The Nine Club

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The Nine Club with Chris Roberts

The Nine Club is a skateboarding podcast and web series founded by professional skateboarder Chris Roberts in June 2016. The program is hosted by Roberts, videographer and producer Roger Bagley, and professional skateboarder Kelly Hart. Each episode features a lengthy interview-style roundtable discussion with an iconic skateboarding personality renowned for their role in skateboarding culture. Each episode varies from thirty-five minutes to two hours in length. Guests range from former and current professional skateboarders to industry personalities, artists, and media figures. Well-known actors, musicians, and artists who have a significant personal history with skateboarding have also appeared, including director Spike Jonze, musician Ben Harper, rapper Lil Wayne, and actor Austin Amelio, among others.

History[edit | edit source]

In 2016, Roberts started The Nine Club, a roundtable interview program then hosted by Roberts and Roger Bagley.[1] Kelly Hart was the first guest and later became a member of the hosting cast. The show has over eighty episodes and reached its one-year anniversary in June 2017 after interviewing some of the most legendary personalities in professional skateboarding, including Mike Carroll, Marc Johnson, Paul Rodriguez, and Andrew Reynolds.[2]

The program has the tagline "the show that has skaters talking." Guests often provide humorous and historically insightful stories and anecdotes about skateboarding culture and history through their own unique experiences and perspectives. Guests have commented on the show's intellectual and historiographic merits, highlighting the program's value as an oral history archive and conceptual relationship to programs such as the Smithsonian's Innoskate program.[3]

The program is often celebrated by longstanding print and digital skateboarding media outlets, such as Thrasher[4] and Transworld Skateboarding.[5] Jenkem Mag's interview with the hosts and founders about the show's mission, production, and origins further elaborates on how and why the show is seen as public historiography and archival work crucial to the preservation of skateboarding's historical and cultural legacies.[6] UK skateboarding magazine Sidewalk Mag also regularly cites from the Nine Club's digital archive in order to further the preservation of skateboarding history.[7] Similarly, Kingpin magazine also regularly features Nine Club content and provides critical commentary and feedback.[8] Discussions about the show, its guests, and the oral history archive that they provide have also emerged in and on Slap magazine[9] and Juice magazine's various platforms.[10]

Notable Guests[edit | edit source]

The Nine Club featured rapper Li'l Wayne, who is a recreational skateboarder, in late 2016, garnering over 350,000 views.[11] The entertainer's appearance on The Nine Club circulated across a variety of major music and television outlets, including MTV News, Billboard Magazine and BET.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Previously, Ben Harper appeared in episode #16. Actor Austin Amelio, best known for his role as Dwight on The Walking Dead, was a guest on episode #45.

Actor and former professional skateboarder Bam Margera was featured on episode #70. His comments about being sexually assaulted that appeared on the show were broadcast across specialty media platforms such as High Snobiety[20] and The Daily Dot.[21]

Filmmaker, actor, and director Spike Jonze was also featured in episode #78.[22][23]

Set and Symbolic Gifts[edit | edit source]

The set is arranged and decorated with skateboarding memorabilia and props specific to each guest.

Guests have provided symbolic gifts for the set. For example, in episode #36 Marc Johnson provided the set with a digital picture frame that plays Roberts' world-famous switch kickflip, switch manual at the West LA Courthouse, looping the trick on repeat. In episode #43, Erik Bragg provided the hosts with a vintage styled The Nine Club neon sign. Both artifacts are prominently displayed on set and are visible throughout subsequent episodes. Brian Wenning also provided Kelly Hart with one of his original Habitat pro model decks on episode #53.[24]

In episode #58, Mark Appleyard gave Roberts and Bagley a framed caricature of themselves at The Nine Club studio. Appleyard also gifted Hart a pair of his signature decks, one from Flip and one from Element.

Episodes and Guests[edit | edit source]

Episode number Guest Date Length
#1 Kelly Hart June 6, 2016 0:35:00
#2 Joey Brezinski Jun 11, 2016 0:30:52
#3 Daniel Castillo Jun 19, 2016 0:36:00
#4 Louie Barletta Jun 25, 2016 0:38:16
#5 Justin Eldridge Jul 3, 2016 0:33:37
#6 Daniel Espinoza Jul 8, 2016 0:32:36
#7 Davis Torgerson Jul 14, 2016 0:33:12
#8 Van Styles Jul 23, 2016 0:57:21
#8 Bonus Conversation Kelly Hart & Van Styles Jul 29, 2016 0:21:56
#9 Matt Miller Aug 7, 2016 0:44:45
#10 Spanish Mike Aug 14, 2016 0:45:26
#11 Torey Pudwill Aug 20, 2016 0:31:47
#12 Paul Rodriguez Aug 28, 2016 1:13:40
#13 Blake Johnson Sep 4, 2016 0:40:21
#14 Anthony Mapstone Sep 11, 2016 0:36:09
#15 Paul Hart Sep 18, 2016 0:42:20
#16 Ben Harper Sep 25, 2016 1:17:03
#17 Giovanni Reda Oct 2, 2016 1:11:00
#18 Jeron Wilson Oct 9, 2016 0:55:14
#19 Jason Hernandez Oct 16, 2016 1:04:28
#20 Mike York Oct 23, 2016 0:55:56
#21 Tom Asta Oct 30, 2016 0:58:43
#22 Brandon Biebel Nov 6, 2016 1:06:10
#23 Don Brown Nov 13, 2016 1:11:26
#24 Rick McCrank Nov 20, 2016 1:03:38
#25 Lil Wayne Nov 26, 2016 1:01:39
#26 Mike Mo Capaldi Dec 4, 2016 1:04:34
#27 Andrew Brophy Dec 11, 2016 0:40:41
#28 Jereme Rogers Dec 18, 2016 1:04:32
#29 Jack Curtin Dec 25, 2016 0:48:59
2016 Wrap-Up Show Roberts, Bagley, Hart Jan 1, 2017 1:32:26
#30 Gino Iannucci Jan 7, 2017 1:02:13
#31 Jamie Foy Jan 15, 2017 1:00:56
#32 Frank Gerwer Jan 22, 2017 0:48:11
#33 Nora Vasconcellos Jan 29, 2017 0:52:18
#34 Sierra Fellers Feb 5, 2017 0:48:46
#35 Wade DesArmo Feb 12, 2017 1:06:39
#36 Marc Johnson Feb 19, 2017 1:42:07
#37 Carlos Ribeiro Feb 26, 2017 0:58:49
#38 Miles Silvas Mar 5, 2017 1:00:28
#39 Steve Olson Mar 12, 2017 1:02:27
#40 Eli Reed Mar 19, 2017 1:11:06
#41 Daryl Angel Mar 25, 2017 0:52:44
#42 Jeremy Wray Apr 2, 2017 1:48:59
#43 Erik Bragg Apr 9, 2017 1:45:58
#44 Stevie Williams April 17, 2017 1:33:27
#45 Austin Amelio April 24, 2017 1:13:06
#46 Shane Heyl May 1, 2017 1:44:57
#47 Mikey Taylor May 8, 2017 1:43:35
#48 Felipe Gustavo May 15, 2017 1:27:02
#49 Terry Kennedy May 22, 2017 1:12:04
#50 Mike Sinclair May 29, 2017 1:28:10
#51 Ryan Clements June 5, 2017 1:50:44
#52 Mike Carroll June 12, 2017 1:47:42
Lakai "The Flare" Premiere Various June 19, 2017 1:48:09
#53 Brian Wenning June 26, 2017 1:07:49
#54 Braydon Szafranski July 3, 2017 1:22:14
#55 Andrew Reynolds July 10, 2017 2:04:47
#56 Vinny Ponte July 17, 2017 1:27:04
#57 Sal Barbier July 24, 2017 1:57:17
#58 Mark Appleyard July 31, 2017 1:24:08
#59 Walker Ryan Aug 6, 2017 1:24:06
#60 Boo Johnson Aug 13, 2017 1:19:50
#61 Danny Garcia Aug 20, 2017 1:10:14
#62 James Craig Aug 27, 2017 2:11:24
Adidas Skate Copa Various Sep 4, 2017 1:53:10
#63 Neen Williams Sep 10, 2017 1:47:02
#64 Na-Kel Smith Sep 17, 2017 1:27:43
#65 Mikey Alfred Sep 24, 2017 2:05:52
#66 Skin Phillips Oct 1, 2017 1:33:15
#67 Brian Anderson Oct 8, 2017 1:48:55
#68 Jamie Thomas Oct 16, 2017 3:33:44
#69 Zion Wright Oct 22, 2017 1:05:11
Diamond "Halloween Hellride" Various Oct 29, 2017 2:23:28
#70 Bam Margera Nov 5, 2017 1:55:23
#71 Richard Mulder Nov 12, 2017 1:51:19
#72 Bobby Worrest Nov 18, 2017 1:28:58
#73 Jovontae Turner Nov 26, 2017 1:45:15
#74 Josh Beagle Dec 3, 2017 2:10:05
#75 Ty Evans Dec 10, 2017 2:38:18
#76 Aaron "Jaws" Homoki Dec. 17, 2017 1:31:10
#77 Christian Hosoi Dec. 24, 2017 2:44:35
#78 Spike Jonze Jan. 1, 2018 2:26:43
#79 Mark McKee Jan. 8, 2018 1:24:28
#80 Bill Strobeck Jan. 15, 2018 2:17:31
#81 Alex Olson Jan. 22, 2018 1:44:11
  1. ↑ "The Nine Club With Chris Roberts". THE NINE CLUB WITH CHRIS ROBERTS. Retrieved 2017-06-24. 
  2. ↑ "The Nine Club". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-06-24. 
  3. ↑ The Nine Club (2017-06-05), Ryan Clements | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 51, retrieved 2017-06-25 
  4. ↑ "Thrasher Magazine - Displaying items by tag: The Nine Club". www.thrashermagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  5. ↑ "the nine club | TransWorld SKATEboarding". TransWorld SKATEboarding. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  6. ↑ "BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE NINE CLUB - Jenkem Magazine". Jenkem Magazine. 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  7. ↑ "The Nine Club sits down with legendary board artist and Big Brother alumni Marc McKee". Sidewalk Skateboarding. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  8. ↑ "Mark McKee: The Nine Club". Kingpinmag.com. 8 January 2018. 
  9. ↑ "The Nine Club Experience?". www.slapmagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  10. ↑ "The Nine Club with Chris Roberts". Juice Magazine. 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  11. ↑ The Nine Club (2016-11-28), Lil Wayne | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 25, retrieved 2017-06-24 
  12. ↑ "Lil Wayne Has A Cryptic New Project On The Way". MTV News. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  13. ↑ "Lil Wayne Talks Skating and New Music Coming Soon". The Hype Magazine. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  14. ↑ "Is Lil Wayne Releasing 3 New Albums This Year?". Black America Web. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  15. ↑ "Lil Wayne Teases a New Project Called Funeral Is 'Coming Soon'". Vulture. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  16. ↑ "Lil Wayne Announces New Music Project, 'Funeral'". BET.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  17. ↑ "Lil Wayne Says His 'Funeral' Project Is Coming Soon: 'Get Y'all Roses Ready'". The Boombox. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  18. ↑ "Is Lil Wayne Releasing a Project Called 'Funeral'?". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  19. ↑ "Chris Roberts & Roger Bagley From "The Nine Club" Talk About Having Lil Wayne As A Special Guest On Their Podcast". Lil Wayne Fansite | Weezy Blog. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  20. ↑ "Bam Margera Recounts the Time He Was Sexually Assaulted". Highsnobiety. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  21. ↑ "Bam Margera on notion than women can't rape men: 'It happened to me.'". The Daily Dot. 2017-11-18. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  22. ↑ "Spike Jonze on The Nine Club: discussing Video Days, Academy Awards, Fully Flared & more". Kingpin Magazine. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  23. ↑ "SPIKE JONZE - The Nine Club Interview". The Berrics. Retrieved 2018-01-16. 
  24. ↑ The Nine Club (2017-06-26), Brian Wenning | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 53, retrieved 2017-06-26 
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