331 - Michael Reynolds (Earthships)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Michael has devoted his life to the simple, radical notion that a home can provide the essential elements of a good life: shelter, food, water, waste management, and energy. His designs for Earthships provide all of this and more, as they're largely made from discarded materials: tires, bottles, cans, and so on. If your home can provide what you need, you've suddenly become free, revolutionary, and very dangerous.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Chris, I hope you are well. I am currently in UNAN Province, South West China at Kung Fu School. |
| 0:06.0 | It's Sunday morning, I'm just getting ready to go hiking through some of the Himalayan foot hills with some of the other students. |
| 0:11.0 | What they don't know is I'm actually looking for somewhere I can come back to to drop acid in a few weeks. |
| 0:15.0 | I love the podcast, I can't wait for the book, keep doing what you do man, thanks. |
| 0:21.0 | Hi Chris, this is Monica from San Juan Puerto Rico. |
| 0:24.0 | It's almost midnight, I'm coming home from a night of dancing salsa and I just took a look at my little heart app and it's like 8000 something steps. |
| 0:35.0 | Not bad huh? Anyway so I'm winding down, listening to your podcast and I decided to say hello to you and all your tangentially speaking listeners. |
| 0:44.0 | It's great to make me feel connected, to feel part of a tribe and to feel smarter every time I listen to your conversations. |
| 0:54.0 | Anyway, thank you especially for inspiring me to start my own podcast called Vidas en arte y movimiento. |
| 1:01.0 | And if you're ever down in Puerto Rico in the last colony, look me up, I'd love to show you around our beaches and our caves and our mountains. |
| 1:11.0 | Take care, ciao. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey Chris, Terri O'Donnell here, currently climbing Mount Abang in Bali, Bali second highest peak in the pitch black. |
| 1:27.0 | Hopefully catch a beautiful sunrise. The moon is out, stars are out and I couldn't be fucking happy here. |
| 1:39.0 | Keep up the good work buddy, have ya. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah hi Chris, this is Daniel here from Freemano, Western Australia. I'm at work with my dog Billy where I am over the lawns under a beautiful Australian sky. |
| 1:49.0 | It's 25 degrees here so you can't get better weather. It's an absolute stunner of a day. |
| 1:54.0 | And yeah, I'm two minutes from the beach so I'm putting about six hours here and I'll take Billy to the beach for a swim and he'll be nice and happy after that. |
| 2:02.0 | And yeah, I just want to say thanks for the show, Billy St. Hyde. I just want to say thanks for the show and I've been listening since 2013 and I just want to say thanks for teaching me that a life rich with experience trumps a life rich with material growth, a whole heartily believe that. |
| 2:17.0 | Keep doing what you do Chris because I'm going to keep listening by mate, ciao. |
| 2:21.0 | Oh hell yeah, I love you people. Kung Fu Jamie, Puerto Rican dancer, guy climbing the volcano and Bali and amazingly Australian dude and Brian the dog. |
| 2:36.0 | Thank you all for your lovely little voice messages there. I'm sitting by a river in Durango, Colorado. I'm in the front of the van. You'll hear background noise and I'm sure cars are coming and going in this parking lot. |
| 2:50.0 | It seems to be a place where people get inner tubes and float down the river. |
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