TPM Episode 483: Heimana Reynolds, Pro Skateboarder, Olympian

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Heimana Reynolds is an Olympic Skateboarder, a lifelong surfer, proud Hawaiian, and a HEST athlete. Since I spent this weekend at HESTIVAL, a three-day celebration of friends, music, and the outdoors, this episode includes a few minutes from HESTIVAL. I first chat with old friend and HEST founder Aaron Ambuske. After that, while I usually don't have many skateboarders on the show, Heimana is my second World Champion park skater-who also slays the streets and surf. It's an event and an athlete episode with a HEST connection.

Heimana Reynolds Show Notes:

4:00: Opportunities, Hawaii, locals only, skateboarding, culture, and hard to get invited to things

22:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.

23:30: California, Olympic announcement, how did that change him, X Games, competitiveness, Shawn White, and sponsors

39:00: Outdoor Research: The best is designed and tested in the brutal elements of the Pacific Northwest and beyond

40:00: Contest money, Olympic experience, and his Paris Olympic job

45:00: Inappropriate Questions

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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 off to the Hestable event in Colorado.
0:22.0	So while I want to do a nice long intro because holy shit, we've had another assassination
0:27.0	attempt, I'm getting myself ready to get out of the office and I don't have time to dig into
0:31.5	the details of this one. But my prediction is, like everything that happens with this administration
0:36.6	and this government,
0:37.9	there'll be a ton of contradicting information that comes out, there'll be a lot of lies,
0:42.1	a lot of grandstanding, and then this terrible event will be used to get this sitting president
0:46.7	something that he desperately wants. And now he feels that he absolutely needs, a brand new
0:52.1	$400 million ballroom that we were all told was going to be
0:55.7	privately funded. But that was all a lie. That was never going to be privately funded. And now that
1:01.0	our king believes that he's being threatened, he's going to make taxpayers pay for the secure
1:05.2	ballroom. What I want taxpayers to pay for is health care for people that can't afford it,
1:09.8	to feed people that are hungry.
1:11.5	Fuck your ballroom. Will you even be in office when this thing is done? Well, that's something to think
1:16.6	about too. There's no question that our dude is a narcissist. If you don't think so, there's a few
1:22.2	easy examples that we can look at. The Tramp Arch, his face and name on currency, the the tramp Kennedy Center. And the one thing we don't have, which we desperately need, is a tramp stamp, because that would be as classy as he is. But all the shit that that dude feels like he needs to put his name on, and he has for like his whole life, through hotels and everything. He's like, if I put my name on something, it's going to make me bigger and better than everybody else. And it's always been about that for some reason. But I'm not going to get into the psychology of all of this, because honestly, I'm not qualified to do any of that. But when the secure ballroom is done, do you really think this fucking psychopath is going to leave office? He's going to try to do whatever he can to stay in there for
2:01.3	another term. And all the people profiting off him? Well, they're going to want to make more money
2:06.6	and they're going to lobby to keep him in office. It's also gross. And like I said, I'm not going to
2:11.2	comment on this latest assassination attempt, but I do want to applaud the gentleman who sat there
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