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Hey, guys, this one was
hard. You know, I've I've tried

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recording this five or six different times, and every time, at a certain

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point I get a little misty,
my voice starts to crack, and it

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becomes real, you know, the
way that all of this is, you

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know, except for the most important
part, because that shit's fucking fake anyway,

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ten years, man, you know, it didn't really click in my

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head. You hear the the TLFX, you know, sort of run up

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audio that you guys have done in
terms of all these testimonials, and you

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know, anytime you mentioned TLFX and
you know what's coming and ten years,

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you hear the term ten years,
and it just it doesn't really mean anything.

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You have to you have to be
affected by it. And I was,

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I don't know, a month or
two ago, somebody on Twitter x

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said I spent the entirety of my
thirties with these guys. I'm forty now,

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and that it hit me like a
freight train man like I am,

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that I'm in the same boat.
You know, I came on very very

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early. I won't say day one, it was more like day eleven or

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twelve, but very early on you
you you fellas stuck in my craw and

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my ass and and it was a
full steam ahead ever since my buddy Andy

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introduced me to you guys. And
you know, I thought I had found

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two brand new best friends. Frankly, and I think that's the the magic

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of all this. We talked about
it when we did that that failed podcast

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that I that I put together,
and we we did something around Mania a

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couple of years ago, and that
was really fun. But it's it's true,

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you guys, You guys loom large
in our lives, in the lives

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of your listeners, and that's because
you go so hard for us, you

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know, like and yeah, everything
is a transaction, right, except when

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when it's real, it doesn't really
matter, does it. It doesn't matter

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that it's it's about. And then
sounds cynical, right, It sound cynical

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to say this is transaction transactional,
But you know, if we're being intellectually

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honest with each other, of course
it is. But uh, success doesn't

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come without a level of ingenuity and
level of genuine love for the subject.

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And that is what you provide constantly
and consistently. I spent my entire thirties

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with the lapsed fan as part of
my life. A quarter of my life.

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Fuck, that's wild to think about. A quarter of my life has

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been dedicated Uh well, I don't
know about dedicated, but a large chunk

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of that quarter of my life has
been dedicated to having you in my ears,

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the two of you. And that
is not a unique position. That's

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not a unique thing to say out
loud, because there are thousands more just

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like me that are that you know, have the same have the same story.

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I have been lucky and fortunate enough
to have been in positions throughout the

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last ten years to be able to
bring something to the table for the two

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of you occasionally as well. And
we've had the opportunity to stay to be

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in each other's presence a couple of
times, and that is that is also

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invaluable to me, and so I
thank you both for the kindness that you

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have shown in person as well,
from star Cast to the Ring of Honor

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show at at the the Hammerstein too. I guess another star cast, Yeah,

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yeah, Vegas too, Right anyway, it's it's so it's so inspiring

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what you do and what you've found
from a creative standpoint, that that that

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not only were you there for a
quarter of my life and my ear holes,

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you know, making the mundane so
much less mundane. You know,

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I think just about everybody who's done
one of these testimonials has mentioned the pandemic

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and how integral you were to that. For us, I don't have a

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story where I was suicidal or I
got really sick or any of that stuff.

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Not to discount those because those are
incredible. But what I do have

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is the gift that you gave to
me during the pandemic was that you introduced

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me to not directly, but through
you Fellas. I was introduced to this

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group of amazing people that we still
have an active group chat, seven or

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eight of us in there, and
we talk every single day. And you

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know, one of those people have
become, you know, probably the best

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friend I've got in this life where
I've got a a ten month old and

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very rarely leave the house or anything
except something to do with a kid.

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And so, you know, not
only have we become incredible friends, but

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Blake and I have even started our
own thing. You know, we're doing

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this this baseball podcast that is essentially
a spinoff or you know, frankly a

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rip off of what you guys do
just with baseball from when it used to

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be better straight up with you know, complete with voices and nonsense and boil

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boy, do we work blue.
But it's the it's the most fun I

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have every week or two when we
get together, because you know, we

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get to be the boys right and
be together and just have fun. It's

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like playtime, right, even though
it's two am. It's like playtime.

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We get to do that. And
none of that would have ever happened without

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you. And the pebbles cast deep
ripples on this pond, and those ripples

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create ripples and so on and so
on and so on, and there's something

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pretty beautiful about that, if you
ask me. And in the tapestry that

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the two of you have woven in
the past ten years. The programs themselves

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are something to be proud of,
but I think what is what you should

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be most proud of is the solar
system that you have built. The connections

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that you have made between people that
never would have been made if not for

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you. There's something so powerful about
at that, and uh yeah, I

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am very thankful for it and for
you both. If you stop tomorrow,

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that would be really shitty. That
would that would not be great, but

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we would have quite the legacy of
of things too to live up to and

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and to to to to fall back
on. I think Phil mentioned that in

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his recording as well, and that
is that's that's the whole ball game.

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Thank you both. Really, I
can't wait for Philadelphia, Uh, Blake

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and I'll be there along with a
whole hell of a lot more of this

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older system. So looking forward to
seeing the two of you there, not

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going to WrestleMania and uh and you
know, having some bagels and munching on

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some bullshit. But truly thank you
for the last ten years. You are

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your inspirations and you don't get the
credit you deserve in that regard, So

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thank you.