Cruel Summer #22: Kazuchika Okada vs. Karl Anderson (2012) w/ Wai Ting
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🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
WH Park once again welcomes Wai Ting to Cruel Summer to discuss the finals of NJPW’s 22nd annual G1 Climax tournament: Kazuchika Okada vs. Karl Anderson from August 12, 2012.
WH and Wai talk about what differences they notice between the New Japan of 2001 and 2012, how they feel about keeping track of points and tie breakers in the G1, the game of pachinko and gambling in Japan, and if Anderson benefitted from being in the Bullet Club in the long run.
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WH Park and a special guest look back at the finals of every NJPW G1 Climax tournament in Cruel Summer, a limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling. New episodes every Saturday and Sunday morning.
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| 0:00.0 | And Hello everyone and welcome to episode 22 of Cruel Summer, our look back at each and every G1 climax tournament finals |
| 0:26.0 | from the years 1991 to 2018 and episode 22 is covering the 2012 G1 climax featuring Kuzichka Okata versus Carl Anderson in the finals from |
| 0:39.3 | Budakon Hall on from August 12, 2012. And joining me today is a return guest. He is co-hosting this show |
| 0:48.2 | along with pretty much everything else on pro wrestling.com, he is is weighting way how are you today |
| 0:54.2 | I'm doing very well it's a pleasure to be back 22 episodes already damn my |
| 1:01.1 | congratulations to you you you're I would consider this sort of the home stretch. |
| 1:05.0 | Is this a home stretch? I got like six more episodes of this left. |
| 1:10.0 | I will say I've enjoyed doing them and I enjoy watching the matches. I don't like |
| 1:15.7 | necessarily doing note-taking right I'm just I just hate writing believe it or not I hate |
| 1:22.2 | writing I enjoy writing. I enjoy writing, but I hate sitting down to write. |
| 1:26.0 | It's the part where I have to motivate myself to actually sit in front of my computer and just think creatively and then just start typing. |
| 1:33.2 | Once I finish it, I'm like, I'm happy with it, like, you know, all the previews I do for the |
| 1:37.9 | site about, you know, Best of Super Junior's Champions Carnival. |
| 1:41.0 | I just did the, as of this recording, I just did the as of this recording I just finished the G1 |
| 1:45.1 | Climax 2019 preview that's up on the site right now but it's just sitting down |
| 1:50.8 | motivating myself is the hard part because I'm like I want to watch some TV I want to watch some wrestling |
| 1:57.0 | And I got to go I got finish this preview I got to finish this article I'm writing or I got to finish this something else I'm writing you know what I mean? |
| 2:05.2 | Yeah. Yeah I do I mean are you specifically talking about watching a match and taking notes at the same time or just writing in general. |
| 2:14.0 | Just writing in general, but like note taking during matches is really annoying for me because |
| 2:19.8 | I don't know how anyone else does it, but use a notepad I'm old school I use a |
| 2:24.3 | no pad in a pen and I just like okay write something down and then my my handwriting is |
| 2:30.0 | so indecipable when I'm doing shorthand. |
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