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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

74 - Kevin Johnson

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Kevin invited us to a free float at the Zero Gravity Institute. It blew my mind—so much that I asked him to sit down and tell me his story. How's a guy become a float-tank guru? This episode sponsored by HelloFresh. Use code HELLOSPEAKING for $20 off your first order. Also sponsored by MyPakage. Enter SEX at checkout for a chance at a free pair. And SquareSpace.com. Use SEX to get 10% off your web site.



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0:00.0

I am in Barcelona where life is chaotic, noisy, the streets are dirty.

0:18.5

There's way too much dog shit.

0:23.4

But it is sexy as hell here.

0:26.2

And when I say sexy, I don't mean sexual.

0:31.6

I don't really know.

0:32.6

It's hard to explain sometimes.

0:34.2

You know, there are these concepts that defy words.

0:40.0

And we use the words that come closest to try to explain it.

0:43.8

But all too often it misses the mark.

0:47.8

And when I say sexy, there's a word in Spanish,

0:51.9

morebosso, or morebosso.

0:54.7

It's the adjective morebos than noun.

0:57.3

And it's a funny word.

1:00.0

It doesn't really exist in English.

1:01.6

It's the closest associated word in English is morbid and morbidity.

1:08.4

But in English that refers to death.

1:11.4

Something's morbid.

1:12.4

Morbid humor is sick and dirty and dark and grotesque.

1:19.2

But in Spanish, motorbole refers to a sexiness that someone can have,

1:25.8

an attractiveness that they can have that isn't about them being aesthetically beautiful.

1:34.1

So for example, a lot of women would use as examples, someone like Jack Nicholson,

1:39.6

or Mick Jagger, who you look at them and you say, OK, that's not a particularly good-looking guy.

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