TPM Episode 210: Tanner Hall, Ski Boss
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Tanner Hall is a name that needs no introduction to those who know snow. Tanner rose to fame as a little kid in the late 90's, when he started collecting X-Games medals. Nowadays, at 38, Tanner spends his time competing on the Freeride World Tour, filming for his personal projects, and, most recently, shooting for X-Games Real Snow/tearing his achilles. We talk about it all on the podcast…It's another DO NOT MISS episode with another living legend….
Tanner Hall Show Notes:
3:00: Early Season, Mt Baker, urban trips, and X games real snow
14:00: GED, getting hurt, quick turnaround for surgery, and insurance.
16:00: Getting into skiing, racing, Sugar Bowl Academy, and quitting race
24:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Glade Optics: Get 10% off with the code TPM10
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
26:30: How hard he works, his movie Forever, and bringing CP back into the mix
33:00: CP funds the project, selling a feeling, burning bridges, and Forever story line
41:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Elan skis: Doing it for 75 years
43:00: The same old story, Freeride World tour, pressure, and delivering while hurt in Japan
54:15: Weedmaps.com Weed question and ad
59:00: Nicotine, and getting high again
63:00: Inappropriate Questions with Rory Silva
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Stand to talk some shit on the Powell movement. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Powell movement. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm your host Mike Powell. |
| 0:15.8 | And this week, well, it's Tuesday again, and I'm recording my intro, |
| 0:19.6 | and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to |
| 0:21.1 | re-record it later on in the week because it's inauguration week in the United States. |
| 0:26.2 | And based on the way that we've treated each other in this country over the past four years, |
| 0:30.7 | most likely something's going to go down and I'm going to have to re-record this whole |
| 0:34.5 | intro again and that kind of bums me out. |
| 0:37.3 | Hopefully I'm wrong. |
| 0:38.7 | The last time we had an inauguration, I was super bummed. |
| 0:41.7 | The person I wanted to win, loss. |
| 0:44.1 | And you know what I did? |
| 0:45.6 | Absolutely nothing. |
| 0:47.1 | I accepted the loss, and while I wasn't a big fan of our new president-elect, |
| 0:51.0 | he was our president-elect, and I was going to treat him that way. I let my kid know |
| 0:55.4 | that while I didn't like the man and the lack of values or human decency he has, it is what it is, |
| 1:00.7 | and that's what makes America great, democracy. And while I thought that was good parenting, |
| 1:05.5 | you know, teaching him that you can't always get what you want, What my kid learned from the presidency is that you don't have to be nice or fair to get what you want. Treating people like shit is okay, |
| 1:14.6 | especially in America, and lying is fine too as long as it fits your agenda. |
| 1:18.6 | The funny thing is, my kid doesn't get the whole politics thing. He's a little bit too young for that. |
| 1:23.6 | So all he understands is that Trump is an asshole to everyone, and that's totally |
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