:22:00
Maybe some people had done it,
but, mostly, people just talked about it.
:22:03
And that's when I realized
that was for me.
:22:06
I just became
a big mountain rider.
:22:10
## [Man Singing Rock]
:22:19
I ended up getting some money,
starting getting paid to snowboard.
I couldn't believe it, you know?
:22:24
I 'm getting checks year round, you know.
I'm getting checks in the summer.
:22:28
Even before that,
I was already a little bit out there.
:22:32
And then now,
this was like gas on the fire.
:22:35
## [Rap Metal]
## [ Rapping ]
:22:42
[Don Farmer]
I always told him,
:22:45
you know,you can't just go out here
and do what you want to do.
:22:49
When you're in the corporate world,
that doesn't always work.
:22:51
And it cost him dearly.
:22:53
I never had a plan.
I didn't even care about money.
I just wanted to have a good time.
:22:58
And my good time ended.
:23:02
If your, like, fairy tale goes wrong,
then you have to have a backup plan,
and I really didn't.
:23:10
[Man]
We actually bought
our first snowboards together.
:23:13
I think Joe bought
both ofthem, actually.
:23:16
Well, I'd just wrecked his car.
I backed it into a telephone pole.
:23:20
But I'd already wrecked his car
way before.
:23:23
[Ford]
So his mom was paying me
some money,
:23:25
and we went and bought
snowboards with it
instead of fixing his car.
:23:29
[Don Farmer]
Shawn has never quit
pursuing what he liked.
:23:32
He has stayed right there.
He's done it and done it.
:23:35
And I used to think, well,
he'll finally say, "That's it, "
and throw up his hands.
:23:38
He never has.
:23:41
And as far as I 'm concerned now,
as old as he is and what he's been doing,
he never will.
:23:46
[Farmer]
The early days of snowboarding...
:23:48
were definitely something
that can never be duplicated.
:23:52
It's like rock and roll in the '50s
or something, you know?
:23:55
People didn't even really know
quite what it was.
:23:58
And I'm just fortunate to have
lived through it and been part of it.