142 - Nathaniel Farmer (PCT)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Nathaniel started at the Mexican border in April and has been walking north ever since. He's covered thousands of miles through deserts, valleys and ridgelines. We talk about the sorts of people he's met on the trail, the highs and lows of walking several thousand miles, and what sorts of insights one gets about home from wandering so far from it.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano, Papacango. |
| 0:02.5 | . |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah, everybody Chris here this week's episode is a conversation with a dude who has been |
| 0:35.9 | walking the Pacific Crest Trail since April and actually I just saw on his Instagram account |
| 0:44.7 | that he's come to the end of it just in the last couple of days he's reached the Canadian |
| 0:49.3 | border and so he's probably on his way home and I thought I better release this I met him |
| 0:55.9 | in Oregon a couple of weeks ago and recorded this conversation but I wanted to release it |
| 1:02.4 | as part of the celebration of Nathaniel Farmer reaching the end of the trail and Nathaniel |
| 1:11.4 | congratulations buddy it's an honor to have had a chance to chat with you on the way I |
| 1:17.5 | hope you and your dog and your girlfriend and your friends in Missouri I think it is |
| 1:23.3 | all having great time and that you are the hero you certainly deserve to be a hero man |
| 1:30.0 | that's a hell of an accomplishment anyway Nathaniel Farmer very cool guy very great accomplishment |
| 1:38.0 | excellent excellent thing to have been involved with even just purr purrifer roly |
| 1:47.4 | that's about it I'm not going to read poetry or do any big intro this week I want to get back to |
| 1:57.5 | working on the book and I'm sure you listen to enough of my bullshit every other week so I'll |
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| 2:13.7 | accounts with libson I see some people are still signing up for that I'm phasing that out because I |
| 2:20.7 | no longer charge for anything I was charging for the Toma podcast trying to monetize you know |
| 2:26.0 | trying all these different approaches as most podcasters are trying to figure out how to make |
| 2:32.3 | something like a living even a part of a living from this thing but then when Danny Osmond set up |
| 2:39.4 | fund what you love I switched everything over to that and decided to just make everything on a |
| 2:45.9 | donation basis and not charge for anything so please don't feel you have to support the podcast |
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