Welcome back in once again, Ladies and gentlemen, The Crackling Hearth is once
again wrestling podcast. Steady Twin Chris the co chairman are in position for the
twenty twenty three TLF Christmas Show. The Unwrappening two continues to unfold as the
Solar System TLF listeners deliver once again to a degree that exceeds our wildest expectations.
Yeah, boss, the next gift of Christmas it is from ooh listed
Lapped Scribes out of Abilene, Texas. Lapsed Scribes. Those are those motherfuckers
that have formed community around going into the TLF archives and creating transcriptions and permanent
records and ways to search and query. It doesn't get much more TLFX than
that, I'll say. And to get a gift not from an individual but
on behalf of the whole scribes community is something quite special. Indeed, so
I'm especially interested to see what's coming out of Terry Funk's part of the country
there, not far from the Panhandle, be something very fucking Jesus Christ.
This has taped very well. Why don't you just use the branding iron I
know, I wish I had one something to watch the boss man. Look
all around his studio. There so much ship on shelves behind him and nothing
that can open Upack on the Christmas show. You what, I got a
nail? All right, let's stick it with a fucking nail. That's a
plan. We know nails is in there could be Can you imagine what if
he fucking popped out? Kevin Kelly, he's been in like he's been in
this thing for like weeks. Now, what would the lapsed scribes have for
us? Haven't done enough? Laps Darchive Transcription Service LATS going to be a
big part of our TLFX celebrations. I mean, it's just like, you
know, it's the true marker of a podcast that means something to people that
a group like this would form basically a preservation society listeners, I know,
it's our own national archives, it really is, and sprouted up organically,
Yeah, and go out there thirstily hoping for someone to do this. They
came to us with a wonderful series of detailed proposals to ensure that this landmark
wrestling podcast lives on and is appropriately discoverable. Read first, so there is
a note the note. Okay, well, I would expect that from the
scribes. After all, is day too. Like monks work by candlelight.
Ooh, nice little Christmas decoration on the margin, and by they do calligraphy
as well. Dear coach Chairman, I would like to take you on a
short trip down memory lane. Friday evening. It's summer, my parents are
home from work, and I'm now chopping at the bit for my favorite weekly
ritual, a trip to the video store. We get to the nearby shopping
center and discover not only am I getting a video, but we're getting pizza
too. Oh, for God's sake, fucking yes. I wander into that
store and head straight for the section we all know, the one. I
scan the jackets, torn between the familiar and the new, I see what
I want. At that moment, I don't just want that tape. I
need it. I clutch it to my chest like my treasurer is about to
be stolen from me and return to my family. Carl, are you getting
that tape again? I'm sorry, sir, Carl. Are you getting that
tape again? Yes? Mother, Yes, I am won't be the last
time either, bitch. Fast fast forward an hour and I'm seated on the
couch pizza in front of me. I crossed that VHS box open like I'm
Indiana Jones and the Raiders at a lost arc and then sit transfixed. No
matter how much school sucked that week, this made it better. It made
everything better. Co Chairs for this Christmas invite you to revisit those magical days
just one more time. This gift gift has been a labor of love in
memory of the video store, of receiving a tape in the mall from a
stranger, of arriving at home and finding your parents had recorded a show you
missed. We sincerely hope this gift can take you back to those precious days
when it used to be better for just a moment. Merry Christmas from Karl
Chromaslam and Haystacks on behalf of the Lapse describes ps a very very special thanks
must also go out to the Green Gorilla who selfishly, who selflessly, rather
selflessly yeah Big Difference, went to great lengths to produce, assemble, package,
and ship this gift. Tremendous. God, what a great recollection.
Man. There are two things here, that's what were the scene he describes
for you reaching for this is for you. So let's open this one first,
Okay, we're at a ten year mission to explain why someone would be
motivated to write the exact letter they just wrote. Oh jesu, and it
is I don't know if you're ready for this. That must mean I'm not.
Yes, he's doing the thing where he reveals it from the bottom of
the screen up the Oh my god, are you kidding me? Someone actually
did that VHS. Wow, the action is really impressive of SMN the show
we did in college in our college television class, and we made it in
our own likeness, to say the very least. And they not only put
it on VHS, but they created custom clamshell video cases with that's wild graphics
and pictures from BacT unbelievable. Can you see that? Oh, they put
the WWE on the spine. That is remarkable. That is very remarkable.
So we've gotten like action figures of ourselves before and that's a trip. That's
like a whole new level of bombs And you knew it. Thanks for so
much for complete transparency. I knew that they were that there was a remastering
happening, but I didn't realize it was going this far. So we both
got a set. Yeah, oh, look at holy shit, look at
this in the fucking at the bottom. Look at the multiple things on the
bus son Co fans we did between an email socofans a hotmail dot com.
I mean, we talk all the time about the lapsed origin story here coming
up on TLFX and how you know I saw the no Mercy Kardtriusian JP seven
sixty four in our college dorm and Jesus, are you a fan? Was
the question. The answer was, let's create a podcast basically, or let's
let's begin the process of laying the foundation for what will be a ten year
running podcast about absolute foolishness with wrestling as the common denominator. Jesus, that's
what I just think about those days. Think about us stumbling halphazardly into the
television studio with a plan to act as foolish as possible. Like a script
we barely had time to write the night before. Yeah, just cracking each
other up. Just I mean, all the script was was phrases that would
make us laugh like that. There was no what if we said this?
How does this sound? We always started with an idea of where to go,
but then we started this like saying weird shit to each other and that
ended up being what's stuck. So it's it's more or less the same.
And to think now, to think now in twenty twenty three, that's that
three people. Oh God, you know, we happen to know where they
are geographically, those three people would come together to create a VHS keepsake of
that foolishness. That's midly absurd. I mean they're heavy. There must be
tapes in here, like I think this all every episode is all. That's
a Christmas feeling right there? That is that's a Christmas feeling. That's absurd,
that's amazing. Well, there's a hall of fame for TLS. Christmas
Gifts all goes into the into the first wing you see when you walk through
the door. One of these days there will be a physical laps Fan Hall
of fame. Indeed there be, and we look forward, we know exactly
who to reach out to lap Scribes when it comes time to put it together.
Thanks for making uh this Christmas that much more uniquely special. What a
gift and what a season and what a series. We'll see you for the
next gift of Christmas. As the unwrapping two continues to unfold, is a
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