This week we're locked in a cage with filmmaker Kevin Ronca. We talk addiction, homelessness, art hustles, corona quarantines, and the great, Ronca produced, Nightcrawlers film debuting on Vimeo on Demand and Amazon Prime.

https://www.instagram.com/nightcrawlersmovie/

http://nightcrawlersthefilm.com/

This week we're swinging nunchaku with Nashville MMA fighter Jaysen Baker. We get a breakdown on Jaysen's current fight camp, how martial arts might make you a better musician, and why pace is key for success inside and outside of sanctioned cage violence.

https://www.instagram.com/jaysenabaker/

https://www.facebook.com/allenj.baker

This week we have a bareknuckled chat with artist and educator Sisavanh Phouthavong. We talk the Secret War in Laos, Third Culture Kids in Kansas, candy-colored cluster bombs, and brave art against war.

https://www.sisavanhphouthavong.com/

https://www.tinneycontemporary.com/sisavanh-phouthavong

This week we enter the arena with Asheville Art Museum Assistant Curator, Hilary Schroeder. We talk Southern art history, creativity in times of conflict, old school craft beer, and the ghost of John Cage.

https://www.ashevilleart.org/

Bestselling author of Bruce Lee: A Life, American Shaolin, and Tapped Out, Matthew Polly returns to fill us in on his Executive Producer role for the new ESPN Documentary on Bruce Lee, and we get first news on his next project - which is... insane.

Senior Writer for The Athletic Ben Fowlkes raps with us from the frontier about the value of being able to take your time with writing, the struggle of getting started,  and moving beyond telling yourself that you suck.

https://theathletic.com/author/ben-fowlkes/

https://twitter.com/benfowlkesMMA

This week we sit down with martial artist, actress, writer, fitness coach, and MMA media star, Phoenix Carnevale. We mourn the end of The MMA Beat, reflect on the legend of Batman, talk smart about dumbed down culture, and compare creative entrepreneurship to surfing.

Check out phoenix carnevale (@microphonephoen): https://twitter.com/microphonephoen

https://m.youtube.com/everythingmartialarts

https://instagram.com/emartialarts

Fansided MMA Editor, Journalist, and Photographer Amy Kaplan talks her MMA media journey, why shooting fighters after a loss is so hard, and how being on, not behind camera is even harder.

Follow Amy on Twitter @photoamy33

 https://twitter.com/PhotoAmy33

This week we're joined by MMA journalist and the author of the book Why We Fight, Josh Rosenblatt. Josh talks about the MMA writing landscape in the 21st century, the aesthetics of the inevitable, and the gathering of the tribe at the MMA Media Symposium.