https://soundcloud.com/ellistronics/skatercast-this-week-chris-cobra-cole-no-bullshit-just-a-wolf-a-cobra-talking-about-real-lifethis evening, i randomly remembered that the jason ellis podcast was a thing. turns out he interviewed chris cole back on november 9. with about four minutes left in the show, i was surprised (simply because no one in the industry is really talking about it) that the interview took a turn in this direction...
starts at 1:16:37. (sorry if the transcription is not 100 percent accurate, but i gave it a go for those unable to/not wanting to listen.)
JE: ...after seven years, you change all your atoms in yourself. so you're not even you anyway.
CC: so, it's like, that's the statute of limitations?
JE: right.
CC: for sure.
JE: that opens up a question that i'm not gonna open up and i'm gonna move on and say thanks for being on the show.
CC: ok...
JE: but i don't want to, i'm not gonna do it. ok, i'll do it real quick. neal hendrix. what the fuck?
CC: fuck man.
JE: if i see you i'm gonna stab you in the face.
CC: god.
JE: unless it's not true. but i, i don't, do you know that girl? do you know that girl? because i don't know her.
CC: yes, i do.
JE: do you think she's lying?
CC: no, i don't.
JE: right. me neither.
CC: i think that, dude, it sucks, and you're, like, everybody is innocent until...
JE: i'm so let down by skateboarding, by him doing that to us.
CC: here's the thing that, and i talked with red about this for awhile where, you know, i was so embarrassed for men, and just like, man, we just constantly let women down. we just constantly let people down. and then, she brought up the good point of like, well, you can be the example. right? you can. you can be the example of a safe person. a person that, like, can support, like, can support women and not try to take advantage of them. you can be that person.
JE: i mean, you're a great, uh, father and a husband. and you're not divorced. and you're holding down the ship. i am, uh, i've have had a failed marriage. two kids that are, that now have to live with divorced parents. so i have failed in a lot of things. i have porn star friends. i've done, i hang out with a lot people that have...
CC: are they cool?
JE: their genitals out for money. no one's ever fucked me that i...the...underage...no close to the fucking border of it. and i'm gross, chris. i admit it and talk about it on the radio all the time. pussy pussy pussy. there's sometimes, there's vaginas everywhere around here. and they all agree to take their pants off. and they're all way older than 20, or 14, or whatever the fuck is going on. there's no excuse.
CC: none.
JE: that's the end of that.
CC: yep. straight up.
JE: you don't have to be a role model father to not know that that one is fucking...like i said man. i don't...
CC: it's such a bummer. it's just a bummer. i mean, we live in a crazy ass world right now too, where it's like...and here's what i, i spoke to a friend about. where you are, you are innocent until proven guilty. that being said, i will never, ever, ever accuse a female, who has an account like that, accuse her of lying. because how damaging is it that you had to go through this. the pain of that, and then the mental pain that you're in, forever, about it. and then you have to go on record for that account, and then somebody, just, flipping legos, "that's not real." like, fuck you. that's not cool. so. i'll always, uh...
JE: yeah, i have no problem with, uh, all it turning out that neal didn't do any of it and me apologizing to neal hendrix. but until then, as a person that's been through it, but not a girl. i mean, you just...
CC: yeah.
JE: yeah.
CC: yeah.
JE: so, you and i are here. we don't do that.
CC: we are here. we're, we're the safe guys.