00:00All right, go for it. So, I think it's 1989 or 1988, I was skating for Blockhead, and Mark Partain is like, dude, you gotta move out west. And I'm like, okay.
00:15And he's like, you should work in the art department at Blockhead or in the art department at Transworld. And I was like, well, I think Dave and them have all the Blockhead stuff figured out. But he lobbied super hard and got me a gig at Transworld.
00:35So, I fly out. I'm staying at Partain's house in Ocean Beach. Thank you, Mark. And he, I grew up, I've grown up in New York. And so, he's like, yeah, you can just take the bus. And I'm like, all right, cool. Yeah, take the bus from Ocean Beach to Oceanside.
00:57And so, we drive, we get a bus map, and we drive the bus route. And it takes an hour, roughly, maybe a little less, whatever the drive from OB to Oceanside is, maybe 45 minutes.
01:11And then, and this was on a Sunday. And so, Monday morning, I get on the bus bright and early, and I'm like, it's gonna be an hour. I get on like 745, and allow myself a little grace period.
01:20I don't show up at Transworld until like 11. It was like a four-hour bus. It was crazy. And so, immediately, the woman who was the GM there, or I guess she was the GM, Sean Rogers, she like freaks out on me.
01:39I'm devastated, right, because this is my dream job. I've moved to California to do this. She's like, you skateboarders are so irresponsible.
01:48I kind of spazz out in reply, and I'm like, don't ever insult my intelligence like that. It sucks.
01:55She's like, you're fired. So, I like burst into tears. I walk back in the art room, and Grant, and Mickey, and O, and Ron Cameron are all back there, and I'm just like devastated.
02:08So, Grant, and Mickey go into her office. They like get my job back. I work for the rest of the day.
02:18Mickey, and O, and Ron let me crash in their house. I work a second day, and I get the worst flu of my entire life the day after, and so I ended up spending like a week in it.
02:32They had like some room that they were using as a storage room just crashed out on the floor drinking Gatorade from 7-Eleven that they brought me after work.
02:39Just the worst flu fever thing I ever had, and I just decided it probably wasn't meant to be, so I spent the rest of that the next three months just kind of couch touring, then I moved up to Venice.
02:55But that was my trans world for two days. I did a couple ads. There's a couple toxic ads. Like, I did a Darren Mendito board and maybe a wheel ad for toxic while I was there.
03:09I think there's like two or three. There's definitely two, but I got, I banged out two ads in a day.
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