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The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast — 202 episodes
E203: A 'big year' for climbing, commercial boards and how much could you suffer for gains?
E202: Tristan Chen - Recovery, pottery and the similarities between bouldering and birding
E201: Yannick Flohe - Big sends, big downgrades, let's sort this mess out
E200: 9A boulderer draft, Squamish and chat
E199: Natalia Grossman - Success, setbacks and prioritising mental health
E198: Sam, Aidan & Katie - Pride, confidence, projects and hypotheticals
E197: Connor Herson - Quick ascents of the hardest trad routes in the world, drifters escape and trad style/ethics
E196: Jana Švecová - 8C first ascents, Terranova and injury comebacks
E195: Yosemite season round up, news and desert island boulders
E194: Bruce Zou - The first Chinese person to climb 8C talks barefoot sends, quick progression and grade chasing
E193: Max Milne - Winning the PCL, campusing The Ace and injury comebacks
E192: Round Table - We've got to talk about Ondra and D&D alignment chart
E191: Allison Vest - Climbing 'big boy' boulders and the work behind the success
E190: Keenan Takahashi - 10 seconds of fear a year, the pros and cons of large egos and getting distracted by trees
E189: The Pro Climbing League, tactics and general chat
E188: Round Table - Anecdotes, talking points and ramble shambles
E187: Zach Galla - An incredible run of form, discussions on mindset, physicality and confidence
E186: We're back! Life updates, outdoor comps and climbing à la Netflix
E185: Talking with a climbing CEO, Ged from the Hangar offers his views from the other side of the aisle
E184: Aidan does an 'ask me anything' hosted by Katie Lamb
E183: The independent climbing gym special featuring Blocfit, Gym Sen and Rise
E182: Jim Pope - Yosemite big walling and New Zealand bouldering
E181: Round Table - Does climbing need grades? Cancellations and group therapy
E180: Will Bosi - Following inexhaustible psych, Silence, 9As and Scottish bouldering
E179: Aidan saves Christmas and meet the new year, same as the old year
E178: The future for indoor and outdoor climbing, coming off the fence about recent developments
E177: Niall Grimes - A general natter with a fixture of British (and presumably Irish) climbing
E176: Round Table - Climbing news, first 9A+, internet drama and hot takes
E175: Dayan Akhtar - Achieving incredible world cup consistency through self-coaching and the physical and mental challenges on the comp circuit
E174: Aidan's experience with Mount Doom and various rambles
E173: Ben Cossey - The situation down under, Action Directe, Groove Train, It's all lightweight baby!
E172: Round Table with Benn Wheeler and Katie Lamb, pub chat and Frankenclimber auctioning
E171: Eliot Stephens - A chat about development, tactics and guidebook writing with one of Wales' finest
E170: Will it be the red pill or the blue pill for Aidan?
E169: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk - Eat to climb, hard climbing post-motherhood and the fun vs achievement spectrum
E168: Aidan's plans, Trance and hypotheticals
E167: Stefano Ghisolfi - Transitioning into a boulder bro, hold fabrication and the collaborative future for elite sport climbing
E166: Adam Shahar - The Process, Burden, boards and World Cups
E165: 'Barefoot' Charles Albert - Footprints down the paths least travelled
E164: Zoe Wood and Ros Beveridge - Route setting pod Mk 2, this time with different perspectives!
163: Benn Wheeler - Wheel Rock, board climbs and rolls and rolls of euros
E162: Darth Grading, climbing ethics and Aidan getting bullied by trad climbers
E161: Ethan Salvo - Having an incredible trip without sending anything followed by one of the best ever weeks in Canadian climbing
E160: Adam Ondra - Legacy, the future, parenthood and rare failures amongst a litany of successes
E159: Another round table with Katie Lamb, general chats and the fantasy climbing auction
E158: Nicolai Uznik - Comps, Maltatal and a long journey to the top of Mount Doom
E157: Let's devise a 4th Olympic climbing discipline
E156: Brooke Raboutou - Growing up in a climbing family and climbing the highest grades whilst maintaining balance
E155: Natasha Barnes - Should we all be strength training?
E154: Austin Hoyt - The King of the North-East, Comp moves on rock and Lucid Dreaming
E153: Using danger for clicks, Aidan's hardest climb of the season and Sam forgets his shoes
E152: Daniel Woods - ROTSW, Alphane, shower gloves and the state of the game
E151: Kai Lightner -Comebacks, learning to work with the body you're in and climbing for change
E150: Ben Norman and Cailean Harker - Route setting deep dive, grades in indoor climbing and the state of the industry
E149: Aidan leaving Yosemite, new comp scoring and should sport climbers just bolt on resin holds
E148: Eric Jerome - Searching for the best boulders, life lessons and working for KAYA
E147: Katie Lamb, the first woman to climb V16...again.
E146: Charlie Schreiber - Hot takes, life lessons and internet drama with one of the best hype men in the game
E145: Will Anglin - Board climbing nerdery, Tension, what is training anyway?
E144: Carlo Traversi - Motivation, Yosemite and developing the hardest V12s in the world
E143: Allison Vest - Outdoor projecting, dealing with pressure and titanium tendons
E142: Jonathan Sin - Trying to become a world cup climber after starting (relatively) late
E141: Martin Keller - Defying aging and injuries to keep climbing harder than ever
E140: Moral conundrums and hot takes special featuring Katie Lamb
E139: The 9A tier list episode... and also shoes
E138: Jesse Dufton - Overcoming degenerative sight loss to climb harder than ever
E137: Jim Pope - Adventures, Comps and Mushrooms
E136: Nathan Phillips - Climbing 8C+, crazy ideas and roasting Sam's climbing
E135: Aidan's new hardest projects in Yosemite, and why he can't drag himself away
E134: Katie Lamb - A great set of rambles with one of the world's best scalers
E133: Matt Bird - Why does a climber need a manager? A little look into the shadowy world of athlete contracts.
E132: Toby Roberts - Winning the Olympic gold, heavy training schedules and board climbing feats of strength
E131: Paul Robinson - Last great projecting, taking control of your own narrative and Lucid Dreaming
E130: Hamish McArthur - Climbing with spirit, Olympic pressure and turning climbing into a (very good) job
E129: Farewell to 2024, our review of the year
E128: The Christmas Special quiz! Featuring Sam Lawson and Billy Ridal
E127: Stian Christophersen - Reducing time spent off the wall due to injury, injuries in general and the Climbing Bible
E126: The training tool tier list episode
E125: Ethan Salvo - Enjoying the present, sending hard and being content
E124: Where is Aidan? Is climbing a sport? Can we liberate ourselves from our ego?
E123: Solly Kemball-Dorey - The evolutionary missing link in British climbing?
E122: A chat amongst the shipmates, Aidan, Soline and Seb
E121: Xian Goh - How to get better without training!
E120: Aidan the cabin boy lands on Martinique, destined for... The Dawn Wall?
E119: Nathan Hoette - The mad Australian shoe scientist educates us ignorant fools about climbing shoes
E118: Hoseok Lee - Moonboarding, The Korean climbing scene and rapid progression
E117: Beth Rodden returns! - A light through the cracks and general natter
E116: Jorg Verhoeven - Hold fabrication, comp reflections and mental wellbeing
E115: A new Dread Pirate Roberts hits the high seas.... and also Ireland
E114: Ross Fulkerson - Flow, Mindset and Prioritising adventure
E113: Michaela Kiersch - Climbing elite level boulders and routes alongside a 'proper job' and sending V14 with a broken finger
E112: Alex Puccio - Talking rocks, comps and impending motherhood with one of the all time greats of the game
E111: Clem Lechap - Projecting tactics, team psyche and Smart Boards
E110 - Aidan & Sam - The final Olympic wrap-up and ridiculous rambles
E109: Matt Fultz - Sending multiple 8C+s, coaching, tactics and self-doubt
E108: Molly Thompson-Smith - Qualifying and preparing for The Olympics!
E107: Kyra Condie - Olympics, mindset and the supremacy of dank board training
E106: Ben Bransby - Getting stronger in your 40s, ticking Stanage and making duct tape hold umbrellas
E105: Sam & Aidan's Eras tour, genetics, asymmetrical edge controversies and grasshoppers
E104: Tom Herbert- Supplements, fueling and nutrition tips from an elite climbing nutritionist
E103: Sean Bailey - Cutting edge climbing, comps and grading
E102: Ethan Pringle - Projecting, motivation, passion and social media rambles
E101: Aidan & Sam - Chalk, Nocturnal Climbing and Swiss Bats
E100: Steven Dimmitt - Podcasting, training and changing perspectives
E99: The Magic Wood Special with Thomas Saluz and James O'Neil
E98: Greg Chapman - Guidebook writing, boulder development, crag preservation and The Lake District
E97: Aidan & Sam - Moral conundrums, building a Frankenstein climber and trip updates
E96: Sébastien Berthe - Big Walls, Boats and Bouldering Challenges
E95: Sam & Aidan are talking CASH!
E94: Ashima Shiraishi - Rediscovering passion in climbing
E93: Emil Abrahamsson - Grappling with the Big Island, gripping with strongmen and grafting with YouTube
E92: Aidan sends his projects!
E91: Bernd Zangerl - Himalayan bouldering, development and climbing beyond the numbers
E90: The Climbing Backpackers - How to go on your dream climbing adventure for £10 a day!
E89: Simon Lorenzi - The triple 9A climber and best non-professional climber in the world!
E88: David Mason - The new finger strength hack, the psychology of injury and how much of finger strength is purely genetics?
E87: Neil Gresham - Training, grading, the social media landscape and the most physical form of climbing
E86: Noah Wheeler - The next generation crusher sleepwalking into defying gravity
E85: Aidan & Sam - We're talking about GRADES and to a much lesser extent, ancient Egypt
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
E83: The role of climbing in our lives, thought provoking questions from Mimi White
E82: Yannick Flohé - Chatting comps and rocks with the ultimate German powerhouse
E81: Toby Segar - Jumping about between all things climbing and Parkour
E80: Matthew Phillips - A Paraclimbing World Champion's pursuit of challenge
E79: Alex Fry - Routesetting, wooden hold making and how to set the world's most popular indoor V8
E78: Sam & Aidan - Sam climbs 8C and Aidan philosophizes about the balance between fun and performance
E77: The Christmas Special!
E76: Shauna Coxsey - In conversation with a two time bouldering champion
E75: James Pearson - There and back again, the online and physical dangers of trying to push Trad climbing
E74: Billy Ridal and Alex Waterhouse free climb the nose!
E73: Taylor McNeill - Tall enough to climb V16, living in a school bus and searching for projects
E72: Ollie Torr - Coaching the pros, being one of the brains behind Lattice and long baths with jockeys
E71: Aidan and Sam - The Sisu project, the burden of Burden and objective boulder quality scale revisited
E70: Hazel Findlay - Exploring the mental side of climbing with a leading coach and pro climber
E69: Sam and Aidan - Aidan heads back to Finland, Sam partying like it's 2020 with the 'Vid and more moral conundrums for Aidan
E68: Orrin Coley - Tying self-worth to performance, head games and growing up
E67: Isabelle Faus - 8B+ first ascents, developing in teams and the Colorado scene
E66: Alex Megos - Comparison, diet and Yorkshire tea
E65: Aidan and Sam - Aidan's 'work phone', trip stories and moss shoe sponsorships
E64: Solly Kemball-Dory - 8C FAs, tidal bouldering and FA ethics
E63: Billy Ridal - Comp retirement, rock success and Yosemite goals
E62: Ravioli Biceps - Your friendly neighbourhood Moonboarder and metalhead.
E61: Simulation Sam and Android Aidan discuss AI in climbing
E60: Louis Parkinson - Coach, climber and Captain Cutloose
E59: Ned Feehally - The beastmaker, dark horse and dad
E58: Hamish Potokar - Philosophising about climbing and Spotter magazine
E57: Tom O'Halloran - Olympian and aussie all-rounder, chatting projects and cancelling kneebar pads
E56: Jonny Kydd - 110+ session projecting, lessons learned from the edge of possible
E55: Aidan & Sam - Catch up, failing to define success and lunching on 33.3 cucumbers
E54: Storytime episode 1 with Elliot White - Stories and rambles
E53: David Fitzgerald - Steely fingers, process philosophy and personal motivations
E52: Keenan Takahashi - Antigrav, Skateboard culture, Redefining success and failure
E51: Jon Partridge - Climb-Life balance, cyclical psyche and how to get Hang in just 2 years!
E50: Tiba Vroom - Rock climbing, Gym owning, Route setting and Desert Island Bouldering
E49: Omar Bobat - Chill chat, crazy video ideas and existential crises
E48: Beth Rodden - Lessons from a dramatic career at the top of the sport
E47: Special Episode - Opening a climbing wall, what not to do ft. Ben Prior
E46: Jake Mason - Routesetting, Nandos grading & brass crimps
E45: Sam & Aidan - Grade-centric climbing media & various rambles
E44: Aidan & Sam - Aidan's 9A project, lessons from Switzerland and Captain Scott's frozen ponies
E43: Sofya Yokoyama - Comp positivity & disordered eating
E42: Justin Brown - Tips and tricks for perfect(ish) skin
E40: Sam Lawson - Creator of Wedge & future father to Birdseye Lawson
E39: Sam & Aidan - Desert island boulders!
E38: Aidan & Sam - Rambles, comparison, Patreon questions
E37: Dan Turner - Work/climb balance, perseverance and learning from failure
E36: Sam & Aidan - Carelessly talking, Swiss projects, beauty brand recommendations
E35: Alex Waterhouse - Giving up the comps, retexturing holds, turbo-crimping grifters
E34: Dan Varian Part 2 - Grades, hold glueing, metal detecting
E33: Dan Varian - Countryfile boulder hunting, Social Media, Shaq as bouldering gold medalist
E32: Sam & Aidan - Ondra in the UK, ethical climbing sponsorships, IRN-BRU Santa
E31: Drew Ruana Part 2 - Development, ticking Colorado and the future for the human race
E30: Drew Ruana Part 1: Megatron, grading, career plans and Reddit
E29: Dave MacLeod Part 2 - Scottish climbing, development, training
E28: Dave MacLeod - McDonald's patties, diet, environmentalism
E27: Robbie Phillips - Adventure climbing, risk, filmmaking and authenticity
E26: Nathan Phillips - Comp retirement, future plans, tangents and rambles
E25: Tim Blake - Moss, midge suits, County highballs and pub chat
E24: Buster Martin - Action Directe, Hubble, coaching and injury recovery
E23: Molly Thompson-Smith - Weight control, rock goals and mince pie ratings
E22: Molly Thompson-Smith - Competitions, Injuries & Christmas Tree Rentals
E21: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk
E20: Paul 'Huffy' Houghoughi - The Climbing Physio
E19: Sam Pratt - Climbing Photographer & Patreon Launch
E18: Aidan climbs Alphane (9A)
E17: Alex Lemel - Route Setter, Board Climber, Beat Maker
E16: Max 'The Future' Milne
E15: Tom Herbert - Climbing Nutritionist, losing weight safely for climbing.
E14: Tom Herbert - Climbing Nutritionist
E13: David Mason - Training advice and life lessons from a climbing coach
E12: David Mason
E11: Jim Pope on rocks, training and the Euro Champs
E10: Jim Pope Part 1
E09: Isles of Wonder Sit 8C+ and Summer Trips
E08: Frances Bensley
E07: Will Bosi
E06: Sam Prior (Host)
E05: Aidan Roberts Extra Questions
E04: Billy Ridal Part 2
E03: Billy Ridal Part 1
E02: Aidan Roberts Part 2
E01: Aidan Roberts Part 1