Ryan Murtha's guest appearances

Ryan Murtha

Freedom Loves Company

Sport in History Podcast

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Barack Obama

Bernie Taylor

Sam Jones

Marianne Williamson

Eve Ensler

Mister Rogers

James Howard Kunstler

Barbara Brown Taylor

Amy Schumer

Jonathan Haidt

Mark Lewis

Conor Heffernan

Johann Hari

Lawrence Krauss

Nick Hernandez

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Ryan Murtha had a premonition. Something big was coming, he thought. So he packed up and moved to La Paz, Mexico in 2019. Convid hit in 2020. He is happy with his choice. We chat about the lockdowns, the nonsense, Francis Bacon, science, religion, faith, and his website, The Lesser Reset. This episode originally aired live on Revolution Radio, Sunday, August 1st, 2021.  Catch Freedom Loves Company LIVE, Sundays 6-8pm Mountain, 8-10 pm Eastern, Midnight - 2 am GMT. Revolution.Radio, Studio B.

Ryan Murtha had a premonition. Something big was coming, he thought. So he packed up and moved to La Paz, Mexico in 2019. Convid hit in 2020. He is happy with his choice. We chat about the lockdowns, the nonsense, Francis Bacon, science, religion, faith, and his website, The Lesser Reset. This episode originally aired live on Revolution Radio, Sunday, August 1st, 2021.  Catch Freedom Loves Company LIVE, Sundays 6-8pm Mountain, 8-10 pm Eastern, Midnight - 2 am GMT. Revolution.Radio, Studio B.

Episode 413: Woh, Mexico, It Sounds So Simple, I Just Gotta Go: A Conversation with Ryan Murtha

The history of sport and the military in this week’s podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Ryan Murtha of the University of Texas at Austin.Conor talks to Ryan about his work on the Tlatelolco Massacre in the run up to the 1968 Mexico Olympics. They also talk a new trend in sports history – lifestyle sports; that is non-competitive sports that took off after World War Two like body-building and, wind-surfing and surfing. In particular they discuss the 60s frisbee boom, which took off through a combination of the rise of plastics intersecting with the developing counter-culture before moving on to the history of weight-lifting in the US and the role of Dave Willoughby in its sportification.And credit too to Mrs Woof, who helped me to edit the podcast this week.Ryan is a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin. A Philadelphia native, Ryan studied at Villanova University before coming to Austin for graduate school. His research focuses on twentieth-century social movements and lifestyle sports. Ryan’s writing has appeared in publications like Slate and Deadspin, and more of his writing can be found online at TalkinBoutPraxis.com or @ryanhoodie

The history of sport and the military in this week’s podcast brought to you by the <a href="http://sportinhistory.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">British Society of Sport History</a> in association with the <a href="http://www.history.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Institute of Historical Research</a> with <a href="https://education.utexas.edu/student/ryan_murtha" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ryan Murtha</a> of the University of Texas at Austin.Conor talks to Ryan about his work on the Tlatelolco Massacre in the run up to the 1968 Mexico Olympics. They also talk a new trend in sports history – lifestyle sports; that is non-competitive sports that took off after World War Two like body-building and, wind-surfing and surfing. In particular they discuss the 60s frisbee boom, which took off through a combination of the rise of plastics intersecting with the developing counter-culture before moving on to the history of weight-lifting in the US and the role of Dave Willoughby in its sportification.And credit too to Mrs Woof, who helped me to edit the podcast this week.Ryan is a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin. A Philadelphia native, Ryan studied at Villanova University before coming to Austin for graduate school. His research focuses on twentieth-century social movements and lifestyle sports. Ryan’s writing has appeared in publications like Slate and Deadspin, and more of his writing can be found online at <a href="http://TalkinBoutPraxis.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TalkinBoutPraxis.com</a> or @ryanhoodie