12 - Tony Perrottet
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Tony Perrottet, longtime friend of Chris and author of Napoleon's Privates discuss the sexual habits on the ancient world.
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| 0:00.0 | Sit baby, what's the big deal? Feel what you wanna feel? Say what you wanna say? You're gonna die one day |
| 0:11.0 | For example, I could kiss you just because I want you |
| 0:17.0 | What's different if you turn away? I'm gonna die one day |
| 0:23.0 | Why do you waste your time? |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to another edition of Ten Gently Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan |
| 0:30.0 | This week, my guest is Tony Perotet |
| 0:33.0 | You can call him Tony Perotet if you're French, right? |
| 0:37.0 | That's small, yeah, Franco is Australian |
| 0:41.0 | We have a diaspora |
| 0:43.0 | Exactly, right? |
| 0:45.0 | We are sitting in one of the libraries of Soho House in Manhattan |
| 0:51.0 | So if you hear sudden interruptions, it's because various people are wondering in and out of the room |
| 0:57.0 | I'll try to pause it and edit it but if not, that's what's going on |
| 1:01.0 | And they're planning fabulous champagne events and extravagances |
| 1:05.0 | Exactly, you never know what's gonna happen at the Soho House |
| 1:09.0 | So Tony and I have been friends since the early 90s, I guess |
| 1:15.0 | No, or even late 80s, my god, yeah |
| 1:19.0 | What happened was I met a guy traveling in Australia named Sean in Pushkar, Australia |
| 1:27.0 | And in India, Pushkar India |
| 1:31.0 | And so Sean and I were buddies and we sort of ran into each other |
| 1:35.0 | We're arranged to run into each other around the world |
| 1:37.0 | Nepal, Denmark, France, Spain, Czechoslovakia |
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