blade or die

Warning: there are a lot of dog shenanigans on this episode. Megan Petersen is a photographer and bladie. In town for the Northwest Shred Tour, she, Stephen Durasa, and I talk about her new project: thebladies.com. Starting out with a few T-shirt designs, she hopes to expand it out into a central hub for female-centered blader content […]

There’s nothing better than going to grad school and getting someone back on their skates. Drew Costley is a born-again rollerblader. Born in D.C., raised in Virginia, and currently being educated in Berkeley, he is also photographer, multimedia journalist, and a fun person to be around. We talk about how the Disney movie Brink got […]

Ryan Lindsay and I became friends in grad school starting with the fact neither of us are particularly social at 9 a.m. We talk about Ryan’s early days of rollerblading, representation in action sports, gun violence in America, and much more. During our conversation, we, unfortunately, picked up the sounds of gunfire in my neighborhood. […]

Spoiler alert: Brian Krans and Philip Moor don’t actually grill anything in this episode. We talk about things in the news, namely BBQ Becky, as she’s now known. You can directly download the episode here, or stream it on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play. (Subscribe, if you feel like it.) Listen to KQED’s “The Bay” report on the aftermath […]