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What's good, everybody, it's your
boy, the one and only Christian Hollister,

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the OG and the World television Champion
here to give my recollections on TLF

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and to also offer my top ten
TLF episodes, my favorite episodes in the

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long and illustrous history of The Lapse
fan. So before I begin, I

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just went to just give a wonderful
thanks and praise to Jack and JP for

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ten years of being the most consistent
of being the best and the greatest college

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podcast of all time. You guys
have done a tremendous job, and nothing

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that you know we can do or
say can really just show the level of

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appreciation that we have for you.
I know that it may seem like it's

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a superlative in a lot of ways, but definitely TLF has been just a

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tremendous force in the genre of pro
wrestling podcast and really in the genre of

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any podcast bar none. So I
first learned of TLF, I first came

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about TLF, and for those of
you who know me who go back,

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you know in the day and in
the archives, if you will, I

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have been down with TLF since day
one, really since episode one. I

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actually came about learning of The Lapse
Fan while looking for honestly more podcasts that

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I could listen to in regard to
pro wrestling. I had listened to Cmpunk's

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interview or his conversation with Cocobana ten
years ago, and after that, I

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just really wanted to find as many
wrestling podcasts that I could, and I

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happened to come across The Lapse Fan, and from that day until the present,

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I have listened to every single episode
of The Lapse Fan, and I

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have been just a a fan of
Jack and JP as well as someone who

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admires the work that is put into
creating every episode of The Labs Fan and

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cultivating this podcast and to what it
is. And another that we joke a

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lot about saying that The Labs Fan
is the greatest college podcast, but indeed

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The Labs Fan is one of the, if not the greatest wrestling podcast which

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has ever been produced. I mean
the level of work and the amount of

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information in all of these episodes,
hundreds of episodes, I mean, it

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would take you a lifetime to fully
unpack and realize just how important TLF has

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been to the genre of pro wrestling. And you can look at the ways

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in which the WWE, AEW TNA, So many of the wrestling organizations have,

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in my opinion, stolen many of
the idea is suggestions from Jack and

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JP and have incorporated them into their
production, into their companies. And I

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think that if we really are honest
with ourselves and we look at what the

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labs fan has offered, not only
to us as listeners in the Solar system,

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but those on the outside, and
how influential the labs fan has been,

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I think that we can be all
on one accord, if you will,

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and saying that TLF has been such
an influential force in the progression of

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the modern way that WWE, AW
and etc. Have managed to recreate their

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product. And I know that Jack
and JP and many of us strongly believe

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that it used to be better,
and since it used to be better,

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so many people have tried to recreate
what used to be better. And I

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think that that is again doing large
part to what the Lapse Fan has offered

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over these past ten years. So
with that said, I have been again

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down. Since day one, I
have been a supporter. You guys know,

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TLF has just been a tremendous podcast. I have laughed, I have

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thought I have reflected I have,
you know, been just in awe of

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how much it takes to make this
work. And I know that I speak

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for Jack and JP by saying that, you know, the appreciation comes not

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only from the Solar System to Jack
and JP, but I'm sure the Jack

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and JP appreciates the Solar System and
this is just a wonderful opportunity and to

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honor two guys who have really just
it's been great. You know, I

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don't want to just oversaturate you with
superlatives, but honestly, you guys have

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been great, and I thank you
so very much for everything. So with

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that said, I'm going to get
into my top ten favorite TLF episodes in

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order from ten to number one.
So at number ten. Coming into number

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ten is episode number one forty nine
Monday Night Raw, the first episode of

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Monday Night Rawl. Well, excuse
me, actually wasn't the first episode of

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Monday Night Raw. This episode itself
was when Randy Savage went berserk and screaming

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not guilty over and over and over
again after Vince McMahon was acquitted of all

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crimes in this deroid trial. Episode
one fifty nine is number nine on my

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list, and it is the Tribute
to Bruto Sammartino, particularly part one where

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Vince Senior was begging Bruno sint Martinez
to get off of his ass, get

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out of the hospital bed, and
come and do the stadium show that Vince

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Senior had put all of his money
into despite knowing that Bruno had a broken

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neck. By Stan Hansen, that
is number nine. At number eight is

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episode number ninety five, which was
the nineteen ninety nine Over the Edge,

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And I chose this for number eight
because of the somber reading from Jack of

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the details of Owen Hart's fall,
and I think really that this was one

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of the key moments for me personally, right, I understood that The Lapse

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Fan was more than just, you
know, a podcast that would laugh at

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things and would also give a history
of wrestling, but it went deep into

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this investigative journalist type of of way
really and the way in which you know,

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Jack read from the transcript I believe
it was, and of Martha Hart's

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words and her feelings was just it
was so sobering. And it was that

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really that that first episode that separated
The Lapse Fan in my opinion, from

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so many other restling podcasts because of
the way it approached the fall of Owen

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Hart. At number seven is episode
number one seventy four, and this is

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the episode where Hogan. This is
the the the episode where Hogan was just

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so absolutely paranoid and how the WWE
operated since he had been gone and he

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was wandering backstage and he was just
trying to make it was trying to make

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sure that Vince did not change the
main event from Hogan versus Michaels to Undertaker

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versus Michael's. And I remember very
vividly when I first listened to this,

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laughing until it hurt when Vince had
to fight Hogan at Gorilla to keep him

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from going out into the ring and
stopping the Undertaker after he had dropped the

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leg. So that is number it's
number seven. At number six of my

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top ten favorite Tilife episodes is episode
number one thirty two, which is the

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ten years after the Crispin Wild tragedy, particularly Part three, and quite like

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the Over the Age nineteen ninety nine
episode, this particular episode was so it

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was so sombering. It was,
you know, so much went into that

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and for all of us who had
lived through the Crispin Wild tragedy, and

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had watched in real time how the
WWE watched its handling of everything from Vince

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coming out on Monday Night rawl and
giving that tribute special to the very next

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day having to backtrack and effectively remove
an erased Chris Meanwhile from the WWE cannon.

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The way in which both Jack and
JP really handled explaining the tragedy in

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detail was tremendous, and so that
is number six. Number five on this

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list is actually episode number three sixty
eight, but this episode number fifty of

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Under the Cinemat, which is the
episode featuring the ridiculous yet just surreal VHS

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of I Like to Hurt People.
And the reason why I chose this one

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is because I swear I know this
film by heart, and that's due to

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the amount of times that my dad
and myself would on VHS and this was

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one of my first go to rentals
whenever we would go to Blockbuster and I

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would go over immediately to the area
where they had wrestling video rentals, and

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I would always want to rent this
video. My dad always oblige me in

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doing so, and so I Like
to Hurt people. The Cinnamon Under the

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Cinnamon Number fifty comes in at number
five, and number four on my list

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is episode number three twenty five,
Part one, which is the Colisseum Collection

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The Life and Times of Captain lu
Albano, and I love this primarily for

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the ending of this episode when Captain
lou is taking the lie detector tests and

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he loses his fucking mind once it
has proven that he lied, and just

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thinking about it makes me want to
laugh now. But that is just one

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of the funniest episodes that I have
ever heard, especially at that very end

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where where Captain Lewis is, he
just goes berserk, He loses, he

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loses his shit. So at number
three is episode two forty two, Parts

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one and two, which is the
Art of War Games, the Great American

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Bash nineteen eighty seven, And I
was so pumped when I found out that

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Jack and JP were going to be
doing a deep dive of war games and

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in particular of the Great American Bash
nineteen eighty seven, because I had that

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VHS. I still do have that
VHS, and I actually have the DVD

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which features all of the interviews and
episodes of World Championship Wrestling and Worldwide Wrestling

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and the run up to and in
the wake of the Great American Bash nineteen

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eighty seven, and I absolutely loved
you know, the art of war gains,

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but in particular just knowing how JP
became knowledgeable if you will, have

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some of the ins and outs of
of JPC at that point in time.

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So that is my number three episode. My my number two episode of my

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top ten favorite TLF episodes of all
time is episode number one sixty three The

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NWA Class of the Champions nineteen eighty
eight Sting and Flair, forty five minutes

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TBS in opposition to WrestleMania four.
What else can you do but give praise

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to the first clash in how it
absolutely trounced in big league in many ways,

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at least from an inter ring perspective, the very boring WrestleMania four.

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And I believe that this is my
first interview really with the co chairs,

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as I believe that I had picked
this as you know, a Patreon picking

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if you will, for this clash
and coming in at number one, my

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favorite, my favorite, absolute favorite
TAIL episode. What else can it be

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but episode number three thirty two,
every part of it Black Saturday. I

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picked that episode and I talked about
it, and you know, when the

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episode was released in during the interview
session. But I picked this episode because

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it is that transitional moment from everything
before Black Saturday in nineteen eighty four,

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really before January of nineteen eighty four
when Hogan won the title, to everything

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that came after it, the wrestling
war between Turner and Vince USA, WTBS,

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and everything else that came along with
it. What else can I say

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but Black Saturday and how Black Saturday
really in many ways helped to set up

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the first Wrestlemanium and having just the
opportunity to to vote on that and to

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win the opportunity to place this on
the table for it to forever be the

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quintessential rundown of one of the most
important and infamous episodes in pro wrestling history,

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Black Saturday. What else could it
be but number one. So again

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I want to say thank you to
Jack and JP, Congratulations TLF for all

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that you have done. I will
be with you through the bitter end the

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next ten years. And as the
DC one said, nobody does it better.

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Thank you guys, please