Mark Munson - Ben Raemers, Mag Covers, Mental Health & Egg Plants | Brain Drain Show #9

Brain Drain Episode 9 with Forde Brookfield and Toby Batchelor 🧠
Join us for three hours of immensely brilliant skateboarding history.
In this episode we discuss discovering Ben Raemers and guiding him through his career, Munsons history of skateboarding & snowboarding, working for Airwalk & Duffs Footwear, riding for Panic & Forty Skateboards, therapy, suicide prevention, scoring fishing magazine covers, owning a load of successful brands and and much more!
Presenters: Forde Brookfield & Toby Batchelor @tobybatchelor
Edited by: Forde Brookfield @bagheadcrew
Producer: Frazer Murphy @dontfollowfrazer
Title animations: Mike Wright @michael_k_wright_design
Theme tune: Shaun Hancock @shaunofthesad
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00:00 - Disclaimer/Intro
01:33 - Our special guest is the wonderful, legendary, fishing maniac Mark Munson
02:05 - Toby tells us about his sex shop routines
04:20 - How did Munson get into skateboarding and his history with snowboarding...
16:20 - Ben Raemers on a trip to the Cayman Islands and Mansons introduction to Ben Schroeder
20:42 - Geeking out and looking up to older generations of skateboarders
24:04 - Baggy trousers, small wheels, rave scenes and avoiding drugs
26:25 - Transition skating in '88 & '89 when street skateboarding & pressure flips were booming
29:35 - How Munson got into snowboarding & living abroad for a few seasons
37:10 - Getting back into skateboarding and finding a 8 & 10 foot vert ramp in a barn near Les Arcs
39:32 - 1999 Quiksilver Bowl Riders event that changed everything...
47:14 - Becoming skateboard & snowboard team manager for Airwalk Footwear and Duotone
48:16 - Dan Leech stories...
49:55 - The transition from Airwalk to Duffs Footwear and riding for Panic Skateboards
55:00 - Getting a call from Nick Jackson and working for Duffs Footwear
1:08:22 - Meeting Ben Raemers at Walton-on-the-Naze, being blown away at his trick selection, battling his eating disorders, getting him in the van every weekend on trips & tours, giving Ben pointers on tricks and lines to learn, hiding from U.K. magazines and companies, getting Ben on the path of becoming an international skateboarding phenomenon, not having an ego, his first 14 page interview for Kingpin Mag, Ben's first aeroplane experience and eventually riding for Consolidated Skateboards, Converse Footwear, Volcom, Enjoi Skateboards and many more brands...
1:30:03 - Getting 3 Thrasher Magazine covers, sadly losing Ben to Suicide, Munson speaking at Ben's funeral, Ryan Sherman's "Lands End" Suicide Awareness documentary, the Ben Raemers Foundation, how Ben would hate all of the attention and how we can all open up to one another to avoid and prevent suicide as much as possible.
1:42:36 - Do you think social media has added to the amount of suicide in society today?
1:45:35 - Getting in to, and the benefits of therapy, learning how to broaden your basic tools and how to cope in the best way possible with anger, depression and many more given situations. Discovering how to operate on a greater level than before, triggering issues, being a product of your environment, growing as a person and not being the same person you were years prior. Understanding how to take responsibility, learning how to maintain healthy friendships/relationships and coping with day to day issues and accepting that failure is not failure but a step in the right direction.
2:13:12 - A deep dive into Munsons fishing covers, getting into business, bringing fishing attire to the mainstream, Carpe-Diem clothing, Navitas Clothing, Vermin Skateboarding Apparel, and his many more business ventures.
2:30:07 - Riding for Forty Skate Co, going private for ACL surgery so he can continue to skate, getting a pro board on Forty, catching a rare fish, shooting photos for fishing magazine covers, getting a pro wheel on Muchefuck Wheels and releasing his new video part to accompany his upcoming pro board.
2:58:43 - Sign off's, farewells and thank you's to Mark Muson
2:58:32 - Credits

[@theuniontapes]

Go on with the Paul Wright praise! Hell yeah!

[@everycloud7144]

Great interview, cheers guys.

[@1976ToysandTimepieces]

Legend of the rom Crete good work guys .

[@paulsimms3924]

Can remember skating Stanway a few times with Munson back in the day ... Always loved his burly style topped off with the knee length Stussy puffer coat ....iconic

[@brendangreen6197]

wow thats a blast from the past. Stanway Ramp nr Sainsburys...Mash's ramp in a pig shed...low ceiling...spent a few Sundays down there...nice people and a good set up. Had no problem letting us come in and skate and yeah lots of people getting proper stoned ))

[@oglm6674]

This was a heavy episode, big up ❤🙌

[@Lawriedriver]

Mint episode, dead interesting and some important topics. Keep em coming!