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Karate is for everyone. So, join us each week for a 20 to 25 minute conversation on all types of subjects. We go from managing the distractions of daily life, through martial arts history and people, and common sense concepts to add to your self defense armor. Plus we have interviews and so much more. After spending over 40 years discussing life's challenges in a dojo, (both as a student and as a teacher) I decided it would be fun to share the conversations with everyone. And it is! We're ha ...
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Spotlight is an audio program for learning English. It uses a special method of broadcasting that makes it easier to understand for listeners worldwide. If you want to try faster programs, please subscribe to our Spotlight Advanced podcast (https://www.spreaker.com/show/spotlight-english-advanced)
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Spotlight English ADVANCED is a for all people who want to challenge themselves in their English learning. Spotlight Advanced is a 10 minute audio program for learning English. It uses a special method of broadcasting that makes it easier to understand for listeners worldwide.
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In our interview with Sensei Liam he manages to make cyber-security interesting, fun and quite helpful. He shares a book: The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick and a site to help you. Here is a website that Sensei thinks you might find handy on this subject: Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com And one more site to note is The Electronic Fro…
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Patrick Woodward and Alice Irrizary share about Philippe Croizon and how his disabilities has not kept him from unbelievable physical and mental achievements. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/doing-anything-with-philippe-croizon/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spot…
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Finally, Landyn has returned for a day to record. We took this opportunity to catch up with his adventures. We hope you like hearing about them as much as Sensei Jackie and I did. While catching up with Landyn, we discussed obligations. And, of course, we did an episode on that. Here is the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/episodes/9763317 A…
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Patrick Woodward and Alice Irrizary share about Philippe Croizon and how his disabilities has not kept him from unbelievable physical and mental achievements. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/doing-anything-with-philippe-croizon/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spot…
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Megan Nollet and Andrew Devis share about video games and how they help people manage mental health. They also discuss about the possible dangers of video games. https://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/gaming-for-good/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: …
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Megan Nollet and Andrew Devis share about video games and how they help people manage mental health. They also discuss about the possible dangers of video games. https://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/gaming-for-good/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: …
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Like every week, we had fun today talking with Sensei Randy about this well known saying. Sensei Randy has been on so many times. Here's one of his many appearances. It is about character: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/3554455 Again, like every week, we're all over the map when we talk. We touch on ego. Here's that episode: https://www.buzzspro…
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We're continuing to wind our way through the crazy world of food, drinks and working our way to healthy eating. Don't be fooled into thinking we're talking like adults. We had fun, and shared our crazy experiences. We even mention some things that experts have shared. In case you missed the first nutrition episode (last week), I'll tag it here. htt…
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Welcome to Part 1 of our riotous conversation with Dr. Macy (aka Sensei Melissa) on Nutrition. Sensei Melissa has been on a few times. She mentions the time she came on and we talked about breathing. Here's a link to that episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12326414 Unfortunately, planning IS a part of nutrition (if you're the cooking head o…
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In recognition of the UN's "International Literacy Day", Liz Waid and Bruce Gulland look at how reading can help people understand each other. Can reading make us better people? https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/international-literacy-day-reading-and-understanding/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download ou…
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When learning a new language, idioms are important but also fun to learn! Gillian Woodward and Colin Lowther tell us how the word “rain” is used with several different meanings. https://spotlightenglish.com/how-to-learn-english/english-idioms-rain/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bi…
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Since September is a 5 week month-and therefore a 'rerun' month, I thought that this was a nice fit with 2 of the episodes of August - The Last Samurai battle and man. This episode doesn't need much explanation. Don't forget, though, that we ARE on insta @ wildcatdojoconversations. Hey - can I use the word 'remastered' for our reruns. I try to upda…
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When learning a new language, idioms are important but also fun to learn! Gillian Woodward and Colin Lowther tell us how the word “rain” is used with several different meanings. https://spotlightenglish.com/how-to-learn-english/english-idioms-rain/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bi…
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Welcome to the beginning of our look at karate movies from the 80s with our friends Sensei Ben and Sensei Lydia. Campy fun ensues. Sensei Lydia was on our 3rd episode ever! It was on advantages and disadvantages. Here's a link back to 2019: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/1781812 The first time Sensei Ben came on the show, we discussed Super Sent…
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Do you practice martial arts? Andrew Devis and Megan Nollet tell about the philosophy behind the art of judo and share the amazing story of a woman who practiced and taught judo well into her 90’s. https://spotlightenglish.com/biography/fukuda-sensei-strong-and-gentle/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app…
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This episode is a follow up on the Satsuma Rebellion - which we aired 2 weeks ago and is tagged below. We enjoyed looking at the life of Saigo Takamori with Sensei Randy. His first visit to the podcast was in 2019 - our first year. Here's the episode in case you'd like to hear a little about him: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/1815622 During thi…
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Do you practice martial arts? Andrew Devis and Megan Nollet tell about the philosophy behind the art of judo and share the amazing story of a woman who practiced and taught judo well into her 90’s. https://spotlightenglish.com/biography/fukuda-sensei-strong-and-gentle/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app…
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This week we’re joined by Matthew and Kim to discuss The Martial Arts by Laura Scandiffio – a kid’s book. This book was fun to read and even more fun to talk about. So many subjects came up during the recording because the book is an introduction to almost every style of Martial Art. Since we’ve discussed many of them on this show, here are links t…
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In recognition of the UN's "International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples", Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid tell about Uluru/Ayers Rock in Australia. The native people and the government both claim this special place. Who decides what happens to this rock? https://spotlightenglish.com/culture/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-uluru-a-…
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In recognition of the UN's "International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples", Bruce Gulland and Liz Waid tell about Uluru/Ayers Rock in Australia. The native people and the government both claim this special place. Who decides what happens to this rock? https://spotlightenglish.com/culture/international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-uluru-a-…
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Bruce Gulland and Megan Nollet tell the story of Justine Obura and the incredible challenge and amazing success she has had in giving women living in poverty of Lake Victoria in Kenya a better life. https://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/no-sex-for-fish/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at htt…
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Enjoy this conversation with Sensei Lydia, Sensei Jackie and myself on this eye opening piece of history. One thing I got wrong is this: I referred to the mini series on Hulu as The Last Samurai, but it is actually a remake of a mini series from the 80s called Shogun. Oops! Hope it doesn't insult your ears. If you make it through, please think abou…
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Bruce Gulland and Megan Nollet tell the story of Justine Obura and the incredible challenge and amazing success she has had in giving women living in poverty of Lake Victoria in Kenya a better life. https://spotlightenglish.com/your-life/no-sex-for-fish/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at htt…
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Would you want to travel into space? Liz Waid and Adam Navis look at one of the first space tourists: Anousheh Ansari. http://spotlightenglish.com Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you learning English? Are y…
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Taiko is a Japanese term for any kind of drum. Over time the art of drumming, like other art forms, became a world wide phenomenon. I was lucky enough to make a friend of one such artist - Ben. Sensei Jackie and I were extra lucky to go to their dojo and see many of their drums, meet a student - Orion and get this interview. I know you're going to …
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Patrick and Gillian Woodward share about the creators of “Godzilla” and what influenced them when they created this famous monster. https://spotlightenglish.com/?p=3621 Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you l…
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Patrick and Gillian Woodward share about the creators of “Godzilla” and what influenced them when they created this famous monster. https://spotlightenglish.com/?p=3621 Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you l…
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We have fun recording this episode on a saying by Matsamura Sokon. Our guest is Hanshi Steven Malanoski. Jic you're not familiar with him. I'm including his interviews with us from 2021. Here is the first one: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/9551496 And he was kind enough to continue the conversation a few weeks later: https://www.buzzsprout.com/…
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This archived episode from our Wrestling series is worth listening to for so many reasons. If you're hearing it for the first time or as a repeat, you laugh and learn. A fun 20 minutes that includes Sensei James as our guest. The first time he was on we discussed Miyamoto Musashi. Here's a link, in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477…
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Marina Santee and Patrick Woodward share about an extreme experiment, the important discoveries that were made about the importance of human touch. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/living-without-time-michel-siffre-and-the-internal-clock/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bi…
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Thanks for checking out today's episode. The words we're discussing are: To be good, find a good teacher, to master teach. This is something I heard Master Kelljchian say decades ago. Sensei Derek joins us today to mess around with the concept. We had fun - as we always do. Before we got into this weeks episode we discuss 2 pieces of listener mail …
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Marina Santee and Patrick Woodward share about an extreme experiment, the important discoveries that were made about the importance of human touch. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/living-without-time-michel-siffre-and-the-internal-clock/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bi…
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We love doing remnants from past episodes. This one has so many stories! All the episodes referenced were in the last 6 months - except during the word bloopers when we have quite a few from a weird weapons episode from last Dec. Here it is if you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14134852 A couple of other episodes that we reference are…
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In recognition of the UN's "International Asteroid Day", Colin Lowther and Alice Irrizary talk about the DART project and how scientists are working on a future planetary defense system. https://spotlightenglish.com/science-and-technology/dart/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly…
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In recognition of the UN's "International Asteroid Day", Colin Lowther and Alice Irrizary talk about the DART project and how scientists are working on a future planetary defense system. https://spotlightenglish.com/science-and-technology/dart/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly…
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Alice Irrizary and Colin Lowther talk about the power of addiction and some helpful advice on how to overcome it. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/recovering-from-addiction/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlight…
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What fun we had interviewing Ms. Kapp. Between her podcast (Meticulous Moments), her motivational speaking and her training in Shotokan , the conversation was lively and went to fast. Speaking of Shotokan, we have discussed Gichin Funikoshi a few times. Here's one of them: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/10908006 Now back to Juanita Kapp. Her sch…
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Alice Irrizary and Colin Lowther talk about the power of addiction and some helpful advice on how to overcome it. https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/recovering-from-addiction/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlight…
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In recognition of the UN's "Sustainable Gastronomy Day", Dave Bast and Liz Waid look at the book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats”. This book shows the different ways people prepare and eat food around the world. https://spotlightenglish.com/food-drink/what-the-world-eats/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download …
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Chinese weapons with Sifu Jones is on the menu today. Our first interview with Sifu was back in 2021. Here's a link in case you missed it: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8931796 Sifu talks about swords and spears he uses and owns. I put a video of him on our twitter (and insta) page. Here's a link: https://twitter.com/wildcatdojo We mention that…
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What will you do when you are old? In recognition of the UN’s “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day”, Spotlight tells about very old people doing very amazing things! https://spotlightenglish.com/health-medicine/world-elder-abuse-awareness-day-age-is-just-a-number/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS …
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What will you do when you are old? In recognition of the UN’s “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day”, Spotlight tells about very old people doing very amazing things! https://spotlightenglish.com/health-medicine/world-elder-abuse-awareness-day-age-is-just-a-number/ Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS …
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Roger Basick and Katy Blake talk about how the printing press was invented and how it changed the world. https://spotlightenglish.com/?p=3576 Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you learning English? Are you lo…
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Spending time with friends A memory forever That makes me smile. Enjoy our latest book episode - we take a little bit different approach today - a few books on one subject - Haiku. The first thing that happened was that Sensei Jackie mentioned that Haiku reminded her of our episode reviewing the movie Budo. Heres the link so you can see for your se…
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Roger Basick and Katy Blake talk about how the printing press was invented and how it changed the world. https://spotlightenglish.com/?p=3576 Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-android Download our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spotlight-apple Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spotlightradio Are you learning English? Are you lo…
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Sensei Lydia joins in this week to talk about John Corcoran and Emil Farkas - the authors of The Overlook Martial Arts Dictionary and the book Martial Arts Traditions, History, People. We covered so much information in this episode. Somehow we got to Ninja - and of course - we did an episode on that. Here's a link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379…
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Geraldo returns today to talk about a maxim we attribute to Grandmaster Peter Urban. Geraldo was on 6 months ago, when we discussed note taking in karate. Here's a link - in case you missed that episode. https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/14235323 Today the conversation ranges from how many famous people have said the phrase to long term planning to…
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What fun we had learning about Queens that fought in Britain with our guest Shihan T.D. McKinnon. Shihan has been on many times. Just last November we discussed Kata with him. The episode I want to tag here is the one where he talks about life as a bodyguard. Listen - if time allows: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/12796037 This is not our first …
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Sensei Jay joins the conversation today as we tackle Focus, Fighting Spirit and Fuki Bari (Looking it up? Type in Fuki Bara). What fun! Join us by listening and letting us know your thoughts. We can't talk about focus without bringing up Kimi. We did a whole episode on that. Here's the link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8501411 And while we we…
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