Good coffee, hard training, real-life tangents.
Coffee Regular is a long-running hangout built around featured roasts, casual tasting notes, and talk that wanders from jiu-jitsu tournaments to work-shift fatigue. Its appeal is the unpolished rhythm: coffee first, then the life around it.
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Coffee Regular is a coffee show with scuffed knuckles. Each episode begins by giving the featured roast its due, from Yunnan beans and honey process notes to Costa Rican acidity, caramel, chocolate, citrus, and the familiar question of whether the brew came out right. The tasting language is specific without becoming delicate. A cup can be rich, strange, bright, pungent, or just good enough to keep the room moving. After that, the conversation follows the week. Work schedules, sleep debt, daylight, pay cuts, training time, and the relief of a normal dinner all sit beside talk of jiu-jitsu, UFC, Bellator fighters, butterfly guard, guillotines, and IBJJF coming to Columbus. It has a martial arts spine, but not a studio-show posture. The speakers talk like people who train, work, hurt, eat, read, and remember things halfway through a tangent. Food shows up as lived practice too. Deer roasts, chili, heart pastrami, coffee festival vendors, gas station drinks, and the value of real food all become part of the same worldview. The show also has a deep shelf of pop-culture reference points. Bond books, Tarzan, Batman secret societies, John Wick, Commando, F1 Lego cars, and Pittsburgh hospital drama can all surface naturally. Some stretches are blunt. Some are goofy. Some are quietly about adulthood, community, and the jobs people do that no one notices. Coffee Regular works because it does not separate taste from routine or discipline from ordinary life. The cup is a ritual, but the talk is not ceremonial. It is a long-running record of friendship, caffeine, combat sports, household errands, workplace realities, and principled opinions delivered without much polish. Listeners looking for clean coffee education may find it too loose. Listeners who want a lived-in room where good beans lead to everything else will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: Best for listeners who enjoy informal coffee tasting, martial arts conversation, action-movie references, and practical talk about work, food, and training. It fits people who prefer a familiar hangout over a scripted review show.
What sets it apart: The show treats coffee as a daily ritual inside a broader life of jiu-jitsu, work shifts, hunting meals, books, family errands, and fight-sport opinions. Its texture comes from the way tasting notes and everyday discipline share the same table.
We hang out in the Kung Fu Movie Room and talk about Martial Arts and Life while sipping on great coffee. In each episode we discuss a main topic while we drink the featured roast of the episode.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Coffee Regular connects jiu-jitsu technique and fight analysis to the physical routines, injuries and judgments that shape training.
Coffee Regular lets sports talk develop through an easy two-person conversation, usually with a cup under examination and everyday life close at hand.
This is your coffee break after jiu-jitsu, with detours through aching joints and F1 weight cuts.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Yunnan coffee tasting gives way to jiu-jitsu, summer plans, walking at work and a hospital show.
The hosts begin with a coffee from Yunnan, China, paying close attention to how its aroma changes between the bean, the grounds and the brewed cup. They taste chocolate and a little citrus, though both agree the flavor fades quickly.
Coffee talk gives way to a firm objection to a White House fight card and concern for fighters.
A crisp fall morning leads the hosts into talk about sleep, work and the strange comfort of regular pay and benefits. Their easy conversation soon turns to fighting, with Jon Jones, Pereira and a White House fight card on the table.
A rainy-day catch-up moves from Lego F1 cars to Seabiscuit and John Wick.
Coffee Regular opens on a rainy Monday, with sore knees and a change in the weather. The hosts soon get to a gas-station visit and Lego F1 cars bought at Target. When his daughter's friend comes over to watch racing, one host asks her about it.
Coffee Fest stories give way to butterfly guard talk before the hosts return to their coffee.
Coffee Fest gives the hosts plenty to talk about. One host visits on both days, first with his wife, then with a friend who loves coffee. His wife hears him describe sweetness in the cup, but it still tastes bitter to her.
Bow hunting and combat training ground this year-end conversation about reframing winter.
This year-end conversation starts with reframing and settles on a familiar winter problem: how to get outside when the days feel cold and dark. A weak brew, sore ankles, supplements and an upcoming trip to coach at the Nogi World Championships all enter the discussion.
Bourbon talk, barrel stories, messy good pours.
Bourbon reviews with memory, candor, and community.
Everyday life, thought through together.
Two friends chat about summer, coffee, and a kid's geometry final.
Two friends taste-test a homemade cold brew made from Yirgacheffe coffee, noting its intense herbal and floral flavors, and consider mixing it with tonic.
Two friends discuss travel delays, leg locks in jiu-jitsu, and a themed coffee from Breakfast at Dominique's.
The hosts taste and review a new honey-processed coffee from Yunnan, China, noting its chocolate and citrus flavors.
Mike and the host discuss Mike's transition from night shift to day shift, the benefits of normalcy, and plans to see a comedy show.
Two friends catch up after a break, discussing books like James Bond and Tarzan, and the host's night shift reading habits.
Two hunters discuss processing a deer they shot, including making pastrami from the heart and other venison dishes.
Two friends chat about the weather, bananas, and their coffee preferences on a Monday morning.
Two friends record a casual Thursday morning conversation while tasting a Lotus Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, describing it as unexpectedly thick and chewy with grape and lychee notes — a departure from the varietal's typical profile.
Two friends taste Second Spin's double anaerobic thermal shock coffee — described as peach Snapple tea with an orange Starburst finish — and call it 'the wine of coffees.' The episode opens with physical health updates: one host's IT bands and knees are inflamed, and he has an upcoming hip specialist appointment to assess potential replacement.
On Coffee Regular, two co-hosts recap a two-day trip to Coffee Fest's 10th anniversary before formally cupping a Guatemalan coffee from a family-run farm, working through acidity, body, and flavor notes that land on muted brown sugar, earthiness, and a faint orange zest.
Two friends taste-test a homemade cold brew coffee and discuss its unexpected flavors.
The hosts reflect on the past year while discussing coffee and upcoming travel for the Nogi World Championships.