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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

292 - Reza Aslan (Author/Religious Scholar)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Reza is a bestselling author, most recently of God: A Human History.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.

0:02.3

Goddamn

0:22.8

This is a good one. This is Raza Aslan who's one of the world's

0:31.7

foremost scholars of religion

0:36.9

Super smart guy really nice unfortunately we didn't get as much time to talk as I would have liked as I normally do because

0:40.5

we were caught between

0:50.3

On the one side we had he was on the phone with AT&T when I called

0:53.7

I mean when I showed up at his place and he had been on hold for half an hour already trying to get his wife

0:58.6

I set up or something and

1:05.1

It was the kind of thing you just can't hang up when you're in when you're on the line for half an hour

1:07.3

You've already listened to that goddamn hold song over and over and over and finally you're talking to someone

1:12.0

And you've it feels like you're close to resolving the situation. You can't give up then right

1:18.1

so anyway, we hung around

1:25.3

for a while while he was trying to resolve that and

1:27.7

And then on the other side he had another interview right after this one so

1:31.3

Instead of a leisurely 90-minute talk, which I think we both would have enjoyed

1:36.7

We sort of packed it into 40 minutes or whatever it was so

1:42.9

If you're on a long drive and you're

1:47.3

Looking for a podcast to get you from Kansas to Tennessee. This isn't gonna do it for you

1:50.1

It'll get you a cross-town

1:56.1

Anyway before I get to my conversation with raise up, which again, I had so much fun. He's a really smart guy and

1:58.8

he really

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