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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- Daniele Bolelli1 ep
- Andy Bellerby1 ep
- Jesse Bering1 ep
Also: Peter Michael Bauer, Tao Ruspoli, Guustaaf Damave, Mehran Seyed Emami, Anya Kaats, Ryan Norbauer, Dave Booda, Rick Beato, Jan MacKell Collins, Kevin Russell, Robert Wright, Dadaonysus, James, Chris Ingram, Lloyd Kahn, Anya, Kyle Thiermann
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- 🇸🇬SG · Arts#15516K to 196K
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16K to 196K🎙 ~2x weekly·760 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
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32K to 392K🇺🇸71%🇸🇬29% - Active Followers
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18K to 216K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/19/26 |  Josh Spodek | Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is the premier voice in sustainability leadership. He hosts the award-winning This Sustainable Life podcast, bestselling author of Sustainability Simplified, Initiative, and Leadership Step by Step, professor at NYU, and leadership coach.He holds a PhD in astrophysics and an MBA from Columbia, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate and helped launch a satellite.He visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River twice, has done burpees daily since 2011 (250,000 and counting), hasn’t filled a load of garbage since 2019, hasn’t flown (by choice) since March 2016, unplugged his refrigerator since September 2021, disconnected his apartment from the electric grid in May 2022, and his carbon footprint is about 1 ton per year. He blogs at joshuaspodek.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 19m 12s | ||||||
| 10/14/26 |  AROMA 10.13.26 (What is Intimacy?) | This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comWhat 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 the loss of who/what we love? Is it worth the risk? | 2m 03s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  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 full of talent and wisdom, and he makes living in Crestone a lot richer for the rest of us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 52m 23s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  AROMA 10.06.26 | This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comTrigger 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 cases. He said, she said, they said, he changed his story, she recanted, they said something else and the lawyers said to say nothing at all. | 2m 03s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  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 access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 21m 00s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  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 access to bonus episodes, visit chrisryan.substack.com/subscribe | 56m 03s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  ROMA 9.28.26 | This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comIs “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. | 2m 48s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 |  ROMA 9.18.26 | This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comAre 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 certain experiences universally traumatic, or does it depend on the where, when, and why? What to do about venomous snakes in our midst? | 5m 27s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  ROMA 9.15.26 | This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comIs 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 commodity? What’s happening inside AI? What’s happening inside ANY science? Does anyone really know WTF is going on? | 2m 48s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | regenerative ranchinghunter-gatherer norms+5 | James | PurePrairieLife.com | ChicagoTanzania+2 | bison ranchingphilosophy+6 | — | 1h 49m 39s | ||
| 9/5/26 | friendshiptrauma+4 | Chris Ingram | — | BarcelonaParis | Chris IngramChris Ryan+5 | — | 2h 05m 18s | ||
| 8/29/26 | AItechnology+3 | — | ROMA | Homo sapiens | AIspeciesism+3 | — | 2m 48s | ||
| 8/24/26 | buildingwriting+4 | Lloyd Kahn | — | — | Lloyd Kahnbuilder+4 | — | 46m 49s | ||
| 8/17/26 | coming of ageCold War+4 | Anya | — | — | anxietymillennial+6 | — | 2m 03s | ||
| 8/13/26 | philosophyhuman behavior+3 | — | — | — | beavershuman behavior+3 | — | 2m 48s | ||
| 8/12/26 | birdinglearning styles+3 | Kyle Thiermann | One Last Question Before You Go | Santa CruzManhattan | Kyle ThiermannChris Ryan+5 | — | 2h 01m 45s | ||
| 8/11/26 | writingcuriosity+3 | Richard Schweid | — | — | Richard Schweidwriting+4 | — | 1h 11m 45s | ||
| 7/21/26 | World Cupanthropology+3 | — | Barca | SpainArgentina | World Cupanthropologist+5 | — | 2m 48s | ||
| 7/13/26 | intimacynon-monogamous relationships+3 | Dave Booda | Burning Man | — | navyBali+3 | — | 1h 31m 56s | ||
| 7/10/26 | historical thinkingdating advice+3 | — | chrisryan.substack.com | capitalROMA | vikingshistorical thinking+3 | — | 9m 23s | ||
| 7/9/26 | musicBeatles+3 | Rick Beato | Monday Night FootballHelp+2 | — | Rick BeatoBeatles+3 | — | 1h 36m 24s | ||
| 7/6/26 | soccerAmerican politics+3 | — | Cannibals and Kings | — | soccerWorld Cup+4 | — | 16m 57s | ||
| 7/6/26 | women in historyOld West+4 | Jan MacKell Collins | Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains+1 | — | Old Westwomen historians+5 | — | 1h 24m 02s | ||
| 6/29/26 | AItechnology+3 | Kevin Russell | — | — | AItechnology+5 | — | 1h 52m 46s | ||
| 6/23/26 | Artificial IntelligenceReligion+3 | Robert Wright | Bloggingheads.tvMeaningofLife.tv+13 | — | Robert WrightThe God Test+5 | — | 1h 30m 14s | ||
| 6/18/26 | Irannuclear weapons+3 | — | — | — | Irannuclear+3 | — | 7m 43s | ||
| 6/17/26 | artscience+4 | Dadaonysus | — | — | Dadaonysusartist+5 | — | 1h 11m 51s | ||
| 6/6/26 | politicsleft vs right+3 | — | chrisryan.substack.com | — | Graham PlatnerTrump of the left+3 | — | 2m 48s | ||
| 6/3/26 | therapypsychedelics+4 | Mehran Seyed Emami | Ravannama | Iran | Mehran Seyed EmamiIranian therapist+3 | — | 1h 22m 56s | ||
| 5/28/26 | live podcastdiscussion+3 | Anya Kaats | chrisryan.substack.com | — | live videopodcast+3 | — | 1h 13m 58s | ||
| 5/21/26 | US-Israel relationshipanti-semitism+3 | — | — | USIsrael | USIsrael+5 | — | 2m 48s | ||
| 5/19/26 | retro-futurismambition+4 | Ryan Norbauer | NASACDC+1 | — | NASACDC+6 | — | 1h 51m 31s | ||
| 5/14/26 | addictionbehavior+3 | — | Substack | — | addictionbehavior+3 | — | 2m 03s | ||
| 5/5/26 | AItechnology+4 | Guustaaf Damave | guustaaf.substack.comchrisryan.substack.com+1 | — | AIGuustaaf Damave+5 | — | 1h 13m 11s | ||
| 4/27/26 | podcastinghistory+3 | Daniele Bolelli | — | — | Daniele Bolellipodcast+3 | — | 1h 34m 09s | ||
| 4/24/26 | violencestructural violence+5 | — | — | — | violencestructural violence+5 | — | 2m 03s | ||
| 4/18/26 | conspiraciescollapse+4 | — | ROMA 107 | — | conspiraciescollapse+4 | — | 4m 39s | ||
| 4/15/26 | cognitive assumptionsbehavioral assumptions+3 | — | QWERTY | — | QWERTYkeyboard+5 | — | 35m 21s | ||
| 4/11/26 | non-monogamyescapism+4 | — | Burning ManAROMA | — | non-monogamyescapism+4 | — | 2m 03s | ||
| 4/8/26 | personal journeyrelocation+3 | Andy Bellerby | — | UKBaja | BajaAndy Bellerby+5 | — | 1h 38m 44s | ||
| 4/5/26 | travelart+3 | — | — | LABombay Beach+1 | LABombay Beach Biennale+3 | — | 2m 03s | ||
| 4/3/26 | evolutionary psychologyhuman behavior+3 | Jesse Bering | The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson | — | Jesse BeringDr. Stevenson+3 | — | 1h 07m 02s | ||
| 4/1/26 | rewildinganthropology+3 | Peter Michael Bauer | Rewild Portland | — | rewildingPeter Michael Bauer+5 | — | 1h 17m 53s | ||
| 3/23/26 | filmphilosophy+3 | Tao Ruspoli | — | — | Tao Ruspolifilm director+3 | — | 1h 21m 18s | ||
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