The Careless Talk Climbing Podcast

Jaksot

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  E216: Round Table - Benn's back! Catch up and rambling 16.09.2026 2t 20min

  I spend a a day editing a podcast and then can't remember almost anything that was in it to write the description. I quite often have to click through it again to remember whichever 'unforgettable' moments there were to try and sell you with. It probably doesn't help that I'm also currently rewatching the Real Thing on YouTube and I keep getting distracted by the incredible garms Jerry is rocking. It's a good episode though, we've got Benn and Katie joining me and Aidan and we took ages to ac...
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  E215: James Pearson - Finnish Line, Exodia and trips with kids 09.09.2026 2t 32min

  James is back this week! I was tempted to release this split into two episodes because I think the discussion might appeal to different people. In the first half we talk about James going on adventurous trips with his kids and his ascent of the Finnish Line in Rocklands. In the second half we talk about Exodia but more interestingly in many ways we talk about the way the ascent of Exodia was publicised as James was involved with helping to publicise the ascent as part of his position in La Sp...
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  E214: Louis Parkinson & Joel Robertson will help you Get a Grip 02.09.2026 2t 30min

  Description description description, Joel and Louis wrote a book, and that means there was immediately a potential for a symbiotic relationship with us on the pod. We like talking about the psychological element of climbing and they wanted to promote their new book. Synergy. Louis is a very famous coach and very strong and highly caffeinated climber, Joel is a psychotherapist and new(er) climber. The two of them have teamed up and written a book all about the mental travails of climbers, or h...
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  E213: Charlie Schreiber - New coaching program, goal adjudication and climbing when time-poor 26.08.2026 2t 13min

  Ah the episode description section. Every week I dread filling it out because it feels so superfluous to requirement but here we go again... Joining us this week is Charlie Schreiber (as you can see from the episode title), we talk about coaching, goals, becoming busier, the bouldering progression formula, movement patters and so much more (information you have no doubt gleamed from the title). All jokes aside it's always good fun talking to Charlie, he's very enthusiastic and very easy to ta...
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  E212: CTCP X Backseat Climbing - Hot takes and strong opinions well defended 19.08.2026 2t 23min

  Joining us this week are the cohosts of a rival British Podcast, Backseat Climbing. Originally they came to fame when they humorously slandered half of climbing on a subsequently deleted pod, but they meant well and a lot of water has disappeared under the bridge since then. Solly has been on the pod twice before and is one of the best British Boulderers of all time, Matt is also a strong climber and has an incredible knowledge for climbing and climbing history, between them they have s...
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  E211: Ben Moon - The Moon Spray, the next step in the evolution of commercial boards 12.08.2026 1t 40min

  Ben is back! Ben is very close to launching his new innovation, the Moonboard Spray. He even paid me to set it, but then he crumpled up my offering and launched into the bin and did it again with a completely different team. Why? What is it? Can I have a crack at doing the app instead? Basically just a fun chat going over it as well as our philosophies about training boards etc. If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us, please consider checking out our Patreon: http...
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  E210: Jen Wood - Climbing 9a, running and mindless ARCing 05.08.2026 1t 28min

  Jen Wood comes to join us on the pod this week! Someone who used to compete on the World Cup boulder circuit with Aidan but they went in totally opposite directions at the end (not because of any personal beef I hasten to add) Jen has transformed herself via the most gruelling methods into one of the UKs top sport climbers. All that hard work culminated in sending Climb for Life (9a) in Sicily. We chatted about that, how she got there and I also asked her a bunch of questions about running wh...
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  E209 : Billy Ridal's Grand Day Out 29.07.2026 1t 56min

  Billy is back to talk about another audacious challenge. This time Billy attempted to climb 100 7s on gritstone in 24 hours. It was quite the adventure with a some high highs and some devastating (and humorous) lows. Billy came on to tell us the story! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us, please consider checking out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823 Support the show
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  E208: Red Pill vs Blue Pill game, controversy and summer training updates 22.07.2026 1t 46min

  Home team this week and Katie jumped in to join us for a friendly round of Red Pill vs Blue Pill, a chat about some storm in a teacup controversies that will probably be forgotten about in a week and a catch up about Aidan and Katie's summer training. We also rambled for quite some time about various sports, but that is on the Patreon so if you want even more rambling please consider checking out our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823 Support the show
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  E207: *NSFW* Lillian Frances - Fingerbanging for climber boys, communication, consent 15.07.2026 1t 32min

  If you normally listen to this podcast with young children, maybe tell them we didn't upload this week, or give them an old episode and test their memory! Okay we'll level with you, this episode has given us a bit of anxiety. Having a moderately successful podcast can sometimes lead to the erroneous thought 'people like listening to us talk about climbing, so maybe people like listening to us talk about other stuff too'. That has often proven to be very wrong, however we have said many times ...
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  E206: Paul 'Huffy' Houghoughi - New digital training devices, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and other injuries 08.07.2026 2t 15min

  Wow it's been a while since Huffy was last on! Generally considered the foremost climbing physio in British circles, Huffy really knows his stuff and is also one of the nicest and easiest people you could hope to meet so it was a pleasure to have him back. Lots of good stuff, give it a listen! If you want to hear more from Huffy then check out his podcast 'The Climbing Injury Podcast'. If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to help us keep the lights on: https://www.patreon.com/u...
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  E205: Eric Bissell - Yosemite ranging and film making 01.07.2026 1t 55min

  I can't remember the last time I had a faster two hours than during this conversation. We had a long (mental) list of things to talk about and after asking a couple of questions I looked down and discovered we'd run out of time. We mostly talked about Eric's time as a Yosemite climbing ranger and his film-making and I still can't quite believe we didn't get to anything else! If you like the podcast and would like to help us keep it going, please consider joining our Patreon: https://www.patre...
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  E204: Roundtable with Hamish McArthur and Ethan Salvo 24.06.2026 2t 24min

  Two return guests coming back for a new look round table. We chat about a range of topics from social media, awkward crag interactions, Hamish's new not for profit, what climbing means to us, Dean Potter and of course our new favourite Ebird comes up from time to time. It's a bit of a sprawling chat and we have to chase Ethan down a few rabbit holes but we got somewhere in the end, actually we didn't, but we chatted about some things along the way. If you're enjoying the podcast and wou...
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  E203: A 'big year' for climbing, commercial boards and how much could you suffer for gains? 17.06.2026 1t 42min

  A home team episode, just us chatting about some various bits and pieces. Most of the bits and pieces are in the title and in the episode description so I probably shouldn't write them out here again should I? Maybe I should, but that's starting to feel like hard work so I won't... It's just dawned on me that in the time it took me to write that I could have just written a proper description but ah well.. In too deep to turn back now. If you think I'm still writing just so it looks like a big...
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  E202: Tristan Chen - Recovery, pottery and the similarities between bouldering and birding 10.06.2026 2t 10min

  Long overdue, but we managed to get Tristan on the podcast. We've wanted him to come on for a long time. Tristan is a really strong climber from the south east who also has a witty and dry sense of humour which we really appreciate. Known for his hot takes and funny way of phrasing things he was great fun to have on and we enjoyed the chat immensely. Tristan recovered from Leukaemia a couple of years back and we talk about that at the start of the podcast if that's something that you wouldn't...
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  E201: Yannick Flohe - Big sends, big downgrades, let's sort this mess out 03.06.2026 1t 53min

  Yannick did it! I've been saying for a while we need to see some 9As get downgraded (and potentially some 8Cs/8C+s upgraded) and Yannick has helped to get the ball rolling. He's always fun to talk to, you never feel far away from a clipable comment or quote that would make us serious bank on instagram if I could be bothered to clip it and post it. He's honest and he says what he thinks and we need a lot more of that at the moment! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support...
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  E200: 9A boulderer draft, Squamish and chat 27.05.2026 1t 45min

  It's our 200th episode! To celebrate we're doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary! Just Aidan and I this week, chatting about Squamish, media we've watched, some stats from the pod and we play a silly game where we have to draft 9A boulderers for some challenges. If you're enjoying the pod and would like to support us: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823 Support the show
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  E199: Natalia Grossman - Success, setbacks and prioritising mental health 20.05.2026 1t 53min

  This week we were joined by four time overall boulder world cup winner Natalia Grossman. Natalia is in the thick of an unfortunate set of injuries, having initially ruptured her ACL she now has picked up a nasty shoulder injury. Despite these debilitating setbacks she came back and won American nationals! On the face of it that sounds like an amazing comeback story but there's a lot more going on behind the scenes! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us, please consider c...
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  E198: Sam, Aidan & Katie - Pride, confidence, projects and hypotheticals 13.05.2026 2t 8min

  We had a great time doing 75% of a round table. Alas no Benn this time, but Katie has done a hard new boulder in Yosemite so that gave us something to talk about. We got to talking about confidence in the projecting process, comparison to others, how much pride we feel about our achievements and I throw a bunch of hypotheticals at them at the end! If you're enjoying the podcast and would like to support us please consider checking out our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70353823 ...
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  E197: Connor Herson - Quick ascents of the hardest trad routes in the world, drifters escape and trad style/ethics 06.05.2026 2t 8min

  We had a great time chatting to Connor for this week's episode. I feel like you have to really make waves in the Trad world for us to know that much about you and Connor has done just that. After sending what was potentially the hardest ever trad pitch Connor went around the world to try the other contenders for the title, and in so doing, discovered that yes, it's probably the hardest ever trad pitch. We chat about the incredible year he's had but also about trad climbing in general. Some of...