Episode 3 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out! – 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

Episode 2 of The Drunken Taoist Podcast is out!

The “I Have a Dream” corner: our feature about the weird dream of the month. This one focuses on the joys of having a miniature Dalai Lama as a pet.

The “Ask Bolelli” Corner: Where your questions about the universe and everything get answered! We start easy with a literary question which will lead us into a discussion of Aztec, a book that makes the TV show Spartacus look like something written by frigid Puritans horrified by blood. If there were a prize for the most sex&blood under one cover, this book would win it hands down. Also, cannibalism makes any story more fun.

“The Storytelling Moment”: about Gonzalo Guerrero who was half of the first interracial couple on the mainland of the Americas–a tale of human sacrifice, finding love between the thighs of a tattooed Maya woman, and heroic death in battle. At the end of it, tattooed Mayan women will gently guide you into dream land.

And the “Rant of the Day”: Bolelli vs. Dualism (and relativism too), the enemy of my enemy is my friend, screw Jarred Diamond, “I just want to punch you in the face repeatedly, not because it’s going to enlighten you, but just for my satisfaction.”

Bolelli vs. Dualism Oct. 13, 2012 / 58:55

Intro:

Why we do this, screw overspecialization, realistic optimism, mushroom spores, etc.

Chat with Duncan:

Eating strawberries and Duncan wants his face on sheets of acid. The conversation ranges from the most disgusting stories ever about Duncan and his sex toys (if you are a sensitive soul… sorry!) to slaying vampires, to good porn vs. bad porn, to debating the finer points of Taoist philosophy, to the beauty of paradox. You’ll learn about the hot but evil lady I was flirting with, the tale of Lao Tzu being thrown in jail by an overenthusiastic fan, why Yin and Yang are making out, and the fact that great chefs don’t follow recipes. And last but not least “Rules are for people who are too stupid to live without rules.

Duncan Trussell: Vampire Hunter Oct. 1, 2012 / 1:35:15