Ben Currie: Grief, Melbourne, Sydney, humility and beyond (Ep. 203).

Ben Currie: Grief, Melbourne, Sydney, humility and beyond (Ep. 203).

Author: Shan August 10, 2023 Duration: 2:07:53
Send us Fan Mail Ben Currie is a professional skateboarder, kind human, and dog lover. Recorded in-person at his property located on the edge of the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, Ben opens up about his life so far. He shares about the passing of his father at the delicate age of 13, growing up skating in Melbourne, using grief as motivation to commit to scary tricks, the positive influence of Andrew Mapstone, his views on competitive skateboarding, his sponsorship journey, skat...

You'll find a particular kind of honesty in the conversations on Terrible. Happy, a podcast that sounds like a late-night chat in a backyard after a long day at the skatepark. Host Shan sits down with a rotating cast of characters from the Australian skateboarding scene and beyond, but the talk rarely stays on just tricks and terrain. It naturally veers into the messy, funny, and deeply human stuff that happens off the board: the struggles with fitness, the odd jobs that pay the bills, the mental health ups and downs, and the pure, alternative comedy of everyday life. This isn't a polished production; it's the raw audio of community, capturing the specific voices and stories that make this culture tick. Listeners will hear genuine interviews that feel more like catching up with an old mate, punctuated by the occasional chaos of THT Radio segments. It’s about finding the connection and the laughter in the grind, whether that's on four wheels or just trying to get through the week. The result is a uniquely Australian show that’s less about sports commentary and more about the shared, sometimes terrible, often happy reality of the people within it.
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