Tony Hawk - Steve-O’s Wild Ride! Ep #1

ladies and gentlemen it's been a long time coming but welcome to the very first episode of the official wild ride podcast with steve-o this is my co-host Scott Randolph how's it going you may know him as Scott Randolph international star if you've paid really close attention over the years you know that he started out as my professional [ __ ] blocker shortly after I got out of sex addict rehab I brought him on the road to help me not get my dick sucked all the time and she did a really good job he went on to become my tour manager my co-producer my opener on tour my business partner dared my god my best friend loved this guy yeah so that's why Scott is gonna be on every episode of this podcast at least I damn well wish you will you know who else is on this first episode [ __ ] Tony Hawk the biggest icon legend ambassador of the skateboarding world and Tony Hawk - video game mogul dared Tony Hawk's epic he's also a close friend and a dear friend of the Jackass family and boy did we get into some wild stuff this legitimately is a wild ride so strap on your seatbelts and ladies and gentlemen Tony Hawk hey what's up okay let me just start by saying thank you so much for this I haven't missed her and hey dude will you do me a favor hey dude will you do me a favor how many times and over the whole course of you know particularly with jackass from the beginning even before jackass with Big Brother like you've always like obliged every absurd favor and it's so so generous oh it's my pleasure well it's it's just fun to be connected with someone so creative and and so much it's so many fun opportunities well thank you man and you you've returned the favor of many times yourself especially by doing Saturday's birdhouse video that was that was fun man that was acting Mike are those fun yeah Minnie we didn't - Minnie but and David kept bailing right and so we had to do it like so basically you and I drove through I mean it was kind of your stunt it was totally my study and I had reached out to you this was where I jumped off a port-a-potty and you were there and I shattered my ankle I mean I had 11 screws in my ankle it was uh as far as like surgery and screws it was the worst injury I've ever had which is fitting because I was there for your worst injury you ever had oh yeah that's right Wow I did yeah I did the loop for wild boys and came crashing down and broke my pelvis my thumb cracked my skull that was like a heavy concussion huh uh yeah yeah that was that one was pretty heavy I I don't I woke up I mean you know when you get concussed there's a moment when you remember coming to truly know you're talking and whatever but right my god it was so it was so upsetting I remember you they were loading her onto a stretcher and and you were saying like don't let my kids see this something like that really you remember saying that I think that's around the time I started coming to yeah because I remembered the stretcher I think that what woke me up was the pain of getting on the stretcher and I was like something's wrong with my hip that's the first thing I said and I remember the guy looked at me he said bollocks right like you're it's okay did they show that on Wildboyz the - so they saved all the footage and then later on MTV had their show about injuries scars yeah and then they reached out to Jermaine and said hey can we get this footage and Jermaine reached out to me and he said I just want to make sure you're cool with this because they're asking me and that's where it was I mean this was this was like a really sensitive and and heavy thing because Tony Hawk like has always been the ambassador of skateboarding and really like you know representing like safety you know like not on ones salient but but for you to be not wearing a helmet was was it was a big deal and the whole idea what the wild boys doing the loop was oh we got a heavier than this chimpanzees suit Tony you know you gotta be wearing a chimpanzees suit he can't really put a helmet into the yeah but that was so there's a few things with that I mean if you want to get into the weeds on it Bob and I were doing this doubles routine Bob Burnquist and that was a jam to so well this you were shooting literally three days after we ended about a six-week run of dollars we just flown home from Florida right the tour was over we had been doing my loop every night on the tour so for 30 shows doing right right but now we're at Bob Burnquist house and rest is a loop that was made out of wood but but there's the things we Bob and I didn't intend to do that we just did our doubles routine right and that we had we knew from Huck Jim and like I said hey monkey loop and I remember thinking like maybe that's a good idea but but we had we were so caught i was so cocky about the loop that we had been doing that i was like we got this and then I remember Bob went down first and he bailed and I really should have saw that as a warning sign Bob on his own loop right it was like waterlogged made out of wood like you guys I was trash it was that was the problem the problem was like we couldn't get the right amount of speed and then when on my second attempt I did mistake number one which is pump through the transition because I was trying to I was trying to compensate for lack of speed and that's like the first thing you tell anyone's gonna do loop not through the transition and Here I am like then I just did it and I remember like oh whoops yeah and then you don't remember anything else until you came to yeah till they were loading me in the ambulance yep I mean like he okay Tony came out of the loop at midnight like on like a sideways corkscrew kind of a thing and like I remember it like midnight to to like six you know like just vertical drop down and like landed on the flat there I remember it looking more like your head on the flat then then your hip but I think it was all at once yeah it was the most it was the most beautiful brutal and you were there I was there yeah I was in a footage and I remember thinking like they had two girls in bikinis standing right there like I landed right in front of that ha ha and then him and Pontius and all you hear is Tremaine gone medic yes yes that was that that was the worst I mean who has more broken bones between two of you guys he does absolutely that was I've only broken one other bone since then besides that one people ask me a lot if they are how many bones I've broken and the answer is always it depends if you count teeth counting teeth Wow what's that about concussions there's only one right now this was a conversation with you Tony that I'll never forget and it was the day when I shattered my ankle jumping off the porta potty which was such an honor man to have you standing there while I'm jumping off in an eight-foot port aliza the car through it I mean if you're gonna shatter your ankle that's a pretty cool way to do it wonder who was more at risk was Danny in that beat-up car while trying to they were there yeah I kept trying to like hold the windshield up in place and then by force yeah right and then on top of that like there was a porta potti I was just like you know a Mach wouldn't out house made out of all these like I mean like yes like sticks potential spirits fears but it was that morning and we're you know get everything set up there you know bring in a truck in with the porta-potties and we're just hanging out and I forget how I came up but we got onto the the topic of concussions you know CTE jobs like you know that's been in the news so much and you told me I'll never forget this he said I found out that there's a test that you can get and if the test determines whether you have a certain gene which makes he predisposed for Alzheimer's and I think you said that if the if you do have the gene then what that means is that your brain doesn't like regenerate it doesn't heal a certain way and that makes you more susceptible to see CTE and you said I got the test and I don't have the gene so I'm like yeah that's great and remember to think I chewed on that for a while and then I thought because I was wondering should I get this test right and then I thought well what happens if what happens if you get the test in and you do have the gene you know like and you're in your change your lifestyle yeah but you're in your 40s you've been hitting your head for decades yeah you're right and and I've actually learned a bit since then through working with Steph and Lauren Rogen for hilarity for charity because they do like there they go deep into being proactive and preventative and there are measures you can take to be preventative about it even if you have the gene even if you've had concussions so thank you think saunas are good sleeps good yeah I know what you diet and and I I took the test and I don't have the gene because worried about it's my grandfather he died of Alzheimer's he got it at like 58 he's like really young and they said just because you don't have the gene it's I'm still at a nine percent risk sure but but i think that i think that the concussions can exasperate all that or speed it up for sure the crazy thing is when we did that brain test my brain's older than hisses and he's had more concussions he's hit his head every night and so it's just like it's one of those things were yeah we went for a brain scan to determine how much trauma how much stuff there's but like yeah I just this is I'm so bad when when people have like tragic stuff and I don't know what to say but like for to have Alzheimer's come up and and you just lost your mom I'm just like bad at this and the only reason I even want to say like hey I'm really sorry that yeah that that happened is because I'm so close to with my mom she survived an aneurysm and she really had a like a tough go for the last five years and I know it was just you know to to just know you and and how tough that was like man yeah it was the hardest thing was how in and beginning how slowly it came on but there were certain things you'd notice and then in the last year too how quickly it was just like she was gone she couldn't talk anymore had no signs of recognition that's the hardest thing is when you know it's like her body her her mind betrays her body her body betrays her mind where her body just stays alive yeah and and it's just really an odd scenario where you see this person they have no idea where they are who they are who you are and their body just continues to you know their heart keeps beating and it's just that was the hardest part was like seeing her slip away mentally and then feeling obligated to go visit her obviously but but there's no there's nothing there no one you know I don't know what either one of us getting out of it except for the fact that we have to try and so I kind of resigned to that it was like I gotta keep going to see her and try to connect did she ever notice you split seconds of it hey because I remember when I went to go visit my grandpa in the in the Alzheimer's home he he would just be he couldn't verbalize anything yeah but then maybe once a week he would kind of like look at me and mumble something that didn't make sense but like laugh and like ya know moments got less and less yeah so I would say in the last six months of her life there was none of that yeah in had not to bring it up but what were like the first signs that you saw they were kind of like like putting the keys in the oven or so just forgot she just food to forget things that we had just talked about or yes went over and her driving was got frightening and so we had to take her license away but then but then she got a boyfriend who was her age who didn't have Alzheimer's but was the sketchiest driver in the world that's me and then we had to just start providing rights for her yeah you know this is before her and whatnot but it was more that we had to figure out okay if mom's didn't go somewhere we cannot have our driver because he's putting everyone at risk so I get this sense because we were driving down Paul here he's our editor extraordinary we call him El Chapo and Paul had this this he's like you know man it's crazy how Tony Hawk has been so famous such an icon for so long but it just always seemed that he's been very level-headed always has his head screwed on at no point does it ever seem like he went off the rails like Fame got to him or anything crazy stuff like that and I think that's a really accurate thing to point out and you know I think that that you know like I think it's safe to say that that your relationship with your mom and with your dad is you know and then and then beyond that with Stacy Peralta that those are the three main you know that's yes I'm sure they're definitely major figures that have a lot of influence on me in my life I think I I definitely had my moments of dabbling in fame where it's like oh my god you gotta give us an example but not before I tell the listeners 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back in this podcast before I even started thank you post mate and now Tony Hawk let's get back into it yeah dude you got invited to this event you got invited to this something like that well that was actually accidental but I'm talking about like I'm moral in the sort of mid 2000 range okay when things were you know our video game was was hitting and and there were just all these opportunities and I thought like oh this is the life I'm supposed to lead I'm supposed to be a you know this sort of celebrity and and then I started going and I realized it was pretty empty and I think that was probably my saving grace was that I did get a taste of that and I was like I don't what am I doing here I don't and I but I always had that sense of not belonging here I'll just pull this off there you go yeah I always had the sense of not belonging and and that came from being a skater and I came from being a skater in the era of skating not being cool oh dude I was I was right in it man so but but it's still like even so you know fast forward all that stuff um to literally two days ago I was at the Oscars still just feeling so out of place like what am i doing I didn't watch it but um but my girl she came home from her like girls party to watch which they do every year and she was like dude Tony Hawk was there and I was like at first I was like jealous because I've never but I I remember you posting about the the documentary about the Soria made sense to me and they won that they won yeah whether than what they won the documentary category they won the short documentary category uh-huh that's great so it's called it's called learning to skateboard in a war zone if you're a girl and it's about skater Stan project in Afghanistan and how that came to be it was the this obviously they worked on the documentary for a few years and then they contacted me because I'm a board member and they said hey we want to have a screening in LA we're trying to raise awareness maybe submit it for Oscar and this is only about six months ago so I went tried to do my best to get people there raise awareness and did a little speech before I because I had visited the skate of Stan projects and and then next thing you know they're they're nominated and then they said and and I remember this is how this all happened Holly from SCADA Stan you started the project he's like we got a nomination and then I just wrote back to him like cool see you at the Oscars as a joke right right and then he's like yeah I'm trying to get a ticket and then about a week later he's like I got my ticket I'll see you there I'm like Oliver I don't have an Oscar no no no so so what happened was then I said Oliver I don't have a ticket I was just kidding he's like oh I'll try to get your ticket so then he goes back in about a week later and this is just this is like a week before it's even happening and he says I got your ticket I was like that's crazy laughs right now but then I said well what about can my wife go he's like I could barely get you a ticket like I don't that's not possible then two days before the Oscars I got a call from the Academy and they said hey would you like you and your wife like to sit in the orchestra section then now I don't know anything I assume that to dub section to be in yeah I'm like like pianos right here Josh got all the Casper 19:17 over here is parasite next okay Laura Dern who else Keanu is just rad he's pretty rad yeah afterwards then I get the truth and what happened was two of the main producers of parasite got stuck in China because of the corona virus that's great I mean dude I mean I love how much humility Tony has because it's like if you look at it from the perspective of like the Oscars and here you've got this this documentary about skateboarding like what an opportunity to have Tony Hawk sit there and be affiliated with that film you know I would feel weird if I had really no relation to it that would be awkward for me right because then it would just be like oh you it'd be more for show and more to try to like draw attention to myself but I did have a hand in getting it there so I felt good about that sure I mean are you kidding me a documentary about skateboarding yeah that's crazy yeah he's in the Oscars haven't seen him and like I've I don't think I'll ever set foot on an Oscars red carpet or have anything to do with any nominations but [Laughter] it was a bad grandpa was a jackass no man they got nominated for I think best makeup maybe oh really sense yeah make sense and they didn't win it I don't think but um but yeah I always had it in my mind that like if I did win an Oscar I'd be the first person on the stage to drop his drawers and shove it up my butt but part of me has this thing like you know they like all of my my comedy and stuff like is is now like sort of tracking my experience in life and thus like Herriman my forty's having a midlife crisis and as I look towards putting together my next show it's like oh now I gotta like actually go to like the doctor for like the colonoscopy kind of things that we do and you know when when we get old and I you know instead of voluntarily shoving things up your eyes yeah right and so it did for me there's so much comedy there because like you know guys can get in their 40s and then now they've got to go to the doctor and get like a finger up there but like you know no guy wants that and then I'm gonna be the only dude to ask the doctor like hey like like how much can I fit up there like like are we talking an Oscar because I'll settle for going over to somebody's place who has won an Oscar like Juicy J from three 6 mafia I think I got a fighting chance I'm letting him like I get him to let me borrow his Oscar over here the talk is of the Academy Awards it's straight to stick in the Oscar we didn't even really have a segue to that it was just like oh yeah that's what I want to do with one yeah I mean you've been wanting to do that for a while and you did do that on Hollywood Boulevard I did it with like one of the toy with hey can you open up the door just for a smear yeah they have like the the souvenir store where you buy a little of the toy plastic Oscar yeah I did try it and I'd like I wasn't getting any of more past the head those children's are tough and that was like a miniature one the rule of that's why I got asked the doctor at the colonoscopy like it like how much training like how much like can how much training like a bringing you know it's gonna go like I'm gonna be like how much is it really dangerous are there concerns for me if I'm gonna work out and stretch to try to fit more and the doctor is probably gonna be like you're out of your mind and so I'll go get a second opinion from like a gay porn guy which is really funny really mapped this out yeah this is what I don't know about this and so he's just doing all this the next tour after this one I'm thinking it's called steve-o's gone too far tour and like to try and prolapse you but and and you know if you start like what would be a process for this like where were you what I'm doing I think we all know where it comes from you know what I think the best thing for the creative process is is keeping your mind sharp by practicing staying present which I do by listening to audiobooks on audible true story I'm listening to one right now called sapiens a brief history of mankind and it's so fascinating to learn about like how there are all different species of humans and now we're down to just one but I'll tell you sometimes I have trouble like staying present and I gotta hit the back 10 seconds button which I do and that's when I know oh yeah I think it's just good practice for my mind and I'm so grateful to audible for being the second sponsor to get behind this podcast before it even came out so everybody listening please show some love to audible and they have shown some love to you because if you go to audible.com slash Stevo you can start your 30-day trial another way is to text steve-o to 500 500 to get into your 30-day trial and let's get back to Tony Hawk so the Oscars was a big one but and and when you said you pointed to the 2000s as like you're kind of like heavy celebrity time to me that that seemed kind of odd because for me it would be like well of course the 80s and yeah the eighties well okay so in the course of skating skating got popular in the eighties for sure but it was still very much considered a novelty and sharp they're obviously we as skaters who grew up there thought it was everything but like it was never on the news you know what I mean it was never right it was never in Main Street it was rarely in commercials and stuff like that what it was and and I think that this this would probably be pretty accurate is that nobody knew about it at all and then 1985 Back to the Future yes about and every kid in the world got a skateboard for Christmas that year yep in 1985 and like 98% of those kids found out very quickly how difficult skateboarding is you know it's like wait a second this isn't fun I like this is hard and like I fell down and I didn't like that that hurts you know and so it's a very small percentage of the kids who get a skateboard that actually go on to become in any way proficient and that whole process serves to totally weed out any kids that are like just half-ass you know you have really isolated with skateboarding like the most driven persistent like like willing to sacrifice like you know like go to any lengths it's a pretty special person who is a skateboarder and like at this time that we're talking about it wasn't cool you know yeah so you you choose to skate and then it's hard yeah so everyone's telling you to not do it or telling you can't do it right parents are telling you no I mean it was just you had to really persevere it even just to do it for fun at all not to be serious about it but fast forward to so I think you're right like Back to the Future was definitely a catalyst for people to start skating the next sort of wave of that was I believe our video game series because it there are a bunch of pros these days that started skating because they played it on a video game yeah and yeah that's odd to me but I believe it that's not your era right um but I mean I'm talking about like some of the best friends in the world a guy like Shane O'Neill he played our video game series and thought all that stuff's possible possible this is the guy who wins the battle at The Berrics like routinely yeah yeah you could jump from the top of the Venice high school and do a grind on the rail for 25 seconds he's like yeah that's easy you could do that yeah yeah and there well there's some stunt skater dudes that that's crazy they do yeah now that with the history of skateboarding this is another thing and I just I feel so honored like it when I look at like the the time that I've lived in you know like I saw like the internet you know like me like there's the amount of you know technological advancement in our lifetime it's really striking but to me what's most it what's what honors me the most is to have been alive for the birth of Street skating you know yeah because it wouldn't you started skateboarding I have a different perspective on that but yeah weightily because when you started Street skating it was all about skate parks halfpipes but it was also because I was I was professional vert skater right Street skating became a thing onto itself well right and then that became really the the chosen way to skate because who could find a vert ramp over here like I just learned very all McTwist is that cool still right I mean it was like skateboarding was there there was no such thing as Street skating you know it like in the beginning of the 80s and and then it what also happened in the 80s was America became very litigious you know all the sudden lawsuits were like you know someone gets coffee spilled at McDonald's it's a millions of dollars lawsuit of all the skate parks closed so all the skate parks closed because nobody wanted to get sued nobody wanted to have ramps because it was like everybody's got lawsuits on their mind all the parks closed down all the ramps get torn down and skaters just flood out onto the streets and then next thing you know nobody wanted to see vert ramps nobody cared about it and like Tony Hawk here 20 for me here but yeah that was when Street skating really came into its own and I'm you know we're to say like animal chin like was the seed and then public domain boom it was it was yep so that was like 1988 yep and in and so you know 1988 I was in eighth grade like that's like right when I was like bullied headlong into it and I was never that good at skateboarding but like with Street skating because it was in its infancy I was like almost like kind of like advancing with like the you know like the yeah that put the general progression of it right so and and you being a vert skater and I could say this you know probably about it and like you know a handful of vert skaters like you know I was sort of we were at the same level of the low for sure so now this is where it gets embarrassing for me because fast-forward all these years and I'm out of control on drugs I mean lost my mind and and I'm broadcasting my downward spiral to a like a list of like 200 people oh yeah briefly here's here's the thing is that I had it was the most influential people who like had the misfortune of me getting ahold of their contact info all on one email list like the mall all cc'd you could see the whole list and at one point at one point after the what I called the rat email list started I I got an email Knoxville made the mistake of sending a mass email list with everybody on copy you could see everyone a copy so I just copied and pasted like his Knoxville's entire emails and then added it to my my rat email is so now then I got full that now Tony Hawk has landed on my rad email is because he was in Knoxville's you know like sorry so now I don't know Tony Hawk's getting this like or like a daily rap which is awful and her like I'm steve-o's mad at somebody's growing off or like steve-o's discovered a new dimension you know like it was really really gnarly stuff and a lot of people were glued to it because there was just such a train wreck but Tony being the good guy that he is wasn't interested no wasn't he said the rat email list has become full I can't add anyone else so if anyone wants out let me know like I'm out I said I I'm out because I don't have time to read all of them I was trying to be pragmatic is positive how long were they I was just some yeah some it might have been a video it might have been an essay I mean they exist somewhere yeah so basically I just like I think I I don't have a good guy he's like you know I like I'm good like you know this doesn't make me feel what you wish for right and then answer now now I received this from from Tony Hawk and I'm just like what huh and I'm like so I start with everybody and I'm copy I start attacking Tony I started tagging with everybody like the whole thing and I'm like you like you were never even that rad you were never even that red I ripped over you at Street skating we're having coffee like right sure yeah but let the record reflect that now that I have like painstakingly gone through the last 30 years of footage of me skating and like I was not even close to anybody can can see this because now I've got my untold story of steve-o skateboard video career you can you know you can what is that wall right thing up now it's not up yet by the time this comes out it will be the untold story of steve-o skateboard career and don't let the word maybe that was our reckoning was the wall ride right I did the wall ride frontside like six times warming up waiting for you to do it I know that I've said this in the past but let me just say to you know for the public record like that was like the most embarrassing thing for me for you to have forgiven me and gone on to be such a good guy such a such a dear friend and and always you know generous with your time whenever I've got some dumb idea like this one I just want to say I'm sorry for that and thank you oh it was it was a they say it's a good story did you got into there I'm sure there are a lot of background conversations happening in those email that he wasn't no because I was just like email me about something else I did the wrap-up show on time and I he was like hey man were you on that steve-o loose I'm like yes and then I said I had I had to get out and he's like you could just feel the drugs in the emails what year was this and then the first few months of 2008 and then I got sober and then when did you guys ever run into each other right after that like I remember Tony reached out to me to do his Sirius XM radio show and were you like and I was like oh my god like I can't I can't even believe it Tony actually wants like have something to do with me like I was like in Barry I think and that like for him to reach out like and and I was just there was so much so much healing in that you know did you do it the show like I remembered it but it was just it was just such a mess that's so it was just like okay like he was just so you know sober at that point right yeah I've been sober ever since the rat email is and and I could even say pretty definitively that I've been sober ever since because of the ratty melon I mean dude like like this whole period what was it was just such a it was such a cry for help yeah in in disguise where everyone's reading a gun what we got to do something here yeah can't go on I mean you didn't schedule like you're like I did the man like I'm gonna if I can jump out the window the window not so said okay we'll be there great the best part about all of that is well when they did the show about your the intervention but the best part of all that is that you [ __ ] filmed everything wasted no one has all that documentation and you've never seen that no I I end up watching it I mean I've never wanted to watch it I ended up watch oh the whole show you I've watched that yeah there were two things I wasn't gonna watch which was the DVD I made called PCP saved my life you've ever seen that I did I watched that and and it was every bit as bad as I thought and then there and then there was the demise and rise thing which one did you hate more or watching which one did I hate more watching uh oh god they're equally it's awful it's super embarrassing you feel like it was like healing to see you yeah or some people would think that to watch footage that's like so embarrassing would would humble you make you think oh I never want to be like that again yeah but I know I know I never want to be like that again my experience at watching the footage is that like oddly like when I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary I walked out I was like man god I wanna get high it's triggering somehow like I see the drugs on camera it's like I could taste them you know I brought back like this inside just don't want any part of watching that I remember around that time around those same years especially with Jack I said why do I have to be steve-o but there was a time when I saw you I want to say it at Universal it was like nine snails or something and it was like a DVD release party and and something like that no no no I'm talking about before that it was some concert I remember it was it was a concert you and I ended up as like a rock or something and we I saw you in the stairwell going like going up to the from the backstage up to the seats or something like that and there's all these people around like Stevo and so he feels like he has to do something so then he does a handstand and walks down the stairs because he's on display like and and I just remember thinking like does he have to do it all the time does he always have to that's the beauty of being you know in your 20s and 30s man like on drugs like no matter how loaded I could pop up in a handstand and go walking downstairs on my hands no it was impressive and but also I and I wasn't of the mindset where I was like what's wrong with him I was like oh yeah there's Steve oh yeah high five Tony's perspective oh man like how sad that he feels I guess to do that all the time it wasn't it wasn't even maybe it was because it was also in the height of Jackass success so if that was like at the end of Jackass success or ever is one then then it would feel sad but did you recognize that because like you did you ever feel like that when you started getting famous like you had to be like on all the time or just was skating for sure was skating it's hard for me to just walk to a skate park now because it's like kids just sit down like oh let's see some magic I'm like dude first of all never been here super old yeah where is your vert ramp right so it's like that for you in the beginning like when you show up to a skate park like all right [ __ ] it I would start busting things out yeah and it was it was what was easier for me to I was more adaptable and I was younger and so so back then but but I always I always put that sort of unspoken pressure on myself to yeah maybe to a fault that's what I was because because people would people would be like what is he trying to outdo us you know like other skaters especially of my peers they're just like - do you always have to like can't we just yeah that's a big realization to realize about yourself there's a lot to this right here because like I mean for me that what Tony's talking about where I feel like I always had to do something like I was never I didn't have an off switch at all and that's like a pretty sad like you know thing if that's how you're always gonna be like for me to have any hope of aging at all gracefully or just at least not tragically I had to find some separation between Stevo and like whoever I really am in my personal would you realize that that was like with sobriety you know like a year or two in or like right away if you can't turn it off and if you identify as like this persona that you've created for the masses then you're [ __ ] yeah pleasing yourself to death right and so like it's an interesting thing because I used to look at like Tommy Lee who I think it's 12 years older than me and when every time I saw Tommy Lee's still partying I thought I got 10 more years my 10-year bond my ten-year buffer zone I always made me feel better and then in sobriety like I looked at Tony Hawk you know and I think Tony's only like 7 years older than I am but but that's him did it when you're like someone who's physical you know like as a career and like getting old is really scarier and and like I want to say that dude to see you do the 50 tricks at 50 years old like - you did a 900 like when you're like 448 yes no 100 I mean like - just it's there's a new standard for physicality at the age of 50 which we can thank Tony Hawk for like but I think that I really do believe that just wanting to perform and wanting to skate well still into my older age is what kept me on the straight and narrow because I saw pretty quickly especially my 40s that if I was out drinking like I never went you know so far like blackout drunk but if I was drinking kind of consistently i I couldn't skate for more than a half hour right next day and then I was like I keep if I want to keep skating that's got to end right that's kind of where it landed me so for us to like you know look at you and see you see longevity which like what's your diet like do stretch everyday if you workout I'm pretty bad at all that oh I've never been one to stretch a really warm up and stuff like that just didn't really work for me God that goes but but I think it was just more just being more being more cognizant of what I am eating and what I it it was subtle and and changed more as I got older but it was just more like not doing everything to excess not getting to excess not snacking not partying and at some point you realize that oh it you know things can be calm and you can still be effective and successful and it's great I learned it pretty late too though I did like I didn't learn as I was really on my 40s because somehow I was just under the under the impression that I can do this like I can bring Caleb both ends still do 900 I'm good damn it's so crazy hey sorry to interrupt your thumb are you still on those sugar yeah how long has it been October 13th is my sobriety date for compulsive eaters Anonymous like any sugar in its natural state now here let's let's wrap this up and I just like this this idea of like you know midlife crisis kind of thing I want to say that like again that looking to you you're my seven year buffer zone Kevin's table was mine but he's only two years old right so when I see Kevin skate I'm like I got two more years yeah I'm a DI I love it I love it and Scott here once said that I he heard that the first third of your life is for making mistakes make it as many mistakes as you can the second third of your life is for making as much money as you can yeah and the third third of your life even away as much money as you can yeah and foundations are okay and that resonated with me and I think that I think that Tony is an example of that because we you know we look at I mean except for the mistakes part a lot of merging them into those errors for me but I think that not just giving your money but really more giving your your time and your support that you know not just money but I think that I've learned that that I can be effective just by being there yeah or just by raising awareness or raising a voice or writing a hand I mean everything that you're doing with building the skate parks at the Tony Hart Foundation I think that my Tony Hawk foundation signed board is in the van right here somewhere oh yeah I think so that's a dead loved it at what point were you like I want to have a foundation give back like was that pretty early on or that was around the 2000 mm because now it wasn't a PR move is more because I started going to skate park there were all these key parts cropping up and mostly in affluent areas and I would get invited to these grand openings we got a skate park in this you know in this town and is obviously like mostly rich white suburban yeah us and their parks sucked and I was like what is wrong here you spent all this money on this thing and it's worse than the parking lot at the mall yeah when people who don't skate yeah exactly it looked like they were trying to copy the game 720 right and so I thought I can probably help here somehow I didn't know how and that was it I just like I want to start a skate park Foundation and try to guide not only the the construction in a better way but the funding and where that's where it goes because there's all kinds of kids in low-income areas that want to skate and then I'm anything yeah and they found skating and they have found an outlet and they're basically told you can't do that because there's nowhere to do it right so that was the that was the catalyst that was the yeah and keep in mind that that Tony Hawk pro skater like just said all kinds of records and in the video game space for sure yeah I definitely had a lot of resources I had a lot of I had a lot of connections it's just so rad too so there's the Tony Hawk foundation building building skate parks and I see you doing all kinds of stuff to fight Alzheimer's and help you know but it's just you just kind of I stay with what I know and what I experience and having a skate park I mean I got lucky del Marske branch was one of the only parks in the US Open and that was my home away from home that's where I found my crew that's where I found my style sense of musics you know everything and so I just want that same opportunity for kids who just love skating and not because I'm we're trying to make breeding grounds or training facilities just so they have a place to belong that's great how's that the one kid the kid from from Africa they had the documentary talent yeah he's know pretty good he is doing skate lessons he moved to not Johannesburg what's the Cape Town he moved to Cape Town and does skate lessons so yeah all right yeah why hey man we gotta get you out of here and I just want to tell you again thank you man this was uh it sucks it got so hot in here but I noticed the heat that's right we're talking about that before yeah but you're just so generous with your time and indeed what an example you are in every way man I appreciate it hey I think that you are such a great voice for sobriety things I mean like if I could ever point to anyone it's like hey look at Stevo look where he what could be what he accomplished look what he went through and look where he is now and you can do it you know I mean like you from the rat emails that's crazy and I'm really grateful for you Tony thank you so much and I'll really be mindful to try not to ask you for any favors for a good no I love it all right thank you ah dude if you're still listening please shoot a tweet to me on Twitter because I just want to know if people just are into this man I'm super psyched totally grateful to all of you to Scott Randolph to Tony Hawk this was our first episode like I said it was a long time coming there's many more to follow and they're gonna be better and better and better I know it so make sure you're subscribed to this wild ride with steve-o podcast at Apple podcasts if you're on youtube leave a comment in the comment section make sure you're subscribed to this podcast channel and dude I'm just really excited so thank all of you thanks to the sponsors thanks to El Chapo turn it on yourself John but watch out for that whiteboard tell your friends you were coming out hard yeah really really psyched man and thank you I know there's a lot of podcasts out there but thank you guys for supporting this one yeah dude

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Length: 52min 3sec (3123 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 19 2020