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Fans, workers, journeymen, lend
me your ass. I come to bury

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a cast in it and to praise
the co chairs. The evil that men

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do lives after them. Just ask
jolly old Saint Fritz. The good is

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oftenterred with Owen's bones, at least
before they're dropped upon and the waiting shipman

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trapped in Hbk's sharpshooter. All right, enough of that. Wrestling ain't ballet,

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and the lapse fans certainly ain't Shakespeare. But I don't mean that in

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a bad way. The Bard was
a college level hack and a carney worker.

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The lapsed fan most certainly is not
a college level nor is it carney.

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But if you haven't figured that out
by your first journey, there's no

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help for you. Now, before
I go any further, I should tell

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you who I am. This is
Phil from Halifax. That Glengarry Jim Ross

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bit from the beginning of WCWNJPW Super
Show ninety one that was all me baby.

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I started listening to this podcast back
in twenty sixteen, during the Arcade

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Memorial tour. I was working at
the Dump in Halifax, spending hours in

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horrible conditions doing tedious work. I
would listen day in and day out,

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hours and hours every day for years. The cast got me through the toughest

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parts of that job. When I
had to go to the hospital and get

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two bowel resections, the cast was
in my ears during those pain filled sleepless

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nights. The cast was up my
asss. I literally learned how to take

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a shit again. When the world
faced the uncertain times that were a global

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pandemic, the cast was there.
It helped me get through my tedious and

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hazardous work of processing COVID laced trash. The entertainment was so essential they made

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a T shirt commemorating it, a
T shirt I still wear with pride.

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When my palm Nick Demola, was
battling cancer and I wanted to send him

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a cameo from the co chairs,
the cast was not only there, but

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went above and beyond to get him
laughing and smiling during his darkest time.

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When I blew out my knee and
couldn't work at the dump anymore, the

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cast was there, booing my spirits
and helping me fight off suicidal ideations.

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When I spent a year in rehab
rehabbing my knee injury, doing hours of

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work in the gym and in the
pool as well as counseling. The cast

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was there, the cast continues to
be there to this day. To paraphrase

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a certain wise men, as we
just finished up Terry Funk's journey, I

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thank the lapsed fan for all of
this, for being unselfish and selfish times,

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for taking podcast listeners and showing them
a better way. Because here's what

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you people need to understand. The
effort that Jack and JP put in is

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unrivaled. No one has the work
right that they do, No one has

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the shelf life that they do,
and because of that, no one deserves

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praise from the Solar system more than
they do. Your favorite podcast. And

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that guy in's inside the biz who
claims to know how it really is,

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fuck him. He's so far up
his own ass all he can smell as

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his own farts. That Carnie fuck
is working you and you're too stupid to

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know it. Oh, you think
long form podcasts are the way to go?

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Fuck them. They don't hold a
candle how long and hard the laughs

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fan goes. The amount of content
Jack and JP put out is staggering,

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and that's without even factoring in Patreon. You think your fandom has a dedicated

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fan base. Fan base. To
quote Ollie Anderson, fuck them and fuck

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you too. I'll put the solar
system against them any day of the week

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because we know the score. We've
all had struggles, and we all deal

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with the pain and shame of simultaneously
loving and hating this insane, fucking business.

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The cast could end tomorrow and it
would hurt, but I'd have ten

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years of shelf life to look back
on, to keep listening to and to

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keep me going through this fucked up
world. It wouldn't be what i'd want,

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but the cast is what I need, because at the end of a

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day, that's what this cast and
what wrestling is really about. It's about

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what you want versus what you need. Now, if you'll excuse me,

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I'm going back to the lamentable journey
because MJF and Holt Mcallenny Aside fucked the

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Iron Claw. Hm, fuck the
Iron Claw. I wonder how many times

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Fritz said that to Doris. Anyway, With love and devotion from Halifax,

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this is Phil signing off