TPM Episode 155, Fletcher Dragge, Pennywise
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Fletcher Dragge is a guitarist, a straight up punk rock star, known for almost 30 years of cranking out music with his band Pennywise. On the podcast, we talk about Fletcher's life and times, the connection Pennywise has to action sports, drinking, fighting, partying, success, loss, and a lot more. It's the first episode of season 4 and another do not miss podcast.
Fletcher Dragge Show Notes:
2:00: Christmas, licensing and politics
13:00: Childhood, sports, electrical work, and high school
21:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
23:00: Early bands, paying dues, and putting together Pennywise
30:00: Fights, recording a single, and signing with a label
40:00: 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
41:45: Jim leaves the band, the cycle of life, playing wasted, and puking on Dr. Drew
50:00: Losing Jason and going to Myspace
58:00: Inappropriate Questions with Johan Malkoski
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this episode officially kicks off season four of the podcast, |
| 0:22.8 | and I can't believe I haven't had a real job in almost three years. That's so crazy to me as I spent most of my life chained to a desk, |
| 0:28.9 | and now I'm free from the spreadsheets and budgets, although I do miss the travel. One thing I'm going to |
| 0:34.0 | let you know about the start of season four is that I'm doing another sober January like I did last year. |
| 0:39.4 | And last year, I didn't make it. |
| 0:41.3 | I went to January 30th. |
| 0:43.0 | I was at a trade show dinner. |
| 0:44.6 | Someone handed me a pen at a dinner table at a fancy restaurant. |
| 0:48.1 | And that ended my fast. |
| 0:50.1 | I didn't feel bad about breaking my streak a couple days early. Really, the reason I did it last year |
| 0:55.2 | was to see if my podcast got better when I didn't have a foggy brain. While this was no scientific |
| 1:00.2 | experiment, I will say that I think my podcasts were better in the months when I was indulging in my vices, |
| 1:06.1 | but I'm still going to stop for a month just to prove that I can do it whenever I want to. Life just |
| 1:10.7 | gets a little bit more boring. So the it whenever I want to. Life just gets a little |
| 1:11.4 | bit more boring. So the only thing I'll be smoking this month is a shit ton of meat on my Trigger |
| 1:16.6 | Grill. That's enough about sober January. It's time to talk about somebody else who's most likely |
| 1:22.2 | not doing a sober January. And this week my guest is not an athlete. He's not an industry guy. He's a musician in a |
| 1:29.0 | punk rock band that has some serious action sports roots. I'm talking about Fletcher Draggy, |
| 1:34.3 | guitarist and founding member of Pennywise, and he's an entertaining dude with some great |
| 1:38.6 | stories and insight into the music world. Before I get into it, I need to ask you to do a few |
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