John Shanahan Interview

ollie

Where y’all from?

Born in NJ, living in East Stroudsburg, PA.

Age

19.

Who got you into skating and who is your influence currently?

John Blackmore and this kid Ian Seagraves would skate over to my house and I would just mess around on their boards. Then my stepbrother at the time got a skateboard, and shortly after I got one. The one kid Ian had an old airplane hangar and a mansion that his family inherited from his grandfather. In the hangar he had a kicker and this mini pipe with no flat bottom and a ledge that we would skate all day and sometimes in the mansion. Ian eventually stopped skating and turned into a juggalo. A few years later him and Sean set up this kid we called “Mike on a Bike.” They stabbed him like 40 times and buried him in the snow and took shit from his car and left. They were putting shit on Facebook saying how they killed some kid. This guy found a bloody meat cleaver and then they found the kids body and now Ian and Sean are in jail for life.

Damn that’s O.D. with the murders.

OHH DEE. I’m mostly influenced by my friends Matt Roberge, Jake Baldini, James Juckett, and Kayla Vitale.

Who is Kayla Vitale?

My girlfriend.

What has she influenced you to do?

She has her priorities straight. She influences me to be a loyal friend and to stay positive.

Damn good answer. Why’d Bush knock down the towers?

Shit that’s beyond me. I think Jadakiss might know.

ollie

Yo this shit supposed to be about j3t right?

Yeah.

Okay, so who has parts?

Me, James Juckett, Jake Baldini, and Theo Korkidas.

Whose part are you looking forward to most?

James Juckett, he OD’d.

He’s dead!?

Nah he OD’d on footage. I think he’s fine.

What was it like filming for the video?

We would just go to little nowhere towns and just skate random unseen spots that James most likely found on google earth or we just happened to run into. We took a trip to Rhode Island and Boston and few to NY, which were sick, but other than that we just stuck around Strousdburg and small towns in PA.

Favorite skate video

Mindfield.

Favorite video part

Jake Johnson Mindfield.

What was the best spot you found?

One of my favorites was this bank to wooden fence. Some lady was watching us try to wallride it and I thought she was going to kick us out because it was her house, but she didn’t care at all. There is also that giant rock bank in the middle of a parking lot.

50-50 jam

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