Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Entree Fork Media. My name is Jensen Carp
Speaker 1: and I'm a sports fan, and I guess I like bowling.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm so deep into this quarantine now.
Speaker 1: Everything outside of my house sounds fun. I average a
Speaker 1: one forty at best. But if you gave me the
Speaker 1: chance to rent a lane right now, I'd play for
Speaker 1: like six consecutive frames. Hell, anything even remotely close to
Speaker 1: sounding like sports, I'd be in archery, croquet, duck, duck,
Speaker 1: goose whatever. I'm dying here. So I've been talking to
Speaker 1: athletes and sports industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine,
Speaker 1: helping to figure out if FAM is competing as much
Speaker 1: as I miss watching it. This is the No Sports Report.
Speaker 1: When it comes to skateboarding, no matter what aide you are,
Speaker 1: one name comes to mind, Little Wayne. I'm kidding, it's
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk. I know people say someone is the Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan of their respective sport a lot, but Tony Hawk
Speaker 1: truly is the Michael Jordan of skateboarding. The entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: philanthropist built an empire around a sport he was vital
Speaker 1: and taking mainstream, putting the X Games on the map,
Speaker 1: and signing endless sponsorship deals, including one that put his
Speaker 1: name on a video game that would not only change
Speaker 1: the gaming industry but reportedly place his net worth above
Speaker 1: Larry Bird and Charles Barkley combined. He was the National
Speaker 1: Skateboarder of the Year twelve years in a row, a
Speaker 1: two time X Games Gold medalist, a winner of more
Speaker 1: than seventy events, the most in the history of the sport,
Speaker 1: and the first person in the world to ever lay
Speaker 1: in the coveted nine hundred, still considered the most memorable
Speaker 1: feat in professional skating to this day. He's also the
Speaker 1: first and only person to ever skateboard on the grounds
Speaker 1: of the White House, which I don't see anyone doing
Speaker 1: again anytime soon. On this episode, I talked to Tony
Speaker 1: about the state of pandemic skateboarding, the upcoming return of
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk pro Skater and Little Cooper from Georgia, and
Speaker 1: that FedEx guy and some police academy for citizens on
Speaker 1: patrol talk for good measure. Excited to have a legend
Speaker 1: on today's No Sports Report from Tony Hawk pro Skater
Speaker 1: to except Press one, Tony, I wanted to ask first
Speaker 1: where you were quarantined and with who. I am in
Speaker 1: San Diego at home with most of my family, so
Speaker 1: my wife and then three of our boys too, who
Speaker 1: are home from college, and then my daughter is here
Speaker 1: half the time. And uh, I'm either here at the
Speaker 1: home or I'm at my ramp, which is pretty close
Speaker 1: just down the street. I that is a lot of
Speaker 1: kids to have in I feel like, if they're back
Speaker 1: from college, you at one point we're empty nesting, and
Speaker 1: now we were very close. Yeah, you are now a
Speaker 1: frat house kind of. Yeah. They're getting a little more mobility,
Speaker 1: a little more freedom now to see friends. And suddenly
Speaker 1: it's like, wait a second, what just happened? Now we
Speaker 1: have summer camp. Yeah. It's so weird because I remember
Speaker 1: coming back for summers to my parents house while I
Speaker 1: was in college, and you're like a grown ass man
Speaker 1: getting to do whatever you want. And then you're back
Speaker 1: under the roof of your parents. You're like, you can't
Speaker 1: tell me what to do. Yeah, Well, luckily we have
Speaker 1: enough room that they're relatively autonomous, and so sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: we get up in the morning, it's like, wait, how
Speaker 1: late with these guys up? What was going on here? Right,
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing to keep busy with everyone
Speaker 1: in the house. Uh, well, for the most part skating. Honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: I usually am traveling quite a bit for for what
Speaker 1: I do, Like I do exhibitions, or I do charity work,
Speaker 1: or I do speaking engagements, and all that obviously is
Speaker 1: on hiatus. So I've just been Really it's been fun
Speaker 1: because we've been able to spend time with the kids,
Speaker 1: and I've been able to skate a lot more frequently.
Speaker 1: And um, we try to do stuff together, like we
Speaker 1: try to have at least dinner together, and maybe you
Speaker 1: watch a movie every couple of days. But like I said,
Speaker 1: for the most part, these guys are are autonomous and
Speaker 1: they're out surfing and hanging out, and we have to
Speaker 1: make an effort to bring everyone together in one place
Speaker 1: at one time. Yeah. I mean, considering you've been a
Speaker 1: professional skateboarder since you were fourteen years old, this has
Speaker 1: to be the longest you've went without going to an
Speaker 1: event ever. Oh, for sure, this is the longest that
Speaker 1: I've been home straight since I can never remember. But
Speaker 1: it's it's been nice. Like I I it's funny. It
Speaker 1: feels busier because there's a lot of things that I
Speaker 1: do where I save up, say emails or interview stuff
Speaker 1: for an airplane when there's no distractions. And I realized
Speaker 1: just recently that I don't have those sort of pauses
Speaker 1: to get on an airplane and do this stuff. And
Speaker 1: it feels a lot more frantic because of that. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're on one big airplane ride kind of,
Speaker 1: but because we have our kids trying to prioritize that
Speaker 1: and to be present for them, And you know, I
Speaker 1: realized that I am very lucky that my job doesn't
Speaker 1: require me going to a place of business and that, um,
Speaker 1: people are really challenged right now, and so I feel
Speaker 1: lucky that I still get to do what I love. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the income has strength, um, but I wouldn't have it
Speaker 1: any other way. And I did see We've talked to
Speaker 1: a couple of athletes over the span of this podcast
Speaker 1: that have celebrated a birthday while in quarantine. What did
Speaker 1: you do for this very strange year? We just had
Speaker 1: a day at home, the kids were here. My wife said, oh, um,
Speaker 1: someone wanted to talk to you and brought me into
Speaker 1: a room where she basically had this surprise zoom party
Speaker 1: with more faces and more people that I've ever seen
Speaker 1: on one call. That was really fun, super chaotic, kind
Speaker 1: of almost incomprehensible and in a lot of ways impossible
Speaker 1: to communicate. But it was fun to see all the
Speaker 1: faces looking at each other and just sort of laughing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how we've been able to like have
Speaker 1: a zoom call with more than two people ever, Right,
Speaker 1: So I would say this was about forty at a
Speaker 1: time and people trying to actually talk to each other
Speaker 1: and have individual conversations and it just was just noise. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,
Speaker 1: we do have to talk about the one TV show
Speaker 1: that is still on the air. It's The Mask Singer.
Speaker 1: You were a participant this year as the Elephant. I
Speaker 1: was a producer on the first season, so so I
Speaker 1: know what you went through. Tell people how painful that
Speaker 1: costume was for you, You know what. I was kind
Speaker 1: of lucky that my costume was a little more mobile
Speaker 1: than the other ones. The only part that was difficult
Speaker 1: was that I had to wear a helmet. Luckily, I
Speaker 1: wore my own skate helmet, but I had to get
Speaker 1: it really tied on my head and then the mask
Speaker 1: was built around it. So by the end of the
Speaker 1: first take. I had kind of a headache. I that
Speaker 1: is actually, to be honest, that is kind of lucky
Speaker 1: because we thought in season one we thought we killed
Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw at one point, like he wasn't moving back age.
Speaker 1: We figured out he was asleep. Not a joke, by
Speaker 1: the way, But but you did have it easy if
Speaker 1: that's the most you faced, and the people don't know
Speaker 1: those things are constrictive. Yeah it was. It was really heavy.
Speaker 1: And it's weird too when you rehearse, because you rehearse
Speaker 1: with such freedom, and so we're doing all these wild
Speaker 1: moves and stuff. And then when I finally got the
Speaker 1: mask on, I realized that I have about of the
Speaker 1: mobility that I did when I was actually practicing these dances.
Speaker 1: And it really changed how I could do it and
Speaker 1: how I could sing because I had to sort of
Speaker 1: fit the microphone way under the mask and hold it
Speaker 1: in a certain place to get the sound, and uh,
Speaker 1: it just you know, it changed the whole dynamic. But
Speaker 1: I had a blast. It was fun. I can't complain.
Speaker 1: Was that just another example of Tony Hawk just challenging
Speaker 1: himself to do something new? Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: way beyond my comfort zone, but um, I thought, why not?
Speaker 1: You know it was it was? It was fun idea.
Speaker 1: I sincerely had hoped that I would be out by
Speaker 1: maybe the second song, because I didn't know how many
Speaker 1: more I had in me, and so it was a
Speaker 1: little disappointing to be the first out of my group,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, I didn't expect to go
Speaker 1: much further, so it was fun. Well, kudos to you.
Speaker 1: Have you been able to keep in touch with skaters
Speaker 1: the other guys from the Birdhouse teams? Sure? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a big group chat going on and um, actually
Speaker 1: one of our skaters, Clive Dixon, he was in the
Speaker 1: X Games Real Street event, So that's an event where
Speaker 1: you submit a video of of real street skating and
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the only part of X
Speaker 1: Games that's happening right now. And he ended up winning
Speaker 1: the fan favorite, So there was a lot of celebration
Speaker 1: going on in these group chat. Yeah, he's he's killing it.
Speaker 1: He's I assume he's going to be Skater of the Year.
Speaker 1: But I was wondering if maybe in the group chat,
Speaker 1: Jaws is admitting to like baking his own bread or whatever.
Speaker 1: H Jaws is an enigma. Um, you know he's sure.
Speaker 1: He's like always on some some new projects. Uh and
Speaker 1: uh playing the mouth heart and yeah, making his own
Speaker 1: food and he's all out there skating quite a bit.
Speaker 1: So Um, he hasn't given up that. Yeah, Like, have
Speaker 1: you seen skaters adapting on social media during quarantine? Like,
Speaker 1: is there anything you're seeing that's innovative because of the
Speaker 1: restrictions we have from the pandemic. Well, I've definitely seen
Speaker 1: people making use of their house in ways and I
Speaker 1: never imagined, and in ways that either puts them at
Speaker 1: risk or damages their their own property. But it's really
Speaker 1: creative and it's fun to watch. I am surprised that
Speaker 1: I haven't seen more footage of people out skating schoolyards
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because at its core, that's what
Speaker 1: skaters do. They hop fences and they go skate. And
Speaker 1: now of any other time is that stuff more available.
Speaker 1: But I think that the the risk factor of getting
Speaker 1: caught is a lot more. Now, Yeah, there's a kid,
Speaker 1: This is for real. Is there's a kid who is
Speaker 1: down the street from us, and he is hopping the
Speaker 1: fence of the elementary school near us, and he's just
Speaker 1: playing lacrosse against the wall, and I was like, that
Speaker 1: seems like you could do that anywhere. Kid, right, Well,
Speaker 1: maybe it makes him feel like a rebel. Maybe COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen has postponed the Olympics, which was going to be
Speaker 1: the first time skateboarding was included as an event. I
Speaker 1: know it's somewhat controversial within the genre, but what is
Speaker 1: your opinion on its inclusion. I think that, um, it'll
Speaker 1: be good for the growth of skateboarding on an international
Speaker 1: level in terms of countries finally embracing it and supporting
Speaker 1: it that maybe have tried to discourage it in the past.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to reinmit the wheel. We
Speaker 1: We've had skate competitions for the last forty years more so,
Speaker 1: it's not like suddenly they're mold to get into something
Speaker 1: it's not and it'll just get more exposures. So I
Speaker 1: don't see the harm in it. I understand people's concern
Speaker 1: that that somehow this is this is not the creed
Speaker 1: of skaters that like to do stuff off beaten path,
Speaker 1: kind of against the grain. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we've been having big international televised competitions for years now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: will the team be like the US a dream team
Speaker 1: or is it gonna be just are you guys gonna
Speaker 1: look at and be like, these guys aren't the top
Speaker 1: of US charts? You know? Oh? No, I think that
Speaker 1: the teams are going to be the best. I'm not
Speaker 1: part of that process at all, but I think the
Speaker 1: U S team is going to be extremely solid, some
Speaker 1: of the best skaters. Brazil is gonna be a serious contender. Australia. Um,
Speaker 1: we will have a dream team, but doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: we're gonna dominate. Amzing uh. Well, speaking of dreams, you
Speaker 1: made a lot of kids dreams come true during the
Speaker 1: quarantine with one of the biggest announcements in video game history.
Speaker 1: It seems like the return of Tony Hawk pro Skater.
Speaker 1: Did you expect that kind of response? I had high hopes,
Speaker 1: I gotta admit, but um, I didn't expect it to
Speaker 1: be such a phenomenon. No. Um. I thought there would
Speaker 1: be a lot of reminiscing and and sort of retro nostalgia.
Speaker 1: But it seems like there's a generation of people that
Speaker 1: that was their go to video game and they are
Speaker 1: still gamers, so they're just as excited for this new
Speaker 1: release and I think the the more exciting thing to
Speaker 1: me is that it's going to introduce our franchise to
Speaker 1: a whole new generation. Absolutely, it is a remastering of
Speaker 1: the first and second Games. I thought the coolest thing
Speaker 1: when I was reading through this you took all the
Speaker 1: original skaters, but you are now putting them in their
Speaker 1: present day ages. So it's not like they'll be what
Speaker 1: they were in ninety nine. This is now them in
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty, right. But also a lot of
Speaker 1: that is because they all mostly still skate, and so
Speaker 1: it's not like it's not like someone has retired and
Speaker 1: and you know, gotten way out of shape and then
Speaker 1: that's the that's the version of themselves we're putting in
Speaker 1: there that you know, everyone is still active, healthy, and
Speaker 1: I thought they should be presented the way that they
Speaker 1: are and you'd be proud of it, I think, including myself. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's cool. I mean I I would look like a nark.
Speaker 1: I'd be like holding the board like hello, fellow kids.
Speaker 1: Like I would I feel like I come off. I
Speaker 1: would want me to look younger because I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: when I was cool. You guys all are cool even now. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you Yeah. Uh, Jack Black was in the announcement video.
Speaker 1: Does this mean he's in the game. No, But you
Speaker 1: know what, he has been a huge fan of the
Speaker 1: series from way back, so um, he was genuinely excited
Speaker 1: to know about this happening. And it was funny. I
Speaker 1: planted the scene with him because I had done a
Speaker 1: video with him at his house um last year, and
Speaker 1: while we were there, I had to whisper to him, Hey,
Speaker 1: we are actually working on remastering the first games, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I have to break that news. You have
Speaker 1: to give that to Jablinsky, And so he was the
Speaker 1: first one to get the info on It's so funny.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been noticing too, like the nostalgia for
Speaker 1: the game is very high, but I forgot how high
Speaker 1: everyone's nostalgia is for the soundtracks. Yeah. I mean that
Speaker 1: definitely was a surprising element to our games in terms
Speaker 1: of the sort of impact and had I mean, I
Speaker 1: was proud of the soundtrack, which I felt like it
Speaker 1: represented the soundtrack of my youth in terms of skating
Speaker 1: and punk music, and then that resonated with people who
Speaker 1: played it and in a lot of ways shaped their taste,
Speaker 1: some of them shape their taste in music for their
Speaker 1: lives and so um, they were very adamant about getting
Speaker 1: a lot of the original tracks in there. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I every time I hear Superman by Goldfinger, it's like
Speaker 1: my thumb gets a blister, Like it's all I only
Speaker 1: know it from the video games, and I know that's
Speaker 1: coming back, so I'm super excited. Yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: that is the uh, that's the most identifiable song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. When the game originally first came out, there
Speaker 1: were tricks possible with the joystick that hadn't been performed
Speaker 1: really in real life at all, and people thought were
Speaker 1: never possible, And then now skaters do them in real
Speaker 1: life that that still boggles my mind. The stuff that
Speaker 1: I see people come up with, especially with the combos.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is just HPS as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: And when we were doing those combos and when we
Speaker 1: made those tricks available in the game, it was because
Speaker 1: we thought this is just fantasy, and now they do it,
Speaker 1: and now they do it. Yeah, did you approach the
Speaker 1: remastering with that in mind too, or their new tricks
Speaker 1: in the game that maybe we'll see in the streets
Speaker 1: down the road. I think potentially always Yes, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I'm now I'm down. I mean, I'm playing this no
Speaker 1: matter what. But this is going to be one of
Speaker 1: those everyone downloads on day one kind of thing. And
Speaker 1: I get it, the nostalgia. This is my entire college life.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm thrilled. Oh well, I'm so thankful that
Speaker 1: people have such a fondness for our series that they
Speaker 1: want to see it come back. I'm thankful that Activision
Speaker 1: was agreeable to to try and remaster it and uh,
Speaker 1: and that they put Vicarious Visions on. I mean that
Speaker 1: that really was That was the clinch, is that when
Speaker 1: Vicarious Visions got ahold of it, they have such respects
Speaker 1: for the original series and to keep it feeling the
Speaker 1: same and the authenticity and and it was just the
Speaker 1: right partnership. Yeah. You don't see them calling Tony LaRussa
Speaker 1: to bring back Tony LaRussa baseball. This is this is
Speaker 1: a classic game with Tony Hawk. And I know there
Speaker 1: was a documentary that was going around festivals before COVID
Speaker 1: about the game. Are we gonna be able to see
Speaker 1: that soon? I believe so. I think they got a
Speaker 1: distribution deal. I am not directly connected with that either,
Speaker 1: which is sort of hard for people to understand because
Speaker 1: it was made by one of them guys who was
Speaker 1: on the development team, so he was definitely qualified to
Speaker 1: tell the story. And I heard they just got a
Speaker 1: distribution deal. I don't know where it's going to end up,
Speaker 1: but I hope that people get to see it. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you first signed onto this game, I mean you
Speaker 1: became a bit of a John Madden, which is like
Speaker 1: you are a hundred percent the face of video games
Speaker 1: for skateboarding, same way Madden is for football. Like, did
Speaker 1: you ever think it could have been a phenomenon? No?
Speaker 1: I I really thought that the game was going to
Speaker 1: be embraced by skaters and maybe inspire them to go
Speaker 1: buy a PlayStation. And because you know, I thought we
Speaker 1: we represented skating well. It had an authentic field, tricks, soundtracks,
Speaker 1: skaters locations, and skating was not that big at the
Speaker 1: time when we released it. You know, it was on
Speaker 1: the way up, but it but it hadn't really hit
Speaker 1: the mainstream, and so I think it was just sort
Speaker 1: of the perfect storm. People were looking for something else.
Speaker 1: They found that this was fun to play even if
Speaker 1: you don't skate, and then skating was starting to take
Speaker 1: center stage like with the X games, and it just
Speaker 1: exploded from there. And the gameplay, Man, the gameplay was
Speaker 1: just so easy. It was like a pick up and
Speaker 1: play kind of thing. Yeah, I mean, that's that's what
Speaker 1: drew me to it in the first place. When I
Speaker 1: went to Activision the first time and played their sample,
Speaker 1: it was intuitive. I was immediately doing all these and
Speaker 1: kick flips and I and it was like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is this is how we should do it after this
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Speaker 1: Now here's the rest of my chat with the legend
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk. One thing that you have really gravitated towards
Speaker 1: during quarantine is charity. You normally do a ton of philanthropy,
Speaker 1: but you've really turned it up over the past six months.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about what foot the bill is. But the
Speaker 1: bill is a Van's Shoes initiative where they're trying to
Speaker 1: help any of the skate shops or businesses that are
Speaker 1: related to skating, uh stay in business through the through
Speaker 1: these lean times and so a lot of skate shops
Speaker 1: were shuttered. And so what they did was they would
Speaker 1: do a unique design for that skate shop and if
Speaker 1: you bought that shoe, then the proceeds would go to
Speaker 1: the shop. Um and I I got to nominate a
Speaker 1: skate shop here in San Diego called with Carl's About Pipelines,
Speaker 1: who is actually my first skate shop sponsor. So um
Speaker 1: they used a picture of me from the eighties with
Speaker 1: a with Carl's About Pipeline sticker on my board that
Speaker 1: I used to always run on my tail. That is
Speaker 1: very cool and they're still in business as far as
Speaker 1: I can tell. And I think they're going to be
Speaker 1: open for legitimate business here in the coming weeks. So
Speaker 1: I was thankful to be able to help. That's very cool.
Speaker 1: I mean you are new to the Van's family a
Speaker 1: bit correct, I am, yes, uh, just the last couple
Speaker 1: of months. And are you planning on having your own
Speaker 1: shoe advance like a Tony Hawk signature? Um? Not at
Speaker 1: the time, No, but I'm open for discussion. I listen.
Speaker 1: I I look at you as I say, he turned
Speaker 1: a video game into a phenomenon. I'm saying, you get
Speaker 1: your own air Hawk like I. I see it as
Speaker 1: a possible Jordan move, you know, after watching the last dance,
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm happy just wearing the old school
Speaker 1: high tops two I've and those are the first skate
Speaker 1: shoes I really had as a kid, so it's funny.
Speaker 1: When I put them on, it really sent me back
Speaker 1: to that time, and I got used to him right away.
Speaker 1: And it would be a miss of us to not
Speaker 1: talk about Cooper from Georgia when we are having this conversation.
Speaker 1: You are a day out of trending on Twitter and
Speaker 1: all sorts of Facebook posts about this FedEx guy for
Speaker 1: people who didn't uh see it. A FedEx guy post
Speaker 1: a video about an eight or nine year old kid
Speaker 1: who ran up to his truck and said, listen, I
Speaker 1: need you to send something for me. He brings back
Speaker 1: a beaten up skateboard that just says to Tony Hawk,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a box or any sort of postage.
Speaker 1: So this guy posted on I guess it's at that
Speaker 1: point Instagram, TikTok on TikTok and uh and it gets
Speaker 1: to you and what happens then, So a lot of
Speaker 1: people I have a TikTok account, but I haven't been
Speaker 1: using it recently, and people were tagging me in different
Speaker 1: um social media platforms saying, hey, you got to see
Speaker 1: the TikTok, get us this TikTok. So I went over
Speaker 1: there and saw what McHale, the FedEx driver had posted,
Speaker 1: and I just thought, oh, that's very cool, and so
Speaker 1: I posted a reply like, hey Cooper, thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for the skateboard. I'd like to send you mine, and
Speaker 1: that just exploded. So I actually, just half an hour ago,
Speaker 1: was on a Zoom call with him and his family
Speaker 1: and he was showing me his whole skateboard collection. He
Speaker 1: was showing me his pets. It was very cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so funny that social media can do so much
Speaker 1: garbage damage and then you hear a story like Cooper
Speaker 1: Cooper from Georgia and you're like, this is the best
Speaker 1: time in American history. It was pretty cool. It was funny.
Speaker 1: There was a reality base to it, though, where Michale
Speaker 1: sent me a message on TikTok when he finally saw
Speaker 1: my reply and he said, yeah, I can send it,
Speaker 1: but I need your f X number. So cute. I
Speaker 1: guess I thought about this when I read the story
Speaker 1: to like, you are like a Santa Clause in a
Speaker 1: way that you must have so many requests to do things,
Speaker 1: to appear at places, to get involved in things like
Speaker 1: this with Cooper, Like how are you able to really
Speaker 1: like just work through them. It's just more prioritizing And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean that one obviously just seemed like a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It wasn't some charity driven or any reach
Speaker 1: for publicity. It was just like, oh, people have been
Speaker 1: seeing this. At least I can do is reply and
Speaker 1: offer something in return. But in terms of other charities,
Speaker 1: I just feel like whatever I think we'll have the
Speaker 1: most impact, that can do the most good and most recently,
Speaker 1: I did the All in Challenge and I think that
Speaker 1: my experience that I offered raised about four or fifty
Speaker 1: dollars for people who are out of work. So I
Speaker 1: was really proud to do that. And whatever I can
Speaker 1: do that will resonate the best. What what was your
Speaker 1: all in Challenge? What was the experience? A personal scate?
Speaker 1: Lesson whenever we're allowed to all hang out again? Oh,
Speaker 1: I hope it's like a seventy five year old woman.
Speaker 1: That one. Well, I basically I made it very vague.
Speaker 1: I said, look, come out here with you and a guest.
Speaker 1: I can teach you how to skate, or you can
Speaker 1: just watch, or you can make suggestions. You can tell
Speaker 1: me to do a kickflip and I'll do a kickflip.
Speaker 1: Oh that person is looking at you and telling you
Speaker 1: to do a nine. Yeah, well, I guess I'll have
Speaker 1: to make some limitations. Then that video, too, weirdly got
Speaker 1: back on the internet this week of you doing a
Speaker 1: nine at what age? Yeah, like that had another life.
Speaker 1: You have so many viral moments from your career, but
Speaker 1: they keep popping back up. Yeah. I guess people don't
Speaker 1: realize that I'm a few years out from that so
Speaker 1: they think that's very current. Well, let's let them think that.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Yeah, that's totally fine. Uh. We usually like
Speaker 1: to end each interview with something positive and then some
Speaker 1: dumb suggestions. So first let's get into the positive. Is
Speaker 1: there something that you see during quarantine that we've adapted
Speaker 1: to that you hope lives on once we're back out
Speaker 1: into the wild and there's a vaccine and such. I
Speaker 1: think an appreciation for the quietness. And I know that
Speaker 1: it could get monotonous at times, but I feel the
Speaker 1: idea that you can be in one place and be
Speaker 1: content is something that people were kind of forced to
Speaker 1: reckon with and maybe they'll appreciate that more going forward,
Speaker 1: where you know, take some time out during the days,
Speaker 1: hang out, hang out with your talk to your family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hang out with your kids. Oh no, don't don't ask
Speaker 1: me to do that. Alright, So some suggestion. You don't
Speaker 1: need any of these, but I'm gonna give you some
Speaker 1: suggestions for things you could do in quarantine. H you
Speaker 1: tell me what you think first this one. I oh boy,
Speaker 1: the last few weeks have been quite painful for me
Speaker 1: in my wallet because I've delved into the world of
Speaker 1: buying vented shirts on eBay. Um, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I've always a little creeped out on sort of used
Speaker 1: clothes and it's never been my thing. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: wear them as soon as they get delivered. I do
Speaker 1: wash them. Yeah, I don't know. Mean, it depends on
Speaker 1: truly how cool they are. Okay, well, now you've got
Speaker 1: me thinking people have murdered people in these shirts. I
Speaker 1: think it's because I grew up in a family it
Speaker 1: we live modestly and I had an older brother and
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff is hand me down That kind
Speaker 1: of gives you PTSD. Sure, I mean I guess now
Speaker 1: you I mean, you're making me think that that I've
Speaker 1: never even thought of these are dead people's shirts. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying they're dead. Oh no, haunted shirts definitely hand
Speaker 1: me down though they are that well, it's so minimal
Speaker 1: because it starts with me just thinking to myself, like
Speaker 1: can I get a big Johnson shirt in? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And then and then I bought a
Speaker 1: TNC surf shirt for like two hundred dollars and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what am I doing? You know what? Okay? You got
Speaker 1: me there? H I c Yeah, that'd be pretty all right,
Speaker 1: good okay, and I am on the search for a
Speaker 1: very good condition bugs Bunny and Taz with their clothes
Speaker 1: on backwards, you know, with their arms folds. It's a
Speaker 1: good shirt. I ordered a shirt for my wife. It
Speaker 1: was about house shirt from this very specific, you know,
Speaker 1: sort of vintage place, and they sent me a Betty
Speaker 1: boot shirt. Oh alright, I'm not mad at that, so
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. You must have a good T
Speaker 1: shirt collection, no good vintage shirt over the years of skating.
Speaker 1: I do, but they're in those team seal bags like
Speaker 1: you see on the infomercials. Yes, yeah, you have a
Speaker 1: storage war situation going on, all right. Secondly, it has
Speaker 1: been reported that during quarantine this term was searched more
Speaker 1: which is tons And it's not Andrew Cuomo shirtless, it's
Speaker 1: a food one. It is. This is the exact term.
Speaker 1: And I swear homemade noodle recipes. Um. I can honestly
Speaker 1: say that I would never search for that in quarantine
Speaker 1: or out of quarantine, or even if I was on
Speaker 1: Iron Chef, right, it seems out of my league. But
Speaker 1: people are doing it to make their own noodles. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they've been really into making their own bread, so this
Speaker 1: is just even more carbs. The l A Times wrote
Speaker 1: about it a few days ago and said it's only
Speaker 1: two ingredients, which is something. Also, I just don't even
Speaker 1: think I knew, uh, flour and eggs and some patients
Speaker 1: obviously all technically made by hand. So I guess you
Speaker 1: could maybe commit some time and open like an Italian
Speaker 1: Hawk restaurant. Maybe I don't know. My homemade noodles are
Speaker 1: top two minutes with you, sir. I'm a top Ramen fanatic,
Speaker 1: all right. Lastly, the entire world, including myself, is so
Speaker 1: excited for the return of Tony Hawks pro Skater obviously remastered,
Speaker 1: reworked standards and technologies, and my idea involves bringing another
Speaker 1: one of your masterpieces back and suiting it up for
Speaker 1: its return. I want to see the remaking and remastering
Speaker 1: of Police Academy for Citizens on Patrol. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I was only a stunt double in that movie, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to see if David Ska will agree
Speaker 1: to be in it, and then I can double him again.
Speaker 1: Well that was the thing, by the way, young David
Speaker 1: Spade and Citizens on Patrol, which is technically Tony Hawkwall
Speaker 1: skating is a pretty good portrayal of a skater. He
Speaker 1: was a skater, yeah, he I mean he got hired
Speaker 1: for that, not only because he was a comedian, because
Speaker 1: he was genuinely skater. He yeah, he was alright, like
Speaker 1: he could he could scape pools and things like that. So, um,
Speaker 1: he walked to walk for sure. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, but the backstory of that is
Speaker 1: that from the time I got hired to do the
Speaker 1: police Academy to the time we shot I went through
Speaker 1: a Grosbert And so when I finally got to Toronto
Speaker 1: where we shot at, I was already much taller than David.
Speaker 1: And so after a week of filming they fired me.
Speaker 1: No way, because he's shorter than me. He's probably what
Speaker 1: like five five six? You are, how tall? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: six three now, But I was just starting to grow then.
Speaker 1: But you had already been in like thrashing and gleaming
Speaker 1: the Cube. You were already in a bunch of stuff. Sure,
Speaker 1: But but I was I was doing hire as a
Speaker 1: stunt dubble, And so at some point they were watching
Speaker 1: the dailies and I remember the director he didn't know
Speaker 1: I was in the room director yelling like, Okay, that
Speaker 1: guy is a good skater, he's a terrible stunt double.
Speaker 1: This is also they hired. It's like it's like putting
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's in his teen Wolf during the basketball scenes.
Speaker 1: It's like they really, they really went all out. They did,
Speaker 1: but they ended up hiring Chris Miller, who was a
Speaker 1: prominent skater then and looked a lot more like David
Speaker 1: to replace. But the funny thing is is that if
Speaker 1: you watch the movie, Chris is regular footage. I'm goofy footage,
Speaker 1: So David's stance changes sometimes in John That's really funny.
Speaker 1: Who knew citizens on Patrol? I'm now gonna have to
Speaker 1: watch for continuity. Yeah, that's your East. Well, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy I got to speak to you, Tony and all
Speaker 1: the great work you're doing, and stay safe and healthy
Speaker 1: and excited to get you back out to those skate events.
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