Oh I see, he’s trying to bridge the grubbing on good food gap. Got it! Thanks for clarifying!
Who is bankrolling this rubbish? It can’t be jeron wilson?
I’m going to start a podcast banging on about how glorious and underated my average Monday is not having kids or GF around. Get up, 100 situps, work, finish, grab pool cue, pool hall, Sainsbury’s for a dinner treat, home, do some tidying, make dinner, be a bit experimental because I don’t mind wasting a little money on just me if it turns out meh, which it never does. Chill out, maybe do some doodling before bed. BOOM! don’t you wish you had my life and doesn’t it feel like I have it all dialled, like I know the secret to the best life you can lead? Yep, thought so.
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Not a big deal but youtube previews just say YouTube now rather than the title.
Edit, looks like its back to normal again, as you were
Eldy is obviously a fuckwit, in that he is thick as planks and doesn’t realise that he is thick as planks. If that wasn’t clear prior to his appearance on the Nine Club Experience he certainly cemented it on a regular basis whilst there. I mean, he even established that he doesn’t even know how to wipe his own arse. So there is that side of things.
But look at his life - Left school at thirteen. He was sponsored by a top tier skateboard company at fifteen. He was on Stussy when they were chucking money about. Had a pro shoe on eS that sold well when SoleTech was still up there. Got to travel the world all expenses paid and appeared in some banging videos, Yeah Right and Hot Chocolate. He then screwed his back up pretty majorly. During the back issue thing he spent his time fishing, kayaking, riding his bike and building forts with Rick Howard on Southern Californian beaches. Took up golf. Then was on the Nine Club for a couple of years. Started making the flavoured golf tee shaped toothpicks and turned that into his little golf accessory company. Before getting the boot from Crob, he roped Jeron Wilson into becoming a partner in The Number 33 and they did some shit with Malbon Golf and it seemed to be ticking along nicely and is still going despite Eldy being at the helm. Started his own (car crash of a ) podcast YT thing. Pulled the plug on that and now he’s doing this Golf with Flavor ‘show’.
If he has been able to make money and live off what he’s been doing that whole time, (rich wife’s trust fund not withstanding),it’s not bad going for a fuckwit of a school dropout who isn’t the sharpest pencil in the box. He probably gets out of bed stoked as fuck everyday. Life is short and having to go to a mundane, stressful job that you hate and sucks your soul out every damn day because you have no other option would really fucking suck.
He gets to mess about on a golf course with his mates, eat some food and then fiddle around at his golf company for a bit. Surely that’s preferable to where he could have ended up - Crail warehouse packing or doing sales, hitting up Mulder or Gavin and getting into real estate or the other ex pro skater route of landscaping/floor laying or whatever other manual labour he’d be able to slot into. Life is for living and he seems to be making a reasonable job of that. Granted, it’s undoubtedly down to more luck than judgement but he’s stil doing it.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think he’s a goon. Eldy probably thinks he’s got to this point by being some kind of deep thinking, incisive business genius of some kind rather than right place, right time and knowing some people etc. But at least he’s made the most of the opportunities that have come his way and has not had to ever have a real job.
Whether he deserves it or not is irrelevant. The world is not a meritocracy. There are plenty of people that do jobs for which they are well over qualified. Others do jobs they have no business doing. As a child I assumed that every doctor was a doctor because they were the best person to become a doctor, likewise with teachers, soldiers, and on and on. You take your pick. When you actually get out in the real world as an adult you begin to realise that this isn’t the case and that a large proportion of the working population is just winging it and really haven’t much of a clue what they’re doing. People just fall into stuff and find themselves doing whatever, sometimes they’ll do that for life and just put up with it. That, to me, sounds a shite way to live. So in some way he’s not a complete fuckwit, at least he’s doing what he wants.
All that said, it’s pretty much a given that this new YouTube thing is going to be fucking awful. I’ll give it a watch for at least the first couple of episodes, but not for the reasons Eldy would have intended but because somehow I’ll find it funny. I watched all of his last ‘Eldy’s pick of the Week’ thing even though it was truly terrible.
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yep, can’t argue with all that but the actual point is, we don’t need to see him sell his lifestyle to us. He could just do what he’s doing, all you’ve just stated and be happy but for some reason he wants to show it to us.
You don’t have to watch it, nobody is twisting your arm, you have a choice. Like I find myself saying a lot these days, ‘if you don’t like what you see, switch it off’.
Of course you can use that argument for anything but it doesn’t fix anything, doesn’t make it all ok, doesn’t make the carcrash go away. He’ll only harm himself by doing it, he doesn’t need to do it to himself, open himself up to criticism, because it’s absolutely there, he’s being ridiculed. He needs someone to tell him that it’s just not worth it, stick with doing what he does sans YT. It’s more for his benefit than mine.
Watched the first one and wow, it’s terrible. I feel like I just watched someone’s phone clips of their golfing day out randomly stitched together. With no reason or narrative.
He doesn’t really ask anything until halfway through and then it’s about something the dude doesn’t do or is really a part of? Then that bits over. No more questions.
They hit golf balls for no entertainment value to the audience. Put a shitty or funny bet on the game or at least let us know the score!? Something! They eat food with no real entertainment value for the audience too (in the brief clips of food). His input includes saying he’s going to get to the bottom of why some foods complement each other and some don’t. Like no-one’s ever thought about this before or something as moronic. He also comes across terribly as an interviewer(?).
I love to swear as much as the next person who loves to swear but if every third or fourth word is ‘fuck’ it just makes you look like an amateur idiot on camera. With very little conversational skills. Talking of conversational skills, he has zero ‘banter’.
The dude he is with looks super hyped for it at the start and by the end, kinda looks worried about what the hell has he agreed to be a part of? Or is just drained from having to spend the whole day with him and his inane chattering.
They talk about his toothpicks a lot and it makes you feel 20% stupider for having listened to it.
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Tempted to watch this now
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The guy he is with says his toothpick flavour should be snozzberries from Willy Wonka and I think he must know the meaning behind it and is fucking with Eldy surely?
Snozzberries = Penis
Give in to temptation and gaze upon the car crash!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3L-Qi8Ypk - some enjoyable skate-vlog content.
The hockey goal Tyshawn kickflips over near the start is 1.05 meters!
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Well, I’ve learnt something today.
Some chuckles in here…
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Actually impressed by Tyshawn’s flow and Ferg’s willingness to jump on a board.
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Funny!
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I haven’t watched this Eldridge shit and I probably won’t but I know that the formula is simple - clicks = cash.
Also Chris Roberts is way better at his job than most people give him credit for.
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I know that everyone on the planet already knows that this next, next, next-level but still…
Fuck me.
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Hip hop has lost it’s dirty samples and distortion, this has it all, classic.
