315 - Wednesday Martin (Bestselling Author)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Wednesday Martin is the real deal. Her memoir, Primates of Park Avenue is a hilarious, touching, and insightful look into the exotic world of Manhattan motherhood. Stepmonster, a finalist for the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award, is widely considered the “go-to” source for stepmothers, adult stepchildren, therapists and others who seek a uniquely candid, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and comprehensive look at the topic. She is also the author of Marlene Dietrich, tracing the actress and cabaret performer's life, career, and impact on the image of women. Her next book, Untrue, is a look at the emerging science of female desire and some of the most prominent women behind the controversial research.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:02.4 | How are you, my lovely, almost sapiens? |
| 0:17.0 | It's been an interesting week for me. |
| 0:32.7 | I was on Joe Rogan's podcast Tuesday, which always makes things fascinating. |
| 0:34.3 | There's always a bit of a storm online after I'm on his show. |
| 0:41.0 | Sometimes I even go back and read the comments on YouTube just because it's... |
| 0:47.7 | I think it's kind of like the Wim Hof method for the ego. |
| 0:56.8 | It's like getting into a psychological ice bath to read all the different ways that people |
| 1:01.0 | can despise you. |
| 1:08.8 | It's really amazing. |
| 1:12.9 | To be honest, there are a lot of really kind people who say, oh, yeah, my favorite guest |
| 1:15.0 | and shit like that. |
| 1:22.6 | This guy is interesting. |
| 1:24.0 | It's cool, but the vitriol is amazing. |
| 1:25.9 | It's interesting, too, as an exercise to read that stuff. |
| 1:32.5 | It's almost like... |
| 1:38.3 | I don't know, when you write an article, when I was working on Sex Adon, I had a blog |
| 1:39.3 | on psychology today and every once in a while I would throw up an argument and just see |
| 1:44.5 | what people attacked, to see if there was a weak spot or whatever, what people perceived |
| 1:48.4 | as weak areas in the argument. |
| 1:54.9 | Similarly, it's interesting to see what people perceive in me in a three hour conversation |
| 1:58.8 | with Joe as being worthy of attack. |
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