TPM Episode 294: Ethan Stone Fortier, The Bomb Hole, Photographer
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ethan Stone Fortier is a force in the world of snowboard media. He's one of the hosts of the wildly successful Bomb Hole Podcast, he's been a snowboard photographer for over 20 years, and he's personally responsible for one of the more iconic brands in snowboard history, Technine. On the podcast, we talk all things Bomb Hole, coming up in Vermont, the VTSP, starting brands, working with investors, the business behind the photography, and much more. Chris Grenier asks the Inappropriate Questions
E Stone Show Notes
4:30: Naming the Misty Flip, The beginning of The Bomb Hole in the pandemic, and the initial game plan
9:00: When do you start believing the show is your future, building the empire, the multiple revenue-generating arms of the show, and the workload breakout
20:00: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear ever built just got better
22:30: YouTube V Podcast traffic, ownership of The Bomb Hole, and money
25:00: Growing up in Vermont, life changes with divorce, rebellion, weed, and dancehall
30:00: Colchester Snowboard Club, VTSP, The Green Mountain Series, moving to Avon with a ton of pros and tinkering with products
41:30: 10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers; they support action sports more than anyone
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: The Technine evolution, how the industry reacted, getting swindled by his dad, and production in China
54:00: Mistakes, investors, Photography, the business of photos, and the end of Technine for him
66:00: Inappropriate Questions with Chris Grenier
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. |
| 0:18.4 | And just like that, summer is over. |
| 0:24.6 | My kids start school on Wednesday. football and fantasy football starts next week. There's a whole lot going on. |
| 0:26.6 | That really means nothing in the grand scheme of things, but they're all things that I look forward to as the start of fall. |
| 0:31.6 | The coolest part of this is football season. |
| 0:34.6 | I have a fantasy league with a ton of my old K2 peers, the league's called |
| 0:38.3 | the XK2FL, and it's a great way to keep in touch with my old friends all over the industry |
| 0:42.9 | and talk shit to them. But the real exciting part of football is that my kid is playing it this |
| 0:47.8 | year. I grew up playing football and skiing, and I love both of them. My kid grew up skiing and |
| 0:53.2 | skateboarding, and he's always hated football, |
| 0:55.5 | which was totally fine to me. I didn't want him getting CTE from getting his head knocked around a whole |
| 1:00.4 | bunch, but I'm also not going to stop him from playing if that's what he really wants to do. |
| 1:04.8 | So when he came home from the skate park a couple months ago and said he wanted to play football, |
| 1:09.1 | I was confused but pleasantly surprised. And we signed him up and now he wanted to play football, I was confused but pleasantly surprised. |
| 1:11.6 | And we signed him up and now he's loving playing football. |
| 1:14.6 | It's so cool to see what a team sport does to a kid when he's into it. |
| 1:18.6 | But at the same time, I also appreciate the fact that my kid also loves to skate and he continues to do so. |
| 1:24.6 | And I guess one of the interesting parts of being a parent is learning from your kids. |
| 1:29.0 | And the other night, my kid taught me how he loves both sports in a couple of sentences. |
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