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MALE SPEAKER 1: What?
Gnarly trick.
JIM GRECO: Me and him were at the diner one day, and we
chased down and attacked some guy that started some ***
with us in front of the diner.
MALE SPEAKER 2: Put the *** board up.
JIM GRECO: Whoa, back the *** off.
MALE SPEAKER 2: Put the *** board up.
JIM GRECO: Walk away.
Walk away.
Go!
Now!
See ya.
MALE SPEAKER 2: *** ***.
JIM GRECO: Bye-bye.
And I was like, come on, you can help me
chase this guy down.
And I went and smashed his truck up with my board.
And I got him thrown right in the middle of it.
That was my introduction to him, but--
MALE SPEAKER 3: He helped you beat this guy up?
JIM GRECO: We didn't beat the guy up.
We just kind of chased him down and scared him.
But yeah, Lizard's sick, man.
MALE SPEAKER 3: What's up?
Welcome back to "Epicly Later'd." This episode is
about Lizard King, who's a friend of mine.
He is a quite ridiculous person.
He kind of is, like, friends with everybody.
You'll see in this episode.
Not only is he an awesome street skater that will just
do anything or jump off of anything, he'll just do the
mega ramp, which not many streets
skaters have done that.
So we're going to go over his house, meet up with him, see
what he gets into on an average weekday.
So this is it.
The Lizard King episode.
LIZARD KING: You guys should teach your dogs how to use
toilets like normal people.
MALE SPEAKER 3: You're from Utah, originally?
LIZARD KING: Mm-hm, Salt Lake City, fool.
Salt Lake's tight.
Buttery *** spots everywhere, tons of skate parks, cheap
drinks, mountains, babes.
Dude, there's lots of hot Mormon chicks there.
MALE SPEAKER 3: And your family's Mormon?
LIZARD KING: Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
MALE SPEAKER 3: That's just a rumor I heard?
LIZARD KING: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My mom's Catholic.
My dad's a workaholic.
MALE SPEAKER 3: Were they supportive of you skating?
LIZARD KING: Yeah, my mom was super down for it.
My dad, it took him a little while to get into it.
I think he was more hyped.
Like I used to be really good at riding bikes and ***.
And he ***'--
he was a pro motor cross racer, so he's like--
could relate with the bicycle thing, you know?
I'd asked for a new skateboard, and he'd
be, like, get a job.
I'd ask for a *** new part for my bike, and he'd take me
to the bike shop instantly and go pay for it.
[LAUGHS]
MALE SPEAKER 3: Did your mom trip out when you had tattoos?
LIZARD KING: [LAUGH]
Oh, yeah.
Her and my dad were pretty *** pissed.
My dad *** hates tattoos more than anything.
I came home for Christmas.
This was like, maybe a year or two ago with ***' Salt Lake
tattooed on my hands and the Death Wish logo on my neck.
And I rolled in, like, wearing gloves and a hoodie.
[LAUGHS]
I was like, I can't pull this off.
And showed it to him.
He was *** pissed.
Ruined Christmas.
Fool, like, when he's pissed off, this jaw muscle, he has
this muscle right here, and it just starts flexing, dude.
Seriously, for like five hours straight,
that thing was like--
he wasn't hyped.
JUSTIN ROY: Lizard.
I think he showed up at my house in Fullerton when we
used to have the old Hellrose.
Yeah, he just kind of showed up one day with a couple of
other kids and never left.
MALE SPEAKER 3: What was Hellrose?
JUSTIN ROY: Hellrose was just a bunch of homeys in a place
where we lived.
Kind of a lifestyle, I guess you could call it at the time.
So we'd always just meet up in the mornings, hang out, skate
together, party together, that kind of deal.
MALE SPEAKER 3: What was his skating like at first when you
first met him?
JUSTIN ROY: Total mad man.
Mad man on a board, everywhere we go, screaming at
the top of his lungs.
Just total madness is the best way to describe it.
ANDREW REYNOLDS: I knew some of those guys, like Justin Roy
and Sammy Baca.
I didn't know all of them.
But I just knew that they were around.
And they all looked really dirty, bummy,
and stuff, you know?
But he was part of that whole thing.
And I saw him skate at one night Active demo.
But he was like--
I mean, not saying he wasn't good, but he just wasn't,
like, the same Lizard that he is now.
It was like he was just kind of going fast and really out
of it, like ripping trim.
MALE SPEAKER 3: Was he sponsored at that point?
JUSTIN ROY: Pig came along, which was right around the
time Hellrose was ending.
And then everybody kind of went to Pig from there.
I just called the Beagle, Josh Beagle, or whatever, and
*** hit him up and asked him if I could
skate for Pig Wood.
The think dude, Tony Patel or whatever, hit me up.
He was like, dude, I'll cut you a check right now if you
want to skate for us.
I mean, it sucks to be like, yeah, I'm quitting for money.
But I mean, whatever.
I was *** poor as ***, living out here on people's
couches, you know what I mean?
It's like, I wasn't even getting any product enough to
be going and slinging boards and ***.
It's like, I skated every board I had.
And then, they started Death Wish or
whatever and then poof.
ERIK ELLINGTON: Lizard actually got a Death Wish
tattoo before the company was even started.
We weren't even sure we were going to do it.
And I drew it on, like, going down his ribs.
We were on a Baker film trip or something like that.
And I was, like, yeah, we want to start this
company, Death Wish.
I was like, you're on when it starts.
And we just clicked from day one.
And then I went skating with him.
And I was, like, obviously his skating speaks for itself.
And I didn't know he was that good.
I was just, like--
I'd seen a couple of those sequences.
I was, like, oh ***--
Cap from a board down a 12.
But then when you go skate with him, it's like, he's
insane the way he works.
He just adapts really well to every single
thing he tries to skate.
It's rad to watch.
JIM GRECO: When he does like a nose blunt, like, he sawed a
bar off and did a nose blunt indie grab into a *** bar
bank type thing in Arizona.
Eric was telling me how sick he was.
ANDREW REYNOLDS: And I met his mom and like just his whole
family out in Salt Lake City.
And his brother was telling me when he wasn't around, like,
yeah, everything he does he's good at, always.
Like he can do hand rails and stuff on a bike.
And he climbs rocks, and he did the mega
jump, skates vert.
It's insane.
He's like an adrenaline junkie or something.
LIZARD KING: I was like 15 at the skate park, and this dude
that was like my idol, I worshipped him, he just walked
up to me one day and said, what's up, Lizard?
And ever since then, it was just, like, it was on.
It's been stuck.
He's the pumpkin king.
His dad's the pumpkin master.
And his daughter's the pumpkin princess.