TPM Episode 322: Stanley Larsen, Legendary Hot Dog Skier
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Stanley Larsen was one of the original Hot Doggers. Known for his loose contest runs that earned him titles like Canadian National Champion, French Freestyle Champion, Swiss Aerial Champion, and European Champion, Stanley was so much more than a contest guy. Fifty years before the Nimbus Crew existed, Stanley Larsen was looked at as the first skier to look at the mountain like a blank canvas and make art with his skiing. And when his skiing was done, Stanley made art in Hollywood, directing Super Bowl commercials and more. On the podcast, we talk about his counterculture roots, Dick Barrymore, Warren Miller, The Marlboro Tour, the death of hotdog skiing, and more. These history lessons are important and not to be missed.
Stanley Larsen Show Notes:
5:00: Saving lives, unbelievable Stanley skills, growing up in Seattle in the bike business.
10 :00: Getting into skiing through a church he never went inside, racing, counterculture Stanley, and he was going to be a pro skier
19:00: Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories, and sugar.
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better
21:00: Getting on the Allslop Tour, Sun Valley, Vail Gelande, Warren Miller, and Stanley's patented loose style, earning respect, and creating the IFSA
39:30: Stanley: Get 30% off sitewide with the code drinkfast
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there
41:30: Overnight success of freestyle, Scott Megrino's injury changes everything, keeping the TV contract, all his titles, and the Cervinia story
49:00: Marlboro Tour, going to Iran with Dick Bass and a Rockefeller to solve Utah's transportation problems, and being a celebrity
56:00: Assignment K2, the Clambin scene, the differences between Dick and Warren, transitioning to being behind the lens
80:00: Inappropriate Questions with Phil Sifferman
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, |
| 0:18.3 | and this week I'm preparing for the most important event in skiing, the Payne McSlanky. |
| 0:23.1 | If you're in Tahoe, I highly recommend being at Palisades on Saturday, March 25th, channeling your inner Shane McConkey and witnessing the spectacle that is the PMS. |
| 0:33.1 | I'll be on the mic doing my thing, and when I'm not talking, I'll be out skiing or taking my kid to Woodward or putting together another laugh-out-loud McConkey podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | If you make it to the event, please come over and say what's up. all these people that I love who live in the Palisades and I'm excited to see the record breaking snow, this year will be a little bit strange as I feel bad for everybody who lives |
| 0:58.0 | in Tahoe. I'm sure you've seen all the pictures of all that snow. It's mind blowing and on one |
| 1:03.3 | side it's so cool to see the beauty of it. But the reality is that Mother Nature has been wreaking |
| 1:08.1 | havoc on so many lives. Between the damage to homes |
| 1:11.0 | and the constant shoveling, while I'm usually jealous of the Tahoe lifestyle, this year, it |
| 1:15.9 | just looks exhausting. But I'm excited to see it, and really, I just need to get out of town. |
| 1:21.4 | It's been such a shitty year with my wife getting colon cancer, and that's the one thing |
| 1:25.1 | I haven't updated you on in a while. So here is my |
| 1:27.6 | cancer update and it's finally a good one. And's had a scan last week and they aren't seeing cancer |
| 1:33.0 | in her body. This chemo shit is working and while it is wreaking havoc on her body like another |
| 1:38.2 | 10 feet of snow is going to do to a Tahoe roof, we can see light at the end of the tunnel. So four |
| 1:43.4 | more rounds of chemo and one more major |
| 1:45.5 | surgery and fingers crossed so we can put this nightmare behind us. Thank you to everyone for all the |
| 1:50.3 | messages, prayers, love, and good vibes. They seem to be working. And working is one thing my |
| 1:55.0 | guest this week doesn't do anymore. Stanley Larson is one of the original hot doggers who went on |
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