TPM Ep 183: Paul Basagoitia, Mountain Biker
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Paul Basagoitia's life has been a rollercoaster of insanity. He powered through a dysfunctional childhood by racing his bike. When his race career came to an abrupt halt do to lack of support at home, his bike became an escape. Then he met Cam Zink, eventually got on a mountain bike, had overnight success, became a pro, and had a life altering injury. We talk about it all on this heavy podcast.
Paul Basagoitia Show Notes:
3:00: Busy life, premieres, and travel
6:30: Minden, NV, bikes, and racing
8:00: Factory Team, expenses, and home
14:00: Pressure, BMX parents, and divorce
17:00: Hotel life, the end of BMX
23:25: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
25:15: Cam Zink, where is his bike career, and Sea Otter
31:00: Crankworx, sitting in the hot seat, and winning
38:00: The rest of 2004, Derek Westerlund, and Sponsorship
42:00: Graduation, traveling the world, and filming, and Rampage
46:00: 10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
47:00: Rampage, his compound, and sponsors
53:00: The end of filming, the double backflip, and losing his sponsors
59:00: Re-inventing himself, new sponsors, Rampage, and the Accident
66:00: The movie, rehab, poop and pee, stem cells, and the long road back to his bike
79 :00: Inappropriate Questions with Roy Tuscany
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Mmm, baby, you listening to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week, for the first time in six months, life has started to feel normal for me and my family. |
| 0:23.5 | No, we aren't the people that you see partying without masks. |
| 0:26.8 | We are not crammed on packed beaches, and we aren't going to indoor restaurants. |
| 0:31.4 | We are still doing what we can to not get and be spreaders of the virus. |
| 0:35.6 | We have been on the extra safe side throughout this whole thing. We haven't lived in fear. Okay, maybe we lived iners of the virus. We've been on the extra safe side throughout this whole thing. |
| 0:38.8 | We haven't lived in fear. Okay, maybe we lived in fear the first couple of months, but after that, |
| 0:43.7 | we had a couple social distance get-togethers back when everyone thought it was cool to start doing that, |
| 0:48.5 | and when we started to see the numbers start ramping up, we decided to reel our shit back in. |
| 0:53.6 | We don't want to get this virus or spread it to |
| 0:55.6 | anyone, and we felt this way since February. And I guess doing what we're doing, minimizing contact |
| 1:01.5 | with people, is the easiest way not to get it. But it's not normal. We feel like prisoners in our |
| 1:07.3 | own home. And while we do go to the forest and get in the water a lot, life is not normal. |
| 1:13.1 | So we did a two-week quarantine with another family that we're close with, and now we have |
| 1:17.3 | someone to hang out with. |
| 1:18.8 | My kid has his best friend back, sleepovers are a thing again, and we're going to go on vacation. |
| 1:23.7 | We got an Airbnb and it'll make summer feel a little bit more normal. |
| 1:28.8 | In life, we take so many things for granted. |
| 1:31.6 | And when things are taken away, that's when we find out what our new normal is. |
| 1:35.2 | And that can be scary. |
| 1:36.7 | Or boring. |
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