Latest Tangentiallyspeaking Podcast Episodes
607 - Gone Squatchin' with Mateo Argüello
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - April 15, 2024 18:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsA few months ago, someone mentioned that a dude had walked to Crestone from Colorado Springs — which is a SERIOUS walk over some very rugged mountains — and that he was some kind of Sasquatch expert. I was intrigued, but I have to admit that I assumed the guy was a wild-eyed wayward soul who’d h...
606 - Jack McClure (Author: You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - April 10, 2024 19:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsFollowing the birth of their daughter, Jack McClure and his wife Alana decided to continue their life of adventure. They set their sights on thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Canada to Mexico as a family, beginning when their daughter was 9 months old. What followed was a 1,500 mile odyss...
605 - ROMA 72
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - April 03, 2024 17:25 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com * Can/should we slow down the development of AI? * Frans de Waal: “Because the role of sex in society is such a loaded and controversial issue, scientists have tended to downplay this side of bonobo behavior…. ...
604 - Adam Kinney (Who Buys a Horse at a Yard Sale?)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - March 28, 2024 23:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsAdam’s name comes up a lot in Crestone. He and his family have been around for a long time, he runs a local business, currently serves on the Town Board of Trustees, is running for County Commissioner, and seems to be admired and respected by pretty much everyone. This is my favorite kind of pod...
603 - Michael Henry Dunn (Actor, Author, Activist)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - March 10, 2024 18:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsMichael Henry Dunn is a guy who has been around the block a few times. He’s a classically trained actor, having studied at Juilliard. He’s a musician and an activist. He’s an author, journalist, Substacker and scholar who has delved deeply into the controversies around Shakespeare’s true identit...
602 - Liza Marron (Local Foods/Local Politics)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - March 04, 2024 00:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsWe’ve all heard the adage: “Think globally, act locally.” Liza embodies that perspective. She came to the San Luis valley about 30 years ago to work on a buffalo ranch with her husband. Since then, she’s lived a lot of life in this valley. Raising kids, horses, dogs, working as school board pres...
601 - Elliot Swartz (Lab Meat)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - February 27, 2024 22:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsTrained as a neuroscientist, Elliot is the Principle Scientist at a nonprofit called The Good Food Institute, which is focused on building an innovation ecosystem that will accelerate the development of alternatives to conventional/industrialized production of meat, eggs, and dairy. They believe...
600 - Charles Duhigg (Author of Supercommunicators)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - February 21, 2024 01:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsCHARLES DUHIGG is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Smarter Faster Better, was also a New York Times bestseller. His latest book, Supercommunicators, is out now. Charles curr...
599 - "Jordi"
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - February 18, 2024 23:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com “Jordi” has one of the most unusual life stories I’ve ever come across — built around a man’s very pure, very unusual love. We talk about being a child of mixed cultures (Spanish and Basque, in his case). What m...
598 - Wes Atkinson (Sacred Wyld)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - February 08, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Wes Atkinson grew up kinda wild and largely unsupervised in a very remote part of Colorado. Nature was his sanctuary. As an adult, Wes ran a thriving outfitting business where he guided hunters all over the worl...
597 - Amanda Knox (Labyrinths Podcast)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - February 05, 2024 14:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard. She spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a ...
596 - Ian MacKenzie (The Village of Lovers)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 24, 2024 22:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Ian is a writer, podcaster (The Mythic Masculine), and filmmaker who is especially interested in exploring a regenerative future and how to get there. We talk primarily about his recent film, “The Village of Lov...
595 - ROMA 71
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 19, 2024 20:10 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com A few of the issues I discuss in this one: Snoring and sleep apnea. Is doubt an expression of humility? Are all emotions, at base, an expression of love? Is deepfake porn an invasion of privacy or a protect...
594 - Lama Thupten Dorje Gyaltsen Rinpoche
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 09, 2024 01:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsTeacher, seeker, musician, traveler, visionary, professor, husband, father, scholar…. Lama Thupten is all these and more. I was lucky enough to hang out with him a bit recently here in Crestone, where he was visiting the Yeshe Khorlo retreat center. This is a public episode. If you’d like to di...
593 - Nick Chisari (Nine Seasons in Antarctica)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - January 06, 2024 00:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsNick has spent a good chunk of his adult life on an island off the coast of Antarctica at McMurdo Station. He’s a cool guy who is living an extraordinary life in a humble, low-key way. I’m really glad to have met him and, with any luck, we’ll be neighbors before too long! This is a public episo...
592 - "The Break-upisode," with Kyle Thiermann
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - December 17, 2023 19:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsKyle Thiermann first made headlines as a teenager when he released a YouTube video detailing how Bank of America was one of the largest financiers of dirty energy worldwide. This video garnered international media attention, landed him on the stage at TEDx, and caused people to move significant ...
591 - ROMA 70
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - December 06, 2023 19:43 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com American Beauty, Love Has Won, Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. “Narrative Song,” from Lowland Tribes o...
590 - Kyle Thiermann (Part 1)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - December 05, 2023 01:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com You know this guy. Big wave surfer, environmental activist, co-creator of the Motherfucker Awards, world traveler, standup comic, beet taco pusher, driveway squatter and as close to a son as I’ll ever get … the ...
589 - Matt & Pete (Owner Builders Unite on YouTube)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - November 26, 2023 21:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsMatt Evers and Pete Van Horn both moved to Crestone in pursuit of freedom, independence, and community. If those concepts strike you as being in opposition to each other, you may learn something important in this conversation. We talk about the challenges and joys of building your own house, wha...
588 - ROMA 69
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - November 22, 2023 00:55 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com I talk about some fascinating documentaries I’ve seen lately: * Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Amazon Prime) * 28 Up (Amazon Prime) * Love Has Won (HBO/Max) How/when/why do our “gods” become our human sa...
587 - Daniele Bolelli
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - November 14, 2023 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsDaniele is one of the deepest, kindest, most thoughtful guys around. He’s an author of several books, a university professor, and the host of the History on Fire podcast, where he unpacks historical figures and events, both known and obscure, with his unique insight and narrative skills. This ...
586 - Anya Kaats (Podcast: A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - November 06, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsAnya has produced and hosted her podcast for precisely five years, and she recently decided that was enough. We talk about the experience of letting go of a project that has brought so many wonderful people, so much intrigue and intelligence into one’s life. We talk about the natural trajectory ...
585 - "Aaron" (Mentorship Series #4)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - October 21, 2023 23:59 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com In this episode, I chat with a guy we’re calling “Aaron,” about some of the challenges of life and how I’ve approached them, for better or worse. He’s a thoughtful dude, and I really enjoyed our conversation.
584 - ROMA 68
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - October 10, 2023 20:46 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com If you saw your friend standing naked on a spire, would you cheer or boo? Have you held bear shit in your hands? How can we measure injustice? Is there any way to stop the wheels of cruelty from turning, generat...
583 - Simon King (Dark Comedy Legend to Be)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - October 04, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsSimon is a Canadian comic with a particular talent for going places that scare the shit out of most of us. He looks into the shadows and finds the humor. From my perspective, that’s the kind of mind that deserves our respect, admiration, and gratitude. Sometimes, laughter is the only antidote to...
582 - Joshua Wright (Documentarian: "Eden's Last Chance")
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - September 24, 2023 20:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsJoshua Wright grew up living in Africa and Asia. While still a kid, he became an environmentalist watching the timber industry clear-cut around his family home in Washington State. Recognizing the urgency of what was happening around him, he dropped out of high school at 14 years old to make Ede...
581 - Cameron Shayne (Budokon Mixed Movement Arts)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - September 06, 2023 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Cameron holds black belts in three martial arts, is the founder of Budokon Mixed Movement Arts and has worked with the Bellator world champion Lovato Jr. fight team as well as Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Slash, Co...
580 - "Nathan" (Mentorship Series #3)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - August 21, 2023 10:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsIn this third and final (for now) episode with “Nathan,” we talk mainly about the creative process and how to pursue “success” without being ensnared in ego and shallow motivations. What incentives to creativity are legitimate, and not just chasing after fame, fortune, power or immortality? What...
579 - Michael Harrell (Long-distance Bike Tripper)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - August 14, 2023 13:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Michael just got back from riding his bike from Alaska to Chile. A few years ago, he rode all over China, Mongolia, Burma, Thailand, and Malaysia, to Singapore. Dude has lived!
578 - Hamilton Morris (Psychedelic Researcher)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan - August 07, 2023 17:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsHamilton Morris is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigates the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs. This is a public episode. If ...
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