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Hey, Jack and JP. This
is Tim. I just wanted to say

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congrats on ten years. I think
I've been listening to The LAPS Fan probably

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almost since the start. I think
I first heard about you guys through Meltzer's

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podcast when you were doing the WrestleMania
Journey and came over after listening to all

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your segments with Meltzer and after the
WrestleMania Journey, it was one of those

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things I was listening to lots of
other podcasts and you know, this is

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the same journey for a lot of
people. I think that become fans of

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the LAPS Fan, which is at
first you kind of walk at the idea

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of listening to a podcast that's that
long, until eventually it kind of wears

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you down to the point where you
realize that, no, it has to

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be that long, and you guys
kind of dive deeper than anybody dares to

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dive, and so bit by bit
over the next few years, I would

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listen to more episodes. I'm from
Australia, but I was living in LA

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at the time. I just had
a kid and the podcast would keep me

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going with the sleepless nights. But
there were two main bits that kind of

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hooked me, and you know,
you had me kind of from that point

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on. And the first of which
was I think the first time I heard

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laps Hogan arguing about a finish,
which was in the Road Wild ninety eight

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episode where Jay Leno had suggested getting
a visionary pinfall on the Hulkster and that

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wasn't going to work for him brother, and just that whole bit, I

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just was in absolute stitches. And
by the time the Trial of his life

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came around, I was totally hooked. And you know, it's all the

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other characters, like the LAPS editor
who's always hilarious, and I'm very convinced

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that that's exactly the way that newspapers
work anytime something needs to be published about

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wrestling. Laps Nash and his constant
GPS directions and his obsession with you know,

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what street and what road was taken
to get where, and you know,

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just really ran them silly details and
everything to do with his wine connoisseur

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and you know, being a film
buff and all of that just absolutely makes

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me crack up every single time.
And the other thing that really hooked me

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was that, probably around the similar
times of the Road Wild episode, you

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guys spent about twenty minutes on a
tangent describing the experience of going to a

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video store, and you effectively describe
my childhood write down to the way that

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the store smells. And you know, obviously that's something that you've said it

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before, but the current generation is
totally missing, you know, when everything's

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at your fingertips and everything's available to
you and nothing means anything and nothing special

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anymore. So that and then once
cinemat came around and paired my love of

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movies and with wrestling, I've been
an EP member since then. But over

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time, I think while all members
of the Solar System come initially for your

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commentary on the vehicular script entertainment,
we stay for the philosophy and the random

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tangents where you guys just somehow know
how to summarize complex issues in like a

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really efficient way. I don't know
how you manage it, but somehow you

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are able to like stare into all
of our souls and ultimately, you know,

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drill it down to the fact that
it used to be better, and

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that can be applied to so many
things in life and not just wrestling.

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So congrats on ten years. Keep
going harder and deeper than anyone ever dares

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to. Let's hope the ride never
ends. Thanks for the laughs in the

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middle of the night, the random
phrases that live rent free in my head.

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Thanks for the philosophy, and thanks
for whole comania. Praise be to

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the Warlord. Happy ten years.
Thanks guys. Bye,