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All Episodes

Fighting Matters — 80 episodes

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1

How YOU Can Clean Up Jiu-Jitsu

2

Why BJJ Camps Need Less Jiu-Jitsu

3

How to Identify "Active Clubs" in BJJ

4

How HEMA Pushed Out White Supremacists (And What BJJ Can Learn)

5

Jiu-Jitsu in the Face of War and Economic Disaster

6

Jiu-Jitsu Isn't Therapy

7

The Invisible Heart of BJJ (w/ Valerie Worthington)

8

How MAGA is Using Religion to Go to War

9

Discord & Roblox: The pipeline to school shootings (w/ David Riedman)

10

Gordon Ryan & The Epstein Fallout

11

Martial Artists Should Get Political

12

How the USA is Trying to Steal Canada's Oil

13

How Hate Found a Home in Jiu-Jitsu & MMA

14

The collapse of Atos (and what comes next)

15

You Can’t "Keep Politics Out" Anymore

16

The Minnesota Shootings and What Comes Next

17

Racism Can’t Be Ignored in Jiu-Jitsu Gyms (w/ Deon Thompson & Stephen Hall)

18

This moment feels like the 1930s

19

We Must Never Forget January 6th. — Jeff Shaw, Fighting Matters

20

BJJ's Best and Worst of 2025

21

The relentless bullying of trans athletes

22

The True Villain in The Boys (And It's Not Who You Think)

23

Craig Jones trolled his way into the NYT

24

How bad BJJ coaches trap you with rank

25

MAGA Needs an Exit Strategy

26

The UFC Betting Scandal, with Luke Thomas

27

The SNAP & ACA Shutdown Could Choke Jiu-Jitsu Gyms

28

Fashion, Fitness, Fighting: How Hate Groups Attract Young Men

29

2025 Feels Like a Conspiracy Theory (w/ JimmyTheGiant)

30

You should attend the No Kings rally.

31

When Jiu-Jitsu Coaches Stay Silent (w/ Sonia Sillan)

32

The Washington Post Is Silencing Journalists (w/ Karen Attiah)

33

It’s Happening Too Fast: The News Cycle Is Out of Control

34

Memes: The New Face of Propaganda

35

This was an American tragedy.

36

What Charlie Kirk's killing says about us

37

How RFK Jr. is Actually Making America SICK Again, w/ Conspirituality Podcast’s Derek Beres

38

Fighting vs. Violence: What’s the Difference? (w/ Jay O’Shea)

39

"Jane" Speaks: Allegations Against Adam Zugec & ZUMA Martial Arts

40

⚖️ The Left’s Purity Trap: Why We Keep Losing

41

How "active clubs" use MMA to spread white supremacist hate

42

How Donald Trump Turned Politics Into WWE

43

Martial Arts as Tools of Russian Propaganda

44

We CANNOT allow this to be normalized.

45

"It's Not Fascism, Except in Every Single Way"

46

Derek Moneyberg, Jiu-Jitsu black belt? My thoughts… — Steve Kwan, Fighting Matters

47

Antisemitism has no place in Jiu-Jitsu. — Jeff Shaw, Bellingham BJJ

48

A statement on Josh Saunders

49

Teddy Roosevelt Was a Jiu-Jitsu Badass

50

America is still worth fighting for. — Jesse Walker, Fighting Matters

51

July 4th Meditations on Being American. — Mike Mahaffey, Old Bastard BJJ

52

How Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" Will Cripple BJJ

53

🧬 Real Talk: What Science Says About Gender Differences

54

⚖️ BJJ, Law, and the First Amendment

55

🎙️ Giles Garcia Unleashed: Jiu-Jitsu's Voice of Reason

56

Is the USA Becoming a Handmaid's Theocracy?

57

What Jiu-Jitsu Gets Wrong About Masculinity

58

🥋 Jiu-Jitsu Is a Platform. Use It.

59

It's time for the Jiu-Jitsu community to speak up.

60

🦠 Why MRSA is so dangerous for grapplers

61

Extremist “Active Clubs” Are Infiltrating Jiu-Jitsu

62

Jordan Klepper's Investigation into the MMA and MAGA Connection, with Luke Thomas

63

☠️ The Dangerous Rise of Bro Science in Jiu-Jitsu

64

Jiu-Jitsu and Intimate Partner Violence, feat. D'Juan Owens

65

💬 The BJJ Community Is Split on Jay Rod

66

Fascism from Mussolini to Trump, with Daniele Bolelli

67

🔥 Why the UFC Became a Right-Wing Arena

68

🚨 B-Team Bans Jay Rod: Our Reaction

69

🏳️‍⚧️ Molly Reis: Life as a Trans Black Belt in BJJ

70

"Get Up and Fight", MMA Fighter Nate Quarry vs MAGA and the UFC

71

🇨🇦 Canada Just Rejected MAGA

72

How Gyms Can Survive Trump’s Tariffs

73

Identity Politics Is Killing the Martial Arts

74

Why Women Quit Jiu-Jitsu

75

The UFC’s Fascism Problem

76

What is Fascism (aka The 10 Pillars of Fascist Movements and Governments)

77

Joe Rogan, Jiu-Jitsu, and the Manosphere

78

BJJ, Politics & Helping People: What Can One Person Really Change? | Fighting Matters Podcast

79

Conor McGregor, Dana White, Andrew Tate, Hero Fantasies and More

80

Fighting for Our Values: Politics, Fascism & the Future of Jiu-Jitsu