Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

By Chris Ryan

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Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is organic, uncensored, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unconventional people.

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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan episodes:

04.15.2024
607 - Gone Squatchin' with Mateo Argüello
A 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,...
04.10.2024
606 - Jack McClure (Author: You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail)
Following 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...
04.03.2024
605 - ROMA 72
This 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,...
03.28.2024
604 - Adam Kinney (Who Buys a Horse at a Yard Sale?)
Adam’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...
03.10.2024
603 - Michael Henry Dunn (Actor, Author, Activist)
Michael 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...
03.04.2024
602 - Liza Marron (Local Foods/Local Politics)
We’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...
02.27.2024
601 - Elliot Swartz (Lab Meat)
Trained 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....
02.21.2024
600 - Charles Duhigg (Author of Supercommunicators)
CHARLES 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...
02.18.2024
599 - "Jordi"
This 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...
02.08.2024
598 - Wes Atkinson (Sacred Wyld)
This 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...
02.05.2024
597 - Amanda Knox (Labyrinths Podcast)
This 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...
01.24.2024
596 - Ian MacKenzie (The Village of Lovers)
This 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...
01.19.2024
595 - ROMA 71
This 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...
01.09.2024
594 - Lama Thupten Dorje Gyaltsen Rinpoche
Teacher, 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....
01.06.2024
593 - Nick Chisari (Nine Seasons in Antarctica)
Nick 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...
12.17.2023
592 - "The Break-upisode," with Kyle Thiermann
Kyle 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...
12.06.2023
591 - ROMA 70
This 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...
12.05.2023
590 - Kyle Thiermann (Part 1)
This 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...
11.26.2023
589 - Matt & Pete (Owner Builders Unite on YouTube)
Matt 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...
11.22.2023
588 - ROMA 69
This 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...
11.14.2023
587 - Daniele Bolelli
Daniele 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,...
11.06.2023
586 - Anya Kaats (Podcast: A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World)
Anya 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...
10.21.2023
585 - "Aaron" (Mentorship Series #4)
This 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....
10.10.2023
584 - ROMA 68
This 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...
10.04.2023
583 - Simon King (Dark Comedy Legend to Be)
Simon 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...
09.24.2023
582 - Joshua Wright (Documentarian: "Eden's Last Chance")
Joshua 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...
09.06.2023
581 - Cameron Shayne (Budokon Mixed Movement Arts)
This 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...
08.21.2023
580 - "Nathan" (Mentorship Series #3)
In 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...
08.14.2023
579 - Michael Harrell (Long-distance Bike Tripper)
This 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...
08.07.2023
578 - Hamilton Morris (Psychedelic Researcher)
Hamilton 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...
07.31.2023
577 - Moby and Lindsay (hosts of Moby Pod)
Moby and Lindsay are pals, neighbors, and amateur tick-removal specialists. We talk about their new podcast, the many uses of dental floss, the mysterious birthday gift I gave Moby years ago and it’s unexpected repercussions, and the lures and dangers...
07.26.2023
576 - Peter Anderson: The First Church of the Higher Elevations (Crestone Elder Series)
Peter Anderson is an author, traveler, observer, story-teller, and a million other things. He’s the whole package. His books include, Heading Home: Field Notes (Conundrum Press), a collection of short essays, flash prose, and prose poems, which Colorado novelist...
07.20.2023
575 - ROMA 67 (True words and false prophets)
This is a follow-up to ROMA 66, in which I further discuss the dangers of ignoring or silencing people we disagree with. Here’s the profile of Andrew Tate I mention. Here’s “Fix Your Mind,” the video that distills some of...
07.15.2023
574 - ROMA 66
Here’s the interview with Andrew Tate I mentioned. The Milgram study. The article calling Jonah Hill’s texts “monstrous.” Excellent conversation between Hasan Minhaj and Obama. That Fluidstance contraption I mentioned. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range....
07.12.2023
573 - Kizzen Laki and Janet Woodman (Crestone Elder Series)
Kizzen and Janet have not only been in and around Crestone for decades, they’ve played a large part in shaping it into the funky, unique little town that drew me in. The heart and soul of the local paper, the...
07.07.2023
572 - KnowMads (Tom Pepe and Tom Wilson)
I’ve been a big fan of KnowMads for several years now. Finally got to hang with them for a while, if virtually. I’m an even bigger fan now. These dudes bring it all: a deep pocket, great stories, thoughtfulness, kindness,...
07.05.2023
571 - ROMA 65
The Unabomber, EarthFirst, the Monkeywrench Gang, and the constant hum of humiliation in 2023. How to live in a shitstorm without getting covered in shit. Poem: “The Conditional,” by Ada Limón. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin...
06.27.2023
570 - Rich Ayers (Muralist)
Rich travels around the US with his dog, Louis, transforming plain, boring walls into scenes of imagination and beauty. Our conversation ranges from what lies on the other side of comfort, to how health challenges can inspire and inform one’s...
06.21.2023
569 - Joshua Fields Millburn (Minimalist)
Along with his buddy Ryan Nicodemus, Joshua hit a wall about a decade ago. These friends realized that they had it made, on paper, anyway. They had the money, the “good jobs,” the big house, the cars, the watches, the...
06.11.2023
568 - "Nathan" Part 2. (Mentorship Series)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Note: If you’re hearing some mess in the first minute or so, please delete and download again (or just jump ahead a few minutes). The first version...
06.06.2023
566 - Miriam Lancewood (World Traveler/Author)
Along with her partner, Peter, Miriam has walked the planet for the past decade or so. India, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Europe. They travel light and spontaneous. Here’s the program that convinced me to reach out to them, a...
05.26.2023
565 - John Colapinto (Author/Journalist/Sophisticated Gentleman)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com John Colapinto has written two novels, About the Author (2001) and Undone (2015). In 2000, he published As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as...
05.18.2023
564 - ROMA 64
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” ― Chögyam Trungpa Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Too Much Reality,”...
05.15.2023
563 - "Nathan" (Mentorship Series, 1 of 3)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Trying something a little different here. A guy we’re agreeing to call “Nathan” wrote to me asking for some life advice, but suggested it could be interesting...
05.11.2023
562 - Alex Pappademas (Author: Quantum Criminals)
Alex wrote a book called Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (beautifully illustrated by Joan LeMay). It’s a fantastic book about one of the most interesting bands of all time. They...
05.03.2023
561 - ROMA 63
Should we be excited or concerned about AI? Is technology learning to mimic us or are we learning to mimic technology? Who’s colonizing whom? I talk about some upcoming interviews I’ve got cooking. This is a public episode. If you’d...
04.25.2023
560 - Turner Osler, MD
Dr. Turner Osler studied anthropology at Princeton, before becoming a surgeon and research epidemiologist. After 30 years working at the University of Vermont’s trauma center, Dr. Osler left the operating room and began a career as a research epidemiologist, which...
04.19.2023
559 - He is Risen!
Hey. I hope you missed me as much as I missed you! This is the podcast where I explain where I’ve been for the past few weeks and why. I also talk about some ways to get in touch with...
03.11.2023
558 - ROMA 62
Thoughts while driving: — Why are teenagers so unhappy? — Are we drowning in a bullshit tsunami? — Shouldn’t there be a word for the current partner of your ex? — Are there love songs written to a former partner?...
02.27.2023
557 - Eric Czuleger (Traveler to Non-Existent Countries)
Eric Czuleger is currently banned from entering Turkey due to an accusation that he is a spy. He is not a spy. He is however, the author of books and plays as well as long form nonfiction and journalism. Most...

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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan episodes:

607 - Gone Squatchin' with Mateo Argüello

606 - Jack McClure (Author: You Carry the Tent, I'll Carry the Baby: One Family's Journey on the Pacific Crest Trail)

605 - ROMA 72

604 - Adam Kinney (Who Buys a Horse at a Yard Sale?)

603 - Michael Henry Dunn (Actor, Author, Activist)

602 - Liza Marron (Local Foods/Local Politics)

601 - Elliot Swartz (Lab Meat)

600 - Charles Duhigg (Author of Supercommunicators)

599 - "Jordi"

598 - Wes Atkinson (Sacred Wyld)

597 - Amanda Knox (Labyrinths Podcast)

596 - Ian MacKenzie (The Village of Lovers)

595 - ROMA 71

594 - Lama Thupten Dorje Gyaltsen Rinpoche

593 - Nick Chisari (Nine Seasons in Antarctica)

592 - "The Break-upisode," with Kyle Thiermann

591 - ROMA 70

590 - Kyle Thiermann (Part 1)

589 - Matt & Pete (Owner Builders Unite on YouTube)

588 - ROMA 69

587 - Daniele Bolelli

586 - Anya Kaats (Podcast: A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World)

585 - "Aaron" (Mentorship Series #4)

584 - ROMA 68

583 - Simon King (Dark Comedy Legend to Be)

582 - Joshua Wright (Documentarian: "Eden's Last Chance")

581 - Cameron Shayne (Budokon Mixed Movement Arts)

580 - "Nathan" (Mentorship Series #3)

579 - Michael Harrell (Long-distance Bike Tripper)

578 - Hamilton Morris (Psychedelic Researcher)

577 - Moby and Lindsay (hosts of Moby Pod)

576 - Peter Anderson: The First Church of the Higher Elevations (Crestone Elder Series)

575 - ROMA 67 (True words and false prophets)

574 - ROMA 66

573 - Kizzen Laki and Janet Woodman (Crestone Elder Series)

572 - KnowMads (Tom Pepe and Tom Wilson)

571 - ROMA 65

570 - Rich Ayers (Muralist)

569 - Joshua Fields Millburn (Minimalist)

568 - "Nathan" Part 2. (Mentorship Series)

566 - Miriam Lancewood (World Traveler/Author)

565 - John Colapinto (Author/Journalist/Sophisticated Gentleman)

564 - ROMA 64

563 - "Nathan" (Mentorship Series, 1 of 3)

562 - Alex Pappademas (Author: Quantum Criminals)

561 - ROMA 63

560 - Turner Osler, MD

559 - He is Risen!

558 - ROMA 62

557 - Eric Czuleger (Traveler to Non-Existent Countries)

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