I’m sitting at the computer in my room eating "apple crisp ala mode" watching Tim O’Connor in element world tour on youtube with scrubs on the television in the background
What happened with your noggin a while back?
We (me Austin, Boston, and Alex) went to racoon creek to jump off these cliffs dahn there. Once you’re there you have to run and dive into the creek to swim across. Then you’re at the cliffs and to do this right you have to dive out past the shallow. So everyone goes and I’m left. I ran full speed and when my hands hit the water it took me right into the bottom. The left side of my body caught a rock head first. At first I didn’t think anything was wrong I just felt like a fucking idiot and I swam all the across the creek with a gash in my head to the skull with out passing out. Once I got to the other side I realized my arm was fucked and Austin saw blood dripping form my hair and look for a cut on my head needless to say he found one. so Austin gets freaked out and rambles off these to orders to Alex and boston to get me on the road at the top of the cliff and he (Austin) swam back across the creek to get his car and met us on the road. from there it was a hundred miles per hour dash through red lights to the Alliquippa hospital. this whole time I had no idea what was going on or if I'd be alright so I’m shitting my pants in the waiting room Austin went out side to call my mom and explain what happened .. and the moms assumed it was a little gash on my forehead and took her time assuming it was not serious.. so I get in and dr. Luigi went to work.. as soon as I knew that I was gonna be alright it was nothing but smiles for then on out .. about an hour later I had sixteen staples in my head and was good to go ... definitely got lucky in this situation .. if I would have went head on with the rock my life would have been fucked.. but Austin to good and now I have a permanent dent and a flap of skin on the dome which is a lot better than wheelchair for the rest of my life or even being dead... and that was that
why are you so good at pushing switch ?
Well I don’t know if its any good but for the first like 3 years I skated I pushed mongo but that’s in the past now. Thanks Austin(toolbag). As soon as I heard the question I knew where it had come from that kid never lets me forget it
Was it hard being the kid at the spot pushing mongo for three years ?
haha well it was never a big thing till I started to become a B-cubed rat and I think it was Brandon Barber who was like "You push mongo?" and busted my shit all the time. Then one day I just said I wasn't going to push mongo anymore. I dont even remeber the transformation
Did you leave fellow mongo pushers in your dust saying "You betrayed us" leaving them to pick up razor scooters in revolt?
Nah I think I was the only one. Well me and my boy Cory who I grew up skating with. We both stopped mongonizing at the same time. But I remember that if he needed alot of speed for something he'd still push mongo.
Why do you think so many kids out in the Cranberry area are so good?
The Funks did it. They sparked it... Well maybe it was Triad Skateboards. I was never really part of the north suburbs of Pittsburgh scene till recently. We just kinda did our own thing back then.
Who was we?
Pretty much me and lunchbox we just kinda had our own little thing going on in the Ambridge area where we would skate with the homies from Weirton and Burgettestown like Norm McClements, Brad Boyer, and them. Then I met Austin (K) and we skated with him a decent bit. At the same time he skated with the Funks and then we all started skating together everyday. That's how we got the crew we skate with the majority of the time today
I heard you have a history of raising livestock.
Oh shit. Well, this was when I was in 5th grade and my mom had been dating Farmer Ron for a while now and he would always tell me about how his kids used to raise livestock for the 4-H club and then after the whole deal of showing it at the fair and all that they would sell em to different meat places for like 15 hundred bucks. So as soon as I heard that I was down... So I board my heffer for 300 bucks and raised him at Farmer Ron's farm every thursday for 8 months. Basil was his name. Time came for the Big Knob Fair and I showed him, won some hard ass awards, then sold him to Giant Eagle or some shit, I don't even know. After paying back the $300 I bought him for and like 200 dollars worth of feed, I was left with about $1000 bucks... good times.
Do you ever think about Basil today. Do his big cow eyelashes haunt you in your sleep?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some heartless suburban kid. I loved Basil, but I mean there's no way of not selling him. I already had debt and you're supposed to sell them anyway.
Did you get to taste him after the deal? Did you get to try a Basil Burger?
Hah. Nah man that's fucked.
Say the person who bought basil invited you over for dinner and they served steak would you eat it?
Definitely not. I don't even really like steak that much.
What did you do with the moolah?
Bought a dirtbike, which I sold a year later to go to Woodward.
Do you have any potentially life ending stunts planned for your full part in "Bolts and Butter"? That's right, Butter.
get your life right .. BUTTAH. But no, I don't do austin kanfoush type maneuvers.
You're really into oldies. What's your fascination with that kind of music and is the song for your part going to be Motown inspired?
It just hypes you up super hard like all you want to do is dance or skate. Look for some dancing of me in Bolts and Buttah. Maybe some dance-based intros. And I'm keeping the song under wraps for now.
I don't know if a lot of people know this, but you are adopted. Would you like to comment on this?
Adoptions got a bad wrap. People think adoption is a bad thing when it just takes what could have been bad and makes it better. It shouldn't be about who you came out of, but who actually raised you.
What are your parents like?
Well my mom is super dope. She's really goofy but she has her times. Who doesn't? My dad died when I was 1 from the chemical Agent Orange after Vietnam. My mom dates Farmer Ron who is pretty much like a dad, but they say they're too old to get married so we just keep it how it is and it all works out
Do you know your biological family story at all?
Not at all. It's an option once you're 18, but I don't even want to fuck with that haha. I used to visit my foster mom for christmas. She was who raised me for 8 months until I was adopted.
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
I have a brother. He's a bro. Just type "bro rape" in at youtube, and you'll know what I'm talking about. He's cool about 80% of the time.
Got anything else you want to add, some shout outs or call outs? Want to thank your sponsors
Yeah man cuz I got so many i dont know wat to do with all of em... but nahh uhhh everyone involved with One Up, the homies ... uhh basil for keepin reall while times got rough and that should wrap it up
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