The Rick Thorne Show

Rick Thorne heads to Bullhead City, Arizona, for the first Día De Los Locos Festival and talks with the bands backstage. He catches up with The Ghostwood Murder, Miles to Nowhere, Talking Bombs, Jason DeVore of Authority Zero, and Frank and George of Voodoo Glow Skulls, who explain how the festival came together. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:58 The Ghostwood Murder 2:50 Miles to Nowhere 6:42 Talking Bomb...

Comedian Tania Estrada, crowned the Latin Queen of Comedy, talks with Rick Thorne about structuring bits for bigger laughs, dealing with hecklers, and what she learned working with comics like Paul Rodriguez. She breaks down how club shows really work, from seating to networking, and talks about her YouTube cooking show, Tania's Treats. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:51 Meet Tania Estrada 0:07:00 Cof...

BMX photographer Tony Donaldson tells Rick Thorne how he went from riding a Schwinn Predator in the early '80s to writing to Super BMX and moving to LA 37 years ago to shoot freestyle. He explains why riders hate newspaper photographers, what working at the magazines was like, and tells the story of meeting a 16-year-old Mat Hoffman, who tossed a bra into the team trailer after a show. CHAPTERS 0:...

Flatland pioneer Dave Nourie tells Rick Thorne how winning novice led Bob Haro to call two weeks later and sponsor him, and how five years on the road with the Haro team, sometimes riding for 1,500 kids, taught him showmanship. He also talks about alternative school, working JT sales, advice from Kevin Jones, teaching old-school trick clinics in Japan, and taking the show back on the road 40 years...

Freestyle motocross pioneer Colin "Scummy" Morrison takes Rick Thorne back to the first ramp-to-ramp jump show in Vegas in 1998 and the hard-partying Metal Mulisha years. He talks openly about riding through injuries on pills, rehab in 2012, secretly relapsing and being high while interviewing Nikki Sixx, whose book helped him get sober, overdosing on fentanyl-laced Xanax in his truck and waking u...

Comedian Jamario McClain, a former college defensive back who walked on at Cerritos College as a receiver before switching to safety, tells Rick Thorne about football, NFL dreams, and why you have to be a little psycho to play. He talks about working cruise ships, why clean sets open more doors, hanging around Fairfax spots like The Dime and Canter's Deli, quitting drinking four years ago, and how...

Doah Lee of the reggae band Doah's Daydream tells Rick Thorne about growing up in Hawaii, leaving home at 17, the door-to-door solar job she calls the worst she ever had, selling Xerox copiers, and quitting her medical device sales job to go all in on music. She talks about moving to San Diego, playing Cali Roots, Pepper being her first concert, beating impostor syndrome, and new music on the way....

Freestyle skier turned comedian Handren Seavey tells Rick Thorne how a Tahoe comedy gig got him back to skiing for free, and explains mogul skiing, trampoline training and summer glacier skiing at Whistler. He looks back on the early days of halfpipe skiing, when he competed in X Games qualifiers in 2003, then talks about blowing out his knee and finding theater in college, George Carlin, working...

DIY skatepark builder Clayton Graul talks with Rick Thorne about building skate spots around Los Angeles, from cops thinking he was building a house to an off-duty cop in the Hollywood Hills. He explains how the Cornside DIY came together, how growing up with Burnside shaped him, finding and cleaning out pools to skate, concrete and rebar basics, the precast quarter pipe he built at home and insta...

BMX rider and comedian Sebastian 'SeaBass' Fowler tells Rick Thorne about riding his BMX bike from San Diego to New York, racing to make a Kill Tony taping in Austin along the way. He covers the headwinds, mountain lions the night before the show, cops giving him opposite rules about the shoulder, a semi nearly clipping him, sleeping behind a 7-Eleven dumpster, what happened when he finally got on...

Pro skateboarder Jeremy Wray joins Rick Thorne for an extended conversation about contests, the original kickflip, and diffusing run-ins with security guards. He explains his famous 1997 water tower gap, and how photographer Daniel Harold Sturt bet him a couple hundred bucks he couldn't run and jump a 15-foot roof gap, a photo that became a Dukes shoe ad. He also talks about his artwork, his first...

Adaptive skateboarder, athlete and model Kanya Sesser tells Rick Thorne about her rare time in prosthetics on a TV set, coming within one second of the London Paralympics in track, and shooting an LA 2028 Olympics commercial. She also talks about skating against able-bodied skaters, riding Circus Skateboards, motivational speaking with Aaron 'Wheelz' Fotheringham, and her book. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro...

Comedian Anthony Amorello tells Rick Thorne about working security at pandemic drive-in comedy shows at the Magic Castle, taking a security guard job at The Comedy Store, and becoming the door guy, which Frank Castillo called getting into the Ivy League of comedy. He also talks about growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Boston accent everyone wants to hear, the comics he admires, his monthl...

Pro wrestler, actor and comedian Jay Washington talks with Rick Thorne about the history behind last names like Washington and Freeman, what makes a true headliner, and how he got into wrestling. He remembers his first gimmicks, a Zulu-warrior costume and then the tag team Rage and Trauma, finding his voice on the mic at Cicero Stadium, and working with Wesley Snipes in Chi-Raq. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 I...

Actress, comedian and former Playboy model Rachel Sterling talks with Rick Thorne about agents shaving years off her age, adapting fast to survive, and how she became a dancer in 1993 at Santa Barbara's 101 Cafe to get back at a boyfriend who said a strip club was 'no big deal.' She also opens up about her Playboy years and glamour modeling, being sued for breach of contract over other deals (neve...

Makeup artist, actress and model Amanda M. Terry tells Rick Thorne about doing hair, makeup and special effects on Guns of Redemption, helping with effects on The Gunslingers with Nicolas Cage, and filming westerns in Cave City, Kentucky. She also opens up about losing her dad to cancer in 2018 and the dark stretch that followed, which led to her podcast Make Up Your Mind with Mandy, plus modeling...

Jorge Casillas of Voodoo Glow Skulls takes Rick Thorne back to the band's late-'80s start in Riverside with his brothers Frank and Eddie, backyard parties, and early shows at Spanky's Cafe and Gilman Street. He tells how the band's record store and venue hosted early Fat Wreck Chords bands like Propagandhi, Lagwagon and Strung Out after Voodoo was already on Epitaph, meeting Tim Armstrong just aft...

Former UFC champion and Pride FC star Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson talks with Rick Thorne about sponsor deals like Boost Mobile, fighter pay, CTE, and his Orange County team. He tells the story of his first MMA fight, taken against the Memphis champion on three days' notice, where a rigged weigh-in cost him the belt even though he won, how the friend who got him started later stole from the gym Rampa...

BMX rider, musician and author Ben Crockett tells Rick Thorne about living with polycystic kidney disease, which doctors found after a crash at 16, and how being too scared to throw a half barspin turned into his own switch-handed toboggan trick that made BMX Plus. He also talks about his 10 years as assistant editor at BMX Plus, his punk band The Sentimentals and the scene that got them noticed b...

Circle Jerks guitarist Greg Hetson tells Rick Thorne about his first punk show, the Dickies and Middle Class at the Whisky in July 1978, his short run in Red Cross playing with the Germs and Black Flag, and forming Circle Jerks with Keith Morris, who was then in Black Flag. He also explains how a 1960s American slang dictionary gave the band its name, remembers the original Masque club under Holly...

Tattoo artist Tokyo Hiro tells Rick Thorne about tipping, working as a highly sensitive person, and a crazy Mark Mahoney story from the Shamrock Social Club. He looks back on getting tattooed as a teen in Japan, the Bob Roberts flyer that made him save up and fly to LA, the Hannya mask design Nicolas Cage got tattooed, his artwork for bands like The Offspring and Rancid, and his animal charity, Ro...

Pennywise singer Jim Lindberg tells Rick Thorne how the Sex Pistols, Black Flag and the Hermosa Beach scene turned him into a punk kid, and how Pennywise grew up on early Epitaph. He explains why Warped Tour mattered, from watching the Plain White T's play to nobody before 'Hey There Delilah' blew up to the surf and skate videos that broke Pennywise worldwide, and talks about Black...

The band Sumthing Strange, formed in 2020, joins Rick Thorne for a loose, funny conversation about their '80s alternative-inspired sound, Jim Morrison comparisons, and one member's move from Philly to California. They talk about what their live shows are like, catchy songwriting from Depeche Mode to Johnny Cash, Auto-Tune and Milli Vanilli, their song 'Gorgeous,' releasing sing...

Bill Allen, who played Cru Jones in the BMX cult classic RAD, tells Rick Thorne about his first movie, a never-released Kentucky film that was also George Clooney's first, living in Rosemary Clooney's guest house, and meeting Lou Diamond Phillips in acting class in Dallas. He talks about the Legal Aliens theater company with John Lee Hancock, his best friend Brandon Lee and the song The Doors' Rob...

Comedian and musician Joel Jimenez tells Rick Thorne about growing up in LA's Frogtown neighborhood and running the Marsh Park skatepark for 10 years. He talks about his band Mad Peaceful, living with panic disorder, jiu-jitsu injuries, and how he went from theater and improv to Kill Tony, where a toy kid's bass drum from a thrift store got him into the show's band in 2016 at The Comedy Store. CHA...