Bonus (or is it a penalty?) Episode - Ed in the Hot Seat
Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson
Mountain & Prairie Media
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Normally on the podcast, I introduce you to innovative individuals who are shaping the future of the American West—ranchers, writers, athletes, authors, adventurers, conservationists, entrepreneurs... pretty much anyone who's interesting and doing important work here in the West. • But this episode is a little different. This time the tables are turned, and I'm in the hot seat, being interviewed on the local Colorado Springs podcast, The Little London Show. • A few months back, Little London Show hosts Jeff and Darcie asked me to join them to chat about my new role as Conservation Director at Palmer Land Trust, my family's move from Boulder to Colorado Springs, and some of the lessons I've learned from hosting the Mountain & Prairie Podcast. I thought it was a fun conversation, and we discussed a variety of interesting topics, including public lands, Theodore Roosevelt (of course), favorite books, my journey from selling ranches to full-time conservation, and much more. • And just to be clear, I don't think I'm an Innovator of the American West, nor do I enjoy listening to my own voice, but we covered some topics that I thought might be of interest to you guys. As usual, there are links to everything we discuss in the episode notes, so visit the website to access all of those resources. And if you have a few moments, let me know if you enjoy this format of me answering a few questions. If you do, then every so often I'll plan on releasing episodes from other podcasts where I am the interviewee or possibly answering questions from you guys, if that would be of interest. • But no matter what, we'll be back to the normal interviews with real innovators next week, so be on the lookout for that. Again, thanks for your support and thanks for listening. ••• Episode Notes: http://mountainandprairie.com/bonus/ Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/mountainandprairie ••• TOPICS DISCUSSED 2:30 - Introduction 3:20 - Mountain & Prairie Podcast explained 6:00 - Discussion of podcast guests 9:55 - TR and Public Lands 13:40 - Lessons learned from the podcast 16:50 - How I ended up in the West 19:45 - Transition to Colorado Springs from Boulder 22:30 - New job with Palmer 24:20 - Land conservation discussion 30:40 - Rugged individualism 33:10 - Rawness of the West 35:40 - "Your Stoke Won't Save Us" article 40:50 - Uselessness of ultra running 42:10 - Three best books on the West
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ed real quick. Before we get started, I want to thank some of our recent |
| 0:03.7 | podcast supporters. Carrie Anderson, Chip Parker, Kevin Murski, Juanita Vero, Patrick Kreaden, |
| 0:11.8 | Haley Nord, and Kiko Moody. Thank you guys so much. I really |
| 0:16.5 | really appreciate the support. As you all know the podcast is free, always will |
| 0:21.1 | be free, but if you're so inclined and would like to support the podcast go to mountain and prey.com slash support. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks a lot. Hey, this is Ed Roberson, and this is the Mountain and Prairie Podcast. Normally on this podcast I introduce you to some of the innovative individuals who are shaping the future of the American West. |
| 0:49.0 | Ranchers, writers, athletes, authors, adventures, adventurers, conservationists, entrepreneurs, pretty much anyone who's |
| 0:55.4 | interesting and who's doing important work here in the West. |
| 0:59.2 | But this episode is a little different. |
| 1:00.6 | This time the tables are turned and I'm in the hot seat being |
| 1:04.3 | interviewed on the local Colorado Springs podcast called the Little London |
| 1:07.8 | show. A few months back Little London show host Jeff and Darcy asked me to join |
| 1:12.0 | them on their show to chat about my new role as Conservation |
| 1:14.7 | Director at Palmer Land Trust here in Colorado Springs. We also talked about our family's |
| 1:19.5 | move from Boulder to Colorado Springs and some of the lessons I've learned from hosting the |
| 1:23.6 | Mountain and Prairie podcast. I thought it was a fun conversation. We talked about a |
| 1:27.9 | wide variety of interesting topics including public lands, Theodore Roosevelt of |
| 1:32.4 | course, my favorite books, my journey from selling |
| 1:35.5 | ranches into full-time conservation and much more. |
| 1:38.7 | And just to be clear, I don't think I'm an innovator of the American West, nor do I particularly enjoy listening my own voice, but we cover some good |
| 1:46.4 | topics in this conversation that I thought may be of interest to you guys. As usual, there are links to everything |
| 1:51.7 | we discuss in the episode notes, so be sure to visit the website to check out all those resources. |
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