TPM Episode 173: Dan Egan, Ski Legend
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dan Egan is a legendary skier who doesn't get the credit or press he deserves. Dan filmed countless movies with his brother as part of the "Egan Brothers" who stole the show at Warren Miller Moves of the late 80s and early 90's. Before other "film" skiers were getting paid, Dan acted as athlete, agent and distributor, cashing in on all ends and really being a trailblazer for the non-traditional skier. Not many have done it like Dan Egan.
Dan Egan Show Notes:
4:00: Turmoil in business, Catholicism and the name Dan
9:00: Boston, skiing and sailing
16:00: Blue Hills, John and Babson College Soccer
20:45: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: Get 20% off branded product with the code Powell20
22:30: Who was he in his late teens, filming with Warren Miller and becoming The Egan Brothers
31:00: The plan for finishing school, hitchhiking in the west and proving himself in Squaw
34:00: Graduating Babson, making money at SIA, paving the way for movie-based skiers and Hot Dog The Movie
40:00: 686 Technical Apparel: The best outerwear in the world
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
42:00: Distribution rights, Rockstar lifestyle of skiing, 30 years of sobriety and the Russia accident
49:00: Following CNN all over the world to create ski content (that he owns) and going viral before the internet
53:00: 4 knee injuries in a row, throwing in the towel on skiing, and business today
57:00: Inappropriate Questions with Greg Stump
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 on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm going to try and record a short intro, |
| 0:21.8 | but I never know what's really going to happen these days. |
| 0:24.7 | Actually, my intros were never really that long, and then this virus happened, |
| 0:28.9 | and all of a sudden I've been talking for five to ten minutes before I get into the interviews. |
| 0:33.6 | I've just been sharing a few minutes of my quarantine thoughts and experiences, |
| 0:40.3 | and while I would never call the past couple of months fun, in the beginning, there was a little bit of fun to be had. |
| 0:43.3 | I took it as a chance to reconnect with old friends that I hadn't talked to in 20 years. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm sure everyone did something similar, whether it be Zoom chats, FaceTime calls, house party, whatever. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm almost sick of those right now. |
| 0:57.3 | Nothing will really replace the human interaction that we used to have. |
| 1:01.0 | And what sucks is, for me personally, I'm never going to feel totally comfortable until there's |
| 1:06.1 | a vaccine out there. |
| 1:07.4 | I'll never shake a hand or use a handrail or do a lot of things that I used to do until I |
| 1:12.4 | have that shot. And hopefully the shot works. But at this point, we are still locked in in Washington, |
| 1:17.7 | and there's been so much arguing nationally over whether states should open this early. The science |
| 1:22.9 | says the state should stay closed, but science doesn't run the show in this country. It's a battle between science and politics. |
| 1:29.6 | I mean, while scientists are saying stay closed, some politicians feel that we need to open |
| 1:33.9 | up now to save our economy. |
| 1:36.2 | And politicians make the rules. |
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