589 - Matt & Pete (Owner Builders Unite on YouTube)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Matt Evers and Pete Van Horn both moved to Crestone in pursuit of freedom, independence, and community. If those concepts strike you as being in opposition to each other, you may learn something important in this conversation. We talk about the challenges and joys of building your own house, what DIY DOESN’T mean, the tension between being self-reliant and being a good neighbor, the unique qualities of life in Crestone, and a slew of other things. These are two solid dudes who overcame the doubt and fear and built themselves a comfortable, safe home without getting dragged into the rat race of endless debt and needless extravagance. In 2023, this is a rare manifestation of wisdom. Check out their YouTube channel: Owner Builders Unite.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hey Chris, this is Josh coming from Mildura in Victoria in Australia.
0:35.0	Currently sitting in my car on the side of the road.
0:39.0	Just doing my work, usually involves an iPad or walking around opening up
0:46.8	concrete lids and whatnot.
0:49.8	Just started listening to one of your podcasts and as per usual you know the guy in the intro is
0:58.0	Sounds like he's near a bubbling brook or a mountain or hiking around at some awesome area in the world and you know
1:08.1	What most people I imagine listen to your podcast always it's same as I do is they look at your life or what it sounds like your life and it's this pure place of happiness for the most part where you know you choose where you want to live
1:27.6	and how you want to live your life and it sounds really awesome and I'm sure heaps of people out there are doing that but I wanted to
1:35.0	send in an intro for the people that like me you know you're still working
1:41.0	you're still you know you're doing a job that you don't necessarily love.
1:46.4	You're doing what you need to do to get by because you have a means to an end.
1:51.5	I'm currently working a role that I don't particularly enjoy at all.
1:54.8	It's not even in the field that I really want to be in if I could choose. I'm currently trying to
2:02.4	change that with some study completing a degree in a masters and hopefully
2:11.4	you know when I get the chance I'll be able to change my geographical location at least or at least
2:16.2	change some aspects of my life in order to make it more in line with you know what we all
2:20.9	love on this podcast a bit more to do with nature a bit more freedom
2:25.4	bit more you know happiness in general
2:30.4	I wanted to send this in just for the people that are doing the same, you know, it's okay.
2:35.0	There's monotonous parts of life. There's parts of life that require work that need you to put in some hard yards in order to get where you want or even to understand what you want.
2:48.0	Good luck to all those people out there. I hope you're doing okay. Don't let it get you down. You know when you get the chance
2:55.4	to be happy you'll get there. Thanks for the podcast man. Love all the mentorship
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