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Co chairs. It's James here.
I just wanted to say congratulations on ten

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years of TLF and thank you for
everything that you guys have done over the

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ten years. It feels like it's
flowing by. If I'm honest, I

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remember when I found you boys.
I've been with you since the late the

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fall of twenty sixteen, I believe, and you guys have been a constant

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in my life ever since. I
seem to remember listening to New Gen podcast

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Attitude Era OSW quite a lot,
and whilst those guys are good, I

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remember them not giving me everything I
need, which must have been why I

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was looking for something else. And
I remember finding you guys and pressing play

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on it and seeing how long the
episodes were and thinking, what the fuck

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have you boys got to talk about
that's so good that it has to go

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on this long, and not really
being enjoying the episode that much to start

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with. But I came back,
as we all do, and I think

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the episode that you really got your
grubby little claws into me was. I

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think it might have been Survivor series
two thousand and two, because they see

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I seem to remember Vince McMahon trying
to Lapse Vince trying to convince Lapse Sean

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to return to the FED and in
doing so, convincing him to be thrown

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off the hell and the cell repeatedly. I can't remember which one it was.

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I think it a Survivor Series two
thousand and two, but either way,

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I remember thinking this Vince impression is
pretty good and finding it pretty funny,

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and then sticking with it. And
then by the time Summer Slam two

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thousand and two rolled around, you
you fucking had me. And you've been

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a constant in my listening, in
my podcast consumption ever since. Others wrestling

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or non wrestling podcasts have come and
gone. I fall by the wayside eventually,

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but you boys have been with me
this whole time. I'm very lucky

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and fortunate that, unlike some of
the other Solar System members, I haven't

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really had any real misfortune, whether
that be health wise or financial or anything

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else that might affect me negatively.
Touch would. But as far as you

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guys helping me, it's yeah,
it's unquestionable. You make me a better

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person, you really do. It's
surrealed say that about a podcast out loud,

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but with you guys in my ear
you. You make me want to

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do things. This is probably been
said to at nauseum, but not only

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do I do housework at home.
As an example, I actively get up

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and find housework to do so I
can just have ten twenty minutes with you

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in my ear. Up my ass. The grass is looking a bit long.

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Let me go get the mir out
or my wife, or I'll go

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tidy looking. No, no,
you sit down, sweet, I'll go

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tidy it just so that little AirPod
goes in the left ear and I get

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a little bit of time with you. Boys. You you have been with

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me through so many things since since
I started listening to you. You're the

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overarching thing in my life. You
were with me when I met my now

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wife. You're with me when I
decided to change and then train for a

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new career. You've been with me
through traveling to work during work. You've

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been with me while I've bought a
house, sold a house, bought my

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new dream house which I'm about to
move into. You've been with me when

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I got married, the birth of
my son. You've been with me through

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the good to the great, and
whilst, like I said, I haven't

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really struggled with anything major touch wood. My mental health is only as healthy

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as it is is because you guys
just block out the shit and you're just

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there making me smile, making me
laugh, making me think. Then,

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yeah, it's as simple as that. You have as much as that dick

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sucking is from me to you,
you have ruined media for me a little

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bit. I'll openly admit to that. When someone recommends me a podcast or

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a documentary dark Side of the Ring, for example, if you take that

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now, I'm sure that's good.
The episodes I've seen are good. But

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if you're not four hours plus,
fuck off, because what are you going

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to bring to me that the lapse
fan hasn't already done? Right? When

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I see documentaries and they're fifty nine
minutes, what are you doing other than

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fucking lip service, give me what
I need and go deep or don't be

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a thing. Okay, So you
guys have ruined many things for me,

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but only because you're so damn fucking
good. You are that good that,

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in fact, I openly admit to
listening to you a wrestling podcast. Now,

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I think we can all agree and
understand that's not something we typically do

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as wrestling fans. As the lowest
of the low. To digress slightly,

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I work with a guy who's very
heavily into what's the fucking game Dungeons and

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Dragons? And he talked to me
about a podcast he's listening to, and

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I like people that are interested in
different things and are passionate about it.

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And he asked me he got so
deep into Dungeons and Dragons, the law

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of it, how he plays,
how he runs games, and he asked

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me what I was into and I
was like, oh, I feel safe

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enough, and I said I used
to be and kind of now back into

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wrestling. And the look he gave
me was like, I'm fucking scum on

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his shoe. So if you ever
want to know where we are at in

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the hierarchy of coolness below Dungeons and
Dragons, they look down on us.

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That being said, I openly admit
because it's you. I'm listening to The

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Lapse Fan. It's a five hour
plus episode about wrestling. Not only do

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I admit to it, to my
wife, to my friends, to her

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friends, to colleagues at work.
I recommend you, at nauseam to people

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wrestling fans or other ones, ones
that want to find a new podcast,

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give this a go Ah, I
don't like that, fine, sure you

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will like it. We all end
up liking it. Trust me, take

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a step away for a couple of
weeks, you will be back. So

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I'm out there spreading the gospel,
spreading the good word. You have percolated

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into my everyday life. I'm probably
not the only one to say this and

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will say this, but I say
brother at least fifty times a day now.

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Driving home from work today, the
fuelight came on to say, I've

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got fifty miles left in my van. Brother. That kind of stuff forever,

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as soon as someone gets hung and
people look at me like I'm fucking

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mental because they don't get it,
and they look at me like what mental

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disability does he have? But me, I'm cracking up inside when someone says

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a lad just recently got a pay
rise where I work because they finished some

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training. And I asked him,
who's giving him a push? Snook a

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push? This kind of shit,
and he's looking like, excuse me,

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I'm leaving now, And in my
head, I'm the funniest person in the

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world. I walk around the house
and a proper of nothing, just heaven

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newt and just cut it short.
Well, I'm going downstairs now to strike

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my cat, and I'm going to
make a cup of tea. Charlotte,

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do you want anything? I'm going
to wrestling like. These people don't get

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what I'm doing, and they don't
need to, because in my head it's

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absolutely hilarious. You guys are very
relatable to me. I feel like I

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need to say that I was born
in nineteen nine, sorry, ninet eighty

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six. Nineteen ninety Raw Rumble was
my first tape, my first event that

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I remember, just rinsing the fucking
granny out of over and over again,

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sitting down in the living room.
That era, nineteen ninety to ninety two,

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the colors, the glue of the
Hasbro era. It's my sweet spot,

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It's my home, nineteen ninety Raw
Rumble. Especially for the longest while

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Shavanni and Jesse Ventura were the voices
of my wrestling growing up. I could

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watch that Raw Rumble from start to
finish and probably word for word say that

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with no problem at all. I
feel that because you guys grew up like

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in a similar era and becoming lapse
at the same time, it's a very

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relatable to where I'm at. So
when I hear you talking about things,

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it's very easy to just be sitting
behind the wheel of my car or at

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work and just be not a long
going yeah yeah, speak that truth.

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I feel that kind of goes across
from many things that you guys talk about.

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When you touch on social commentary and
the state of the world right now,

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I'm right there with you social media
and whatnot. I try to avoid

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it like the plague. But like
a quick aside is like I remember being

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younger with a or with a we
never had sky Sports over in England.

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Pay per views used to be on
Sky Sports and I never had that growing

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up. So family friends would tape
pay per views for me and then send

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them in the mail, and I
was watching them that way, and that's

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how I'd keep up to date with
pay per views. TV was fine,

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raw was fine. But the anxiety
of one hoping they remember to tape it,

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two hoping that the tape didn't just
malfunction halfway through, and three that

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they then send the tape and it
reaches me and doesn't end up somewhere else.

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That anxiety is something that people who
suffer with anxiety today won't never experience,

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right. And then when you finally
get that tape after waiting a week,

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a week and a half, two
weeks, and then you get it

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and you hold it in your hands. I remember coming home every day,

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is the tape here? No?
No, sorry, sweetheart, No is

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the tape here? No? No
no. And then when you finally get

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home, it's and you watch it
not once, not twice, three four,

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five times that first day, and
then you come back the following day

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and you watch it again, and
then you write down the results, and

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then you write down what you would
have done, and you do whatever you

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need to do. No one's doing
that now, are they. You stream

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something, you probably don't finish it
because you need something else, new and

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immediate, and that kind of gratification. I'm trying. I'm hoping to get

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my son into it a little bit
as he gets older, with like wrestling

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figures I collected him. I hope
he will too. And we're not going

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to just go on Amazon and buy
it because it's so direct, and we've

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got them in Smith's Toys here,
and it'd be one of those where we'd

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go and write pick one out and
we'd only get the ones that we can

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find. Maybe teach him a thing
or two about just not this instant gratification

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bullshit. Yeah, I mean I
could go on and on for ages with

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you boys, I won't, even
though I could easily. I'm sorry it's

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so long. Now. A couple
of passing thoughts I think you might enjoy.

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I once wrote an email I didn't
actually get to send. I deleted

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the note accidentally. It was going
to be one about wrestling toys or around

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a Christmas time and my Hasbro Glube
Federation and how I booked it, and

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a couple of things that I remember
from that that I think you might like

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is I gave Virgil a very long, successful Intercontinental title run. I thought

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his whilst his figure wasn't mechanically the
best, I liked it and that was

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enough for me. And I thought
he's enough of an underdog, but enough

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of it like a good guy to
warrant a really long title run. I

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remember having two earthquakes and painting one
to be Vader, And if you remember

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like the configuration of earthquakes hands,
if you held him by the head,

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there was enough give on my head
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you could hold it and cuff like
do the Vader cuff in the corner,

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like I remember. I remember making
those sounds whilst doing it as well,

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So it's not just that aida is
it does filter through. And I remember

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having a I remember doing a Battle
Royal which had Coco Beware in the ring,

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and in our living room we used
to have a cocktail, my mum

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and dad, and every now and
again they would close the door and windows

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and they'd open up the cage.
In the cocktail, Smokey would fly around,

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and I remember sitting there and he
would land on like high levels and

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whatnot. I remember sitting there playing
and I was down to like the final

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however many and Smoky landed in the
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which he didn't used to do,
and he sat there for about ten minutes

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or ten seconds, and I sat
there and then it freaked out and flew

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away, And I remember thinking,
do I pretend that didn't happen, or

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do I book on the fly and
use this to my advantage. So what

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I did was I had it that
kokob Ware summoned the cockatil and everyone was

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so freaked out the remaining entrance in
the Battle Royal eliminated themselves. Kokoby Ware

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won the battle oyal and I took
this to be his official hill turn,

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and he become this voodoo master and
the most despised hill in the territory.

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And he started a faction of other
voodoo people. He had Papa Shango in

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it, Jake the Snake was in
it, and the Nasty Boys were in

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it as well, and they were
this five man faction that just fucking ran

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a rough shot over the fed.
I painted his trousers black and I drew

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a evil cockatil on his trousers,
and I'm pretty certain I gave him a

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quick run with the world title.
I'm pretty sure he beat Hogan for the

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world belt. Yeah, so I'm
pretty sure at one point in time my

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weld time in my federation, the
world champion was Coco Beware and the Intercontinental

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champion was Virgil so Booker of the
Year stuff. So in closing, you

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guys truly are the best. No
one brings the energy you do, no

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one has the chemistry, the puts
in the effort that you guys do.

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And I'm not just saying that bar
none. Truly, guys, you're incredible

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at your craft. I'm not just
including wrestling podcasts and that but any podcast

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I've ever listened to, you are
heads and toes, head and shoulders above

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everyone. I wish one day I'd
be able to contribute more than I do

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and have one day that time will
come. You deserve every penny you get

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and more. Never forget that I
you mean the world to me. I

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love you, I need you.
Continue to pound my ass like you have

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done, where it now resembles a
fucking basking shark eating plankton. And here's

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to another ten years and many more. I hope this makes the feed so

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I can be immortalized on your podcast
feed forever. If it doesn't, as

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long as you guys hear it and
know how much you mean to myself and

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everyone else, that'd be great.
Love you guys. Bye,