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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

599 - "Jordi"

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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“Jordi” has one of the most unusual life stories I’ve ever come across — built around a man’s very pure, very unusual love. We talk about being a child of mixed cultures (Spanish and Basque, in his case). What makes someone a “parent” and what constitutes “a family?”

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0:00.0

Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hi Chris, hope you're well. Since the last one of these that I sent in I've finished my PhD got offered a job in Vietnam

0:39.4

so I moved there in order to go there me and my partner had to get married because of COVID and visas and all that stuff.

0:47.0

So we did that and she didn't like it and then we came back I had a nervous breakdown and quit academia and went to Nepal to do my yoga teacher training, came back and began full-time as a towerist, which is a lot better.

1:10.0

Alongside all of that I've always had your podcast and your present I suppose

1:19.9

and I'm very grateful for that.

1:21.6

It's been since like 2013, 2014, since I've been listening

1:26.8

and speaking to you in various capacities online.

1:36.8

And yeah, you've been a constant for all of these significant changes and yeah I'm very grateful for that and I want to thank you. So thanks hope you're well and still hope to meet you one day

1:48.8

Thank you sir. I hope to meet you one day as well. If you'd like to send a brief recording please do.

1:57.2

You can send it to me at that Chris Ryan at gmail.com in the subject heading just put intro snip please. Thank you for that. Yeah I've been in touch with that guy off and on for quite a while and we almost met a few times but hasn't quite

2:17.3

happened yet so maybe it will. This episode is with a gentleman we have decided to call Jordi.

2:26.0

It's, I guess it's part of that sort of mentorship series that I did for a while.

2:34.0

At least that was the instigator of it.

2:40.0

But honestly, this is another person I've been in touch with off and on for years now, and I think we were going to meet at some point. I think he was in the States on vacation or something and but

2:56.3

our paths didn't quite our schedules didn't line up so it didn't happen but what an

3:02.3

interesting guy you're going to hear about a life unlike any life you have ever heard of before.

3:11.6

I can pretty much guarantee that. And I won't, I won't ruin this, you know,

3:19.6

twists and turns of the story by saying too much more about it.

3:24.6

But he's a fascinating guy, a really cool guy.

3:28.0

And yeah, he's someone I admire and I think you'll admire as well when you hear where he's come from and where he's gone and some of the things that he's found a way to wrap his head around.

3:46.9

Before I go any further, a little housekeeping,

3:50.8

I want to mention that we're going to do a second info session about the

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