TPM Episode 400: Riley Poor, Matchstick Productions, Red Bull, Nike

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Riley Poor landed his dream job, filming backcountry skiers with MSP. His life was a dream, and eventually, he moved on to shoot with Standard Films as a skier, spearheaded a two-year Red Bull project, all while simultaneously managing ski athletes at Nike. He was killing life until a gainer gone wrong at a party created a life-altering injury. On the podcast we talk about moving to Crested Butte, Seth Morrison, the Matchstick mentorship, the accident, and the aftermath. It’s a must-listen podcast with one of the most beloved people in snow and beyond. Jamie Starr asks the Inappropriate Questions

Riley Poor Show Notes:

4:00: Brain Surgery, Vermont, Haystack Mountain, racing, and Plake

12:00: Crested Butte, the funny reason he quit racing, freeride,

21:00: Club Med: Click here for the best vacation of your life

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24:00: Thinking he was cool as a grom, Shreck, après culture, Chile Heli crash, Raffle win story, not going pro, getting a job with MSP instead of college and McConkey

41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.

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44:00: Lifting with Seth Morrison, Rory Bushfield, the editing room, leaving MSP, Red Bull, and Nike,

59:00: Dislocating his neck and instantly becoming a quadriplegic, not playing the victim, inspirations, how does he change after the injury, and pain

73:00: Inappropriate Questions with Jamie Starr

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 holy crap, I made it to episode 400. Congratulations to me.
0:23.2	When I started this thing, I had just left my job in partnership marketing all to start this
0:28.0	podcast and my whole world was totally uncertain. While I believed in myself and my ability to build
0:33.5	something from scratch, that would be awesome for listeners. It was scary not taking a paycheck
0:38.1	for the first time in my life. Well, eight years later, the risk was totally worth it. And while I didn't
0:43.8	blow up and become a Howard Stern or Joe Rogan of Action Sports podcasting, that was never my plan.
0:49.5	My goal was always to have the best guest list in the business and ask the questions that no one else would
0:54.6	ask. So you get an entertaining and educational show. I wanted to tell my guest stories better than they've
1:00.9	ever been told. And I believe I've done that. And over the years, I've had over 2 million downloads,
1:06.0	and nowadays about 10,000 of you check out the channel each week. Thank you for that. It really does mean the
1:11.8	world to me. What else means the world to me is my family, and here is where I finally update you on
1:17.0	my wife, Ange. If you're new, my wife was rushed to the emergency room two years ago. Her stomach
1:22.7	exploded and they were able to save her life with a huge surgery. But we found out she had stage 3 colon cancer.
1:29.2	This was such a difficult time.
1:31.0	But Anne was a trooper and she went through chemotherapy and beat cancer,
1:34.9	only for it to come back months later as stage 4.
1:37.9	That brought more surgery, radiation, and a total of 32 chemotherapy treatments.
1:42.9	Each one of these treatments starts with eight hours in the hospital
1:46.0	and then a take-home chemo pack for two days,
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