A comedian who does slappys? We are very down. Photo Blaine Williams.

Village Psychic:
For the record, who are we talking to?

Patrick Doran:
Patrick Doran.

VP:
How would people know you?

PD:
From Podcast About List, which is my podcast where I read lists with my two friends.

VP:
So you do this podcast, are you a stand up comic as well?

PD:
Yeah, not as much as I used to be though. I did a show a couple of weeks ago where I was supposed to be reading a top five list that I wrote. I think I'm kind of destined to do lists now.

VP:
So when and where did you start skating?

PD:
Probably around age 14 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. I lived in the woods, on a hill, and it sucked for skating.

My high school was across from this prefab park in the woods. I think somebody tried to restore it a couple years ago, but when I was skating it it was falling apart. It's all just like loose sheet metal on top of some rotting wood.

VP:
So what was it then that got you into skating?

PD:
Honestly, playing T.H.U.G. 2 (laughs), and I was like, “I want a skateboard for Christmas.” My parents got me this really shitty board from Walmart, it was black with what looked like Ghost Rider’s head laughing and on fire. It was so tight.

So the park that was in my hometown, randomly I would see MSA (Manny Santiago) there, when he was on AMMO. He and Dave Bachinsky would go there because they were both Lowell, Mass. dudes, which is like 30 minutes away. Seeing those guys was kind of my first "Whoa, this is skating" moment.

VP:
So you’ve been in New York for about year, what brought you here?

PD:
Comedy.

VP:
What's going on with comedians coming out as skaters?

PD:
I think it's definitely really sick. But it's hard to tell who’s actually hyped on it. I don't know. I read that Jenkem interview with Mark Norman and he just didn't seem that into it. He's like, "What was that guy's name? Koston. Yeah, I liked Koston." Whitmer Thomas has been posting clips all the time and he's really good. Dougpound (Doug Lussenhop)…finding out he skated when I was like 14? Fucking blew my mind.

VP:
So what videos were you stoked on when you were growing up?

PD:
Baker 3 for sure. Baker 3 was my favorite. I was such a CKY kid. That‘s kind of how I got interested in comedy initially as well. It's funny when you get a little older you try to learn all the skate history stuff. I was like, “Oh, like Video Days is my favorite.”, after researching what was supposed to be influential. I was also obsessed with going to different companies websites and going through the team rosters, seeing clips and photos and shit and it was always like “here's their favorite movie!” Like, here's The Nuge and he loves Austin Powers.

I used to love the Toy Machine website and I got really into Ed Templeton. I think there's a direct through line of getting into Ed Templeton and finding out Bam was on Toy Machine. And then I rented the Jump Off A Building DVD on Netflix on my mom's Netflix account. I think I rented that The DC Video. I jumped my mom's queue, put them at the top. She had to like sit me down and be like, "Hey, knock it off. I want to watch movies."

VP:
So CKY was the sort of seminal thing, skating and comedy. What else in terms of comedy got you stoked?

PD:
I was a big Mr. Show fan. When I was in high school I was learning about Mr. Show and like I’m Alan Partridge. I was also big into Good Neighbor, the old Kyle Mooney sketches. Just so good.

Patrick was making videos with friends back in New Hampshire. Also…this spot!?!?!

VP:
When you were growing up, did you make any skate videos or comedy videos with your friends?

PD:
Not really. I have a clip in my friend's video where I do the most rocket kickflip, I learned them the night before and was like "You guys, check this out!" I do the shittiest boardslide and then a kickflip.

After I saw CKY we were obsessed with making something like it, but we were too scared to do anything. So there's a video that was shot on a Tiger Electronics camera, this little orange camera, it's a video of us throwing batteries at a garage door.

VP:
So you went to school in Boston, were you skating much there?

PD:
Not really, I kind of stopped for a few years. I would skate the Malden skatepark, which is really small and pretty beat up. It was probably so sick when they first put it in.

But I was always super stoked by everybody in Boston. You would always hear so and so did this or that at Eggs or whatever. Myles Underwood, he’s so sick. He was somebody who would come skate like Londonderry, too. I remember seeing him as a 12 year old like, with these little like, cut off like shants and Stance socks, it’s crazy seeing how good he got. Dude, him at Eggs? Him and Ben Tenner at Eggs. So sick.

I bought a Horn Bob shirt just because I was like, I gotta support this kid. The Fuck This Industry stuff is a lot of drainer aesthetics, Drain Gang. I'm an elder Zoomer, so I don't know too much about that.

Thinking about crook bonks and Chipotle ads at Maria Hernandez.

VP:
So whats your deal with skating in NYC?

PD:
I moved here and just made a point to go down to Maria Hernandez every day and skate for at least an hour. I think it helps you creatively too, especially if you're skating alone. I'm just thinking about stupid shit. So many ideas I’ve had for podcasts come from skating alone.

We did a whole episode that's supposed to look like it's a branded Chipotle episode. Everything that we're saying is just like, “Oh, yeah, Chipotle is awesome. What's your Chipotle order?”

VP:
So when did you start the podcast?

PD:
Cameron and Caleb started it when they were working in IT at our college. They worked in the equipment distribution so they'd give people cameras and audio recorders and shit. They just rented out an audio recorder and just just made the podcast in their office. The first 30 or so episodes is just them at work and they keep pausing because someone would come in to rent a camera or whatever.

VP:
And when could you tell it was catching on?

PD:
Well, I was able to move here with money I saved from my Patreon. I'm still living just off the Patreon right now. Which is why I can skate all the time.

We started the Patreon so we could fly me out to LA so I could try Jollibee. But I feel like I noticed it catching on the first time that we made more than $100 in a month, it was like "People want to listen to this."

I gotta start saving way more though, dude. I bought Ice Creams, which was fine. I got a pair of Board Flips from a from a fan. I gave him 60 bucks for them.

Jollibee was the start of something great.

VP
There is a Jollibee in Times Square, right?

PD
The one in Times Square has the spaghetti, but it doesn't have a lot of the Filipino food. It doesn't have the the palabok, which is so good. I think I get Jollibee like once every three months. Their chicken sandwich... it’s the best chicken sandwich.

VP:
Is that the Chicken Joy?

PD:
No, the Chicken Joy is the drumsticks. Iheir spicy chicken sandwich, instead of pickle chips it has jalapeño slices. So good. It's got the spicy mayo too. I cannot recommend it enough.

VP:
We're about to turn the turn the skaters on to Jollibee. Alright, so you got anything you want to plug?

PD:
We have a big tour coming up. We were able to secure swagpoop.com , that's our website. It was free. no one wanted it. So that's where that's where all the tour info is, but Cameron also learned how to put HTML games in the website. So have half the website is Flash games. We have Christmas Mysteries, Squirrel Bubble Shooter, Haunted Manor Mysteries.

We have a show on April 15 at Littlefield, I have to do a DJ set at that. I'm learning to DJ for that. I want to dress like Bam for it. I've been looking for Adios on eBay in my size. I found one pair of Kenny Anderson's and they're $1,000. Like, who the fuck is buying Adios for $1000?

Patrick Doran Has Tried Jolibee