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Wildcatdojo Conversations — 348 episodes

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1

That's My Satori - A Conversation with Hanshi Malanoski

2

Yogi Berra - WW 2 Vet, Baseball Great and Inventor of Yogisms

3

The Power of Laughter

4

Part 2 of the Interview with Mike's Dad: Ed Andrus

5

A Father, Successful Businessman, Warrior and more: Mike's Dad

6

Three Weapons From India - a Conversation With Sifu Rob

7

Movie Review - Miami Connection - So Bad it's Good?

8

Strength and Power Part 2 - The Conversation Continues

9

Strength & Power Part 1; External / Internal and Amusing

10

Training, Security, Self Defense; An Interview with Mike Andrus

11

History: Karate comes to America - an Archived Episode

12

P Company (Paratroopers) - Talking with Hanshi McKinnon

13

O My, O Words, including One Knuckle Punch

14

Sister Linda Sim

15

Fear is a Backstabber

16

Ever Heard Anyone Say: "Never say Can't"?

17

The Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle

18

Deadly and Non-Deadly Force; A Quote From Master Hess

19

Noticing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

20

Part 2 - Comparing 3 Self-Defense Books

21

Comparing Three Self-Defense Books - A Self-Defense Palooza!

22

Perseverance- Our Motto the Last Few Weeks

23

Laughs, Out Takes and Stories

24

Makiwara and Tamishawara _ An Archived Episode

25

Once upon a time in China - a Movie Review

26

We're Celebrating Six Years of Podcasts

27

New Interview, New Friend and Some Tai Chi Talk

28

We're Ecstatic to Continue Our Excursion into "E" Words.

29

The Kiai of the Eyes

30

We're Introduced to Senbukai Goju So Much Cool Stuff!

31

The History of Camouflage - Who Knew it Would be So Interesting

32

Discussing a Meditation Mentioned in 365 Days of the Warrior

33

Sifu Rob Jones Tells us About his WW2 Katana

34

An Interview with an Old Friend - Sensei Eddie Kiesel

35

Overcome Unkindness with Compassion - Lao Tzu

36

How Katana are Made

37

From the Code of the Samurai to Modern Warrior Philosophy - An Archived Episode

38

A Fun Interview with Elba "Cookie" Melendez

39

Kids Taught Us More Than We Taught them; A Master Kelljchian Adage

40

Aircraft of WW1

41

Interview with Ellen Kanner - Author of Miami Vegan

42

Patience as a Super Power

43

Rumble in the Bronx - Movie Review

44

Unheard Till Now - Mistakes, Stories and Surprises

45

Samurai Armor

46

Armor Through the Ages

47

Cobra Kai - The Finale (With Spoilers)

48

The Power of Youth, the Power of Age - A Sentence From Master Kelljchian

49

Finally We Learn About Ip Man with a nod to Bruce Lee (his most famous student)

50

We Revisit Tukuan with Added Content

51

Episode with E Words - Enjoy....

52

Thus a Child Learns - A Poem By Dr. Frederick Moffitt

53

Movie Review - The Real Mr. Miyagi - Fumio Demura

54

Uke - The Good, The Bad and The Crazy

55

Viking Women Warriors

56

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Technology (Karate - not Computer)

57

Boundaries: Making them and Keeping them. Thoughts?

58

A Book Review - Wabi Sabi

59

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Arlington National Cemetery

60

Hanshi Ray Batlle - An Interview with the Founder of The Peaceful Warrior Black Belt Club

61

Pappy Boyington WW2 Flying Ace and More

62

Over and Over

63

Go Bags - An Archived Episode

64

Attention/ Attendance? Ahhh.....

65

Out Takes and Bloopers from the End of Last Year

66

Wendell Womble - Great name/ Great Interview

67

Movie! Big Trouble in Little China

68

Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness - Another Master Kelljchian Saying

69

Shihan Tracy Seymour, A New Friend & An Amazing Interview

70

Air University: Our Continuing Series on the NWC

71

Starting 2025 with the Letter S

72

A Kata Saying and So Much More

73

Master Kelljchian Stories Part 2

74

Conan - Myth, Legend, Simple Comic - You Decide.

75

Another Amazing Interview - Hanshi George Alexander

76

Again, This Episode is no Ax-ident. (an archived episode)

77

What's Next?

78

Quirky Home Made Weapons (Mostly)

79

Enjoy the Journey. Is it Possible? We Think Yes!

80

Yojimbo: A Movie Review

81

We Mark 5 Years and Talk About the Saying Nothing is Impossible

82

A Book Review - Zen and the Martial Arts

83

We Visit With our Friend Shihan McKinnon about his Book

84

Treat Cyber Security Like Self Defense - A Visit with Sensei Liam

85

Catching Up With Landyn and a Couple of K Words

86

Expect the Unexpected

87

Continuing our Fun with Dr. Melissa - Nutrition Part 2

88

Nutrition with Dr. Macy - Part 1

89

The Samurai People - Original air date: 4.2020

90

We Review a 1980s Era Movie- The Octogon

91

Saigo Takamori - The Real Last Samurai

92

The Martial Arts: A Children's Book Episode

93

Satsuma Rebellion aka The Last Samurai

94

Interview with Taiko Drummers and Friends

95

A Cool Subject and an Even Cooler Guest

96

Wrestling's The Great Togo - An Archived Episode

97

Fun Conversation about Teaching

98

Stories, Tangents and Bloopers From the First Half of 2024

99

Another New Friend: Juanita Kapp

100

Chinese Spears and Swords with Sifu Jones

101

Haiku - An Unusual Book Episode

102

The Authors of One of Our Most Read (and re-read) Karate Books

103

Plan Your Work And Work Your Plan

104

Bad Ass Queens from Britain

105

Finally We Tackle the Letter F

106

Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated Soldier of WW II

107

Goals, Journeys and being Human

108

Female Ninja - Did They Exist? I Hope So

109

Experience - The Good, the Bad and The Funny

110

The Naval War College; The Oldest of the War Colleges

111

Time Isn't Always on Our Side- An Archived Episode

112

An Interview: Sensei Jackie is on the Hot Seat

113

Finishing our Discussion of Some Guidelines from Grandmaster Urban

114

More Excellent Adventures with the book - The Karate Dojo

115

Female Warriors / Mythology - Amazon Warriors

116

Helluvan Episode - Mail, Start Stories and More

117

The First of Our Kurosawa Series: The Hidden Fortress

118

We Interview Thelma - She Received Her 5th Degree Black Belt at the Age of 90!

119

The Book of S.E.T. by Master J. Kelljchian - A Book Review

120

We talk Renshi, Ryogan Tsuki and more

121

History: Higaonna, Miyagi, Goju Ryu - There's a Story Here

122

Notes - Ever Take Them? Do We?

123

First Interview of 2024 - Landyn (Our Co-host!) We Finally Got Him In the Hot Seat

124

Starting the Year with a Visit from an Old Friend

125

Stories and Bloopers from 2023

126

More Weird Weapons - This one includes Pirates!

127

We Talk Terra Cotta Army and More with Sifu Jones

128

We Talk Jump,.Jutte and More - J Words on the Menu Today

129

Meditation Fun with Kim and Matthew - An Interview

130

Achilles Should Be Known for his Wrath - Not His Heel

131

Kata - We Talk it Over With our Friend Shihan McKinnon

132

Subjectivity VS Objectivity - The Battle Continues

133

We Revisit the Movie Budo (And mark 4 Years of Podcasting)

134

We Take a Look at Jackie Chan

135

Words we Found in the Karate Dictionary - The Letter L

136

King Tut - Warrior King or Just The Boy King

137

A Martial Arts State of Mind with Shihan Mckinnon

138

American Shaolin - a Book So Good We Visited it Twice

139

Book Time: American Shaolin Part 1

140

A Great Idea From a Parent - We Look at Training Through Their Eyes

141

Anime: Finally we watch it - Did we like it?

142

We Interview.....Me?

143

Fans Make Good Weapons

144

What's the Deal With Being a Sensei - Continued

145

This One is About Animals

146

Kendo Redux - An Archived Episode

147

Kung fu - we explore it with our friend from the UK

148

Tsuji Gettan Sukeshigi and a Zen Saying

149

Genghis Kahn (and Kublai) - Life, Battle Stratagies and More

150

Bloopers and Stories - We've got Them

151

We're Determined to Discuss Words That Start With D

152

Boomerangs and Yoyos - Weapons?

153

Reviewing Movies From the Last Millennium - First Up 3 Ninjas

154

Hanshi Teller Talks About His Champions Boxing Program

155

We Talk with Hanshi Keith Teller About His History

156

Gilgamesh -Mythological Warriors

157

An Interview about Body-Guarding

158

The National War College (Yes, it's a real thing!)

159

Zen - An Episode from 2020

160

Book Episode: The Art of War

161

Round 2 on the Letter A: We attack it with Gusto

162

Gun Laws in the United Kingdom; We Learn About Them

163

Master Joe Hess is Amazing

164

Consequences - We Make 'Em

165

We Interview Two Martial Artists From Western Mass. - Amazing

166

Simply S Words

167

Breathing - Truly a Life Changer

168

Ryan Returns with Mythology- Artemis and Apollo

169

A Class of Young Students Talk About Hard Work

170

Weird Weapons From History

171

A Conversation With a Friend - Welcome Sensei Carlos

172

A Story from the book The Karate Dojo - An Archived Episode

173

Spies - We Talk About Some Famous and Not so Famous Ones

174

Espionage Was Always Part of Life

175

Continuing Letter Episodes with the Letter C

176

Hercules - Man, Demigod, or Just Another Crazy Warrior

177

Bloopers: Some Laughter As We Close Out 2022

178

Classical Chokes; The Book Crew Read It

179

We Interview a Non Karateka Who Loves Self-control as Much as We Do

180

If Our Karate is Perfect - An Old Saying Discussed

181

Catapults and Trebuchets - Things That Fling

182

We Take a Run at Words That Begin With R

183

Finishing the Three Sayings: Thank you Master Lasorsa

184

Aging While Training Part 2 - So Much to Say

185

Warriors From Mythology: Thor

186

Training While Aging; Could it be Any Other Way?

187

Grand Master Urban's Guide to Self Analysis-An Archived Episode

188

Autumn Lightening: A Book Crew Review

189

Revisiting the Monkey King in the Movies

190

An Interview with Our Friend from the Air Force

191

Is Karate for Everyone - We Weigh In

192

A Word About a Bad Ass Warrior & A Word From a Bad Ass Warrior

193

Warriors From Mythology - Sun Wukong

194

We Delve into words that start with D

195

Home Safety - An Episode Suggested by a Listener

196

Heritage Weapons with Master Ratthe

197

Thanks Master Brown for this episode on Balance

198

Mixing the Elements; An Archived Episode

199

An Interview with our Amazing Friend

200

Three Budo Masters: finishing with Ueshiba and Aikido

201

Three Budo Masters-Part 2 of Our Book Episode: Master Funakoshi

202

Bloopers; The Laughter Continues

203

Master Kelljchian was Creatively Prolific - This is Undeniable

204

Practice, Perfect Practice, Reality....the Conversation Continues

205

Three Sayings Part 1; Perseverance and Resignation

206

Listen (please) as we Linger on Words Like Loyalty

207

Profile of WWII Vet - an Archived Episode With Sensei Jay

208

There Were Lots of Gladiator Weapons

209

Cobra Kai; so fun it Deserves a Second Visit

210

Cobra Kai Fans Weigh In - Part 1

211

The Book Crew is Reading Three Budo Masters

212

Gabbing About Gladiators

213

New, Now An Episode of Words that start with the Letter N

214

We Meet a New Friend: A Fun Interview

215

Poisons: Way More Interesting Than We Expected

216

The Marquess of Queensberry Rules - Yes It's a Real Thing!

217

Consistency Beats Intensity - Fun!

218

Non Combative Japanese Arts; Are They Martial?

219

Interviewing Andy Gray: Podcaster, World Champion Kick boxer and Fun Interviewee - You'll See

220

The 3 of Us Have Fun Looking at the Number 3 in Karate - Really!

221

Escape Immediately with Our E Word Episode

222

Bloopers Part 3 - Too Much Laughter!

223

Finally We Finish our Review of Living the Martial Way

224

Our Friend is Inducted into the Hall Of Fame

225

We Talk with a Brazilian Ju Jujitsu Podcaster and Practitioner

226

When a Re-run isn't a Re-run; Intrigued?

227

The 8 Fold Path With Our Friend Sensei Max

228

Jumpin in to 2022 with the Letter J

229

Taking an Opportunity to Share this Conversation on Opportunity &Obligation

230

Yin, Yang and a Fun Guest - Yay!

231

We Can't Get Enough on Wrestling and T.D. McKinnon Too!

232

Hanshi Malanoski Interview - Part II

233

Elements Redux - An Archived Episode

234

Hanshi Steven Malanoski - Part 1

235

Kickin it Kendo Style

236

Book Time: Living the Martial Way: Honor

237

It's Time For Fun: Bloopers 2021

238

Sumo: Wrestling Part 3

239

Good Times Gabbing about the Letter G

240

The Great Togo (Wrestling Part 2)

241

If You Tell Me You're Stupid

242

We're Celebrating 100 Episodes!

243

Wrestling Part 1 - Ancient and Modern, Pros and Amateurs - Lots to Wrestle With!

244

Time to Talk T Words!

245

Richard Kim: Spy, Teacher of Master Urban - All That and More

246

Elvis and Ed Return to the Building - One More Time

247

Budo-The Movie- Spoiler Alert-We love it

248

Gogen Yamaguchi - Continuing Our Trilogy on Master Urban's Teachers

249

Karate Training was Truly a Part of Their Life Adventure

250

An Interview with Sifu Rob Jones

251

Mas Oyama: It Really was a Karate Crazy Life!

252

Happy to Have an Episode on the Letter "H"

253

Peter Urban: The George Washington of Karate

254

A Book Episode: Part 1 of Living the Martial Way

255

Super Sentei, Power Rangers and Sensei Ben

256

Makiwara and Tameshiwara

257

Angling Our Way Through Words That Begin With A

258

TD McKinnon: Our First International Interview

259

Self-Control: Handy Anytime, Anywhwere

260

We Weigh in on Weight Divisions

261

We Focus Our Attention on Kime

262

Bloopers Enough to Fill a Whole Episode

263

Naginata: Gorgeous and Deadly

264

Promises, Punches and More

265

Series: Profiles of Warriors - John Cline II

266

Sparring: A Little History and a lot of Fun

267

Aikido From a Quartet Lacking Proper Harmony

268

We Love the Masamune so Much, We're Airing it Again!

269

Wing Chun, Female Grand-master, Legends

270

We Boldly Bring you the Letter "B"

271

Tanto: We Visit Japanese Blades Once Again!

272

Karate is Coming to the Olympics, Finally!

273

The TV Series Kung Fu, an Old Show with Great Fight Scenes

274

We Venture into Adventure

275

An Episode About Kids, by Kids

276

Series: Profiles of Warriors - George Kerkerian

277

We visit The Karate Dojo One More Time

278

MMA The Next Step in Full Contact

279

Kickboxing - Less Painful to Listen to Than to Do

280

Our First Book Episode - 365 Days of the Warrior

281

An Episode with a Plan: Strategy Part 2

282

This Episode is No-Ax-ident

283

A Strategic Start to Discussing Strategy

284

Elvis and Grandmaster Ed have left the building

285

We Loved Kyudo So Much, We're Visiting it One Last Time

286

We Take a Shot at Kyudo-Japanese Archery

287

Ryu, Do and Jutsu: 6 degrees of separation?

288

Archery It's Always Awesome

289

We're Celebrating One Year of the Podcast

290

Fumio Demura Should be So Much More Famous

291

We Finish Kobudo Weaponry with the 3 Sectional Staff, Sai and More

292

Our First Blooper Episode.

293

You Won't Believe How Many Kinds of Sticks there are in Kobudo Weapons!

294

Mindfulness, Mistakes and a Few Words From Megan

295

Nunchucks Aren't the Only Kobudo Weapon

296

But Wait, There's Mail and More - 5 Minute Listen

297

Mixing it Up With Earth, Wind, Fire...and Water

298

Can you Believe Women were Training at the Beginning of the 20th Century?

299

Elements Part 5- Earth: Power and Chi

300

The Famous Lost Katana - Honjo Masamune

301

Fire: Fun? Frantic? Philosophical (you decide)

302

Katana - Coolest and Most Cutting Edge Blade

303

Swords - Beautiful, Deadly and Entertaining

304

Water - The Element of Life

305

Ronin- Cooler than the Other Japanese Warriors?

306

The In's and Out's of Wind

307

Ninja - As Cool as Samurai? You decide.

308

Go Bags: By Any Name - They're Handy

309

It's Elemental

310

Gichin Funakoshi: The Father of Modern Karate

311

An Interview about Monastic Life

312

Musashi: Books, Precepts, Death

313

Bokuden_Kojiro_Musashi 6 degrees or less of separation?

314

Character Growth in the Dojo - The Middle Years (FYI It isn't like being a middle child.)

315

An Interview with an Endurance Athlete

316

Lets Talk About Yelling - A 5 Minute Short on the Kiai

317

From the Code of the Samurai to Modern Warrior Philosophy

318

The Samurai - People, Poetry and Periods

319

Celebrating Our 25th Episode

320

A Real Fight, A Real Mess

321

A 5 Minute Preview to Monday's Episode on Fighting

322

Two Ferocious Japanese Female Warriors

323

Zen: Small Word with Big Meaning

324

Three Minutes of Karate Jokes and Two Recognizing the Difficult Time During Covid 19

325

Soho Tukuan - The First in Our Biographies Series

326

Ego - More Manageable Than You'd Think

327

History Part 2 Karate Comes to America

328

What's the Deal with Being a Sensei, Anyway!

329

Picking a Dojo - Who Knew it'd be a 20 Minute Episode!

330

Wabi Sabi: Not Just Fun Because it Rhymes

331

Six Months in China - An Interview With Sam Silverberg

332

The Shaolin Monastery Read by Michelle, Jackie and Landyn

333

Meditation - Give it a Try!

334

Life After Karate - Our First Interview

335

First Days: Anxiety and Anticipation

336

Dojo Stories about Master Kelljchian

337

Time...Isn't Always on Our Side

338

Belts, Beginnings and Comparisons

339

Master Urban Guideline for Self Analysis Part 2

340

Master Urban's Guideline for Self Analysis Part 1

341

Reality, It Can Be Fun

342

What You Do Alot of You Become Very Good At

343

Listener Mail

344

Self Control (not as boring as it sounds)

345

Weighing Advantages and Disadvantages

346

Episode 1 Character

347

Quick explanation of the Japanese word "oos" (osu)

348

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