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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Chris “Uncle E” Ernst is a legend on the microphone and in the ski industry. Uncle E is known for being that wacky, zany guy on the mic who knows all the athletes, all the history, and brings the excitement of the X Games and many other events into living rooms around the world. What you don’t know about him is his private school upbringing, cutting his teeth with bungee jumping, how he helped invent a sport and so much more that we talk about on the podcast.
Uncle E Show Notes:
3:30: The Raiders, High School, Soccer, skiing, and St. Mary’s College,
13:00: Working with the family, Vertigo Bungee days, and Frank Gambali
20:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
22:30: Bungee accidents, The Vertigo/Primal split, the ski bum local lifestyle
30:00: The Coors Light Tour, learning events from the ground up, and emceeing bird tours at Sea World
37:00: Skiing with the best and pioneering AK
40:30: Dragon: Their glasses FLOAT, use the code Powell15 to save 15%
Alpine Vans: Upgrade your adventure, Upgrade your life
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better
43:00: Snowboarding v Skiing, EXP Productions, Lord of the Boards, and Tele
54:00: The inventors of Skier Cross, X-Games, where did Uncle E come from,
65:00: Fast forwarding through medal, the link between depression and head injuries, and living for others
61:00: Inappropriate Questions with Mike Jaquet
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0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
0:13.5 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
0:16.9 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and it's starting to snow around the country. |
0:20.5 | And I hope everyone has their season passes. you've started to get your gear together, and |
0:25.1 | you're fired up for the season. |
0:27.0 | For the first time in a long time, I don't have a pass yet. |
0:30.3 | And if you know me, you know I grew up with my rabbi telling me to always get a free ski pass |
0:35.1 | if I could. |
0:36.2 | You also know that I talk about money-related things |
0:38.5 | way too much and that a simple pleasure of mine is getting a deal. So while I don't have a ski pass |
0:44.3 | yet, I'm still trying to get one, but no one is answering my emails. And that's totally okay. I should |
0:50.6 | pay for skiing at least once so I can truly experience the pain that everyone else does. |
0:55.4 | Because over the years, I've experienced the lift lines getting a little longer, |
0:59.6 | the consolidation, the nickel and diming of the consumer, |
1:02.7 | and the experience for the paying customer getting worse every year. |
1:06.0 | But I've never been the paying customer. |
1:08.0 | Skiing has always been free for my whole life. |
1:10.8 | Either my parents were paying for it |
1:12.3 | or my job was paying for it. And for the first time ever, I'm now looking into past prices. And holy |
1:17.6 | shit, skiing is expensive. For me and my kid, it's going to cost us almost $1,500 to ride the chair this |
1:24.1 | season at our home mountain. And that's not even that bad. But that's the |
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