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Greetings, Coach Chairman. My name
is Ellis. I'm a lapse fan.

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I can't tell you for how long, and I've been putting off doing this

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recording for quite a while. But
tonight Hope Hogan is speaking at the RNC,

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so I figured the world is going
to lapse, I might as well

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share my story. I'm sure there's
a lot of people that can remember when

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they first started listening. I don't
even think that's important. It's not when

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you first started listening. It's when
you realize that you are lapsed. And

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when did I realize I was elapsed? A few years ago. I was

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in the hospital a few times and
I had a wound. I'm not gonna

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go into graphic detail, but the
wound would not stay closed. So anyway,

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long story short. One time,
I'm sitting there and they have to

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take out the staples. So doctors
come in. They start taking down to

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staples and I start laughing. Doctors
go to me, they go, what

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are you laughing at? At the
time, I was listening to the Lapse

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fan the WCCW Journey and laughing about
lapse Frits. So as they're sitting there

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taking these staples out of me and
blood is all over. I am laughing

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my ass off about downtown Dallas,
about friend Gooza, and I just can't

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stop. No. But this is
also what makes us a lapsed wrestling fan

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base. Doctor goes to me,
what are you laughing at now? Mind

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you. I've been in this hospital
for a week or so. Everyone has

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seen me. They see me from
head to toe naked. They know every

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bit and piece about me. But
god forbid, I tell them it's wrestling,

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I say, a comedy podcast.
But that was when I knew I

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was lapsed. There's a difference between
being lapsed and being a pro wrestling fan,

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and I consider such a pride thing
to be lapsed because being lapsed has

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helped me so much in dealing with
my own feelings about pro wrestling. Before

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I started listening to the podcast,
I would watch Modern I go in and

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out, but there would be a
sadness or anger because it wasn't for me,

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and I knew that. But I
didn't want to be like one of

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those old people other from like sports
that are like, oh, it used

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to be better, It used to
be better. But then I started to

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listen to you guys, and I
realized it used to be better, and

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that's helped me enjoy to the best
of my ability what I can a modern

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wrestling because I don't have to watch
it. I realized I'm not gonna enjoy

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it like it's my stuff because my
stuff was better. So I just watch

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it now for whatever I can get
out of it, which is not much.

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But once in a while, you
know, you didn't get a little

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enjoyment, But it's like it's it
used to be better, and it's the

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best way to describe it. And
I think for all of us community,

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there is a point where we realize
that we're lapsed. And now I look

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around in the world and the world
has collapsed. You guys are right,

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Vince is lapsed. Vince Hogan is
lapse Hogan. The world is now lapsed.

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So it feels good to get on
the ground floor, relatively speaking.

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Mozzi tough on ten years. I'll
be listening through ten years more. God,

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will we have ten more years of
this wonderful earth left? Because who

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the hell knows? And thank you
so much. I appreciate it, Love

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you guys. Peace,