Radio Mano, Papa Chango Hello and welcome to another edition of...

Is this an edition or an episode?

Tangentially speaking, it's another manifestation of tangentially speaking, another

embodiment, another emergent property of the energy vortex that is tangentially speaking.

And I am your emergent host, Christopher Ryan. It's very nice to have you here,

whatever here means to you. To me here is Crestone, Colorado. I'm sitting at 8,000 feet. There are

storm clouds rolling around. You might hear some thunder in the background.

Who knows, we might get some lightning, some hail. It's been crazy recently. I love it. I'm a big

fan of dramatic weather. I don't like interpersonal drama. As much as I love weather drama, that's how much I dislike

interpersonal drama. One of the things I've come to appreciate as I've aged like a fine

wine is how debilitating that kind of stress can be.

You know, I've been in stressful relationships over my lifetime as probably all of us have been.

I guess there's something stressful about never having been in a stressful relationship

because you could say, well, that was boring as fuck.

So there are different types of stressful relationships.

But, yeah, the ones that are just sort of inherently,

where there's just sort of an essential incompatibility, those are the worst in terms of

generating that kind of stress, at least for me.

You know, because the fact that you're incompatible

doesn't mean you don't love each other.

It doesn't mean you don't appreciate

the beauty and the magic

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