The Miracle Apricot Podcast

In these unprecedented times, Connor and Luke descend to the basement for a furtive look at the Fu-Ten Promotion, Daisuke Ikeda's low down and dirty follow-up to Battlarts. On the slate this week: mapping the puroresu undercommons, how to match presentation style to crowd size, and why people are calling Daisuke Ikeda the "Céline Sciamma of shoot-style pro wrestling".

Match link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB8fDbhdxvU&feature=youtu.be
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Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: Wavin' Flag by K'NAAN

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Hana Kimura (1997-2020)

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This week, we go into an era that is oft-passed over, the "dark ages" of josh parrosu, as we look at a match from AtoZ's first anniversary featuring a previously-looked at wrestler in Kana as well as the entire reason for this podcast existing in the future Natsuki Taiyo. Find out what they used to call GAMI back in the day right here

Match link: https://youtu.be/l9Brfiagur8?t=385
REMP: rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: Lowdown by Ronald Langestraat

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This week Connor and Luke wave a fond farewell to the CubsFan archive, consider how to grow old gracefully in the wrestling business, and wax lyrical over the raw match-escalating ability of "fundamental dickhead" Rush........en Arena México!!

Match link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuumEWXwPs&feature=youtu.be
REMP: rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: LaLaLa Koppepan by Lucky Star

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This week, the camera at Takeover cuts to, oh my, Indie legends Connor and Luke in the crowd!! What could this mean for the NXT title scene??
This is a discussion of a good match as well as an opportunity to talk about just what role WWE plays in all of our fandoms. Including all those fancy stages they don't do anymore

Match link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4v5t2h
REMP: rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: The Sun Rises by Rei Kondo

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WELCOME! TO WRESTLEMANIA! In this extra-special bonus episode Luke and Connor saddle up for the Showcase of the Immortals, discussing highlights and lessons learned from the past few weeks of weird empty-arena wrestling, heaping praise on the Boneyard Match and eventually getting round to reviewing what is surely the only main event in Wrestlemania history to go under 5 minutes. Yee haw!

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This week, Connor and Luke pay another visit to the weird and wonderful world of Shoot Style with a choice cut from FIGHTING DETECTIVES BATTLARTS. Discussed within: The value of character work in even the most "realistic" of presentations, the way in which the discursive value of a wrestler can end up obscuring their actual qualities, and just what Yuki Ishikawa has to say to these clods who think wrestling ain't real.

Match link: https://youtu.be/NneE0PzN1kE?t=4620
REMP: rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: Theme One by Cozy Powell // Son by Juana Molina

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This week sees a look at an unlikely candidate for this podcast: All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling! The legacy of this promotion, its changes in style, an examination of specifically Manami Toyota; Whether she is a good wrestler or a demon. All this and much more this week on At The Movies!

Match link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bU-oXPnFo&t=596s
Connor's other venture, REMP: rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: (You Gotta) Fight For Your right (To Party) by Beastie Boys // Rainbow Road by Kenta Nagata

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This week sees our first trip to Mexico, and it's an occasion to reflect on the vexed subject of realism in pro wrestling. PLUS! We pay tribute to the art of crowd-work, learn a new slang term for "armchair socialist", and discuss why companies should be putting their top title on Yuki Miyazaki if they want to shoot for real mainstream appeal.

Match link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CphJvKrLTtU&t=4558s
Connor's other venture, REMP: http://rotteneramemorypodcast.libsyn.com/

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: Glossopharyngeal Speech/Frogsound by Harm A. Drost // The Sex Life of the Fern -Spores, fertilization and growth -Pine cones and the petrified forest by Edward Williams

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REJOICE! SEASON 2 OF THE HIGH SPEED WRESTLING PODCAST IS HERE AT LAST!

For this first episode back, Connor and Luke take a trip to Ice Ribbon, where adulterous rumblings are afoot...What are the secrets behind the Tokyo Sports 2018 Joshi Puroresu Grand Prix Award winner's mysterious rendez-vous with a married panda? Can sheer animal power overcome the wrestling skills of a company Ace? And what does Dixie Carter's husband Serg have to do with any of this?

Match link: https://rutube.ru/video/20063841a96c13445c003bbafe4ec6c1/
Connor's VK: vk.com/videos458416377

Opening Credits Theme: Watashi no Nakano Tanin by YAPOOS
Closing Credits Theme: Mimichan to Pandakopanda by Ado Mizumori

Thanks to Johnny Landmine for translation help & to Matt Slade for design assistance

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“The longevity of a lucha legend and the consistency of one too.” That’s how one of our guests once described Sakura Hirota, the comedy wrestler and stalwart of the post-AJW Japanese women’s wrestling scene, who debuted in GAEA Japan 23 years ago this summer.

In this episode, Luke, Connor and Tara dive into a cross-section of Hirota’s matches from GAEA and a range of other promotions, and discuss a range of topics thrown up by her work. Such topics include: comedy’s lowly status in the world of art and the joys and benefits that come with that; Hirota’s revolutionary grasp of timing and selling, and the value of novelty in pro wrestling’s crowded marketplace.

The GAEA and WAVE matches we discuss, plus many more besides, are available for viewing on this YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3LT4gJQbe_OYkJ6gjkb1FAnVcAA7wCQy

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