Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Episodes
314 - Wil Forbis (Street Philosopher and Musician)
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I came across Wil's blog years ago, while researching primate penises, and have been a fan of his insightful, comic take on life ever since. What more...
313 - Tony Drewrey (Terlingua Adventure Beer Company)
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tony was our door into Terlingua, Texas. Thanks to his quick response to an Instagram, we met all the good folks of that town, and ended up staying wa...
312 - Cyrus Sutton (Filmmaker and Surfer)
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cyrus believes in creating films which promote curiosity and ecological literacy. He's been directing documentary films for fifteen years since his ...
311 - Mickey Avalon and Simon Rex (aka Dirt Nasty)
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
These dudes are smart, funny, and talented. I caught up with them on tour, after their show in San Diego. If you like to have fun, catch them if they ...
310 - Lisa Menna (Magician/Activist)
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Menna uses the wonder provoked by her magic tricks to trigger real magic: the kinds of thoughts that can make the world a better place. Having p...
309 - Josh Fox in NOLA (Film-maker & Playwright)
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I caught up with Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox in New Orleans (Gasland, How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change), ...
308 - Diana Adams (Lawyer/LGBTQ Rights Activist)
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Diana is the founder of a boutique LGBTQ family law and mediation firm based in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany, serving primarily same-sex coupl...
307 - Jeff Leach (Microbiome Expert / Anthropologist)
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Like millions of people, I first became aware of Jeff Leach when I read about his attempt to transfer a hunter/gatherer's fecal matter to his own col...
306 - John Duarte (Photojournalist & Long-Distance Cyclist)
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cassie and I met John Duarte at a highway rest stop in Dateland, AZ. He was riding his bike from El Paso to San Diego, which is a short "training run"...
305 - Mike Lang (My Best Buddy)
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike has been my best-buddy since I was 15 years old. The Mr. Spock to my Captain Kirk, he's kept me marginally out of trouble for 40 years now. Mike'...
304 - Zhana Vrangalova (Sex Researcher and Educator)
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Zhana is a NYC-based sex researcher, writer, and educator. She has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University, where she studied how...
303 - Bruce Damer (Origins of Life/Future in Space)
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Damer is a Canadian-American multi-disciplinary scientist, designer, and author. He collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new m...
302 - Johann Hari (Author/Journalist)
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Johann is the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections -- both of which are largely about the traumas created by trying to live in a pathogen...
301 - Steve Silberman (Author/Science Journalist)
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times,...
300 - Michael Brooks (Talk Show Host/Political Analyst)
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Host of the Michael Brooks Show, and contributing host for the four time award winning independent political talk show, The Majority Report, Michael...
299 - Jamie Kilstein
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie was a prominent stand-up comic before he drifted into political commentary, eventually becoming a leading voice among the social justice warrior...
298 - David Stansfield (Arabist/Author)
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Stansfield has spent many years studying Arabic and the cultures of the Middle East. Together with his partner and wife of 42 years, Denise Boit...
297 - David Beckingham (Singer/Songwriter)
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Beckingham is a Canadian musician who drove down to Oregon to catch the eclipse with me this summer. Afterwards, we hung out in the woods and on...
296 - Charlotte McKinney (Model/Actress)
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte McKinney is a sweet, kind, smart young woman who happens to occupy the sort of body that many men would sell their soul to get close to. To ...
295 - Michael Shermer (Author/Skeptic)
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skepticmagazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman Universi...
Happy New Year
30 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just a quick message, wishing you a smooth transition to 2018. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...
294 - With Kyle Thiermann in Baja
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Thiermann is a professional big wave surfer, Patagonia surf ambassador, documentarian, journalist, and pal of mine. We took a drive down to Baja ...
293 - Malcolm Fleschner and Simon Rex
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few dudes talking. @simonrex415 @cultureschlock This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
292 - Reza Aslan (Author/Religious Scholar)
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Reza is a bestselling author, most recently of God: A Human History. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers ...
291 - Micah Springer (Author)
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Micah and a friend had been traveling for a year in Africa when she met a Samburu herdsman and quickly fell in love. Her memoir of that voyage is call...
290 - Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell (Shrimp Parade #10)
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Spent 4 hours today in the studio with these two beautiful maniacs. We talked about everything from DMT to the #metoo movement, to the size of Jeff Se...
289 - To Dana Point with Simon Rex
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Rex (aka Dirt Nasty) joined me for a ride down the 405 to visit with Stanley Krippner. Hop in and come along! This is a public episode. If you'd...
288 - Kelly Brogan (Renegade Psychiatrist)
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Brogan, M.D. is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, and co-e...
ROMA 26a
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An addendum for a guy who's a little worried about traveling for the first time. Advice on how to puke, and why anything that's in our gut is kind of ...
287 - ROMA 26
03 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Am I an angry aging hippie? Why do we emulate billionaires instead of real geniuses and visionaries? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...
286 - Jude Angelini (Author & Radio Personality)
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jude grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, near Pontiac, Michigan. He tells it like it is. He brings the same no-bullshit attitude to his writing, ...
285 - Liam and Allison
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My friends Liam and Allison confronted every parent's worst nightmare when their 8 year-old son fall off a 40-foot cliff, just an arm's length away fr...
284 - ROMA 25
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Another episode full of nonsensical advice from a totally unqualified source: Is it always a lie to say you'll love someone forever? Are poly relation...
283 - Tim Scully (Orange Sunshine)
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Scully produced millions of hits of very pure LSD known as "Orange Sunshine" in the late 1960s, hoping to save the world. He was eventually senten...
282 - Asa Akira (Porn Star)
15 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Asa Akira could be the girl next door -- if you lived next to a super smart, sexy, funny, open-minded, porn star. This is a public episode. If you'd l...
281- ROMA 24
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Listener emails about travel, woman troubles, tipping, letting kink get out of control, and a few other things I can't remember right now. This is a p...
280 - Michael Aranda (C-List Internet Celebrity)
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael is a musician, vlogger, and strikingly deep thinker. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...
279 - Cacilda Jetha
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special, very personal episode. Cacilda is going to the Amazon in search of new ways to be a "soul doctor" (psychiatrist). This is a public ...
278 - Sol Sebastian (What is Masculinity?)
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sol Sebastian leads small groups of men on journeys into the African bush in search of a renewed sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. This is ...
277 - Geoff Dyer (genre-defying author)
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of Joh...
276 - Floating with Duncan Trussell
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Duncan is a stand-up comic, writer, actor, podcast host, and occasional summoner of Satan. He's also one of my best friends. We recorded this shortly ...
275 - Jim Fadiman (Psychedelic Researcher)
14 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jim Fadiman is a psychologist and author best known for his pioneering psychedelic research -- most recently concerning micro-dosing of LSD and ps...
274 -- TOMA 17 (Barcelona/Alaska/Snake)
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A long-awaited TOMA episode in which lots of worlds interconnect: an apartment in Barcelona, a drunken night in Kenai, and a snake at a water trough i...
273 - Neal Brennan (Co-creator of The Chappelle Show)
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Neal is a writer, actor, director, and standup comic. He's been involved in everything from Half Baked to The Chappelle Show to Saturday Night Live to...
272 - Amy Baldwin (Sex Educator)
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Baldwin is a Somatic Sex and Relationship Coach, Certified Sex Educator as well as co-owner of a mother-daughter owned pleasure boutique called ...
271 - ROMA 23
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I answer emails about 3-way etiquette, experience vs. thinking, introverts who want to travel, Burning Man, and the Path of Totality. This is a public...
270 - Hunter Maats
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Maats is an author, scholar, and co-host of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other s...
269 - Lyle Estill (Environmentalist & Entrepreneur)
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lyle Estill is a writer, environmentalist, and entrepreneur who thinks way beyond the bottom line. He has founded companies, grown enterprises, and t...
268 - Godi Godar (Congolese Environmentalist)
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When he was young, Godi had a dream that he would leave his small village far behind, but come back to help. Now he's living that dream by directing f...
267 - ROMA 22
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is "pussy" a bad word? Can marriage survive infidelity? Are middle-class white Americans disgusting? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...
266 - Ryan LeCompte & Matt Simpson (VET)
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan and Matt (Veterans for Entheogenic Treatment) are working to bring ayahuasca-assisted therapy to veterans suffering from treatment-resistant PTSD...
265 - Michael Wood (Former Drug Detective)
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Wood was on the "other side" of the drug war when he realized that it was a colossal waste of money, effort, and time. Rather than just ride i...
264 - Kabui (Sparkroot Farm)
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kabui was born and raised in Kenya. He came to the US to study, and has been based in North Carolina ever since. He's a medical anthropologist, chef, ...
263 - Stanley Krippner
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Krippner is one of the most interesting, funny, kind-hearted men I know. We chatted in his room at the Oakland Marriott about channeling spiri...
262 - Alisa Esposito (Sparkroot Farm)
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alisa's path to the heart of the community at Sparkroot Farm has been winding and hilly, to say the least. This is a public episode. If you'd like ...
261 - Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist Project)
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Joseph is an American independent filmmaker and activist. He is best known for the Zeitgeist film series, which he wrote, directed, narrate...
260 - Toby Thiermann
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Toby is continuing a family legacy of film-making. He's a cinematographer, director, whatever it takes. He's been traveling the world with a camera ...
259 - Chris D'Elia
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris D'Elia is an American stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, writer, and comedy singer. He is known for playing Alex Miller on the NBC sitcom Whit...
258 - Jeff McNairy
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff McNairy is the Chief Medical Officer at Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this ...
257 - Gerry Powell (Rythmia)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gerry made millions, lost them, then made even more. But he was miserable. He'd checked every box on the scorecard of life, but still felt he was losi...
256 - ROMA 21
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Special 4th of July episode. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chr...
255 - ROMA 20
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the impermanence of love (and everything else), concern for parents, why getting out of the nest can be crucial. This is a public episode. If you'd...
254 - Debra Berger (Actor, Artist, Mother, Traveler)
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When Debra was 17, she fell in love with a man 30 years older than she who happened to be an Italian prince known throughout Europe for his creatively...
253 - Kaj Larsen (Former SEAL, Journalist)
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kaj spent 5 years as a Navy SEAL before getting a Master's from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then moving into journalism—first with CN...
252.5 ROMA (Recorded at Rythmia, in Costa Rica)
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I talk about the Rythmia Life Enhancement Center (where I recorded this), men's obsessions with their dicks, and my thoughts on male-female relations ...
252 - Don Mirra (Photographer, Adventurer)
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Don is one of the most well-traveled, thoughtful, talented men I've met in a long time. Join us for a few beers as we talk about his time in the Marin...
251 - Calla Rose Ostrander (Positive Deviant)
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Calla Rose is a brilliant, open-hearted woman with a passion to help guide the world toward the light. Her work straddles politics, environmental acti...
250 - Tom White
07 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tom is the father of a friend of mine. After chatting with him for a few minutes, I asked if he'd share a bit of his life story on the podcast. I'm gl...
249 - Sarah Larsen
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah is young, but has covered a lot of ground already. Born and raised in a Mormon community in Utah, she felt compelled to strike out on her own pa...
248 - Hunter Maats
23 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter is an author, podcast host, and a very smart guy who has lived all over the world. He's dedicated to clear, critical thinking. We don't agree ...
247 - Kyle Thiermann (Pro Surfer/Filmmaker)
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Thiermann is a professional surfer and filmmaker from Santa Cruz, CA. When he’s not chasing building-sized waves around the globe he works wit...
245 - Eddie Ifft (Standup Comic)
15 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eddie Ifft has been called one of the most underrated comics in America by the Onion and has performed to sold-out crowds in over 15 countries. He i...
246 - ROMA 18
14 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mostly talk about dysfunctional relationships and the essential sadnesses of modern life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with...
244 - Daniel Pinchbeck (Author/Psychonaut)
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel has written many books, the most recent being How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation. He's spent time with indigeno...
243 - Adi Jaffe (Addiction Specialist)
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Doctor Adi Jaffe is a UCLA trained addiction expert. But before he got involved in addiction research, he was a drug dealer and meth addict. For ove...
242 - ROMA 17
23 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Love, drugs, travel, money, sex ... the usual. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
241 - The Minimalists
22 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus are spreading the message that finding the good life may require dumping all the unnecessary crap we tend to...
240 - ROMA 16
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why not to have kids, misuse of non-monogamy, why not check out of society, the end of friendships, on herpes, abandonment issues, the challenges of l...
239 - Ryan Cleek (Mountain Bike Journalist/Filmmaker)
10 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Cleek (@cleekndestroy) has been on all sides of mountain biking, as a champion racer, journalist, and award-winning filmmaker. We talk about dang...
238 - Jenny Nordbak (Mistress Scarlett)
03 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny spent a year and change working for a construction company during the day and moonlighting in a dungeon at night, where she learned a lot about ...
237 - Moshe Kasher
26 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Moshe is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is the author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who ...
236 - Ron Finley (Gansta Gardener)
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ron looked around at his neighborhood and saw a need for nutritious food, community, and knowledge. So he started planting seeds. This is a public epi...
235 - ROMA 15
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What constitutes success? Can a straight woman love a gay man? Is anyone living the American Dream? And a bonus story about watching a Buñuel film on...
234 - Hunter Maats
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Maats is an author, podcast host, and international man of intrigue. He's been around the block a few times, and has given it a lot of thought....
233 - Neil Strauss & Marg
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Neil and I are joined by Marg, who helped raise Neil from a young age. We talk about music, books, what it was like to come to the US in 1968, and wh...
232 - Simon Rex (Dirt Nasty)
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hanging with Simon Rex is like being in a room full of people--all of them hyper-creative and funny as hell. He's an actor, comic, rapper, former mod...
231 - In Jake Johannsen's Kitchen
24 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Go see Jake if you get the chance. He's a class act, except for when he's hanging out with me. Then he has no class at all. But that's my fault. This ...
230 - Michael Shermer (Author, Skeptic, Atheist)
20 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He...
229 - ROMA 14
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The anti-Valentine's Day episode. What is love? Should we have kids? What about a three-way marriage? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...
228 - Allan Havey (Actor & Comedian)
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Allan has enjoyed a long career as a standup comic and actor. You may have seen him in Mad Men, The Man in the High Castle, Hail Caesar!, and anywhere...
227 - ROMA 13
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In which I rant about the usual: Carrie Fisher, Karl Marx, Matt Le Blanc, micro-aggressions, love, sex, passion, and despair. This is a public episode...
226 - Robert Clarke (Cannabis Expert)
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Clarke is one of the world's foremost cannabis experts and author, most recently, of Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany (together with Mark D....
225 - Bryan and Patrick (Bike Across the US)
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick and Bryan are brothers who rode bicycles across the US, from Massachusetts to LA. Their trip is documented at livehigh.org. This is a public e...
224 - Kelly Hennigan MacNiven (Neuroscientist)
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly is a postdoc at Stanford. She's using fMRI to investigate whether cognitive processes may help predict relapse after addiction treatment. But we...
223 - Elena Argento (Indian Sex Workers & Hallucinogens -- corrected file)
19 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Elena is a graduate student at UBC in Vancouver. She spent four months researching sex workers in India, and is now focussed on the therapeutic potent...
222 - AJ Leon (Misfit, Inc.)
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A.J. walked away from a corner office on Wall Street because he realized that his life was inauthentic. Since then, he's been on a roll. He founded Mi...
221 - Peter Suedfeld (Psychology of Isolation)
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Suedfeld is a Holocaust survivor whose research is focused on how people experience extreme, unusual, challenging, and traumatic events and envi...
220 - ROMA 12 (Hypernormalisation)
28 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A bit of a critical look at Adam Curtis's film, Hypernormalisation, and a few totally unqualified responses to listener's emails. This is a public epi...
219 - Jake Johannsen Blowin' in the Wind
28 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
World-famous Jake and I sit in his kitchen, talking about the importance of dicks and complaining about leaf blowers. And other stuff, too. This is a ...
218 - Neil Strauss on the Sofa
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Strauss is the author of 8 bestselling books and was music critic for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. We're chilling on...