557 - Eric Czuleger (Traveler to Non-Existent Countries)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
Eric Czuleger is currently banned from entering Turkey due to an accusation that he is a spy. He is not a spy. He is however, the author of books and plays as well as long form nonfiction and journalism. Most recently he spent a year living and working in countries that don’t exist. His travel book, You Are Not Here: Travels Through Countries That Don’t Exist, will be released when it’s good and ready.
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| 0:00.0 | A archeomanopapa trango |
| 0:28.9 | Ah, alright |
| 0:30.0 | Alright, alright, alright, alright |
| 0:32.0 | I was going out there |
| 0:34.0 | It's kind of a dark gloomy |
| 0:39.0 | Overcast day in Christome, which is unusual |
| 0:42.0 | Christome gets more days of sun per year than Los Angeles California |
| 0:46.0 | but |
| 0:49.0 | Similar to Los Angeles California, it's snowing here today |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, I saw a friend of mine sent me |
| 0:57.0 | Some footage |
| 0:59.0 | Of a fucking hail storm in LA and I thought hell is freezing over here it is |
| 1:06.0 | So fucking signs of the apocalypse ladies and gentlemen |
| 1:10.0 | Anyway, this is a this is kind of a weird meta episode |
| 1:14.0 | Because I recorded the intro back in October I think it was late October |
| 1:20.0 | I was out at Tal Rospolis place in Joshua Tree |
| 1:25.0 | We were about to head into the Utah desert |
| 1:28.0 | As you'll hear me saying in a moment here |
| 1:32.0 | And we're going to go camp for a few weeks before arriving in Christen in early November |
| 1:39.0 | So yeah, must have been maybe was early October |
| 1:42.0 | Anyway, I was about to post this episode and then Eric, the subject of the episode, Eric Zooleger |
| 1:51.0 | Asked me to delay it because he had I think there was a TV show that Vice |
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