Ep. 1215: The Quest for Adventure with Samuel Moldenhauer
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Join Samuel Moldenhauer and Curt as they explore the profound themes of adventure, quest literature, and the spiritual insights drawn from their mountain adventures and Tolkien's stories. Discover how real-life challenges and epic tales shape resilience, faith, and personal growth. Listen in as they explore the deep lessons and inspiring themes in Tolkien's works, including Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Discover how Tolkien's mythology offers insights into adventure, integrity, faith, and the human journey, encouraging us to see life as a grand quest.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:12.7 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:17.2 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey friends, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Today's episode is a super special one for me because, well, I'll wait and let you hear |
| 0:30.5 | the introduction, but I let this episode go long, so it's not the normal 55 minutes or so. It goes a bit longer than that, |
| 0:40.1 | and we did that on purpose because there's just so much to talk about. This episode has a lot |
| 0:46.2 | to do with adventure, but also with Tolkien, as in Lord of the Rings and Adventure. |
| 0:55.1 | And the Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest adventure epics of all times, |
| 0:59.3 | so it kind of ties in in a lot of ways. |
| 1:01.7 | But I wanted to mention that it's a special episode, |
| 1:05.3 | not normal episode for the Adventure Sports Podcast, |
| 1:07.7 | and as such, I am even posting the video on YouTube. So we do post our |
| 1:13.7 | audio on YouTube. Rarely do I post video these days, but I am posting this video on YouTube |
| 1:19.0 | so that you can see Sam and you can see the conversation and enjoy that too. Oh, and I hope that |
| 1:27.2 | your Memorial Day weekend was fantastic. |
| 1:29.6 | I got a great kind of backcountry motorcycle ride in, and my short story is I ended up sliding |
| 1:38.1 | down this super sandy, super, super steep, you know, four-wheel drive road into this creek bottom on the motorcycle, |
| 1:45.5 | and I got down there, and I thought, I don't even know if I can get out. It was a true |
| 1:50.5 | adventure moment for me. So I let about half the air out of my rear tires, so it might get |
| 1:56.1 | a little bit more grip, and I had to do this, well, scary for me, me he'll climb but I made it back out again it |
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