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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

537 - Chris and Nani on Lake Eyasi, Tanzania

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Nani manage the amazing Kisima Ngeda Camp, on Lake Eyasi, Tanzania. Chris grew up nearby after his German parents moved to Africa on an impulse, and stayed on, while Nani stumbled into this oasis while adventuring through as a penniless, apparently fearless traveler. The story of how they met, fell in love, and built a world will make you feel good about life, people, and chance. (I never got around to taking a photo of Chris and Nani, but they’re even more attractive than you’re imagining.)

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. “N'Jariñu Garab,” by Cheikh Lo; Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

0:02.0

Hello.

0:04.0

Here's the Radio Mano.

0:28.0

Greetings, one and all from Tablici, Georgia.

0:32.0

That music is called, it's an excerpt from a song called Bright Side of the Sun,

0:37.3

and the band is Basin and Range.

0:42.3

Sorry for the background noise.

0:44.3

I'm in an Airbnb. There's traffic outside.

0:48.4

I'm throwing this together so I can get it up before we lose the Wi-Fi story of my fucking life.

0:54.0

This is a really good episode. Chris and Nani, a couple that we met in Africa.

1:02.3

You know, one of these travel things, right? I'm going to Tanzania. I reach out to my friend,

1:06.4

Jeff Leach, whom I met through the podcast. He's the microbiome dude who famously squirted

1:13.6

some hunter-gatherer fecal material up his own astasy. If he could get a hunter-gatherer microbiome

1:21.1

colonized in his own gut, I read the story and some got nose where I read the story, but

1:28.3

read that story. And by sheer chance, I happen to be sitting at a table in a bar in Texas,

1:34.4

and somebody commented that their mug was dirty and someone else said,

1:38.8

oh, it's good for your microbiome. And I said, oh, you know about microbiome. I heard about this

1:43.3

anthropologist who was in Tanzania and he squirted some hunter-gatherer,

1:48.5

shit up his ass, then blah, blah, blah. And the guy goes, yeah, that's him at the end of the table.

1:53.3

You may have heard this story, but anyway, that's how I met Jeff Leach. One of life's

2:00.0

great coincidences. Anyway, he's, check the archives, Jeff Leach, LEACH, brilliant dude,

2:08.1

really cool guy. And he said, oh, if you're in Tanzania, you should drop it and see my friend,

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