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Tony Hawk: Puzzles, Skateboards, And Trivia

Pro-skateboarder Tony Hawk discusses how he fell in love with the sport, life at the top of the skating world, and his new video game. Then, he plays "This, That or The Other" against Adam Lambert.
Tony Hawk appears on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego, California.

Tony Hawk's first visit to a skatepark proved to be a life-altering occasion as a child. "I literally saw people flying out of these empty swimming pools, and that was my moment," he told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's , at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego. "That was my epiphany: 'I wanna fly like guys." That

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