It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack n Carna Seo and JP Sorrow.
All right, so we're back with folks. It's the twenty twenty three TLF
Christmas Show and we're ringing it in as only the solar system will allow us
to in person together looking at the expression on each other's faces, trying to
recover from the last gift, which was a chat GTP generated series of scripts
that speak to a little too close for comfort to our I'll say to our
internal psyche and monologue. And now we're looking at a package. I don't
know. It looks about media male size. It's not small, it's small
what we have from Paul Lantau. You want to open this one? Sure
well, I'd be glad to unwrap it. Our man, Paul in Michigan,
Michigan, wonderful state, great supporters of the cast. So see what
it is, courtesy of the US A microphone. They got an open up
the microphone. Can't hear that? I do it? Well? I hear
it better, definitely, like some fucking what do you call it? Atmospherics?
Well, what do you what's that thing? The kids like nowadays?
The ASMR SMR what does that even mean? I don't know what it stands
for. Wow, holy shit, this is all right. Here we go
brother bubble rat. Oh yeah, have we gotten there? We had a
letter before I read the letter. Oh there's something else in here of a
small cylinder circumference. Okay, that's a big letter. It reads to the
esteemed co Chairs, thank you for the years of entertainment you have provided and
closed is a bubble as a token of appreciation. If you're wondering what the
gift is, let a hand it to you. Boss. What is that
that it is? Oh my god, I can't. Oh. It is
an eighties bay goma b E I g O m A, which almost looks
like a I mean it's it looks like something. I mean, there's certainly
something like like almost a yo yo, but the string is detached or like
a like a yeah yeah. But it has Hell Coke's face on it,
it does, and a cradle instead of a drad we cradling by I gotta
I got yeah away. I've never heard of this word before, and now
going to stop everything until I can. What do you do? What you
do with a bygone era is you put it on your pants and wait for
magic. You play the terry funk butt dart. The by joma and by
goma is a traditional Japanese top that's approximately three centimeters in diameter and often decorated
with kanji. When spun correctly, the baijoma makes a humming sound. Really
get that mic on it. Yeah, if you can, of course,
Wow, come on, humm, give me a hummer. Oh yeah,
that's good at spinning tops are we're giving it? That's a hump? How
the fun? You get the same the sam that's as there should, fellow
the flour. Have some respect for yourself, for God's sake, all right.
It kind of sounds like every other top I've ever heard, but it's
I think it's gonna be honest. This goes flying off the desk every other
thought. He does it. Make sure we're still recording over there, Jesus,
I don't hear. It sounds a lot like a microphone being moved around
on a base. It's spinning step right under. It's kind of it's kind
of a hypnotizing. Yeah, I don't know about no hum, but so
I appreciate achi bomb. If you're wondering what the gift is, it is
an eighties Big Goma featuring Hull Cogin on it. Big Gomas are longtime children's
toys in Japan where a cord is used to spin a metal top at a
high speed. So, yeah, it did come with the cord. I
don't know. It's like a little rope that you'd see inside of a yo
yo. Basically, No, What's what's a mystery to us is how that's
to be used to activate the The top doesn't have a slot for the at
all for the rope to thread through. I'm wondering if you like, if
you create a nest, create a nest. Okay, you're better at that
than I am. Where a cord is used to spend a metal top at
a high speed, a game is played where two tops are spun next to
each other to try and knock one down. Younger members of the Solar System
would remember bay Blade as a modernized version of it. B E y b
lad. I chose this gift firstly because your pain off the Pacific Journey was
an excellent source of entertainment during the pandemic. The second reason is a longer
story. When I was visiting Tokyo in twenty nineteen, we were hit by
super Typhoon hagibus Oh. I thought I was gonna say Fred Austen, Yeah,
it was the biggest. Is that what they called him when he went
to New Japan Super Typhoon? No, that was when that's when he went
to UWF or SESSWS. It was the biggest typhoon to hit Japan in decades
and shut down Disneyland for the first time since the eighties. Natural disasters are
stressful, but in a foreign country they're even more overwhelming. I can't imagine.
I don't know this. Relying on Google Translate to figure out what the
evacuation orders are as challenging, but having fire trucks race around with sirens and
a loudspeaker shouting alerts in Japanese is even more overwhelming when you don't speak Japanese.
Eventually, I resigned myself to hunkering down in my arabianb apartment, laid
down in bed and put on my headphones to listen to That's right, a
lapsed fan. I know it was a source of relaxation in stressful times.
What I didn't realize was that this was about to turn into a tag team
match. Yes, typhoon was not working alone. Brother earthquake came out from
under the ring as Tokyo was struck with a five point six magnitude shake.
This is mild for Japan, but was big for me. I was experiencing
a real life version of the natural disasters double teeming me. Eventually I fell
asleep to TLF. The next day the sun was out and thankfully my apartment
was spared. I was lucky. The new Japan Dojo was in the same
ward and had serious flooding. I've rambled, but thanks again for providing entertainment
when when I'm in stressful situations from disasters to pandemics. Iachimanis Hogansan Paul from
Marquette. So I wonder when this is like what is this like an antique
type thing or a vintage thing? I don't know, Yeah, wonder I
like if it's if it's hull Co contribute from eighty three from like I mean,
I'll say this, like Hogan's got hair on the top of his head.
It looks like to me, like have a hair on top of that
in the nineties. Yeah, that's true. That's like yeah, yeah,
right, yeah, it's a fascinating piece. It almost looks like, you
know, like a they'd find like a painting of Julius Caesar in a cave,
yes, you know, like a depiction of what he looked like a
painting etching the extor system. He finds that fucking demon thing in there.
That's a really cool gift. That's a that's a piece. That's not a
gift, that's a piece, that is a piece. And we thank you
for regaling us this holiday season with very special babbles. We love bobbles around
the thoughtful letter, and we're glad you. We're glad that TLF was part
of your ability to deal with that stressful situation. We hear a lot about
that, we do. We come in handy when folks really don't want to
be alone with their thoughts and there's uncertainty in the air, and we put
them on a more certain course for a little while. And then, as
as as with everything in life, the passage of time is often the remedy.
Yes, And so if we can help pass the time to see the
other side of something that seems intractable, that's a service we're glad to perform.
And if we can't pass time, we'll certainly pass gas. So we
want to thank Paul for the wonderful gift and stay gathered around the tree fans,
because come in your way. As yet another Christmas package opening, TLF
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