Your friends with Chris Rock, right? Yeah, I mean. We didn't even go to dinner together or something? Oh, yes, yes.
I saw him at breakfast. What do you mean you saw? We were asleep over it. We were asleep over it.
100%. Two. It's a brand new episode of Two Bears, One Cave. It's Two Bears, Two Cubs, and One Cave.
My daughter's Georgia and I were here to start off Two Bears, One Cave. I'm sitting with the greatest skateboarder alive, Tony Hawk. Wow, thank you. And my daughters had only one time and said they got mad at me that I didn't introduce them.
They've introduced them to everyone. Everyone and they just like, hi, good to meet you. I was like, how are we fucking Mandel? They're like, cool.
And then you came in left last time and they were like, well, why did you exclude me? That's the question. They were just like, I met everyone. And then I didn't.
I feel like they just got tired of it. So do you guys have any questions for Tony, Ayla? Come on in. Do you ever look at the kids trying to skate and like get embarrassed for them?
Never. Oh, not at all. I was that kid. I was a kid who was terrible at skating and I refused to quit.
I hated school. I didn't hate school. I just, I can't say I hated school. It was just more like, once I got into high school and skating was taking off, it was hard to do both well.
So I kind of went towards skating more. Would you, if one of your kids said, did your kids go to college? A couple of them, yeah. If one of your kids was like, that's it, dad.
I know what I want to do. It's not a thought thought thought. Knowing that it worked for you. You still have like a little trepidation.
No. Going like, no, because I know what it's like to follow your passion. And it's worth it. That was your question?
Oh, go ahead and ask it. No, that was that. So what would be your passion, ladies? Like if you had a quick college right now, Georgia, and just go do something, you absolutely fucking love what would it be.
Work at Yosemite. That's pretty cool. That would be pretty cool. There's no chances of like a video game getting made out of that.
That's not what she's aspiring to. I know, but I only want them to follow their dreams. If they're dream, they're going to make millions. I don't want you to follow like mediocre dreams.
What's your dream? I don't know. I really don't know. Yeah.
No, I don't know yet. I'll figure it out at one point. It was the funnest, the funnest moment as a dad is when they decided they wanted to try to learn how to skateboard. And they just would skateboard up and down the driveway.
I don't remember how to skateboard. You don't remember? It's right there. Gary.
Yeah, so they would go back and forth. And they would, it was just fun as a dad. Like those types of things that dad are fun. Did you ever, were you controlling over your kids my campus skateboarding?
I'm like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, like the way a softball baseball dad is. Yeah, that's a good question. Yes, it's funny. It's all of my kids skate.
I have five boys. Son Riley is in your masterclass. He's a pro. He's a pro skater.
Yes. And then I have a daughter and she skated with me for a bit. And then at some point it was like, it doesn't seem like any of my friends skate. And I'm only skating with my dad.
And that kind of, she got out of it then. But all the other boys, they kept skating. And at some point I was trying to give them advice. Basic advice for tricks that they, you know, crucial tricks they want to learn.
And they don't want to hear it from me. Yeah, not at all. And someone else would tell them one of their peers would tell them the exact same thing I told them. And they'd be like, oh, OK.
And they figured it out. And I was like, that's what I was telling you. It's not cool for me. Do you think one of my daughters should go on to comedy, Tony?
And which one? Not by the looks on those faces. No. All right, ladies.
All right, we're going to do a podcast. I love you guys. I love you guys. Thank you.
I'll grab you. Maybe you guys. Yes, nice to finally meet you. Nice to meet you.
They. She came on the nose ring. They drove me fucking nuts. Why are you whispering?
She's still in the room. OK, but this is like going out to the world. So yeah, I know. But she's not listening to two bears, new episodes, two bears, guys.
OK. We figured Tom has the moniker as the most famous injured dude in the world. Tony Hawks got the new fucking town. The broken femur.
Yeah, that was a game changer. That was a big one. Femur is a game changer. It has definitely changed what I'm capable of doing and how I view the future.
Yes. So how did you bring it the first time doing a I know you've talked about this a ton. I'm so sorry. It's OK.
But I followed it because you got it. You broke your femur and I felt like such a fucking pussy because all I did was rip the tendons off my arm. I tried that. I ripped my tricep off my arm.
And I was such it took me forever to recover. And then I watched you and you were already skateboarding. And I was like, yeah, well, that was my mistake. Now I go.
Yeah. Thank God. I'm not like Tony Hawk. Yeah.
So I broke it in March in half doing a failed mittwist. And it was I thought that I think I was I had a few exhibitions and things that were scheduled for not too far out. And I kept thinking I'm going to make it to those. That's the goal.
And so I had this goal in mind. And I started it got on my board too soon. I should have known better. I mean, really, I think the first sign of trouble was that I was limping up to the ramp and then skating and dropping in.
And so I figured there's not I mean, you would figure jogging is one thing. Skating is OK. I could I could I could never run either. OK.
I didn't. None of those none of those red flags were really I was paying attention to. Yeah. But I was able to skate because I could sort of put most of my weight on my back foot and keep just about 30% on my front to make it work.
But it wasn't like I was skating a full capacity. Yeah. Were you worried about falling? Not really because I was told that your leg will every stronger.
It's got titanium in there. And I was like, here we go. That's all I needed to hear. And then at some point, I remember actually the day it happened, I stepped off and I kind of put all my weight on that foot.
And I felt the bone move positions. And I in that time I was like, oh, that was bad. But it'll be OK because I still have that rod in there and keep it together. But the bone has shifted almost like off kilter completely.
And it never came back and it never it never connected. Never connected. Never connected. And so then you've had the surgery already that's a bit.
But it wasn't until about seven or eight months into my recovery that I felt like I wasn't making progress. It was always in pain. I'd literally have to take a pain killer to walk through an airport. That's a good point.
I said, I'm talking the wrong guy. But then I just said something feels wrong. This doesn't feel like the trajectory of how a recovery should go. So I went and got x-rays and it had actually moved further away.
So there was this gap in my two femurs now. And I went to a specialist and he said, oh, I just go back in there, realign it. Take your hardware out, realign it, put new hardware in. And he sounded so confident that I was like, I want to do that.
Whatever you said, I want to do that. And I scheduled surgery two weeks later. And I am now a month into that. And I'm walking.
You heard her a month ago? I had a surgery a month ago. I'm walking better than I was before that surgery. But what is it about you guys that makes you guys not notice injury?
We're used to pushing through pain. But this pain was so intense that I thought somehow that I was just immune to it. And it was just, oh, it hurts. But and I wasn't listening to that at all.
And at my age, of course, I should have been. I'm 54. I'm 54. Yeah.
And I was like, oh, my God, maybe I'm turning into an old man. Because I think that about myself, every fucking day, every fucking day, I go, like, I can't lose weight. I just cannot lose weight. And I work out every single day.
I eat horrible. I drink a lot. But I burn calories every day. And I can't lose weight.
And I had my cardiologist, my fucking cardiologist told me to go on testosterone. He was like, hey, man, you're not getting any younger. Your levels are shit. You should go on testosterone.
And I was like, what if I get cancer? And he goes, oh, it'll speed it. But what are we going to do here? It's like, hey, it's like, how many years do you think it's about?
And I'm like, my mother. Fuck. Yeah, I'm not having those conversations. You think about getting on testosterone?
No, no, no. Even just getting to help repair things. Well, I do. I mean, I come from a bloodline of high cholesterol and heart disease.
So I take a statin. I don't know what the most. I take a statin. What's your statin?
What is it? Yeah, I take a 2-0. OK, how many milligrams? I 10.
OK, I'm 20. I just got my blood work back last week. And then I also take a supplement to counter that. Cunal, CoQ10.
What do you mean to counter it? Well, to keep my levels normal. Really? Well, I don't mind it.
I hate it. Like when I have a doctor's appointment, I start having anxiety. I start having anxiety a week out. And then I start training for it.
Like I stopped drinking. I started eating clean. It's like you go to the dentist and you brush your teeth and floss them endlessly for the first couple of days before. Yeah, I get really ready for my appointment.
And then I go in and I live with him. Yeah, he's like, do you guys have been like? Yeah, what I always do is I really have to have been rough. I've been on the road pretty aggressively.
And then I said, I didn't drink all about my sober. And my wife brought my fucking wife with me. Like, I idiot last time. And she's behind me.
And I go and I barely drank in November. And she went, what are you doing? She's like, why are you lying to your doctor? I go, I'm not lying to him.
I'm telling him the truth. I want him to hear. I don't want to tell him the truth. I want him to hear.
Yeah. Yeah. So if I live or enzymes are up, I want him to think it's my medication and not my drinking. Wow.
So I get. Well, I think because it's not that I like going to doctors. It's more that, for instance, I just had my first checkup for my new surgery, bone still in line. Yeah.
I'm feeling way better than I was. I don't limp endlessly. And so I keep waiting for him to say, OK, your bone is connected. Go for it.
So my next appointment is a month away. I am counting the days. Yeah. So so I'm looking forward to seeing the doctor more because I want him to say, looks good.
Yeah. Oh, fuck. So everything else is incidental to that. So the blood work and stuff like that.
Do you when you do find that when you're not skating, you feel like you're you feel like rudderless? I don't feel rudderless, but it's hard. Because that was my my exercise of choice too. So it's the coolest exercise there could be.
Yeah, by default. The fucking coolest. I've always said to myself, I want to learn how to skate for ramps because I can do it all day long. Yeah.
Like it's something that I would go, oh, yeah, I just do this all day long. I get up and go on the skate for ramps all fucking day long. I would love. I can't even Ollie.
Like that's how bad of a skateboarder I am. But he has to say you're bad because you can't Ollie. It's fucking children can Ollie. Well, sure.
But they practice it endlessly. Yeah. And also they like you're from the regeneration that the Ollie wasn't even created until I was 12 or 13. I was in ninth grade the first time I ever saw do to Ollie.
Right. And it was also the first time I was introduced to Pussy. And I was like, I can you learn how to Ollie or start fingering checks? I was like, I don't learn how to do it.
Why couldn't you have a healthy balance about? Well, by the way, I fingered people as bad as Ollie. I was just putting it in and leave it there. Like I was thinking your temperature.
Well, you know, I've got much better at fingering women. The Ollie, I got the I got a little rubber stoppers to go on the wheels. So the wheels wouldn't turn to learn how to Ollie. I've ollie didn't grasp.
I've ollied in carpet. I've done everything I could to learn Ollie. But if you were to stick with it, you would have gotten there. I just gave up.
It's fucking so hard. It's hard. I'm not. Yeah, I'll agree with you there.
The second part because you push down, but you got to take this foot and slide it. It's all timing up. Yeah, I don't have that timing down. I don't have that timing down.
This is going to tell me. I'll take you out Ollie. No, you're good. I could.
I could. I could. OK. I'll take up on that.
The yeah, it's right there. Yeah. I'm barefoot. The I'll put on shoes when we get done.
I'll let you show me how to all. OK, I have a balance board. I do a balance board every minute. That doesn't come.
Three minute. OK. The the hey, do you remember this is going to be an off-kilter question. But do you remember when you first started seeing Black Dude skating?
It was early. Yeah, I felt like it wasn't until for me, it wasn't until like 91 that you started seeing like the inner city in New York, Skate Pointy. In terms of streets. Yeah.
Yeah, I agree with you there. I mean, it was largely. Yeah, like it was like a white dude. I remember I talked to a bunch of skater, especially ones that are prominent now.
Now it seems so so diverse. Yeah. And you know, and you can't even say like there's some race or culture that owns it. It's everywhere.
And it's everywhere. That's why I love it. It's a great equalizer. It really is.
It's kind of the coolest thing when like it sounds silly, but you know, I came from Tampa and we weren't very diverse. I mean, as diverse as Tampa is, it's predominantly Cuban and white. And then there were pockets of things, but mostly everyone I grew up with was Cuban or white. And like in one of me, white, I mean, redneck or Cuban.
And I remember finding out Christian and so it was Asian. And I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah. And I bought his board and I was like, that's so fucking cool.
Like I didn't like in my head, I just didn't know any Asian guys. I knew who was Samuel Ho. But then and then I saw a picture of Christian and so I was like, with that fucking hair, you know, texting them because of the last time we did a podcast. I've texted back for Christian and so I really crazy that is that sick to the.
Like I had his board like I was amazing. That's fucking so insane. Yeah. Then like he texted me.
I'm like, man, I think I can't remember how this goes because I get a lot of the items from people. But like he was like, I heard you shout me out or podcast. I love the podcast. I was like, fuck, yes, I haven't gotten together with him, but I'm on the road.
But yeah, that was like the coolest time is like when the movie kids came out and you saw the inner city skateboarding. Yeah, I think that definitely shed some light on it, but it was already happening in the background. I mean, those days skating was really underground. So anything that was happening, you weren't going to see it on mainstream media or TV or whatever.
But there was a moment, I mean, I actually talked to Pharrell about this on his podcast recently where. I was a big. He was in he skated in the underground days. Yeah, big time.
And you know, everyone in his neighborhood and his peers were like, it's whiteboard sport. Like what are you doing on that whiteboard sport? And at some point that changed dramatically. I would say through late 90s.
I mean, some people say that that our video game helped introduce them to and change that notion a little bit to which I'm proud of, but I wouldn't take full credit for that. I just think it's just think it's cool that it I always felt like it had this this element that it wasn't. It wasn't elitist. You just buy a skateboard and you're in.
You know what I mean? It's not like you have to be part of a club or you have to pay some dues. It's just like, yeah, whatever. And everyone through and through has been judged on their talents, not on their backgrounds.
Yeah. And so I love it for that. For that. I think it's the coolest thing.
I think the thing I think that's interesting, like a decks a deck, right? Yeah. Like, can you notice that? I remember the first time, not Jody Foster, who was that guy?
He had a triangle for a logo, something for the army, something. Foster's army. JFA. JFA.
That was his homie. Oh, for real? Yeah. I remember seeing his board and the sides went up.
Every other board was flat. Like a Michael J. Oh, his sides went up on the side. I went with the box.
That's not like, oh, it's right. I think that's because you were getting cheap skateboards and then you finally saw a pro. Christian, this was no because it was still. No, I mean, they were flat when we started and then concave started happening.
So concave, that's right. Conquev now is kind of it went. They went to the extremes and then they finally kind of found what works. And so that's where we're at now.
And most most boards are generally the same kick and concave with some subtle differences. You notice the differences? Oh, sure. But that's because I've been riding the same skateboard for the last 15 years.
Really? Yeah. I mean, same shape, same setup. That's because you like it.
Yeah. I just I just found that that's what works for me. And and I can set up a whole new board trucks and wheels and everything and ride it right away. Really?
I don't need to break it in. Oh, and so are there are there different in trucks? Yeah. Yeah.
Like, are there cheap trucks? They're cheap trucks, but really most of it is in the bushings. Bushings is what's the bushings are? That rubber thing?
Yeah. The rubber that's separating the hanger from the base plate, the how that's made, the the hardness of it. And how much it'll bounce back is key. Yeah.
It's such a fucking but you're right. It is such an accessible sport. Yeah. And it's the funnest.
And the cool thing is that you don't have to follow some practice regimen. You don't have to have these certain tricks to be doing your own style. It's like it's like art. Just do it.
However, you want to do it, make it whatever you want. And you can still be part of this community that will that will support you and that will that will be excited to do it with you to see what you have. Yeah. Do you see do you find a correlation between comedy and skateboarding?
Sure. Yeah. Like, because I was talking about you know, do you know, do you know Mark Norman? Yeah.
You know, he was on our podcast. Have you ever seen him skate? Yeah. Yeah.
He can skate pull up. He has some. I want to say he did 360 flip. No slide.
Is that what he told me? Yeah. Yeah. Do a kick flip.
That's going to love these ledges. I think that ledges. But he also, he was in skate videos as a kid. Oh, for real.
He really thought that was going to be his calling. So you're talking to. But yeah, he came on. He come on our hockey, this podcast.
He's it's such a I remember the first time we bought some of my buddy Corey rebossed and got drunk as fuck and skateboard around Hollywood. And we were both like, holy shit. I had a realization. I was sitting on the toilet the other day and I was like, every time I bought a new skateboard was when you were making money.
Isn't that crazy? I don't know what it's saying. Like every time I went and says, like, I should get a skateboard. I should get a skateboard.
Like those moments of my life, right? So like the first time I bought a skateboard, I was probably, it was probably, I wish I could do my years. I was four years younger than you. So I was in, I was in probably seventh or eighth grade.
And that was the first time you probably started making money when you were in high school. Yeah. And then like 16, 17. And then again, when I was like 20, 21, 22.
And but like that period that I was trying to. I like how I'm your marker of that. I'm the measure of it's 20 making money again. I need a new skateboard.
But I do it pretty well right now. I'm going to get a new one. I have fucking four skateboards. All right.
I just bought my nephew a skateboard. Well, there you go. I guess that's it. I wish I wish it had been something that my daughters had gotten into early day bumming you out when you're not supporting because you're like, because it didn't bum me out.
I understood it, but it was, you know, we had, it was fun. It was super fun to get to show that with your, she's 14. Over real? My 16, 16 and 18.
And we let it get to twos. What's that? Sure. Yeah.
I mean, what? Fuck. So my, my, my son, my son, I'll never forget this day. He turned 18.
He texted me Black Sabbath. How to on his arm. They just got done. The day he turned 18.
I mean, what did you do? What am I going to do? What are you going to do? You ever say no?
Then you're just eight. He has emancipated. Oh, he really got a black Sabbath. Right.
Oh, that was the first one. I mean, yeah, he went crazy after that. Is that Riley? That's Riley.
Yeah. He actually got one of my graphics. You can't see it there, but he's got one of my graphics on his arm. Is that.
He did. Yeah. I mean, he grows in and cuts it. Oh, there's this.
That's his dog. So look, then I'm curious about parenting. So because you're someone that, OK, it could be argued. I'm obviously I'm in remote in the category.
You, but we both are men that chose to do different things for a living. Yes, I agree with that. You. So far so good.
We are clearly probably at the same level of what we do. Like I'm the best comedian ever. But like, do you like do you like I find myself? Maybe because I I know how I almost didn't make any money, getting worried for my kids, right?
Go just do something safe. Like don't fucking do stupid shit. Like don't she came out with this nose piercing. I was like, what the fuck are you doing?
And she was like, it looks cool, right? And I was like, no. And then my other daughter, I was like, that you got to support her. I go, no, I don't.
She looks like a fucking bull. It doesn't. I don't like it. And then I had to be like, and I okay, at least get you an example.
But he's looking cool as a subjective and you're obviously not her demographic. So she has this beautiful face and then she puts an earring in the center of it. So then that's the thing you look at. I'm not going to try to sway your opinion.
Like, yeah, I'm just trying to get some perspective. See, but okay, but have your kids ever done stuff where you go as a dad? You're like, no, this doesn't fucking happen in this house. Um, I don't, they never went to extremes with anything like that.
So drug, drug, alcohol, um, we've had the talks for sure. And we, but you get to be, you're a good guy. You never really partied. I, I didn't, but between my wife and I, we experimented, you know, through our youth, for sure.
Was like what? She grew up as a punk rocker in Detroit and you know, went through her thing. And I went through it. Mostly my examples are of my peers.
Yeah. So it's like, look, you guys, I, I was skating with these, these people and they had equal potential, if not more than me. And they started partying and it was gone. Yeah.
It was gone. Yeah. That's, that is kind of crazy when you look at that, because you look at someone like Jay Adams or who Jay Adams, I'm only knowing this from the movie, really. But he was just this like, and probably because I think a meal perse plays him in the movie.
And a meal, harsh is so fucking. You just charismatic that you feel like Jay Adams had at the world with his fingers. Tony Alba, like all those guys and then they, and a partying and it. Here's the, Just fades.
Here's the connection I find with stand up and skateboarding is, uh, they're, they're both jobs that with, in the industry, if you, if it looks like you're trying hard, they get mad at you. Like, if it looks like you're doing the right thing, you're like, no, man, I want to get sponsored. I want to really do great in this competition. Like the, it seems like the, the way to do it was like, I don't give a fuck.
I, maybe in the, in the old or days. No, I like that at all. In, now there is, I think there's more respect for the hustle now. Yeah.
Some people over do it and some people are, will turn you away because it's like, look at me, check us out. I did, you know, and it's almost like, okay, you don't need to, you don't need to hype it up so much. Yeah. Do your thing and we'll, we'll decide if it's good, but for sure in terms of the people who are taking it seriously, who are competing actively, I mean, they're, they're Nike athletes.
They're going to their, their practice places and getting trainers, you know what I mean? In our day and in the eighties and stuff, well, no one could afford that. And also we just, we absurd because our skating was the antithesis to organize sports. Yeah.
So you're not going to go have some trainers stretch you and have you work out to get better. Like that, that was absurd. But nowadays it is that serious and the stakes are high and no one is, is getting blasted for that. Yeah.
If anything, it's like we've come this far. The skaters are on the same level as NBA NFL. Oh, by far. I would say some are more popular.
Absolutely. And I know dudes, I like, I follow the old old, I end up following older dudes only because I don't know, during sub-rock, I watched a couple documentaries of guys on what's the, what's the YouTube series that shows, it's like later, maybe, epicly later, and I watched a bunch of guys that were big skaters in the day that maybe it's explaining what happened with their careers. Those are the ones who's the guy with no teeth. I know him.
I followed him on, uh, Andy Roy, I was a fucking fascinating dude. Yes, Steve. Now, I know they look great. He was a great person.
He really, yeah, he is. He just did a, he just did a meme on his Instagram that was a picture of me next to him and it said front of the Christmas tree, back of the Christmas tree. He looks great now. But yeah, I watched, uh, I like, watch him, Bam.
I'm still rooting for Bam. I don't know what's going on with Bam, but I'm still rooting for Bam. You never going to fucking lose that place in my heart. There's moments from Jackass and like, Oh, yeah.
And, and, uh, and Viva LaBam, like the hardest I've ever laughed and it sounds silly, because I met Ryan Dunn. I did a show on travel channel called Birth Conquer and Ryan Dunn auditioned to be, it was going to be called the Conqueror series. So it was going to be Ryan the Conqueror done the Conqueror, Birth Conqueror. We ever got it.
And so we all auditioned. Ryan Dunn was the coolest dude, like cool. He was. I mean, I traveled with him a couple of times on tour in some hard situations and he was the coolest.
What do you mean, hard situation? Just, you know, getting into weird places and we went on a rally and it was going through Serbia and you know what I mean? Just think things could have gone south very easily and he was the most collected. Yeah.
You know, he kept it together and that was when Bam was kind of partying it up and he kept him in line in those times. Yeah. But yeah, he was he was awesome. And I've actually been banned recently.
He's been I think he's he's living kind of in our area now and he's, you know, he's staying straight and he's getting again and I'm really happy to see him come around. Yeah. He's a kid. He's got a root for because I there was an episode of the two and I talked to both them about this when they at this audition where they were caught.
They got stuck at the top of a scissor lift. Do you ever see this episode? I don't think so. I think the two of them got up at the scissor lift and one of the guys went down and he like turned it off and then they're stuck up there.
And so the whole episode is these two idiots stuck a scissor lift and they're yelling and no one's coming. And so it's just two guys. It's like the beauty of comedy is two guys stuck in a situation that they don't want to be there and they're stuck in a scissor lift and they're yelling and finally someone comes over and they're like, finally, can you get us down? And the guy goes, just push the button.
And they're like, what? And they put the button and it lowers and I laughed. This is a this is a ski lift. It's very different than a scissor lift.
If you're holding scissors on a ski lift, does that matter? No, you know what's crazy is? Okay. What are the difference when we talk about scoring for snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding?
Do you know that? I mean, I know Rob Rob Rob, what's what I was trying to do? Like a like a summer rama chado? No, no.
Rob Dure deck. Rob Dure deck. Oh, he's scoring. Yeah.
It's a format. Yeah. It's the scoring is always based on difficulty, consistency, use of the area, style speed, you know, those are all it's more it's more refined now because it's an Olympic sport and definitely with Street League, Rob's League, they change their format for street because it was it was they have a routine where it's like you get your timed do all this matrix you can score you if you stay on, I mean, if you stay on better score and then there's sort of a best trick element where you get five tries and you're trying to make I think it's three out of five attempts or something like that. I don't have the exact format, but that's when things shifted and they use that format for the Olympic Street.
Oh, really? Yeah, which I think didn't play well to the non skating audience because the non skating audience saw people trying a trick and falling and then they're resetting for someone else. And that, you know what I mean? I do.
I do. Like they're expecting games action and stuff you see in video games. So that was I understood it because it obviously is more for skaters by skaters. But I think that that like it just didn't play well for the for the bigger audience.
Yeah, I just watched the pipeline Masters was just a couple of weekends ago and I was watching Ky, no, fuck, I forget his name, Koah, Koarothman compete. I was watching him on his on his YouTube. I can't think he recorded his set. It's so fucking bizarre, which is something I was talking about.
But the and he didn't like catch any good waves and then I went. That's it. Like there was just no good game. I mean, that but that's half the battle with surfing.
You know, getting getting in position and getting at least the amount of waves to get scored in a heat for sure. Um, and yeah, I put it back to the other format with skating. The cool thing about it is that when something happens, it's huge. Yeah, there's some crazy trick that could be something skaters only done once or twice in life.
Or maybe this is the only time they do it. So in those moments, it's massive, but in the down moments, it's hard to sit through. Yeah. Are you following any of what's going on?
By the way, Tom's been texting me all day and he's like, please have Tony. Watch my surfing video. He went surfing in Hawaii. Okay.
He goes, he's like, if he thinks I'm going to do it now, he's like, if you think I'm good enough, will you please, please, please, if we go surfing together? I was like, I'll ask. So this is Tom. That's Tom's mom trying to carry a camera.
It's next. So this is Tom's to go surfing. So he looks. Oh, okay.
Well, that's the end of the surf. I think he's pretty squat. Like he's taking the shit. Like he's taking the sop.
He's up. He's up. He's up. And then right now is when he gets comfortable.
He's like, Oh, wait, maybe I could not look like a jagga's. Okay. Well, he's coming off the way. Yeah, he's coming off the wave.
So what do you think of Tom's to go surfing? And by the way, is it weird that he has a native dude carrying his board for him? Where he's like, yeah, yeah, you can see the water. Yeah, I'm James.
You guys bring myself to shore. Oh, it's someone's gonna walk up with a suitcase. Yeah. And then they'll put out a table and pour in fresh water and cut him a mango.
He really is a little bit of a fucking settler. Like he's got settler vibes, doesn't he? I don't know about that. But I know it's actually that look like the guy carrying the board, though, you might have been the other guy's board and just more.
Oh, yeah. What he just leave is in the water. I'm done. I'm done.
I'm done. All right. Someone strike the surfboard. He could surf.
Yeah. I mean, if it was sort of a beach break like that, sure beach break. You serve. Yeah.
Yeah. Do we have scary sharks? No, not sharks. It's big waves.
Really? Yeah. It's different. Why?
The whole now, man, that's that changes things. Yeah. Yeah. That and the board coming back.
I had the board hit me in the head one time. Oh, yeah. Smack me in the head. Yeah.
So bad. I was a surf instructor. By the way, I only surf a surf instructor. I never do it by myself.
I always hire someone to go and get a water with me, push me into the wave. And so the guy came up and he was like, are you OK? I'm like, I'm 49. I'm 49.
I'm leaning. No, but I got cracked in the fucking head like fucking smacked. And I'm not when I was younger. I because I never really was good at start.