Ep. 120: Slow Boat to the Bahamas with Linus Wilson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It's no wonder Linus' book is a best seller. This guy is funny! From getting bit by the sailing bug to extended cruises with swimming pigs and boat-slashing iguanas, Dr.
Wilson takes us on a great ride!
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know how it happened, but generations of pigs have started realizing it that if they swim out to dinghies, that people will feed them. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm going to... This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:31.7 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. |
| 0:33.4 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:40.6 | Episode 120, Linus Wilson and the Slow Boat to the Bahamas. |
| 0:55.9 | Hey friends, thank you very much for all the applications to win the free lift ticket to Eldora Mountain Ski Area. The contest is closed and we do have a winner. Using the best that |
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| 1:14.4 | entry we will contact you of course via email to make arrangements for getting that |
| 1:18.8 | pre-lift ticket to you the rest of you sorry you didn't win this time but no worries we'll do |
| 1:24.6 | another contest in the near future. |
| 1:29.9 | And now on with today's show. |
| 1:43.5 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:45.3 | Today's guest is Dr. Linus Wilson, and Dr. Linus Wilson has written a wonderful bestseller about a slow boat to the Bahamas. |
| 1:56.0 | Back in 2010, Linus decided that he wanted to take up sailing, and so that's when he first sailed. In 2015, he and his family made it to the Bahamas in their sailboat, and he has recently taken up studying comedy. He says he will tell his first joke in 2020. So we'll just hold our breath until then. |
| 2:14.1 | Linus is an associate professor at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. He got his degree |
| 2:20.5 | in financial economics at Oxford, but he is here today to regale us with wonderful stories |
| 2:26.8 | about sailing, and we're glad he's here. Linus, welcome to the program. Hi, I'm very happy to |
| 2:31.9 | tell you about my failures on the water. |
| 2:35.9 | Well, it's been a little while since we had a podcast on sailing, and I know we have a lot of sailors out there that love to hear more of this kind of stuff, so I'm glad that we can get back to the water. |
| 2:46.0 | Seems like we've been up in the mountains for a few shows. |
| 2:48.6 | So, Linus, I gave just a couple of bullet points about you, |
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