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Wrestling Omakase #300: NJPW Dominion Live from Japan w/ Matt · Wrestling Omakase

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  [SPEAKER_01]: So let's give it up So let's give it up I'll say won't heat It's as if it's out To the know No, no, no No, no, no, no It's not a joke It's not a joke
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's a good one Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back everybody to arresting Omakase.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is episode number three hundred three hundred episode of wrestling Omakase.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are live from the Cross Hotel in Osaka, or I guess live the tape is not like people actually listening to me talking now, but uh, downtown Osaka, don't worry, number, whatever you want to call, the place for curie fights people you know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're like the Glico Man as you were just saying is the shadow of it is Directly up my window, but so I'm joining him by Matt first time in one cast a guest I believe long time listener.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Low time listener.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you go back like to the original round before?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like 2017 2018.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I remember the night to a G1 win when you guys were in Japan I remember that I go back that far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Very fitting through the episode guest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm honored
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Matt is our money show exchange.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the voicewriter and discord people and Twitter, I think if people recognize that screen name.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, we just got back from Dominion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, well, like 15 minutes ago, probably.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I get something like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, the show just concluded, and we're gonna talk about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Actually doing audio in Japan this time and like last time when I said I would do it and then just never got it around do it But definitely gonna be no five hour episode this time Like you just you're much we're mostly gonna start about the menu and that's it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're too hungry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know what this means.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll hit, I'll cut, I'll get him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Weird treats.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we are very hungry.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I found, so Paul is listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul, vote for an animal flow show.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: We couldn't figure out neither one of us could figure out which is a guy we went to last time.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm reasonably sure I found it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why I had such a hard time finding it is because it's not on Google Maps, as far as I can tell, we were really standing outside about it and I could not pull it up on Google Maps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, where is this?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just like a empty building, a vertical Maps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I ended up putting down a coffee house, it's like directly called the script and the is on Google Maps.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I can find my way back there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I did think, because it was a very distinctive, it was like on a corner.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know where the round one is over there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously, I'm not going to be 100% sure to we go in there and try to eat there, but it looks exactly the same as I like the ground floor and I'm like two flights of stairs up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it was really good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully this is the same place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll say, but yeah, that's what we'll be doing after the show.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, before we get in any wrestling, is your first time in Japan, I already know how you're liking it, but why don't you tell the listeners how much you like it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had the highest of expectations thanks to all of you know the stories of everybody in the community from family and friends that have visited and somehow those expectations have been exceeded as far as you can imagine it's it's been nothing but excellent you know since the point I touched down I've been here for four days and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Best trip of my life already we both landed the same day so we landed Thursday the 11th We're it's now the 14th that's where we're recording that say I've been here a few days now Okay, we had the same nightmare.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We started at Yokohama for two nights and now we've been in Osaka You're leaving Osaka one night later to me you're leaving
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This coming Thursday the 18s.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be on the 17 but you haven't been in Tokyo yet I have it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like most people that's the first place They always go to so I'm kind of interested that it's kind of like the the end of my trip Some of the four two by very first trip in 2016 I barely left Tokyo to be honest like I was it was a shorter trip than I think even York I'm staying a couple days later than you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this time right you go back to 26 that sounds about it Yeah, I'm going back to 28th, but the 2016 trip
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like a week and a half or something, so it was like less than this, and Besides I do so I was originally like not gonna be took it all and I was like wait a second I might never come back here fucking funny given this is him at seven times I might never come back here I feel so stupid if I don't write the shinkansen at least once, so I took a shinkansen all the way to Kyoto and just did like a day trip Yeah, and just like walked around Kyoto I'm very glad I did that too because Kyoto now is like a fucking nightmare
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I've got set for tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I've heard it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It can be a little challenging.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's this amazing story that was like about how crazy the Kyoto travel was gotten and one of the funniest anecdotes to me was these two I think young women from I think America want some Western country.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're walking around with this crazy itinerary
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, they were talking to like a literal like travel expert in Kyoto, and she was like, you can't do all this in one day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them goes, well, chat GPT says we can do it.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my God, I think the travel expert probably knows probably knows probably knows more than the chatbot that's supposed to agree with you about everything you say.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was just such a funny anecdote to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, like pick like,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you already have your container-ray, but like pick a couple things is what my advice is, especially now, and like don't really worry about trying to get to, because there's 7,000 sites in Kyoto, I'll be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I really don't.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I've kind of researched a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's probably going to be kind of freestyle in a little bit, but I've seen maybe what is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It gives that one, that one temp, a nice tempo, the one that used to be the emperor's residence.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not the emperor's, the show gun's residence, but he would come to Kyoto to visit from Tokyo during like the show gun eight period.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That one is really really good, because that one, it's one of the only ones that's like completely, obviously it's original structure since Kyoto, unlike a lot of this country never got bombed by fucking America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's like the interiors are actually really well maintained because a lot of them like you can go to like like besides like a side of castle You know, you go in there and flight to museum inside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and this one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's really really like it's like much more like the I don't know if you're in the France like the palsy.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, do you told me this your first year national gift is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's much more like the power of Versailles were like they're trying to like actually recreate It's intact and trying to make it as authentic as possible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just a museum Like they'll suck it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's also you go into it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like you went to it already No, I actually have not, but that's what I've heard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty much a museum I mean it's worth I went to it twice actually it's worth going to but like it's if you're expecting it to like look like I know a castle inside you're gonna be disappointed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just a big museum
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I mean, if you can find anything that's authentic, you know, or the original building, like you said, a lot of a lot of a martyr, I mean, that's definitely worth going to.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's, that'll be high on my list.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember the name of it.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember the name Nicole the Kyoto Palace that used to be the, the Shogunite Palace?
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I don't know where they look at it.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh look it up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm trying to take off the shoes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fair enough.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they're doing.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they're doing.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, she didn't remember you had to take off the shoes.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, Kyoto, you know, it's very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very crowded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the Bamboo Guard Forest, this is fucking amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That, like, it's a little further out, or I think it's a Rashi.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's what it's called.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is really, really good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's the a Nari mountain shrine.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's like the steps going up to the tower, that's one that I've seen a lot of.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that that wasn't part of the crowd in 2016, so I don't even want to think what it's like in 2016 I've been told the best time as if you can get there like right away early in the morning, which I don't know But maybe getting there right away on the morning tomorrow, so maybe one of the other days if I'm like a back to that But that's that's definitely one that I've heard is kind of a must do also.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, but it's cool I mean, I think you could take you said just wander around Kyoto and you're gonna find
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  [SPEAKER_00]: hundreds of yeah thousands of places worth going to so yeah I like um uh there's like beyond distance and you're supposed to be really nice just you know make sure they have a lot of streets you can't go down anymore because of people chasing the gaysha but like um you're still what you can walk around is still really nice so
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's your Kyoto show.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I guess live on the air.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but yeah, we're going to, we're going to Kobe tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that'll be excellent.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I might go there later this week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to do a, there's like this mall.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They are really like Sun Plaza.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called, and it's obviously a harbor land area and all that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's cool, but I've been there multiple times.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now we're doing Tuesday, which some have never done, which, like you'd think seven times by now, I would have done now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But we've never, I've never done the deer and I've done any of it.
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to go do that on Tuesday, and I'm glad because originally,
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... it doesn't look as a rain tomorrow to say so that's good you know when they have learned about you know this is against the rainy season here seems like it's not it doesn't rain all day it's like it's almost like uh... compared to people say it's like florida in the summer where they get like a you know they'll get a thunderstorm every day like you know for an hour and then it's beautiful before and after
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the way it's been years before.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, honestly, we got a lucky last year, where like late March, early April's not supposed to be the race season and it rained like every fucking day.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So now that it feels like the rain is falling around, because when we're in Tokyo, it's supposed to rain like every fucking day.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I guess we'll see how it goes.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if there's a place where you can find things that you want to do, it's raining, it's raining.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just a Tokyo, especially if you see it, in terms of indoor stuff to do.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's like walking between them, you know.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, I mean, we had a lot of, we had a lot of fun last night, that was really cool.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: We had another guy with us, Ali, who we seem to have lost, uh, coming out of Dominion, and he might have just collapsed honestly.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you guys told us, you were just telling me, you guys are out even later than I was, because I think we split up at like, I went back to the hotel like 12 30 or one, and you were saying you guys were out until like three.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we were, it was the, the typical just one more drink, and then it turned into another and another, uh,
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: We ended up in Izakaya, that was a big new Japan, like fan, there was merchandise everywhere.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's called Stamina Park, Izakaya Stamina or something, but we're checking out if you're in Osaka.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was cool.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: We went to 2.999 earlier in the night, so tons of great wrestling stuff here.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we were, um, we did the karaoke, which was fun, and then we ended up, yeah, like you said, we did sex machine for dinner, which was awesome.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I actually reserved it this time because the last time I was here in December, like we couldn't get in and then took us like two hours to come back and actually get a table.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: This time, we didn't feel like we needed tickets, it wasn't that busy.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right, because it was a Saturday night, everything else was fucking busy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was mostly full, but not, you know, crazy.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: But maybe because we reserved it for nine and that's like the last reservation and I think the last time we tried to go earlier So that might have been fine, but yeah, we did the we did sexual teams like a Yaki Niku place really really good And then we did a we did a bar count 2.99 and we did this little animal bar new that was fun.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: New is fucking awesome But yeah, I mean the really nice bartenders.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was cool.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they were trying to get me to do a review and I'm like, I already gave you a video on the 4-1 to go to the last time I was here because I've been there like three times now, but yeah, that's really, that's really cool bar in the like anime or anything like that because they they basically like just sit there and interrogate you about like all your anime like video game and uh
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, any other random preferences and stuff.
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You guys talked about soccer and stuff, too.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're like a son of them as a big soccer head, you know, obviously the World Cup.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them like played baseball.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was telling me, yeah, yeah.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was asked about like, what positions you played and he was telling you, it didn't really speak English, but it's cool, I'll just through Google Translate, you can kind of convert back.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: And more than well, you helped a lot with that, too.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I made my third grade level Japanese.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did the best I could.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that, Google Translate took over.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not even preschool, so.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it was good though.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we kind of we're gonna say I try to throw a while and then at some point You know the pull out the gold and say, but you know, or just for something's not getting through But yeah, that was cool.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't actually the police be found in your gohama.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was fucking awesome.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I love that flight That one I've seen I'm gonna go go maps and I just
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I kind of put it like a pen and as to try to go to it.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it was basically like a snacko, but like a very, very karaoke focused snack.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think character was in like the name.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we got there.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was already like two full tables of Japanese people there already.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, the mama, you know, the person who runs it was like, are you guys okay with Japanese?
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yeah, you know, I know a little bit.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And she's trying to, they're, I think they've figured out about the most.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I figured this out because you go to any bar like that.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: they want to make sure you understand like how this system works because I think they get foreigners sometimes you don't speak any Japanese and they try to explain them okay you have to pay by the hour here or you have to pay a table charge or and then drinks plug like they'll say oh wait I only have three drinks why yeah yeah it's the whole it's the whole deal together the karaoke and the drinks and everything it's kind of like included yeah so
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think that's why they get very leary of foreigners at first and you have to make clear you make it clear that last I understand you're saying I understand it's pay by the hour But yeah, the ones that have paid by the hour and you get limited drinks are really fucking great and that's what that one Well, yeah, they just keep refilling your drink and yeah, it was a very they were all right the two groups over there already were very drunk already It was a very life fun atmosphere and we really know just doing lots of karaoke and they
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I always like impressed the Japanese people by being able to actually sing in Japanese, so that was fun I was my singing Japanese was way better than the one guy I see in the image of yes God bless him.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was really nice Like yeah, but like he I was like okay when I'm have to mumble through a liner too I felt better after he mumble basically through all of Rihanna's umbrella like basically all of you was like I'm brother L. I like the entire rest of the song.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was like not saying anything
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, he was very nice and very cool, a true pro, a true pro, yeah, just getting through the song, but yeah, okay, I said I wanted to do this fast and I wasted 15 minutes, but your fans awesome, what do you want me to tell you, we could we could talk all night, I really could talk all night about how great your fan was.
• 14:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was my second show.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was your first show that's right first.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the only other show I went to was Tokyo JRC And I didn't get before you were there.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just mentioned it was a lot of fun.
• 14:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was at Yokohama Radiant Hall yesterday on the 13th before we left Yokohama for Osaka You know, just kind of standard how show stuff, but you know, we we had front row at the show and it was a completely sold out building too Like that a little sign at the front that was like, you know, basically no tickets like if we don't have any tickets to sell you
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: and you know it was that the crowd was really into everything.
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got hit by him always hair braid which is really fun because she had her team had just lost.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I forget who the fuck she was even team with now but whoever was got pinned in the ring and she's
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: whipping somebody on the outside and riddled like right in front of us and she like moves the hair with back people know what him or her looks like she has these two really really long hair braids that she literally whips people with and she takes one of the hair braids and I guess like really pulls back on it to try to whip forward and she whips it back so fast and so hard she got me and the call right across our knees and the call and I was just like yeah that shit does hurt we can confirm because it was not it did not tickle
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: and I don't even know if she knew she did it.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was the funniest part.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like as Zoomie was comparing her to you the other day.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: When as Zoomie stepped on my foot last time, she fucking knew she did it because she looked right at me and it just kept going.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just kept like fucking stomping off, basically.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: She was, you know, really mad at the time.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Something was happening.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I think hate was cheating.
• 16:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I think that's what was happening this was angry about.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I imagine that, you know, but yeah, she knew she did it.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he more after you knew she did, she never looked at us or anything, and plus like she was landed in brother.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess if you step on someone's foot, you'll know that, but something to hear or you can tell you that you know, you hit someone with it.
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's kind of interesting fire beware front row.
• 16:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, I love it.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Occupational hazards.
• 16:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, I had a really good time at that show and then obviously this was our our second show of the trip.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: My next show is not until Thursday Which is the all-japan core again and then I have a King gotcha Friday and then the double-header Saturday Started in the conversion in the ice-fibbon 20th anniversary.
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have anything to start him, right?
• 17:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I said right nothing Nothing I would have gone to all-japan if I was in Tokyo.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was going on, but I'm gonna miss that one unfortunately, but
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a good lineup of shows for a time of year that doesn't, you know, this isn't Russell Kingdom week where you got stuff at Cork in every day, but you put together good schedule.
• 17:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Sunday too.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I have a bunch of days off, then like four days in a row, because Sunday I'm going to the, um, uh, who not be psyched at Cork, and with, uh, he currently knows return, and then I have a bunch of days off again, uh, before, because we're leaving Tokyo again to go to, um,
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Get the ghetto on send she's a world guy and I go back to Tokyo But probably go to the other king got your show the next Friday haven't bought that one yet And then Saturday I just bought Tokyo Joshi at KFC.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I bought that app You got your Tokyo Joshi show.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just call when you actually go up and you can like pick your Fizz it like physically by the ticket that's instead of just oh, I want an S.C.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope I get a good one like they show you the little ticket map and looking like actually the like they'll have them like a little
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: those squares, all the seeds, and the colored ones, the ones that have with them, you know, to sell you.
• 18:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I picked one that was pretty dead center.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Sunday, I had the DDT cork and before we go back.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So later that night.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because that cork is like 1130.
• 18:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: but yeah, pretty like you said, pretty cool lineup.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty excited about it.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, this show, as listeners heard, I wasn't super into the lineup of when I came out.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I saw like a lot of people, there were a lot of people basically, you know, saying this lineup sucked.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was a little, a little too far, but it wasn't like the most thrilling lineup.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I got weirdly subpoenaed by some guy, but I don't know they were just jealous of me going or in general, they're like, oh, imagine going all the way to a Japan for this shitty lineup.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know he was subpoenaed me because I just tweeted about maybe two seconds before that, and it's like, I don't really get it, because it's like, this show could have been like the war show that's ever happened.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: It could have been as bad as last year's Dominion, and I still would have been having an amazing time in Japan, so don't worry about it.
• 18:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bye!
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand though, this show actually ended up over delivering, which I want to say it was like a great show, I don't know if I would say like I'd say like short of a show that you're a contender, but very, you know, I think pretty much everything you hit at or above expectations for me Yeah, you're a little higher on me, I'd say like a solid B Yeah, like yeah, like not quite like a show that you're a contender, I'd say like an S show and there was like an A show I'd say like B plus A minus is coming up at that's probably like a B plus
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: people.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, what's compared to last year's dominion?
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
• 19:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's we have the crash out about.
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
• 19:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: This show with a lot better in that show.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It also drew better.
• 19:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So a 6,890 person crowd.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: So up about, I just had this.
• 19:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, it was like 6,500.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, it was 65,25.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, up a little, not quite 400, but definitely, you know, um, given that, you know, last year had the go-to thing working for them, and this year it was too relatively autistic guys on top, definitely a success to be up at all.
• 20:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it looked like a big crab when we were, they did.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess about 7,000 was kind of my mind as well.
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's guess in most dissections were pretty full.
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, there was like those tarped off sections like to the left and right of the stage.
• 20:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: But other than that, yeah, most of sections.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the entire floor was full.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the floor was completely full.
• 20:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those elevated sections off the floor, which is what I sat in last time I was there in 2019.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were all full.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then when you looked at the upper levels, what I think is where you were, they were not quite full, but they were plenty of people on them.
• 20:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: there were pretty like big sections of empty seats anywhere yeah you could you could see like little smattering of empty seats but there was no like all man that section is almost empty so it was it was pretty full all the way around you're in it uh... what did you so i guess i guess i guess talk a little about the venue first of all because this was your first time there and it was in the calls first time there too because she had been with me in japan twenty nineteen but didn't go to the show
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember her staying as soon as we walked in, that she just thought this was a really beautiful venue.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think she said, because she's here to confirm for me, I guess.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: You think you liked the bread in the tote, though, right?
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she's sleeping.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: She might actually be sleeping.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we put her to sleep.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you might, say you liked the bread in the tote table.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, you said you just some of the poor I guess.
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yeah, I mean, it's a really like it has like a red froist Yes, we're like, you know, has that really cool roof and then I don't know what that is I wouldn't do it part.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't almost know how to describe it.
• 21:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: It looks really really cool when you're in there These are all parts of the building.
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't really see on TV, right?
• 21:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and obviously like just the the way the seating is set up to with like the the stands all around it around the bowl is really cool The coals that's been like what else they use it for I honestly have no idea.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a big concert, but I can't I don't think a sports team plays are anything
• 21:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not that I know, I think it's mostly concerts.
• 21:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's for, like, a soccer location-wise, I mean, it's called Osaka Johal, which is Osaka Castle Hall, because it's literally right next to Osaka Castle, so like, in the same park area.
• 22:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it's just a really, really cool venue.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, definitely a highly recommended one to make it out for, because it's definitely like, I put it up there with Sima Halls when my favorite venues.
• 22:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: But obviously, you get way less chances to go here than Sima Hall, because you just have New Japan
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: But definitely worth the venue alone is worth it.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: This time I had I have royal seats So I had fourth row It was like dead center worth the ring to which was it was a great fucking be almost the exact same Seating I had as New Year's dash I think I might have even been fourth row But there's like dead center worth the ring and like one of the aisles is right next to us So which is very very very cool seats you were like second floor, right?
• 22:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was second floor, but front row of the second floor.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was very good.
• 22:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was just decide you were on.
• 22:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, I actually saw you.
• 22:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I saw you walk out.
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I tried to get your attention.
• 22:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: You didn't see me, but I was just above like, kind of like the entrance.
• 23:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Typical me.
• 23:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: You go like, if you're going into the bathroom or whatever, in a row, I was basically just above that.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, the second level comes down pretty far.
• 23:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I was not.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: very high up more so than like the people in the bleachers on the floor yeah so it was great great seats yeah definitely a really really cool venue sounds like a great seat so let's uh i guess let's get into the mattress looks here the first match the opener uh was the NGPW World TV title can also get to catch you that defeat sanada in 824 the raging fire to make his fourth defense
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, the entrance, I mean, he'd been gone since Russell came them, so, you know, or maybe New Year's Dash, I can't remember.
• 23:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think New Year's Dash, I think you worked Dash and then disappeared.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people thought like,
• 23:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: is he retiring, is he jumping to know what to do at nighto, like what is going on here.
• 23:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of get it, like doing like such a big, all of the top end just form, the crowd there loved it.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so if they cold-skilled theme heads, all these different versions of his different outfits in the cold-skilled era come out, you know, holding different belts, he's got the, I popped the AGVG, the IWGVUS title that was my favorite one probably.
• 24:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then it goes for just five guys theme.
• 24:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: He comes out with the fucking old world title.
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's so funny that's not the old title.
• 24:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and then it goes for his current theme.
• 24:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: He comes out in the suit that he had worn when he did his, you know, his last few, like runnin' some stuff.
• 24:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: He takes off that weird mask, and then this giant puff of smoke comes up.
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when the smoke comes down, he's in the red outfit with like red hair.
• 24:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: The guy next to me went fucking crazy.
• 24:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, definitely definitely definitely cool.
• 24:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nicole probably looked like ramen doll.
• 24:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, but uh, the guys next to me absolutely loved just all the different, like they got like progressively like laughing more and like, yeah, of every time one of the new synodas came out.
• 25:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that whole thing, but then yeah, when the whole smoke within changing, I don't know how he did.
• 25:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was pretty cool.
• 25:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would assume he had one of those like, um,
• 25:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like rip away suit to probably, like rip it off during the smoke then.
• 25:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's what I'm wondering.
• 25:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is this like the start of the cyber agent, TBS, that heat budget, like kicking in?
• 25:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, because the entrance look really cold in general, like it had those like those three squares.
• 25:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's like kind of cute things.
• 25:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the lighting, I mean, they looked a little more, it looked a sort of reminded me of like, no, when they would spend more money on their entrance than they even do now.
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it makes me wonder if that's kick.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there were rumblings that they thought they were gonna get more funding off of this.
• 25:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's already.
• 25:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean we got obviously in the main event.
• 25:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: We had a new theme song for Yoda Suji that you know They had the commission that an actual like artist who's like sold out then if I'm booted com before apparently So you know, and then you have like lots of fire and stuff So yeah, it feels like the production, you know the like the round like the big show production did they go up a notch from especially recently She wrote times it was time to push forward to spend more money now
• 26:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But like recent times, I feel like there's definitely higher production level.
• 26:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: This felt like a pre-pandemic, you know, big show.
• 26:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it really had the big show feel to it.
• 26:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: The match itself, I thought it was good.
• 26:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's not a look, definitely looked more active than he's been in a while.
• 26:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: He ditched don't cheat, you know, because it was funny, because he did give him a clean break early, and they like shook hands without incident when they did that.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But then later on, he got the cold spray, he like sprayed into catchy designs,
• 26:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: but the question was they were able to kick out.
• 26:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I thought they packed a lot and they didn't have minutes.
• 26:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it's not a look good.
• 26:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm not a sonata here.
• 26:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know some people really fucking hate the guy.
• 26:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not either.
• 26:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like sonata.
• 26:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've always liked him and also, you know, I think he at times even as the house and torture sonata, I feel like he worked a little harder than people gave him credit for, especially last year's G1.
• 26:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I thought he was trying a little harder than people gave him credit for it.
• 26:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see what he can do in this series because he has already announced them as being in this series.
• 27:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I thought there was a guy like a three-and-a-half star match good opener right there right there with it Match to no DQ jakely defeat L fan tazmo and 940 with the front necklock I feel like it's not even I didn't even see anyone talking about the fact that ELP wasn't in the G1 field.
• 27:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I didn't even notice Yeah, that was a price man.
• 27:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but hopefully doesn't get through in the call if I guess we'll say
• 27:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I missed like the first five minutes.
• 27:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I went to go pee now for the first.
• 27:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, not for the only time In the show, but you know, but you're drinking it happens, I guess But yeah, I mean when I got back the crowd around here's basically treating this as a comedy match That's it that was my exact takeaways.
• 27:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is this is basically a comedy match
• 27:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, unintentional comedy.
• 27:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, they can say anyone ever tried to explain the L.P.
• 27:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're flying spots when you have to take these long pauses because he always does this one flying spot.
• 27:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: This time it was a spinning D.E.T.
• 27:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: but he's able to all sorts of spots that are crossed by himself.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have to like take a long pause when you leap up on the second turn buckle to readjust yourself and like feel like you're going to be able to do it and then jump off.
• 28:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't look cool.
• 28:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: That looks stupid.
• 28:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you're making me wait to see you actually complete the move.
• 28:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like you're just making me think about like how dumb this is.
• 28:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, like if it doesn't look smooth, it looks dumb.
• 28:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, LP take that out of your mouth.
• 28:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll leap up through second rope and then leap off.
• 28:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't look good.
• 28:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Stop doing it.
• 28:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, J-Can was a show, and I guess choked them out for the wedding.
• 28:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I saw, I thought was pretty boring and stupid, but I missed half the match.
• 28:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to rate it.
• 28:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty much.
• 28:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if I was watching it home, I would have hand-waved it.
• 28:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: In the building, it was kind of fun, but, you know, it's probably the lowest I would be on any of the matches on the show.
• 28:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: This fucking match.
• 28:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the second world, teaching you your MRI defeat, Reo Reo Reo White and Zack Saber Jr. Tachi Pinto Reo White and 1315.
• 28:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It started simple, just built from there, and the crowd was going completely fucking crazy for that last Tai Chi Orita sequence.
• 29:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they got more out of Tai Chi trying to escape a side-headlock than most wrestlers get out of like
• 29:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: like tons and tons of high spots.
• 29:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this crowd was like living and dying with Tai Chi, trying to get out of this headlobe.
• 29:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, like kept trying to sort of turn into a batch of super actually, couldn't he kept like not being on the quite do it.
• 29:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: And when Tai Chi finally dig it out and they did that whole last sequence and he sat down for the pen, my whole area, like where I was saying, just exploded for that, like me and the guys, the Japanese guy said, and actually both like, like four hands up.
• 29:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it was like very, very like, you know, everybody was in the laboratory.
• 29:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Taiji was the most overguy in the show at this point.
• 29:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was easy.
• 29:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Super, super, super, super over.
• 29:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: You even was over.
• 29:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty much everybody was there.
• 29:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were like, Zach calls, they were all your calls.
• 29:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this was, but Taiji was the favorite.
• 29:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, everybody loved him.
• 29:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it's not my bias as a Taiji stand talking.
• 29:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, he was, I mean, the entire show he was one of the most over people easily.
• 29:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was just, he was fucking great here.
• 29:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: The match of fucking great.
• 29:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, four and a quarter star for me.
• 29:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly what I said.
• 30:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I honestly the perfect like undercard tag but that's exactly what you want out of undercard tag on a big show in all four guys have like good history and relationships with each other I don't remember even with the cheat one blocks where but my thought come on that was man I hope all four of these guys are in the same g one block is they all have a really good chemistry to the other by a bad news because uh union's act of all them be uh Tai Chi and Roy why are not in yet they're probably gonna be in the qualifiers I don't like Tai Chi chances are getting through but yeah
• 30:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: But those were the big matchups during during this tag match where those, you know, those two pairs going against each other and it was it was it was great Match four was Eldest Prado beating Mystico in 33 with the new road dose It somehow didn't even occur to me until the music started that I was gonna actually hear Mystico's theme Yeah, not the new Japan overdove
• 30:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I was like, oh, yeah, it's an actual theme that I'll have to overdo it in the building too.
• 30:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that was down to cool.
• 30:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, this was a, I thought the fact is really good.
• 30:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know some people are like really down in this world.
• 30:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, like, especially when you're super Jaycast, just court types and people.
• 31:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I, I still enjoy him.
• 31:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess I am.
• 31:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the minority among a lot of the Western fans and you know, I thought this match was really good.
• 31:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the crowd was really, the crowd was a lot more than it's going to expect.
• 31:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 31:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times, you get these New Japan, Japanese crowds that are the size-faint-taskomania, and they just kind of seem like they're not that optimistic.
• 31:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And at least my section, everyone was feeling like a big deal.
• 31:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: There were a lot of mystical calls in my section.
• 31:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 31:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, but the sudden like the flash emission finish basically the new mode does, I thought was really cool finish.
• 31:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was like three and three quarters in this, I thought was really good.
• 31:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was right around there, three and a half, three and three quarters really breezy.
• 31:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: My takeaway that I immediately thought was, I like luchasico, this would be better than like shindy-sico, it would be, yeah.
• 31:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mystico still getting a steam plate for me and that was really funny, I'm like, what man is it worker?
• 31:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Plenty of the people in my section were kind of starting to laugh at it like they kind of kind of got it Is it what's going like oh this guy's that this guy's not going to leave It's like each pose got progressively more funny to them as he was leaving But it's great great to get the I don't think I've ever seen this to go live So I think that was my first time seeing him live so that was that was cool
• 32:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: I must have seen him alive, but I can't think of it.
• 32:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I feel like I should have, but I can't think of any.
• 32:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think I've seen him in America.
• 32:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen him in Japan.
• 32:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I have actually.
• 32:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it could be for me to actually.
• 32:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't, I really can't think of it.
• 32:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, did I see, I don't think he's alive.
• 32:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I've been doing a WWE shows as long.
• 32:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because yeah, especially the time when I was going to a lot more a WWE shows, I don't think he was there yet.
• 32:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So.
• 32:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, after the, of course, mystical, I assume this is a set of a match in Mexico, but we'll say, I don't know why you say it's in twice.
• 32:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm very tired, everybody.
• 32:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: The G1 climax announcements we had, A-block and B-block, I'll just go through the, three announcements.
• 32:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: A-block is Takeshida, Suji, Senata, Shingo, Jake, Bolton, and Goto, so this is a seven we know for A-block, B-block, Calum, Zach, Shoto, when we know,
• 33:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: You were in more, uh, rednary to Dr. Maloney and Gabe Kidd, who did get a bit of reaction.
• 33:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I got a good idea.
• 33:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did get him that, the crowd, what crazy when they danced that.
• 33:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: He felt like the biggest surprise.
• 33:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that was, you know, my section was like, they were not expecting him.
• 33:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they kind of really were surprised by it.
• 33:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he doesn't even return to ADW yet, how's he?
• 33:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure.
• 33:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah.
• 33:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not the one.
• 33:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the one.
• 33:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Neither one of us.
• 33:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm just going to check Caged Man for a quick and CFE's return.
• 33:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he has that because I feel like I'm going to hurt about it.
• 33:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: While you are looking at it, I just thought the announcements, you know, you see the video every year when they announced the G1 participants, but like the crowd reacting to every, I mean, I think everybody got pretty much a good reaction around me and is, you know, you start to really feel the excitement for the G1 and you
• 33:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bolting on a big pop team, because I think he could use even out hurt too.
• 33:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Gabe's last match was in April, so now he hasn't returned in.
• 33:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so okay, so besides these 14, so they said the winners of tag tag on match get an automatically, which ended up being the fucking Holy Seaman already unfortunately, and then there will be qualifiers on June 23, which is of course the core of the work going to, and July 6 for the last four spots.
• 34:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only problem with that is I feel like the fact that it was Ocona Hinaria that got through.
• 34:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that gives away the qualifiers to me too much.
• 34:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I could buy them leaving out either Ocona Hinaria, especially Ocona, but I mean, obviously now I know I'm going to be in.
• 34:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really buy them leaving out Oscar or Utois, maybe Oscar, but I don't think so.
• 34:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to be in.
• 34:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I feel like it's way too obvious going to be Oscar, Utois, Aaron Wolff, and Oila.
• 34:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: The only one, maybe Aaron Wolf you leave out this year, maybe they think he's not ready or something, that's the only other thing I could say You could say he's still just a rookie, he has, you know, yeah, but he's a champ, but now he's never champion, so yeah, it would be tough to leave him out He's have to leave him out, so I think it kind of goes away.
• 34:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's not going to be a Taiji this year Which fucking sucks given he was the MVP last year and again one of the most over people on the entire show
• 35:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but you know, I guess I shouldn't preemptively bet you about it.
• 35:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: You never know what they'll do, but to me, it kind of gives away the result of the qualifiers.
• 35:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: So The never open weight title Aaron Wolfe defeated Red Nureta in 924 the angle slam.
• 35:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why they call the angles sounds of the Olympic sand, but they want This is only no second defense You said this fucking bells is February
• 35:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I didn't take Takeshita ran out made that made the save, you saved Wolf from the triple team house beat down.
• 35:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: My section thought that was really funny.
• 35:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were like Takeshita.
• 35:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were wondering why he was the one making the save.
• 35:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody understood that he joined Hontai, I guess.
• 35:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I totally forgot until he ran out because I guess I think it happened backstage.
• 35:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, he joined like last month, but yeah, he ran out in the Lion Marks shirt and made the save to I guess be like, yes, I am New Japan now.
• 35:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, they were confused.
• 35:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were very confused.
• 35:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, well, you know, I thought this was like, I didn't think there's any kind of disaster.
• 35:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, well, it was very over, um, you know, he's, he's, he's, took a really nice Larry at one point.
• 36:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like that was a highlight.
• 36:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I, I'm gonna go as three stars on it.
• 36:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was fine.
• 36:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't bother me, you know, I mean, there were definitely parts that were really boring and like a lot of, you know, a lot of heat and whatever, but like, you know, the crowd was when you're there in person for one of these matches, which I think has always been disconnect with the house stuff and I, you know, I don't not try to argue with anybody who hates it.
• 36:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I, a lot of shows watching a home I hate nowadays too.
• 36:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But when you're there in person, and the crowd's going crazy, and the special in the VFA is actually does overcome the heels, you know, there is a certain energy too about what you're like, okay, I can get into this.
• 36:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't always come across on screen, but you know, it was, it was fine to be there for him.
• 36:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was better than I expected.
• 36:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I knew, you know, you're not good at it.
• 36:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Catch the lightning in a bottle that you had with wolf and evil.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean because one evil is is so much better than Narita at this kind of stuff And two, you know, wolf's debut.
• 36:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a one, you know that you have a novelty of this.
• 36:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have those things, but I think it hit a bubble that I was expecting and they played it right where okay You let you let Alcitor to do their stuff and then you clear them out and then it was you know Just basically on one on one single smash.
• 37:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't even think there was really much Cheating or anything from Narita like once once they got kicked out either.
• 37:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean the last
• 37:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Four or five minutes, it feels like it was pretty much just a straight-up match.
• 37:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it didn't go very long either and it was just set under ten minutes.
• 37:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have any chance to over say it's welcome.
• 37:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think it was that match-up, that was the bet, you know, that was probably the best way they could have done it.
• 37:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 37:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: uh... then we had the iw to be tag team titles great ocona hennari defeated osker and u.a.s.
• 37:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: hennari putting u.a.s.
• 37:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: in twenty one thirty with the great bomb uh... they failed in their v. seven here uh... so this was a great match i mean i can't say it wasn't a great match i don't think it's it's not quite the level of some of the other like super super great matches knocked about this year um...
• 37:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing that really popped me was when you don't ice was fighting Canarae, he just said like, show me your monobitch right before you have like a shit head, but that was great.
• 38:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and obviously the sequence for Canarae and Ice were just like punching each other in the fucking face was great, and the whole sector's going crazy for that.
• 38:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you don't did like this cool really great job selling what he was out after word two I thought, like just really just selling what he just could not continue at that point.
• 38:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, he needs to ask for like literally pick him up to do their double team power bomb then.
• 38:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that was good job by him.
• 38:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hinarian O'Con used a chair and then hit that, this double-team power bomb, dominate or claw thing, which I guess is the great bomb.
• 38:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: That got the pen.
• 38:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought, you know, they were parts of it earlier, that dried a little bit, but the end of it was so great that I was still able to go four stars fly on it.
• 38:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: But obviously, the result really disappointed me, because I don't know.
• 38:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would have just put Oscar Newton straight in, but I get they want them to, I guess they want them to fight their way in.
• 38:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it'll be a bigger deal for the core.
• 38:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean the core kind of will go crazy.
• 38:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah And apparently Tai Chi challenge you don't ice back stage.
• 39:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: So if that's on our show that's a match I want to see so I'm up for that.
• 39:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I go even higher.
• 39:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I was like four to quarter maybe maybe not quite four and a half like four to quarter, but
• 39:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll throw out a hot take that I really like the booking because That is a very out there because I think it's just kind of a natural time to get the built-off of knockout brothers Kind of let kind of let them go and be singles guys for the G1 and then you can you know when you get to tag League You know, maybe they get it run through tag League
• 39:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: come back and win at Russell Kingdom or so I think it kind of can fit in that and I think I mean I might be on an island with this, but in R.A. and O.Con.
• 39:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think this is like the best use of them.
• 39:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they are at their best as tag team wrestlers, much better than the singles wrestlers.
• 39:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're going to this kind of style of heel that they are versus being just kind of a generic, you know, big face.
• 39:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: like I would rather see or or a new year's dad for the fuck they do it I like I would rather see somebody else take these belts off of Ocona and R.A. and then I agree yeah then have uh not a couple others win the tag league and go that way maybe you could do Tai Chi you yeah I don't know you you might have bigger things to do it right so it came down to be honest um you could do uh you could do Zach in a way way again but you know
• 40:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 40:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I see interesting possibilities coming from this, so that's why I'm not too too bad with the booking.
• 40:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it could be good for knockout brothers to kind of be singles guys for a little while until, you know, time to change it up.
• 40:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I just want to have them go along with these belts.
• 40:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's always the risk of laughs and ghetto sabotaging it, so I might look like an idiot here very shortly, but I like it, so I'm okay with it.
• 40:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: IWGP Global Heavyweight Title 3 way match.
• 40:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Show to Omino, be Andrade, I'll eat a low in 1620 with a second chapter, obviously to a little Maloney, also in this match very much in this United Kingdom too.
• 40:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, first of all, I liked that they pinned Andrade.
• 40:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was worried about the three way that they weren't going to pin the champion.
• 41:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So good on one of the rare times I will say good on Tony Com for letting Andrade actually lose this because I thought they were booking around it to not get pinned.
• 41:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Credit words do.
• 41:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, this match was so interesting to me because so showed it, you know, has not got moved a long time.
• 41:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: No.
• 41:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: He got booed in this match and like this crowd Oh, so Osaka was like they love they love the word dogs and they fucking love to throw them alone in this match I mean he would one of the more over-guys of the entire show, which I do not see coming
• 41:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: To this point, he probably was the most overground in the entire show.
• 41:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that place was going nuts for him.
• 41:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like, Shoda would like pull him off of like early on.
• 41:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: He pulled Drill off on Droughty and the crowd blew the shed on for that.
• 41:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was another time where he like cut Drill off going for a spear or something like a knee.
• 41:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think something where he like ran over and stopped him doing something and the crowd blew him again.
• 41:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it felt like they didn't feel like they hated Shoda if he's felt like, you know, no, we loved Drill off.
• 41:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 41:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Drill is who we're pulling for here.
• 42:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, there's another part where Shota gets like booed really heavily for breaking up the pen when Drilla had on drottie with beat with the Drilla killer and you know, the had really dot try to dive in for this win for the save when Shota hit the second chapter on on drottie But like he dove in I think a little too soon because it felt like I don't know how to look from a year setting where I was setting it ringside
• 42:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: we could not tell that he didn't actually break it up.
• 42:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: So when the gruff counts one, two, three, we all thought it was a near fall and it just totally killed the redat.
• 42:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever the reaction was there was confusion.
• 42:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there was just total confusion.
• 42:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So there was no pop, there was no boo, it was just like what's going on here.
• 42:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Porsche had it on me now.
• 42:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this man, he had never won anything in his life besides the nori bits of rambo.
• 42:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Two years and a row.
• 42:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: going to defend her third time in September probably.
• 42:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he finally gets to the accomplished when he finally wins the white belt here and it gets overshadowed by how much the crowd loves drilling alone.
• 42:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: He gets the finish kind of got fucked up a little bit and then obviously fucking it just set up for a game kit attack.
• 43:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt so bad for this guy.
• 43:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: forget it the game stuff though, the match itself.
• 43:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Besides the little screw up at the finish, you know, I don't think it's like it didn't, it didn't look bad or anything.
• 43:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: It just confused the crowd.
• 43:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: It didn't come off that way to me, but maybe I just missed it though.
• 43:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I did, I became interested to go back and look at it.
• 43:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I kind of just got the impression that Mulani was like,
• 43:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Too late, but maybe he won't admit that's I think that's kind of how everybody around us saw But baby yeah, but besides that I thought this match was the biggest over-deliver the shit It's great.
• 43:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean this was a fucking awesome match.
• 43:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I usually hate three way So but like they really stayed away from the I'm gonna throw you out of the ring and you stay out there for for 10 minutes with a coma and we fight and then you come back and inform me Yeah, they completely avoided that they did lots of you need like you know three-way spots and they really like you know breaking each other moves up constantly
• 43:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a very, very cool, three way.
• 43:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was sworn to court on this again, just totally avoiding the one guy out of two guys in formula really made it work for me.
• 44:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I was sworn to court also, and it almost felt like a chaotic, like multi-tag, you would see a like dragon-gator start-up or something.
• 44:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like that is just all action back and forth is great.
• 44:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I thought all three guys were great.
• 44:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Really had a great night, showed a had a great night.
• 44:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Drone, he had a great night, I'm just.
• 44:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, just really really good stuff from all three guys and they definitely this was the this was a really because this obviously being third from the top The fact that this and over delivered so much really helped the show The junior heavyweight title semi-main.
• 44:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: This had Yo defeating Doki in 1757 the direct drive to break up his End his reign on his fifth fence and become the hundredth champion, which is something So this is where the show kind of goes down a little bit from me these two last two matches so yo
• 44:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Both I mean the problem to me first of all is I thought both these matches were better previously I thought the core can match these two guys that was way better than this one like, you know The live pad I will say loved you.
• 45:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: They love this match.
• 45:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, that was I was definitely in the minority in the building.
• 45:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't love the match I thought it was pretty good.
• 45:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like three and a quarter level on I guess But like it just never clicked with me anything about that I thought that early part was boring.
• 45:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes
• 45:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: But later on it did pick up enough to like I said go like three and a quarter, but yeah, I just wasn't back into this one.
• 45:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, that was my takeaway was that it almost was like different.
• 45:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know how to rate it because the first part of the match was really bad.
• 45:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's popular as yo was not getting any reaction.
• 45:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I noticed it was so quiet for some of Doki's heat segments at the start.
• 45:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I could hear Walker Stewart, he Chris Charlton, about a section over from me.
• 45:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I could hear him like, clear his day what they were saying.
• 45:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: That kind of tells you what how little key there was from someone there's already same as I thought like the last You know once they got to go on for the like the kind of finished final finishing stretch really good stuff and I Yo is so over.
• 45:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean if anybody thinks yo is not over.
• 45:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you are you could not be more wrong and The three count might have been the loudest pop of the night of anything.
• 46:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it might have been the loudest pop of the night Yeah, the crowd was really really happy when I won this title, so
• 46:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean sometimes It's one of these things where I've always said this sometimes the Western fans got to get over themselves Like you've got it you have to have a little humility with this shit and be like, you know This isn't for me, maybe I mean because a lot of people hate you know way more than I do I would say call myself like and more in Biblon Yeah, I don't like love me or anything like that's me, too.
• 46:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like I've been a lot of juniors like I like better I like master water a lot better.
• 46:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I like for Gito a lot better
• 46:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: But like yo, you know, sometimes you're gonna be like you know the fucking crowd's going crazy And they want they clearly want this man to be fucking through your champion just keep him But I'm not gonna sit here and bash them for giving the guy the bell with the crowd wants to have the bell So you can't I don't know so much like Western fan analysis for New Japan I feel a Japanese wrestling in general never is willing to just say yeah I don't like this, but I get why they did it
• 46:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the crowd likes a lot more than I do.
• 47:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The actual fucking people in Japan that are being tended audience for this promotion clearly wanted this to happen, you know, I don't know.
• 47:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: No one ever talks like that, and sometimes it drives you fucking crazy.
• 47:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, sometimes you can just admit this isn't exactly what I would personally want, but the fucking live crowd loved it, and that's fine, and that's where I'm out with that.
• 47:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm always a proponent of don't fight your audience and something that's that's one of Geto's biggest biggest sins many times This is not one of them.
• 47:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: He, you know, this is a clearly whoever's book in the juniors.
• 47:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was the hot hand right now Everybody everybody loves him and yeah, you know, I had very low expectations for this given the way Doki's rain is gone So it is weird as the the beginning part of the match was I'd say it still hit hit above my expectations So I enjoyed it
• 47:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so the main event, I WGV have a weight title.
• 47:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, Otis Fuji defeats Calum Newman and 2432 at the gym.
• 47:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not the gym boss, or that's a new move.
• 47:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fire blast for anything?
• 47:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know what it was.
• 47:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think everybody else actually was kind of confused because I don't think they were expecting that to be, to be the finish one.
• 48:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like spinning back drop or something.
• 48:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I couldn't really tell you therefore I was sitting in there and so I'm seeing a bad of a picture of it because I'm just curious.
• 48:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It looked like some kind of spinning back drop or something to me, but maybe I just didn't quite see it correctly.
• 48:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is that it right there, maybe?
• 48:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
• 48:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 48:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 48:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I also don't remember, but I remember it was like I haven't seen that before.
• 48:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so it's a new move.
• 48:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah So yeah, this was, so do you have a new theme song first of all?
• 48:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's that?
• 48:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mari J?
• 48:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think was a name of the artist Mari J?
• 48:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Say Mari was it Mari J or married?
• 48:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 48:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I Can't fucking find it now.
• 48:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I just had it open on my computer, but maybe I didn't
• 48:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.
• 48:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: So she, so some, it's like an actual Japanese pop artist.
• 48:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will know, oh, major.
• 48:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: There we go, major.
• 48:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, she's half half a reigning half Japanese.
• 48:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, she's actually, she's been around a while.
• 48:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard that I've heard the name before.
• 48:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, she's like, you know, around or age actually.
• 48:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So like, definitely been around a while.
• 49:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think,
• 49:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like it's an active 2006, but I saw a very divided reaction online to this theme song.
• 49:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I liked it, you know?
• 49:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought it was very different.
• 49:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get this guy.
• 49:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's our big star, we're going to give him this mainstream pop artist doing a mainstream pop song.
• 49:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all about fire and he had a big fire in the entrance.
• 49:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: The fire was really cool.
• 49:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: The fire was awesome.
• 49:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I would bet they tweak this song probably to give it like more a little more like bass or something for a live audience Because it didn't feel like maybe a little thin for like a wrestling like live theme But I still got the song was cool.
• 49:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
• 49:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I always I never liked this old theme So maybe maybe some people who really like this old thing.
• 49:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I did like his old theme I was a little disappointed.
• 49:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't didn't get to see it I mean, I think it's cool that they're using pop artists.
• 49:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's if you want to kind of
• 49:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: get that mainstream you know like a be the new the budget kicking out yeah that could be tv psi cyber agent but uh uh i i didn't dislike the song i don't know if it really definitely fit sugy that well i feel like maybe there's some other people on the you know i feel like maybe like showed up or you yeah or so you know more like a clean it seems more like a clean cut baby face kind of song i guess the whole fire thing kind of kind of work for him but yeah we totally see sure do you listen to this in real life maybe i'm maybe i'm completely off the pace
• 50:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like he's probably like a pop guy in real life, but maybe I'm just guessing, obviously.
• 50:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't know, I really like to theme some.
• 50:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, United Empire all came out with Calum except for her Nari, so that may have made a fun custom self again, or something, because he was not out there at all.
• 50:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't laugh at that, but I was just like, Jesus, it was weird that he wasn't out there.
• 50:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I just, the first half of this match, especially, was not my salad match at all.
• 50:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, way too much crowd-blowing for me.
• 50:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, the crowd-blowing just felt like it went on forever.
• 50:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just not my type of match.
• 50:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, my type of match is much more,
• 50:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it can be as usually much more map-based and much more like in-ring, and just the, you know, the crowd won't just what felt like it went on endlessly.
• 51:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love the first match.
• 51:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love the secured Genesis match.
• 51:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was like four and a half on that match.
• 51:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think this match was going to be like close.
• 51:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 51:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Calam in general, he's kind of underwhelming the last couple months.
• 51:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I had a great New Japan Cup.
• 51:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: of really great New Japan coffee me just two amazing matches with you yet in showed up at the end of that and it also matches a career genesis but I didn't love the shingo match it on top of you and I didn't love this either I mean they're both good matches but like you know a good match is like the you know basically the floor for a New Japan big show made about it but really below the floor yeah so you know I just didn't think this was like you know um
• 51:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: There were some cool spots, and there was like, Suji, I like that he was ready for that Ozcutter fake out, Larry at thing, that Newman did last Doom last time, like he was ready for it this time, and he did do this, like this great need of the face counter, when Newman tried the actual Ozcutter, so there's some Suji as soon as it cools up his match.
• 52:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Did you catch by the way, Red Shoes?
• 52:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So at one point, Calam does the Made in Japan, which remember you started doing that when you shoot a single last month, and Shingle was out there with Suji at Ringside, and Red Shoes kind of like points out, I mean, what do you think of that buddy?
• 52:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And Shingle was like getting all my angry at Ringside, that was really fun.
• 52:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I miss that.
• 52:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's great.
• 52:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Newman did the Excalibur on Yoda off the apron that I guess was supposed to put them through this table.
• 52:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was awkward.
• 52:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 52:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: The table didn't quite cooperate.
• 52:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: People watching at home seem to think it was a six spot, so it could have just been all right, my angle.
• 52:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 52:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't really see what happened.
• 52:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't really see the table either.
• 52:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just kind of saw him hit the vicinity of the table and kind of roll.
• 52:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like he bounced hard, I assume.
• 52:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 52:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So in a way, they people reacted.
• 52:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't look at it again.
• 52:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, unfortunately, I'm almost positive they went home early because Calum at one point gets he takes an overhead belly to belly into the corner and this I had a great view of that because I was like that corner was like directly across from my seat, probably like little like diagonal from it and when he went into it, like the entire section was like whoa, because he was like he crashed into that corner, like he was running in so fast,
• 53:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: and Suji threw much such force that it felt like it was totally out of control on the landing and his shoulder hit the corner, I think awkwardly.
• 53:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you see right through his golden right away, they talk for a long time.
• 53:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: They kind of, you know, the match didn't stop, but it was the kind of like, yeah, we're ready.
• 53:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought of first things.
• 53:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought first maybe it was a like a heal thing like he was going to like, because it's not as in that in the earlier match, I thought they're going to like, you know, reviewers playing possum, but they they finally get back up after Retrus talked about them, like, oh, no, this isn't playing possum, and they basically went straight to the go home sequence at that point, like the spears and everything, and then like basically, you know, suit you hit this new move and bend them.
• 53:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, very abrupt ending.
• 53:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: I almost positive count was actually her and like when he left the ring too, like you can see like he really wasn't moving the arm that much.
• 53:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully it's just like a singer or something and he doesn't have the message he won, which obviously would be a big blow.
• 54:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I mean it could be bad.
• 54:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I guess we'll probably obviously were recording this like, and you know an hour and a half after the meeting end, and so we don't know anything right now.
• 54:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: But hopefully, you know, we'll hear something and then hopefully it's good news.
• 54:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it was a good bash, like a three-and-a-half-star level match for me, but just not up to the level of security on his main.
• 54:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm definitely not secure a Genesis level, and I almost feel like I kind of, I can't rate it because it just, it felt this jointed and then especially with the finish.
• 54:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, this is one where it's like, I like the spot with Newman on the entrance ramp, the leap in our section, really like that, that was big too.
• 54:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he had really hard.
• 54:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he took some...
• 54:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: big bumps, you know, from his own offense in this match.
• 54:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, even before any of that.
• 54:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, I tried to Newman for, you know, trying some, trying a lot of cool stuff.
• 54:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like this is just one where some of it just didn't land.
• 54:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's not, you know, generally I've been a fan of Newman's work.
• 54:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: The last six, you know, six months or so since he kind of changed up his style, but this is one of just kind of felt like they never really had like the great chemistry.
• 55:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe if it would have just been a full match, we wanted to be thinking about that opening segment, you know, so much because they didn't have to skip to the end,
• 55:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, with the way they were kind of structuring it and the way the beginning kind of when it's like it It never it just never hit that next year.
• 55:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so overall though like it's a good show.
• 55:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah You know very up and down the booking was interesting especially like I know the tight titles is my big the one I didn't really love But you know, it's a good show.
• 55:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, definitely I feel like it might have been a lot more fun in person than at home
• 55:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can see maybe people watching on TV not enjoying as much, but I loved it.
• 55:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is my first new Japan show in Japan, so pretty tough to not have a great time.
• 55:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: How many shows you've been to in America, by the way?
• 55:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: About like three, four, five something like that.
• 55:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: G1 Dallas, Wendy City Riot, one year, couple smaller shows.
• 55:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this one, right.
• 55:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, obviously the comparison is crazy.
• 55:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's night and day.
• 56:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: The crowd, the Japanese crowds here are just awesome.
• 56:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty much, I've always said, like, the moment you go to a Japanese show it ruins America when it's free forever.
• 56:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I had that same thought.
• 56:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 56:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you don't never get that back basically, like, you know, the lack of people making fucking jokes the entire show and all those stupid shit we do in America, but yeah, just obviously, you know, people who I feel like, I always feel bad making the like, you should go recommendation because obviously some people just can't afford to go.
• 56:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
• 56:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you can't afford to go,
• 56:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: you should go.
• 56:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's really much, but I always say too.
• 56:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because like going, anyone who's being in a Japanese or something may have to be listening to this podcast, you really need to experience like being in a Japanese crowd.
• 56:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like whatever, if you have any other hangups about it, you know, the language or whatever, like do not worry about it.
• 56:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Especially big cities you're not gonna have any issue.
• 56:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, Ali, who are just what it speaks, less Japanese than either one of us need, but he's totally fine.
• 56:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean really I don't even know that much myself.
• 57:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I joke that I mean my Japanese is so we must end and I got to say I must and that's 90% of it but people you know be happy to help you and work your way through it so don't don't be intimidated by that.
• 57:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 57:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, definitely worth coming out for, um, and yeah, I still, I'm talking here like, I don't know, it feels like this is like a peak of the trip and I still have two fucking weeks here.
• 57:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 57:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, two full fucking weeks.
• 57:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, really don't even have to feel like I'm leaving anytime soon because, you know, like next week is one of the next Sunday after we talk.
• 57:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: or next Saturday if we talk for the conversion, that will start finally.
• 57:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're kind of hitting that might be kind of like the peak in the air.
• 57:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: You still have more left, but yeah, that might be the peak.
• 57:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we still have two weeks to go.
• 57:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 57:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, how did I get to the hour at least?
• 57:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, pretty close, pretty close.
• 57:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
• 57:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Feel like when they when they add their add the theme song and add the ads And everything add the padding will get to the hour.
• 57:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's fine.
• 57:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like releasing under our podcast for some reason.
• 58:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's very like Probably just a weird Fucking tank of mine but it just feels weird to do that Anything else we can mention for you could out here.
• 58:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I Don't know actually.
• 58:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're good Anything you want to plug in
• 58:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, not really.
• 58:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 58:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Should I make your domain link your Twitter on the description right now?
• 58:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm, I'm, I'm our money shoe.
• 58:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Our money shoe exchange.
• 58:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think my, my user names are money shoe.
• 58:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think I follow you.
• 58:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
• 58:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
• 58:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 58:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: On there on Twitter and in good scores.
• 58:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 58:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 58:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tell them it's the joke about Suzuki Instance Survivor.
• 58:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, so that's my bio is Suzuki Incident Cerraras.
• 58:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was at the dynamite when Minoru Suzuki fought John Moxley, and they cut his music off and they were, you know, people uproar bad.
• 58:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: I forget I remember there was one account.
• 58:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: That kind of became a meme.
• 58:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think calling it the Suzuki incident.
• 58:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'd say I'm a Suzuki incident server.
• 58:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did that song yesterday in karaoke and it was like that product of the story where like I was there.
• 59:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is wrestling history.
• 59:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Was that in Cincinnati?
• 59:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was.
• 59:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was.
• 59:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was obviously machu sometimes.
• 59:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: he mocksly who's in that video they play forever now that shitty tattoo I saw a guy on Twitter today who actually tried to say he had one of the best IDV ratings in recent history I was like what the fuck were you watching yeah I like to drink whatever that guy's
• 59:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright folks, so you can follow us on Twitter at Russell McCasay, wrestling with not fit.
• 59:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can follow me on BlueSky, I just want M.B.
• 59:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: 300 episodes.
• 59:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even talk a lot about last week, I guess, but like my god.
• 59:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: What did I do with my life?
• 59:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did three hundred and nine years and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and three hundred and
• 1:00:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: going to have to wake her up now because I got I'm fucking hungry.
• 1:00:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right folks, I already did everything else, but yeah, thank you for listening.
• 1:00:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred episodes crazy if you've actually been around since the start.
• 1:00:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you've been around since the relaunch, you know, I really appreciate you, you know, jumping the discord.
• 1:00:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think of yours.
• 1:00:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't give a sick of things because we're fucking out, but, you know, let me know.
• 1:00:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and yeah, we back next week.
• 1:00:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: So me and Matt, again, saved you for starting the conversion, which always actually brings you to the top of the cork in the cork because you watched it.
• 1:00:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't watch it.
• 1:00:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was I was nursing a hang of her so I didn't get out there.
• 1:00:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I could do it till fairly close to show time, but really good show.
• 1:00:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Great artist title match, great tag title match.
• 1:00:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: The big news was Momo Watnabe coming back.
• 1:00:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think she's going to be back in the conversion.
• 1:00:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's
• 1:00:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: your typical startup high energy you know cork in crowd was super hot into everything and it really set up the paper view also on top of the good matches yeah I have to watch that may I try to watch on the shinkansen or something oh yeah I can come back on Wednesday
• 1:01:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Totally worth it.
• 1:01:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so because I mean the artist match you said it was even better than the last one I love the one last I think so I love the one last I think it might be the best one since that the one that melts or gave five stars to the The five star me you match that so I think it might be the best one since that.
• 1:01:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it was it was a point I and a unit mom right.
• 1:01:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, that I mean that does I'm sure it was great
• 1:01:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I won't give away too much for you, but you have a big big big performance from IA, she really has stole the show.
• 1:01:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, what's the tag that I'm actually good to?
• 1:01:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was good, I think maybe the crowd was a little burned out after the artist's match, and then it got you got to go, and once it got in the second half, it was good.
• 1:01:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they didn't quite hit the same high, but it's still, I mean, it's a good match that you'd expect from this work.
• 1:01:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all right, folks, I already did all the other stuff so I can get out of here now.
• 1:01:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got thank you for listening, and we will see you next time.