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The Tom Green Farm - Season 1 Episode 1 - Build it and They Will Come
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00:08Welcome to the Tom Green Farm.
00:10My name is Tom Green.
00:11Here I am in my house, built in 1857,
00:14out here in rural Ontario, Canada,
00:19where we'll be doing a talk show,
00:22not in a television studio, but on a farm,
00:25interviewing celebrities, people from all walks of life,
00:28when they come visit me here, on my farm, in my house.
00:31Go get the fucking car now.
00:35In the barn.
00:36Thanks so much for coming, Kurt.
00:38I'm stoked to be here.
00:39Out and around the property.
00:40Come over here for fun and you get your hand bitten off, right?
00:42Out in the woods.
00:43This is just fucking crazy.
00:47Down by the lake, out in a canoe, up on a horse,
00:49and all over the property.
00:51You're a pretty girl.
00:52Oh, hey, you're eating my jacket.
00:54Tony Hawk is here today.
00:55It's going to be a culmination of months and months of effort
00:58that went into building one of the very few vert halfpipe ramps in Canada.
01:03And Tony Hawk, the greatest of all time skateboarder.
01:06What Michael Jordan is to basketball, Tony Hawk is to skateboarding.
01:10A visit with him and his friend Kevin Staub,
01:12a legendary skateboarder in his own right.
01:14And I'm excited about all the people that we're going to present to you.
01:17How are you?
01:18Glad to be here.
01:19Good to see you.
01:19Cheers.
01:20It's intense.
01:21George.
01:21Tomorrow.
01:23I'm Tom Green.
01:25This is the Tom Green Farm.
01:31This is the Tom Green Farm.
01:34It's not the Green Tom Farm.
01:36This is my favorite farm.
01:38Because it is my farm.
01:41If this was your farm,
01:43you'd probably like it more than I did.
01:47That's just because it was your farm.
01:49But it's not your farm.
01:50It's the Tom Green Farm.
01:52It's the Tom Green Farm.
02:06Hi, I'm Tom.
02:07I'm a comedian and a filmmaker and now a farmer
02:10trying to turn this land into something that means something.
02:14And that's Amanda, my wife.
02:16She keeps this place running and somehow makes it all look effortless.
02:20She's the calm animal whisperer.
02:22And incredibly, she agreed to marry me.
02:24Wow.
02:25And this is my mom and dad, Mary Jane and Dick.
02:28And they've been with me through all the chaos and the detours and the reinventions.
02:33How many years have we been making television shows now?
02:35Since you were probably 20.
02:39I think my parents are happy that I'm home in Canada.
02:42Close enough that they can actually keep an eye on me.
02:48I don't really see why we have to redo the kitchen.
02:50Well, I know.
02:51That's the problem, isn't it?
02:52Tom, the kitchen is dated.
02:56It's really not very functional.
02:58The paint's not nice.
02:59I've got paint.
03:00I've got, what is this one called?
03:01Linen?
03:02And the counters are not nice, Tom.
03:04The dishwasher sucks and your dad likes to tidy up.
03:08Well, you'll get a new dishwasher.
03:09What's this one here?
03:10And that board over there.
03:12Accessible beige?
03:13Accessible beige.
03:14Or linen.
03:15Or linen.
03:16You paint and then if we don't like it, then we could maybe talk about...
03:19No.
03:19Tom, it's a dump.
03:20Accessible?
03:22A dump.
03:23It's older than you are, this kitchen.
03:26And that's good, Tom.
03:26The house was built in 1857.
03:28This kitchen is from the 90s.
03:30The 1890s.
03:31But you're making yourself sound a little bit like hoity-toity or something.
03:35I left Hollywood.
03:36We've gone to Hollywood.
03:37You need some fancy kitchen?
03:38Oh.
03:39Look good as new.
03:40Look at that.
03:40You're like your dad.
03:42You don't like change.
03:43You know?
03:44I moved home.
03:45I lived in Los Angeles for 21 years.
03:46I know.
03:46It took you 21 years to figure that out.
03:48When you get your new kitchen, which you will, because Amanda wants...
03:52No, no, no.
03:53This will be good.
03:53You'll be very happy, Tom.
03:54Well, I spend thousands.
03:56You'll be excited.
03:56When all you need to do is spend minutes.
03:58We stay here when you're traveling, and, you know, I'm with Amanda.
04:02We need a better kitchen.
04:04I think it looks nice just like this.
04:06Tom, open your pocketbook and get a new damn kitchen.
04:11Think of all the beautiful meals I make.
04:13All sorts of cameras and all sorts of stuff.
04:17But hubby, you buy a nice kitchen for Amanda.
04:21And I'll make you so many nice meals.
04:23I know.
04:30I think, I think we've convinced him.
04:42So, we went back into the woods to find a secret spot for a secret skateboard ramp.
04:47Kind of a clearing here.
04:49At first, it seemed like a good idea to have it way back hidden and private.
04:53Particularly up here, maybe.
04:54But the further we went, the more it became obvious that getting all the lumber and tools
04:58back here was going to be a real challenge.
05:00Now, this is, uh, when you bail, you don't want to bail into a rock.
05:04So, everything was up in the air now.
05:05We started to walk back to the house, thinking, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
05:10And then, we found this perfect clearing.
05:13Up on a hill, 360 degree views.
05:16It was perfect.
05:17We're, uh, building a ramp.
05:1950 feet by 12 feet by 28 feet.
05:23Yep.
05:23For Tony Hawk.
05:30I've skateboarding my whole life.
05:31I've never had a ramp like that.
05:32It's a Burt ramp.
05:33We're on a big piece of shield up here, too.
05:35Nice.
05:36She's granite all around and everywhere.
05:40It's going to be a good ramp.
05:41It's going to be good.
05:43A lot of big changes happening around here for me.
05:45My first mule and my first halfpipe.
05:52What do you think of that, Fanny?
05:53You ever seen a halfpipe before?
05:55We're going to be making the first ever log cabin halfpipe.
05:58A very Canadian.
05:59It's going to have a log cabin on the back of it.
06:02And, uh, man, this is going to be cool.
06:04Tony Hawk's coming soon.
06:05And, uh, I think he's going to be surprised.
06:08It's kind of a surprise.
06:10He said he was going to come do the show,
06:11but I don't think he realized I was going to make an actual Burt ramp for him.
06:15And, of course, none of this would exist without the masterminds behind the ramp itself.
06:19Jake, the architect, who turned lumber into art.
06:23And Dan, a pro skateboarder and geometry wizard who helped design and test the whole thing.
06:32The animals here have their own personalities.
06:35Fanny the mule, Allura the horse, her baby Arya, and Kia the donkey.
06:40And I've gained the trust of these creatures,
06:42even though they have absolutely zero respect for my personal space.
06:46And somehow between feeding everyone, doing chores,
06:49and chasing down whatever chicken escape artist is making a run for the woods,
06:53I'm loving.
06:54This new life feels right.
07:01This is Fanny.
07:03Fanny is a mule.
07:06Her, uh, father, her sire, is a Percheron horse, 17 hands tall.
07:13Her mama was a mammoth donkey.
07:15So she stands a, uh, 16, three hands tall, which is, uh, bigger than most horses.
07:22She's probably, until proven wrong, the tallest ridable mule in Canada.
07:28She's 12 years old, and I've had her for over two years now.
07:33And we've really kind of formed a good, trusting relationship.
07:38We go for long rides out in the wilderness around here.
07:42She's my primary source of transportation here at the farm.
07:46Before Fanny came along, I would ride around on the side-by-side.
07:51Mules are stronger than a horse.
07:54And they're a little bit harder to gain their trust.
07:57They question things a bit more than a horse.
08:00If I'm with, uh, the other horses too much, she can get jealous.
08:03Show everybody how big you are.
08:05Come on.
08:05Big lady, huh?
08:06It's been a real life-changing experience getting this one.
08:10I don't like to say I have favorites, but we do have a special bond because of our long rides
08:17in the wilderness together.
08:19Little rubs.
08:21Scratch your ear.
08:24There you go.
08:26My bum is on the mule.
08:27My bum is on the mule.
08:29Look at me.
08:31My bum is on the mule, right?
08:39Hi, Tom.
08:40Hello.
08:41How are you?
08:41Very good.
08:42Can I pat?
08:43No, no, don't come too close.
08:44Oh, okay.
08:45I don't want to step on your foot.
08:46Okay.
08:46Plus, I don't want you to move off your mark.
08:48Yeah, that's true.
08:49You know how to do this.
08:50I know, but I like moving around.
08:53Don't look at the camera.
08:54Don't look at the camera.
08:54No, I wasn't.
08:55Okay.
08:56Don't tell me what to do all the time.
08:58I'm a seasoned professional.
09:00I know.
09:01You've been making television a long time.
09:02I have.
09:03You're like a television person.
09:04Sometimes against my better judgment, but, yeah.
09:07Because sometimes people don't realize that you actually...
09:11Like you.
09:12Yeah.
09:14Yes, I do, Tom.
09:15Yeah.
09:15Do you like the ramp?
09:17Yeah, that's amazing.
09:18I mean, I haven't built it yet, but we're building a ramp.
09:20I know.
09:20That's crazy.
09:21I hope you're not going to go on it.
09:23Well, I'm going to go on it.
09:24Well, I thought it was for Tony Hawk.
09:27It is for Tony Hawk, but for sure he's going to peer pressure me into trying it.
09:31Well, don't.
09:32I'm not beyond peer pressure from Tony Hawk.
09:34Well, I'll have to speak to the young fellow then, won't I?
09:37You can't have a vert ramp on your property and not ride it.
09:39But think of the timing of when Tony's coming.
09:43Yeah.
09:43What's happening two weeks later?
09:47You're going to show up in bandages to your wedding?
09:50Don't put that out there.
09:51Are you that superstitious?
09:53Yeah.
09:54It's called manifesting.
09:55You're manifesting.
09:55Well, that's bullshit, Tom.
09:57No, it's not bullshit.
09:57It is bullshit.
09:58It's manifesting.
09:59Woke shit.
10:00No, no, it's not woke shit.
10:01If you think about something, it happens.
10:03No.
10:03Look, I imagined getting a mule.
10:05Look at me.
10:05It worked.
10:06That's planning to do something.
10:07You're not planning to have an injury.
10:10I manifested this mule, and I manifested the ramp, and I'm going to manifest the backside
10:14air, but I'm not going to manifest being on crutches with gauze at my wedding.
10:19Well, of course not.
10:19I'm going to start out by just riding at the bottom, you know?
10:23It's going to be one of the best skateboard ramps in eastern Ontario and western Quebec.
10:29I know, but that doesn't mean you have to skate.
10:31Skateboard on it?
10:32Yeah.
10:32I think it does.
10:33I think it's part of, you know, having Tony Hawk, the best skateboarder ever, coming
10:39and making him feel at home and showing him that Canada loves skateboarding and love him,
10:44and it has nothing to do with you dropping in.
10:49Okay.
10:50Maybe you're right.
10:50Maybe you're right.
10:51I think so.
10:57No, I'm going to do it.
11:00Well, you know what's going to happen.
11:01And your dad's going to want to do it, too.
11:05That's not good.
11:06No.
11:07No.
11:33Here's Phil now.
11:34Yeah, I know.
11:35Hey, Phil.
11:35How are you?
11:36Awesome.
11:37Awesome.
11:38It's been a long time.
11:39We haven't seen each other in a while.
11:41I don't think we have.
11:42What's up?
11:43What's up, man?
11:44What's up, Mary Jane?
11:45What's up, Mary Jane?
11:46How are you doing?
11:46Good to see you.
11:47Yeah, I'm good.
11:48I like this thing that you're wearing.
11:50Yeah, I know.
11:50I've been cold out here sometimes.
11:51It's a little chilly today, but what a lovely day.
11:54Yeah.
11:54It's perfect.
11:54What a lovely day.
11:55It's a lovely day out here.
11:57Phil Giroux.
11:58Yes.
12:00I'm pretty excited to show Phil the ramp that we're building.
12:03Ooh, you should see.
12:04Skate ramp.
12:04Yeah.
12:05It's going to be amazing.
12:06Phil and I grew up skateboarding together.
12:07That's how we met through skateboarding.
12:09More of like street skaters, though.
12:11Less so ramp skaters.
12:13We've got the foundation of it as we set up.
12:15Wicked.
12:15Wicked.
12:16It was pretty exciting.
12:16Wicked.
12:17But I'm just a little, my mom's a little concerned because, you know, obviously we're building
12:24a ramp.
12:25Of course.
12:25You know, I kind of had that thing when I, when you hurt your ankle.
12:30Hurt my ankle dropping into a ramp.
12:31So I've got a bit of a ramp, a half pipe PTSD.
12:34Okay.
12:35Good.
12:35Ever since that day when I was, I don't know, 17, 18, whatever.
12:40Mary Jane is concerned about me even trying to skate.
12:42Yeah.
12:42I mean, you know, it's true, but he's probably going to use more like the cabin part of the
12:46ramp.
12:46That's what he did.
12:47Less so the ramp.
12:48Oh, yeah.
12:48He'd still be like doing, you know, a little bit of wicked.
12:51I've been having dreams of pulling a backside air.
12:56Well, if you manifest it, it will happen.
12:58Yeah.
12:59That's right.
12:59Totally.
13:00Do you believe in that manifestation?
13:01I do.
13:02I do.
13:03My mom doesn't believe in it.
13:04Yeah.
13:04Manifestation.
13:05If you think it, you will achieve it.
13:08Let's go show you what we're getting started here.
13:10Okay.
13:10Are we doing it?
13:10We're going.
13:11Yeah, let's go.
13:11Up here.
13:12We're going this way?
13:13Yeah.
13:13We're going?
13:13Okay.
13:16Can I like stand on it?
13:18Can I like?
13:18You can.
13:19Yeah.
13:19You can stand on it.
13:21Oh, wow.
13:22Manifest a leap off it.
13:24It's all leveled.
13:25What's that?
13:26It's all leveled.
13:26Yeah, it looks like.
13:27Canadian, uh, Quebecois, uh, extreme sports champion, Pierre-Luc Gagnon.
13:34Well, that sounds like.
13:36He might know what he's doing, I think.
13:38He's, uh, he's actually helping us design it.
13:40Wicked.
13:41Some other people as well.
13:42Yeah, he's, uh, French-Canadian like you.
13:45It's amazing.
13:45Pretty cool.
13:46You guys can speak French and stuff.
13:47We sure can.
13:48You can join in too because you speak French as well.
13:50Yeah.
13:50Pretty well.
13:51Pretty good.
13:52Absolutely.
13:53Absolutely.
13:53You speak French?
13:54Certainly.
13:55Perfect.
13:57100%.
13:57I don't speak French perfectly, but...
14:00Your French is pretty good.
14:02I speak a little bit.
14:04Your French is probably better than, like, 75% of...
14:09Your French is very good, Tom.
14:11Yes.
14:11Very good.
14:11Yes, yes.
14:12For the sign, now, it's the subtitle.
14:15Yes.
14:15Ah, okay.
14:16Yeah, yeah.
14:16What's the word for subtitle?
14:19Uh, the sous-titre.
14:20Soutil?
14:21Sous-titre.
14:22Soutil?
14:23No, not, no.
14:24Tit, title.
14:25Soutil.
14:25Title.
14:26Yeah.
14:26Tit, title.
14:27And here's my friend Deadmau5s, Canadian music producer, DJ, and icon.
14:31He's popping by just to check out the ramp we're building.
14:34We're building a skateboarding ramp.
14:36A little...
14:36A little skateboarding ramp.
14:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:38What's up?
14:39How's it going, guys?
14:40Hey, what's happening?
14:41Oh, my gosh.
14:42It's, uh, my friend Joel, Deadmau5s.
14:44Deadmau5s Joel.
14:45Good to meet you.
14:46Jake?
14:47Hey, Jake.
14:47Good to meet you.
14:48Hey.
14:48Awesome.
14:48How's it going?
14:49We're building the cabin part, Tom.
14:52It's going to be the cabin side here, right?
14:54That's right.
14:54So we're getting that all sorted.
14:55Looks like indoor.
14:56You're going to walk into it?
14:57Yeah, this will be a little door here and some windows, and it'll be a little, little bunky.
15:02Oh, nice.
15:02The first log vert ramp.
15:05Have you built a ramp before?
15:07I've built lots of ramps and jumps and bike jumps.
15:10Oh, nice.
15:10And snowboard parks.
15:11But vert ramps, no.
15:13Got some good advice and some good counsel on the details, so.
15:16Right.
15:17Now we're mapping out how to build this cabin.
15:19We're trying to keep it in the same theme as the construction of the main ramp.
15:22Yeah, we've got a nice six-foot deck up there.
15:23Maybe like a hangout deck on top of this thing, so.
15:26Let's just check it out, because this is kind of like, this is kind of happening fast.
15:3012 feet tall.
15:3112 foot tall.
15:32Okay.
15:32Foot and a half of a vert.
15:34Okay.
15:35And a 14-foot flat.
15:37You're never dropping in on this in your life.
15:40I can tell you my odds of dropping in just went up by 50% for sure.
15:45I will have you to thank when I'm, you know, in a cast on my wedding day.
15:50It feels kind of...
15:51I think you've just got a full commit and just do it.
15:54It feels kind of...
15:54Yeah, just send it.
15:55It feels kind of good.
15:57I think I got it.
15:59I watched too many videos last night and seen that Danny way.
16:02Careful.
16:03Careful there.
16:04I'm okay.
16:06You can do it, Tom.
16:07The logic is, if I wouldn't jump from this height, I wouldn't drop in.
16:13On a board with wheels.
16:15Probably good logic there, for sure.
16:17Yeah, I don't know.
16:19Nice.
16:21Yeah, it's like if you were...
16:23If I'm thinking I'm going to go in with a skate, I'm just going to hit my face right there.
16:27Totally.
16:28Yeah, when you look from this angle, it's definitely terrifying.
16:33Wait till it's finished.
16:33There's some 10-year-olds you see online right now.
16:37It's just mind-blowing.
16:38But it's definitely much steeper of a transition than I was...
16:41So I'm going to stick to my wake surfing.
16:43It's low impact, you know, it's slow.
16:46Yeah, that's the old man.
16:47There's no wheels, just the board.
16:50Yeah.
16:50Amazing, Jake.
16:52Incredible.
16:53So far, so good.
16:54With every screw, every sheet of plywood, the anticipation grew.
16:59We weren't just building a ramp.
17:01We were carefully preparing for a moment that none of us really believed could actually happen.
17:07Tony Hawk coming to the farm?
17:09Man, that's totally rad.
17:37Whoa.
17:38Come here.
17:39Come here.
17:40Come here.
17:41Come here.
17:44Okay, wow.
17:47This is it, huh?
17:48Oh, yeah.
17:50It's black.
17:52Wow.
17:52It's very black.
17:54That looks nice.
17:56Yeah, he said there's no UV protection in it, so it'll go to kind of an ashy gray color.
18:02Nice.
18:04It's smooth, huh?
18:06Yeah, very smooth.
18:07All right.
18:08Well, it looks pretty cool.
18:09Hard part two is the sheets aren't square to begin with.
18:13I don't want to hear any of this.
18:15And they're four by four foot, quarter inch.
18:19Oh, fuck.
18:20Eight foot.
18:21Are they?
18:22Quarter inch.
18:23Yeah.
18:23So we changed our holes to make that work, so we squared our one edge as best we could, and
18:30we always worked that one way.
18:32I mean, we'll be all right.
18:33I mean, we'll be all right.
18:34We'll end up fixing it down here in the bottom, but it's just, yeah, it's hard.
18:38Yeah.
18:39When it's all on, we won't even notice it.
18:41After the fact.
18:42No.
18:42You didn't hear us talking about it.
18:43You'd be like, fuck it.
18:44It's just a bummer, a hurdle to have to get over to it.
18:48Yeah.
18:48You're getting the inside scoop.
18:49That looks like a pretty big space.
18:51That's exactly our problem.
18:53It's like this much it needs to move in.
18:55But we'll get it.
18:57Sometimes I look around at my friends and neighbors and see everybody coming together
19:01to make this amazing thing happen.
19:04All of us anticipating the arrival of a legend, and we know it's going to be a day
19:08that we'll never forget.
19:12Jake and crew, thank you so much.
19:14Thank you, Dan, for your advice here on everything.
19:17It's an amazing day in the history of Canadian skateboarding.
19:22It's the first ever vert ramp log cabin.
19:25What kind of hurdles have there been to build this?
19:28Just time.
19:29It was just a last minute idea sort of thing.
19:32And a real panic, you know, race to get it up and get it planned.
19:36And Dan was critical.
19:37Dan was able to jump in early and we had a good crew and some background people on it
19:41and blasted it up.
19:43How many ramps like this are there in Canada?
19:45How many vert ramps?
19:46As far as I know, there's four for sure.
19:50Um, my ramp.
19:51One in BC.
19:53Toronto.
19:54And here.
19:55But no, we've got Tony Hawk and Kevin Staub coming.
19:57He knows we're building this, but he hasn't seen finished photos.
20:00He saw some early shots.
20:03Just wanted to make sure he realized what he was getting himself into.
20:09How cool is this?
20:10Here we go.
20:12Autumn leaves.
20:15Yeah, see all those falling down fences there?
20:17Those have all been there for like a hundred plus years.
20:20Really?
20:21The cedar and then they tore them out because they'd all fallen down and that's when we built
20:24the fences out up front.
20:25This is a nice spot for a nice autumn leaves sort of vista here.
20:32Nice.
20:32I want to stop here for a second.
20:34Wow.
20:35Look at the colors of this place.
20:38What do you call this area?
20:39It's a hay field, you know?
20:40So we actually take this, all those hay bales all come off of this every August.
20:44There's about seven fields like this on the property.
20:46Wow.
20:47Every August we bale up about 800 of those bales.
20:50How old were you when you met?
20:52He was 13, 12 or 13.
20:54I was 11.
20:55We looked like we were 10.
20:57Were you skateboarding already when you met?
20:59Yeah, we met through skating.
21:01Met through skating.
21:01There were very few people our age or our size.
21:05Very small and scrawny.
21:06That's so awesome having like a lifelong friendship like that.
21:09Yeah, it's crazy.
21:10Still get to do it.
21:10It's crazy.
21:11Do you remember the moment you met each other?
21:13Do you remember that we were?
21:15Colton Skate Park.
21:16Us being there.
21:17And you were with your dad.
21:18And this is how great it was.
21:19The adolescents, because this is 1980.
21:21The adolescents are playing at the skate park just on repeat.
21:25And we're kind of like riding around, but I don't know if we've really talked much.
21:28And then we're in the pro shop and he's got taquitos.
21:31And he asked me if I wanted a taquito.
21:33Oh, yeah.
21:33So he gives me a taquito.
21:34We start talking.
21:35And then the next thing I know, he's like, well, if you don't want to cruise home with Grant,
21:39my dad can give you a ride home.
21:40And then we talked all the way home.
21:42I offered my dad a lot.
21:43That was it.
21:44We just got to be friends after that and wanted to hang out all the time because we had so
21:47much fun skating to
21:48together.
21:49But that moment's kind of crazy for me.
21:51And another thing that's gnarly is if you think about life and you want to be better at something,
21:56it's always good to hang out with somebody way better than you.
21:59And that just naturally happened for me, which is the craziest thing because I was with this guy all the
22:04time.
22:04Right, right.
22:05We both had our strengths, so I'd watch him too.
22:07I mean, this guy, he invented the half cap.
22:09He invented the blunt.
22:10Yeah.
22:11Yeah.
22:12I mean, the blunt that people do on mini ramps.
22:14Yeah.
22:15Here he is.
22:16Oh, it's amazing.
22:17The originator.
22:18I mean, when I was, you know, I guess probably 15 years old.
22:22I mean, I was looking at you and both of you in Transworld and Thrasher magazine.
22:28I mean, to me, it's so cool to have you guys here, even though I've known you for a long
22:33time.
22:33But it's like, it still goes back to like, holy shit, you know.
22:37Kevin, stop.
22:38We all carry those skate ethos with us.
22:42Yeah, yeah.
22:42And that's what carried us so far and why we still get to do it.
22:45Because it was never about some goal of fame or fortune or anything.
22:50It was just like, as long as we get to keep doing this, everything's cool.
22:53When you're young and doing something like skateboarding that was just not considered cool.
22:58And very much shunned and, you know, like we got made fun of for skating.
23:04You, it's like you weathered that storm together.
23:06So those bonds are unbreakable.
23:08Holy shit.
23:10Oh, wow.
23:10What are you fucking doing this?
23:12Yeah.
23:12Want to see a shack I built?
23:14Yeah.
23:15It's the swamp shack, I call it.
23:17This is just fucking crazy.
23:20That's a beaver lodge right there.
23:21See that pile of sticks?
23:23Yeah.
23:23Yeah.
23:24So this water is basically here because of the beavers dammed up right there.
23:27You're living in a cartoon, Tom.
23:29Yeah.
23:30You know, it's weird.
23:30Like this is actually kind of feels more normal to me than L.A. did.
23:33Yeah.
23:34And I was in L.A. for 20 years.
23:35Understood.
23:35When I say living in a cartoon.
23:37Yeah.
23:37It's not a diss.
23:38Come see the lake.
23:39This is, this is just the swamp.
23:40This is a...
23:41Yeah.
23:41We'll go sit at the lake.
23:43I love the swamp.
23:43We'll go, we'll go sit down at the lake.
23:45Can you consider draining the swamp?
23:46Yeah.
23:47We need to drain the swamp.
23:48This is the coolest thing.
23:50Yeah.
23:50I can see it on your face.
23:51You're looking at it like, it's like the way I would have looked at the desert, you know?
23:55Oh my God.
23:57Are you...
23:58What in the f...
23:59This is what put it over the top, this place, but...
24:02Wow.
24:04Good swimming.
24:06Wow.
24:07This is really cool.
24:08Welcome to Canada, man.
24:11This is so uncool.
24:14Wow.
24:15You are living the dream.
24:16Truly living the dream.
24:17Yeah, man.
24:18Thanks.
24:18This isn't even real.
24:20This is not fucking real.
24:22Yeah.
24:22This is like a postcard.
24:23No, it's insane.
24:25This is the neatest place ever.
24:41It's been a great morning.
24:42I had to cut the fragmites with my steel brush saw.
24:48Steels, S-T-I-H-L, like the chainsaw company.
24:56I was cutting these phragmites.
24:58The actual pronunciation is phragmites.
25:00They're an invasive species from China.
25:02They're kind of taking over a lot of the ponds.
25:05They're a large, tall plant with purple head of seeds.
25:09They look like cattails, but much, much taller.
25:13So it's a bit of a chore every year to get out there and make sure we cut the phragmites
25:19before they seed themselves.
25:21And I think every year we're having a few less phragmites.
25:25Hopefully one of these days we'll rid the pond entirely of phragmites.
25:29But hopefully not entirely because then we won't be able to say phragmites anymore on the podcast, which won't be
25:34fun.
25:35That will be a sad day.
25:42Okay, so you haven't looked at it yet.
25:44I haven't looked.
25:45I've only seen this side of everything.
25:47One second.
25:48Don't look.
25:48Don't look yet.
25:49Okay, you can look at it now.
25:50You can look at it now.
25:51Oh, wow.
25:53That's beautiful.
25:55Does it look like a ramp?
25:56It looks like a home.
25:57No, so it's the first ever, I'm not sure for sure if it is, but we're saying it's the first
26:01ever log cabin vert ramp in Canada.
26:05I would agree.
26:06Yeah.
26:07This is really cool.
26:08So, yeah.
26:09This is built really well.
26:11Did you ever imagine you'd have your own vert ramp?
26:13I never really thought I would.
26:17Honestly, it's kind of, it's in honor of you guys coming that we built this, you know?
26:21That mirror up there?
26:22Isn't that nice?
26:23My friend Shane did that.
26:24Yeah, no, this is, it's exciting.
26:26I'm excited that you like it.
26:28I think the guys that built it are going to be really stoked.
26:31So, thank you.
26:32And it went up so fast, like, they started like, three and a half weeks ago.
26:36These guys knew what they were doing.
26:38There we go.
26:40I've never seen a vert ramp with a black surface.
26:43It fades, apparently.
26:44It fades?
26:45It will fade to more of a grayish color.
26:47It's called Pure Surface, and it's a Canadian version of Skate Light, basically.
26:51Apparently it's super water repellent.
26:54Yeah.
26:54Nice view up here, right?
26:55Yeah.
26:56This will be cool.
26:57I'm speechless.
26:58This is crazy.
27:00Come check out the cabin here on this side.
27:03Wow.
27:04It sort of looks like the house, which, you know, was built in 1857, my place.
27:09Usually the underneath of the ramp is just for putting your pads on, and it is one of the grossest
27:15places.
27:15Yeah, it's not finished yet.
27:17Just, we just finished, like, literally just...
27:18So you already set the bar pretty high.
27:20Yeah.
27:21With the exterior.
27:22We haven't done the interior of the ramp yet, but, you know.
27:25Wow.
27:27Oh, my gosh.
27:28I've never been under a ramp that felt inviting before.
27:31We have a wood stove in here with, like, say, in the winter, it'll be all insulated.
27:35It'll be a little, like, wood stove.
27:36We're going to put, like, a little, you know, hangout spot in here.
27:39This is so insane.
27:40It's so cool.
27:42Wow.
27:42I don't know.
27:43We're honored.
27:44We're overwhelmed.
27:44This is really cool.
27:46Welcome.
27:47Thanks, buddy.
27:49Honestly.
27:49I appreciate it.
27:50Seriously, guys.
27:51Dude, thanks for having us.
27:53This is insane.
27:54I still appreciate you guys coming, man.
27:55It's so cool.
27:56I know we're out in the middle of, where the hell are we?
27:59Which is the coolest part.
28:00We just love the adventure.
28:01It's going to be a fun day.
28:02We would have come even if you just had a slappy curb.
28:04Yeah.
28:04Yeah.
28:04Oh, shit.
28:05I should have just done that.
28:24I have never done a podcast on the flat bottom of the room.
28:30Wow.
28:30That makes me feel good.
28:31Yeah.
28:31This is awesome.
28:32Thank you guys for coming all the way here to rural Ontario.
28:37Well, thanks for building a Burt Ramp.
28:40I'm just going to put this up and get a little shot of the...
28:43I want to show you where you are, basically.
28:46Oh.
28:47Oh.
28:50So, see how we're, like, essentially in the middle of, like, frigging nowhere?
28:54Look.
28:55Wow.
28:57Wow.
28:58We're just surrounded by wilderness here.
29:00I'll do a little...
29:01I was hoping you were going to show a couple other ramps.
29:03Yeah.
29:04That are off in the distance.
29:05There's the lake we just were at, see?
29:08And what do you think, Kevin?
29:09Like, you grew up in Arizona and California, which is desert.
29:13Correct.
29:14What do you think of this boreal forest we're in here?
29:16It's like Disneyland for adults.
29:18It might be one of the coolest places I've ever been.
29:20Tony, you just sold...
29:22You just sold your skateboard that you did the 900 on for a million dollars?
29:28Officially, the hammer dropped at 900,000.
29:30And then they have fees and taxes at the auction house.
29:33Plus tax over a million, right?
29:35Yeah, yes, yeah.
29:35Were you surprised that it sold that much at auction?
29:37Absolutely.
29:38I mean, that's the highest selling...
29:40The most expensive selling skateboard of all time, right?
29:42By far, yeah.
29:42I didn't know what to expect.
29:44I wanted to raise money for our foundation, the skateboard project.
29:47And I thought that maybe it would beat the record, the previous record of a skateboard...
29:51Yeah.
29:52...sale.
29:52And then it just suddenly, as it was happening in real time, it just started going up and up and
29:57up.
29:58Let me land this first.
30:00There we go.
30:03It's weird because skateboarding has become a sort of a very cool thing to do now for kids, right?
30:08But back when we were kids...
30:10It was the furthest thing from cool you could do.
30:12Whatever your shortcoming was or your body style or whatever it was, you were just going to get bullied.
30:18And so to choose to skate was like, why would you put yourself even further from the cool hierarchy?
30:30Kevin, was there a moment when you realized you guys were both going to be two of the top pro
30:37skaters of the...
30:38Was it the 80s?
30:40I was just having more fun doing that than anything else.
30:43Like, I didn't really play any other sports.
30:45I wanted to play baseball, but again, I was too little and everybody kind of made fun of me anyway.
30:49So I just...
30:49I'd kind of go...
30:50I'd go in the baseball games there and just ride wheelies on my bike and hang out at the snack
30:54shop.
30:55And then go ride my board all the time.
30:57And so there was always a couple of kids older than me down the street that I tried to mimic
31:02or be like them.
31:03But after meeting him and then us riding for a little bit, I mean, obviously, we were trying to be
31:07better than the guys, you know, from the 70s that were still riding.
31:11Yeah. And they were like slaloming through pylons and stuff.
31:14They were skating pools.
31:16Oh, they were skating.
31:17At that point, pool...
31:18I mean, I think that's what got us into skating where it was exciting.
31:22Because before that, before pool skating, it was just slaloming and handstands and 360s and pirouettes.
31:29And like that, that was more like dancing. And we saw people flying.
31:34Skating empty pools and backyards.
31:36And then at some point, someone built a half pipe.
31:38And then at some point, pools started getting a little bit bigger.
31:43They started putting flat bottom in the pools so that you had time between the walls.
31:47And then we mimicked that on ramps.
31:50And then at some point, what was considered pool skating and vert skating became half pipe skating.
31:56Yeah. And that was kind of when I got into skateboarding.
31:59Like if you picked up a copy of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine or Thrasher, it was all vert.
32:05So now it's been more street skating in the last, you know, 20 years or something, right?
32:10Hasn't it been?
32:10Oh, for sure.
32:11Yeah.
32:11But it's more that in those days, street skating was just transportation.
32:17People didn't understand how to use landscape or handrails or ledges the way they do now.
32:23So you didn't really think of, well, yeah, I'm a street skater.
32:28If you were, if you skated on the ground, you were a freestyler.
32:32Yeah.
32:32And, you know, back in our day, like we did that too.
32:36We did that too.
32:36These dollars were nerds.
32:37Right.
32:38And the cool, the cool skaters were the pool skaters.
32:41There must have been a moment where like all of a sudden, was there a moment you looked at Tony
32:45and said,
32:45holy shit, you're, you're the best in the world.
32:47Oh, I'm watching it happen.
32:48Yeah.
32:48I've been watching it happen for 40 years.
32:51Yeah.
32:52You remember the moment though, you realized this is crazy.
32:57Oasis?
32:58Uh, when you did Baxter Dolly into India in front of Dwayne Peters.
33:03Do you remember that moment or?
33:05I do.
33:05Yeah.
33:06That's when things changed.
33:08Uh huh.
33:08And I saw it happen.
33:09Is that like a skate?
33:10In your 81.
33:11That was a big skate park or something, Oasis?
33:13That was the park in San Diego.
33:15That was Tony's local.
33:15Do you know who else was there?
33:18Rodney, Mullen and Steve Rocco.
33:20Yeah.
33:20That was Rodney's first contest, right?
33:21That was Rodney's first competition.
33:24And Rodney and Steve Rocco came over to the pool to watch me do this because they thought
33:28it was something unique.
33:29Uh huh.
33:30Because no one had ollied into their airs before.
33:32Right.
33:33And so I ollied into an Indy Air and I made one.
33:35And I remember vividly Steve Rocco turning to Rodney and saying, that's the future.
33:40To the non-skater basically is, and maybe I don't even understand, but before people would
33:44go up and they would grab their board before they-
33:46Before they hit the lip.
33:47Before they flew over.
33:48Yeah.
33:48And then you just went up and didn't grab it and just kind of kicked the board.
33:51I only did it because I was desperate to get air and I didn't have the size or the strength
33:56to reach down and grab my board beforehand.
33:58So you'd go as fast as you could and you'd kick the board before you get to the top.
34:01And launch upward and then catch it at the peak.
34:03Catch it in the air.
34:04Yeah.
34:04Honestly, I didn't think I was creating a revolution or anything.
34:07I just was like, I want to get high and that's the only way I can get above the lip.
34:16Come on out here everybody.
34:18Come on.
34:19Oh, we're not going to get him out.
34:21Oh, we're not going to get him out.
34:23Okay.
34:24There we go.
34:24Check this out.
34:31Are you just playing catch with chickens?
34:34Come on, guys.
34:34Go say hi to Tony Hawk.
34:36Oh, I had it.
34:37Come on.
34:38Is this an initiation?
34:39Oh, you can put him on your head.
34:41Put him on my head.
34:42Yeah.
34:43There you go.
34:44Okay.
34:49There you go.
34:50I enjoy it here.
34:51Yeah.
34:52This is Aria.
34:55This is the one I ride all the time with Fanny.
34:57You can go for rides along the lines.
34:58Let me show you Fanny.
35:00She's pretty fun.
35:01Oh, my God.
35:02Yeah, so there she is.
35:03Wow.
35:04She's very chill.
35:05She's got horseshoes on.
35:06She just got them recently, so.
35:08Hey, baby.
35:09Show everyone your shoes.
35:11Come here.
35:12Come here.
35:12It's okay.
35:14No, no.
35:15Come here.
35:15We don't need to see your shoes, Tom.
35:18Is it kind of neat, though?
35:19She seems a little annoyed with you.
35:21Look at your foot here.
35:23There you go.
35:24Come on, Fanny.
35:24Your foot.
35:25There you go.
35:26It's your shoe.
35:28Oh, my God.
35:30It's okay.
35:31I believe you, Tom.
35:33Yeah.
35:34She doesn't feel like showing her shoe right now.
35:35Yeah, that's fine.
35:37You want to show everyone your shoe?
35:39Yeah, we'll look at her shoe later.
35:40It's cool.
35:40It's like a horseshoe.
35:44Okay, we don't have to look at her shoe now.
35:46Want to go, uh...
35:47Wait, I want to see her shoe.
35:49I never really got a good look at it.
35:50Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:51Okay, cool.
35:51Come on.
35:53Okay.
35:53Lift it.
35:55Want to show that one?
35:57Want to show the other one?
35:58Let's go.
35:58Look it up.
35:59There you go.
36:00There you go.
36:01Nice.
36:02That is a nice one shoe.
36:03That is a beautiful shoe.
36:03Isn't that nice?
36:04See?
36:04Yeah.
36:05You got some apples?
36:06This is Allura.
36:07Yeah.
36:09This is Kia right here.
36:10She's the donkey.
36:11There you go.
36:13Oh, yeah, big one.
36:14Oh, hello.
36:15Flat hand.
36:16Very flat hand.
36:17They kind of grab it with their lips, you know?
36:19Don't get your finger bitten off.
36:20Thanks.
36:21Self-ful safety tip.
36:22Yeah, yeah.
36:23Feed them, but don't let them eat your finger.
36:26Yeah, yeah.
36:26That's the main thing.
36:28Cool guidance, Tom.
36:29They probably won't.
36:31When's the spinning start?
36:32The very first 540 was actually a hand plant.
36:36Okay.
36:37That was Billy Ruff did a front side hand plant 540.
36:40It was called the unit.
36:41That was around 82.
36:44And then I learned how to do that without putting my hand down,
36:47so that was a front side 540.
36:49In 84, Mike McGill figured out how to do 540's backside,
36:53and that was the game changer.
36:54And that's why it's called the McTwist?
36:56That's why it's called McTwist.
36:57Mike McGill?
36:57720.
36:58720 was the next year in 1985.
36:59Were you the first one to do a 720?
37:01Yeah.
37:01I remember that.
37:02Yeah.
37:02And then it was, how many years later,
37:04till you this infamous moment, one of the greatest moments in sports?
37:0814 years.
37:08It took 14 years to go from...
37:0914 years to figure that out, yeah.
37:11So two complete revolutions, and then 14 more years to get to the 900.
37:15Yeah.
37:15And then that's the reason why that board that you'd spun the 900 on
37:19just went at auction for a million bucks, right?
37:21That's...
37:21Yeah.
37:22I mean, that was definitely a zeitgeist moment in my career,
37:27and some people say in the awareness of skateboarding.
37:31Didn't ESPN call that one of the greatest moments in sports history?
37:36That moment where you did that night?
37:36It was the first time that they ever highlighted skateboarding on their sports center highlights.
37:42Yeah.
37:42So to us, that was a big deal.
37:45Do you remember when we met in New York?
37:48I taught you the kickflip?
37:49Yes, I do remember that.
37:50In the MTV offices.
37:51My show had just been picked up by MTV.
37:53Yeah.
37:53And we'd been on the air for a week or something like that.
37:56Yeah.
37:57We, our website, tomgreen.com was up and we had a contact us page,
38:02which was like kind of before people had websites and stuff.
38:04Or email.
38:05Yeah.
38:05Yeah.
38:06And Glenn Humplick, you know.
38:09Yep.
38:10Came into the office, said,
38:11Tom, Tony Hawk emailed you.
38:13He wants to come on the show, right?
38:14And then, you know, like a week later or something like that, you were in New York.
38:18I came and met you at your hotel.
38:19I said, I just wanted to skateboard to the office with you.
38:22You kind of also, you preempted it where you said,
38:26Look, I'd love to go do some stuff with you.
38:28You know, let's go skate.
38:29But just so you know, like when we started doing it, I'm going to get kind of loud.
38:34And that was when we were filming.
38:36Yeah.
38:36Yeah.
38:36But he had to, he had to give me the full warning of what the show will be like.
38:41Because we had an actual skate to the office without the cameras.
38:44Right.
38:45But it was probably a lot of fun.
38:47I knew you from your show.
38:48Yeah.
38:49And then I said, you know what?
38:50I'm going to be an idiot now that we're filming.
38:52Yeah.
38:52And I was probably, I was probably embarrassed to do that in front of you.
38:56It was great.
38:58Did you think you'd be skateboarding?
39:00Definitely not.
39:00In your 50s?
39:01No.
39:02No.
39:03When we were young, once people got in their 20s, they quit.
39:08Yeah.
39:08The generation above us, most of them just disappeared.
39:11Yeah.
39:11Yeah.
39:12I'll never forget, Thrasher Magazine printed a photo of Mark Lake doing an invert.
39:17Yeah.
39:17And it was like, Mark Lake, 30 and still ripping.
39:20And I remember looking at it like, whoa.
39:24Yeah.
39:25I wonder if I'll still be skating when I'm 30.
39:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:28And now you're-
39:29Here we are.
39:29Yeah.
39:29Almost double that.
39:31Yeah.
39:32When did skateboarding become a huge business?
39:34What year?
39:35Like it was always a big business, but then there was a moment where it became much more mainstream.
39:41I would say early 2000s.
39:43Yeah.
39:43Skating has always been cyclical.
39:45So it had a boom in the 70s when we started.
39:49It had a boom in the 80s when you started.
39:51Yeah, I was saying earlier, when I saw Back to the Future.
39:53Yeah.
39:54And I saw Michael J. Fox riding to school on his skateboard.
39:57Yeah.
39:57And sliding on the tail.
39:59You know, and the pickings, I just, I wanted to do that.
40:01Yeah.
40:01Yeah.
40:01There's a whole generation of skaters that started because of that.
40:04There was sort of a perfect storm of X Games started getting popular.
40:08Like I said, our video game created a fan base for skating that didn't necessarily skate,
40:13but was interested in it.
40:15And then all of a sudden it was just sort of, it was just front and center.
40:20I'm thankful to see it come of age.
40:22I'm thankful to see that kids readily choose to skate like they do other sports now.
40:28Yeah.
40:28And it's not, it's not something that their parents are discouraging necessarily.
40:33I mean, maybe they discourage it because of safety factors, but they're not discouraging
40:37because those kids are punks and they're, you know, they're no good and they've got,
40:41they've got no motivation.
40:42It's like.
40:43Yeah.
40:43That's all we heard as kids.
40:45If you were in high school.
40:45But also just, just losers and slackers.
40:47And it was like, do you know the amount of dedication and pain and perseverance it takes
40:52to learn one skate trick?
40:54Yeah.
40:54Slacker is the opposite of that mindset.
40:58Well, the day is here, my friends and neighbors and local families gathering.
41:02We didn't just want to do a private skate session.
41:05We wanted a moment.
41:07And now we're standing shoulder to shoulder, waiting for the magic to happen.
41:12Waiting for something impossible to occur in a hay field.
41:18Let's have a round of applause for Tony and Kevin.
41:21Thank you for coming.
41:25Before we show you my limited abilities on the ramp, I did want to bring Jake out here,
41:32who worked with our team here to, his team here to build the ramp, who I'll introduce
41:37you to.
41:37But we have a special launching ceremony here to kick off this vert ramp.
41:44Which, by the way, was pointed out to me the other day that, you know, you know,
41:47Canada being a bilingual country.
41:49My last name, Green, in French is Vert.
41:52Vert.
41:53Yeah.
41:53On our behalf, do you mind changing it to Tom Vert legally?
41:56Yeah.
41:57Thomas Vert.
41:57Tom Vert.
41:58But we had a little thing we wanted to do here.
42:01Let me see what we have here.
42:02In honor of you guys coming here, we're going to place this on the ramp.
42:08There's a plaque.
42:10On September 28th, 2025, Tony Hawk and Kevin Staub visited Tom Green's farm and launched
42:16themselves into history from the top of this radical, one-of-a-kind log cabin vert ramp.
42:22Well, you're assuming we're going from the top?
42:24Now that you've written it in stone.
42:26Yes.
42:26You have to go from the top now, yeah.
42:28Okay.
42:28All right.
42:29But, no, thank you guys for coming.
42:30Yeah, thank you.
42:31Hey, this looks amazing.
42:32Thank you, guys.
42:33Yeah.
42:33Thank you so much.
42:34We appreciate all that.
42:34Tom Vert, thanks for having us, man.
42:36Tom Vert.
42:37Yeah.
42:38No, we really appreciate it.
42:39The pro model coming soon.
42:40There we go.
42:41Well, speaking of which, I am wearing my, uh, earlier, uh, in the early 2000s release.
42:49It's been so long that that could be actually vintage now?
42:52Yeah.
42:53That's how old we are, Tom.
42:54We're getting up there.
42:55Yeah.
42:56Want to do honors here, Dan, and stick this up?
42:58Yeah.
42:59There we go.
42:59I don't think I've ever seen a plaque on a ramp like that.
43:02Yeah.
43:02Especially before we skate.
43:06That is nice.
43:07Wow.
43:09Awesome.
43:09Let's do it.
43:10Let's do it.
43:10Okay.
43:39Let's do it.
43:40All right.
43:40I haven't really, really ever had this level of padding before.
43:45Warrior mode.
43:46Yeah.
43:46So the parks, we grew up skating, you couldn't walk in the door unless you were fully padded.
43:50Right.
43:51I got to get you a YEPA helmet, but those are good pads.
43:53Oh, yeah?
43:53Not the right helmet?
43:54Yeah.
43:54We just started a helmet brand, so.
43:56Oh, okay.
43:56YEPA.
43:57YEPA.
43:57Yeah, I got to get a YEPA helmet for sure.
43:59Yeah.
44:00Yeah.
44:00Look at this piece of crap.
44:02Yeah.
44:03Go.
44:04Like that, right?
44:05Yeah.
44:06There we go.
44:07See?
44:07That's good.
44:08There we go.
44:08Yeah.
44:09Nice.
44:09There we go.
44:12There we go.
44:12Try to bend your knees out instead of together.
44:16Okay.
44:16Try to keep them pointed out more.
44:18Okay.
44:18Keep your balance better on your way back.
44:20Mostly on this one.
44:21There you go.
44:22Okay.
44:23Now you're getting more speed when you're coming in fakie.
44:25You have one motion right here.
44:27There you go.
44:27Oh!
44:29Okay.
44:33That's awesome.
44:35So, if you were riding harder wheels, you would be going a little bit higher.
44:39Yeah.
44:40Oh, shit.
44:41Okay.
44:42Nice.
44:44Yeah!
44:45So, thank you.
44:46Thank you, Rocky.
44:48That was awesome.
44:48That was solid.
44:49Right?
44:50Dude, yeah.
44:50Yeah!
44:51That's it!
44:52So, because these wheels are so soft, it's making you work harder for speed.
44:58Little bit harder wheels.
44:59Yeah.
45:00You find yourself going higher instantly.
45:02Can I try one of your boards?
45:03Yeah, of course.
45:04If you just practice this for a little bit, you're going to be so comfortable that going
45:07three quarters of the way up to the top is going to be easy.
45:10Yeah.
45:10But it's just all these steps in the beginning that are very important to just make sure that
45:14you're comfortable.
45:14Yeah.
45:15Yeah, exactly.
45:16Yeah.
45:16Okay.
45:16Because you want to have fun, right?
45:17Exactly.
45:18Yeah.
45:19Already?
45:20That's faster.
45:21Ooh, shit.
45:23All right.
45:24Okay.
45:25Oh, yeah.
45:26Nice.
45:28Yeah.
45:30Yeah.
45:30There you go.
45:32Nice.
45:33Yeah!
45:35I think you're officially halfway up.
45:38Oh, a new record right there.
45:43Yeah!
45:43Oh, over it!
45:46Yeah!
45:48Oh!
45:49That was fun!
45:50That was fun!
45:50That was fun!
45:51Right there!
45:52Okay.
45:53I thought he was going to do the fakie right there.
45:55Yeah!
45:56Yeah!
45:57Nice!
45:57All right.
45:59Awesome!
46:00Did I get over it that time?
46:01Yeah, yeah.
46:02You got to five.
46:03I did?
46:03Yeah.
46:04An extra screw up.
46:05It was smooth.
46:06Nice.
46:06Nice.
46:06You know?
46:07Okay, yeah.
46:09Look at that!
46:10That's pretty exciting!
46:11Oh, yeah.
46:12I'm going to collapse, I think, right now.
46:15Okay, take a run now, Dad.
46:26Yeah.
46:26Love that sound.
46:27Yeah.
46:28So, my ramp doesn't make that sound.
46:30Yeah!
46:34Nice.
46:35You've skated with Tony before, right?
46:36I've skated your ramp a couple of times in the past ten years.
46:39At the warehouse?
46:40Yeah.
46:41Okay.
46:41Yeah, I mean, it definitely looks familiar.
46:43Been a long time.
46:44I recognize people when they're in their pads.
46:46And then the Olympics now.
46:47It's in the Olympics.
46:48Yeah.
46:49But not vert ramp in Olympics.
46:51Not vert, no.
46:53And that seems like there should be half-pipe skating in the Olympics.
46:56I agree, Tom.
46:57Because it seems like it would be more televisable, you know?
46:59Absolutely, yes.
47:01Like it was photographed well.
47:02Yes.
47:03Preach!
47:03Right?
47:04Are you making some sort of...
47:07I have been the most ardent advocate of adding vert into the Olympics to the point
47:13where I am a nuisance to the IOC.
47:15When they were heading towards possible inclusion, there weren't a lot of vert ramps around,
47:20and there definitely weren't enough internationally to make enough organizations in different countries that could include vert.
47:29They chose skate park as a discipline because that was the most accessible.
47:32You've been to Africa?
47:34Yeah.
47:35And brought skateboards to Africa?
47:36I have.
47:38Ethiopia.
47:38Yeah.
47:39Yeah.
47:39I mean, that's not...
47:41That's just sort of as far away from, you know, the San Diego boardwalk, you know.
47:48I took kids for rides in Sierra Leone too.
47:50Yeah.
47:51Yeah.
47:51And there's a skate park in Uganda where these guys are ripping.
47:54That must be kind of mind-blowing because you're seeing them doing tricks that you and your friends invented.
48:00Yeah.
48:00And now you're in Uganda.
48:01It's amazing.
48:02We're in the best position just because we get to see it.
48:06We get to see it unfold.
48:07We get to see it expand and the interest growing, but we still can participate.
48:12If we were young now, it would be so much harder to reach the levels we did just because it's
48:19everywhere.
48:19Mm-hmm.
48:20And people have natural talent.
48:23They're immediately good at it, and it was a very small community when we started.
48:27And they have great places to skate, which we did.
48:28And the facilities, for sure.
48:30Like, everywhere that we skated was terrible.
48:33But it's easier to do something if somebody's already done it.
48:36Exactly.
48:37Yes.
48:37Like, if somebody can go on YouTube and watch you do a 900 and they can sort of study every
48:44little position your body's in and every little nuance of it, right?
48:49You know, that 14 years that it took for you to figure out how to do that.
48:52Yeah.
48:52Besides the fact that they have actual training facilities for it now, you can do it into a foam pit.
48:57Right.
48:57You can land on a soft ramp.
48:59We didn't have those resources.
49:01Okay.
49:01Well, let's think.
49:02We're in the hot sun.
49:03It's hot.
49:04There's sun in Canada.
49:05It's hot in Canada.
49:05It's beautiful.
49:06Probably a couple of months there's going to be snow here.
49:09Snow on the ramp.
49:10I expect you to be so hardcore with your skating that you shovel it off and you put on gloves
49:14and you get on this ramp.
49:16That could happen.
49:17I could also drop in on a snowboard on this ramp in a couple of months.
49:19That's what I was just thinking.
49:21Drop off there and just cruise down the hill, right?
49:24That could happen for sure.
49:25That would be awesome.
49:26Awesome, man.
49:27All right.
49:29Amazing.
49:29Cool.
49:32Cleaned out the chicken coop this morning as well.
49:34It's quite the job cleaning up the chicken coop.
49:37Basically, I just shovel out all the old sawdust we have in there for them to make their bedding and
49:42lay their eggs in.
49:43It gets filled with chicken poop.
49:45It's funny to say poop as well.
49:48That's a fun thing about doing a podcast from a farm is you can say poop all the time and
49:53it's a good excuse to say it.
49:55Just fun.
49:56Especially for the kids watching, the little kids who watch the show.
49:59And I encourage you to have your kids watch the show because this could be considered a kids show as
50:04well.
50:05Poop poop.
50:05See, it's kind of fun.
50:06I probably get a little laugh from the young folks out there when you say poop poop.
50:12Chicken poop.
50:37Yeah.
50:38A skateboard ramp is not just lumber.
50:41It's memories of youth.
50:44It's physics.
50:45It's courage.
50:46And on most days, gravity wins by unanimous decision.
50:50But watching Tony skate, well, it's like watching someone negotiate the universe directly and somehow walking away with terms that
50:58make no sense to the rest of us.
51:11It's super fast.
51:13Yeah?
51:13Yeah.
51:14No bumps.
51:15Looking down at that seems somewhat impossible, really.
51:20You start to reach the top on your kick turns.
51:22Yeah.
51:22It won't look that scary up here.
51:30Yeah.
51:32Nice.
51:56Oh my God.
51:59What?
52:00Yeah.
52:01Woo.
52:06I haven't seen a new max and holly in months.
52:10Hal and Jer, they built the ramp.
52:13So let's give these guys a hand with Jake.
52:16So good, you guys.
52:17Amazing.
52:20Yeah.
52:38Whoo!
52:40Whoo!
52:43Whoo!
52:45Should have got the donkey out here.
52:47Tom, take a run and I'll go over you.
52:49OK, yeah, yeah.
52:50OK, I like that.
52:53Next one, OK?
52:54Yeah.
52:56Don't worry about me.
53:14I'm going to try to do a doubles thing.
53:15If you feel like you can blast, I can go under you.
53:17OK.
53:18I can get real low, like back some minute.
53:20OK.
53:21I kind of have this thing where I go like this.
53:23Don't worry about me.
53:24I'm going to find a place for me.
53:26OK.
53:30All right.
53:32Yeah.
53:36I didn't feel any contact, so it was good on my end.
53:38I saw you.
53:39I'll watch you go right underneath me.
53:41Yeah.
53:41What do we call this?
53:42What is this we're doing right now?
53:45Uh, finale?
53:47Yeah.
53:48All right.
53:49This is a big finale, everybody.
53:51Whoo!
53:52Make some noise for Tony Hawk.
53:56Kevin Staub that came all the way here.
53:58It's the frontside over frontside finale.
54:09Hey, you get to think about that one, too.
54:11Yeah.
54:12You make the frontside air, you pop out on the other side,
54:15and you don't have to walk up in there.
54:16You guys just high five each other.
54:17Come fucking have a break.
54:18Hell yeah.
54:19Come on.
54:19All right, all right.
54:22Yeah.
54:28There's something beautiful about seeing someone push
54:31themselves to the edge of what they can do.
54:33Whether you're building a life or landing a trip,
54:36the breakthrough only comes after the struggle.
54:39Yeah.
54:39That was amazing.
54:41Oh, I heard it.
54:42I heard the landing.
54:44Whoo!
54:44Thank you, Tony.
54:45Tom Burke!
54:46Thank you, Kevin.
54:47Yes!
54:47Whoo!
54:48Thank you, man.
54:48Oh, yeah.
54:49Thanks, you guys.
54:50Hey, everybody.
54:51Thanks, Cameron.
54:51Give it up for Tony Hawk, everyone.
54:54Kevin Stubb, everybody.
54:57For next time.
54:58For next time.
54:58What's that?
54:59For next time.
55:00Oh, yeah.
55:01You got the helmet for you.
55:02You giving me this?
55:02Yeah.
55:02Oh, my God.
55:04Thank you, Tony.
55:04Tony's giving me his helmet.
55:05Yeah.
55:06I will need it.
55:07Oh, that's awesome, man.
55:08Yeah.
55:09Oh, shit, so cool.
55:11So cool, man.
55:12What am I doing?
55:13If you build it, we might come.
55:15It's, like, dope.
55:18All right.
55:18Thank you, everybody.
55:19This has been a beautiful thing.
55:21And thank you, Tony.
55:23Yeah, man.
55:24Thank you, Kevin.
55:25We really just did this.
55:26Thank you, Dan.
55:27Thank you, everybody.
55:29Thanks, Jake.
55:29Thanks, guys, for making this.
55:31Thanks, neighbors.
55:31Thanks, neighbors.
55:32Thanks, neighbors.
55:35As the sun slipped behind the trees and the session wound down, I realized this day wasn't
55:41really about the ramp.
55:43It was about my friends and community.
55:51About building something together, a shared moment which none of us will forget.
55:57What a great day.
56:03Thank you for the encouragement, too.
56:05I really appreciate it.
56:06Oh, of course.
56:07Everybody say Tom Baird.
56:09Tom Baird.
56:10Hey.
56:11Tony Hawk skating here at the farm.
56:14It was a dream come true.
56:19My brother brought this from home.
56:21Oh, shit.
56:22This was, like, you know, probably in high school or something like that.
56:25I made that.
56:26Wow.
56:26I painted my own.
56:28I haven't seen this in, like, years.
56:32Yeah.
56:34Thanks, Tom Baird.
56:36Nice.
56:38Thank you, man.
56:39How are you doing?
56:40How are you doing?
56:40How are you doing?
56:40How are you doing?
56:42That's great stuff.
56:43No, you're...
56:44That's...
56:45Thanks, Tony Hawk and Kevin Staub for coming to the Tom Green Farm.
56:48I'm so proud to have shown you guys my little part of Canada.
56:52That was totally rad.
56:56Super good day.
56:57He had told me when I was 16 years old that I'd be skating a vert ramp on my farm
57:01in Ontario,
57:02Tony Hawk.
57:03I, uh, wouldn't have believed it.
57:06So...
57:07Awesome.
57:09And this is just day one.
57:11I wonder what we're going to get into next week.
57:14Stay tuned.
57:20Woo!
57:43Tom, take a run and I'll go over you.
57:45Okay, yeah, yeah.
57:46Okay, I like that.
57:49Next one, okay?
57:50Yep.
57:50Don't worry about me.
57:58Woo!
57:59Yeah.
58:00Let's do the tava nice.
58:08Yeah, sure.
58:13There you go.
58:22Gets a آپ美元 in to家.
58:25I agree, yeah.
58:26I agree with you.
58:29All that evil that might be.
58:30James O'err, is the host will boom.
58:30What a tuite do, somebody who else will come alive.
58:30And he always is the host cookies and friends.
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