I need to create a system to protect me from me.

And then furthermore, it was like, how do you want to live?

What do you want your life to be like?

You're listening to Hawk Talk, a podcast all about the origin stories of the most interesting people in the world.

Today, you know our guests as famous athletes, authors, and entrepreneurs, but there's so much more to the story.

Let's get into you today's interview

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I'm here with Rob Deeretic.

How are you, man?

Good, man.

I love the flow of Hot Talk. You know, I know, it almost sounds a little erotic.

You know what I mean?

Exactly.

I feel like I gotta get a more bass in my voice,

like really get into it.

So yeah, so, and I always like to start, you know, I assume as a three-year-old you didn't you didn't think you'd be you know a business mogul and a pro skater and all these different things like you didn't come out of the womb ready to on a skateboard so I would love to hear where did it all start where you from you know

look I feel like I did almost come out of the womb to it right but you know I grew up and was born in Kettering, Ohio. Mother was a stay-at-home mom. Father was a suit salesman. Father was extraordinarily positive, deep optimist, like friendly with with everyone mom super religious and paranoid right so I ended up with this like great balance of like deep optimism along with a general sense of self-protection that I think kind of created the balance in me I grew up creative took a ton of art classes discovered skateboarding you know was played a ton of sports and when I was young and then

discovered skateboarding when I was 11 years old and from literally the moment I, you know, got my first

skateboard it was I'm going to be a pro skateboarder right so where does who got how that start like how did you

discover it you know my sister's boyfriend was had like he was the coolest person I'd ever seen in my life.

He showed up with spiked hair,

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