TPM Episode 172: Josh Dirksen, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Josh Dirksen has arguably the best turn in snowboarding and while that turn will define his legacy, he's done so much more in the sport. Josh doesn't do that many interviews and has never done a podcast before, until now. On the show, we talk about having 3 passports, coming up in Oregon, the Morrow glory days, Salomon, the Dirksen Derby, and more. It's a good one with a living legend.
Josh Dirksen Show Notes:
4:00: Quarantine, worry, and his current job as a lifeguard in Switzerland
10:00: Swimming, skateboarding, cross-country skiing and building endurance as a kid
16:00: Snowboarding, other activities and the Eugene crew
22:15: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: Get 20% off branded product with the code Powell20
24:00: Sponsor progression, Burton or Morrow and Jaymo
31 :00: Filming, mentors and Robot Food
38:00: June hip, progression/evolution
42:00: 686 Technical Apparel: The best outerwear in the world
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
43:45: Competition, Morrow goes under and Salomon
59:00: Splitboards, Jeremy Jones and Dirksen Derby
68:00: Inappropriate Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sit back and relax, have some brandy, have a cigarette, you're listening to the fucking Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week marks the 50th day that I've been quarantining. |
| 0:22.1 | It's starting to get to me a little bit, but I'm hell-bent on not getting this disease. |
| 0:26.6 | I mean 50 days ago, I didn't want to get it, but I wasn't that worried. |
| 0:30.8 | There weren't that many cases in the U.S. and our government assured us that everything |
| 0:34.8 | was under control. |
| 0:36.9 | Back then, this thing only killed people that were old or people with pre-existing conditions. |
| 0:42.1 | Fast forward two months, and the greatest nation in the world looks like a bunch of fucking morons. |
| 0:47.2 | And like everything else in the world, the successes or failures that we've had with this |
| 0:51.4 | are all based on what happens at the top of the food chain. |
| 0:54.5 | Now, this isn't a political podcast, and I don't care what party you support. All I want is to be |
| 0:59.7 | able to go out and have a beer with my buddies and not have to worry about catching a virus |
| 1:03.6 | that will eat my lungs or cause a heart attack or a stroke. Actually, what I really want is for my |
| 1:09.4 | kid to be able to go out and live his life again. |
| 1:12.1 | It's such a bummer that some of his childhood is being taken away. |
| 1:15.6 | But we're all living through this. |
| 1:17.5 | Hopefully it won't mess up the kids too bad. |
| 1:20.2 | But now we're at the point where we're going to see how dumb or how smart we are. |
| 1:23.9 | States are opening up and people are starting to head out and about. |
| 1:28.6 | The next month or so should be pretty telling for this virus. Will it explode in the areas where people are free to do as they please? |
| 1:34.0 | Or will life go back to normal? Who knows? It's a gamble and the chips in this one are human. |
| 1:39.7 | The really scary thing is that they're saying that this is the first wave. Like come flu season, |
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