TPM Episode 178: Chris Grenier, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Chris Grenier is part of a legendary East Coast snowboard crew that includes Scott Stevens, Austen Granger and Chris Beresford. He pretty much raised himself at Mt Snow Academy, where he met the crew as a young stoner who had a unique style. Fast forward 20 years and he's been a pro snowboarder that's ended video parts, had signature models and X Games Gold. He had his problems… but they never impacted his pro career and now, he's sober and killing it. We talk about it all….
Chris Grenier Show Notes:
3:00: Sports, dysfunctional childhood and hockey
8:00: Skateboarding, snowboarding, High School
12:00: Mt Snow Academy, having his own place at 15, selling weed and meeting Scott Stevens
15:00: Style, Hood and Academy Snowboards
20:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: Get 20% off branded product with the code Powell20
22:15: What happens with school, Utah SFK and eS Game of Skate
29:00: Keep Talking, Salomon, Get Real
35:00: LRG, who was he back then, partying
39:15: 10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
40:15: May Day, X Games and concussions
52:00: Money, creating a dream property, going sober and The Bomb Hole
74:00: Inappropriate Questions with E-Stone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And now, a show with inappropriate language, the Powell Movement. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and man, the world is such a heavy place right now. |
| 0:20.1 | And I say that coming from the comfort of being a white male who had everything in life |
| 0:24.2 | handed to me pretty much. |
| 0:26.1 | But like a lot of people, I'm outraged at the social injustice that people of color experience |
| 0:31.1 | on a daily basis. |
| 0:32.9 | But what does that really mean? |
| 0:34.7 | We've all seen and have known for a long time that black people are treated |
| 0:37.8 | differently than white people by police, and by a lot of people. I learned this lesson firsthand |
| 0:43.5 | when I was a senior in high school. It was the night the Redskins beat the bills in the Super Bowl. |
| 0:48.3 | I was partying with a bunch of my friends and was supposed to leave the party with them to go |
| 0:52.2 | somewhere else. Luckily for me, my girlfriend at the time said that I should come home with her, and I did. |
| 0:58.0 | But my friends, three white guys and one black guy, are in a car when another car of teenagers |
| 1:03.4 | gave them the finger. So my friends pull behind them at a traffic light. |
| 1:08.0 | A few of my friends get out, and one or two of their guys gets out, |
| 1:11.9 | there's a fight, my friends win and I'm sure that it wasn't a fair fight, and eventually all |
| 1:17.6 | of my friends get arrested. Everyone in this group comes from money and everyone has a good |
| 1:22.3 | lawyer, but they are all tried differently. Two of the white guys walked away with nothing on the |
| 1:27.0 | record. The other white |
| 1:28.2 | guy got 10 weeks of weekends in jail or something really small compared to what our black friend got. |
| 1:34.1 | He was taken straight from court to jail and he stayed there for four months or so. He didn't get to |
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