Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

By Christopher Ryan

Society & Culture Arts

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Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is spontaneous, organic, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unexpected people. Come hang with porn stars, comedians, bank robbers, drug smugglers, health gurus, scientists, authors, world travelers, and an Italian prince or two.

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476 - Dean Radin (Author/In...

05.10.2021

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Radin has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He is ...

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05.10.2021 476 - Dean Radin (Author/Investigator of Psychic Phenomena) Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Radin has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He is ...
05.04.2021 475 - ROMA 47 (On "The Myth of Black Athletic Superiority") A few amazing intro snips from listeners (including a guy up a tree rescuing a cat), some talk about the nature of "friendship" in Hollywood, and an in-depth rant about this article and the problem with contemporary tendencies to argue ...
04.30.2021 474 - April Video ROMA 46 Here's the audio from this month's video ROMA that I make for supporters of the podcast. No video for you (!) but some extras, including talking about when/how to offer advice to friends, and how sometimes it's not about what ...
04.29.2021 473 - Eric Berkowitz (Author: "Dangerous Ideas") ERIC BERKOWITZ is a writer, lawyer, and journalist. He is the author of: The Boundaries of Desire: Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities and Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire. His new book, Dangerous Ideas: A ...
04.27.2021 472 - Jamie Wheal (Author: "Recapturing the Rapture") Jamie is an expert in peak performance and leadership, specializing in neuroanthropology––the intersection of culture, biology and psychology. His new book, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind is now available.
04.21.2021 471 - Tracy Clark-Flory (Author of "Want Me") Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of “girl power” and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was “broken glass ceilings” and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward sexual empowerment, she set out to become ...
04.15.2021 470 - Steven Donziger (Human Rights Lawyer) Steven Donziger is a renowned lawyer, writer, and public speaker with a focus on addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. Due to highly suspicious legal maneuvers on the part of Chevron and their lawyers, Steven has been under house ...
04.12.2021 469 - Robert Wright (Author and Journalist) Robert Wright is an American journalist and author who writes about science, history, politics, and religion. He has written five books: Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information (1988), The Moral Animal (1994), Nonzero: ...
04.06.2021 468 - Rafe Kelley (Evolve, Move, Play) Rafe Kelley is an unusual dude. As focused on ideas as he is on physical movement, Rafe has studied martial arts, philosophy, parkour, anthropology, gymnastics, and evolution. He comes from an unusual family background (to put it mildly), and now ...
03.24.2021 467 - ROMA 45 (SJWs, Fear of Death, Madness of Crowds) This one goes from a defense of Dan Savage to the demise of organized religion to the necessary irrationality of group identity to institutional momentum to whether sex and gender are biological or merely cultural phenomena.
03.19.2021 466 - Jenny Odell (Artist and Author of How to Do Nothing) Jenny Odell is an artist, educator, and author. She was Artist in Residence at the San Francisco dump! Her book is called How to Do Nothing.
03.10.2021 465 - Brian Hare (Scientist. Author. Dog Guy.) Dr. Brian Hare is a core member of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience, a Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, and Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University.
03.01.2021 464 - Roger Nygard (Director: Trekkies, The Office & Editor: Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm) Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. Nygard’s previous documentary The Nature of Existence, addressed the subject of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems. Nygard has also ...
02.19.2021 463 - Bryan Callen (Comedian and Actor) Bryan Callen is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, podcaster, and a friend of mine
02.18.2021 462 - John Colapinto (Journalist and Author of This is the Voice) John Colapinto is a journalist, author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2000, he wrote the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, which exposed the details of ...
02.15.2021 461 - ROMA 44: The Way of the Inferior Man Over the past few years, I've repeatedly been asked if I'd read The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida. Having long ago given up on being a superior man, I hadn't. Finally got around to reading it, and ...
02.10.2021 460 - Niles Heckman (Documentarian, Photographer, Essayist) Niles is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and essayist who's work focuses around themes of ageless wisdom for our modern times.
01.20.2021 459 - Deborah Copaken (Author, Photojournalist, Badass) What a woman! Deborah Copaken has slept in caves in Afghanistan, produced documentaries, raised three kids, and written best-selling books on the A train under the cold streets of Manhattan. She's smart, funny, tough, and honest. A perfect podcast guest, ...
01.17.2021 458 ROMA 43 (Diego Fresco) Welcome to another Ramblin' ROMA. Lots to cover in this one. I talk about: Current events (of course); How/why to compliment the women/men in your life; Why we need to think globally, but act locally; The life and death of ...
01.10.2021 457 - ROMA 42 Hear that? That's the sound of shit hitting the fan. In this episode (not for the faint of heart), I trace current events back to the marriage of modern advertising and politics in the 1980s and the fragmentation of media. ...
01.04.2021 456 - Dr. Eleonor Janega (Expert on Medieval Sexuality) Eleanor Janega is a very smart, very funny medieval historian, specializing in late medieval sexuality, apocalyptic thought, propaganda, and the urban experience in general, and in central Europe more particularly. She teaches medieval and early modern history at a number ...
12.22.2020 455 - VROMA 12.2020 (Audio of Monthly VROMA for Subscribers) In this episode, I answer listener questions about whether to savor or defend a world that may be dying, how to be single but not alone, how to choose a safe place to make a stand, and my feelings about ...
12.18.2020 454 - ROMA 41 (How to Think for Yourself) In this episode, I talk about how to think independently, why it's an important skill, and how to cultivate it -- all while dipping in and out of Paul Graham's essay, "How to Think for Yourself."
12.11.2020 453 - Erin Ginder-Shaw and Anya Kaats (Whore Rapport Podcast) Anya and Erin are two of my all-time favorite people. Whore Rapport is their podcast, where they explore and discuss a version of sexuality that is healthy, strong, and aware, by "delving into topics such as gender, orientation, intimacy, and ...
12.02.2020 452 - Rick Beato Returns (Music Producer and Host of What Makes This Song Great?) For my money, Rick Beato is the most knowledgeable, most enthusiastic, most open-hearted guide to the world of music. Dude can break a song down to its essence without draining its magic and beauty. Quite the opposite, in fact. After ...
11.30.2020 451 - Dr. Ted Achacoso (Health Optimization Pioneer) Dr. Ted Achacoso attained a college degree in biology at the age of 18 and a doctor of medicine at the age of 22. A polymath who has professionally trained in interventional neuroradiology, pharmacology, neurology, medical informatics, neuro-interventional radiology interventional ...
11.21.2020 450 - Whitney Lake (Inventor & High School Buddy) It had been four decades since I'd heard from Whitney Lake, who was a legend at Cazenovia High School in 1979-80. His reputation for brilliant disruption greeted me when I moved to town, halfway through senior year. He still excels ...
11.13.2020 449 - Chad Hilke (Writer - Hipcrime) Chad came to my attention via his always thoughtful, articulate posts on the Tangentially Speaking subReddit. I wanted to know the guy behind this intelligence. I'm really glad he agreed to come on the podcast.
11.09.2020 448 - Rutger Bregman (Historian and Author of Humankind) Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics. His books Humankind (2020) and Utopia for Realists (2017) were both New York Times Bestsellers and have been translated into more than 40 ...
11.06.2020 447 - ROMA 40 (How to Live in the Absence of the Sacred) My fetid thoughts on the perfect sh*tstorm that is sweeping through America in 2020.
10.28.2020 446 - Joey Rositano (Documentarian: Shamans of Jeju Island, South Korea) After extensive adventures in Europe, Joey Rositano found himself on Jeju Island, South Korea, teaching English. During those initial years he heard about a mysterious practice of shamanism on the island that he decided to explore for himself. What he ...
10.25.2020 445 - Tim Cahill (Adventure Writer and Co-Founder of Outside Magazine) Tim Cahill is one of the best writers of his generation. His work is funny, surprising, and deep. I first read him back in the 80s, when I was a young dirtbag hitchhiking to Alaska in search of adventure and ...
10.19.2020 444 - Eric Weiner (Author of The Socrates Express) Eric Weiner is a popular speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss, Man Seeks God, The Geography of Genius and The Socrates Express. He is a former foreign correspondent for NPR and the author ...
10.15.2020 443 - ROMA 39 (Wear a Mask! Pt 2) I respond to some of the feedback I've received in the past day or two in response to my posts on wearing masks
10.12.2020 442 - ROMA 38 (Wear a Freakin Mask!) Some thoughts on the difference between ignorance and stupidity, competing authority figures, the corruption of institutions, and the role of common sense in navigating all of the above.
10.08.2020 441 - (WMTBG?) "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," by Ursula K. LeGuin This commercial-free episode of What Makes This Book Great? includes listener responses to "Cat Person," and a reading of Ursula K. LeGuin's story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," written in 1974.
10.07.2020 440 - Jake Johannsen and Belinda Waymouth Jake and Belinda are close friends of mine and have been married to each other since before either of them can remember. This is what happens when the three of us hang out WITHOUT wine.
10.05.2020 439 - TK Coleman (Speaker and Entrepreneur) TK Coleman is a writer, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, teacher, and a few other things -- but that's enough to give you the idea. He's smart, funny, thoughtful, and overflowing with optimism. We talk about race, Muhammed Ali, and whether the ...
09.27.2020 438 - Miguel Romero (Red Pill Junkie) Miguel has become a good friend, due to his always-smart comments on many episodes of this podcast, his help with editing and graphic design, and his insights on everything from UFOs to Mexican culture and history (which can be found ...
09.14.2020 437 - Kyle Creek, aka "The Captain" (Fcking History) Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Too bad it’s usually boring as sht. Enter Kyle Creek, aka "The Captain," the ultimate storyteller who brings history to life (and to your life) in this hilarious, intelligent, brutally ...
09.12.2020 436 - Beth Ryan (My Sister, Stepping Forward LA) Beth Ryan, my younger sister, resides in Los Angeles. She attended college in Boston and worked for two start-up computer companies. Wanting to get a better work-life balance, she took a year off and traveled around the world. This trip ...
09.06.2020 435 - Julie Ryan (My Mom) Julie Carr married my dad, Frank Ryan in 1960, and had me two years later. My sister, Beth, was born four years after that. While raising us, she worked as a teacher in Middle and High Schools and in various ...
09.01.2020 434 - Monk Yun Rou (Daoist Monk/Martial Artist/Author) Daoist Monk Yun Rou (his name means Soft Cloud) has been called the new Alan Watts for his Daoist teachings and the zen Gabriel Garcia-Marquez for his works of magical realism set in China. Born Arthur Rosenfeld in New York ...
08.24.2020 433 - Callie Russell (Modern Nomad - Contestant on "Alone") Callie is the original bada$$. She spends months at a time alone in the wilderness with her goats, living off the land. She was among the last three people on this season's "Alone," on the History Channel, lasting 89 days ...
08.10.2020 432 - Andrew Couch (Vanlifer/Monkey Tooth Podcast) Andrew has been a pal since he showed up in Topanga in the same van I drive (2006 Dodge Sprinter), with a cool little mutt named Pele and a plan to drive from Alaska to Chile. He and his wife, ...
08.07.2020 431 - J.R. Martinez (Wounded Vet, Actor, Dancer) J.R. Martinez is a burn survivor (over 40% of his body) and Army veteran who, after many surgeries and months of healing, went on to win Dancing with the Stars, become a New York Times best-selling author, star in the ...
08.05.2020 430 - ROMA 37 I've been falling behind on the ROMAs, so here's a mega-ROMA. Lotsa music, lotsa my dumb opinions on things like toilet paper, camp chairs, sexual communication, the Me Too movement, and how to have a good time on a sinking ...
08.03.2020 429 - Anya Kaats (A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World podcast) Anya Kaats hosts A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World podcast, and co-hosts Whore Rapport, with Erin Ginder-Shaw. Anya consistently challenges her listeners to reconsider what's really going on within discussions of gender, power, sexuality, spirituality, regenerative agriculture, trauma, grief ...
07.18.2020 428 - Kyle Thiermann in CO (Podcaster/Big Wave SurferWriter/) I guess when you grow up surfing waves taller than the trees that tower over your house, you learn to be careful. Kyle is one of the most deliberate, thoughtful, open-hearted dudes I know. He makes as many mistakes as ...
07.06.2020 427 - Diana Rodgers (Sacred Cow) Diana Rodgers, RD, is a “real food” nutritionist and writer living on a working organic farm. She runs a clinical nutrition practice, hosts the Sustainable Dish Podcast, and speaks internationally about human nutrition, sustainability, animal welfare and social justice.

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