On today’s episode of Rad Matters Podcast I briefly pretend to talk to Todd Richards and I recall a couple stories from my years in AK.  Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while taking the snowboard industry to where it ought to be ..read more

This episode of Rad Matters Podcast is an impromptu book review of The Darkest White by @ericblehm (it’s about Craig Kelly btw) and also includes why I think airplanes are great bars and how they double as time machines.  Go buy the book, it’s a way better interpretation of snowboardings history than anything so far. Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while taking the snowboard industry to where it ought to be ..read more

RM013 Call me crazy, but you’d  have to be blind to not see that we’ve been played by skiing/skiers and the fanboys parading as sports journalists isn’t helping. To act as though snowboarding is a youth market for the last 20+ years while giving away our language and culture is embarrassing. When you don’t work for something yourself, you don’t think twice about giving it away. Entitled and ungrateful come to mind. Telos Snowboards Help Support Rad Matters Podcast Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while t ..read more

RM011 Telos Snowboards In this episode of Rad Matters I’m at venting my hate love relationship with Snowboarding by way of the hate mail I should’ve been sending to the industry the entire time. When you step away from something like I have with Snowboarding and come back you’re more susceptible to notice glaring changes of which were incrementally pushed along, the people in it don’t notice the small daily things but from my perspective; what the fuck is wrong with this industry? When the most credible and respected opinions in this realm of this realm are coming from, I wouldn’t say imposter ..read more

RM009 Telos Snowboards In this episode I ramble about Pro snowboarders entitlement issues. At the end of the day you fucking pussies need to go to Alaska, that’s all the fucking matters. Did the last generation push the bar too high up there? They didn’t think so about the generation before them so why the fuck haven’t ya’ll been to AK? Pussies.  Help support Rad Matters Podcast Hosted By Mike Ranquet    Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while taking the snowboard industry to where it ought to be ..read more

After 60+ trips to Japan since 1989, it's safe to say I've seen some funny shit over the decades and I'm alive to report on it. #poundsymbol #powdeRwithahardR  #radmatterspodcast #ilikejapan #gocuckyourself #ismokecigs  Please support Rad Matters Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/MikeRanquet Cash App: https://cash.app/$ranquet Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/ranquet Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while taking the snowboard industry to where it ought to be ..read more

RM020Jobs Does the snowboard industry hire from within it’s own pool of pro snowboarders? It’d be a lot cooler if it did. Be it 2yrs, 5, 10 or 25 years as a pro snowboarder either way it’ll get you nowhere. Whether a dude was filming or competing, whatever brand was paying for that is losing out on their investment by not hiring/utilizing the dudes they’ve invested in. It’s like training a pilot for years only to hire someone w/out his ‘training’ because they look better on paper. One would think that riding as a professional snowboarder and caring at least as much as whoever cares the most ab ..read more

RM019Roadkills In this episode I  talk about sketchy plane rides in AK; Peter Line and the resurrection of Penthouse Forum; Roadkill turns 30 & I recall gettin high with Terje, Iguchi and Cardiel while filming Roadkill, Glittering prizes and endless  compromises, shatter the illusion of integrity. ⬇️ Click below ito support my efforts ⬇️ Help Support Rad Matters Podcast ⬇️ Click below  Telos Snowboards website ⬇️ Telos Snowboards ⬇️ Click below for my Telos pro model ⬇️ Ranquet 156 Mystory ⬇️ Click below for Island Life Skateboards ⬇️ https://islandlifeskateboardsmaui.c ..read more

We ponder if Tomoko thinks GerryLopez can’t talk, skate etiquette and other pointless drivel. Support the show Thanks for enduring Rad Matters Podcast Hosted by Mike Ranquet. Donate to see me go down swinging while taking the snowboard industry to where it ought to be ..read more

RM018TedMartinTalksFISISFTQ+  So this conversation happened seven years ago I think, Ted Was on Maui visiting family,  so I contacted him on Facebook or whatever. My neighbor at the time on Door of Faith Road, He was in the field of filming, audio but more lighting. Either way we had a conversation and I told him about Ted and that I thought it would be really cool to do an interview with him considering our backgrounds etc. He said set it up and film it, I invited Ted over to my house. We met at Baldwin Beach and it was probably a 45 minute drive from there, it was fucking deep. I’m ..read more