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It's the Lapsed Ban Wrestling Podcast with
Jack encn SEO and JP Sorrow and Cana.

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Left Christmas Show twenty twenty three,
the Unwrapping Part two, and we've

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reached the stage once again to your
coach Chairman. Are collect connecting via video

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remotely to share some Christmas warmth as
gifts that are straggling in terms of our

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our deadline, which of course was
never announced or specified exactly. Folks like

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the following gift giver can can hardly
be blamed, but we're going to do

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our best. You're in our mini
pods throughout the month of December to get

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your gifts open and get those reactions
that you covet so much. The greatest

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gift of all, Boss, Who's
next? And we've got Austin Kings Solver

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talk about a fucking big swing and
Dick in the Solar System, one of

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the heaviest hitters you'll find in our
corner. Great to see Austin coming through

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and coming strong and coming hard.
Brother. H fuck, I have a

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trouble, Boss. Yeah, it's
media maybe that hard, I know,

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but they put tape on the part
that you're supposed to rip rip right,

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that's the first thing I thought of
too, which is so incredibly sad.

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It really is, like, why
would you put and it's not his fault.

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It's the priority mail. They put
it right where you fucking supposed to

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tear it. What is the priority? After all? That's the question we

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should be asked. Okay, Sharp, it's got the brud eye, shears

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out. Let's get her old friend
that orange ruler, because you know,

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my daughter used to take everything out
of my office that's sharp to use on

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her projects. Okay, let's Austin
have for us this Christmas season envelope?

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Like, what is this fucking cartoon
here? All right, let's see.

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Oh there's read first. Okay,
oh, good thing you pulled that out

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first. Deer co chairs handwritten.
By the way it's handwritten. I probably

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spent months struggling to think of a
suitable Christmas present to send you. I

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missed out last year and did not
repeat that failure this year. That's correct.

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My procrastination and the luck and lack
of decision, the decisiveness, we're

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getting the better of me again this
year. That is, until when digging

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in the crates of my storage unit, inspiration struck. Oh man, that's

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just sometimes the best place is the
crates. I'm not sure how, but

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among all the boxes which traveled with
me over the years, one was filled

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with my family's Nintendo sixty four and
its games, controllers and accessories. So

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at the bottom of a pile of
boxes filled with holiday decorations and seasonal clothes,

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that a box literally filled with nostalgia. Well, among the dusty cartridges,

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chords, and many and memory cards, a specific piece of my childhood

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stared back at me. I have
written to you before about my older brother

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being the reason I first loved wrestling, the reason I relapsed into wrestling in

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twenty nineteen, and the reason I
found TLF Well. Scott, my brother,

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mainly introduced wrestling to me in two
ways, action figures and video games.

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Yes, specifically WCW versus NWA nWo
Revenge. This is the time of

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year to be thinking about stuff like
this, man, because it's all about

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action figures and video game. Absolutely
was the game which attracted my heart to

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this Carney bullshit forever. Scott absolutely
loved this game. It was his hour

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no Mercy. The n sixty four
was probably perhaps the only gaming system me

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and my two brothers all played together
and Revenge was one of a handful of

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games which was always nearby to pop
in well with explicit approval from my brother.

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This copy of WWNW Revenge is now
yours a game Shark sixty four,

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so you can edit the game with
fun codes. My brother loved to create

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wrestlers, so I have no clue
what you will find when you boot up

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this game. Did this game have
a create a wrestler? I hope you

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find this to be a good worthy
companion to the copy of No Mercy you

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received last year. The game cartridge
you will find in this envelope has not

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been played or even touched for over
twenty years. Wow, it is due

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for a push. Merry Christmas.
You feel the animals yours enlapsed Austin Kinksolar.

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So much to be said about a
gift like that. I mean,

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where there's two things. You gave
the game Shark something else that's wrap is

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the game Shark at cartridge? I
don't know what that is. I don't

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know either, I kind of just
used context clues. Wow, look at

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that fucking car Goldberg Raven Nash Hogan, Ye Hogan, Mommy, remember reading

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in the Nitrop book that the developers
of the game put Raven on the cover

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because they just happened to dig Raven. It's not with WCW water Oh,

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I said, here's the I don't
so okay, So what does this do?

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What does the game shark do?
I assume it's like something that helps

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you customize parts of the game.
Then otherwise the developers didn't intend to allow

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you to customize. Brother hacks the
source code if you will, all right,

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I dig that. I think you
can probably do a lot of fucking

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damage with that. I think so
too. Have you played Revenge much?

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I think you and I played.
I think one of the times that went

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over to your house we played it. Yeah, was really a WCW versus

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NWOW World Tour was the first WW
versus the World was technically the first,

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but that was much more like just
a Japanese video game released in the United

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States with you know, seven or
eight WW wrestlers, including Sting and gear.

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Before Croasting had ever wrestled Wow.
So our first glimpse is to what

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they conceived of a wrestling sting looking
like after we went to the black and

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white paint. But really it was
full of all those like wrestlers from Japan

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that they gave different names to,
Like Saboo was in the game, but

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he wasn't called Saboo. Terry Funk
was in the game, is called Terry

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Funk. It was just you know, but it was that first kind of

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World Pro Wrestling, fire Pro wrestling
whatever they call those games, Japanese style

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game engines to come to a US
game, right right, And and that

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was disc that wasn't a cartridge.
And then and sixty four comes out and

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w CW versus NWOL World Tour has
kind of much the same conceit and a

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lot of those you know, Japanese
centric roster players as well, But it

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just it just was the first one
to really strike the core of what was

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happening in WCWY. Nitro was hot, you could play all the wrestlers that

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were making television interesting. You could
do so many moves that you could never

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do before in a wrestling game was
released in the United States, and Revenge

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was kind of like the perfection of
that. I see, Revenge took World

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Tour and made just the same way
No Mercy made WrestleMania two thousand better.

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Yeah, yep, it was the
exact same sort of Evolution and gotcha.

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Man. This is a sweet spot
because I think we got Revenge in my

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house a one Christmas because I just
remember having just nothing in my way but

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time and opportunity to really master the
game. It was the first game I

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ever played where I actually tried to
have five star matches instead of yep,

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like I would actually try to become
acquainted with how the computer would wrestle against

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me, and try to set the
computer up to have runs of offense as

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well on the match, not just
myself, like knowing if I did a

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move here, he'd catch it,
reverse it and have a little run of

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his own. I'd also use the
functions like how you can lock up and

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break on purpose. You know,
you could like hit oh yeah, yeah,

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yea, yeah yeah, yep.
Right, so you're sort of like

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you're kind of facilitating a dance.
You're facilitating the other guy looking good,

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you know, roll him up,
let him kick out it roll yeah.

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I never did a hul Cogan though, sore, but I mean, God,

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and just the way the magic,
the way it would come together.

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I remember I had a Chrispin Walberstein
Malenko match on Revenge that was just picture

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perfect. Wow, exactly how they
would have wrestled the match if they were

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given like, you know, thirteen
minutes on nitro. That's amazing. And

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it ended with a waist lock standing
switch and then another standing switch and then

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I as ben wa Dragon Suplexton bridge
combination one toothrow. Oh my god,

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it's good. Nine Heart and Bulldog
in it too, Johnny pop it in.

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No, I'm just I'm looking at
I'm looking at roster on. Yeah,

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that's a good point. That was
also a key differentiator from WW versus

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The World and World Tour. I
feel like this was a much more robust

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WCW roster. It wasn't like sixty
percent japan guys and you know, forty

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percent WW guys. It was like
everybody that was in WCW at the time

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was the front foot of the video
game. Yeah, and they had it

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all Man Goldberg, you know,
all the gameplay that we came to love

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about No Mercy, it all started
right and uh, a great gift because

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you know, there's like only two
people in the world that you could explain

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giving this away as a gift to
that. I know, I know it's

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exactly true, but otherwise it just
sits there until you acknowledge that I'm going

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to throw this away. I'm going
to pretend to have a rush of like

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intolerance and just throw things away in
discriminately, because if I sat there and

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really meditated on what I'm about to
throw away, I could never do it.

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Wrestling fans are pack rats, after
all, by definition a glacier glaciers

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in the fucking anything morning to be
said. You got Piper, you got

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Steiner's, you got Savage, Scott
Norton, thank god, Stevie Ray.

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So if you got some time over
the holidays, boss, pop that into

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that uh fan hammer. Oh he
was in there. I forgot it.

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That's when he was in the flock. Yeah, he has the mess shirt

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on right. What he is?
Fucking hell? I think Ron Reese is

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in that game. The yeah,
the mummy, the fucking I don't see

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him unless he had another name.
Yeah, he would have been a big

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Oh they have Reese. There is
fucking hell. Remember fucking Haku's in the

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game. Wow, I can remember
replicating Chris Ben was super plex on Ron

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Reece from Nitro in the game.
It's like he super plexus like seven foot

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six guy. Amazing gifts. Find
yourself with some open time over this holiday

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season. Pop that sucker in.
Let me know what you think. I

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think, so I want to have
to But Austin, don't we think as

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well. So Austin, wonderful to
have you in our corner. Man.

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You don't feel any pressure at all. We know the amount that you give

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back to the solar system and the
work you put in to preserve TLF history.

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To just mind our p's and q's
and make sure that you know we

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enjoy all the advantages that any other
podcast of much greater size and skill would

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enjoy in terms of a fan base
that keeps us on track, that keeps

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our affairs in order, that that
basically memorizes what we put out into the

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world and catalogs it better than we
ever could. You know, much the

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same vein for the kind of works
that Haystax Calouon does and so many others

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absolutely deeply appreciated this holiday season,
and we're thankful not just for gifts from

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folks like that, but gifts in
kind kind of work that definitely demonstrates to

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your coachairs that that we're doing something
worthwhile and that we're motivating others to to

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create the catalog and their own regard. Because what we're putting out of the

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world so bossy to it, will
you that that revenge gets put to good

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use. Yep, you got it. We'll do and more to come under

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our Christmas tree this year as the
TLF Unwrappening continues. We'll see you next

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