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It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with
Jack n Carna Seo and JP Sorrow.

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All right, so we're back with
folks. It's the twenty twenty three TLF

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Christmas Show and we're ringing it in
as only the solar system will allow us

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to in person together looking at the
expression on each other's faces, trying to

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recover from the last gift, which
was a chat GTP generated series of scripts

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that speak to a little too close
for comfort to our I'll say to our

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internal psyche and monologue. And now
we're looking at a package. I don't

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know. It looks about media male
size. It's not small, it's small

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what we have from Paul Lantau.
You want to open this one? Sure

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well, I'd be glad to unwrap
it. Our man, Paul in Michigan,

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Michigan, wonderful state, great supporters
of the cast. So see what

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it is, courtesy of the US
A microphone. They got an open up

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the microphone. Can't hear that?
I do it? Well? I hear

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it better, definitely, like some
fucking what do you call it? Atmospherics?

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Well, what do you what's that
thing? The kids like nowadays?

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The ASMR SMR what does that even
mean? I don't know what it stands

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for. Wow, holy shit,
this is all right. Here we go

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brother bubble rat. Oh yeah,
have we gotten there? We had a

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letter before I read the letter.
Oh there's something else in here of a

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small cylinder circumference. Okay, that's
a big letter. It reads to the

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esteemed co Chairs, thank you for
the years of entertainment you have provided and

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closed is a bubble as a token
of appreciation. If you're wondering what the

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gift is, let a hand it
to you. Boss. What is that

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that it is? Oh my god, I can't. Oh. It is

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an eighties bay goma b E I
g O m A, which almost looks

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like a I mean it's it looks
like something. I mean, there's certainly

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something like like almost a yo yo, but the string is detached or like

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a like a yeah yeah. But
it has Hell Coke's face on it,

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it does, and a cradle instead
of a drad we cradling by I gotta

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I got yeah away. I've never
heard of this word before, and now

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going to stop everything until I can. What do you do? What you

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do with a bygone era is you
put it on your pants and wait for

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magic. You play the terry funk
butt dart. The by joma and by

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goma is a traditional Japanese top that's
approximately three centimeters in diameter and often decorated

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with kanji. When spun correctly,
the baijoma makes a humming sound. Really

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get that mic on it. Yeah, if you can, of course,

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Wow, come on, humm,
give me a hummer. Oh yeah,

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that's good at spinning tops are we're
giving it? That's a hump? How

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the fun? You get the same
the sam that's as there should, fellow

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the flour. Have some respect for
yourself, for God's sake, all right.

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It kind of sounds like every other
top I've ever heard, but it's

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I think it's gonna be honest.
This goes flying off the desk every other

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thought. He does it. Make
sure we're still recording over there, Jesus,

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I don't hear. It sounds a
lot like a microphone being moved around

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on a base. It's spinning step
right under. It's kind of it's kind

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of a hypnotizing. Yeah, I
don't know about no hum, but so

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I appreciate achi bomb. If you're
wondering what the gift is, it is

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an eighties Big Goma featuring Hull Cogin
on it. Big Gomas are longtime children's

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toys in Japan where a cord is
used to spin a metal top at a

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high speed. So, yeah,
it did come with the cord. I

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don't know. It's like a little
rope that you'd see inside of a yo

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yo. Basically, No, What's
what's a mystery to us is how that's

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to be used to activate the The
top doesn't have a slot for the at

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all for the rope to thread through. I'm wondering if you like, if

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you create a nest, create a
nest. Okay, you're better at that

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than I am. Where a cord
is used to spend a metal top at

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a high speed, a game is
played where two tops are spun next to

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each other to try and knock one
down. Younger members of the Solar System

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would remember bay Blade as a modernized
version of it. B E y b

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lad. I chose this gift firstly
because your pain off the Pacific Journey was

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an excellent source of entertainment during the
pandemic. The second reason is a longer

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story. When I was visiting Tokyo
in twenty nineteen, we were hit by

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super Typhoon hagibus Oh. I thought
I was gonna say Fred Austen, Yeah,

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it was the biggest. Is that
what they called him when he went

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to New Japan Super Typhoon? No, that was when that's when he went

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to UWF or SESSWS. It was
the biggest typhoon to hit Japan in decades

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and shut down Disneyland for the first
time since the eighties. Natural disasters are

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stressful, but in a foreign country
they're even more overwhelming. I can't imagine.

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I don't know this. Relying on
Google Translate to figure out what the

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evacuation orders are as challenging, but
having fire trucks race around with sirens and

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a loudspeaker shouting alerts in Japanese is
even more overwhelming when you don't speak Japanese.

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Eventually, I resigned myself to hunkering
down in my arabianb apartment, laid

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down in bed and put on my
headphones to listen to That's right, a

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lapsed fan. I know it was
a source of relaxation in stressful times.

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What I didn't realize was that this
was about to turn into a tag team

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match. Yes, typhoon was not
working alone. Brother earthquake came out from

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under the ring as Tokyo was struck
with a five point six magnitude shake.

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This is mild for Japan, but
was big for me. I was experiencing

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a real life version of the natural
disasters double teeming me. Eventually I fell

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asleep to TLF. The next day
the sun was out and thankfully my apartment

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was spared. I was lucky.
The new Japan Dojo was in the same

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ward and had serious flooding. I've
rambled, but thanks again for providing entertainment

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when when I'm in stressful situations from
disasters to pandemics. Iachimanis Hogansan Paul from

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Marquette. So I wonder when this
is like what is this like an antique

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type thing or a vintage thing?
I don't know, Yeah, wonder I

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like if it's if it's hull Co
contribute from eighty three from like I mean,

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I'll say this, like Hogan's got
hair on the top of his head.

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It looks like to me, like
have a hair on top of that

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in the nineties. Yeah, that's
true. That's like yeah, yeah,

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right, yeah, it's a fascinating
piece. It almost looks like, you

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know, like a they'd find like
a painting of Julius Caesar in a cave,

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yes, you know, like a
depiction of what he looked like a

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painting etching the extor system. He
finds that fucking demon thing in there.

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That's a really cool gift. That's
a that's a piece. That's not a

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gift, that's a piece, that
is a piece. And we thank you

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for regaling us this holiday season with
very special babbles. We love bobbles around

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the thoughtful letter, and we're glad
you. We're glad that TLF was part

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of your ability to deal with that
stressful situation. We hear a lot about

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that, we do. We come
in handy when folks really don't want to

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be alone with their thoughts and there's
uncertainty in the air, and we put

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them on a more certain course for
a little while. And then, as

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as as with everything in life,
the passage of time is often the remedy.

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Yes, And so if we can
help pass the time to see the

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other side of something that seems intractable, that's a service we're glad to perform.

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And if we can't pass time,
we'll certainly pass gas. So we

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want to thank Paul for the wonderful
gift and stay gathered around the tree fans,

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because come in your way. As
yet another Christmas package opening, TLF

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