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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack mcarna, s
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Speaker 1 (02:34):
Produce folks.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
We've been a little boy this year. Every name, it's
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Speaker 1 (03:07):
He left Christmas Show The Unwrapping Part four twenty twenty
five and Co Chairman together in person, allowing the warmth
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Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's right. Hand it over hard, right, back and let's
see who's delivering punishment. Do you want to open this one?
This one needs a cutting device, a blade of sorts. Yeah, brother,
you see what I have on d here with one
of the razors due to maybe maybe you have to Yeah,
it's funny who has sissors anymore?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Scisors are always the hardest things to keep where they
used to be.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Let me just put it that way. Yep, they always
they always home.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
This is where the scissors go, and then Eric always
have to go looking for them.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
We'll use a pen brother, what you changed the book
and do what you're doing? Change creative?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's not it's not the pencil though.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Brother, pens is a little bit more intense. Dude.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
So yeah, like you said, Oliver, uh yeah, it looks
like gout of California. Ye, our homie on the West coast.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
That.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Best coast. Ah, he's got a library library for you, boy.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Take a look. Here. We've got three volumes.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
K Fabe Chaos, The Unknown Critic. Yes, I've heard about
the Unknown Critic featuring what.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
What do we got? Wow?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
There we go tell them what it says?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I know? Featuring the Lapsed Fans Greatest Hits motherfucker.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
We find ourselves threaded into literature and books constantly because
of the impact that we've had and how definitive our
voice has been about the wrestling of the past.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
You know, you can complain about us all you want,
exactly as we can. Legacy is what matters. Motherfuckers penetrating
and I need to be I don't need to be
liked now to be loved later.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Ah, fucking thumbs up from your co chairman.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Lookay, this ship, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
You already know what it is on the unwrappening. See
I'm trying to find us. But he said, this is
from the unknown credit cut. We've corresponded with this fine gentleman. Yes,
and he's good. What is kape? The best feuds? These
are feuds?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay? So I got an NWB O versus w stud
Jarry lol e versus Andy Kaufman. Are these ranked? I
guess they are ranked? Yes, they go in order. So
do you want to jump to the end and see who?
Want to see? Let's do who? In essence is the worst? Okay?
So the worst? Wow? The worst? Number one hundred was

(05:51):
d X versus the McMahon's from thousand six. Yes, and
then we go back to number one. These are so great.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
What a great idea for books?

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Number Wow, number one? What do you think it is?
Number one? What? Let's just make number one category the
number one pro wrestling feud that made us believe Steve
Austin Verspreheart close get a half right, Steve Austin ers Inzikman. Yes, yes,
that is correct, Yes, And I would say, you know
that certainly had a leg up in most ways. You'd

(06:20):
metur great feuds over Brett and Steve Longevity. Really yeah,
I would. But also in the idea of the you did,
I would admit I did believe that there was some
animosity between Steve Austin and Finzickman and.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Just a business impact.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I mean, you can totally the most.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So this is so cool. So so the unknown critic
who penned all these books, you know, threads us in
quite a bit and into many of them. We have
Slam Past Slamtastic Stupidity, the unkown critics of blistering commentary
on Pro Wrestlings one hundred most Outrageous Gimmicks. We also
have the unknown critic presents Channelmania, Cable TV's Rise and Fall,
and the one hundred show that made the medium taking

(07:03):
a look, you know, sort of view an outside the
the auspices of wrestling. But here the Unknown Critic presents
Enhancement Talent, a glorious tribute to pro wrestling's job guys
and mikeel Ooh. He has an entire chapter here called
Last Legends how the Lapsed Fan podcast enhances wrestlings forgotten stories.
He writes, Ladies and gentlemen, pause the tape on your

(07:24):
Superstars of Wrestling vhs and lendoneer to a different kind
of squared circle symphony. In the pages of Enhancement Talent,
we've celebrated the jobbers and mike men who've built wrestling's
golden eras stories of wrest Okay, it's the okay, let
me let me pick that up. I didn't know if
I was going to go on a tangent there. We've
celebrated the jobbers and mike men who built wrestling's golden

(07:45):
eras guys like Barry Horowitz who sold a pile driver
like it was armagedin, and voices like grillamon one I know,
I don't want to close my eyes. That's the problem.
That was good too, who sold the pile driverings aren't again,
and voices like grillaman Soon, who made every squash match
feel like a main event. But there's another enhancer out there,
a modern maestro, spinning tales of wrestlings past with the

(08:06):
passion of a Monsoon call in the presision of an
arrowoodz bump. It's The Lapsed Fan podcast, Yes, a seven
hour plus odyssey into the heart of wrestling's lore. If
jobbers and announcers are the unsung heroes of the ring,
then the Lapsed Fan is the unsung barred of the airwaves,
resurrecting the stories of wrestlings, forgotten soldiers, for fans who've

(08:27):
lapsed but never lost the love.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Picture this.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's twenty fifteen and wrestling fandom is a fractured landscape.
The attitude era is gone, k fabes and Memory, and
the ww networks of digital time machines fitting out pay
per use in the eighties and nineties. Enter The Lapsed Fan,
a podcast born from the ashes of wrestle Zone dot
Com or Encarnacion Sorrow to college buddies with a shared
obsession decide to dissect archived shows with a mix of
reverence and any reverence. Their mission to revisit every wrestling medium,

(08:59):
star Case, Answer River series, peeling back the curtain on stories,
backstage drama, and the magic of madness that defined wrestling's heyday.
With episode stretching longer than a Rick Flair Iron Man match,
they've earned a cult following, a Patreon paycheck and an
odd for Best Wrestling Podcast in the Sports Podcast Awards.
But it's not for the run time that makes them special.
It's their neck for enhancing the past, much like the Jobbers.

(09:20):
We've sounds like pros to me, and we want to
thank Oliver heartily for these great tones from the unknown
critic let the lapsed bookshelf, which is right behind me.
That is massive expand that is massive. Well, we want
to thank you very much for joining us once again
for this one of a kind ride, the most cherished

(09:40):
holiday tradition and alive podcasting. The TLF Christmas Show, The
Unwrapping four continues.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
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