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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Tony Hawk

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.6728 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Monica sits down with skateboarding pioneer Tony Hawk. Tony reflects on the physical toll of his most severe injuries and revisits what it felt like during the historic moment when he landed the 900 at the '99 X Games. Then, Tony opens up about his newest role as grandfather, and shares his unique connection with the late Kurt Cobain, and why he's still actively skating and dropping in at local skateparks.

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0:18.7

Hi, in today's episode, I spoke with the very cool and very kind skateboarder and entrepreneur Tony Hawk.

0:25.9

You probably know him as the most famous skateboarder in the world.

0:30.4

And to be honest, I was kind of nervous to talk to him because I'm not very skateboard literate

0:35.0

and I'm a big scaredy cat when it comes to anything

0:38.5

physically dangerous. Although I did bungee jump once. Story for another time. But because I've

0:44.8

been so impressed with his vulnerability and how much attention he's given to changing the

0:49.1

narrative around men's feelings, I really wanted to talk to him for the show. And if you don't already adore Tony

0:55.2

Hawk, know that he arrived at our interview with a signed skateboard deck for me, and my brother

1:00.3

is very jealous, so double win. Anyway, I hope you find something in our chat to connect to,

1:05.5

and thanks for joining us on reclaiming.

1:18.4

Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Audible.

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and comfortable. And in fact, when we recorded my own reclaiming story

1:45.9

for the podcast, I was wearing the same Reformation sweater as the producer interviewing me,

1:51.1

but thankfully we had the Clara on in different colors. Their clothes work for all moments in my life,

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