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An Assault On The Senses With LADYBEARD From BABYBEARD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  What's going on, Heavy mag Australia. It's a Lady Beard coming at you
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  through the Internet, through the web waves, through every other wave you can
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  imagine. I'm here today with my amazing friend Chris Peters. He's Crispy.
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  He's Chris Peters, He's the Chris Pasaurus. Hey, he's running this entire
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  operation and we are coming to you all right here, all right now,
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  Krispy, how are you, my man? I'm very well made. That
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  is the most energetic intro I've ever had the pleasure of sitting through. Mate,
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  Thank you, Hey, we gotta do it. Listen, listen.
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  We're here today to tell you, dear beautiful Australians, the Lady Beard is
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  coming on tour to Australia with his group Baby Beard this June and July.
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  So we all need to get a been excited Australia. We need to raise
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  raise the tempo. We're here, sir with a man in bigtails. Are
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  two adorable Japanese female That's what it's all about. And Crispy ha, thanks
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  very much. Right, So, as you say, Baby Beard hit Australia
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  for a run of shows dubbed The Adorable Assault on Australia Tour, starting in
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  Adelaide over Dune the twenty eighth, the thirtieth, and heading to Melbourne on
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  July the first and second, Sidney July the third and fifth, and finishing
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  in Brisbane on July. There's sixth. It's nice to see you finally make
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  it out here, brother, Thank you, my friend. We're big yeah
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  yeah. So this group, if you don't know, my name's Lady Beard.
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  I'm in a group called Baby Beard. It's me with two adorable Japanese
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  ladies next to me. The we're all dancing, the girls are singing,
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  I'm screaming. It's like baby metal, but with a giant bearded cross dressing
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  Aussie in the middle. That's exactly what it's like and crispy now, so
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  I come on to it, as the Christmasaurus tells you. Adelaide, Melbourne,
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  Sydney, Brisbane, it's going down. It is on my Donkey Kong.
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  The group is called Baby Beard, so it's Lady Beard. Fuss Babies
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  equals baby Beard. It's very straightforward and we're coming for you. Listen.
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  We've been trying to make this Australia to happen for a long time. We
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  put this group together in twenty twenty. We all know what happened then made
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  touring somewhat difficult. We had a plan two in twenty twenty not not happeny
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  two in twenty twenty one, not not happening twenty twenty two. Ah.
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  Three are finally twenty twenty four is the year of the Beard. Actually they've
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  changed the Chinese zodiac so it actually is officially the year of the Beard.
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  Four Australians only. So if you are in Adelaid, Belvine City, Brisbee,
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  expect to see you of the adorable assaults on Australia too, or with
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  baby beeing coming at you turn to lie. Now I've got to ask you
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  made what is going to be so adorable about your assault on Australia. Ah
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  listen, Well, first thing's first, Australia needs an assault. Let's just
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  not mix out words. I mean, if there ever were a nation that
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  just I mean the way the whole thing shaped, it's kind of like a
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  board that you throw darts at, isn't it. They're the nation needs I'm
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  assaulting, you know, out of the fact that Tasmania has broken off down
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  there. That was the beginning of the assault. But now we need to
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  complete the whole thing up. We need to break the country up into entirely
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  separate sections. So the only way to do this, the only way you
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  can efficiently, accurately, one hundred percent completely assaultanation, is with adorableness,
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  because no one wants a disgusting land. Yeah, I'm gonna assault you here.
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  There's no fine. You need to be assaulted with a little bit of
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  This's gonna be a fantastic assault. So that's what we're here for. Hey,
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  hey, Australia and your senses, we're smashing as all of yours.
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  That was yeah, and it's gonna be the best. I don't think I
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  even answered your question. I think it just made a bunch of you.
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  You need to read a roundabout way. You had a round about way you
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  did in your own beautiful way. Brother, I'm gonna have to get a
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  PR person to just write down the actual answers to these questions and send a
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  bit after late Lady Beer just gets on the camera, just just makes the
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  microphone to store. It doesn't actually tell you any information, but as entitating
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  wow, bless Yeah, thanks Chris, But hopefully hopefully I'll do it like
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  I'm not Lady bed Like even another heavy metal band, very fair cool.
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  That is quite fitting that you're starting to tour in Adelaide, which just happens
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  to be your hometown. So are you nervous about performing in front of friends
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  and family it might not have seen for a while. No, I man,
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  I'm thrilled. I'm so excited. So in Adelaide, we're performing at
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  the biggest anime convention in Adelaide, which is called Avcon. I'm not sure
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  if it is now because the whole pandemic changed everything, but it always was
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  the biggest anime convention in the Southern Hemisphere, so it was a big old
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  deal. And I've been actually trying to get onto this convention for the past
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  ten years. So I've been trying to do this convention since before I came
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  to Japan, and then once I came to Japan did well in Japan.
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  Every year we've been trying to get me on this show, and it's just
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  every year it's been, oh, a scheduled clash, or oh some logistical
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  problem or oh pandemic. So for ten years we were trying to make this
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  appearance happen. Finally it's happening. I was so happy because this happening with
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  the whole group with me and the girls, which is going to be wonderful
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  when our video package and everything that we bring to the show, and it's
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  really I'm really thrilled. Actually my parents and my friends and everyone get to
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  see me perform on this big stage and it's really going to be a good
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  time. So everyone in Adelaide, even if you're not in Adelaide, you
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  should come to Adelaide for Avcon and then see us at the other shows as
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  well. I reckon that's the best way to do it. And how long
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  has it actually been since you've toured Australia at any capacity. It's been a
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  long time. So I was at an anime convention in Sydney last year called
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  Smash, but that was just a one and done. It was just come
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  in, do the show in Sydney and then get out again. In terms
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  of touring, last time I toured the whole country was twenty eighteen, I
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  think, on the big in Japan tour. So it's been a while Between
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  drinks. Australia, I have missed you, my dear countrymen and women and
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  country others. I'm looking forward to seeing every single one of you your smiling
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  faces. Last time we had a fantastic time. But last time was just
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  me doing my solo act. So become to the shows. This time.
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  You're gonna see the whole inchalade. You're gonna see me and the girls.
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  It's gonna be a it's gonna be a theatrical spectacular. You're gonna see You're
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  gonna see Chris Peters. We're gonna put Chris Peters in a frilly skirt and
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  actually get the get that shaved twisted up into a bit of piggy tail action.
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  Maybe the Beard will pigtail the bed. He's coming on stage. He's
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  the fourth member of the group. What change of the group's name to Crispy
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  Beard. Hey, this is gonna be amazing. I'm gonna have to stay
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  home just so I can come now, no choice. For those unfamiliar with
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  the story of Lady Beard, mate like, we'll get to the girls a
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  little bit later. But for those I'm familiar with the story of Lady Beard,
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  give us a brief rontdown on how you went from Adelaide to being a
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  global superstar living in Japan. All right, listen up, Australia. Here
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  is how it happened. I'm from Adelaide. I moved to Hong Kong when
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  I was a youngest human and I was a stuntman and an actor and a
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  voice actor. And I was doing that and life was great. Then the
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  two thousand and eight financial crisis came and whipped the rug out front beneath everything
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  I had built. So I said, well, now what I'm going to
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  do? What am I going to do? There was now nothing to do
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  in Australia, There was now nothing to do in Hong Kong. And I
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  said, Hi, I've got an idea. I can solve all my problems
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  by becoming a cross dressing pro wrestler heavy metal singer, which is an obvious
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  choice. So I did, and then I started doing shows in Hong Kong
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  and around the area, and I tour it to Japan and it went extremely
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  well, and I said, there's my future. So then I moved over
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  to Japan. I got hooked up with my first manager in Japan. Photos
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  of me went viral on the internet, and then my first song with my
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  first group, Nipon Mundru, went very very viral on the internet. And
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  now it's been ten years or two in the world, doing a bit of
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  the old Kawai medal, doing a bit of a skyrip bang with the girly
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  girl dancing, and that it's a extravaganza. It is. Hey, it's
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  been an unconventional heavy metal career. Let me put it in those terms.
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  Conventional is a word. Had. The press release describes Baby Bead as combining
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  colorful Japanese pop culture and relentlessly cute pigtails with heavy metal pro wrestling and choreograph
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  dancers. Like pretty much sums it up. He'd made one picking converted,
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  don't it well more? Let's listen. Hey, hey, well listen,
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  it's a press release. We need to tell the people what's gonna happen.
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  They tell the people what's gonna happen, so that they're not walking into this
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  going what are these bearded babies? We had someone come to the show.
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  He literally thought we had a bearded baby from the Amazon. He thought it
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  was just gonna be a baby sitting on a chair crying while someone stroked its
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  immaculate beard. But that's not what the show is. It's me and too
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  adorable Japanese lady's doing a coin metal performance. We have to sort it out.
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  My friends. I think it's actually probably fitting to point out here now
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  too, because anyone watching this that isn't familiar with the might get the wrong
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  impression. And it's actually a comedy show. But there's you're a funny break,
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  which is onsonne. But your music is another thing in Charlie, it's
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  a serious, proper stage performance, isn't it? One hundred and scents are
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  very serious, is den. We would work as hard as we can to
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  deliver the best show that we possibly can. So yeah, no, we're
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  not a comedy act in like the sense of something like you know, the
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  Key of Awesome or one of those comedy bands. That's not what we do
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  at all. We're a kai metal group. So but here's the difference.
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  Whereas most kai metal groups are a bunch of little girls who kind of just
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  sing and dance like little girls with some heavy metal music behind them, we
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  actually have a heavy metal singer as the front person, you see. So
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  this is kind of the essential difference. There actually is screaming, there's proper
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  metal behind the whole thing, and then on top of that we have a
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  metal singer who actually does all the dancing, so look dancing like a little
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  girl screaming like the Chris Posaurus, got my two girls with me. HiT's
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  an extravaganza. And you know and somehow, I gotta tell you this is
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  a real problem. Every time we do a show, some character calling himself
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  a pro wrestler decides to take some kind of issue with Lady Beard storm the
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  stage, decide he's gonna put an end to our amazing performance and we've brought
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  across the oceans for you. Decides he's gonna shut this thing down. I
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  need to deal with him, dispose him, get him off the stage so
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  we can finish the performance. I need to tell you it's a nuisance.
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  Bounce like it, not believe it. I did start life as a pro
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  wrestler, just so do you understand this is the problem. A lot of
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  people take issue with me, say things like Ah calls himself a pro Wrestler's
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  not what a pro wrestler looks like with your pig tails in your dancing as.
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  It's not what pro wrestling is. I'll show you what pro wrestling is,
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  so you see what I'm saying. Listen, world's collide in this arena.
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  Spectacular worlds are colliding. It's just like a Katie Perry Show, except
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  there's no Perry and there's no Kady. There's Lady Beard too. Adorable girls,
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  that's what it is. Speaking of those adorable girls you've got, they're
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  both Japanese idols. And then Suzu and Mary. Is that the right nack?
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  Mari, that's correct. Tell us a bit about them and their rolling
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  baby bead. So both the girls, both in their early twenties. They're
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  both very sweet, very adorable. Suzza Crispy. You've met Suzza before.
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  She was one of our original members, and so when we first started telling
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  you about the group, she was here with me. It's viewing with me.
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  I was translating with it for her. She's very very sweet and so
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  she is real, straight from the source, Japanese idol. So she is
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  the real thing, my friend. One of the things we've been trying to
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  do with this group is kind of get the Japanese pop culture and kind of,
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  you know, bring it outside Japan somewhat, because if you're not in
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  Japan and you can't speak Japanese and you're not kind of verse with the culture,
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  there's a lot of really wonderful pop culture here that just you can't really
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  get access to because it's kind of gate kept, not on purpose, just
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  gate kept by the culture and by not knowing where to find it and how
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  to experience and how to access it, you know. So that's kind of
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  one of the missions with this group is to kind of break down these geographical
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  barriers and cultural barriers and so forth. So is straight from the source Japanese
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  idol. Mari is actually a very interesting case. While she is Japanese,
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  she actually grew up all over the world. So Mari is a very interesting
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  case because she is Japanese in terms of her genetics and whatnot, and she
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  was born in Japan, but then she actually grew up all over the world.
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  So she grew up in like in Panama, and then I think she
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  lived in Sydney for a while, and then she kind of did her high
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  schooling in Thailand. So she's very interesting because while she is a Japanese person
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  and she is an idol, she's like a globalized idol. So we have
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  quite the interesting dynamic here. We have a nasie, we have an internationalized
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  Japanese girl, we have a straight from the source Japanese girl. It is
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  we are bringing the Land of the Rising Sun to you Australia straight to you.
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  Everything you could ask for from Japan coming to you in the form of
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  this group and this show Fantassic, and you're going to be having jpop newcomer
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  hill Gil Pider. It's the polexy girl Pider, that's correct. So tells
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  about her and why she was chosen. You know, she's not the kind
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  of artist that you'd normally talk about in a publication called heavy, but I'll
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  tell you anyway. She's a don't be alive. She's a J pop singer
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  from the United States. So it's very interesting now because as the world gets
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  smaller and smaller with the Internet, this kind of this idle culture they have
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  in Japan of these little girls doing the singing and dancing, which is very
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  adorable, that's starting to be taken up by people outside Japan. So you
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  have non Japanese people singing in Japanese and dancing in the Japanese style, but
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  they're not Japanese at all. So Pider is one of those. She's an
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  African American girl from Texas and she has blown up within the jpop jay rock
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  scene recently, and so this is going to be her first time ever coming
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  to Australia. So it's gonna be wonderful to have her with us on tour.
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  I'm super proud her because I sort of mentored her a little bit earlier
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  in her career, and so I'm so proud of I met her at a
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  show in Texas in twenty sixteen or something and she interviewed me, and then
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  afterwards she was like, I want to do this idle thing. We kind
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  of sat down and she told me her plan and I was like, all
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  right, cool, So I would advise you in the following ways. And
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  I've kind of been, you know, advising her and mentoring her as best
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  I can over the years, and now she's on tour with me. So
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  I'm so proud of this girl. It's gonna be really wonderful to have her
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  at the show. Everyone please come and support her as much as you can.
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  And then we have another group called Amy's Project, who are a bunch
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  of idols from Brisbane, so they are home grown at j Pop Stars,
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  so everyone please come down and support. It's going to be a happy time.
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  It will be indeed. Well that's all I've got for today, sir,
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  Lady bed But the adorable assault on Australia Tour is on June twenty eight
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  to thirty in Adelaide, July one and two in Melbourne, July three and
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  five in Sydney, and July six in Brisbane. And where can people get
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  themselves a ticket if they want to come my friends, my friends, Ladybeard's
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  group, Babybeard and come to Australia The Adorable Assault on Australia. To it,
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  you need to go to high Entertainment dot com. That's h Ai Entertainment
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  dot com. Tickets are available there for all the shows. I cannot wait
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  to see you, my beautiful country folk in the land down Under. We
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  are going to take the land down on that and turn it upside down.
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  That's the mission of this tour. It won't be down under anymore. It'll
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  be up over, which is We're gonna have to organize a licensing agreement with
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  Canada because right now they've got a bit of a monopoly on being up and
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  over. But we'll figure it out, like hey, hey, Babybeard,
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  The Adorable Assault on Australia Tour and laid Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane. I
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  cannot wait to see all of your beautiful people down