Hey everybody Jason Ellis here co-host of high and dry the podcast

This is not an episode of high and dry the podcast. This is something completely different to help promote my new book

Still awesome. This is audio recordings from the first book where I tell Tully

About my life and then Tully write it down the book and makes it far more interesting and more understandable. Enjoy

Welcome to a special limited run podcast series. Is it? Yes. Jason and I have collaborated on a new autobiography called Still Awesome. The trials and tribulations of an

Egotistical maniac available for presale now at jason Ellis book dot com. I remember that. Still awesome is the follow up to the New York Times bestseller

I'm awesome one man's triumph and quest to become the sweetest dude ever. I was there for that too. To get you up to speed on where Jason's story picks up

And still awesome. We present an exclusive look back at the never before heard interviews that went into making. I'm awesome. Yeah, enjoy and don't forget to

Pre-order your copy of still awesome at jason Ellis book dot com. It's debatable, but you can get the book

So let's start the first time you came to the States. Tell me everything

17 got off the plane

Uh, the greatest day of my life. Would you have flown places before that?

Um, yeah, I've got yeah, I've been in the plane. Oh

Not much. Maybe one or two. Mm-hmm

Yeah, crazy fly, but yeah, uh, I remember getting out in the airport and the door opening and seeing all the American cars and

American people because they all look different and look weird and how's that you just all look like it from tv

I just yeah, you look American landed in Alex and then uh

Like just a feeling of excitement and just so happy that I'd finally made it to the land of uh

Of skateboarding, you know, the skateboard world where Tony Hawk lives

And then we uh, where do we go first? We went to this ramp

The H ramp and it was the first mini ramp with a spine and hips

It was a mini ramp that had you know mini ramp back-to-back so you could go over that into that one

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