Tony Hawk
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And surprisingly, I don't have a million bazillion skateboards.
I know that's what I do for a living, but I don't even have a hundred.
Don't ask me.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So scary.
All the time.
I had a taste of fame in my late teens, kind of early 20s, in the 80s when skating was a fad.
I mean, that's pretty much how I could sum it up.
Um, like it was back to the future and suddenly there was a, there was an interest in skating.
There were skate parks opening.
Um, I was on the bones brigade, which was considered the elite team.
Oh yeah.
And you know, we're on tour all the time and we're in our late teens and girls suddenly giving you attention and you know, all that was, was very intoxicating.
Uh, but it, it all fell off very quickly.
Um, and I found myself, uh,
age 24 with a child on the way, two mortgages, my income just taking a nosedive every month because it was all based on royalties.