"For as long as I can remember, I've made things." Dave Schipper joins us to re-start the pod after I've taken a 5 year hiatus. Dave is a generally rad dude hailing from Moab, Utah, and if you've ever done anything even half-way hardcore in the great outdoors it's reasonably likely you've used a piece of gear he designed. We talk about the paraglider bag we worked on together as well as his experience as a designer & developer to bring the avalung-in-a-backpack into being as well as super lightweight backpacks for adventure racing.

Dave can be found using his full (with the -id at the end) first name, then outdoorlabs.com. The pack we discussed in the show can be found here: https://kyk13.com/proto-pack-a-custom-paraglider-backpack/

Enjoy!

Principle Investigator at the Anne Andrews Research Group at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences

Psychiatry is the study and treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior

Leads research on anxiety & depression

Trying to understand how neurotransmitters are used in chemical communication by coming up with new sensors to measure what's going on.

[Eavesdropping on Neurochemical Signaling in Vivo]

Focus on serotonin system & how serotonin transporters influence behavior.

From abalone hunter to national park service law enforcement to viral video cat rescuing star, Shannon Jay is the kind of guy you just love to sit down and listen to. A fantastic story teller, he is one of my favorite people to catch up with.

In the podcast he talks about hunting giant red abalone on the Lost Coast, what he learned in 31 years of law enforcement (and some of the most important things he teaches) and his world famous (literally) cat rescuing stories from the burn zones of 3 major wildfires.

Shannon Jay is a gem of a human, enjoy the show!

Links:

The Ab King, Eric Stockwell: https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/11/12/just-fishing-with-great-whites-no-big-video

Blink, by Malcom Gladwell.

https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669

The Carr Fire Tornado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1XkAsWGu60

The rescue of Mama Cat with Douglas Thron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIV1VYX1Rc8

Kimberly Freeman at lostcatfinder.com