609 - Neil Strauss (To Die For)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Neil Strauss is a wildly successful writer and podcaster. He’s written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and just about every other high-profile platform you can think of. His best-selling books include The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2012), Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness (2011), and The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015). In January, 2023, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, a book Strauss wrote with music producer Rick Rubin. In 2019, Strauss launched To Live and Die in LA., a true crime podcast following the death of Adea Shabani. It hit No. 1 on the iTunes podcasts, and was in the top 10 for four months. His latest project is To Die For, which explores the world of Russian sex espionage.

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0:00.0	Rade humano papachango. Oh, Hello everybody welcome to another edition of tangentially. I'm your host Christopher Ryan.
0:34.8	Today's episode is with an old friend of mine someone many of you have heard of.
0:40.4	Some of you may be very familiar with his work. His name's Neil Strauss,
0:45.0	author of, I think, seven New York Times best-selling books
0:50.0	ranging from How to Make love like a porn star, which he wrote with Jenna Jameson back in the day,
1:00.0	to the game, which many people have heard of to he ghost wrote the recent
1:06.6	Rick Rubin book about creativity
1:09.6	Neil is got irons in so many different fires.
1:14.7	He's always got interesting things going on.
1:17.1	And ostensibly, he's on the podcast today
1:20.4	to talk about his new limited podcast called To Die For, which is about the
1:30.2	murky world of Russian sex
1:33.0	espionage, that is women who are trained to use their sexual
1:40.2	allure to draw men into compromising situations and possibly to their death.
1:50.0	Interesting. I'm about four episodes into it. I think it might, I think it's seven. I'm not sure exactly how many episodes it is, but check it out. It's really good. I sent it to a friend, a Russian friend, and you know she's not a sex-bianage.
2:07.0	What would the noun be? A sex spy, I guess is the word but but she said it was so familiar so much of it about growing up in Russia and the sort of
2:19.5	the way things work in Russia the training and I don't know Russian culture seems to drain the
2:26.6	joy out of just about everything. I don't know if it's the weather or the history or what
2:31.6	it is, but yeah, it's a pretty dower culture. In any case,
2:38.0	Neel's podcast is very good and highly recommended.
2:43.1	Before we get to the conversation with Neil,
2:45.3	though, let me throw out some things at you.
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