Andrew is a corporate professional with a sick resume who’s currently manufacturing a climbing and surfing career... complete with travel budgets, retainer, and opportunity. When you look at Andrew, he’s part athlete, part explorer, part humanitarian, part activist, and an influencer. While Andrew is not a pro-level athlete, he does have an incredible story, athletic chops, and the marketing mind to package himself and his “Between Worlds Project” (that will make him the first African American to climb the seven summits and seven volcanic summits), as an ambassador to watch. The podcast talks about his incredible story that took him from Detroit, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Mass, and beyond.
Andrew Alexander King Show Notes:
4:00: His media barrage, his Detroit upbringing, moving to Georgia, racism, Europe, and Hawaii
20:30: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
23:30: Learning to swim, surf, and do all the Hawaiian things, localism, surfing Nazarre, height, getting a scholarship to the University of Maine, and drinking
42:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code pmovement
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories, and sugar.
45:00: Climbing the White Mountains, travel to climb, climbing in Walmart boots, all in costs, and selling his story
60:00: Brands, how he’s climbing the mountains and ego
67:00: Inappropriate Questions
When Ashley Battersby came on the ski scene, a new era of style was unleashed upon the women’s slopestyle and big air. Growing up in Chicago gave Ash the confidence to develop one of the top rail games in the streets, and then she transferred her skate tricks to the ski world. Her move to Park City was her education in air awareness- which led to her being the first woman to land a Switch 10 in competition. On the podcast, we talk about her meteoric rise, sponsors, money, her battle at the X Games, and the injuries that ultimately ended her career. Ashley doesn’t do many interviews, and it was almost like she disappeared from the scene when she retired, so catching up with this pioneer was cool. Her brother Ty asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Ashley Battersby Show Notes:
3:00: Christmas, Skiing at the old Playboy Club, and wanting to be Peekaboo Street
13:00: Street skating, Kaya Turski
19:00: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar.
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
22:30: Moving to Park City in the Olympic Year, The Bulls, what made her want to do slopestyle, The Winter Sports School, Line, and Sarah Burke
40:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code winteriscoming
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW
43:00: Did she have a women’s crew? Jossi Wells, straight edge, manifesting, winning the US Open on her Line Pro Model, and her baggy style
52:00: Sponsors and money, Olympics, living in 4th at X Games, the Switch 10 injuries take away her Olympic dreams, and calling it a career
69:00: Inappropriate Questions with Ty Battersby
Roy Tuscany is back, and part 2 with Roy is different than any podcast or interview he’s done before. This episode isn’t about Roy’s story of coming back from a life-altering injury and starting the High Fives Foundation; we did that in episode 49. This week, we talk about things like what it’s like being the first person to offer an injured person hope after a transformative injury, how difficult that is, what the cost of a spinal injury is, how one pays for that, and a lot of the things able-bodied people don’t think about. High Fives Athlete Trevor Kennison asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Roy Tuscany Show Notes:
3:00: Does he wish he wasn’t injured, the pain of life, rude people, and telling his story so much.
13:00: Making this podcast different, seeing people on their worst days, and explaining what a diagnosis really means to a patient.
20:00: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar.
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
23:00: Bringing hope, accepting a new reality, who your real friends are, the cost of everything, and the worst of what can happen
42:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code winteriscoming
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW
45:00: Positive mentality, his favorite High Fives athlete story, and once-in-a-lifetime moments.
48:00: Why he has a nice truck, money, travel budget, being an influencer, and the weather
63:00: Inappropriate Questions with Trevor Kennison
Ben Weis was one of the most exciting, high-risk skaters of his time, and his life outside of skating was just as death-defying…until it wasn’t. Ben recently passed away in a motorcycle accident, right when he was getting his crazy life back on track. On the podcast, I connect with Ben’s closest friends, pro skaters, and his wife. I also added some audio clips from the podcast I did with Ben years ago and we put together a final retrospective of the one they called “The Ben Weis Show”.
Ben Weis Show Notes:
4:00: Words from Ben’s brother Jordan, Eric Schrijn talks about Ben’s energy, and Derek French talks about the early contest days
8:00: One more try and John Murakami talks about his first impression of Ben, words from another Jon, and words from Ben’s right-hand man Shorty Adam K, talking about the party that the Crack House was
18:30: Rollerblade: They invented inline skating and make the best skates on the planet.
Outdoor Research: The best outerwear in the world comes from OR and is built in the PNW
Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
21:30: The Ben Weis Show (words from Ben and others), real jobs, the life of the party, Jake Eley talks Ben’s England trip, and more from Eric Schrijn
31:00: Convincing people to do things, Murakami tells a couple of wild stories and a road trip to Iowa
38:00: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code winteriscoming
Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.
Best Day Brewing: All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar.
41:00: Iowa part 2, fighting and facing the music
52:00: How much fun people had around Ben, words from Ben’s wife Taylir, and a final story from Derek French