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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

383 - Astrid Daley (Escaped Abusive Relationship)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Astrid honored me by sharing a story that is both profoundly personal and, in some ways, not terribly uncommon. If you’ve ever felt that a relationship (or partner) was absorbing you into an alternate reality, this conversation will speak to you.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “101 (The Good Stuff),” by Knowmads; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

And you know, it's often a process when you're in an abusive relationship to continually like chip away.

0:06.6

You know, at the reality that this other person has constructed, like, it's a loss of reality.

0:11.7

And I think that's something that may be hard for people who haven't been in that situation understand.

0:30.0

Hi Chris, this is Hans and this is Reg and we met through your subreddit tangentially speaking.

0:50.2

And I'm in New York for the first time and Hans showed me around via the standup comic circuit.

0:58.8

Yeah, grassroots. Reg is a very interesting guy. He's a geophysicist physicist at Montreal right now.

1:06.0

And Hans is a very interesting guy. He's a hardworking comic. He's got a great act.

1:10.4

And I can say how hard it is for great acts to be seen in this town because there's so many of them.

1:16.2

But it's amazing, amazing world.

1:18.6

I showed him around the standup comedy world.

1:21.4

Thanks Chris, thanks Chris, awesome show. We love it.

1:24.2

Hey Chris, this is Christian from Argentina, but I'm right now in Europe.

1:31.8

I did the South American thing of doing like 12 countries in 40 days, which is too much, but I still love it.

1:41.4

I'm right now in Amsterdam. I'm coming out of a park.

1:45.0

And it was a hard decision for me, but I decided to take magic bathrooms in a park.

1:53.4

It was hard for me because it was my first experience.

1:57.0

And I'm alone, but I'm so happy I did it.

2:01.0

I'm right now in the afterglow. Love and everything. What I saw was amazing.

2:07.0

And I wanted to really thank you so much for being part of this trip, giving me a lot of previous information that I needed to actually do it.

2:20.8

And I feel so grateful.

2:26.4

So thank you for everything you do. I'm sorry that I'm a little bit driven to tears, but I'm just so happy, peaceful and full of joy.

2:39.4

So thank you for all the work you do. Bye.

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