TPM Episode 472: Jaren Grob, Pro Skater

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jaren Grob, aka "The Monster" won two X Games Gold Medals, was featured on the cover of the Aggressive Inline video game, and had the world in the palm of his hands. Then his sport was iced out of X Games, went underground and Jaren's pro career went from contest winnings to skating shows. But, that's not what makes this one interesting. Jaren grew up poor, went on tour at 14, joined the circus, and made it in skating. 30 years later, he's still being paid to skate, but it's a different monster. Legendary Utah skater, Cameron Card asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Jaren Grob Show Notes:

4:00: Best Trick gone wrong, concussions, The Loop, insurance, growing up poor in Orem, Utah., finding action sports, going on tour and partying at 14,

21:00: Ski Idaho: With 19 mountains, a ton of snow and no lift lines, why wouldn't you Visit Idaho

Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories or sugar.

Insta360 Cameras: The only action sports cam that matters. Get a free gift with purchase over at the site.

24:00: Road antics, arrested for skating, jail, working on the Circus, contests, genes, sponsorship, and The Monster and his video part

40:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

Outdoor Research: Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products)

42:00: Aggressive Inline video game, bands, the fall of contests, shows, America's Got Talent, injury, and where he's at now

60:00: Inappropriate Questions with Cameron Card

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement.
0:13.3	Welcome to the Powell Movement.
0:16.9	I'm your host, Mike Powell, and wow, the Olympics are halfway over,
0:20.8	and really, with the Olympics and with everything in these
0:23.7	intros from here on out, I'm not going to lie and I'm not going to sugarcoat things.
0:28.0	I'm going to let you know exactly how I feel about things without the filter I've kind of had on for the past nine years.
0:33.7	And I say that, but I'll still have a little bit of a filter because the world isn't really ready for an unfiltered me.
0:39.5	But I have been a little more transparent about my feelings on things, the past few intros, and one of my buddies, he's been encouraging me to speak my mind and be myself since day one.
0:49.2	And I'm finally listening. I'm going to let you know what I think. So when it comes to the Olympics, I could care
0:54.5	less about most of the events that they have going on. To me, the Olympics are a stale, old-timey competition.
1:00.9	That, yeah, the idea of it is cool, but the presentation, the manufactured stories, the corruption
1:06.4	of the IOC, it's all bullshit. Really, I only care about the X-Games sports that are in the Olympics
1:12.2	and a few other things. I like the short track speed skating events and ski racing. And I understand
1:17.4	that a lot of people love the figure skating, but it's not for me. Maybe if they had a better way of
1:22.0	presenting the skating for a modern audience, I could get into it. But while it's so difficult
1:27.1	and those athletes are incredible,
1:28.9	it's also kind of boring to me, and I've stopped watching that part of the games because I can.
1:33.7	I mean, before, I didn't have a choice. While there aren't many nice things about having a dead
1:38.5	wife, not being forced to watch figure skating during the Olympics and acting like I care is one of them.
1:43.9	But I'd happily watch figure skating all over again to have An's back. But that's never going to happen again. So see you later, Brian Boy Tano. Is it too soon for me to make jokes like that? I don't really know. But like I said, I'm not sugar-coding shit and I'll just say it and I'll leave it in there. I know I haven't really recovered from this whole death thing yet, but that's life, I guess. Back to the games, the crazy thing about these Olympics and
2:05.9	pretty much everything in this country and world these days is that our dictator, our emperor,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Powell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Powell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.