TPM Episode 407: Tommy Moe, Olympic Gold Medalist, Pro Skier

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Moe is an absolute legend. This longtime US Ski Teamer is the only Olympic Downhill gold medalist I’ve had on the podcast. But Tommy’s life wasn’t always destined for glory. Between getting kicked off a ski team, to being put on probation by the US Ski Team, the future wasn’t always so promising. In part 1 of the podcast, we talk about ski racing, his issues, moving to Alaska, making the US Ski Team at a young age, the struggles of an athlete on the come up and the Albertville Olympic Games. It is a fun chat, and Tommy's US Ski Team teammate, Reggie Crist, asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Tommy Moe Show Notes:

4:00: Explosion, Tom Sr., Montana, relationship with his mom, living with Grandma, skiing, seeing racing and wanting to do it, podiums, and summer camps

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24:00: Sponsored at 12, caught with weed and kicked off the team, moving to AK, working hard, skateboarding lifestyle, Copper nationals, making the C Team, getting in trouble again, the consequences, and Europe with the A Team.

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43:00: Bill Johnson, World Championships, downhill courses, 12^th at Worlds, pressure, getting smoked, mental games, who pays for travel, the team Fraternity, and Albertville Olympics

72:00: Inappropriate Questions with Reggie Crist

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 I'm a few days into my new job, and I'm going to tell you about how I got here as the podcast played a part in it and it's a cool story.
0:26.2	The whole saga started eight years ago. I set up a meeting to pitch the dyecut stickers.com crew to sponsor my podcast before I had released an episode.
0:34.9	Their owner, Daniel, and his team took me out to lunch, and I pitched them
0:38.6	on sponsoring 10 episodes. And after my pitch, towards the end of our lunch, I was asked to leave the
0:44.1	table so they could chat without me. That was sort of awkward, but whatever. I came back to the
0:49.1	table, and Daniel was like, we believe in you, but we don't want to do 10 episodes with you. We want to do 52.
0:56.0	I almost had tears in my eyes.
0:58.0	Like I said, I hadn't put out an episode yet, and I already had a year-long sponsorship.
1:03.0	That meant so much to me.
1:04.0	And I should mention that I've known Daniel since 2002 when he started die cut stickers,
1:09.0	and K2 was his biggest customer, so we have a long
1:12.3	history.
1:13.2	But fast forward to mid-September, and Jerry, he's die-cut stickers general manager, and he's
1:18.2	the glue that ties everyone together at die-cut stickers.
1:21.5	When he comes into town, we usually go out to have beers with a couple DCS employees.
1:26.5	Nothing special or fancy, just fun.
1:28.8	Anyways, this time, Jerry showed up with a surprise dinner and drink guest,
1:33.4	die-cut stickers owner Daniel Dietrichs.
1:36.1	We had some drinks, and Daniel asked me how life was going.
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