The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper!
Here you can join your host: Eugene S. Robinson on both the Show Stomper Podcast, and in the Knuckle Up Podcast Archives for compelling video podcasts, with a smattering of social commentary, as well as some colorful anecdotes from your host's life & MMA! showstomper.substack.com
Episodes
Hey all,
A lot of you probably noticed there was no newsletter and no regular show activity this week. It’s been quiet here at the Show Stomper because I’ve been waiting for clear information and direction from Eugene’s family before saying anything publicly.
Kasia, Eugene’s wife, has now told me Eugene wants people to know what’s been going on…
There is no easy way to say this, Eugene suffered a b...
Hey all,
A lot of you probably noticed there was no newsletter and no regular show activity this week. It’s been quiet here at the Show Stomper because I’ve been waiting for clear information and direction from Eugene’s family before saying anything publicly.
Kasia, Eugene’s wife, has now told me Eugene wants people to know what’s been going on…
There is no easy way to say this, Eugene suffered a b...
V.421 keeps circling the question Eugene won’t let go of: who benefits? This week’s reel roundup pulls together three sharp cuts from the paid episode, moving from Nate Bargatze’s UFC appearance to Ari Emanuel, Endeavor, TKO, celebrity positioning, and the machinery behind the spectacle. The free preview set the table, but these clips get into the real argument: when famous people take public turns toward power, a...
"Aren't people entitled to be as stupid as they want for as long as they want? WithOUT us signing off on it?" – Eugene S. Robinson 28.06.2026
V.421 finds Eugene circling one deceptively simple question: who benefits? From Nate Bargatze’s UFC-side photo op to 50 Cent chasing access, Fallon yukking it up with a convicted anal rapist, Ari Emanuel’s machinery humming in the background, and the looming weirdness of what...
Three clips from V.420 of The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper: why Dana White’s failure of stewardship helped turn the Oof-C (UFC) into something harder to defend; why Eugene just wants the fights without the politics, weigh-in shoving, family insults, and promotional trash; and why the UFC may now be closer to the red-light district of sports than a serious fight league.
This is just a 3 clip excerpt – to get the full s...
"Never has such a sure-handed steward screwed things up so badly. Despite the optics that suggest otherwise." – Eugene S. Robinson 21.06.2026
On Father’s Day, Eugene S. Robinson uses Version 420 to think through fathers, stewardship, responsibility, abandonment, and the people who are supposed to take care of what they helped bu...
Three clips from V.419 of The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper: why The Ooof-C's (UFC) Freedom 250 looks like an absolute logistical and political minefield; the UFC’s long trail of ugly choices and whether abuse is not a bug but a feature; and the story of a brilliant friend who found life’s big red button - and pressed it.
This is just an excerpt – To get the full show, archives and bonus content subscribe on Subs...
"If you say nothing people might think you're stupid. If you say something you might remove all doubt. Which I stole." – Eugene S. Robinson 14.06.2026
Version 419 of The Show Stomper starts with Bari Weiss, wunderkinds, old publishing grudges, and the jobs Eugene had to fight for, then dives headfirst into Oof-C Freedom 250 at the Whi...
Just in case you missed V.418, this week’s clip roundup pulls three threads from the full Show Stomper: Albania, the Kanun, and the old rules that keep people in line; Trump as “the most undisciplined human being” Eugene has ever seen; and OXBOW two years after the end, with final sessions still sitting in the shadows.
This is just an excerpt – To get the full show, archives and bonus content subscribe on Sub...
"You ever see a tiger laugh? Yeah. Me neither. Nor has anyone else that's alive. Which tells you all you need to know about nature." – Eugene S. Robinson 07.06.2026
Version 417 of The Show Stomper starts with this week’s Circle Jerks/punk self-congratulation mess, then widens into the bigger problem Eugene keeps circling all hou...
V.417 moved from punk-show politics into the bigger question Eugene kept circling all hour: what people choose to believe, what they choose to ignore, and what happens when everyone starts celebrating before the fight is actually over. The clip above starts with the Circle Jerks, MAGA in the pit, and punk’s very selective memory. Below, Eugene follows the same thread through Trump’s casino logic, tariffs, TV power, &ldq...
"We're taking a real good look at youse...we're taking some real good looks at your FACE..." – Eugene S. Robinson 31.05.2026
Version 417 of The Show Stomper starts with this week’s Circle Jerks/punk self-congratulation mess, then widens into the bigger problem Eugene keeps circling all hour: what happens when truth stops matteri...
In case you missed V.416, or in case you saw it and still need the damage broken into smaller pieces, here are three clips from this week’s Show Stomper: Eugene on the UFC running on nostalgia, the surprisingly short list of actual heavy metal singers, and that clip up above – that’s the outrageous intro that somehow remains its own separate event after more than 400 episodes.
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"OZY'S dead. Not a surprise. But the UFC too? And the UNITED States of America? Is this the trifecta of terror? Maaayybbeee..." – Eugene S. Robinson 24.05.2026
Five years after OZY fired him for starting the Substack that still won’t die, Eugene looks back at Carlos “Craplos” Watson, commuted consequences, unsigned N...
"We're sitting in a stadium of people who want to get the joke. Waiting to get it. STILL waiting..." – Eugene S. Robinson 05.17.2026
The fights suck. Comedy sucks. Culture feels increasingly like a hostage situation where everybody knows the joke is dead but keeps waiting for permission to stop laughing. In this week’s Show Sto...
"It's not a burning hatred that drives this desire for revenge big and small...it's love!" – Eugene S. Robinson, 10.05.2026
In this week’s Show Stomper, Eugene S. Robinson gets into grudges that outlive friendships, punk-rock violence, public humiliations, revenge fantasies, and why some people stay on your list forever.
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“Eternity IS a very long time but I think I’d be perfectly fine having Dana White stuck there having to listen to himself talk until the end of time.” – Eugene S. Robinson, 03.05.2026
What makes a crime unforgivable?
In this week’s SHOW STOMPER, Eugene S. Robinson gets into murder, sex crimes, moral lines, pers...
Every Sunday at around 7:30 PM Madrid / 12:30 PM CT / 10:30 AM PT / 1:30 PM ET, The Show Stomper streams live on YouTube for about an hour. The livestream stays public for one hour, then goes private. Later Sunday, the polished post-production version goes up on Substack as both video and audio. About 20 minutes is available free on Substack and via the RSS feed on major podcast platforms.
The Eugene S. Robinson Show Stomper! is a ...
“If you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything. Isn’t that what ‘they’ say? But…you believe THAT?” – Eugene S. Robinson, 26.04.2026
What does it take to make people believe the most convenient story in the room?
In this week’s episode of THE SHOW STOMPER Eugene S. Robinson gets into...
"What precisely would make you angry enough to take a swing at me? Well...let's see..." – Eugene S. Robinson 19.04.2026
On this episode of THE SHOW STOMPER, Eugene looks at offense as performance, provocation as currency, and what happens when pushing boundaries stops being clever and starts feeding something darker.
– It's Time ...
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