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• From Classical Literature to MMA
• A "colored" history: selling dope to bikers in exchange for guns... the typical activities of all classical literature majors
• Bank robberies and jail
• Shooting dope with a 40 year old junkie stimulates Tait to try a different path
• Tait's experience with kung fu and aikido. "If I showed you what I really know, it'd would kill you" :)
• Full contact stick-fighting as a form of therapy
• Tait's brand of paying it forward
• Training under Greg Jackson
• "Life is hard. If you got to drink a bottle of Jack Daniels to get through the day, I fucking get it." But being ready to offer alternatives
• Standing in the light
• An ant trying to fight a tank
• "I am not interested in having a business... I am interested in a revolution"
• The windingo is the number one enemy in the world
• Alan Watts on good materialism
• Self-perfection through mutual benefit
• Tait about Taoism, Marcus Aurelius and living in the moment
• Greg Jackson "You gotta get comfortable when other men are uncomfortable" and Hoka Hey!
• A good, safe strategy vs. embracing having no control
• Authenticity: Daniele and Tait don't feel Eckhart Tolle
• "Life is bigger than any ideology." Freeing ourselves from obedience to any ideology
• Discussing the ultimate questions (life, death, the universe) with Iz. Lack of certainties and the focus on being happy
• Richard Pryor doing for Civil Rights as much as Martin Luther King
• Rich and Tait on "Breaking Bad"
• Having the strength to be kind when life is not
• Look on iTunes for "Pirate Life with Tait Fletcher", here's Tait's website: http://taitgfletcher.com and his twitter https://twitter.com/TaitimusMaximus