575 - Kyle Thiermann
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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In today's show Kyle Thiermann shares the near death experience that altered his life's perspective, explains the creative fertility nested in boredom, shares how his relationship with psychedelics has changed after nearly a decade of experimentation, reflects on the moment he learned you don't need to master your hobbies, and discusses his desire to maintain strong relationships with his parents despite developing radically different ideologies and how that inspired his first book, "One Last Question Before You Go: Why You Should Interview Your Parent's". Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good news. We just locked in our third annual listener surf trips. Of course, these are for |
| 0:06.9 | 26. We're going to be doing Nicaragua in April and then Chakama, Peru, once again, in August. |
| 0:14.5 | So more on Chakama later, but for now, Nicaragua. We're going to be staying at the Two Brothers |
| 0:19.7 | Surf Resort in the Popoyo |
| 0:21.2 | Surf Zone. The resort only accommodates about 10 people, so we're actually going to be doing two |
| 0:26.2 | back-to-back one-week trips. I'm going to host week one, and then Scott Bass is going to host |
| 0:31.2 | week two, so that we can accommodate twice as many listeners, a total of 20 people. The dates are April 12th through 18, which is the |
| 0:40.1 | week I'll be there. And then April 19th through the 25th is the week that Scott will be there. |
| 0:45.3 | Those are both six night stays. Go to surf splendor podcast.com. Click over to the listener surf |
| 0:52.2 | trips if you want to learn more. Of course, waterways travel.com |
| 0:55.4 | is the one who makes this happen for us. They make all of our surf travel super easy. |
| 0:59.9 | They're the world's premier surf travel concierge. And they've been fostering relationships |
| 1:04.7 | with resorts, boatmen, photographers since 1994. They've even built resorts, actually. So they are the hospitality |
| 1:13.7 | pros, and that's why we use them. And it's why you should do, actually. So for any and all of your |
| 1:19.1 | surf travel, go to waterways travel.com. And then, of course, to learn more about our |
| 1:23.5 | Nicaragua trip, you can go to surf splendorpodcast.com. I really hope you can make it. |
| 1:53.7 | Big Wave Surfer, writer, podcast host, and he doesn't state this in any of his bio lines, |
| 1:58.3 | but I would call him an activist, not just limited to environmentalism. |
| 2:02.9 | His first big media splash was the TED talk that he did in 2011 at the age of 21, explaining why you should move your money out of multinational banks |
| 2:09.3 | and into local banks with an analysis on how big banks use your money to invest in projects |
| 2:15.7 | that may in fact be bad for you. |
| 2:18.3 | He also did an expose on a violent 500-year turf war that's happening in Chile. |
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