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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours. www.wearelookingsideways.com

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77:13

Episode 253: Seth Hughes - Apprentice to Land and Sea

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/10/30

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Filmmaker, surfer, seeker and - OK, then - influencer: Seth Hughes is one of British surfing’s most thought-provoking creative presences.We’ve been friends for a few years now, and like everybody who follows him on Instagram, over the last few years I’ve been following his ‘apprenticeship to the land and sea’ with fascination and interest. I’ve also appreciated the increasingly searching and occasionally uncomfortable questions he likes to

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58:38

Episode 249: Wes Siler - Trump's Attack On The Outdoors

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/05/29

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--As America's current democratic crisis has unfolded over the last few months, I’ve pondered an increasingly uncomfortable question: where is the meaningful opposition from our community as fundamental institutions and public lands face unprecedented assault?How to account for the relative silence from community leaders, athletes, ambassadors, brands and media as democratic norms erode, judicial independence faces mounting threats, habeas

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61:19

The Announcement: John Elkington and Louise...

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2025/05/12

In this third follow-up episode of The Announcement, I'm sharing my original January 2024 conversation with John Elkington and Louise Kjellerup Roper of Volans in its entirety.This conversation addresses perhaps the most significant yet under-discussed aspect of the Patagonia ‘Earth is our only shareholder’ story - its relevance as a model for most businesses, especially publicly-traded or shareholder-owned companies.Because the uncomfortable reality is that structural and organisational constraints

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68:14

The Announcement: We Are Citizens, Not Consumers

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/04/07

In this second follow-up episode of The Announcement, I explore a crucial counterbalance to the billionaire-driven change narrative: the power of citizenship and grassroots movements in reshaping our collective future.I'm joined by Jon Alexander, co-founder of the New Citizen Project and co-author of the increasingly influential book Citizens - a work that offers a compelling, necessary vision about who we are and how we might move forward together.This exchange builds directly on themes discussed

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68:14

The Announcement: We Are Citizens, Not Consumers

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/04/06

In this second follow-up episode of The Announcement, I explore a crucial counterbalance to the billionaire-driven change narrative: the power of citizenship and grassroots movements in reshaping our collective future.I'm joined by Jon Alexander, co-founder of the New Citizen Project and co-author of the increasingly influential book Citizens - a work that offers a compelling, necessary vision about who we are and how we might move forward together.This exchange builds directly on themes discussed

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84:21

Episode 247: Truls Brataas - How I Built Db

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2025/03/24

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off anything from Db Journey.--The notion of the visionary founder is the most ubiquitous of modern tropes.It is also one of the most harmful, as one glance at the madness that unfolds on LinkedIn on any given day ably demonstrates.And in a way the idea that the founder is fuelled by a weird diet, 4am starts and a particularly itchy social media trigger-finger reminds me of another toxic stereotype - the myth of the anointed creative.Both rely on this idea that these

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62:38

The Announcement Episode 3: Legacy

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/27

“Well, I think the simple answer, and nothing here is simple, is that capitalism dies with its mistakes.” - John Elkington, Founder, VolansPatagonia’s September 2022 decisions to make ‘Earth’ the company’s only shareholder was huge news, particularly in the worlds of climate activism, business, philanthropy, the outdoors, and action sports. And at the heart of this decision, as the company made clear at the time, was a desire to shake up the capitalist and democratic status quo. What does this

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1:56

Introducing The Announcement

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/06

"Earth is our only shareholder.”In September 2022, Patagonia's billionaire owner Yvon Chouinard relinquished control and made 'earth' the company's only shareholder.But … what did this actually mean? Why did he do it? What about the scrutiny the company received? And is this really a critical moment in the history of capitalism, as Patagonia believe?The Announcement is a new three-part podcast documentary series from Looking Sideways, hosted by Matt Barr.This is a story about legacy, purpose, what

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99:15

Episode 244: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/12/23

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS massive discounts on ski and snowboard hire from my friends at Intersport Rent. --Ah, Christmas. A time of friends, family and tradition - which in Looking Sideways world means the much loved Festive Special with my close pals and stalwart podcast supporters Tim and Gendle! If you’re new here (and many thousands of you subscribed anew this year), I’ve known Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle, two incredibly funny and talented broadcasters, commentators, TV presenters, directors and all

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90:01

Episode 243: Chris Nelson - Marching On Together

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2024/12/02

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Regulars who’ve been following Looking Sideways at all closely for the last two years will be familiar with the name Chris Nelson. Alongside Demi Taylor and Lewis Arnold, he’s one of the triumvirate of creative talents behind the brilliant Big Sea, which I’ve been championing since I saw the first cut back in November 2022. But I actually go way, way back with Chris. To the mid-1990s, in fact, when we were both young

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51:23

Episode 241: Jordy Smith - Jordy's Game

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2024/10/28

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--As anybody who’s watched your typical softball chat-show conversation will be aware, interviews with people at a certain level of fame and renown, such as this week’s guest Jordy Smith, tend to unfold in one of two ways. There’s the filtered, on-message, and generally uninteresting stuff we’ve all heard countless times before. And then, very rarely, there’s what happened here: which is a really an insightful and frequently

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77:57

Episode 240: Jamie Brisick - Third

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2024/10/06

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--What a treat to welcome the great Jamie Brisick back for his third Looking Sideways appearance. The occasion? The release of The Life and Death of Westerly Windina, his brilliant documentary collaboration with Australian director Alan White about the life and times of Peter Drouyn and Westerly Windina. But also, a welcome chance to catch up with one of surfing’s sharpest, brightest minds. My friendship with Jamie has been one

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67:10

Episode 239: Laura Crane - Hear My Story

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/09/22

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Over the last year, it’s been one of the biggest stories in British surfing. How Croyde’s own Laura Crane headed to Nazare, and surfed the biggest waves ever snagged by a British woman. No wonder if’s been covered by everybody from Carve to BBC Radio Five Live. But if you’ve been listening a little bit more closely, you’ll realise that there’s actually much more to Laura’s story than this admittedly incredible feat. And it’s

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73:02

Episode 238: Tommy Guerrero - A Vehicle For Your Voice

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2024/09/08

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off anything from Stance socks.--I’m joined by one of THE all time greats this week: Tommy Guerrero, legendary skateboarder and musician; and one of the select few to have shaped the way we collectively view this entire sideways culture.Tommy was, of course, part of the original Bone Brigade crew, alongside Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.His parts in Future Primitive, Ban This and Public Domain basically defined the concept of

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69:58

Episode 234: Liz Clark - Here Be Monsters

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/07/21

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off any session at the Wave - and click here to see my other discounts.--How do you find an original angle with somebody who’s discussed the same story hundreds of times? Especially when that person is one of the best-loved and most-interviewed people in their field?That’s the challenge I faced when approaching this interview with the great Captain Liz Clark. The occasion was the paperback release of Swell, Liz’s much-loved book about her decade-long voyage around the

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71:09

Episode 232: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Roundtable...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/06/26

HUGE thanks for Db for kicking off my new HKC Discount Club with a whopping 15% off for Looking Sideways listeners and readers. Use my Db Journey discount code LOOKINGSIDEWAYS at checkout for 15% off, and click here to discover the other discounts.--Ever wondered how you get one of those weird, none-conventional jobs? Ever wondered how people ACTUALLY ended up making a living doing something creative, and a little less ordinary? Harbour ambitions to make the leap and give it a go yourself? Then

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73:53

Episode 231: Will Cockrell - The Business of Everest

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/06/17

Welcome The Wave - the latest additions to HKC Discount Club! They’ve joined my other partner brands Finisterre, Stance, Albion, Vivo and Db to offer Looking Sideways listeners and readers yet another an exclusive discount code: this one offering 10% off ANY session at our favourite inland lake. Just drop the code SIDEWAVES10 at checkout to get the goods, and click here to see the other discounts.--As regular listeners will know, I don't often cover mountaineering and climbing on Looking

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105:43

Episode 230: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Roundtable...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/04/30

HUGE thanks for Db for kicking off my new HKC Discount Club with a whopping 15% off for Looking Sideways listeners and readers. Use my Db Journey discount code LOOKINGSIDEWAYS at checkout for 15% off. I’ve been really enjoying the recent online ‘Creative Exchanges’ I’ve been doing with my friends at Db Journey. They’re such a brilliant idea that I’m not surprised they’re going down so well. The premise is really simple - Db gather together some of their ambassadors and creatives to form a loose

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84:23

Episode 229: Freddie Meadows - RÁN

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/04/17

When Freddie Meadows finally surfed RÁN, it signified more than the biggest wave ever surfed in Scandinavia.It was also the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition; the endgame of a ten-year search; and the symbolic culmination of Freddie’s singular career as a surfer of proud Scandinavian and Swedish heritage thus far.No wonder he named it after the Norse goddess of the sea.But then, the long, thoughtful and myth-strewn trip that led to RÁN is emblematic of Freddie’s wider path through professional

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102:24

Episode 228: Calum Macintyre - Direct Action

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/03/31

Why is direct action important? Why is there such apathy as our democratic right to protest is being removed? How can the outdoor community and industry enact a more impactful and effective type of protest and activism? All topics I discussed with snowboarder, activist and campaigner for Just Stop Oil Calum Macintyre. You might not know Calum, but he has a vital story to tell about how our democratic right to protest is carefully being steadily and stealthily dismantled in the age of the climate

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