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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

379 - Leigh Ann (Former Actress/Pole Dancer)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Leigh Ann is an American dancer and former actress. She is best known for playing Brad's second girlfriend, Ashley, on the sitcom Home Improvement. Also featured as Hannah in the 1994 film, The Favor starring Brad Pitt. She's currently trying to get Facebook to allow ads for pole dancing as exercise.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Slip Sliding Away,” by Paul Simon; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

You get so deep with people so quickly as a dancer because you're both mutually

0:05.0

You know motivated right like I'm motivated by the money to connect with you and you're motivated by the boobs to connect with me

0:30.0

Your stories of travelling have really inspired me to be stood here right now in Gatwick Airport. Other times I've been here were to go on holiday with friends to get pissed up, some fancy hotel, with some gin ass pools, lots of slides.

0:58.0

The same fucking bullshit you get all around the world so this time I'm on my own doing something different. I'm flying to Lima, then to a Kitas, then going into the rain forest to be drinking ayahuasca on a 12 day retreat.

1:12.0

So so much gratitude for you Chris, for all the sick and all the poo poo from about to get out of me. I love your podcast and had a Krishna.

1:28.0

Dr. Chris, this is Tomi Gray, a message from the front seat of my 2005 Mercedes Sprinner van, X ambulance from Australia up in the Gold Coast.

1:43.0

I've been on the road for about the past two years and just traveling around living in the van and yeah man you've been a great source of company and entertainment towards to me on the long drives.

1:57.0

So I wanted to say cheers for that bro and keep doing what you're doing because I love your work man. Peace.

2:06.0

Chris Ryan, Lindsey Trassel here, listening to you from Indie Napolis, Indiana as I clean houses. I like to say I nurture homes, sacred spaces for people to come home and strip their layers of ego and expectation and return to their authentic self.

2:28.0

Thank you for your conversations, your guests, you stay with me and you change me all the best peace.

2:36.0

Oh, thank you so much all of you who send in those intro clips. It's really beautiful and very touching.

2:47.0

I am coming to you now from a logging road above Squamish, a little north of Squamish, British Columbia.

2:59.0

Mount Garibaldi is behind me and I'm looking across the valley at I'm looking on my phone actually to tell me what these mountains are called.

3:13.0

Come on phone.

3:15.0

Serratus Mountain, the red tusk, the red tusk is pretty cool looking. Yeah, it's a range of very dramatic mountains there. Mount Tantalus and Tantalus Provincial Park right there. Yeah.

3:34.0

Beautiful. Anyway, let's see, Mount Tantalus give us a sense of how tall that is. It doesn't say when I just click on it.

3:44.0

Anyway, it's a big ass mountain. Check it out. So that's where I am. I came up here in the van and just killing a night because I'm flying up to Cortez Island tomorrow to visit Indie Wild for a couple nights.

4:01.0

And then back to Vancouver. We're having a get together in Vancouver. So if you're listening to this right away and you're in Vancouver, we're having a get together Thursday night.

4:12.0

Still haven't decided where we're going to do it yet. We're open to suggestions. We're getting suggestions from folks. Follow me on Twitter or Instagram or if you hear this and for some reason you can find the information online.

4:29.0

Feel free to contact me through the website, that Chris Ryan calm. You'll see under Chris. There's a contact thing and I'll let you know where we decided to do it. Right now, I'm thinking we'll probably do it at a place called local in Kitsolano right down near the beach, the pool, that area.

4:47.0

It's a big place. Lots of beer.

4:52.0

And lots of space to hang out and talk. So we'll probably do that this Thursday night. If you're in Vancouver or can get here there.

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