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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

450 - Whitney Lake (Inventor & High School Buddy)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

"Hey Chris, this is Whitney. I love the podcast! You should come visit me in the pyramid next time you're in Montana."

It had been four decades since I'd heard from Whitney Lake, who was a legend at Cazenovia High School in 1979-80. His reputation for brilliant disruption greeted me when I moved to town, halfway through senior year. He still excels at brilliant disruption. He lives in a pyramid he designed himself, is a multi-instrumentalist, designs and builds string instruments, wind turbines, and various other devices (patents pending). Dude is mad smart, funny, charming, and generous. And his BBQ sauce is amazing! Learn more about his work at AERI.net.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range,Drinkee,” by Sofi Tukker.



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0:00.0

Radio Manu, Papa Chango.

0:02.0

I'm a little...

0:26.0

Chris Ryan, this is Riley down here in your favorite state of Texas just north

0:31.6

of San Antonio in the hill country.

0:33.6

Run around doing environmental inspections, construction sites, not making much money,

0:38.6

but at least I get to drive around and listen to music and podcast and hang out in the beautiful hill country.

0:44.6

Try to make it quick here.

0:46.6

Other side of the view, other side of the spectrum rather, as far as Trump, your animosity towards him

0:53.6

and just like another little viewpoint where I'm at.

0:56.6

A positive of him in there, as opposed to a normal politician, is there's not as many people in his pockets.

1:04.6

I mean, think of Biden. Biden is a puppet.

1:08.6

Biden is an absolute puppet and the puppeteer masters are the bankers, Silicon Valley, executive, all those people.

1:17.6

Like he's just going to... you're talking about keeping the status quo. What do you think you're going to do with Biden?

1:22.6

I mean, Trump, it's going to happen too. We're fucked either way. The ship's not turning. Yes, I agree with you on everything.

1:30.6

And it's just another view where I'm kind of at.

1:34.6

Like he arguably did some good stuff for one policy wise. Everyone thinks, oh my god, Trump's the racist sexist.

1:43.6

Is he a little sexist? Yeah. Definitely a little sexist. Is he racist? No.

1:48.6

I don't think so. I think that's a bunch of bullshit that the terrible left-wing media just threw the gasoline on the flames and just made all the psyche of everybody.

2:02.6

I mean, made people go fucking crazy over this, dude.

2:07.6

The point is, is action speak louder than words, slash tweets, slash personality disorders. The dude is just like the rest of them.

2:20.6

Other politicians are just like it too. Imagine Hillary going in an elevator, smiling before it goes in the elevator with Bill. It closes.

2:32.6

What the fuck, Bill? What are you fucking doing? That's not the plan, did it? It opens up. I smiles again.

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