Bing Liu Makes Skaters Cry

On Episode 3 of Vent City Ryan Lay, Ted Schmitz, Kyle Beachy, Ted Barrow and Kristin Ebeling talk about skateboarding and all its bullshit. Interview Music by Michael Kryger (@blogafonte) Credits Music by Ilana Bryne (@ilana.bryne) Please check out their music and support fellow skaters! Due to a longer than normal running time, here are some timecodes to help you navigate through the episode if you want to just hear us discuss a specific top or jump to the interview of Bing Liu by Kyle Beachy. 0:00 - 5:45 a reading by Ted Schmitz dedicated to Pablo Ramirez (aka P Splifff) of the GX1000 squad followed by a short discussion acknowledging his impact 7:10 show intro 9:00 Ryan Lay opening and disclaimer about the show 14:00 panel discusses who has the authority to say who is and is not a skater. Ted Schmitz says he’s the authority but he’s wrong about a lot of things 15:30 panel discusses X-Games Real Street 16:00 Kristin Ebeling explains how reverse sexism is not the same as sexism 19:00 more X-Games discussion. The panel gives their votes and discusses LA bias in the selection of contestants 30:40 panel discusses the video A Day in the Life of Cher by Magdalena Wosinska, a short documentary about the first transgender pro skater. It’s fucking amazing, watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/317400509 44:00 Kyle Beachy interviews Bing Liu about his breakthrough success and Academy Award Nominated film Minding the Gap. We still think Free Solo should not have won the Oscar over Bing’s film. 1:56:15 panel discusses the interview with Bing and the film in general. 2:16:40 Funeral Pyre Segment: watching the things we no longer want in skating go out in a glorious blaze 2:17:20 Ted Barrow throws music in Instagram clips onto the pyre (don’t put so much thought into your post, it’s already corny enough) 2:19:05 Ryan throws in the gamification of wallrides and wallies (don’t let the skatepark kids find the button the every trick in the tasteful street skater’s bag) 2:22:28 Kristin throws unsolicited advice for tricks onto the pyre (the pathway to hell is paved with good intentions) 2:27:00 Kyle bids adieu to ledge tricks to manual (when Koston did it in Mouse, that shit was funny and wasn’t supposed to get all serious) 2:33:00 Ted Schmitz says we gotta burn the practice of sponsoring and promoting little kids (they’re probably not the next Guy or Nyjah, so just avoid the future child labor lawsuit and let them play)