Ep. 787: London to Mongolia in a $200 Car - Revisited - Matt Prior
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Adventure aviation and world travel: Matt's lifelong journey starting with flying at age sixteen, six years in the Royal Air Force piloting Tucanos and Hawks, then embracing spontaneity and curiosity across the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and nearly 100 countries worldwide.
Matt has been flying aircraft since the age of sixteen. After completing his degree he served for six years in the Royal Air Force flying Tucanos and Hawks before being subject to the UK Defense cuts. Matt has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong and lives a life filled with spontaneity and curiosity, which leads to some pretty wild destinations. In fact, since his teenage years Matt has traveled to almost one hundred countries!
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| 0:00.0 | pretty much one of the cheapest cars that you can buy on eBay, paid this guy who was a farmer, and he was actually using the car to push scrap metal across his field. That is the car that we bought. It didn't have a floor. It had hardly anything. And he said, so what are you planning to do with this? And then we said, well, we need to go back up to Leeds, which is probably about a three-hour drive. It was at that point he almost fell over. And then we said, and then we're going to take it to Mongolia. And his face |
| 0:27.2 | was just like, what? Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:49.2 | We actually don't have a brand new episode. It's a revisited episode from 2016, almost right at the beginning of |
| 0:56.1 | 2016, too, so almost six years ago. And the reason we don't have a new episode today is because |
| 1:01.0 | the interview I had ready, the episode I had ready to go, went and checked the audio again. |
| 1:06.1 | And the guest that I had on, unfortunately, we miss recorded the audio, so it's really bad. |
| 1:13.3 | It was probably my fault for not catching it early on in the interview, but it's so distracting |
| 1:18.8 | during the editing process. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm like, there's no way I can release this. |
| 1:22.6 | So we're going to have to re-record with the guest, which stinks, but, you know, it happens. |
| 1:26.7 | It's happened before. So that being |
| 1:28.7 | said, I didn't have another interview ready to go today. So I'm going to just do a revisited one. |
| 1:34.1 | This one, I have actually never heard this one before, but it sounds so intriguing, looks so |
| 1:39.5 | cool, and is from someone who's an amazing storyteller, Matt Pryor. Matt is interviewed by Travis, one of the previous hosts of the show. |
| 1:47.7 | And this one is awesome. |
| 1:48.9 | And the reason I love these kinds of stories is because it shows you what's possible. |
| 1:54.1 | It shows you what adventure can be. |
| 1:56.7 | You know, adventure isn't always doing something that's planned ahead of time like a sanctioned event |
| 2:03.3 | or something enormously huge like climbing to Mount Everest. |
| 2:07.9 | It can be huge in its own way, but in a way that involves some really interesting elements, |
| 2:13.2 | like a $150, $200 car. |
| 2:16.1 | And to me, that's really cool when people take elements of adventure |
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