Andrew Tate and the zero-consequences era
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Jesse Walker and Mike Mahaffey catch up on a run of recent news where powerful people did awful things and faced no real consequences: Andrew Tate arrested on 42 charges he may never answer for, ICE killings at traffic stops with the FBI reportedly stepping back,
In this episode of Fighting Matters, Jesse Walker and Mike Mahaffey catch up on a run of recent news where powerful people did awful things and faced no real consequences: Andrew Tate arrested on 42 charges he may never answer for, ICE killings at traffic stops with the FBI reportedly stepping back, an FDA food-safety scare that ended in an apology to a Trump donor, and a Kentucky senator who has vanished while still collecting his seat. What ties it together is a question that hits close to home for two jiu-jitsu coaches: what happens to a country, or a gym, when people only look out for themselves?
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π₯ Featuring:
- Jesse Walker β https://roughhandsbjj.com
- Mike Mahaffey β https://instagram.com/oldbastardbjj
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π§ Topics Discussed:
- Andrew Tate's arrest in Florida and the 42 charges waiting for him in the UK
- Why the manosphere and the administration still hold him up as a model of masculinity
- Two ICE killings at traffic stops, deaths in detention, and who answers for them
- Voting your pocketbook, and what a community loses when people only care once it hits them
- Class versus culture: who is actually making your life harder
- The "diarrhea lettuce" scandal and the FDA's apology to a major Trump donor
- Mitch McConnell's disappearance, Kentucky's empty seat, and the octogenarian problem
- Team-first versus me-first, in politics and in jiu-jitsu
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π Chapters:
00:00:00 β Judo at an advanced age and teaching EMS crews to fall
00:02:40 β Andrew Tate arrested, 42 charges, and the purple blouse
00:11:44 β Two ICE killings and the accountability that isn't coming
00:21:03 β Detention deaths and what you'd do if they came for you
00:25:00 β Coaches cheering this on while their communities suffer
00:28:44 β Why people only wake up when it hits their wallet
00:32:06 β Phone banking and the voter just trying to survive
00:37:11 β Nobody survives alone, and who's really to blame
00:40:04 β Diarrhea lettuce and the FDA's apology to a donor
00:44:03 β The jiu-jitsu parallel: team-first beats the selfish island
00:47:31 β Where is Mitch McConnell, and the octogenarian problem
01:00:08 β Photobombing Master Worlds and signing off
