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Shaun White

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  1. “I have a same on Facebook and I'm Sean White Snap. If you want to get down with the Snapchat, what else? Yeah, check it out. I mean, it's an amazing event and I'm really proud of it and it's something that really speaks to me, the sport and what I'm all about. So I hope you enjoy it.”

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  2. “Yeah, you can go to Aaronstyle.com and you can get tickets for the event. If you can't make it to the event, it's going to be streaming live on Go 90. It's Verizon's new app, which is really cool. You can download it. And then you can not only check out the event coming up, but the past events to see what the riders are doing and where their rankings are at. I'm Sean White on Instagram. Check it out”

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  3. “paid all for me in the long run. It's kind of like if you can get past that boredom of like, wow, I'm not good at this. This is hard. I mean, I don't know if anybody's broken a hand before, but you'd be amazed how quickly you can learn how to use chopsticks with that other hand. I mean, by really just forcing yourself to do something that you're not good at until you're really good at it. I mean, that simple lesson, you know, the simple thing of learning what not to do. People want to know how I learn tricks. I'm like, man, I try them and I try them and I try them until it becomes something that's so easy for me when the world's watching, I can do it. You know, it's the simple things I take. And then I guess just keeping your eyes open for what's next. I mean, a guitar fell into my lap. I was just, you know, I was just aware enough to be like, wow, I should try to play this. I should try to become great at this. I pick all sorts of fun hobbies for myself.”

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  4. “I don't know, I really kind of based if this is just some advice for me, I guess, and it served me very well over the years. But it's the simple lessons that you can look out for. I mean, like when I wanted to learn a new trick that was really difficult or I wanted to like, in the beginning of my career, I couldn't ride what's called switch. So the natural way I ride is left foot forward. It's called regular. And if I was right foot forward, it's called goofy. But so I'm regular. And when I put my right foot forward, that means I'm riding switch. It's my unnatural way of riding. It's like if you're going to hit a baseball and then you had to kind of go the opposite way that you would normally do it. And I couldn't do it. It was super hard. I made myself do it all day, every day until it just became easy. It was a simple thing of like, man, this is, I'm just going to do it until it becomes so easy that it's not hard anymore. And that really...”

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  5. “Put on the billboard, man. Probably my dog. I'm like that guy that's like, my dog's the best looking dog ever. You should check his Instagram account. It's really... Does he have an Instagram? It's gaining popularity. Yeah.”

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  6. “Really depends. Usually it's by mistake. You go in, you're like, okay, I'm going to do the two flips and then I'm going to come out. And this is exactly where I'm going to be wrong, completely wrong. You end up doing something new and then you can go, wow, well, that actually worked out. You know, I'm going to actually build upon that. Now you got a brand new trick that no one's ever done before. Or I don't really dream about it or something like that. I had a friend call me once and told me about a trick that was a possibility and I completely disagreed, but it got me thinking about another scenario. You know what I mean? It always comes from something different, but that's usually how it happens for me is by mistake or I'm just in the right mood and I want to try something.”

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  7. “Depends. He's either like he'll just make fun of me until I relax. Or he'll be very sincere about something and want to give his input, but he was the one always doing the new tricks. He introduced me to the sport. I was always wanting to do what my older brother was doing. So he's the guy that's always been that one I go to.”

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  8. “My brother, definitely. Jesse, my brother Jesse. We put out an album with the band. And I wanted to thank him in the credits because he told me I couldn't do it. He's like, what are you going to be? Kevin Bacon, what are you going to do? You know, and I was like, well, I'll show you, you know, and it was really helpful. It drove me to actually complete the album and things. But he'll get me the straight on everything. He'll come in and tell me what he really thinks.”

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  9. “Donald duck I was like, what's that really going to say? Man, I don't really know. I guess top of my mind right now would be Andre Agassi. You know, he's got the kind of success that... Know besides the money and the fame and the things, I mean, he's got a family. He's got people that care about him. If he was in as troublesome scenario, he could call somebody that would come help him out with that. You know, I mean, I measure it”

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  10. “How do you get tickets? Yeah, you can go to Aaronstyle.com or you can go to frontgatetickets.com. And it's great. It's $75. I'll get you in the gate. And then what's really cool is kids under 10 get in for free. And the whole idea behind that was, you know, you can come to the event, watch the professionals do their thing. And there's a whole learn to ride area for whoever wants to ride. But, you know, hopefully kids will try it out, fall in love with it, then go up to the mountains and it kind of refreshes the sport with the youth and all that. And that's how I got my start. I was introduced to it. So I can only hope that, you know, somebody comes to the event and becomes the next so-and-so because they got there start trying out snowboarding. But yeah, hope you guys can make it. It's all around. Check it out.”

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  11. “Bites a bat's head off and starts referencing all these chicks came out, rock the show. I mean, it was really cool and it was an opportunity for me to do something brand new. You know, after the last Olympics, I didn't win and I was sitting there and normally you're kind of flooded with these offers of, hey, you could get some easy money by doing a deal with so-and-so or doing this and that. And I was getting offers, but it definitely wasn't like what you get when you win. And it was, in hindsight, it was the perfect opportunity for me to sit down and go, what would I like to do? And actually put my own money into it and build this thing that's been my dream. And it's really something to be seen. We did it last year. It was a total blowout. We had Kendrick Lamar play and, you know, it's really my vision came together. And it became real when my mom showed up. She was just like, what did you do? Like this thing's massive in 16 stories.”

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  12. “Exactly, that was the goal, you know, and it's cool. I mean, it's like one of those things of like, why didn't this happen before, you know, combining the two? I mean, if you're watching a tennis match, wouldn't it be cool if halfway through?”

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  13. “Yeah, ASAP, Ferg, Rudimental, really amazing bands, all time low. And so the idea is that you have this mashup. I mean, obviously my world of sports is so close to music that it's just nice to see everybody come together and experience these things. And it really represents the culture behind the sport. So we have art and fashion technology, all of these things that you would find at a festival. But the amazing part is that it's a tour. So this actually takes place in Beijing in December. We just had a stop in Austria and Innsbruck. So this is the final stop of the tour. So all of these snowboarders have been competing this whole entire time and we crown the winner at this last event in Los Angeles and we make this really cool championship ring. So yeah, everybody's trying to win it.”

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  14. “16 story tall, yeah, it's massive. 16 stories Yeah, it's just like one big hit. And so basically, the world's best are coming to compete on it. And then you mix that with an amazing music lineup. We have J. Cole, Incubus Heim. We have Action Bronson. Even cascade will be there, which is very exciting.”

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  15. “Yeah, it's really incredible. It's an event that's called Aaron Style. It's coming up here in Los Angeles February 20th and 21st at the LA Coliseum, the Expo Park. It's a sports and music festival that started about 20 years ago in Austria. I was a competitor at the event. I then became the host of the event. And then some interesting circumstances led me to being the new owner of the event. And my dream was to take that passion from music and touring festivals. And obviously my knowledge and experience and love of snowboarding and combined those two. So down at the Coliseum, we built a 16-story big air jump.”

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  16. “The end of the world in that sense the show goes on, you have time to like make up for it. Obviously, I'm a perfectionist, so nothing can go wrong. I have to have it perfect. But it's just great to be out there with everyone, you know, really combined effort. It's not all up to me. If I play a perfect show, you know, the drummer probably didn't hear the mix in his set and it was a terrible show. So everyone has to come together to have an amazing performance. So that's something different.”

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  17. “In that space that we actually own the moment and we played for people, they enjoyed it, and that got us a lot of credibility. So then we got offered to tour with Jared Letto's band, 30 Seconds to Mars. And there we are in Romania for 10,000 people. It was incredible, incredible, you know, to open up for them. And then we did a run through the US with a band called Phantogram. But yeah, it was just great, you know, to be playing on stage, doing something different. And that excitement. And all I'll say is that you're out on stage with your friends. It's not all on my shoulders. I can kind of like, you know, miss the pedal or something can happen and go wrong and it's not.”

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  18. “It was crazy. They're like, you come with us. And so there we were. I was like, oh my God, this is our moment. We got to do this. And they're like, okay, you ready for this set? And so we played one of the most incredible sets we've ever had. We rose to the occasion. We had this amazing set. And just like anyone that picks up a guitar and dreams of being on stage, you dream of that moment you're walking off stage and everyone is cheering for one more song. And the best moment of that is I look at my buddies. I was like, do we even have another song? We don't have another one. He's like, play the first one again, you know, until we go back out there. It was incredible. It was an incredible moment in time. And yeah, and so that got us a lot of credibility.”

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  19. “So the main act on the grove stage at Lollapalooza decided they weren't going to play. They put a big sign out that said our art will not be displayed here. And their fans completely demolish their gear and all this craziness ensued. And they looked around. They're like, we need a band to play the main stage. I was like, we're a band, you know, like literally.”

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  20. “We had some pretty amazing opportunities. I play a lead guitar in a band called Bad Things. Mostly friends of mine from the neighborhood I grew up in and some amazingly talented guys I met in LA. And we started making our own songs and we got offered some gigs and things. And there was one moment where we got invited to go to Lollapalooza. And I was like, man, this will be heavy. Just wait, it was for the kids stage. So I was like, I was like, you know what? It'll be more so punk rock if we just go like play that kid stage. Because I don't think I should be on the main stage. Just because I'm in the group does not mean that we should be giving these scenarios. And so we show up and we, you know, we did our thing. We had a really great show over the kids. And then the most amazing thing happened. It was like out of a movie.”

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  21. “It's, yeah, it's way different. I mean, the feeling is the same because it's like that instant gratification of like doing a big air to hear the crowd here.”

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  22. “Really incredible at it. So that was kind of like how I do things. I'd rather go and train private than show up, oh yeah, whatever. I do that with a lot of strange things. So that was kind of my way of like, you know, practicing, keeping it fun. And it's nice. You make these, I don't know, it really got me to be good at guitar. I had this competition and I had these things going and it really helped me.”

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  23. “It's very hard. Yeah, I was just going for whatever. And at the time, any kid that picks up a guitar, I guess my friends were all listening to Metallica. And it's very guitar riff driven. So it was nice. I was always picking out the leads and things. And I didn't know any chords or why it made sense. I just learned from guitar tableture off the internet, you know, the numbers that represented the frets and which string. And I would just sit there for hours like, okay, number two, all the way down to fret five. And I would like hours and hours stretching the fingers and just getting ready. But yeah, it was fun. And then deep down, like anybody that picks up a guitar, it's like, man, what would it be like to play on stage and to do this? And from that young age, I was like very self aware of that like I didn't want anybody to take a photo of me with a guitar. I didn't want to play for anybody or let anybody in that world because I wanted to just show up all of a sudden be.”

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  24. “Yes, I remember the one day I show up, and the one kid had been playing guitar. It was very unfair. I mean, he'd been playing for 10 years or more. And I'm like, he's got to go, you know. And so the one day I got my fulfilling moment where it was like a metallica song and he couldn't play the one riff and I could. And it was just”

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  25. “I'm serious. I would sit there and listen to music and I would strum the side of my pant leg to the beat of the song and to the rhythm of the music and to get my wrist acquainted with that motion. I hope we have video.”

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  26. “Yeah, yeah, like he had my spot and I wanted it. I wanted to be hanging with Tony and doing the demos and stuff. And so at the same time, I was learning guitar. There were two other kids in the neighborhood that were learning guitar. And I was like, they got to go. They gotta go. And so I would sit on the plane and I would like stretch my fingers because I couldn't reach all the fret. I was like one day these things are going to pay off. And so I'd stretch my hands out and Because it's difficult to reach all the frets and then I was on the plane and I would take my guitar pick and I would I couldn't upstroke at the time. And so I would play the side of my pants seam on the dude.”

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  27. “Right when I knew he was on Birdhouse, I was like, he's gotta go. He's calling me dad. Like, I just built this in my mind. And like, he was the sweetest, nicest kid ever. This, like, tall blonde kid. And I was just hell-bent on destroying him. In my mind, I didn't want to hurt him or anything.”

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  28. “Music was a strange one just because no one else in my family is musical in the slightest, you know, especially my sister. Cannot carry a tune to save herself. Yeah, I don't know. It was just one of those things where I turned it into a competition, to be honest. I won a guitar at a snowboard contest and I was like, wow, what if I could just be at a party somewhere and play one song and one song turned into like, okay, I'm now training to be a guitar player. And at that age, my world revolved around like, I'm going to be the best at this. Like, I don't care. I'm going to be the best. And one other thing I do besides set goals for myself is I just like pick these battles that just do not exist. There is like the sweetest kid at the skate park. He skated for Birdhouse and I just, I was like, I have to destroy this guy.”

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  29. “To all of these things that I'm involved with now. I didn't wake up like I need my own clothing line. Like, no, it was my brother was amazingly talented artist. We had this great opportunity and we enjoyed doing it. We would make the drawings on napkins. The samples would get made in China. We'd bring them back, make adjustments. And then you see somebody wearing your jacket. It's incredible. It's this fulfillment of like, wow, he stood in front of this huge wall of clothing and picked my jacket. Like, that's so cool. you know, that connection there.”

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  30. “Of Jake Burton. He's not lame, just the photo was lame. No fence. But I remember thinking like, God, they print the sound, they make it. Why don't we do something really funny in there? So we turned it into this, like my brother figured out how to take one piece of paper and fold it into like a little comic book. And we would like display these bizarre, you know, like pieces of art and sayings and things and hairy armpits and just weird stuff. So yeah, it was all about those little details. But people appreciated it. You know, when you bought the jacket, you were always discovering in the unholy jacket, we had these one pocket that you would flip up and it would say the most unholy jacket ever on the other side it was like people dancing in flames and things it was just fun you know i really enjoyed doing it and that was my introduction into designing um you know i i just like getting the right of approval for my ads and things there's a natural kind of progression in story”

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  31. “I can't recall. There were some good ones, but it was fun. We would always do these strange things. I mean, I was always about the little details. So there was a pass pocket that you have in your jacket that you flip up and get scanned to go on the chairlift. And there's always this lame photo.”

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  32. “What was amazing? Like, at the time, I was really young and I was slowly gaining this popularity. And so Burton Snowboards came to me and they're like, we want to do a pro model snowboard boot. And I was like, wow, okay, cool. I have no idea what to do. So I asked my older brother, Jesse, and he was always very artistic. And he, you know, we came up with this really cool quilted prim and it sold out. It was an amazing hit. We came out with another one and that grew into boots and a board and helmets. And then it became a whole clothing line at Burton Snowboards called the White Collection. And basically, that had free reign to do whatever I wanted. He's like, well, it'd be hilarious if the tagline was super long. You know, we had the tags for the jackets at the store that was just like this long, like a foot long. I was like, oh, yeah, the most unholy jacket ever. That'd be great.”

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  33. “Yeah, and I bought this t shirt that said the Prince of Fucking Darkness and it was Ozzie and Flames. And I was like, this is great. And I started wearing it under my jersey every competition. And I was winning. Ozzie was like, you know, helping me out. And so, you know, just random things like that. So there's like select t-shirts and songs and things over time that, you know, I kind of”

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  34. “Yeah, so there are strange things. I was 16. I went to my first concert ever. It was the Ozfest. Yeah, I went with my parents. I was like, oh, this is incredible.”

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  35. “And so the meeting that night was to decide if they were even going to do the event the next day, which is a very tough scenario as a competitor because you're like, all right, tomorrow we're going to maybe do this. You get all psyched up and it's like this big maybe. And so the meeting went till 2 a.m. And my coach at the time is the one that cooks the steaks. And he's just like, we're in Russia. You want me to find your steak right now? I'm like, I'm not one to break tradition, but you want to do it tonight of all nights, you know? And so anyways, that story aside. Yeah, there's things where I get a song that's played and I have to hear that same song. It depends. For 2006, it was ACDEC's Back in Black. One was communication breakdown by Led Zeppelin. You know, one was a black key song What was the song? I think Helen for you.”

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  36. “Totally, there were like five of those things that I'm talking about that all took place before the event. It's not because I didn't want steak. I didn't all of a sudden be like, you know what? Going vegan. No, I was just like, you know, they didn't even know if they were going to run the competition leading up to the event. We had three days of practice and the half pipe was unridable for three days.”

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  37. “I remember, you know, I won and then I won the next one and then I'm like, there I am packing my bag. I don't want to break tradition. But nowadays, like the things I do is I tend to eat a steak before I compete the night before. Some skateboarder told me he does it. I tried it. I won. Now I have to eat a steak. Now you're lying.”

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  38. “I don't know, maybe my mom's super very superstitious. And so like, I wasn't in the beginning and now it's slowly rubbed off on me because I would come home or I'd come back to the hotel after the event. My whole room was packed up. My whole bag was packed up. It's like these maids are really going for that extra tip. Yeah, they go that extra mile here. Like, what's going on? And so she was like, oh, if I sneak in your room and pack up your bags, it means you're going to be safe and you're going to win the event. It's just like, all right, lady, you're scaring us, you know? And so.”

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  39. “Things I visualize everything down to the pants. I'm unaware. Like literally it gets pretty involved. And so, you know, I feel like the training when you're thinking about, you know, those positive outcomes and you're thinking about what you want to do, what you want to achieve, wall training is a very powerful thing. And then, yeah, just simple things that I should have probably been doing for a long time now.”

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  40. “Yeah. And when I say I didn't train, I mean, there were moments where I was like, okay, like I'm going to make sure for this month I really hit the spin bike or I'll do this or there was various trainers where I would meet up with them and then, you know, we'd hit it for maybe a couple weeks and then I'd fizzle out because I would go on trips and things. And the only really time I did go to the gym was after injuries. I hurt my knee and it freaked me out. I was like, wow, I got to hit the gym. I got to really protect my knees and my things that are going to keep me in the sport. But the training that I find now that really helps was its balance and core and I can't even say it. To visualize my runs and things, you know, to picture myself. I'm very visual. Like I know what I'm going to see when I hit the jump. I know what the landing's going to look like. I know what's going to be waiting at the bottom of the run to high five me. Good job.”

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  41. “Although I can barely walk after the thing. So I was like hesitant to even get training. And I was like, well, you know, my back's so locked up. It's really helping. Like me stick my landings. Yeah, it was crazy. And so I just recently decided, you know, wow, why don't I take this into my own hands? And obviously I'm getting older. And yeah, it was something I really wanted to do. And it's made it so much easier. Surprise. But yeah, it's something I don't know. I just didn't really think about it. And yeah, I'm 29. I was like, oh, I should probably get the chance”

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  42. “You know, get my back fixed from the plane. And it sounds so ridiculous to me now that I didn't do it before. You know, my eyes were just opened by seven days in hell, which is pretty funny. But yeah, so I was like, what I did before is I would just show up in a city and I just roll the dice and be like, hey, do you know anyone that's good at physical therapy or massage and you get the one that's like they're not doing anything? You know, you're like, oh, that was great. Thank you, you know. Or you get somebody that's like, this is Sean White. I got to impress this guy in one session. He's just elbow.”

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  43. “Below that was the actual dock. It's a mockumentary with Andy Sandberg and one of the guys from John Snow from Game of Thrones. Sorry, yeah. Great actor. And so really funny film. Right below it was an actual documentary, Bjornborg and John McEnroe. Like, oh, I got to watch this. And I'm watching. And John was, I'm sorry, Bjorn had his trainer wake him up. Somebody was hitting balls with him. The other guy's stretching him. And I was like, he's got his whole team. This is amazing. Why don't I have that? Why don't I do that? And like, this is probably like a couple months ago. And so I was like, I got on the phone. I was like, okay, I need a trainer and I need this girl to travel with me and help me stretch.”

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  44. “I'm actually doing it now. I'm serious. Know it's strange. I consider what I do as sport. I consider myself an athlete, but I never really treated myself as one. Especially when you're 16, you know, you just bounce back. Like, or you're younger, you try these tricks. You don't have to work out. I'm like, we're taking the chairlift. We're going down a hill. I'm not going up against someone that's twice my size and I got to deal with that. It's definitely like an individual sport and it relies on the element of being creative. You know, I can come up with a brand new trick that no one's done before and be the best in the world where it doesn't matter how hard I hit the gym. I still have to be inspired and then have the guts to go do this trick and perform it and master it. But recently I watched a documentary called Seven Days in Hell. And I was like, oh, this is funny. This is really great.”

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  45. “Into play, especially Burton Snowboard's just happened to come out with the snowboard line. So a lot of fun things that I was able to apply to my life from that book.”

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  46. “You know, that happened. And then another thing I compared to my life is that the half pipe that they had a T-bar, had like a tow rope at it. So I was thinking, wow, the amount of days now that I'm riding because it's sunny and the amount of runs I'm getting because I don't have to unstrap and hike back up, I would just do my trick, get back on the chair and go back up. I was like, wow, I'm packing in like months of training in these small windows compared to someone else that lives in Vermont or something where it's like well below freezing and they're hiking the pipe. They're tired that's, you know, when you're cold, it's like, it's frightening to go, okay, I'm going to try this flip. Like, no, you're not. Like, it's super intimidating. I like it's cold. You want to go home and get warm. I was in these conditions where the snow was soft. I got some guy building the best terrain around. And yeah, so there's a lot of fun things that came.”

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  47. “Someone growing up somewhere else. And then at the same moment, the person that was building the parks at Bear Mountain and Summit, Snow Summit Resort, you know, it was like this small mountain. So they're like, oh yeah, do what you want. You snowboard as good do what you want. And this guy was building these amazing jumps, this amazing half pipe. He now builds all of the courses for the world's best events. That's where he got his start. Wow. At these mountains, you know, they weren't going to let him go to Aspen and tear up the, you know, the groomer trail or whatever.”

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  48. “Just my attention span wanders. But I kind of stop just because I really, I was reading it and I really enjoyed the book and I actually just left it on the plane why I stopped. I should have just buttoned another one. And then Harry Potter came out. You gotta do what you gotta do. A chicken book came out. No, so I was reading the book and I was amazed about the story about the hockey players and this kind of anomaly in the system. And I started applying that to my own life. And I was like, wow, well, people would think I was at a disadvantage growing up in Southern California. I was like, well, I don't find that as a disadvantage at all. It was probably sunny and nice out in the majority of the year or the winter season. Our winters aren't like somewhere in Colorado or Vermont. So the amount of days I could actually go ride were probably double or triple the amount of”

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  49. “Are you serious? It's a cookbook on chicken. It's delicious and it's got this. I love chicken. I love this. And it's got this chicken all tied up on the front. Just begging to be, yeah. Besides that, the outliers. And I can't”

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  50. “I say who cares? I do. I go, who cares? In the end of the day, who cares? What's the big deal? I'm here. I'm going to try my best. And who cares? I'm going to go home and my family's there. And the Andre Agassi reference, I mean, who cares? I'm going to go on from this. Even though I'm so, my whole world's wrapped up in this, like, who cares?”

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