Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is organic, uncensored, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unconventional people. chrisryan.substack.com
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709 episodes
691 - ROMA 100
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Does peak experience ruin normal experience?<...
690 - Jef Taylor (Editor, Producer, and Filmmaker)
Jef Taylor has worked in politics, advertising, and independent filmmaking. His podcast is called onefjef, and you can find on any platform or at onef...
689 - ROMA 99
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Topics: How is a plate of peas a key to a lif...
ROMA 98
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A recent health scare. What do I miss about l...
687 - Adam Skolnick (Author of American Tiger)
Adam is a well-known author, journalist, and podcaster. He’s covered travel, adventure sports, human rights and the environment for many outlets. He’s...
686 - ROMA 97
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Does raging against the machine serve as a di...
685 - Kyle Thiermann, author of One Last Question Before You Go
An award-winning journalist, pro big wave surfer, and podcast host with more than four hundred episodes, Kyle Thiermann is a good friend and long-time...
684 - Gabe Polsky (Filmmaker: The Man Who Saves the World?)
This one happened fast. A week ago, a publicist reached out to ask if I’d possibly be interested in helping to promote a documentary about a guy (a wh...
683 - Before the Dawn, with Riley Morton (Part 4 of 4)
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In this last episode of the series, Riley Mor...
682 - ROMA 96
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Words that mean both what they mean and the o...
681 - Tom Murphy (Part II)
Tom Murphy is a recovering astrophysicist. After spending the first part of his life learning the language of physics and mathematics, Tom started hea...
680 - Before the Dawn (Part III of IV)
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This one gets very personal. Riley and I talk...
679 - ROMA 95
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What the hell is going on? Why does the mains...
678 - Tom Murphy (Recovering Astrophysicist)
Tom is a fascinating man. He’s shot lasers at the moon and measured their reflection. After studying astrophysics at Cal Tech he taught at UCSD for ye...
677 - Lloyd Kahn, in Crestone
Lloyd is one of the most curious, delighted, resilient people I’ve ever known. In his ninety years, he’s been a father, husband, builder, publisher, t...
676 - ROMA 94
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How was Charlie Kirk the same as the people w...
675 - ROMA 93
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What happens to famous people who get lost in...
Dan Blumstein (Author: The Nature of Fear)
Dan Blumstein and I explore the multifaceted nature of fear, its evolutionary significance, and its impact on both human and animal behavior. The conv...
673 - Student Loan Justice (Alan Collinge)
Alan Collinge is the founder of StudentLoanJustice.Org, author of The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight...
672 - ROMA 92
Are we (am I) “stuck in honoring the context of the social media platform,” that is podcasting? Is there a way not to be trapped in playing the commer...
670 - Mike Gross
Mike just finished his stint in the army and is celebrating by riding a bicycle from El Paso to Canada. He passed by Crestone recently, and we sat dow...
669 - ROMA 91
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More blathering. This time, talking about:
668 - Before the Dawn, Part II (with Riley Morton)
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My friend Riley Morton and I sat down for abo...
667 - ROMA 90
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It’s the back to school episode! Do you feel...
666 - Kevin Russell Returns (AI/The Future)
Kevin is my go-to guy when I have questions about AI, cutting edge technologies, and crypto currencies. But he’s not just some freakishly smart super-...
665 - Remembering Uncle Dan (with my cousin David Carr)
Our uncle Dan was a huge influence on both of us, albeit in very different ways. For Dave, Dan was a surrogate father figure who helped guide him thro...
664 - Road ROMA (89 & Budokon Recap)
We were camping at the Tom Thorn/Beth Williams Wildlife Habitat Management Area in southern Wyoming when we recorded this, yesterday. It’s raw. It’s r...
663 - Erik Rittenberry (Poetic Outlaws)
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, adv...
662 - Mark Sisson (Author of Born to Walk)
Mark Sisson is widely regarded as the founding father of the ancestral health movement. His number-one-ranked blog and Primal Health Coach Institute h...
661 - Manvir Singh (Author of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion)
Manvir is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Brown Univ...
660 - Eric Czuleger
Eric Czuleger is an author and geopolitical analyst who has lived, worked, and traveled through 47 countries including conflict zones like Iraq, Leban...
659 - ROMA 87
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Some of the topics discussed include the fact...
658 - ROMA 86
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Let’s get into it! Issues discussed include:...
657 - Josh Chandler (Security Specialist)
Everyone should have a friend like Josh. Solid dude who knows how things work on both sides of the law.
656 - ROMA 85
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On principled thinking vs tactical thinking....
655 - ROMA 84
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In which I rip Fareed Zakaria a (new) new one...
654 - David Daniel
David was raised in a conservative Christian reality that he eventually came to question, without questioning his love and respect for the people arou...
653 -Jeff Maurer (Comic/Writer)
Jeff Mauer is the brains behind I Might Be Wrong, here on Substack. He was head writer for Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver and before that, wrote...
652 - Adam Aronovich (Healing from Healing)
When I first came across his Instagram account, I assumed he was a comedian of some sort, as he is so deft at taking the piss out of the New Age, Sham...
651 - Becoming Uncivilized (with Anya and Nadia)
Anya and Nadia have helped lead our retreats in Montana for the past few years. In this conversation, we talk about the different kinds of movement th...