278 - Sol Sebastian (What is Masculinity?)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Sol Sebastian leads small groups of men on journeys into the African bush in search of a renewed sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Mano, Papa Tchango. |
| 0:02.3 | Music |
| 0:28.2 | This week's episode is with a guy named Soul Sebastian, a so-l Sebastian. |
| 0:35.7 | I met him at a party here in Topanga and I liked his energy, liked his vibe. |
| 0:43.2 | We had one of those conversations where you can see that this guy isn't going to get |
| 0:49.1 | shocked or thrown off balance by anything I say, which tends to happen with people |
| 0:55.1 | don't know me. |
| 0:57.4 | Throw out some weird inappropriate comment about sexuality or gender or stay to the world |
| 1:04.2 | or you know the kind of shit that I would come out with at a party. |
| 1:08.7 | But for the unsuspecting citizens of the world, civilians out there, they can knock them |
| 1:15.4 | on their heels a little bit. |
| 1:16.6 | When this guy was just rolled right with it and we got along really well and I thought |
| 1:26.8 | he would be an interesting guest because to be totally honest with you and I think I |
| 1:31.5 | say this in our conversation. |
| 1:33.5 | It's been a while. |
| 1:34.5 | This one's sort of been sitting in the archives for a while because, or not the archives, |
| 1:38.6 | but in the pipeline because Soul initially asked me to hold it for a while because he |
| 1:45.1 | was working on a website. |
| 1:47.0 | So I was holding it and then he contacted me several weeks down the road and he was like, |
| 1:51.5 | hey, I think that website's, I don't know if it was Donner, he's not doing it. |
| 1:55.1 | I don't remember what the story was, but he was like, go ahead and release it when you're |
| 1:59.5 | ready. |
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