Mike Carroll on the future of Crailtap

[Dirtymac]

So MC calls MJ(god it feels so stupid typing initials but anyway) the night before and MJ says yeah man sorry Adidas really wanted this to be part of the premier there's nothing I can do about it. It's part of my new contract and I really need this $$ for my family. So then MC says ,"OK man, no prob, thanks for being honest" Yeah Right!(no pun intended lol!). MC would have stewed for 10 to 20 minutes and then thought of the most hateful, shitty way to dis MJ AND ruin the surprise on his Insta. You guys know thats true whether you want to admit it or not. It's easy as hell to say, "if he just told the truth I would have accepted it and been cool about it" after the fact. Like I said I'm not choosing sides but I'm also not going to jump on some bandwagon when I don't know all the facts either. Kook away!

[Dirtymac]

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Gonna have to back brink a bit.

Do you really think it's that far fetched that there's shit you guys don't know?

Maybe shit that Marc doesn't feel the need to air?

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Like what? It's more plausible to me that MJ was going through Cocaine Psychosis and saying crazy shit than it is that he's some tortured and misunderstood skate footwear visionary.

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My boy works at crail and said the MC interview is exactly how it went down, no exagerrations.

"ya boy" needs his job. WTF? do you think he would say?

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

So MC calls MJ(god it feels so stupid typing initials but anyway) the night before and MJ says yeah man sorry Adidas really wanted this to be part of the premier there's nothing I can do about it. It's part of my new contract and I really need this $$ for my family. So then MC says ,"OK man, no prob, thanks for being honest" Yeah Right!(no pun intended lol!).

Well he did mention that he still would have been angry but you know, comprehension skills and all that jazz...

[givecigstosurfgroms]

  Wait, Marc isn't 'Mj' anymore.  The girl guys dubbed him that when he got on their jocky-joke-themed team. So really its just Marc Johnson again.  I love the individual riders and the earlier vids but Girls shit got stale for me pretty early in the game as they cultivated their 'sense of humor' in the ad campaigns and tour footy. Just to keep it real tho, sure chocolate was a a fresh look for Marc but he certainly wasn't a "kook" as someone in the thread here went so far as to say.  He was killing it forever actually and was just in a life slump rite before he got on chocolate.  But I wouldn't say kook.  Was Jerry a kook to till he got on chocolate?

[Level 60 Dwarf Paladin]

Finally saw Away Days. I was under the impression that they just threw that "welcome to the team" thing during the credits, not half way through the fucking video with Busenitz driving a god damn Buick. The Crail guys had to sit through the last half of that thing fucking pissed Hahahaha.

Marc knew.

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Just thought of something. Are we really supposed to take the word of a guy who, last time I checked, abandoned his older brother during a time of personal and financial crisis? Anyone remember the whole Greg Carroll thing from last year? That doesn't ring "family" to me.

[HeadInLionsMouth]

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Doesn't MJ also smoke cigs heavily?

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That would definitely be a factor as well, but that's not to take away from Daewon's gift of good looks. He reminds me of this episode of Eerie Indiana a long time ago where this family slept in tupperware containers and only aged at half the rate of other people.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0569394/

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You wont belive but I remember that episode.

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That's awesome! Coincidentally, I am driving through Indiana right now, and there are definitely some weird places out here. Michigan City, Indiana feels like the Bombay Beach of the midwest.

I think about that episode all the time

[jpmulls]

So MC calls MJ(god it feels so stupid typing initials but anyway) the night before and MJ says yeah man sorry Adidas really wanted this to be part of the premier there's nothing I can do about it. It's part of my new contract and I really need this $$ for my family. So then MC says ,"OK man, no prob, thanks for being honest" Yeah Right!(no pun intended lol!). MC would have stewed for 10 to 20 minutes and then thought of the most hateful, shitty way to dis MJ AND ruin the surprise on his Insta. You guys know thats true whether you want to admit it or not. It's easy as hell to say, "if he just told the truth I would have accepted it and been cool about it" after the fact. Like I said I'm not choosing sides but I'm also not going to jump on some bandwagon when I don't know all the facts either. Kook away!

Let's stop right here with this "would" nonsense. If MJ knew, he should have told Carroll. If Carroll went on to leak the info that's on him and we could have a different discussion.

[whoami]

Just thought of something. Are we really supposed to take the word of a guy who, last time I checked, abandoned his older brother during a time of personal and financial crisis? Anyone remember the whole Greg Carroll thing from last year? That doesn't ring "family" to me.

Greg Carroll, oh man "If you only knew the whole story."

[Esquivel]

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Fire sale

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hahaha wow.



also though I can't help but notice the imagery in the banner, is that silhouette doing a frontside heelflip over a teepee? is the owner of that shop native? this whole thing is weird

its form a great, skater owned/operated shop in England. the owner is white but his good friend is indian

[Cats]

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"If only you guys knew the whole story"
-Brinks epitaph

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^^ lol

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haha for some reason after watching the hateful 8 last night I found this really funny

I hope Spike is really involved in whatever the next big project is and writes an actual movie like the first 3 videos. That really needs to fucking happen. Especially if that guy won academy awards with Her and Where the Wild Things are, this shit is just unacceptable.

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i think brink is just trying to stay in the industry's good graces. he's full of it.

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Obviously...that kinda tripped me out seeing a few posts about this.

I couldn't agree more. Having Spike behind a new video project would go a long way to restoring Girl/Chocolate/Lakai as a creative force in skateboarding.
Imagine a series of smaller vids a'la Emerica and Nike featuring parts from the Crail camp that formed a larger narrative.
Revisit the forest skating with a skater lost in the forest and having to find his way.
Anyway...

[somethingmustbreaknow]

This needs to be on every page

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true, as i also said before.

[Mystical Leader]

I don't know about MC but there has to be some kind of kookery in behind the scenes. People were leaving before MJ left too remember? Carroll got all that money from selling out to investors and now he's butt hurt about everything going to shithole. I don't know how you'd feel if everybody else having to  take pay cuts while your buddy just got millions coming from that investment company? MJ maybe didn't  come out the best way but the real blame is on crailtap doing a shity job keeping their assets happy.

[Dirtymac]

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So MC calls MJ(god it feels so stupid typing initials but anyway) the night before and MJ says yeah man sorry Adidas really wanted this to be part of the premier there's nothing I can do about it. It's part of my new contract and I really need this $$ for my family. So then MC says ,"OK man, no prob, thanks for being honest" Yeah Right!(no pun intended lol!). MC would have stewed for 10 to 20 minutes and then thought of the most hateful, shitty way to dis MJ AND ruin the surprise on his Insta. You guys know thats true whether you want to admit it or not. It's easy as hell to say, "if he just told the truth I would have accepted it and been cool about it" after the fact. Like I said I'm not choosing sides but I'm also not going to jump on some bandwagon when I don't know all the facts either. Kook away!

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Let's stop right here with this "would" nonsense. If MJ knew, he should have told Carroll. If Carroll went on to leak the info that's on him and we could have a different discussion.

Oh you mean like, "Rocco WOULD have shut us down" or " Rocco WOULD have kept our footage"? That type of "would"?

[Scott Case]

Do some sort of cross promotional thingwith all all the Marc Johnson product with Greg Carrolls Go Fund Me.  Hand scratch shit out and see if Eric will let you stash em behind the counter at the Canteena.

I'm half joking about some stuff

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Just thought of something. Are we really supposed to take the word of a guy who, last time I checked, abandoned his older brother during a time of personal and financial crisis? Anyone remember the whole Greg Carroll thing from last year? That doesn't ring "family" to me.

Congratulations you have gone full TMZ bitch mode

[zippy z]

hahahahahahaaaaa

[concerned_parent]

all i've gathered in the past 11 pages is that someone's sig says that a video of ashlynn brooke or lisa ann on pornhub isn't good enough for him

and i'm going to go back and watch wayne's world again

[Andrew]

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Fire sale

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hahaha wow.



also though I can't help but notice the imagery in the banner, is that silhouette doing a frontside heelflip over a teepee? is the owner of that shop native? this whole thing is weird

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its form a great, skater owned/operated shop in England. the owner is white but his good friend is indian

i'm gonna let you think about this

[SodaJerk]

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Fire sale

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hahaha wow.



also though I can't help but notice the imagery in the banner, is that silhouette doing a frontside heelflip over a teepee? is the owner of that shop native? this whole thing is weird

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its form a great, skater owned/operated shop in England. the owner is white but his good friend is indian

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i'm gonna let you think about this

[brwrxstl]

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Doesn't MJ also smoke cigs heavily?

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That would definitely be a factor as well, but that's not to take away from Daewon's gift of good looks. He reminds me of this episode of Eerie Indiana a long time ago where this family slept in tupperware containers and only aged at half the rate of other people.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0569394/

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You wont belive but I remember that episode.

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That's awesome! Coincidentally, I am driving through Indiana right now, and there are definitely some weird places out here. Michigan City, Indiana feels like the Bombay Beach of the midwest.

Northwest Indiana is Chicago before it's Indiana. And everything northeast of that has more of a Michigan vibe than anything. Draw a line across the state starting at Benton County. That's where everything gets it's own feel.

[nino brown]

[neil.]

[HungUp]

Just thought of something. Are we really supposed to take the word of a guy who, last time I checked, abandoned his older brother during a time of personal and financial crisis? Anyone remember the whole Greg Carroll thing from last year? That doesn't ring "family" to me.

Truly spoken like someone who's never had to deal with family who are unstable fuck-ups/drug addicts/mentally ill.  Not saying Greg Carroll is all of these things but if you know anything about the dude, he's def some of them.  Do you honestly believe MC would abandon his brother, who basically raised him, with no history there?  You don't know shit.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Fuck man....Marc has lost his fucking mind. This is really sad.

[SodaJerk]

How long do you give it before those Instagram posts get deleted?

[iwishilivedinfinla]

the shit stirring continues.  wonder if this means that jenkem will put out their interview with MJ today...






but most of all I wonder when theyre gonna put that fucking Bunker Down review back up

[JB]

Sorry I been away.... Just figuring out my next video part
Because we all know Mike Carroll can't....

I'm gonna call everyone who's ever had a bad experience with you-know-who... And we're gonna start a company

You want, Mike... Youre gonna get it.

It's getting juicy again boys. Get your Michael Jackson popcorn gifs ready. Who do you think Marc is about to call?

[SonictheHedgehog]

O lawd

[rideflannel]

Uh oh, Marc Johnson threatens to start a company. Can't wait to watch him build something and then quit once it gets too tough.