It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with jack En corn Seo and JP Sorrow.
Welcome back in It's Lapsed Fans twenty twenty three Christmas Spectacular. It's the Unwrapping
two that your co chairman takes seats and unwrapped, piece by piece the gifts
from the Lapse Fan Solar System sent to our po box. It's our second
year doing this and we're just we're spoiled rotten, oh for sure, Oh
my god, not afraid to say it. And at this point the thrill
is just seeing how crazy the shit is the laps Fan Solar System can come
up with. What's next? Well, this is from uh Andrew Martin.
It's from the test and Fern Andrew Yeah out in ne Orlando. Yep,
yep, uh who gave me quite a surprise. Actually, I had ordered
some glubs from him and he gave gave me way more than I asked for,
which was that right? Generous? Yeah? Yeah, that was always
a big risk when we started building community around this, the Boston would find
to connect. I mean I got my butcher read now. Well that's a
beautiful piece. It's a really cool it's a cool figure, like who would
have thought that the most interesting figures out of these two would be Bury,
Windham and Butcher. Read. Yeah, it's all about the hand position.
Yes, it is, because boom and then boom and they can do fucking
you do but read give him a power slam, give him, give him
one and have him do one. Yeah, give one to Windham. Yeah
yeah, tuck the hands in. Yep, goes off the ropes perfect,
YEPI perfect. See how he scoops right under the crasch like that. Yeah,
it's great. And it's also great just for regular stup body slam positioning.
Oh yeah, because you look at Wyndham put his hand on the knee.
Yep. Yeah, as any pro to help guide the body. Right,
So good ship. I got the whole gloob set now, Oh my
goodness. Very surprised about that. And Andrew's kind of like our toy guru
and oh god, it was it actually it it is. It is really
unbelievable. If you ever watched his stuff on Instagram, it's unreal. I
mean, he's got thousands of Hasbro's thousands of them, like he's it's it's
I'm like, can I just have them all? Well? I think you're
going to take a step in that direction as you open this box. Before
you do anything, Guys, I love you endlessly. For the last almost
ten years, you have made my life so much more enjoyable and painful.
At the same time, we have even had some amazing interaction together via email,
Twitter, and even hearing me on the Scott Hall Tribute Show for an
interview which meant the world to me and was the coolest thing I've ever been
a part of. Mary Christmas right and Happy Holidays forever, forever forever,
like Terry fucking so so Andrew you know. For those who might not have
listened to that show, it might forget was pretty well acquainted with Scott Hall
in some of his darkest hours, basically his his handle learned some ways,
taking him, you know, to lunch every day and making sure he was
okay. It was so wild. It really sounded like a presence that Hall
could have used and his tragic last a few months on the earth. And
interestingly enough, he's giving us presents. Indeed, so this one too.
I don't I think this is the I know he's got like rules of how
to do this. I hope this is correct. To Jack and JP,
the co chairs. Happy holidays, Love Andrew and Mabel from Mabel Toys.
On the back the return address once he an Center, World Championship Wrestling,
Atlanta. I love that. That's got to be the shoe addressed too.
You know he actually looked it up. Well, I want to make Suge
your Christmas card. My god, oh my god. What so there's a
string of holiday lights on this card, but instead of lights, its headshots
of various WCW wrestlers like Goldberg and Booker t from the wc Oh my god,
this was Is this a real from the WCW family to yours? Happy
holidays? This is a real Christmas card. You got to shoot Titan Sports
Christmas card last year. That was a distributed to I think in nineteen ninety
one to employees. We've got a letter here. It's that special time of
year once again where we give instead of instead of take for once, which
is a wonderful sentiment. And all the while within the beauty of the pain
and misery not only still exists, it comes at us harder, faster and
stronger. We must be doing something right, Jack. I know my gift
last year probably can't be topped by me. The Kevin Nash talking doll seemed
to have rock your world. I'm looking at it right now. Let's say
I got that shit at my fucking house. It made me so happy.
I also sent you a lovely Kevin Nash watch, which I'm sure has been
glued to your wrist. I'm not sure if you remember, but when you
opened it, you thought at first that it may be something else. Jack,
if you would please open gift number one, Okay, do your best.
We can get the screen to the degree number two. This is number
one. Okay, okay, at that Kevin Nash wrestling. But he sits
in the corner of the office that I record the show in a little stool.
He's looking at me right now, next to all my books. What
is it? Boss Man's jaws dropped? It's for me, show me.
It's the fucking WCW Nitro cologne with the compass WSW logo from ninety nine when
it was like, why do they even have licensing deals anymore? Oh?
Who the fuck possibly bought that? Capture the free spirited, ready to rumble
fun of WCW WCW Nitro compliments any stuff, personality, or occasion. Whenever
else you wear tuxedos or T shirts, wear WCW Nitro the Fragrance with No
Limits. Oh no limit soldiers. Wow, that was Oh my god.
That's when they opened the Nitro Grill in Vegas. It's like they got all
these licensing opportunities because of how hot they were in ninety seven and ninety eight,
and by the time many of them were like ready to go and marinated,
the interest in WCW had been completely cratered and no one could possibly give
a fuck about watching Nitro let alone going or buying Nitro themed merchandise. And
they came out with a cologne. I mean, what is going on?
Well, thank you for that. That's a that's a spirited effort. That's
amazing in terms of follow up anything with that. That gray WCW logo.
Oh yeah, that's like a very strange place to be. Every Christmas,
Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and JP Soro. It's a Lapsed Fan Wrestling
podcast. JP. Here are a couple of things for you. I'm sure
the gift number three is something you have asked for, and I want you
to know that if someone already gave this gift, I will gladly accept a
return in a one hundred dollars credit for the Mabel Toy store, or I
can sell it for you and give you the cash. I'm hoping you don't
have it and we'll love it. Gift number two will just piss you off.
Bro, You'll feel free to light it on fire. All right,
Let's do number two first. Yeah, we got were the hell of a
bonfire by the time this one's now. I know the Jeff Hardy cudbot.
Get ready, get ready for that fucking picture. Okay, that's how we'll
ring in the new year. How about it. I haven't turned it yet,
so basically, I want to show you what is the way I've only
seen this so far, says eBay. I'm turning it around. Oh it's
inside this Okay, I've taken it out now all right it take a little
card? Yeah, oh god fuck? Who manufactured that upper deck? Upper
deck? Goodwin Champions Vince Russo? Writer card? What do you mean writer
card? What it says underneath it's his job writer and so he has a
trading card. He has a trading card. How about you know maybe the
fact that he's a former WCW World Heavyweight champion would qui not the fact that
he's a writer. Hold On hold On born January twenty fourth, nineteen sixty
one, Long Island, New York. Russo made the transition from a writer
to an in ring performer during his stint with World Championship Wrestling. On September
twenty fifth, two thousand, he won the heavyweight championship and a steel cage
bout, though he vacated the title a week later. Great stuff, tell
me more about why he has a fucking trading car. I mean, look
at a fucking look at his face, look at his idiotic face. It
is it is. It is the least flattering picture of Vince Russo I have
ever seen. I mean, and it's a it's a drawing too. It's
not even like it's a fucking photograph. It's like man Cow India, like
mantar here. This is number three. This is a one he hopes nothing
like a Russo rethic assault on the census for Christmas. That's one thing they
can always count on. The Solar system for Andrew, in particular, to
get us back for Russo lighting Orlando on fire with his TNA booking. So
this one's for you too, right, boss, Yeah, so is this
the one he said you'll hate or this was the Russo ones one I hate?
Okay? Oh fuck, oh fuck? This one won't be returned for
one hundred dollars credit not at all? Man, Holy ship, what do
we have? This is wild about Action Figure. He was just talking about
how Ouzy was with the fucking Galubs, the big Josh Josh Galube. I
mean that's lapsed canon. We were just talking about Action Figure for about a
half hour. You know, this is like, this is one of this
is one of the you know, the the UK ones unreleased in America.
Holy how does it feel to hold the job the Josh Galube in your hand?
I'm holding doink in my hand, the w c W hand off of
it. I mean that is that is remarkable. That is wild. Okay,
hold on, So he's got like a one bushwhacker arm and the other
next to his knee. See what we got here? So we need to
have and how's he take it? He got bad? He could do you
know what, he could probably do Big Josh a good souplex because he's got
yeah, he can do very nice and also he can do uh that guy
there l a Knight's finishing move. Oh right, you can hook him up
there blood forced trauma. Yeah. Oh that's really good. Yeah, actually
it's very good. God, that's a fucking great piece. What is UK
exclusive? As we talked about, and uh, that's great to hear Matt
Bourne on a shoot interview talk about how well he didn't get a fucking penny
off of it. Oh, shift, I'm not surprised, all right,
and Andrew here, Yeah, he fucking I think we can say Andrew Martin
passed the test again this Christmas. Uh, JP, please take a look
at gift number four. After you open Jack has the last one at Gift
number five, watch this one though. You got kids out there and you're
buying them little trinkets for Christmas. I can't like it enough. What Andrew's
illustrating here. We always talk about I can't give a gift if you can
of like six gifts and let's let them dig through like a huge box full
of newspapers with little packages. We've also got one my mom. It's it's
addressed to my mom this. Should I give it to my mom? Should
I just give it to his mom? I guess I guess that's true.
Jap after open this gift and then read the other side of this note.
Okay, the rules, so many fucking rules. I love that. I
know we'll open in this order. I especially like it because then I know
you didn't miss anything and I'll throw it away. Yeah, because you know
he's Oh, ship, what have we got? What have we got here?
This looks very interesting? Before you know what we had because I can
tell it's a it's it's a Hasbro, but it's not a normal looking Hasbro.
It looks like Shawn Michael's head but a different body. Is it a
Vince Russo has Bro? Oh? My god? You imagine emphasis on bro?
No, I know what he fucking did? I know, son of
a bitch. I'm gonna see if you get this. I get this because
it'll make my always a good side of a gift if you get it.
Oh, for Christmas, gifts are to be gotten in ways that What the
fuck is that? I want to see? That supposed to be a flying
Brian has Bro? Did you guess what this is? I know it's Shane
Douglas in the nineteen ninety one Royal. Oh my god, that's really good,
though, the first time you read first, The first time you guys
read my email. On the show, I went into my Hazarro stories and
JP shared that he turned his rocker Shawn Michaels into Royal Rumble nineteen ninety one
Shane Douglas. She said, what Sean hates Dean Douglas. He thinks he
sucks And I died when I heard that, And Joy, So I've got
my own fucking Shane Douglas nineteen ninety one Royal Rumble. God has the solar
system remains undefeated for shit like that? Oh for sure. It's going right
up there to make real these like all right, these things we just cook
up off the top of our heads on the air, and then all of
a sudden there's a tangible thing in our hands around Christmas. I'm uh,
you go one coming your way, so I can't wait. That's the head
of Sean Michaels from the Rockers, right, yeah, that's the rocker Shawn
Michael's on like on a let's say, the the body of Sean that had
the black pants. Well or it's which is also the same thing as uh,
you know Savage, the first Savage, the same rock Martel too,
right right, He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnaco and JP
Soro. It's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. This is for you. So
it's the same. Oh god, what the fuck is this? What the
fuck is this? Oh God? Another has Bro? It's another well,
I wouldn't. I don't know if I call it a has Bro. It's
a figure for sure, it's a has been. It's a has matten.
Oh my god, Oh my god, go ahead, tell me I can
handle. What the fuck is that thing? I'm horrified? What is that?
Okay? It may have been on something, it may have been a
dream, but I swear I remember you clearly one saying that as a kid,
you found that I heard or vice. Who knows. Anyway, here's
your very own for your very own juicier juician, sister Liger or Erwin thunder
Liger. Sorry if I made all of this up, Oh my god,
fucking listen, Okay, I want you to think about this. We all
have things that we almost like in a way, said to ourselves as kids,
the way we hummed a song, things we thought we heard, lyrics
that we thought we knew, like carries a fish stick for the Big boss
Man. Just these things are unique to us. There's no other human being
walking the face of the planet that has ever had the same thing like that
wringing through their mind their entire lives. And then you get a podcast and
you start to feel comfortable enough on that podcast with the nature of your listenership
that you begin to share these things, these eccentricities, these impossible to understand
things. And for me to tell you that my brain worm that for some
reason on WCW television they referred to Jusian Liger as VK thunder Liiger, which
they absolutely never did. There is no chance they ever did that. Yet
here it is in my mind, in my mind only as something that was
absolutely uttered on WCW television in early nineties. And then to not only give
voice to that, to not only lease that into the atmosphere, into the
universe, that deeply internal, strangely esoteric thought, but then to have somebody
who I've never met, in a city, you know, that's days away
from me on the road, to take up that idea that's been nesting in
my mind since boyhood, and to create an action figure of what it would
look like if you made a VK. Thunder Liger action figure. That is
to say, the head of irs from Hasbro, the body of Rookie the
Dragon steamboat from Hasbro painted in the red and white of Jusianliger's signature WCW outfit.
And then he added the spikes such as would be on Jusian ligers ring
attires. I think they were coming out of his head with micro Tunda's face.
That's just that that will only happen once in mankind's history, and it
just happened here in the twenty twenty three t LF Christmas Show. And that's
there's something to be said about that. I mean, that is just remarkable.
I'm going to do this one, even though. What else in the
archives that can be turned into a tangible bit of gift giving? Fuck?
What is that? The Lumberjack match? The hs of who u w F?
That's herb Abram's UWF. I didn't even know they had a home video
release series. The main event Mister Wonderful versus Doctor Deaf. There's only one
I can I can, I can record it. It's only forty minutes.
Holy shit? Wow? Who distributed it? What company? Uh? It
looks like it might have been Best Film and Video Corp. From Great Neck,
New York that's that's stretching the definition best. I would say that exactly
right. I have never seen an officially and there were a few. There
were also available wrestling as Greatest Champions, Beach Brawl, the Steel Cage Match,
Tag Team Tandem's Volume One, the Best, the best of Paul mister
Wonderful Orndorf. I can't imagine the feeling his best stuff wasn't available to them.
I was gonna say, I feel like that might have been the case
as well. Also the it oh maybe it is a Okay, no,
no, it's a regular match. Okay, yeah, wow, I'm thatsazing.
I've never seen an officially licensed to view of vhs released before. I
am I am out. That is fucking that. That was That was crazy.
Get on the level of the Solar System members you've heard from thus far
on the Unwrapping two, Get on get yourself a podcast with this kind of
listenership. We say that because we know it's impossible to match, but it's
worth aspiring to because we continue to be blown away. I just I can't
tell you how magical it is to see that VK thunder like reaction. Oh
yeah, as boss Man comes up with new spots between Big Josh and Butcher
Reid on the glub side swinging Hangman's news. Right, we look forward to
more offensive flurries on the Globe and Hasbro side Big DDT from Josh clubbing forearms
as well. I guess I haven't been missing much by not being on video
when we record this thing. Huh playing with toys but Andrew all the all
the respect man, Yeah, dude, this was fucking phenomenal and everybody else
we continue to share with you. Really, what it comes down to on
Christmas, it is about giving, you know what. What's what's thrilling for
us isn't that we get something. It's someone took the time to send it.
Oh, it's it's that someone took the time to send it, and
that also create it, the the thought that's put into it. And really
it's it's that that to me is from the good to the bad, there
is and I honestly the fact that we get to share it with everybody else
is the most important thing too now. And this is shoot, Like,
if you told me that a precondition of doing this show was that immediately after
we recorded everything, we had to send all the gifts back, I'd still
do the show every year, absolutely, because it's about it's about what it
says about how to keep Christmas, and it's like it's it's best practice,
that's what that's what we're doing here. We're establishing best practice, yes,
And we know we have a listenership, a unique list a listener listenership uniquely
equipped to match us in our ambitions on this each and every year, So
we continue to rumble along. The twenty fifth still awaits, and the TLF
Christmas Show continues to keep giving. We'll see you next time. Plays a
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