The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast

What's this!? An international! Thanks to the reddit community we have the American mega wad Drew Ruana joining us for a chat about climbing, and a chat about everything that isn't climbing as well! We were super psyched to have him and he's great to listen to. If you're enjoying our podcast and would like to help us keep it going, please consider becoming one of our Patreon members!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

The second part of our chat with Dave Macleod where we actually talk about climbing on a climbing themed podcast! Covering all kinds of things, Scottish climbing, development, how first ascenting changes your mindset and how Dave feels like he's still improving despite getting a bit older!If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us and help keep it add free, please consider becoming one of our patroons! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

In part 1 of a 2 part chat with Dave we discuss his radical Mcdonald's diet and how diets impact the environment. The modern zeitgeist would suggest that a meat heavy diet takes a heavy toll on the environment, but perhaps it's not always quite that simple!If you're thinking 'forget this, just inject the climbing chat straight into my veins' then part 2 will probably suit you better!If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us, please check out our patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

Robbie Phillips dials in this week! A chat that covers quite a lot of ground. We talk (somewhat carelessly) about The Long Hope sea cliff, hard trad climbing, traumatic injuries in Madagascar and Robbie's journey as a producer of fine media or 'content creator' as the kids absolutely insist on calling it. If you enjoy the podcast and want us to keep doing it for a bit longer, please do consider joining our prestigious community of Patroons: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

This week Nathan Phillips joined us to chat about his recent decision to retire from competitions as well as discuss his future. Nathan is a good mate of both of us so it's really bridging the gap between an interview and just a zoom chat between friends. Lots of rambles, Aidan briefly responds to the Tristan Chen video 'why climbing needs a villain' and we go off on all sorts of tangents. If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

Tim Blake joins us this week for a bit of a chat about his personal climbing, and then quite a lot more chat about environmentalism, social media and Northumberland. Sam and Aidan reveal all the ways in which they're awful people who are destroying the planet.If you like the podcast and would like to support us: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823An article on how chalk impacts wildlife: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7593172/If you're here looking for the Julie Wurm article Sam kept prattling on about then I'm sorry I can't find it again! When I find it I shall be sure to link it!Support the show

This week we chatted with Buster who has recently climbed Action Directe, becoming just the second person to have climbed both Action Directe and Hubble. He is also an experienced climbing coach and has recovered from one or two nasty injuries in record time so he has loads of interesting insights!If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us- https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Or just leave us a nice review!Support the show

The second part of our chat with Molly, loads of really good stuff in this one, Molly is really unguarded and open with some tough topics which gives us all an amazing insight into the mind of an elite rock climber. If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us, check out our Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

It's gone old school again here and we've split our chat with Molly into two parts. Not just to pad out our episode count, but also because we've hit our upload cap for the month! Part 1 has us talking to Molly mostly about competitions and the setbacks that she has suffered in pursuit of those precious medals. Very real, very genuine stuff, hope you enjoy!And if you're enjoying the podcast and would like to help us keep it going, to consider checking out our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show

This week we chat to Mina who has had a really successful and interesting climbing career. She's done competitions she's done hard boulders and hard routes but she has also had some injury setbacks and we talk about all of it! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to support us please do consider becoming a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823Support the show