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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

414 - (Icey) Mike Imber (Reality Kings & Kimbo Slice's Manager)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Mike had a tennis scholarship to college, but things went a different way. Within a few years, he was helping to run Reality Kings, one of the biggest Internet porn companies in the world, and managing the career of Kimbo Slice, who Rolling Stone called "The King of the Web Brawlers."

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Uluaki Fepaki” by Joel Havea Trio; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango

0:02.7

1.

0:30.8

This is River from Ohio.

0:32.8

I am in the Barcelona airport currently trying to flee before the border flows.

0:40.8

Going back to my place of residency in Hamburg, Germany, your podcast is keeping me entertained

0:49.4

and at ease while I am in the belly of the beast as the panic ensues.

0:55.7

Thanks buddy.

0:57.5

Hey Chris, it's Kimberly from Ontario, Canada, sheltering in place in rural Panama.

1:04.6

I'm an international house and pet sitter and I travel around looking after other people's

1:08.9

dogs and cats and donkeys and chickens and doves.

1:16.5

The owners came back from Switzerland early because of the virus and have allowed me to

1:22.7

stay here in a little casita on their property overlooking the ocean.

1:27.4

It's beautiful and I'm so grateful to them that they're allowing me to stay here.

1:31.7

I feel safe and secure.

1:34.0

Have lots of good food and we're just riding them out together.

1:38.1

About four years ago I had a contract end, sold all my furniture, sold my car, rented

1:44.7

out my house and hit the road.

1:47.9

As a pet sitter, it's taken me to Latin America, Southeast Asia, other places in Canada.

1:55.3

It's been very cool.

1:56.3

It has its moments when you feel a little lonely and a little disconnected but I can't

2:03.2

see giving it up.

2:04.7

Hey Chris, good afternoon.

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