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We chat with Professor/ Coach Gordon Marino about his new book "The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age," the benefits of existential philosophy, the coach/ athlete relationship, and then we cover lots and lots of boxing. It's one of our most fun episodes.

Gordon Marino is a professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College. A veteran boxing coach, Marino is also an award-winning boxing writer for The Wall Street Journal and has worked with HBO boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other domestic and international publications.

You can find Gordon on Twitter at: @GordonMarino

You can find "The Existentialist's Survival Guide on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2Tzkjcf

If you'd like to email Gordon, you can find him at: [email protected]

Also per Gordon's suggestion, check out Crito by Plato (The dialogue takes place in Socrates' prison cell, where he awaits execution. He is visited before dawn by his old friend Crito, who has made arrangements to smuggle Socrates out of prison to the safety of exile): http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

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We study Derrick Lewis vs. Junior dos Santos—what went right, what went wrong, and what can we learn about MMA tactics. Then we discuss a fantasy match up between Jon Jones vs. JDS, how Jon Jones would do as a heavyweight, why great fighters cheat, and how being a champion or GOAT in a division says as much about the division as it does about the fighter. This is MMA intellectualism.

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How would history read if it wasn't from the grand narrative of those in power, but just as it happened? Including all the warts. And since there are so many books that highlight the grand narrative, then we don't need a repeat of what we already know. What we might then need to balance out all that we think we already know is a book that highlights all the warts.

And that's exactly what "A People's History of the United States" (https://amzn.to/2RcWRiQ) by Howard Zinn sets out to do.

This is why any list of books to cover for the Big Ideas series would have to include this book. It's that important. There are people who have read this book and those who have not, and based on that difference, you have a different world-view. And that's the point of big ideas. There's you before these ideas and there's you after.

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For fans of the tactical aspect of MMA, we study Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith, Tyron Woodley vs. Kamaru Usman, Ben Askren vs. Robbie Lawler, and Cody Garbrandt vs. Pedro Munhoz. This is MMA intellectualism.

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We sit down with retired professional fighter, former academic, classical musician, and now sports doctor Rosi Sexton to discuss multidisciplinary thinking, learning how to learn, mixed martial arts, sports rehab, economics, logic, game theory, prisoner's dilemma, and politics. It's a crash course in everything.

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You can find Rosi Sexton at www.combatsportsclinic.net and www.oltonosteopathy.com

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The following program is rated mature, it contains strong language, listener discretion is advised 😉

We brought in extreme martial artist, memer, teacher, cartoonist, and YouTuber Emon Rashid (Vloshry) to discuss anime, manga, memes, video games, Reddit, and YouTube.

Things discussed: Dragon Ball Z, Team Four Star, Dragon Ball Abridged, Teppu, KSKM, Holyland, Hajime no Ippo, Rwby, Bleach, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mike Tyson, Cro Cop, Saenchai, Dominick Reyes, Tenshin, Masato, Kid Yamamoto, Grappler Baki, RRR, Megalo Box, Ashita no Joe, Slam Dunk, My Hero Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pixar, Moana, Sword Art Online, Overlord, Shazam, Fight! Ryōzanpaku, History's Strongest Disciple, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game), Final Fantasy X&XV, Pokemon, Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Studio Ghibli, Naruto, One-Punch Man, Meguru, Moribito, Sword of the Stranger, Shooto, XMA, Hyper, Taylor Lautner, Into the Badlands, and more!

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You can find Emon's anime breakdown here: https://youtu.be/9bUOfH3qRZ4

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For those of you who are nerds of the game, and like to understand the intricacies of MMA prizefighting, allow Sam and Paul to break down every minutiae in greater detail than the actual length of the fight! Where we finally answer, what happens when 52 blocks meets wing-chun hand trapping? A whole lot. And when we say a whole lot, we mean a whole lot of cool visuals, but not a whole lot in actual fighting.

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In this episode, we sit down with One Championship fighter Savannah Em and her coach Justen Hamilton to discuss women's MMA, MMA tactics & strategies, sociology of sport, gender studies, Dragon Ball Z, and Seinfeld.

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If you'd like to follow Savannah, you can find her on Instagram and Facebook @NahryEm

And on Twitter @SavannahEm1

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And on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/JustenHamilton

We look at the crap underneath the crap of comedy, Internet culture, podcasting, combat sports, and politics w/ Robbie Goodwin

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On this episode, we have Jerry Liu from Fight Commentary Breakdowns. It's a fun one as we dive deep into the world of YouTube, Facebook, data collecting, online privacy, BJJ culture, the new ESPN/ UFC deal, Greg Hardy in the UFC, and fight studies of Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw, and Donald Cerrone vs. Alex Hernandez.

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