520 - Talking About Russia and Ukraine with my buddy Mike Lang

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Mike Lang taught me to enjoy beer and Rush when we were 16 years old in 1978. We’ve been brothers-by-choice ever since. In addition to being one of the smartest people I know, Mike has direct family ties to Ukraine, speaks Russian fluently, and is deeply interested in the history of the region, so he seemed like a good person to chat with about what’s going on there now. Please consider subscribing to my hybrid newsletter/blog/podcast.

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Featured tunes: “Down in Belgorod,” by The Paul Winter Consort; “Smoke Alarm,” Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0	Radio Manu, Papa Tzango
0:02.3	善
0:23.5	1
0:29.6	Hello you brilliant weirdos.
0:31.9	All of you.
0:34.7	Welcome to another edition of Ten Gentially speaking 500 and change.
0:39.5	Not sure exactly where we are.
0:41.9	Well above 500, but this is a momentous day because I am announcing a change in the podcast.
0:51.7	There have been many changes in the podcast.
0:53.9	I've been doing this since 2012.
0:57.5	A decade, I think I started in November.
1:02.3	A few months short of a decade of podcasting.
1:05.9	I think that qualifies me as an OG podcaster back so long ago that when I was trying to think of a name for my podcast,
1:15.9	I thought I could call it WTF.
1:19.1	That would be clever, wouldn't it?
1:21.5	And then someone showed me how to use a podcast app and I put in WTF and I saw that a guy named Mark Marin,
1:28.4	whom I had never heard of, already had a podcast by that name.
1:33.5	Turns out Mark Marin and WTF is one of the biggest podcasts in the world.
1:39.6	If you haven't listened to it, he's the guy who got Barack Obama to come to his garage.
1:46.4	It's a good podcast.
1:48.4	But anyway, I've got my little podcast and when Sexiton first came out in 2010,
1:59.1	I went and one of the first talks I gave as a fully-fledged author with a New York Times best
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