HeyJaredThe Kyle Thiermann Show
Conversations with intellectual athletes and athletic intellectuals. If you're new here, try starting with 96 Albee Layer, 139 Matt Taibbi, 157 Peter Attia, 206 Chris Ryan, 216 Rick Hanson, 233 Steve Rinella, 340 Mark Healey, and 386 Derek Sivers.Kyle Thiermann is a writer,…
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#418 Chris Ryan Interviews Me (opens the original)
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Christopher Ryan, Ph.D is a big thinker buddy of mine who is a van lifer, wisdom dispenser, troublemaker, host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking , and co-author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death . Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984, he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska
#417 Write Your First Fiction In Your Seventies - Steve Hawk (opens the original)
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Steve Hawk is a longtime surf and outdoor journalist, former editor of Surfer magazine, Sierra, and Stanford Business magazines. His first novel, Nearshore , is out today. Described as a churning mix of literary suspense and coastal noir, where the clash between land and sea unearths Silicon Valley’s darkest secret, the book is both a window into NorCal’s insular surf culture as well as the plausible threat of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. Hawk will be doing a bunch of book events in the
#416 Understanding Swells - Mark Sponsler (Repost) (opens the original)
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Mark Sponsler grew up on an avocado farm outside Miami. One day an avocado ricocheted off his window shutters during a storm, and something clicked. He’s been obsessed with weather ever since. He graduated from Rollins College in 1980 with a degree in Business Administration, then spent years managing software projects for companies like Rockwell International and Lockheed-Martin. Not exactly the resume you’d expect from the guy who predicts Mavericks swells down to the hour. In 1998, Mark launc
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