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Welcome back in once again, Ladies
and gentlemen, The Crackling Hearth is once

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again wrestling podcast. Steady Twin Chris
the co chairman are in position for the

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twenty twenty three TLF Christmas Show.
The Unwrappening two continues to unfold as the

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Solar System TLF listeners deliver once again
to a degree that exceeds our wildest expectations.

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Yeah, boss, the next gift
of Christmas it is from ooh listed

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Lapped Scribes out of Abilene, Texas. Lapsed Scribes. Those are those motherfuckers

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that have formed community around going into
the TLF archives and creating transcriptions and permanent

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records and ways to search and query. It doesn't get much more TLFX than

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that, I'll say. And to
get a gift not from an individual but

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on behalf of the whole scribes community
is something quite special. Indeed, so

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I'm especially interested to see what's coming
out of Terry Funk's part of the country

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there, not far from the Panhandle, be something very fucking Jesus Christ.

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This has taped very well. Why
don't you just use the branding iron I

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know, I wish I had one
something to watch the boss man. Look

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all around his studio. There so
much ship on shelves behind him and nothing

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that can open Upack on the Christmas
show. You what, I got a

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nail? All right, let's stick
it with a fucking nail. That's a

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plan. We know nails is in
there could be Can you imagine what if

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he fucking popped out? Kevin Kelly, he's been in like he's been in

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this thing for like weeks. Now, what would the lapsed scribes have for

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us? Haven't done enough? Laps
Darchive Transcription Service LATS going to be a

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big part of our TLFX celebrations.
I mean, it's just like, you

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know, it's the true marker of
a podcast that means something to people that

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a group like this would form basically
a preservation society listeners, I know,

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it's our own national archives, it
really is, and sprouted up organically,

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Yeah, and go out there thirstily
hoping for someone to do this. They

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came to us with a wonderful series
of detailed proposals to ensure that this landmark

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wrestling podcast lives on and is appropriately
discoverable. Read first, so there is

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a note the note. Okay,
well, I would expect that from the

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scribes. After all, is day
too. Like monks work by candlelight.

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Ooh, nice little Christmas decoration on
the margin, and by they do calligraphy

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as well. Dear coach Chairman,
I would like to take you on a

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short trip down memory lane. Friday
evening. It's summer, my parents are

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home from work, and I'm now
chopping at the bit for my favorite weekly

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ritual, a trip to the video
store. We get to the nearby shopping

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center and discover not only am I
getting a video, but we're getting pizza

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too. Oh, for God's sake, fucking yes. I wander into that

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store and head straight for the section
we all know, the one. I

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scan the jackets, torn between the
familiar and the new, I see what

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I want. At that moment,
I don't just want that tape. I

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need it. I clutch it to
my chest like my treasurer is about to

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be stolen from me and return to
my family. Carl, are you getting

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that tape again? I'm sorry,
sir, Carl. Are you getting that

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tape again? Yes? Mother,
Yes, I am won't be the last

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time either, bitch. Fast fast
forward an hour and I'm seated on the

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couch pizza in front of me.
I crossed that VHS box open like I'm

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Indiana Jones and the Raiders at a
lost arc and then sit transfixed. No

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matter how much school sucked that week, this made it better. It made

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everything better. Co Chairs for this
Christmas invite you to revisit those magical days

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just one more time. This gift
gift has been a labor of love in

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memory of the video store, of
receiving a tape in the mall from a

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stranger, of arriving at home and
finding your parents had recorded a show you

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missed. We sincerely hope this gift
can take you back to those precious days

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when it used to be better for
just a moment. Merry Christmas from Karl

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Chromaslam and Haystacks on behalf of the
Lapse describes ps a very very special thanks

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must also go out to the Green
Gorilla who selfishly, who selflessly, rather

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selflessly yeah Big Difference, went to
great lengths to produce, assemble, package,

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and ship this gift. Tremendous.
God, what a great recollection.

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Man. There are two things here, that's what were the scene he describes

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for you reaching for this is for
you. So let's open this one first,

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Okay, we're at a ten year
mission to explain why someone would be

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motivated to write the exact letter they
just wrote. Oh jesu, and it

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is I don't know if you're ready
for this. That must mean I'm not.

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Yes, he's doing the thing where
he reveals it from the bottom of

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the screen up the Oh my god, are you kidding me? Someone actually

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did that VHS. Wow, the
action is really impressive of SMN the show

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we did in college in our college
television class, and we made it in

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our own likeness, to say the
very least. And they not only put

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it on VHS, but they created
custom clamshell video cases with that's wild graphics

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and pictures from BacT unbelievable. Can
you see that? Oh, they put

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the WWE on the spine. That
is remarkable. That is very remarkable.

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So we've gotten like action figures of
ourselves before and that's a trip. That's

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like a whole new level of bombs
And you knew it. Thanks for so

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much for complete transparency. I knew
that they were that there was a remastering

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happening, but I didn't realize it
was going this far. So we both

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got a set. Yeah, oh, look at holy shit, look at

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this in the fucking at the bottom. Look at the multiple things on the

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bus son Co fans we did between
an email socofans a hotmail dot com.

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I mean, we talk all the
time about the lapsed origin story here coming

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up on TLFX and how you know
I saw the no Mercy Kardtriusian JP seven

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sixty four in our college dorm and
Jesus, are you a fan? Was

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the question. The answer was,
let's create a podcast basically, or let's

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let's begin the process of laying the
foundation for what will be a ten year

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running podcast about absolute foolishness with wrestling
as the common denominator. Jesus, that's

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what I just think about those days. Think about us stumbling halphazardly into the

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television studio with a plan to act
as foolish as possible. Like a script

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we barely had time to write the
night before. Yeah, just cracking each

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other up. Just I mean,
all the script was was phrases that would

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make us laugh like that. There
was no what if we said this?

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How does this sound? We always
started with an idea of where to go,

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but then we started this like saying
weird shit to each other and that

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ended up being what's stuck. So
it's it's more or less the same.

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And to think now, to think
now in twenty twenty three, that's that

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three people. Oh God, you
know, we happen to know where they

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are geographically, those three people would
come together to create a VHS keepsake of

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that foolishness. That's midly absurd.
I mean they're heavy. There must be

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tapes in here, like I think
this all every episode is all. That's

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a Christmas feeling right there? That
is that's a Christmas feeling. That's absurd,

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that's amazing. Well, there's a
hall of fame for TLS. Christmas

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Gifts all goes into the into the
first wing you see when you walk through

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the door. One of these days
there will be a physical laps Fan Hall

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of fame. Indeed there be,
and we look forward, we know exactly

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who to reach out to lap Scribes
when it comes time to put it together.

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Thanks for making uh this Christmas that
much more uniquely special. What a

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gift and what a season and what
a series. We'll see you for the

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next gift of Christmas. As the
unwrapping two continues to unfold, is a

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