411 - Eli Marienthal (Back to Earth)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Eli and his buddy, Jesse, run Back to Earth, an organization created to take groups of boys and young men into the wilderness for ten days and nights. What happens is powerful, magical, and utterly natural.

Eli is trained through The Tracking Project in Corrales, New Mexico, a non-profit led by John Stokes devoted to peacemaking, nature awareness and cross cultural respect. He is a NOLS alumnus and a certified Wilderness First Responder.

In addition to his work at Back to Earth, Eli is PhD candidate in Geography at UC Berkeley, working on a dissertation about public space and the politics of belonging in Oakland. He has previously conducted research in Haiti and India, and holds a double bachelor's degree and a master's degree in international development studies from Brown University.

Eli is also a poet, dancer, songwriter and spoken-word performer. He was a first generation Youth Speaks poet, and was (maybe still is) the youngest member of a winning Brave New Voices National Slam Team, as well as the youngest to win the Bay Area Slam. He continues to perform original work in a wide variety of venues.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Key West Run” by Bobby Weidman; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0	Radio Manu, Papa Chango.
0:02.6	Subscribe fattyKent
0:15.1	music
0:17.2	music
0:29.2	Hey Chris, what's up? This is River from Ohio. I am in the Barcelona Airport
0:36.7	currently trying to flee before the border flows going back to my place of
0:42.1	residency in Hamburg, Germany. Your podcast is keeping me entertained and at
0:50.2	ease while I'm in the belly of the beast as the panic ensues. Thanks buddy.
0:56.4	Thank you River. I hope everybody's doing okay out there. What a fucking
1:02.4	mess. Crazy times, crazy times. I was thinking I think it was the last episode I
1:11.8	repeated the African saying that the best place to keep extra food is in your
1:21.0	friend's stomach. I was thinking of another African saying that I heard
1:26.2	somewhere or read somewhere or maybe it's not even Africa. I don't know but it's
1:29.8	one of these hunter-gather type sayings that if there's enough for one there's
1:34.4	enough for two and if there's enough for two there's enough for three and if
1:39.0	there's enough for three we see where this is going right. I remember reading and
1:44.1	I think it was one of Darwin's notebooks that he kept when he was cruising
1:51.2	around the tip of South America and interacting with native people there. He was
1:59.0	very frustrated. Amused and frustrated as a you know 19th century British
2:05.0	scientists would be by native people. He was commenting on their insistence on
2:10.8	sharing and he was sort of dismissive of them because you're saying as long as
2:18.8	they insist on sharing everything you know there'll never be a leader who can
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