TPM Episode 201: Bob Klein, OG Pro Snowboarder, Agent
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Bob Klein is one of the rare first wavers of snowboarders that I've had on the podcast. He is that first-generation when everything was being figured out—he was an early Burton team rider, he had a Sessions store, he worked with athletes like Palmer, Holmes, and Cass…He's done so much. We talk about a lot of it on the podcast and it's a snowboard history lesson with a good dude who's not afraid to admit his mistakes. Brad Holmes asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Bob Klein Show Notes:
5:00: Palmer, Holmes, Cass and other clients
11:30: The story behind his Linkedin, growing up in Southern California and privilege
16:00: Skiing, moving to Tahoe, hanging out at his house, and 70's inventions
24:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
26:00: The Winterstick Deal, Tahoe City halfpipe, and finding the backcountry
31:30: Competing, getting a Burton, and getting on the Burton Team.
46:45: COAL Headwear Use the code powell15 for 15% off
48:45: Growing Burton, instructing, and quitting Burton
58:00: Sessions, Jamie Salter, and Palmer Snowboards
68:00: Inappropriate Questions with Brad Holmes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to PR. You're listening to The Powell Movement. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, and in my world, we just passed episode 200, which is a milestone. And I have another milestone |
| 0:22.8 | right around the corner, 1 million downloads. Currently, we're at about 950,000 downloads, and I |
| 0:30.0 | anticipate we will hit the million download number in about a month. I was going to have a contest |
| 0:35.0 | around when we would hit the number, but to tell you the truth, |
| 0:37.7 | it's too much work, so I'm just going to update you in the intros, and I'll post an Instagram |
| 0:42.5 | screenshot when this happens. |
| 0:44.6 | Oh, it's so exciting. |
| 0:46.2 | Not really, but it is something to check off the list. |
| 0:49.3 | One thing I haven't touched on is the election. |
| 0:52.1 | The results are in, and it has gone exactly how I thought it would, |
| 0:55.9 | and I'm sure a lot of other people felt the same way, other than my dad. He was sure it was going to be |
| 1:01.2 | a landslide for Trump. I thought it was going to be close, but that Biden would take it. So we have a |
| 1:07.0 | president-elect who has not been recognized by our sitting president, and well, |
| 1:11.6 | while I think we will see Biden in office, I do think things are going to get really interesting |
| 1:15.9 | over the next couple of months. I'd say they're going to sell a lot of newspapers off of this, |
| 1:20.6 | but no one reads the paper these days. And now, no one is going to read powder as I have received |
| 1:25.7 | my last ever powder magazine, and that is a sad thing. |
| 1:29.6 | A sad day for ski media, a sad day for print. |
| 1:32.8 | But everybody should know that print is not dead. |
| 1:35.2 | And between the ski journal, the snowboard journal, free skier, the Mountain Gazette, Forecast Magazine, SBC Skier, there are plenty of great magazines to support with a subscription. |
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