The Kyle Thiermann Show

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

I Tunes Stitcher Nicolas Rios (@nicorios) is a Journalist for CNN Chile. He was the Producer for our most recent story on the Mapuche indigenous conflict in Southern Chile. See full video here. Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Dr. James Fadiman is considered America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use. In 1974 he co-founded the Institute for Transpersonal Pyschology, and has since continued to explore potential medical and creative uses of psychedelic drugs. In his most recent book, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys (2011), he provides insight into safe and correct uses of psychedelic drugs. The book was inspired by his unique knowledge of psychedelic experiences and his desire to explain beneficial uses of those substances. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in Social Relations in 1960, and his M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University in Psychology in 1962 and 1965, respectively. Resources: http://www.maps.org/ http://scienceandsacraments.com/watch/# https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/02/psychedelic-drugs-lift-mental-distress-lsd-trials   Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

I Tunes Stitcher Randy Garrett is a spearfisherman, surfer, and mushroom hunter. During this conversation Randy blows our minds about the world of edible mushrooms.  Suzanne Simard https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other Merlin Sheldrake http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web David Arora http://www.davidarora.com/publications.html Paul Stamets https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast http://www.redwoodcoastmushrooms.org/ Fungus Federation Santa Cruz http://ffsc.us/ Michigan State Cancer Researcher https://waltonlab.natsci.msu.edu/     Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe