Pretending I'm A Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Matt and Nick discuss the 2020 documentary Pretending I'm A Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story. They talk about the doc's deep dive into the development of the THPS franchise, the franchise's impact on gaming, and more.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast. Hey Matt, you showed up and hey you are ready to go for this Tony Aok episode.
0:16.0	You wearing full pads and a helmet? What's going on there?
0:20.0	Yeah, sorry I'm late, you know, I was just really busy. I was shredding. I was doing skateboarding and I like I skateboard now and I'm really, really good.
0:29.4	Oh, wow, because you know, we both like the THPS franchise you're you're way more into it than I am and so you've
0:35.2	you've transferred from playing the games to skateboarding in real life yeah I decided to put the
0:40.1	controller down and pick the skateboard up and now let's just say I'm basically
0:43.7	I'm like Tony Hawk Jr kind of. Wow I wouldn't put it past you you're a guy who's
0:49.7	very enthused for it you're skilled at video games so I could see how that would maybe
0:54.4	transfer to the real world. Yeah I've been doing hard flips and you know kick flips and stuff
1:00.1	and I did a misty flip the other day.
1:02.6	That was pretty cool.
1:03.8	And I've been grinding on rails too,
1:05.3	so I did a heel flip dark slide.
1:08.8	Right?
1:09.8	I did a hurricane too.
1:10.9	I did a nose grab tail slide.
1:12.4	I haven't just basically any rail.
1:14.6	If you're a rail in the city of Los Angeles,
1:17.1	you're on notice, okay?
1:19.2	So I've been just doing a lot of stuff like that.
1:20.9	I did like a, I've been doing manuals too.
1:24.0	Mac I'm sorry to I did it as kind of taking all this at face value are you are you
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