The Happiness Quotient
By Thom Dharma Pollard
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Thom Dharma Pollard hosts inspirational, intimate and unfiltered Stories That Inspire with guests and drawing from his own adventures around the world. The Happiness Quotient: connected, engaged, passionate people who inspire us.
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SUMMITS SOON: Everest's Perfect Storm: Extreme Conditions as Summit Push Begins
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May 18, 2026 |
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Ominous Warnings and Record Crowds on Everest: Is Disaster Looming? + Duck Rescue Update and an Everest Wedding
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May 11, 2026 |
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Everest Has First Deadly Week: Avalanche Rescue, Fatality, and Geopolitical Drama with Drones and US Special Envoy Visiting Base Camp
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May 07, 2026 |
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2026 Everest’s First Rescue! The Duck Without a Permit and a Full Update on the Dangerous Khumbu Icefall and the Icefall Doctors of Everest
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May 01, 2026 |
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Body Discovered in the Khumbu | Everest says NO (For Now), The Khumbu Icefall Has Stopped the Icefall Doctors Cold
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Everest 2026 Icefall Update | Social Media Is Ruining Mount Everest
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Everest Put Him on Oxygen Before He Climbed a Single Meter | 2026 Everest Season Begins (Horribly)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Can Anyone Save Everest? 2026 Is The Biggest Test Yet
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Lighting Mount Everest From Space Is Now Possible | Plus AI Weather Forecasts, Drones and More
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Quiet Badassery of Andrew Ushakov's Historic Four Day Ascent of Everest From New York
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May 27, 2025 |
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Art Lives Here: What’s Missing in This Beautiful Mountain Town? (Nothing) | w/Jonathan Sarty
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Howling Void - Making Fantasy a Reality & The Narcissist's Hostile Takeover of Other People
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The Everest-sized Problem of Social Media and Narcissism w/Professor Sam Vaknin | Social Media are Engines of Negative Emotions
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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The Fight Within: No Oxygen on Everest - ENOUGH, Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest w/Melissa Arnot Reid
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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A Sick (Covid) Content Creator Speaks: This Message Will CHANGE YOU & OUR Future Depends On It
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Possibly My FAVORITE Interview EVER: Troubador & Musician Seth Walker - Life On the Road Devoted to His Muse
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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George Mallory 2.0: Everest’s Most Obsessed Climber—Jost Kobusch’s Impossible Mission (FULL INTERVIEW!)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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GUT WRENCHING: If They Only Knew This Was Their LAST Climb Together | Tragedy on Everest, K2 & Manaslu
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Why More Sherpas than EVER are DYING on Everest in Recent Years
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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They Knew It All Along: New Evidence Supports Irvine’s 'Removal' from Everest in 1975 by a Chinese Team
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Contemplating Kindness in a Brutally Cold World - White Mountains, Mount Field
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Sandy Irvine's Family STUNNED by Discovery of His Remains on Everest after 100 Years with Biographer Julie Summers
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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BREAKING NEWS: SANDY IRVINE'S Remains Have Been DISCOVERED! With Historian Jochen Hemmleb
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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STRANGEST Things About Mount Everest (NOT what you expect) | Eight Huge Myths Debunked
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Everest's Haunting MYSTERY: Did GEORGE MALLORY Contact Psychic Medium Geraldine Cummins After Disappearing on Mount Everest in 1924?
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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When The Strong Fall: The 1996 Everest Disaster - CONCLUSION
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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SPECIAL SEGMENT | Shhh! Members Only Episode (for FREE!): How to Inflict Change by Pushing the Boundaries
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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STORM Over Everest | The 1996 Disaster - What Happened and Who is To Blame?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Decoding Scott Fischer's Role in the 1996 Everest Tragedy
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Climbers Fall From Mount Everest and Disappear Because Of Overcrowding
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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SPECIAL REPORT | Predator Hiding In Plain Sight: Prosecuted and Sent to Prison for Life
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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NEWS FLASH: Nimsdai's Troubles HEAT UP & the Mount Everest 2024 Season Recap | Records, Tragedies & Troubled Future
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Boukreev Versus Everest: Anatoli Boukreev - Hero or Villain? Mount Everest's 1996 Tragedy
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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People Are Dying to Reach 'Into The Wild' Bus 142, Chris McCandless' Escape from Reality and Death by Starvation in Alaska
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Climbing Mount Everest at 19 Years of Age - Influencer Ryan Mitchell's Path to the Top
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Middle Way: Wade Davis (Pt 2) - Life, Death and Consciousness
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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George Mallory's Everest & Great Britain's Doomed 1924 Mission of Redemption with Author Wade Davis
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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WHAT'S NEXT? Unveiling the Future of Everest Mystery YouTube Channel & The Happiness Quotient
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Ultimate Cost of Climbing Mount Everest - 2023's Deadliest Season (Part 2)
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May 25, 2024 |
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How 2023 Became Mount Everest's Deadliest Season Ever - Part 1
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May 22, 2024 |
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Has Everest Lost Its Soul? 2024 SEASON UPDATE
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May 20, 2024 |
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FALLEN: George Mallory's Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition with Author Mick Conefrey
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May 13, 2024 |
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Everest's Death Zone Doctor Poses Life or Death Dilemma to Climber
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Face To Face With George Mallory on Everest
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Everest Left For Dead: The Haunting Story of David Sharp
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Bring My Husband Home - Deliverance From 27,000 Feet on Mount Everest
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Death and Outrage on K2 - The Death of Muhammed Hassan
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Deeper Than Everest (By a MILE) - Legendary Explorer and Oceanographer Don Walsh, the Historic Dive of the Trieste and Future of Exploration
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Everest's INDUSTRIAL Age: Death Toll Rises & Costly Rescues Require Action #everest #mountains
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May 19, 2023 |
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SURVIVOR: Everest! The Survivors of Himalayan Mountain Workers & Sherpa Who Die, and What's Being Done to Help
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May 11, 2023 |
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Everest News! Death & Drama on Annapurna in the Mount Everest Himalaya with Everest Chronicler for Outside Online Alan Arnette #everest #mountains #annapurna
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The Illegal Burial of Ed Abbey & The Fight for the Yellowstone Grizzly - Doug Peacock #grizzly #Patagonia
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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My Buddy Lost 8 Fingers and I Got to the Summit - Stephen Venables' Insane Bivouac at 8,600 Meters on Mount Everest
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The Studio Mama and Her Musical Cookbook - Rebecca Wood
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Too Many People - Manaslu and Why It's So Dangerous
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star? Get Yer Camera! Jay Blakesberg and His Rock & Roll Photography Career
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Climb Your Everest - The Most Uplifting and Affirming Message For Every Day of Your Life
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Is Everest Dying? Fighter Jets Over the Summit? - A Conversation with Everest Chronicler, Podcaster and Mountaineer Alan Arnette
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Our World's Languages Are Dying! Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer in Residence
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Are You Authentic? A Life Hack Episode
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Filming Lhakpa Sherpa's Historic 10th Ascent of Everest by a Woman - Matt Irving, Director of Photography
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May 26, 2022 |
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It's Our Burden To Bear - Ukrainian Journalist Igor Nalyvaiko on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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May 19, 2022 |
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Sanctity of Space - A Conversation with Filmmakers/Professional Climbers Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson
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May 11, 2022 |
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What Is China Hiding? - Jochen Hemmleb, Everest Historian on Everest Sightings of Mallory & Irvine and Maurice Wilson
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May 05, 2022 |
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Modern-Day Darwin, Bruce Means Discovers Five New Species in Guyana, The Last Tepui
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Mystery Solved? The Body Of Sandy Irvine and the Kodak Camera Have Been Discovered, Mark Synnott Interview
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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All That Glitters Is Not Gold & Reflections of a Car Deal
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Ukraine: Fighting the War From Behind the Front Lines - A Voice From Ukraine
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Ukraine: Battling Disinformation In the Fight for Existence - A Voice From Ukraine 25 March 2022
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Quit Taking Things So Personally - Reflections on the Greatest Mystery in All of Adventure
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Laura Dekker, at Age 16 Became Youngest Ever to Solo Circumnavigate the Globe
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Dr. Peter Hackett - Think You Have What It Takes To Climb Everest? A Conversation with the Doctor of the Death Zone
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Shrink Wrap for Crap: Diana Yousef CEO and Founder of change:WATER Labs
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Mount Everest is a Mess! An Investigation Into The Garbage and Human Waste Problem on Everest (PS, It's Getting Fixed)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Chris Carter LIVE From the Continental Divide Trail and the Adventures of Jim and Tim (His Feet!)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Art Crime Professor Erin Thompson on Smashing Statues, Guantanamo and Michelangelo (the World's Greatest Art Forger?)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Peter Hillary, Son of Sir Edmund - What's Wrong With Everest
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Renan Ozturk, Modern Day Renaissance Man on Everest, Creativity and Nutrition, an Instagram LIVE Event
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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John Branch, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and His New Book, Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life From the Back Roads of Sports
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Oliver Wood Always Smilin' - New Solo Album Release and Music Extravaganza
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Jamie McGuinness, On Being a Sherpa and the David Sharp Story on Everest
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Dream Time: Aboriginal Musician Is Ambassador for Culture and Music of His People
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May 19, 2021 |
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Everest Update: Andy Politz Is Now Leaving for the Summit, 30 Years After He First Climbed It
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May 14, 2021 |
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David Vobora, Growth Producing Fear Encounters at the Adaptive Training Foundation
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May 10, 2021 |
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The Energy of Author & Poet Elisabeth Sharp McKetta: Writing For Your Life
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May 03, 2021 |
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Jake Norton - Higher Than Everest: Solving The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Mark Synnott: Mystery, Obsession and Death on Mount Everest, An Interview with NY Times Bestselling Author About His New Book
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Thom Pollard: Lessons Learned In Pursuit of Everest, The Genesis of The Search for Sandy Irvine
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Followed By the Ghost of Sandy Irvine While Training for Everest & The Inspiration of My Mentor Bradford Washburn
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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#73 - 'We Got This' - Timely Sage Advice & Music For Our Times
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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The Soul of Seth Walker, Musician, Author, Poet & Artist's New Book Your Van Is On Fire
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Do NOT Call This The Blues! Interview and Epic Performance with the Legendary Clarence Gatemouth Brown
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Tom Holzel: Noted Everest Historian and The Fascinating Mystery of Mallory & Irvine
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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I Am Dynamite - How To Be Exceptional
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Survival - Inspiration & Hope, Author and Speaker Irene Butter, Survivor of the Holocaust
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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To Measure a Mile: A Film by Chris Carter on His Pilgrimage Along the Pacific Crest Trail
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Michael Hamill: Climbing the Seven Summits Everest Update - and Happiness Jones, Our New Theme Song
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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#65 - Electoral College Count - Stand Your Ground with Dr. Nathan Schwartz-Salant During Times of Chaos and Uncertainty
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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#64 - Stop Chasing Happiness: A Course In Happiness
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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#63 - The Happiness Quotient - Winter Solstice with Reverend Freakchild & Healing Power of Music
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#62 (S2 Ep 31) - Always Been a Lover & A BIG Announcement From Thom
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#61 (S2 Ep 30) - Daniel Donato: Cosmic Country - Nashville Musician, His Life Lessons and Increasing Awareness During COVID
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#60 (S2 Ep 29) - Embracing Change: Devastating News Turns to Magic: a Final Fire Pit & an Icy Dip in the River of Life
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#59 (S2 Ep 28) - The Truth About Everest, Passing of My Mother, Disbursing Ashes From The Top
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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#58 (S2 Ep 27) - Ann Sarnoff, Head of WarnerMedia’s Studios and Networks Group
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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#57 (S2 Ep 26) - It's GuitarGate with YouTube Sensation Michael Palmisano
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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#56 (S2 Ep 25) - Go Ahead, Hide Your Damn Fears: You're Just Feeding the Subconscious
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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#55 (S2 Ep 24) -David Brancaccio: Return of the Heroes of the Quarantine Culture and The Perfect S'more
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#54 (S2 Ep 23) - Going Forth In Gratitude, a Mini Bonus Episode
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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#53 (S2 Ep 22) - Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers, The Soul of This Town
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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#52 (S2 Epi 21) - The Flying Canoe, Rainbow Flag & BLM Demonstration 300 Feet Over Cathedral Ledge, New Hampshire Episode
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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#51 (S2 Ep 20) - On Being Ignorant, Lessons Learned In Pursuit Of Everest, Ernest Hemingway and My Father's Ghost
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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#50 (S2 Ep 19) - Hollywood Entrepreneur Barry Katz PART 2 - TV-Film-Record Producer 'Whatever You Want To Do, You Can Do It'
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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#49 (S2 Ep 18) - Agent of Change, Growing Up the Son of Blues Legend Paul Butterfield, Interview with Gabriel Butterfield of Woodstock, NY
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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#48 (S2 Ep 17) - Accidental Climber, Interview with Filmmaker Steven Oritt and Mountaineer Jim Geiger
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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#47 (S2 Ep 16) - Genesis of an Entertainer and The Myth of Sisyphus, Interview with the Incredible Barry Katz: Comedian, Filmmaker, Talent Manager and Podcaster
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#46 (S2 Ep 15) - The Highpointers, Climbing the Highest Point in all 50 States with The Bargo Brothers
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#45 (S2 Ep 14) - Attacked by a 'Friend" on Social Media, Making the World a Better Place
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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#43 (S2 Ep 12) - Ripples in a Pond, Rising from the Ashes of Tragedy & the Trey Whitfield School
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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#42 (S2 Ep 11) - Mark Synnott: The Day Everest Broke, an Interview with NY Times Best Selling Author and Pro Climber
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#41 (S2 Ep 10) - Bob Marley's War
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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#39 (S2 Ep 8) - 46 Years & Counting as Willie Nelson's Harmonica Player, Mickey Raphael
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May 26, 2020 |
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#38 (S2 Ep 7) - Jochen Hemmleb: The Mystery of the Fate of Mallory & Irvine on Mount Everest and Discussion with Noted Everest Historian
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May 15, 2020 |
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#37 (S2 Ep 6) - A New Perspective Gained Through Trauma, the Ritual of Maté and an Interview with Photographer Oscar Manguy of Finland
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May 07, 2020 |
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#36 (S2 Ep 5) -From Bullied Kid to 3x World Record Holder, Interview with Adventurer Mike Reid
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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#35 (S2 Ep 4) - The Meaning of Life is Coffee, an Interview with Coffee Roaster Austin Orth
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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#34 (S2 Ep 3) - Heroes of the Quarantine Culture with David Brancaccio of Marketplace Morning Report and Peter Dunn of Topdrawer Corp
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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#33 (S2 Ep 2) - Dragon Tongue: The Tree Whisperer, Master Craftsman Tom Thiel and his Student in the Creation of Beauty/Rev Freakchild
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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#32 - (S2 Ep 1) - Reverend Freakchild: The Bodhisattva Blues with the Bluesman About Drugs, Sobriety, Buddhism, Meditation & The Grateful Dead
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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#31 - Survival Guide To the Madness: an interview with Jungian Psychologist Nathan Schwartz-Salant
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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#30 - Feel Good Story of the Week/Smiley Tejeda's Make-A-Wish Weight Room/Leaving a Legacy
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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#29 BONUS Episode - Australian Bushfires and the Inspiring "Aussie Bushfire Gear Giveaway"/Fundraiser to Help the Valiant Effort/Scott Salmon
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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#28 - Helping Heroes Find Their Way Home/Military Suicide/an Inspiring Interview with Ray Gilmore
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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#27 - Australia, Aboriginal Didgeridoo, Rod McCurdy, Pacific Dreams & Giving Back
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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#26 - I Am Donald Trump, and #MeToo Movement, an Interview with Acclaimed Jungian Analyst Dr. Nathan Schwartz-Salant
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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#25 - PART 2 of Interview with Holocaust Survivor Irene Butter, Her Story of Hope and Inspiration
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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#24 - PART 1 of Interview with Holocaust Survivor Irene Butter, Her Story of Hope and Inspiration
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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#23 - Don't Tell a Lie, Your Life Depends On It
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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#22 - All The World's a Stage - Officiating the Wedding of Two Deeply In Love
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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#21 - Mastering The Fire Pit: Fun With Tortilla Chips
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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#20 - Discovery of George Mallory, Commercialization of Everest, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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#19 - A Spirit Saved My Life in an Avalanche, Stories That Inspire
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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#18 - Stories That Inspire: He Gave His Make-a-Wish Gift Away So Others Could Benefit - Nathanael "Smiley" Tejeda
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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#17 - Why You Should Never Say You’re Sorry, "isms' Require Judgment
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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#16 - Is There Life After Life? Remembering A Friend's Final Words
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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#15 - Grateful for the Grateful Dead, Running For His Life by Tim Gillis
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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#14 - Hallucinogens v Meditation, Ubuntu, Oneness and Musa Musala
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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#13 - My Mysterious Friendship with a Shaman
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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#12 - Tragedy and Lessons of Mount Everest and How I helped Paul Butterfield get inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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#11 - Thee Most Badass Guitar Shop on the Planet, Discernment & Realizing Your Dreams
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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#10 - Frank Campanaro: Conquering Mount Everest with Tourette Syndrome, Mentors - Remarkable Interview
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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#9 - How to Be a Fighter Pilot, Giving Back to the Community
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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#8 - Reporting From a Windy Tent on Mount Everest: An Exercise in Overcoming the Insurmountable
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May 21, 2019 |
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#7 - The Answer to "Why do we exist?" Is Right in Front of Your Face
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May 07, 2019 |
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#6 - Judgment and the Subconscious, Sometimes Just Go For it and Say F It!
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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#5 - Distractions, Living in the Now, Human Horse Balance Healing Foundation
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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#4 - Sir Edmund Hillary: Never Before Released Interview with Thom Pollard About Mount Everest; & NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Christchurch, NZ
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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#3 - Training for Everest on Mount Washington, My Mentor the Legendary Bradford Washburn
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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#2 - Dream Heart: Noah Rivers on Pursuing a Career as a Luthier
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Why We Exist & Mount Everest
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Mar 19, 2019 |