Thom Dharma Pollard hosts inspirational, intimate and unfiltered Stories That Inspire with guests and drawing from his own adventures around the world. The Happiness Quotient: connected, engaged, passionate people who inspire us.
The true definition of 'adventure' is an endeavor you embark upon when you don't know the outcome. In the spirit of long lost Everest pioneer George Mallory, who was told that no human being could ever climb Mount Everest, we tip our caps to the people who dare go where few others dare. Mallory was once asked "Why climb Everest?". He is famously credited to have answered "Because it's there."We all have an Everest: whether on land, sea, air, space or, quite simply, the mind, we say 'go find it'.
In Tools For Nomads you'll meet insanely productive and creative people, learn how they work, what are the go-to things they can't be without, how they stay passionate, inspired and grounded so that they can do their best no matter where they are, whether at home, on the road or out in the field. Musicians, designers, architects, writers, chefs, photographers, filmmakers, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, adventurers. As creative professionals, we tackle the projects that make us stretch. Th ...
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The Illegal Burial of Ed Abbey & The Fight for the Yellowstone Grizzly - Doug Peacock #grizzly #Patagonia
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Doug Peacock's award winning book is: WAS IT WORTH IT? A WILDERNESS WARRIOR'S LONG TRAIL HOME Doug Peacock is an American naturalist, author, and filmmaker who is best known for his work in conservation and activism on behalf of grizzly bears in the American West. Here is my VIDEO version of the interview with Doug: https://youtu.be/eYltXSGI0LM MOR…
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The Discovery of George Mallory & The Commercialization of Everest
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When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared on Mount Everest on June 8, 1924, the commercialization of the mountain was already under way. In the nearly 100 years, Everest has become an industry. With dozens of deaths on the mountain in the last five years, many feel that the mountain deserves a break. However, no matter how many die there, th…
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My Buddy Lost 8 Fingers and I Got to the Summit - Stephen Venables' Insane Bivouac at 8,600 Meters on Mount Everest
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Stephen Venables became the first British mountaineer to climb Mount Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen in 1988, establishing a new route on the Kangshung Face with Ed Webster, Robert Anderson and Paul Teare. THIS EPISODE IS ON YOUTUBE IN VIDEO FORM AT: https://youtu.be/9bocQEfDriI Everest and Beyond - TEDxOxford: https://www.youtube.c…
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The Studio Mama and Her Musical Cookbook - Rebecca Wood
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Rebecca Wood was the chef, trusted keeper, and diviner at Zac Brown’s renowned Southern Ground Nashville studio for nearly a decade. While she was intimately familiar with the ghosts and secrets of the converted church that housed the studio, her passion was cooking for the musicians recording there, curating choice down-home meals and menus from f…
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Too Many People - Manaslu and Why It's So Dangerous
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Just what is Manaslu and why are so many people flocking to it? Thom dives in with thoughts on the death of professional skier Hilaree Nelson on her attempted ski descent, as well as the commercialization of the mountain and just how the game has been changed since drone footage captured 'the real' summit in 2021. LINK TO YOUTUBE VERSION: https://y…
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Technology-Enabled Farming For City Dwellers - Alex Pate, Farm Manager in Brooklyn, NY
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A small company in Brooklyn New York called Square Roots looks to change the tide and take back the heart and soul of farming, by growing organic food in shipping containers, and by creating meaningful jobs in modern farming. Square Roots actively incorporates diversity, equity, and inclusion in as well as a starting base pay that would surprise an…
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Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star? Get Yer Camera! Jay Blakesberg and His Rock & Roll Photography Career
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Jay Blakesberg, one of THE US’s most accomplished live music and pop culture photographer’s has released another self published book called RETRO BLAKESBERG: Volume One: The Film Archives (SEE THE LINK IN THE SHOW NOTES)....the book features highlights spanning the years from the 70’s into the early 2000’s when film was king, before the digital age…
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Andy Politz and The Missing Climber: The Discovery of George Mallory on Everest
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The question I’m asked most about the discovery of George Mallory is WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO LOOK INTO HIS FACE? DID YOU TAKE A PHOTO? Amazing right, can you imagine that I’m the only living person to have looked into the face of British mountaineering icon George Mallory? It’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly….. BUT FIRST…if you want the inside s…
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Climb Your Everest - The Most Uplifting and Affirming Message For Every Day of Your Life
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Best Day Ever? - Climber Andy Politz on One of Everest's Most Historic Days, 1 May 1999
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Andy Politz discusses his experience of the discovery of Everest icon George Mallory on May 1, 1999. This momentous discovery forever changed the discussion about the history of Mount Everest. Andy was there.By Thom Pollard
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Is Everest Dying? Fighter Jets Over the Summit? - A Conversation with Everest Chronicler, Podcaster and Mountaineer Alan Arnette
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Thom Pollard sat down with Everest Chronicler Alan Arnette to talk about all things Everest. In this first of a several part episode with Alan, we talk about all the current state of affairs on Everest, and what the future looks like for Everest. Is climate change changing the game on 8,000 meter peaks? Visit Thom's YouTube channel for this convers…
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Andrew Santa Lucia - Revolutionary, Punk-rocking Architect Advocating for the People
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Our World's Languages Are Dying! Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer in Residence
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Taken from Wade Davis' 20 March 2004 talk at the 100th Annual Banquet of The Explorers Club at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York CIty. Wade Davis' website: https://daviswade.com/ Support the showBy Thom Pollard
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How I Built It: Growing My YouTube Channel to 385,000 Subscribers - Michael Palmisano, Guitargate
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You might be here looking for something about Mount Everest. You might hate this episode. But, you might like it. For the YouTube version of this episode: https://youtu.be/dIfmhdKNcTQ Join this channel to get access to perks and to become part of the community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join Support the show…
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Filming Lhakpa Sherpa's Historic 10th Ascent of Everest by a Woman - Matt Irving, Director of Photography
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Matt Irving is a professional director of photography. In May 2022 he filmed the historic tenth ascent of Everest by a woman, Lhakpa Sherpa. His views and insight of seeing Everest from an observant eye is refreshing. Matt Irving's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/irving_matt... Support the showBy Thom Pollard
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It's Our Burden To Bear - Ukrainian Journalist Igor Nalyvaiko on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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News from Ukraine - Watch. Know. Decide. Breaking news from Ukraine. News observation. Important information. Twitter: @u24_news TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@u24_news Web: https://u24.ua/ For more about Thom Dharma Pollard, about personal coaching or his inspirational presentations, virtual or in person, look for him at eyesopenproductions.com T…
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Chris Carter - Extreme Nomad Who Learned with the Nomadic Maasai Tribe of East Africa
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American born, Chris grew up in a family of missionaries in Kenya. He befriended the nomadic Maasai tribe, learned Swahili as a young child, and escaped a pack of hyenas by climbing a tree. A nomad in the truest sense, Chris Carter spends his time between thru-hikes to study for a divinity degree. He currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But…
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Sanctity of Space - A Conversation with Filmmakers/Professional Climbers Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson
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Sanctity Of Space - A film about the alchemy of landscape and people amidst the mountains of Alaska A conversation with co-directors Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson about the decade long journey of creating the film, from concept to completion US Theaters starting May 6th - Showtimes and Updates: https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/the-sanct…
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What Is China Hiding? - Jochen Hemmleb, Everest Historian on Everest Sightings of Mallory & Irvine and Maurice Wilson
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Jochen Hemmleb follows up on recent video with Mark Synnott about reports that the body of Sandy Irvine had been discovered, possibly removed (video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glMT08zmAP0 ). Jochen has written extensively on this topic and is as knowledgeable as any person in the world about the Mystery of Mallory & Irvine. He has person…
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A Nomad Family's Life - Author and Teacher of Writing Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
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Teacher of Creative Writing and Literature for Harvard Extension School, Elisabeth and her husband and two children live in Cornwall, England. How to stay productive and creative wherever one may be is her forte. Elisabeth's website: https://elisabethsharpmcketta.com/By Thom Pollard
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Modern-Day Darwin, Bruce Means Discovers Five New Species in Guyana, The Last Tepui
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The ultimate Earth Day observation: following is a conversation with a modern day Charles Darwin, biologist, herpetologist, Adjunct Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University Dr. Bruce Means. We discuss a March 2021 expedition in which Means and writer/climber Mark Synnott traveled to a virtual Shangri-la in the deep, mysterious an…
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Mystery Solved? The Body Of Sandy Irvine and the Kodak Camera Have Been Discovered, Mark Synnott Interview
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Following is a conversation with professional climber, author and historian Mark Synnott, whose book THE THIRD POLE: MYSTERY OBSESSION AND DEATH ON MOUNT EVEREST has just been released in paperback edition. The greatest mystery in all of mountaineering and possibly the most debated and discussed in current times just got thicker. The Mount Everest …
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Portrait of a Luxury Safari Guide - Cameron Scott of South Africa
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Cameron Scott, my guest in the most recent episode of Tools For Nomads, had a close encounter with a leopard as a small child in South Africa. The experience left an indelible impression on his life and completely altered the direction of career as an African travel expert and safari guide, as well as world class wildlife photographer. He has his d…
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold & Reflections of a Car Deal
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Lessons come in all sorts of packages. And, a beautiful, poignant poem from a recently found journal of my late brother's. For the YouTube version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AABp82bfR7g For more about Thom Dharma Pollard, about personal coaching or his inspirational presentations, virtual or in person, look for him at eyesopen…
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Daniel Donato - From Wonder Kid to Cosmic Cowboy & His Lost Highway
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Today’s guest is as much a philosopher and thinking man as he is a creative force in the world of music. He started busking - which means playing music on the streets for coins - on Broadway in Nashville at 14. Two years previously the only thing he knew about playing guitar was the video game GUITAR HERO. He was good, damn good. Then he heard a Gu…
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Ukraine: Fighting the War From Behind the Front Lines - A Voice From Ukraine
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PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE AND COMMENT AND SHARE Recorded on 26 March 2022 Iryna Kabluchko is a journalist from Ukraine. Full Episode on YouTube The Happiness Quotient at: https://youtu.be/2-dVs0wGVg4 To help the effort please visit Come Back Alive and donate: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive Twitter: ht…
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Ukraine: Battling Disinformation In the Fight for Existence - A Voice From Ukraine 25 March 2022
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PLEASE SHARE SO THAT OTHERS MAY HEAR Subscribe, leave a review and a rating. Igor Nalyvaiko is a journalist from Ukraine, and currently in hiding he is helping to battle disinformation with contacts around the globe. To help the effort please visit Come Back Alive and donate: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/back…
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Quit Taking Things So Personally - Reflections on the Greatest Mystery in All of Adventure
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A muse on the 91st anniversary of my father's birth, 18 March. And reflections on how the Mystery of Mallory and Irvine's fate has taken a personal tone. Thanks to Oliver and Chris Wood, Jano Ricks and The Wood Brothers management, as well as their publicist Kevin Calabro for granting us the rights to use HAPPINESS JONES for our theme music. We are…
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Trusting Your Senses - Doc Kaps and His Impossible Project To Save Polaroid
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“I don’t want to keep dinosaurs alive. I want to inspire young people to combine old technologies with new technologies. If you stop understanding the past you will not find the answers for the future. And this is the big problem with digital.” Florian Doc Kaps, Vienna Florian Doc Kaps: is a champion of all things analogue, an out of the box thinke…
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You Say You Want a Revolution? Rachel Ward and Regenerative Farming
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She’s been featured on the cover of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, nominated for Golden Globes for best acting in the wildly popular mini-series The Thorn Birds as well as in the motion picture Sharky’s Machine for New Star of the Year. However, Rachel Ward’s next cover shot will probably be for a holistic farming magazine or conservation publication. She…
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Dino Serrao - Street Photographer of the World
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So, imagine you’re walking to work one day….minding your own business, people coming and people going….commuters, buses, cars….maybe a street musician is playing in the background. You hear someone politely call out from behind you, ‘excuse me, do you have a minute please?’ You stop...and turn, approaching you is a smiling young man, confident, yet…
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Rachael Zoe Miller - From Knee Deep In Plastic Garbage to Saving the World's Oceans
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Today’s guest, has, in her own words, devoted her life to protecting the world’s oceans and connect people to it…. She’s a scientist and archaeologist.who studied at Brown University, lives in Vermont. Racheal Zoe Miller lives for everything water….in all its forms, in winter she’s skiing, moguls in particular, or riding her fat tire bike with spik…
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Rodney Nombekana - From Soweto to the Pride of Lions
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My guest today, Rodney Nombekana, grew up with a love of all things animals. He was born in 1977 in the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere. The hospital is in Soweto, South Africa, where Rodney grew up . Given that he was born during the time of apartheid - the system of segregation based on race that was in place in South Africa and West …
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Oscar Manguy - Adventure Photographer Goes Where 'Even Sleeping is Hard'
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Today’s guest, adventurer and photographer Oscar Manguy of Finland, epitomizes the philosophy of ‘fast and light’, he’s as comfortable sleeping in a hammock under a tarp as he is in a King sized bed…in fact probably more so. He’s been running expeditions into the wilderness, from the Arctic to Baja, since he was 16 years old….and lives with his wif…
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Seth Walker On Tour: Spirits Moving - Troubadour, Musician, Songwriter on Life On The Road
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Nothing really exemplifies life on the road and all the images that come along with it like a touring musician. It’s not all Leer jets and posh hotels, sold out auditoriums. Plain facts is that the music you hear pouring out of small bars and music houses, cafes come from people like you and me, passionate, driven, inspired….committed. They drive 8…
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John Branch, NY Times Sports Writer Doesn't Care Who Wins or Loses, & the Tokyo Olympics
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I met today’s guest, John Branch, in 2017. He emailed me asking to interview me about something I witnessed on Mount Everest the previous year. John Branch wanted to hear my story about having crossed paths with three men who lost their lives close to the summit of the mountain. I encountered each one of them in their last moments of life. One can …
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Valerie Taylor - New Biographical Film 'Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story'
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In 2019 I had the pleasure of travelling to Australia to do two Everest presentations for the Australia New Zealand chapter of The Explorers Club…one in Melbourne, the other in Sydney. During my presentation in Sydney I noticed a lovely woman seated near the front. Afterwords a friend whispered in my ear “do you know who that woman is?’ I obviously…
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Laura Dekker, at Age 16 Became Youngest Ever to Solo Circumnavigate the Globe
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Can you imagine achieving at the age of 16 what other dream their entire lives of doing and even then never take the first step toward embarking on the journey of their dreams? Our remarkable guest today knew from a very early age that she wanted to sail around the world, alone...in her own boat. It appeared as if everyone in her sphere were conspi…
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Dr. Peter Hackett - Think You Have What It Takes To Climb Everest? A Conversation with the Doctor of the Death Zone
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Do you think you have what it takes to climb Mount Everest? Did you ever think about what it might be like, and if you did it, would you kill a bunch of brain cells and come home…..different? Or, maybe not at all….? Fact is, today’s guest feels that a person of moderate physical capacity could take on The Big E given the right conditions, with the …
Hey this is Thom Pollard. I’m the host of a new podcast called TOOLS FOR NOMADS It’s brought to you by Topdrawer As a person who’s travelled the world in search of adventure, literally from the summit of Mount Everest to the mysterious moai statues of Easter Island, I’ve learned that there are some things I CAN’T be without, and I know -- well, som…
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Shrink Wrap for Crap: Diana Yousef CEO and Founder of change:WATER Labs
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It never ceases to amaze me in the way people are brought into your life - today’s guest I discovered when I began researching the garbage and human waste problem on Mount Everest and the KHUMBU region of Nepal - In Episode #90 and in a recent streaming event about the garbage and human waste problem on Everest I discussed how Everest has been refe…
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Mount Everest is a Mess! An Investigation Into The Garbage and Human Waste Problem on Everest (PS, It's Getting Fixed)
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I recently hosted a live streaming event for the Musa Masala organization, who in their multiple capacities of forwarding safe and ethical mountain travel are raising money for the Wongchu Memorial Hospital….a good cause indeed. Our event talked about the garbage and human waste problem on Everest and the KHUMBU region - if you look for episode #87…
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James Stead - The Mental and Physical Extremes of Training for the English Channel
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James Stead is not a normal individual. Well, maybe if you’re the kind of person who enjoys six hour swims in the ocean in temperatures below 60 Fahrenheit or 15 degrees Celcius. James is training to swim the notorious English Channel.... Something that less than 1900 people have done solo, not in a relay…. 8,200 people have taken part in channel c…
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Chris Carter LIVE From the Continental Divide Trail and the Adventures of Jim and Tim (His Feet!)
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Today we welcome back our inspiring and intrepid Pacific Crest Trail Thru Hiker and filmmaker, CHRIS CARTER, who I caught up with on a LIVE Instagram session on July 9, 2021….where he was camping in Jackson, Montana….(population of about 111)…. The first time I spoke with Chris was in Episode 67 to talk about his beautiful and moving documentary ab…
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Art Crime Professor Erin Thompson on Smashing Statues, Guantanamo and Michelangelo (the World's Greatest Art Forger?)
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Episode #88 on The Happiness Quotient: America’s only full-time professor of art crime. Erin Thompson studies a variety of relations between art and crime, including the looting of antiquities, museum theft, art made by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage. Erin Thompson has discus…
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Peter Hillary, Son of Sir Edmund - What's Wrong With Everest
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Today, a special guest, Peter Hillary, son of the first man to ever climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary,…..Peter himself has climbed Everest twice. In addition to being an accomplished mountaineer Peter is a speaker, and he raises funds for Himalayan Foundations around the world.... Together with his sister Sarah Hillary, they manage the intell…
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Renan Ozturk, Modern Day Renaissance Man on Everest, Creativity and Nutrition, an Instagram LIVE Event
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Greetings to you all - this is a special edition of the HQ. In April I had the honor of doing an Instagram Live event with my old friend Renan Ozturk to talk about Everest, creativity, filmmaking and, yup, nutrition in the mountains. I mean, we’re talking to a guy who used to sustain on candy bars and Ramen and coffee at altitude. The event was hos…
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John Branch, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and His New Book, Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life From the Back Roads of Sports
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TODAY I HAVE A GUEST OF UNIMAGINABLE INSIGHT AND TALENT WITH US, THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNING JOURNALIST REPORTER, JOHN BRANCH OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TO TALK ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports In 2017 I received a request from today’s guest, whom I’d never met before, but as you’ll find out in the int…
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Oliver Wood Always Smilin' - New Solo Album Release and Music Extravaganza
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This episode has a transcript for hearing impaired. COVID19 wasn’t all bad. A ton of musicians and recording artists invested themselves in projects that they wouldn’t normally have been able to do if they were on tour. On Tour is where the Wood Bros find themselves for much of the year, at least pre-covid. Back in September of 2020 I talked with O…