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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For the past year or so, we've been trying to create this opportunity to interview Sensei Lasorsa about his father, Frank. There is so much love, laughter and history in this episode. Two of the long stories Sensei told us had to be cut for time. We'll share those in December in our next episode of outtakes. Definitely check out our Insta to see the pic of Frank in WW2. Thanks Sensei, for sharing your dad's story.

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In the 7 years of doing this podcast, I've never been "on time" to connect our episode to the holiday that is happening. (For those of you who might be interested - I'd need a bigger staff to pull that off.)

However, this year, this episode is about Fathers and is airing the Monday before Father's Day! Congratulations to all - us and all dad's who go the distance.

I need to mention that Sensei Jay, who has a story here, has 3 sons. All of them know their dad to be amazing. But time only allowed for me to reach out to one of them. Don't be mad guys.

So enjoy this episode and get in touch to be part of our salute to Mother's as warriors. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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I love that I don't discard our mistakes. I love sharing them and I especially love the chance to bring back guest stories. We have plenty and here are some of the episodes we're referencing. In the first few minutes we mention the term wabi sabi. Here's one of our episodes on that:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/16898149

Just in case you missed some episodes in the last 6 months, here are some that provided the laughter today. Everyone of these qualifies as a favorite.

In no special order we have -

Fear:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/18585381

Our interview with Mike:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/18782978

And his father:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/18970549

Our interview with Hanshi McKinnon on his days jumping out of planes:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/18706699

Finally, I'll take it home with this episode on the Power of Laughter:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/19060264

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This episode was one of our first 10 shows. That was 7 years ago! We're joined by Glenda and we cover many aspects of being prepared to defend yourself - just in case.

We have done many episodes on Self-Defense. I randomly picked this one to tag in:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/3293584

Sensei Jackie mentions one of Master Kelljchian's favorite sayings about kindness. We did an episode on that in 2025:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/16484256

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Welcome to another Letter episode. Today we're with Sensei Derek discussing over-extension, outside blocks and more. During today's discussion we mention that it might be fun to tag an old letter episode into the notes. I decided to tag our first letter episode, which is from 2021:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/8108455

Also, along the way Sensei Derek brings up a great old saying: What we do alot of we become very good at. We did an episode on that. Here it is:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/1891706

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