Josh and Keenan talk about broken teeth and broken hands. Pat Downey is cool and should be matched against the Hulk. The biggest regret of Josh's competition career. Teammate matches. City vs city duel meet competitions. Old Abu Dhabi World Pro stories. Shout out to the UAE. They really do love Jiu-Jitsu. CGI animation is too good. Human-animal gene editing. Keenan wants to be a shark-toothed mob boss. Making the transition from full time competition athlete to the role of coach/mentor. The jiu-...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Topics include: The ocean is on fire. How we can stop all the genocide. How much control an affiliation should have over the way academies conduct their business. Keenan argues that the future of the average practitioner jiu-jitsu community will evolve into something akin to the present-day yoga community, and the future of professional jiu-jitsu competition looks like present-day WWE. Lastly, the cross-utility of studying jiu-jitsu. Big shout out to JiuGo the Card game and Tap Cancer Out....
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Posted up in La Casa de Cornelius, the guys talk about YouTube Edu-tainment, opening academies to spread jiu-jitsu, Master's Problems: Keenan's broken back vs Josh's busted elbow, Mica Galvao’s weekend of soul crushing competition dominance, and the what would it be like to wear a Gi for an ADCC match?
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Josh talks with undefeated UFC fighter Brad “Quake” Riddell. Brad has over 50 professional kickboxing fights, 10 professional MMA fights, and is quickly climbing the ranks of the UFC lightweight division. Brad is a New Zealand native who is currently stranded in the USA due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. He talks a bit about his time here in the USA, his interest in Wim Hof breathing exercises, and what it’s like training under world renowned MMA coach Eugene Bareman at the infamous City Kickb...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 40
The end of the hiatus. Brought to you by BJJLINK! The only jiu-jitsu-only social media app. The only Keenan admits that the hiatus is his fault. "What if" questions during class. Keenan still loves Tesla. How would we survive if the power grid was destroyed. Grappling hygiene and telling stinky people that they stink. Shout out to Jiu-JitsuX and the grappling legend JT Torres.
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Episode 38 featuring The Kid, Edwin Najmi, Master of the Flying Triangle. The guys talk about the current state of the world, too many old and weird people in the government, why Edwin started taking training more serious, grappling with Mongolian judokas, dietary supplements, fights that break out in competitions and training, and Keenan's haunted gym.
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Josh and Keenis get a phone call from the 2019 ADCC 88kg Champion, Matheus Diniz. Both Keenis and Josh have competed against Matheus on multiple occasions with wins and loses exchanged in both directions. The guys catch up and share some old competition memories while also briefly discussing the current state of the jiu-jitsu community in the wake of the never ending Coronapocolypse. Keenan finally admits that he hates being called Keenis, and declares Josh the winner of the Fuck-Your-Name-Game....
Jun 30, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Hinjer and Keenis have a special call-in guest, Tanner the Ginger Rice. Also, known to the Shasta County Health Department as a public health terrorist. Tanner has recently become quite the legend in the small business world when he defied the governor's orders not to open his business until the governor sees fit. Tanner talks to us about some of the trials and tribulations that he has been encountering with the local authorities who, according to Tanner, would rather see Tanner and his family s...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 36
UFC veteran and Easton BJJ Blackbelt Eliot Marshall hosted Josh as a guest on The Gospel of Fire Podcast. We are making the episode available here on the Matburn Podcast, because why not?
Apr 26, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Josh and Keenan discuss the potential reopening of jiu-jitsu academies as well as some ideas and strategies that academy owners could use when the time comes to open the doors. Keenan shows Josh the true origins of American Jiu-Jitsu dating back to the early 1900s. They talk a little bit about the economy, Mars, Tesla, and conspiracy theories.
Apr 20, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Hinjer and Keenis do their first webcast from their respective isolation chambers during the Coronapocalypse.
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Josh is joined by his professor, 5-time Blackbelt World Champion and reigning ADCC Superfight Champion, Andre Galvao, along with his better half Angelica Galvao who is the 2015 Blackbelt Nogi World Champion and 2018 Abu Dhabi World Pro Champion. They discuss whether Prof. Andre will appear at the 2021 ADCC World Championships, Kaynan Duarte's USADA suspension, as well as the decision for the AOJ academy to no longer represent Team Atos in the IBJJF competition circuit. This episode is sponsored ...
Mar 11, 2020•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 32
After some travel, these two are back at it. They talk about the evolution of jiu-jitsu and how that fact is difficult for some people to accept. Keenan continues to wage verbal war with FloGrappling. Bullying and the Aussie kid who divided the world with his mom's viral video. Losing is an important part of the jiu-jitsu journey. They both demonstrate their inability to accurately speak about the physics of the universe. The Mikey Musumeci challenge. This episode is sponsored by MANSCAPED. Use ...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Current UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya sits down with Josh at the legendary City Kickboxing in Auckland, New Zealand. Israel talks about where he came from, his evolution as a fighter, and the drastic ways his life has changed in the past few years. He gives a shout out to the fallen soldiers and talks a little bit about the day that his coach, Eugene Bareman, almost quit coaching after losing a dear friend and athlete in the ring. Israel talks about his upcoming title defense against...
Feb 25, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 30
2019 MMA Coach of the Year, Eugene Bareman, joins the podcast and talks about the rise of current UFC Middleweight Champions, Israel Adasanya (@stylebender) and UFC Featherweight Champion, Alexander Volkanovski, and many other things BJJ and MMA related. It’s rare to get Eugene on the record because he notoriously never does interviews or podcasts. He talked about how @citykickboxing was a struggling gym that didn’t turn a profit for years, to what is now a rapidly expanding hotbed for MMA fight...
Feb 06, 2020•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Lachlan Giles explains to us what its like to be rocketed into jiu-jitsu superstardom via his epic ADCC open class performance. We talked about academy class structures, training schedules, and which Aussie has the best leglocks. We discussed a potential fight-to-the-death bracket with the entire population of Australia. Livia tells us what really annoys Lachlan. This episode is sponsored by bjjlink.com.
Jan 01, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 28
The final edition of the 2019 IBJJF Nogi Worlds Mishmosh. First up was the legendary Rodrigo "Comprido" Medeiros who is a 2-time IBJJF Worlds Open Class Champion and the head of the Brasa Team. He shared some stories about his most memorable match, the Viking and his brother Valdo, as well as a quick shout out to his up and coming super student, Jessica Buchman. Next we talked to Leglock Machine Luiz Panza who shared some thoughts on getting pumped up before competitions. Last but not least, one...
Dec 20, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Part 3 of the non-live broadcast from the Nogi Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Old school MMA legend Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante joined us and talked about his first day of MMA, his experience in lute livre and vale tudo fighting. We also touched on the topic of no contest fights, poking eyes, and crushing testicles. Next up we had Cannon-Arms Tom DeBlass, who shared some thoughts on feeling old and beat up, the training grind, and his transition from being an active competitor to focusing 100% of his...
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Part 2 of the non-live broadcast from Nogi Worlds in Anaheim, California, brought to you by our friends at Tap Cancer Out. With us today, we have multiple-time world champion and ultra savage competitor Talita Alencar. Then super celebrity and Aussie BJJ representative Kit Dale sat down and shared some stories about his acting career. He even gave us a little sample of his American accents. Then the legendary JT Torres joined us with one of his blackbelts, Weiss “Kimura Trapstar” Sakhizada. We t...
Dec 15, 2019•2 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Recording from the FloGrappling table at IBJJF Nogi Worlds in Anaheim, CA, Josh put together a mish-mosh of short interviews with pretty much whoever was walking by the table at the right moment. Guests include the legendary Jackson Sousa, Robert Drysdale, Keenis Cornelius, Kristian Woodmansee, Nisar “Persian Papi” Loynab, as well as Hywel Teague. Jackson and Hywel gave us some very interesting insight on what it’s like to grow up in the Favela and how Jackson built a successful life and a caree...
Dec 14, 2019•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Coming off a couple big wins in the UK, the legendary Ruotolo Twins joined us in the studio to talk about their meteoric rise in the professional level jiu-jitsu circuit. The boys talked about what they like to do outside of jiu-jitsu, and how they avoid burning out after having put in over a decade of time on the mats. They talked about Tye's match with Vagner at Fight2Win and Kade's coaching strategy, as well as what it feels like to break Paulo Miyao's knee. We talked about the actual technic...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Hinjer and Keenis tee up the mics late at night. They tell their jiu-jitsu genesis stories. Keenis used to get beat up by his sister. They did a breakdown of the Spyder Invitational brackets. They explain some of the funny things that beginners do when they start training. Hinjer talks about Jiu-jitsu con-artists who are alive and well in Hermosa Beach, CA and Waco, Texas. Students should leave the instructing to the instructors. The last 30 seconds of the match are the most important.
Nov 22, 2019•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Ilima "The Pineapple Princess" Macfarlane is the 4x Bellator MMA Flyweight Champion, and currently holds a perfect 10-0 MMA record. She is also the EBI combat jiu-jitsu flyweight champion, and she is a brown belt under 10p Freaks Brother Richie Martinez. This episode is brought to you by VHTS.EUROPE.
Nov 05, 2019•2 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We talked about quite the variety of topics including: the UFC, No Meat November, the upcoming Spyder Invitational, the leading causes of death in the USA, Josh’s new competition prep mentoring program, we took our first listener call-in from Bruce who asked about blue and purple belts teaching jiu-jitsu, we attempted to call @matheusdinizjj but apparently the ADCC champ is too cool for us now, Keenis asks about the differences between liberals and conservatives, and we talked about 27 other thi...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This episode is difficult to recap because the conversation was all over the place. The guys talked about anything and everything. They started off talking about their favorite video games. Training blind and grabbing junk. Jiu-jitsu in Hawaii. Standing up for yourself against bullies. The culture of positive vibes at 10th Planet. Breakdancing culture. American Jiu-Jitsu. The haters who never spread their hate in person. The way accomplishments help build confidence. Awkward handshakes. Rubbing ...
Oct 17, 2019•2 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Keenis returns. We make fun of his ugly swollen eye. We talk about EKC and how horrible it is. Lucas Barbosa drops in half way through the episode. We mostly talk about ADCC.
Oct 04, 2019•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This episode was recorded just days before JT claimed his 2nd consecutive ADCC World Championship title at 77kg. As you can imagine, him and I were crazy busy getting ready for our trip to Anaheim. We managed to squeeze in an episode just using the laptop internal microphone... So the audio is a little distant. Janky level 4 on a 10 point scale with 10 being the most janky. We talked about JT's beginnings in martial arts. We talked about his academy in Hartsdale, NY. KP's experience in the medic...
Sep 30, 2019•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This is a very special episode with the one and only Stuart Cooper. Stuart is a world renowned jiu-jitsu film-maker known for his exciting highlight videos and short-films which typically document the journey of influential jiu-jitsu practitioners. In this episode Stuart gives a powerful testimony about his journey with jiu-jitsu and film-making which subsequently lead to a life-threatening drug addiction. He details how he slipped into a dangerous routine of training, travel, and taking pills t...
Sep 24, 2019•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Josh and Crystal exchange stories on a quiet Sunday evening. Josh talks a lot about his time with the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan. Stories include: hitch-hiking and hellish train rides across the Turkmen desert. The detailed story about the time Crystal chased a robber out of our apartment. Street fights in Fresno and Vietnam. Turkmen village life and outhouses. Kidney stones, and elbow dislocations. And most importantly, chasing the jiu-jitsu lifestyle. Crystal is the light-feather adult purple...
Sep 23, 2019•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Head ADCC organizer Mo Jassim talks with Josh and drops some serious knowledge about all things related to ADCC. While many jiu-jitsu fans may not know who Mo Jassim is, every jiu-jitsu competitor on the planet knows Mo as "the ADCC gatekeeper." Topics include the actual administrative hierarchy of ADCC: Sheikh Tahnoun, Guy Neivins, and Peter Baltaliyski. Why the Sheikh founded ADCC. Mo's first time as the head organizer of the ADCC World Championships. His first run as a head organizer at the 2...
Sep 16, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 14
