The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast
By Sam Prior & Aidan Roberts
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Episodes: 148
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Aidan Roberts and Sam Prior host this climbing-themed podcast that kind of goes where it goes. Lots of tangents and rambles as well as hopefully thought provoking questions. Sometimes it's very focussed on climbing, sometimes climbing barely comes up. The guests tend to be elite level climbers, but we often willingly get lost in the weeds and end up wildly off-topic. If you're enjoying our podcast and would like to support it: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823
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E149: Aidan leaving Yosemite, new comp scoring and should sport climbers just bolt on resin holds
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May 21, 2025 |
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E148: Eric Jerome - Searching for the best boulders, life lessons and working for KAYA
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May 14, 2025 |
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E147: Katie Lamb, the first woman to climb V16...again.
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May 07, 2025 |
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E146: Charlie Schreiber - Hot takes, life lessons and internet drama with one of the best hype men in the game
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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E145: Will Anglin - Board climbing nerdery, Tension, what is training anyway?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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E144: Carlo Traversi - Motivation, Yosemite and developing the hardest V12s in the world
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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E143: Allison Vest - Outdoor projecting, dealing with pressure and titanium tendons
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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E142: Jonathan Sin - Trying to become a world cup climber after starting (relatively) late
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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E141: Martin Keller - Defying aging and injuries to keep climbing harder than ever
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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E140: Moral conundrums and hot takes special featuring Katie Lamb
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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E139: The 9A tier list episode... and also shoes
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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E138: Jesse Dufton - Overcoming degenerative sight loss to climb harder than ever
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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E137: Jim Pope - Adventures, Comps and Mushrooms
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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E136: Nathan Phillips - Climbing 8C+, crazy ideas and roasting Sam's climbing
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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E135: Aidan's new hardest projects in Yosemite, and why he can't drag himself away
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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E134: Katie Lamb - A great set of rambles with one of the world's best scalers
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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E133: Matt Bird - Why does a climber need a manager? A little look into the shadowy world of athlete contracts.
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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E132: Toby Roberts - Winning the Olympic gold, heavy training schedules and board climbing feats of strength
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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E131: Paul Robinson - Last great projecting, taking control of your own narrative and Lucid Dreaming
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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E130: Hamish McArthur - Climbing with spirit, Olympic pressure and turning climbing into a (very good) job
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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E129: Farewell to 2024, our review of the year
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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E128: The Christmas Special quiz! Featuring Sam Lawson and Billy Ridal
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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E127: Stian Christophersen - Reducing time spent off the wall due to injury, injuries in general and the Climbing Bible
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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E126: The training tool tier list episode
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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E125: Ethan Salvo - Enjoying the present, sending hard and being content
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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E124: Where is Aidan? Is climbing a sport? Can we liberate ourselves from our ego?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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E123: Solly Kemball-Dorey - The evolutionary missing link in British climbing?
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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E122: A chat amongst the shipmates, Aidan, Soline and Seb
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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E121: Xian Goh - How to get better without training!
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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E120: Aidan the cabin boy lands on Martinique, destined for... The Dawn Wall?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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E119: Nathan Hoette - The mad Australian shoe scientist educates us ignorant fools about climbing shoes
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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E118: Hoseok Lee - Moonboarding, The Korean climbing scene and rapid progression
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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E117: Beth Rodden returns! - A light through the cracks and general natter
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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E116: Jorg Verhoeven - Hold fabrication, comp reflections and mental wellbeing
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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E115: A new Dread Pirate Roberts hits the high seas.... and also Ireland
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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E114: Ross Fulkerson - Flow, Mindset and Prioritising adventure
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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E113: Michaela Kiersch - Climbing elite level boulders and routes alongside a 'proper job' and sending V14 with a broken finger
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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E112: Alex Puccio - Talking rocks, comps and impending motherhood with one of the all time greats of the game
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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E111: Clem Lechap - Projecting tactics, team psyche and Smart Boards
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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E110 - Aidan & Sam - The final Olympic wrap-up and ridiculous rambles
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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E109: Matt Fultz - Sending multiple 8C+s, coaching, tactics and self-doubt
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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E108: Molly Thompson-Smith - Qualifying and preparing for The Olympics!
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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E107: Kyra Condie - Olympics, mindset and the supremacy of dank board training
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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E106: Ben Bransby - Getting stronger in your 40s, ticking Stanage and making duct tape hold umbrellas
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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E105: Sam & Aidan's Eras tour, genetics, asymmetrical edge controversies and grasshoppers
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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E104: Tom Herbert- Supplements, fueling and nutrition tips from an elite climbing nutritionist
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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E103: Sean Bailey - Cutting edge climbing, comps and grading
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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E102: Ethan Pringle - Projecting, motivation, passion and social media rambles
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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E101: Aidan & Sam - Chalk, Nocturnal Climbing and Swiss Bats
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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E100: Steven Dimmitt - Podcasting, training and changing perspectives
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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E99: The Magic Wood Special with Thomas Saluz and James O'Neil
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May 29, 2024 |
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E98: Greg Chapman - Guidebook writing, boulder development, crag preservation and The Lake District
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May 22, 2024 |
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E97: Aidan & Sam - Moral conundrums, building a Frankenstein climber and trip updates
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May 15, 2024 |
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E96: Sébastien Berthe - Big Walls, Boats and Bouldering Challenges
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May 08, 2024 |
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E95: Sam & Aidan are talking CASH!
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May 01, 2024 |
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E94: Ashima Shiraishi - Rediscovering passion in climbing
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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E93: Emil Abrahamsson - Grappling with the Big Island, gripping with strongmen and grafting with YouTube
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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E92: Aidan sends his projects!
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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E91: Bernd Zangerl - Himalayan bouldering, development and climbing beyond the numbers
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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E90: The Climbing Backpackers - How to go on your dream climbing adventure for £10 a day!
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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E89: Simon Lorenzi - The triple 9A climber and best non-professional climber in the world!
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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E88: David Mason - The new finger strength hack, the psychology of injury and how much of finger strength is purely genetics?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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E87: Neil Gresham - Training, grading, the social media landscape and the most physical form of climbing
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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E86: Noah Wheeler - The next generation crusher sleepwalking into defying gravity
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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E85: Aidan & Sam - We're talking about GRADES and to a much lesser extent, ancient Egypt
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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E84: Ben Moon - One of Britain's greatest ever climbers talking about his career, getting put into a headlock by Jerry Moffat and Victorian trains
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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E83: The role of climbing in our lives, thought provoking questions from Mimi White
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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E82: Yannick Flohé - Chatting comps and rocks with the ultimate German powerhouse
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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E81: Toby Segar - Jumping about between all things climbing and Parkour
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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E80: Matthew Phillips - A Paraclimbing World Champion's pursuit of challenge
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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E79: Alex Fry - Routesetting, wooden hold making and how to set the world's most popular indoor V8
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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E78: Sam & Aidan - Sam climbs 8C and Aidan philosophizes about the balance between fun and performance
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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E77: The Christmas Special!
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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E76: Shauna Coxsey - In conversation with a two time bouldering champion
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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E75: James Pearson - There and back again, the online and physical dangers of trying to push Trad climbing
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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E74: Billy Ridal and Alex Waterhouse free climb the nose!
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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E73: Taylor McNeill - Tall enough to climb V16, living in a school bus and searching for projects
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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E72: Ollie Torr - Coaching the pros, being one of the brains behind Lattice and long baths with jockeys
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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E71: Aidan and Sam - The Sisu project, the burden of Burden and objective boulder quality scale revisited
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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E70: Hazel Findlay - Exploring the mental side of climbing with a leading coach and pro climber
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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E69: Sam and Aidan - Aidan heads back to Finland, Sam partying like it's 2020 with the 'Vid and more moral conundrums for Aidan
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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E68: Orrin Coley - Tying self-worth to performance, head games and growing up
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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E67: Isabelle Faus - 8B+ first ascents, developing in teams and the Colorado scene
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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E66: Alex Megos - Comparison, diet and Yorkshire tea
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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E65: Aidan and Sam - Aidan's 'work phone', trip stories and moss shoe sponsorships
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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E64: Solly Kemball-Dory - 8C FAs, tidal bouldering and FA ethics
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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E63: Billy Ridal - Comp retirement, rock success and Yosemite goals
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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E62: Ravioli Biceps - Your friendly neighbourhood Moonboarder and metalhead.
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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E61: Simulation Sam and Android Aidan discuss AI in climbing
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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E60: Louis Parkinson - Coach, climber and Captain Cutloose
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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E59: Ned Feehally - The beastmaker, dark horse and dad
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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E58: Hamish Potokar - Philosophising about climbing and Spotter magazine
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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E57: Tom O'Halloran - Olympian and aussie all-rounder, chatting projects and cancelling kneebar pads
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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E56: Jonny Kydd - 110+ session projecting, lessons learned from the edge of possible
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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E55: Aidan & Sam - Catch up, failing to define success and lunching on 33.3 cucumbers
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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E54: Storytime episode 1 with Elliot White - Stories and rambles
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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E53: David Fitzgerald - Steely fingers, process philosophy and personal motivations
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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E52: Keenan Takahashi - Antigrav, Skateboard culture, Redefining success and failure
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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E51: Jon Partridge - Climb-Life balance, cyclical psyche and how to get Hang in just 2 years!
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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E50: Tiba Vroom - Rock climbing, Gym owning, Route setting and Desert Island Bouldering
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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E49: Omar Bobat - Chill chat, crazy video ideas and existential crises
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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E48: Beth Rodden - Lessons from a dramatic career at the top of the sport
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May 31, 2023 |
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E47: Special Episode - Opening a climbing wall, what not to do ft. Ben Prior
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May 24, 2023 |
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E46: Jake Mason - Routesetting, Nandos grading & brass crimps
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May 16, 2023 |
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E45: Sam & Aidan - Grade-centric climbing media & various rambles
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May 10, 2023 |
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E44: Aidan & Sam - Aidan's 9A project, lessons from Switzerland and Captain Scott's frozen ponies
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May 03, 2023 |
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E43: Sofya Yokoyama - Comp positivity & disordered eating
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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E42: Justin Brown - Tips and tricks for perfect(ish) skin
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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E40: Sam Lawson - Creator of Wedge & future father to Birdseye Lawson
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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E39: Sam & Aidan - Desert island boulders!
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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E38: Aidan & Sam - Rambles, comparison, Patreon questions
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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E37: Dan Turner - Work/climb balance, perseverance and learning from failure
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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E36: Sam & Aidan - Carelessly talking, Swiss projects, beauty brand recommendations
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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E35: Alex Waterhouse - Giving up the comps, retexturing holds, turbo-crimping grifters
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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E34: Dan Varian Part 2 - Grades, hold glueing, metal detecting
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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E33: Dan Varian - Countryfile boulder hunting, Social Media, Shaq as bouldering gold medalist
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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E32: Sam & Aidan - Ondra in the UK, ethical climbing sponsorships, IRN-BRU Santa
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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E31: Drew Ruana Part 2 - Development, ticking Colorado and the future for the human race
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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E30: Drew Ruana Part 1: Megatron, grading, career plans and Reddit
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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E29: Dave MacLeod Part 2 - Scottish climbing, development, training
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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E28: Dave MacLeod - McDonald's patties, diet, environmentalism
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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E27: Robbie Phillips - Adventure climbing, risk, filmmaking and authenticity
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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E26: Nathan Phillips - Comp retirement, future plans, tangents and rambles
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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E25: Tim Blake - Moss, midge suits, County highballs and pub chat
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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E24: Buster Martin - Action Directe, Hubble, coaching and injury recovery
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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E23: Molly Thompson-Smith - Weight control, rock goals and mince pie ratings
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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E22: Molly Thompson-Smith - Competitions, Injuries & Christmas Tree Rentals
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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E21: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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E20: Paul 'Huffy' Houghoughi - The Climbing Physio
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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E19: Sam Pratt - Climbing Photographer & Patreon Launch
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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E18: Aidan climbs Alphane (9A)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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E17: Alex Lemel - Route Setter, Board Climber, Beat Maker
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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E16: Max 'The Future' Milne
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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E15: Tom Herbert - Climbing Nutritionist, losing weight safely for climbing.
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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E14: Tom Herbert - Climbing Nutritionist
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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E13: David Mason - Training advice and life lessons from a climbing coach
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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E12: David Mason
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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E11: Jim Pope on rocks, training and the Euro Champs
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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E10: Jim Pope Part 1
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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E09: Isles of Wonder Sit 8C+ and Summer Trips
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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E08: Frances Bensley
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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E07: Will Bosi
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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E06: Sam Prior (Host)
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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E05: Aidan Roberts Extra Questions
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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E04: Billy Ridal Part 2
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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E03: Billy Ridal Part 1
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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E02: Aidan Roberts Part 2
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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E01: Aidan Roberts Part 1
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May 30, 2022 |