133 - Sonya Lea (Wondering Who You Are)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2015
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In their 23rd year of marriage, Sonya's husband, Richard, suffered a brain trauma that erased his memories of their life together. He didn't know her, didn't recognize their children, and had to re-learn how to live his life. He'd forgotten everything—even sex.
An excerpt from her book on Salon.com.
Music. "Flag" by Ed Dupas, "Love" by James Thomas & "Smoke Alarm" by Carsie Blanton.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano papa cios |
| 0:00.3 | Radio Mano, Papacango. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to another edition of Ten Gently Speaking. I'm your host. |
| 0:33.3 | Dr. Christopher Ryan, I'm not a real doctor. I just got a PhD. |
| 0:38.3 | Don't tell me about your rashes. I'm not going to look at your tongue. |
| 0:42.3 | There's some psychologists in trouble. Finally, maybe they'll be in trouble. |
| 0:49.3 | These dipshits who assisted the CIA in developing their torture techniques for about... |
| 0:59.3 | I think it was $11 million. These two guys got in consulting fees, helping the CIA work out exactly how they were going to torture people who had not been convicted of anything. |
| 1:13.3 | Anyway, that's in the news this week because they have been censored by the APA, the American Psychological Association. Finally, years after all this shit happened. |
| 1:25.3 | And they're referred to as doctors. And as a psychologist, I just want to say, psychologists are not doctors. |
| 1:32.3 | Real doctors go to medical school. Psychologists just get a PhD somewhere. |
| 1:39.3 | Anyway, this is a really special episode of Ten Gently Speaking. Sanya Le is here. She has had an experience that is sort of beyond description. |
| 1:53.3 | So I won't try to describe it too much. Other than to say that after being married to her husband for I think 23 years, I think she says, |
| 2:04.3 | he went into the hospital for some surgery and the guy who came out of the hospital was not her husband. |
| 2:15.3 | I'll let her tell the rest of the story. But I'm imagining that. Holy shit. |
| 2:21.3 | He still had her husband's body, had her husband's face, and that's about it. So it's an amazing story. |
| 2:30.3 | And I'm really honored that she came on the podcast to tell the story. She came down to Portland. She had some, she had her publishers based here. |
| 2:40.3 | And she was in town and we did this one in person. So that was a lot of fun. |
| 2:44.3 | Before we get to that, I thought since we still got a lot of that 4th of July patriotism smoke in the air, I'd play another song by Ed Dupa. |
| 2:56.3 | It's pronounced D-U-P-A-S and I pronounced it Dupa-S or something like that last week. But he's got the fancy silent S at the end of his name. |
| 3:06.3 | So it's Dupa. I played a beautiful song by him last week, which I hope you enjoyed. And I care for what's it called. Good American life, I think it's called. |
| 3:19.3 | It's called, meant ironically, of course. This song is called Flag. And before I say anything else, let's just listen to Flag by Ed Dupa. |
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