The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast
Sam Prior & Aidan Roberts
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
- 1 hour 49 minutesE142: Jonathan Sin - Trying to become a world cup climber after starting (relatively) late
This week we're joined by the ever affable Jonathan Sin. Jonathan is a talented comp climber and Youtuber from Hong Kong. He's been on a publicised mission to try and get onto his national team and compete at a world cup. We talk about having audacious goals, his lifestyle as a climbing Youtuber and the mental and physical challenges that come with it as well as his insights from his time training in Japan.
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2 April 2025, 4:00 am - 2 hours 27 minutesE141: Martin Keller - Defying aging and injuries to keep climbing harder than ever
Martin Keller, the Swiss climbing phenom joins us on the pod this week. Martin has achieved a huge amount in his long climbing career (we end up in the weeds talking about his football career for a while but we get there eventually) he's climbed some very big grades and taken down some very long term projects but he's perhaps best known for having done all of his hardest climbing in his 40s. It was great to hear all about it.
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26 March 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 31 minutesE140: Moral conundrums and hot takes special featuring Katie Lamb
A special episode this week as we huddle around a microphone in our snowed in apartment in the Yosemite. The audio quality is a little worse than usual but we have fan favourite guest Katie Lamb back to talk about a few hot takes and moral conundrums with the home team (away team this week). It's a good bit of fun.
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19 March 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 42 minutesE139: The 9A tier list episode... and also shoes
Aidan gets dragged by his ears into tiering and ranking all the hardest graded boulders in the world. It's worth noting that Mount Doom from Nicolai Uznik hadn't been done when we recorded it, and there hasn't yet been enough information to grade it anyway. We also ramble on about shoes for about half an hour before we get stuck in. I'll try and put the video version on the Patreon :)
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12 March 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 36 minutesE138: Jesse Dufton - Overcoming degenerative sight loss to climb harder than ever
Joining us this week is the mind-blowing Jesse Dufton. Jesse is a blind climber who leads hard trad routes, sets all his own gear and has a passion for onsighting (or nosighting as he calls it). He has recently featured in two films for the Brit Rock Film Tour called Climbing Blind, and they both make for truly incredible viewing. It was a pleasure to sit down and have a chat with him to better understand his motivations and courage.
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5 March 2025, 4:00 am - 2 hours 19 minutesE137: Jim Pope - Adventures, Comps and Mushrooms
The ever popular Jim Pope is back to join us this week. He was our fourth ever guest and that was now long enough ago that he's forgotten what an ordeal it was. He's back to catch us up on his last few years, his competition journey, his headspace, his adventures, his foraging and his sewing skills as well as his desert island boulders!
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26 February 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 50 minutesE136: Nathan Phillips - Climbing 8C+, crazy ideas and roasting Sam's climbing
Nathan is back this week to talk about finishing up his long term project in Brione. Nathan recently climbed Deep Fake, the sit start to the famous Fake Pamplemousse, and proposed a career high grade of 8C+. We chatted about that as well as his approach to route setting and training, his penchant for a mad beta idea and we all had a good laugh at Sam's questionable climbing technique. A good fun chat! :)
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19 February 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 22 minutesE135: Aidan's new hardest projects in Yosemite, and why he can't drag himself away
Just the home team this week. Mainly getting an update from Aidan in regards to his trip so far. Seems like the big American adventure is becoming a big Yosemite adventure, and I was curious as to why! We also talk about a few other bits and pieces and I hit Aidan with a little moral conundrum.
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12 February 2025, 4:00 am - 2 hours 45 minutesE134: Katie Lamb - A great set of rambles with one of the world's best scalers
We were excited to have Katie Lamb joining us this week, as well as being one of the most accomplished climbers around we discovered she can ramble with the best of 'em. We chatted about all manner of things including but not limited to the drama around her ascent of Box Therapy, her views on what makes bouldering bouldering, and her feelings about holding down a conventional job alongside her climbing.
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5 February 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 53 minutesE133: Matt Bird - Why does a climber need a manager? A little look into the shadowy world of athlete contracts.
Matt Bird swoops in to join us this week, Matt is a rare beast, a manager to some elite climbers like Shauna Coxsey and Will Bosi, but why does a climber need a manager? What does it mean to be a professional climber and how can said climbers play capitalism and get companies to give up some cash to go climb rocks all day? Matt has a totally different perspective from our usual guests, and it was interesting to get a little look behind the curtain!
If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=7035382329 January 2025, 4:00 am - 1 hour 47 minutesE132: Toby Roberts - Winning the Olympic gold, heavy training schedules and board climbing feats of strength
Ooo it's a biggie! It's only the Olympic gold medal winner Toby Roberts! We've been trying to get Toby on for a while and eventually we surprised him with a last minute pod so he wouldn't have time to come up with an excuse! All jokes aside a lovely chat with Britain's new national treasure, it was a great opportunity to get the inside scoop on his Olympic journey and the training behind his legendary strength and power endurance!
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