The Matburn Podcast

The Matburn Podcast episodes:

• 07.12.2021

  Matburn Episode 43

  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...

  
• 07.04.2021

  Matburn Episode 42: Apocalypse Now

  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...

  
• 06.21.2021

  Matburn Episode 41

  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...

  
• 12.03.2020

  Matburn Episode 40: Brad "Quake" Riddell

  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...

  
• 11.10.2020

  Matburn Episode 39

  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...

  
• 07.12.2020

  Matburn Episode 38: featuring Edwin Najmi

  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...

  
• 06.30.2020

  Matburn Episode 37: featuring ADCC Champion Matheus Diniz

  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...

  
• 05.21.2020

  Matburn Episode 36: Tanner the Ginger Rice

  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...

  
• 04.26.2020

  TGOF92/Matburn Episode 35

  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? 

  
• 04.20.2020

  Matburn Episode 34: Just J&K

  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...

  
• 03.23.2020

  Matburn Episode 33: Isolation webcast

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

  
• 03.11.2020

  Matburn Episode 32: Andre and Angelica Galvao

  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...

  
• 03.04.2020

  Matburn Episode 31: Josh and Keenan

  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...

  
• 02.25.2020

  Matburn Episode 30: Israel Adesanya

  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...

  
• 02.06.2020

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

  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...

  
• 01.01.2020

  Matburn Episode 28: Lachlan and Livia Giles

  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...

  
• 12.20.2019

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

  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...

  
• 12.17.2019

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

  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...

  
• 12.15.2019

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

  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...

  
• 12.14.2019

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

  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...

  
• 12.03.2019

  Matburn Episode 23: Kade and Tye Ruotolo

  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...

  
• 11.22.2019

  Matburn After Dark: Episode 22

  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...

  
• 11.05.2019

  Matburn Episode 21: Ilima-Lei Macfarlane

  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...

  
• 10.31.2019

  Matburn Episode 20

  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...

  
• 10.17.2019

  Matburn Episode 19: Geo Martinez

  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...

  
• 10.04.2019

  Matburn Episode 18: The Return of Keenis (featuring Lucas Barbosa)

  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. 

  
• 09.30.2019

  Matburn Episode 17: JT Torres and KP Kimpo

  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...

  
• 09.24.2019

  Matburn Episode 16: Stuart Cooper

  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...

  
• 09.23.2019

  Matburn Episode 15: Story Time Sunday with Crystal Gaxiola

  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...

  
• 09.16.2019

  Matburn Episode 14: Mo Jassim

  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...

  
• 09.09.2019

  Matburn Episode 13: Seth Daniels

  Episode 13 with Fight2Win President Seth Daniels. A quick disclaimer, the first 30 minutes is super shitty sounding because the janky ass T-shirt mic had a loose connection and wasn’t recording properly. And because we didn’t have headsets, we couldn’t...

  
• 09.01.2019

  Matburn Episode 12: Lucas Barbosa - The Hulk

  Josh brought in multiple-time black belt world champion @lucasbarbosajj. We talked about ADCC, coaching styles at competition, and we spent some time making fun of Keenan and his temporary administrative suspension and his ayahuasca retreat in the mountains of West...

  
• 08.23.2019

  Matburn Episode 11: Robert Drysdale

  Josh sits down with Robert Drysdale, former ADCC Open Class Champion and Blackbelt World Champion. Josh and Robert talk about the drama Keenis created by having an opinion, and the threats of violence that Keenis was receiving because of that...

  
• 08.14.2019

  Matburn Episode 10: Craig Jones

  In celebration of episode 10 we had special guest leg-locking machine Craig Jones on the show. Topics discussed include how Craig got started in Jiu-Jitsu, his education in psychology, why he hates training in the gi, how to make money...

  
• 08.09.2019

  Matburn Episode 9

  Josh and Keenan finally did the breakdown of the Meregali match from Worlds. They talked about “mat justice” and how much (if ever) of a mat beating is it okay to give someone if they are bullying other people. And...

  
• 08.01.2019

  Matburn Episode 8

  Josh and Keenan talk in depth about skin infections and proper etiquette when it comes to training while you have some funk growing on your body. Ringworm, impetigo, staph, mat herps, etc... don't train when you have shit on yourself....

  
• 07.27.2019

  Matburn Episode 7: Andre Galvao

  Josh sits down with Professor Andre Galavo, 5x IBJJF Blackbelt World Champion, 2011 ADCC Double Gold Champion, and 3x ADCC Superfight Champion. Professor Galvao is arguably the greatest ADCC competitor of all time as he is the only athlete ever...

  
• 07.25.2019

  Matburn Episode 6

  On episode 6, we talked about the good old penny-pinching travel days when we would try to get to tournaments by the cheapest and most uncomfortable means possible. Arm-rest battles on airplanes. We talked about scam artists and the most...

  
• 07.17.2019

  Matburn Episode 5

  Josh and Keenan finally got their shit together and managed a semi-decent audio recording. They talked about Josh's last corporate job and education, and Keenan's 3 days of college before going into full-time jiu-jitsu. Keenan getting kicked out of a...

  
• 07.11.2019

  Matburn Episode 4.5 (Tesla's B-day Episode)

  *Explicit Language* Josh and Keenan record this episode in Keenan's new Tesla (because today is Nikola Tesla's Birthday) while it's on its self-drive mode. They talk about sandbagging in jiu-jitsu competition and whether it's actually a thing or not. Also,...

  
• 07.07.2019

  Matburn Episode 4

  Josh and Keenan talk/argue about the very tricky topic of dating/hooking up with people at your academy, particularly the higher belt ranks pursuing the lower belt ranks, and whether jiu-jitsu rank even matters. Keenan's "Tinder trolling" days comes up briefly....

  
• 06.29.2019

  Matburn Episode 3

  Host Josh Hinger and Sometimes Maybe Co-Host Keenan Cornelius talk about a wide variety of stuff including some jiu-jitsu stuff, such as ADCC and the failed Metamoris experiment,1 and some non-jiu-jitsu stuff, such as Teslas and the death penalty. 

  
• 06.24.2019

  Matburn Episode 2

  The Matburn Podcast: Episode 2. Topics include: climate change, jiu-jitsu insecurities, my own insecurities (according to Keenan), social media toxicity, and about a half dozen random topics. The audio should be better than episode 1. And we have a fireplace,...

  
• 06.24.2019

  Matburn Episode 1

  Josh Hinger and Keenan Cornelius discuss and argue about various issues regarding the jiu-jitsu community including training room bullshit, competition strategies, why Keenan had to leave Atos, and they breakdown a few of the mat battles they've had in competition.