The Drunkent Taoist Podcast # 3 – Shannon Lee: About Bruce Lee, the Tao, Life, the Universe and Everything

Episode 3 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out! – Daniele Bolelli interviews Shannon Lee

Daniele Bolelli interviews Shannon Lee

Our guest today is the wonderful Shannon Lee, talking about her life and her father’s legacy.

  • Coming to terms with being Bruce Lee’s daughter
  • Shannon’s work as the head of Bruce Lee Enterprises
  • We bow to our one and only god: Pete McCormack, director of the documentary I Am Bruce Lee
  • The sordid tale of how the evil Bolelli used his Godfather skills to end up in the documentary (btw, the most glorious 53 seconds in movie history!)
  • Why nerdy Asian boys owe their very lives to Bruce Lee
  • On nationalism and the wild tale of a Bruce Lee statue built in Bosnia right after the war there
  • What makes some people more authentic than others?
  • Rebelling against dogma and creating our own path: “That’s the thing I’ve always admired most about my father. It takes courage to walk the path alone”
  • “The height of cultivation runs toward simplicity”
  • Bruce Lee as the father of MMA?
  • Shannon invented Tivo, and Daniele invented Blockbuster
  • Gene LeBell and his pink gi
  • Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and killing demons with nunchuckus

 

The Bruce Lee Foundation website:  http://bruceleefoundation.com/

Shannon’s twitter:  https://twitter.com/BruceLeeLegacy

Shannon Lee: About Bruce Lee, the Tao, Life, the Universe and Everything Oct. 30, 2012 / 1:36:47

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About Jeff

Jeffrey D. Hendricks is a two-time graduate from California State University at Long Beach with a Master of Arts in United States History. His main areas of historical interest are the cultural and intellectual aspects of Environmental history, Native American history, and the history of social and environmental justice movements in the United States. His Masters Thesis, "Constructing the Panopticon: Perceptions of Wilderness, Methods of Domination and the Colonization of Native America," was published in December, 2006, and it deals with how perceptions of wilderness influenced the colonization of North America. Other topics he has researched include the effects of colonization on the Tohono O'odham Nation of Southern Arizona, witchcraft persecutions in the Colonial US, and the Weather Underground - an anti-war organization active during the Vietnam War period. Jeffrey has worked with many organizations including the Save Ward Valley Coalition, Los Angeles and Long Beach Food Not Bombs, the O'odham Solidarity Project, and many others. He currently maintains this website - www.danielebolelli.com

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