Greetings, co Chairman. I understand you're taking testimonials from fans and the TLF
Solar System about their experiences the last ten years or so with this, as
you say, this fucking cast. So I thought i'd add my thoughts to
the testimonials I've already heard. I've actually done a bit of research here for
mine, got back to the exact dates, so I can sort of cover
it from against end. Really, I didn't actually listen to the cast in
the very beginning back in twenty fourteen. I didn't know about it, unfortunately
until twenty and seventeen. Gone back through my records, and the very first
time I listened to TLF was March the third, twenty seventeen. At the
time, I was working shifts, so I do earlies or lates, and
sometimes in middle shift as well. They were all missing from that time.
So an early shift was being office for seven you finished at like half one
two o'clock. Late shift is for sort of like eleven o'clock, finished at
seven. Nothing too difficult. I got asked once to cover somebody on a
late shift, but I was going to go in after the middle shift's lunch
break, so i'd have to go untill like two o'clock in the afternoon.
And I got this phone call just as I'm leaving the gym at half past
six in the morning back in twenty seventeen, and I suddenly thought, well,
I'm trying to get myself healthy. You know, something's never changed.
I still am all these years later. So I'm going to go for a
walk when I get back. I'll just go literally, get a jacket on,
get some water in a bag, and just go for a four or
five hour walk before I start work. So this is, you know,
March time. Daylight's a little bit better. It started to come out of
winter and stuff here where I live, so it's like, okay. So
I put some podcasts on my iPod and I've been looking for once from an
era where I was a fan, and basically I found one. I don't
even didn't realize it was TLF util. I listened to it, but it
was one about Slambered nineteen ninety eight. So that was my first episode of
the cast, and I put it on my iPod. I literally went for
a walk. I've got the screenshot here of the route I took that day.
I left at seven oh six am and I got home back to my
apartment where I used to live at twelve twenty nine, just enough time to
basically get showered and go to work for two o'clock. So I was basically
out walking for nearly five and a half hours, which was a good little
stroll according to this seventeen point sixty five miles. So I put this on
and I'm listening to this Samburary ninetyeight. Of course, I've never heard Tea
Left at this point, so I'm thinking to myself, Okay, this is
interesting. It in like a recap of the times, and they're going over
the timeframes and what's happening in the news and for all the sheets and stuff,
and I'm thinking, great, this is exactly what I want because I
do a lot of these long walks even now in twenty twenty four. So
it's good to have these podcasts that just you know, can help you pass
the time of day. You know, you can listen to six hours you're
still walking, and it's great. So I'm thinking, okay, this is
six hour odd podcast about Slammering ninety eight, right up my street, and
about an hour into it, I'm suddenly thinking, okay, they're doing impressions,
and there's one in there I hadn't hear obviously Sumer Sam ninety two year
but there's one there a bulldog doing the stand man. I'm fucked, and
I'm just laughing. I'm walking along this trail hanging out to the sort of
southwest corner of the island where I live here in Jersey, and I'm laughing
my head off and I'm just like, Okay, this is a bit different,
but I love it. And there was a line in there which I
still remember this day, which I think was a wise crack from the Boss
where it says, oh, it's a beef stew heart or something of that,
and I just like, ah, yeah. So the thin it was
when we laughed was I listened to this episode all the way from when I
started my walk. It's all the way I got home, and the episode
was so long it still wasn't finished. That's when I got home. I
thought, this podcast is where it's at, and I said that was March
twenty seventeen, and I basically started listening to the new episode as they came
out, but also started working my way through the back catalog and just kind
of going back through old episodes I would listen to. I was a fan
originally back in the early nineties. Obviously, like a lot of people disappeared
for the sort of midnighties lull and then sort of started to come back once
to see you know, ws WWF war started heating up. So we started
with my brother and I started watching in the summer of ninety seven. So
all the ninety seven stuff you guys were doing that year was was phenomenal for
us because you know, that's right, a past sort of you know,
memory of the beers when it was great, you know yours sa it used
to be better, It used to be better back then. And yeah,
I've been a fan ever since, as you know from my letters to your
yourselves, you know, I've well, I moved to Finland and now divorced,
came back from there, had the cast with me the entire time I
lived there, because it was just you know, sorting to keep me saying
when you're trying to get to the g at five in the morning and it's
pitch black and it's minus ten and all that sort of stuff. But I
still listen pretty much every day. I now walk to work four and a
half miles four times a week apart from Wednesdays, I walk every day and
most mornings it's usually episode of the cast on there. If it's not the
newest episodes, it's the boat going back for the back catalog. I actually
went back and started again from episode one sometime I think last year. I
think in the summer of last year. I'm currently up to Summerstam ninety seven,
so again right back into the same sort of area where I started back
in twenty seventeen. But yeah, podcasts is absolutely fantastic for me. I've
recently gone and lost myself something something in the region of two hundred and twenty
five pounds I believe it is. I can't remember the exact figure, but
in ketograms is one hundred and five. So I've been doing like these long
walks to work and on the coast here I've done the sort of cliff pathwalks
such a five six hours hours at a time. You just need anpisode of
two left, that's all you need. You can go for a walk.
Sometimes sometimes when you go at certain times that you don't see another person,
so you're just having a walk on this you know, steep path with the
stairs going up and oping and you're just you know, walking on into this
podcast about twenty five year old wrestling shows and just laughing yourself silly at these
crazy anecdotes. So yeah, it's perfect for me and what I need.
I will say I did make a little bit of a list in terms of
my favorite bits in the cast, just off the top of my head that
I could remember, and there's a lot of them. I'll try not to
take this make this take too long, but I've basically written them down in
note form, so I'm just goinging to elaborate on my own notes here,
so in no particular order. Elapsed Vince one. Of course, there'll be
one of these in here. I can't be what episodes that these are from
a lot of them, I can try, but this one is a note
from laps Vince being very pissed off that Jr. Was at ringside quote smoking
meat and having a smoker runn while he was commentating. That always made me
a lot of my head off. The classic from World War three ninety five,
I believe the Kevin Suvlan Kevin Sullivan out there shoveling snow is always funny.
This one a very early one, actually, I think as a second
or third episode, possibly the first episode actually, when Jack was talking about
General Ard Nunn and his dad kept calling General General Eggnog. That made me
laugh. That recently my personal favorite ever throwaway gag, which I think I've
mentioned to you gents when we last spoke when I was on your on your
episode for my hopper pick, which was Spring Stampede ninety four, which is
from on Cented ninety five. Jack Jack's line of what kind of dressing does
John Tener like? Ava Ranch? Never not funny from Backlash two thousand Austin
at the end going to the Wendy's with Deborah asking quote, what in the
hell's a frosty sun? And what's a baked potato? Just again ridiculous from
Hallary and ha mock Night. Yeah. I listened to this one not long
ago and I was laughing on the bus at this. Jack reading out the
report from the Torch who said that the Giant had bad ribs going into this
match, but he didn't say, well from what restaurant he got them?
Classic? This next note just says, mister hitman, any appearance of laps
Davy is fantastic. This one from the Awa Journey I don't know which episode
it's from, but Jack describing Jerry Blackwell being fed virus shovel that's all my
note says, which is pretty funny. Another Role School one Vader and his
SnowCat. Again never not funny. This one always made me laugh because obviously
I was a fan back in the nighties when he was Vader's manager. But
the note just says Harley Race in his armchair, which is again from some
episode. This one. I listened to this when I was in Finland a
couple of Christmases ago on the plane coming home. I believe it's from the
nineteen eighty three AAA Christmas Pressure you guys covered a few years ago. But
the note just says Rod tront Guard in the drive through, which I think
is a reference to him going down the drive through was a short cut,
but at one mile an hour. I don't know why, but there you
go. This one. I remember listening to you I think that same trip
because it's all Christmas specials and I was there. I was there in December,
but it was from one of the episodes featuring Texas, the Texas Charactory.
You guys did a great series on where Fritz was talking about trying to
keep something quotes with the Christian crap and Kevin pipes up, you know dad,
we should have that. And there's a bit where basically Fritz kicks Kevin
and nuts, which is funny, very funny. Another one which I've heard
a few times recently, obviously covering the ninety seven journey again whenever d A
has a match, and obviously talking about you know that at the time,
disharmony. Shall we stay between these you know, these bikers and these Puerto
Rican guys and Jack Ore was a the Dira's offenses opening with an alt right
hand. What was funny. This next one is when I remember listening to
the first time I heard it again on the bus going home and laughing quite
hard. Which was the now classic description of Whyland Mercy and his average day
and his four hour walk to the grocery store. Yeah, very very funny.
Also this one here the Summer Slam two thousand and five classic of Hogan
knocking off Vince's headset, which was fantastically done. I remember listening to that
when I was walking my dog when I first heard it, and and lictually
out walking my dog on a main road with cars going by just laughing myself
stupid at that. I got to pause it at one point because I was
just like, I can't hear what's being said because I'm just laughing so much.
And the last one I have here is I think from Invasion, the
Invasion two thousand and one show, which is something about a reference to the
the law Firm of I think it's Michael's Helmsley Warman, all the nash and
then Sid calls the law firm the basically complaining he's not obliged to work.
Yeah, it's just just absurd, but yes, in closing, I just
wanted to say thank you very very much providing all these countless hours of entertainment.
It's actually quite good now that we can sort of go back and sort
of find some of these jokes, because some of them are just in the
most bizarre episodes, episodes that don't even feature the characters that are in the
jokes, so it makes it doubly hard to remember what's what and where they
are. So obviously that's very useful as well. But I say thank you
very much for the for entertaining me for all these years, and congratuations on
as soon as be ten years on the air, and here's too many more
cheers, guys,