Rade humano papachango. Oh, Welcome to tangentially speaking lunatics far and wide this is Chris Ryan coming at you with another episode,

590 something, not sure exactly, but we're pushing 600 here 600

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This episode is with a guy named Wes Atkinson

Really interesting guy I met sitting by a fire at a party a couple months ago and we just got to chatting a little bit and within a few minutes I knew I wanted to have him on the podcast if he was willing.

Because he's just an interesting cat. He's someone who grew up way out in the middle of nowhere in northwest Colorado, largely unsupervised wild child running through the woods. And like a lot of kids, he found comfort in nature. He found safety in self-reliance, in silence, in knowing how to climb a tree, knowing how to take care of himself.

And as often happens for kids who are out in that kind of environment.

He learned to hunt.

And if I'm not mistaken,

the economics of the situation made bringing meat to the house quite helpful and quite important.

So it was something that was meaningful from the beginning.

This isn't target shooting or just sort of, you know, reckless macho nonsense.

This was about food and about interacting with nature and animals in a way that held us spiritual importance and our conversation is about how that trajectory has taken him in places he wasn't expecting and the process of recognizing that maybe your life isn't going in the direction you thought it was going and the challenge of

changing direction when you've got all that momentum pushing you to keep going

further and further in the direction that you found success, in air quotes,

as so often happens. You know, they tell you, do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life,

but what they don't tell you is that when you monetize and commercialize and make a business

out of what you love, often you lose the love.

And so maybe that advice is a little more, you know, it cuts both ways.

You got to be careful about taking what you love and

turning it into a money-making operation. So anyway, hope you enjoy this conversation with Wes Atkinson.

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