Interview Thread

10 years old but still good

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I guess no one’s interested in Dustin Dollin’s living proof interview…?

FTFY :slight_smile:

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Started it - the usual incoherent slurring - gave up.

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The last thing I saw with him was this.

It was, as they say, a tragic. Even though I enjoy Living Proof’s output I can’t bring myself to go in on the Dollin episode.

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Interviewer on the Living Proof thing was way more offensive than Dustin.

I can’t stand him. He’s shit.

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This was an enjoyable listen. I’m going to be lazy and just copy and paste the description. It’s worth a go even if you just stick it on in the background whilst doing something else.

ā€˜ā€™ Michele Lockwood is an artist, writer, photographer, clothing designer, mother, activist, and environmental scientist. She grew up in the boroughs of New York City and started sneaking out to hip-hop gigs, house music clubs, and punk shows while in high school. She hung out at the Brooklyn Banks in the late 1980s, and played the character ā€œKimā€ in Larry Clark’s 1995 film Kids. The X-girl logo, designed by Mike Mills, was based on her face, which led her to becoming a clothing designer in Tokyo with her own brand, called Material. Lockwood has lived in Australia for the last 20-odd years with her partner, Andrew Kidman, on a rural property in the hills between Byron Bay and the Gold Coast. Recently, Lockwood has started working for a not-for-profit Indigenous organization that helps to build more resilient communities and ecosystems. In her spare time, she studies and publishes papers on a local endangered frog species.’’

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I think the Living Proof show doesn’t really work with these older ā€˜legend’ guys who have done a million interviews in the past and don’t really give him all that much. His questions for these guests also are typically a bit more basic and he does let his fanboy side take sometimes.

I think he’s really good with more up and comers and those closer in age to him. I do wish he’d loosen up a bit though, try and have a bit more of a laugh with the guests.

I was really surprised at how bad the Living Proof magazine is for the price they are charging, based off the show I was expecting some pretty in depth long form interviews but they all just felt like awkward small talk

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Dustin Dollin looks more and more like Dot Cotton in every interview he does.

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I had to get my daily steps in so dug in for the 45min non-patreon pod version. Cliff notes:

  • Totally unapologetic about being an alcoholic, not that he needs to apologise but he accepts it whole heartedly with zero regrets. Paraphrasing ā€œshow me someone who’s filmed 18 minutes of gnarly tricks wasted. I’m the only one.ā€
  • Childhood sounded horrible
  • Kicked out of US for 4 years during baker 2g era for visa issues
  • People who do their job and know their place which justifies him throwing a sandwich in the face of a subway worker for not providing hot meatball sauce and pouring a drink over his ā€œbest friendā€ for sitting in his seat.

I don’t mind the interviewers style but someone needs to tell him to stop interviewing the entire baker/emerica 2003 lineup.

I bought the 10foot one which was great but that’s because Stuart Hammond interviewed him.
I agree that the price tag is a bit much though

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Yeah I got the same issue and agreed that was good. The Kyle Wilson and Kanin Garner ā€œinterviewsā€ were just nothing though

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ā€œWell…….he had a little help from all of usā€

:joy:

What makes a good interview?

Was watching one of the Dollin interviews above and he has certain mannerisms that remind me of a man I know in his early 70s that’s had a debilitating case of Parkinson’s for half his life

Hot Wings!

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Answers more than a sentence and questions that allow more than a sentence responses

Yeah but seriously, what do you mean? I’m interested to hear what you think makes an interview good. I like to hear about non skate stuff. I like to get an insight into a skater’s day to day life even what time and they wake up and stuff like that. I dunno why but I have always enjoyed hearing those sort of boring details.