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it's Wednesday March 28th 2012 thanks for tuning in to the 44 show on cnet TV I'm Jeff Bakalar and I'm Justin you and this is the show where Tony Hawk shows us how to 900 that's right Oh made waving sign of idea it's rad do it you brought a skateboard I did we need a couple other things in order for you to teachers yeah maybe maybe some more square footage uh yeah maybe maybe years of experience doing other types of spin moves but we can we can bypass that dude I'm just trying to think back and first of all welcome back to the show Tony on applause for Tony all right i mean really like i said in the pre-show you're quickly becoming the Tom Hanks / Steve Martin of the 404 yeah that's what I am do you know how many times you've been here sure did I think maybe this is the fourth time yeah some like third or fourth day we've lost count there's been so many old friends old friends again thanks for being here we know you have a crazy new New York schedule so probably saw the sunrise this morning that's something neither of any of us have seen so congrats to you on that so thank you it's amazing you even saw the Sun through the skyline it's amazing so that's an accomplishment in itself uh you've got a lot going on but first off have you been man it's been it's been like a couple years um yeah I've been really well i uh sold skating all the time and we just we just lost this YouTube channel and for sure now you're gonna cover it but I've been working a lot on that since the beginning of the year um trying to get new content for it do shows do interviews you know I've been like kind of chasing so I've been stalking celebrities to be honest oh yeah yeah welcome to our world now yeah actually but I I'm a little more mobile so I go to them generally that's cool we don't have that budget right well that's that's luckily working YouTube we have a budget yeah which is sweet yeah so let's jump right into that the the new YouTube channel that launched in January yes uh it's called the ride channel yes now I you know we really sort of uh just a scraping the surface and we'll play this video in just a second here I can't believe how ambitious it is you know when we first heard about it was like oh what you know what's this about he's got his own channel that's cute you know and then I'm like oh my god this has more original programming than ninety percent of cable TV yeah yeah to be honest when I saw the the sort of layout and the ideas for all the the shows and how many episodes were going to run right and I counted them and I was like is this really possible right to do um but we have you know we're I don't sooner outsourcing we're using a lot of friends and sure yeah to do the some of the shows in fact we've actually like like Jamie Thomas pro skater he has his own crew and his own show and it's just his he'd read he submits it so he just delivers that you guys and you run it you know all right well let's real quick let's watch these sort of welcome to the right channel video and we'll learn a little more about what's going on here what's up everybody i am tony hawk and i'm proud to announce the launch of our new YouTube channel it's called ride I've teamed up with some of the best people in the skate industry we're rolling out 22 different shows over the course of the year shows like hand in hand which basically features different successful musicians and artists and people from all walks of life who have been inspired by skating we've got a show called in focus that teaches you better techniques to photography and videography shredded cards where you submit ten tricks to us and we'll decide how much money those are worth and pay you in credit at the skatepark of tampa speaking of skatepark of tampa those guys have their own show going we've got Jamie Thomas and his crew of black box when they're on tour and all their antics and all their actions we have descent which are my interviews with celebrities and actors and people whose work I respect and who I just want to interview you also have Tony's crew and that is usually the birdhouse team but my friends as well we go and escape wherever we want and you film it all for you we also have trick a day which is actually a trick tip every single day we're going to teach you how to skate the basics of skating and the hardest stuff of skating every single day it'll be something easily we're super excited this is something that we've always wanted to do and it's finally reality and it's your own YouTube and so you should go subscribe right now youtube.com slash ride channel and get the benefit of all of our heart wow so that's pretty awesome yeah you actually forgot I did that video you remember that seems like so long ago oh really all right I was that was in January those like right before we launch yeah and speaking of which so the the channels only been up not even three full months when I've been through March yet right and I'm like scrolling through and there's over 400 videos already yeah there's a bit of content a lot of these shows have new episodes that air every single day we have a line up right here and they say that it says that we have a total of a 365 shows that air every single yeah yeah and some sometimes more than one a day so yeah that's great um but it's it's it's super exciting and and you know we we I realize that nine hundred films my production company we've been doing stuff for the last ten years you know you know stuff for ESPN and programming and commercials and things like that but I realized that all that work was leading to this like this is where we belong this what we you know we're nimble and did the the sort of short segments um aspect of of YouTube is exactly what we needed right it you're totally right i think that platform you know people tried to do long-form stuff where it's like oh I'm gonna have a show on you 22 minutes doesn't work no people aren't stand another screened in fact you know when you load a video and you see the end of it is like 18 minutes whale forget that I don't think so that's that's it you know to look away right away yeah but it's the perfect amount of digestible little mini bites that that work so well I mean let's just go over some of these shows here so obviously we saw on the on the teaser their stuff like trick a day and uh pros pics that's that's the shows that are every single day yeah which is out of control so is that where how does I mean I know you said you not uh intimately involved in each production but for the stuff that's 365 are these guys like just constantly shooting yeah like my knowledge and we debt we had we had some stuff uh we saved right for sure we put a lot of stuff on the shelf so there's stuff that's being rolling out like um you saw right there I interviewed like MGMT and I even Frank Black those haven't even aired yet right um we're still holding him but there are plenty of things happening on the fly that you know like the the Tampa Pro event that's one of the biggest gained immense the yeah that just happened last weekend we had the finals like best of the finals best of best trick up the night that it happened well we struggle to get our show up the same day how are you doing and this is all mobile too um yeah yeah yeah no yeah I mean once you're living in YouTube's world everything is player for everything that's magnificent uh I'm really into this show descent we saw earlier and you mentioned your interviews with MGMT yeah i was i was watching one with rodney Mullen that was really awesome yeah but it's not just skaters do you got you had at Helm's in the show ya how do you go creator how did the Creator yet out some kind of crazy uh how do you go about choosing the guests for that is that I don't there's people who interest me and I think are cool or inspiring or fascinating yeah it's just I can't like you know if they just offer up some 1i have to really believe in a life you really want to do it you right yeah it's not like Letterman where it's like okay well they have this movie coming out and right enough talking points and stuff like that it more like I I submitted a wish list and I'm knocking them out one by one right I like that so you're sort of curating the whole guest thing it's yes it's not like you know this thing where you're just doing junkets and stuff like that it's more what you want and and I feel like that shows in in in the interviews it's just you know you could tell like you're almost sure like a fan Oh totally yeah i mean the hardest one right now to edit down to uh you know something that that is is not going to turn people away where is the frank black once i'm such a huge pixie spam yeah we're just going deep into lyrics and this yeah a side project but and and so right now it's two parts that's so cool it's like it's like those old Chris Farley sketches and say it totally nuts me remember that time again another time in spite and they use your song at the end of like that's funny awesome that was awesome uh in focus is a cool idea is a good show because you know and I feel like this leads to a bigger conversation we talked a little about it in the pre-show I'm a terrible skateboarder I tribe when I was young when I was like 13 in the mid 90s what about Justin's you try treated in high school yeah little after and I just wasn't very good either it's a reason why I really like the idea of trick a day yeah I wish something like this I'm sure you've heard there was around when I was a kid because I remember just going back and we're winding through VHS tapes and watching pros and try to emulate that which never worked out well because they do it so easily you know like right to have someone break it down in a tutorial is probably really really helpful for you it is absolutely it's um it's actually did a whole series of instructional videos a few years ago um and we are to be told we actually use some of those now because we're we have to put out one each day so we've gone back to that catalog for sure it's funny because there's some pros that I see and I'm so I'm so detail-oriented with with that kind of stuff and somewhat cynical and so I'm like I he didn't explain that I mean like there there he's explaining it and it's it's enough to learn on right I don't like but he didn't talk about this thing you know in approaching of this Witten and I'm like I can't I can't control that yeah just gotta let it be honest it's their voice yeah you got logo it's something if you love you gotta set it absolutely works yes oh so getting back so like I was saying back in the 90s I we're learning trying to uh you know skateboarding I think leads people to sort of discover other things for me it was discovery of all right I can't skateboard but beyond that it was like oh I'm better at I sake let me play ice hockey instead but also what skateboarding it's like that there's the music aspect of it and a total amazing appreciation for photography for filmmaking like before skateboarding I had no idea what a fisheye lens was at all I was like oh wait a second that's but every single skateboarding video shot and in focus sort of like harnesses that that uh appreciation for for that other medium that is so closely connected to skateboarding I mean uh I feel like just like a perfect to match me in hell yeah but I think I really a lot of these shows transcend just skating so it's hard for me to go around talking about well it's it's skate centric channel because you know that will turn some people away right of course that in focus show that's going to help your filmmaking in any context but I have to be just shooting skating shouldnt any kind of action or using lighting and stuff like that um so you just got to look past the skate title of it all and see that there's there's a lot of general programming absolutely almost more like a lifestyle sort of thing yeah as opposed to strictly rooted in a sort of like our show we're not really a tech show but nobody really knows what we do here that's fine though um so a hand in hand is something they talked about also and that can you sort of like summarize that show as well it's more the sort of music side of things oh it's actually it'sit's interviews and stories of successful artists or musicians or actors that were inspired by skating or that skated sure um and like perfect samples Tom DeLonge we have we have these videos of him he made skate videos in high school oh yeah of him and his buddies yeah just like with the blink guys or just no just his body cuz okay I mean before blink ever started all right um and he actually there's I didn't realize that but he's got a couple cameos in in videos from the 90s that like I helped produce oh no way yeah just just background lebih piece you know he's just like in the background but we zoom in on like oh there is yeah um so he's hark recife I didn't know that I you've learned that a lot like I learned I used to watch that Yeah right video I like that yeah just when Owen Wilson's just talking like he knows what he's talking about yeah that to me I can just watch that scene yeah why he didn't know yeah a rehearsal okay all for sure it but he comes through and yeah yeah Manos double kickflip is just like shut up that's amazing there was another episode that I watched from hand-in-hand about Thurston Moore talking about his influence for it with ed templeton I had no idea that there was a cross over there and just to watch a video of that is informative there's a lot of um you know there's a relationship there i think yes um i think the biggest skate fan that i was surprised by is justin Warfield from she wants revenge yeah he is like the uber super skate fan like through all the years and today yeah he's just you just happy to be there just be like to be interviewed talk about stuff like that yeah just but I mean down to like the most my new details of every video yeah I love skaters I know exactly what parts in what video and what song they skated that's that's always the best thing for me I never liked watching my favorites gay video from like the 90s with trilogy is like that i think was like blind world and 101 ever going to the end and having to fast forward again like having to rewind again through the song list okay and then going through each song me like oh my god like this is so great and that influenced me and inspired me to skate a little well that's cool so cool like music plays such an integral part in what part you know in for sure i mean in that that not in like i said to reiterate that's what I took away from that seems like the good music Thank You Man yet yeah and it sort of leads into what's happening with the new tony hawk's pro skater HD game sort of like throw back to that time um can you tell us a little about what we can expect from this game it's there's a bit of a misconception that it's sort of just like a 3d reboot but it's more than that it's sort of like a culmination of those first two games it's it's the best of our first two games um all in you know with the new hardware we can't ever had to redo everything engine and with the graphics and so you know i guess the misconception is someone we just uh president it really was a much bigger project than that and also because we wanted to be that much better you know don't want to just be something that looks a little cleaner right um but i think the thing that people are asking about most is beyond you know which levels are going to be in it um is music and so we put half of the original soundtrack in and half new stuff and I've actually heard people say like oh it's got to have all the new in in the interest of evolving sure we got to put some new stuff in there course you know I want this to live on and this is gone it's only going to be downloadable so it's only going to be on xbox live and there's a playstation store yeah PSN yeah um and so yeah PS now we're gettin so I want to be able to do stuff later on new levels you know levels that have them in any game right downloadable content stuff like that so let us so obviously the warehouse level that's got to be awesome I mean without that I mean God it's just I admit I spent so much time doing that playing that game is that I don't think about it not that eating this warehouse that's the first level on the first game that game was only on ps1 yeah so you know we're two consoles from there now for sure like two leaps and technology generation put them up it's just funny how we thought I mean it was true but for the ps1 and for the for our game especially people like the graphics are amazing yeah and when you put those side by side which we just did at the game developers conference you know here's here's the first game right here's the new one it's just ridiculous it's it's it's it's like bittersweet it's like Oh what it's like you're watching a super 8 projector on a wall yeah exactly you're like all remember that all you just have a mustache you get stuck in the corner oh man what's crazy about that it's bittersweet it's like oh what a you know great homage to that era and man does it make me feel old is what it does to me yeah I mean it's been almost 13 years since that fifth game came out what I just I don't know I just turned 30 I want to say all this is what I've been doing a lot of interviews you know from that game sure I was 31 when the first game came out right so i was already you know an older skater so to speak so i'd say at least half the comments on all the recent interviews that i do is man he got old oh that's it like that's it that's we can tell that's what you took away from me explaining all these amazing features yes new game your pretty bow he's old and you're bringing that you're like doing this service to every game around tire bringing back this amazing franchise the way everyone remembers yeah that's what you can't recall and something that video I tell people that I'm like hey you want it you want to like you're feeling good about yourself yeah put a video of yourself oh my when you're in your 40s online and just read the comments they come by that's messed up you look great don't let all right I'm beginning to enjoy it yeah at first I was kind of chase i was like i would actually you know i would tweet to uh uh to a video sure say Oh check out here's some you know here's another preview of the game right all do you don't have to comment by me being old I'm okay like just let's just establish the pressure and move on ya know we know that I know it yeah I know what I feel it I see it I feel it you feel it and I don't really feel it now I mean I mean you know you've been through a few injuries in your life yeah don't be honest I'm i feel like i feel pretty loose I've been skinning a lot like I'm just getting more than ever in the last couple years you're gonna be I'm not worried about you you're gonna be just fine I don't want to own that no we want bellies got it buddy I wanted to talk a little more about Tony Hawk HD is there gonna be a multiplayer element cuz that's something that didn't exist when the first game yes came out so yeah is there an online yeah part of this yes 55 game modes okay I'm from see I feel like you can't appreciate how important this series is especially for this guy because I'm like the resident gamer and this guy is the resident everything else but and video games literally I hate a venom for these dil so many years of my life but so my game is common ground transcend it transcends that casual gamer sort of uh barrier so many good days and bad days were punctuated by how many secret tapes i got unlock all right Tony Hawk dictated the rest of your wheezes I know that that poses a challenge secret tapes mm-hmm we're not wins last time you saw videotape oh my god what is it like I'm drivers okay kids are gonna say we updated it so okay you don't want to tell us so good I raised unless it's like now I'm not gonna get anything exclusives yeah that's really cool I you're right I don't mind talking about i always go rogue they always get piston all right yeah dan the Man uh that's so funny it's like Whoopi people be like oh there's this black box i have to get yeah I'm 13 I have no idea what that is oh man right now CBDs mixview these all right cool and even that's on its way out seriously it's like physical yeah that's what i said i said we should do thumb drives yeah well there's like irony in there too cuz it's like this is a digital-only game sound about coming in on a DVD right huh that's paradox I blow my mind that feels get back to the music is I actually have some personal insight to this to uh the first soundtrack legendary bands like dead kennedys uh suicide machines which I mean and like you look like that album that suicide machines record that came out that was uh forget was called definition by destruction like that that was 96 this game doesn't come out till 99 and three years later they're like oh my God we're selling Apollo to record right arm I've been lucky enough to uh meet John Feldmann lead singer golfing a bunch of times through a friends band enough times I was able to hang out with the guy and talk to him about how Superman on that first game was just changed everything yes that's definitely the one that I could ask but most yeah i just think that you know and and just i don't i'm sure you've got to meet him a few times right or no yeah it's just amazing to sort of see how he was like hey just we put our game and put our song in a video game and yeah and now that's what everyone requests you know us to play at a show it's not here in your bedroom house it's Superman I was it was very cool that a lot of bands had successes from that I mean who knew yeah yeah well I mean we'll think about it before Tony Hawk's Pro Skater one what game was putting in you know punk rock songs and myself like that that was a big deal right to this day it's still going on and I feel like maybe perhaps you guys don't get enough credit for that for starting that sort of mainstream try i i i i think in terms of compliments from the game half the time as a soundtrack yeah for sure yeah I don't that's not lost on me at all awesome so for this one you said you're doing about half the stuff can you can you clue us in on some of the new stuff that's gonna be on there ha oh that's you know what I can't really know you know I know it like excuse me I've been playing it sure you know the songs is creeping your head huh so I know the songs but but some of them are bands that are new bands that i like but I can't place which band is the song you know what I mean right on um but it's good it's gets new stuff and it's stuff that will open your eyes to new music like that which is definitely the the important thing there i feel i was the song that just got into your head for those first uh it was a dead dad ted kennedy songs truck yeah struck it was um had that vandal song ya barde George oh that is love that one that song has some of the best lyrics of all time yeah it's about it's about Europeans yeah and and like the there um I say it yeah there's my social tix yeah yeah they're their tendencies writer tendencies yeah Oh wha suicidal tendencies like I'm speaking of my god dude I mean and that's it was like the soundtrack I mean growing up I mean when this game came out what was I 18 almost 17 sort of like the soundtrack of your childhood a little bright uh yeah I started to get all sentimental with you here this is oh no I'm excited I'm super excited that we got to do it i mean it's something that to be honest i fought for for a couple years yeah that i wanted to do and um you know they were a little worried about rd and the whole rehashing of old stuff and things like that but Robbo moto and I came up with a plan and presented at Activision and they bit that's interesting we get into that a little bit because you know the last two games were with the skateboard accessory um and there was sort of uh I don't want to say you know there was a mixed reception about about those types of games for them to sort of just be like all right well a lot of franchises go back though do you know I mean like a lot of franchises sort of look back to their roots and say okay how can we sort of stick with what works well what was that process like for you um well I mean with the whole ride and shred uh to be honest I think uh shred was the game that I want a bride to be hmm and we just didn't have the development time sure what we spent half the time figuring on a board right and we're on deadline to release it that year and so there were a lot of just subtle tweaks that could have made the game so much better and easier to pick up like if you learn how to play it it was pretty intuitive and it was was pretty responsive but if you just thought you're gonna get on and be able to do it then everyone's crashing into walls so you know that's where that's where a lot of negativity came in the beginning um and then we went to shred we we were up against all the you know sort of bad reviews of ride firstly but but that was it when shred came out it was right when the peripheral thing was dying yeah so to release a peripheral game right then when you know with the onset of Connect right it was like like everyone's got it was a perfect storm of just yeah it's not gonna happen yeah like I have 19 plastic guitars ready exactly i needed a said that it was like that was the year guitar he was gonna be discontinued right um you know it was gonna going into more motion based stuff so it was just it was tricky timing for us yeah um that being said I'm glad I'm probably took a chance for sure like I I learned from that a great deal you know a lot of people want to like they want me to own up and say it was terrible but I still believe in I like it right and I like to I like getting people off the couch at play but that being said you know we don't forgot about what got us here yeah and that is the pro skater series absolutely I'm end and that's something to be honest I wanted to when when ride came out we had a two years of development and that was the first year they had not released a tony hawk game right the first time in so that was like after project 8 after proving ground after okay right um so there was a year hiatus okay and in that time I told Activision I think you should release one through four in HD mm-hmm you know just make it one disc how can they even do a double take on that well you're like do you know what we've done together i'm about to be honest they knew better than I did and they were like week we don't want to just throw some out there because we don't have something okay I mean that that's too forced and by the time that that idea was coming you know that I had it was we were it was like the beginning of the year it would have to be out by october november you know you go into like whatever alpha they're testing sure in july and like then we had four months right to get together and then they knew that it wasn't quality that we want so they shut it down you know and I was still like a little kid like come on do it um but knowing now when we're doing this HD thing and you know we're only using the first two games for it it's a lot of work you know Robo moto is just completely devoted to it yeah that's really cool let's go check out this video a little teaser of what we can sort of expect to see in the in the new tony hawk's pro skater HD hey what's up i'm tony hawk I'm here with Chris Cole he is featured in the new video game tony hawk's pro skater HD I guess what so am I and we are here to skate and to show you first glimpse of the video game the original game came out 12 years ago this game is the best of our first two games same gameplay with button combos two-minute challenges collect the letters of skate get high scores find a secret tape when people see it they're going to be really blown away by the graphics but all of a sudden they're going to feel comfortable with the layout they're gonna know it instinctively they're gonna know the controls where the challenges are but at the same time the visuals in the gameplay or it's so much better that you're going to get even deeper into the game and immersed in it nice we tried to bring back a lot of classic features of the game especially the levels and the skaters we've got a bunch of the classic skaters and new ones some of the ones i can tell you about our guys like Chris Cole Nyjah Huston Eric Koston yours truly and some more that will be a surprise later on alright those first preview of tony hawk's pro skater HD i want to thank Chris for coming out alright very cool uh so tony hawk's pro skater HD is due out this summer the summer download only download 15 bucks fifteen dollars I guess this is kind of like a technical question but I remember when the second game came out the big thing for me was manuals and doing that awful like verts and snow and that created a whole new element of you know like changing together combos is that something that's going to be around in the new version manuals yes yeah yeah yeah awesome I'm just like a labor reverts maybe later unlocked okay you can earn that little yes all right also for up for discussion okay it's tricky because reverts were not in the first game right um I don't think they were in the second game they showed up in three we're not in a second yeah they worship in three and I i use reverts for all of my moves because I was always riding the half pipes right and so I never remembered it without having reverts and Ramona can keep telling me like it wasn't in the first 2 i'm like yeah but come on but we're so taking a brandon now that we have them yeah um so I think I'm winning that fight ok rock and roll your your son Riley will be in the game as well uh he will yes that's what's that like um it's pretty cool uh you know what I've asked him that I have asked him or wrote or Activision has asked him probably for the last three games cuz really know he's made a name for himself in skating sure and every time he's just like no no and he just because he never really wanted to you know ride my coattails he want to make his one way want to have his own recognition and he has and he's done a really good job of it and I think now he's so established that when Robo moto asked me if he would be in it I said look I know the answer he's gonna say no he always says no and I'll never forget i texted him like hey you want to be in this new games and i just used to but yeah i'm down oh yeah what I'd like big but like I said because he really has to stop himself as his own entity and skating in his own force and so I feel like if he's in it it's not you know people are gonna see it as oh he got in because he's dad's right now he really is deserving of it Oh a quick end to that oh just a little bit touch on that like what you know seeing him grow up and you know how were you how much of a part were you in sort of obviously that is the greatest caper were to ever live I should probably try this out how did that how did that work out what how old was he when he was like oh he he was skating from time he was three yeah yeah because it gives us around round it showing and and around that time especially for me i was still skating all the time you know i was i was traveling a ton um i was shooting video we just started birdhouse it was just like it was it was it was my life and so he was surrounded by it all the time and it was kind of like he picked it up by default yeah I was have to it wasn't like he had two is more like if he's gonna if he's hanging out with me that's what we're doing right away he was like oh this is how people get around yeah but but and he did it and he he did well out of his age obviously yeah um but around the time that he was I want to say like 10 or 11 he kind of like he lost interest in it I think largely because he could feel all that pressure and all the eyes on it sure and the expectations was at that age where it's like he can understand that yeah so he kind of he backed off he started riding motorcycles she starts surfing a lot okay and um but he was still dabbling and skating and then I remember one day he told me um yeah you know if I can get the sponsor and motocross and I've seen him ride motorcycles and I'm like ralliart you're okay for your age you know what I mean like you're not it was you know it would be motorcycle is a lot and I'm not discounting it's a life onto itself yeah and neither his mom or I had the time to devote to get him to the track sure you know how much for how much he should be training of course it did make that a profession yeah and beyond that you know I just didn't see it as a big future for him it just didn't seem like he was that motivated and so I remember telling him one day we were driving home and I said you know you're pretty good at at motorcycles but you're exceptional at skateboarding mmm and I think if you focus on that you'll be so far ahead yeah you know and not because of me but just because I see you have a natural talent rabbit and your creative with it and you're doing stuff that no one's done before at your age already yeah and I think he took that to heart and then some time around about three years ago we were on tour and he just blossomed like he started coming into his own he was making up his own tricks video stuff he was doing was like beyond anything anybody had seen yeah and then that's the moment when I said look rather this is when you're probably gonna want to start taking seriously yeah you're gonna you're going to want to get the sponsors to support you and and really work at this sure it's not just you have to be good at is her hobby this is this could be your life profession and he did he focused on and he's relieved and well that's a very cool story um yeah so definitely a father and son in the game tony hawk's pro skater HD you can see all his tattoos in HD he's got the tattoos too oh yeah yeah what do you how do you feel about that um you know it spits you have our culture I do yeah I have I have our hot clothing logo like art it's I think of a more of our family crest but I thought that on my ankle yeah um but he like just a few days after he turned 18 he texted me a picture of an armed with Black Sabbath no and he said hey dad is once you know I got this did yeah that was his first time pretty neg very good start since then um it's contagious man yeah once you get one you know now he's got Scott Black Sabbath he's got um he's got Bob Marley he's got uh Ziggy Stardust he's got good day boy yeah it's really cool that's cool all right is he could have done a lot worse than that I'm sure um let's switch over to some 44 listener interaction we've got a bunch of tweets that I've transcribed which I'm very proud of going from digital analogue here uh let's see oh we got this from like 20 people uh what phone do you have okay because I guess we're a bit lets you want to uh you're gonna type it up i have the samsung galaxy oh there you go that's the 1i have it you like it I do um this is the first phone I finally gave up a physical keyboard for ya um cuz i was using mytouch slide two big big big deals hard it's still hard for me I lied about the tactile feedback of a keyboard oh my god this I've had is about four months yeah i just picked that up as well the keyboard yeah i'm with you on the keyboard you too although swipes wife's pretty cool yeah i gotta grab that i also have this so that i can do all the Instagram all the other cool stuff oh so you're like dual wheel them to really this is my phone oh this is the one that's the go-to all right good to know that's the question that our lets people know they're like what kind of photo i'm home do you have Tony oh um I guess we could have brought this up during the game talk will Tony Hawk's Pro Skater come to any handhelds possibly that's from at Big Rob 092 possibly possibly yeah I will take that as a most likely yeah can I can I take that to the bank I don't know what you know it's a lot of its really banking on what happens in summer oh Lisa I'm not worried about interest level I have a feeling that's gonna do okay hope so do you play games like draw something um I don't but a lot of people have told me to get that angry birds yeah what are your feelings I Natalie yeah um at three stars like I'm really yeah so you have a problem yeah yeah that's okay and space damn yeah freaking out about it yeah they really threw me for a loop on that one yeah they did me too i I'm just sort of shocked that that's the direction they went in but I love it buy nearly new something I love it but it's like three stars you kidding me i can't relate it that gravity makes it just ridiculously hard yeah yeah it's fun them um we got some interesting questions too this is from our buddy Cano he says what else do you do besides escape warning had you ever snowboard you ever done anything other than that yeah I've been snowboarding actually since it was first let into the resorts and it's still not everywhere still not everywhere buddy like I've been panic where they're just like no you're not and they just have to work out the whole getting off the lift thing I ever anywhere I go I mean East Coast skiing is not as cool as that West but anywhere I go snowboarders just eat crab off the way I ever like that's it I just see people yeah yeah you know I feel like that's a big thing they need to overcome um I guess I don't I don't know I feel like I didn't realize it that it was a big problem either but I was happy I was in like one of the you know well if you get if you get like at least one beginner on the lift oh it's over yeah then he just sprawls out yeah you know and takes everyone yeah yeah the party's like oh I got a great everybody yeah I'm sorry that doesn't get a lot anything else you'd you're doing live surf i mean i've been surfing as long as I'm skating yeah but you know the board sports for sure right on beyond that nothing really athletic no conventional need stuff baseball basketball now stuff like that alright that's fine you're pretty good skateboard uh what okay so what other video do you are you a gamer what other video games do I used to be taken a gamer much more um there's a little busy for that sort of stuff man yeah it's hard and like I used to play get a lot of games with my kids he's played all the lego games and the kids all right on um we used to wow what else did we play we played like spider-man and and stuff like that but as they got older you know they got into halo um and they was my son plays portal okay oh no I played he played board early finish portal now he plays skyrim that's a time sucker right there that's it yeah and so I don't have an and tenth of the time yeah to devote some like that and I'm not just gonna half-ass it you know no you got to go last game that I really would like dove into and completed all the way was a gun gun yeah really cuz I broke my pelvis other night and never sought to just finished it so they gave me a copy and i sat in my bed for like two months oh man and just made your way through everything yeah that's good I mean you know life's has you gotta look at the bright side of things I'm not your label fun yeah I'm laid up you know it's not a bad idea to call the time break something um okay let's transition into your annual which become a huge deal your annual Twitter hunt oh yeah I remember before we ever met originally following you on Twitter and being like this guy this is a very smart thing Twitter's used for a lot of crap let's be honest but this makes sense it's basically a huge it's not enough sort of small scavenger hunt yeah you training out you want it started out with me I was just driving to go skate one day yeah and I was seeing how fast information was traveling through Twitter and how prolific it was you know it was like you find out about earthquakes for sure from Twitter yeah you know or any big event yeah yeah yeah and so I thought what if I just stash something I wonder how long it would take someone to find it you know I pulled off side the road put a skateboard behind us bush and just said hey I'd hit escape when this cul-de-sac I go find it is so simple but so good man and then I got to my office ten minutes later the someone already had already tweeted a picture of them holding it they said other cars were pulling in trying to find it right when they left and I thought oh this would be really fun to do on a big scale so i really just just asked a few key people around the country that I trust yeah and I said would you be willing to you know on this day hide something sure um and I'll tweet where it is and see how it works and so we did that way for a couple times and then it started getting much bigger because there was more interest in it um you know sponsor companies wanted to be involved and I've never taken any money for it but definitely we've gotten our prayer our goodies have grown in value no we're getting like guitars and stereos and it's crazy how are they hiding stuff like that um well usually will send a box yeah it's that's a skateboard because skateboards always going to be one of the items children um and in the past we send a skateboard box and would generally whatever fits in there and the guitars that we had did fit in that and but it was mega yeah and so so much so that the last couple times I said look if you get a box and it's like crazy split them up yeah you know split up the items I don't care right and make it more fun better but the the most challenging thing of the the whole event I mean we're gonna do it April fifteenth that's that's what we're talking about like it's happening that's the day it starts yeah April 15 it's going to be just that day and if you follow me on Twitter your feeds gonna blow up and you're going to be pissed on me you're gonna say it's spam and whatever you people get like super mad do they really are stop spamming me you jerk I'm giving you stuff yeah this is giving it away yeah how is the spam light anyway he's a madman well it's funny because because I warn people like don't follow me on this day if you do you know if you're gonna complain about your clog in the feed right cuz I'm gonna clog your feet hey but the hardest thing about it is to keep in track yeah and when I did the first time it was just me and I sat in front of my computer all day long gravity replies like yeah reading replies and then trying to figure out if they're authentic Brian oh you would think is you have to there's like right so right so and and and then it's like hey can you send a picture you know if I see someone said found Mike we sent a picture and I can't believe I'm people like oh yeah I gotta get a camera well what kind of phone do you have what yeah take your pocket or or some people don't how to use Twitter so just from their Twitter yeah they write I found it without tagging anyone or no context whatsoever right so like whoever follows them sees I found it what are you talking about fake photos too is that ever an issue like people now because why we know it looks at we actually have we have a system now we actually have a separate Twitter account that you only know about if you find a package okay and on the package says you know reply to this Twitter accounts yeah third-party taking care of like authentication stuff like that I had to you of course I was the first time I was consumed by it i SAT like yeah my kids were went crazy well my wife was like we doing like I'm doing this thing I've I I just know I can you that was gonna be fun but if I good yeah it was a monster so now I um to be honest there's like there's three people in my office that help me yeah and and we take we take shifts yeah you have it for the next hour go oh man god have you heard stories about multiple people finding those prizes at the same time because I mean yeah definitely happen or you'll see you'll hear about you know 10 people just scouting war nation yeah Mia and then finding it and it's hard because sometimes you know a parent will bring their little kid unless we're gonna find it and they don't find the kids cry oh the boss all right so I made amends on a couple of those where it's like could you just send some to this guy just come on this is all the guy find it i mean he ripped it out of his hands but the record the record for fastest fine was like less than a minute in Omaha they just saw someone do it and just know this guy I know that he's my friend from Omaha he's hit it like in this parking lot in her bush yeah and there was a guy in an office building I guess sort of connected across the street yeah and saw my hint and he's like that's right there a lot of work he had ran downstairs and got it that's crazy okay so let's bring this up especially in cities like Manhattan some guy walking around dumped in a big box into a garbage can what's that about it you cross any weird sort of friction say they've been a few where I people kind of went rogue on where they hid it yeah and I tweeted location and I got verification that someone's found it and I deleted it yeah yeah she's like let's erase all evidence yeah we didn't we didn't really hide that from the White House yeah just don't put into black duffel bag on the subway you'll be yeah yeah remember what happened with those the Aqua Teen thing in Boston yeah it was a big you know this is sort of in the same thing but it's a fun yeah I'm pretty clear now with with how to go about like I sent a note out sure this is what you should do is I'm gonna hide it you know I'd hide it a place that you could like even leave it the night before and it's never gonna get found right unless someone's really searching for you so it's 45 states around the country as well as Australia Canada South Africa New Zealand the Netherlands England and Ireland well all those countries have in common land they tweet in English ah very good little trivia there yeah that's what it is because you know he's knew it another country then but uh uh translations you shaky yeah who can who has time for that that's really cool that starts the day it's the day is April fifteenth all day any reason same day as tax they dominate to be honest was the only weekend I'm gonna be home all right in the next light couple months brilliant and so I figured I want to you know I want to monitor it as well poor guy he's one day off he's got to sit in front of a computer that's 90 million tweets come in oh yeah it's fun to like will do stuff you know all hide stuff in my area even yeah hey you know I it sits here and then I just hang out right and wait right on that's pretty cool that is very cool unfortunately Tony we gotta go i wish we were more time with you man but it's always a hundred percent blessed whenever you're here please next time you're in you're in New York you make your way back I'm hoping that next time here we I can tell you about the game because it's out yes we would love that that's in the summer Xbox Live and PlayStation Network the Twitter annual Twitter hunt takes place April fifteenth the YouTube channel is youtube.com slash ride channel make sure do that follow tony on twitter at tony hawk if you haven't done it in instagram and it's all your one of these Instagram people's now I am we'll talk about that the next time alright there's a lot of fun to be had with that we got to get out of here guys thanks again for tuning in for sending in all your questions and comments for Tony we really appreciate it 866 404 cnet is the number to Cole you can follow us on twitter at the 404 email us the 404 at cnet com we will be back tomorrow on Friday our friend Chandra from CBS News will be here yes we'll have to act serious for an episode 80 we'll figure it out thanks again to Tony Hawk always a pleasure man and see you tomorrow I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Justin you it's the 404 high-tech lowbrow we'll see you guys soon you