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Greetings co chairs. I would first
like to congratulate the both of you,

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while actually the three of you,
including TJ, on ten years of giving

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it to us, long and hard. It's what we deserve and it's what

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we need. I'm gonna keep this
as short as I can because I know

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whenever you play this is gonna be
an eight hour episode. So I've been

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listening to your podcast since episode three
and it came at a perfect time in

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my life because I had just gotten
back into wrestling after about a ten to

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eleven year absence. I'm lapsed,
but I'm lapsed for the two thousands.

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I was born in nineteen ninety,
so I was in the prime, the

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prime spot for the Attitude era in
the nWo, and I left right before,

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right before the WCW Invasion bullshit angle
started. I had never even known

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about that. I found out about
it afterwards, and so at least I

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was underwhelmed within the matter of a
couple of minutes instead of spread out over

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a year or whatever the fuck it
was. So I got back into wrestling.

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It was actually via the Cumpunk documentary
Best in the World, because it

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used to be on Netflix back then, and I found out that there was

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an entire world of wrestling behind the
scenes. I had no idea about.

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I didn't know what a work was, I didn't know about the dirt sheets,

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brother, So I was completely interested
in all the stuff, all the

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bullshit behind the scenes. So I
did what any true lapsed fan would do,

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and I sat down and I powered
through all of the WrestleManias that I'd

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missed, and it was a lot
of fun catching up to it. And

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I have to say I have to
thank you, and also I guess damn

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you, because without this podcast I
would not be a wrestling fan today.

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You have single handedly cemented my spot
in the shit pit of wrestling fandom for

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the rest of my life. And
and really you've ruined podcasting for me because

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I'm a giant podcast consumer. But
there isn't there isn't a show on the

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face of this earth that is as
entertaining and as informative as yours is.

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And it's it's I can't say enough. I can't say enough for what the

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both of you have meant to me
personally, just just for giving me something

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to listen to for years and years
a decade now obviously gotten through some really

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hard times. One of my one
of my most fondest memories of COVID is

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listening to Paying Off the Pacific because
you know, I really needed a distraction,

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so let's just go to fucking Japan
anyway. I guess my claim to

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fame with the podcast is one time
I wrote in. I wrote in several

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times, but once I wrote in
talking about Scott Norton sneaking into the back

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of a deli after dark, and
it popped JP hard, which is really

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all the compliment I could ever get
in my entire life. And you ripped

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off of it for about twenty minutes, and I cannot tell you how happy

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that made me. So I'm also, by the way, I'm also Frank

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Goodish on Twitter, so every once
in a while you'll see me throwing some

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dumb shit up on there. It's
a lot of fun. So anyway,

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thanks. There's really nothing much more
I could say except for I love the

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podcast. Even if you were to
shut down tomorrow, the shelf Life would

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keep me going for the rest of
my life. I would be listening to

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your podcas Asks forever and I tell
everyone I can about it. And as

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you know, it's a really fucking
hard Sell. I tell wrestling fans about

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it. It's an insanely hard cell. But you know what, fuck them.

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They don't know. We know,
and I will be supporting you monetarily

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and spiritually forever. So thank you
for seeing Aemania and take care to another

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ten years and hopefully many, many
more.