The Nine Club

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 ==
In 2016, Roberts started The Nine Club, a roundtable interview program then hosted by Roberts and Roger Bagley. 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.
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.
The program is often celebrated by longstanding print and digital skateboarding media outlets, such as Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding. 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. UK skateboarding magazine Sidewalk Mag also regularly cites from the Nine Club's digital archive in order to further the preservation of skateboarding history. Similarly, Kingpin magazine also regularly features Nine Club content and provides critical commentary and feedback. Discussions about the show, its guests, and the oral history archive that they provide have also emerged in and on Slap magazine and Juice magazine's various platforms.
== Notable Guests ==
The Nine Club featured rapper Li'l Wayne, who is a recreational skateboarder, in late 2016, garnering over 350,000 views. 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. 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 and The Daily Dot.
Filmmaker, actor, and director Spike Jonze was also featured in episode #78.
== Set and Symbolic Gifts ==
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.
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 ==
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
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