TPM Episode 194: Chris Davenport, Legendary Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Chris Davenport is a legend in the ski world…I call a lot of people legends, but Dav is worthy of that title. I mean, he's the first US Red Bull Athlete. On part 1 of the Dav podcast, we talk about Chris's race career, skiing Tuckerman's at 12, McConkey and the friends he made at University of Colorado, Dean Cummings, the US Extreme's and a lot more. Don't miss this one.
Chris Davenport Show Notes:
5:00: Everything in person, our crazy world, and not going to South America
15:00: Born into skiing, oil money, and biking
24:15: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
26:15: Natural ability, empty nesting it, Tuckerman's, and NOLS courses
35:30: How good is he as a ski racer, racing against McConkey, and boarding school
46:45: COAL Headwear Save 15% off your order with the code powell15
47:45: Getting on the ski team, why he quit the team, and The Dead
53:00: Fraternity life, Greg Stump movies, and hitting cliffs
58:00: Graduating and a "real" job in Aspen (Snowmass), The US Extremes, and Cummings
69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Mike Douglas
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week, life is back to normal, school is in full swing, and it's going pretty well. |
| 0:17.0 | It took us a few weeks to figure out the whole home schooling system, but the big |
| 0:21.4 | difference this year from last year is that when the pandemic happened last February, everything |
| 0:26.8 | was fully reactive, and now there's actually a plan. And it's funny, some teachers are great, |
| 0:33.0 | and others? Well, they're like the guy in your office that still can't figure out how to connect to the printer. |
| 0:38.9 | Some teachers can't even figure out how to share a screen. There is some comedy to it, but at the end of the day, it does take some parental help to make this thing work right. |
| 0:48.0 | And we have one kid. I can't imagine what it's like for people that have two. And what about people that work at an office? |
| 0:54.2 | They have to leave their kids home alone and hope they're doing their schoolwork. imagine what it's like for people that have two. And what about people that work at an office? |
| 0:59.0 | They have to leave their kids home alone and hope they're doing their school work. Could you imagine being a 14 year old and being told that you have to do online school until noon and then you |
| 1:03.7 | can have independent learning in the afternoon and not have someone at home to make you do that shit? |
| 1:08.8 | Man, that seems like a recipe for disaster, but it also sounds like a ton of fun. |
| 1:13.6 | So now that life is back to a little bit of a normal routine, we have something that's not normal at all going on. |
| 1:19.6 | We have an election in a little over a month. |
| 1:21.6 | And I don't care who you're voting for. |
| 1:23.6 | Actually, I do care. And while I will judge you for it, I'm not the kind of person that won't be |
| 1:28.7 | your friend because he didn't vote for the same person I did. But like I said, I will judge you. And you know |
| 1:33.9 | what? Feel free to judge me. But this isn't a political podcast. I grew up in the D.C. area, and I am not a big |
| 1:40.0 | fan of politics, but I love democracy. And the most important thing that all of us can do is vote. |
| 1:45.9 | This year, it's more important than ever. |
| 1:47.8 | There are so many issues on the table in this country. |
| 1:50.8 | I mean, in normal years, you'd have the economy, the plan for lowering our debt, some tax |
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