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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

590 - Kyle Thiermann (Part 1)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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You know this guy. Big wave surfer, environmental activist, co-creator of the Motherfucker Awards, world traveler, standup comic, beet taco pusher, driveway squatter and as close to a son as I’ll ever get … the one and only Kyle Barrett Thiermann. This is the first part of a two-part conversation recorded a few weeks ago. We were so much younger then…. …

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0:00.0

Rade humano papachango. Oh, What's up? Welcome to another episode of tangentially speaking not tangentially speaking as some people seem to think

0:36.8

after 580 some episodes I still have people say to me.

0:43.0

So yeah, I listen to your podcast in

0:46.6

genitally speaking all the time and there's nobody speaking to

0:49.8

genitals on this podcast.

0:51.4

There are no speaking genitals. There are no chattering. on this

0:54.0

podcast. There are no speaking genitals. There are no chattering

0:56.6

volvas or

1:07.9

bodacious balls speaking on the podcast. It's tangentially speaking I looking back probably should have chosen a simpler name but it's too late now anyway welcome to the podcast. This episode is with great perennial friend of the

1:17.6

podcast, young Kyle Tierman, my partner in all sorts of crimes. God, we've traveled the world together. We have

1:30.4

co-created and co-hosted the Motherfucker Awards in Los Angeles, a black tie red carpet

1:38.0

event in which those who have done the most to fuck Mother Earth are celebrated or were celebrated for the

1:48.8

two years that we did it.

1:51.8

Lo and behold, we found it was kind of hard to get corporate sponsors for an event that takes the piss out of corporations.

2:00.0

Who saw that coming?

2:02.0

But we ran it for two years largely on Kyle's blood sweat and tears and my

2:07.4

contacts in the world of comedy which came in pretty handy because the idea was that a comedian would accept the

2:16.0

award on behalf of Exxon or whomever we were honoring. So we had all kinds of great comedians who agreed to

2:27.7

participate and yeah and great presenters.

2:32.8

Fantastic.

2:33.8

It was largely funded by Nell Newman,

2:36.8

the Newman Foundation, the daughter of Paul Newman.

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