TPM Episode 280: Wendy Fisher, Legendary Skier - Pt. 2
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Wendy Fisher is known as one of the pioneering women in the big mountains, and she changed the game, but that's only part of her story. In part 2 with Wendy, we talk about leaving the race world, depression, eating disorders, extreme contests, filming with MSP, and much more. It's an open and honest chat with a legend. Murray Wais asks the Inappropriate Questions
Wendy Fisher Part 2 Show Notes:
3:30: Not caring about college racing, quitting with a letter/fax machine and ghosting, going on her quitting skiing road trip, and her eating disorder
16:00: Putting on 20 pounds of muscle, collapsing, when help doesn't help, how long does this last,
22:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide 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
24:00: The Performers, taking Reichhelm up on her offer in Crested Butte, the US Extreme Comp, and skiing where the guys are skiing
33:00: Wining at Squaw, Kirkwood, going to Vegas for SIA, World Championships in Alaska, and partying
41:00: Rollerblade: Ski season may be over, but that feeling lasts all year with inline skating
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better
42:30: Sponsors and money, Chamonix with MSP, helicopter crash South America, was there ever burnout, and fear
66:00: Women in the movies, calling it as a pro skier, depression, and being a mom
74:00: Inappropriate Questions with Murray Wais
Transcript
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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 this week I could get all political and talk about guns. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm not going to do that. |
| 0:23.5 | What I will say is that I love America and when I was growing up I felt like we were the best |
| 0:27.9 | country in the world. |
| 0:29.4 | But things have changed. |
| 0:30.6 | We are now a country that values the life of an unborn child more so than the life of a |
| 0:34.7 | 10 year old. |
| 0:36.0 | We are a country that cares more about guns than doing |
| 0:38.4 | the right thing. And through all of this, I hope first and foremost that my kid is safe when going to |
| 0:43.1 | school and the mall and really anywhere that he goes in public. And I also hope that even those staunch |
| 0:48.7 | gun supporters never have to hear that their child was gunned down anywhere. We are the only country in the |
| 0:54.1 | world that |
| 0:54.4 | this shit happens to. And we've already had 27 school shootings this year. It's fucking |
| 0:59.5 | crazy. Kind of makes me miss the lockdown. At least then we knew our kids were safe |
| 1:04.0 | from gunfire. Maybe what we all need to do is just get our kids away from potential danger |
| 1:09.2 | as much as possible. Get them out in the mountains, |
| 1:11.9 | get them on bikes and crap. It's summertime. Take them camping. And camping is something that I've |
| 1:16.5 | always had mixed emotions about. While I have fun doing it, I always have a terrible night of sleep, |
| 1:22.0 | and I'm in a fog most of my trip because of sleep deprivation. But not anymore. I have a buddy, |
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