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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

314 - Wil Forbis (Street Philosopher and Musician)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

I came across Wil's blog years ago, while researching primate penises, and have been a fan of his insightful, comic take on life ever since. What more do you need to know?



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Chango.

0:02.3

foot

0:19.3

Homo sapiens. How's it going out there everybody? I'm back in Topanga as I think I mentioned

0:35.6

I'm not sure how long I've been here. This episode is with Will Forbist who is a dude

0:42.1

that I think we talk about it in the podcast. It's one of these serendipitous encounters that

0:50.1

I've had over the years. I think I was researching penises as one does when one is working on a book later

1:00.4

to become sex at dawn and Will had a blog called My So-called Penis and I came across that

1:11.4

blog and read an entry or something and found it to be amusing and intelligent and I've been

1:20.8

following him ever since and that's got to be 15 years ago maybe. So totally chance and counter

1:27.7

online. I like the way the guy thinks he's smart, he's funny, he's talented, he's quirky and

1:36.3

finally a month or two ago I met him in person for the first time. He's in San Diego and I went down

1:45.2

there. I think it was the same trip where I was with Mickey Avalon and Simon Rex seeing them

1:50.7

perform down there at the house of blues and anyway I dropped in on Will and we finally got to

1:57.8

hang out a little bit on his back porch and he played a little music on the Yucca Lele which I will

2:04.0

use for the transition music once I finish this intro stuff and yeah we talked about life is great

2:11.2

we really enjoyed it but before we get to that what else do I have to tell you oh I keep getting

2:18.3

people you know when I do these van trips like the one I just got back from which I sort of jokingly

2:25.0

call vamprapology I use the hashtag vamprapology on Instagram and Twitter and stuff and lots of people

2:33.6

are like you should make a vamprapology t-shirt you know I definitely buy a vamprapology t-shirt

2:39.5

so I don't know what do you think about that would you buy a vamprapology t-shirt that like had

2:45.3

Scarlett Jovansson on it somewhere and hashtag vamprapology or maybe mention Scarlett Jovansson somehow

2:54.9

I don't know if I'm in it or just the van I don't know anyway if it seems like a good idea and you're

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