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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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59:25

The Announcement: Len Necefer - Pragmatism Beats Purity

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/11/19

In this latest follow-up episode to The Announcement, I’m joined by activist, entrepreneur, engineer, and policy researcher Len Necefer for a conversation in which we discuss the tension between ideological purity and pragmatic action when it comes to genuine environmental and social change.Len, a proud member of the Navajo Nation, works at the intersection of Indigenous peoples, natural resource, and environmental policy. He is the founder of Natives Outdoors, a board member at the Honnold

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93:40

Episode 252: Ed Templeton - Work Works

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/10/16

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Skateboarder, photographer, artist, Toy Machine company owner - Ed Templeton is one of skateboarding’s most influential and beloved influences. And as a 14-year-old who obsessively wore out their copy of 1281 back in the day, he was a real and important influence on me personally when it came to working out how to express myself as a creative person. What, you could be into this stuff - and also art, culture, and literature? And

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74:01

Episode 251: Thomas Campbell - Yi-Wo

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/09/30

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Legendary surf and skate film-maker Thomas Campbell’s new film Yi-Wo has been ten years in the making.So when TC got in touch to ask if he could come back on the podcast to talk me through the decade-long creative process that went into the making of this instant classic, I was in. I’ve had the good fortune to see Yi-Wo a few times now, and can confirm that this long-awaited release is a wondrous, challenging and completely artistically

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33:51

The Announcement: MAD//FEST Live Special - Effective...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/08/11

In this fourth follow-up episode of The Announcement, which was recorded live at MAD Fest in early July 2025, I’m exploring a question that is directly related to the topics I explored in The Announcement series proper - what does effective activism for brands actually look like?MAD Fest is a huge festival for brands and agencies that takes place each year in East London, and I was invited to take part in this year’s event by organiser Dan Brain, who it turns out is an avid Looking Sideways and

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85:13

Episode 250: Jeremy Jones - Between Thought and...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/07/27

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--250 episodes of Looking Sideways! And to mark the occasion, I invited the great Jeremy Jones back for this second visit, six years after we recorded our first conversation for the podcast.Much has changed in Looking Sideways land since that first chat. Back then, the show was basically me interviewing famous action sports types about their lives and careers. This was pre-Type 2, and certainly pre-The Announcement, and since then Looking

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83:18

Episode 248: Lucy Walker - Ways of Seeing

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/04/29

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--What happens when one of the world's foremost documentary filmmakers turns her lens on the world of action sports and mountain culture in vital films such as Mountain Queen and The Crash Reel?That’s the question at the heart of this conversation with the brilliant Lucy Walker, a filmmaker who I think is one of the most important nonfiction storytellers of our era.Bold statement, perhaps, but one I'm happy to stand by – and I think if you've

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67:48

The Announcement: The Myth of the 'Good' Billionaire

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/03/18

In this first follow-up Announcement episode, I explore a question which I began to examine in episode two of The Announcement, and which is now at the centre of global politics: are billionaires fundamentally damaging to democracy, regardless of their political leanings?I'm joined once again by Carl Rhodes, academic and author of Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy and his new book Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire.This conversation builds on our

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85:12

Episode 246: Les Seddon Brown - Vision of Excellence

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2025/03/10

Use SIDE25WAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves other to determine whether he is working or paying. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”- ChateaubriandOver the years, I’ve featured a lot of

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82:04

Episode 245: Ed Templeton - Soul & Surf

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2025/02/24

Use SIDE25WAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Packing it all in to lead your dream lifestyle in an exotic location is a fantasy every traveller has indulged in at some point. Few make it a reality. And yet that’s exactly what the inspirational Ed Templeton - no, not that one - and his wife Sofie have accomplished with the brilliant Soul & Surf community they have created in Sri Lanka, India and Portugal. I’ve been hearing about Soul & Surf for a least a decade. I’ve

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55:20

The Announcement Episode 2: Scrutiny

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/20

“Whenever anybody with that level of wealth and power moves money into an opaque system, we should wave our red democracy flag, and say, ‘However virtuous they may be, we want to hold you to a higher standard’." Patagonia’s September 2022 decisions to make ‘Earth’ the company’s only shareholder made headlines around the world.So perhaps understandably, it wasn’t long before commentators began to scrutinise the details of the announcement. Was it all just an elaborate tax dodge? What are the ethical

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41:52

The Announcement Episode 1: Decision

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/13

“Going purpose, not going public.”Patagonia’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.Here was the most influential company in the outdoor world, and one of the most influential businesses on the planet per se, relinquishing control of their profits for the greater good.But … what did this actually mean? Why did the company do it? How was the decision

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66:43

Episode 237: Hallvard Kolltveit - From The North Country

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2024/08/18

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db luggage or bag - and click here to see my other discounts.--Hallvard Kolltveit describes himself as ‘the surf photographer that doesn’t know how to swim properly’. It’s a good line, and one that sums up Hallvard’s witty and self-deprecating take on his own unconventional route through action sport and outdoor media. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, he's one of the first really popular post-Burkard cold water surf photographers to blow up on Instagram, and

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90:27

Episode 235: Nick Russell - In The High Alpine

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2024/08/04

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db luggage or bag - and click here to see my other discounts.--Nick Russell is one of those rare snowboarders who combines grace and intellect in equal measure, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the high alpine with a distinctly cerebral approach. I've been following Nick's career since I first interviewed him for Curator Magazine, and it's been a joy to watch his subsequent evolution into one of our most innovative and pioneering riders.And this past

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86:31

Episode 233: Dan Adams, Paul Sunman and Wig Worland -...

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2024/07/07

Big up Stance for joining my HKC Discount Club - just enter LOOKINGSIDEWAYS at checkout for 15% off and click here to see the other discounts.--Regular listeners will know that British skateboarding institution Read and Destroy occupies an important place in the Looking Sideways firmament, both for me personally and for British sideways culture in general.I've talked about it at length over the years, but Read and Destroy was hugely important to me when I was growing up. Not just because it was the

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102:19

Episode 227: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Roundtable...

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2024/03/25

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, or this link to have it added at checkout 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’ve had such a great take up. The premise is really simple - Db gather together some of

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125:22

Episode 225: Matt Olsen - Gaza Surf Club

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2024/03/03

This week’s guest, Matt Olsen, is the Founding Director of Explore Corps, the non-profit that founded Gaza Surf Club back in 2008. Although he described himself as ‘just some dude from Washington’ in a recent Inertia interview, Matt’s roots in Gaza and Israel go back to his childhood, when his Dad was stationed in Israel while working as a diplomat. He’s been visiting Gaza since he was a surf-mad teen, and has been intimately involved with the Israeli and Gazan surf communities ever since. As such

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79:27

Episode 224: Liz Bui and Jeff Martin - Yulex

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/02/19

If you’ve been following Looking Sideways for a while, you’ll know that I’ve covered the conversation around chloroprene rubber and Yulex extensively over the last year or so - through my conversation with Big Sea documentary film-makers Chris Nelson and Lewis Arnold (below), for example, as well as blogs such as this one. If you aren’t yet aware of the connection between neoprene and higher rates of cancer among one hugely impacted Louisiana community, find out more by clicking those links.It’s

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105:41

Episode 223: Thomas Campbell - Redux

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/02/04

It's a return visit for friend-of-the-show Thomas Campbell this week, who is, as I said last year, ‘one of surfing and skateboarding’s most important influences thanks to classic films such as The Seedling, and a singular aesthetic and approach that has an outsized influence on what it means to be creative in our world’.I think it’s fair to say myself and Thomas got on pretty well first time around, and we’ve stayed in touch over the months.This redux episode came about after I asked him if he’d be

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95:10

Episode 222: Skin Phillips - After The Goldrush

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/01/22

Photographer Skin Phillips, this week’s guest, has had one of the most extraordinary careers in British skateboarding. Completely self-taught, and driven by a thirst for knowledge and a desire to experience life behind the borders of his hometown of Swansea, Skin came up in the late 80s and early 90s. Initially published in RaD and mentored by the great Tim Leighton-Boyce, he soon followed in footsteps of Bod Boyle, Steve Douglas and Don Brown by heading to the States, where he embarked upon a truly

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117:08

Episode 221: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2023/12/22

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!Yep, we’re back once again with our very own addition to the Christmas canon -even if, this year, we managed not to get blind drunk while recording this one. Apart from that, it was the usual story - our highlights of the year, our hopes for 2024, the usual quiz (spoiler alert: I lost yet again), and a

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