GR: Have you ever done any
hard drugs?
No.
GR: Hardcore crack?
No, just alcohol.
GR: You've never smoked
the weed?
Yeah, but only when I was drunk.
It was stupid. It's just like ciga-
rettes and it's a waste of money, if
you ask me.
GR: But don't you like to get
good and baked before you hit
a big rail?
Yeah. No, of course not.
Is there a chance that you're
ever going to get as big as
Ben Schroeder?
Let's figure this out. Who the fuck
is Ben Schroeder?
He's the biggest skater of all
time. Like 6'6".
GR: And he ruled!
Oh yeah? Like popular?
GR: No, he was just massive. I
give you about three years.
How tall are you now?
I don't want to talk about it.
GR: He's about 6'3", with size
12 feet.
I just turned 12 the last time I
went to Sole Tech.
GR: When I met him he was
size 10 and 5'9". He's growing
up. Two or three years and
he'll be Ben Schroeder. He just
needs his shoulders to fill out
and he'll be a man.
Do you have a special lady
friend in your life?
No.
What do you do when you
want to get a girl's attention?
GR: He scratches his nuts.
Yeah. I just do like Geoff and put
my pimp pack out on the table.
GR: My what?
Geoff goes into a restaurant and
unloads his pimp pack onto the
table, like, here's my cell phone,
here's my pager, here's the wallet,
here's the BMW keys. That's what
he does all the time, and it seems.
to work. So I just tried that a cou-
ple of times and it seems to work.
Are there any tricks you're
working on?
I'm trying to get rid of the mob
and the rocket.
GR: Working up to the slash
and the carve.
Yeah, I'm trying to skate more
pools learn more about the legends.
GR: You should. Pools are fun.
But do you have any goals of
things you want to do in
skateboarding?
I don't know. I'm not setting up
any motocross jumps or anything.
Are you laying off the contests
these days?
Yes, because they're like year-
round. I'm working on other things.
Have you ever had a job?
Yeah. I was a newspaper boy.
GR: That doesn't count.
You're telling me that doesn't
count? That counts!
GR: It's not a real job.
Try and do that in Finland for
eight months straight.
GR: I did it for five years!
Try doing it in the winter when
it's 32 below!
GR: Look, he's getting all defensive
about his paperboy job.
Let's do a little word association. I'll say
a word and you say the first thing that
comes to mind.
Princess.
Poo.
Spoiled brat.
Poo.
Temper tantrums.
Geoff.
BMW.
Jeremy.
Focusing boards.
Kerry Getz.
Mob.
Greco.
Cop shades.
Mims.
No personality.
I guess that would be me.
"Never try to do
anything twice. The
second time I tried
this backside nose
blunt slide I broke
my watch and got a
swollen palm that
won't go away."