TPM Episode 367: Ross Reid, Nerdy About Nature, Ski Filmmaker
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Ross Reid is known these days as the Nerdy About Nature guy, a modern-day Bill Nye, helping educate the digital world about what's happening in nature. But Ross isn't just an internet influencer; he's an award-winning filmmaker who spent 20 years in the ski industry, working with the best athletes in the world. On the podcast, we talk about growing up at White Pass, his brand Rime Knits, his time with Poor Boyz Productions, K2, his Tamashii project, Nerdy About Nature, and much more. The Inappropriate Questions are off the record and all-time!
Ross Reid Show Notes
3:00: Getting banned by Tik-Tok, growing up in Redmond, skiing, huge family, his early passions around animals and nature and who was Ross in HS
20:00 Stanley: Get up 60% off at Stanley1913.com
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23:00: Montana State, bad at math, his first Poor Boyz Productions shoot, Rime Knits, his business acumen, and HellBents
40:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
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42:00: His prove it shoot with PBP, moving to LA, movie tours, behind the scenes of an industry, and shooting in Hawaii
53:00: Taking a job with K2, being overworked, his K2 vision, and the Tamashii project
65:00: Australia for his MBA and Nerdy About Nature
78:00: Inappropriate Questions
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. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm going to start things out with what's usually a total bummer, my wife's cancer update. |
| 0:24.0 | If you're new, my wife had stage 3 colon cancer, she beat it, and then it came back a couple months later as stage 4. |
| 0:30.3 | Totally shitty. That pun was intended. |
| 0:32.8 | As of today, there's been a couple of major surgeries, 20 chemo treatments, and as of now, the chemo is making |
| 0:39.1 | her miserable. This new drug that she's on Vectubix really destroys her skin, she has constant |
| 0:44.6 | painful rashes, her cuticles split and get so painful that she can't hold things. It's really, |
| 0:49.9 | really bad. But Ange is a trooper, and she's still able to go out at times, have drinks with |
| 0:54.3 | her friends, and do normal things. The good news is, if you have a bad rash, that means this |
| 0:59.6 | drug is working. And so far, the test results that we've received are showing that it's not only |
| 1:04.5 | keeping her cancer from progressing, it may be going away. Holy fucking shit. That's the first good news we've had in some time. But I don't |
| 1:11.8 | want to jinx us because we'll understand so much more once he has a pet scan in a couple of months. |
| 1:16.7 | But I'm feeling good about this. So thank you to everyone who's been thinking about us, |
| 1:20.6 | reaching out and praying. I really do appreciate it and the good vibes really do help. |
| 1:25.7 | So while the doctors and the state ofof-the-art medicine is working |
| 1:28.7 | to save my wife's life, my guest this week is doing his part to try to help save the planet, |
| 1:33.7 | although that's not even close to how he would describe it. Ross Reed is a social media |
| 1:37.9 | influencer these days, and his stick is called nerdy about nature. He's working hard to educate |
| 1:43.2 | the online masses about what's going on in nature and how it affects our nature. He's working hard to educate the online masses about what's going |
| 1:45.1 | on in nature and how it affects our planet. He's the modern day Bill Nye. But what's so cool about |
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