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Off the Chain Episode 10

Episode 10: Baby Birthday Parties, To The Limits, Ask OTC, Small Talk, Diesel: Running on Gas, Unchained Melodies, and Montaigne's Essays

This week Dave and Steel discuss some pro tips for successful birthday parties for infants and toddlers, talk about some incredible feats of human achievement (including Yeti sightings and some of the longest walks ever recorded), introduce you to the paranormal educational opportunities available at Arthur Findlay College, discuss Turning Point and Radio Diaries, answer great listener questions about vanity plates and rectal tubes, share some great music from Martha Wainwright, The New Christy Minstrels, Bahamas, and The National, and drop some humility from Michel de Montaigne.

To The Limits

Sławomir Rawicz’s book is called The Long Walk. The book was the ‘inspiration’ for a 2010 film called The Way Back with Colin Farrell and Ed Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87kezJTpyMI

Here’s Elizabeth Weil’s NYT magazine article about the Swiss adventurer Sarah Marquis. Ms. Marquis [maintains a website]https:s://sarahmarquis.ch/explorer/media/#.VR1mj5PF-hY) where you can hear interviews, find her TED talks, and see several videos of her exploits.

Small Talk

WSJ article programabout Arthur Findlay College, a Spiritualist-run school for psychics and mediums. The college also has [its own website]https:s://www.arthurfindlaycollege.org/).

Dave highly recommends BYUTV’s programTurning Point.

Steel recommends Joe Richman’s podcast Radio Diaries, especially their [recent episode about songwriter Rose Marie McCoy]https:s://www.radiodiaries.org/lady-writes-the-blues/).

Unchained Melodies

Martha Wainwright — Everything Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_kfqf-fbrSM

The New Christy Minstrels — El Camino Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btb2lEL4f7s

Bahamas — Lost in the Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJNt1eTVNY

The National — So Far Around the Bend

So Far Around the Bend by The National on Grooveshark

Book Wisdom

Today’s passage was “To the Reader,” the brief preface to Michel de Montaigne’s classic [Essays]https:s://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600). Steel recommends [the Donald Frame translationhttps:ps://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2932). You can also listen to the essays, as they’ve been recorded by LibriVox volunteers.