TPM Episode 115: McConkey PMS Event & Stories
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Shane McConkey was the most influential skier of all time, but he was so much more than that. Husband, father, funniest guy in the room, product visionary, goofball….there are so many words but none of them can truly describe who McConkey was. On the podcast, I head to Squaw Valley for his signature snowlerblade event, take you through what that looks like, and talk to a variety of people to get some funny McConkey stories. If you haven’t seen the movie “McConkey”, go watch it and then listen to the podcast.
Shane McConkey Show Notes:
2:00: Day 1: Travel, Andy Wirth’s House for the High Fives Foundation’s “Military To The Mountains” Dinner.
6:00: My new friend Nau
8:00: Mike Rosen Story
10:00: Cody Townsend Story
13:00: Event Day
14:00: Mike Gutt Story
17:00: Scott Gaffney and Bryce Bennett story
20:00: JT Holmes Story and Update
21:30: Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
RESQWATER (enter the code resqwatertpm for a 20% discount on a 12 pack)
23:00: George Hjelte Story
25:00: Erol Kerr Story
29:00: The Gala
32:00: Flip McCrick Story
35:00: Mike Hattrup Story
37:00: Murray Wais Story
38:00: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20
39:30: Nate Abbot Story
50:30: Andy Farrington Story
52:00: Kim Reichelm Story
54:00: Aaron McGovern Story
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.0 | It's time to talk some shit. |
| 0:03.9 | The Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and today my guest on the show is dead. |
| 0:20.7 | I know, that's drastic, and it sucks, and I don't really have a dead guest on the show is dead. I know that's drastic and it sucks and I don't |
| 0:23.5 | really have a dead guy on my show because I don't believe that is even possible. But what I do |
| 0:28.0 | have is a collection of stories about the late, great Shane McConkey. And if you don't know who he is, |
| 0:33.8 | it's really crazy that you're listening to this podcast. You should check out McConkey the movie and learned about this legend. Then come check out the podcast. Because this |
| 0:42.8 | podcast is not to tell you about how Shane was an insane skier who helped change the sport, |
| 0:48.0 | how he was an insane base jumper and wingsuit pilot who helped change that sport. I'm not really |
| 0:52.9 | sure if he changed wingsuit piloting |
| 0:54.7 | or base jumping, but it sure sounds good and he probably did. I'm also not here to tell you what |
| 0:59.6 | an incredible husband Shane was or a father he was. For the next hour, what I'm going to be doing is |
| 1:05.5 | walking you through my weekend at the Payne-Mkscholunky Classic event, which is the biggest, baddest, |
| 1:10.6 | Snowblade race on the planet. |
| 1:12.6 | This is the ninth year of the PMS Classic. I've been on the mic every year. |
| 1:17.1 | And this year, when I wasn't on the mic, I was drinking heavily, it seemed like. |
| 1:21.3 | More than I've drank at this event or in three consecutive days in years. |
| 1:25.6 | And when I wasn't drinking, I was trying to find some funny Shane McConkey stories from those |
| 1:30.3 | who knew him best. |
| 1:31.6 | Before we get into the podcast and talk about the event and all the Shane stories I got, |
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