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.

Links

Small Talk

Wired Magazine’s profile of Matt Malone, professional dumpster diver in Austin, Texas.
Story on the unidentified mummified Buddhist monk in Mongolia from the BBC. A more in-depth [feature]https:s://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0105-mummified-monk-is-not-dead-and-in-rare-meditative-state-says-expert/) appeared in the Siberian Times.
Jimmy DiResta’s YouTube channel. Jordan recommends starting with these two classics: Making an Aluminum Hatchet Handle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFpIIM3b3TY Making an AK47-shaped guitar for Wyclef Jean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmKrXjTwIo

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.