668 - Before the Dawn, Part II (with Riley Morton)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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My friend Riley Morton and I sat down for about six hours over two days and he picked my brain about who I am, who I’ve been, and the experiences and ideas that formed the foundation for what eventually became a book called Sex at Dawn. This is the second of a four-part series.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is part two of a series called Before the Dawn, which is conversations that I had with my friend Riley Morton. A few months back, he came to Crestone. He's working on a podcast series. I probably shouldn't talk too much about it, but it's focused on
0:23.8	authors and the experience of writing a particular book and how that book changed the author's
0:32.2	life and the impact it had in the world and on the world and, you know, sort of digging into all that,
0:40.2	like, what's it like to be the person who wrote X?
0:43.3	That's an excellent idea for a podcast.
0:46.6	Anyway, he's working on that, and he came and hung out here, and we talked about what it was
0:53.3	like to write sex at dawn where the ideas came from.
0:58.9	I think in the first episode, this is part two of four. The first episode was sort of like backstory,
1:07.2	you know, my youth and traveling around and educational background and all that.
1:14.5	And in this episode, we get more into writing the book and how it kind of changed life.
1:27.3	You know, when the book came out and... and how it kind of changed life.
1:37.0	You know, when the book came out and I had this sudden surge of fame and attention and, you know, something that I had never experienced before.
1:41.1	And I was, let's see, when Sexo at dawn came out I was born in 62 it came out in
1:49.0	2010 so I was 48 so I was I was no spring chicken I was already pretty pretty much you know
1:59.5	who I was going to be so it's an interesting thing because I think most
2:04.3	people who have that experience of getting famous, actors, musicians, athletes, you know, it happens
2:15.6	young. It happens. Models, you know, whatever. young. It happens models, you know, whatever. People who
2:19.5	get that attention generally happens pretty young. And so our understanding of how fame
2:28.2	affects people is based on those cases. And I think it really fucks people up if it if it comes when you're
2:37.5	developing so I think my experience of it was pretty unusual in that I was
2:46.8	already fully formed knew who I was had you, lived a long time in a certain way.
2:53.8	And then when that happened, it was all just like, wow, look at this.
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