It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnaco and JP Sorrow and Welcome to
the TLF Christmas Show, The Unwrapping Part two two thousand and twenty three,
three twenty three, and we were obliged to do it again. The generosity
and the thoughtfulness and creativity the solar system made for some magic when it's weird
seeing like seeing your face like it's weird talking and it's so bizarre. That's
one of the real gift that the laps Fan Solar System gives to us every
year is not so much the physical gifts that get sent to the po box.
It's bringing us together in the same room once a year, guaranteed to
to revel in the generosity. And unlike last year, we're actually cooped up
in the actual studio that Boss Man records in every single time. And it's
it's something to see, folks. It is. It is a menageree of
you know, just like immaturity. Yes, oh absolutely, there's there are
toys everywhere, uh, movies places. It's it's a disaster right now.
Do I see the Christmas story leg lamp? Oh you absolutely do? Oh
yes, fuck yes, that that's that is the you know that's that is
the lamp. So go ahead if you turn off the light here, Oh
she want me to do it? Turn off the light? This? This
is this is what I do for cinemat when we watch the movie. Oh,
you actually got to turn off the lights that I fucking just had the
leg lamp going and I have I have the monitor screen, monitor screen,
So you work by lamp light like, well, that's the only way you
can count the dollars the right way. No, Vince came in the office
is about eleven thirty. You know, I like to work by lamp light.
And uh, what's going on in here? What is this device?
This illuminatory device? What is this? What's that faint war here? Is
that a refrigerator? Or is that? No? That that's my fan?
Actually, that is an actual fan. It's an actual fan. I thought
that's not a laps fan, but it's a fan. I thought that might
hold some vials as well as Vinci's cokes. No, but I'll tell you
what. I haven't brought it up since the last pay careful Fox one.
This is I put ice in here sometimes for pay per views. Oh yeah,
yeah, g that beer cold. God, I feel privileged. To
see it. I see Yokozuna Hasbro, I see I see a Barry Windham
galube. He's spectacular, which you know because I can see which toys he
puts actually next to the keyboard that can actually reach while recording. Yes,
ones that may have a little click, but for the most part are pretty
silent. So it's like, you know, but as you pointed out,
I mean that Berry windom so versatile. I've never seen him before. But
tell the people, well if you if you don't know Berry Windham, He's
got kind of the almos als, the like the positioning of the like ravishing
recruit and stuff like, he's got the arm kind of up. But it's
like it's it's one of the ones that actually is not like any w W
E has Bro. It's not really he's got his his fist is actually kind
of I don't even know what you call this, but his fist is ready,
it's perfectly positioned to throw a punch, throw a punch and and you
know the lugar glube like fists or by his you can never do a good
punch with that, No you can't. You have to hear force for arm
shots, you know, like that like that. But if you pointed out
Windham can do a wonderful uh, he can do he can do a great
power slam. Here we go, look at that perfect form second generation the
I like the glue better than the actual guy. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
there's no And he can do a great spinebuster that's absolutely perfect, you
know, like it's just a it's a really of all the globes I have,
I didn't have one. I didn't have one with those that arm position.
I found that's the only one that has arms like that. I think.
So I found him? Where did I find him? Oh? I
found him? You know, occasionally when I'm in that, when I'm in
that zone, I go through a crazy I want to find a store,
you know, you want to walk into the junk store type place. And
I found one that was just it was insane. It was such a it
was such it was like somebody's garage almost nice and just tons and like box
fulls of galubes and hasbros and stuff. You know, it was wild.
And I remember I found I found Windom there. I mean, there's nothing
more Christmas than wrestling toys. Absolutely, two folks that are in the TLF
demographic. You know, so we all have our holiday stories of unwrapping unique
magic that wrestling figures can bring you. And so that's it's actually highly appropriate.
I think that we're we're surrounded by Hasbro horrific, by juvenile oh totally
delinquency. I mean so so pathetic that we belong to a generation that plays
with action figures more than our kids do. Yes, oh absolutely, I
mean way more. Absolutely. When you rattle the TB microphone movement off to
bear with that, but that's a tug boat I see on the tugger.
Yeah, I got that. I got that. That that new retro.
Now when you buy cinemat DVDs, do you hang on to them and put
them on the shelf here? Sometimes? Some sometimes, I mean all those
are you can make it look all those are cinemats right there, those ones
right there, those are all Yeah, those are all those are all.
I'm not going to spoil anything, am I. No, no, no,
no, no no, but you can you can take a look because
you don't know when they're coming, you know. That's the beauty on the
waterfront. On the waterfront. Yeah, that was one Jeff Towne, that
that box of that box of moonlight it's like I think it's a restaurant movie,
but Headbanger Mash is in it. I wait to get to that one.
We got the Burned Guyn to Dina powder from last year. Yeah,
oh yeah, I keep that many great gifts, you know, last year
our very first Christmas show and wrapping one. Uh she's the Ico pro fanny
pack that's still in circulation. Yeah, I still use that all the time.
I use that. The Abdullah the Butcher figurine that's like pre painted.
Oh yeah you got that, Yeah, you got that. I got that.
I got the two Jesse's on my bookshelves up there in the in the
in the downstairs to Action the Action. Yeah, I mean they're even bigger
than that. Like yeah, probably don't, Barbarie, you know, probably
ain't got shipped on Jesse. You remember, of course the Jerry Lawler blessed
calendar we got with him to this state of Nope, I don't remember that
in a state of undress. No, I have spent a year trying to
be working in therapy to get that out of my mind. So trauma built
back up. That's right. My wife found the fucking the creepy Jerry Lawler.
Uh. Uh, like tapestry type thing that we got, just like
what is this? Yeah, that's a great question. And I was like,
yeah, you know this this I this is awkward. This is an
awkward moment. And all those personal gifts, like people sending us like records
they kept of the show and of their personal wrestling fandom and trinkets. One
of my favorites from their from the banks of their memories and the nostalgia that
it touches off, the likes of which only we can access. One of
them is yeah, I don't know where it is, but the the Royal
Umber ninety one magazine. Wow, we got so much wonderful stuff and and
and you know, it was it was way too much. It was it
was like exhausting. It was like we finished recording that first Christmas episode,
we looked at each other like what did we just remember? There was other
stuff too, Like there were gifts within the gifts remember that. Yeah,
we were finding things that we're hidden in the actual packaging that we were ready
to discard. And so can't wait to see what the Solar Systems could get
for us this year as we return to the Christmas hearth and get you you
know, in the solar system, appropriately situated to have hopefully lovely and warm
and nostalgic holiday that that you know, recalls, you know, those moments
of youth that we still chase, that we still in our hearts seek to
recollect. Where where where the I feel like we're where the I feel like
every generation has nostalgia, obviously, but I feel I feel like we're the
only generation, or at least the first generation, to actively pursue and to
try to re obtain, reobtain and in many cases obtain what we couldn't the
elusive I'm looking at the red hull. Yes, yes, and and but
I think of too, like the the amount of movies and TV shows that
have had these uh reboots, but these like you know, like for example,
the Untouchable Christmas Story had like an actual sequel, not like the crappy
sequel that came out in the nineties, but like with Peter Billings, Peter
Peter Billings, you know, like that's kind of stuff like where it's an
active thing, it's an active thing to to really retreat all that shit.
Yeah, it's very bizarre. And we were also, you know, when
there's no more appropriate time than the holiday season to kind of appreciate this.
The first generation to have the resources to actually find these things that proved delusive.
Yes, our parents didn't have eBay, Nope, they didn't have Amazon.
They didn't have a systematic way of finding elusive lost media, or they
didn't have a reality right and so theydn't have reality they had You know,
people might ship in our generation for being orally nostalgic, but it's just simply
the fact that we're the first generation that can actually act on that same and
so that our parents, our boomers are so miserable because they couldn't that and
they can't and they won't. They had to relinquish those feelings in those moments
and and and and those connective experiences. They had to tell themselves that,
you know, life is hard. You know, uh play you know,
play hard, you know, just don't play. Don't play right exactly work
because they work, work right. Work. They couldn't once they came into
disposable income and adulthood. Reach back and and and grab and where where we're
a testament and this room in fact and this this show, this Christmas specialist
testament to that that that unique option we're allowed and you judge that however you
are maybe it's is it is it? Is it? Is it unhealthy?
Yeah? Is it? Is it gratifying? Yes? Is it satisfying?
Yes, it's funny how things are gratifying and satisfying unhealthy? Is it toxic?
Absolutely right? You ever notice that the things we're told are are you
know, sort of like negative marks against our maturity happen or or things that
are not so much good for us are the things that we crave the most.
It's absolutely of course, given give me a pizza, like what the
fuck you know, like fucking Halloween candy, right, I mean it does
candy touch those? Those are fucking awful. So whatever people say, we
don't agree on things. Candy corn, I love it. I love it.
I love it. So we are going to approach this a little differently
this year in terms of how we format the Christmas show. We thought for
many reasons, one of which is the fact that we're not around the hearth,
and we have, in fact, Mama sorrow elsewhere in the house and
we don't want to disturb her with our big production that we had the luxury
are or the rest of the house for that matter. Everyone else's everyone else
is asleep as well. And because a lot of members of the Solar System
are telling us that this year it was tough to get us gifts this early
in advance, we had, you know, it's it's tough for us.
We want to make sure we get this done every year, and so we
got to go extra early before our respective family lives get so busy, as
you know, once after a Thanksgiving forget it. It's all right. Anyone
knows that it's it's the hardest thing to do to to to put something together
like this, and yet it's extra tricky for us to give really specific guidance
to the Solar System to a drop dead date that gifts need to be in
our post office box here and here in Connecticut. Christmas in Connecticut, by
the way, right, so one I can watch that film this year having
checked that bought there's there's there's a television version, a TV remake of Christmas
and Connecticut that is coming soon down to the cinema is directed by W.
W. Hall of Famer Arnold Schwarzenegger. The only movie that he ever directed
Christmas in Connecticut is Christmas a Titans. As far as I could say,
I just imagine walking in the fucking doors. Imagine Hasbros just being there.
Well, we got the company Christmas card from nineteen ninety one. Last year's
a gift. Remember that animated hey out of that piece? That was fun.
So the change in format this year and perhaps next year, we'll see
we'll play it by air every year because there's still gifts to come from people
in the Solar System that we really cherish in value that really should be part
of, you know, the Christmas Show and not sort of an afterthought.
We're going to do separate little mini podcasts for every gift we get, and
we're going to and those who took the initiative to make sure that their gift
was in the mail early and often we'll have the luxury of our in person
reaction to each gift. Yes, but it won't be like a continuous one
show and we're done. It's going to be a little bits and as as
packages come in, will connect remotely for the ones that are late, and
hopefully the folks that have been thoughtful enough to regale us and make this a
special show won't feel short changed to do the right thing right honestly, So
if you did the right thing. You got it in before we recorded,
so right, and so what do you get for that? You get our
you get Yeah, you get the same person. And we can debate over
who takes what gift home. Well, that's always a very easy debate.
You get ninety five percent of it. Oh god, do you still have
the Superstar Cereal box from nineteen ninety one? I do? I do I
eat? There are times I have said to myself, I want to open
and eat it. We talked so much about what it would taste like.
Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow. Yeah, right, great breakfast, you know,
we go eat. We got a lot to do, all right.
So let's let's take the first gift of Christmas. Should we go here under
the tree? Size? Yeah, let's go big, all right? I
got them right here. Oh you want to that one? You wanted the
big one? All right? I want to be the big one because this
is going to be the first, you know, Christmas shell file that's going
to drop on the Solar system. Let's give them the biggest bang for the
buck out of the gate, uh, and then scale down from there.
So this is a package that's about waist high. It's about the size of
a you know, a gooding. I'm gonna guess it's a picture of some
sort, Yeah, like a movie poster size, which makes me nervous because
the last time we got something like this it ended up being a creepy ass
picture of Jerry Loler. So I cannot tell. I mean it comes from
Michigan. Certainly, we've got some great Solar System members out there, from
Kevin Love Michigan. We're big Detroit fans over here, fac fan. Maybe
yeah, maybe maybe it's a piece of silver numb and yeah, maybe a
pair of scissors would be helpful. It's pretty well taped. Not not to
assume you keep a pair of scissors close by when you're recording, as disturbing
as that could be a ball, I say, you have a whole array
of box cutters. That's interesting. Kidding, brother, brother, what he
got there? Screwdriver? Yeah? Got that sound? Yeah, let's fucking
ca TF Christmas show? Bitch? Wait it's all the way? Is it
from a Michigan Ah? Yes, all right? Peled open and I see
I see a purple almost like velvety. It's it's wrap wrapping paper. Yeah,
this is a very I see a tag. Who's it? From at
the bottom right there. Who's tag who do ye tag him in? Brother?
What does it say? All right? Yeah? It's uh oh boy.
No, matter where this crazy podcast world takes you remember to always be
modest a fuck no to the top t n H forever. From Steve and
Jillian. Oh, this is from Steve and Jillian. Now that's they are
the ones that did the Jerry Lawler pe know. Oh my god, boss,
tell the people you're taking this one. Oh my god. It's a
fucking what is a stand up of It's a life sized stand up of fucking
Jeff Hearty. It's a full size cardboard Yeah, it's one of those like
life sized cardboard cutouts. Yeah, seventy four inches tall. Oh my god.
And it's made modestly with cardboard, made modestly in India or that is
that is just all right. So it's it's a w W product USA made.
It's his USA made, and it's it's him with sort of like you
know, black white belt, black black baggy pants. It looks it looks
like like like two thousand and one ish and his his big green I guess
not that would be from more even more recent. That's the fucking Yeah,
this looks this looks past. This looks more like current. Fuck my life.
Oh this is an amazing piece. Oh I get this appraised. Look
how modest it's all his finger. I'm sure modestly appraised honestly to the bottom
of the fucking dumb Oh my god, Seriously, I was gonna put you
know what I went do you know what? You know what? I'm sorry
Steven, Jillian, I know I'm saying miss Deenna, and yeah, I
appreciate the gesture, but you know what we should do take it out back
tomorrow and burn it fucking light jeff Hardy on fire. That'd be hot.
We should do it would be hot. So before we conclude this first piece
of the twenty twenty three TLF Christmas Show and our first the first gift of
Christmas, as they say in the Polar Express, you're looking right at the
face of Jeffrey Hardy Jeffrey Nero Hardy right now. And it's great. See
your response in first Just tell me what you see. Okay, fucking fun,
annoying. You know he's also got those you know, he's got that
that awful like wanna be action hero stubble. He's got he's got the fucking
earrings that I don't understand that they where they they spread out your ear lobes,
because that's what people should have. Like he can ship, like he
could fit chains in there and like hold something like he could fucking dangle ship
from those things. Oh, he must have lost a lot of weight then
if he can fit chains in there. I just it's just I can't creature.
Huh. He's such a dufous looking motherfucker. Steve put in the middle,
he said, what do he sent us? He sent us something that
telegraph. Oh, it's it's it's gonna be a doozy. It's going to
be a monster. Let me see if I can do some like Jeff Hardy
poetry. Maybe does it do poetry? Well, he did, didn't he
do poetry? And he cut promos in with poetry and he wrote. He
sent us a message, he said, just a heads up. I think
the package was too big for the po box. Yes, it was,
hero it's a substantial package. He put package in clothes. Should it was
actually, you know, I'm honestly sized package. And with that, the
first modestly sized package of Christmas has been unwrapped. Here on the TLF twenty
twenty three Christmas Show. Merry Christmas to Steve and Jillian, incredible supporters of
the TLF Solar System, and again saddling us with an oversized gift that we
can't in good conscience keep, and can't in good conscience get rid of.
Thank you, no thanks, thanks for ruining Christmas. Please. A production
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