Send us a text Iconic Skateboarder, artist, musician and cultural influencer, Mr Steve Caballero joins me from his home in California for a long conversation about his life so far. As one of the longest serving professional skateboarders of all time, Steve and I obviously touch upon his love for skateboarding and his long-term affiliation with his main sponsors, Powell-Peralta and Vans shoes. However, Steve gets vulnerable and opens up about more delicate aspects of his life, such as the challen...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 200
Send us a text Peanut is a lifelong skateboarder based in Sydney Australia. In this week's episode, Peanut discusses his early involvement with the brand Volcom, life growing up in the Northern Beaches, being subjected to minor levels of racism, the empathetic approach he endeavours to apply to his interactions with people, his early identification of the talented Dustin Dollin, why the "Gino-factor" will always save skateboarding, his production company Visual Cognac, frontside half-cabs, his i...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Send us a text Gordon Auchinachie is an iconic skateboarder from Sydney who made a profound impact on the scene throughout the 90s and beyond. In this week's episode, Gordon shares about his life growing up in Mosman, finding skateboarding, skating in the city, getting sponsored, making the legendary video "Plebs", being offered the job as editor of popular magazine Skateboarding Australia, crazy stories from the Annandale share house, that time he did "skate tricks" in his Honda at Kierle Park,...
Jun 22, 2023•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Send us a text Dean Wells is a skateboarder, creative, and former (somewhat controversial) reality TV show star. This week, I join Dean in his studio on the northern beaches of Sydney to discuss his life so far. Dean shares about his family's move from England to Australia, their humble beginnings in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn, their re-location to the city of Newcastle, why he got into skateboarding, surfing, and making music, being asked to be a participant on reality TV show Married ...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Send us a text UFC fighter Jamie Mullarkey is back on the show for the second time this year. Jamie discusses his up coming UFC fight in Las Vegas, fight camp, his long-term partnership with coach Ross Pearson, recovery modalities, diet, and the beautiful violence that is MMA. I think I like this episode better than our first one. Such a good dude. Enjoy, Shan⚡️ Jamie supports and advocates for #Talk2mebro Connect with Terrible Happy Talks online: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terriblehap...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Send us a text Legendary professional Australian Skateboarder, Mick Mulhall joins me for an in-person chat, live from his home in Five Dock, Sydney Australia this week. I'm joined by special guest co-hosts, and longtime friends of Mick, Darren Kaehne and Billy Harris. We commune with Mick at a delicate time in his life, with the recent passing of his mother, combined with the arduous task of packing up, and selling the family home they have owned for over 50 years. Mick takes us on a journey thr...
May 17, 2023•2 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Send us a text Craig Martin is a former Military Paratrooper who has completed multiple overseas deployments to locations throughout his long career, including locations such as Afghanistan and East Timor. In this week's episode, Craig discusses what it's like to be shot at in combat, living in a war zone, celebrating his 21st birthday in Afghanistan, the challenges of integrating back into civilian life, his passion for hard physical training, healing modalities such as cold therapy, his profes...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Send us a text Former Vice News and News Limited journalist, current article writer for Stab Magazine, and co-host of (the best surf podcast on the planet) Ain’t That Swell, Mr Jed Smith joins me for a chat from his home in the Northern Rivers of NSW Australia. Jed discusses his empathy for the working class, his personal struggle with PTSD, brain injury, the healing modalities he is implementing, a review of his recent podcast guests, and much much more. Jed is unapologetically opinionated, can...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Send us a text This week I speak with former professional skateboarder, exceptional artist, husband and father, Mr Sidney Tapia. Sid joins me live from his Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia, to take us on a deep, authentic, and often raw journey, through his life so far. Sid reflects on his tumultuous childhood and teens years, the challenges of being a child of migrant parents who divorced when he was 3 years of age, finding art as his place of solace, navigating a liveable income as a sponsor...
Apr 26, 2023•3 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 192
Send us a text *Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) This week, past guest, Psychologist, and Jui Jitsu enthusiast Mark Baxter joins me along with Artist, Curator of the Sporulation Psychedelic Art Festival , and Exercise Physiologist Melissa Errey. The three of us have an open conversation about mental health, it's inevitable fluctuations, trauma, and beyond. Melissa shares elements of her personal story which is brave and appreciated. Mark weighs in to address the news around the TGA's re-schedu...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Send us a text This week I catch-up with one of my personal favourite Australian Skateboarders, Mr Darren Kaehne. Darren and I have a relaxed, yet long conversation, at his house in Mona Vale on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia. Darren shares about his early years growing-up, finding a sincere passion for Skateboarding, meeting his wife, starting a family, and everything in between. We reflect a lot on the Australian skate scene in the 90s which was fun, but mainly we philosophise, and g...
Apr 15, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Send us a text Jeffery Olsen and his son Spencer, are Near Death Experience survivors of a car accident that took the lives of Jeffery's first wife, and Spencer's mother, Tamara and Jeffery's son (Spencer's brother), Griffin. To add to the trauma of the event, Jeffery's leg was amputated in the process, he broke his back, endured eighteen surgeries, and five months in an Intensive Care Unit. In this week's episode, Jeffery and Spencer share the details of their lives prior and post accident, the...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Send us a text Jarrett Wilbraham is a professional MMA fighter and past guest. This week he joins me remotely to check in, discuss his recent title fight in Melbourne, and in true Jarrett fashion, we get deep into his ongoing healing journey. Despite being an absolute savage in the Octagon, Jarrett is a deeply sensitive, and empathetic human who attributes much of his healing journey to his conscious use of psychedelics, supporting family and friends and training at an elite level. The conversat...
Mar 21, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Send us a text This week Ian "Chef" Larios shares his journey into becoming regarded as the world's best (and most sought after) Nutritionist and Dietician for the world's best fighters. After getting an opportunity to work with Sergio Pettis almost ten years ago, he has since been invited to be part of fight camps with the likes of Daniel Cormier, newly crowned light heavy weight champion, Jamal Hill, and interim featherweight champion Yair Rodriguez. Ian joins me live from his home in Bali and...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 186
Send us a text Jeremy Rowling is a skateboarder, photographer, dedicated family-man, and a lifelong friend. It's an important episode for me. As a teenager, Jeremy was that person I looked-up to the most. He was a few years older, a few years cooler, confident, kind, funny, and the catalyst that held the crew together. Enamoured with skateboarding, and as the the oldest...he had a job. This meant that he was able to buy the latest skate videos when they came out, in which we would spend countles...
Feb 18, 2023•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 185
Send us a text Ricky Roberts tunes in from St. Petersburgh, Florida, USA to check-in since last time he was on the show. Ricky discusses his latest writing endeavour, his more recent mental health issues of the last couple of years, finding his feet with parenting, why he is still progressing on a skateboard in his mid 40's, the success of his book "Thank you Skateboarding" and much more. I feel a real affinity with Ricky; we are the same age, bald, we have beards, similar complexion, similar fa...
Feb 11, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 184
Send us a text Justin "Lockjaw" Van Heerden is the current Australian Eternal MMA Featherweight champion. In this week's episode, Justin discusses: Life growing up in South Africa, His family's decision to move to Australia Being subjected to bullying at school Becoming a father The importance of positive co-parenting relationships His Australian title His current injury preventing him from a title defence fight Being a co-host on the Fight Talk Down Under podcast His Journalism degree Training ...
Feb 04, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 183
Send us a text Chelsea Hackett is a female professional MMA fighter who is scheduled to compete in the Professional Fighters League in Florida this coming February 2023. Chelsea shares openly and honestly about the challenges of participating in a heavily male-dominated sport, her inner drive to succeed, winning a contract to the PFL, her Dana White contender series fight, Chinese Street fighting with her Dad when she was 12, balancing personal relationships, resisting the allure of making money...
Jan 28, 2023•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 182
Send us a text Spencer Frost is a talented surfer and filmmaker from the suburb of Avalon, in the northern beaches area of Sydney, Australia. This week, Spencer sits down with me in-person to discuss his early days growing up, starting out in surf film-making, his transition into commercial projects with his own company Spencer Frost films, his early mentors, and a detailed behind the scenes account of his latest collaborative passion project "Corners of the Earth: Kamchatka" with friends Guy Wi...
Jan 21, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 181
Send us a text Jamie "The Hooligan" Mullarkey is a professional MMA fighter who is contracted to the UFC. In this week's episode, Jamie discusses: Being added to the UFC284 roster in Perth, Australia. An update on his fight camp preparation His life growing up in the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Why he was originally drawn to MMA. Coaches that have been influential on him The importance of spending time with mates Managing nerves. Facing fear. I find Jamie to be somewhat of a par...
Jan 14, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 180
Send us a text Wayne Cleveland is an iconic local from the Southern Sydney suburb of Maroubra. Big wave charger and life-long surfer, Wayne is a larger than life character that is full of charisma, energy, and an innate kindness that underlies his robust stature and presence. This week, Wayne shares openly and honestly about the events of his wild life so far... Charging big waves, cocaine smuggling, being under police surveillance, 10 years of prison time, getting (and staying) sober, using pri...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 179
Send us a text Wow. What an absolute banger of a final episode for the year! Simon Wills is a pure skateboarder. And like most of my skateboarding related episodes, we barely talk about skateboarding. Instead, Simon takes us on a journey into his early years growing up in government housing in the South Western Sydney suburb of Campbelltown, he gives us an insight into the violent and often drug-fuelled culture that emerges in such areas, he talks about managing skate shops, working with the bra...
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 178
Send us a text Marlon Roche is an artist, sponsored skateboarder, empath and someone I consider a good friend. This week, Marlon and I record live in front of a small audience at King Pin Skate Supply. I attempted to talk to Marlon purely about skateboarding for this episode, however, most of the conversation is about smoking weed, perspectives on mental health, gardening, trauma, social etiquette, and much much more. Marlon's maturity, intellect and inquisitive nature never ceases to amaze me. ...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 177
Send us a text Dane Wilson is a lifelong surfer who's family have a deep history in surfboard manufacturing, creativity, and indirect influence on modern day surf culture. Dane joins me via remote recording from his home in Noosa, Queensland Australia and discusses his early surfing years growing up in Cronulla, taking over manufacturing of G&S Surfboards with his family at the age of 15, travelling the world as a pro longboarder, the innate purpose he feels to spread good vibes, approaching...
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Send us a text Jarrett Wilbraham is a professional MMA fighter who trains under the legendary head coach Joe Lopez at Freestyle Fighting Gym. With peers and mentors such as pound for pound UFC champion Alex Volkanoviski and Colby Thickenesse, Jarrett is poised to realise his dream of competing on the biggest stage in the world. In this week's episode, Jarrett shares openly about the bullying he was subjected to in his younger years, the subsequent violence that ensued resulting in PTSD. He outli...
Nov 19, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 175
Send us a text Josh Ku is a well loved, and renowned surfer from the east coast of Australia. He has proven himself time and time again at the most infamous slabbing waves around Sydney, the South Coast of New South Wales and beyond. A waterman in the truest sense. This week, Josh joins me live and in-person to discuss his lifetime in the ocean, his childhood in the eastern Sydney suburb of Maroubra, chasing extra large swells, escaping to Puerto Escondido Mexico during the lockdown for the sake...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 174
Send us a text In this weeks episode Ben Watts (aka GRILF) and Leon Paxton discuss their skateboarding journey, the importance of being part of a community, Ben's passion for spearfishing, his love for sharks, close encounters with Great White Sharks, having two seperate near death experiences in the same day, growing up in a rural town, skateboarding trick process and much more. A relaxed and friendly chat with moments of intensity in which we go on a tangent about the reality of death and cons...
Oct 29, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 173
Send us a text Nate Perry is a skateboarder, Dj, MC, boxer and former professional snowboarder and X-Games medallist. In this week's episode, Nate catches up with me in Uluwatu, Bali to share his early days growing up skateboarding and surfing in Cronulla, transitioning to a successful snowboarding career, his boxing training, his love for making music, DJ-ing, Mc-ing, and his lifestyle by design which consists of living between Bali and Australia. It's a relaxed and laid-back chat in which Nate...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 172
Send us a text Luke Cederman is the host of the satirical creative endeavour; The Raglan Surf Report. Avid surfer, podcaster, short film-maker, and observer of all things pop culture, surf culture and beyond, Luke sits down for a chat with myself and this week's guest co-host, Mr Tim Morris, at Tim's home in Uluwatu, Bali. Luke discusses the difference between a "surfer" and a "surfey", poor surf etiquette, why comedy is a good way to highlight serious issues, his life growing up in Raglan New Z...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Send us a text Tyler Farnham is a parachuting enthusiast, surf instructor, author, public speaker, surrogate father, lifeguard, and Florida expat. On the eve of his 26th birthday, Tyler's worst nightmare came true...his parachute failed to open during a recreational sky dive, spiralling so fast that the centrifugal force rendered him unconscious and unable to release his emergency parachute. To add to the drama, his mother was at the scene watching as her son fell, to what was assumed to be, his...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 170
