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  1. “So I think the best place to look is MeruFilm.com, so M-E-R-U-film.com. And that has a little list of all the theaters and other information about the film. And then our handle on social media for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are all also Meru film or at MeruFilm. And we're releasing online in November on iTunes. So look for us there. And then for myself, it's just Jimichin.com. As we all know, documentaries kind of live and die by word of mouth. And hopefully people have an opportunity to see it. And if they like it, please share the Stoke. That would be great.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “I would probably say, think of the long game because you freaked myself out so much being like, oh my God, you know, I have to do this, I have to do that, I have to do this. And I've always lived my life with a sense of urgency. And sometimes that works out in your favor. Sometimes you botch it and make bad quick decisions. As I've gotten older I've recognized that life just has its ups and downs. I mean, the classic Buddhist saying would be, you know, the middle path, you know, you don't get super excited and overconfident when something really great happens for you and you don't get completely depressed if something bad happens for you and you just have to understand that you know life goes in these crazy waves and you just hold steady and put one foot in front of the other”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yes, maybe. And I think that's probably, yeah, that's kind of representative of the way I function. I tell people I'm the laziest, motivated person that I know because I'm either just want to just completely kick it back or else I'm going 150 miles an hour. Right.”

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  4. “Well, it's funny because the two things that came into my mind immediately was one was like chill. The other one was get after it”

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  5. “And I've taken it on every expedition I've ever been on. And it's 25 SPF. And it's like one of the few things that keeps your lips from cracking on like a really tough expedition. That's always nice to have.”

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  6. “I usually order a beer and nurse it for a long time. Tequila is probably where I go if I'm going out to have a pretty good time. Right.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Yeah, kind of a form of it. But that one, that form is kind of the type that I've been doing lately. But I reached. I usually, I don't even want to say that it is TM because it's more. It's like a conglomeration of different things that I've learned and thought about. And then it's breakfast, which is usually toast and jam or granola and bananas and yogurt or something like that or smoothie. And then I just opened up my laptop. It's so boring. I start looking at emails and trying to say to myself, oh my gosh, I got to like hammer these out. Because what I'm trying to do is get as much done as I possibly can in the first few hours of the morning because my head is clear so that I can go run outside and do something in the afternoon”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “I usually wake up around seven. 830 if I've kind of gone out late or stayed up late. I work late and it's a terrible habit. I'm usually hammering emails until I fall asleep, which is awful. I've been trying to train myself to just read, which works every so often. But in the morning, in an ideal morning, I would get up and the first thing, you know, one of the first things I would do would be to sit down and try to meditate and maintain that practice. I'm not great, but it's always been beneficial when I've had some consistency in doing it.”

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  9. “Yeah, and it's funny because I don't consult, you call it consulting the Iching very often these days I almost carry it because I and I if I see it I've looked at it so often so many times over the years that like I just look at it and I'm like okay I kind of know what the answer is for this dilemma I'm having, you know, that's awesome. That's awesome.”

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  10. “Yep, loved that book. And the other one is probably the, this book called The Guide to the I Ching by Carol Anthony, which was given to me as a freshman by one of my comparative religion teachers. And I've pretty much traveled with that thing since. I've had a copy with me somewhere. And it's just an interesting take on an interesting perspective.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Yeah, I mean obviously he's known for founding Patagonia, but it's like he's like hacked the system somehow. I mean he's known for founding Patagonia but he also is I mean he's really you know he started 1% for the planet and he started you know Patagonia Land Trust and he found a way to have a successful commercial endeavor understanding that there's necessary evils that people are still going to buy stuff you still have to make clothing because people have to wear clothing but yet you know his approach is like we're gonna make things that are best thing possible and we're gonna do it as ecologically sustainable as we can you know and he's also led this incredible life of adventure and you know he's as inspired Me in so many different levels, and I've been really fortunate to have spent some time with them.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Okay, so let me think who else have I read recently. I think I just finished John Krackower's book, Missoula, and I was just really impressed with how he basically in a way changed how he wrote to address the subject in the most powerful way that he could and being able to morph that way is really was really impressive to me.”

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  13. “Yeah, no, I've definitely read McPhee, Jonathan Franson recently, you know, John Cracker is a friend of mine, but I've always been amazed at how he approaches his work. Did I say John Crackhour? Did I just say John? No, you said you said.”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “For me, it was probably early on was reading a lot and then finding favorite writers and examining why I like the writing. And I know it's so cliche, but I mean, I loved Hemingway, you know? Yeah. And in the same way, that's really how I developed my photography. I didn't have anybody teaching me it, but I looked at a ton of photography and I started to break down why I liked certain photographers. And then there are certain photographers that help shape how I looked at my shooting. studying other great people in the field has always been a great way for me to learn”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Okay So that's a good way to put it. If you don't do this, then you're a total candy ass Well, there's some skills I wish I had, you know, that I think would be good, but mountain climbing is a great objective because there's so much around it. There's like the organization, there's like the vision, there's like the camaraderie when you get your friend to go up there with you, there's learning technical skills, there's opportunities to learn about yourself and push yourself. It's physical, it's cerebral. So, you know, that might be unfair coming from a mountain climber, but that I think mountain climbing can do a lot for you. And you get to be outside in these beautiful landscapes, which is a huge part of the inspiration for me. I'd say writing well has been extremely important. Not that I'm a great writer, but”

    2015-10-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #114: The Athlete (And Artist) Who Cheats Death, Jimmy Chin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Well, first of all, I'd like to probably address the fact that I personally feel doubt and inadequacies all the time. I think people, you know, after being on tour with this film, people are like, wow, you know, you must not feel fear. You must not have any doubt. And I don't necessarily want to project that image because I think that I'm fearful all the time and among my peer group, I'm always like, oh my God, I'm such a wimp. You know, these guys, this guy's doing this and this guy's doing that. And I'm like, gosh, I don't know if I could do that, you know. And I just want to put it out there that that's okay. And that's normal. And I'm okay with that. But in terms of skills, like, I mean, if you're out there. And I can't speak to all the different things out there. I mean, But I don't know”

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  17. “There's this kind of fierce concentration. And I was on that lead for six, I think it was actually eight hours. But, you know, it happened when I finished it and I got to the anchor and I was ready to come back down. It felt probably more like 45 minutes. And it just have to have that belief that, you know, you can do it and you really draw deep into your experiences. And I've been in those situations before too where it was in a way you train yourself to function in very high stakes, high consequence situations. And so you draw from that place.”

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  18. “And so it was my lead. And, you know, with so much of the climbing on expeditions like this, you have to really Sometimes you just have to take a really deep breath and believe in yourself that you will make the right decisions and you're going to draw from all your experience. It has to be tempered because it can't be overconfidence. And there's this fierce concentration. Your world becomes so small in those moments. And in a way, also very expansive in the sense that you're so focused on the moment, so, so focused on the moment. And that's part of, I know you're listening, you're probably going to think that I'm completely insane, but I mean, that is part of the appeal of climbing is like nothing takes me out of thinking about my emails or, you know, all these random trivialities in life that we usually think are so important, nothing takes me out of that more than climbing.”

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  19. “So the House of Cards is one of the pitches, which is essentially a rope link on a climb where I had to go up through this section of rock which were basically these delicately balanced giant granite slabs that probably each weighed 10,000 pounds apiece. climb through them without ever overweighting any portion of my body or else you'd peel one off and the whole thing would collapse like a house of cards and as john so eloquently states in the film it would floss the whole team off the mountain So it was fairly, we call it delicate climbing.”

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  20. “It's just you spend time with them and that is the greatest gift you can have. And sometimes it's just. Acknowledging that you're doing something right. It's not saying you have to do it this way or that way. Sometimes you do. But what I've learned so much from my mentors is like, that was so meaningful to me is like I'd take an initiative and they would kind of give you the nod. Like you're doing the right thing. And that was a powerful lesson in terms of what it is to be a mentor, you know, because that was so powerful for me to see that and say, oh wow, like I took a stab at something. I took a risk. And they're acknowledging that it was a good risk. And it gives you so much more ownership over it too sometimes, you know?”

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  21. “No, and there are no cars. Yeah, no people to Bring something to you if you needed it. I mean, we're in one of the most remote high deserts in the world. And those trips are all about efficiencies. You never do anything unnecessary because you know that you need every single ounce of energy to accomplish the goal. And yet here he was running up to this. You have to understand he's 62. I went on this trip with him. And I was 28. And he was climbing up these ridges up to the side and shooting back down to get this perspective. And then going back down to his stuff, and he'd be way behind. And then he'd have to catch up, you know, and then he would get ahead and shoot back and just to see what it took. He was and just how he lived through the lens. It just showed, you know, sometimes mentors don't have to say anything.”

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  22. “Probably the most important thing was just how hard he worked. I mean, he was always up before sunrise to make sure that he was in position to get the best light. And he ran and he moved so much. And when you're on those kinds of expeditions, I mean, we're crossing the Chain Tang Plateau unsupported, average elevation 17,000 feet.”

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  23. “I bought a camera and put an expedition together to that valley, and that was the first expedition that I went on. Fast forward, I think it was four years and I went on my first national geographic expedition with Galen to Tibet and got to watch him work day in and day out for two months. You know, I mean, it was hugely influential on multiple levels.”

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  24. “Yeah, not something, you know, if you're a longtime climber, you kind of keep those close to your chest. There's not that many of them out there, you know. So he gave those to me, he gave that slide to me, put me in contact, gave me the contact for his fixer on the ground there, Nazir Sabir, very influential, first Pakistani to climb Everest. And then we walked around, the second hour, we walked around, he had the Siamese prince. And I got to walk around these tables with his most iconic prince. And he told me the stories about the prints. I mean, I was floored. I was almost speechless at this point. And then he sent me out the door and said, good luck. And you know what? You got to promise me that you will take a camera. And that was, and I had just taken that photo that had sold as well.”

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  25. “So then I get up there and I'm like kind of embarrassed. And I was like, look, I want to go to this valley. And so he pulled down two slide trays and started showing me pictures. And I needed an objective. And because I was trying to write grant proposals and I didn't even know where I was going. And he was like, well, here you go. And he literally pulled the slide out of the tray and was like, this is your objective. And it was these two huge towers that had been unclimbed. And that's not something you give up normally, you know.”

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  26. “Same thing. They're like, oh, it's you again. I'm like, yeah, is he around? And they're like, not really. So basically I do the same thing on Tuesday, do the same thing on Wednesday. Do the same thing on Thursday. And if by then they're kind of like, dude, what's your deal? And one of the guys they're a little bit younger was like, man, what are you doing? And I'm like, I just want to meet him. I just need 10 minutes of his time. And he was, you know, they're like, well, maybe come back tomorrow. So I show up on Friday. Same thing. And at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Galen comes down and He just looks at me and he's like, So you must be Jimmy. And I said, Yep. And he was like, okay, well, you have my undivided attention for the next two hours. What can I help you with? I was floored”

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  27. “Yeah, and I walk in the office and I'm like, the receptionist is there. And she's like, can I help you? And I'm like, yeah, I'm here to see Galen. And she's like, and you are, and I'm like, well, I'm Jimmy Chin. She's like, okay. And she goes upstairs. She comes back. She's like, you know, he just came back from this huge chute. There's all these photo editors there. He doesn't have time to see you today. So I was like, well, that's cool. Do you mind if I hang out? look around a bit she's like that's fine so i sit in the lobby that day the rest of the afternoon kind of like”

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  28. “Exactly. And I related to that. And at one point, you know, I saw these photos of Conrad and this other climber, Peter Croft, in Pakistan, in this unbelievable valley. And I was like, okay, that is the end game. Like if I'm going to commit to being a climber and I'm going to be in Yosemite climbing El Cap wasn't the end game. That was like where you cut your teeth. You took what you learned in Yosemite and you go to a place like this place, you know, in this picture, the high altitude big walls of Pakistan. And so I'm like 24 maybe and 23 maybe. And I decide, okay, well, the one guy who's going to know how to get there is this guy Galen. And so I drove from Wyoming. To Berkeley where his gallery was, and I showed up at his office”

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  29. “He's part of the team and climbing and he was a very talented and visionary climber. I mean, he has first assents all over the world.”

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  30. “That was like my 20 year old self thinking. Obviously I've evolved from there. But so I picked up photography then and I was very fortunate to start shooting right away for commercial clients just because I was surrounded. My peer group were all these climbers like Dean Potter and Steph Davis and Timmy O'Neill and Cedarwright. They all became You know, famous climbers, and I started shooting for Patagonia in the north face right away because they wanted someone they didn't have to worry about when they were up climbing and I could climb and I would shoot with them. But Galen came into my life when I Started looking at a lot of different photography and he embodied like this form of adventure photography that was very participatory where he was shooting from like the inside out as opposed to from the outside in.”

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  31. “Well, I began, so I never studied photography. I didn't take any classes in photography. I actually had a friend who wanted to be a photographer show me how to use his camera and while we were on a climb in Yosemite. And I took a photo with it and he was trying to sell his photos. It was slides at the time and he sold it for sold one photo and it happened to be mine for $500. And he still says, I started Jimmy's career, which is true. Went on to do great things in his field as well. But it was so funny because in a way I'm embarrassed to say it. I didn't come at photography from this inspiration of creativity and art. You know, I came at it from being like, oh, I live out of the car, my car, $500. I can live for basically two months. I'm like, man, I only have to take one photo a month and I can do this for the rest of my life, you know.”

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  32. “And in a lot of ways, it's also selfish because I want to be able to ski with my daughter and surf with my daughter. But I want her to find something that she's passionate about. And I've told myself this, and I don't know whether or not I'll be able to execute on it, but to wrap my head around it could be something totally different than what you expect. And you're going to have to embrace it and give her all those opportunities that she needs to pursue whatever that thing is. And maybe it's knitting. Who knows, you know?”

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  33. “Raised me to speak bilingual, they would ignore me if I didn't speak to them in Chinese because they knew I was going to learn English, but at home it was only Chinese. And so I got to grow up with another language. And when I was younger, I was like, my parents are crazy. Nobody else makes their kids do this stuff. But I really appreciated it. So I don't think I'll necessarily dictate, you know, you have to do this and this and this. I'm certainly going to share the things that I love with my daughter Marina and if she enjoys them or becomes passionate. And that could be photography too. I'm going to share those things with her. And I think I'll have the capacity to recognize whether or not she finds one of them really appealing.”

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  34. “So, what I took away from that though is that the foundation that they set for me in that sort of discipline, and even though it wasn't like I found the martial arts, I did eventually really love it. Swimming, it was just, I did love that physical aspect of competition too and just like pushing as hard as he can and like improving incrementally and understanding what it takes to kind of progress. I think playing the violin was incredibly, you know, I'm so thankful that I picked up the guitar and college. It was really easy to pick up and music has been a big part of my life. And so those aspects of my upbringing, while at points in my youth, I hated them, but there's so much appreciation for it. They also, you know,”

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  35. “My mom would say, Well, of course we're worried. There's no word in Chinese for what you do, you know? What are you doing? And I couldn't imagine a different life because I just, it was so powerful for me to do that. And it was tough. You know, I had a lot of doubt about it. And it didn't help, obviously, that. Every time I called them, they were like, what are you doing?”

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  36. “And so when I told him that I was going to live out of my car for a year and the way I framed it was like, I just got to get it out of my system. And then I will. Powered career somewhere while one year turned into two, two turned into three. I lived out of the back of a little blue Subaru for seven years until I was 28, climbing and skiing and doing odd jobs. Shoveling roofs and mansions in Jackson, you know, we'd have to do rope work. And like, yeah, I did random stuff to make it work. So they were very, well, they were mortified.”

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  37. “Yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot. You know, I really had to go against the grain. My parents were not into the fact that I finished college and decided I was going to go. I basically told my parents, I said, hey, look, I discovered climbing as well in late in high school. And I was obsessed. I told him, hey, I'm going to take a year off after college instead of looking for this new career I was supposed to go on. Because, I mean, they really were your three options are lawyer, doctor, executive.”

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  38. “My life was consumed by these things because I was basically either practicing the violin, going to swim practice, or going to the dojo, you know, and competing every weekend, played in the youth orchestra. And I was studying a lot. And so I was pushed pretty hard, but I was also really motivated. I wanted to do well in these things. But they were a bit confining in a way. And so when I found skiing, there was a little ski hill behind my house. That was my reward if I did well and everything else. And I still remember I skied in jeans and a jean jacket and froze my ass off. This little bump.”

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  39. “Well, I grew up, they were very kind of stereotypical Chinese parents. They were very focused on academics and kind of these extracurricular activities. So I started playing the violin when I was three and a half. And then I studied martial arts from as long as I can remember from my dad. So my mom was kind of like pushing the violin side. My dad was pushing the martial arts side and they both kind of agreed on the swimming part.”

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  40. “And so she came from that kind of a world. And then my father was from the south in Windsor. And he was from like a really traditional conservative military family. And it's very unlikely that those two would have met in China. But, you know, in that era, both of them left, both of their families left China during the communist revolution, ended up in Taiwan. And then they both went to the United States for university and met in the States. They apparently just, you know, they moved to Chicago after they got married, didn't like the city and heard that Minnesota was apparently a good place to raise a family. So they moved to Minnesota and worked at the university in Mankato, and that's where I was born.”

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  41. “Minnesota. Well, my mom was, you know, and she came from like this really progressive family, my grandfather was like trained in Western medicine and a doctor. And my grandmother was like, she spoke multiple languages. She was pretty progressive for her time. She was apparently an actress in Japanese cinema. I don't know how that worked out.”

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  42. “So I was born and raised in Minnesota, Mankato, Minnesota, which is basically this small farm town with a small university in it.”

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  43. “Yeah, I mean, I think you can go in Jackson for climbing the grand if there's two outfits. One is Exam Mountain Guides and the other one is Jackson Hall Mountain Guides. And all of their guides have gone through courses and definitely been in the mountains a lot. And so they'll assign one. And now most of the guys I know are great. And so that's one way to go into it. You can also do this kind of thing in Yosemite or in the Sierras as well. And that's another place to go.”

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  44. “And say, hey, let's do something else. And that guide will probably come up with another really cool idea. And maybe that's climbing some harder route on the ground or go into the winds, the Wind River range. Or, you know, there's these ways to kind of continue to progress as a climber. But then you also have the safety of this very knowledgeable guide.”

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  45. “Of instruction, I think the best way to do that is to come into it by hiring a guide. And I think a great mini expedition for someone or a goal would be to climb the grand tea time because you come into it, you learn the basics of rope work, you learn how to belay, and you go climbing for a couple days down low so you're comfortable with the rock climbing and the systems. And then you get to go up on the grand where it's a bit more alpine and higher altitude and then you get to climb a mountain. And, you know, a lot of people, like a typical good client who's getting a lot out of the experience will have that climb under their belt and then the next year they'll call their guide if they got along with them really well and had a good time.”

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  46. “Yeah, I think there's a couple avenues to come into it. I think Knowles is a good way to come into it. The National Outdoor Leadership School based out of Land or Wyoming. They have, I think they have a few adult classes. Another great way to come into it, of course, too, if you're a professional and you want more one-on-one.”

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  47. “Been a huge fan of them for a long time. And we had everything from classic reggae, Jose Gonzalez, Eddie Vetter, and the classics too, you know, like Led Zeppelin, Neil Young. And then, I don't know, it's really across the board. I'll listen to Bach. Yeah, and these long trips, I usually have pretty good mix of music. But Glitch Mob and Jose Gonzalez were definitely playing a lot on our Meru expedition.”

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  48. “It's funny that Barretta, who's amazing and I love the glitch mob, I mean, we definitely listen to the glitch mob on Meru. And despite like the weight limitations that we put on ourselves, we brought this teeny little nano and a little micro speaker with like solar speaker. And we had glitch mob on there.”

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  49. “What is in your ears Well, a couple things. I don't usually climb like when I'm actually leading or if I'm belaying, I'm not listening to like an earpod. But on expeditions, I definitely on the Trekson, you know, where it's four or five days of trekking, I'll be listening to music. And yeah, certainly sometimes when I'm bouldering or touring like up into the mountains to ski something, I'll have them in. But when I'm actually like, when it gets real, there's real climbing or real skiing happening, I definitely am not listening to music at that point.”

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  50. “Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they're like a little nicety to have when you're. on a long run or big day out. I have a terrible sweet tooth. So it kind of helps with that as well.”

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