Episode 9 – New York Times Best-Selling Author Chris “even better than Fabio” Ryan

Intro:

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Today’s guest is NY Times best-selling author Christopher Ryan. Great mix of fun and insightful. I had a blast chatting with him.

Daniele’s adventure at the Playboy Mansion

“All the power to fake boobs. All the power to real boobs. All the power to any boobs.”

Duncan Trussell is our viagra pusher

Introducing Christopher “Even Better Than Fabio” Ryan

Chris hangs out with a black mormon in Alaska and ends up in jail for a week for stealing a Snickers bar.

If you plan on heading to jail, we strongly suggest you visit Fairbanks, Alaska

Chris’ job list: teaching English to pregnant Thai hookers, translating from Ebonics into English, teaching martial arts to land activists in Mexico, negotiating deals with Hasidic Jewish diamond dealers, etc.

Chris saves a hot Puerto Rican lady from a monkey

Scholars hate him–which makes me like him even more

Jealousy is not a sign you care. It’s a sign you are a possessive control freak

13 year-old Daniele and his dreams of a hooker/teacher. Hookers as “goddesses of mercy.”

Uncomfortable with their horn dog natures, too many people feel the need to justify sex through love

Rule # 1 for taming an indigenous society: send missionaries to preach against free sex

How to live in a society we are not genetically programmed for

Capitalism: eliminate freely available goods in order to sell you a poor imitation

Sexual shame as a tool to control people

40% of Western women rarely or never have orgasms!

Give Chris his own TV Show! “The scholars are going to scoff, but… fuck it!”

New York Times Best-Selling Author Chris “even better than Fabio” Ryan Jan. 31, 2013 / 1:29:14

Episode 8 – Why Bolelli’s Grandma Carried Bags Full of Bombs

Thanks to Chris Grasso for the awesome photoshop work!

Intro:

Nick Diaz wants to smoke my gi. If you do as well, go to http://www.dsgear.com/ and get your own.

Angela Morado: have a good baby!

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The “I Have a Dream” corner:

Zombies tackling Mickey Mouse at Disneyland and eating him.

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner:

Taoism in politics, leadership, judo and surfing.

The “Rant of the Day”:

Why academics don’t like me.

The Hobbit needed a Grolla (the Italian alcoholic equivalent of the peace pipe).

Bolelli’s b-day: older, wiser and hotter.

Bolelli vs. the calendar and vs. “acting your age”.

The “Storytelling Moment”:

Bolelli’s grandparents and their violent activities.

A poem by ancient Roman poet Catullus:

Let’s live and love,
caring less than nothing for
the moralizing of stern old men.
The sun sets and rises back again,
but an eternal night of sleep awaits us
when our brief light turns to darkness.
Give me a thousand kisses, and a hundred more.
Then a thousand, and another hundred.
And then more thousands and hundreds.
Let’s scatter them, then,
so that no one can envy us
by knowing how many kisses we have shared.

Why Bolelli’s Grandma Carried Bags Full of Bombs Jan. 15, 2013 / 1:29:14

Episode 7 – In the Zone with Mike V.

Today’s guest is Mike V. Telling you that he is a musician and a legend of skateboarding doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of who is, for Mike V is bigger and weirder than any label we can attach to him.

Among the highlights of the day:

Don’t offend Bulgarians

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I speak fast ’cause I really have to pee

After searching long and hard, we have finally found someone who enjoys the word “fuckin'” more than I do

How a Black Flag concert changed his life: “if I was flipping fuckin’ burgers, I was going to do it the way Black Flag would do it”

Skateboarding as the vehicle for a passion beyond words

“I’d rather err on the side of passion” (but Daniele can’t pronounce the word “err”)

About breaking bones

Crabs in a pot: people love it when heroes fuck up

“Fuck yeah I’m over the hill, but at least I’ve climbed the motherfuckin’ hill”

“I’ve been nailed to the cross so many fuckin’ times. Don’t fuck with me”

Comparing the crucifixion scene in Conan (1982) and in Spartacus (1960)

“Age is not a reason to fuckin’ trade in everything that made you who you are”

“When they fuckin’ shovel the dirt on me, that’s when I’ll be done fuckin’ skating”

“Try being a skateboarder in 1984… I became a living, breathing, moving target”

“My first interaction ever with a cop was him beating my ass—for no reason”

Tao and Zen: it’s an attitude toward life, not a profession of belief

About Zen masters who don’t know they are zen masters

The difference between paradox and contradiction

Love and strength: why Mike picked the elephant as a logo. “…beautiful, majestic creature, very social and very loving, kindest, gentlest heart but it will fuckin’ crush you. Don’t fuck with it. It will crush you. Eat a fuckin’ lion for lunch”

“To me, that’s life. Why would you want anything less than that?”

“I didn’t start skateboarding to fuckin’ follow the rules”

Why Mike has a pink sheep tattoo

The trap of embracing an identity—any identity

People are terrified of freedom

Happy birthday to Emily Vallely

“I’m glad you are a nerd”

Mike’s twitter: @mikevallely

In the Zone with Mike V. Dec. 31, 2012 / 1:33:07

Episode 6 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out! – Rage Against the Academic Machine, Necrophiliac Ducks and Other Tales

Rage Against the Academic Machine, Necrophiliac Ducks and Other Tales Dec. 14, 2012 / 1:09:41

Episode 5 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out! – Chris Odell & Adam Scorgie: Legalize It Already!

Today’s guests are Chris Odell, owner of Datsusara, and Adam Scorgie, producer of “The Union” and several other films.

Among the highlights of the day:

• My nerdy Lord of the Rings winter ritual
• The Hamletic dilemma:  work out or watch “The Union” with a joint and chocolate cake?
• We finally found out why Canadians like our podcast (hint: weed may have something to do with it)
• Somebody get me to Vancouver, please
• You smoked your first joint with your mom?!?
• Our collective envy pours on Adam when we find out that his dad owned a bar and a strip club
• Jesus the hemp grower?
• Adam is a damn communist and needs to be deported
• Ronald Reagan about Marijuana being “the most dangerous drug” in America, and other pearls of idiocy
• Chris & Adam preaching about the wonders of industrial hemp and about the ugly politics of keeping it illegal
• Most doctors are glorified drug dealers
• Newborns look funky because they are drugged out of their minds

Adam Scorgie’s twitter: @AdamScoreG

Chris Odell’s twitter: @DSGear

Chris Odell & Adam Scorgie: Legalize It Already! Dec. 1, 2012 / 1:34:14

Episode 4 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out! – Daniele Bolelli and Saving a Bulgarian Virgin

Intro:

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We have new intro music!

The “I Have a Dream” corner:

How martial arts have saved me from zombies, vampires, my high school teachers and other scary freaks who used to stalk my dreams.

The “Rant of the Day”:

Danish gay penguins.

Scary fundamentalists having issues with Darwin. Paul Feyerabend and the limits of science: certainty is the enemy of truth.

Luck and choices.

The “Ask Bolelli” corner:

Fueled by enough alcohol—as Drunken Taoists should be—we answer your questions about the universe. Why grabbing your crotch is the Italian way to ward off evil: grabbing a hold of your sexuality (quite literally) as the best antidote against the braying of priests. Good sex makes you fearless! How to get rid of anger (or at least be in killer shape.) The best way to drink someone’s smile.

The “Storytelling Moment”:

Trial of the Zombie Pope (how a Pope in 897 CE dug up the corpse of a previous rival Pope and put him on trial).

Saving a Bulgarian Virgin Nov. 14, 2012 / 1:01:41