Long Way Radio
Tune in to hear host Jack Fisher talk with guests about adventure travel, outdoor sports, journalism, and geography.
Episodes
Olie Hunter Smart is a British adventurer, filmmaker and endurance athlete. In this episode we talk about his kayak expedition which took him from source to sea on the Amazon river, and his 7 month, 4,500km walk down the length of India during which he explored untold stories of independence and partition in the country.
Olie made a feature documentary about his walk through India called The Road to Independence, which is now avail...
Steven Hermans is the cofounder of Caravanistan.com. After his first few times traveling in Central Asia and on the Silk Road, Steven was underwhelmed by the amount of accurate and up to date information about this region as a travel destination.
To solve this problem he built Caravanistan.com, which is now widely considered to be the internet's best source for information about traveling in Central Asia and on the Silk Road.
Hom...
Harley Rustad is a journalist, author and a features editor at The Walrus. His newest book, Lost In the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas is out January 11th, 2022.
This book is about American traveler Justin Alexander, who disappeared in 2016 while trav...
Andrew is an adventure athlete, guide, and writer based in Boulder, CO. He's well known for his extremely long and difficult thru hikes. He's done too many cool expeditions to list, but some notable ones are his Alaska-Yukon Expedition (6 months, 4,700 miles), Great Western Loop (7 months, 6,875 miles), and the, Sea-to-Sea Route (11 months, 7,775 miles). Incredible stuff.
Andrew also runs guided trips, which we talk about in this e...
Tom is a stand up comedian, a podcaster, a television host, a writer and a professional traveler. He regularly travels all over the world to tell jokes and stories on stage. For a time, he had no home base, and lived out of a suitcase in Europe and Asia. He is a traveler in in the truest sense of the word.
In this episode, we tell travel stories and talk about Tom's newest album, Aroun...
Brendan is a writer, filmmaker, cartoonist, graphic artist, and the mind behind the widely read website semi-rad.com.
In this episode, we talk about Brendan's creative journey, navigating the internet with a large social media following, van life, and looking back on past projects after the passage of time.
Find Brendan on Twitter and Instagram @semi_rad
Check out Brendan's website here: https://semi-rad.com/
Malcolm Daly is a climber, an entrepreneur, and a fixture in the adventure community. He's worked all over the outdoor industry, and founded climbing equipment company Trango, helped to found Paradox Sports, and was a founding board member at The Access Fund.
In 1999, Malcolm was involved in a serious mountaineering accident in Alaska which led to the amputation of his leg.
In this episode, we talk about the outdoor industry, Malco...
Marcus Hudson is an American living in Moscow. He is the founder of Let's Russia, a Russian Visa service and travel resource.
We talked about how he came to live in Russia, traveling in Russia, applying for a visa, how Russian grammar might affect aspects of Russian culture, and being an expat in general.
Check out Marcus's company at https://letsrussia.com/
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Dave Imus is an award winning and world renowned cartographer based near Eugene, Oregon. He's the artist behind The Essential Geography of the United States, which is widely considered the best paper map of the US that's ever been produced.
Dave and I sat down to talk about his background and inspiration as a mapmaker, his work process, the heritage behind his cartographic style, and the importance of a strong geographic literacy.
Max Sugerman is a videographer and a photographer, and a part of multimedia group On The Bus Productions.
Recently, Max and his colleagues from On The Bus went on a road trip through South America on a converted school bus. Along the way, they documented the experience and the people they met with videos and a podcast.
Max and I got together to talk a...
Shane Mauss is a standup comedian, a podcaster, and an explorer of inner space. In this interview, we discuss Shane's last big tour, "A Good Trip" which featured standup comedy about psychedelic research and psychedelics in our culture.
More recently, Shane made a documentary called Psychonautics: A Comic's Exploration of Psychedelics. Check it out at: https://www.psychonauticsfilm.com/
Tal Oran (@thetravelingclatt) is a travel vlogger and filmmaker. His YouTube channel, TheTravelingClatt, features informative and entertaining videos about his world travels. You'll find information about cities, areas, things to do, places to eat and stay, and how to organize a trip of your own.
In this episode, we talk about crossing the Atlantic ocean aboard a cargo ship, train journeys, and Tal's video making process. He also s...
Dan and Elaine are the real deal.
They ski, hike or bike in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado almost every single day, and often travel for far away snow and mountains. Among other things they’ve thru hiked the Continental Divide Trail, completed a notable traverse in Colorado’s San Juan Range, skied all over Norway, have raced competitively on the ski mountaineering circuit.
In the spring of 2018, they traveled to Greenland to...
Jonathan George is an adventurer and an experiential educator. He's guided and traveled all over the world, speaks a handful of languages, and has taught French, SCUBA diving, and ballroom dance.
In this episode we talk about one of Jonathan's adventures, an 8 month road trip from Switzerland to Namibia.
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Julian Smith is a writer who specializes in travel and science. He's written several travel guidebooks, and his work has been featured in publications like Smithsonian, Wired, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, and many others. He also wrote an award winning book called Crossing the Heart of Africa, which we discussed in this episode.
After learning about Ewart Grogan, a British explorer who in 1...
James Simmons is a traveler and experiential educator. He has traveled and hitchhiked all over the world.
We talked about hitchhiking as a practice, his background, and what we stand to gain from being brave.
For more information about this podcast, check out https://www.longwayradio.com/
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Jorge Latre is an Arctic explorer, an ultra runner, and a pilot, among other things. In February 2018, he went to Alaska and completed the Iditasport 1000 by running (on foot) the Iditarod Trail from Anchorage to Nome.
We talked about the Iditasport, traveling in Arctic conditions, the concept of mastery, pain, and about how to design an interesting and fulfilling life.
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