604 - Adam Kinney (Who Buys a Horse at a Yard Sale?)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Adam’s name comes up a lot in Crestone. He and his family have been around for a long time, he runs a local business, currently serves on the Board of Supervisors, is running for County Commissioner, and seems to be admired and respected by pretty much everyone. This is my favorite kind of podcast to bring you, where I’m getting to know the guest at the same time you are. Among lots of other stuff, we talk about:

* what it was like to be a quirky, sensitive kid in Texas (not great),

* who then moved suddenly to Madrid, Spain (much better);

* his complex relationship with his father and masculinity;

* the challenges of trying to help kids navigate the world as it is now;

* the experience of spending months on horseback, riding through backcountry reservation land.

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome to tangentially speaking I'm your host Christopher Ryan.
0:35.0	Well, since the last time we chatted I have flown to Spain and back. I went to Spain to deal with some bureaucratic stuff
0:50.9	around selling an apartment that Kistilda and I bought there 20 years ago and
1:00.0	signed some papers and see some old friends and it was pretty intense just you know I was going to say a quick flight there is no quick flight to Spain It was I went to LA and saw my mom and
1:15.2	flew from LA to Barcelona from Paris actually and then to Barcelona. It's like 15-16
1:21.4	hours on an airplane.
1:23.8	Man, that used to be fun.
1:26.2	And it's, you know, I'm sure part of it's just
1:29.4	that I've gotten older and I've flown so much that the novelty of it's worn off but also the experience is not what it used to be.
1:40.0	And I don't have data to back this up, but I feel like the seats are less comfortable and the experience in the airports are more humiliating and you know getting this line and walk around in circles, you know get in this line do walk around in circles you know just you know
1:55.9	look at here take your hat off take your glasses off put your fingers there do this do
2:00.1	that show this show that yeah yeah you're just getting processed you know I feel like
2:07.2	a chicken going down a conveyor belt about to be you know rendered into nuggets or something. It's not a good experience. But I did get to
2:19.8	hang out with my buddy Martin, who I've asked many times to be on the podcast and he is
2:26.3	not interested which is certainly understandable he I've known Martin for 30 years he's one of my best friends.
2:39.8	And I mean that in both senses of the word best he's someone I'm you know very very
2:46.8	close to but he's also just a really good man and it's hard to convince him to be on the podcast right it's like he's
2:59.2	like well I'm just a regular guy you know what's my life's not so interesting. It's like, dude, you're, first of all, there
3:06.2	is no regular guy. And there are qualities that make someone worth knowing that have nothing to do with that sort of biographical, you know,
3:20.0	what you do for a living or how many countries you visited or how many books you've written or how many times you've you know stood in front of an audience doing your standup or whatever. It doesn't matter. You know, people are worth knowing because of the
3:38.2	quality of their spirit and their kindness and their decency and their intelligence and those things are not necessarily reflected in the kind of external visible
3:59.2	accomplishments that the world seems to be more interested in tallying up.
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