Episode 23: NBA Draft Fashion, Jurassic World, Lost the Plot: Escape Plan, Overlooked Biblical Names, OTC Hall of Fame, Unchained Melodies, and The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
This week Dave and Steel discuss highlights in NBA draft fashion, Dave’s opinion of the film Jurassic World, play another version of Lost the Plot with the Stallone/Schwarzenegger film Escape Plan, share some unjustly forgotten Biblical baby names, induct the newest member of the Off the Chain Hall of Fame, share some great America-inspired music from John Wayne, Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Brother Ali, and James Brown, and drop some moving wisdom from a famous July 4th speech by Frederick Douglass.
Links
NBA Draft Fashion
Lost the Plot: Escape Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBbsrp4pVA
Biblical Baby Names
Recent trends in baby Bible names.
OTC: Hall of Fame
Dave inducted The Gummi Bear, and not Haribo founder [Hans Riegelhttps:s:s://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/149143/do-your-favorite-gummy-bears-have-a-nazi-past).
Unchained Melodies
John Wayne — Why I Love Her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuteyiYN6js
Ray Charles — America, the Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg
Neil Diamond — America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSLRbm8L9E
John Mellencamp — Pink Houses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w
Bruce Springsteen — Born in the U.S.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ
Brother Ali — Uncle Sam Goddam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ
James Brown — Living in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58
Book Wisdom
This week’s passage of Book Wisdom came from Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”