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Wildcatdojo Conversations — 364 episodes

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1

Another Look at the Code of the Warrior - Comparing Different Cultures

2

What You Do Alot of... An Archived Episode (originally aired in 2019)

3

Hanshi Malanoski Shares Some Goju History

4

Book Episode - Three Books on Taoism

5

Landyn Leaves us with a lot of Knowledge....

6

Critical Thinking - That's Right Folks - We're Using Big Words!

7

Pushing On - OTJ Training Vs Formal Education

8

Britain's role in WW2 - A Conversation with Hanshi McKinnon

9

Interview with Sensei Carrera - Suikendo Karate and More

10

Talking Adamant, Ai and Actionless Action - Letter A Abounds

11

Interview with Sensei Robert Lasorsa about his Dad - a WW2 Vet

12

Fathers as Warriors

13

Stories, Laughter and Mistakes from the Past Six Months

14

Reality Self-Defense: It can be Fun - An Archived Episode

15

Opinions Abound on this Letter O Episode

16

Dexterity: Another Page From 365 Days of the Warrior

17

That's My Satori - A Conversation with Hanshi Malanoski

18

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

19

The Power of Laughter

20

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

21

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

22

Three Weapons From India - a Conversation With Sifu Rob

23

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

24

Strength and Power Part 2 - The Conversation Continues

25

Strength & Power Part 1; External / Internal and Amusing

26

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

27

History: Karate comes to America - an Archived Episode

28

P Company (Paratroopers) - Talking with Hanshi McKinnon

29

O My, O Words, including One Knuckle Punch

30

Sister Linda Sim

31

Fear is a Backstabber

32

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

33

The Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle

34

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

35

Noticing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

36

Part 2 - Comparing 3 Self-Defense Books

37

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

38

Perseverance- Our Motto the Last Few Weeks

39

Laughs, Out Takes and Stories

40

Makiwara and Tamishawara _ An Archived Episode

41

Once upon a time in China - a Movie Review

42

We're Celebrating Six Years of Podcasts

43

New Interview, New Friend and Some Tai Chi Talk

44

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

45

The Kiai of the Eyes

46

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

47

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

48

Discussing a Meditation Mentioned in 365 Days of the Warrior

49

Sifu Rob Jones Tells us About his WW2 Katana

50

An Interview with an Old Friend - Sensei Eddie Kiesel

51

Overcome Unkindness with Compassion - Lao Tzu

52

How Katana are Made

53

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

54

A Fun Interview with Elba "Cookie" Melendez

55

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

56

Aircraft of WW1

57

Interview with Ellen Kanner - Author of Miami Vegan

58

Patience as a Super Power

59

Rumble in the Bronx - Movie Review

60

Unheard Till Now - Mistakes, Stories and Surprises

61

Samurai Armor

62

Armor Through the Ages

63

Cobra Kai - The Finale (With Spoilers)

64

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

65

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

66

We Revisit Tukuan with Added Content

67

Episode with E Words - Enjoy....

68

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

69

Movie Review - The Real Mr. Miyagi - Fumio Demura

70

Uke - The Good, The Bad and The Crazy

71

Viking Women Warriors

72

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

73

Boundaries: Making them and Keeping them. Thoughts?

74

A Book Review - Wabi Sabi

75

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Arlington National Cemetery

76

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

77

Pappy Boyington WW2 Flying Ace and More

78

Over and Over

79

Go Bags - An Archived Episode

80

Attention/ Attendance? Ahhh.....

81

Out Takes and Bloopers from the End of Last Year

82

Wendell Womble - Great name/ Great Interview

83

Movie! Big Trouble in Little China

84

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

85

Shihan Tracy Seymour, A New Friend & An Amazing Interview

86

Air University: Our Continuing Series on the NWC

87

Starting 2025 with the Letter S

88

A Kata Saying and So Much More

89

Master Kelljchian Stories Part 2

90

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

91

Another Amazing Interview - Hanshi George Alexander

92

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

93

What's Next?

94

Quirky Home Made Weapons (Mostly)

95

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

96

Yojimbo: A Movie Review

97

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

98

A Book Review - Zen and the Martial Arts

99

We Visit With our Friend Shihan McKinnon about his Book

100

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

101

Catching Up With Landyn and a Couple of K Words

102

Expect the Unexpected

103

Continuing our Fun with Dr. Melissa - Nutrition Part 2

104

Nutrition with Dr. Macy - Part 1

105

The Samurai People - Original air date: 4.2020

106

We Review a 1980s Era Movie- The Octogon

107

Saigo Takamori - The Real Last Samurai

108

The Martial Arts: A Children's Book Episode

109

Satsuma Rebellion aka The Last Samurai

110

Interview with Taiko Drummers and Friends

111

A Cool Subject and an Even Cooler Guest

112

Wrestling's The Great Togo - An Archived Episode

113

Fun Conversation about Teaching

114

Stories, Tangents and Bloopers From the First Half of 2024

115

Another New Friend: Juanita Kapp

116

Chinese Spears and Swords with Sifu Jones

117

Haiku - An Unusual Book Episode

118

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

119

Plan Your Work And Work Your Plan

120

Bad Ass Queens from Britain

121

Finally We Tackle the Letter F

122

Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated Soldier of WW II

123

Goals, Journeys and being Human

124

Female Ninja - Did They Exist? I Hope So

125

Experience - The Good, the Bad and The Funny

126

The Naval War College; The Oldest of the War Colleges

127

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

128

An Interview: Sensei Jackie is on the Hot Seat

129

Finishing our Discussion of Some Guidelines from Grandmaster Urban

130

More Excellent Adventures with the book - The Karate Dojo

131

Female Warriors / Mythology - Amazon Warriors

132

Helluvan Episode - Mail, Start Stories and More

133

The First of Our Kurosawa Series: The Hidden Fortress

134

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

135

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

136

We talk Renshi, Ryogan Tsuki and more

137

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

138

Notes - Ever Take Them? Do We?

139

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

140

Starting the Year with a Visit from an Old Friend

141

Stories and Bloopers from 2023

142

More Weird Weapons - This one includes Pirates!

143

We Talk Terra Cotta Army and More with Sifu Jones

144

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

145

Meditation Fun with Kim and Matthew - An Interview

146

Achilles Should Be Known for his Wrath - Not His Heel

147

Kata - We Talk it Over With our Friend Shihan McKinnon

148

Subjectivity VS Objectivity - The Battle Continues

149

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

150

We Take a Look at Jackie Chan

151

Words we Found in the Karate Dictionary - The Letter L

152

King Tut - Warrior King or Just The Boy King

153

A Martial Arts State of Mind with Shihan Mckinnon

154

American Shaolin - a Book So Good We Visited it Twice

155

Book Time: American Shaolin Part 1

156

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

157

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

158

We Interview.....Me?

159

Fans Make Good Weapons

160

What's the Deal With Being a Sensei - Continued

161

This One is About Animals

162

Kendo Redux - An Archived Episode

163

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

164

Tsuji Gettan Sukeshigi and a Zen Saying

165

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

166

Bloopers and Stories - We've got Them

167

We're Determined to Discuss Words That Start With D

168

Boomerangs and Yoyos - Weapons?

169

Reviewing Movies From the Last Millennium - First Up 3 Ninjas

170

Hanshi Teller Talks About His Champions Boxing Program

171

We Talk with Hanshi Keith Teller About His History

172

Gilgamesh -Mythological Warriors

173

An Interview about Body-Guarding

174

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

175

Zen - An Episode from 2020

176

Book Episode: The Art of War

177

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

178

Gun Laws in the United Kingdom; We Learn About Them

179

Master Joe Hess is Amazing

180

Consequences - We Make 'Em

181

We Interview Two Martial Artists From Western Mass. - Amazing

182

Simply S Words

183

Breathing - Truly a Life Changer

184

Ryan Returns with Mythology- Artemis and Apollo

185

A Class of Young Students Talk About Hard Work

186

Weird Weapons From History

187

A Conversation With a Friend - Welcome Sensei Carlos

188

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

189

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

190

Espionage Was Always Part of Life

191

Continuing Letter Episodes with the Letter C

192

Hercules - Man, Demigod, or Just Another Crazy Warrior

193

Bloopers: Some Laughter As We Close Out 2022

194

Classical Chokes; The Book Crew Read It

195

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

196

If Our Karate is Perfect - An Old Saying Discussed

197

Catapults and Trebuchets - Things That Fling

198

We Take a Run at Words That Begin With R

199

Finishing the Three Sayings: Thank you Master Lasorsa

200

Aging While Training Part 2 - So Much to Say

201

Warriors From Mythology: Thor

202

Training While Aging; Could it be Any Other Way?

203

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

204

Autumn Lightening: A Book Crew Review

205

Revisiting the Monkey King in the Movies

206

An Interview with Our Friend from the Air Force

207

Is Karate for Everyone - We Weigh In

208

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

209

Warriors From Mythology - Sun Wukong

210

We Delve into words that start with D

211

Home Safety - An Episode Suggested by a Listener

212

Heritage Weapons with Master Ratthe

213

Thanks Master Brown for this episode on Balance

214

Mixing the Elements; An Archived Episode

215

An Interview with our Amazing Friend

216

Three Budo Masters: finishing with Ueshiba and Aikido

217

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

218

Bloopers; The Laughter Continues

219

Master Kelljchian was Creatively Prolific - This is Undeniable

220

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

221

Three Sayings Part 1; Perseverance and Resignation

222

Listen (please) as we Linger on Words Like Loyalty

223

Profile of WWII Vet - an Archived Episode With Sensei Jay

224

There Were Lots of Gladiator Weapons

225

Cobra Kai; so fun it Deserves a Second Visit

226

Cobra Kai Fans Weigh In - Part 1

227

The Book Crew is Reading Three Budo Masters

228

Gabbing About Gladiators

229

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

230

We Meet a New Friend: A Fun Interview

231

Poisons: Way More Interesting Than We Expected

232

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

233

Consistency Beats Intensity - Fun!

234

Non Combative Japanese Arts; Are They Martial?

235

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

236

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

237

Escape Immediately with Our E Word Episode

238

Bloopers Part 3 - Too Much Laughter!

239

Finally We Finish our Review of Living the Martial Way

240

Our Friend is Inducted into the Hall Of Fame

241

We Talk with a Brazilian Ju Jujitsu Podcaster and Practitioner

242

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

243

The 8 Fold Path With Our Friend Sensei Max

244

Jumpin in to 2022 with the Letter J

245

Taking an Opportunity to Share this Conversation on Opportunity &Obligation

246

Yin, Yang and a Fun Guest - Yay!

247

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

248

Hanshi Malanoski Interview - Part II

249

Elements Redux - An Archived Episode

250

Hanshi Steven Malanoski - Part 1

251

Kickin it Kendo Style

252

Book Time: Living the Martial Way: Honor

253

It's Time For Fun: Bloopers 2021

254

Sumo: Wrestling Part 3

255

Good Times Gabbing about the Letter G

256

The Great Togo (Wrestling Part 2)

257

If You Tell Me You're Stupid

258

We're Celebrating 100 Episodes!

259

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

260

Time to Talk T Words!

261

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

262

Elvis and Ed Return to the Building - One More Time

263

Budo-The Movie- Spoiler Alert-We love it

264

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

265

Karate Training was Truly a Part of Their Life Adventure

266

An Interview with Sifu Rob Jones

267

Mas Oyama: It Really was a Karate Crazy Life!

268

Happy to Have an Episode on the Letter "H"

269

Peter Urban: The George Washington of Karate

270

A Book Episode: Part 1 of Living the Martial Way

271

Super Sentei, Power Rangers and Sensei Ben

272

Makiwara and Tameshiwara

273

Angling Our Way Through Words That Begin With A

274

TD McKinnon: Our First International Interview

275

Self-Control: Handy Anytime, Anywhwere

276

We Weigh in on Weight Divisions

277

We Focus Our Attention on Kime

278

Bloopers Enough to Fill a Whole Episode

279

Naginata: Gorgeous and Deadly

280

Promises, Punches and More

281

Series: Profiles of Warriors - John Cline II

282

Sparring: A Little History and a lot of Fun

283

Aikido From a Quartet Lacking Proper Harmony

284

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

285

Wing Chun, Female Grand-master, Legends

286

We Boldly Bring you the Letter "B"

287

Tanto: We Visit Japanese Blades Once Again!

288

Karate is Coming to the Olympics, Finally!

289

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

290

We Venture into Adventure

291

An Episode About Kids, by Kids

292

Series: Profiles of Warriors - George Kerkerian

293

We visit The Karate Dojo One More Time

294

MMA The Next Step in Full Contact

295

Kickboxing - Less Painful to Listen to Than to Do

296

Our First Book Episode - 365 Days of the Warrior

297

An Episode with a Plan: Strategy Part 2

298

This Episode is No-Ax-ident

299

A Strategic Start to Discussing Strategy

300

Elvis and Grandmaster Ed have left the building

301

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

302

We Take a Shot at Kyudo-Japanese Archery

303

Ryu, Do and Jutsu: 6 degrees of separation?

304

Archery It's Always Awesome

305

We're Celebrating One Year of the Podcast

306

Fumio Demura Should be So Much More Famous

307

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

308

Our First Blooper Episode.

309

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

310

Mindfulness, Mistakes and a Few Words From Megan

311

Nunchucks Aren't the Only Kobudo Weapon

312

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

313

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

314

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

315

Elements Part 5- Earth: Power and Chi

316

The Famous Lost Katana - Honjo Masamune

317

Fire: Fun? Frantic? Philosophical (you decide)

318

Katana - Coolest and Most Cutting Edge Blade

319

Swords - Beautiful, Deadly and Entertaining

320

Water - The Element of Life

321

Ronin- Cooler than the Other Japanese Warriors?

322

The In's and Out's of Wind

323

Ninja - As Cool as Samurai? You decide.

324

Go Bags: By Any Name - They're Handy

325

It's Elemental

326

Gichin Funakoshi: The Father of Modern Karate

327

An Interview about Monastic Life

328

Musashi: Books, Precepts, Death

329

Bokuden_Kojiro_Musashi 6 degrees or less of separation?

330

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

331

An Interview with an Endurance Athlete

332

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

333

From the Code of the Samurai to Modern Warrior Philosophy

334

The Samurai - People, Poetry and Periods

335

Celebrating Our 25th Episode

336

A Real Fight, A Real Mess

337

A 5 Minute Preview to Monday's Episode on Fighting

338

Two Ferocious Japanese Female Warriors

339

Zen: Small Word with Big Meaning

340

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

341

Soho Tukuan - The First in Our Biographies Series

342

Ego - More Manageable Than You'd Think

343

History Part 2 Karate Comes to America

344

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

345

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

346

Wabi Sabi: Not Just Fun Because it Rhymes

347

Six Months in China - An Interview With Sam Silverberg

348

The Shaolin Monastery Read by Michelle, Jackie and Landyn

349

Meditation - Give it a Try!

350

Life After Karate - Our First Interview

351

First Days: Anxiety and Anticipation

352

Dojo Stories about Master Kelljchian

353

Time...Isn't Always on Our Side

354

Belts, Beginnings and Comparisons

355

Master Urban Guideline for Self Analysis Part 2

356

Master Urban's Guideline for Self Analysis Part 1

357

Reality, It Can Be Fun

358

What You Do Alot of You Become Very Good At

359

Listener Mail

360

Self Control (not as boring as it sounds)

361

Weighing Advantages and Disadvantages

362

Episode 1 Character

363

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

364

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