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Off the Chain Episode 5

Episode 5: Small Talk, Diesel: Running on Gas, Ask OTC, Unchained Melodies, and Shantideva

This week Dave and Steel are joined by their old friend Jordan, a Las Vegas-based lawyer. Together, the trio talk about professional dumpster divers, meditating mummified monks, and the maker Jimmy DiResta, introduce a new segment focused on Dave & Jordan’s shared love of Vin Diesel, take a question from a listener about how to deal with boring lecture classes, share some of their favorite recent music, and explore the wisdom of the 8th Century Buddhist monk Shantideva.

Small Talk

Diesel: Running on Gas

Dave & Jordan discuss the 2013 film Riddick, the third in the Chronicles of Riddick franchise. Here’s the film’s trailer [warning: it’s pretty intense and probably not for children]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au2xw42-8IA

Ask OTC

Here are a couple of images Dave and Jordan have drawn in class to help them pass the time.

[caption id=“attachment_99” align=“alignnone” width=“850”] Geometric Pattern sketch made by Jordan during a law school course.[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_101” align=“alignnone” width=“850”] In this drawing by Dave, Gentle Bear checks his mail.[/caption] Dave has published a whole book of Gentle Bear cartoons, called Gentle Bear: Gentle Honey which you can buy in [eBook form]https:s://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Bear-Honey-Dave-Jenson-ebook/dp/B009NUKBJI/ “Gentle Bear: Gentle Honey”).

Unchained Melodies

DakhaBrakha: Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AYokGJD6I Animals as Leaders: Lippincott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saKHKt1A5Q AC/DC: Thunderstruck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM Liam Bailey: Stun Me Stun Me by Liam Bailey on Grooveshark Alash Ensemble: Bashtak

Book Wisdom

This week’s Book Wisdom was stitched together from various passages in Vesna A. and B. Alan Wallace’s translation of Shantideva’s A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life.