Holds to Astonish
As mentioned in our last podcast post, Paul and I have put together a special one-off wrestling-themed episode of the show, which we’ve renamed Holds to Astonish for the occasion. On this episode, we’re speaking to two of the highly entertaining peeps from CHIKARA Pro (which we’ve previously written about here) – commentator Leonard F Chikarason (co-host of excellent comics podcast The Weekly Longbox) and wrestler Kobald (who is a goblin. We’re not kidding. It’s that kind of promotion). Forewarned is forearmed, though – we try to set out as much of the essential information on Chikara as possible in our intro, and we’ve made the interviews (which follow on from the important storyline events of National Pro Wrestling Day, which you can watch the whole of for free here) as user-friendly as possible, but there may be points which are necessarily glossed over a little. For that we can only apologise, and encourage you to check out Chikara shows for more details. Also, Kobald is a goblin, so his voice is… distinctive.
There’s practically no comics chat in this episode (though we do natter to Kobald for a bit about Spider-Man) so if you’re not a wrestling person, or if you’re not interested in hearing about the only wrestling promotion that can even get me interested, then never fear – your regular episode of the show will be along this weekend.
For everyone else, the show is here, or here on Mixcloud, or available via the embedded player below. We’re also on Stitcher.com and their free iOS and Android apps, and you can find our feed, as always, on iTunes. Let us know what you think, in the comments below, on Twitter, via email or on our Facebook fan page.
There’s also super snazzy House to Astonish merch, as always, on our Redbubble store.
“though we do natter to Kobald for a bit about Spider-Man”
YAS.
Although, no H2A wrestling singlets=NO SALE.
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This was fun and a bonus. Thanks to you gentlemen and the guests.
Not related to this particular podcast, but comic news that I thought might prove of interest.
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That was class. Really great insightful chat from both of them (Kobald…what a voice!).
It was pretty ballsy from Chikara to take an extended break from shows, so I hope this ‘relaunch’ works out well for them. Like was mentioned plenty in the interview, it is simply good FUN. Wrestling being scripted means that you can theoretically have all sort of ridiculousness, so it is great to see Chikara embrace that literally anything can happen.
Quack did a really interesting interview with f4w talking about his views of wrestling as performance art.
Hey Guys,
I loved the episode, it was a lot of fun, and I thought you overcame the skype tech’ problems with grace.
Going to re-post it around on FB.
I wouldn’t mind more podcast coverage of DIY/pro wrestling. Like a quarterly roundup?
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