It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack and Cornaco and JP Sorrow. All
right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back in to the TLF twenty twenty three
Christmas Show, where you have just commenced, of course, with our respective
packages of glee from the greatest lapsed fan of all time, Tom Attanasio.
Just an absolute grab bag goodie box full of whole filling Christmas trinkets. And
we've got one more flurry from the Great Tom. Two sacks Christmas sacks.
I take it, one for each of us, one for each of us,
and we're gonna see what's behind these lovely Christmas bags with reindeer silhouettes on
them. Boss Man digging in Bosman with a dropped with a drop jaw.
He looks to the camera. I can't fucking believe it. I can't fucking
believe it. This is yours. I gotta open enough out on the packaging
because I can't fucking believe it. You're gonna flip your fucking lig What do
you mean? What is it? Because we were just fucking can see it.
I know I'm unwrapping it all together. Oh it's a all right.
It comes to reveal. Oh my god, Oh my god. We were
just talking about this under the sentiment tell them what it is. It's Gordon
Soli's Championship Wrestling Trivia game. The funniest fucking commercial you've ever seen for this
game, and we were just like enraptured with what could this be? No
one could possibly have this thing to find out And now boss Man, as
we speak on the twenty twenty three t LEF Christmas Show, is unfolding.
Oh what are you doing? Something fell out? Oh my god, No,
it is real. This is like a fucking how can this be real?
It's not even a real record. It's like a forty five Yeah,
special message from Gordon. I can't believe. Oh my god, what is
this. That's the board of the game. What does it say in the
colored boxes? Okay, so there are different categories your tag team, Yes,
HG Matchmaker's Decisions HGH eighties TF HG Matchmaker Decision eighties, TF Junior Heavyweight
introductions. First fall referees call second fall referees call referees call Ladies Heavyweight.
You go around the perimeter with colored boxes and then you snake your way to
the center where there's a beautiful portrait of Gordon Soli himself, the dean of
wrestling announcers. I mean, who the fuck came up with this product?
Who the fuck? And you're gonna buy a wrestling board game and you're gonna
buy it with an announcer on it instead of a wrestler. This is the
apparently, this is this is gonna be the sid card matchmaker's decision. But
this is definitely the said card you failed to appear for your last match.
Move back two spaces. Yeah, somebody got revenge consulting on that. I'm
gonna pick. I'm gonna pick a random card and I'm gonna trivia your ass
here. So that's this game is is wrestling trivia. Oh, that's about
the rules. It's like trivial pursuit. I love this so much. Okay,
I guess h you're gonna be history. Okay. G I don't know
what g is though. It's g it doesn't matter, gigging, gigging.
Maybe maybe like some kind of Oh, gimmick. She's got a gimmick,
it says, gimmick on the board game. Well it's got to be that's
what She's got to be. Gimmick, because what nickname. Do Gary Hart
and Buddy Rose share layboy? Right, it's gonna be the gimmick. I
love this. So this is actual straight up wrestling tribua. Gentleman Phil Letto
was the president of the nw A for this is true or false? Gentlemen
film Gentleman Phil Letto or Lito I don't know was the president of the NWA
from nineteen fifty three until his fourth retirement nineteen fifty six or false. False,
You're right, no such person. Let's keep going until I get what
wrong. No, I'm kidding, I'll be forever. I need to pick
out one more so not gotta make sense why it would be built around an
announcer, because he's like a historian. Right, it's presenting a game,
a game for the wrestling nomatic in your life. Who was the first black
masked woman wrestler? My god, what I'm trying to do is not recall
a black masked wrestler, female wrestler, but recall just any black female wrestler
from like the fifties. And I have like two people in my head that
I can see from documentaries and stuff that I can't remember their names off the
top of my head. What is it the black orchid? Oh fuck,
that's a little on the nose. That's this is They should have called her
the white guy. That'd have been something. Well shit that I mean,
you're not gonna these deep cuts man. As we go through wrestling history on
TLF and we find these little off to the side licensing curiosities, and we
never imagine we can hold them in our hands. The solar system on a
Christmas twenty twenty three, unwrapping twelve twelve hundred of your questions. I can't
wait to answer them all. That is just lovely and terrific and deepest of
Christmas tidings to you and yours, Tom at Nacio Boss, your SAT.
Here we go. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio and
JP Sorrow. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. That is unbelievable. That
one really is, ha ha, what what are you looking at me like
that for? With your shoulders like losing all of their tension? Because whatever
the SAT contains, it's just that mind blowing that what do you what is
that is? It is? I caught a glimpse ton pop up Hung Paupu
Hung Pa Kan Kang King kink Kang, take a good think, King.
I see your Gordon Solely Wrestling trivia game. I raise you the Official von
Eric Family World Class Championship Wrestling Game. Oh it's like cribbage. Oh my
god, look at the ring with the ring. That's not even the board
though, because I don't know what that is, honestly, because like the
board. Oh my god, oh my god, Oh my fucking Christ,
you can be Gino Hernandez. Oh my god, there's a Gino Hernanda's game
piece in there with a full body shot of him and the other dead guys
in there. Yeah, probably probably right kidding me. It's the von Erics.
Yeah, can you find me a living one? That's the challenge.
Oh there's one Kevin von Eric and if you flip it you see his ass.
Oh my god. They're the behind shot too, the one man gang.
Wow. So this puts us in a particular time period, Gentleman Chris
Adams and peace Iceman King Parsons's like eighty six eighty seven. This must have
come out Kelly Kenisky, Well things Well, I guess no, no,
uh yeah, we know where we are for sure, because uh we got
Kerrie von Eric and we got Mike von Eric, who's missing David von Eric.
David, you know he was in He was in seventy five years worth
of board games in this time. A very good point. I can't deny
that. I can't believe you're putting at this Iron Class season. You're putting
your hands on the von Eric family board game. Oh God, Like what
is It's like trivia? The modern day Warrior is a thing there, good
guy. Obviously Speed five experienced six Strength two, Speed five, Cocaine seven
placidyls nine specialty actions, the iron Claw attempt. Oh, I see these
are the card numbers, is what it is. So it's a game where
you like interest fight. Yeah. Interests are water skiing, scuba diving,
hunting, fishing, and doing drugs. Yeah, that was funny they put
that on there. Former NWA Worldyweight Champion and World Champion six man tag team.
Nice grammar there, I mean, And it's a fucking it's a cribbage
board, right you're holding it up. It's instead of a board like a
board game, like a monopoly, it's a cribbage board. So weird,
Wow, what a fucking Jesus. I don't even know, like, you
know, the WWF licensing explosion in an eighty five, and then pretty soon
all these other companies looking to make a buck off. Wrestlinger going to the
second and thirtier is Remcota Verne for the ANBA figures, and this game company
to Fritz for a board game. Remember from the Minimal Tragedy, Kevin ron
Eric talking about people coming to the house about a Light Action figure online and
Fritz telling him to go fuck themselves, thinking it was a scam. Look
at the family portrait, the full suit and the boys were there. David's
there, just read quickly that little bit, that little blurb, Oh yeah,
next to their bodies there, all right, Well they get it to
the whole Oh yeah, I'll get to the whole thing. That's part of
The lights are hot and the crowd's roar is deafening. As you struggle for
victory in the ring, you sense your opponent's weakness. A quick chop,
a punishing headbutt, in a devastating atomic drop take him down for the pin.
You are a world class wrestler. In the official von Eric Family World
Class Championship Wrestling game. During the nineteen fifties, Fritz von Eric and his
brother Waldo, Oh fucking hell, keep going provide professional wrestling with one of
its most awesome tag teams. As Fritz's career flourished, fierce grudge matches developed
with such grades as Gene Kiniski, whose son Kelly currently battles the von Eric
Boys. The von Erics, firmly established in wrestling history, continue their family
tradition into the second generation. David, the oldest son, became a living
legend before an untimely death and is career. What a strange name to give
him? No, Kevin, Carry and Mike continue to roll up brother impressive
records as they become the superstars of professional wrestling. Chris the youngest son not
pictured. Where's Jackie may someday enter the ring to claim his place in wrestling
history. Oh he would, all right? I mean that's Christmas twenty twenty
three of a gift as a guest perfect ending to an absolute flurry of bazooka
uh of Christmas goodwill from the top. We're spoiled, to say, the
least spoiled is not even it doesn't even begin. We'll see you next time
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