TPM Episode 228: Shane Anderson, Pro Skier, Filmmaker
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Shane Anderson was a key personality and image when skiing needed it the most, in the mid to late 90's. While Shane had the Rockstar look, it was his tricks and the company he kept that thrust him to the forefront of the ski industry. Part early big mountain guy and part new schooler, Shane rolled with the innovators of the sport until injuries got in the way. On the podcast, we talk skiing, the Tahoe crew, Hollywood, and making documentary films.
Shane Anderson Show Notes:
3:00: Getting the Keys to the City of Olympia, growing up in Olympia and finding skiing on his own
9:00: Champion Archer, the Olympia music scene, and being the shy kid
13:00: When does the Shane look start, College in Tahoe and the Tahoe scene
17:00: Filming with CP, skiing with legends, progression, and competitiveness
22:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
25:00: Sponsors, money, contests, and the state of the industry
30:00: Meeting Skogen Sprang and Evan Raps, CR, and the train jump
39:00: Chapter 3, Poor Boyz, first X-Games, and the party mentality of back then
43:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Rollerblade: Find out all about the award-winning Skate to Ski program
44:30: His marketability, the 2000 X-Games injury, and blowing his knee over and over
52:00: Leaving K2, The Real-World Tahoe, becoming an actor
58:00: Trying to re-find his identity, getting hooked on a fishing trip, leaving LA, going to college to study fish, and making documentaries.
65:00: Inappropriate Questions with Kent Kreitler
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Powell Movement. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome |
| 0:11.0 | to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell and I don't know what's happening to me lately. |
| 0:18.0 | When I started this podcast, I was proudly the most unhealthy person you knew. |
| 0:22.6 | I wasn't super fat, but I was unhealthy. I ate shitty and I only did activities that involved gravity. |
| 0:28.7 | And while I didn't make fun of, or was I jealous of my fitness-inspired friends, I did think |
| 0:34.0 | they were lame. And then about a year ago, I started my beer chugging challenge to prove that I was not only unhealthy, |
| 0:40.8 | but that I could also crush people at speed drinking. |
| 0:43.7 | It's a talent that I have, and I beat about 25, 30 people, and I thought it was pretty cool |
| 0:48.3 | until I got on the scale and found out that I weighed 190 pounds. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm just 5'9, and I hid the weight pretty well, but for the first |
| 0:56.4 | time in my life, I felt really fat. Actually, it was the second time in my life I felt really fat. |
| 1:01.4 | The first time was when I had long hair for about a decade, and when I finally cut that long |
| 1:05.9 | hair off, everyone asked me how much weight I lost. People ask so often that I realized that I looked fat with long hair and no one had ever told me. |
| 1:13.6 | Which kind of sucks, but whatever. |
| 1:15.6 | Back to the 2020 fat, Mike. |
| 1:17.6 | I was big, I was getting bigger, but there was a saving grace sitting right outside of my office. |
| 1:23.6 | My wife had bought a Peloton in December of 2019, which at the time I thought was a total |
| 1:29.1 | waste of money and I thought it would just sit there unused like our old treadmill, but that |
| 1:32.9 | wasn't the case. Eventually, I'd get on the Peloton, wearing boxers, flip-flops, and a cotton |
| 1:37.9 | t-shirt, and I'd ride for 20 to 30 minutes a few times a week. You know, do something good |
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