TPM Episode 401: Johnny Decesare, Poor Boyz Productions Legendary Filmmaker, WSL
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Johnny Decesare is the legendary ski filmmaker who helped usher in the new school movement of skiing through his groundbreaking media house, Poor Boyz Productions. While Johnny spent his early life surfing in Southern California, ABC's Wide World of Sports inspired him to want to become a skier. These days, Johnny is a fixture behind the lens for the WSL, but when he was in his athletic prime, Johnny was a Pro Mogul skier alongside Shane McConkey, Scott Kauf, and so many more. On part 1 of his podcast, we talk about working at IBM, moving to Vail, The Pro Mogul Tour, McConkey, and so much more. Cody Carter asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Johnny Decesare Show Notes:
4:00: WSL and beating Kelly Slater, Locals only, filming with Marren Miller this year the most incredible love story ever, his pro surfer daughter and scared in Columbia
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23:00: Southern California with a military Dad, telling your mom you’re going to be an Olympic skier, and video cameras
29:00: IBM, moving to Vail, moguls, mentored by Turbo, Pro Mogul Tour, McConkey, sponsors, and paying for the tour
41:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
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44:00: Highlights on the Pro Mogul Tour, Shane gets banned from Vail, Red Bull, filming with Warren Miller, making Fade to Black, meeting Shane Szocs at SIA, Poor Boyz Productions name, and the X Games inspires him to make another movie
64:00: Inappropriate Questions with Cody Carter
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. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.4 | and I want to thank you for all the messages and kind words about making it to episode 400. |
| 0:23.5 | I remember when I started this thing, I was thinking, if I can make it to 100 episodes, this will be a success. |
| 0:29.8 | So I've done what I set out to do and then some. |
| 0:33.1 | My next goal is to have my most epic guest of all time for episode 500. |
| 0:38.0 | I have an idea of who that will be, but I'm not sharing that information now, as I still |
| 0:42.4 | have two years before I get there. |
| 0:44.5 | What I am excited about is the weather. |
| 0:46.7 | It's getting colder in places and the snow's starting to fall, but the season really won't |
| 0:50.9 | start for a while. |
| 0:52.2 | So what I'm really excited about is my guess this week. |
| 0:55.3 | I've been trying to get legendary filmmaker Johnny DeCesire on the podcast for years and it hasn't |
| 1:00.4 | worked out. He's been traveling the world for surf events and the timing didn't line up until now. |
| 1:06.6 | If you don't know who Johnny is, well, he was the one that brought the new school movement, |
| 1:11.0 | think twin-tip skiing to the masses with his films under the poor boys' productions name. |
| 1:15.9 | His story is a cool one, and I'm not going to spoil it in the intro. |
| 1:19.3 | One thing I will do is I'll share some news that I've learned about the industry. |
| 1:23.0 | While I'm not one to break stories on this podcast, and this might not even be a story, I do like to share |
| 1:28.5 | what I hear when I know it to be true. And from what I gather from very reputable sources in |
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