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Rob Goodwin & independent wrestling's Matt Turner are here every Friday to review the goings on in the top Joshi company in Japan - World Wonder Ring Stardom! Join the lads as they talk about the shows and the news surrounding one of the fastest rising companies in Japan! Subscribe to the Podcast: https://linktr.ee/TheStardomCast Support our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheStardomCast Check out the Website: https://www.thestardomcast.weebly.com Buy our Merch: https://teespring.com/en-GB/ ...
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The PodMania Podcast

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Rob, Chris & Garth provide you with watch-alongs to the worst and best matches in Pro-Wrestling, spanning WWE, WCW, TNA, ROH, NJPW and so many more! Subscribe to the Podcast: https://linktr.ee/PodManiaPodcasts Buy us a Coffee: https://www.ko-fi.com/podmaniapodcastingnetwork Check out the Website: https://www.podmania.co.uk Buy our Merch: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/podmania-podcasting-network
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The Purospective Podcast

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Chris & Rob provide a monthly look back at some of the most important and exciting moments, angles and storylines in the world of Puroresu as well as reviewing the bigger moments from the current products! From New Japan to All Japan, from NOAH to Japanese stars abroad, the Purospective Podcast has you covered! New episodes on the last Sunday of every month @ 11pm BST!
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Australia's largest celebration of literature, stories and ideas. Bringing together the world's best authors, leading public intellectuals, scientists, journalists and more. Subscribe to our channel for new releases.
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She's the Murder Pixie, the High-Speed Fairy and the Cosmic Angel that puts the 'Poi' in 'SuPOIb', Rob and Matt are back with another retrospective - this time looking at Natsupoi's run in the 2023 5Star Grand Prix. From taking Syuri all the way, to fighting through the pain of her final two block matches, to drinking whiskey with Tora and everythi…
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It is a historic day indeed, with it taking over 4 years of podcasting for Rob to get a prediction correct, but it has happened, and it is a glorious day! Rob and Matt return for another large slab of Stardom goodness as they go back through the final three nights of the 2024 Cinderella Tournament. They also chat about some sickening headbutts, Rua…
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We're back for something of a monster episode this week with three shows including two PPVs to talk about. Along with that, we talk about Hanan-Mania running wild, speculate about who is following Rossy and who is staying with Stardom, wax lyrical about Natsupoi's return match, chat about a drastically shortened 5Star Grand Prix calendar aswell as …
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*THIS EPISODE WAS PREVIOUSLY A PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE, WE ARE NOW MOVING OUR RETROSPECTIVES TO THE FREE FEED WITH ONE ARCHIVED AND ONE NEW EPISODE ADDED EACH MONTH!* With us continuing to move our retrospectives to the free feed of the podcast, we look back at another in-depth championship retrospectives, one of the greatest reigns in White Belt…
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It's that time of the year again as Rob and Matt are taken to task by their better-halves who don't watch Stardom; It's Stardom Bracketology time! Join them as they try and navigate the tournament brackets, avoid voting with their hearts, review the show in Ishikawa, talk Stardom representation during Mania week and the upsurge in support for Saya …
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Join Annabel Crabb and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival program. The pair talk about the 2024 Festival theme, Take Me Away, and how books let us escape into different worlds, live other lives and travel in time and space. The 2024 Sydney Writers' Festival is out now. Head to our website to explore the p…
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Rob and Matt are back again with their usual round-up of all things World Wonder Ring Stardom this week! They chat about the Cinderella brackets, a stellar opening night PPV, Mina and Mayu heating up a frozen Sapporo crowd, Rina and Miyu's great Future of Stardom Championship match, the return of Natsupoi, the debut of Sareee and Matt analysing the…
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Rob and Matt are back with another retrospective, this time going all the way back to 2011! With Arison and JDStar folding, Rossy Ogawa, Fuka Kakimoto, Nanae Takahashi and a host of rookies under Fuka's tutelage descended on Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on January 23rd to bring you the first ever Stardom show; Birth of Nova! Subscribe to our PATREON: https:/…
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After the palaver that has been the news this week, Rob and Matt enjoy a slightly more laid back episode of the Stardom Cast, and still manage to go 2 hours! This week, they talk about the two shows from Korakuen Hall, a star-making pair of nights for Saya Iida, two fantastic title matches, completely forget to talk about Natsuko Tora's shocking re…
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Rob and Matt are back to guide you through all things Stardom this week, and in the absence of a lot of shows to talk about, there is an abundance of news to get through! They chat about the unfortunate Mayu situation, Koguma's return, a random PPV, more details dropping about Rossy-Vice Wrestling, the Tora Family, some excellent prelude tags betwe…
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With us looking to move our retrospectives to the free feed of the podcast, we begin with our first ever Patreon episode, one of the greatest reigns of one of the greatest wrestlers in Stardom's history; Io Shirai's V14 Red Belt Reign. Including her outstanding trilogy with Mayu Iwatani, incredible matches against Kairi Hojo and Meiko Satomura and …
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Well, it's certainly been a week hasn't it! With the news of Rossy Ogawa's untimely departure from the company he helped to create, Rob and Matt break all of the news down with a fine tooth comb before looking back on a fantastic PPV that unfortunately got lost in the shuffle! Subscribe to our PATREON: https://patreon.com/TheStardomCast Check out t…
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[Content warning: Child sexual abuse] Join internet darling Daniel Lavery as he lifts the lid on his writing life and Dear Prudence, a collection of the weirdest and wildest questions received during his tenure as Slate’s agony aunt. Filled with his always sympathetic, thoughtful and good-humoured advice, it offers a good dose of sense and compassi…
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The Curiosity Lecture series returns to the Festival with a line-up of our most thought-provoking speakers delivering one-time talks on topics of intrigue, interest and importance. In this entertaining talk, author Tabitha Carvan shares the story of how falling for Benedict Cumberbatch while stuck at home with two young children became an unlikely …
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*UNFORTUNATELY FOR ROB, HIS COMPUTER DECIDED TO RUIN HIS AUDIO BY RANDOMLY FLITTING BETWEEN HIS ACTUAL MICROPHONE AND THE ONE IN HIS WEBCAM WITHOUT HIM REALISING DURING RECORDING. HE HAS TRIED TO FIX IT AS BEST HE CAN BUT IT'S STILL PRETTY AWFUL AND HE APOLOGISES MASSIVELY!* Rob and Matt return to run down all the news from Stardom, including updat…
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Rob and Matt are back again to recap all of this week's happenings in the crazy world of Stardom! This week, they chat everything from a fantastic first Artist of Stardom Championship title defence for God's Eye, Fukigen Death being the most over person in Tokyo, Hanan's continued meteoric rise up the card, through to the debut of a brand-new segme…
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[Content warning: Sexual assault and paedophilia] Women and girls have long been pressured to conform to written and unwritten rules about how to think, act, look and feel. But a new generation of writers and activists are breaking down barriers to allow women and girls to show their real selves.  Hear from Wadjanbarra Yidinji, Jirrbal and African-…
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We're back to chat everything coming out of the Stardom shows from Anjo and the first show of an Osaka double header. We also talk everything from the press conference, the announcement of the Supreme Fight card, Suzu's injury, Waka's return from injury, Megan Bayne's departure, Tam's return, Thekla's potential departure, Yuzuki on a pole match and…
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Celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov has been one of the most important voices throughout the Russian invasion of his adopted homeland, releasing frequent dispatches from Kyiv and the remote countryside. See him in conversation about Diary of an Invasion, his searing on-the-ground account of the human toll of the war, the interrelated histor…
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Rob and Matt reconvene to talk all the fallout from the Korakuen and Nagoya shows, as well as announcing the winners - as voted by you - of the Stardom Cast Awards 2023! On top of this, the lads chat about the upcoming Goddess of Stardom title match, a fantastic tag team match from Korakuen, new challengers for the red and white belts, the rekindli…
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When Ghassan Hage’s seminal study on racism in Australia, White Nation, was published 25 years ago, the Cronulla riots, Christchurch massacre and Black Lives Matter movement all lay ahead. Hear from a lively panel of writers and thinkers as they consider how racism and white privilege have changed here since then and what lies ahead. Anthropologist…
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Having decided to put the quarterly Q&As and our retrospectives on the free feed from now on, we FINALLY deliver our much delayed December edition! Join as we talk our favourite indie wrestlers, matches from 2023, the future of Giulia, Matt's workout routine and more, all in the company of a special compare... Buy Rob's Stardom Book - Living The Dr…
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Happy new year from both of us here at the Stardom Cast! New year, same podcast, so much to talk about! This episode, Rob and an exhausted Matt talk about two PPVs, an early shout for match of the year, Stardom coming to Philadelphia, the dissolution of a faction, belts changing hands, the 2024 Triangle Derby, more illness and injuries, match-ups h…
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Join us on the last Stardom Cast episode of 2023, as we embark on an end of year live-stream to look back at Stardom's end of year PPV extravaganza; Dream Queendom 2023 from Sumo Hall! We'll be chatting our new World of Stardom Champion, a shock white belt result, Matt comparing Saya and doughnuts, Giulia's on again and off again relationship with …
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Rob and Matt are back for a post-Christmas celebration of Stardom wrestling as we find ourselves on the home straight to Stardom Dream Queendom! They chat everything from the new rookies, to Winggori as New Blood Tag Champions, to Christmas celebrations, to Mayu vs. Syuri at Stardom Gate and then preview the aforementioned Stardom Dream Queendom sh…
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With Rob being called into an emergency meeting at work, Matt does the final Stardom Cast episode before Christmas solo. He rounds up the final three shows of the Year-End tour, including an excellent match between Giulia/Maika & Crazy Star, and then looks ahead to the Christmas double-header that is the Year-End Climax show and New Blood 12. To ev…
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Rob and Matt are back to talk through all of the announcements ahead of Stardom Dream Queendom 2023, running down the card and all of the possible outcomes! They also review the first three shows of the Year-End Tour 2023, talk about Stardom's all-time low attendance, who should win the red belt, the cards for Year-End Climax and New Blood 12 and t…
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Australian author Holly Ringland became a publishing sensation with the release of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, a gripping coming-of-age novel that has been adapted for TV, starring Sigourney Weaver and Leah Purcell. Her latest novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, is an equally enthralling tale, tracing the far reaches of grief, courage and…
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The lads return in an uncharacteristically short episode to review Stardom's latest PPV offering in Stardom Nagoya Big Winter 2023. From Hazuki and Suzu having a predictably entertaining brawl, to Matt fitting as many musical references as he possibly can into a 20 second spell, to Rossy Vice, to AphroditE being crowned new tag champs and everythin…
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Richard Osman, bestselling novelist of The Thursday Murder Club series and king of British television trivia, talks with Sydney Writers' Festival's Artistic Director Ann Mossop in his first Australian appearance. The beloved murder mystery series has gripped readers worldwide – soaring to success as an international bestseller with over 10 million …
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Did podcasts kill the radio star – or completely revitalise storytelling for the 21st century? Join a special line-up of crime podcasters for a discussion about the rise of the medium and how it is changing journalism. They consider how the format fosters creativity and intimacy, and why it may yet rank among the most exciting cultural innovations …
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We are back once again on the march to Nagoya Big Winter 2023 with a handful of house shows and a tremendously fun Korakuen Hall show! Rob and Matt chat about the wider implications of Hanan's new theme, speculate about the Dream Queendom card, chat a fantastic Megan Bayne vs. Giulia match, the return of AphroditE and Rob gets musical in his review…
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In a special series of events, Your Favourites’ Favourites sees our most beloved writers speak with a breakout Australian author from the past year. Join globally bestselling crime novelist Jane Harper as she chats with fellow crime writer and stand-up comedian Benjamin Stevenson about the secrets to crafting a suspenseful story. They talk about th…
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The boys reunite for a huge 2 and a half hour podcast - you're welcome! Between reviewing New Blood West 1 and Gold Rush 2023, Rob and Matt also talk all the fallout from an eventful press conference that saw two titles vacated, a change in leadership at Bushiroad Fight, Giulia coming out all guns blazing in an eye-opening interview and the long aw…
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[Content warning: Explicit language] Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Booker Prize in 2013 for her sprawling Victorian mystery The Luminaries. Its keenly anticipated follow-up, Birnam Wood, is a psychological thriller set in rural New Zealand, where super-rich foreigners face off with ragtag locals on the eve of a global catastrophe…
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Matt flies solo this week with Rob nursing a migraine that is absolutely not a hangover. In Rob's absence, Matt chats about yet more injuries, the tag league finals, lists his tournament MVPs and favourite matches, talks the updated Gold Rush and New Blood cards and much, much more! Subscribe to our PATREON: https://patreon.com/TheStardomCast Subsc…
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In skilled hands, historical fiction brings the past to life in surprising ways. It also helps us make sense of our present, and even offers foreknowledge of the future. Hear from some of the country’s finest writers of historical novels – Geraldine Brooks (Horse), Pip Williams (The Bookbinder of Jericho) and emerging talent Sally Colin-James (One …
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Before Markus Zusak became an international bestseller with The Book Thief, he wrote and published the award-winning novel The Messenger. The story of a Sydney taxi driver’s extraordinary adventures, it has now been brought to television by the ABC. In this conversation about the joys and challenges of taking a beloved work of fiction to the screen…
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In the absence of many actual show uploads, Stardom decided to bombard us with news and rumours galore in what can only be described as an absolutely mental week! With just one Tag League show to review, Rob and Matt manage to fill the time talking about Giulia's apparent imminent WWE departure, Tam's injury and the future of the red belt, Megan Ba…
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A dazzling love letter to gaming and friendship, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by American novelist Gabrielle Zevin has become a word-of-mouth bestseller across the globe. It follows two university friends who become creative partners in a brilliantly imagined world of video game design, where success brings fame, joy and tragedy. Gabrielle …
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Weary of nonstop climate doom? Listen to a trio of environmental experts examine promising developments, signs of hope and viable solutions for a greener, more sustainable future. Climate scientist Joëlle Gergis (Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope), inventor and scientist Saul Griffith (The Big Switch), and environmental advocat…
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It's spooky season here on The Stardom Cast, and we are back to bring you a recap of what can only be described as one of the most bonkers shows Stardom have ever put on! This week we chat about Ram Kaichow's forced love of Thriller, Rossy Ogawa in an exploding coffin, the impending big news to come out of the Gold Rush PPV, the return of Sexy Dyna…
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Much-loved Conversations host and bestselling author Richard Fidler delves into The Book of Roads & Kingdoms, an account of medieval wanderers who travelled to the edges of the known world during Islam’s fabled Golden Age. He joins Nicole Abadee to discuss the work hailed by The Sydney Morning Herald as “a bewitching tale consisting of stories with…
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Hear from Miles Franklin Award–winning Carpentaria novelist and Waanyi nation woman Alexis Wright as she talks about her latest novel, Praiseworthy. Set in a small Australian town beset by a haze cloud that heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of ancestors, the story is rendered with the richness of language and scale of imagery f…
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A little bit later than usual due to work commitments, Rob and Matt bring you over two hours of podcasting goodness despite there only being two shows to talk about! They chat Stardom representation in the PWI250, Rob creases at the greatest/flat-out worst wrestling name in the history of the world, they praise Thekla and Mei Seira stepping up to t…
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[Content warning: Domestic violence] Award-winning and bestselling author Trent Dalton has captured readers with books like Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies and Love Stories. He has made us laugh, and made us cry, but above all, he has drawn us in to his unique world of storytelling. His new novel, Lola in the Mirror, is a darkly fun…
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Hear from acclaimed storytellers Robbie Arnott, Fiona McFarlane and James McKenzie Watson about their beautiful novels, which chart very different lives set against unmistakably Australian backdrops. Robbie’s Limberlost tells the story of a man’s journey through life, while evoking Tasmania’s diverse natural habitat. Fiona’s The Sun Walks Down unfu…
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Another week, another PPV! This week, Rob and Matt are back to talk the start of the Goddess of Stardom Tag League from Ota-Ward City Gymnasium, and chat everything from Divine Kingdom being the most badass team on the planet, FWC & Eye Contact having a stellar main event, the saddest opening ceremony in Stardom history, Matt's exploits in New York…
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[Content warning: discussions of mental health and suicide] How can we apply the wisdom of the ages to modern living? This is the question at the heart of books by Worimi storyteller Paul Callaghan and journalist and author Brigid Delaney. Paul’s The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life reveals the power of Indigenous spirituality…
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With the 5Star Grand Prix 2023 in the rear-view mirror, it's time to look ahead...to another Stardom PPV! This week, Rob and Matt chat about the Nagoya Golden Fight show that saw Kairi's last Stardom match, MIRAI and Momo go to town on each other, new champions, 5 minute title matches and a terrifying Violet Screwdriver before chatting the 1st Octo…
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