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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

165 - Lodhy

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2016

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Lodhy is my favorite kind of person. An unassuming man who has lived a life full of adventure, learning, challenges, love, and generosity. His life has ranged from living in a house formerly occupied by Winston Churchill in Pakistan to riding a motorcycle from London to Islamabad and from LA to the Arctic Circle.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papacango.

0:02.3

Music

0:27.6

Greetings from Mexico City, Mexico.

0:31.8

This is a pretty cool place.

0:32.9

I've heard a lot of bad things about the city over the years.

0:36.4

I haven't been here for, I don't know, 20, 25 years or something.

0:41.0

I came here when I was traveling in Mexico back in the 80s.

0:45.0

Don't remember a damn thing about it.

0:47.6

But we've had a great time here.

0:51.2

It's been great weather, really nice, warm sunny days, chilly nights.

0:56.5

It's a strange place.

0:57.7

I mean, there are more people in Mexico City than in Canada and Australia combined, I think.

1:04.2

Like 25 million people are something in this city.

1:07.9

So, that's pretty intense.

1:12.2

But it's muffled.

1:16.6

I don't know how else to say it.

1:18.0

It feels muffled here.

1:19.5

It's quiet.

1:20.8

It's strange.

1:22.1

I don't know if it's because it's a high altitude,

1:24.6

and maybe the sound doesn't travel as well in the thinner air, or if it's cultural,

1:31.9

and people just don't honk their horns very much.

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