592 - "The Break-upisode," with Kyle Thiermann

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Thiermann first made headlines as a teenager when he released a YouTube video detailing how Bank of America was one of the largest financiers of dirty energy worldwide. This video garnered international media attention, landed him on the stage at TEDx, and caused people to move significant sums of money out of B of A and into local banks around the country.Through his 20s, Thiermann worked at Discovery Digital Networks as a writer and on-camera host. His work has appeared in Men’s Health Magazine, SURFER Magazine, and Outside Magazine.

A few years ago, Kyle and I came up with an idea for making environmental activism fun (and funny), and thus was born The Motherfucker Awards, a red-carpet event where the worst polluters were recognized for their outstanding contributions to fucking Mother Nature.Thiermann also worked as Head of Editorial and Senior Copywriter at MUD\WTR, a brand known for its irreverent marketing and distinct tone. While there, he launched Trends w/ Benefits, a storytelling platform that focused on psychedelics and mental health.As a Patagonia-sponsored surfer he continues to use his travel opportunities to cover environmental issues around the world, interviewing all sorts of folks on his podcast The Kyle Thiermann Show.

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Here’s a link to the story Kyle tells about Derek Sivers riding his bike with just a little less effort, and a lot more enjoyment.

This will give you some sense of my own haircut debacle:

The vid, if you wanna see Kyle’s haircut:

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, drinking tea, yo.
0:35.0	How is everybody?
0:37.0	What's happening out there in the world?
0:38.5	I'm sorry if I grossed you out with that gurgling.
0:41.0	It just occurred to me that that would be a really creative way to open this episode.
0:47.2	This is what we're calling the break episode. Kyle coined that term because this is kind of like the second part of the
0:58.6	conversation I had with Kyle Tierman a couple weeks ago where we finally get around to talking about the
1:06.8	things that we were intending to talk about when we started which is
1:11.8	involves all sorts of things, ranging from letting your girlfriend and or a wife decide
1:22.0	what kind of hairdo you should have to whether science reporting encourages
1:28.0	magical thinking and actually results in conspiracy type consciousness.
1:37.1	Because in my experience,
1:39.6	science reporting is always promising
1:41.4	that something is just around the corner.
1:43.0	Free energy, you know, the cure for cancer, you know, some amazing scientific
1:49.6	breakthrough is always about to happen and anyway we talk about that and and then we talk a lot
1:57.4	about Kyle's experience of and mine of sort of dealing with heartbreak and relationships that run their course in one way or another and leave us wondering what the hell
2:18.9	How are we gonna go on after this and so that's why we call it the break episode because the
2:26.7	previous time I had Kyle on a couple of years ago I guess he was going through
2:31.3	the sort of end of his first serious relationship.
2:36.4	And it's a funny thing that, you know, because it kind of,
2:42.3	it doesn't really matter when it happens i think
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