Hello everybody and welcome to episode 21 of the Eggshells podcast companion.

This is an audible companion to Eggshells Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Doma, a book that goes into

deep detail on every single wrestling event that's ever taken place inside of Japan's most famous stadium.

My name's Chris Charlton and in this podcast we take a look at a different year in Tokyo Dome history with a different guest each time.

This time we're looking at 2009 and my guest this time from Voices of Wrestling Super

J-Cast, It's Joel Abraham. Hello, it's an absolute honor and a pleasure, Chris, to be involved.

I'm so happy you invited me on, but I'm going to level with you.

I haven't watched Wrestle Kingdom 3.

We've got no interest in it.

I accepted your invitation to the show solely to argue

with you about Shenmoo for an hour.

Oh, fuck. You just sort of checked whether it was okay to swear before he came on and I said it's okay because now you just made

made swear before he came on and I said it's okay because now you just made me swear about

Sheme geez.

I'm guessing that you don't want to come with me on my tour of double Eta this January.

No, no, Shenmui is bad for all sorts of reasons. I say that.

It's okay. It's okay to like different things as I'm finding out doing a podcast some people can get

very defensive when you say you don't like something that they like.

The correct thing to like is the Akazah games obviously.

Yeah, I've been told about them. I've been told to try Yaku Zazir, which are people keep telling me is a superior version of Shenmlu.

This is, I mean, we're sort of completely diving off the rails of this podcast already.

But like, Yax is amazing, because it's like,

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