Wrestle Kingdom 20 Final Preview, Jeremy’s Live Japan Report! | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wrestle Kingdom Week is officially underway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy Feinstone is in Japan right now, joining us from Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the Tokyo Dome Hotel itself, we're very excited to hear about how his trip has been so far and there have been some very interesting events already taking place here on Wrestle Kingdom Week is almost every promotion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is running a major show in Tokyo over the course of these seven days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've already had really interesting stuff from Noah, from Stardum, from all Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And any last minute thoughts as the big event approaches on January 4th.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's Jeremy Feinstein from Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Stephen Conway and this is speaking a strong style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, everyone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Movie, you'll be this happy new year in his Thursday and in his time for speaking of strong style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, Jeremy, find Stone from Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're a contributor to the fight game media network, and terribly excited to be here today on New Year's had a nice little quiet New Year's in the last night, and listen to the fireworks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our neighbor has been on fireworks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: had that and Jeremy I'm excited to see you here knock on wood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a pretty decent connection going here too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We weren't sure how that was going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So sir, I'll just start with the most basic question you got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How's Tokyo Ben so far for you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: First you're in a great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tokyo Ben a really good time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got well out Monday, but I arrived.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think

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[SPEAKER_01]: the 30th tooth here on five o'clock and I had no my ass for the whole the ground in this place but it was like navigating everything from getting out of customs to navigating the metro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got some good tips ahead of time to download a Tokyo map offline and do the suica mobile which is um.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get a few pay from 11, lock, and metro all like daily activity stuff you can you can just basically try and pack to the so a lot of restaurants right away a lot of quick service restaurants take that as well it comes in extraordinarily handy there are two different kinds so we can pass them out and they do the same things but yeah you basically load money onto the card and you can spend it in so many different places keeps you from having to carry currency

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so Tuesday night was I felt the most authentic normal night for Japan so far because the net night with New Year's Eve, which was

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a bit of a celebration I've had to tell you know what you can see is right behind me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can kind of catch the edge of the dome and right behind me from my hotel room.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had a they had a call here there and a little outdoor festival.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was able to just kind of partake in near the festivity from the from the luxury of my hotel room because I'm not much of a drinker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: or anything like that, and so it's like whatever, could another year, I think, instead of being good to 2020, 2020, it should be good to us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That should be the mentality of the couple.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I've had a really good time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm about to go to the Abrita thing with Chris Charlton and Walker Stewart during their podcast later today and going to connect with some folks that I've been meaning to connect with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yesterday, I went to the Noah show and I was sitting room tight for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we can recap that in a few minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On the whole, I've had a really good time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's a little bit of culture shock right out the gate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I would tell you about kind of privately, but, you know, find them, you know, you just kind of assimilate with how the culture works and you're going to be fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you try and be your own man and some other culture, it's not going to end well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, respect the people here and respect the culture and respect the way they do think that you're not going to have prominence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And people are extraordinarily kind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have found whenever I've been in Japan there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So tell us a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned the Noah show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what else have you done in Japan during your time there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll have you been spending your days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I have been sleeping on that well, so off and on trying to catch a nap here there, but on the 31st, I spent the majority of the day in Akiabara, which is a major shopping thoroughfare with about as much nerd crap that you could possibly imagine including suitcases

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[SPEAKER_01]: model toy, and a lot of porn, a lot of porn, a lot of casinos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a little bit, there's a little, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a CD edge too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Akihabara as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you are into manga or anime, it's also heaven for you because there's, Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a check out of just kind of like, see, this or that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I found a little New Japan pop-up shop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're okay with my little bit of merch because, uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the new year, even New Year's day, the activity is because in Japan, it's not a party holiday, it's more of a family holiday and a more exactly what's in and

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[SPEAKER_01]: just not not that mentality that you know go out and boy finger off a firework kind of they were like one big firework display for all of Japan and that's how they went with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've had a really good time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm about halfway through my trip you know I got here on Monday Tuesday and I fled back out on Monday and here we are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Friday for me over here while Saturday for you guys, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just trying to park that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to enjoy what I can and try to make the memory of the map.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, Ebritas is Toruiano's bar in the Tokyo Dome city area.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is where Chris and Walker are setting up shop for their live event, their live podcast, but the

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you hear about Toriano owning a bar, that that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called the Britus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not too far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Walk in distance from Tokyo, don't even quarter can haul in that whole neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's where you're headed in just a couple of a few hours, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, just not long after this, you're going to have over that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got a full day, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I got a photo early, I got about seven, 30 in Japan right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to do this for however long we're going to do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to walk down the street to the tow con shop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: get whatever I need to get from there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I'm a head back here, drop it off, drop a jump on the metro and head over there and go the adventure continued.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so we're going to take a look at this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a lot of news.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been quiet on the New Japan front.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not a lot of last second additions to anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to look over at the Tokyo Go and Card one more time,

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you heard our preview last week with the, and in the past with keeping it strong style as a couple of weeks ago last Thursday we just did a little talk about just the latest and a couple of things that have been added in from the Christmas quarter comes one of thank everybody who tuned in to the Dave Meltzer interview the special one we did with Dave Meltzer from the wrestler wrestling and observer newsletter that one's done a lot of views and we're grateful for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be able to check it out, keep checking it out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know about it, we got that milk interview that we dropped on Monday and we're really proud of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We thought it was a really good conversation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got really good feedback from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is a look back at Tana Hashie's career.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, Evergreen, it's something that covers the early part of his career when he was the icon, the biggest star, the rather, rather,

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[SPEAKER_00]: the dangerous situation he was in with his girlfriend, where he was stabbed in the kind of caused a bit of a national national news, and then of course the challenge is to face him as president.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a really wide-ranging conversation, really encourage everybody to go back and check that out on the fight game network.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, so you've been to know what's your next show?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will do the DDT show at Corrican tomorrow night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have no idea what's on the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to go to Corrican and that was the, that was the easy show for me to get a ticket to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now there you have it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, and you used it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Was that the one used by some of the tickets stuck on for?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was waiting for me to take it with waiting for me when I checked in to come Dude walked up to me and like hear me headstone for five times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And uh, close to the guest and they're like, here you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, oh, yeah, I can We really forgot about it, but they didn't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're waiting for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and so it was there and now I've got and a little envelope that I'm trying to make sure I don't lose because you got to treat that stuff like cash apparently and yes yeah and all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a they actually use paper tickets so that's one thing with that they haven't done a whole lot of as much in Japan like a lot of the stuff is digital now here in the states.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I used to collect ticket stubs for one thing like I love collecting ticket stubs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have been tired books of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I go to a lot of shows, music, theater, whatever else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get a lot of tickets anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all an app on my phone that gets scanned, and I don't really get to have the stove anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In Japan, you get all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I enjoy that part of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to make a little display of my ticket stoves from the shows I've been to in Japan, because you actually get to keep the stoves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they do treat that the same way that we use

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's how they still do things physically with that and I was telling somebody that you were having those tickets sent to your hotel and they just said, man, I would never want to trust that there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just said, I bet in Japan, they show up exactly when they say they're going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The precision in Japan is quite something to be old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not used to it from the States, you were were used to good enough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Was sir you remember going back to the future to where like Marty McFly come back from traveling in time and the dude showed up out of nowhere Like are you Marty McFly and it's like yeah, it's like we had a bet in the office that you wouldn't be here This letter's been waiting for you for 80 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna show up a day

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's something we're so used to good enough, like I mentioned, where if it works eight out of 10 times that's good enough, they're in Japan 10 out of 10, they will work 10 out of 10 times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, I wouldn't hurt this, but it was one of the trough the process, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you don't hear about things like this going wrong, when other people do it, so why would it go wrong for you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, very true, very true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and you found the, I see you found the Tokyo Dome area Starbucks as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did, uh, when I got finally to my hotel room on Tuesday night, I will so turn around that I just went to the McDonald's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Got some check it back in for dinner.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was, it was also, it was also really interesting because you've got to see how they,

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[SPEAKER_01]: package something to go, you know, just way different, like the the soda, it's packed in a cone bag that you that it goes inside the bag and you all have all this stuff because the consideration for winter hangers keeping the streets clean is so prevalent here that I can't help a plot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm like, yeah, I'm on board with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's keep the streets clean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and it's funny, you very in Tokyo, especially you see almost no litter and they don't have trash cans on the street.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that people just carry their stuff around and now there are trash cans by the way for you hear about that there are no trash cans in Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, they're just not out on the street or they're strategically placed and both the stuff is adjacent to whatever food.

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[SPEAKER_00]: train stations have them convenience stores have them and all that stuff but yeah there is a whole there is a culture of you take your stuff and you what and that you accumulate throughout the day and it either goes in pocketbook or your your pockets and things and you toss it out when you can there it's not a thing where every place has to have an overflowing trash receptacle which is which is nice it's they do everything a little bit better I think and it comes to that stuff there there is an

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we got to get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully you'll be feeling up to getting some ramen before you leave there because I'll do a week one ball of ramen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Dojo meal is being served at Abreeda, like the Chancu or oh, Chancu.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're having Chancu.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Chancu?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They got an open bar in Chanko.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's going to be a great combination.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Depending on who makes it, it can be really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It can be really.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Chanko, it's the Chanko for those.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is the soup that a lot of dojo's use both in sumo and in pro wrestling, the the dojo system work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So much of guys live in the other and training together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Chanko is there's variations of it's basically a soup or a stew, a lot of cabbage, a lot of pork.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... usually served with rice and it's to it's to fill you up to your calorie burn you know you're you the idea is you choco you're gonna be burn in those calories right back off if you need a lot of choco and you don't work out gonna get very big indeed but uh... and in the wrong way you know but it's uh... it's it's supposed to be uh... it's a traditional stew for uh... guys that are uh... in heavy calorie burns and doing heavy physical activity afterwards so you know you have your choco then you do your workouts and stuff like that

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[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, usually prepared by the youngest people in the stable will get stuck with all the chores, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It becomes a point of pride to add your own little twist to it or a signature to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a point of pride to have it to be making good chai, make the best chanko as a brag, and the other guys just look like mine's mine's better in yours, give me a minute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But so hopefully hopefully you get somebody good making yours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think they're probably going to put a pretty solid effort, some stuff that's

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[SPEAKER_01]: of majority like foreign crowd that it's probably trying to get some sense of authenticity here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, do we want to just start looking at the Noah show now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or is there anything else about your Japan trip you want to talk about?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know you're going to go to the tow con shops.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have to talk about that eventually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to go to two to walk on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll have to talk about that eventually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anything else from your trip that we want to cover before?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm happy to listen to it before we go into that show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I just want to shout out the people that I met so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Please.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Met a guy named Adam who lives in New York that has gone to a couple of the years over the last few years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a really nice guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My buddy Miguel came with me to the Noah show last night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think of Miguel Rubio quite a few times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a good then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of my friends through another.

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[SPEAKER_01]: series of things that has nothing to do with wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're already in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a screenwriter for anime, and he was the one that got us our tickets for the Noah show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Pete Cooper was a really great guy and I would really glad to meet him if I wanted to shout him out as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have the Hub British Pub meet up on Saturday, on Sunday before wrestling,

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[SPEAKER_01]: We weren't fit back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We put out their stiffness the here in which we contributed to that as well as I took a bit of that Dave Meltzer interview that we did and I let them cut it in and you hit as part of the Tonahashi analysis and I'm looking forward to meeting all of them and we are going to come back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: after refilking them at the same time to do the recap while I'm in Japan so everyone make sure that you keep your eye out for that special episode that will likely be dropping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess Sunday for you, Sunday in the States, it'll be Sunday evening, Sunday afternoon or evening five 30 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, January 4th here in the United States, that's one of the very mouth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So two, two, 30 back in the west and 430 here and I'm all blah, but yes, we will be doing a recap show at our usual time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So whatever time you normally,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, listen to this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can listen to our show on Sunday recapping all the extra for the Tokyo Dom Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in there with his bags packed right to check out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he'll be joining us because that will be the next morning for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we'll get it here on our show same day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it

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[SPEAKER_00]: Game that time of the day, bat channel, if we're doing it up on night to watch the show or you get some sleep and Kesher when you wake up, you can then tune in to speaking a strong style and we'll break it all down for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly how it's supposed to work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then if there anything else that I am thinking of in my forgetting and my blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank for everyone that's checking in today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's New Year's Day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For you guys here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you are checking out our show and you know, nursing the hangover and whatever it is that you did on

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[SPEAKER_01]: New year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for joining us and the only last thing that I got is that if you are joining us for the first time or you're checking us out after the date multiple interview and you want to convert with us more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am on the fight game media discord and you can have a conversation with us there you can email me at speaking of strong style at gmail.com and we can get you in there if you so like because.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, from North Carolina.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, North Carolina, checking in saying happy New Year's and happy New Year's to all of you as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you're joining us there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So nice to hear from you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: OK, yeah, that's all the news that fit to print.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My wife texting me about a blanket that she's cleaning the house right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm navigating a whole lot right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not going on and I go a brand's with us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Brad, good to see you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says, hey, fellas, happy new year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you're having a great trip so far, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like he isn't even enjoying it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you enjoyed that AEW Dynamite.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw the spoilers for that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I felt like that show would write up your alley, Brad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So a wonderful 2020, since I have begun right for you and I'm happy for you and all the best you're family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And all the best to all the families and all the people checking in and looking into the show today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do want to say I hope that 20-25 is proper for everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: very nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk a little bit about AEW because two of the main protagonists of the show you're going to be seeing live and in person Jeremy and the rest of us will be watching on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can I also get to catch them because it's go cut, it did indeed beat in the continental class because we all figured it was in semi-finals, but I did not see the match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out on American wrestling for the time being, I'll get back in who dimensionally, but for now, I'm out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, you've

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[SPEAKER_00]: I read about the recap of it though, because I was curious to see how they would handle a situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have to say, I think they handled it about as well as they could.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like it was a good match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, I'll want it by using the screwdriver from Don Callis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that kind of protects Takeshita.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Takeshita did lose, but however, he was cheated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was cheated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do feel like that protected him a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Was that the impression you had watching it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: the the recap if not did not quite do justice to house and pick you did on a show it was perhaps one of the worth

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[SPEAKER_01]: botches of a big match finish that it could be because really there was a lot of thought put into the screwdriver because it was tied into the next batch as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever want to kind of got it and tried to attack Takesha with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What they didn't tell you is that the ref botched it and so he saw the screwdriver but had to act like it didn't

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like the match was very, very good, but I have to say, it was slightly disappointing because of the, we didn't get that quite clean finish that you feel like you would have gotten had the match been in Japan, but it was very much a western style finish where, you know, you're you're saving a little bit and you have your out or whatever it is, so you can run it back later on, the reality is, is that the John Maw cleaver for Kyle Fletcher match that directly followed it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: blew it out of the water and that was not something I was expecting to happen you know and a lot of a lot of it was you know what the people I was watching it with was okay who is more important

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[SPEAKER_01]: and can do two matches and won't jeopardize anything in the Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it comes as we reached if that to catch a rest of way to aggressively and recklessly to check the rest of a second match on the same show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But O'Connor wrestles in such a way where you can kind of do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: into a bit more psychological with this calorie, and so when he ended up having the second match with Modsley, I didn't go as long as the first one went about, I think it went 20, you know, the first one went a little bit longer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you had a long night that night, but you saw that both guys were neither in the spotlight for this show, which kind of free them up to, you know, whatever narrative that they wanted to Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But we got

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[SPEAKER_01]: a completely surprising finish in the G2, which was John Bachly winning the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, when you're looking at the paperview card, before the show started, John Bachly might win the game, it was kind of the reality.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, we were all advocating for Takeshan and Okada to be in the finals of the G2, because not a big thing we've been building for 14 months, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: When they made it to semi, I didn't like it at first, but I also thought about the fact that you've then taken something that seemed like a foregone conclusion and then you got something completely fresh in the final, which

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was good and I know that they're going to run it back and when it will go very like, oh, shit, my heart's reach, you know, caught a clean and then they'll run the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is in fact the ace of AEW and I don't think the law is affected or caught at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the law is affected to cash that at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it has any bearing to help people who are going to perceive them at a

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[SPEAKER_01]: This show was an afterthought because this ton of hot she thing is just overtaking everything and just such a big deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Brad said that the match regarding Alcada and Takeshda was really solid and the idea of the finish was good, but the execution was not good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, it's just he's a great and, you know, uh, how can poor guy?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I, I, we've talked about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I've mentioned it before because I just have never seen a national promotion with a worse referee and crew than the absolute car full of clowns that AEW has to or either

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[SPEAKER_00]: incompetent, look at me, bunch of preening peacocks trying to distract from the match they're in, or our absolute dangers to the wrestlers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have seen some of these morons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: do things and botched finishes because it wasn't the finish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you should give them when the pile driver receives concussed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of these morons shouldn't be allowed actual professional wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let alone the ones that are just kind of preening around the ring trying to get you to look at them during the matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the worst crew on Earth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And once again, they, they, they blow another major finishing important spot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if only they had people that were smart enough to realize this stuff,

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're stuck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one thing I love about you call it way is that you're consistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 20, 20 cents, new year, don't care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're breath free.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're so bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're ill.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was not their best night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have good nights.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I have my fair share of issues with the refereeing as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'd rather just,

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[SPEAKER_01]: wish for betterness instead of like tearing them apart.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think that the refereeing of one of the weak spots in the presentation of the product in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not sure if it's price or Paul Turner or any of these others.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Audrey's but Aubrey's fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't name a bunch of others.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there is a sense sometimes that the referee have a little bit of main character syndrome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, my thing is that if these guys were going to improve, they would have done it in the five years that they for six years almost that that shows by going on at our point down to the creative and deciding what they want to do with these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They need to clean out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody there smart enough to know that you need to clean out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At any point, they could change the game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, other promotions have over the years changed the procedure and the presentation of the referees.

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[SPEAKER_01]: it could we spot for the promotion and I think some of the big matches over the years have definitely suffered from it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there's so many things and so many different promotions that it's just like, you know, that's your pro and that's your con and, you know, we're not really in AEW podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're just talking about the Okada stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, just one of those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the season to change and we're in the season to change New Japan, we're in the season to change AEW, you know, it's 2025 and even that Noah show felt like they were starting up new story and trying to really, you know, break away from whatever that they had 2025 being, you know, like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It felt like they were trying to do the team 2000 and trying to get them all over and know a slowly and surely which wasn't something that would really on my radar up to this point and they had people turning and joining and they really built it up and then they made a decision in the main event that said well maybe it's not their time just yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm looking at it, I'm just thinking

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[SPEAKER_01]: changes a bounding everywhere for all these promotions and it's also an opportunity to improve upon things quietly if you see the need for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And five years, you know, somebody's guys, you know, Jericho,

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[SPEAKER_01]: When he joined AEW, he immediately did that match with Tana Hoshir, restful kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's not an AEW anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably showing up in WWE on Monday more than likely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you're like, all these things change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this is a critical business.

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[SPEAKER_01]: what happened one year, you know, like Tana Hashie being the focal point of the entirety of 2025 in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're going to be the focal point of 2025, and we're going to find out whether that was really a smart move with the absence of star power being what it would be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's curious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I saw something, and again, this is a New Japan pocket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about New Japan related stuff in a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's there's a New Japan related stuff on Noah's show, certainly in Dream Queen to him as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about all that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's, it's here's the thing that how time has flown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: CM Punk has been back in WWE, back in WWE, longer longer than he was in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So time has flown, but for me that when I heard that and I double-checked it and they were right and I was just thinking, my goodness, that's true, it's absolutely right, he's been back in WWE longer than he was in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just speaks to and like I said, I said, oh, five years, 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be the seventh year because that show the AEW got going in 2019, didn't and that's about right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I always look at it like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I blow my mind that I think about the show, the New Japan Ring of Honor did at Madison Square Garden or

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[SPEAKER_01]: AEW double or nothing the first one, everything that happened on that show happened before AEW even had their first big thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think about how long ago that was and I also think it doesn't feel that long at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it feels like a blink of an eye.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one of the things happened in my life, good thing, wrestling has changed, but it's like

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cody and Jericho and all of these guys that were there are now no longer there and that's what it's like about the cyclical business of the whole thing where you got to be prepared for the next and that's the part with New Japan

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so worried about, you know, I'm so worried about what their plan is going to be on seeing where you fit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've announced a mystery board test, basically, where they lifted everybody that's going to be there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, to catch those, look at the Dawn Calls families to catch them, which is concerning to me, because it doesn't really, like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: when the American writer of the article has mentioned stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like they know a little bit more than they're laying on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it should have just been to Keshana and that part were for what Monday is going

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's take a look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to mention a dream queen them real quick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a place on the 29th and Rio Goco, Cocacogicon, the Simo Hall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You watched it, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did watch this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was all in on this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was excited about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are pros and cons to it as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Action-wise, it was a fantastic show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The wrestling on it was really, really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The

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[SPEAKER_00]: Criticism comes from the fact that there weren't a lot of angles on it, but the wrestling was fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of it just kind of stayed like there weren't any title changes and there weren't any real turns or switches or

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[SPEAKER_00]: really angles to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there were some important things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the main thing is the IWGP Joshy champion, the women's champion, Shuri, her title was not online in this show with Psycho Matani, defended the world of startup title defeating Sayori on a 22 minutes and 40 seconds of a hell of a good match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the hate group that he'll group that, that Kamatani is a part of, kept all the titles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They went into it with all the titles and held on to all of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kenami, who is a member of hate, defeated Saya Iita in a great match, 20 minutes, 34 seconds there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was just about as good as Saya and Sayori.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a go-tora in Ruaqa, defeated Sakurara, Ayah Sakurara, and Siamka Karara, a wonderful new-ish tag team, younger wrestlers there, from the Cosmic Angels, the Cosmic Angels took almost total defeat in this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a boy lost to Serri in a great match, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sayori Anu lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Poy lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ayah and Sayaka lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Kaiser McCain was a pretty much hit total rock bottom in that sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what happens when a faction usually hits rock bottom in the Bushy Road Promotions anyways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the two things either they're going to be phased out or they're about to explode and something big is going to happen with them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll see because Hazuki defeated Fuachan in her reday view.

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[SPEAKER_00]: tricky situation, Sherry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you have heard about, uh, I know nothing to spell it out for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Full of Chan is a social media presence in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: An influencer you can even say YouTube channel TikTok and also trying to be in pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It did a few matches in start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a couple of years ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She ended up putting her foot in her mouth in a big way online by making a very nasty comment to somebody else online.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In a promotion that recently lost Hanna Kamura to

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[SPEAKER_00]: depression caused by online hate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't good and she was she disappeared both off of social media.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like it, it canceled her, basically.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And and because everyone recognized her for what it was, which is a colossally stupid thing to do in an environment like that, it's not good to do anytime at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, but okay, like bullying,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, one of the easiest things to get away with, and let somebody actually hold you accountable, and when you get caught for bowling, there's no coming backs on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, just one of those things that the only way people feel like they can really hold somebody accountable is if it's too loud to ignore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and this was a very, it was a very nasty thing to say to somebody and I'm not going to dignify it by repeating it here, but it was a surprise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if I say, it was enough that she went away for a while, starting back to away from her for a while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she has, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ben can try it about it apologetic and she wanted to re-dave you this was all presented as a re-dave you for her rebirth and she's going to you know do this and try to be a better person going forward was the entire point of this all and uh i think that's the best result the best to me uh somebody being canceled is not the best results to me the best result is somebody

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[SPEAKER_00]: a apologizing for that and then moving forward in a more positive way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, that's the best result that someone learns from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, and with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I didn't think you were arguing with me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just trying to point out that it was controversial that they were going to bring her back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They said, well, how could they?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The way that they did it was that she was saying, I was wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to go forward and and and and do that to be a baby faith because he kind of have to be a baby faith at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And and that she came back and had a heck of a match with Howzaki.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a trainer and basically she looks like she is a potential baby face in the making star for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's an elephant athlete.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's a good worker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was a good wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She hasn't had very many matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this one with Howzaki was kept fairly short.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Howzaki won, you know, you don't

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[SPEAKER_00]: be in a stable star in Japan like that in first night in or back in after a couple of years that type of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that that is something that happened to drink.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be keeping an eye on food champ because you can't ignore this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got an IWGP Yoshi champion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's worth noting who the stars are for for her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brad mentioned the food channel is the best YouTube or turn pro wrestler we've ever seen and she's not the only one that's that sounds almost like a joke, but there have been others that are doing this is her third match and she already looks like a seasoned veteran.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course she was in there with Hazuki one of the very best workers there's a reason she's on the wall behind me here she's she's my favorite to Joe she worker personally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know there are other people that are better, but I just enjoy how she's matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the way she works matches and she carried.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... food chant through that would if they can make a star out of food chant they've got something because she she she does have a name there she does have a presence that was that one and then bad mention something else there was an eight woman tag match with emperors nexus venice uh... against me the look at now these are the uh...

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the the bruiser mass share me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So on one side, you had Hanako who's one of the tallest in the whole company and has some size to or Mike who's a powerhouse, Zina who's a, you know, who's not as taller as strong as bulky, but I mean, but she's, but she's strong and she's a good worker and Megan Bane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And on the other side, on the other side, it's Suki Ayoki, Rina Yamashita, and Susa Suzuki, so that that Japanese trio that'll do hardcore matches and will do some of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They would not be out of place on a death pain invitational show, teaming with Bozilla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... who's about the only person in the world that can match in making bane size for side of the only person Japan who can match making bane size for size so what you just had was uh... something you don't get in joshi wrestling a whole lot which is a bruiser versus bruiser match you know that's that's that's just fight and this thing was wonderful and i just want to see making bane versus bozil or one on one because that was that what if that happening what if they can bring the bokeh

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope it's coming up because they're running corrican hole a bunch of times January and then they have a show in Osaka coming up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's where this thing is going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they haven't announced it for the two shows that are happening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but they did like they did two shows for the third here, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they only scaled it for 500 tickets for both shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you have 45,000 people, there are a lot of people that want to go to that store.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to that store.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have very big building for that same face, isn't it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in Juku Face or something?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Company.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I Adam that I had mentioned earlier was...

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no room in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're telling me all this stuff about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are some pretty smart fans that are out here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Brad says, I will never get tired of watching Bozilla and Megan beating the crap out of each other for our entertainment, they have to be heading to a big single smash for startup and Brad tip me off here, Megan and Bozilla had a match on spring break for GCW the match was incredible and they also announced that startup will be coming to WrestleMania week in Las Vegas this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I might be there for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm leaning heavily toward making a trip out to Vegas for many a week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have no interest in going to WrestleMania, but if some of the other companies are coming in and running shows throughout

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[SPEAKER_00]: Vegas Vegas in on many a week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will go to those.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if a couple more of those start to pop up and we'll probably hear about some of that there's about a 20% chance that I'll go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my mean person, that's the case.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, ladies and gentlemen, even caught way and I might actually be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've never been person.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got I got recruited to work for one of the internet companies last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not fishing for it, but if it happens, it would have to be a considerably cheap trip because I'm blowing the paycheck on this one guys, because the one time trip, they give for WrestleMania before it goes away for a couple of years for Blood Bunny, if you want to directly, if not exactly like, oh god, I got to make sure I get my shit in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Jeremy and I have the same not particularly tin foil have theory that this could be one of the last WrestleMania's in the United States for quite some time with Saudi Arabia taking over everything coming up here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm on the same mind you are

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, no kidding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's going to be a blood money show for sure that it's not only going to be crown jewel, they won't Mania no doubt about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They opened up an office there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're they're probably going to buy the whole damn thing eventually from TKO once they've fettin it up enough with cash Yeah, I was just going to be the last man in the state at least for a year and that

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know it's in Vegas which there's there's a lot of stuff to do there and if the other shows pop up it's but start them definitely announced that they're gonna go to Vegas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did I tell you that I knew about the Saudi Mania thing months before any said one else did because around

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[SPEAKER_01]: Number of flammable watching a show with Dave.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was helping out with something and he just came down with a good idea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is like WrestleMania, there's a WrestleMania Saudi Arabia in the year or it could have happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh, it's like D. And he's like, I don't know yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, oh, and then he had to work on the story before it ever became public.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he knew really early on and he told me and I was like, I'm so wild.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just one of those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting here and I'm like hearing about all this stuff

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other kind of things where Steven, I'm not gonna lie to you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like, is this shit real?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, is this world that I'm living in a real?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm basically just told like random things here and there, you just kind of have to parse it all through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you just sit there and you wait for it to become public.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, thought, so that's how this all works.

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[SPEAKER_00]: TKO is just one of the grossest companies when it comes to just one just money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if you can pay him $5 more to do something, they'll break a contract and do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for it's, some of their behavior and this stuff is just, they gives me the heck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They give a happy tag to the rich.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, I get we're not trying to be a political thing here, but just the sound of your Arabia is so much money.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Saudi Arabia thinks more money than anybody needs more money than any bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so gross.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like what kind of like flux is it to come around?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we make billion billion dollars here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and how many take it clear you're giving away to the to the under-furb instead of charging more and more like they're they're they're they connection to your fandom here that money is actively destroying and they're not really well that which is why I think they're looking to spin off WWE and sell it off to somebody because they're just.

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[SPEAKER_00]: pumping it full of cash just making the revenue go absolutely through the roof through every putting a logo on everything having commercials going on during introductions and stuff like that and and during entrances even.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just think they're trying to fatten up that pig to sell it off, you know, and it's

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[SPEAKER_00]: they're going to make the revenue look amazing and then just make a ton of cash on it and then just have UFC cash out and do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so because they're not everything they're doing is generated toward generating cash which makes sense except like you said they're sacrificing families and young viewers who can't afford all this stuff tells me they don't care if those people are there in five years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know I think because they're not going to own you know they're just worried about that now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's my tin foil hat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't pay for that much tin foil in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't pay for the EF pan piali.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't pay to watch back down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have Netflix already because my wife love Netflix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, good or with the only WWE I watch is getting around to raw every week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't even watch raw this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if, man, well, point being here to get to get, we digress a lot off that, but it's on our minds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's in the zeitgeist and things and it does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All the stuff has domino effects in the wrestling industry anyway, but point being to be fair, they're not a whole lot of new Japan new, other than the well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm getting to some.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with that side, Kamatani, sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: title versus title, no changes, no one took any losses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sherry side lost their tag match, but her partner was the one that was pinned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that one, and that was really to get to get somebody over as a new challenger coming up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Starlight Kid, by the way, was the winner of that one, and looks like Starlight's moving up toward title shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Sherry was not being there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and J.P.W.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Strong Women's Champion and the World of Start and Champion Sidecombatani in the dome as scheduled, no twist to that tail, thankfully.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will indeed get that match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It should be a terrific one there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that might be that not if you're going to lie a fire under the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think so too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know the people have been trepidations about how little time, Tam Nikano got against what Kyrie a few years ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that now with Comotani having such a mainstream media presence over the course of the last year in Japan that they're not going to cut that off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're going to get a half hour nor should they.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to get probably 10 or 12 minutes and it'll probably be in some of the best 10 or 12 minutes on that entire show because they can put something great together in that time and but I don't think they're going to treat it with this respect because I think it is important to boost your road to have that mainstream media presence and keep Comotani strong and featured.

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[SPEAKER_01]: if from Edtrem Kluft to Edrick, they get 20 minutes, I'll be happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we all well put.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that would be, that would be it because commenting is entrance is also one of the better ones out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I also, by the way, watched All Japan's New Year, and I heard that made of that will fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and by the way, start them, 6,500 people in Simo Hall, what a fantastic one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is, and it's sold out, and I think if they had put

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[SPEAKER_00]: four people in those boxes because you're ever how simple hall has the boxes where you sit on the floor, you sit on cushions and they sold two people to a box.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they're kicking themselves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't sell four to a box on this thing because they might have beaten Yoka Hama, that incredible show with Nakano and Saya at a, you know, that drew 7,500.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They might have threatened that this year if they sold four to a box.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe next year they will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what a great turnout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All of Japan had their New Year's Eve show, which is one of their biggest to the year at Yogi National Gymnasium.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is also in the Tokyo,

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[SPEAKER_00]: area, you know, you just a different neighborhood than what we're used to from New Japan, but they drew a 2700 for their show last year, 2500.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the rising tide is lifting a lot of boats here, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, 200 is not the same increase in start-up saw, but for a company that's kind of run on a comparative shoestring budget like all Japan is, that's a healthy crowd for them, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You wanted to have something interesting if that was on the Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen more billboard and can advertise them for all Japan and Noah, and I've seen for, for, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no, I've seen a couple and they're like the Metro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a picture of their Tonahashi and Tokahashi, like talking goods in the subway and you know, Tonahashi, there's a little bit of love about the magazine and stuff like that, commemorating for wrestling weekly and Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, you just kind of have to get that kind of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, very close to that train station.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very close to one of the train stations around there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is, I think, like a four or five story tall billboard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's narrow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's thin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very tall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the, like the top half of it is no on the bottom half of it is all Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's right over there looking over at the star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was all fresh with the lineup of the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, oh, that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They've really done that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when I was there last year, those billboards were there when I was there in May that's there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they they do keep a presence up in that area.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I'm a row there with the mile and the cowboy hat and the patient that guy has wild.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting, you know, he's been Americanized is basically his gimmick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went to America.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got Americanized.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brad mentioned, it's Tara Wolkata, that's the guy that man that isn't charge of start on the bushy roadside, said they are pushing to get 10,000 at an upcoming show, the talk of start of working the dome keeps getting closer if they can do that, and I'm not going to put a past on anymore, you know, it's still a couple of years away, I think, but I don't think 10,000's crazy anymore, it's difficult, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really difficult for New Japan right now, but New Japan's got its own challenges, but the only company that's down overall, but here we have a sold-out dome, and we can start 2026 with huge crowds all around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I wanted to mention, New Japan or Old Japan rather, Zenni Hon instead of Shinni Hon, but the two final matches that show were terrific.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The all-Asia tag team title match, Ishin and Yushiki Kato, defeated Masashi and Seki Yoshioca,

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that was the title change that those guys are dragons gate guys they work with dragons gate all Japan's been working with dragons gate a little bit and terrific match for the tag team titles june saito and go she is rocky went like a 15 minute really good match go she is rocky former Noah star that's gone over the new Japan are all Japan I keep saying that's sorry

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that he can still go for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And June, Sayito with the right opponent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It can be terrific.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the triple crown title match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if we're going to look back at this with regret or maybe they're building to something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kento Miyahara, who's one of my favorite workers in wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I have his scarf here behind me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can see that I bought his towel or his scarf whatever you want to call up for when I was there last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miyahara is brilliant as a worker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Yuma Anzai is one of the young talents there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's the one Jeremy we've talked about in before early 20s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just on fire, they went almost a half an hour,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kempso did beat him a lot of people thought that maybe this is you know you was essentially not quite yet young man, but there's no doubt that that man belongs in a main event like that because that match was wonderful so I think it might be a thing where they.

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[SPEAKER_00]: will have him as a major contender in the champion carnival this year, and maybe that's when onsite makes his run back at it, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: This might be that that one the last loss you need before you do the final push.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Does that make any sense?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, losing the ton of how she and crying is way out of the dome before he comes back wins G1 and beats him that

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[SPEAKER_00]: might be running something similar with you, my on-site right here, but again, their attendance was up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Zennihan, a little bit of a boost for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I accidentally wore my algebra pan shirt into the toe con shop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Last time I was there and I realized it as I had my jacket over and, you know, you know, you know, comically got poor forms slammed it shut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, they were fired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The woman working the counter saw it and laughed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just did it as to be kind of funny, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: And last time I was, I do all this cross stuff because I generally go to Tocon, which is right by Tocchio Domaria, when I'm going to Corkwyn Hall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So last time I had this black bag thankfully, and I turned it inside out, so the Lion Mark wouldn't be showing, because I'm going to a Noah show in 2019 with all my new Japan merch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is bad for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is bad for him to wear another...

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[SPEAKER_00]: companies stuff to a show like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a bit bad for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to wear that company's gear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, going to the tow con shop, it's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, I realized I was wearing my ultra pan shirts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I closed it and then she just kind of giggled a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you don't talk a hoshy shirt to the Noah show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, a little awkward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could have worn a nightzone one though, and we're going to get to that in a second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The only other thing I wanted to add, you mentioned something about the start of the 10,000, and we're going to talk to a couple of people here, the general template that they thought getting the 10,000 was going to be a problem.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they thought that if they didn't track in the right direction in three years, they might be able to get the frame amount that you just hang out in the dome last year, like that 15 to 20,000, and if they keep doing it, they might be able to do a Tokyo dome show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: more than Kamitani.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to need a little bit more power, but they're all going to need top stars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like a lot of top stars and building them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there are definitely a handful of people especially with, you know, the absence of the top with knock-in-o and my or you with Tani and all these other people there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, here's what I'll say to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this one thing that 2025, very strong year for start of the one criticism that could end up biting them in the rear end of a little bit going forward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They may have just played the hot hand with Comitani, which worked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one's denying that it worked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but it only works for so long and they may have sacrificed almost any other stories on the show to feature Kamatani.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like what I've mentioned this with Scott Edwards and just both on shows and then in private, like what are the other big story lines in Stardom?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And outside of Kamatani, it's not that easy to name them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are a couple.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are a couple.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... and saiaida entering the main event picture with this incredible match she just had is is a good sign ha none is coming back and she's star but uh... i think one of the things are going to need is depth if you're going to sell that many show uh... that many tickets the card needs depth and that and that's something that uh... the only complaints i've heard none about the action the wrestling was fantastic a dream coined up but again hate came in with all the titles

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[SPEAKER_00]: they left with love titles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody really turned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't a full of Chan was a big surprise in that she did well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We knew she was coming back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a surprise that she was there and their 15th anniversary is coming up and they have some veterans coming back and that type of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There needs to be more stories underneath, whereas maybe in 2025, they did well playing the hot hand-of-site of Comitani.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just feature her in a series of matches, because they really didn't do much storyline-wise with Momo Watanabe, who was in her faction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had both Ben and Queen's quest before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That should have been kind of a deeper story than it was, but they just had her beat Momo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After Momo won the five-star Grand Prix, just had her beat her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's working, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So who's to complain?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying long term, if you're going to run a dome in two years, Kamitani might not be the hot hand anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll need more than that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who they think you're saying there are warning signs that you need to keep heat of to avoid falling into these traps?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's going to have to be more and Brad hits it on that 20 24 established hate 20 25 was the rise and take over of hate and now 20 26 is going to have to be Avengers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We take these people down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So and by the way, we were talking about the advertisements near the Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: U.S. V.A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: guys here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you're here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Respond.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says usually New Japan advertisements happen outside the city center.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's something that you're morning after vinyl, you later repair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's probably a smart move, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to be around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, Bushy Road, both start and New Japan, has a tie-in with the J.R. lines, which is one of the big train lines around their two main ones, Tokyo Metro and then J.R. that gets people around Tokyo, start them and New Japan has had sponsorships with J.R. so if you just get on a train, sometimes it's the New Japan stars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I call it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually having it here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on, I'll show you what I got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a picture of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, come on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll describe it for the people that are on, uh, yeah, if you get some photos, go ahead and put them up if you did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm working on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And oh, let's see, let's see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Emberil 88 asks, is restricting them going?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is restricting them going to be a jumping point for another hot run or is it simply a memorial show for 2010's high period?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be as honest as possible here and say that it is a memorial show for the high period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see a whole lot of evidence that we are headed toward a boom period for New Japan unless something drastic changes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that this is,

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[SPEAKER_00]: a nostalgia thing for Tana Hashie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think there were real challenges ahead for New Japan and drawing crowds because this past year was among the dirt worse and quite a while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you got a good picture of Doc Gallows right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there, now I'm going to describe this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is an advertisement and train station.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's Haromu Takahashi on one side with a golf bag of golf clubs for the NJPW golf team and on the left,

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[SPEAKER_00]: is Hiroshi Tana Hashie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there are, and thank you for, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so those are ads that you see in train stations and goodness knows most of Tokyo it seems rides a train daily.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a great way to get the word out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I got some pictures from the trip on the right here, so this is the flight and then I have a photo of outside my room, which you can see right here have the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster and right off to the left is the corner of the Tokyo dome if you remember when.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cody and the bugs and hangman page did that little clip at the end of BTE where they did that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I stood right outside that spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know exactly where it was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I understand now why it was so quiet and empty because they did it on that new year of day where nobody's around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, the whole thoroughfare is packed with people all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Tokyo Dome City is a big attraction for people that even live in Tokyo, not just tourists, or certainly tourists, but people live in Tokyo down there because they do have carnival rides, there's a convention center, there are multiple other venues.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We always talk about Corican and the Dome for obvious reasons, but Tokyo Dome City Hall is a concert venue that's there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned the convention that there's always something going on

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a little area together for a lot of different things and a lot of people go there to ride the rides and have a little, it's a little bit of an amusement park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a TGI Friday and a shake shack in the area so those are the traditional American fair but a lot of stuff is a Japanese bent on like American food if not their own culture

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's weird in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how to put it out there in that life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just weird like I'm kind stuff to see don't I don't really want

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[SPEAKER_01]: They put the cheddar cheese on on the burger, but it wasn't quite melted like they waited too long to do it and I was able to just peel the cheese off of the burger and go for it and I was like, I know that that's not the way to do it, but it just takes it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's something man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I am a pervert with cheese and Monterey Jack and all the stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You ain't getting any of that here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You ain't getting any of that here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an outlier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm an outlier because I don't do cheese on everything anyway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like even in America, I don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it didn't bother me in Japan because I don't necessarily.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happier with a hamburger than a cheeseburger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, anyway, if it's a good hamburger, but that's just me, and I know that's, but Flaming Sharks, cheese and Japan, it's a real thing in a bad way.

01:00:04.075 --> 01:00:05.496
[SPEAKER_00]: the American style of cheese.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe this isn't the best.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's not the best cuisine for you.

01:00:08.899 --> 01:00:13.903
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say stick with the the you don't want to get it in the sushi and the you don't get a lot of cheese on sushi.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're okay there.

01:00:14.584 --> 01:00:17.286
[SPEAKER_00]: You can and get a yakiniku.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry about cheese on yakiniku and that's some of the best stuff there so you're in good shape.

01:00:21.930 --> 01:00:24.472
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah so but no cheese on soba you're good there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will probably be going hot and mean on the Japanese cuisine now but I haven't done any

01:00:34.248 --> 01:00:38.442
[SPEAKER_01]: I did go to a TGI Friday, can Tokyo dome yesterday for London.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one in Corkin Hall, the one in Corkin Hall, and first floor in Corkin Hall is a TGI Friday's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good.

01:00:46.938 --> 01:00:54.648
[SPEAKER_01]: It was got to be better than a TGI Friday in the States, and I, like, I don't know why that is, but it's true.

01:00:54.668 --> 01:00:58.113
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it was just, Jeremy, you went to Japan, you went to TGI Fridays?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bro, I'm just trying to make sure that my stomach is working right through this entire trip, because I don't want to be the guy miserable because, like, something didn't sit right with me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is, I'm going to point it safe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am telling you, I do, just for me, get some onegiri at a convenience store, it's fresh, it's delicious, please do, it's a rice ball, it's a rice ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will get a rice ball.

01:01:23.893 --> 01:01:26.338
[SPEAKER_01]: Just at a seven o'clock in the evening, I will look in it all the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll settle by, it'll settle your stomach.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just one of those things that like I'm getting there and like jumping into a cold pool you did your self first and you make sure that like you're okay with it and then you jump in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like when I shot Jeremy is a proper American tourist and Brad is saying Jeremy is doing the young books food tour.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?

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[UNKNOWN]: Like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm being honest here guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing about this and I'm ashamed of.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't want to embarrass anybody else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, if you buy get the food from a restaurant and then you don't like it.

01:02:04.647 --> 01:02:13.355
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there's a culture thing where that's just improper, you know, like I don't want to go for more and not like the food like that.

01:02:13.695 --> 01:02:14.576
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, okay, I see your point.

01:02:14.596 --> 01:02:18.900
[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't want to just sit there and leave an almost eaten meal or almost like an eaten meal.

01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:28.669
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're like a courtesy thing and a respect and manners like going up and eating the food and being respectful of the people serving it to you.

01:02:28.689 --> 01:02:30.650
[SPEAKER_01]: Like all of these things are on my mind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not just like I'm looking for American food because I'm not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like comfortable with it.

01:02:36.095 --> 01:02:41.941
[SPEAKER_01]: It is more of like I don't want to go in there and eat something and then like halfway through, just not like it.

01:02:42.301 --> 01:02:44.884
[SPEAKER_01]: And then like work through that awkward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I respect that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I respect that approach completely.

01:02:49.127 --> 01:02:50.409
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, but this I'll say this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is another reason to get some convenience store food right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want it's very good.

01:02:54.553 --> 01:02:56.374
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can take it back to your room if you don't like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can just check.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have done a bunch of that already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like buying a bottle of water and

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was literally at a 7.11 next to the Starbucks this morning for about 15 minutes of looking at all the food and you're trying to see like, hey, I wonder if they have any like eel because they're really like, yeah, they do somewhere in the oil eel, so I was just kind of like browsing for all this stuff to see if they had it like prepackaged because I thought it was possible that they did, I didn't you know, and then you have something macro as I saw some salmon and that kind of thing, but I'm just getting used to it.

01:03:26.373 --> 01:03:39.960
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just mention this real quick, and we will get back to the show, but where you are, you know, that big billboard we've been talking about, no one else pan right there underneath that bridge that is next to it, that leads to the train station under that bridge is a sucia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a restaurant.

01:03:40.999 --> 01:03:42.100
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 24 hours a day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the Udon places.

01:03:43.942 --> 01:03:46.885
[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's place you can get the shredded beef and gravy over a rice.

01:03:47.806 --> 01:03:54.812
[SPEAKER_00]: They also have boxes of really good eel, unagi, that is on a bed of rice.

01:03:55.473 --> 01:04:04.482
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is on and they have, when you sit down to see you get a little tablet at your station, press the button for English.

01:04:04.622 --> 01:04:08.766
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is clear as can be and they take your sweet

01:04:08.898 --> 01:04:11.761
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, for our today, the right at my alley code.

01:04:11.781 --> 01:04:15.545
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a point, and you're like, poor, I'm like, man, a motor hungry in there.

01:04:15.565 --> 01:04:21.231
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, no, no, no, and that'll, I think that will scratch a couple of those inches that you have ordinarily right there.

01:04:21.351 --> 01:04:26.656
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, and it's, it's, it's one of those little places where you can just be in your own zone.

01:04:26.716 --> 01:04:28.358
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, you're just sitting at a counter.

01:04:28.758 --> 01:04:34.264
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot like that here, where you're like, your ability to just eat your meal,

01:04:34.244 --> 01:04:36.647
[SPEAKER_01]: privately among other people.

01:04:36.687 --> 01:04:37.868
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so prevalent here.

01:04:37.928 --> 01:04:39.490
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:04:40.110 --> 01:04:44.175
[SPEAKER_01]: I very much like the vibe of how it is to go and sit down and eat.

01:04:44.695 --> 01:04:45.757
[SPEAKER_01]: Mike, you go.

01:04:45.797 --> 01:04:46.617
[SPEAKER_01]: You pay for your food.

01:04:46.658 --> 01:04:47.719
[SPEAKER_01]: You wait for your food.

01:04:47.779 --> 01:04:50.342
[SPEAKER_01]: You eat your food and then you're out of it.

01:04:50.362 --> 01:04:58.230
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, there's not that sense of like performative performance with restaurant and the state where it's like you got a tip.

01:04:58.250 --> 01:05:00.893
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to, you got to, yeah, like

01:05:00.873 --> 01:05:02.836
[SPEAKER_01]: Like here to food, are we got to?

01:05:02.856 --> 01:05:03.217
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:05:03.458 --> 01:05:04.339
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye, Brad.

01:05:04.359 --> 01:05:05.701
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you guys?

01:05:05.722 --> 01:05:08.186
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, USB A guys says food in general is better in Japan.

01:05:08.246 --> 01:05:09.268
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe that fully, too.

01:05:09.408 --> 01:05:10.450
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you, Esteban.

01:05:10.470 --> 01:05:12.013
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think the food is incredible.

01:05:12.333 --> 01:05:13.575
[SPEAKER_00]: They prepare food properly.

01:05:13.676 --> 01:05:24.214
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there is a beauty in Japan in a lot of different things and not only food, but it really shows up in food where takes something simple and do it perfectly.

01:05:24.818 --> 01:05:53.593
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is kind of the ethos there as like take something simple and do it exactly correctly every time and it's something very satisfying to me about that and it's not only in food, it's in architecture, it's in the way people the way they package up your to go stuff the way they wrap your presence the way they pack it's there is that that precision we're going to do a correct every single time it's I do want to try to put with an egg on it.

01:05:53.860 --> 01:05:57.324
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm, he, I saw the pepper launch place the other day.

01:05:57.365 --> 01:05:59.227
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we have to do, we do have to try that.

01:05:59.567 --> 01:06:01.189
[SPEAKER_00]: The wrestler famous pepper launch, yeah.

01:06:01.270 --> 01:06:08.399
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's a good expo, and of course, if you do have time to, uh, to get to, uh, Ribera steakhouse, that's, oh, that's a train trip.

01:06:08.439 --> 01:06:16.629
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, that's not in the neighborhood, but that's a place where every wrestler you have ever heard of, uh, has, uh, been to get steak from, from Ribera.

01:06:18.572 --> 01:06:19.533
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping I make it.

01:06:19.914 --> 01:06:21.015
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure I will.

01:06:21.552 --> 01:06:28.882
[SPEAKER_00]: And anyway, flaming sharks as I'm a big Japanese food person in general, regardless, Jeremy over here approaching everything with that Japanese respect.

01:06:28.902 --> 01:06:29.923
[SPEAKER_00]: I've exactly again.

01:06:29.963 --> 01:06:30.444
[SPEAKER_00]: I am.

01:06:30.964 --> 01:06:35.530
[SPEAKER_01]: They're, they're a double-ed thorn where they'll go up to main character syndrome because I have a podcast.

01:06:35.550 --> 01:06:36.612
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm talking about it.

01:06:36.912 --> 01:06:39.035
[SPEAKER_01]: But if I didn't have the podcast, this wouldn't be an issue.

01:06:39.355 --> 01:06:41.919
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks just one of those like, I'm just going.

01:06:42.099 --> 01:06:45.163
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to like be careful and not.

01:06:46.038 --> 01:06:48.281
[SPEAKER_01]: because there's just unfamiliarity with them.

01:06:48.581 --> 01:07:05.320
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, one guy do that first meal and I understand or I have that, like, comfort, but it's just that break in the wall through and finding exactly what it is because my wife really wanted me to learn Japanese a bit before I came here and it didn't quite happen.

01:07:05.720 --> 01:07:08.804
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm kind of like, he's not at a point.

01:07:08.824 --> 01:07:11.927
[SPEAKER_00]: Has someone who is learning Japanese?

01:07:11.907 --> 01:07:13.210
[SPEAKER_00]: it's a hard process.

01:07:13.832 --> 01:07:16.097
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a totally different language.

01:07:16.358 --> 01:07:23.575
[SPEAKER_00]: I found Spanish much easier in just because the sentence structure is similar, not exactly the same, but similar.

01:07:23.876 --> 01:07:29.189
[SPEAKER_00]: In Japan, it's completely different, and it's a challenging language to learn.

01:07:29.289 --> 01:07:29.730
[SPEAKER_00]: For

01:07:29.710 --> 01:07:45.974
[SPEAKER_00]: especially somebody who's older, I'd imagine if you're a kid, that's the time to learn to foreign language is when you're a little kid, because you're just open to it and things, but as somebody in their 40s trying to learn Japanese, it's been a slow press, I'm getting better, and I did fairly well last time I was there, I think.

01:07:46.054 --> 01:07:52.444
[SPEAKER_00]: I had some very careful conversations, I would say, but it's

01:07:52.846 --> 01:07:59.642
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, not something you're going to do in a couple of months and you can get yourself in trouble, too, because you'll say something right in Japanese, and then their face is light up like, oh, he speaks Japanese and then they peel off a paragraph and you're like, I got two words that I was it.

01:07:59.662 --> 01:07:59.983
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get it.

01:08:00.003 --> 01:08:00.343
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01:08:00.363 --> 01:08:00.804
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01:08:00.824 --> 01:08:01.185
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01:08:01.205 --> 01:08:01.526
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01:08:01.546 --> 01:08:01.867
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01:08:01.887 --> 01:08:02.208
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01:08:02.228 --> 01:08:02.568
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01:08:02.589 --> 01:08:02.909
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01:08:02.929 --> 01:08:03.270
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01:08:03.631 --> 01:08:03.952
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01:08:03.972 --> 01:08:04.292
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01:08:04.313 --> 01:08:04.693
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01:08:04.713 --> 01:08:05.034
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01:08:05.054 --> 01:08:05.375
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01:08:05.395 --> 01:08:05.716
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01:08:05.736 --> 01:08:06.057
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01:08:06.077 --> 01:08:06.397
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01:08:06.417 --> 01:08:06.778
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01:08:06.798 --> 01:08:07.139
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01:08:07.159 --> 01:08:07.520
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01:08:07.540 --> 01:08:07.861
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get it.

01:08:07.881 --> 01:08:08.202
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01:08:08.222 --> 01:08:08.542
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01:08:09.552 --> 01:08:16.027
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, and Brad mentions my dream is to come into a lot of money and Georgia Pan watch tons of wrestling and eat tons of Japanese food.

01:08:16.208 --> 01:08:23.685
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of money places to get like and go over overwhelming the amount of good restaurants that you can trip and fall into and they're all so small.

01:08:24.226 --> 01:08:27.915
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like they they only serve like 20 people.

01:08:27.895 --> 01:08:42.006
[SPEAKER_01]: at a time, or like, the restaurants are not prevalent in terms of the feeding, but they're prevalent in terms of making sure that the service and the experience that they can manage it, you know, they can manage and not then take it experience for the people that are there at a time.

01:08:42.507 --> 01:08:45.313
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw when I was in Okiyavara there was, um,

01:08:45.833 --> 01:08:59.588
[SPEAKER_01]: and then kind of like an injure cafe and there was already a line of people for the 10th week that we're in there with like 30 people outside the door for 11 a.m. and I'm going to be like, well, that's apparently a place that I should drop out if I get a kid.

01:08:59.608 --> 01:09:07.677
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's there's a ramen place that's down the road from the Tokyo dome that is really great and they have it's lobster ramen so that's a lobster broth.

01:09:08.037 --> 01:09:15.165
[SPEAKER_00]: It's extraordinary

01:09:15.517 --> 01:09:29.301
[SPEAKER_00]: 8 to 10 seats in there is just now and yeah and here's one from emberl 88 so I looked at learning Japanese decided it wasn't worth the time totally alien to european languages yeah that's big problem.

01:09:29.962 --> 01:09:33.508
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe really respect Japanese people who can speak even broken English yeah.

01:09:33.488 --> 01:09:48.949
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that the one thing is like a lot of people in Japan get excited to try their English because they all learn a little bit of in school and the braver ones are just like they see an American sitting there like sipping a beer or something like that and you can almost see them screwing up the courage and then just kind of cracking their knuckles go.

01:09:48.929 --> 01:10:11.713
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going in and they're going to start talking to you in English, and you know, and I, as long as you go slowly, I think it speaks slowly so they can translate it in their head, they do, they do better with English than we do a chef and he's I'll give them that credit, so yeah, they're definitely, who I work retail in the state and I have come across.

01:10:23.860 --> 01:10:25.863
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's awkward, isn't it?

01:10:25.883 --> 01:10:26.725
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a challenge.

01:10:27.025 --> 01:10:38.744
[SPEAKER_01]: No, everyone is intent on being able to properly communicate with each other and if there have been honest integrity in doing that, you can make the connection and communicating.

01:10:39.165 --> 01:10:46.797
[SPEAKER_01]: But understanding a few words here or there like excuse me, or thank you, they go a long way.

01:10:47.485 --> 01:10:52.938
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're an hour and 10 into this and I'm having a blast talking about this.

01:10:52.978 --> 01:10:53.739
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you are too.

01:10:53.779 --> 01:10:57.709
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm enjoying this conversation because Japan's just such a fascinating place.

01:10:57.849 --> 01:11:02.680
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe we've been talking for an hour and 10 minutes like we were at eight minutes.

01:11:02.700 --> 01:11:05.747
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I wonder how we're going to get through 90 minutes here, I'm like, oh, okay.

01:11:05.727 --> 01:11:07.030
[SPEAKER_00]: I could talk about Japan.

01:11:07.110 --> 01:11:10.236
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like we've been talking for 10 minutes, but it's been a lot longer than that.

01:11:10.256 --> 01:11:11.820
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to get back to the topic.

01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:14.706
[SPEAKER_00]: But thank you for sharing all this with us Jeremy.

01:11:14.786 --> 01:11:15.427
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so much fun.

01:11:15.487 --> 01:11:16.449
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to go back.

01:11:16.489 --> 01:11:25.248
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want this show to be about more than only the wrestling, you know, I want this to be about the history of the culture and things and how we've threw all that stuff.

01:11:25.288 --> 01:11:26.470
[SPEAKER_00]: So this stuff all helps.

01:11:26.602 --> 01:11:29.808
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you have it around down what I thought about the Noah show real quick before I think for you.

01:11:30.128 --> 01:11:34.496
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, I want to get to the Noah show because I think there are some real interesting things to talk about.

01:11:34.516 --> 01:11:43.112
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's let's let's take a look at that show that you went to and the first thing I got to ask is my my nerd my wrestling venue nerd them.

01:11:43.392 --> 01:11:45.977
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, can you just indulge me here briefly, Jeremy?

01:11:47.257 --> 01:11:48.620
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a Budacon Hall.

01:11:49.121 --> 01:11:57.197
[SPEAKER_00]: This is on my bucket list, and I have never been to Japan at the same time that was a major show at Budacon Hall.

01:11:57.217 --> 01:12:02.387
[SPEAKER_00]: This is on the grounds of the Imperial Palace, a beautiful part of Tokyo.

01:12:02.427 --> 01:12:05.353
[SPEAKER_00]: You're right in the middle of the city, but it's these gorgeous gardens are around.

01:12:05.854 --> 01:12:08.860
[SPEAKER_00]: Budacon Hall, the Beatles played Budacon Hall.

01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:16.106
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever heard the cheap trick live album, I want you to want me with the girl screaming in the background.

01:12:16.166 --> 01:12:19.558
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Japanese girls of Budokan Hall.

01:12:20.028 --> 01:12:22.591
[SPEAKER_00]: it is the side of the picture of it on the on the screen right now.

01:12:22.651 --> 01:12:24.252
[SPEAKER_00]: We're looking at it here on the on YouTube.

01:12:24.493 --> 01:12:37.546
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the venue where all Japan pro wrestling had some of the greatest main events that have ever been in a ring with the four pillars, Stan Hansen, Steve Williams, Terry Gordy, all those guys, right?

01:12:38.047 --> 01:12:42.892
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a historic building that I've never been able to enter and never been able to walk through the door.

01:12:42.952 --> 01:12:44.854
[SPEAKER_00]: Share me what was the like being in Budacon Hall?

01:12:46.596 --> 01:12:48.718
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like

01:12:49.998 --> 01:13:05.155
[SPEAKER_01]: It was in your face because you take the train like two stops from the Tokyo dome to this other area of Japan and it's in the like civil district like the

01:13:05.557 --> 01:13:07.803
[SPEAKER_01]: government offices, tons of school.

01:13:07.883 --> 01:13:08.946
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no shopping.

01:13:08.966 --> 01:13:10.690
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no anything like that.

01:13:10.871 --> 01:13:13.417
[SPEAKER_01]: It is all business kind of area.

01:13:13.738 --> 01:13:18.410
[SPEAKER_01]: Completely different to Akia Bara, which is all shopping all the time, completely different vibe.

01:13:18.431 --> 01:13:22.080
[SPEAKER_01]: So you get off on the training you climb up out of there.

01:13:22.060 --> 01:13:34.459
[SPEAKER_01]: up the stairs and you're just in this like beautiful garden area and the area is so big that in the national emergency it's a staging area for a lot of stuff because the property is so big.

01:13:35.480 --> 01:13:46.617
[SPEAKER_01]: So you walk up the hill a very light hill and then you kind of take a left and you just walk into this courtyard area with the giant

01:13:46.597 --> 01:13:55.521
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't date and the gate will wide open and so everyone's just kind of filling through you could probably get 200 people through at the same time.

01:13:56.744 --> 01:14:01.838
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you're just kind of walking around the building and you're kind of looking at it and you're kind of like

01:14:01.818 --> 01:14:13.980
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, yeah, that feels like authentic like Japanese architecture, and they make you walk around the entire side of the building to get to the other side in order to do the entrance.

01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:18.949
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have one entrance, but one could get there, you go down the stairs to the floor.

01:14:18.929 --> 01:14:30.933
[SPEAKER_01]: or you stay on the second level, which is most of the the first level off the ground with the heating and then there's one more area of the bus.

01:14:30.973 --> 01:14:41.173
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're watching on TV, you have the floor seats, that's below ground, you kind of come in a balcony level and then there's a second balcony that's up a set of stairs.

01:14:41.322 --> 01:14:44.225
[SPEAKER_00]: The ground for outside is the balcony level.

01:14:44.546 --> 01:14:45.827
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:14:45.927 --> 01:14:50.893
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's dug into the ground kind of thing the way that the building was.

01:14:51.494 --> 01:14:52.615
[SPEAKER_01]: It felt special.

01:14:52.975 --> 01:14:55.738
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean like you're in there and there's nothing.

01:14:55.798 --> 01:14:59.943
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing totally remarkable which you're inside the building.

01:15:00.243 --> 01:15:03.387
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just check the building where you hold shows.

01:15:03.928 --> 01:15:08.713
[SPEAKER_01]: But when you're outside, it just feels like your

01:15:10.280 --> 01:15:23.341
[SPEAKER_01]: the idea that you're in Japan is so incredibly prevalent when you're looking at this building like, yeah, no, I'm at a big show in Japan and this is really driving the play home.

01:15:24.002 --> 01:15:26.025
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's beautiful, beautiful on the outside.

01:15:26.045 --> 01:15:28.949
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know if we're talking about it.

01:15:28.969 --> 01:15:31.513
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, it's it is just it's a big venue, right?

01:15:31.533 --> 01:15:33.857
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's it's just a lot of space, but

01:15:33.955 --> 01:15:39.045
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's more the history of the building that it what's been in there before in the past.

01:15:39.546 --> 01:15:41.250
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like signing outside.

01:15:41.691 --> 01:15:43.053
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a lot of work out there.

01:15:43.294 --> 01:15:43.735
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:15:44.096 --> 01:15:45.458
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, not any merch on the inside.

01:15:45.478 --> 01:15:49.046
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you're on the inside of kind of like, you know, you, you go find your feet.

01:15:49.086 --> 01:15:55.238
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not not a whole lot of daily dialing other than buy your refreshments.

01:15:55.218 --> 01:16:03.686
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you hold on to your assignment and then you make sure you throw away your refreshments when you are done because no one will be leaving their trash by their chair.

01:16:03.706 --> 01:16:04.307
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not do that.

01:16:04.327 --> 01:16:05.088
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be that guy.

01:16:05.188 --> 01:16:06.069
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't be that guy.

01:16:06.089 --> 01:16:06.469
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:16:06.489 --> 01:16:13.015
[SPEAKER_00]: So then once the show actually started, this was, and interesting, I watched most of this before we did the show today.

01:16:13.836 --> 01:16:15.017
[SPEAKER_00]: There were a couple I had to skip.

01:16:15.057 --> 01:16:16.979
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Saxon Huxley and Will Cruz.

01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:19.662
[SPEAKER_00]: I will get to your match later a couple of those.

01:16:19.762 --> 01:16:21.023
[SPEAKER_00]: But, um,

01:16:21.104 --> 01:16:45.475
[SPEAKER_00]: There was, I want to stick with the, the New Japan influence stuff here, and of course, the biggest one, I guess, is that X was indeed the tag team partner, Bushy, Tetsuya, Naito, and that was the first night on match back in Japan is since he left New Japan probably due to non-compete clauses were speculating that went through the end of the year.

01:16:46.214 --> 01:16:49.158
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Nido came back.

01:16:49.818 --> 01:16:53.363
[SPEAKER_00]: He came back with Bouchy and a tag team against Kenno.

01:16:53.683 --> 01:16:55.746
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, all right, Kenno, Kenno's pretty good.

01:16:55.766 --> 01:16:58.569
[SPEAKER_00]: And Naomi Chi Marafuji, who boy?

01:16:59.711 --> 01:17:01.213
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy, tell us about this match.

01:17:02.715 --> 01:17:09.183
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they did something really interesting if they brought out Bouchy first.

01:17:09.203 --> 01:17:13.428
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they did the Kenno and Marafuji and friends.

01:17:13.448 --> 01:17:15.951
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they had another guy come out

01:17:16.454 --> 01:17:21.521
[SPEAKER_01]: with NIDO, but then ended up being real say, which is not the mode of twin brother.

01:17:22.222 --> 01:17:23.644
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a mode of yes of this.

01:17:24.125 --> 01:17:27.390
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry, yes of this twin brother, yeah.

01:17:27.650 --> 01:17:28.331
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you.

01:17:28.532 --> 01:17:32.758
[SPEAKER_01]: And the son of, I think Gumbino is a old week's market.

01:17:32.838 --> 01:17:36.103
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly half Japanese half Mexican, like half of panic.

01:17:36.603 --> 01:17:39.888
[SPEAKER_01]: And so he came out and everyone was like, oh, what?

01:17:40.068 --> 01:17:40.569
[SPEAKER_01]: What's going on?

01:17:40.589 --> 01:17:41.691
[SPEAKER_01]: Could you who are the math?

01:17:41.711 --> 01:17:42.512
[SPEAKER_01]: And then?

01:17:42.492 --> 01:18:03.150
[SPEAKER_01]: Nido did his end trip, and he came out and honestly, this was the best part of the match, and I Kind of awful to hate like that But when Nido came out the students don't like the in the the home in the crowd and him and you didn't even need though The the startup music or anything like that it was just

01:18:03.620 --> 01:18:05.062
[SPEAKER_01]: He just came out.

01:18:05.122 --> 01:18:05.863
[SPEAKER_01]: He did the smile.

01:18:05.944 --> 01:18:06.244
[SPEAKER_01]: I did.

01:18:06.384 --> 01:18:07.406
[SPEAKER_01]: I had video.

01:18:07.426 --> 01:18:08.608
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just off the ramp.

01:18:09.008 --> 01:18:12.413
[SPEAKER_01]: So I could see him coming around the corner and then walking down the stage.

01:18:12.754 --> 01:18:19.644
[SPEAKER_01]: So while you guys also saw that camera kind of like the HD right on front, I was watching him from the side view.

01:18:19.684 --> 01:18:26.775
[SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of knew that it was all, it was all vibe because the show kind of fell.

01:18:27.312 --> 01:18:30.997
[SPEAKER_01]: frankly, like, work rate wasn't the priority.

01:18:31.017 --> 01:18:37.244
[SPEAKER_01]: It was vibe and setting up stuff and just getting reactions from people, a lot of it was the show.

01:18:38.285 --> 01:18:42.671
[SPEAKER_01]: And night it was not great in the match.

01:18:42.711 --> 01:18:44.173
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't even involved in the finish.

01:18:44.193 --> 01:18:54.265
[SPEAKER_01]: It was actually Bushi and Marathoo G that ended up being a part

01:18:55.190 --> 01:18:59.277
[SPEAKER_01]: Night of probably going to be challenging for the GHG title.

01:18:59.457 --> 01:19:04.346
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was thinking it would have been night over to go Goa at some point this year.

01:19:04.366 --> 01:19:09.975
[SPEAKER_01]: And it may still be, but if not going to be any time soon, because Goa didn't win in the main event.

01:19:10.293 --> 01:19:25.365
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was just one of those night-o can be there to put some of the younger guys over in a way that Ken Ta and Suzuki and they're all in Noah right now, they don't quite have that cachet so it'll be interesting to see what they do with them.

01:19:26.037 --> 01:19:34.688
[SPEAKER_01]: NIDO is exactly what you would expect him to be after six months off and, you know, he's not what he was.

01:19:35.509 --> 01:19:44.320
[SPEAKER_01]: And if he had been to the guy to retire Tana Hashi, I'm not sure that match would have been any good, but I am glad that he is finding work.

01:19:44.340 --> 01:19:47.243
[SPEAKER_01]: I am glad that Noah seems to be a good fit for him.

01:19:47.744 --> 01:19:53.631
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope that they have a good plan that

01:19:54.168 --> 01:20:03.165
[SPEAKER_00]: and claiming shark mentioned that no a book this for night oh's entrance and that was what really was about at the end of the day and and you're right that that was an entrance match because

01:20:03.533 --> 01:20:14.386
[SPEAKER_00]: If you think town of Hashi's knees are shot, you haven't seen Naomi Chimara Fuji, who used to be an outstanding worker and just can't do much anymore.

01:20:14.866 --> 01:20:24.698
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the parts where Mara Fuji and Naito were in together were painful to watch, because they're both very unsteady on their knees.

01:20:24.678 --> 01:20:27.964
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't really properly base off of one another.

01:20:28.004 --> 01:20:31.010
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't really run and there were some awkward moments.

01:20:31.050 --> 01:20:34.456
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Bush, you can still work and Kenno still works.

01:20:34.536 --> 01:20:43.012
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though Kenno's about the same age as everybody else, I mean, everybody in this match about 40, some years old, but Naito and Marifus, you had a lot more miles in their body than the other two.

01:20:43.152 --> 01:20:45.977
[SPEAKER_00]: And Kenno and Bush, he made it what they could make it.

01:20:45.957 --> 01:20:54.431
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the end, Bushy misted Marifuji during a roll-up, so the Marifuji was disoriented from the mist and that's how he got pin.

01:20:54.832 --> 01:20:57.657
[SPEAKER_00]: So now, Bushy and Naito are the GHC tag team champions.

01:20:57.797 --> 01:20:58.879
[SPEAKER_00]: So they're coming back.

01:20:58.939 --> 01:21:00.442
[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't a one-off.

01:21:00.582 --> 01:21:05.350
[SPEAKER_00]: Naito and Bushy are going to be on Noah's shows going forward as the tag team champions.

01:21:05.330 --> 01:21:09.580
[SPEAKER_00]: And interesting to note, Jeremy, like you said, he got nitro chance, he was a star.

01:21:09.901 --> 01:21:12.107
[SPEAKER_00]: He did not come out to the star dust music.

01:21:12.628 --> 01:21:17.500
[SPEAKER_00]: That said, a lot to me about this because the next match.

01:21:17.615 --> 01:21:43.167
[SPEAKER_00]: was Karoma, who Romutaka Hashi, defending the GHC Junior Heavyweight title against Amaxa, with his new Japan music, which means, of course, the obvious thing is that there's no long-term conspiracy going on here, is that Haromo is there with the cooperation of new Japan and nighto ain't, because he's not allowed to use star dust, because you know he would have if he could have.

01:21:43.147 --> 01:21:46.432
[SPEAKER_00]: And Heromo is using his, uh, New Japan music one.

01:21:46.452 --> 01:21:47.654
[SPEAKER_00]: Not quite as amicable.

01:21:48.515 --> 01:21:49.296
[SPEAKER_00]: Not as amicable.

01:21:49.496 --> 01:21:51.219
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's no departure for Heromo.

01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:54.023
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is looking like it's a full departure for nights.

01:21:54.143 --> 01:21:57.388
[SPEAKER_01]: I would wonder if they were going to do something like between the end of it.

01:21:57.408 --> 01:22:00.252
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they really budded up against each other on the show.

01:22:00.632 --> 01:22:01.273
[SPEAKER_01]: They shouldn't.

01:22:01.954 --> 01:22:02.055
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:22:02.075 --> 01:22:06.521
[SPEAKER_01]: They even did, you know, the, the, the, the thing going on.

01:22:06.641 --> 01:22:11.348
[SPEAKER_01]: And go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:22:11.328 --> 01:22:12.790
[SPEAKER_01]: The L.I.J.

01:22:12.890 --> 01:22:23.662
[SPEAKER_01]: fifth bump and I'm like, it would be really cool for him who came out and did it with them before he went to the ring and I was kind of hoping that they did, but instead they just settled for a picture backstage when they were together.

01:22:23.682 --> 01:22:30.751
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just about to say there was a picture that her room who put up on a social media of the three of them backstage are getting ready and but again, that was.

01:22:32.052 --> 01:22:35.496
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see if any any of that comes into play now.

01:22:36.472 --> 01:22:41.158
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, let's say, oh, Shark just mentioned the night, though, such a big star, the people will always be willing to bring him in.

01:22:41.578 --> 01:22:45.202
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still probably the biggest star in Japan at this point, especially with Tana Hashia, the equation.

01:22:45.623 --> 01:22:46.664
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're right.

01:22:46.724 --> 01:22:47.745
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, people will bring him in.

01:22:47.805 --> 01:22:49.027
[SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody has the money, too.

01:22:49.227 --> 01:22:51.650
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so, but Noah probably does.

01:22:52.231 --> 01:23:02.202
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, people forget, I forget sometimes, that the corporation behind pro wrestling, Noah, the parent company, all that, bigger than Bushy Road.

01:23:02.222 --> 01:23:03.504
[SPEAKER_00]: They have more money than Bushy Road does.

01:23:03.664 --> 01:23:06.107
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a question of how much money they want to put in Noah.

01:23:06.087 --> 01:23:12.285
[SPEAKER_00]: but they have the money to do whatever they want as far as bringing stars in if they go to the corporate partners there.

01:23:13.008 --> 01:23:18.223
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, yeah, Haromu lost the GHC Junior title to Amaksa.

01:23:18.693 --> 01:23:25.384
[SPEAKER_00]: some of his actions, though, and that social media posts afterwards indicate that he might not be done with Noah.

01:23:25.404 --> 01:23:34.259
[SPEAKER_00]: That might not have been the end of his run, just while I put it over our loss of title now, I'm going to go back to New Japan and not that there's hints that he might still be around Noah a little bit.

01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:35.441
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's invigorated him.

01:23:35.481 --> 01:23:42.593
[SPEAKER_00]: He seems to be enjoying his run and Noah Jeremy more than the stuff that he's doing in New Japan, which is not a whole lot.

01:23:42.613 --> 01:23:45.257
[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't

01:23:45.237 --> 01:24:01.069
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... but no uh... has been kind of focusing on me one there junior heavyweight tournament he won their title and uh... he gave it back to a moxa in a terrific match and those two have history going way back and things so uh... it was the best match on the show wasn't it though i'm motivated or more who motivated her own book and still work

01:24:01.775 --> 01:24:02.896
[SPEAKER_01]: Hromo, who's the best?

01:24:03.637 --> 01:24:12.648
[SPEAKER_01]: This might have been the best Roman match of in the last year for him, because he was doing tag matches and he wasn't really the focus of the best of the Super Junior, if not that.

01:24:13.188 --> 01:24:18.755
[SPEAKER_01]: This felt like Hromo, the star, put in somebody over and making that guy work for it.

01:24:19.195 --> 01:24:21.038
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Occusa, I've seen him for years.

01:24:21.398 --> 01:24:25.042
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's already one of the best juniors in Japan.

01:24:25.223 --> 01:24:30.769
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a fantastic match, far away the best match on the card.

01:24:31.441 --> 01:24:33.645
[SPEAKER_01]: could make me that it will grow by time to go to the show.

01:24:34.546 --> 01:24:36.770
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and the main event was the heavyweight time.

01:24:36.790 --> 01:24:37.911
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple more things to mention.

01:24:38.092 --> 01:24:44.442
[SPEAKER_00]: The heavyweight title match, you're sheke in Amura, who's recently back from Iran in NXT and WWE.

01:24:45.003 --> 01:24:47.327
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's been, and it's whole gimmick is that he's been Americanized.

01:24:47.347 --> 01:24:48.288
[SPEAKER_00]: He wears a cowboy hat.

01:24:48.308 --> 01:24:49.851
[SPEAKER_00]: He speaks a little English during his interviews.

01:24:50.091 --> 01:24:50.852
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's a babyface.

01:24:51.133 --> 01:24:57.583
[SPEAKER_00]: He defeated Ozawa, who was the really the top star of one of the, of the big heel faction.

01:24:57.563 --> 01:25:05.953
[SPEAKER_00]: the team 2,000 acts and he but he beat Osawa a good match 21 minutes and 18 seconds as I was hurt for part of the year.

01:25:06.457 --> 01:25:15.594
[SPEAKER_00]: Alfa Wolf and Dragonbane had a match for the national title, they've been a tag team for a long time and have been an excellent team, but they've split up.

01:25:15.994 --> 01:25:20.723
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also worth mentioning earlier on the show, we had Minoru Suzuki.

01:25:20.863 --> 01:25:21.384
[SPEAKER_00]: He was in there.

01:25:22.306 --> 01:25:25.251
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of his things was arguing with one of his teammates because of Yuki Fujita.

01:25:26.193 --> 01:25:28.397
[SPEAKER_00]: And we also had Kenta.

01:25:28.377 --> 01:25:46.116
[SPEAKER_01]: was on an early eight man tag on the show as well as all of the all the kenta and the khuzuki they all they're all on team that i feel like did a lot to put over their opponent i don't remember who won the khuzuki match i kind of think

01:25:46.535 --> 01:25:47.136
[SPEAKER_01]: They did.

01:25:47.496 --> 01:25:51.782
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the one where no, they Suzuki was on the losing side.

01:25:51.802 --> 01:25:53.183
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the one where they're really good over.

01:25:53.564 --> 01:25:56.508
[SPEAKER_00]: Kira Mia, who ended up becoming a challenge.

01:25:56.628 --> 01:25:57.329
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

01:25:57.349 --> 01:25:58.170
[SPEAKER_00]: The title the answer.

01:25:58.550 --> 01:26:00.513
[SPEAKER_00]: He looked like a monster in that match.

01:26:00.533 --> 01:26:02.796
[SPEAKER_01]: Then came back after a challenge talking.

01:26:02.816 --> 01:26:12.508
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the new top stable apparently because the team 2000 and that's an in that Alpha Wolf Dragon band where their brother, if in wrestling with each other,

01:26:12.877 --> 01:26:23.123
[SPEAKER_01]: crotch dragon bean and join that team and remove the old mask, put on a new mask, and look see, I think I have it here.

01:26:24.436 --> 01:26:45.559
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, he turned heel basically on his brother and that that was one of the better tag teams in Japan, by the way, that that team Alpha Wolf and Dragon Bay and there are excellent brother tag team from Mexico and yeah, as you can see here, there's the one he's got a new black black and white mask with the you know the teeth drawn on to it and it's supposed to look like a big monster and he's now a heel there.

01:26:45.659 --> 01:26:49.043
[SPEAKER_00]: So that that team right there that that faction.

01:26:49.023 --> 01:26:54.068
[SPEAKER_00]: that team 2000x will still be in the main event picture because Kittamia has turned heel and joined it.

01:26:54.488 --> 01:26:59.492
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the next guy up for in a more apparently as they go to look to rebuild those Iowa in some way.

01:27:00.013 --> 01:27:07.740
[SPEAKER_01]: They're come due to that on Reddit that have been advocating for Lord Yoshitalk who to be a top guy in Japan for a while.

01:27:08.100 --> 01:27:13.125
[SPEAKER_01]: And I felt like this big moment will for him Yoshitalk who was all over this show.

01:27:13.265 --> 01:27:19.030
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the former former former the former guy for

01:27:19.010 --> 01:27:22.757
[SPEAKER_00]: He took the styles clash wrong, took to set the wrong way.

01:27:23.258 --> 01:27:27.767
[SPEAKER_00]: So speaking of broke his neck a little bit, not a little bit, but he was hurt badly by that.

01:27:28.789 --> 01:27:33.338
[SPEAKER_00]: Minor, like, yeah, yeah, again, not interesting thing.

01:27:33.378 --> 01:27:36.023
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to cast a spurs just kind of went wrong.

01:27:36.003 --> 01:27:37.425
[SPEAKER_00]: It just kind of went wrong.

01:27:37.965 --> 01:27:39.667
[SPEAKER_00]: An accident in the ring and got hurt.

01:27:39.707 --> 01:27:42.070
[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's a heal manager and seems to be a pretty decent one.

01:27:42.150 --> 01:27:44.032
[SPEAKER_00]: A Jordan from Canada, by the way, I want to mention you.

01:27:45.053 --> 01:27:46.534
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, bless you guys to your content.

01:27:46.574 --> 01:27:46.915
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

01:27:47.235 --> 01:27:48.556
[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent interview with Dave Meltzer.

01:27:48.576 --> 01:27:50.178
[SPEAKER_00]: It really preached I was a fun show.

01:27:50.198 --> 01:27:55.164
[SPEAKER_00]: And the staff at Tana Hashie went to the same prestigious school as the inventor of Cup Noodle was amazing.

01:27:55.184 --> 01:27:55.844
[SPEAKER_00]: Stephen, thank you.

01:27:55.864 --> 01:27:56.625
[SPEAKER_00]: I was proud of that one too.

01:27:56.645 --> 01:27:57.927
[SPEAKER_00]: Jordan, thank you so much.

01:27:57.947 --> 01:27:58.507
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Jordan.

01:27:58.547 --> 01:27:59.308
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that.

01:28:00.189 --> 01:28:05.875
[SPEAKER_00]: We really appreciate all the feedback we've gotten off of that and that you guys have supported it so much because we had a blast doing that one.

01:28:05.855 --> 01:28:08.220
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Dave said he had a blast.

01:28:08.240 --> 01:28:10.425
[SPEAKER_01]: He told me after the fact that you really enjoyed the show.

01:28:10.786 --> 01:28:13.331
[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't have to get a chance to tell you that.

01:28:13.391 --> 01:28:23.172
[SPEAKER_01]: But when we watch the AEW paper, he mentioned it in a number of times that he was very, very much out of your time with us.

01:28:23.337 --> 01:28:23.898
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad.

01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:25.261
[SPEAKER_00]: It really makes me happy too.

01:28:25.381 --> 01:28:27.685
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, so that was the Noah show.

01:28:27.745 --> 01:28:31.973
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think said a lot of New Japan former New Japan guys like Kentham and Orozutsuki.

01:28:32.253 --> 01:28:33.496
[SPEAKER_00]: The good brothers on the show.

01:28:33.836 --> 01:28:39.266
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw Doc Gallows and Carl Anderson, of course a team that has held titles in New Japan before as well.

01:28:39.286 --> 01:28:40.488
[SPEAKER_00]: What was their match like Jeremy?

01:28:41.069 --> 01:28:42.272
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that?

01:28:42.292 --> 01:28:43.033
[SPEAKER_00]: The good brothers.

01:28:43.857 --> 01:28:45.680
[SPEAKER_01]: So probably the third best match on the show.

01:28:46.421 --> 01:28:48.444
[SPEAKER_01]: They were there with their work and bootcon.

01:28:49.004 --> 01:28:55.033
[SPEAKER_01]: If somebody were, I mean, I might not have predicted, you know, Magic Killer on Jack Morris seemed like the play here.

01:28:55.133 --> 01:28:56.936
[SPEAKER_01]: And that looks exactly what it was.

01:28:56.976 --> 01:28:59.419
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks Magic Killer on Jack Morris.

01:28:59.980 --> 01:29:08.953
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was surprised if Nido and Bushy lost the title to those guys at some point, so that they don't have to put over any of the,

01:29:08.933 --> 01:29:12.299
[SPEAKER_01]: younger talent that they don't want to and they still get the pop for winning the titles.

01:29:12.840 --> 01:29:19.170
[SPEAKER_01]: The a magic killer on bushy did not, would not shock me for a title change down the line.

01:29:20.432 --> 01:29:22.956
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't particularly care for the good brothers.

01:29:22.976 --> 01:29:27.624
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll have a confuno social media with Mike Gilbert about the fact that I came to Japan to see the good brothers.

01:29:28.866 --> 01:29:32.292
[SPEAKER_01]: With that said, I think them being here.

01:29:32.272 --> 01:29:33.594
[SPEAKER_01]: is the right play.

01:29:33.995 --> 01:29:41.789
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're just big enough stars that they add to the product without a revolt from, I don't know, New Japan fans, and don't want to see them.

01:29:42.410 --> 01:29:48.581
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, AEW, who's originally burned and all that stuff, no one seemed quite the right play.

01:29:49.703 --> 01:29:55.613
[SPEAKER_00]: So here's what's coming up in the reason that Noah is a company where

01:29:55.981 --> 01:29:57.885
[SPEAKER_00]: almost no one is in their prime.

01:29:58.205 --> 01:29:59.407
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the biggest issue with Noah.

01:29:59.467 --> 01:30:00.549
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they drew a good house today.

01:30:00.630 --> 01:30:01.671
[SPEAKER_00]: They drew a good house today.

01:30:01.692 --> 01:30:03.695
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope they're able to do things going forward.

01:30:04.797 --> 01:30:11.730
[SPEAKER_00]: Dragobaine, Alpha Wolf, Osawa, even in Amuro, though, in Amuro's in his 30s, you know, the company needs a breath of fresh air.

01:30:12.572 --> 01:30:16.639
[SPEAKER_00]: And the issue with Noah has been that you either start there.

01:30:17.007 --> 01:30:25.638
[SPEAKER_00]: Or your career is winding down there, but you're not not that many people are there in their prime as it stands right now over the last couple of years as a lot of their stars have.

01:30:26.559 --> 01:30:37.914
[SPEAKER_00]: Aged through quite frankly, you know, Mara Fuji used to be great now he really can't move that well anymore and a lot of these guys are in their 40s they put their ages up on the which I don't know if I do any more if I were them.

01:30:38.054 --> 01:30:43.842
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's it's a little nerve wrecking out, but that same thing's true with New Japan sometimes right a lot of guys that are too old to.

01:30:43.822 --> 01:31:00.312
[SPEAKER_01]: Jum, not a lot of young sounds, but the end of the show with the Kittamia stuff and and Emma, so the one thing that I thought baffling through this entire show is that I do kind of one of their big songs, but if you want to show and you've never like,

01:31:00.292 --> 01:31:01.454
[SPEAKER_01]: No, New Japan.

01:31:01.874 --> 01:31:15.133
[SPEAKER_01]: You would not think Kenna was one of their biggest stars for that and on this show and I thought that was one of the biggest misses and I'll partly wondering if Kenna want to play out, you know, I mean, he lost the tag here.

01:31:15.153 --> 01:31:15.994
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's here's what happened.

01:31:16.014 --> 01:31:18.257
[SPEAKER_00]: He lost the tag team titles to Bushy and nighto.

01:31:18.277 --> 01:31:20.881
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you want to do something with nighto while you got him.

01:31:21.181 --> 01:31:21.642
[SPEAKER_00]: Fine.

01:31:21.622 --> 01:31:22.323
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

01:31:22.643 --> 01:31:23.484
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he comes out.

01:31:23.824 --> 01:31:25.466
[SPEAKER_00]: He's called out by Inamura.

01:31:25.486 --> 01:31:33.355
[SPEAKER_00]: So Inamura beats Ozawa and then he says, I'm going to name my next challenger and I name Kenno and Kenno comes out.

01:31:33.715 --> 01:31:35.177
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's just like, a little like, what?

01:31:35.497 --> 01:31:36.038
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:31:36.058 --> 01:31:37.680
[SPEAKER_00]: Like really, you know, that whole thing.

01:31:37.880 --> 01:31:41.103
[SPEAKER_00]: And even the English language now, Stu Fulton was on the call, which is great.

01:31:41.143 --> 01:31:42.064
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the best English language.

01:31:42.144 --> 01:31:42.765
[SPEAKER_00]: That was for Japan.

01:31:43.226 --> 01:31:45.368
[SPEAKER_00]: And he came out there and, uh,

01:31:45.348 --> 01:31:49.312
[SPEAKER_00]: He was talking about how, well, one door closes another one opens for Kenna when here it is.

01:31:49.372 --> 01:32:04.405
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, just as he starts getting in the ring to accept this challenge from Indomora, he's attacked by Kitamiya, who won the match earlier in the night and gets beaten, just knocked down, dragged out, beat up, you know, and he's dismissed and he's like, the guy lost the match earlier.

01:32:04.625 --> 01:32:06.207
[SPEAKER_00]: And he comes out and gets pumped together.

01:32:06.307 --> 01:32:09.830
[SPEAKER_01]: While the promo happening, I'm like, he's not even involved in this.

01:32:09.850 --> 01:32:11.612
[SPEAKER_01]: Why did you bring him out?

01:32:11.632 --> 01:32:15.355
[SPEAKER_01]: He likes weird.

01:32:15.335 --> 01:32:26.374
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, maybe there's going to be a thing where Kenno and Kenna meet me to get to in a more, I don't know, but it was weird.

01:32:26.434 --> 01:32:29.259
[SPEAKER_01]: No, because I was like, this doesn't make any sense.

01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:35.529
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just watching it like, but they're really behind in a mirror and they're not there on Okawa yet, but it's clear they're going there.

01:32:35.830 --> 01:32:36.651
[SPEAKER_01]: Okawa was.

01:32:37.863 --> 01:32:46.000
[SPEAKER_01]: A very charismatic individual, but I thought it was kind of a choice to spend the first 15 minutes with, you know, running around the ring and doing like

01:32:47.043 --> 01:32:50.146
[SPEAKER_01]: like killing time into actually having a match?

01:32:50.166 --> 01:32:58.794
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and the other, and that's part of his personas that just kind of not knows, almost in Gobernobly inspired type of nonchalance and things.

01:32:58.814 --> 01:33:02.337
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's, you know, that's kind of his character in that.

01:33:02.377 --> 01:33:02.878
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a heal.

01:33:02.978 --> 01:33:15.970
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's strange that I'll say this though, the all Japan New Year's show, New Year's Eve show, Dream Queen

01:33:15.950 --> 01:33:17.472
[SPEAKER_00]: like those other shows to see.

01:33:17.793 --> 01:33:21.639
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, Noah was included in your wrestling universe package.

01:33:21.659 --> 01:33:22.320
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and watch it.

01:33:22.480 --> 01:33:24.042
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not telling you not to watch it.

01:33:24.062 --> 01:33:26.867
[SPEAKER_00]: Dream, Queen, was a temporary ratification.

01:33:26.887 --> 01:33:27.808
[SPEAKER_00]: Much better wrestling.

01:33:28.289 --> 01:33:31.574
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the New Year's Eve show from all Japan was much better wrestling.

01:33:31.594 --> 01:33:32.836
[SPEAKER_00]: Flaming Shark on a hasn't nailed.

01:33:32.856 --> 01:33:37.843
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, uh, Noah has their guys and the old guys were they bringing in the New Japan is an interested in anymore.

01:33:38.164 --> 01:33:38.825
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of it.

01:33:39.205 --> 01:33:41.569
[SPEAKER_01]: They do have without the show that I saw.

01:33:41.735 --> 01:33:45.919
[SPEAKER_00]: Odashima is a young guy early on the card for Noah that's got a lot of potential.

01:33:46.079 --> 01:33:51.605
[SPEAKER_00]: So look for him to join somebody else and then Jordan from Canada matches.

01:33:51.645 --> 01:33:52.706
[SPEAKER_00]: I like Noah's presentation.

01:33:52.766 --> 01:33:54.227
[SPEAKER_00]: The white and green look really clean.

01:33:54.728 --> 01:34:09.582
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so.

01:34:09.562 --> 01:34:12.145
[SPEAKER_00]: DDT has a big one, so everybody's in town.

01:34:12.205 --> 01:34:13.447
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's doing their big shows.

01:34:14.228 --> 01:34:16.591
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I mean, that's what's coming up this week.

01:34:16.631 --> 01:34:18.834
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to talk about a lot of that.

01:34:19.354 --> 01:34:30.068
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, probably talk about those other shows a little bit more next Thursday.

01:34:30.048 --> 01:34:34.055
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to do our show right after rest of the fallout from it.

01:34:34.156 --> 01:34:38.544
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're going to do our show right after rest of the weekend.

01:34:38.884 --> 01:34:39.926
[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll be done when we're done.

01:34:39.946 --> 01:34:41.249
[SPEAKER_01]: It might just be a 45-minute show.

01:34:41.309 --> 01:34:42.912
[SPEAKER_01]: We might talk an hour and a half.

01:34:42.932 --> 01:34:43.212
[SPEAKER_01]: Bruno.

01:34:43.553 --> 01:34:44.475
[SPEAKER_01]: He's fine.

01:34:44.775 --> 01:34:45.096
[SPEAKER_00]: He's fine.

01:34:45.116 --> 01:34:46.318
[SPEAKER_01]: He's fine.

01:34:46.298 --> 01:34:52.608
[SPEAKER_00]: and Brad mentioned start him as two shows on the third and afternoon and an evening show that apparently no one can get into.

01:34:52.868 --> 01:34:53.449
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is.

01:34:53.469 --> 01:34:56.654
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a 100th place out of them Brad rolled out.

01:34:57.035 --> 01:35:02.704
[SPEAKER_01]: They're 45,000 people here and they scaled two start-up shows for 1200 people total.

01:35:03.022 --> 01:35:04.664
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean the buildings are all packed.

01:35:04.684 --> 01:35:06.105
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't get into Corrican this week.

01:35:06.246 --> 01:35:07.927
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two shows a day in Corrican.

01:35:08.027 --> 01:35:14.094
[SPEAKER_01]: I went ahead of time and I bought all these tickets and I thought if I could be so many people here, then we'll get the ticket.

01:35:14.114 --> 01:35:14.695
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll come there.

01:35:15.315 --> 01:35:16.837
[SPEAKER_01]: So I bought my three tickets.

01:35:16.857 --> 01:35:20.161
[SPEAKER_01]: I booted on Corrican and a Tokyo dome.

01:35:20.181 --> 01:35:22.824
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it was really, it wasn't about the promotion.

01:35:22.844 --> 01:35:25.907
[SPEAKER_01]: It was about the opportunity to be in these buildings.

01:35:25.887 --> 01:35:27.129
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well put.

01:35:27.149 --> 01:35:28.151
[SPEAKER_00]: So you've been to Budakon.

01:35:28.311 --> 01:35:29.813
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to go to Corken.

01:35:29.833 --> 01:35:30.534
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to go there.

01:35:30.555 --> 01:35:34.501
[SPEAKER_00]: It really only sumo halls left for anybody and just like Budakon's the only one left for me.

01:35:34.841 --> 01:35:43.215
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, Alex Windsor, like Alex Windsor, Ms. Osprey is making her shows, making her debut on those shows as well for startup.

01:35:43.235 --> 01:35:44.136
[SPEAKER_00]: That's that's pretty cool.

01:35:44.216 --> 01:35:45.178
[SPEAKER_00]: I like Alex Windsor.

01:35:45.158 --> 01:35:45.519
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:35:45.539 --> 01:35:48.163
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to do our lightning round last minute.

01:35:48.183 --> 01:35:50.067
[SPEAKER_01]: Thought about each of the match it for Reckless Kingdom.

01:35:51.209 --> 01:35:51.389
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:35:51.409 --> 01:35:52.330
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I guess we could.

01:35:52.371 --> 01:35:55.276
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I feel like we've talked about the show to death.

01:35:56.037 --> 01:35:58.381
[SPEAKER_00]: Coming into it, but let's take a look.

01:35:58.561 --> 01:36:05.393
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've got of course the kickoff match is listed right now as L Fantasma versus Chris Brooks for the TV title.

01:36:05.654 --> 01:36:08.719
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that could be a change if Chris Brooks was taking around.

01:36:08.699 --> 01:36:13.424
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and then I have the never open weight six man tag team championship tornado rhombo.

01:36:14.025 --> 01:36:19.632
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, this is, uh, to Keshe Kai's, Keshe is good, Keshe, the Keshe Kai's is going to be there.

01:36:19.692 --> 01:36:22.795
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a, uh, DDT or not a DDT guys.

01:36:22.815 --> 01:36:23.216
[SPEAKER_00]: DDT?

01:36:23.356 --> 01:36:24.497
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, DDT and Popstar too.

01:36:25.098 --> 01:36:28.081
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, of course, the tag champs are Watson, Yo and Yano.

01:36:28.101 --> 01:36:31.766
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Kai's there for a little bit of attention from mainstream media.

01:36:32.286 --> 01:36:33.948
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, uh, yeah, what can you say?

01:36:33.968 --> 01:36:35.550
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got, uh,

01:36:36.307 --> 01:36:49.325
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the teams that make the most sense to me, Oleg, Yoshihashi and Godo are real strong contenders to win this thing and I'm trying to take a look at who else looks like they could possibly be it.

01:36:49.545 --> 01:36:54.953
[SPEAKER_01]: Any one of the team could potentially win, minus you know, I alter in court corners.

01:36:55.013 --> 01:36:58.838
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they all have, you know,

01:36:58.818 --> 01:37:04.763
[SPEAKER_01]: an argument, you know, tiger mask, maybe having one more run with a belt, just for a short period of time.

01:37:05.184 --> 01:37:07.806
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't expect it, but I don't rule it out.

01:37:08.226 --> 01:37:18.836
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyone on the top row of this image with Yano, Youn, Wado, or Umano, Nui, Mura, and Takeshi, or Gato, Yoshihoshi, Bolton, or Zack, and OU and Jack, and any one of those teams could win.

01:37:19.176 --> 01:37:28.825
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the penultimate, let's get it

01:37:28.805 --> 01:37:30.487
[SPEAKER_01]: get matter to it.

01:37:30.547 --> 01:37:30.767
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:37:32.069 --> 01:37:41.019
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yeah, I think we're going to see that, uh, yeah, Chi-Sai really be featured right there, and it's, uh, somebody that they're excited about having on the show.

01:37:41.099 --> 01:37:45.945
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm featuring again on national television for the first time in the rest of Kingdom era.

01:37:45.965 --> 01:37:47.486
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's going to matter to them.

01:37:47.506 --> 01:37:52.252
[SPEAKER_00]: Second match of the main show is going to be the first of two, uh, title versus title matches.

01:37:52.592 --> 01:37:56.837
[SPEAKER_00]: IWGP women and strong women's double championship match.

01:37:56.817 --> 01:38:02.283
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, world of startup title, not online, it's the strong title versus the IWGP title.

01:38:02.523 --> 01:38:09.811
[SPEAKER_00]: My guess is these are gonna be merged into one afterwards and we're not gonna bother with too anymore, but sure, versus Sia, Kamatani.

01:38:10.331 --> 01:38:22.504
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, if it's given time, we think they will because they like to feature Kamatani that this will be, I think Kamatani's gonna win and I think they're gonna get a decent amount of time and could end up being one of the best things we see on by.

01:38:23.547 --> 01:38:24.168
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you.

01:38:24.228 --> 01:38:27.112
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she won the Tokyo Sports MVP.

01:38:27.392 --> 01:38:28.253
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, a comment on it.

01:38:28.273 --> 01:38:33.219
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, this is the definition of a spotlight match.

01:38:33.239 --> 01:38:41.330
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, let's make sure that these two get as much time as they need and look below the crowd away.

01:38:42.111 --> 01:38:42.912
[SPEAKER_01]: Work for me, man.

01:38:43.112 --> 01:38:44.053
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here for it.

01:38:44.185 --> 01:38:47.332
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's going to be a lot of a lot of headlines earlier in this one.

01:38:47.352 --> 01:38:49.015
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to hit the ground running in that match.

01:38:49.035 --> 01:38:52.523
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a sprint match however long it goes because they're going to want to get all of everything in.

01:38:53.044 --> 01:38:55.249
[SPEAKER_00]: Third match is a 10 man tag.

01:38:55.289 --> 01:38:57.373
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the unafiliated war dogs thing.

01:38:57.433 --> 01:38:59.578
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been hearing all the rumors about.

01:38:59.558 --> 01:39:02.061
[SPEAKER_00]: Some words might be out the door, some might not.

01:39:02.161 --> 01:39:05.985
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know yet, which is why I think, again, they've been in this holding pattern for most of the year.

01:39:06.365 --> 01:39:16.476
[SPEAKER_00]: And Roman took a Hashie, Drillamoloni, Gabe Kid, David Finlay, Shingo Takagi on one side against the United Empire team of Hinaray, returning after a long absence after that injury.

01:39:16.496 --> 01:39:18.238
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a calumnumment, yeah, absolutely.

01:39:18.258 --> 01:39:19.459
[SPEAKER_00]: So happy to have him back.

01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:20.720
[SPEAKER_00]: And Great O'Con.

01:39:20.740 --> 01:39:27.287
[SPEAKER_00]: We also know that Andrade El Idleo is on the United Empire side,

01:39:28.195 --> 01:39:39.448
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy, I loved your theory that you have that on Dr. L. Edelowe is there to needle to hurt the unaffiliated team because he is one of the original ingo Bernabla's before even night.

01:39:39.468 --> 01:39:39.869
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, right.

01:39:39.929 --> 01:39:46.397
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the ingo Bernabla's were a CMLL faction before they were day hop on that branch of it even opened up.

01:39:46.437 --> 01:39:50.922
[SPEAKER_00]: And he was one of the originals with Russian such that he's there to hurt that side of it.

01:39:51.483 --> 01:39:57.510
[SPEAKER_00]: And you feel like this could very well be Jake Lee or somebody like that to hurt the

01:39:57.490 --> 01:40:01.735
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a second name for that, if it's not a jake-lead.

01:40:02.055 --> 01:40:03.216
[SPEAKER_01]: Who?

01:40:03.236 --> 01:40:06.720
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you think about Carl Frederick?

01:40:06.740 --> 01:40:08.242
[SPEAKER_00]: Carl Frederick's interesting.

01:40:08.342 --> 01:40:09.604
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that could be interesting.

01:40:09.624 --> 01:40:10.885
[SPEAKER_01]: Never a part of Bullet Club.

01:40:10.945 --> 01:40:14.029
[SPEAKER_01]: You left before they did the war dog thing.

01:40:14.749 --> 01:40:19.835
[SPEAKER_01]: But it does make a little bit of Doug's and you can't roll it out.

01:40:20.336 --> 01:40:21.077
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it does.

01:40:21.217 --> 01:40:25.101
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, to me, I think you're like,

01:40:25.992 --> 01:40:27.856
[SPEAKER_00]: that's a bit of a let down as an ex again.

01:40:29.039 --> 01:40:31.323
[SPEAKER_00]: I was not on the Carl Fredrick's bus.

01:40:31.504 --> 01:40:36.535
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I saw when he was Eddie Thorpe, I didn't, I just don't see it at a high level for him.

01:40:36.555 --> 01:40:41.385
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, Jim, you know, he might be just people.

01:40:41.365 --> 01:40:43.187
[SPEAKER_01]: everyone in their mother of leaving Newt Japan.

01:40:43.627 --> 01:40:50.334
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, like Sean Rothsap has two avenues in Newt Japan.

01:40:50.354 --> 01:41:05.489
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like he got Rocky and he's got the LA Dojo guys and all those LA Dojo guys have it's email and if Gevergreen December January all the guys in that want their that wanted out there.

01:41:05.910 --> 01:41:07.972
[SPEAKER_00]: We said their contracts are up and they're looking at options.

01:41:08.052 --> 01:41:10.174
[SPEAKER_00]: That

01:41:10.576 --> 01:41:13.702
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, um, my contract might be up here with be hit strong.

01:41:13.762 --> 01:41:14.904
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll all look at my options.

01:41:15.265 --> 01:41:16.508
[SPEAKER_01]: Mine's talking mean I'm going anywhere.

01:41:17.570 --> 01:41:17.970
[SPEAKER_01]: Mine too.

01:41:18.652 --> 01:41:25.084
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, uh, and I feel like it flaming sharks as I feel like after I'm on dry day, it's going to be bigger than Fredericks, which is regardless of what you think of him.

01:41:25.104 --> 01:41:27.128
[SPEAKER_00]: Jake Lee is a bigger reveal than Carl Fredericks.

01:41:27.148 --> 01:41:27.589
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:41:27.620 --> 01:41:32.711
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but, you know, and it all depends on if Jake's ready to come back or once to come back and all that stuff, of course.

01:41:33.353 --> 01:41:36.780
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it's like AJ style or Jay White or anything like that.

01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:38.785
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Carl Frittics would be a bit of a thud.

01:41:38.805 --> 01:41:42.473
[SPEAKER_00]: It would almost feel like a debut because he never really

01:41:43.111 --> 01:41:46.096
[SPEAKER_00]: came back from excursion in a meaningful way to New Japan.

01:41:46.116 --> 01:41:51.023
[SPEAKER_00]: It would almost feel like this guy's back and like the whole Eddie for a thing that they would like to lean into the meta.

01:41:51.103 --> 01:41:54.769
[SPEAKER_01]: If they were to do it, we're going to click, oh, yeah, this guy left before he got a chance.

01:41:55.069 --> 01:41:59.256
[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's angry at all the people who didn't like, who held him back kind of thing.

01:41:59.676 --> 01:42:05.305
[SPEAKER_01]: And United Empire is, I don't know, like, you can make it work.

01:42:05.325 --> 01:42:11.194
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you that it is not as dynamic or exciting if some of the other options.

01:42:12.592 --> 01:42:15.582
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not here to predict exactly who it is.

01:42:15.984 --> 01:42:23.209
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here to raise the possibility of who it could be so that other people can decide who they think it might be.

01:42:23.594 --> 01:42:26.717
[SPEAKER_00]: After that, we have the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

01:42:26.817 --> 01:42:28.699
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one contenders four way match.

01:42:28.719 --> 01:42:30.862
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a very strange match that I've been this show.

01:42:31.202 --> 01:42:32.583
[SPEAKER_00]: Although the action will be fantastic.

01:42:32.784 --> 01:42:35.527
[SPEAKER_00]: Desperado, Fujada, Ishimori and show.

01:42:36.267 --> 01:42:40.692
[SPEAKER_00]: Athletically, you can't ask for four better guys in one match against each other.

01:42:40.712 --> 01:42:41.913
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to want to show up.

01:42:41.933 --> 01:42:43.735
[SPEAKER_00]: So this will be fun to watch while it happens.

01:42:44.276 --> 01:42:50.142
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, my prediction is that our Junior Heavyweight Champion Dokey will have something to do with it, whether he's

01:42:50.122 --> 01:42:53.209
[SPEAKER_00]: either helps show to win or tries to help show winners.

01:42:53.289 --> 01:42:54.692
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's involved some.

01:42:54.733 --> 01:42:56.517
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't see them having the show without him.

01:42:56.837 --> 01:43:01.628
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe maybe even an improp to junior heavyweight match right after it.

01:43:01.929 --> 01:43:05.397
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think we're going to see the champion in the dome on Sunday.

01:43:05.461 --> 01:43:20.787
[SPEAKER_01]: If we had not seen Dokey at all in the run up to the rest of looking at the road to Tokyo dome shows, I would have felt like he wasn't going to be there, but he did show up for the last three shows that that happened at Cork and including that Christmas show and so in my mind.

01:43:21.627 --> 01:43:37.948
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see a scenario where one of these guys when either food you don't or Desperado and dokie with it, I'm still the best in the world and he tried to take advantage of the tired wrestler and they get a flash pin on him.

01:43:38.873 --> 01:43:39.294
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

01:43:40.115 --> 01:43:42.439
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, crash TV 83 is with the say crash.

01:43:42.459 --> 01:43:46.045
[SPEAKER_00]: He says X will ask for a return sporting a reinforced neck brace.

01:43:46.907 --> 01:43:50.773
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to, I'm going to feel very confident that's not well be there, but you will not be there for that.

01:43:50.873 --> 01:43:51.594
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not for that.

01:43:52.015 --> 01:43:58.746
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brad mentioned this two-bed Roosha's injury because him teating him with on dry day in UE the former in Gobernobles.

01:43:58.847 --> 01:43:59.608
[SPEAKER_00]: That would have been big.

01:43:59.868 --> 01:44:00.750
[SPEAKER_00]: That would have been pretty cool.

01:44:01.171 --> 01:44:02.653
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you there, but again,

01:44:02.633 --> 01:44:05.037
[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Osprey, Rooshenk going to be wrestling.

01:44:05.057 --> 01:44:09.745
[SPEAKER_00]: And Sharks says, the Karl Frederickson, the match would have been cool, but he would have been cool to reveal earlier.

01:44:09.805 --> 01:44:10.807
[SPEAKER_00]: I also would read there.

01:44:10.827 --> 01:44:12.209
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have, but here we go.

01:44:12.550 --> 01:44:16.536
[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolfe against evil for the never-opened weight title.

01:44:17.398 --> 01:44:21.064
[SPEAKER_00]: This one we've analyzed a ton of it worked.

01:44:21.652 --> 01:44:26.437
[SPEAKER_00]: Shorten rehearsed is the way to go with this one because Wolf seems a little bit out of his depth so far.

01:44:26.497 --> 01:44:30.822
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully hopefully for New Japan's shake Sake he will shock all of us on some.

01:44:31.603 --> 01:44:43.156
[SPEAKER_01]: I I definitely hope that due to the wringer and we bend it led to believe that he didn't know after all one the ground and he come again there And he's like oh shit, this guy is so good That's how that's how that's how that's my dream.

01:44:43.656 --> 01:44:49.583
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but it may just be a dream Yeah, this is this a little this was a little spooky evil's gonna sort of kind of a little bit

01:44:50.592 --> 01:44:57.262
[SPEAKER_00]: Title versus Title, IWGP, World Heavyweight Title versus IWGP, global heavyweight title, winner comes out with both titles.

01:44:57.583 --> 01:45:01.469
[SPEAKER_00]: Can no skate to kesta against Yota Suji we've talked about it before.

01:45:01.910 --> 01:45:06.677
[SPEAKER_00]: Unless to kesta is coming in full time, there is no excuse.

01:45:06.657 --> 01:45:10.949
[SPEAKER_00]: for doing anything except crowning Yoda Suji at this event.

01:45:11.049 --> 01:45:12.493
[SPEAKER_00]: This is where it has to happen.

01:45:12.513 --> 01:45:16.925
[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I'll take is if Takeshita is leaving AEW and coming over here full time.

01:45:17.246 --> 01:45:21.898
[SPEAKER_00]: They need the champion in Japan representing this company full time.

01:45:21.878 --> 01:45:30.511
[SPEAKER_00]: If it is malpractice, if they continue with a part-time world champion in Takeshda, I hope Takeshda comes over and becomes a full-time New Japan guy.

01:45:30.732 --> 01:45:42.790
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's the guy, but not until he's full-time without that on the table, this needs to be Yoda Sushi, being crowned,

01:45:43.293 --> 01:45:48.424
[SPEAKER_01]: I ought to be honest with you, Stephen, everything in my bag that's telling me to catch enough money.

01:45:48.845 --> 01:45:49.767
[SPEAKER_01]: It makes me so nervous.

01:45:50.268 --> 01:45:51.631
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a bad decision.

01:45:51.731 --> 01:45:52.392
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:52.432 --> 01:45:53.334
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:53.394 --> 01:45:54.637
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:54.657 --> 01:45:55.138
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:55.359 --> 01:45:56.782
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:56.802 --> 01:45:57.102
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:57.122 --> 01:45:58.686
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:58.706 --> 01:45:59.327
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:45:59.307 --> 01:46:18.750
[SPEAKER_01]: And then coming and moving to Yoda Fuji a week later, unless there's Don Calus kind of shenanigans, which should not be happening on the on the show where somehow they interfere with them, I feel like that that capability, but everything about it.

01:46:18.730 --> 01:46:23.274
[SPEAKER_01]: Yoda food you talking about bringing the V4 back, you know, that they don't really have right to do.

01:46:23.975 --> 01:46:34.165
[SPEAKER_01]: All the mouth thing off that he's doing, if trying to come off, it's like a made of venture, but everything about it just made me very, very nervous.

01:46:35.046 --> 01:46:46.037
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we're talking about if we want to have any kind of a boom period, you can't do it with a champion on somebody else's TV shows.

01:46:46.321 --> 01:46:49.829
[SPEAKER_01]: thought that play that thinks it to catch this, they got to go with for now.

01:46:51.171 --> 01:46:58.828
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Fuji should win this match, but if you were to ask me my percentages, I'm 5535 to catch it winning this.

01:46:59.197 --> 01:47:28.444
[SPEAKER_00]: Crash TV has a couple of comments says Fuji that had his match with the ace ace is penultimate match to yeah it's final one in Korkhan his time is coming surely couldn't agree more I think Jose Fuji is the ace of that division he can be what Liger was for a bunch of years he could be what Hiroma was for a bunch of years I think Sky's the Limbo of Jose Fuji and I think I want to add to that crash I don't know if you saw or interview with Dave but one of the last questions I asked him point Blake was

01:47:28.424 --> 01:47:35.372
[SPEAKER_01]: not top junior top guy in five years and we all came to the content that it's very possible.

01:47:35.832 --> 01:47:36.353
[SPEAKER_01]: Very possible.

01:47:37.134 --> 01:47:42.880
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brad says the way so just talking going in a you know you bring up the V4 belts like he's setting fans up for big to catch the win.

01:47:43.461 --> 01:47:44.281
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys don't do it.

01:47:44.402 --> 01:47:44.822
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it.

01:47:44.842 --> 01:47:47.945
[SPEAKER_00]: New Japan is all of it if you're bad man.

01:47:48.166 --> 01:47:51.249
[SPEAKER_00]: All of it is just.

01:47:51.269 --> 01:47:52.070
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got the willys.

01:47:52.090 --> 01:47:53.892
[SPEAKER_01]: You're making the horse for the tree here.

01:47:54.563 --> 01:48:00.010
[SPEAKER_00]: I got the wheelies here, Jeremy, because really, I mean, there's just so much evidence that this isn't working.

01:48:00.030 --> 01:48:00.751
[SPEAKER_00]: So much evidence.

01:48:00.771 --> 01:48:01.853
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really, well, we won't go.

01:48:03.334 --> 01:48:09.683
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's objectively one of the worst business years they've had in a long time, and they can't keep making mistakes.

01:48:09.703 --> 01:48:11.085
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they have to learn from their mistakes.

01:48:11.125 --> 01:48:11.906
[SPEAKER_00]: Some point, don't they?

01:48:12.927 --> 01:48:14.089
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they do.

01:48:14.749 --> 01:48:16.732
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's going to be today though.

01:48:16.752 --> 01:48:22.900
[SPEAKER_01]: With that said, I do want to point out this I have the chance to be the best match on this card.

01:48:23.453 --> 01:48:24.655
[SPEAKER_00]: has a chance.

01:48:24.675 --> 01:48:26.318
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and then the main event, of course.

01:48:26.699 --> 01:48:30.025
[SPEAKER_00]: And a matter of fact, I think this match is the semi-main event.

01:48:30.185 --> 01:48:31.588
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we've talked about that too.

01:48:31.608 --> 01:48:36.337
[SPEAKER_00]: Hiroshi Tanahashi, versus Kazuchko, and Hiroshi Tanahashi's retirement match.

01:48:37.299 --> 01:48:39.403
[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever wins this, I don't care.

01:48:39.423 --> 01:48:42.969
[SPEAKER_00]: I just hope they play kind of the greatest hits and do what they can.

01:48:43.029 --> 01:48:45.394
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to be the classics of the past.

01:48:45.414 --> 01:48:47.217
[SPEAKER_00]: There bodies want to allow it, but

01:48:47.298 --> 01:48:49.041
[SPEAKER_00]: The nostalgia factor will be strong.

01:48:49.061 --> 01:48:57.073
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be very cool to see O'Cotta back in New Japan, but Jeremy, the main event of this show is the retirement ceremony of Hiroshi Tanahashi.

01:48:57.093 --> 01:49:06.708
[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope they go out there and do something good, something that's fun, something that hits the high points of their rivalry, some of the moves, and all that.

01:49:06.728 --> 01:49:10.073
[SPEAKER_00]: And then afterwards, have your Kleenex at the ready.

01:49:10.193 --> 01:49:11.255
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be a tear-jerker.

01:49:12.016 --> 01:49:14.520
[SPEAKER_01]: It will be a tear-jerker.

01:49:15.547 --> 01:49:24.848
[SPEAKER_01]: typically emotionally and mentally unprepared for this tonohashi event, but the

01:49:25.283 --> 01:49:26.425
[SPEAKER_01]: They're already going hard.

01:49:26.545 --> 01:49:34.295
[SPEAKER_01]: They've already advertised Omega and All Spray are going to be there for the retirement ceremony.

01:49:34.335 --> 01:49:39.242
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't announce that unless like you have big plans and big stuff.

01:49:39.262 --> 01:49:41.284
[SPEAKER_01]: This thing can go 45 minutes to it now.

01:49:41.304 --> 01:49:43.107
[SPEAKER_01]: Just on the phone like a ceremony thing.

01:49:43.407 --> 01:49:46.111
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not going to be like 10 minutes clapping.

01:49:46.171 --> 01:49:47.252
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, bye everybody.

01:49:47.292 --> 01:49:50.717
[SPEAKER_01]: This is this is going to be

01:49:50.697 --> 01:49:56.525
[SPEAKER_01]: an emotionally devastating moment for a whole lot of people with programs like that.

01:49:56.545 --> 01:50:01.812
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I would imagine that most of the roster that's not just full on 100% heal will be out there as well.

01:50:01.912 --> 01:50:12.445
[SPEAKER_00]: And we might even see some guys who are kind of heels out there kind of giving a k-fave sideways glance of respect to them.

01:50:12.485 --> 01:50:13.667
[SPEAKER_00]: That type of stuff too.

01:50:14.272 --> 01:50:15.173
[SPEAKER_00]: Holy crap, Stephen.

01:50:15.334 --> 01:50:20.723
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe we didn't have any internet issue for no hotel room for almost two hours.

01:50:20.963 --> 01:50:23.507
[SPEAKER_00]: How about props to the Tokyo dome hotel everybody for me?

01:50:23.527 --> 01:50:25.390
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't myself strong connection right there.

01:50:25.430 --> 01:50:26.071
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very nice.

01:50:26.712 --> 01:50:29.276
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Crash TV says injected into my veins.

01:50:29.297 --> 01:50:30.919
[SPEAKER_00]: Says me injected into my knees.

01:50:31.019 --> 01:50:31.560
[SPEAKER_00]: Christ.

01:50:31.700 --> 01:50:32.061
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

01:50:32.041 --> 01:50:40.070
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's something we mentioned on the Meltzer show that if if we hear about the great Japanese Cortezone shortage of 2026, we will all know what happened.

01:50:41.072 --> 01:50:44.776
[SPEAKER_00]: Might get wild with some cameos in the retirement ceremonies as well as this flaming shark.

01:50:44.796 --> 01:50:45.237
[SPEAKER_00]: You never know.

01:50:45.677 --> 01:50:47.219
[SPEAKER_00]: This could be something else.

01:50:47.299 --> 01:50:51.924
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd imagine we'll probably see some stars from the past and all that, so it's going to be a night.

01:50:51.944 --> 01:50:57.411
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be, that's going to be the emotional roller coaster of the evening to go after all that action.

01:50:57.431 --> 01:50:58.352
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.

01:50:58.332 --> 01:51:04.501
[SPEAKER_01]: and sort of reminder to everybody if you're looking for our recap show you will not be waiting until next Thursday.

01:51:04.922 --> 01:51:16.639
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be coming back the following morning or the following afternoon after not doing them airs on Sunday and we will be doing a show and we'll be talking all that.

01:51:16.659 --> 01:51:17.100
[SPEAKER_01]: So

01:51:17.080 --> 01:51:38.447
[SPEAKER_00]: Sunday at our Sunday at our regular time a Sunday at our regular time we would be right back here to talk same day in the states about the Tokyo dome show wrestling kingdom 20 we will break down every moment match by match ceremony by ceremony any surprises it will all be analyzed right here and speaking strong style it's your best best place to go to get all that

01:51:40.030 --> 01:51:41.552
[SPEAKER_00]: Even, I got stuff to do today.

01:51:41.632 --> 01:51:43.634
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that, you know, you got to get to a breedus.

01:51:43.694 --> 01:51:45.716
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to hit, you got to hit the bars, Jeremy.

01:51:45.736 --> 01:51:47.338
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you got to go shopping.

01:51:48.519 --> 01:51:50.221
[SPEAKER_00]: Red once is to make his way through the crowd.

01:51:50.241 --> 01:51:51.302
[SPEAKER_00]: We can see that.

01:51:51.322 --> 01:51:51.723
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:51:51.823 --> 01:51:55.186
[SPEAKER_00]: So with that in mind, I just want to say thank you to everybody who joined us live here.

01:51:55.226 --> 01:51:56.688
[SPEAKER_00]: The chats were a lot of fun.

01:51:57.269 --> 01:52:00.612
[SPEAKER_00]: We appreciate your comments for everybody that joined us here live.

01:52:00.652 --> 01:52:03.996
[SPEAKER_01]: And even if you didn't, I should do more show from Japan apparently.

01:52:04.752 --> 01:52:06.975
[SPEAKER_00]: And as for us, great show guys.

01:52:07.015 --> 01:52:07.395
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

01:52:07.656 --> 01:52:11.040
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been having a blast doing this stuff, leading up to this show.

01:52:11.340 --> 01:52:14.644
[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of Kingdom preparations have been a lot of fun for all of us, I think.

01:52:14.664 --> 01:52:19.590
[SPEAKER_00]: Give us a little boost of energy after a kind of a dismal year in a lot of ways, 2025.

01:52:19.890 --> 01:52:27.279
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a, there's also an interesting thing about the show on Monday or something for me.

01:52:27.820 --> 01:52:29.562
[SPEAKER_01]: This is episode 199, isn't it?

01:52:29.997 --> 01:52:33.661
[SPEAKER_00]: $1.99, our 200th episode will be $300 at the code.

01:52:33.821 --> 01:52:35.943
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be the Reflammate Reflammate.

01:52:36.044 --> 01:52:36.824
[SPEAKER_01]: Reflammate, how about that?

01:52:37.405 --> 01:52:37.946
[SPEAKER_01]: How about that?

01:52:38.146 --> 01:52:40.989
[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't plan it that way, but hey, I'm not here for it.

01:52:41.009 --> 01:52:41.630
[SPEAKER_00]: It all worked out.

01:52:42.210 --> 01:52:44.513
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so with that in mind again, thanks.

01:52:44.553 --> 01:52:48.797
[SPEAKER_00]: For those of you listening later as a podcast or watching this YouTube video later, we appreciate you too.

01:52:49.098 --> 01:52:50.659
[SPEAKER_00]: We know there's a lot of places you can spend your time.

01:52:50.779 --> 01:52:52.121
[SPEAKER_00]: We're grateful you spend it with us.

01:52:52.181 --> 01:52:53.643
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to sign off for here for now.

01:52:53.943 --> 01:52:57.827
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back on Sunday, so just a few days away from the big rest of Kingdom.

01:52:57.807 --> 01:52:59.476
[SPEAKER_00]: 20 show for Jeremy Feinstein.

01:52:59.617 --> 01:53:00.461
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Stephen Conway.

01:53:00.521 --> 01:53:04.020
[SPEAKER_00]: This has been speaking strong style and we will talk to you again real soon.