100: The Story of The Ski Podcast plus Favourite Guests & Features
The Ski Podcast18 Sep 2022

100: The Story of The Ski Podcast plus Favourite Guests & Features

Episode 100 of The Ski Podcast is slightly different from usual as Iain looks at the story behind The Ski Podcast. We look at how the podcast started, celebrity guests, favourite features and reveal our new sponsor.

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SHOW NOTES

· The ‘Pilot’ episode of The Ski Podcast was published in October 2017, lamenting the cancellation of ‘The Jump’
· Early episodes covered anything that piqued our interest, from Ed Sheeran (Episode 4), Genepi (Episode 5) and Jim’s love of funiculars (Episode 7)
· During the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018, we produced an episode every day
· Chill Factore in Manchester were our first sponsor in September 2018
· One of Iain’s favourite interviews was Eddie the Eagle Edwards in Jan 2019
· Favourite early features include the number of wolves in the Alps (Episode 28) or theories about drug dealers in ski resorts (Episode 33)
· Jim left the show in August 2020
· Back in 2017, when an interview went awry it was news, but with the rise of Zoom during Covid, this hardly seems out of the ordinary…

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· CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) is a great resource for anyone suffering from mental health issues
· Perhaps Iain’s favourite celebrity interview was with Roger Federer 😉
· Other favourites include Steve Cross, who man who built a chairlift in his garden during lockdown, Antoine Motillon, a paraplegic pistebasher driver in Courchevel, and the amazing story of the Aspen Ski Thief
· Thanks go to Intersport and Battleface for supporting the show, but especially to Switzerland Tourism for being our main partner for the last three years
· Our new sponsor from Episode 101 onwards is the world's largest ski area Les 3 Vallées
· There are over 150 episodes of The Ski Podcast to catch up with
· Make sure you never miss an episode by subscribing now and join us for the next five years…

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