Decoding Tony Hawk’s mindset in 72 minutes

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Episode 860: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) chop it up with skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:20) Meeting Tony in Ethiopia

(3:42) Economics of skate parks

(12:38) The price of greatness 

(17:54) Scraping by

(26:33) The 900

(35:16) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 

(52:20) Investing

(58:53) Influencing on internet culture

(1:03:47) Aging skaters

(1:08:07) Tickets 

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