Hey, Jack and JP. This is Tim. I just wanted to say
congrats on ten years. I think I've been listening to The LAPS Fan probably
almost since the start. I think I first heard about you guys through Meltzer's
podcast when you were doing the WrestleMania Journey and came over after listening to all
your segments with Meltzer and after the WrestleMania Journey, it was one of those
things I was listening to lots of other podcasts and you know, this is
the same journey for a lot of people. I think that become fans of
the LAPS Fan, which is at first you kind of walk at the idea
of listening to a podcast that's that long, until eventually it kind of wears
you down to the point where you realize that, no, it has to
be that long, and you guys kind of dive deeper than anybody dares to
dive, and so bit by bit over the next few years, I would
listen to more episodes. I'm from Australia, but I was living in LA
at the time. I just had a kid and the podcast would keep me
going with the sleepless nights. But there were two main bits that kind of
hooked me, and you know, you had me kind of from that point
on. And the first of which was I think the first time I heard
laps Hogan arguing about a finish, which was in the Road Wild ninety eight
episode where Jay Leno had suggested getting a visionary pinfall on the Hulkster and that
wasn't going to work for him brother, and just that whole bit, I
just was in absolute stitches. And by the time the Trial of his life
came around, I was totally hooked. And you know, it's all the
other characters, like the LAPS editor who's always hilarious, and I'm very convinced
that that's exactly the way that newspapers work anytime something needs to be published about
wrestling. Laps Nash and his constant GPS directions and his obsession with you know,
what street and what road was taken to get where, and you know,
just really ran them silly details and everything to do with his wine connoisseur
and you know, being a film buff and all of that just absolutely makes
me crack up every single time. And the other thing that really hooked me
was that, probably around the similar times of the Road Wild episode, you
guys spent about twenty minutes on a tangent describing the experience of going to a
video store, and you effectively describe my childhood write down to the way that
the store smells. And you know, obviously that's something that you've said it
before, but the current generation is totally missing, you know, when everything's
at your fingertips and everything's available to you and nothing means anything and nothing special
anymore. So that and then once cinemat came around and paired my love of
movies and with wrestling, I've been an EP member since then. But over
time, I think while all members of the Solar System come initially for your
commentary on the vehicular script entertainment, we stay for the philosophy and the random
tangents where you guys just somehow know how to summarize complex issues in like a
really efficient way. I don't know how you manage it, but somehow you
are able to like stare into all of our souls and ultimately, you know,
drill it down to the fact that it used to be better, and
that can be applied to so many things in life and not just wrestling.
So congrats on ten years. Keep going harder and deeper than anyone ever dares
to. Let's hope the ride never ends. Thanks for the laughs in the
middle of the night, the random phrases that live rent free in my head.
Thanks for the philosophy, and thanks for whole comania. Praise be to
the Warlord. Happy ten years. Thanks guys. Bye,