Ep. 894: Update With Former ASP Host - Curt Linville
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Adventure podcast origins and life update: Curt Linville, co-founder and original host of the Adventure Sports Podcast since 2015 with Travis Parsons, shares how the show inspired millions to pursue adventure, his transition after nearly four years, handing the reins to Mason Gravley, and how his own life of adventure has evolved in recent years.
Happy New Year!
Today is a very special episode. We sit down with ASP's original voice (along with Travis Parsons): Curt Linville. Curt and Travis started this podcast back in 2015 with the desire to tell incredible stories of adventure and inspire millions of people to set out on their own adventures.
After nearly four years of hosting the show, Curt and Travis decided to take on new adventures of their own and hand the reigns of this podcast to Mason Gravley, the current host.
Today we're sitting down with Curt to hear how the last few years have been and how his life of adventure has taken shape since leaving the podcast.
I (Mason) thought it would be a great way to start the new year as so many of us are striving for more adventure, better selves, etc. So let's hear from someone doing it!
A little bit more about Curt below:
- Original co-founder & host of the Adventure Sports Podcast.
- Life-long outdoor adventurer who loves snow skiing, ski mountaineering, climbing 14ers, mountain biking, backpacking, and dirt bike motorcycling, among others….
- Founder of new YouTube channel called GunniMoto, where Curt rides some of the more than 3000 miles of BLM and forest roads in Gunnison County, CO providing previews of routes, great scenery, and encouraging food for thought. Tour guide and motorcycle philosopher.
- Also, co-founder (with his daughter, Lydia) of the College of Valor. They started college of valor with a focus on young adults who are getting started carving out a life from the granite of our modern day. College of Valor empowers truth-seekers to build trustworthy foundations for rewarding lives. They facilitate critical thinking, honing life skills, and the art of reason by exploring fascinating ideas and current societal trends. Hope is the motivator. Truth is the goal. Everyday valor is the practice. Better living is the result.
- Curt is also the founder of PodDivvy, which provides advertising opportunities for podcasters and the best advertising that money can by for advertisers.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, happy new year. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:17.8 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, and this is the first episode of our new year. |
| 0:23.4 | How awesome is that? Well, guess what? We've got a special treat for you for the next two |
| 0:27.8 | episodes, actually. We are talking to Kurt Linville. Kurt is the former host of this show, |
| 0:35.9 | technically former along with Travis Parsons, but Travis |
| 0:40.0 | ended up taking more of like the editing role towards the end of their tenure of |
| 0:44.5 | ownership of the show. And then Kurt was primarily the host, but Travis hosted plenty of |
| 0:48.9 | episodes as well. But anyway, Kurt is probably a voice you've heard a lot. He's the one that is often featured when I do a throwback episode. |
| 0:57.2 | But Kurt joined us today to give us an update on where he is, what he's doing, and to kind of celebrate the new year. |
| 1:06.7 | If you didn't know, I took this show over about four years ago, and that's about half the life of the show. |
| 1:13.0 | We're almost eight years old. |
| 1:14.8 | And when I took the show over, it was because both Kurt and Travis wanted to do something more adventurous with their life. |
| 1:22.2 | They had been hosting this show for a handful of years. |
| 1:24.5 | They had done a lot of cool stuff together that even like built houses |
| 1:27.6 | together and all sorts of random fun projects and life events together. And they were both thinking, |
| 1:32.9 | you know what? After talking to so many people on this show, it's time for us to take on a more |
| 1:38.4 | adventurous life and to do something totally out of the box. So in a way, the show and all the guests that have been on for |
| 1:45.7 | the last four years had inspired them to do something with their own lives. But what that would do, |
| 1:51.9 | that would require them to stop hosting the show. For Travis, it was living full time in his |
| 1:57.0 | RV with his family and traveling around the country. For Kurt, it was going to be moving |
| 2:02.5 | really far into the Colorado mountains, deep into the mountains, starting a whole new life. |
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