
The Bunt just dropped their first video.
Did you expect a skateboard-sports podcast to drop a video? Well, does every interviewee always have a “favorite sports moment?” Not exactly on-hand, but they figure out a way. And The Bunt figured out a way.
TJ Rogers is unequivocally one of the hardest working skateboarders — whether the multitude of parts released last year, the one-man shoe release tour, or pulling up to the D7 Hardies jam and being the one person to knock out three tricks that had never been done before (fakie bigspin, switch front 3 and switch pop shove) — there was a case to be made for him being the people’s choice for Skater of the Year in 2025. In 2026, now embracing new fatherhood and easy to get on the line, we hit him to run down a few favorites.
GOODNIGHT IRENE is the new video from Dais Skate Co., and it might be the widest net of local spots maybe ever? Oh, going to The Bronx is deep for you this weekend? These dudes skate every single borough, upstate, Long Island, Jersey, Connecticut, Philly — literally everywhere. The filmer’s spotbook has gotta be crazy.
Of all the things QS has been a part of, being able to facilitate a bit of seed money to the D.I.Y. plaza next to the Trinity Repertory Theater in downtown Providence, Rhode Island (back in the days when Levi’s had a formal skate program and was putting $ toward’s D.I.Y’s) has to be the top of the list. Here are the renderings for what the latest expansion will be. Wow.

The full-length shop video is the purest undertaking in skateboarding. Having been in operation under various names since 1994, Richmond’s Venue Skateshop is thus one of the most O.G. shops in the country (is FTC the oldest?), and has at its disposal a wellspring of lore to tap into.
From the intergenerational opening shared part between shop owner Maury Blankinship and his son, to the farewell to the 50-year-old Richmond Coliseum currently slated for demolition and co-opted into D.I.Y. usage by the city’s skaters, to appearances from the greater Bust Crew and Quasi-verse that have helped Richmond become a globally recognizable skate scene — there is plenty to smile at in this 34-minute labor of love. (Though you’ll be a lil’ disappointed a certain somebody’s part gets intro’d and then …yeah, you’ll know when you see it. Hopefully a teaser for something otw though.)

You really gotta admire the commitment to the bit that he fully cleaned up the one he did at first for what sits at #1 this week. Otherwise, we got tricks on wood slats, slides down curved bricks, and a multi-sport line at the Marcy benches.
And to anyone else who went “oh my ribs” at the intro: he was confirmed ok by the submitter.
Our friends at Skate Jawn are hosting an issue #93 release party at the Long Island City D.I.Y. tomorrow. Flyer here.