The Tom Green Farm (2026) s01e01 Episode Script
Build It and They Will Come!
1
Welcome
to the Tom Green Farm.
My name is Tom Green.
Here I am in my house,
built in 1857,
out here
in rural Ontario, Canada.
Where we'll be doing
a talk show,
not in a television studio,
but on a farm.
Interviewing celebrities,
people from all walks of life,
when they come visit me
here on my farm in my house.
Go get
the fucking car now!
And in the barn.
Thanks so much
for coming, Kirk.
- I'm stoked to be here.
- Out and around the property.
Come over here for fun.
You get your hand
bitten off, right?
Out in the woods.
- This is just
fucking crazy!
Down by the lake,
out in the canoe,
up on a horse,
and all over the property.
You're a pretty girl.
Oh, hey,
you're eating my jacket.
Tony Hawk is here today.
It's going to be a culmination
of months and months of effort
that went into building
one of the very few
vert half-pipe ramps
in Canada.
And Tony Hawk, the greatest
of all time skateboarder.
What Michael Jordan
is to basketball,
Tony Hawk is
to skateboarding.
A visit with him
and his friend Kevin Staab,
a legendary skateboarder
in his own right.
And I'm excited
about all the people
that we're going
to present to you.
- How are you?
- Glad to be here.
- Good to see you.
- Cheers.
- It's intense.
- George.
Tomorrow.
I'm Tom Green.
This is the Tom Green Farm.
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my favorite farm ♪
Because it is my farm ♪
If this was your farm ♪
You'd probably like it
more than I did ♪
That's just
because it was your farm ♪
But it's not your farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm! ♪
Hi, I'm Tom.
I'm a comedian and a filmmaker
and now a farmer,
trying to turn this land into
something that means something.
And that's Amanda,
my wife.
She keeps this place running
and somehow makes it
all look effortless.
She's the calm
animal whisperer
and incredibly,
she agreed to marry me.
Wow.
And this is my mom and dad,
Mary Jane and Dick.
And they've been with me
through all the chaos
and the detours
and the reinventions.
How many years have we been
making television shows now?
Since you were probably
20?
I think my parents are
happy that I'm home in Canada.
Close enough that they can
actually keep an eye on me.
I don't really see why
we have to redo the kitchen.
Well, I know.
That's the problem, isn't it?
Tom. The kitchen is dated.
It's really
not very functional.
The paint's not nice.
I've got paint,
I've got, what is
this one called? Linen?
And the counters
are not nice, Tom.
The dishwasher sucks,
and your dad likes to tidy up.
Well, we'll get
a new dishwasher.
What's this
one here?
And that board
over there.
- Accessible beige.
- Accessible beige.
Or linen.
- Or linen.
We paint and then
if we don't like it
then we could maybe talk
about--
- No
- Tom, it's a dump.
Accessible.
A dump?
It's older than you are,
this kitchen, and that's
The house
was built in 1857.
This kitchen is from the 90s,
the 1890s.
You're making yourself
sound a little bit,
like hoity-toity or something.
I left Hollywood.
We'd be in Hollywood,
you'd need some fancy kitchen.
Oh, good as new.
Look at that.
You're like your dad.
You don't like change, you know?
I moved home. I lived
in Los Angeles for 21 years.
I know. It took you 21 years
to figure that out.
When you get your new kitchen,
which you will,
because Amanda wants one--
No, no, no.
This will be good.
You'll be very happy,
Tom.
Why spend thousands
- You'll be excited.
- When all you need to do
is spend minutes.
We stay here when
you're traveling, and, you know,
I'm with Amanda.
We need a better kitchen.
I think it looks nice
just like this.
Tom, open your pocketbook
and get a new damn kitchen.
Think of all the beautiful
meals I'll make--
All sorts of cameras
and all sorts of stuff.
But hubby, you buy
a nice kitchen for Amanda.
And I'll make you
so many nice meals.
I know.
I think-I think
we've convinced him.
So we went back
into the woods
to find a secret spot
for a secret skateboard ramp.
Kind of a clearing here.
At first,
it seemed like a good idea
to have it way back,
hidden and private.
Especially up here maybe?
Like
But the further we went,
the more it became obvious
that getting all the lumber
and tools back here
was going to be
a real challenge.
Now this is, uh
When you bail you don't want
to bail into a rock.
So everything
was up in the air now.
We started to walk back
to the house,
thinking, "Maybe this isn't
such a good idea."
And then we found
this perfect clearing.
Up on a hill,
360-degree views.
It was perfect.
We're building a ramp
50 feet
by 12 feet by 28 feet.
- Yep.
- For Tony Hawk.
Been skateboarding
my whole life.
I've never had
a ramp like that.
It's a vert ramp.
We're on a big piece
of shield up here too.
Nice.
She's granite all around
and everywhere.
- It's going to be a good ramp.
- It's going to be good.
A lot of big changes
happening around here for me.
My first mule
and my first half-pipe.
What do you think
of that, Fanny?
You ever seen
a half-pipe before?
We're going to be making the
first ever log cabin half-pipe.
Very Canadian.
It's going to have
a log cabin on the back of it.
And, uh, man,
it's going to be cool.
Tony Hawk's coming soon.
And, uh, I think
he's going to be surprised.
It's kind of a surprise.
He said he was going
to come do the show,
but I don't think he realized
I was going to make
an actual
vert ramp for him.
And of course,
none of this would exist
without the masterminds
behind the ramp itself.
Jake, the architect,
who turned lumber into art,
and Dan, a pro skateboarder
and geometry wizard
who helped design
and test the whole thing.
The animals here have
their own personalities.
Fanny the mule,
Alora the horse,
her baby Aria,
and Kia the donkey.
And I've gained
the trust of these creatures,
even though they have
absolutely zero respect
for my personal space.
And somehow between feeding
everyone, doing chores,
and chasing down
whatever chicken escape artist
is making a run for the woods,
I'm living.
This new life feels right.
This is Fanny.
Fanny is a mule.
Her father, her sire,
is a Percheron horse,
17 hands tall.
Her mama was a mammoth donkey.
So she stands
a 16-3 hands tall,
which is, uh,
bigger than most horses.
She's probably,
until proven wrong,
the tallest rideable mule
in Canada.
She's 12 years old
and I've had her
for over two years now.
And we've really kind of formed
a good trusting relationship.
We go for long rides
out in the wilderness
around here.
She's my primary
source of transportation here
at the farm.
Before Fanny came along,
I would ride around
on the side-by-side.
Mules are stronger
than a horse.
They're a little bit harder
to gain their trust.
They question things
a bit more than a horse.
If I'm with
the other horses too much,
she can get jealous.
Show everybody
how big you are. Come on.
Big lady, huh?
It's been a real life-changing
experience getting this one.
I don't like to say
I have favorites,
but we do have
a special bond because
of our long rides
in the wilderness together.
Little rubs.
Scratch your ear.
There you go.
My bum is on the mule.
Look at me. My bum is
on the mule, right?
Hi, Tom.
- Hello.
- How are you?
- Very good.
- Can I pat?
- No, don't come too close.
Oh, okay.
I don't want her to step
on your foot.
Okay.
Plus, I don't want you to move
off your mark.
- Yeah.
- You know how to do this, Mom.
I know, but
I like moving around.
Don't look at the camera.
Don't look at the camera.
- I'm not. No, I wasn't.
- Okay.
Don't tell me
what to do all the time.
I'm a seasoned professional.
I know, you've been making
television a long time.
I have.
You're like
a television person.
Sometimes against
my better judgment, but yeah.
Because sometimes people don't
realize that you actually
- Like you.
- Yeah.
Yes, I do, Tom.
- Yeah. Do you like the ramp?
- Yeah, that's amazing.
I mean, I haven't built it
yet, but we're building a ramp.
I know, that's crazy.
I hope you're not
going to go on it.
Well, I'm going
to go on it.
Well, I thought
it was for Tony Hawk.
It is for Tony Hawk,
but for sure
he's going to peer pressure me
into trying it.
Well, don't.
I'm not beyond
peer pressure from Tony Hawk.
Well, I'll have to
speak to the young fellow then,
won't I?
Can't have a vert ramp on
your property and not ride it.
But think of the timing
of when Tony's coming.
Yeah.
What happening
two weeks later?
You going to show up
in bandages to your wedding?
- Don't put that out there.
- Are you that superstitious?
Yeah. It's called manifesting.
You're manifesting.
- Well, that's bullshit, Tom.
- No, it's not bullshit.
- It is bullshit.
- It's manifesting.
- Woke shit.
- No, no, it's not woke shit.
It's if you think
about something, it happens.
- No.
- I imagined getting a mule.
Look at me. It worked.
That's planning
to do something.
No, I manifested--
You're not planning
to have an injury.
- I manifested this mule.
- No.
And I manifested the ramp,
and I'm going to manifest
a backside air.
But I'm not going to manifest
being on crutches
with gauze
at my wedding.
Well, of course not.
I'm going to start out by just
riding at the bottom, you know.
It's going to be one of the
of the best skateboard ramps
in eastern Ontario
and western Quebec.
I know, but that doesn't
mean you have to--
Skateboard on it?
- Yes.
- I think it does.
I think it's part of,
you know, having Tony Hawk,
the best skateboarder ever,
coming
and making him feel at home
and showing him
that Canada loves skateboarding
and love him
and it has nothing to do
with you
dropping in.
Okay, maybe you're right,
maybe you're right.
I think so.
No, I'm going to do it.
Well, you know
what's going to happen.
Your dad's going
to want to do it too.
Mmh.
That's not good.
- No.
Okay!
(crashing(
- There's Phil now.
- Yeah, I know.
Hey, Phil,
how are you?
- Awesome. Awesome.
- It's been a long time.
We haven't seen
each other in a while.
I don't think we have.
What's up, what's up?
What's up, man?
What's up, Mary Jane?
How are you doing?
Nice to see you, I'm good.
I like this
this thing that you wear.
Yeah, I know. I've been
cold out here sometimes.
It's a little chilly today,
but what a lovely day.
What a lovely day.
It's a lovely day out here.
It's a great Phil Giroux.
- Yes.
- Amazing.
I'm pretty excited
to show Phil
the ramp
that we're building.
- Ooh, you should see.
- Totally, skate ramp.
Yeah, it's going
to be amazing.
Phil and I grew up
skateboarding together.
That's how we met,
through skateboarding.
More of like
street skaters, though.
Less so ramp skaters.
We've got
the foundation of it--
Wicked. Wicked.
- That's pretty exciting.
- Wicked.
But I'm just, well, my mom's
a little concerned because
you know, obviously
we're building a vert ramp.
Of course. You know, I kind of
had that thing when I
When you hurt your ankle.
Hurt my ankle
dropping into a ramp.
So I've got a bit
of a ramp, half-pipe PTSD.
Okay, good.
Ever since
that day when I was,
I don't know, 17, 18, whatever.
Mary Jane is concerned
about me even trying to skate.
Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's true,
but he's probably going
to use more like,
the cabin part of the ramp.
- That's what he says, yeah.
- Less so the ramp.
- Oh, yeah.
He'd still be like doing,
you know, a little bit
of Wicked.
I've been having dreams
of pulling a backside air.
Yup.
Well, if you manifest it,
it will happen.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Totally.
- Do you believe
in manifestation?
- I do, I do.
- My mom doesn't believe in it.
- Yeah, yeah. Manifestation.
If you think it
you will achieve it.
Let's go show you what
we're getting started here.
Okay, are we doing?
We're going
- Yeah, let's go.
- We're going this way?
- Yeah.
- We're going? Okay.
Can I like stand on it?
Can I like
You can, yeah.
You can stand on it. Yup.
Oh, wow.
Manifest a leap off it.
- It's all leveled?
- What's that?
- It's all leveled?
- Yeah, looks like.
Canadian, uh, Quebecois
extreme sports champion
Pierre-Luc Gagnon.
Well, that sounds like
He might know what he's doing,
I think.
He's actually helping us
design it.
- Wicked. Wicked.
- With some other people
as well.
Yeah. He's French-Canadian
like you.
It's amazing.
Pretty cool. You guys
can speak French and stuff.
We sure can.
You can join in too because
you speak French as well.
Pretty well. Pretty good.
I do speak French.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You speak it too,
right? - Absolutely.
- We're good?
- One hundred percent.
My French isn't perfect,
but
Your French is
pretty good.
I'll have to
practice
Your French is
probably better
Help me practice!
than like 75% of
Canadians.
No, Philippe,
speak to me in French.
Your French is actually
quite good, Tom.
- Very good.
- Yes.
In this scene,
in French?
Sous-titres.
- Sous-tilt?
- Sous-titres.
Sous-tits?
No! Titres! Title.
Sous-tit.
Sous-tit-le.
And here's
my friend deadmau5,
Canadian music producer,
DJ, and icon.
He's popping by just to check
out the ramp we're building.
We're building
a skateboarding ramp.
- A little
- A little skateboarding ramp.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- What's up, how's it going, guys?
Hey, what's happening?
Oh my gosh.
It's my friend Joel, deadmau5.
deadmau5 Joel,
good to meet you.
- Jake?
- Hey, Jake.
- Nice to meet you.
- Awesome, how's it going?
We're building
the cabin part, Tom.
It's going to be the cabin
side here, right?
That's right, so we're
getting that all sorted.
Looks like indoor,
you're going to walk into it?
Yeah, this will be a little
door here and some windows.
And it'll be a little
a little bunky.
- Oh, nice.
- The first log vert ramp.
Have you built a ramp before?
I've built lots of ramps
and jumps
and bike jumps
and snowboard parks.
But vert ramps, no.
Got some good advice and some
good counsel on the details.
Right.
But now, we're mapping out
how to build this cabin.
We're trying to keep it
in the same theme
as the construction
of the main ramp.
Yeah, we got a nice
six-foot deck up there.
It'd be like a hangout deck
on top of this thing. So.
Let's just check it out,
because this is kind of like
happening fast.
12 feet tall.
- 12 foot tall.
- Okay.
- Foot and a half of vert.
Okay.
And a 14 and a half foot
flat.
You're never dropping in
on this in your life.
I can tell you my odds
of dropping in
just went up by 50%
for sure.
I'll have you to thank
when I'm, you know,
in a cast on my, uh,
on my wedding day.
Feels kind of
I think you just got
a full commit and just do it.
- Feels kind of
- Yeah, just send it.
Feels kind of good.
I think I got it.
I watched too many videos last
night to see that Danny Wade.
Careful. Careful there.
I'm okay.
You can do it, Tom.
The logic is
if I wouldn't jump
from this height?
Yeah.
I wouldn't drop in
on a board with wheels.
Probably good logic there
for sure.
Yeah, I don't know.
Nice.
Yeah, it's like if you were
I'm thinking if I'm, like, going
to go in with a skate
I'm just gonna hit
my face right there.
Totally.
Yeah, when you look
from this angle,
it's definitely terrifying.
Wait till it's finished.
There's some 10-year-olds
you see online right now,
it's just mind-blowing.
But it's definitely
much steeper
of a transition
than I was
So I'm gonna stick
to my wake surfing,
it's low impact,
you know, it's slow.
- Yeah, that's the old man move.
- There's no wheels,
just the board.
- Yeah. Amazing, Jake.
Incredible.
- So far, so good.
With every screw,
every sheet of plywood,
the anticipation grew.
We weren't
just building a ramp,
we were carefully
preparing for a moment
that none of us really
believed could actually happen.
Tony Hawk coming to the farm?
Man, that's totally rad.
- Nice! Wow.
Whoa!
Come here!
Okay, wow!
This is it, huh?
Holy cow.
- Oh, yeah.
It's black. It's very black.
That looks nice.
Yeah, he said there's
no UV protection in it,
so it'll go to kind of
an ashy gray color.
Nice. It's smooth, huh?
Yeah, very smooth.
All right. Well,
looks pretty cool.
Hard part too is the sheets
aren't square to begin with.
I don't want
to hear any of this.
And they're four by four foot
quarter inch.
- Oh, fuck.
- Eight foot.
- Are they?
- Quarter inch.
Yeah.
So we changed our holes
to make that work.
So we squared our one edge
as best we could,
and we always worked
that one way.
I mean,
we'll be all right.
You just will end up fixing it
down here in the bottom.
But it's just,
yeah, it's hard.
When it's all on,
we won't even notice it.
After the fact,
it's just not--
If you didn't hear us
talking about it,
you'd be like,
"Fuck yeah, boys, let's go!"
It's just a bummer, a hurdle
to have to get over to do it.
You're getting
the inside scoop.
That looks like
a pretty big space.
That's exactly our problem.
Like this much
it needs to move in.
But we'll get it.
Sometimes I look around
at my friends and neighbours
and see everybody
coming together
to make this amazing thing
happen.
All of us anticipating
the arrival of a legend,
and we know it's gonna be a day
that we'll never forget.
Jake and crew,
thank you so much.
Thank you, Dan, for your advice
here on everything.
It's an amazing day
in the history
of Canadian skateboarding.
It's the first ever
vert ramp log cabin.
What kind of hurdles
have there been to build this?
Just time.
It was just a last-minute
idea sort of thing
and a real panic race
to get it up and get it planned
and Dan was critical.
Dan was able to jump in early
and, uh,
we had a good crew and
some background people on it.
And blasted it up.
How many ramps like this
are there in Canada?
How many vert ramps?
As far as I know,
there's four, for sure.
Um, my ramp, one in BC,
Toronto, and here.
But no, we've got Tony Hawk
and Kevin Staab coming.
He knows we're building this,
but he hasn't seen
finished photos.
He saw some early shots.
Just wanted
to make sure he realized
what he was getting
himself into.
How cool is this?
Here we go, autumn leaves.
Yeah, see all those fallen
down fences there?
Those have all been there
for a hundred plus years.
Really?
With cedar
and then they tore them out
because they'd all
fallen down
and that's when we built
the fences out up front.
This is a nice spot
for a nice autumn leaves
sort of vista here.
I just want to stop here
for a second.
Wow, look at the colors
of this place.
What do you call this area?
It's a hay field, you know?
So we actually take
all those hay bales, all come
off of this every August.
There's about seven fields
like this on the property.
- Wow.
- Every August,
we bale up about
800 of those bales.
How old were you when you met?
He was 13, 12 or 13.
I was 11.
We looked like we were 10.
Were you skateboarding already
when you met?
Yeah, we met
through skating.
- Met through skating.
- Yeah.
There were very few people
our age.
- Or our size.
- Very small and scrawny.
That's so awesome having like
a lifelong friendship like that.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
- Still get to do it,
it's crazy.
Do you remember the moment
you met each other?
Do you remember that--
- I do.
Colton Skate Park.
Us being there.
And you were
with your dad.
And this is
how great it was.
The adolescents,
because this is 1980,
the adolescents are playing at
the skate park just on repeat.
And we're kind of like
riding around,
but I don't know if
we've really talked much,
and then we're in the pro shop
and he's got taquitos.
And he asked me
if I want a taquito.
- Oh, yeah?
So he gives me a taquito,
we start talking,
and then the next thing
I know, he's like,
" If you don't want
to cruise home with Grant,
my dad can give you
a ride home."
And then we talked
all the way home.
I offered my dad a lot.
That was it we just got
to be friends after that
and wanted to hang out
all the time
because we had so much fun
skating together.
But that moment's kind of
crazy for me
and another thing that's gnarly
is if you think about life
and you want to be better
at something,
it's always good
to hang out with somebody
way better than you.
And that just naturally
happened for me,
which is
the craziest thing
because I was with this guy
all the time.
- Right, right.
- We both had our strengths,
so I'd watch him too.
I mean, this guy,
he invented the half cap.
He invented the blunt.
- Yeah, yeah.
I mean, the blunt
that people do on mini ramps.
- Yeah.
- Here he is.
- Oh, it's amazing.
- The originator.
I mean, when I was, you know,
I guess probably 15 years old,
I mean, I've, you know
was looking at you
and both of you in Transworld
and Thrasher magazine.
I mean, to me, I just,
it's so cool to be,
to have you guys here,
even though I've known you
for a long time,
but it's like
it still goes back to like, holy
shit, you know, Kevin Staab.
The thing is, we all carry
those skate ethos with us.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's
what carried us so far
and why
we still get to do it,
because it was never
about some goal
of fame or fortune
or anything.
It was just like, as long as
we get to keep doing this,
everything's cool.
When you're young
and doing something
like skateboarding
that was just
not considered cool
and very much shunned
and, you know,
like, we got made fun of
for skating.
It's like you weathered
that storm together.
So those bonds
are unbreakable.
- Holy shit.
- Oh, wow.
We're really
fucking doing this.
Yeah. Want to see
a shack I built?
- Yeah.
- It's the swamp shack,
I call it.
This is just
fucking crazy!
That's a beaver lodge
right there.
- Really?
- See that pile of sticks?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
So this water is basically here
'cause of
the beavers dammed up
right there.
You're living
in a cartoon, Tom.
Yeah. You know, it's weird.
Like, this is actually
kind of
feels more normal to me
than L.A. did.
And I was in L.A. for 20 years.
- Understood.
When I say living in a cartoon.
- Yeah.
It's not a diss.
Come see the lake.
This is just a swamp.
This is a
- Okay.
- We'll go sit at the lake.
- I love the swamp.
We'll go sit down
at the lake.
Have you considered
draining the swamp?
Yeah, we need
to drain the swamp.
This is the coolest thing.
Yeah, I can see it
on your face.
You're looking
at it like it's,
like the way I would have looked
at the desert, you know?
Oh my God!
Are you What in the f?
This is what put it
over the top, this place.
Wow.
Good swimming.
Wow, this is really cool.
Welcome to Canada, man.
- This is so cool.
- Unbelievable.
Wow, you are living the dream.
Truly living the dream.
- Yeah, man. Thanks.
This isn't even real.
This is not fucking real.
This is like a postcard.
No, it's insane.
Tom, this is
the neatest place ever.
It's been a great morning.
I, uh, had to cut
the phragmites
with my Stihl brush saw.
S-T-I-H-L,
like the chainsaw company.
I was cutting these phragmites.
Actual pronunciation
is phragmites.
They're an invasive species
from China.
They're kind of taking over
a lot of the ponds.
They're a large, tall plant
with purple head of seeds.
They look like cattails,
but much, much taller.
So it's a bit of a chore
every year
to get out there and make sure
we cut the phragmites
before
they seed themselves.
And I think every year we're
having a few less phragmites.
Hopefully, one of these days,
we'll rid the pond entirely
of phragmites.
But hopefully not entirely
because then we won't be able
to say phragmites anymore
on the podcast,
which won't be fun.
That will be a sad day.
Okay, so you haven't looked
at it yet.
I haven't looked.
I've looked,
I've only seen
this side of everything.
One second, don't look,
don't look yet.
Okay, you can look at it now,
you can look at it now.
Oh, wow.
- That's beautiful.
- Does it look like a ramp?
It looks like a home.
No, so it's the first ever,
I'm not sure for sure if it is,
but we're saying
it's the first ever
log cabin
vert ramp in Canada.
I would agree. Yeah.
This is really cool.
Wow, this is built really well.
Did you ever imagine
you'd have your own vert ramp?
I never really thought
I would.
Honestly, it's kind of
It's in honor of you guys coming
that we built this, you know?
- That mural up there?
- Isn't that nice?
My friend Shane did that.
Yeah, no, this is, uh,
it's exciting.
I'm excited, uh,
that you like it.
I think the guys that built it
are gonna be really stoked.
So thank you.
And it went up
so fast, like,
they started, like,
three and a half weeks ago.
These guys knew
what they were doing.
There we go.
I've never seen a vert ramp
with a black surface.
- It fades, apparently.
- It fades?
It will fade
to more of a grayish color.
It's called
Pure Surface,
and it's a Canadian version
of Skate Light, basically.
Apparently,
it's super water repellent.
- Yeah.
- Nice view up here, right?
Yeah. This will be cool.
I'm speechless.
This is crazy.
Come check out the cabin
here on this side.
Wow.
It sort of looks
like the house,
which, you know, was built
in 1857, my place.
Usually, the underneath
of the ramp
is just for putting
your pads on,
and it is one
of the grossest places.
Yeah, it's not
finished yet.
We just finished,
like literally just
So you already set the bar
pretty high with the exterior.
We haven't done
the interior of the ramp yet,
but, you know.
- Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
I've never been under a ramp
that felt inviting before.
We have a wood stove in here
with flex seal.
In the winter,
it'll be all insulated.
You'll be able to like,
wood stove,
we're still gonna put like
a little, you know,
hangout spot in here.
- This is so insane.
It's so cool. Wow.
I don't know.
We're honored.
We're overwhelmed.
This is really cool.
- Welcome.
- Thanks, buddy.
- Honestly.
- I appreciate it.
- Seriously, guys.
- Dude, thanks for having us.
This is insane.
I still appreciate you guys
coming, man. It's so cool.
I know we're out in the middle
of Where the hell are we?
- Which is the coolest part.
- We just love the adventure.
It's gonna be a fun day.
We would have come even
if you just had a Slappy Curb.
Yeah, yeah. Oh shit,
I should have just done that.
I have never done a podcast on
the flat bottom of a ramp, so.
- Well, that makes me feel good.
- Yep.
This is awesome.
Thank you guys for coming
all the way here
to rural Ontario.
Well, thanks
for building a vert ramp.
I'm just going
to put this up
and get a little shot
of the
I want to show you
where you are, basically.
Oh. Oh.
So, see how we're, like,
essentially in the middle of,
like, friggin' nowhere?
Wow.
Wow!
We're just surrounded
by wilderness here.
I'll do a little
I was hoping you were going
to show a couple of other ramps
that are off in the distance.
There's the lake
we just were at, see?
And what do you think, Kevin?
Like, you grew up
in Arizona and California,
and, uh, which is desert.
What do you think of this
boreal forest we're in here?
It's like Disneyland
for adults.
It might be one of the coolest
places I've ever been.
Tony, you just sold
your skateboard
that you did the 900 on
for a million dollars?
Officially, the hammer dropped
at 900,000
and then they have fees
and taxes at the auction house.
- Plus tax over a million?
- Yeah, yes, yeah.
Were you surprised that
it sold that much at auction?
Absolutely.
I mean, that's
the highest selling,
the most expensive selling
skateboard of all time, right?
By far, yeah. I didn't
know what to expect.
I wanted to raise money
for our foundation,
The Skatepark Project,
and I thought that maybe
it would beat the record,
the previous record
of a skateboard, um, sale,
and then it just suddenly, as
it was happening in real time,
it just started
going up and up and up.
Let me land this first.
There we go.
It's weird because
skateboarding's become
sort of a very cool thing to do
now for kids, right?
But back
when we were kids
It was the furthest thing
from cool you could do.
Whatever
your shortcoming was
or your body style
or whatever it was,
you were just
going to get bullied.
And so to choose
to skate was like,
why would you put yourself
even further
from the cool hierarchy?
Kevin, was there a moment
when you realized
you guys were both gonna be two
of the top pro skaters of the
was it the 80s?
I was just having more fun
doing that than anything else.
Like, I didn't really play
any other sports.
I wanted to play baseball,
but again,
I was too little and everybody
kind of made fun of me anyway,
so I'd kind of go
in the baseball games there
and just ride wheelies
on my bike
and hang out
at the snack shop
and then go ride my board
all the time.
- Yeah.
- And so there was always
a couple of kids older than me
down the street
that I tried to mimic
or be like them,
but after meeting him and then
us riding for a little bit,
I mean, obviously,
we were trying to be better
than the guys from the 70s
that were still riding.
Yeah, and they were slaloming
through pylons and stuff?
Yeah, but
they were skating pools.
- Oh, they were skating pools.
- At that point,
I think that's what got us into
skating, where it was exciting.
'Cause before that,
before pool skating,
it was just slaloming
and handstands
and 360s and pirouettes.
And that was more like dancing,
and we saw people flying.
Skating in empty pools
in backyards,
and then at some point
someone built a half-pipe.
And at some point,
pools started
getting a little bit bigger.
Um, they started putting
flat bottom in the pools
so that you had time
between the walls,
and then we'd mimic that
on ramps.
And then at some point,
what was considered
pool skating and vert skating
became half-pipe skating.
Yeah, and that was kind of
when I got into skateboarding.
Like, if you picked up
a copy of
Transworld Skateboarding
Magazine or Thrasher,
it was all vert.
So now it's been more street
skating in the last, you know,
20 years or something, right?
Hasn't it been?
- Oh, for sure.
- Yeah.
But it's more that
in those days,
street skating
was just transportation.
People didn't understand
how to use landscape
or handrails or ledges
the way they do now.
So, you didn't really think of,
well, yeah, I'm a street skater.
Um, if you skated on the ground,
you were a freestyler.
Yeah.
And, you know,
back in our day,
like, freestylers were nerds.
Right.
And the cool skaters
were the pool skaters.
There must have been a moment
where like all of a sudden
Is there a moment
you looked at Tony and said,
"Holy shit,
you're the best in the world."
Oh, I'm watching it happen, yeah.
I've been watching it
happen for 40 years.
Yeah. You remember the moment
though you realized,
"This is crazy?"
Oasis?
Uh, when you did the
backside ollie into indy air
in front of Duane Peters.
Do you remember
that moment or?
I do, yeah.
That's when things changed
and I saw it happen.
- Is that like a skate--
- Like in 80, 81, yeah.
That was a big skate park
or something, Oasis?
That was the park
in San Diego.
That was Tony's local.
Do you know
who else was there?
Rodney Mullen
and Steve Rocco.
Yeah, that was Rodney's
first contest, right?
That was Rodney's
first competition.
And Rodney and Steve Rocco
came over to the pool
to watch me do this because they
thought it was something unique.
Uh-huh.
Because no one had ollied
into their airs before.
Right.
And so I ollied
into an indy air and I made one.
And I remember vividly
Steve Rocco turning to Rodney
and saying,
"That's the future."
To the non-skater
basically is,
and maybe I don't even
understand,
but before people would go up
and they would grab their board
before--
- Before they hit the lip.
- Before they flew over.
But then you just went up
and didn't grab it
and just kind of
kicked the board.
Yeah and I only did it
because I was desperate
to get air
and I didn't have the size
or the strength
to reach down
and grab my board beforehand.
So you'd go
as fast as you could
and you'd kick the board
before you get to the top.
And launch upward
and then catch it at the peak.
- Catch it in the air.
- Yeah.
Honestly, I didn't think
I was creating
a revolution
or anything.
I just was like,
I want to get high,
and that's the only way
I can get above the lip.
Come on out here, everybody.
Come on.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh, we're not gonna
get him out.
Okay, there we go.
Check this out.
Are you just playing catch
with chickens?
Come on, guys.
Go say hi to Tony Hawk.
Oh, I had it.
Come on.
Is this an initiation?
Oh, you can put him
on your head.
- Come on, man.
- Yeah. There you go.
Okay.
There you go.
- I enjoy it here.
Yeah.
This is Aria.
This is the one I
ride all the time with, Fanny.
We go for rides.
Let me show you Fanny.
She's pretty fun.
Yeah. So there she is.
- Wow.
- She's very chill, yeah.
She's got horseshoes on.
She just got them
recently, so.
Hey, baby,
show everyone your shoes.
Come here. It's okay.
No, no. Come here.
We don't need
to see her shoes, Tom.
Is it kind of neat, though?
She seems a little annoyed
with you.
Put your foot here.
There you come on, Fanny!
Gimme your foot.
There you go.
See her shoe?
- Oh, my God.
- It's okay.
- I believe you, Tom.
Yeah. She doesn't feel like
showing her shoe right now.
Yeah, that's fine.
You don't want to show
everyone your shoe?
Yeah, we'll look
at her shoe later.
It's cool. It's like
a horseshoe.
Okay, we don't have
to look at her shoe now.
Want to go, uh
Wait, I want to see her shoe.
I never really got
a good look at it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool. Let's go.
Come on. Okay, lift it.
Want to show that one?
- I just saw the other one.
- Want to show the other one?
Let go, look it up.
- There you go.
- There you go.
- Nice.
- That is a nice horseshoe.
- That is a beautiful shoe.
- Isn't that nice? See?
- Yeah.
Give some apples.
This is Alora.
- Yeah.
- This is Kia right here.
She's the donkey.
There you go.
Oh, yeah, big one.
- Oh, hello.
Flat hand, very flat hand.
They kind of grab it
with their lips, you know?
Don't get
your finger bitten off.
Thanks.
Helpful safety tip.
Yeah. Yeah.
Feed them, but don't let them
eat your finger.
Yeah. Yeah,
that's the main thing.
- Cool guidance, Tom.
- They probably won't.
When's the spinning start?
The very first 540
was actually a hand plant.
Okay.
That was Billy Ruff
did a frontside hand plant 540.
It was called the unit.
That was around 82.
And then I learned
how to do that
without putting
my hand down,
so that was a frontside 540.
In 84,
Mike McGill figured out
how to do 540's backside,
and that was
the game changer.
And that's why
it's called the McTwist?
That's why
it's called McTwist.
'Cause of Mike McGill?
- 720 was the next year.
Were you the first one
to do a 720?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- I remember that.
And then it was, how many
years later,
till you this infamous moment,
one of the greatest moments
in sports?
- 14 years.
- Took 14 years to go from
14 years
to figure that out, yeah.
So two complete revolutions,
and then 14 more years
to get to the 900.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then that's the reason
why that board
that you'd spun the 900 on
just went at auction
for a million bucks, right?
That's like
Yeah, I mean, that was
definitely
a zeitgeist moment
in my career
and some people say in the
awareness of skateboarding.
Didn't ESPN call that
one of the greatest moments
in sports history?
That moment that you did
that night?
Well, it was the first time
that they ever highlighted
skateboarding on their
Sports Centre highlights.
Yeah.
So to us,
that was a big deal.
Do you remember
when we met in New York?
I taught you
to kickflip.
- Yes, I do remember that.
- In the MTV offices.
My show had just been picked
up by MTV.
And we'd been on the air for
a week or something like that.
- Yeah.
- Our website,
tomgreen.com, was up,
and we had a contact us
page, which was like,
kind of before
people had websites and stuff.
- Or email.
- Yeah.
And Glenn Humplik, who you know,
came into the office,
said, Tom,
Tony Hawk emailed you.
He wants to come
on the show, right?
And then, you know, like a week
later or something like that,
you were in New York.
I came and met you
at your hotel.
I said, I just wanted
to skateboard
to the office with you.
- You kind of also,
you pre-empted it
where you said,
"Look, I'd love to go
do some stuff with you.
You know,
let's go skate.
But just so you know,
like when we start doing it,
I'm going to get kind of loud."
That was when
we were filming, yeah.
Yeah, but he had
to give me the full warning
of what the show
will be like.
Because we had
an actual skate
to the office
without the cameras.
Right, but I knew you
from your show.
Yeah.
And then I said,
you know what,
I'm going to be an idiot
now that we're filming,
and I was probably embarrassed
to do that in front of you.
It was great.
Did you think
you'd be skateboarding--
- Definitely not.
- In your 50s?
- No.
- No.
- No.
- When we were young,
once people got in their 20s,
they quit.
Yeah, the generation above us,
most of them just disappeared.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'll never forget,
Thrasher magazine printed
a photo of Mark Lake
doing an invert, and
it was like, Mark Lake, 30,
and still ripping!
And I remember
looking at it like, "Whoa.
I wonder if I'll still be
skating when I'm 30."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And now you're
- Here we are.
- Yeah.
- Almost double that.
When did skateboarding become
a huge business? What year?
Like it was always
a big business,
but then there was a moment
where it became
much more mainstream.
- I would say early 2000s.
- Yeah.
Skating has always
been cyclical.
So it had a boom
in the 70s when we started,
it had a boom in the 80s
when you started.
Yeah, I was saying earlier,
when I saw Back to the Future,
and I saw Michael J. Fox riding
to school on his skateboard
and sliding on the tail,
you know, and then picking,
I just
I wanted to do that.
Yeah, there's a whole
generation of skaters
that started
because of that.
There was sort of
a perfect storm
of X Games
started getting popular.
Like I said, our video game
created a fan base for skating
that didn't necessarily skate
but was interested in it.
And then all of a sudden,
it was just sort of,
it was just front and center.
I'm thankful
to see it come of age.
I'm thankful to see that
kids readily choose to skate
like they do other sports now.
Yeah.
And it's not
it's not something
that their parents
are discouraging necessarily.
I mean, maybe they discourage it
because of safety factors,
but they're not
discouraging because,
"Those kids are punks
and they're no good
and they've got no motivation."
It's like
Yeah, that's all
we heard as kids.
But also just losers
and slackers,
and it was like, do you know the
amount of dedication and pain
and perseverance it takes
to learn one skate trick?
Yeah.
Slacker is the opposite
of that mindset.
Well, the day is here.
My friends and neighbors
and local family's gathering.
We didn't just want to do
a private skate session.
We wanted a moment.
Now we're standing
shoulder to shoulder,
waiting for the magic
to happen.
Waiting for something impossible
to occur in a hayfield.
Let's have a round of applause
for Tony and Kevin.
Thank you for coming.
- Thank you.
Uh, before we show you my
limited abilities on the ramp,
I did want to bring Jake
out here,
who worked with our team here,
his team here,
to build the ramp,
who I'll introduce you to.
But we have a special
launching ceremony here
to kick off this vert ramp.
By the way, it was pointed out
to me the other day that,
you know, Canada being
a bilingual country,
my last name, Green,
in French is Vert.
Yeah.
On our behalf, do you mind
changing it to Tom Vert legally?
Thomas Vert. Tom Vert.
But we had a little thing
we wanted to do here.
Let me see
what we have here.
In honor of you guys
coming here,
we're going to place this
on the ramp.
Wow.
There's a plaque
on September 28, 2025.
Tony Hawk and Kevin Staab
visited Tom Green's farm
and launched themselves
into history
from the top of this radical,
one-of-a-kind
log cabin vert ramp.
Wait, you're assuming
we're going from the top?
Now that you've written it
in stone.
Yes, you have to go
from the top now, yeah.
All right.
But, no, thank you guys
for coming.
Yeah, thank you.
Hey, this looks amazing.
- Thank you guys.
- Thank you so much.
- Appreciate all that.
- Tom Vert,
thanks for having us, man.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Tom Vert.
Yeah, no,
we really appreciate it.
A new pro model
coming soon.
There we go.
Well, speaking of which,
I am wearing
my earlier in
- Birdhouse.
- Early 2000s released.
OG.
It's been so long that that
could be actually vintage now.
- Yeah.
- That's how old we are, Tom.
- We're getting up there.
- Yeah.
Want to do the honors
here, Dan, and stick this up?
Yeah, there we go.
I don't think I've ever seen
a plaque on a ramp like that,
especially
before we skate.
- That is nice.
- Wow.
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it. Okay.
When's the last time
you fully padded up?
I haven't really, really
ever had this
level of padding before.
- Warrior mode.
- Yeah.
So the parks
we grew up skating,
you couldn't walk in the door
unless you were fully padded.
- Right.
I got to get you
a YEPA helmet,
but those are good pads.
- Oh? Not the right helmet?
Yeah. We just
started a helmet brand, so.
Oh, okay. YEPA.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I gotta get a YEPA
helmet for sure.
- Yeah.
- Screw this piece of crap.
Yeah.
Go like that, right?
- Yeah.
- There we go.
See?
- It's good.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
There we go.
There we go!
Try to bend your knees out
instead of together.
- Okay.
- Try to keep them
pointed out more.
It'll keep your balance
better on your way back.
Mostly on this one.
There you go.
Okay.
Now you're getting more speed
when you're coming in fakie.
One motion right here.
There you go. Yeah!
That's awesome!
So if you were riding
harder wheels,
you would be going
a little bit higher.
Yeah. Oh, shoot. Okay, wait.
Nice.
Yeah!
So thank you.
Thank you very much.
- That was awesome!
- That was solid!
Dude, yeah!
- I'm gonna tell you.
- That's it!
So because
these wheels are so soft,
it's making you work harder
for speed.
Little bit harder wheels.
- Yeah.
You'd find yourself
going higher instantly.
Can I try one
of your boards?
Yeah, of course.
If you just practice this
for a little bit,
you're going to be
so comfortable that
going three quarters the way up
to the top is going to be easy.
Yeah.
But all these steps
in the beginning
that are very important
to just make sure
that you're comfortable.
- Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Because you want
to have fun, right?
Exactly, yeah.
Already, that's faster.
Ooh, shit.
All right. Okay.
Oh yeah, nice.
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Nice.
- Yeah!
I think you're
officially halfway up.
Oh, new record
right there.
- Yeah!
- Oh, over it!
Yeah!
Oh!
That's five!
That's five right there!
Okay.
I thought he was going
to do the fakie right there.
Yeah.
- Yeah, nice.
- All right.
Awesome.
Did I get over it
that time?
Yeah, yeah,
you got to five.
- I did?
- Yeah.
An extra screw up.
It was smooth,
you know?
Okay, yeah.
It's about
a little chunk.
Look at that.
That's pretty exciting.
Oh, yeah. I'm going to
collapse, I think, right now.
Here, take a run now.
- Yeah.
- Love that sound.
Yeah.
My ramp doesn't make
that sound.
Yeah.
Nice.
You've skated
with Tony before, right?
I've skated your ramp a couple
of times in the past 10 years.
- At the warehouse?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- He definitely looks familiar.
It's been
a long time.
I recognize people
when they're in their pads.
And then the Olympics now,
it's in the Olympics.
- Yeah.
- But not vert ramp in Olympics.
Not vert, no.
And that seems like
there should be
half-pipe skating
in the Olympics.
I agree, Tom.
Because it seems like it would
be more televisable, you know?
Absolutely, yes.
Like it would
photograph well.
- Yes. Preach.
- Right?
Are you making
some sort of a--
I have been
the most ardent advocate of
adding vert to the Olympics,
to the point where
I am a nuisance to the IOC.
When they were heading
towards possible inclusion,
there weren't a lot
of vert ramps around,
and there definitely
weren't enough internationally
to make enough organizations
in different countries
that could
include vert.
They chose skate park
as a discipline
because that was
the most accessible.
- You've been to Africa.
- Yeah.
And brought skateboards
to Africa?
I have. Ethiopia, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, that's not,
that's just sort of as far away
from, you know,
the San Diego boardwalk,
you know.
I took kids for rides
in Sierra Leone, too.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
And there's a skate park
in Uganda
where these guys
are ripping.
That must be kind
of mind-blowing,
because you're seeing
them doing tricks
that you and
your friends invented.
Yeah.
And now you're in Uganda.
It's amazing.
We're in the best position
just because we get to see it.
We get to see it unfold.
We get to see it expand,
and the interest growing,
but we still can participate.
If we were young now,
it would be so much harder
to reach the levels we did
just because
it's everywhere.
Mm-hmm.
And people
have natural talent.
They're immediately
good at it.
It was a very small community
when we started.
And they have great places
to skate.
And the facilities, for sure.
Everywhere that we skated
was terrible.
It's easier to do something
if somebody's already done it.
- Exactly.
- Yes.
Like, like,
if somebody can go on YouTube
and watch you do a 900,
and they can sort of study every
little position your body's in,
and every every
little nuance of it, right?
You know, that 14 years
that it took for you
to figure out
how to do that.
Well, besides the fact
that they have
actual training facilities
for it now.
You can do it
into a foam pit.
You can land on a soft ramp.
We didn't have
those resources.
Okay, well, let's take
we're in the hot sun.
It's hot, there's sun
in Canada.
It's hot in Canada.
- It's beautiful.
Probably a couple
of months,
there's gonna be snow here.
Snow on the ramp.
I expect you to be
so hardcore with your skating
that you shovel it off
and you put on gloves
and you get on this ramp.
That could happen.
I could also drop in
on a snowboard on this ramp
in a couple of months.
That's what
I was just thinking.
Drop off there and just
cruise down the hill, right?
That could
happen for sure.
- That would be awesome.
- Awesome, man.
All right.
Amazing. Cool.
Cleaned out the chicken
coop this morning as well.
It's quite the job,
cleaning up the chicken coop.
Basically, I just shovel out all
the old sawdust we have in there
for them to make their bedding
and lay their eggs in.
It gets filled
with chicken poop.
It's funny to say poop
as well.
That's a fun thing about
doing a podcast from a farm,
is you can say poop
all the time,
and it's a good excuse
to say it. Just fun.
Especially
for the kids watching,
the little kids
who watch the show.
And I encourage you to have
your kids watch the show,
because this could be considered
a kids' show as well.
Poop poop. See,
it's kind of fun.
I probably get a little laugh
from the young folks out there
when you say poop poop.
Chicken poop.
Yeah!
A skateboard ramp
is not just lumber.
It's memories of youth,
it's physics,
it's courage.
And on most days,
gravity wins
by unanimous decision.
But watching Tony skate,
well, it's like watching someone
negotiate the universe directly
and somehow walking away
with terms that make no sense
to the rest of us.
It's super fast.
- Yeah?
- Yeah. No bumps.
Looking down at that seems
somewhat impossible, really.
You start to reach the top
on your kick turns.
Yeah.
It won't look
that scary up here.
Yeah!
Nice.
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Nice!
Oh, my God!
- What?
- Yeah!
Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
I haven't seen him do
a backslide in months.
Hal and Jer,
they built the ramp,
so let's give these guys
a hand with Jake.
So good, you guys. Amazing.
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
Whoa!
I should bring out
the donkey out here.
Tom, take a run
and I'll go over you.
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
I like that.
- Next one, okay?
- Okay. Yep.
Don't worry about me.
Yes!
Yeah.
Oh, yeah!
Yes!
Want to try to do
a new doubles thing?
If you feel like you can blast,
I can go under you.
- Okay?
- I can get real low,
like back
I kind of have this thing
where I go like this.
Okay.
Don't worry about me,
I'm going to find a place.
- You're going to just time it?
- Yeah.
Yeah!
I didn't feel any contact,
so it was good on my end.
I saw you. I watched you go
right underneath me.
What do we call this?
What is this
we're doing right now?
What is this?
- Uh, finale?
Yeah.
All right, this is
the big finale, everybody.
Woo!
Make some noise
for Tony Hawk, Kevin Staab.
They came all
the way here.
It's the frontside
over frontside finale.
Dang! You get to think
about that one too, right?
You make the frontside air,
you pop out on the other side,
and you don't have to walk up
on the other side.
You guys just
high-fiving each other.
Yeah, come on.
All right, all right.
Yeah!
There's something
beautiful
about seeing someone
push themselves to the edge
of what they can do.
Whether you're building a life
or landing a trick,
the breakthrough
only comes after the struggle.
- Yeah!
- That was amazing!
I heard it!
I heard the landing!
- Woo!
- Tom Vert!
- Thank you, man!
- Yeah!
Thanks, you guys.
Hey, buddy.
Thanks, neighbors.
Giving up
for Tony Hawk, everyone.
Kevin Staab, everybody.
Thank you.
For next time.
- What's that?
- For next time.
Oh, yeah.
You got the helmet,
for you.
- You giving me this?
- Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Thank you, Tony.
Tony's giving me
his helmet.
- Yeah.
- I will need it.
Oh, that's awesome, man.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Oh, shit, so cool.
- Yeah. So cool, man.
- Thanks for building this.
If you build it,
we might come.
Thank you.
All right, thank you, everybody.
This has been
a beautiful thing.
And thank you, Tony.
- Yeah, man, thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Kevin.
I can't believe
we just did this.
Thank you, Dan.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
Thanks, Jake.
Thanks, guys for making this.
- Thanks, neighbors!
Thanks, neighbors.
As the sun
slipped behind the trees
and the session wound down,
I realized this day
wasn't really about the ramp.
It was about my friends
and community.
About building
something together,
a shared moment
which none of us will forget.
What a great day!
Thanks for having us.
Thank you for the
encouragement too,
I really appreciate it.
- Of course!
Everybody say Tom Vert!
Tom Vert!
- Hey!
Tony Hawk skating here
at the farm,
it was a dream come true.
My brother brought this
from home.
Oh, sick.
This was like, you know,
probably in high school
or something like that,
I made that.
- Wow.
- I painted my own.
I haven't seen this in,
like, years.
- Yeah.
- Thanks, Tom Vert.
- Nice.
- Thanks.
Thanks, Tony Hawk
and Kevin Staab
for coming
to the Tom Green Farm.
I'm so proud
to have shown you guys
my little part of Canada.
That was totally rad.
Super good day.
If you had told me
when I was 16 years old
that I'd be skating a vert ramp
on my farm in Ontario
with Tony Hawk, I wouldn't
have believed it, so
Awesome.
And this is just
day one.
I wonder what we're going
to get into next week.
Stay tuned.
Woo!
difuze
Welcome
to the Tom Green Farm.
My name is Tom Green.
Here I am in my house,
built in 1857,
out here
in rural Ontario, Canada.
Where we'll be doing
a talk show,
not in a television studio,
but on a farm.
Interviewing celebrities,
people from all walks of life,
when they come visit me
here on my farm in my house.
Go get
the fucking car now!
And in the barn.
Thanks so much
for coming, Kirk.
- I'm stoked to be here.
- Out and around the property.
Come over here for fun.
You get your hand
bitten off, right?
Out in the woods.
- This is just
fucking crazy!
Down by the lake,
out in the canoe,
up on a horse,
and all over the property.
You're a pretty girl.
Oh, hey,
you're eating my jacket.
Tony Hawk is here today.
It's going to be a culmination
of months and months of effort
that went into building
one of the very few
vert half-pipe ramps
in Canada.
And Tony Hawk, the greatest
of all time skateboarder.
What Michael Jordan
is to basketball,
Tony Hawk is
to skateboarding.
A visit with him
and his friend Kevin Staab,
a legendary skateboarder
in his own right.
And I'm excited
about all the people
that we're going
to present to you.
- How are you?
- Glad to be here.
- Good to see you.
- Cheers.
- It's intense.
- George.
Tomorrow.
I'm Tom Green.
This is the Tom Green Farm.
This is the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's not the Green Tom Farm ♪
This is my favorite farm ♪
Because it is my farm ♪
If this was your farm ♪
You'd probably like it
more than I did ♪
That's just
because it was your farm ♪
But it's not your farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm ♪
It's the Tom Green Farm! ♪
Hi, I'm Tom.
I'm a comedian and a filmmaker
and now a farmer,
trying to turn this land into
something that means something.
And that's Amanda,
my wife.
She keeps this place running
and somehow makes it
all look effortless.
She's the calm
animal whisperer
and incredibly,
she agreed to marry me.
Wow.
And this is my mom and dad,
Mary Jane and Dick.
And they've been with me
through all the chaos
and the detours
and the reinventions.
How many years have we been
making television shows now?
Since you were probably
20?
I think my parents are
happy that I'm home in Canada.
Close enough that they can
actually keep an eye on me.
I don't really see why
we have to redo the kitchen.
Well, I know.
That's the problem, isn't it?
Tom. The kitchen is dated.
It's really
not very functional.
The paint's not nice.
I've got paint,
I've got, what is
this one called? Linen?
And the counters
are not nice, Tom.
The dishwasher sucks,
and your dad likes to tidy up.
Well, we'll get
a new dishwasher.
What's this
one here?
And that board
over there.
- Accessible beige.
- Accessible beige.
Or linen.
- Or linen.
We paint and then
if we don't like it
then we could maybe talk
about--
- No
- Tom, it's a dump.
Accessible.
A dump?
It's older than you are,
this kitchen, and that's
The house
was built in 1857.
This kitchen is from the 90s,
the 1890s.
You're making yourself
sound a little bit,
like hoity-toity or something.
I left Hollywood.
We'd be in Hollywood,
you'd need some fancy kitchen.
Oh, good as new.
Look at that.
You're like your dad.
You don't like change, you know?
I moved home. I lived
in Los Angeles for 21 years.
I know. It took you 21 years
to figure that out.
When you get your new kitchen,
which you will,
because Amanda wants one--
No, no, no.
This will be good.
You'll be very happy,
Tom.
Why spend thousands
- You'll be excited.
- When all you need to do
is spend minutes.
We stay here when
you're traveling, and, you know,
I'm with Amanda.
We need a better kitchen.
I think it looks nice
just like this.
Tom, open your pocketbook
and get a new damn kitchen.
Think of all the beautiful
meals I'll make--
All sorts of cameras
and all sorts of stuff.
But hubby, you buy
a nice kitchen for Amanda.
And I'll make you
so many nice meals.
I know.
I think-I think
we've convinced him.
So we went back
into the woods
to find a secret spot
for a secret skateboard ramp.
Kind of a clearing here.
At first,
it seemed like a good idea
to have it way back,
hidden and private.
Especially up here maybe?
Like
But the further we went,
the more it became obvious
that getting all the lumber
and tools back here
was going to be
a real challenge.
Now this is, uh
When you bail you don't want
to bail into a rock.
So everything
was up in the air now.
We started to walk back
to the house,
thinking, "Maybe this isn't
such a good idea."
And then we found
this perfect clearing.
Up on a hill,
360-degree views.
It was perfect.
We're building a ramp
50 feet
by 12 feet by 28 feet.
- Yep.
- For Tony Hawk.
Been skateboarding
my whole life.
I've never had
a ramp like that.
It's a vert ramp.
We're on a big piece
of shield up here too.
Nice.
She's granite all around
and everywhere.
- It's going to be a good ramp.
- It's going to be good.
A lot of big changes
happening around here for me.
My first mule
and my first half-pipe.
What do you think
of that, Fanny?
You ever seen
a half-pipe before?
We're going to be making the
first ever log cabin half-pipe.
Very Canadian.
It's going to have
a log cabin on the back of it.
And, uh, man,
it's going to be cool.
Tony Hawk's coming soon.
And, uh, I think
he's going to be surprised.
It's kind of a surprise.
He said he was going
to come do the show,
but I don't think he realized
I was going to make
an actual
vert ramp for him.
And of course,
none of this would exist
without the masterminds
behind the ramp itself.
Jake, the architect,
who turned lumber into art,
and Dan, a pro skateboarder
and geometry wizard
who helped design
and test the whole thing.
The animals here have
their own personalities.
Fanny the mule,
Alora the horse,
her baby Aria,
and Kia the donkey.
And I've gained
the trust of these creatures,
even though they have
absolutely zero respect
for my personal space.
And somehow between feeding
everyone, doing chores,
and chasing down
whatever chicken escape artist
is making a run for the woods,
I'm living.
This new life feels right.
This is Fanny.
Fanny is a mule.
Her father, her sire,
is a Percheron horse,
17 hands tall.
Her mama was a mammoth donkey.
So she stands
a 16-3 hands tall,
which is, uh,
bigger than most horses.
She's probably,
until proven wrong,
the tallest rideable mule
in Canada.
She's 12 years old
and I've had her
for over two years now.
And we've really kind of formed
a good trusting relationship.
We go for long rides
out in the wilderness
around here.
She's my primary
source of transportation here
at the farm.
Before Fanny came along,
I would ride around
on the side-by-side.
Mules are stronger
than a horse.
They're a little bit harder
to gain their trust.
They question things
a bit more than a horse.
If I'm with
the other horses too much,
she can get jealous.
Show everybody
how big you are. Come on.
Big lady, huh?
It's been a real life-changing
experience getting this one.
I don't like to say
I have favorites,
but we do have
a special bond because
of our long rides
in the wilderness together.
Little rubs.
Scratch your ear.
There you go.
My bum is on the mule.
Look at me. My bum is
on the mule, right?
Hi, Tom.
- Hello.
- How are you?
- Very good.
- Can I pat?
- No, don't come too close.
Oh, okay.
I don't want her to step
on your foot.
Okay.
Plus, I don't want you to move
off your mark.
- Yeah.
- You know how to do this, Mom.
I know, but
I like moving around.
Don't look at the camera.
Don't look at the camera.
- I'm not. No, I wasn't.
- Okay.
Don't tell me
what to do all the time.
I'm a seasoned professional.
I know, you've been making
television a long time.
I have.
You're like
a television person.
Sometimes against
my better judgment, but yeah.
Because sometimes people don't
realize that you actually
- Like you.
- Yeah.
Yes, I do, Tom.
- Yeah. Do you like the ramp?
- Yeah, that's amazing.
I mean, I haven't built it
yet, but we're building a ramp.
I know, that's crazy.
I hope you're not
going to go on it.
Well, I'm going
to go on it.
Well, I thought
it was for Tony Hawk.
It is for Tony Hawk,
but for sure
he's going to peer pressure me
into trying it.
Well, don't.
I'm not beyond
peer pressure from Tony Hawk.
Well, I'll have to
speak to the young fellow then,
won't I?
Can't have a vert ramp on
your property and not ride it.
But think of the timing
of when Tony's coming.
Yeah.
What happening
two weeks later?
You going to show up
in bandages to your wedding?
- Don't put that out there.
- Are you that superstitious?
Yeah. It's called manifesting.
You're manifesting.
- Well, that's bullshit, Tom.
- No, it's not bullshit.
- It is bullshit.
- It's manifesting.
- Woke shit.
- No, no, it's not woke shit.
It's if you think
about something, it happens.
- No.
- I imagined getting a mule.
Look at me. It worked.
That's planning
to do something.
No, I manifested--
You're not planning
to have an injury.
- I manifested this mule.
- No.
And I manifested the ramp,
and I'm going to manifest
a backside air.
But I'm not going to manifest
being on crutches
with gauze
at my wedding.
Well, of course not.
I'm going to start out by just
riding at the bottom, you know.
It's going to be one of the
of the best skateboard ramps
in eastern Ontario
and western Quebec.
I know, but that doesn't
mean you have to--
Skateboard on it?
- Yes.
- I think it does.
I think it's part of,
you know, having Tony Hawk,
the best skateboarder ever,
coming
and making him feel at home
and showing him
that Canada loves skateboarding
and love him
and it has nothing to do
with you
dropping in.
Okay, maybe you're right,
maybe you're right.
I think so.
No, I'm going to do it.
Well, you know
what's going to happen.
Your dad's going
to want to do it too.
Mmh.
That's not good.
- No.
Okay!
(crashing(
- There's Phil now.
- Yeah, I know.
Hey, Phil,
how are you?
- Awesome. Awesome.
- It's been a long time.
We haven't seen
each other in a while.
I don't think we have.
What's up, what's up?
What's up, man?
What's up, Mary Jane?
How are you doing?
Nice to see you, I'm good.
I like this
this thing that you wear.
Yeah, I know. I've been
cold out here sometimes.
It's a little chilly today,
but what a lovely day.
What a lovely day.
It's a lovely day out here.
It's a great Phil Giroux.
- Yes.
- Amazing.
I'm pretty excited
to show Phil
the ramp
that we're building.
- Ooh, you should see.
- Totally, skate ramp.
Yeah, it's going
to be amazing.
Phil and I grew up
skateboarding together.
That's how we met,
through skateboarding.
More of like
street skaters, though.
Less so ramp skaters.
We've got
the foundation of it--
Wicked. Wicked.
- That's pretty exciting.
- Wicked.
But I'm just, well, my mom's
a little concerned because
you know, obviously
we're building a vert ramp.
Of course. You know, I kind of
had that thing when I
When you hurt your ankle.
Hurt my ankle
dropping into a ramp.
So I've got a bit
of a ramp, half-pipe PTSD.
Okay, good.
Ever since
that day when I was,
I don't know, 17, 18, whatever.
Mary Jane is concerned
about me even trying to skate.
Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's true,
but he's probably going
to use more like,
the cabin part of the ramp.
- That's what he says, yeah.
- Less so the ramp.
- Oh, yeah.
He'd still be like doing,
you know, a little bit
of Wicked.
I've been having dreams
of pulling a backside air.
Yup.
Well, if you manifest it,
it will happen.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Totally.
- Do you believe
in manifestation?
- I do, I do.
- My mom doesn't believe in it.
- Yeah, yeah. Manifestation.
If you think it
you will achieve it.
Let's go show you what
we're getting started here.
Okay, are we doing?
We're going
- Yeah, let's go.
- We're going this way?
- Yeah.
- We're going? Okay.
Can I like stand on it?
Can I like
You can, yeah.
You can stand on it. Yup.
Oh, wow.
Manifest a leap off it.
- It's all leveled?
- What's that?
- It's all leveled?
- Yeah, looks like.
Canadian, uh, Quebecois
extreme sports champion
Pierre-Luc Gagnon.
Well, that sounds like
He might know what he's doing,
I think.
He's actually helping us
design it.
- Wicked. Wicked.
- With some other people
as well.
Yeah. He's French-Canadian
like you.
It's amazing.
Pretty cool. You guys
can speak French and stuff.
We sure can.
You can join in too because
you speak French as well.
Pretty well. Pretty good.
I do speak French.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You speak it too,
right? - Absolutely.
- We're good?
- One hundred percent.
My French isn't perfect,
but
Your French is
pretty good.
I'll have to
practice
Your French is
probably better
Help me practice!
than like 75% of
Canadians.
No, Philippe,
speak to me in French.
Your French is actually
quite good, Tom.
- Very good.
- Yes.
In this scene,
in French?
Sous-titres.
- Sous-tilt?
- Sous-titres.
Sous-tits?
No! Titres! Title.
Sous-tit.
Sous-tit-le.
And here's
my friend deadmau5,
Canadian music producer,
DJ, and icon.
He's popping by just to check
out the ramp we're building.
We're building
a skateboarding ramp.
- A little
- A little skateboarding ramp.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- What's up, how's it going, guys?
Hey, what's happening?
Oh my gosh.
It's my friend Joel, deadmau5.
deadmau5 Joel,
good to meet you.
- Jake?
- Hey, Jake.
- Nice to meet you.
- Awesome, how's it going?
We're building
the cabin part, Tom.
It's going to be the cabin
side here, right?
That's right, so we're
getting that all sorted.
Looks like indoor,
you're going to walk into it?
Yeah, this will be a little
door here and some windows.
And it'll be a little
a little bunky.
- Oh, nice.
- The first log vert ramp.
Have you built a ramp before?
I've built lots of ramps
and jumps
and bike jumps
and snowboard parks.
But vert ramps, no.
Got some good advice and some
good counsel on the details.
Right.
But now, we're mapping out
how to build this cabin.
We're trying to keep it
in the same theme
as the construction
of the main ramp.
Yeah, we got a nice
six-foot deck up there.
It'd be like a hangout deck
on top of this thing. So.
Let's just check it out,
because this is kind of like
happening fast.
12 feet tall.
- 12 foot tall.
- Okay.
- Foot and a half of vert.
Okay.
And a 14 and a half foot
flat.
You're never dropping in
on this in your life.
I can tell you my odds
of dropping in
just went up by 50%
for sure.
I'll have you to thank
when I'm, you know,
in a cast on my, uh,
on my wedding day.
Feels kind of
I think you just got
a full commit and just do it.
- Feels kind of
- Yeah, just send it.
Feels kind of good.
I think I got it.
I watched too many videos last
night to see that Danny Wade.
Careful. Careful there.
I'm okay.
You can do it, Tom.
The logic is
if I wouldn't jump
from this height?
Yeah.
I wouldn't drop in
on a board with wheels.
Probably good logic there
for sure.
Yeah, I don't know.
Nice.
Yeah, it's like if you were
I'm thinking if I'm, like, going
to go in with a skate
I'm just gonna hit
my face right there.
Totally.
Yeah, when you look
from this angle,
it's definitely terrifying.
Wait till it's finished.
There's some 10-year-olds
you see online right now,
it's just mind-blowing.
But it's definitely
much steeper
of a transition
than I was
So I'm gonna stick
to my wake surfing,
it's low impact,
you know, it's slow.
- Yeah, that's the old man move.
- There's no wheels,
just the board.
- Yeah. Amazing, Jake.
Incredible.
- So far, so good.
With every screw,
every sheet of plywood,
the anticipation grew.
We weren't
just building a ramp,
we were carefully
preparing for a moment
that none of us really
believed could actually happen.
Tony Hawk coming to the farm?
Man, that's totally rad.
- Nice! Wow.
Whoa!
Come here!
Okay, wow!
This is it, huh?
Holy cow.
- Oh, yeah.
It's black. It's very black.
That looks nice.
Yeah, he said there's
no UV protection in it,
so it'll go to kind of
an ashy gray color.
Nice. It's smooth, huh?
Yeah, very smooth.
All right. Well,
looks pretty cool.
Hard part too is the sheets
aren't square to begin with.
I don't want
to hear any of this.
And they're four by four foot
quarter inch.
- Oh, fuck.
- Eight foot.
- Are they?
- Quarter inch.
Yeah.
So we changed our holes
to make that work.
So we squared our one edge
as best we could,
and we always worked
that one way.
I mean,
we'll be all right.
You just will end up fixing it
down here in the bottom.
But it's just,
yeah, it's hard.
When it's all on,
we won't even notice it.
After the fact,
it's just not--
If you didn't hear us
talking about it,
you'd be like,
"Fuck yeah, boys, let's go!"
It's just a bummer, a hurdle
to have to get over to do it.
You're getting
the inside scoop.
That looks like
a pretty big space.
That's exactly our problem.
Like this much
it needs to move in.
But we'll get it.
Sometimes I look around
at my friends and neighbours
and see everybody
coming together
to make this amazing thing
happen.
All of us anticipating
the arrival of a legend,
and we know it's gonna be a day
that we'll never forget.
Jake and crew,
thank you so much.
Thank you, Dan, for your advice
here on everything.
It's an amazing day
in the history
of Canadian skateboarding.
It's the first ever
vert ramp log cabin.
What kind of hurdles
have there been to build this?
Just time.
It was just a last-minute
idea sort of thing
and a real panic race
to get it up and get it planned
and Dan was critical.
Dan was able to jump in early
and, uh,
we had a good crew and
some background people on it.
And blasted it up.
How many ramps like this
are there in Canada?
How many vert ramps?
As far as I know,
there's four, for sure.
Um, my ramp, one in BC,
Toronto, and here.
But no, we've got Tony Hawk
and Kevin Staab coming.
He knows we're building this,
but he hasn't seen
finished photos.
He saw some early shots.
Just wanted
to make sure he realized
what he was getting
himself into.
How cool is this?
Here we go, autumn leaves.
Yeah, see all those fallen
down fences there?
Those have all been there
for a hundred plus years.
Really?
With cedar
and then they tore them out
because they'd all
fallen down
and that's when we built
the fences out up front.
This is a nice spot
for a nice autumn leaves
sort of vista here.
I just want to stop here
for a second.
Wow, look at the colors
of this place.
What do you call this area?
It's a hay field, you know?
So we actually take
all those hay bales, all come
off of this every August.
There's about seven fields
like this on the property.
- Wow.
- Every August,
we bale up about
800 of those bales.
How old were you when you met?
He was 13, 12 or 13.
I was 11.
We looked like we were 10.
Were you skateboarding already
when you met?
Yeah, we met
through skating.
- Met through skating.
- Yeah.
There were very few people
our age.
- Or our size.
- Very small and scrawny.
That's so awesome having like
a lifelong friendship like that.
- Yeah, it's crazy.
- Still get to do it,
it's crazy.
Do you remember the moment
you met each other?
Do you remember that--
- I do.
Colton Skate Park.
Us being there.
And you were
with your dad.
And this is
how great it was.
The adolescents,
because this is 1980,
the adolescents are playing at
the skate park just on repeat.
And we're kind of like
riding around,
but I don't know if
we've really talked much,
and then we're in the pro shop
and he's got taquitos.
And he asked me
if I want a taquito.
- Oh, yeah?
So he gives me a taquito,
we start talking,
and then the next thing
I know, he's like,
" If you don't want
to cruise home with Grant,
my dad can give you
a ride home."
And then we talked
all the way home.
I offered my dad a lot.
That was it we just got
to be friends after that
and wanted to hang out
all the time
because we had so much fun
skating together.
But that moment's kind of
crazy for me
and another thing that's gnarly
is if you think about life
and you want to be better
at something,
it's always good
to hang out with somebody
way better than you.
And that just naturally
happened for me,
which is
the craziest thing
because I was with this guy
all the time.
- Right, right.
- We both had our strengths,
so I'd watch him too.
I mean, this guy,
he invented the half cap.
He invented the blunt.
- Yeah, yeah.
I mean, the blunt
that people do on mini ramps.
- Yeah.
- Here he is.
- Oh, it's amazing.
- The originator.
I mean, when I was, you know,
I guess probably 15 years old,
I mean, I've, you know
was looking at you
and both of you in Transworld
and Thrasher magazine.
I mean, to me, I just,
it's so cool to be,
to have you guys here,
even though I've known you
for a long time,
but it's like
it still goes back to like, holy
shit, you know, Kevin Staab.
The thing is, we all carry
those skate ethos with us.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's
what carried us so far
and why
we still get to do it,
because it was never
about some goal
of fame or fortune
or anything.
It was just like, as long as
we get to keep doing this,
everything's cool.
When you're young
and doing something
like skateboarding
that was just
not considered cool
and very much shunned
and, you know,
like, we got made fun of
for skating.
It's like you weathered
that storm together.
So those bonds
are unbreakable.
- Holy shit.
- Oh, wow.
We're really
fucking doing this.
Yeah. Want to see
a shack I built?
- Yeah.
- It's the swamp shack,
I call it.
This is just
fucking crazy!
That's a beaver lodge
right there.
- Really?
- See that pile of sticks?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
So this water is basically here
'cause of
the beavers dammed up
right there.
You're living
in a cartoon, Tom.
Yeah. You know, it's weird.
Like, this is actually
kind of
feels more normal to me
than L.A. did.
And I was in L.A. for 20 years.
- Understood.
When I say living in a cartoon.
- Yeah.
It's not a diss.
Come see the lake.
This is just a swamp.
This is a
- Okay.
- We'll go sit at the lake.
- I love the swamp.
We'll go sit down
at the lake.
Have you considered
draining the swamp?
Yeah, we need
to drain the swamp.
This is the coolest thing.
Yeah, I can see it
on your face.
You're looking
at it like it's,
like the way I would have looked
at the desert, you know?
Oh my God!
Are you What in the f?
This is what put it
over the top, this place.
Wow.
Good swimming.
Wow, this is really cool.
Welcome to Canada, man.
- This is so cool.
- Unbelievable.
Wow, you are living the dream.
Truly living the dream.
- Yeah, man. Thanks.
This isn't even real.
This is not fucking real.
This is like a postcard.
No, it's insane.
Tom, this is
the neatest place ever.
It's been a great morning.
I, uh, had to cut
the phragmites
with my Stihl brush saw.
S-T-I-H-L,
like the chainsaw company.
I was cutting these phragmites.
Actual pronunciation
is phragmites.
They're an invasive species
from China.
They're kind of taking over
a lot of the ponds.
They're a large, tall plant
with purple head of seeds.
They look like cattails,
but much, much taller.
So it's a bit of a chore
every year
to get out there and make sure
we cut the phragmites
before
they seed themselves.
And I think every year we're
having a few less phragmites.
Hopefully, one of these days,
we'll rid the pond entirely
of phragmites.
But hopefully not entirely
because then we won't be able
to say phragmites anymore
on the podcast,
which won't be fun.
That will be a sad day.
Okay, so you haven't looked
at it yet.
I haven't looked.
I've looked,
I've only seen
this side of everything.
One second, don't look,
don't look yet.
Okay, you can look at it now,
you can look at it now.
Oh, wow.
- That's beautiful.
- Does it look like a ramp?
It looks like a home.
No, so it's the first ever,
I'm not sure for sure if it is,
but we're saying
it's the first ever
log cabin
vert ramp in Canada.
I would agree. Yeah.
This is really cool.
Wow, this is built really well.
Did you ever imagine
you'd have your own vert ramp?
I never really thought
I would.
Honestly, it's kind of
It's in honor of you guys coming
that we built this, you know?
- That mural up there?
- Isn't that nice?
My friend Shane did that.
Yeah, no, this is, uh,
it's exciting.
I'm excited, uh,
that you like it.
I think the guys that built it
are gonna be really stoked.
So thank you.
And it went up
so fast, like,
they started, like,
three and a half weeks ago.
These guys knew
what they were doing.
There we go.
I've never seen a vert ramp
with a black surface.
- It fades, apparently.
- It fades?
It will fade
to more of a grayish color.
It's called
Pure Surface,
and it's a Canadian version
of Skate Light, basically.
Apparently,
it's super water repellent.
- Yeah.
- Nice view up here, right?
Yeah. This will be cool.
I'm speechless.
This is crazy.
Come check out the cabin
here on this side.
Wow.
It sort of looks
like the house,
which, you know, was built
in 1857, my place.
Usually, the underneath
of the ramp
is just for putting
your pads on,
and it is one
of the grossest places.
Yeah, it's not
finished yet.
We just finished,
like literally just
So you already set the bar
pretty high with the exterior.
We haven't done
the interior of the ramp yet,
but, you know.
- Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
I've never been under a ramp
that felt inviting before.
We have a wood stove in here
with flex seal.
In the winter,
it'll be all insulated.
You'll be able to like,
wood stove,
we're still gonna put like
a little, you know,
hangout spot in here.
- This is so insane.
It's so cool. Wow.
I don't know.
We're honored.
We're overwhelmed.
This is really cool.
- Welcome.
- Thanks, buddy.
- Honestly.
- I appreciate it.
- Seriously, guys.
- Dude, thanks for having us.
This is insane.
I still appreciate you guys
coming, man. It's so cool.
I know we're out in the middle
of Where the hell are we?
- Which is the coolest part.
- We just love the adventure.
It's gonna be a fun day.
We would have come even
if you just had a Slappy Curb.
Yeah, yeah. Oh shit,
I should have just done that.
I have never done a podcast on
the flat bottom of a ramp, so.
- Well, that makes me feel good.
- Yep.
This is awesome.
Thank you guys for coming
all the way here
to rural Ontario.
Well, thanks
for building a vert ramp.
I'm just going
to put this up
and get a little shot
of the
I want to show you
where you are, basically.
Oh. Oh.
So, see how we're, like,
essentially in the middle of,
like, friggin' nowhere?
Wow.
Wow!
We're just surrounded
by wilderness here.
I'll do a little
I was hoping you were going
to show a couple of other ramps
that are off in the distance.
There's the lake
we just were at, see?
And what do you think, Kevin?
Like, you grew up
in Arizona and California,
and, uh, which is desert.
What do you think of this
boreal forest we're in here?
It's like Disneyland
for adults.
It might be one of the coolest
places I've ever been.
Tony, you just sold
your skateboard
that you did the 900 on
for a million dollars?
Officially, the hammer dropped
at 900,000
and then they have fees
and taxes at the auction house.
- Plus tax over a million?
- Yeah, yes, yeah.
Were you surprised that
it sold that much at auction?
Absolutely.
I mean, that's
the highest selling,
the most expensive selling
skateboard of all time, right?
By far, yeah. I didn't
know what to expect.
I wanted to raise money
for our foundation,
The Skatepark Project,
and I thought that maybe
it would beat the record,
the previous record
of a skateboard, um, sale,
and then it just suddenly, as
it was happening in real time,
it just started
going up and up and up.
Let me land this first.
There we go.
It's weird because
skateboarding's become
sort of a very cool thing to do
now for kids, right?
But back
when we were kids
It was the furthest thing
from cool you could do.
Whatever
your shortcoming was
or your body style
or whatever it was,
you were just
going to get bullied.
And so to choose
to skate was like,
why would you put yourself
even further
from the cool hierarchy?
Kevin, was there a moment
when you realized
you guys were both gonna be two
of the top pro skaters of the
was it the 80s?
I was just having more fun
doing that than anything else.
Like, I didn't really play
any other sports.
I wanted to play baseball,
but again,
I was too little and everybody
kind of made fun of me anyway,
so I'd kind of go
in the baseball games there
and just ride wheelies
on my bike
and hang out
at the snack shop
and then go ride my board
all the time.
- Yeah.
- And so there was always
a couple of kids older than me
down the street
that I tried to mimic
or be like them,
but after meeting him and then
us riding for a little bit,
I mean, obviously,
we were trying to be better
than the guys from the 70s
that were still riding.
Yeah, and they were slaloming
through pylons and stuff?
Yeah, but
they were skating pools.
- Oh, they were skating pools.
- At that point,
I think that's what got us into
skating, where it was exciting.
'Cause before that,
before pool skating,
it was just slaloming
and handstands
and 360s and pirouettes.
And that was more like dancing,
and we saw people flying.
Skating in empty pools
in backyards,
and then at some point
someone built a half-pipe.
And at some point,
pools started
getting a little bit bigger.
Um, they started putting
flat bottom in the pools
so that you had time
between the walls,
and then we'd mimic that
on ramps.
And then at some point,
what was considered
pool skating and vert skating
became half-pipe skating.
Yeah, and that was kind of
when I got into skateboarding.
Like, if you picked up
a copy of
Transworld Skateboarding
Magazine or Thrasher,
it was all vert.
So now it's been more street
skating in the last, you know,
20 years or something, right?
Hasn't it been?
- Oh, for sure.
- Yeah.
But it's more that
in those days,
street skating
was just transportation.
People didn't understand
how to use landscape
or handrails or ledges
the way they do now.
So, you didn't really think of,
well, yeah, I'm a street skater.
Um, if you skated on the ground,
you were a freestyler.
Yeah.
And, you know,
back in our day,
like, freestylers were nerds.
Right.
And the cool skaters
were the pool skaters.
There must have been a moment
where like all of a sudden
Is there a moment
you looked at Tony and said,
"Holy shit,
you're the best in the world."
Oh, I'm watching it happen, yeah.
I've been watching it
happen for 40 years.
Yeah. You remember the moment
though you realized,
"This is crazy?"
Oasis?
Uh, when you did the
backside ollie into indy air
in front of Duane Peters.
Do you remember
that moment or?
I do, yeah.
That's when things changed
and I saw it happen.
- Is that like a skate--
- Like in 80, 81, yeah.
That was a big skate park
or something, Oasis?
That was the park
in San Diego.
That was Tony's local.
Do you know
who else was there?
Rodney Mullen
and Steve Rocco.
Yeah, that was Rodney's
first contest, right?
That was Rodney's
first competition.
And Rodney and Steve Rocco
came over to the pool
to watch me do this because they
thought it was something unique.
Uh-huh.
Because no one had ollied
into their airs before.
Right.
And so I ollied
into an indy air and I made one.
And I remember vividly
Steve Rocco turning to Rodney
and saying,
"That's the future."
To the non-skater
basically is,
and maybe I don't even
understand,
but before people would go up
and they would grab their board
before--
- Before they hit the lip.
- Before they flew over.
But then you just went up
and didn't grab it
and just kind of
kicked the board.
Yeah and I only did it
because I was desperate
to get air
and I didn't have the size
or the strength
to reach down
and grab my board beforehand.
So you'd go
as fast as you could
and you'd kick the board
before you get to the top.
And launch upward
and then catch it at the peak.
- Catch it in the air.
- Yeah.
Honestly, I didn't think
I was creating
a revolution
or anything.
I just was like,
I want to get high,
and that's the only way
I can get above the lip.
Come on out here, everybody.
Come on.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh, we're not gonna
get him out.
Okay, there we go.
Check this out.
Are you just playing catch
with chickens?
Come on, guys.
Go say hi to Tony Hawk.
Oh, I had it.
Come on.
Is this an initiation?
Oh, you can put him
on your head.
- Come on, man.
- Yeah. There you go.
Okay.
There you go.
- I enjoy it here.
Yeah.
This is Aria.
This is the one I
ride all the time with, Fanny.
We go for rides.
Let me show you Fanny.
She's pretty fun.
Yeah. So there she is.
- Wow.
- She's very chill, yeah.
She's got horseshoes on.
She just got them
recently, so.
Hey, baby,
show everyone your shoes.
Come here. It's okay.
No, no. Come here.
We don't need
to see her shoes, Tom.
Is it kind of neat, though?
She seems a little annoyed
with you.
Put your foot here.
There you come on, Fanny!
Gimme your foot.
There you go.
See her shoe?
- Oh, my God.
- It's okay.
- I believe you, Tom.
Yeah. She doesn't feel like
showing her shoe right now.
Yeah, that's fine.
You don't want to show
everyone your shoe?
Yeah, we'll look
at her shoe later.
It's cool. It's like
a horseshoe.
Okay, we don't have
to look at her shoe now.
Want to go, uh
Wait, I want to see her shoe.
I never really got
a good look at it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool. Let's go.
Come on. Okay, lift it.
Want to show that one?
- I just saw the other one.
- Want to show the other one?
Let go, look it up.
- There you go.
- There you go.
- Nice.
- That is a nice horseshoe.
- That is a beautiful shoe.
- Isn't that nice? See?
- Yeah.
Give some apples.
This is Alora.
- Yeah.
- This is Kia right here.
She's the donkey.
There you go.
Oh, yeah, big one.
- Oh, hello.
Flat hand, very flat hand.
They kind of grab it
with their lips, you know?
Don't get
your finger bitten off.
Thanks.
Helpful safety tip.
Yeah. Yeah.
Feed them, but don't let them
eat your finger.
Yeah. Yeah,
that's the main thing.
- Cool guidance, Tom.
- They probably won't.
When's the spinning start?
The very first 540
was actually a hand plant.
Okay.
That was Billy Ruff
did a frontside hand plant 540.
It was called the unit.
That was around 82.
And then I learned
how to do that
without putting
my hand down,
so that was a frontside 540.
In 84,
Mike McGill figured out
how to do 540's backside,
and that was
the game changer.
And that's why
it's called the McTwist?
That's why
it's called McTwist.
'Cause of Mike McGill?
- 720 was the next year.
Were you the first one
to do a 720?
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- I remember that.
And then it was, how many
years later,
till you this infamous moment,
one of the greatest moments
in sports?
- 14 years.
- Took 14 years to go from
14 years
to figure that out, yeah.
So two complete revolutions,
and then 14 more years
to get to the 900.
Yeah. Yeah.
And then that's the reason
why that board
that you'd spun the 900 on
just went at auction
for a million bucks, right?
That's like
Yeah, I mean, that was
definitely
a zeitgeist moment
in my career
and some people say in the
awareness of skateboarding.
Didn't ESPN call that
one of the greatest moments
in sports history?
That moment that you did
that night?
Well, it was the first time
that they ever highlighted
skateboarding on their
Sports Centre highlights.
Yeah.
So to us,
that was a big deal.
Do you remember
when we met in New York?
I taught you
to kickflip.
- Yes, I do remember that.
- In the MTV offices.
My show had just been picked
up by MTV.
And we'd been on the air for
a week or something like that.
- Yeah.
- Our website,
tomgreen.com, was up,
and we had a contact us
page, which was like,
kind of before
people had websites and stuff.
- Or email.
- Yeah.
And Glenn Humplik, who you know,
came into the office,
said, Tom,
Tony Hawk emailed you.
He wants to come
on the show, right?
And then, you know, like a week
later or something like that,
you were in New York.
I came and met you
at your hotel.
I said, I just wanted
to skateboard
to the office with you.
- You kind of also,
you pre-empted it
where you said,
"Look, I'd love to go
do some stuff with you.
You know,
let's go skate.
But just so you know,
like when we start doing it,
I'm going to get kind of loud."
That was when
we were filming, yeah.
Yeah, but he had
to give me the full warning
of what the show
will be like.
Because we had
an actual skate
to the office
without the cameras.
Right, but I knew you
from your show.
Yeah.
And then I said,
you know what,
I'm going to be an idiot
now that we're filming,
and I was probably embarrassed
to do that in front of you.
It was great.
Did you think
you'd be skateboarding--
- Definitely not.
- In your 50s?
- No.
- No.
- No.
- When we were young,
once people got in their 20s,
they quit.
Yeah, the generation above us,
most of them just disappeared.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'll never forget,
Thrasher magazine printed
a photo of Mark Lake
doing an invert, and
it was like, Mark Lake, 30,
and still ripping!
And I remember
looking at it like, "Whoa.
I wonder if I'll still be
skating when I'm 30."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And now you're
- Here we are.
- Yeah.
- Almost double that.
When did skateboarding become
a huge business? What year?
Like it was always
a big business,
but then there was a moment
where it became
much more mainstream.
- I would say early 2000s.
- Yeah.
Skating has always
been cyclical.
So it had a boom
in the 70s when we started,
it had a boom in the 80s
when you started.
Yeah, I was saying earlier,
when I saw Back to the Future,
and I saw Michael J. Fox riding
to school on his skateboard
and sliding on the tail,
you know, and then picking,
I just
I wanted to do that.
Yeah, there's a whole
generation of skaters
that started
because of that.
There was sort of
a perfect storm
of X Games
started getting popular.
Like I said, our video game
created a fan base for skating
that didn't necessarily skate
but was interested in it.
And then all of a sudden,
it was just sort of,
it was just front and center.
I'm thankful
to see it come of age.
I'm thankful to see that
kids readily choose to skate
like they do other sports now.
Yeah.
And it's not
it's not something
that their parents
are discouraging necessarily.
I mean, maybe they discourage it
because of safety factors,
but they're not
discouraging because,
"Those kids are punks
and they're no good
and they've got no motivation."
It's like
Yeah, that's all
we heard as kids.
But also just losers
and slackers,
and it was like, do you know the
amount of dedication and pain
and perseverance it takes
to learn one skate trick?
Yeah.
Slacker is the opposite
of that mindset.
Well, the day is here.
My friends and neighbors
and local family's gathering.
We didn't just want to do
a private skate session.
We wanted a moment.
Now we're standing
shoulder to shoulder,
waiting for the magic
to happen.
Waiting for something impossible
to occur in a hayfield.
Let's have a round of applause
for Tony and Kevin.
Thank you for coming.
- Thank you.
Uh, before we show you my
limited abilities on the ramp,
I did want to bring Jake
out here,
who worked with our team here,
his team here,
to build the ramp,
who I'll introduce you to.
But we have a special
launching ceremony here
to kick off this vert ramp.
By the way, it was pointed out
to me the other day that,
you know, Canada being
a bilingual country,
my last name, Green,
in French is Vert.
Yeah.
On our behalf, do you mind
changing it to Tom Vert legally?
Thomas Vert. Tom Vert.
But we had a little thing
we wanted to do here.
Let me see
what we have here.
In honor of you guys
coming here,
we're going to place this
on the ramp.
Wow.
There's a plaque
on September 28, 2025.
Tony Hawk and Kevin Staab
visited Tom Green's farm
and launched themselves
into history
from the top of this radical,
one-of-a-kind
log cabin vert ramp.
Wait, you're assuming
we're going from the top?
Now that you've written it
in stone.
Yes, you have to go
from the top now, yeah.
All right.
But, no, thank you guys
for coming.
Yeah, thank you.
Hey, this looks amazing.
- Thank you guys.
- Thank you so much.
- Appreciate all that.
- Tom Vert,
thanks for having us, man.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Tom Vert.
Yeah, no,
we really appreciate it.
A new pro model
coming soon.
There we go.
Well, speaking of which,
I am wearing
my earlier in
- Birdhouse.
- Early 2000s released.
OG.
It's been so long that that
could be actually vintage now.
- Yeah.
- That's how old we are, Tom.
- We're getting up there.
- Yeah.
Want to do the honors
here, Dan, and stick this up?
Yeah, there we go.
I don't think I've ever seen
a plaque on a ramp like that,
especially
before we skate.
- That is nice.
- Wow.
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it. Okay.
When's the last time
you fully padded up?
I haven't really, really
ever had this
level of padding before.
- Warrior mode.
- Yeah.
So the parks
we grew up skating,
you couldn't walk in the door
unless you were fully padded.
- Right.
I got to get you
a YEPA helmet,
but those are good pads.
- Oh? Not the right helmet?
Yeah. We just
started a helmet brand, so.
Oh, okay. YEPA.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I gotta get a YEPA
helmet for sure.
- Yeah.
- Screw this piece of crap.
Yeah.
Go like that, right?
- Yeah.
- There we go.
See?
- It's good.
- Yeah.
- Nice.
There we go.
There we go!
Try to bend your knees out
instead of together.
- Okay.
- Try to keep them
pointed out more.
It'll keep your balance
better on your way back.
Mostly on this one.
There you go.
Okay.
Now you're getting more speed
when you're coming in fakie.
One motion right here.
There you go. Yeah!
That's awesome!
So if you were riding
harder wheels,
you would be going
a little bit higher.
Yeah. Oh, shoot. Okay, wait.
Nice.
Yeah!
So thank you.
Thank you very much.
- That was awesome!
- That was solid!
Dude, yeah!
- I'm gonna tell you.
- That's it!
So because
these wheels are so soft,
it's making you work harder
for speed.
Little bit harder wheels.
- Yeah.
You'd find yourself
going higher instantly.
Can I try one
of your boards?
Yeah, of course.
If you just practice this
for a little bit,
you're going to be
so comfortable that
going three quarters the way up
to the top is going to be easy.
Yeah.
But all these steps
in the beginning
that are very important
to just make sure
that you're comfortable.
- Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Because you want
to have fun, right?
Exactly, yeah.
Already, that's faster.
Ooh, shit.
All right. Okay.
Oh yeah, nice.
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Nice.
- Yeah!
I think you're
officially halfway up.
Oh, new record
right there.
- Yeah!
- Oh, over it!
Yeah!
Oh!
That's five!
That's five right there!
Okay.
I thought he was going
to do the fakie right there.
Yeah.
- Yeah, nice.
- All right.
Awesome.
Did I get over it
that time?
Yeah, yeah,
you got to five.
- I did?
- Yeah.
An extra screw up.
It was smooth,
you know?
Okay, yeah.
It's about
a little chunk.
Look at that.
That's pretty exciting.
Oh, yeah. I'm going to
collapse, I think, right now.
Here, take a run now.
- Yeah.
- Love that sound.
Yeah.
My ramp doesn't make
that sound.
Yeah.
Nice.
You've skated
with Tony before, right?
I've skated your ramp a couple
of times in the past 10 years.
- At the warehouse?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- He definitely looks familiar.
It's been
a long time.
I recognize people
when they're in their pads.
And then the Olympics now,
it's in the Olympics.
- Yeah.
- But not vert ramp in Olympics.
Not vert, no.
And that seems like
there should be
half-pipe skating
in the Olympics.
I agree, Tom.
Because it seems like it would
be more televisable, you know?
Absolutely, yes.
Like it would
photograph well.
- Yes. Preach.
- Right?
Are you making
some sort of a--
I have been
the most ardent advocate of
adding vert to the Olympics,
to the point where
I am a nuisance to the IOC.
When they were heading
towards possible inclusion,
there weren't a lot
of vert ramps around,
and there definitely
weren't enough internationally
to make enough organizations
in different countries
that could
include vert.
They chose skate park
as a discipline
because that was
the most accessible.
- You've been to Africa.
- Yeah.
And brought skateboards
to Africa?
I have. Ethiopia, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, that's not,
that's just sort of as far away
from, you know,
the San Diego boardwalk,
you know.
I took kids for rides
in Sierra Leone, too.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
And there's a skate park
in Uganda
where these guys
are ripping.
That must be kind
of mind-blowing,
because you're seeing
them doing tricks
that you and
your friends invented.
Yeah.
And now you're in Uganda.
It's amazing.
We're in the best position
just because we get to see it.
We get to see it unfold.
We get to see it expand,
and the interest growing,
but we still can participate.
If we were young now,
it would be so much harder
to reach the levels we did
just because
it's everywhere.
Mm-hmm.
And people
have natural talent.
They're immediately
good at it.
It was a very small community
when we started.
And they have great places
to skate.
And the facilities, for sure.
Everywhere that we skated
was terrible.
It's easier to do something
if somebody's already done it.
- Exactly.
- Yes.
Like, like,
if somebody can go on YouTube
and watch you do a 900,
and they can sort of study every
little position your body's in,
and every every
little nuance of it, right?
You know, that 14 years
that it took for you
to figure out
how to do that.
Well, besides the fact
that they have
actual training facilities
for it now.
You can do it
into a foam pit.
You can land on a soft ramp.
We didn't have
those resources.
Okay, well, let's take
we're in the hot sun.
It's hot, there's sun
in Canada.
It's hot in Canada.
- It's beautiful.
Probably a couple
of months,
there's gonna be snow here.
Snow on the ramp.
I expect you to be
so hardcore with your skating
that you shovel it off
and you put on gloves
and you get on this ramp.
That could happen.
I could also drop in
on a snowboard on this ramp
in a couple of months.
That's what
I was just thinking.
Drop off there and just
cruise down the hill, right?
That could
happen for sure.
- That would be awesome.
- Awesome, man.
All right.
Amazing. Cool.
Cleaned out the chicken
coop this morning as well.
It's quite the job,
cleaning up the chicken coop.
Basically, I just shovel out all
the old sawdust we have in there
for them to make their bedding
and lay their eggs in.
It gets filled
with chicken poop.
It's funny to say poop
as well.
That's a fun thing about
doing a podcast from a farm,
is you can say poop
all the time,
and it's a good excuse
to say it. Just fun.
Especially
for the kids watching,
the little kids
who watch the show.
And I encourage you to have
your kids watch the show,
because this could be considered
a kids' show as well.
Poop poop. See,
it's kind of fun.
I probably get a little laugh
from the young folks out there
when you say poop poop.
Chicken poop.
Yeah!
A skateboard ramp
is not just lumber.
It's memories of youth,
it's physics,
it's courage.
And on most days,
gravity wins
by unanimous decision.
But watching Tony skate,
well, it's like watching someone
negotiate the universe directly
and somehow walking away
with terms that make no sense
to the rest of us.
It's super fast.
- Yeah?
- Yeah. No bumps.
Looking down at that seems
somewhat impossible, really.
You start to reach the top
on your kick turns.
Yeah.
It won't look
that scary up here.
Yeah!
Nice.
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
Nice!
Oh, my God!
- What?
- Yeah!
Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
I haven't seen him do
a backslide in months.
Hal and Jer,
they built the ramp,
so let's give these guys
a hand with Jake.
So good, you guys. Amazing.
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
Whoa!
I should bring out
the donkey out here.
Tom, take a run
and I'll go over you.
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
I like that.
- Next one, okay?
- Okay. Yep.
Don't worry about me.
Yes!
Yeah.
Oh, yeah!
Yes!
Want to try to do
a new doubles thing?
If you feel like you can blast,
I can go under you.
- Okay?
- I can get real low,
like back
I kind of have this thing
where I go like this.
Okay.
Don't worry about me,
I'm going to find a place.
- You're going to just time it?
- Yeah.
Yeah!
I didn't feel any contact,
so it was good on my end.
I saw you. I watched you go
right underneath me.
What do we call this?
What is this
we're doing right now?
What is this?
- Uh, finale?
Yeah.
All right, this is
the big finale, everybody.
Woo!
Make some noise
for Tony Hawk, Kevin Staab.
They came all
the way here.
It's the frontside
over frontside finale.
Dang! You get to think
about that one too, right?
You make the frontside air,
you pop out on the other side,
and you don't have to walk up
on the other side.
You guys just
high-fiving each other.
Yeah, come on.
All right, all right.
Yeah!
There's something
beautiful
about seeing someone
push themselves to the edge
of what they can do.
Whether you're building a life
or landing a trick,
the breakthrough
only comes after the struggle.
- Yeah!
- That was amazing!
I heard it!
I heard the landing!
- Woo!
- Tom Vert!
- Thank you, man!
- Yeah!
Thanks, you guys.
Hey, buddy.
Thanks, neighbors.
Giving up
for Tony Hawk, everyone.
Kevin Staab, everybody.
Thank you.
For next time.
- What's that?
- For next time.
Oh, yeah.
You got the helmet,
for you.
- You giving me this?
- Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Thank you, Tony.
Tony's giving me
his helmet.
- Yeah.
- I will need it.
Oh, that's awesome, man.
Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Oh, shit, so cool.
- Yeah. So cool, man.
- Thanks for building this.
If you build it,
we might come.
Thank you.
All right, thank you, everybody.
This has been
a beautiful thing.
And thank you, Tony.
- Yeah, man, thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Kevin.
I can't believe
we just did this.
Thank you, Dan.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
Thanks, Jake.
Thanks, guys for making this.
- Thanks, neighbors!
Thanks, neighbors.
As the sun
slipped behind the trees
and the session wound down,
I realized this day
wasn't really about the ramp.
It was about my friends
and community.
About building
something together,
a shared moment
which none of us will forget.
What a great day!
Thanks for having us.
Thank you for the
encouragement too,
I really appreciate it.
- Of course!
Everybody say Tom Vert!
Tom Vert!
- Hey!
Tony Hawk skating here
at the farm,
it was a dream come true.
My brother brought this
from home.
Oh, sick.
This was like, you know,
probably in high school
or something like that,
I made that.
- Wow.
- I painted my own.
I haven't seen this in,
like, years.
- Yeah.
- Thanks, Tom Vert.
- Nice.
- Thanks.
Thanks, Tony Hawk
and Kevin Staab
for coming
to the Tom Green Farm.
I'm so proud
to have shown you guys
my little part of Canada.
That was totally rad.
Super good day.
If you had told me
when I was 16 years old
that I'd be skating a vert ramp
on my farm in Ontario
with Tony Hawk, I wouldn't
have believed it, so
Awesome.
And this is just
day one.
I wonder what we're going
to get into next week.
Stay tuned.
Woo!
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