yo mike! what up!? just waking up, about to go get some tacos for breakfast. wierd. you wanna do this interview thing? yeah! lets get akward bro! hold on i gotta go outside and lite a smoke if we're going to do an interview. I've been real good about not smoking though. well, i don't want to be the dude that gets you back on it! and that shit happens to me all the time.. people quit smoking for weeks or months, then they want to hit the joint and i'm telling them that there's tabacco in it.. they say it's all good then i'll see them a few days later with a full pack and they tell me it's because of me... weak dude. well i only smoke when i drink, and thats at night, so i guess i only smoke at night. every night. nice justification! hey manderson hang on for a second, i got the other manderson (brian anderson) calling on the other line. what up brian! whats up john? what you doing? i'm interviewing mike anderson on the other line- the other manderson what?!! that dude is fucking sick! he's one of my new favorites for sure.. you wanna skate the park in a bit? yeah, peabody and i will meet you there after this.. right on, tell manderson what up! true! (click over) manderson? whats up brian said you are one of his new favorite skaters bro! for real? holy shit man, hell yeah!! thats so sick.. yeah, brian is the homie.. so i heard you just built a mini ramp at your moms house? yeah its sick! we're going to have a big party ramp jam this weekend for my little brother's birthday. yeah, if you guys lived in this area i'd tell you to cruise over. so what happened to the brand new Es team vehicle? the mercedes van? oh shit..haha- fuck, well it was one day but kinda of a lot of destruction. we were at some demo in tampa and scuba was pulling the old 'hurry up,get in the van! hop in mike'.. but when i got right by the van he'd pull up 20ft you know? totally big brothering me. he kept doing that and so i just jumped onto the hood of the van on my ass and put this huge dent in it. brand new benzo? yeah, brand new MEGA benzo. but then just a few seconds later, bobby (worrest) comes running up to the van to hop in and i did'nt want him to get in , so i jumped kicked the handle and the lock to try to lock the door and ended up smashing the whole thing into the door panel. then the next day i was lighting a bunch of fireworks outside the van and ended up doing some other external damage. so i was on scuba's shit list for a few days and had to mellow out.. but we're all good now. so i hear that you used to love to eat dirt and worms and shit when you were a kid? i mean every kid eats dirt and worms, but i hear that you actually GOT worms from doing it.. like how a fucking dog gets worms or some shit.. how the fuck? you got intestinal worms from eating dirt? yeah i did! i think maybe there was some poop in the dirt i was eating and thats how it happend! that's what i figured, you had to have been eating poop with the dirt to get worms. yeah some cat or dog must have pooped where i normally ate dirt and they hooked it up! wooow! how did you start skating anyway you wierdo? you know the classic older brother who skates and you want to skate with him and his friends. we had a hill by our house that we would alway skate down.. but he quit skating a few years later and i just kept at it. was this before or after you tried to run away to disneyland? um, it was after that i think.. yeah, i wanted to run away to disneyland. my parents did'nt want to go so a packed a little napsack and started walking there. like a bandanna on a branch kit? classic hobo style.. how far did you get? just a couple blocks, then i think i just went home. haha i wonder how many kids in southern california pulled that same move. there's just a huge pack of kids with hobo napsacks lined up outside of disneyland! kinda like a 'fisher price- my first skid row' or something. woow! yeah, like if kids just lined up down I-5 or whatever the fuck freeway that is. you hate the 5 huh! i hate the 5, the 405, the 10 all that shit. fuck those freeways man. everytime you drive to or from SF you take the 101? it's so much slower? i would much rather drive through some shit thats nice to look at, you know? mountains and the ocean.. it's so much better . i hate the 5. i agree, but i always just want to just get there and get it over with.. but maybe next time i'll go 101 and try to enjoy it. yeah, i'll be in ventura and you can come by the house and skate the ramp and drink a few beers! sounds like a plan. oh shit! my gardener is driving by in his camoflauge truck! 'what up homie!' he's so cool, we always have a beer and a smoke with him. he can't speak english for shit but he's down to hang.. the dude is so sick. yeah you don't have to speak english to party, thats for sure.. i hear that you used to make potions out of everything you could find? yeah dude, i love potions! i would go in the cabinets under the sink and get all the toxic shit and mix it with dirt and poop and hair, fuckin bugs- whatever i could find i would make some sort of potion out of it. like some creepy wizards potions huh? yeah, maybe all those chemicals made me wierd. ya think?? so how did you actually get on krooked? did you ride for anyone else before? i rode for a little ass company called balistic with some of my friends back in the day.. then my friend ruben started getting me flow from powell when erik olsen worked for them. then when he left it got pretty wierd, there was no team managaer for a while, then when the new guy showed up he was all 'we need a video, we need a video!!' so i went down to santa barbara to give them my video and we were watching it together. anytime a handrail trick came on screen he would pause it and go frame by frame to see how high on the rail i was getting. then he would look at me and just sigh in disapproval. hahaha! then they told me i needed to get out there more and start going bigger and all this shit.. it was really wierd and lame. i left there that day and never called them again. i thought if this is what being sponsored is, then i don't want to do it. i would much rather buy boards and just skate. good move then a couple years go by and i'd been skating with van wastell a bunch and he's all 'hey man, would you be down to get flow from krooked?' i was like ' of course! krooked is my favorite shit! and anti hero too'. so i sent in my footage and was all nervous waiting for the frame by frame handrail scrutiny . (laughs) woow! no thats not how we run our program down here bro. i know, thats why i'm so happy where i'm at! we're stoked to have you with us mike.. thanks man.. so van convinced mark to let me go out to new york with them when they were filming for the naughty video and its just happend. so stoked. yeah that worked out really good. i remember that, we were all really stoked you got on that trip and were able to become a part of krooked. yeah, and i owe it all to van.