Tbf that sounds like a positive.a I’m gonna try and listen again then.
#typeshit
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It hasn’t made me like or dislike him anymore than I already do but it makes for a good listen and an interesting episode.
His place in skateboarding is as a divisive character and is the talking point that keeps him relevant.
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Can’t watch someone chuffing on a cigar but he comes across really well and likeable. Not into his Shtick but based on that, he’s a nice dude. Although, while aligning with my thoughts about his disses, him being so positive about Dill is unerving. I jest of course. Sticking out the whole podcast, for me, is a very positive thing.
“I’m skating so much more now that I’m retired” is such a wicked line. Real life lolz at that. He doesn’t take himself as seriously as people seem to think he does.
In my worthless opinion, this is one of the best episodes the Bunt has put out - so much better than the usual So Cal or NY bro-fests where people talk for an hour without really saying anything.
I wouldn’t go that far, because his take on why he left Palace was some unbelievably entitled public schoolboy bullshit, but I definitely think he came off pretty well with the rapidfire round.
Blondey should 100% be encouraged to ponder less and be more reactive. He comes across ok when you put him on the spot but let him do any thinking and he chooses pretentiousness.
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Being asked to go to a Japan store opening over your grandad’s funeral? Not sure about that one.
100% agree. I might not agree with everything he’s about, but I really enjoyed this one and it was a really refreshing change from basically the same interview style we normally get. Like Mike Carroll, love that guy, but that was your classic cali pro cookie cutter interview we’ve heard 100 times over.
I was talking more about the expectation to be consulted throughout the whole video editing process. Kind of mad the degree of expectation he had that Lev should pass everything by him. I wonder if that’s how it works at Thames?
Why did he leave?
Not sure that was said, wasn’t it that he wanted extra angles but didn’t get anywhere when he asked? Sounds like you’ll still not be fan even so which is fine, obviously.
I got the impression he was aiming at something inbetween, didn’t expect to be consulted but thought he would be sitting in and maybe picking and choosing what tricks went in and they’d check the temperature with him but instead he just filmed and then they went away and did what they do.
which almost all editors do tbf, so not an unreasonable request but also one a lot of editors would deny.
Also talk of the town was he was demanding silly money because of his high media profile and lev laughed it away that he should be happy that he was on a very healthy income from skateboarding and he wouldn’t be getting special treatment. Which isn’t mentioned
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Yeah i think that’s fair.
For me, he seems to have become more likeable since he moved away from his beans on toast era. I don’t think he’s ever acknowledged this, and I doubt he will, but when he was younger he did seem to be pretending to be someone who he actually wasn’t* - and that came across as inauthentic and fake.
But now he seems happier to be open about the fact that actually, he isn’t a cockney street urchin, and he comes across much more genuine and likeable as a result. We all know he lives in a £4m penthouse, and that’s fine.
*putting the name to one side
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If only there was a recent interview or something we could access somehow where Blondey himself discusses his story of why he left.
Oh well, I guess we’ll never know!
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He said ‘I didn’t want to, really, direct it, to anywhere near the degree that I’m, fastidiously, controlling now, of my own company now’.
Which to my ears sounds like ‘I was trying to control the Palace vid’.
And we’re talking about Palace vids here. Those Palace vids made by Lev alone that helped shape the image of the biggest up and coming skateboard brand to come out of the UK in decades.
I mean…if Blondey HAD managed to gain influence over the Palace vids then based on his subsequent output they’d almost certainly have been much worse.
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I was getting on a plane and just wanted the highlights you cheeky Kent.
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Weren’t we all?
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45 minute rapid fire! The man likes the sound of his own voice.
I read the Thames ownership issues as having more to do with Blondey leaving Palace, the video editing and Japan trip issues sounded more like him reaching for excuses to me.
Blondey will turn into the old, rich business director who comes into the office once a month to stick his oar in, and everyone who works there is too scared to tell him his ideas are batshit. Maybe he’s already that.
Very well read and eloquent for someone who was excluded from primary school and never turned up. Likes to spin a yarn, but very listenable all the same.
Thought that he came across really well, probably best Bunt I’ve seen in a while!
Your favourite skaters more than likely result in a boring interview, someone you find polarising, you’re gonna get a more entertaining one. Unless it’s nine club interviewing someone that Chris Roberts wants to rimjob because they are making money off YT and that’s what he wants to do. Then you punch your keyboard and moan about it on a forum.
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Quite often the case isn’t it, then there also people who I’d not really want to watch skate but were great to listen to, Jaws is one example.
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