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

Matburn Episode 42: Apocalypse Now

Jul 4th, 2021 1h 39m

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 wil

Matburn Episode 41

Jun 21st, 2021 1h 24m

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, an

Matburn Episode 40: Brad "Quake" Riddell

Dec 3rd, 2020 1h 40m

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 cur

Matburn Episode 39

Nov 10th, 2020 1h 27m

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

Matburn Episode 38: featuring Edwin Najmi

Jul 12th, 2020 1h 34m

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 Mongol

Matburn Episode 37: featuring ADCC Champion Matheus Diniz

Jun 30th, 2020 2h 4m

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 co

Matburn Episode 36: Tanner the Ginger Rice

May 21st, 2020 1h 30m

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

TGOF92/Matburn Episode 35

Apr 26th, 2020 1h 4m

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?

Matburn Episode 34: Just J&K

Apr 20th, 2020 2h 2m

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 bac

Matburn Episode 33: Isolation webcast

Mar 23rd, 2020 1h 26m

Hinjer and Keenis do their first webcast from their respective isolation chambers during the Coronapocalypse.

Matburn Episode 32: Andre and Angelica Galvao

Mar 11th, 2020 2h 13m

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

Matburn Episode 31: Josh and Keenan

Mar 4th, 2020 1h 43m

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

Matburn Episode 30: Israel Adesanya

Feb 25th, 2020 2h 5m

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

Matburn Episode 29: 2019 MMA Coach of the Year Eugene Bareman

Feb 6th, 2020 2h 26m

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 MM

Matburn Episode 28: Lachlan and Livia Giles

Jan 1st, 2020 2h 6m

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

Matburn Episode 27: Nogi Worlds Part 4: Rodrigo Comprido Medeiros, Luiz Panza, and Renato Canuto

Dec 20th, 2019 1h 49m

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 ma

Matburn Episode 26: Nogi Worlds 2019 with Gesias “JZ” Cavalcante, Tom DeBlass, and Rico Bastos

Dec 17th, 2019 1h 16m

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

Matburn Episode 25: Part 2 of the Nogi Worlds Mishmosh with Talita Alencar, Kit Dale, JT Torres, and Weiss Sakhizada

Dec 15th, 2019 2h 20m

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

Matburn Episode 24: Jackson Sousa, Robert Drysdale, Keenis, Nisar Loynab, Kristian Woodmansee at the 2019 IBJJF Nogi Worlds

Dec 14th, 2019 2h 4m

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, Robe

Matburn Episode 23: Kade and Tye Ruotolo

Dec 3rd, 2019 1h 50m

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

Matburn After Dark: Episode 22

Nov 22nd, 2019 2h 3m

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

Matburn Episode 21: Ilima-Lei Macfarlane

Nov 5th, 2019 2h 4m

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

Matburn Episode 20

Oct 31st, 2019 1h 58m

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 B

Matburn Episode 19: Geo Martinez

Oct 17th, 2019 2h 16m

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.