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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

152 - Ben (Hasta Alaska)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

After spending some time in Thailand teaching tigers not to eat people, Ben went to Chile, bought an old VW camper van, and set off for Alaska.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu Papaccianguo

0:07.6

So I sat down with Joe Rogan again last week.

0:32.5

I felt a little sheepish going into it because I had just been on his show like a month

0:36.5

before. But he was like, yeah, no, come on, you're going to be an LA, come on over, why

0:43.2

not? And so I walk in there and I was a little concerned about it because, you know, like

0:49.9

I said, it had only been a month before that we had done a three hour epic podcast. And

0:55.9

I honestly like, well, what's happened in the last month? Like, I don't really have anything

1:00.1

to interesting to say. I haven't been anywhere. I haven't, you know, whatever. I've just been

1:04.6

at home writing basically and churning out a podcast every week. And that's about it. And,

1:10.2

you know, for Joe Rogan turning out a podcast every week is not very impressive. He turns

1:15.0

out two or three a day. Anyway, but, you know, it's so much fun to hang with him because

1:22.1

I had a few notes written down like, okay, you know, if I run out of shit to talk about,

1:26.8

I can talk about fecal transplants. And, you know, I don't remember what the other couple

1:31.4

things I've been writing about that I was sort of current on. And we started talking. And

1:38.4

like we just didn't look back. It just goes, you know, it goes because the thing is we're

1:44.0

friends. And he's so fucking smart and so curious and open-minded. And he's got that

1:52.1

comedian sensibility of taking an idea and just running with it and, you know, squeezing

1:57.7

it till there's no juice left in it. That conversation is so easy with that guy and, and

2:05.6

Duncan. And, you know, I love hanging out with, with comedians because of that sort of,

2:12.2

not only the energy, but the, the openness to truth. And, and it's not courageous. They're

2:20.7

looking for material. You know what I mean? It's, it's, it's their agenda, you know, it's

2:25.7

like they're always looking for material. And the best material is shit that's true,

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