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Hello guys, this is a Lapsed
testimonial from Marty. I've been listening for

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I've been listening for years now.
I can't I'm not great with dates.

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I can't really tell you how long, but I can tell you how how

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it came to be. And I've
mentioned this before. I think I wrote

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an iTunes review for the podcast which
pretty much covered how it went for me

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in that I wanted to add a
podcast to my rotation, so I did

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a search. I've been listening to
Dave Meltzer and The Torch, but I

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wanted another podcast that sort of covered
more of history, and I found I

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found the Lapse Fan, had a
look through the topics, picked I think

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a couple of WrestleMania journeys or a
couple of WrestleMania episodes, downloaded them,

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started listening to started listening to one, and I think I was about I

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was at the gym. I remember
being at the gym and I was about

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an hour and a half in,
and I thought, fuck me, I've

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been listening to this for an hour
and a half. I don't think they've

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mentioned WrestleMania yet. So I looked
at how long was left and it was

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something ridiculous, like four hours,
and I thought, now, fuck that,

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so I turned it off. But
a couple of days later, I

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fancied something with a bit of comedy, and I thought, actually, that

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WrestleMania podcast I listened to was pretty
funny. I'm gonna put that back on.

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And really that's that's where it started. I listened to the WrestleMania Journey,

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but it took it took so long
that I thought I'd sort of thought

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though they were very entertained and I
didn't really have time for that sort of

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thing. But it was. It
was when it was the anniversary of Cris

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Benoir, the crisp Benoir murder suicides, where I did another search because I

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wanted to see if there were any
podcasts that went deep on that, and

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I came across you guys again and
listened to that, and it was just

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fantastic audio. Like obviously it's hilarious. Your podcasts are always hilarious, but

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they go so much deeper than that, if you want, if you want,

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I mean, the best way I
can look at it is we have

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a program in the UK called Panorama, and if they pick up a subject,

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you take it seriously, like for
example, recently they've exposed a few

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nonswers. But if Panorama pick up
a subject, it's like, oh,

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Panorama a doing it. This must
be serious. And it's almost like the

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Lapsed Fan. Although you're the funniest
podcast out there, you're also the most

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informative, and if the Lapse Fan
picks up a subject, you think,

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oh shit, well I'm going to
need to know all about this. I

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think. I think the subject that
really really speaks to that the most is

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the World Class Journey. I after
I listened to the WrestleMania Journey, in

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the Benuir Journey, I was well
behind, but I managed to get up

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to date. But I skipped the
World Class Journey completely for the longest time.

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And I said, I think I
said this in the in the iTunes

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review. I just wasn't really interested
in Fritz on Eric Kerry von Eric.

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And then one day I was completely
up to date with more or less everything

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and certainly with the Lapsed Fan,
and I went, I started it,

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and then I must I think I
finished it. In however, I was

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listening. Basically, I was listening
to it all day every day. I'm

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lucky enough to have a job where
I can listen to podcasts all day.

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I mean, I'm working now,
I'm getting paid to send you this,

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but yeah, I can listen to
podcasts all day. And I cleared that

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journey, and it got to the
point where as I was coming to the

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end of it, I was actually
thinking, I mean, I am a

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bit of a sad act, but
I was actually thinking, ship, what

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am I going to do without lapsed
Frits and all these prats in my life?

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Like, I know that there's new
episodes out, but just JESU,

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this this this, I mean,
it's it's a it's sort of like a

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It should be a case study in
podcasting. If you're going to do a

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podcast, can you do a podcast
this good? If you can't, you

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probably shouldn't bother, especially when it
comes to singular topics such as the von

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Erics, etc. But yeah,
just a testimonial to just tell you what

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sort of the lapsed fan means to
me. If I could sum it up,

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I think I would say I watch
football, I watch baseball, English

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football, American baseball. I watch
a couple of soaps. I love movies.

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I would give them all up before
I ever gave up the lapsed fan.

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I mean, outside of one or
two movies every now and again that

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get my endorphins going. Nothing makes
me feel how I feel when I see

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that in the corner of my phone
a new podcast is downloading. I click

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it to check what it is,
and it's a new Lapsed Fan. It

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genuinely gets my endorphins going like nothing
else does. And it's not a case

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of how much would I pay for
the lapsed fan. If it was a

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case of pay for this, and
I do pay for it, but it's

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not a case of how much would
I pay. It's a case of how

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much wouldn't I pay? And it
would take quite a bit. You would

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have to put your prices up,
you'd have to go some before I decided,

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right, that's enough. It's the
best podcast out there, it's the

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best entertainment out there. And here's
to another ten years.