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The Rich Roll Podcast

Roll On: Creation Over Consumption

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another edition of Roll On—my bi-weekly deep dive into (semi) current events, topics of audience interest, and of course answers to your questions. Serving up hype-man duties is Adam Skolnick, an activist and veteran journalist perhaps best known as David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me co-author. Adam has written about adventure sports, environmental issues and civil rights for outlets such as The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, BBC, and Men’s Health. He is the author of One Breath, which chronicles the life and death of America's greatest freediver, and is currently hard at work on a novel. Today's conversation begins with a quick update on my forthcoming book Voicing Change and the subscription offering we are currently building. We then pivot to ruminations on goal setting based upon my personal experience and that of my many past guests. We talk about the latest coverage of the coronavirus, spikes across the country, the mask-authoritarianism debate, and the current constitutional crisis occurring in Portland. We honor the legacy of John Lewis, exploring his history and many accomplishments, including his pivotal role in the civil rights movement. We shoutout my friends Utkarsh Ambudkar and Darin Olien and their respective Netflix offerings: We Are Freestyle Love Supreme and Down to Earth--both mandatory quarantine viewing. We discuss the KFC-Beyond Chicken collaboration debut. And we send some love to legendary ultra runner Tommy Rivs — a beloved athlete and friend currently in the ICU (now in a coma since recording) suffering from undiagnosed COVID-like symptoms and severe respiratory distress. If you're able, please consider a donation to Tommy's GoFundMe to ameliorate medical expenses. A little goes a long way. And finally, we switch gears to answer a few questions submitted by audience members on our Facebook Group page and voicemail. How can we best ration our time between consumption and creation? What can we do to abate feelings of powerlessness and fatalism about the future of humanity and the planet? How do you maintain sanity while both working and being a parent and part-time teacher during this unique time in history? And How do you ease into running? The visually inclined can watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you to Patrick Dean, Bel Rumi, Joe from Pittsburgh, Bill Lawrence and Julie from Minnesota for your questions. If you want your query discussed, drop it on our Facebook Page, or better yet leave a voicemail at (424) 235-4626. I'm digging this new format. I hope you find it equal parts entertaining and informative. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

The Rich Roll Podcast

0:19.0

Alright, me and my height man Adam are back. I am taking roll call. Let's do this.

0:26.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. Another edition of Roll on Roll on Life, I guess. Our AMA asked me anything

0:38.0

formatted version of the show where me and my height man Adam Skolnik, journalist, activist,

0:47.0

author, co-author of David Goggins can't hurt me and Bon Vivon at large joins me to break down

0:55.0

I don't know, current events a little bit and do things topical, answer listener questions, etc.

1:01.0

So, thanks for tuning in Adam, how you doing?

1:04.0

Do a good man. I've been Bon Vivon at home. Right.

1:08.0

Like the rest of us. You're getting your swim run workouts in though.

1:11.0

I am. I've been doing a lot. I can thank you for that. I love this sport.

1:15.0

It's pretty cool. I just got an email. Did you get the email? It depends on you to find cool.

1:20.0

Did you get the email from Otelot today that they were going to be hosting their World Championship event in Sweden

1:26.0

and now they had to pull it. I was canceled for the year.

1:31.0

And England in is happening. I think that one is happening.

1:35.0

That's the best week. Yeah, but the World Championship event is getting shelved as they're now at least.

1:40.0

So, at the same time, we can still get out and swim run.

1:44.0

I love it. That's it. And what I love about it is it's not, quote unquote, cool.

1:48.0

I'm the only person I see.

1:51.0

There's nobody else doing running around the streets of Santa Monica with a polbui attached to your leg in a wetsuit.

1:57.0

And I don't even wear goggles like most swimmers. I wear a mask because I'm so used to free diving.

2:04.0

So, this low profile swim, like really a free diving mask.

2:07.0

Do you get any weird looks? Oh, yeah. You get weird looks in it.

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