Greetings co chairs. I would first like to congratulate the both of you,
while actually the three of you, including TJ, on ten years of giving
it to us, long and hard. It's what we deserve and it's what
we need. I'm gonna keep this as short as I can because I know
whenever you play this is gonna be an eight hour episode. So I've been
listening to your podcast since episode three and it came at a perfect time in
my life because I had just gotten back into wrestling after about a ten to
eleven year absence. I'm lapsed, but I'm lapsed for the two thousands.
I was born in nineteen ninety, so I was in the prime, the
prime spot for the Attitude era in the nWo, and I left right before,
right before the WCW Invasion bullshit angle started. I had never even known
about that. I found out about it afterwards, and so at least I
was underwhelmed within the matter of a couple of minutes instead of spread out over
a year or whatever the fuck it was. So I got back into wrestling.
It was actually via the Cumpunk documentary Best in the World, because it
used to be on Netflix back then, and I found out that there was
an entire world of wrestling behind the scenes. I had no idea about.
I didn't know what a work was, I didn't know about the dirt sheets,
brother, So I was completely interested in all the stuff, all the
bullshit behind the scenes. So I did what any true lapsed fan would do,
and I sat down and I powered through all of the WrestleManias that I'd
missed, and it was a lot of fun catching up to it. And
I have to say I have to thank you, and also I guess damn
you, because without this podcast I would not be a wrestling fan today.
You have single handedly cemented my spot in the shit pit of wrestling fandom for
the rest of my life. And and really you've ruined podcasting for me because
I'm a giant podcast consumer. But there isn't there isn't a show on the
face of this earth that is as entertaining and as informative as yours is.
And it's it's I can't say enough. I can't say enough for what the
both of you have meant to me personally, just just for giving me something
to listen to for years and years a decade now obviously gotten through some really
hard times. One of my one of my most fondest memories of COVID is
listening to Paying Off the Pacific because you know, I really needed a distraction,
so let's just go to fucking Japan anyway. I guess my claim to
fame with the podcast is one time I wrote in. I wrote in several
times, but once I wrote in talking about Scott Norton sneaking into the back
of a deli after dark, and it popped JP hard, which is really
all the compliment I could ever get in my entire life. And you ripped
off of it for about twenty minutes, and I cannot tell you how happy
that made me. So I'm also, by the way, I'm also Frank
Goodish on Twitter, so every once in a while you'll see me throwing some
dumb shit up on there. It's a lot of fun. So anyway,
thanks. There's really nothing much more I could say except for I love the
podcast. Even if you were to shut down tomorrow, the shelf Life would
keep me going for the rest of my life. I would be listening to
your podcas Asks forever and I tell everyone I can about it. And as
you know, it's a really fucking hard Sell. I tell wrestling fans about
it. It's an insanely hard cell. But you know what, fuck them.
They don't know. We know, and I will be supporting you monetarily
and spiritually forever. So thank you for seeing Aemania and take care to another
ten years and hopefully many, many more.