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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 appeared in the Siberian Times.
- Jimmy DiResta’s YouTube channel. Jordan recommends starting with these two classics:
Making an Aluminum Hatchet Handle:
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]:
Ask OTC
Here are a couple of images Dave and Jordan have drawn in class to help them pass the time.
Dave has published a whole book of Gentle Bear cartoons, called Gentle Bear: Gentle Honey which you can buy in eBook form.
Unchained Melodies
DakhaBrakha: Baby
Animals as Leaders: Lippincott
AC/DC: Thunderstruck
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.