663 - Erik Rittenberry (Poetic Outlaws)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Erik’s is the brain behind one of my favorite accounts on Substack, Poetic Outlaws. If I were a woman, I’d be chasing guys like him: smart, tough, adventurous, well-read, sensitive, funny, talented, and way more humble than a guy like that has any right to be. He writes beautifully, takes great photos, has impeccable taste in literature.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Chango What's up youngsters and oldsters.
0:29.8	This is Chris coming to you from the past.
0:36.1	I'm recording this on June 17th. I know it's going to be released in
0:42.2	July. I'm not sure what the date is, early July sometime. I'm sitting at my desk a couple days before
0:50.0	leaving for Montana. So if I died in a fiery car crash or something on the way to Montana, then I'm literally
0:57.3	I'm like a disembodied voice coming to you.
1:01.5	But at the moment, as I record this, I'm alive and well.
1:05.8	And I hope you are too.
1:08.0	This week, my guest is a guy named Eric Rittenberry. And, you know, at the risk of
1:18.1	sounding overly enthusiastic, I have to say this, Eric's like my favorite kind of guy.
1:28.4	He's he's got it all.
1:30.6	He's smart.
1:32.1	He's cool.
1:33.3	He's a firefighter.
1:36.1	So he's got like a heroic side to him.
1:39.1	He goes on these adventures.
1:41.9	He was just on an adventure in northern New Mexico, not too long ago, went to
1:48.0	D.H. Lawrence's ranch. And then he was down in the Mississippi Delta, checking out the birthplace
1:56.1	of the blues. He writes beautifully about these experiences that he has and various thoughts he's having.
2:03.9	He takes fantastic photographs.
2:07.6	Fuck this guy.
2:09.0	You know what I'm saying?
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