Episodes

We know what you’re thinking- what the hell is “Matcha Rules?" Indeed, The Bones Brigade Audio Show has not been shy about shining light onto some of the more obscure and unknown videos from the farthest corners of the ‘Brigade universe- but this one might just take the cake. What we have here, friends, is a half hour long, professionally produced, stacked and soundtracked 1999 Powell Skateboards Japan tour video featuring Steve Caballero, Jon Comer and Moses Itkonen… that no one has ever heard ...

Roads? For this episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show, we don’t need roads. This week, the BBAS crew invite you to travel back in time to 1985 for the most complete and painstaking Back to the Future skateboarding retrospective ever assembled in one place! For many, this film- however unintentionally- marked the jumping off point, when skating entered the mainstream collective consciousness of legions of action-starved kids around the globe and helped kickstart the mid-80’s skate boom to follo...

Welcome back to the show! For this- our eleventh installment of the Intelligence Report series- we are honored to be joined in the studio by the legendary Sophie Bourgeois! Aside from being known far and wide in the Bones Brigade universe for her short but memorable interview and freestyle segment alongside Anita Tessensohn and Lori Rigsby in 1988’s Public Domain, Sophie has a long and fascinating tale that is deeply rooted in skateboarding history. From her early days as one of Canada’s top fem...

“Powell magic”- a topic of much discussion here at the BBAS from the very beginning. Faithful listeners have endured countless tales of spliced-in sound effects, bails cut into makes, Frankie Hill’s famous “foot POV” handrail, Robert Kittila’s experimental camera creations… the list of Powell’s magic moments goes on and on. Yet, there’s one considerably important bit of Powell Magic yet to be delved into- the 1998 video of the same name! Yes, Brigadiers, today we’ll be digging deep into Bones Br...

The staff at the Pink Motel are working overtime this week as the BBAS crew once again descends on their doorstep for our third installment of the much-anticipated SK8-TV Files! This time- with the help of our good friend, returning special guest and skate artist extraordinaire Ed Syder- we will be tackling the monumental, Powell-heavy Episode 2 of this storied series. With assists from Lance Mountain and producer Mark Hunt, we get to the bottom of the location of the fabled, recurring “in the s...

It’s time to delve, once again, into that strange and enchanted era known as the late nineties with a play-by-play review of the often-overlooked Powell Skateboards ’97 summer tour documentary, Strip Mall Heroes- and joining us for the occasion is none other than ripping skateboarder and thrift_store_paintings Instagram content creator, Rich Wilson! Much like Chaos and 8 before it, Strip Mall Heroes is a tale of a video in two forms: the officially-released version, and the lesser-known “rough c...

The fiftieth episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show is roaring into your eardrums, and with it, the 10th installment of our vaunted Intelligence Report interview series! Joining us to celebrate the occasion is the one and only Colin McKay, who sat down with us in the studio for an incredible retrospective discussion on his formative career with Powell Peralta. We get into his origins of skateboarding in the Great White North, the various incarnations of the legendary Richmond Skate Ranch, the l...

Welcome, wall-jammers, to season three of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! We are kicking off 2024 with a bang as we welcome to the studio none other than the legendary Tony Hawk- to get into the weeds on his newest (and final) video part, Tapes You Leave Behind! This nearly five-minute banger is dripping with tributes to Tony’s Powell Peralta past, with classic 'Brigade cameos and a soundtrack straight out of Skateboarding in the 80’s framing what is unsurprisingly one of the most progressive vert...

Season’s greetings, dear listeners! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and the eggnog is flowing here at the BBASHQ, because it’s time for our highly-anticipated annual holiday episode! And really, what better way to ring in the yuletide cheer then by digging into the 1986 Unreel video; Holiday Havoc? Yes, this one might be a bit of a departure from our usual stringent subject matter, but fret not, for the ‘Brigade is well represented at this legendary NSA contest- featuring not jus...

Now that the dust has settled on the first (and hopefully not the last) Bones Brigade Experience, we’re back in the studio to recount this momentous celebration to you in our usual painstaking detail! This episode is a play in three acts- Part I is a summary of the trip out to SoCal by our own Larry Ransom, wherein you’ll hear the entire tale of his ‘Experience experience from start to finish; Part II features an exclusive interview with BBEXP art director Matt “Air Matty” Lorentz, who spent the...

Welcome back, curb-whackers, to another exciting episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! Back in 1996, after a multi-year hiatus, the powers that be determined that enough time had passed since their self-imposed moratorium began, and it was time to start bringing pro models back into the lineup at Powell Skateboards. As the skate world breathed a collective sigh of relief at this news, those same powers that be decided that the best way to reintroduce everyone to this welcomed return to form w...

The Bones Brigade Audio show is back in the Deep End for our second installment of the highly anticipated SK8-TV Files! This week, we’ll be diving in to the inaugural episode of the show- the almost-lost-for-all-time pilot- which rolled like a seven ply steamroller into the homes of unsuspecting Nickelodeon viewers in the summer of 1990 and kicked off what would ultimately become a beloved, if short-lived institution in skateboarding. To assist Matt and Larry in this epic review, we’re welcoming...

You’re in for a real doozy this time around, fellow Brigadeers… because for this, our ninth installment of The Bones Brigade Audio Show Intelligence Report series, we are welcoming some seriously unbelievable guests- Columbus, Indiana’s own Chris Long, Flynn Atkins, and Steve Thompson! If you’re a fan of Ban This, you will undoubtedly recognize those first two names from the infamous “Video iT uR’SelF” segment; arguably, if not definitely the first-ever “sponsor me tape" footage to end up being ...

The BBAS Squad have returned from an epic cross-country journey to Southern California to take part in the much-celebrated festival of gnar that was SKATERCON 9! And, since this adventure rendered the show schedule temporarily clear, we figured what better way to keep the episodes coming than to recap the whole thing? Yes, friends, The Bones Brigade Audio Show booth was humming- we got to meet some incredible listeners, had some legendary guests drop by to say hey, displayed a slew of original S...

Oh, so you wanna go skating? Welcome back to the show! This week, Matt and Larry are hitting the graveyard running to dig into the recently (re) unearthed raw footage from Mike Vallely’s fabled “Public Domain” part. This 45 minute onslaught of rarely-seen material is a treat for even the most casual Bones Brigade fan, featuring what is perhaps the first pro model unboxing ever committed to film, alternate takes, innumerable mind-blowing trick lines, tries, goofs, makes and bails. There’s plenty ...

Welcome back to the show! Bear with us, friends, because it’s an oddball episode this week as Larry and Matt are joined once again by pro skateboarder and all-around nice guy Mike Santarossa to fast-forward to the 9:30 mark and discuss his timeless and hilarious shared part with Mike Vallely in the 1995 Standard Truck Co. “Intermezzo” video! It’s all the insider info you could ever possibly want or need on how this strange, goofy and fun six-minute skate section filmed in one day around a decomm...

Come along with your BBAS hosts for a road trip down memory lane- because for this week's episode, Matt and Larry are back in The Bones Brigade Audio Show studio for a review of Powell Skateboards' 1995 video, Scenic Drive! Joining them for this epic cross-country journey are none other than legendary pro and 'brigade alum Mike Santarossa and Street Canoe's own Jay Croft! We'll be visiting Death Vallely, Wainwright Manor, Mt. Caballero and all points in between to reveal every detail about this ...

It's a momentous occasion here at The Bones Brigade Audio Show, because in the studio for an epic reunion after 35 years, we welcome Powell Peralta's original SB Boys- Jake Bradley, Brandon Chapman and Frankie Hill! Together for the first time in decades, this trio of unmitigated rippers sit down with Larry and Matt to discuss their early skateboarding roots, their enlistments into the Brigade, their legendary shared part in Public Domain, and much more. We're seriously honored to have been a pa...

Today, we are debuting a new segment here at The Bones Brigade Audio Show: the first installment of The SK8-TV files! Yes, by popular demand, we will be reviewing- sporadically- the entire thirteen-episode run of Nickelodeon’s legendary SK8-TV! Back in the olden days, when new skate videos were a once or twice a year affair, this Stacy Peralta and Craig Stecyk-masterminded basic cable opus acted as a much-needed lifeline of fresh viewing content for the seven ply-starved youth of America. Hosted...

Order up! Welcome back, Brigadeers, to another action-packed episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! The studio is at capacity this week as we welcome two special guests- former Powell Skateboards team rider Jayme Fortune and video editor James Gaul- to discuss the 1994 classic, Suburban Diners! This video is widely considered a return to form for the brand, showcasing undeniably strong parts from a streamlined roster of riders, seamlessly blending game-changing newcomers like Gershon Mosley an...

Welcome back to the show! This week we’re once again scratching our heads as we deal with another strange case of an alternate version of a Powell video that- much like the rough cut of “8” (see BBAS027)- somehow leaked its way out into the world. This time, it’s an altered version of 1992’s “Chaos”, featuring incredible, mostly-unseen parts by Eric Ricks, Mike Frazier, Paulo Diaz and others, along with numerous different songs and other randomly omitted oddities. How? Why? The mind boggles, but...

Play! We do like to play here at The Bones Brigade Audio Show, and as you know, playing is always better with friends. So, to assist us in reviewing this under-the-radar Powell Skateboards video of the same name, we have enlisted our buddies Jim Fitzpatrick- who produced it in what would ultimately be his last project with the Powell Corporation, and Skate Talk Bob- who as a young skate rat rented it on repeat, to come on for a fun and informative digital dissection. We talk stunts, style, atmos...

For this seventh entry into our Intelligence Report interview series, we are welcoming to The Bones Brigade Audio Show none other than the infamous Robert Kittila! If you’re a Brigadeer from way-back-when, or listen to this show with any regularity, this name will surely be familiar to you. Now a two-time Emmy winning cinematographer and photographer, Robert cut his teeth in the industry working alongside Stacy Peralta, Craig Stecyk and Jim Fitzpatrick in Stacy’s famed Silverlake office. In addi...

Things remain in a state of chaos here at The Bones Brigade Audio Show, and this week Larry and Matt are once again joined by legendary Powell Peralta everyman, Jim Fitzpatrick, to try to get it all under control. The “Chaos” we are referring to, of course, is the Bones Brigade video of the same name, and we’re closing it out here with part two of our epic review, filled with the classic bits of Fitz that we all know and love. At last, we can put this video to bed. Nothing left to see here… righ...