Hello everyone. This is Jared Addison. And it's a pleasure to have you listening in today. Welcome to the Olay brand podcast for those who have no background on me. I'm the founder of Olay brand which has been created to provide you with the best content in the freestyle scootering industry in case you were unfamiliar with my riding and dedication. I have towards growing the sport. I welcome you to view my best scootering video part available on YouTube titled Joy. Adelson web it at 5 on the podcast. I'll be having casual it deep conversations with the top scooter riders on the planet and interesting individuals around the world. This podcast has been developed to show The Human Side of riders beyond their incredible talents and will deliver tools habits Lessons Learned in tactical advice from individuals around the world with the hopes of motivating and inspiring entertaining and providing. I will incite for you listening in today. My guest for today is an absolute Legend of scooter riding in without a doubt. One of these Sports Pioneers The Man Dan Baer Dan Hills from America and is one of the most influential writers of all time. Dan is one of the most technical writers to ever touch a scooter performing countless combos that essentially no other Rider on Earth is even capable of dreaming of Dad was a part of the original proteam having a part in one of scootering is most legendary full-length videos the Proto Catalyst. Dan is truly one of the pioneers of freestyle scooter riding in America and has been incredible Ambassador promoting our sport to the youth four more years and I've even been riding Dan is over 50,000 followers on Instagram, but much more importantly than that has had an everlasting impact on our Sport and inspired countless individuals around the world. Dennis worked and road for Phoenix prosecutors for over eight years and has recently parted ways this past week from Phoenix today. We'll be diving into this and lots more be sure to find down on Instagram at Den back. So without further Ado, let's get right into it by welcoming the man himself Dan Bear. Yeah. Thanks for talking me out man. Absolutely. I'm super stoked to have you on Den. It's going to be a going to be really good on think. Yeah, cool. Yeah, so let's get right into it and just let's start by getting some background like tell us where you grew up and how long you been riding and how you started scooter. Yes, I grew up in the suburbs of Philly. It's a town called Levittown about 30 40 minutes from Center City, Philadelphia and Yeah, I got a scooter for Christmas around the year 2000. So technically I guess and started riding 2001 one. Yeah, just kind of riding an old a razor set up. My brother's got some scooters from the Boardwalk in Atlantic City prior to that. So, you know, I wanted one really bad because of that. So I was riding with my brother's grown up. That's some other kids around town like Kevin vanocur around gets there's some some Riders who also tried out for micro back in the early days. Kevin vanocur was on micro with me. And then yeah from there got a sponsor with micro around 2006 seven ish and then Yeah, then comes comes razor got on razor with a little sponsor tape the sent it to Ali. I did a little Hank five in Philly. There's like a median in between two roads who's dead of winter ahead like my big ass jacket on big gloves. And then the first trip when I met up with with Ali and razor in California that flew me out around 2008 2009 for an SD comp Ali showed it to me. Actually had the clip saved on his desktop and he's like dude I watch this all the time because he comes from a skateboarding background. He's really technical. So I guess he really appreciated that aspect of my riding and then you have racer definitely definitely got me like concreted into the industry because there is a VHS tape from Toys R Us that they sold called Evolution once I pop that in and saw What scootering was capable of it was it was all history from there got on Proto around 2010 or not 2010. That's when the first full-length came out. I was on Proto probably around 2008 2009 after razor which didn't last too long. And then yeah from their Road for razor or for Proto for a few years and got the opportunity to write for Phoenix which then so basically my whole sort of Hobby aspect to it to to a career side of it which was like a stepping stone for me to get out of the plumbing. We're getting kind of just like live the dream for a while. Yeah, and then fast forward eight plus years later. I'm parting ways with Phoenix and I still have my other sponsors that are You know huge huge foundations in the sport which will last a lifetime. So I think you know just finding out the details and you know, debug and everything that's been that's been happening over the years and sort of just mainstream and my riding and also back into my trade work, which is Plumbing. So, I'm really Giggling what's going on? Yeah, that's amazing. That's amazing. Yes it before before we get into Phoenix or anything. I'd like to just you know, kind of hear a little bit more about your early days when you did start riding like so you said you're riding with Kevin vinegar and some other guys like Alan gets my brother. There was a ton of other Riders. We had a little crew called demolition we made love. Video part with our little mini DV video cameras, I don't know where those are at now. But yeah those guys stopped riding over a decade ago. So yeah started out with a little crew called demolition and the dream was the always, you know, get on a razor or micro. So when when a sponsorship opportunity came up micro is a good posture Clive u.s. Riders and There's dozens of sponsor tapes and me and Kevin vanocur now gets all made one. We're all from the same town. And I know Matt Ogle actually tried out a few times. But yeah, Kevin and I got on micro. We got a few packages. Matt Andres was the sort of the TM because he would get all the packages sent to him that Andres would then send it to us. And that's how I did Transit because Matt Hendricks is from Wisconsin. His older brother John Andres is a BMX rider. He used to do a few shows on his BMX bike. And yeah, so that's when I went out to Wisconsin as well. I was on micro at the time and we filmed a full-length DVD where we're just traveled from skatepark the skate park around Wisconsin and yeah eventually transit to came out which I wasn't a part of but I still have a few of those copies of Transit one just Oh sweet. Well, yeah, so I've actually never seen the transit one. So I think I'm going to have to somehow find that around that that yeah, it's on YouTube. Yeah. Okay cool. You'll have to send me that link and I'll link in the show notes for anyone who wants to watch that. Yeah, so but when you started writing who was there too? Who did you look up to like who is writing before you you know, how did you find the inspiration to? To do all the things you do and came up with you know, all those ideas. Absolutely a man that uh, that's a good point because I didn't bring up the main dude who's sort of he showed me scooter resources name is John mattes, and so I'm riding around town with with Kevin vanocur. We're hitting a bunch of schools and Ledges were filming for demolition. And this kid John Maddox comes up with like a bolted pro model not pro model at the time, but it was an a like an old a and he just shows up and we're just like it all of his scooter and he's hitting this force their hand rail. He's doing like double tail UPS off the ledge and it was amazing because we're just like, you know, we were so isolated just riding him and I and John Madison comes into our life and he just Rates on a small piece of paper like scuderi source.com. Check it out. We didn't we checked it out. And then we linked up with John. I feel like me and Kevin were sort of like corn balls at the time because like in John Madison sighs because we were doing one foot manuals like as many parking spaces as we can. We're playing scoot with John and John's like, oh you can't hop in your fakies. You can't do one foot man. That's called a wheelie. So like we were like younger kids and I guess we didn't come off as as cool as as he was because he has been on scooter resource for A little while before we were and he was also on a crew called the Philly crew and then I met the rest of the Filly crew which was Mike McGowan Casey Murphy Brian Boston who invented the bride flip and they're out of Philly. So I think the first time I met him was at EIC compa 2006 which I won best trick with like a scooter fakie nose blonde. I think I also won that That best trick contest because nobody else landed their best trick, but I also did a little something different that not everybody who's used to and yeah from there they would they would come and come from Levittown. Like they would come from Northeast Philly to Levittown to come pick me up to ride like we'd go to Jersey skate parks because they were all free food go the you know, the suburbs of Philly were like Street Banks is an iconic Park and the Philly Crew videos. Those we go to Philly out also tell my mom like yeah, I'm a ride around town all day. I'll be back because you know, I was like 14 15 years old. My mom wasn't let me like driving somebody's car that she didn't know all around Jersey and all around PA. So I kind of extended the truth with my mom. And from there. They would take me around we started filming for the Philly crew. I didn't get it. Featured in the first Philly crew until like TPC 7. So they had been laying the groundwork for the Philly crew way before I met them. Yeah, and also remember like me and Kevin made our own TPC shirts without like asking them so that First Tee I see contests were we're just here repping TPC and I guess technically we weren't on the Philly crew yet. No, so when Brian in Boston case Murphy walked in and they had some beef with with us kind of claiming that we're on the Philly crew wrapped in the Philly crew, but it was all good because within a little while we were a part of the crew and in the DVDs and whatnot. Crazy, so tell me more a little bit more about like around you know, what year was that you found the school resource. And then also like when you did find the scooter resource, like tell me a little bit about how that change your I guess outlook on scootering and if you're able to, you know find maybe some external inspiration other than those clothes, you know products physics. Right. Sorry, I'd have to guess around 2005 though back on scooter resource and see when I joined as a member. Yeah. Yeah, but that's that's a good that's rough enough. That's perfectly fine. Yeah, 2005 and it was like amazing going on this website and seeing scooter riders around the world like your Toady Donovan's Martin Campbell was a huge inspiration for me and still is he would do like downside front scooter flips on banks? He would do like over 500 s or ice picks whatever you want to call it, especially back then on little spines in his driveway, and it was just amazing going on scooter resource seeing video of the week seeing clip of the week. Seeing like Rider of the year, which I think I was like overall best Rider of the year in 2009 on scooter resource. So yeah, just like around 2005 got on scooter resource. Huge connection network of scooter riders around the world just on one website where I was uploading videos every week filming myself. Like there's a little spot of top my street called the mortuary back. It was like a funeral home just a little curves long manual pad. Just put my camera down fill myself to go home couldn't wait to like put it up in the put it up on the website. Everybody like gives me feedback. So like I hit the ground running once I found scooter, Because it was like, you know, just like every man for themselves show each other what they got? Yeah. It was just it was motivational and like humbling at such an early age. It's amazing. It's so cool to hear and then you know, I'm sure it's also probably very rewarding your, you know, maybe you didn't realize at the time or maybe you did but like, you know, too that there's a community around the world and seeing that this is you know, something that people do other than just you know, The few few guys here able to know close by but so I'm sure that you'll apply some motivation as well. Yeah, so tell us about like your perspective on the evolution of scootering you've seen from sort of their days you began routing to now like get did you ever expect that our sport would get to this point today? I guess not because I never actually thought about it as a sport or like it is huge Community because like I said, I got in it at such an early age that like they're still kids that age or even younger getting it into the sport or the industry now, so I guess we're being on the Forefront of that wave for me. It's like sort of all I know so it's like I'm still doing it because that's what I've been doing since such an early age when I it wasn't so many younger kids than me doing it. So it was like I'm getting older. I'm still getting older. I'm still getting older. I'm still doing it, but people are still coming in under underneath us underneath me. So it's like I just feel like it keeps growing and keeps getting stronger. It's a huge Foundation because I'm almost every young kid in America like gets a scooter at some point including me so it's like What do they do with it? Do they go in the freestyle aspect of they just do it for fun? Do they keep it in the garage? And it collects dust? So it's I think the scooter is just like a sweet like tool for people to express have fun. And then, you know, they can build on that. They can nowadays. You have your YouTube channels. They it's pretty much the same thing as scooter resource and it in a different way. It's just then the filming themselves and sharing it around the world because cuz we can all relate on this on this one thing that we ride. So it's I don't know if I answered your question directly those those those amazing answer. Absolutely. Yeah. No, you're great. Yeah, so, you know, but before we get any further, I know all our listeners are dying to know could you tell us more about a bit what happened with Phoenix? How come you left? Yeah, it's not something I you know something like I was dying to do or wanted to do it with something more like the Riders and I because all the Riders. Yeah, we all know I was team manager for years and I was friends and close homies with all the team manager before that all the way from like the first team manager, so I sort of helped build up that team so For me, it was almost like even if I didn't have that role as a team manager, I sort of felt obligated that that was my team almost then like connect with them and communicate with them. So whatever happens with the owners, there's not a lot of communication to you know to those Riders and these Riders this is there. This is their life. That's like what they they live in sleep and breathe so, When things change with the company whatever that may be financially decisions with products the team what's most important for them? Maybe not be like the same for us. So yeah, so things sort of changed from Corporation aspects from the owner down and it wasn't so great for us to continue riding for him because it wasn't going to sort it. There was no opportunity for us to continue. Growing or give back to the company. So we were sort of like at this stand still for a while waiting for things to change and grow and to the company and especially invest back in the industry and it wasn't happening up to our standards. As you know, as a writer. You just don't want to sit around and promote something and just get free products that you don't like or have no no input on, you know from the early days. We had lots of input on the product, but once once rolls Change as owners and decisions change and what's priority it's the and they change over time which wasn't best for us to continue representing that brand so, you know, it's all good while we left like no hard feelings. It's just something we had to do and you know, we just couldn't continue riding to promote and a brand that's sort of Not doing much, you know what I mean? And we've been we've held it out for so long that it's like it's worth our while to sort of go through those hard times. But those hard times just sort of like an art in our eyes it was hard times for the owners as it was just it is what it is. It's business. It's part of the portfolio. It's part of growing a business. They're operating on bank loans. Like I don't want to get too much into details, but it's just like You know core Riders who like Express and loved riding so much when it becomes about the dollar. I mean, of course it needs to be about the dollar to operate but when when it's not translating to all the Riders of like You know when like the owners not translating all this to the Riders, it's me, but I'm not being paid or or appreciated for this role. It's sort of just like it kind of vanished of like what are we even doing? What do we represent? And so for us to make it worth our time and while it's just we had to go somewhere else or just leave totally so whatever happens that company it's all good for them. But for us, It's we had to leave that in the past. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thanks so much for sharing Dan. And you know, I think it's definitely important that you know, you take the steps to you know represent what's best for you and you know, if they're not able to, you know meet the standards that you got you and you know, the Rogers deserve and if don't have the same Mission, you know, no reason to pack it. I think it's amazing that you guys all did it together rather than you know, one person leaving slowly at a time and then everyone else, you know, kind of just waiting on Taking things to happen. But really we're just kind of being taken advantage of in the end. Yeah, man, because if I were to just leave by myself, it's like you have so many riders. Like Jason tri-d will Judy Cassie pale and Vermette and a few others that are just like no communication with the owner. So it's like if I were to leave their just left in the dark Frank doesn't even know. I was trying not to call names out. But the owner name is Frank regardless. So no hard feelings at all. It's just I'm not trying to leave the riders that I put on the team that I scouted out worked with her over the years, even though I'm not in the team manager position now, I felt obligated because it felt like my team so, you know, we all did it together. We all agreed not a lot of riders wanted to do it. There's also Sten he's from Man Czech Republic or one of those countries over there? Yeah. Sorry. No, but he was huge and it's like Dan Schmidt like Frank doesn't know any of these Riders. So it's like they'll continue riding and representing the product that's been in the market for shit man. I on decks been out since 2010. We haven't had a new deck since wow, I've worked with Engineers I've worked with the factory and I can only do so much because you know, they're the owners and they they cut the checks and you know, I can only say so much of what we want to do and what we can do but it comes down to their decision. So I'm getting the knows. I'm getting the the direction that they want to go in and I have to relay this to the Riders and I wasn't just trying to leave Cooper wasn't just trying to leave without telling all this to the Riders and Give them the chance to say hey, you can stay on do what you want to email friend. Tell him to get you know, introduce yourself. You guys get used to each other but not really going to go anywhere anytime soon because you know, look examples the past then I don't think things are changing any time soon. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, I personally want to thank you and I think like the industry should thank you for you now taking that taking on that like role and responsibility. I guess, you know to you know, advise these Rogers because you know, they're they're just riding the scooter. I don't think you know, they don't they don't question these things as much maybe potentially. I can't save her, you know anyone individually, but you know, I think you as the older the older guy, you know, the team manager like it is your team. I think that's that's that's pretty damn fair, and I'm happy that you You know, we're looking out for all the guys and probably much much better that everyone left in the lung. For the each Rider and you know for part of the industry as a whole and then hopefully everyone is able to you know, get some more opportunities and if not, you know, it's all good. It's just, you know, rather scooter and enjoy. Yeah, man, and that's what you're seeing more of just these Riders off the their Phoenix and they're just they're enjoying the ride more just because it's like, you know not worried about representing a brand and like trying to try to make somebody happy that they don't even know so Like, you know, I feel like it's way better for them and it's a weight lifted off of their chest as well. Just going back to the roots and just riding having fun and maybe even like looking for new sponsors. I'm sure yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, so, you know get into this much or as little as you'd like, but could you could you tell us a little more of like some of the company changes over time that you know slowly like You know change the mission of what Phoenix was doing and how it you know. I don't know. It's see. I mean like there's a change of owners which which some unfortunate events happened with the old owner like health reasons and just personal reasons that he had to stop. And you know, I moved out the Portland for marketing manager marketing director position with Phoenix. So for me just being a rider on the east coast to then move it out to Oregon to actually have an office job in ride. That was sweet. You know what I mean? Like and then someone fortunate events happened owners switched. We were sort of a standstill in this gray area for a while new owner came on board with some new missions. Which were sweet it was like a blessing in disguise at the time because I got the open up in a retail shop in Portland called The Divided so that was the new Venture for me had employees there. I was riding on top of that managing the team managing the product getting made with the factory in China working with the Distributors to get that product and marketing material out there. And yeah, it just was it was best for I guess somebody else. Sort of take that office job because I wanted to focus on the writing more. So I took a step back from from being in the office 40 plus hours a week and also quote unquote being compensated for my riding. So that's also when I picked up Aztec because I felt like I was riding and working for Phoenix so much that my riding was sort of put on the back burner so I picked up a sec also being On on Phoenix. So that was almost an Avenue for me to to ride more and to express more for my writing. So I guess what I got on Aztec drops with the marketing job Jake her she picked all that up because he was already in the office doing sales and website work and back and work with the websites and Logistics. So it sort of made sense for that. But you know, you can only be spread so thin just like when I was doing everything there was things fall through the cracks at the owner. realize I was doing or thought it wasn't important but I felt like it was to wear Jake's doing all this on top of his other 40 plus our job that he already had So eventually that sort of got spread so thin that it wasn't important to even have a team manager to even focus on products because the owners will do that and once Jake left with that, it's just it was like a trickle effect of like what's most important for for the brand and But the old owner Tom it was so passionate. It was so like, you know Court to the blood of like what matters to okay, what makes more sense logistically and you know, I think with that trickle effect, we're here we're here all leaving Phoenix and now you can see Phoenix is sort of you know, whoever whatever they do what the company will see what they do from this outcome, but just a long trickle effect of of this small changes with the dolls. Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah, so you said that you started up The Divide? The divider the rod divide. I'm sorry. Okay, / it was the Divide shop. But well, yeah ride by dividing job. There was a few different names for there's an Instagram name. That was different. Yeah, so did Unix did they help you get that set up it was that part of something that they want to do. Is that your own sort of initiative mission. It was with turnstile Brands which units so the Divide we thought it was good for us to open. Years ago like I'm sorry Dan, the the connection was a little bit bad there. I don't know if you could possibly just step back and just tell us tell us from the beginning. Yeah. So the turnstile Brands is the one who owns the scooter shop there the distributor of Phoenix. So I was technically working for turnstile Brands and they sell to retailers all around North America. So we thought it was best for us to open up our own retailer because we thought we could do it. As good if not better and the local area needed it in Portland. So especially with all the products. We were selling we had a lot of returns. We had a lot of like damaged product that was almost like salvageable like you could almost like just sort of build up used custom completes. scooter refurbish tasty corns huge part of the Divide because he The early days of scootering. So it was an opportunity for him to work in the industry or sell them which was my job. See if we open up the Divide shop. Built out walls. We basically like made a retail shop within a month or two. Well, we brought bullies we would rebuild scooters sound to the area. I would also sell from The Divide shop to other scooter shops, like gravel. Can then Texas the volt barking spider Inward Scooters Mothership. They would they would pick up all these scooters and that was that was cool. It was just like a new Venture for me on top of you know a new venture. Even turnstile from going from distributor. Pretty much sums up. Okay. Yeah, very cool. So I still want to get like a bit more like into the history of you, you know, you're sort of join you Journey with Phoenix and you know how kind of that started years ago. And you know who were your like original teammates and sort of some of the you know, big big transitions you saw over time. from like eight years ago to two today, so I guess the standard that came out for Phoenix and I saw some Riders riding it. U.s. It American made Proto deck was barely out yet. And it was just like you also had TSI, but it was like a phoenix was scooping up Riders like they had Evelyn Larson and Cooper car was like the the original Phoenix choose from that area John Ray's as well. He was an East Coast connects and I was just basically being a bug and Tom Floyd's here just like yo, like here's my videos. Check me out like Motivated I want to get on it and then after like a month or two, he's he finally sent me a deck and you know sooner than later I got on the team. with Phoenix and you know John Ray's and I would were pretty much like tag team partners at the time riding for the brand and just always riding between New York and Philly and yeah from they're just things changed with interests of the people and team Riders leave people come and go and You know the company was growing at the time. So I stayed with Phoenix. I thought that was best and that's sort of the transition away from Proto. He's because you know all due respect Proto wants you to ride all their parts where well, I was riding a phoenix deck ball Proto Parts. Andrew wasn't having that which was totally cool, but I don't totally understand because don't casting was riding the TSI deck but he was still on Proto but it's all good. Got off Proto. It's representing Phoenix for a while. And yeah, that's that. Yeah. Okay. Very cool. Yeah. I'm a bit curious to tell us like, you know sort of the transition going from from Rider to to employee for Phoenix. Yeah, like how that kind of came about and you know, like I guess more about your day-to-day role when you you know went from I guess Rider to employee. Yeah, so I was definitely killing it as a Writer with Phoenix for a while on the east coast and traveling worldwide for contest and winning them and just staying relevant and on top of the sport or the industry. I should say and dude out of nowhere Tom hit me with that like yo, we think we have an opening for a marketing director job like I can send you over the details of what we what we think that job should entail. So we sent that over one from Team working with the u.s. Factory working with the budget for for trade shows for contests getting a booth social media websites. Yo have no background in this fresh out of high school with a plumbing background, but I'm with it like I'm with it. You know, it goes like my 21st birthday like right after my 21st birthday. I think the going away party moved to Oregon and yeah had a little desk set up. It was like on a little foldable table in the corner and I just learned a lot and then you had your having Larson Cooper working in the in the shop packaging and then the u.s. Manufacturer was across the street from there. So we're constantly about bouncing back and forth getting photos. And concept that I needed to use to promote the brand. And you know work in working day by day with with the owner, which was that was sweet and it is rare to work in the industry. That's such a niche industry even though it's so big, you know from going to like just riding for the brand and then getting a career opportunity out of it, you know how to make some sacrifices moving to Oregon living with my friend Ryan up church and sort of knowing nobody. Besides scooter riders so it wasn't you know, yeah. I was working 40 hours in the office. But like then I would go ride then I needed to use that content. It was just like scooter and scooter in scooter and scooter and like nothing else, you know. Yeah. I'm out in Oregon like new state new mindset and Yeah, did that. Yeah, very cool. So like tells, you know, like I'm just intrigued you know, because it's not often that you like you said you get to hear of you know directly from someone who's able to get a career from scootering other than just, you know, rotting in a full so I'm just a bit more Curious like this one and mute these questions, but sort of like, you know, so you were at the office for you days a week like like is your tasks like completely different every day. What were some of the You know the biggest functions that you you had accomplished. Yeah, so there was like bullet points that cover different things like, you know work on product design a little bit. Make sure we're on the Forefront of that marketing material from photos video content ads which then trickled into the working with the graphic designer and how to use that stuff on different platforms. Make sure the Riders also shared all that which also was a different role. See management. So the marketing director covered a lot of different things like I would manage trade shows which like getting the booth and sort of the the layout of what we're going to do and when we're going to do it how we're going to do it trips for all the Riders. We had a budget for the whole team. So making sure this everything made sense and working with the boss. So also with this new role making sure I'm doing it as effectively as I can. You know and then also when you're working for someone for so long, you always want to grow so it's like I have to also document everything I'm doing proactively not just a little day by day. Like yeah, I made it into the post. I made a Facebook post. I made sure the Riders posted is like that she has to happen every day. So almost that's an almost didn't count, you know, so like my office job starting to get more more serious with just like I need to put my head down and actually do some stuff that's going to grow the company. Get more sales. So here I find myself call and shops getting my face out there sort of being the face of Phoenix and establishing that it's such a You know an early stage for Phoenix was was critical and crucial for me to stay in the industry. So like if I didn't have that opportunity who knows how much more I would have Schoo turd, or you know had my face out there being the face of Phoenix. So how does pros and cons of how much time I was working, but it was definitely worth it. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's that's amazing. It's really cool to hear. I'm a little curious more about you know, just the graphic design just because I personally love graphic design who was doing the designs for for Phoenix. At the time it was Ryan Upchurch. So Ryan Upchurch and I moved out to Oregon and he basically he basically was in charge of all graphic design work anywhere from from creating logos from grading banners and do like it sounds simple. It sounds easy. But like he works way more than 40 hours a week. And it was just him on the computer making ads with the product making as with the Riders making banners for different different size banners for different websites, which at the time a bunch of online shops needed to help sell our products. Yes. Oh right up church was the graphic designer for Phoenix at yeah. Okay, very cool. Yeah, and you know, I'm not surprised that you know, No did did take more than four years week. It's you know, a lot of times he you know, perfect beautiful Creations. Yeah, and I'm also a bit curious. So like what were you know some of the places that you get Phoenix would advertise was it solely on like scooter shops to you know, get more sales from retailers or what were some of the ideas of how you know, you guys could increase sales. So make sure that they had actual but I'm sorry Dan it it blocked off for a minute there. We could start at the beginning again. My apologies. Oh good, man. See ya Phoenix sold around the world and every store around the world actually needed like physical banners or physical posters or you know, like anything from like the posters being of the logo Phoenix or of photos of the Riders, so, Yeah, just making sure that we're we're physical and people stores a skate parks and also an online presence with the same stuff on their websites and also being proactive of having those people push our stuff. So I contacted him every day making sure that they know about us and hear about us. They have our support they have questions they can call us but in return we're also giving them stickers Rick. Giving them posters where we're working with our Riders to have them visit and do autograph signings and like, you know ride Days contest jams. So just sort of being physically there and being having an online presence with all that marketing material ties in with the team and just having a presence everywhere worldwide. Yeah, yeah, I know. Absolutely. I think that's definitely you know important to to focus on both in person and web I was yeah and now was most of the sort of a advertising I guess or the, you know content being created specifically for scootering shops, or they're sort of other streams of Because advertising yeah, like sort of it, you know all this ties back to selling the product. So yeah sold out shops. It's sold online. So it's basically just a support system to help sell more products. So yeah, you know course most of that stuff's created for shops for for social media for the skate parks for all the websites to so yeah. Okay. Yeah missing cool. Could you tell us what was your best memory with Phoenix? Was it a triple A very specific down if you have something that comes straight to minder then there's so many good ones. It's hard. You can give us a few whatever you'd like when Tom Floyd on the company. I know he flew out the whole whole team every year for like sort of just a review for product and team. So it was just this one time at the year and it just so happened to be around my birthday in August. I believe your birthday is in August to right. Nope June though. Okay, but you're good. You're good. Remember that? I would've been incredible. Yeah wrong person. No, no worries. No worries every year we come out all of us and they'd be like a fat crew of us all just in the warehouse like all right, where do we want the how do we want the product to look next year? Do we what's the idea is we want to do with the team. We would have like a birthday Jam at the shop for me like at the time too. So just like every year we would all get together order a bunch of food and sort of just like spend the whole day in the warehouse talking to communicating with each other. So that was just awesome to look forward to because it was like no contest that wasn't like a lot of pressure. It was just like he's investing in to us for us to give them feedback on how like the direction we want that. What are you going so, you know Phoenix has such a strong Foundation at those early ages with just investing into the Riders and having the Riders sort of be the that push for the brand. So every year that was like the biggest thing. Yeah, yeah. No, that's amazing. It's awesome that you know invest in pretty much your guys's Vision because it's important, you know, if the scooter riders don't don't you lie back what uh, you know what the company is doing can only go so far anyway, so that's that's definitely amazing and probably really nice to just get to see if your own hang out. Yeah amazing. So I think I think that's enough but the past, you know chatting about Phoenix. So let's let's get I guess a bit More into the future like tell us tell us what lies ahead and you have any future plans their aspirations their fan here, you know, just kind of tells ya so huge aspiration is pretty much just ride for the rest of my life regardless, if that's being like you said, you know being one of the best Riders out there in my own little niche way. It's like just always want to have fun with it ride forever and travel of course because it's like You know, there's so much to see and there's so much people to meet and I got a little taste of that over the years. So yeah huge aspirations just continue riding and pushing myself physically and mentally with writing and in those contests like Coalition Street jams, just like sort of just being out there regardless if if I'm killing myself, it's am out there having fun. So I definitely look forward to just many more Decades of scooter riding. Yeah, absolutely. That's amazing. That's amazing Yeah Toast. Tell us a bit more about your relationship with Aztec right now, Dan. Yeah, so the owners Don Marconi, he's a scooter rider. So At the time when Aztec was selling a turnstile. It was like I'm working with him a little bit and I knew Dom over the years but not so much until as to came on board with turnstile and that's that's sort of went like there was no team but he wanted a team so, you know, I was one of the first writers on Aztec and it was it was just cool to work with the rider who sort of had the same aspect or same visions and and aspirations towards who during so And working with the factory every day and working on product design. So it was easy to implement a signature deck. It was easy to like just ride something. That's great. And like, you know, you just feel 100% great about so it was just an organic like grassroot connection working with a stack. It was it was just yeah, it was sweet. Yeah, no. No, absolutely and you know, I'm sure makes everything. Easier when you know, the owner is a writer who you know cares about the product on another level because you know, he uses it and can identify with how it feels and you know works and yeah, so definitely back everything that has text denim gets me hyped to see all the progress for sure. Yeah. So tell us tell us a bit about some of your experience judging some contest lately. I know you were at the Nitro World Games and Elias a contests if I'm correct. Yeah. Yeah. I've been judging like contest for a while man. I remember even judging like a tea iced tea. I see contests when I was on Phoenix. So like like like way back when time Floyd own Phoenix and yeah and I became part of the I say bored when that started up sort of creating a criteria judging video for Judges around the world who also are going to be judging is a sanctioned events. So if I'm not there they sort of can watch this video and you know kind of pick out how the what's the best way to judge scootering in such a small amount of time. So yeah one from night Your World Games. I've judged that a few times. I say contest around the world and you know, I think it's just it's very special just like I feel like I owe it to scootering to judge those contest as well. So even though some of those other judges might not take it as a personal or a serious. It's like they're giving it 110% and being and being like, you know, such like on a developing stage that hopefully one day when scootering is in the Olympics. I'll be like part of that board where I'm judging scootering in the Olympics and I sure do I think so that's going to be the you know, the what the direction it's going and if it doesn't well that's that's a dream of mine once scooter and gets in the Olympics. I'm going to be a part of the judging for that. So just sort of me tone it to the industry. I just I really enjoyed the judging aspect of it. Yeah, absolutely and regarding the Olympics when that happens. I will be there hundred thousand percent of course and I will definitely be that we like you're done. You're going to be you're going to be judging it's gonna happen down and telling you and I'm going to be like remember the podcast and it's just an aside note that because it's going to happen. I'm telling you and I'm gonna be super stoked. Ooh. Yeah, but yeah, so then you've pushed your your personal limits for countless years and you know, pretty much the get caught. What will the technical again? Yeah. Yeah. Just break it up. I'm on the New Jersey Turnpike one of the one of the shittiest States out there so we might get some shitty service. Okay. Well, we'll see what happens if we can keep going. Well go for it. But um, yeah, so, you know, you've pushed your limits for countless years and pretty much push the limits of what's possible and technical writing and scootering really to another level. Like what's motivated you throughout all these years down dude, I would just say the have in fun part, it's like It's just special being so good at something and having people like actually get inspired and motivated for what you do. So it's like, you know, I guess I it goes back to to own it to like those other people who get inspired and motivated and like even step it up 10 times higher because for example those European Riders like their technical writing is like four or five years ahead of all of ours and yeah, it's just cool when I meet those guys because it's like Those are their early days like they're looking up to me and they reference there riding back over to me. So what keeps me going and motivated is just sharing that feeling and sharing that that moment with other Riders than that will never die because there's always people coming in the sport. There's there's thousands of people like riding around the world and and sort of feel the same way. I'd use so it's like it's just that sharing feeling of Out there riding, you know, that's what it comes down to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely man. It's something in sized amaze me but scootering is like how just you know enables us to have such connection. So many people around the world. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, so we talked a bit about you know, your Inspirations when you were beginning, but do you have like a biggest inspiration Inspirations or you know, maybe a mentor who's helped kind of shape who you are today? I guess when it goes back to riding like those first early ages Martin Campbell like his riding was like insane way before its time and like to this day. I still get like that feeling of what I think back to his riding. It's like the shit he was doing it's it was even though it was on a small scooter. His style was insane and he liked it just sort of reflected a BMX style which I come from with like around Levittown. There's a huge like BMX. Influence in my writing but yeah, Martin Campbell was huge but off his technical tricks at such an early age. And then from there it definitely trickled from BMX because my family and my close friends were so into it. And then yeah just all my homies like, you know, you're Cooper Clarke ours, like just people who have so much like pure enjoyment of that riding. It's like That never gets old. So, you know, that's what motivates me and that's where I get my inspiration from is like you're bouncing ideas off those people who feel the same way and that riding is just like endless. Yeah. Yeah, I know without a doubt. That's that's awesome here. Yeah, what what's the biggest lesson you've learned from scootering if there is one and I guess sort of how does it apply to your life like both on and off the scooter. That's a good one man. Yeah, I guess I guess to sum it up would be like, you know, you're trying to trick and like At first sort of have that Vision or you sort of have that feeling of what you want to do and how you want to Do it but you're not. Yes. Sure. So tell me how you're going to get there. How you going to land it it sort of ties into like. You know, you want to get this combo it might take a hundred or two hundred tries and you have somebody else filming. So you worrying about them and there's so many of these like different points hitting you that like stresses you out or puts pressure on you, but you start to figure these little things out and it's just like it's just like eventually you'll get there with that hard work or with that like Vision. So I guess I guess that ties into just like that applies to anything, you know, like, oh you want to you want to plumb in a Apartment complex. I don't know how the helmet to do it but like you take that first step and like you figure out the blueprints and you sort of just like piece things together and eventually that Vision starts to come like a little bit to life and you just continue working at that. So scootering is taught me that like everything is sort of like everything sort of on that wavelength of if you can't do it if you don't know how to do it, but you want to it's just like you work towards it you take that first step and like Like you get through it and it might take a while or might you know might be hard but like if it's what you want and you work towards it's like inevitable of it happening. So from scootering from from like goals to career opportunities or career choices. I think that applies to everything so I learned that at such an early age and throughout the years that I still doing scootering, but I also took that out of scootering whether it's getting a job or going to school You're getting a house or you know things I want to do with my girlfriend setting goals and initiating them. It's like, you know scootering definitely reflects that for me ya know without a doubt. That was incredible Instagram. Thank you so much and ya know from that that's one of my favorite questions because for me like what I've learned from scootering that's applied to my life externally is like, you know, like changed my life like Like because I learned so much from scootering like I've been able to do so much more as well both on and off the scooter just kind of realizing like like you can really do anything. You put your mind to like you just have to focus and execute on the things you desire and pretty much be like I'm going to do this and you know, if I can do it and you focus and get it done whatever it is you desire and it doesn't have to be on a scooter really applies to all goals. That's definitely yeah my favorite like it could Easy as a tail whip or could be as easy as early as hard as like, you know freaking like building an empire state building. I don't know like well, yeah our little smaller that maybe like like I went back to like Plumbing a whole apartment complex. Yeah. It's the same ideas. It's like I'm going to I'm going to learn these little tricks. I'm going to like kind of get the idea of how it's going to happen, but it's literally the same it's the same instructions, but you're just applying it to different things and Yeah, you know, I feel like that helps get through things without a doubt and it's you know, like you said it works on a bigger small scale. Like it's definitely changed my life in my daily attitudes towards everything whether it's just like all right, like I need to you know, like focus and get I don't know like I'm still in University. So maybe university project done. It's like I have all my creative ideas with elated, you know, try and help provide the best. Austin I can't like I never thought I'd be starting a podcast. I never know how to record a podcast or you know set up an interview. So I just really nice and now we're you know creating a website or you know, all the graphic design stuff that I can do now and pretty much just the way I talk and breathe and feels, you know, all kind of based off of my mental state which is, you know, been pretty derived from what I've learned from scooter. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, cool. Well as amazing answer. Thank you, Dan. But yeah, so tell us about your favorite scootering trip you've ever taken if there is one that stands out. Shit, man, it's hard to compare because I've been to Russia a few times China few times all over Europe Canada Mexico and it's like all those things stick with me. But like yeah, dude, I think a huge one is probably Switzerland. Only been there once Salt Salt Lake Geneva. Saw the mountains across Lake Geneva. I still have water in my bedroom from Lake Geneva. Oh, well, you know I had fish oil pills or yeah, like a fish oil bottle empty that out put it in something else and I filled that fish oil bottle of Lake Geneva water took it back with me and I didn't like a glass jar that says Lake Geneva and stuff on it. But from that Switzerland trip, you know, I'm like I'm like on Phoenix, but the whole razor teams, they're like Cory. Mosh Brooker we have the highest. They boards there. So you have your Martin Kimball there Eric hribal. I met he was on micro. He was dude. I get my nose manuals from Eric rabble. He was one of the first guys on micro just bobbing and weaving through cones nose manual and he was there I met him for the first time Terry Price been Jeff rant like the whole razor team Phoenix team, not the whole Phoenix team, but a lot of the Phoenix writers were there some produ guys were there it's just like it. Was the Montreux cop and it's one of the it's one of the longest annual contest is going other than SD and that's in Switzerland. So just competing with them getting third and Street which was my first contest beating like, you know, I sort of have this competition background of being competitive. So that's the First Street contest or even contest in general. I'd be Dakota shoots out in the street park. So that was like huge there was a mini ramp. That I love many Rams. I think I got like fifth or sixth place in that competing with the whole Envy team, you know and also against the guys that I grew up looking up to and yeah, then afterwards just going out to a restaurant partying and then that restaurant was an American owner and that American owner had like Nabisco job he worked at Nabisco but he also is from this town called new town which is around Levittown. So like asking him where he's from needs to go on from Newtown, Pennsylvania, and I'm like, I'm fucking Levittown. We're fucking sitting in Switzerland have an American Burger drinking beer and it's like a huge dog advocate man. Like that's my spirit animal. Oh, yeah, and I'm having a beer with Mark Kimball and It's very pricey sitting across and Ally Cromartie and it's like all these dudes that helped shape who I am at that time and be having like a little third place bronze medal around my neck. And like, you know, Switzerland was like regardless of how expensive is there that Switzerland trip was like like huge man. I always remember that one. Well, so amazing and around what year was that? Good question. I was on if you don't know exactly that's right. Yeah, I wore a phoenix Jersey at that contest and I'd have to go back on my timeline, but it was the only time I went to Switzerland so shit man 2012-2013, maybe okay. Yeah. No. No, that's cool. That's that's all I need. Yeah, but I went to Montreux contest two years ago. And while the energy is just through the roof of that release is fan like oh, it's amazing. You had a hell marry. He's from Finland and he's just like he's a like he always has a smile on his face and he had his own little Finland section like taped out and he had his like Finland homies and it's just like this is the Finland corner and they're all just like we're doing so sweet like everybody's gettin hype everybody's doing like shit that they can't land but throwing themselves. That getting rowdy and loud. It's that that was a contest. Yeah, absolutely. And it was it was definitely awesome for me because I was out in Europe for about six months and I was getting really close with him, you know, a lot of the European Riders and you know, it see them pretty frequently. There's so many events when I was there and then it is so good just to get everyone together again in Mantra and then I wonder area they had a third contest for the first time. Yeah, so I guess that was amazing. Sorry, you killed and man hell. Yeah. I want I want another perk contest. We need to get a Mega rounds contest with the quarter included but won't tangent on that. Yeah. Yeah, but so we've talked a lot about the past. I'm you know courage to step into the present a little bit more kind of take us through a typical day in your life. Like now like you're in Pennsylvania and you know, what, do you do like walk us through starting when you wake up, I guess to the end like so I wake up I put my socks on On I take a poop. Yeah, so day by day like I do like a plumbing HVAC job. So that started recently. So I'm definitely working by trade now. I also scooter on the weekends. I have like sometimes a three or four day weekend. I catch myself riding a lot on the weekends. I do have Woodward readily nearby. So I'm there on the off season. I'm working with them of what weeks. I'm going to be there, too. In summer. I'm a homeowner now too. So I promised like two years now. So I'm really in into working with my hands. So sort of renovating my house with with building out the bedrooms working on the floors drywall and spackling painting. Like I really find enjoyment and that yeah, and I'm also into like just staying active. So I see myself running a lot. I've done a 5k f u v KS which isn't much but I really like to see myself move up in times and like in the bracket of those races. So well, the last one was the Yuengling 5K in Bethlehem, PA and that was basically around celebrating beer, you know, like so sweet and I'm a I'm a huge Beer Drinker as well. Like I just enjoy being You know what? I mean not like a huge like I don't drink every day like today. Yeah, but I really enjoy some craft beer. So I see myself going to breweries a lot, you know and supporting those events like the Yuengling 5K. Yeah, and then my girlfriend I've been dating for over a year now and she lives out near me so she just bought a house. So we're sort of my first time ever where I'm actually like building something up with my girlfriend having goals and getting to that. Them. So I feel like yeah, you know, whatever you want to call adulting or whatever. It's just stupid. It's fun having a having a house now a girlfriend back into my trade work and also having scootering sort of being my main hobby. I have a video part dropping really soon for hell. Yes. I'm really hyped on it and Justin Phillips. it's Plus, so yeah, I'm really looking forward to that comparing it to my old videos and seeing how I progressed or how my style has changed. So just always, you know, always working on myself whether it's personal life. I do enjoy Plumbing. I've been, you know doing Plumbing work with my uncle wait before high school. So going to a trade school learning that going to night school to get my apprenticeship program done. Working in the field whether that be the union or or four companies around the state doing side jobs. Yeah and everything in between men like last weekend. I got a big ass tree down that was in between my house and my neighbor's house. See my neighbor wanted it down. He said he'd go half on it. And yeah me and my friends were to hustle them. And we said we were we sort of said we hired a company to cut it down, but it was just my friends and we all We all made some money that weekend and learn how to cut likely to only fall one way. So like, you know, I felt what it was like to have some anxiety, but it was fun and just like, you know filled with the journal and just doing something different that I don't know how to do but learning how to do so is the best constantly so good cool couple side questions favorite beer. That question I love. There's a brewery out of Pennsylvania called tropes and they make a lot of seasonal beers, but my favorite would probably have to be broken heels IPA from new Trail Brewery out of willing. Okay, awesome and regarding your living situation right now was is it just you and the house or roommate, sir? No, Ryan up hurts. Oh, yeah church is there to he's he's continuing his design Works working freelance. Cool. He's Yeah, he's busy man. He's just he's working with a lot of different people perfected his craft growing his Brands. And yeah, so don't cool. That's awesome. I didn't I didn't I didn't realize that nor did I realize that he was in Pennsylvania? Super cool? Yeah when I come on so I should have been here earlier when you're talking about I say judging I'm actually talking to Martin Kimball about working to be a nice a judge that Has this season so I have no idea yet, but maybe possibly I'll come up to the Woodward qualifier. I don't know if you'll be there and I judging but if so, I'll be able to see you guys then which would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I will for sure. But like I said, I do not know yet, but hopefully I'll be able to make it out cool. So sort of tell us a bit about the evolution you've seen in yourself like Over the last like decade or or so in your mentality, you know from maybe longer than a decade or I don't know however long I forget like sort of the evolution of your mentality from like a young scooter order to you know, the man that you are today, I guess. I would say with the Travelin and the people I've met and some of the experiences I've gone through. It's helped me sort of, you know from living back in in the suburb area. I felt like I was a really fast paced sort of pressure on myself. Hi paste just like go go go if things fall short, I find myself mad or I find myself getting frustrated. So I think over the years I've mellowed out a lot. I think I think Matt Matt King called me like, oh, you're like a nude and I'm like, he called me like West Coast and because I get like maybe West Coast changed me a little bit. Yeah being more chill, but I definitely found myself just becoming more relaxed taking things just you know situation comes up. I'm not one to show expression so much and sort of just like, you know going through it just as easy and calmly as I can. So. Yeah, I guess just more Coleman is killer and now what do you think sort of a tribute to that mostly do you think it is the experiences you've had in the people you've met, you know sort of where you were living or you think there's something specifically that attributes that or just yeah. Yeah. I think it's a lot of little different things like moving to the West Coast finding a career in the scooter industry not having so much pressure on making ends meet with you know, working 40 plus hours a week with my hands and putting my Body through these jobs that I don't want to work at so from being sort of like not too comfortable still learning and like learning new things of how I'm going to work in scootering. It's just it was a it was cool to you know, I guess take my career from from outside scooter work to in scooter are moving to the West Coast having all scooter friends being around just like Chill Vibes all day. Just sort of hide in my room my life revolves around something. I love made me sort of appreciate life like to the max way more than than if I wasn't and then taking that back moving back to the east coast and getting more back into Plumbing work. Its I've kept that aspect of you know, life's great after all and just enjoy their God. Yeah. Absolutely. That's that's amazing now. Yeah, and that's I can definitely resonate with that. I used to be a you know, I'm still so young, but I To be I'm still extremely energetic but like I used to be like a little more I have this this big concept of me now that I didn't used to have I guess, you know, but I think it's solely shaped off of my experiences in the people. I've been lucky enough to meet over, you know, the last several years like the more people you get to more experiences you get to have that are like rap drastically different the more you're able to take away from each different little scenario and grow and you know, I've been lucky enough to get to meet a lot of people from different. Cultures and places and completely different backgrounds. So then you kind of take aspects of so many different things from different people and then it kind of builds you in a different way. Yeah. That's yeah amazing. So do you have any like Habits Like philosophies or routines that could play a big part in your life? I don't know man. I like being organized it sort of keeps me on track and I see myself getting kind of flustered when things aren't organized. So, you know, I got a planner I like this day proactive on what I'm doing for the week or for the day and initiating my time as effectively as I can and if I fall short I learned not to get mad or beat. Self over up over it because he sort of got that one thing in mind what you're building towards as long as you're building towards it. So just staying on track and organization for me is is a pretty big, you know Foundation. Yeah, amazing sear telling us a bit about your trip and Switzerland earlier. So potentially could overlap but maybe not but what's what's your best memory in the life? Is there a one? I know it's a big question, but Yeah. shit, man Oh good. That's that's not an easy one to No Worries. Well if you want to yeah, no worries. What was the hardest trick for you to land in your life sort of take us through the scenario and your mental process when working to land that a trick? I mean, I guess I technically didn't land it but technically I might have but it was just a Smith front flip and you know, I'm doing it a concrete skate park so I have pads out and one front flip. I'm like landing on the mat and riding away my next front flip and I'm on my back. So I rode away on the mat which I guess technically was or wasn't away and whatever but maybe a double scooter flip like Cody Donovan beat me by a week or two of doing the first double scooter folk fly out. So when I did it at at the indoor skatepark in the mall in Philly called ex-gay United or Woodward, whatever it was which was black diamond, right? Yeah black diamond. Yeah, Black Diamond see ya. There's a double rifle to fly out and I did it on my old a and you know film myself Kevin vanoc was pressing record record, huh? Record. Yes, press record. Yeah, that was cool. Because I know I was one of the first doing it and Cody Donovan inspired me to do it and just saying I was the first got in the u.s. To do a double dry flip like that. Yeah huge for me. So it was you know, it took a while I try to do it at EIC best trick one of the years I couldn't land it. That was when I was on micro few years later. I did it when I was on my Razor and then I took it over hips. I did a few double bride flips over hips and you know that Was that yeah. Yeah. No amazing. I do remember seeing I'm not sure if it's and raise your Bitty parts or where I saw it, but I for sure remember seeing you do double bra and I was like what the hell like that's just yes. That's that's really sweet. Whenever I saw that a few years ago. Um, what's the biggest accomplishment of your life Dan? Not an easy question again, but They're probably just taking my life and moving it to Oregon when I was 21 sort of everything. I knew the people I knew my family and just going to pursue like what I believed in that was that was just something that come boat like Get over mentally. It's just like go move across country and go settle and call somewhere else home. So that was you know took a while to settle in and Be being accomplishments. Yeah, I would say, you know, just follow my dream. Yeah now, you know, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, man. I'm I don't know what else we got going on. I'm definitely getting close to okay cool. We'll wrap it up 10. So just cut. Do you give any specific? Oh, you're touching how much more minutes are you got about approximately you getting in there right now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well duh. No worries. I think that's honestly a perfect time to end. I think we covered in awful lot in think our listeners will definitely be stoked. But before we close could you just like, I don't know anything you want to close that with like any closing words and we'd like to thank her last words of inspiration for our listeners. Yeah, man, if you scooter just you know, keep that organic like feeling of scooter and in in the Forefront of of riding and just you know continue to ride to have fun because you know, that's why you're in any way unless you come from like a competitive family or something but scooter is about having fun. So if you just continue and get out there every damn day and ride, you know, just get outside on your scooter and you'll Find some sort of Happiness. I'm sure if you're listening to this whether it's on a bike or skateboard, it's you know, just keep just get out there and do it because that's what it's about isn't amazing will seriously been super stoked. Thank you so much for tuning in like it's been freaking pleasure. It's been super good and I'm pretty sure how our listeners are going to be stoked on. This one. I'm definitely stoked is definitely nice to get to Chad's been a while. So Yeah, man, I appreciate you and thanks for reaching out. And yeah, this is sweet man. I'm looking forward to that. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm super stoked. I thought well, I'll leave you to it. Hope to see you soon. And yeah, I haven't have an awesome rest of the day my man. All right, dog you to man all sounds good but much love. I genuinely want to thank you for tuning in this far and I invite you to tune into future episodes where I interview the world's top Riders. I also invite you to visit our website Olay brand.com to view the best grew during video Parts in the industry today as well as our Instagram and Facebook @ ol a brand to find the best scootering clips of today. I would seriously be Infinitely grateful for your support and helping me grow this Mission and supporting this podcast by purchasing any of our clothing on our website Linked In the show notes a toll a brand.com. And if you're interested in following me personally, feel free at my Instagram at Jared Addison lastly. 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Recently the entire Phoenix Pro Scooters team shocked the industry, as the whole team suddenly quit. We felt it was necessary to investigate what happened, so we went straight to the source and interviewed former Phoenix team manager & rider, Dan Barrett. Listen in on this episode of, The OHLAY Brand Podcast, to get the full scoop on what exactly happened at Phoenix and lots more from Dan himself. Be sure to follow Dan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danbarrett/ Be sure to follow us: Instagram: www.instagram.com/ohlaybrand/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/ohlaybrand/  We welcome you to Join Our Global Community: ohlaybrand.com/pages/join-our-global-community  And as always be sure to visit our website to constantly find the best scootering content on earth: ohlaybrand.com/  Help us continue to grow our sport - Shop OHLAY: ohlaybrand.com/collections/ohlay-classic-collection-shop   This show has been created to take you through the mind of the best scooter riders on the planet, while delivering tools, habits, lessons learned, and tactical advice from the worlds best riders to you. The hopes of this podcast is to constantly be motivating, inspiring, entertaining, and providing valuable insight for individuals around the world. 