T03:58:54

Tony Watt is an American journalist, fiction writer, and book character. He and host Brian Krans covered crime and courts for a Midwest newspaper for three years, so when they plug in their mics...

#30: Jay Cottrell from 2015-10-14T15:30:14

Jay Cottrell, or Young OG as he’d prefer to be known, is an oddball in the blade game and we love him because of it. Off-mic and on blades, Jay is always about ad-libbing and just spitting out h...

#28: Jose Fuentes from 2015-10-05T22:06:18

Jose Fuentes is credited as the 3D animator for the 2010 anti-masterpiece ‘Birdemic: Shock and Terror,’ designed Blading the Game, created BladeorDie.com, and is dedicated crew member at the Bla...

#27: The Oakland Blade Jam from 2015-09-22T19:07:24

The Oakland Blade Jam was a community event and skating competition held Sept. 19 at Town Park in West Oakland. This episode features interviews and commentary with Matt Mickey, Michael “Obe” Ob...

#26: Wax Caddy from 2015-09-14T08:33:24

Building stuff is fun. Host Brian Krans talks to himself about scrounging for materials for his home rail box on Craigslist free ads, how the details make the difference, and making new mistakes...

#25: Monday Night Shred from 2015-08-26T15:55:18

Hello, sports fans!

For this episode, we take you out to Monday Night Shred in Union City—orchestrated by Wolves Den and Death Squad—for their tournament of champions. We’ll bring you pla...

#24: Bruce Bales and the Roller Hockey Dream Team from 2015-08-15T20:46:12

Bruce Bales is a rollerblader, photographer, videographer, and host of the Iowa River Rumble.

We talk about the zen art of blade maintenance, rollerblading as an art form, working for fre...

#23: Bfree, Omezzy, and the Oakland Blade Jam from 2015-08-12T18:28:54

Brian Freeman and Omar Onitveros run the Oakland Blade Jam, which returns to Town Park on Sept. 19. We talked about the upcoming contest, the rich history of competitions in the Bay Area, recrui...

#22: Mike “Coach” Opalek from 2015-07-28T17:46:19

Mike Opalek was on the original Senate team, and has performed stunts in such 90s classics as Airborne, Brink, Double Dragon, and Batman and Robin.

From his front porch in Salt Lake C...

#21: John Vossoughi, Tyler Noland, and Neil Chen from 2015-07-27T15:08:11

Tyler Noland, John Vossoughi, and Neil Chen are three master shredders exploring Montana by escaping wildfire in Glacier National Park, putting in long days skating in the hot sun, and soaking i...

#20: Blowing Shit Up for Freedom from 2015-07-10T03:22:55

On Independence Day, host Brian Krans boarded up the Rock Town Garage to he kept his terrified dog, Friday, company as fireworks and gunfire lit up East Oakland. He talks past and present Americ...

#19: Brandon Ford from 2015-06-26T06:56:51

Brandon Ford is a staple of the Boston blading scene. He stopped by the Rock Town garage while driving across the U.S. for his moving company. We talked about blading in the Olympics, the Jenner...

#18: Skookum from 2015-05-29T19:04:56

Skookum is an all-blader rock band from Oakland, comprised of Sean Salazar, Patrick Calilung, Brendan Tidd, and Brian Shima. Sean and Pat stopped by the Rock Town garage to talk about the meanin...

#17: Chris Dafick from 2015-05-25T01:34:49

Chris Dafick is one of modern rollerblading’s most prolific nomads and currently en route to Spain. He stopped by the Rock Town garage to talk about blading, the Shredweiser life, the need to al...

#16: Assault Rifles&Pedophiles: An American Love Story from 2015-04-23T17:08:56

AR&P is Brian Krans' third novel. In this podcast, he talks about how his experiences working in retail and newspapers blend together to create what's been called a "masterfully developed plot w...

RTP: San Jose Street Comp from 2015-03-29T18:39:12

On Saturday, Aggressive Mall hosted the first San Jose Street Comp. Here's your audio coverage of the event, including guest commentary from Korey "Sneaky" Waikiki, Jose Fuentes, B.J. Bernhardt,...

RTP: Fear and Loathing at the Pow-wow Pro/Am from 2015-03-20T21:20:39

The 9th installment of the Panhandle Pow-wow took place March 12-15 in Jacksonville, Fla. For four days, rollerbladers from across the globe descended for a weekend of camping, blading, and booz...

RTP: Wasted Woodward Weekend from 2015-02-25T05:34:41

Victor Arias guest hosts this episode as he and friends invade Woodward West for a three-day weekend full of blading.

Guests including E. Rod, Dave Lang, B. Free, Peter D., Cameron Talbot...

Freeze Tag on the Highway from 2015-02-06T08:48:45

FTOH is Brian Krans' second novel and in this solo podcast he explains where the original idea came from, childhood medications, why you shouldn't joke about being a pedophile, and getting kicke...

#10: Kennan Scott on Bill Cosby from 2015-01-28T06:55:20

Being a child actor is no easy game, especially when your childhood hero was Bill Cosby.

Kennan Scott returns to the Rock Town Podcast to exercise his demons while his cousin Jake for...

#9: Erik Bailey and Kyler Martz from 2014-12-29T00:43:08

Erik Bailey and Kyler Martz are Boise blading brothers, to say the least. In this episode, Erik, a Valo pro for nearly 12 years, and Kyler, whose art is ubiquitous in blading, talk about taking ...

RTP 08: A Constant Suicide from 2014-12-10T16:50:42

By request, Krans talks to himself about his first book, A Constant Suicide, including how the book came to be, what parts are true, and other things involved self-publishing a book.  Listen

BDP #7: F33t Drinking Game S#!+ Show from 2014-11-17T16:43:13

What goes better than beer and blade flicks? Beer, blade flicks, whiskey, and a pre-determined set of rules designed to get your quite drunk. 

This episode feetures John Vossoughi, Matty ...

BDP #6: Blading Cup... Too Easy from 2014-11-05T16:29:06

Fresh off 11 hours of MCing the Blading Cup last weekend, Erick Garcia and Kennan Scott break down yet another amazing skating competition. To keep with tradition, there are plenty of shout-outs...

#05: Cameron Talbott from 2014-11-03T17:17:46

Cameron Talbott is a rollerblader from Missoula, Montana. In this episode recording on the drive from Aggressive Mall to the Blading Cup, we ask Cameron all sorts of questions about skating up t...

#04: Birthday Beers with Matt Murphy from 2014-10-29T10:01:38

In this episode, we sit down with Matt "Murph D-O-Double-G" Murphy, the silent staple of the NorCal blading scene, on his 31st birthday to talk, among other things, royales in K2s, what it's lik...

#03: Living in a Van with Bret Easthouse from 2014-10-23T06:32:17

This episode was recorded on Oct. 22, 2014, inside a 1989 Toyota van, where blader Bret Easthouse lives and travels with his skateboarder-biting dog, Bubba. Bret explains the finer points of liv...

#2: Mead Avenue Hustle from 2014-10-16T15:12:50

Welcome back for Episode 2!

This time on the Rock Town Podcast, Krans sits down with Matty, Jay, and Moose at their a...

#01: Blading Cup Primer from 2014-10-09T14:00

To kick off the podcast, Krans sits down with Erick Garcia and Kennan Scott, JSF godfathers and the voices of The Blading Cup. On a ...

#01: Blading Cup Primer from 2014-10-09T14:00

To kick off the podcast, Krans sits down with Erick Garcia and Kennan Scott, JSF godfathers and the voices of The Blading Cup. On a ...