TPM Episode 196: Andy Mahre, Pro Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Andy Mahre comes from legendary ski blood. His dad and his twin brother are Olympic Medalists and were part of the fabric of 80's Americana. Andy's skiing is a totally different direction compared to where his dad was taking skiing. While Andy did race for a bit, he left that world to become one of the more innovative skiers of his time, with his effortless switch landings, huge drops, and calm style that have inspired a generation of skiers. It's another do not miss episode.
Andy Mahre Show Notes:
5:00: The pro bucket list, born to ski at White Pass, and Olympian Dad
14:00: First memories of skiing, racing, Harrison and other friends
20:00: Skiing is changing, ski culture and traveling to contests
27:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
29:00: Moving to Mammoth, his breakout year, and the Zero Spin
36:00: The K2 Back 9, breaking his back, and Idea/Nimbus
46:15: COAL Headwear: Use the code powell15 for 15% off
48:15: Warren Miller, getting married, K2 issues, and other sponsors
58:00: Money and different Mahre projects
65 :00: Inappropriate Questions with Pep Fujas
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Strap yourselves in and hold on tight. This is the Power Movement. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm going to share a little about my fantasy football league, |
| 0:21.4 | the X K2FL. The deal is you can only be in this league if you used to work at K2. The league started |
| 0:28.6 | a decade ago as the K2FL and there have been about 20 different players in the league and about |
| 0:34.0 | eight of them have been on the podcast. When the league started, my team had the best |
| 0:38.5 | helmet in the history of football helmets, and for the past eight years, the helmet has been |
| 0:43.2 | banned by ESPN. And while I understand the reasoning for the banning, I'm bummed. See, my team was |
| 0:50.9 | and is known as the Jews, and my helmet was simple, classic, and perfect. |
| 0:56.9 | It looked identical to a New York Jets helmet which Chris Logan would love, but I replaced |
| 1:01.9 | the T with a W. Why am I sharing this with you? |
| 1:05.6 | Well, I don't know. |
| 1:07.2 | But what I do know is that COVID is really messing with my league this season, and I am over it. |
| 1:12.8 | We need a vaccine like right now, and I keep hearing that we're going to have one by the end of the year, but that is not soon enough. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm the commissioner of this league, and every time someone goes down with the sickness, I get 15 texts from Sean Tidor about what this league needs to do, |
| 1:29.5 | and then I get another 85 texts from the rest of the league talking shit. |
| 1:33.7 | At this point, I just silence all the messages and pretend like I got a new phone and I'm not on |
| 1:38.8 | the chain anymore. But I really should be silencing myself, as the last thing you need to hear |
| 1:43.4 | about is me talking about the XK2FL. |
| 1:46.3 | A league that Ben Wallace is the current champion of and a league that Jeff Matura has never won. |
| 1:51.5 | If you know Jeff, be sure to reach out to him and let him know that you're aware that he is the Dan Snyder of fantasy football owners. |
| 1:59.1 | A guy who could care less about fantasy football, and I'm |
| 2:01.7 | guessing football at all is a guy who was born to ski. His dad is an Olympic silver medalist, |
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