For this episode we welcome Mike Hallenbeck and tell him the origin story of Karna, one of the Mahabharata's leading characters. We first visit Karna in a previous incarnation and decide he was wearing a magical 'croissant' armor when fighting Nara and Narayana. We explore the caste system of the Mahabharat through Karna's inability to find a teacher, and we question Parashuram's 'lap sleeping' style while hearing about the bizarre flesh eating bug demon eating through Karna.

What do you think about Karna's miserable luck? Does having shiny armor skin make up for it? Let us know in the comments section of the episode page.
https://spjayaraj.com/nymm-07/

Mike Hallenbeck is a composer, songwriter, sound designer, and mix engineer living in the Twin Cities Metro Area. His sound house Cool Cat Audio provides services ranging from voiceover engineering to custom music, sound editing, Foley, audio restoration, and final mix for clients in the spheres of corporate communications, film, animation, and multimedia.
His band, 10 Items or Fewer is music that soaks post-skiffle X-treme indie folk in the depths of flyover country and psychedelia– harboring lyrics about dinosaurs, mammoths, Evel Kneivel, Star Wars, a crashed Russian space station, and Planet of the Apes. Find them on Spotify.

Cool Cat Audio: Coolcataudio.com
10 Items or Fewer: 10itemsorfewer.com

S.P. Jayaraj is a mythology fanatic and the creator of the mythic world of Adijari that is the setting of his two novels, The Secret of the Zipacna Dragons and Legacy of the Crow. He is also a Life Coach through his business Imagination Life Coaching.

He draws inspiration from global mythology.

spjayaraj.com

Support the podcast and join the NYMM community on Patreon.com/spjayaraj

Azure Anderson-Jayaraj is a musician, a maker, a cat mom, an arts administrator and now a podcast editor.

Have an imaginative day.

#Mahabharata #ComedyMeetsCulture #Comedystorytelling #IndianMythology #MahabharataRetold #MythologyNerd

Have an imaginative day.


Artwork and music by Azure Anderson