148 - Neil Strauss (The Truth)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Neil and I became friends after he'd already outgrown The Game, his colossal best-seller. The Truth, just released this week is one of the bravest, funniest, most vulnerable books you'll ever read.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano, Papacango. |
| 0:02.0 | So I'm just back from New York City, which is a real |
| 0:31.8 | trip down memory lane for me. I lived there in the 80s for a few years. So I walk |
| 0:38.8 | around that town and I've got memories all over the place. Things I don't think |
| 0:43.9 | about, you know, in my normal life I walked down a street and it's like, oh wait, |
| 0:48.8 | I remember, yeah, a woman in 1987 who lived in that apartment right there and we |
| 0:57.6 | had sex while she was leaning out that window. I mean, weird stuff that comes back. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, New York, that was crazy. I just flew out for two nights. Neil Strauss |
| 1:10.3 | convinced his publisher to fly me out there for reasons that still aren't |
| 1:14.4 | completely clear to me because he certainly doesn't need me to help him |
| 1:21.4 | promote his new book, The Truth. But I'm doing what I can because it's an |
| 1:27.4 | amazing book. I wouldn't normally recommend a book that I'm only halfway |
| 1:31.4 | through, but in this case I know how it ends because I know the guy who wrote it |
| 1:37.3 | and I met him when he was going through a lot of the things that he describes |
| 1:44.4 | in this book. I didn't really know it. We interestingly we didn't really talk |
| 1:49.1 | very much about what he was going through. I mean, we did, but reading the book, |
| 1:57.3 | I have a perspective on Neil and a context, I guess. I guess I didn't really see |
| 2:06.0 | the context. I knew a bit about his personal life. You know, I've visited him in |
| 2:12.2 | two different houses. He's lived in. I've met his girlfriend and met some of his |
| 2:16.3 | friends people he works with. But I didn't really understand what was going on |
| 2:23.0 | until I read this book. It's an incredible book. It's like a lot of people, |
| 2:31.0 | probably a lot of you listening to me right now are saying, what? Chris Ryan's |
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