It's always a pleasure to talk with Hanshi McKinnon. He brought it to my attention that Britain fought WW2 for 2 years before the USA got involved. That is the theme of todays show.

Before you get mad at us for featuring Britain. We've done many shows on USA Warriors involved in WW2. The first one we did was with Sensei Jay about his dad. Here's the episode:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8329162

Want to learn more about Hanchi McKinnon? We met him back in 2021. Here's the first interview we did with him:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8625686

And finally, we've looked at different aspects of war, inclucing espionage. Here's one of those episodes:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/12001293

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A friend, Sifu Mike Allen, introduced us to Sensei Victor. What a pleasure to interview him and learn about his background, history and style. Btw - Some great stories are enclosed. One of them includes hitting the makiwara. We did an episode on that. Listen to it here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8708384

When we began talking about weapons, we touched on an ancient weapon - the Tinbe-Rochin (Small sword (rochin) and shield (tinbe)). Of course we did an episode that included it. Here is that link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/5877109

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The first thing we say as the episode opens is that we love Letter Episodes; exploring ideas and not really sure where the conversation is going to go. The 3 of us talk, laugh and learn.

The conversation travels all over the place. Let's start with a term used often in America in the dojo - oos (This spelling is a nod to Master Kelljchian. It's commonly spelled osu). Back in 2019, we did a 5 minute short on the word osu and you can listen to it here:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/1979593

During our discussions of "ai" we touched on Aikido and Adapt. Both words were introduced back in 2023 in another "A" episode. Here's that link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/12613429

And finally. The number 3 was one of my favorite epiosdes, and a favorite number....so I'm tagging that episode in also. Enjoy:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/10116406

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