Ep. 1030: The Importance of Trying New Adventures - Paddy O’Connell
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
One of the hardest things to get over when trying new adventure sports as an adult is looking like a newbie. However, that’s exactly what we need to do in order to experience the joy of new adventures. Today, we’re talking to someone facing those challenges head on and bringing a camera with him so you can see exactly what it’s like.
With his enthusiasm for learning new things and his 6’5”, 250 pounds of questionably athletic mass, Paddy O’Connell is like an average, everyday outdoor enthusiast who’s been inflated way beyond average, standard size. With Paddy’s new show, PaddyO Sucks At, pairs him with coaches and mentors from different sports and activities, at which it’s doubtful he’ll excel, in a celebration of the one thing we can all relate to: being a beginner.
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https://watch.outsideonline.com/series/paddyo-sucks-at/3Ggy4whN-CWNFd6tJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTqt5LuYBDs
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | I just want to apologize getting the show up a little late this week. |
| 0:13.6 | It's just, it was a crazy weekend, and I usually do this on the weekend. |
| 0:17.4 | And things have just been wild, which is kind of been the theme the last couple |
| 0:21.9 | months, but I'm going to be getting back on track here soon. I'm catching up with work and life, |
| 0:27.8 | but the good news is these Monday episodes, or you know, supposed to be Monday episodes, |
| 0:33.6 | these new episodes are worth the wait because today we're talking to quite a well-known figure |
| 0:40.5 | in the outdoor industry, Patty O'Connell. You might recognize Patty's voice from a couple podcasts |
| 0:46.7 | used to host in the outdoor industry. He's also hosted the outside podcast. He's one of the |
| 0:53.1 | voices there. And he's hosted a number of different |
| 0:57.0 | shows and film festivals. And he's kind of a well-known person because he's got such a unique |
| 1:03.8 | personality. He's one of the few funny people in the outdoors. He's hilarious. I don't know if |
| 1:09.1 | there's a niche for outdoor comedy, but Patty could |
| 1:13.5 | definitely feel that. But we're talking today about his newest project called Patty O Sucks at. |
| 1:20.4 | What it's about. It's on Outside Watch, which is the streaming platform for outside magazine. |
| 1:27.7 | And it's about Patty trying new sports that he's never tried. |
| 1:31.3 | Fly fishing, climbing, burrow racing, which is running with donkeys. |
| 1:37.0 | And what's so cool about it is, you know, that's one of the things you've got to overcome |
| 1:42.3 | when you're trying a new adventure is, you know, the fear one of the things you've got to overcome when you're trying a new adventure |
| 1:45.0 | is, you know, the fear of looking ridiculous or looking, you know, like you don't know what |
| 1:50.6 | you're doing because you don't. We often think that, you know, people just are, you know, |
| 1:56.1 | experts at what they do and have always been, but I talk to so many people who are iconic and well known |
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