The Kyle Thiermann Show

i tunes stitcher Thomas Morton (@BabyBalls69) is a writer, producer, and on camera correspondent for Vice.  During his tenure at the magazine, Morton wrote first-hand accounts of infiltrating religious cults, competitive binge-eating and living with a Dominican family for a week. He was also the first non-Juggalo to attend and report on the Gathering of the Juggalos. When Vice launched its online video channel in 2007, Morton began appearing as an on-air correspondent in numerous documentaries and video series, covering environmental catastrophes in the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Gulf coast, and the Brazilian Amazon.  Morton has been a producer and correspondent for Vice HBO since 2013. From 2014 to 2015, Morton served as a field reporter and host for Noisey's music documentaries Noisey Chiraq and Noisey Atlanta.  In early 2016, Vice began broadcasting a new television channel, VICELAND. Thomas Morton currently hosts a long-form, pop anthropology docuseries called Balls Deep, which features in-depth investigative pieces focused on different American subcultures in each episode.   Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Leah Dawson (@LeahLoves) is a professional surfer who is helping to create a new wave of women's surf culture. Originally from Orlando, Leah is now based in Hawaii, and travels the world to help spread positive knowledge, ocean awareness, and give back to local communities with her organization The Changing Tides Foundation.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher As a professional big-wave surfer, award-winning spear-fisherman, free-diver, photographer, filmmaker, and part-time Hollywood stuntman, Mark Healey (@healeywaterops) relies on just one tool to command his ever-frenetic schedule. “I check the global forecast at least six times a day, starting from when I first wake up, and find out what the ocean conditions are all around the world,” explains Healey, who hails from Oahu’s North Shore. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes Stitcher Justin Lee (@bigisleboy24) is a professional hunter and spear-fisherman from The Big Island.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Shane Winsor (@shwinsor) holds multiple national titles as professional jump roper. Today he works for RPM Fitness, a company that specializes in jump ropes. In this conversation we talk about, you guessed it, jump roping.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

i tunes stitcher Steve Hawk (@stevehawk6211) was the Editor of Surfer magazine from 1990 to 1998, and a Contributing Editor since 2004. Steve moved on to become the editorial director of Surfline/Swell.com, from 1999 to 2001, he then helped start the Tony Hawk Foundation, a charitable group co-founded by Steve's younger brother Tony. He helped write the surf-themed HBO show John From Cincinnati (2007), and since 2009 has been the Executive Editor of Sierra, the Sierra Club's bi-monthly magazine. Hawk has written surf-related freelance articles for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, and Harper's. He is the author of Waves (2005), and helped ghostwrite Tony Hawk's How Did I Get Here: The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO (2005). Hawk won a 2012 Maggie Award for "The Cost of Coal," a Sierra magazine exposé into the coal industry.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Margaret Brown (@margaret13brown) earned her BA from Brown University in creative writing/modern culture and media and her MFA in Film from New York University. She directed Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) which chronicles the turbulent life of American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Time Out magazine listed it at number 7 on its "50 Greatest Music Films Ever" Brown also directed the feature documentary The Order of Myths a 2008 Sundance Film Festival selection about the segregated Mardi Gras celebration of Mobile, Alabama. The film was nominated for Independent Spirit Award. It won many awards including a Peabody Award, a Cinematic Vision Award at the Silverdocs Documentary Festival and Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2009, Brown was nominated a Cultural Ambassador for Documentary Filmmaking from the United States to Colombia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In 2012 United States Artists named Brown a Fellow. In 2014, Brown directed the feature documentary The Great Invisible which won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and an Emmy nomination for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and aired in April, 2015, on Independent Lens on PBS. The Great Invisible features the BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010 and its aftermath. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Amy Baldwin (@AmyPurePleasure) is a Sex Educator and Co-Owner of Pure Pleasure adult store in Santa Cruz, CA.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Matt Rosado (@MattRosado1) is a professional skydiver and wingsuit flyer. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Dr. Wallace "J." Nichols, called “Keeper of the Sea" by GQ Magazine and “a visionary" by Outside Magazine is an innovative, silo-busting, entrepreneurial scientist, movement maker, renown marine biologist, voracious Earth and idea explorer, wild water advocate, bestselling author, sought after lecturer, and fun-loving Dad. He also likes turtles (a lot). His experiences as a field research scientist, government consultant, founder and director of numerous businesses and nonprofit organizations, teacher, mentor, parent, and advisor all support his quest to build a stronger and more diverse blue movement. Formerly a Senior Scientist at Ocean Conservancy, Nichols holds a B.A. degree from DePauw University in Biology and Spanish, an M.E.M. degree in Natural Resource Economics and Policy from Duke University, and a Ph.D.degree in Wildlife Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. He received a Bradley Fellowship to study the impacts of sea level rise at Duke University Marine Lab, a Marshall Fellowship to study at the University of Arizona, and a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico marine station in Mazatlan. In 2010 he delivered the commencement address at DePauw University where he also received an honorary doctorate in science. In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow National member of the Explorers Club. In 2014 he received the University of Arizona's Global Acheivement Award.   Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe