305 - Mike Lang (My Best Buddy)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Mike has been my best-buddy since I was 15 years old. The Mr. Spock to my Captain Kirk, he's kept me marginally out of trouble for 40 years now. Mike's a talented musician, speaks several languages fluently, and comes out of a confluence of culture and history. There's nobody quite like him.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tchango. |
| 0:02.3 | śx |
| 0:04.6 | śs |
| 0:12.4 | śs |
| 0:28.6 | It's 9.30 in the morning, Wednesday, February 21st, |
| 0:32.3 | in Topanga Canyon, California. |
| 0:35.2 | This is going to be a quick intro because |
| 0:37.6 | Cassiniar leaving for a month on the road |
| 0:40.4 | in Scarlett, Jovansson. |
| 0:41.9 | As soon as we finish breakfast, I haven't even |
| 0:45.4 | taken a shower yet. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm sitting here at my desk and my uggs in my underwear. |
| 0:51.4 | And the sun is shining. |
| 0:53.0 | And I recorded this conversation last night here |
| 0:58.2 | in my little Huffle in Topanga with my best buddy, Mike, |
| 1:03.9 | who's sitting on the sofa over there listening to me |
| 1:06.0 | right now, so I'm not going to get to flowery |
| 1:09.6 | in my praise of him because it'll go to his head. |
| 1:12.5 | And he has a big old Charlie Brown fucking head as it is. |
| 1:16.3 | So this is probably together with the Cassilda episodes, |
| 1:23.2 | and maybe some of the Stanley episodes. |
| 1:25.9 | This is about as close to home as I get on this podcast. |
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