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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

603 - Michael Henry Dunn (Actor, Author, Activist)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Michael Henry Dunn is a guy who has been around the block a few times. He’s a classically trained actor, having studied at Juilliard. He’s a musician and an activist. He’s an author, journalist, Substacker and scholar who has delved deeply into the controversies around Shakespeare’s true identity, the Code of Chivalry and global human rights. And he’s a really nice guy who happens to live in this funky little town in the Colorado high desert. Go figure.

Information about the retreat in Montana is here.

Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range. Outro: “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hello everybody how's it going out there

0:30.0

welcome to another episode of tangentially speaking.

0:34.1

I'm really glad you're here.

0:36.9

This episode is 600 and some episodes, I'm running out of ways to describe them because there

0:45.6

are similarities right some people are famous some people aren't famous all different

0:51.6

ages all different kind of career paths and all that but they're all I bring them to you because I want to introduce you to these people they're fucking interesting people and I'm so

1:06.8

glad that I can bring them to you and I'm so grateful to you for giving me the excuse to hang out with these people.

1:13.0

You know, it's the symbiotic relationship between you and them and I'm kind of like in the middle of it

1:21.4

getting off on both sides.

1:23.8

It's fantastic.

1:25.8

It's the best job in the world.

1:28.5

I used to think about that when I was younger.

1:32.2

I've been a lot younger like having a talk show would be really fun but I

1:38.8

didn't want to have a talk show like you know David Letterman or you know Johnny Carson for those of you

1:46.8

old enough to remember Johnny Carson I didn't it wasn't about entertainment I

1:51.6

wanted to have a show like the late

1:54.0

late show where I could just have someone on and just talk like a Charlie Rose

1:59.7

kind of show.

2:09.0

Because it was one of the only things I ever saw where I really...

2:18.0

Envy isn't the word. I didn't envy them, but I felt like that is the coolest thing ever. Just be able to sit down for an hour, an hour and a half, whatever it is, with someone interesting and just

2:26.8

connect.

2:29.8

You know, someone said that, I forget who that is where someone I some of you probably know what I'm talking about

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