Thank you for an amazing first season of Quarantine Call with Shieldless Mag! In this episode, the founders of Shieldless Mag and hosts of Quarantine Call reflect on one year of doing the magazine as well as the first season of the podcast. We go over some of the highlights from running our website and doing interviews and videos over the last year. We then get into some of our favorite episodes of the podcast and talk about some of the guests we've had on. We also talk about recently losing our friend Ryan Bowers to suicide and creating his tribute video we posted to our IGTV. It's always been our goal to create awareness around mental health and suicide prevention and we encourage anyone struggling to reach out to us or professionals for help. We end the episode off with not one but two giveaways! DM your answers to us on Instagram @shieldlessmag for your chance to win. Find more content at shieldlessmag.com. Stay safe and stay positive, cheers. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Episode 24 is live and we have a special guest, friend of the mag Mubarak Ra'oof on the line with us. Mubarak is a Portland, Oregon native, skateboarder, actor, filmmaker, and owner of Whitaker Skateboards. We catch up with Mubarak to hear about what he's been up to during this pandemic, his involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement, and supporting Black-owned businesses while running his own. We also get into his personal history with how he started skateboarding, how he became an actor, his love of filming, and much more! Keep up with Mubarak on Instagram @muuubz and @whitakerskateboards. Follow us @shieldlessmag and find more content at shieldlessmag.com. Follow Whitaker on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3d4xIF-jso9zBafn8Sz8g Find more music by Beat$ByDojo here: https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydojo Check out The Black List to support Black-owned skateboard companies here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hkG5OMnBbhmEqe5aasHGV74LLWRbR9wXebzVv3HWuqE/edit#gid=0 Donate to the movement here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Episode 23 is finally here, after a short hiatus Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag is back with a very special episode featuring Tyrone Olson! Tyrone is a legendary professional skateboarder from Madison, Wisconsin who moved to San Diego in the early 90s to pursue a career skating. He also helped organize one of the largest rolling protests in the country last weekend called Rolling For Rights SD. We reflect on the success of the protest, as well as hear about some of Tyrone’s personal thoughts and experiences with racism. We also talk about growing up in Wisconsin, being in the legendary video The Storm, and starting his own company Scarred Skateboards. Keep up with Rolling For Rights SD for future events @rollingforrightssd on Instagram. Follow Tyrone and his endeavors @tboneolson_tclips and @scarredskateboards. Find more content at shieldlessmag.com and follow us @shieldlessmag. Donate to the movement here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd More Music by BEAT$BYDOJO: https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydojo

This episode was recorded on May 31st, 2020. In this episode of Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag, we phone up podcast host, filmer, and Thrasher staff veteran Schmitty. Schmitty hosts his own podcast called Talkin’ Schmit that inspired us to do our own when the pandemic hit. We catch up with Schmitty to talk about how quarantine has affected his life. We discuss the beginning of protests and seeing skateboarders on the news. We get into why Schmitty started his podcast, working at Thrasher for the last twenty years, remembering his close friends he’s recently lost, working on a China Banks documentary, filming some of the gnarliest skateboarding and much much more! Keep up with Schmitty on Instagram @talkin_schmit and check out the podcast on all podcasting platforms. Also, grab some merch from his site talkinschmit.com. Find more content at shieldlessmag.com and keep up with us on Instagram @shieldlessmag. Help end racism and support the BLM movement by donating at: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ Find more music by Beat$ByDojo here: https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydojo

Welcome to Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag where your hosts Nick Shields and Reuben Barrack speak with skaters in the midst of quarantine to catch up and talk skateboarding. This is a special episode for the end of Mental Health Awareness month where we sit down with renowned skateboard journalist Robert Brink and discuss his recent diagnosis of depression and autism at the age of 44. We talk about the decision to go public with his diagnosis, the response from the skate community, seeking therapy, and giving advice to anyone struggling with their mental health. We tie this all in with lots of skate talk and even some candle making convo to start us out. Find more content and episodes at shieldlessmag.com. Keep up with us on Instagram @shieldlessmag. Follow Rob on Instagram @robertbrink and check out his candle company at thehundredthacre.com. Find more resources on mental health at: https://nami.org/ Music by Beat$ByDojo: https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydojo

For episode 20 of Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag  we catch up with our friend and professional skateboarder Shuriken Shannon. We find out what he's been up to during quarantine and hear about some of the madness he's seen out in the wild during all this. Shuriken has deep roots in the San Diego skate scene and we discuss some of his influences that got him to where he is today. We also discuss skating in ankle weights, filming for the Pig Wood Slaughterhouse  video, skating on stage with Lil Wayne, and getting a pro model shoe back in the day. Shuriken also shares some memories of the late P-stone and Jake Phelps from his time with them on Thrasher's 2007 King Of The Road, including when Phelps threw an apple at his head after landing a trick he was battling for! Keep up with us on Instagram @shieldlessmag and find more content at shieldlessmag.com. Make sure to follow Shuriken and all of his endeavors @shurikensjoint, @blaqeyevisuals, and @simpletimesofficial. Buy Shuriken's board here: https://www.arborcollective.com/collections/decks Find more music by Beat$ByDojo here: https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydojo

In this episode of Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag, Reuben and Nick call up local San Diego ripper Trisha Mendez. We catch up with her to see if she’s been skating during quarantine, we talk about how she got into skateboarding, and her crew of awesome skateboarders. We also discuss her winning the DC Shoes #dcstayposted Instagram contest, her crew winning the fan favorite award from Thrasher at the Skate Witches’ “Witch Hunt” last year, her love for movies and much more! Tune in for a good convo amongst skaters. Keep up with Trisha on Instagram @trishamendez. Find more content at shieldlessmag.com and keep up with us on Insta @shieldlessmag.  Read about Trisha’s crew in our article “ The Hype” here:  https://shieldlessmag.com/pushing-the-hype/  Hear more music from Nosnibborm 2.0:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vyy1LFijBtY43CrdyOBx4

In this episode we call up Mike McCarley of Jivaro Wheels. Mike started Jivaro out of Shrunken Head skate shop back in 2006 and has kept it small and core for the last 14 years. We talk to Mike about living in Portland Oregon for the last 20 years and how it's changed, as well as some classic stories of Burnside skatepark shenanigans. We discuss the history of his wheel company and how it's been affected by the pandemic. He tells us about his trip to Japan late last year, and much more. Tune in and take it easy, this is a side of skateboarding you don't hear about very often, everyone has a board company nowadays but how many people do you know with their own wheel company? Check out Jivaro @jivarowheels on instagram and at jivarowheels.com. Keep up with us on insta @shieldlessmag and find even more content at shieldlessmag.com. Find more music from SIXES here: https://sixessixessixes.bandcamp.com/

On this episode of Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag Nick and Reuben call up their friend Zack Dowdy to see how he’s handling  keeping busy during quarantine. We also discuss Dowdy buying his first home, some tips and secrets to building d.i.y. spots, his old skate zine Typical Culture, his current extracurricular of running his own youtube vlog, and much much more. Tune in to hear from one of San Diego’s finest and get some tips along the way. Follow us on Instagram @shieldlessmag to keep up. Also check out shieldlessmag.com for more content. Keep up with Zack on insta @dowdy and subscribe to his youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/TypicalCulture Find more music from TOME here: https://tomeus.bandcamp.com/

In this episode of Quarantine Call With Shieldless Mag, Reuben and Nick phone up professional skateboarder Dane Burman. We get to catch up with Dane to talk about how it's been for him skating in a pandemic, riding for the legendary ZERO skateboards, man-ams, skate politics, his recent Thrasher article, his part in Damn It All, the Liquid Death Murder Your House Instagram contest, and much more. Make sure to keep up with Dane on Instagram @daneburman. Also find more from Shieldless on Instagram @shieldlessmag. See more content at shieldlessmag.com. Thank you to Bryan Phillips for the Punk version of our jingle. Buy Dane's board here: https://zeroskateboards.com/collections/decks Hear more music from SIXES here: https://sixessixessixes.bandcamp.com/