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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

112 - Mark Wiener (Political Consultant)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2015

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Go on. Google "total assfucker" and see if you don't see an article about this week's guest. If that's not enough to impress you, Mark is a guy who's spent his life in the trenches of American politics and hasn't lost his sense of humor or optimism. Don't ask me how that's even possible, but there you go. As you'll hear, I really enjoyed shooting the shit with Mark and hope to do it again soon.



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0:00.0

Gets up onions,

0:02.7

либо And yet

0:16.0

Pigs be cooked

0:26.1

Let me be clear. I do not recommend that you Google the phrase total ass fucker. But

0:37.8

if you were to Google that phrase, my next guest would pop up at the very top of your

0:44.5

search results. I'm looking at it now. It's an article called The Man in the Shadows

0:49.9

from the Portland Mercury. It's a story about Mark Weiner who is a political consultant

0:57.4

here in Portland. He worked in New York for years. He's worked on the national level.

1:04.0

Now he's a major player here in the Portland political scene. In this profile, it was

1:12.5

written about him in 2010, an anonymous political insider described him as a total ass

1:20.0

fucker. And the journalist sort of went with that as his lead, which is why he pops up

1:26.3

there under that. I've had a couple other guests on here who I would have thought would

1:33.3

be much more likely to pop up on the Google search, maybe Connor Habib, for example, a

1:39.0

gay porn star, intellectual repeat guest on this podcast. But no, it's Mark Weiner who

1:46.1

isn't even gay and he's an porn star. But anyway, he's a very interesting guy. He's

1:55.2

much to my surprise, actually. He's very willing to talk openly, honestly, without seemingly

2:03.8

without worrying about protecting his reputation, which may be one of the great things about

2:10.2

being known as a total ass fucker. You don't really have to protect your reputation. Although

2:18.2

political consultant is one of these areas where we're being known as a total ass fucker,

2:25.9

you know, it's probably a good thing, right? You don't want to get on the wrong side of

2:29.1

a guy like that. Is it, am I being homophobic by laughing about ass fucking? I mean, not only

2:36.7

gay people ass fuck, right? So I guess that's not homophobic. I never know when I'm being

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