Ep.3.4 Social Media and Wide Trucks

In season 3 episode 4 of Skate Date we talk about the evolution of social media and our experience on all the different social media platforms and how weird all of it is. We also talk about the phenomenon of Wide Trucks in the wheel world and get really into it!

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Transcript

Rebel: 0:09

Hey, welcome this Gay Day. Lu. Escape D is a podcast where we talk about the real world in the real world, aka, life and then roller skating life. I'm rebel. I'm shove, and together we're shovel.

Shove: 0:26

Can you dig it? I can. So this week shove doesn't want to be here again, but I'm making her How do you feel about that vein? I'm just really tired. And I have a giant knot in my neck and my back hurts. And I'm really tired.

Rebel: 0:46

I get that this morning. I've I had one of those days this morning, too. I was really struggling to get out of bed. And I was literally like, I don't know that I am ever gonna get out of bed and be happy when I get out of bed again. And that made me really sad.

Shove: 1:04

Yeah, here we are. Yeah. I had to take a nap for a little bit because I was like, I'm gonna die. I wish I took a nap. I'd probably be in a better mood now. Yeah.

Rebel: 1:13

Well. So last week, we did a lot of fun stuff. Right? Bam. We did. Yeah, we went to see Taryn. Tina. Oh, yeah.

Shove: 1:26

Yeah, that was last week. Oh, man. It was really cool, huh? Whoa, that is so crazy. It was Wednesday that we had doesn't it feel like already Monday a year ago? Yeah. I don't. Yeah, I don't know. I'm tripping out. Yeah. It's been a crazy week. Yeah. There's

Rebel: 1:43

been so much stuff that's happened. But I had a friend break their arm. Yeah. spent a long time in the hospital just hoping that they were okay. Yeah. And we worked and we went on a Skate Adventure on Sunday. And we also skated and Saturday. Saturday went somewhere. I've

Shove: 2:04

never been we went to Balboa. Yeah. At the blacktop and Newport. It was really cool. It's so beautiful. It's like a huge area you can skate on right next. Oh, so you just kept saying Oh, Balboa beach. I thought like Balboa was a place so about a place but it's a city of Newport. You know, a Signal Hill is like Signal Hill, but it's also low. Okay, so Baba is Val is Balboa but also Newport. See? I don't know jack squat. But we'll see.

Rebel: 2:33

Yeah, it's Baba. So Baba Peninsula is technically Newport Beach. But it's Balboa Hmm. I used that was my first job was on Balboa Peninsula. I

Shove: 2:46

worked at a silver store. I loved it. He's always talking about the silver story. Like so

Rebel: 2:52

much fond memories, but also like, what a random job. Yeah. So we did a lot this last week, but it was still fun. So it feels like a million years. But also yesterday, since the last time we hung out with you. And talked about how much we loved and hated Valentine's Day. Which guess what we're doing tomorrow?

Shove: 3:14

I'm celebrating Valentine's Day for real? Yeah. But we know I don't actually know are doing it's a surprise. Shiva surprising me. So I'm really excited. Yeah, all she knows so far is that we're going to LA for this light. Cool, I guess I guess you could call it museum. It's like one of the places where each room is like, decorated differently, like over the top colourful. So like, kind of why I chose our black and white outfits. And I know that we're gonna match. Yeah, because we're gonna stand out with all the pop art. I'm really excited. And there's also a reservation, so do not take your time. Do not be late tomorrow. I literally I'm finding more out as we're talking right now, cuz I didn't know actually some of them. Yeah, you need to be ready at 11:30am Oh, that's later than I thought we're gonna start. That's cool. No, I want to sleep in we haven't had a chance to sleep in. So I'm 7:30am you need to be ready. I will be ready. Wow, amazing day 1,000%. He's doing a bunch of stuff. I'm gonna do a bunch of stuff that I don't like to do, but I know rebel likes or loves. Because rebel, I keep telling him, I'm gonna go for rebel and she's not ready for it. And she's like, I don't even know what that means. And I'm like, You do like 12 Days of Christmas and spoiling me and you're like, do all this like stuff and like, you give me back massages. And you're like, Oh, let me just like, make sure you do all this stuff and give you all the things you love. And like you're the romantic and I'm just like, I'll do it really rarely, but I'm just like, yeah. Like you did things that I love that you're like, whatever about all the time, and for me, I'm just like, let's do this one thing, so that we'll both enjoy, but I'm gonna do things for her that I know she'll enjoy and then I'll be like, I'm doing this because I love her. I'm so excited. I am. I've never had we haven't ever had a day like this before. Yeah, I don't know if our relationship will survive it. That's a lie. Like, wait, this is actually your way happy and I hate this all I do I love you and I do. Opposites attract. Oh my gosh, you're gonna be like, actually, I hate all of these things. I'm like, damn, I don't know you. And you can be like, Yeah, this isn't gonna work. That would be so weird. Yeah, that's definitely not the case. It's get a skate date. It turns into skate pal. That sounds like I don't know, some sort of like tech device. Skate pal. Yeah, like the skate pal. Good for like, it's already an app as soon as someone is already there. Yeah, I made that skate pals

Rebel: 5:55

game. I mean, I just feel like if there was ever like an AI that somehow supported you as a roller skater, it would be called skate pal. Anyways, so um, today Oh, before we tell you actually, we could tell you what we're talking about. Today, we're going to talk about social media and like being on different parts of social media and like virtuality and like trends and stuff like that. And then we're also going to talk about wide trucks. So get ready for that. But before we fully jump in, we're going to respond to some comments that we got this past week. Y'all please comment on our YouTube channel so that we have things there. It's fun to

Shove: 6:39

have to It's just we don't have to worry about commenting. It's just if there's a comment, we'll comment on it. There's no comment we do that. It's casual, but rebel trying to be pushy, like last season. We're not gonna be pushy with our listeners. Okay. Okay.

Rebel: 6:54

I like the structure but okay, so, the first one you can respond to? You want to read it is right there. Um, it's from this person.

Shove: 7:07

With two C's bunny thick bunny says, I love you guys.

Rebel: 7:12

Yet. That's funny. Yeah, I'm thick with three C's. Yeah, thick with all the C's. So the next comment is actually an Instagram DM that we received and it's by grace WZ our wizard dreams and they say dear skate date, love, love, love the pod and wanted to contribute to the new obsession segment while so while working from home. I like to listen to YouTube blogs and pods. And one of my recent obsessions is Fundy Friday, the host Jen does their makeup while discussing a variety of fundamentalist families reality stars, groups and cults. There they snarling Lee deconstruct and discuss fundamentalist Christianity and other adjacent religious sects. Anyway, I think the channel might appeal to you both and wanted to share they're also on Instagram. Not so interesting. Their minds will be looser and yeah, I know but I love that they like specialize it in like fundamentalist families, reality stars, groups and cults and make Fundy Friday could add it to my repertoire. Yeah, we should check it out. For sure. I think I would like it. But I also think I'd be triggered by it. So I don't know. Maybe I'll let shove watch it first. And then she can tell me if I can watch it without having a little bit of a panic attack.

Shove: 8:34

I love Colts. It was like what made me fall for this one. This is she was like I was gonna call it once and was like, Tell me more. Now. I think I love you. You're definitely gonna be my girlfriend one day. You know what's so funny that I did talk about that on our first date. You talked about everything's you overshare everything? No, I don't over share everything because they're literally wouldn't be would it be possible for me to overshare 27 years of life while I was on one first date. You weren't diagnosed or medicated? So maybe, I don't know. I didn't do much talking. That's

Rebel: 9:09

the main thing that I remember is you totally beating my asset pool. And then also when they brought me a tequila and tonic instead of a gin and tonic, and I was like, Oh, I guess I'll just drink it. And it was so gross.

Shove: 9:28

Yeah, anyways, so and I remember talking about, like, the cult I was in and then I remember being like, maybe I shouldn't know talked about that on a first date.

Rebel: 9:40

Anyways, so um, yeah, so those are comments. Today we have a little bit of an ad. D Daddy, Daddy, Daddy dad, and it is shove so why don't you go ahead

Shove: 9:59

Wow. Oh, I didn't even know I had today. Thanks me for writing it down and pointing out a notebook. So I could tell the people, all the lovely news. My shop is a failure. So I'm putting everything on failure is not a failure. Okay, so I have decided that my life and my mental health is not does not have the room to ship things out anymore, personally. So it's moving to dropship. But until then, all of my stickers and prints will be 60% off at checkout, you'll see it's taken off so I'm just doing a blowout sale and getting rid of everything. Holy macaroni. Yeah, so head on over to fat soon fetal dot. Yeah, so she was having a big sale. So you should go shop her shop because literally you could get like, so much stuff for like, actually, like so. So, so cheap. Yeah, I'm like, not even kidding. She's just going to look at anymore. It's depressing. Yeah, she's like, I don't want to run a shop anymore. That was a manic thing. Maybe? Maybe not. I don't know. But I think it was. Yeah. So it was a manic thing that I had to pain for for a very long time. Yeah. So that's our ad. So now let's go into the real world.

Rebel: 11:36

In the real world, we talk about all the things that we want to talk about. And today we're gonna talk about social media and and how weird it is, and the evolution of it. And like, how weird it is. Okay, so what I really wanted to talk about is, how weird is it that like, in our, like, adult lifetimes, or whatever, like, there have been so many different, like, primary social media platforms, and we've been on so many of them. Like, I just think that's so crazy, cuz we're old. No, I know. But like, we're the first generation that's been on like so many social media platforms. For us. It didn't exist, right? Like they literally started with our generation. And so it's just like, so wild to have experienced all of that. Yeah. Like you literally started as a Tumblr queen. No. What? Oh,

Shove: 12:30

MySpace, you started on MySpace. My wait was Tumblr before MySpace or after MySpace simultaneous? Well, before my you had, oh, my God was the blog. One. Was it called blogger. I think it was called blogger. So you had like the blogging one first, but I wasn't on that. But I had friends on there. Then MySpace became like a huge thing. So I didn't even have a computer yet. So I created my MySpace page on my friend's computer. And then I would check it after school all the time. And then like the that year later on, my dad finally got a computer for the house. And I became obsessed. So I was a MySpace scene queen for a really long time, right after high school. And I don't like I think like I was in groups, but it was more like subculture subculture. Like, so bad. The KKK color kids of color. Oh CME Group on MySpace. So it was all black sea kids. And it was like, we're it was okay. It was a different time of the year was 2007. I thought it was fun. Yeah, it was ironic. So yeah, and in that, I felt like it was like, Yeah, we got around, like, the hair the makeup rawr rawr. Um, yeah, it was a thing going on, like MySpace, like, follow chains and stuff. Man, that was a little thing. Yeah, but then Tumblr was like, the first time I think, like, I was like, Oh, shit, like, a lot, a lot of notes, lots of notes. I remember they were called notes. So like, likes and reshares. And, you know, I did like the artsy nudes and like the poetry and like, talk, like, go into Tumblr and read their Tumblr where I'm like, Oh, you are crazy. You've been crazy. Because since I was like, a live blog, and I was brutally honest, and just like the ups and downs and like kind of seeing the flow, and like, how things are repeating. Like, when I look back at it, it's like, Ooh, this is hard to look at. I actually got locked out of my Tumblr, but I can still like look it up because I remember the name and so I can read it as like just someone looking at it. And I'm just like, She's crazy. You're just putting everything out there for the world. Didn't you have when we first started dating? Didn't you still have a Tumblr that you were using? I started another one. And then I decided my heart wasn't in it though. Because by then, Instagram had my heart.

Rebel: 15:16

Instagram really had still in your heart for sure, for sure. Mm hmm. Did you feel like, I don't know. Like, do you feel like there was kind of something that that was sparked in you when you were on MySpace? And that kind of stayed with you? Or do you think,

Shove: 15:37

well, Myspace? I think the reason like that never blew up. And I was never like, oh, never see, like, as much as like, oh, cinquain cuz I was like, in the same boat wasn't a scene queen. I was just a scene kid. And that was mostly because I didn't know who I was yet. It was more like, I got to look like all these other people. Like, I yield my eating disorder, because there were so many, like, teeny tiny seeing girls and like, so I would want to look like them. So like, it was like my inspiration like making my big hair and like having a pale face and like not eating and being like, looking like unhealthy fit in with looking seen. And like it was more like just repeating like, oh, they did their makeup this way. So I'm gonna do my makeup this way. Um, they do that. So it was kind of like a way to like the bad social media where it was like, I just want to look like everyone else. By time Tumblr came around, it was more like creative for me.

Rebel: 16:32

I wasn't really like I was definitely on MySpace. And that was for sure. My first social media. I mean, I had a Blogspot. And like, I was on Blogger, but it was kind of just like, you know, touching go, whatever. But I on MySpace, it was definitely more like, just like friend centric. It was never reaching outside my social network that I knew in real life. And I never was on Tumblr for real, like, I think I maybe had one. But I was never like fully in to it. And I think that that's because the time that I would have been into it. I was in the cold where I wasn't allowed on social media or anything like that. And then I had a Facebook, and I remember being like, oh my god, I have so many like, friends. I had like 3000 friends. And that was a lot back then. And but it was never I think it's same concepts. Like I didn't really know who I was. And so how can you possibly really be a leader when you don't really have your own? Like, anything to? I don't know, like, what are you posting if you don't really know what you like, or want or anything like that. So I think that's definitely where I was. And then yeah, I don't like it's so weird. There's like a gap for me between

Shove: 17:54

Did you ever like, get a partner out of MySpace?

Rebel: 17:59

No. So um, for me my space. I never really met anyone. I met people like, on chat rooms. Like in chat rooms.

Shove: 18:13

Yeah, I met like, three boyfriends off of MySpace. I forgot aim. Does that count as I mean, it's not a social media. But remember a messenger though? No, we got to take it way back. Okay. Before, but internet was like a huge thing. And like a lot of people had computers, especially if you were in poverty, as I was like, it was rare to have a house computer. So our social media where you would like chat with strangers and go into rooms was the party line. So the party line, we had the loop, I think it was called the loop. And the number would be written on desk in school, or like in the bathroom. And it was this number you called and you put in a number and you had like your mailbox, it was totally free to. And different numbers were different rooms like number three might be the punk room number four would be like the Mexican room. Number five would be the black room. And it was like almost everyone in Compton knew in kind of surrounding areas knew about this and it was like mostly it was always kind of crammed down because like, we assumed it was all teenagers. But definitely there were like for sure. I definitely like did some shady shit with someone I was like you're not a teenager like me. But like you would meet up not like you would meet up in the chat room and you just talk to people but you weren't like live chatting. You like put their number and like everyone would be leaving things like hit me up number blah, blah. And then so someone would just slide into your inbox and then say something and then you would keep talking voicemail to voicemail And then you could be like, Oh, okay, let's meet up. And then you had a private chat and you just talked together and you decide if you wanted to give them your phone number to, like have a normal conversation or not. And then you'd sign on to the party chat, it would leave, check your mailbox. And like, sometimes someone would leave a song for you. And you wouldn't know who it was. Or if they didn't say so you don't mind. And if that was like, the original, like, social media, oh my god, imagine if nowadays, people had to do that for social. Yeah. And then it's like what you were talking about, like I did Yahoo chat rooms. So that was going to internet cafes and like, or if you did at home, and you would just go into chat rooms and chat with people. Yeah, I don't remember if it was Yahoo chat rooms, or just chat rooms in general that I used to go into, but just random chat rooms, but like, it's dangerous as all those words. So that was it, like built up on like, and it was interesting that way. Now it's like another kind of danger where it has that as well. But now it's like, investing yourself and how many likes you have and followers you have? And like so that's what's reliant? And that's when we're talking about like, my sweet friends and Facebook friends and humbler nodes and Instagram likes and follows. Yeah, yeah. And Tik Tok so wild. Yeah. So then it was just kind of like, well, then Snapchat was like, in between Facebook and Snapchat felt like a party line to me. But with videos instead of voicemails.

Rebel: 21:34

Yeah, I never was like trying to get a claim on Snapchat. Not that I've ever been trying to get a claim. It was points, remember? Oh, yes. Do you and there was also like, streaks that you would get?

Shove: 21:47

Yeah. And then it was like, then everyone remember, everyone had like a VIP snap? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God, when you found out you could send someone money. And then I was like, okay, like, but I don't know, Snapchat was fun, because it was like filters. Because I was like,

Rebel: 22:06

Yeah, that was what it was all about. I think Snapchat was the introduction of like, the wild filters, or at least the flame that catch that caught on to society. Cause like, no tick tock. And

Shove: 22:17

it's to me like Instagrams, the biggest monster because it sees other things that are thriving are that people like, and then they just keep adding it to their app?

Rebel: 22:28

Well, because Instagram is literally Facebook. Yeah, mega, whatever. Ubers. Well, I don't know. I think that that I think Metaverse is going to be the next big thing after Tik Tok. And I think that that's going to be really fascinating and weird. And I don't I don't understand it yet. But

Shove: 22:45

yeah, and like you're now you're moving a lot of your time and energy to tick tock.

Rebel: 22:51

Yeah, I so I just feel like I'm at home there. I don't know how to describe like, so like, I saw tick tock this morning that someone was like, there's a I've been watching a lot of like, big time Instagram, like influencers, meaning like people with like, millions of followers or, you know, 1000s of followers or hundreds of 1000s, whatever, come over to tick tock and fail. And the reason why is because tick tock like isn't about an aesthetic, like, tick tock is literally about having a personality, and like, and like being entertaining, and like keeping people around because they want to be friends with you. Like they want to know about you. Because tick tock really is like you post so many times a day, because like, that's what the algorithm like. So a lot of the content is just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you just like post it. And I feel like I feel seen when I'm on there. Like it just feels like the stuff that I would say in my Instagram stories. I'm now just turning into tiktoks and like putting it on there interesting.

Shove: 23:58

That probably better for me because like for me, I was like, don't ask me about any of the features and how to record or do anything in there. Like all put some little edits up there and upload it and that's all I got. And to know, like how far my tic TOCs come is like, I don't know, let's unbeknownst to me, it's just like, it's it's doing well, it's there. Like, I've literally been paid to do a tick tock before and I'm like really like tick tock. I don't know anything about it. And then I'm like, wait, maybe my followers like count because I feel like on tick tock. You have to have a million followers. There's nothing on Instagram, you have like 10,000 It's a huge deal. But if you have like 10,000 on tick tock that's like nothing like I don't it's weird. It's weird. It's really weird because the Tick Tock algorithm is a interest based algorithm as opposed to a like,

Rebel: 24:52

like, it's not like the way that you are receiving things in your for you page isn't based off of who you follow. It's based off of what you're interested in. And so that's why it's so different. Like, you can get a bunch of followers and, or people can follow you and they're not just gonna see your stuff in their feed, they're only going to see your stuff in their feed if you're also putting out stuff that they're interested in. So it's like really interesting and totally different. The way that it's the way it works is just different than other social medias. So it's less pressure. I think, like, I don't feel bad if I put up something that doesn't mean anything, because nobody's gonna see it. And I'm like, okay. Yeah, I get that. But yeah, so I don't know. So I've been doing Tik Tok a lot recently, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. I also just think that like, how for now, I think tick tock is where it's at. I don't know how it could potentially, like, monetize, or what it could potentially lead to. But I just feel like there's a lot of potential there because it still is so new. Like, it's only a few years old. Still, you know,

Shove: 25:59

we thought about a big we forgot about a big one that's big for you. Well, YouTube. Oh, yeah. And we also forgot about Twitter. And, like, read Reddit and stuff. Yeah. But

Rebel: 26:11

there's, I mean, there's so many so much. We're just gonna talk about like, what Yeah, yeah, YouTube is a big one for me, for sure. And I love YouTube, I love long form content, I love creating something and feeling like I'm a TV show host, which is basically what YouTube is, you know, it's like little, little TV shows that you're creating, and you like, put up content every week at a certain time, and people go, and they watch your content that you've created. And I love it, it's created a community for me in a way that I've never successfully created a community for, like, I definitely feel like YouTube is the place that I've been the most successful and that I've thrived the most. And I love it there. And I will probably stay there for a very long time. Because I feel like YouTube is one of those ones that aren't gonna fade away. I feel like it's gonna kind of be a pillar for a while, in the same way that Google is like a pillar of a search engine. So but that's just my personal opinion. But yeah, I really like YouTube.

Shove: 27:15

I feel like the social media, it's like fun. And then like, there's a purpose for me to use it now. Like, I love being able to spread a message to people or just being that representation. But I'm like, I don't know, like, I know, like, I should care and like, follow these things and try to trend more and things like that, because it gives me a bigger platform, but at the same time, like, I just do it. I'm just doing things whenever I feel creative, make it fun. Don't make it too serious. Like if it's how you want to, like get that bank then yeah, you got to be serious about it. But at the end of the day, it's just social media. It's not real life. Don't give in to like having to be on your phone on social media. When you have real friends right there. It's okay to not be glued to your phone like it's okay. Yeah. And I feel like that's definitely been a trend for you recently, where you're just kind of like yeah, met on social media. Past like year, do you think that there's something that happened that caused you to feel that way? Probably. Do you know what it is? Probably some sort of trauma? Yeah, for sure. Trump probably got attacked on social media, and then my eye twitch. And I was like, fuck everyone. Yeah. You don't deserve to see me, like on here anymore. I don't know. Like, no, I think like, I do remember what it was. I did shrooms for my birthday last year. And one of the things that like started giving me a bad trip was thinking about I was thinking rebel was recording it for social media and like putting it and I remember thinking like, why is she recording right now? Like, this is like not the time? Why is the camera always on why's everything have to be on social media. And then I remember being like, Bitch, you're tripping. It's kicking in, like camera's not on right now or even set up. And then that was like the underlining thing I kept thinking about. And then when I came out of it, I was like, I don't want my life to be just social media. I want to be able to let things go and live in the moment and not like everything needs to be like, Look at me in my Instagram stories, or let me post this and post that. Like something can be just for me. And there are some things I want to share with the world because it is so special. And I want to have those memories. But for the most part, like I'm just like, I'm good on it. Like I don't need it to be like, I don't need to be on and have like my phone on all the time.

Rebel: 29:45

Yeah, I definitely feel like recently I've been more into social media than I had before. But in a different way. I feel like I put a lot less value in it. Like, I'm not concerned if my following goes up or down. And I'm not really paying attention to numbers, because what I've learned over the past couple years is that numbers don't matter. And they don't contribute to like success or money necessarily. I mean, they do, they're a factor. But like, if you're good at content creating, like, I don't know, I just I have seen it in a totally different light. And the light that I've seen it in is like, oh, like, I want to go into marketing. Like, I'm already in marketing. I am in the field of marketing. And I'm in the field of like, content creating and that kind of stuff. And that's something that I really, really enjoy. And totally seeing it through this like work base lens, as opposed to like me trying to succeed at it in a personal way is so much more interesting to me. And so much more healthy for me to like, nowadays, I'm doing a bunch of content creating, but it's not for my personal stuff. It's like for, like people that I work for, and that's been like, there's no, there's no me attached to like value, like the My identity is not in tied to the value of said piece of content. And that feels really great. And like allows me to be creative, without having to feel like I need to check and see if it's doing well. And if it's doing well then I'm like, I'm interesting to people or not or whatever, you know. Does that make sense?

Shove: 31:39

Yeah. Okay. I'm over social media as we move to the next one. Sure. Okay. Now we're in the wheel world, the wheel where it was where we talk about roller skating, and today we're going to talk about why Chuck's? Why truck hype, conch,

Rebel: 32:11

that kind of white truck, I mean, if you want a double, double wide we could talk why truck? No, we're talking about, like, when you have a roller skate, there are trucks on your real estate and the trucks are attached to the plates and the trucks are what your wheels are attached to. And so there are narrow or like standard trucks and then there are a wide trucks. Yeah,

Shove: 32:39

like we're talking about the the hangar parts specifically. They a lot. Right now, there's not too many that are meant for roller skates, like for every roller skate, like there's a Sure Grip one but it's super fucking tall. So if you want to like skate, like you're in platforms, that can work for you. A lot of people like to be more agile and lower to the ground. And for that, like a lot of times plates will be a little heavy or like the penny trucks you can't really find at the moment because they discontinued them. Oh, like I've seen them on eBay, eBay or they're like resell they're like super, super expensive. Yeah, like super expensive. I looked into that. I was looking at them for a while and I was like, why are these all so much money? Yeah, and then it's just like there's the ridge ones but I've heard mixed things about them. And the thing is like rages also like for skateboards, pennies from the skateboard. Then you have the disco tracks but then there's like a lot of mixed reviews on those are too many positive ones. So like we don't know or we don't talk about it. And then there's amongst you what trucks which like is hard to come by right now but coming back soon. And like I have those right now on my lollies, but I don't have them on a park setup yet. I have mine I have what trucks on a park setup and I freaking love them. Yeah, boiler alert. She put them on our skates and then use them for ever.

Rebel: 34:09

I was so scared. I was so scared. I don't know why I was so scared. But I was I would fall over why do you like them? No. So the reason why I like them now is I feel like they ground me a bit. But then also they allow me to like jump higher and be more aggressive while I'm skating because landing is easier. I also like that they're allowing me to try not that you can't you can totally grind and like go on ledges and like do all that kind of stuff with narrow tracks. But I have always been nervous have that and I know that why trucks makes it easier. So now that I have wide trucks, I feel confident enough to try those things. And I've been really enjoying trying Those things even though they're very scary to me, and I still totally suck at them, but it's cool. So yeah, that I really like that.

Shove: 35:08

Well, something that's been, this is not my obsession for the week. So I don't have one of those. But it'd be my obsession, I guess. But I have to squeeze it in here has been like watching these skaters have shredded and been like, Fuck white trucks, like for so long that like our narrow rider dies. And then like, they see their friend with white trucks. And then they're like, fuck we leveled up or like, then they try their skates on. And then like, immediately you see them with it. It's been happening. Like, in the last week, I've seen three people turned away trucks. And it's like, insane. I'm just like, it's like, I think we hate on things. Because we're like, well, we don't see them, or we haven't tried them yet. And then we try it. We're like, Damn, it was actually cool. I always be like, Oh, why drugs? Oh, it's so stupid. Also, you're gonna trip yourself. Like, why would you do that? So I was like, no, not all never have those. And then I started like, the scene. I'm like, maybe you try them. I don't know, see how they feel. And my first time I put them on my feet. I remember like, just standing there and being like, I feel like I'm in shoes. Like, what? It's so sturdy.

Rebel: 36:15

I definitely was anti wide trucks at first to for no reason. Like, there was no, there was no legitimate reason for me to be anti white trucks. And the only reason I can think of which is so not even valid at all whatsoever, was that I was like, Why would you make it easier for you to do these tricks? Like you should be able to do them? Like, what like, what is that even thought process?

Shove: 36:42

It's like the call thing because it's like super cool to be like, I can do all these grinds, and I'm on narrow tracks. It's like Damn, that's bad. But like, also, because you can do all those things on no tricks, and you're working harder because you're in there drugs. When you put the wide ones on, you're gonna fucking fool sin.

Rebel: 37:00

Yeah, yeah. Like I don't know why I would be like against leveling up. But yeah, so anyways, old rebel. No. New rebel. Yes. So we love the wide tracks. i It's yeah, I love them. Now you

Shove: 37:15

just need to get your kingpins shaved down,

Rebel: 37:17

I definitely need to get my gang been shaved down because I've been trying things on rails. And I keep screeching to a halt by my low hanging kingpins, but like, so why trucks aren't technically made for roller skates. And so you kind of have to, like adjust some shit on your skates. And you're like DIY thing, which is part of the roller skate experience. But you also can like fuck up your skate or fuck up the trucks or

Shove: 37:48

Well, yeah, a lot of time the pivot arm will like pop out, or it will be like, you'll be like, Oh, that's a little wobbly. And you just slam your foot down and goes back in. And that's just because the shape of the pivot arm of a lot of these is going to be different. Because for it to be able to fit within the kubot, the pivot cup that goes into your truck. The shape really matters. So the length tends to be shorter for the skateboard or there'll be flat on the top. It's just a different angle because going into a different part. Because when you buy these skateboards, rucks, because it's a whole truck as the hanger attached to the piece of metal which gets screwed into the board. So now we're popping off that piece of metal which made it attractive now it's just a hanger. And then we're like, Yeah, let's just shove this random shaped thing and to this plate that's for something different. And that's hella sketch, but it works. Yeah, but that's why it's so hard to have like, these hangers that fit and every freakin plate because people are just thinking oh, it's just a truck, a truck, a truck, a truck, and it's like no, it's a hanger and the hanger has the arm and the pivot arm the pivot arm is what's important that's why I can't necessarily just take a truck from I can't take a hanger from like a reactor Neo and stick it into a reactor pro because as a different type of pivot arm

Rebel: 39:13

Yeah, yeah, this is very important information that I did not know when I first was trying lead tracks and I was like, I just don't understand and I felt very overwhelmed by like all of this now which is also

Shove: 39:28

why you see way more people with like the shirt, not the sugar. The what it's a plate the sunlight plates, is because it's like easier for like some of the trucks or just go into a sunlight plate than it is for the reactor plates. And unfortunately, a lot of us Park skaters have reactor plates. Yeah, and now I know why because I was like carrying that on the East Coast that a lot of people are like oh team Avante like they hate the reactor fleets. But out here almost everyone rides reactor fleets. And then we're like, oh, now we have these white trucks, but they're not fitting, none of the white trucks fit in the reactors. So then you have to switch to something. So then people are switching to Avanti for a lot of them. And then a lot of them are like, Oh, the sunlight fits. So it's like you have to end up changing your whole setup just because like have your trucks.

Rebel: 40:19

Yeah, literally. Okay, my whole setup for Park skating changed recently, I went from having narrow trucks, the NIO reactor plate and the CIB slide blocks to I switch to the sunlight play the what trucks the wide trucks and then I got a big foot slide block. And I was like, Well, this is an entirely different state now. So I guess we'll just see. And I was even like, I don't even know what parts I like or don't like, because I can't narrow down what is making it feel how because the lighter are no, no, no, they don't feel lighter. Because you still have a block. Yeah, and the block is like big, but I love it. So I really like my new skate setup. The only thing that is kind of like hard to get used to is that it's definitely higher. It's taller than it was before. Because the sunlight is like a tad bit taller, I think. Or at least that's my perception. I have no idea if it's actually taller or not then then the reactor. Do you know if it is or not thought about that? I think it is because but then again, I don't know because I switched my reactor into onto my like lollies. And I was skating in those the other day and I was like what is happening? This is so weird. These are not the plates that I usually have on these skates at all whatsoever. Ah.

Shove: 41:52

Yeah, I felt like I would recommend wide trucks for even people are like my balance is really bad. And I want to be more sturdy. I know someone that a large guy. He's a fat fella. And he's really tall. And he preferred he got the white trucks just for like, going down the street, like just skating in the neighborhood because he feels more sturdy on them. And I think that's another thing that could be valid for people is like, you don't necessarily need them for Park skating. It could help you if you're just like, that balance isn't there and I need extra security.

Rebel: 42:26

Yeah, definitely provides extra security, that's for sure. I put them on and I was like what I'm just like here. It's like, I don't feel like I'm in a banana out at all. But definitely not good for dance skating. No. So if you're a person who likes dance, skating do not get wide trucks. It is a terrible idea. If you're even considering dance gating do not get wide tracks. And I would even be I would be wary when it comes to trail skating, because it is definite. Whereas it does give you that like stability. It is really easy to trip yourself. Yeah, so like when you're skating with your feet next to each other, or you're crossing over anything like that. You just have to kind of like adjust to it and make sure that you're adapting your stride and like the way that you skate to the fact that you have wide tracks because I definitely even on the ramp like have already tripped myself

Shove: 43:27

and it's like because the the skate just interlock so easily. It's like they hook on to each other and you just can freakin Yeah, you just kind of get used to like shit so have your feet Yeah. Or where you're at you know that spatial awareness. Awareness after with that I do not have Yeah, yeah, so that's my thought about why trucks do you have any other thoughts about why trucks I just can't wait for my new park skates to show up so I can throw in the sunlight plate and finally have my white trucks on there and really experience the full like Park setup. You're gonna love it. Love it. And those skates are gonna be so cute. Oh my god. Yeah, y'all are gonna die. Y'all are seriously gonna die. Well, that's all we have for the wheel world.

Rebel: 44:13

Yeah, but let us know what you want us to talk about in the wheel world because we'll always take your opinions into consideration and let us know if you have tried wide trucks and what you like or don't like about them. All right, let's move on to the next segment

Shove: 44:47

Alright, this next segment is called Trick of the Week. Our Trick of the Week is by little space cow girl and many dice to quad and it Is this so this is a parody of a female skateboarder. Okay, so basically the same song and she had like pink, a pink hoodie on and jeans, but her name is Stephanie nerding. She owns a skateboard company. And she she shred she's a good skateboarder. But what she did is like, she was like, did this roller she held up a deck and she's all Jackass sent me this board. And then she goes to shred at the skate park. But it's like, obviously, like she has like a stunt devil like it's a it's like a guy skateboarding and like learning these like insane tricks. And then so and it cuts to her face. And she's just like having fun. And she even like flips up in the beginning. So Kayla made the same video pretty much but she had her boyfriend, do all epilator, who has recently started skating and their skate setups are very similar. So it was perfect. So they both wear pink shirts, and then jeans. And for her she even like shows in space. Like they cross each other and look at each other. Like what's up at it? Because she's like, so creative and so good with any kind of real I swear or skate content at social media. Yeah, so like, it's hilarious. And it was like, she's not trolling this girl. She's just like, I'm gonna do a skate version of that. And it came out so good that I saw her post. The original creator of doing this, like she even commented on it and was like, amazing or something like that. You know what's so funny though? I still wear that Kayla can do those tricks. No, she can't. Oh, it was just like because it was just a parody. Yeah, no, it's because he can do them even faster and harder. So the whole thing is about like, yeah, she can do strikes but he can execute it like hardcore cuz he's been bleeding for so long. Yeah. And you know, whenever bleeders were on rollerskates all sudden, they're just like shredding it so crazy. So I love it. Kayla, you're so good. I hope you're watching this. You're so good. None of our friends. I know. None of our worldspace cowgirl they did in the beginning. And then they're like I see you in real life. I don't need to listen to watch. So funny. They also watch your YouTube it's like there can only take so much.

Rebel: 47:22

Yeah, very true. Very. I did it. I don't. I don't blame me there. But yeah, so if you don't follow a little space cow girl you definitely should. Her name is Kayla. She's a shredder she lives in Vegas. And she is awesome. So thanks for being our Trick of the Week. Yeah. And if you're wondering how these trick of the weeks get chosen, it's me and shove we just choose random we see something called Unreal like

Shove: 47:48

it's not like people are submitting themselves or anything like that. Or even these people don't even know that that the Trick of the Week. And so they're like, did they just call me a trick? Yes, you are the Trick of the Week of the week labor of the month, treat the week.

Rebel: 48:01

All right, well, let's go into our obsessions All right, our obsessions is whatever we're totally obsessed with this week, so I'll go first. I am totally obsessed with stupid remaking stupid viral videos on tick tock. I feel like I should have picked something different cuz I didn't realize we're going to talk about this in the actual real world. So actually, okay, okay. Okay, I changed it. My obsession this week is Fletcher radio. Okay, so if you don't know who Fletcher is flesher is You're welcome. Yeah, seriously. Okay. Shove introduced me to Fletcher radio and Fletcher and I'm obsessed the ultimate women love women content. It is she is she just a single? Is she a band is she I don't even know. I literally don't even know but I'm obsessed with her music. And I'm obsessed with everything that surrounds that and creates like this like, queer genre of like, women music. I don't even know if that's what it's called. It's definitely not called that but it's amazing as core. It's, oh, okay, Liz core. I'm definitely going to take that one down. I love that. I'm obsessed with all of the music. I can't handle it. I love it so much. Give me a song where you talk about women being God and I'm in give me a song or you talk about like, like all the crazy ups and downs of being like a queer woman in love with another woman. I'm here for it.

Shove: 49:58

slaughter me, take me I'm done. That's my obsession. This like when we first started dating, she was obsessed with rainbows. Like it was like, you know, I'm gay because of the rainbows rainbows everywhere. Rainbows on my face rainbows on my clothing. You know, I was no actually obsessed with rainbows. No, but like, not like cheesy but like incorporating it into things not like the cheesy rainbow. Okay, like it was still tastefully done. But it was still like, I'm gay type of deal. And now it's more like oh, that that's definitely less like, just like style wise music tastes like things like the up and before I felt like you were like a fresh baby gay man chopped and gave away chopped in a lesbians body. And now you're just like, I am a stylish lesbian. Like you've evolved. I've evolved into my fight. Yeah, because it was like from coming out to being like to everyone in your life. Like this this confident, like, powerful force to be reckoned with.

Rebel: 51:00

Yeah, that's so crazy. I definitely feel so much more myself now and feel powerful in myself. And I would even say that I feel more confident like not wearing makeup and like just being myself fully in a way that I never ever ever was before. Not that that has anything to do with being a grown gay or not. But

Shove: 51:26

just an old lesbian hating on young queers. I'm not hating on pretty sure that like most of the music I listened to is made by young queers. No. Verbal. There was this teacher, she was like, she hated me because I was young, gay and old lesbians always hate. Okay, I stand by that still. I still think that that teacher hated me because I was a young. What do you think all those means? A young lesbian? No, but I do think that there's like a flash of jealousy. I think there's what age do you think you'll be when you start like being too young queer people? Never. Because I'm aware of it. She says that now. But maybe when I'm 70 I guess. That's, you wanted an age. So I guess I'll give you that age. Because I definitely don't see it being when I'm still in like my 50s. Like, I don't know. I feel like 70 that. That sounds like a good age. You start hating everything yourself. Yeah, I feel like you're jealous of any young person.

Rebel: 52:36

I feel like the young queers would fall right in line with all the other things that I hate if I was 70 not saying anything about being 70 I just feel like yeah, I'm not. Yeah, you're 70 I'm sure you're awesome.

Shove: 52:47

When you're 70 I think you earned the fucking right to like, hate on whatever. Like, old and bitter if you want to be because it's like my own. You're like, why am I appeasing anyone? I don't like you get away from me. You don't need to read. Yeah, life's short. I don't have much.

Rebel: 53:06

But then also like, Okay, so my dad is 66 He turned 66 today, and I don't think my dad is old. So I'm like, oh, and four years. I don't know that you'd be old. I'm thinking maybe 76 is old. Maybe? Like 76 is like, that's old? I don't know. No, no, I feel like 80 I feel like when you're 80 you're definitely old. Like there's no question about it. You're old when you're when you're 100 year old. For sure. For sure. When you're 100 year old rebel

Shove: 53:37

once a sliver a really long time and I'm like, please just don't stop. Stop it. I do want us to live for a very long time. But you know, I have makeup on my eye and it burns. A girl can dream. Okay, so my obsession. Yes. Is not this one. My obsession is like I don't really have one currently, um, this last week has been a blur. I am still obsessed with euphoria, because I thought it was over. And then I was like, wait, no. Was it the shortest season ever? It's just that we're still in the new season. And because we're noobs and went binge watch it. Yeah. And like, yeah, it's like now I'm living for Sunday night. I learned that's pretty much it because I'm just like working and all that shit. So I don't know. I think I'm gonna have a better obsession next week. Because I feel like I'm gonna live life and do things. Yes. I don't know. Maybe an obsession. Okay. I'll just be online more. And I'll be on my phone and then I'm back. I'm obsessed with this now. That's usually with them sessions. Oh my god. I haven't been online that much. So

Rebel: 54:59

I'll give you an their obsession and makeup for sure I've not really having an obsession here nails my nails. I've never okay, that's a lie. I haven't had fake nails for a really long time chef corrected me. I thought I hadn't had fake nails since like 2014. But she told me I forgot about a time when I got really shitty fake nails done by someone. So I just X that out of my memory. So I got these fake nails. They're amazing. And they make me feel so good. And I look at my hand and I'm just like, you're so cool. And it they're just making me so happy. And I love them. I love them. I'm obsessed with them. But yeah, I just want to have fake nails all the time now. And I'm trying to figure out how to work it into my budget because I want to have them forever because they're amazing.

Shove: 55:47

I have a raccoon I know. Because I can't stop rubbing my sabot stuff in the mascara is going everywhere. Birds.

Rebel: 55:57

I hate when that happens. So let's wrap it up so that you can go wash out your eye. So thanks, everybody for hanging out with us. We love you so much and we'll see you next Wednesday.