Johnee Kop: Man I am close to mid thirties, that's all I'm saying.

50-50: What's your birth sign?

JK: Birth sign is Libra.

50-50: Where were you born?

JK: I was born in Honolulu.

50-50: What are your measurements?

JK: What kind of measurements, you mean private parts?

50-50: Yeah.

JK: Well, I guess God was pretty generous... not!

50-50: So you're saying Oriental style measurements.

JK: Well, is 8-10 normal? Because I'm in the 8-10 range.

JK: I started skateboarding just for fun. (Someone yells "Yo Robby") What the hell, Shut Up!

50-50: Fucking us up man!

JK: Nah, I just started skateboarding because I liked skateboarding. Yeah, skating was fun. It was just fun skating for free. And then I got sponsored and I didn't really give a shit. Because everything is free and you don't really want to do anything.

50-50: So then you naturally went pro.

JK: Yeah I went pro, and I say the best time for me skating-wise was 12-20 years old.

50-50: That was at Oceanside?

JK: Oceanside was 21. And the week before that I went out with an 11-year old. Christian Hosoi picked up these chicks and actually one was 11. You see, I'm not the one who started this young girl thing, you see it was Christian, he's the one who set it up. That was it man.

50-50: It got you hooked?

JK: It got me hooked man (Laughs) We're talking hooked.

50-50: So what we're you known for in your skating career?

JK: I was known for shit.

50-50: What around-the-worlds?

JK: Around-the-worlds man.

50-50: Did a handrail, first handrail ad. That was it.

JK: That was it.

50-50: Where was that, was that at UH? Was that a caveman slide or ollie?

JK: That was an ollie. And I went there about two weeks ago. I was there in Newport Beach.

50-50: Where was that? that's at the orange bricks?

JK: Yeah orange bricks, right in front of Becker's Surfboards.

50-50: How many stairs is that? Four stairs?

JK: Yeah four stairs. but, actually I wasn't the first to do it. The Gonz and Natas I saw them do it at the Federal Building out in LA the week before. And it was my month to do an ad. So the Gonz was pissed, because I did the ad, because he wanted the first (handrail) ad. He took my picture and switched it with another picture of me doing a nose wheelie or something making me look bad. I said 'What the hell is this? I want the picture of me doing the ollie (to handrail).' So he was pissed. Yesss... Come on!!

50-50: OK, so your last coverage, which was in Big Brother Magazine a few months ago, they're quoted as saying you couldn't boardslide a curb anymore.

JK: Yeah, back then, that was six months ago, I couldn't even boadslide a curb, because they didn't have rails and because in my school they always had rails, so it threw me off.

50-50: So you'd like to dispute this claim?

JK: I will dispute this claim, right on this (website), come on! I'll be back!

50-50: Did you ever get in a fight with Stacey Gibo?

JK: No I never got in a fight with Stacey Gibo.

50-50: What about this HIC ad, with the chick, here I'll go get it. (Pause) Here's the chick. Get Lei'd, yesss...

JK: See, I don't even remember that. I do kind of, but I don't even know this girl. They probably computerized my body into this picture here. This is probably not even me. Who wants a stupid picture of me doing a 360.

JK: Yeah, seriously people thought I was doing a backside Smith grind while Tony Magnussen was blasting over my head. I wasn't doing a Smith grind, seriously I just laid my board there and pretended I was doing a backside Smith grind. So, I'm a poseur but I don't give a shit.

50-50: So what? Did you used to get chicks or were you like Mike Valleley?

JK: Yeah, Mike Valleley probably didn't get many chicks during the height of his career. Yeah I guess I got a few little chicks. Well I don't mean little chicks, but I mean I got a few, for being Vietnamese and stuff. I'm kind of stoked I guess.

50-50: So let's talk about what you're doing right now. The tennis competition where you went head-to-head with Mike Jordan and beat him.

JK: Yeah this is the second time. It happened a couple of weeks ago in Maui. He's getting a little better. This last time I played him he was getting a little pissed off. You know he brought his whole family over to Maui: family, friends, neighbors and everything. I played him in the first round and he played pretty well, but I was able to beat him.

50-50: So you embarrassed him in front of his chick and family?

JK: Well, after I beat him, he like walked off the side of the court. He didn't really want to talk to anybody. I felt kind of bad. I stayed at his house a couple of times. We drank some Cokes and stuff. I didn't want it to break up our friendship. But, I said bye to him when I left.

50-50: Did you start playing tennis to show off your smooth, yet unshaven legs?

JK: Maybe you have a point there, my legs are pretty smooth. They're kind of like hairless, smooth and some parts have alligator skin. I guess that's just my type. But, I'm not a homosexual. I like women. But no women really like me. But, time will tell. Just like Mike (Bremner) here, he doesn't have a chick. Neither do you Jeff (Gaskell). I'm in my mid-thirties though, I should get a chick pretty soon.

50-50: But, you're a drummer too so.

JK: Yeah I was a drummer in Chokebore.

50-50: I heard you got kicked out because of your heroin addiction, and you were sleeping in cars.

JK: Yeah I was sleeping in cars and stuff. Like when they stayed in hotels and stuff, they'd say, 'You got to be bound together with the band'. You know, but I'm not really homo and stuff. They're like bi-sexual, I'm hetero.

50-50: At your prime you were pretty popular, groupies and everything.

JK: We did open nine shows for Nirvana. And I was stoked. One time backstage in Spokane, Kurt Cobain came in and I was the only one in the room, and I went "Ku-ku-K-Kurt ca-aa-aan I sh-sh-shake your hand". I was real nervous and stuff. That was one of the highlights of my life. Unfortunately, two months after that he died.

JK: Yeah, I used to play shirtless, but I realized I had a concave chest. So then I put my shirt on. I just got kicked out man! I sucked. I didn't give a shit. I wanted to live like dirt. Man, I don't care. I'd rather live in a cardboard box under a freeway, then be in that stupid band Chokebore. So screw them!

JK: See people say I go out with young girls and stuff, but the reason I go out with young girls is because I'm 5'4". At 13-15, that's when they're 5'4". At 17 and 18, that's when they're 5'8". So you understand what I'm saying.

50-50: You sure you don't want to be like a father figure to them?

JK: No, I just got to catch them when they're my height. Its a height thing. It's not like a 'if there's hair, I'm there' sort of thing.

JK: My skateboard company was called Pakalolo, but all the corporate surf companies didn't want to carry it because Mom and Pops go into their store, so I had to change the name to Aloha Surf. Its strictly a longboard company. Longboards with flowers on them and stuff.

50-50: What about Rape?

JK: I also want to start a new company called Rape. But then of course you can't have them in stores and stuff. So I got that Pakalolo company that didn't work, the Rape company that didn't work. The only one that did work was Aloha Surf. Well I do want to start that Rape company. Can you imagine the Rape video? That would totally be rad. Just chicks, chicks getting raped!

JK: I'll probably go back to school or something. You see, I'm running out of money, my 10 year skateboard supply is running out so I might have to get a job.

50-50: Do you still have all those Vision Street Wear shoes on stockpile at your house?

JK: I still have 20 pairs in my closet in my garage. They're all in four big boxes. They're all size 8, but see my feet got bigger. Size 9 now. So maybe someday I'll have a garage sale and you can buy them.