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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

By: Chris Ryan
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Tangentially Speaking is dedicated to the idea that good conversation is organic, uncensored, revelatory, and free to go down unexpected paths with unconventional people.

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  • 725 - ROMA 109

    725 - ROMA 109
    May 21 2026
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    What are some of the potential unintended positive consequences of this shitstorm we’re all living through in 2026? Is there a way to question the US/Israel relationship without being accused of anti-semitism?
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    3 mins
  • 724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)

    724 - Ryan Norbauer (Retro-futurist)
    May 19 2026

    Ryan is an aspiring underachiever. He’s worked for NASA, planned and conducted his own scientific research at the CDC, and served as a foreign affairs analyst/speechwriter in the British Parliament; he’s founded four companies and he’s published peer-reviewed scholarship in fancy-pants journals across two separate academic disciplines. All this misguided, insecure early-life ambition mostly just taught him how disappointing and anticlimactic status-driven accomplishments can be. (His words.)



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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • 723 - AROMA 11

    723 - AROMA 11
    May 14 2026
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    We respond to a listener's question about our own addictive behaviors and addiction in general. How to engage with the inner voices. Why would one be sexual with a close friend? Why do some men prefer to scan the radio stations even if they don’t like the music very much? Upcoming Substack live about DTF St. Louis.
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    2 mins
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