Hello everyone and welcome to the long and winding road road. This is the podcast looking

at the greatest period of entering action in the history of professional wrestling and

that would be at least in my opinion the you know, all Japan pro wrestling of the 1990s

and this is episode 26 and joining me today is a good friend of mine, post wrestling's

own pro-res expert, Joshi expert, interviewer, expert in there, Karen Feederson, Hello Karen.

W-H-U-F-L-R-M-E. You give me fortune, which credit.

Well, you do a lot of hard work and it's it's fanned off. We gotta give you the profits

you know. Thank you so much. How are we finding ourselves on this, just for people that

were recording this on a Sunday in the afternoon and in Toronto it's quite a nice day. It's

very comfortable outside. How's Florida treating you? Florida is hot. It is summer so I have

the air conditioning cranking. I'm afraid to see my utility bill next month. It's probably

in the 30s if you guys are on Celsius but like 90s if you're on the Fahrenheit here in the United

States it is hot and humid and I'm not having it. Yeah, like I I miss Japan terribly like living there.

But I do not miss the summers there. Also say. I see people who know I fucking hate the summer.

I hate the heat and humidity. I hated going to G1 finals at Sumo Hall and I and I swore

like after the one time I think I forget which year it was. I think it's 2016-2017. The one year

I was just like I almost died because I was up at the the rafters like the I was actually in the last

the top section oh Sumo Hall and heat rise and it was full. It was packed and I was I almost died

from dehydration. It was so bad. I probably would have passed out. And I just said and I said to

the first time I was with which is Chris Charlton. I said listen I've never come back here in the summer

never and I've kept my word but when they said they were going to do the G1 finals at

Goodon Hall and I say okay as long as the air conditioning is good there I'll go and you know I get

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