TPM Episode 119: Jim Rippey, Snowboard Legend, Pastor, Corrections Officer

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

By the time Jim Rippey made it to high school, his goals were clear, he was going to punt in the NFL. When football didn’t work for Jim, he found snowboarding. Within a couple years on a board, Jim was a sponsored rider with Burton, eventually had 7 pro models, and was the first to back flip a snowmobile. The interesting wrinkle is, one day in Alaska, Jim found god and everything changed for him. Fast forward 15 years and Jim is a man of god, a correctional officer living a completely different life.

Jim Rippey Show Notes:

2:00: April Fool’s and growing up with in Quincey, CA with his dad

8:00: Football, then moving to Tahoe to be a liftie

12:00: The sponsorship process

19:45: Stanley: Get 20% off site wide with the code Stanley20

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)

21:45: His pro models, the details he thought of and royalties/money

29:00: Being the stereotypical looking snowboarder, being addicted to weed and eventually quitting everything

38:00: Finding god

43:00: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20

10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone

44:15: Jim selling me on a Jesus story and how do people react to his new found faith?

50:00: Being the first one to land backflip on a snowmobile, the end of sponsorship and more god stuff?

56:00: BASE, can you make money as a pastor and why he isn’t the head of a Megachurch on tv?

58:00: Becoming a Correctional Officer

64:00: Inappropriate Questions

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi-ho, you're listening to the Powell Movement.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Powell Movement.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Mike Powell, and it's almost time for me to step away from snow and focus on summer interviews.
0:19.9	But I won't do that just yet. I have another
0:22.9	snowboarding legend for you, and Jim Rippy has a different story than most in snowboarding. Over the
0:29.2	years, Jim has won contests, invented tricks, filmed with standard, was the first to backflip a snowmobile,
0:35.9	and became one of the biggest names in the sport.
0:38.7	His accomplishments speak for themselves and we don't need to dive into the contests or filming.
0:43.9	We do do a lot of talking about life, snowboarding, vices, money, and God.
0:48.8	Yes, God.
0:50.3	And while Jim does try to go on some tangents about his Lord and Savior,
0:55.3	I'm able to reel him in and it turned out to be a really interesting podcast.
0:59.0	Speaking of really interesting, when I have things that are interesting happen in my life,
1:03.5	I'm going to let you know about them.
1:05.4	And this weekend, I had one of the craziest experiences of my life.
1:09.8	And I'm going to tell you about it. So it's a normal Saturday,
1:13.6	only it's not a normal Saturday at all. It's 420 and I have my kid over at his grandparents and I'm
1:20.1	going to enjoy the day. So I get on my phone and start seeing what's going on around the city. And it's
1:25.5	420, so there's a lot to choose from.
1:28.1	I noticed that there's a cannabis store, Uncle Ikes, that is going to be having a pet-a-pet zoo
1:32.7	at their store, and they were bringing a wallaby. I told a friend about it, and we first discussed
1:38.4	why on earth a weed store would have a pet-a-pet zoo in the parking lot, and then we decided
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