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She's a head splitting, fire spitting, human earthquake
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In honour of this month's Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall, we're joined by big lad expert @sandrethegiant.bsky.social to talk about the connections between sumo and pro wrestling. Yes, we do cover Akebono vs. Big Show.

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October 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So @grandsumobreakdown.bsky.social, if Aonishiki hits 11-4 again this tournament, is that the first or second of the Ozeki run do you think?
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bought Crazy Taxi on ebay for my Dreamcast, and as I often do when I get an old game, I checked out @hg101.bsky.social to see if they did an episode on it

They did, and now I'm obsessed with Xerxes' idea of 'Guy Fieri's Crazy Taxi'. Take me to Flavourtown! Yah yah yah yah yah
April 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Now I'm not an expert but if I'm reading it right these new rules regarding trans people in the UK is that trans women are still regarded as biological males, even if they've been through gender reassignment surgery? So, it IS possible for a woman to have a penis?? What a hateful clusterfuck this is
April 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The 2nd is Huxley, and hits real deep:

"the surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour 'righteous indignation'"
March 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I've discovered two new quotes about the world that I enjoy today. The first is Aristotle, and I feel it really touches the nerve of why when we're young, we think we can change the world:

"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope"
March 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
There's a non zero chance that Trump only picked Hegseth because it sounds like Sec-Def...
March 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fricking love sumo
March 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I feel like if Jake from @grandsumobreakdown.bsky.social has had roughly 60 one hour tutorials on banzuke construction, then he's got to be at least a banzuke sorcerer's apprentice by this point?
March 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I don't think celebrities should have any undue influence on how politics works, but if Robert de Niro hated me as much as he hates Trump, I'd be changing my ways as soon as possible
March 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I've just sat down through the Mario movie with my daughter, and I totally get all the criticisms about how it's just doing the most basic, boring, cookie cutter version of Mario, but she loves it so I totally don't know what to think
February 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wish American sports teams didn't share names. Like, do we need two Giants, or two Kings, or two Rangers, or two Cardinals?
February 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The absolute best running bit in podcasting is the @hg101.bsky.social one where poor @kaly.bsky.social is convinced he's on the first part of the pod and he's on the second part. Makes me laugh every time
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I know the general consensus is that we live in the worst time line, but we're about to watch the President of the United States criticise the Pope for being nasty to him, when the Pope has died. Trump is going to slag off the dead Pope. Mark my words
February 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I've started trying to focus on using websites a lot more instead of parsing through social media for stuff I'm interested in. Algorithms are so broken these days
February 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So Til that Henry Ford, great American industrialist, published a series of virulent antisemitic papers called 'The International Jew', of which old Adolf had a copy and was a big fan...

I mean, wow...
February 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I despise the fact that I have all these games that thanks to the lack of backwards compatibility for them on Xbox One, I can't play anymore without getting a 360.
February 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Finished listening to the @retronauts.bsky.social eps on Golden Axe, made me really want to fire up the Mega Drive and get back into it. I always sucked at it but maybe I'll be better now??
February 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
After listening to the @retronauts.bsky.social episode on Grapple Dog 2, I bought the first one on my Switch and it is excellent fun. Looking forward to finishing it and then trying the sequel. Thanks for the recommendation @stuartgipp.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Oh my word @shoogles.bsky.social Lava Reef. Lava Reef has the best music in a Sonic game. There is a vocal OC Remix version of the song that I've linked below. The level is a masterpiece of storytelling, design and audio. Perfection

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OC ReMix #1465: Sonic & Knuckles 'Lover Reef' [Lava Reef Zone: Act 1] by Geoffrey Taucer, zircon...
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December 17, 2024 at 11:09 AM
@stuartgipp.bsky.social i also thought when I was a kid that the Flying Battery was flying to join up with, and power, the Death Egg
December 17, 2024 at 9:35 AM
@shoogles.bsky.social
@stuartgipp.bsky.social
@demontomatodave.bsky.social

This is the absolute best pre Christmas gift ever. One day I'm going to go full sicko and listen to the full series in one go. Absolute golden content right here
December 16, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I'm not sure if it means anything or whether the @bloodgodpod.bsky.social folks know, but for some reason this little AI thing pops up on my Castbox podcast app. I know it's not AI, but I wonder why it does that... @nadiaoxford.bsky.social @seamoosi.bsky.social @katbailey.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Blows my mind that David Attenborough has been describing animals shagging for like 50 years
November 24, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Following sumo was one of the best things I decided to do during the pandemic. It's by far the least toxic online community I've ever been a part of
November 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM