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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

138 - Dr. Susan Block (The Bonobo Way)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Susan Block has done everything from organizing orgies to climbing the Golden Gate bridge in the middle of the night. She's an adventurer in many realms, but is most well known for her work in sexuality. She's hosted TV programs on HBO, published books and essays far and wide, is a well-known sex therapist, and puts together one of the most bizzare and interesting parties in Los Angeles every Saturday night in Bonoboville, the former motel she and her husband converted into a suite of offices and studios for her various productions. Our conversation touches on all these things, but we focus mostly on her new book, The Bonobo Way, and the relevance of bonobos to our understanding of human sexuality.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papacango.

0:02.0

I'm sort of a fan of Donald Trump.

0:31.0

I know that may surprise you, some of you, most of you, fuck all of you.

0:36.0

But I'm a fan of him as a phenomenon, not as a person.

0:41.0

He's an insufferable prick, obviously.

0:44.0

But what I love about him is he is, I don't give a fuck-edness.

0:50.0

And what that allows in terms of illuminating the truth of politics in the United States.

0:58.0

Because the truth is that pretty much all politicians with very few exceptions are egotistical, narcissistic, ego maniacs,

1:13.0

who only want to be president to satisfy their ego, right?

1:19.0

I mean, why would you want to be president?

1:21.0

Why would you think that you are qualified to sit in that chair unless you're fucking nuts?

1:31.0

And why would you even want to? Why would you want to go through all the hassle?

1:35.0

Why would you want to be begging for money all the time?

1:38.0

Unless you're the guy that gets begged for money all the time.

1:41.0

And that's what's so interesting about his existence in the political realm is that he is the money behind the truth.

1:50.0

And he is behind the politician, in this case he's just running his own.

1:54.0

It's like Paul Newman driving his own race car instead of sponsoring someone else to drive the car.

2:01.0

He is the figurehead and he's the money behind the figurehead.

2:05.0

Whereas with everyone else, we don't see who the money behind the figurehead is unless you're a political junkie

2:11.0

and you know who Sheldon Addison is or the Koch brothers and people like that, right?

2:17.0

So I kind of like the fact that he's out there and it's his money and he doesn't give a fuck if Fox News like Summer doesn't or the Koch brothers or Sheldon Addison or the Chinese or Nigerian princes or whoever's financing all these other campaigns.

2:30.0

I like the fact that he's shining light on the process, which is utterly corrupt, utterly corrupt.

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