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Episode 23: Mack Maier — Extreme Entrepreneurship

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2019/09/20

We're all busy. The hustle is real and sneaking climbing into life can be a helluva exercise. Perhaps we need some perspective? Let's take the case of Mack Maier. Mack, after discovering climbing in college, fell down the rabbit hole of infatuation, eventually moving to Salt Lake City. With wanderlust boring down on him, off he went to South Korea to teach English and climb as an "expat for life." While assuming a leadership role with a climbing advocacy group his friend and future business

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1:54:35

Episode 22: Dakota Walz — True Tales of Rocks and Rails

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2019/09/06

Some folks sip life, swirling it around the palate, nodding contemplatively and slowly shuttering their eyes. Others punch a key through the bottom of the can and shotgun that shit while ropeless and reckless above a churning sea, howling to whichever gods they've buttonholed in their sights. I'll let you guess which type of fellow Dakota Walz is. Dakota, hailing from Denver via the plains of North Dakota, has steadily built a climbing resume that demands attention when it comes from a

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1:58:40

Episode 21: Joslynn Corredor — Bodies En Route

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2019/08/22

Josylnn Corredor has been running towards challenges all of her life. Encountering, conquering, running, repeat. After a starring role in high school, Jos launched into a Division I track and field career at the crushingly competitive Oregon State University. With her collegiate spikes hung up, however, she found herself casting about to fill the void that organized sports had so easily filled. Like you, like me, like almost all of us...she found rock climbing. You know the rest of that

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Episode 20: Bruce Zou and Cesar Valencia — “Pure Joy”

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2019/08/08

The winding paths we take to climbing is a story we all share, yet each journey unspools in such bizarre, unique chaos. Bruce Zou grew up in rural China, riding buffaloes in lieu of cars, climbing bamboo in the forest, and not standing too close to a television for fear he'd get zapped into the odd device and therein be trapped forever. An ambitious student, he eventually left China for Boulder, CO to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering. His first day in the Bubble he laced up a pair of shoes

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2:26:47

Episode 19: Paul Robinson and Jeremy Fullerton —...

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2019/07/24

Paul Robinson has stood at the vanguard of difficult bouldering for years, one of the crop of young beasts to rise to international recognition in the wake of Dave Graham's and Chris Sharma's emergence. Along with climbing a score of V15s, Paul has sought out first ascents on almost every continent, starred in some of the finest climbing films ever made, and most importantly carried himself with humor, creativity, and dignity along the way. Jeremy Fullerton needs no introduction. Literally. He

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1:08:35

Episode 18: Sauce Night — Pity Party

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2019/07/10

Defending Game Night champ Lynn returns to battle for her crown in another round of Geo Party and a much-maligned lightning spin through the Thunder Quiz. Travis, returning to Sauce Night for a cool trifecta, hoping to stop Lynn in her tracks, suffers from a bad case of the grumps. Fidi, resolute and robed in his combat spats, cracks his knuckles in hopes of bringing glory to a Thundercling host. As alpine season has dawned in Colorado, the gang also chats about alpine ethics. Specifically, who

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1:28:31

Episode 17: Tyler Williams — Building A Culture

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2019/06/26

This is a special episode over here at Thundercling HQ. About a year ago we hatched the idea to cobble together some sort of climbing podcast, heavy on character and story, light on what grades you climb and how sick your crew is. We hadn't the slightest notion of how to conduct a podcast, let alone launch one. Although we'd cultivated some connections, we had no idea with whom to launch the inaugural episode. We needed a guinea pig to test it out on. We needed a Patient Zero. Enter Tyler

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Episode 16: Chris Winter — Pulling Climbing Back From...

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2019/06/12

Chris Winter, the Executive Director for the Access Fund, has 99 problems but finding a solution ain't one. Chris, along with his tireless staff spread across the country, is forging a bold path forward for the Access Fund, tackling the issues attendant with climbing's massive explosion in popularity. Overcrowding, crag erosion, social trails, an often challenging federal political machine, human waste polka-dotting the crags, and the general ecological impact of millions of new climbers are just

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Episode 15: Tony Yaniro — An American Pioneer

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2019/05/29

Tony Yaniro came of age as the Stonemasters were just solidifying their legendary status in the mid ’70s. In the shadows, however, climbers like Tony, Randy Leavitt, Max Jones and Mark Hudon, Ray Jardine, and a host of others were starting to shed the crotchety ethics of the day and pushing the sport in a new, gymnastic, era-defining direction. Tony and the gang hung on ropes to work out moves, bolted lines at a level previously unimagined, and developed a super-divisive style of sending

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Episode 14: Brendan Leonard — “If you’re gonna...

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2019/05/15

Brendan Leonard has this incredible knack for making you feel like you could do just about anything you set your mind to, while simultaneously filling you with existential dread that you'll never realize your full potential. How can that be? Because fulfilling potential, doing incredible things, all of it -- it's hard as shit. And he's the most distilled reflection of gritty, gumption-seeping grinding I can conjure. Brendan's made a career out of setting his jaw and getting down to the work, week

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Episode 13: Sauce Night — “That is Correct!”

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2019/05/01

It's game night at the Thundercling dinner table! Dave takes Fidi and return Sauce Night veterans, Lynn and Travis, through a couple of arduous trivia combat tours, the gang trying to hold it together after a few too many beers. First, Fidi hopes to take the lead in a lightning round of the Thunder Quiz. The contestants get 80 seconds to answer climbing trivia questions; some topical, some historical, and some embarrassingly personal. Dave is accused of nepotism, Fidi flexes a bit of muscle, and

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Episode 12: Podiums, Petitions, and the Poopocalypse...

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2019/04/16

The team in repose, Emmett squatting on the left and Maureen standing in the center. Maybe you've seen the award-winning film, Stumped, which introduced much of the world to adaptive climber Maureen Beck. Maybe you know that her trophy room includes numerous national titles and world championships. Perchance you've heard that National Geographic named Mo this year's incredibly prestigious Adventurer of the Year. You probably know that she's accomplished this all while being born without a left

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Episode 11: Rob Pizem — Managing the List

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2019/04/01

Photo by Lane Mathis. Rob "Piz" Pizem, 42, is a man in perpetual motion. Along with raising two sons with his wife, Jane, Piz teaches high school science to at-risk youth, logs hours as the head trainer at his local gym in Grand Junction, CO, and carves out time away from his family to put up some of the most ascetic first ascents on terra firma. Between driving the kids to baseball practice, spending time with his wife, developing curriculum for his students, and designing climbing regiments for

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Episode 10: Owen Summerscales and William Penner —...

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2019/03/18

William Penner Owen Summerscales The bouldering in Roy, New Mexico features some of the finest winter sandstone climbing that the United States has to offer, a fact highlighted by a massive influx of visiting climbers since 2016, when the New Mexico Bouldering guidebook hit the stands. It wasn't so long ago, however, that Roy was a loosely guarded secret that few knew about. For most of us, around 2015 or so, Roy simply did not exist. And then, one day, it did. What happens when a

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Episode 9: Dave Wahl — Digging Through the Mind of a...

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2019/03/04

Besides a dog with a head like a bowling ball slobbering all over you, the first thing you notice when you walk into Dave Wahl's house is the copious amount of training and sports science books scattered about his kitchen and living room. Beyond being one of the preeminent climbing coaches and trainers working in the States today, Dave is a student of athletic movement and efficiency. Dave's been refining his coaching/training process since his early days working with Rob Pizem, before Piz was

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Episode 8: Jeremy Fullerton — Managing the Hustle

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2019/02/18

Pro climber Jeremy Fullerton, 28, ain't no trust-funder. Although he spends the majority of his waking minutes either climbing or shuffling his schedule to get to the crag, he's not riding the wake of mom's expenditure account. Instead, he plugs hours at Fed Ex, freelances as an auto mechanic, landscapes, walks dogs...he relentlessly hunts a way to fund his own path, whether it be paying rent in Boulder or hopping a flight to South Africa. Not every pro climber is so forthcoming, especially in

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Episode 7: Matt Samet and Kevin Corrigan — Editors...

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2019/02/04

Noted climber, writer, and cat whisperer, Matt Samet. Just another day in the Climbing offices for Kevin Corregan. Matt Samet is a sort of Renaissance Man. Top shelf climber and first-ascensionist, one of the best writers in the biz, Editor-in-Chief at Climbing Magazine, author, dad and husband, sweat pants aficionado, and cat lover. Seriously. He really likes cats. Kevin Corrigan jumped on board with Climbing Magazine around 2014, as Digital Editor, after sending a cold resume to Boulder

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Episode 6: Jason Kehl — “Listen, man, I’m just...

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2019/01/21

Photo provided by J. Kehl, taken by the eminently talented Dawn Kish. Jason Kehl, one of the most iconic climbers to ever latch on a chalk bag, really has nothing left to prove. At 42, he's left a tidal wave of accomplishments behind him, all on his own terms and without the girders of convention or covenance. Jason helped kick off the highball revolution with his first ascent of the Buttermilk stunner Evilution (V12), in 2002. Straight Outta Squampton (5.13+, first bouldering ascent), The Fly

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1:51:30

Episode 5: Sauce Night — What We Talk About When We...

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2019/01/08

I was living in South Korea, teaching English during the weekdays and feverishly putting up FAs with a tight crew of expats during the weekends, when I first saw Sender Film's Pilgrimage. The film follows Chris Sharma, Katie Brown, and Nate Gold as they peruse the granite eggs dotting acre upon acre in Hampi, India. Sipping my Hite beer at night, I would watch it on repeat, mouth agape, heart quickening, annoying my non-climber roomie in some shithole apartment in an industrial enclave of

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Episode 4: Brian Runnells and Chris Weidner — The...

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2018/12/19

Emily Harrington joins Chris and Brian for the 2016 USA Bouldering Nationals, where they filled a mind-bending 14+ hours of time behind the mics. Brian Runnells and Chris Weidner have been climbing for a long time. They've also been writing about climbing for a long time. Before his identity was finally sleuthed out, Brian was the one-man aggregating super-bot behind the website Climbing Narc. In a torturous twist, you can still visit the page, where the last post logged falls in April of 2015,

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