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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
by Chris 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
Episodes
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AROMA 10.13.26 (What is Intimacy?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com What is “intimacy?” Is partial intimacy possible? Is “falling in love” really just falling into our own projections? What are we projecting? What are we protecting? Can we truly love without constantly risking…
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Marcus Daniels (Musician, Former Cave Man)
Marcus grew up in a ghetto in Ohio, moved to Appalachia as a teenager, then to a houseboat among mangroves on Key West til the hurricane hit, stopped for a while in a cave outside of Crestone, and is now building a house for his family here. He’s a success story, if I’ve ever heard one. Dude is...
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AROMA 10.06.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Trigger warning. This is a conversation about sexual assault. The obligatory commentary on the Cornell case. But really, we don’t know the details about that particular case, so it’s more about these kinds of...
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Spencer Grey (Japan/Travel)
Originally from South Africa, Spencer has lived around the world. He’s been in Japan long enough to learn the language and get real insight into the cultures. I’ve never been, but I’m fascinated by the place. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
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Shane Gardner
Shane has spent the past few years building out a schoolbus, and now he’s taking it out on the road. His first stop was Crestone. Our previous podconvo was ten years ago. Follow Shane’s travels on his Instagram. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
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ROMA 9.28.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Is “genocide” the right word? Does it matter? Are our “leaders” psychopaths? Is it possible to do what they do and NOT be psychopathic?Instructions for getting the paid RSS feed in apps is here.
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ROMA 9.18.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Are we ruled by the Closetocracy? Is Andrew Tate a paragon of unresolved trauma? Would Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton work as national leaders? To what extent does cultural context define our experiences? Are...
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ROMA 9.15.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Is Super El Niño gonna kill us? Is AI gonna kill us? Is Donald Trump or Putin or Iran gonna kill us? Are things really as out of control as they seem, or is this just what happens when attention becomes a...
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James (Bison Rancher)
James grew up in suburban Chicago, studied philosophy in college, and after trips to Tanzania (living with the Hadza) and working on farms in New Zealand, he moved with his wife to Colorado’s San Luis Valley. They now run a 66-acre property where they’re raising a young son, planning to fence the...
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Chris Ingram
Chris and I are old friends, from back in the 90s, when I lived in a mansion in Barcelona infested with fashion models. He and his lingerie-model girlfriend were my next-door neighbors. One night in Paris, Chris was drugged and raped by a man who moved in the same circles as many of the powerful,...
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ROMA 8.29.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Following up on the previous ROMA where I explore the bird’s-eye view of AI. Is our behavior driven by a parasite? Is AI a self-replicating techno-virus? Is it “speciesist” to lament the demise of Homo sapiens as...
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Lloyd Kahn at Home
Somehow, my mic never got turned on, so this one is all-guest. The perfect episode! Lloyd is a builder, a writer, a photographer, a publisher, an athlete and a great friend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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AROMA 8.17.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com We dig into what it feels like to come of age under a permanent sense of "the world could end any moment," comparing Cold War duck-and-cover anxiety to a millennial generation shaped by 9/11, economic collapse…
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ROMA 8.12.26
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Are we like beavers who drown in pools we’re busy building?
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Kyle Thiermann (Surfer, Author, Young Dude)
I sat down over coffee with Kyle on my recent drive through Santa Cruz. Our spontaneous, far ranging conversation included birding in Manhattan, our differing learning styles, how we share the curse of having been raised by loving parents, One Last Question Before You Go — Kyle’s wonderful book...
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Richard Schweid
Richard is one of my favorite writers and one of my favorite people. His books have followed his interests, from chili peppers to the Cuban revolution to eels to homelessness to life after death to cockroaches to the mysteries and intricacies of farming octopus. The phrase “insatiable curiosity”...
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ROMA 114 (Viva España!)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com The world cup, seen through the eyes of an anthropologist. The significance of Barca. Why it’s “more than a club.” Why Argentinians can be so obnoxious. How being alone in Spain can feel less lonely than being...
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Dave Booda
Dave has been around. He spent eight years in the navy, lived in Bali for a while, led hundreds of intimacy workshops, explored non-monogamous relationships and intentional communities, been to Burning Man five times, studied with various gurus and legit teachers, and doesn’t take any of it...
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ROMA 113
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Are the vikings cool yet? The importance of distance in historical thinking. Some really shitty, misguided dating advice. My own insecurities around giving advice. Graham Platner and the possibly self-defeating...
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First Convo with Rick Beato (Re-release)
With almost 800 episodes in the archives, new listeners (and old) often ask me for recommendations. In response, I’ll occasionally re-post some of my favorites. This was my first conversation with Rick Beato (Episode 420, 5/18/2020). Some reasons you might want to listen to this episode. On what...
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ROMA 112 Little Big Men
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Accents. The World Cup. How soccer strategies reflect on contemporary American politics. Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings, and the Big Man theory of leadership.
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Jan MacKell Collins (Wild Women of the Wild West)
Jan is a historian specializing in telling the stories of the many extraordinary women of the Old West — many of them madams and prostitutes. She’s written many books, including: Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains, and...
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Kevin Russell (Does AI Think Before Speaking?)
I love talking with Kevin about cutting-edge technology. He’s up to his neck in the stuff. He doesn’t just dabble in it. He’s practically submerged in it. I hope you enjoy this conversation with someone who knows what’s happening, because he’s one of the people making it happen. If you appreciate...
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Robert Wright (Author: The God Test)
Robert Wright is the New York Times bestselling author of The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. His previous books include: The Evolution of God (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Nonzero, The Moral Animal, Three Scientists and their Gods (a finalist for the...
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ROMA 111
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Would it be such a bad thing if Iran nuked up? Robert Thurman lived a great life. Fukuyama on our innate lack of gratitude for liberal democracy. Some great writing advice. A beautiful song in mystery languages.
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Dadaonysus
Dadaonysus is an artist, scientist, gamer, adventurer, deep-thinker. Our conversation covers a lot of ground, from a difficult childhood to homelessness to being neurodivergent to prehistory. I like this guy, and think you will, too. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
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DJCPR: The Wisdom Episode
A collection of songs that impart wisdom and meaning. The DJCPR series is normally bonus material behind a pay-wall, but I figure it’s worth showing you what you’re missing every once in a while! Hope you dig it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or…
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728 - ROMA 110
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Is Graham Platner the Trump of the left? Could there even be a Trump of the left? Are the pitchforks about to come out? Here’s the article about the pitchforks that I mention. And this is another essay well worth...
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726 - Mehran Seyed Emami (Iranian therapist)
Mehran Seyed Emami is an Iranian therapist, podcaster, and founder of Ravannama (Persian Psychedelic Society), a community focused on psychedelic education, awareness, and harm reduction for Farsi speakers around the world. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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Chris and Anya Live
Thank you Bejinha, Midwest Timecapsules, John Climenhaga, david price, Ryan Hichens, and many others for tuning into this live video with Anya Kaats! Join us for our next live video in the app. Check out the documentary I mention. It’s awesome. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
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725 - ROMA 109
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com What are some of the potential unintended positive consequences of this shitstorm we’re all living through in 2026? Is there a way to question the US/Israel relationship without being accused of anti-semitism?
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724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)
Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals...
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723 - AROMA 11
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com We respond to a listener's question about our own addictive behaviors and addiction in general. How to engage with the inner voices. Why would one be sexual with a close friend? Why do some men prefer to scan the...
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722 - Guustaaf Damave (AI Expert)
Guustaaf Damave is a Dutch technologist and writer based in Taiwan. He has been writing a weekly newsletter about AI, culture, and the future since 2023. You can read it at guustaaf.substack.com. He is also the author of The Minimum You Need to Do Before AI Changes Your Life: A No-Panic Checklist...
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720 - Daniele Bolelli
Author, historian, professor, podcaster, father, partner, son, funny and smart dude. Daniele is a man of many dimensions. We just bullshit for an hour or so, but I’d like to think it’s Grade A Prime bullshit. After this, we went out for Thai food. Wish you’d been there. This is a public episode.…
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719 - AROMA 10 (Revolutionary Bath)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Is violence ever justified? Is structural violence different from interpersonal? What about violence against property? What about when property is violent against us? Is the US/world approaching a tipping point?...
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718 - ROMA 107
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Conspiracies and collapse. Felt the lightning. Waiting on the thunder.
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717 - ROMA 106
The QWERTY keyboard and its resonance with cognitive and behavioral assumptions we all carry within us that are designed around conditions that no longer exist. And other stuff. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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716 - AROMA 9
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com On this AROMA, we answer a listener’s question about whether non-monogamy is an expression of a desire for escapism, fantasy, and a lack of commitment — a perpetual state of discontent. We talk about the nature…
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715 - Baja Andy Bellerby
Andy grew up in the UK, but a series of events led him to drop his life there fly off to a place where he knew no one (although he was born there). As you’ll hear, that gutsy decision paid off very well. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access…
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714 - AROMA 8: Home Again
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com In which we talk about our last days in LA, our impressions of the tenth Bombay Beach Biennale, our arrival back in Crestone, and the importance of choosing your discomforts wisely.
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713 - Jesse Bering on The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson
Jesse Bering is an award-winning science writer specializing in evolutionary psychology and human behaviour. He is the author of The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson, about the world's leading reincarnation researcher. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...
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712 - Peter Michael Bauer (Experimental Anthropologist -- Rewilding Expert)
Peter Michael Bauer is an internationally known leader in the cultural rewilding movement. For over 20 years he has written and taught about rewilding. He has served as an expert source in multiple academic articles and books on the subject. He is the founder and director of Rewild Portland, a...
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711 - Tao Ruspoli (Film Director: The Dulcinée Dialectic)
Tao is a magical man, living a magical life. Film director, musician, philosopher, bon-vivant, and all-around lovely human being. I’m thrilled to bring him back into our party again (for the fourth time?). Anya, Tao and I recorded this in our van at his recent 50th birthday celebration. This is a...
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710 - Ryley Newport (Smart young dude on a path with heart)
I got an email from a guy named Nick, who suggested I might like to meet his buddy, Ryley, who happened to be in Baja. I could sense the love and respect Nick felt for his friend. And then fate placed Ryley just a few miles down the coast from where we were camped out, so it all came together...
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709 - AROMA 7
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Probably our last AROMA from Baja. This one comes to you from a campfire on the beach. We talk about education, the war in Iran, and the ones who walk away from Omelas, among other things.
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708 - AROMA 6 (from the Palapa)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com In this one we talk about our reactions to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” by Ursula K. LeGuin. Is there any walking away? What are we walking away from? Is there a way to live in this world without the…
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Live with Chris and Anya in Santa Inés, Baja.
We figure out the framing a minute in. Thank you Nickalas Chisari, Bob Goldsmith, Dustin Fenster, Devin McManus, Raymundo Ortiz, and many others for tuning into our live video! Join us for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other…
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707 - Barbara Lindoerfer
Barbara, Anya’s grandmother, has lived a full life of 91 years and going strong. She’s lived all over the world, raised two sons, studied Jungian psychology, loved and lost and loved some more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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706 - AROMA 5 (Los Cerritos)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.com Updates on our Mexico travels, my attempts to master the flip-flop, my dermatological disabilities, Anya’s thing for older men (and why older isn’t necessarily better), and the blessings and burdens of being...
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