Sorting Through Pro Skateboarders Skeletons in Patrick O’Dell’s Epic Garage | “… everyone acted like he’d thrown Antwuan under the bus.”
No one told the stories of professional skateboarding better than Patrick O’Dell through his Epicly Later’d series. As in-depth as the series goes there’s always something that can’t make the final cut whether because it’s going to hurt someone or perhaps get someone arrested. Monster Children dug through Patrick’s garage and found all kinds of old photographs of which each has 1000’s of stories behind.
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Of course, he’s best known for making Epicly Later’d, the documentary series about pro skateboarders that’s been running for 11 years now. It’s probably been so successful because it takes such an unflinching look into the reality of skaters’ lives without skimming over the dark shit. Instead of the easy questions and uplifting music you see in a lot of branded content these days, O’Dell has generally taken a more upfront stance to his storytelling.
“I feel like in every interview, I get to a section where it’s like, ‘This is uncomfortable, I have to ask this person some uncomfortable stuff,’” says O’Dell. “You know, something that they might not want to talk about or something that might not be rad. I have it on my piece of paper [and] it’s like, ‘I gotta ask this.’”
This hasn’t always worked out, especially in the beginning. “There’s been a few episodes where I would make multiple calls being like, ‘Dude, come on, you should talk about this thing that happened,’” says O’Dell. “There’s been times where I had to lose an argument.”
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