Hello guys, this is a Lapsed testimonial from Marty. I've been listening for
I've been listening for years now. I can't I'm not great with dates.
I can't really tell you how long, but I can tell you how how
it came to be. And I've mentioned this before. I think I wrote
an iTunes review for the podcast which pretty much covered how it went for me
in that I wanted to add a podcast to my rotation, so I did
a search. I've been listening to Dave Meltzer and The Torch, but I
wanted another podcast that sort of covered more of history, and I found I
found the Lapse Fan, had a look through the topics, picked I think
a couple of WrestleMania journeys or a couple of WrestleMania episodes, downloaded them,
started listening to started listening to one, and I think I was about I
was at the gym. I remember being at the gym and I was about
an hour and a half in, and I thought, fuck me, I've
been listening to this for an hour and a half. I don't think they've
mentioned WrestleMania yet. So I looked at how long was left and it was
something ridiculous, like four hours, and I thought, now, fuck that,
so I turned it off. But a couple of days later, I
fancied something with a bit of comedy, and I thought, actually, that
WrestleMania podcast I listened to was pretty funny. I'm gonna put that back on.
And really that's that's where it started. I listened to the WrestleMania Journey,
but it took it took so long that I thought I'd sort of thought
though they were very entertained and I didn't really have time for that sort of
thing. But it was. It was when it was the anniversary of Cris
Benoir, the crisp Benoir murder suicides, where I did another search because I
wanted to see if there were any podcasts that went deep on that, and
I came across you guys again and listened to that, and it was just
fantastic audio. Like obviously it's hilarious. Your podcasts are always hilarious, but
they go so much deeper than that, if you want, if you want,
I mean, the best way I can look at it is we have
a program in the UK called Panorama, and if they pick up a subject,
you take it seriously, like for example, recently they've exposed a few
nonswers. But if Panorama pick up a subject, it's like, oh,
Panorama a doing it. This must be serious. And it's almost like the
Lapsed Fan. Although you're the funniest podcast out there, you're also the most
informative, and if the Lapse Fan picks up a subject, you think,
oh shit, well I'm going to need to know all about this. I
think. I think the subject that really really speaks to that the most is
the World Class Journey. I after I listened to the WrestleMania Journey, in
the Benuir Journey, I was well behind, but I managed to get up
to date. But I skipped the World Class Journey completely for the longest time.
And I said, I think I said this in the in the iTunes
review. I just wasn't really interested in Fritz on Eric Kerry von Eric.
And then one day I was completely up to date with more or less everything
and certainly with the Lapsed Fan, and I went, I started it,
and then I must I think I finished it. In however, I was
listening. Basically, I was listening to it all day every day. I'm
lucky enough to have a job where I can listen to podcasts all day.
I mean, I'm working now, I'm getting paid to send you this,
but yeah, I can listen to podcasts all day. And I cleared that
journey, and it got to the point where as I was coming to the
end of it, I was actually thinking, I mean, I am a
bit of a sad act, but I was actually thinking, ship, what
am I going to do without lapsed Frits and all these prats in my life?
Like, I know that there's new episodes out, but just JESU,
this this this, I mean, it's it's a it's sort of like a
It should be a case study in podcasting. If you're going to do a
podcast, can you do a podcast this good? If you can't, you
probably shouldn't bother, especially when it comes to singular topics such as the von
Erics, etc. But yeah, just a testimonial to just tell you what
sort of the lapsed fan means to me. If I could sum it up,
I think I would say I watch football, I watch baseball, English
football, American baseball. I watch a couple of soaps. I love movies.
I would give them all up before I ever gave up the lapsed fan.
I mean, outside of one or two movies every now and again that
get my endorphins going. Nothing makes me feel how I feel when I see
that in the corner of my phone a new podcast is downloading. I click
it to check what it is, and it's a new Lapsed Fan. It
genuinely gets my endorphins going like nothing else does. And it's not a case
of how much would I pay for the lapsed fan. If it was a
case of pay for this, and I do pay for it, but it's
not a case of how much would I pay. It's a case of how
much wouldn't I pay? And it would take quite a bit. You would
have to put your prices up, you'd have to go some before I decided,
right, that's enough. It's the best podcast out there, it's the
best entertainment out there. And here's to another ten years.