462 - John Colapinto (Journalist and Author of This is the Voice)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

John Colapinto is a journalist, author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2000, he wrote the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, which exposed the details of the David Reimer case, a boy who had undergone a sex change in infancy—a medical experiment long heralded as a success, but which was, in fact, a failure. In 2007, The New Yorker published John's fantastic story of his time in the Amazon with the Pirahã people and linguist Daniel Everett. John's latest book is This is the Voice.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Tchango
0:02.3	Central Gordonfort
0:05.7	Hey Chris, it's me Liliouly talking to you from Kosovo.
0:33.2	I really appreciate your podcast. It means a lot. I do yoga with it. I hike and all the stuff.
0:40.2	Yeah man, it's fucking great having you around in my fucking ears.
0:47.2	And I learned a lot even from your book, changed my life. I don't hurt women anymore.
0:55.2	I tell them straight up. What is my deal? Not the monogamous type.
1:01.2	So it's great. I've been happy. I've been happy. Cheers.
1:07.2	Hola Chris, this is Gerardo from Lacia de México.
1:10.2	Ejuli de María. And we're just finishing up a seventh month road trip around North America
1:16.2	and our old Dodge camper van. And we'd like to thank you because you've been there every step of the way.
1:21.2	Special thanks because a couple of weeks ago we were in the Vesor Tops and Luis trying the Grandfather Hikuri
1:28.2	Pejote and it really changed our world. Thank you for your podcast and open our minds to have this experience.
1:36.2	Lots of love and good vibes to all. Adios.
1:41.2	Mr. Christopher Ryan, what's going on? I'm sending you guys a message here from Alahuel Ecuador.
1:48.2	I got married down here in April and we're visiting my wife's grandparents. I was in the camp.
1:58.2	Diabuelos.
2:01.2	He came us. I was in the Lazy River.
2:07.2	And I head back to the house now. Anyway.
2:12.2	I'm going to load all the tangentially speaking listeners and Chris love what you're doing.
2:19.2	Keep on rockin' in the free world, buddy.
2:22.2	Chalfer now.
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