TPM Episode 197: Barrett Christy, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Another week, another legendary athlete. Barrett Christy didn't start snowboarding until she was 19 years old. She was a scholarship-level team sports girl who traded her scholarship for a life-changing road trip that led her to snowboarding. On the podcast we talk about winning more X Games medals than almost anyone, competing in the Olympics, equality, money, and so much more. It's another do not miss episode.
Barrett Christy Show Notes:
6:00: Superhuman snowboard powers, growing up in PA, and not taking her college scholarship
12:00: Dead shows, heading out west and her ski background
15:00: Snowboarding, life direction, and moving to Crested Butte
23:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
25:30: Traveling for contests, girly girl, and 94 Nationals
30:30: Alaska, competing against hero's, equality, and X Games
48:00: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off
50:00: Sponsors, Nike, Michael Jordan, and money
62:00: Olympics, and Banked Slalom
69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Tricia Byrnes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Prick up your earballs. It's time for the Powell Movement. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host, Mike Powell, and this week has been a really |
| 0:17.9 | crazy and heavy week in my life. Where do I start? I guess last week. |
| 0:23.4 | I was finishing up recording the intro for the Andy Mayer episode. I decided to walk downstairs to |
| 0:28.7 | check out the mail because I had some jawbreakers that I bought off eBay coming in. They didn't |
| 0:33.3 | arrive and I walked back upstairs to my studio and I realized I missed a facetime call from my mom. |
| 0:39.2 | This is unusual, so I FaceTime her back and the phone is put in front of my dying grandmother, |
| 0:44.6 | one of the most influential people in my life, Mimi Dell. |
| 0:48.0 | She's in a hospice bed and looks rough. |
| 0:50.4 | She's with it enough to understand what's going on and I can tell that she hears me and I have a minute to tell her how much I love her and how much she's done for me. |
| 0:58.0 | It all happened so fast and I go from zero to ugly crying in the snap of my fingers. |
| 1:03.0 | I get off the phone, my wife is already packing me and booking me a one-way ticket to DC. |
| 1:08.0 | We leave the house 15 minutes later. The airport was amazing. |
| 1:13.2 | I felt totally safe. Alaska knows what they are doing and everyone's respectful of masks and |
| 1:18.2 | distancing, which is super important. I mean, I've been so careful about not going out and getting |
| 1:23.4 | this virus, and now I'm pretty much throwing that all out the window getting on a plane and going |
| 1:28.2 | to a place where my mom, my uncle, my aunt, and a lot of older people that I don't want to get |
| 1:33.1 | sick, well, they're going to be there and they're not going to be wearing masks. I mean, we were at |
| 1:37.8 | our house with hospice, nurses, and family, and it was exactly what Mimi Dell wanted, just like we |
| 1:43.0 | were from my grandfather six years |
| 1:44.4 | ago, to see her last breath. And when you sit and stare at death for hours and hours at a time, |
| 1:50.5 | it makes you think a lot about death. I did a lot of wondering about if Mimi Del was seeing her |
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