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The Sports Junkies

Olympic Skier, Troy Podmilsak, Joins The Program Before He Ships Off To Italy

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Troy Podmilsak shares his story about becoming an Olympian

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0:00.0

Can talk some winter Olympics right now. Very good. Joining us on the Rood guest hotline, Rood's most reliable heating and air conditioning products in the DMV is the son of one of Jason's buddies, Troy Pod Milsack, also known as T-Pod. Tea-Pod from Rustin, Virginia, or at least that's where he was born. Yeah, raised in Utah, but yeah, from the Northern Virginia. Troy, what's up, buddy?

0:22.5

How's it on, guys?

0:23.5

Good, man.

0:24.1

By the way, we're running your video right now on Monumental, so if you want to check out

0:29.2

what this kid does, he's unbelievable.

0:31.9

He's ranked number one in the world in the big air specialty or the big air event.

0:37.4

So he's going to be at the Olympics in Milan, starting in February.

0:42.9

I believe you're training right now, not in Italy.

0:45.9

You're in Switzerland, correct?

0:47.9

Yep.

0:48.4

Okay.

0:48.7

I'm in Locked Switzerland.

0:50.9

Okay.

0:51.3

How's that going?

0:53.2

Going well.

0:55.1

Jet lag's been pretty hard.

0:56.4

Like sleeping wise has been a little tough, but we're getting used to it now.

1:02.3

I'd seem to compare with it.

1:04.2

Troy, are you 20 or 21 at this point?

1:06.6

I'm 21.

1:07.5

21.

1:08.5

At 21, how many different countries have you visited at the tender age of 21? Oh. I probably wouldn't even be able to give you a number. Like 50? Not to sound raggy. Like, have you been to 50 different countries, 25, 30? He probably hasn't been to that many, like, not that much. Yeah much. Yeah. It's really just like the Alps. Okay. Where we're at. So it's the mountain intensive countries. Yeah, he's probably done zero Africa. Okay. Probably all smoke. All the cold weather. My target takeaways at 21. He's visited more countries than I will probably visit it by the entire lifetime. Which is impressive. Well, you're at like two. I think I've got three or four under my belt, but I mean... Three or four is pretty good. Three or four is not bad. Okay, you've got a Ruba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Canada. Oh, you have been to Canada. I might have been five or six, Troy. I might be catching up you. All right. So, Troy, so you're in Switzerland now. When do you leave for Italy? Honestly, I don't know the exact day. I've been pretty in the dark with everything, but I know it's early February. I think around the second or first. Okay. So I'm watching some of your highlights and sometimes

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