Episode 76 - The Muse Is Not Always Cruel

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Father's Bolelli Sunday School: The Bible according to Quentin Tarantino:

  • Hookers and Murder: The Life of Samson
  • Samson rips a lion apart
  • Riddles and murderous rage
  • Unhappy marriages, 300 foxes, and more murderous rage
  • Guess what happens next? More murderous rage (this time thanks to the jawbone of a donkey)
  • Visiting hookers and escaping ambushes
  • Delilah, dreadlocks and losing power. Blinded and enslaved
  • Conan's prayer for revenge, and a last bout of murderous rage before death

The "Rant of the Day":

  • Sorry, no rant today

The "I Have A Dream" Corner:

  • Arthur Rosenfeld eating a turtle

The "Storytelling Moment":

  • Tomoe Gozen

The "Iz Moment":

  • Forgetting Iz’s Ipod
  • If you are wise, you’d know not to disturb me when I want some peace and quiet
  • Once I tried eating my own arm
  • I don't give a damn about my reputation

The "Ask Bolelli" Corner:

  • The process of creating an episode of History on Fire
  • Honoring Dan Carlin, but not really copying his style
  • Patience (and lack of). Lifting too much weight
  • My new book "Not Afraid" is coming out soon!
  • Tom Robbins, Ikkyu Sojun: the antidote of the artist as trapped in pain. The Muse is not always cruel. The bad dichotomy of deep suffering artists vs. happy superficial people
  • The Surfing Nietzsche t-shirt
  • The Tao of Savannah Em

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