MALE SPEAKER: Do you have a new year's resolution?
PATRICK O'DELL: Hi.
Welcome back to the Epicly Later'd Show.
This episode, we have Kevin "Spanky" Long.
Kevin's skating is really spontaneous.
I don't think he feels that kind of pressure that other
skaters feel.
He's going to just ride some spot and just try something
until he lands it.
He's doing a trick because, I think, he's having fun, and
you can see that in the rest of his life, too, the way he
lives and stuff.
Everything's just right now, like everything's
right in the present.
So today, we're going to go into Spanky's apartment, and
you can see for yourself how he lives.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Well, I was just gonna kind of like
get a couch, maybe some pictures or something, maybe
get a bed, like a proper bed.
I don't know.
The girls are working on it.
PATRICK O'DELL: Where'd you get this giraffe?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: I got that from the
Fairfax swap meet.
That's Reginald.
PATRICK O'DELL: What?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: His name.
PATRICK O'DELL: Reginald?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Yeah.
This is the original pizza of trust.
PATRICK O'DELL: How long's that been there?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: How long you think it's been here?
Like month and a half?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Month and a half.
PATRICK O'DELL: Your dad tries to give you furniture?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Yeah.
My dad's like constantly working on a million different
projects at once.
Like he gets these ideas, and then he's like, I want an old
bus, and I'm going to make it all nice, and then we're going
to go on family trips and stuff with the bus.
But it's like all this kind of stuff, like that.
It's my great-grandfather's chair.
He was a barber.
I guess he still has all the books and stuff that my
great-grandpa had, like with the styles and cuts, and the
scissors and everything.
But he was afraid that I was going to spill wine all over
everything.
JON LONG: The revelation is, I mean, it's just
in the blood, man.
It's something to do with Irish.
I mean, it's an innate fuckin' thing.
He's ADD like his old man.
It's just part of it.
They used to put a block of wood under my chair because I
was so tiny, and they thought that was
going to calm me down.
No way.
I was frickin' off the wall.
I was--
whew.
And so, I would take him to, like, Safeway, and skate with
JT or his other buddies.
He's going, dad, I got to land this trick, I got
to land this trick.
Like, that's fine, but mom's cooking dinner, so
we got to get home.
And he'd just go, I got to land this trick, and I'd call
home and say, hey, we're going to be a little late.
And he would sit there and sweat and work
at doing this trick.
And then he would make the trick, and then I'm like, OK,
we're out of here, we're going, you did it, finally.
And he says, I got to do it again.
And that's Kevin.
PATRICK O'DELL: You got to tell me what happened.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Well, I lost the keys, and my
motorcycle's parked in front of it.
And I had to get some shit out, so--
PATRICK O'DELL: How'd you lose the key?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Well, the keys were like in my bag.
I usually carry around a little bag like this.
PATRICK O'DELL: That's like your purse?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Yeah, sort of.
But I mean, it's just a black bag with my stuff.
PATRICK O'DELL: I mean, what happened to the keys?
That's a good plan, you know.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: Yeah, it didn't fail until one of the
bags blew out.
It was like a thinner one like this, and with those you got
to double bag sometimes.
CHRIS SHONTING: Oh, the little man purse?
The little deli bag, bodega.
He usually carries it, but then I've seen him kind of
like progress into strapping it around his neck.
I guess it's literally like one of those situations if his
head wasn't screwed on either, he'd lose that, but now he's
got a bag around his neck.
ATIBA JEFFERSON: If I could pick a lifestyle like that, I
would go with his, because it's got be so stress-free.
I mean, think about it, how many times he
will flake on something.
Spur of the moment, you could get the dude to go do
something knowing he probably has prior engagements.
But like, Spanky, let's go jam at the house, you know
instantly, he's flaking on someone for dinner.
And that's wha6t's funny.
When you meet someone that's a little kid, you always picture
them as a little kid.
And I hate to say it, the dude's 22 and he's still a
little kid.
PATRICK O'DELL: How long have you known Spanky for?
TERRY KENNEDY: Years.
Like, I met him, Paul, Mikey, all like going to the valley,
so five years.
From knowing him when he was sponsored.
It was like [INAUDIBLE]
ATIBA JEFFERSON: I totally remember it.
It was like, I remember the Gap.
I was shooting photos.
It was that Santa Monica Blue Gap, the Pawn Gap, and Mikey
Taylor's trying a gnarly flip.
But anyways, there was this kid, and he's sitting there,
and he's frontside flipping it, like, good style and
everything.
And I was like, yeah, what's his name?
And they're like, Spanky.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: He is spaced.
ANDREW REYNOLDS: It's different now.
Like, now, he's kind of grown up.
We became really good friends.
But back then, it was, like, I'm this druggie guy, and
you're like a little kid, so we really don't have much in
common, you know what I mean?
It was different back then.
JAVIER NUNEZ: Spanky, though, it's funny how Spanky turned
out, because I'm, like, how old?
Like I said, I would be smoking, drinking, and he'd
just be wildin' out, blazin' bitches, and fuckin', they
would just look at me, like, oh damn.
Because they wasn't really doing none of that shit.
They was just young--
PATRICK O'DELL: Spanky and Paul?
JAVIER NUNEZ: --always talking about skating.
Yeah, Spanky, Paul, Mikey, Devon, Cal, all them cats.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: 6:23 in the morning, and we've been
skating all night long.
MALE SPEAKER: Hook him up!
Give a little bit.
Oh!
Uh, uh, uh!
MALE SPEAKER: Give him a hug, give him a tight squeeze.
FEMALE SPEAKER: What's wrong, you scared?
You a virgin?
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: I'm not scared.
JAVIER NUNEZ: I've seen Spanky in the [INAUDIBLE]
getting twisted.
I'm like, ah, I got you a drink, what you want?
Because it's funny, just like, people grow up, you know?
ANDREW REYNOLDS: I guess City Star's kind of falling apart,
and he had some offers to ride for Toy Machine or something
like that, and I just kind of told him, like, you should
just ride for us, you know?
It's way better.
And he knew what was right.
PATRICK O'DELL: You had to convince him for a while,
though, right?
ANDREW REYNOLDS: Yeah.
KEVIN "SPANKY" LONG: I was going on that Baker tour to
Australia, but I wasn't riding for Baker yet.
I was trying to figure out if I was going ride for them or
Toy Machine.
Like, the whole time we were staying at Dustin's house, and
that pretty much pressured me on the going on Baker, which
I'm glad I did.
But he was just torturing me the whole time, like, making
me feel really bad for even questioning riding for Baker.
What the fuck is wrong with you, man?
Like, you know how Dustin is just like, you're stayin' in
my house, like, what's the question here?
Like, you ride for us.
And basically, like, by the end of it, I heard, like, "you
ride for us" so many times, it was like, all right, I can't
say no to that.
Especially to a young lad who's never been on a skate
tour with people he's looked up to, and he's basically
calling them a fucking asshole.
ROBIN FLEMING: Yeah he went from being a baby to being a
full-blown, jaded, fucking hipster.
But he also doesn't take this whole thing that
seriously, you know?
He, I think, recognizes it, and is really grateful, which
is refreshing.
So it's a free life with a lot of wonderful travel and great
opportunities to hang out with another amazing bros, and
travel the world with your friends.
He could lose everything and he wouldn't know.
He doesn't care.
And that's what's good about him.
He cares about the right things.