What up Stokers of Stoke Nation. This is JT Par. I'm interrupting your regularly scheduled

programming to give you a few notes on this episode. First one, we're interviewing Tony

Hawk. It was awesome. He's super smart and he was on it. The second one is that the first

15 minutes audio didn't record properly. We tacked that on at the end of the interview because it

just sound shitty. He actually talks about some really cool stuff in that section, like landing

the 900 at the X games and all of the work he put into Tony Hawk Pro skater of the game. So I

would recommend listening to all of it. And yeah, enjoy the episode. It's up right now. Later Stokers.

We were talking about Tony Hawk. I kind of wanted to learn more about your childhood and

stuff and growing up in San Diego. I grew up in Orange County. So far from here. Yeah. I grew

up in San Diego. My dad was in the Navy. He retired here and kind of normal, I don't know, middle-class,

suburban life, public schools. I started skating mostly because my friends were doing it as a hobby.

And my older brother was a surfer and so he skated as well. And I got one of his hand-me-down

boards and that's how I started. Were you good right away? No, not at all. In fact, I remember the first

time I got on the board, I pushed down the driveway and was yelling, how do I turn? How do I turn?

How do I turn? And then I ran into the fence and got splinters in my hands. Really? Yeah. But

and I didn't think much of it. Like I liked it. It was fun. But I ended up going to the skate park

on the invite of a friend of mine for the first time, maybe about six months later. And that's when

I knew that's what I wanted to do because I saw these, I saw these literally guys flying out of

pools. Yeah. And I was like, this is it. This is what I want to do that at any cost. Was that like

Z-boy stuff kind of time period? It was kind of at the tail end of that. Right. You know, there's

a lot of misconception that somehow like I was part of that. There's like a direct correlation.

I was nine years old. Right. When those guys were superstars. Yeah. But definitely their

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