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Speaker 2: We've got an exciting Christmas program lined up for these folks.
Speaker 3: We've been for a little boys this year.
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Speaker 1: Amber. Back in the twenty twenty five tre Left Christmas Show,
Speaker 1: the um Wrapping four continues to unfold beneath your and
Speaker 1: our tree. It's been an outpouring of suits, of scripts,
Speaker 1: of blankets and horrors, E camera horrors, training cards and
Speaker 1: action figures and DVDs and books and boss, what's next?
Speaker 1: All you gotta here? We got this one. This one
Speaker 1: was damaged in transit. This is up royal mail. Ah Yes,
Speaker 1: many package from the Royal Mail Philip Bain. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I a homie. Here we go. Uh oh we got
Speaker 1: oh wrapped this one? Yes, I said, damaged. Let's see
Speaker 1: if there's a note. Yes, there it is, oune note
Speaker 1: running out of counterspace rapidly. Yeah, seriously, it's getting to
Speaker 1: be a big fucking emergency. There's shit everywhere. Card from
Speaker 1: Ashgate Hospice. Oh nice little Oh I love that. What
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Speaker 1: notes here to Jack JP at all with best wishes
Speaker 1: for Christmas in the new year. All the best, Phil. Yes,
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Speaker 4: We dear Jack and JP seasons. Greetings from Mary, Old England.
Speaker 4: The cart and I have spent essentially just depict Saint
Speaker 4: Mary's Gate, a street named after Gate, and it's a legacy,
Speaker 4: the fact that this part of England was occupied by
Speaker 4: the Vikings over a thousand years ago. And Chesterfield's distinctive
Speaker 4: fourteenth century church with its crooked spire which both leans
Speaker 4: and twists. I hope this message finds you well and
Speaker 4: full of festive chair twenty twenty five is coming to
Speaker 4: a close, and what a year it has been in
Speaker 4: the wider wrestling industry. WWE they buwed on Netflix in
Speaker 4: ESPN and repeatedly broke their own live ticket revenue records
Speaker 4: and then for houses that they milked every last penny
Speaker 4: from to actually celebrates the fact that they paid through
Speaker 4: the notes to see an exhibition of choreographed, collaborative, contrived
Speaker 4: carnival combat. WW further expanded their international reach with Triple
Speaker 4: AH purchasing Triple A and WW hosting premium live events
Speaker 4: in Saudi Arabia, France, and Australia, as well as a
Speaker 4: number of live episodes of Raw from overseas two which
Speaker 4: afforded me the opportunity to watch episodes of Raw live
Speaker 4: for the first time ever. As US primetime is in
Speaker 4: the early hours of the morning here, so catching me
Speaker 4: live is I could be noted too, so catching his
Speaker 4: live is inconvenient for someone who isn't nocturnal. Talking of
Speaker 4: actually watching week two week, I unlapsed at the start
Speaker 4: of the year with Raw debuting on Netflix. I actually
Speaker 4: watched it week to week from debut through to WrestleMania,
Speaker 4: after which I lapsed hard Since then. Since then I
Speaker 4: have only caught the occasional pl if only to follow
Speaker 4: along with your excellent live calls. The Raw debut saw
Speaker 4: Hulk Hogan make what would be his final Was it raw?
Speaker 4: Did he appearing raw?
Speaker 1: He was on the La raw from now?
Speaker 3: It was raw?
Speaker 1: I thought there was oh when he came out wave
Speaker 1: the flag and got booed January sixth.
Speaker 4: Year, I don't remember anymore. The Raw debut saw Hulk
Speaker 4: Hogan make what would be his final ever appearance in
Speaker 4: the WWA, barely able to walk, not even going out
Speaker 4: to the ring but the entrance stage, eating boo to
Speaker 4: the building. Little did we know at the time that
Speaker 4: he wasn't long for this world, being joined in the
Speaker 4: Battle Royal in the Sky by Sabu and Steve Mcmackazie
Speaker 4: McMichael died too for him.
Speaker 1: We did it this yeah too.
Speaker 4: At the time of writing the Complete Hell, Cogan is
Speaker 4: just getting going. But as thatat you'll have digs harder
Speaker 4: and deeper than anyone else in the quest for the
Speaker 4: definitive truth. In the industry where the truth is often
Speaker 4: regarded as an awkward inconvenience or something to be buried
Speaker 4: deep so deep they hope nobody will ever be able.
Speaker 1: To find it.
Speaker 4: I will, as ever, look forward to this developing and
Speaker 4: continuing as we continued Terry's quest to make his body
Speaker 4: as large as his head, with lots of juice and
Speaker 4: rigs on the journey, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: For the fourth year in a row, I've sent you
Speaker 4: a contribution toward the annual unwrappening. Previously, I have sent
Speaker 4: you a various board and card games, which you have
Speaker 4: my blessing to redistribute as you wish, along with distinctly
Speaker 4: British treats, including pup snacks of various variety. And this
Speaker 4: time I have sent you a gift each along with
Speaker 4: some more of what you have enjoyed for me in
Speaker 4: the past to start a more local produce a Thornton's Milk,
Speaker 4: chocolate chieky reindeer cheek and more flavors of Swivels squashes
Speaker 4: right here in Derbyshire. I love also sent some Christmas
Speaker 4: themed Percy pinks and Colin caterpillars from everyone's favorite upper
Speaker 4: crust food hole Marks and Spencer and violet festive themed Harriboo.
Speaker 4: No pub snacks this time, no shrimp flavored like, no
Speaker 4: no uh, cress, shrimp flavors, shrimp flavored ass trinkets whatever
Speaker 4: they were calling no pubs. Design, couldn't think of anything
Speaker 4: I hadn't already sent. It was maleable. Didn't want to
Speaker 4: risk sending you pickled eggs via national posts. Can you
Speaker 4: read that last sentence again? I think that says it
Speaker 4: all about the unwrappening. I didn't want to risk sending
Speaker 4: you pickled eggs via international posts. Might have gotten a
Speaker 4: major tariff on that one major awards. Please open your
Speaker 4: gifts this the missives will continue on the next page.
Speaker 4: That's what he wants to open first before we read.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, far be it for us to to
Speaker 1: not follow directions. I don't know what's what's wow? So
Speaker 1: many Christmas packages, but it seems like there's a seems
Speaker 1: like he's making reference to something other than Yeah, see
Speaker 1: the Christmas se Christmas Street. See I see swizzles. There
Speaker 1: are sweets and swizzles in there. But let's we'll do
Speaker 1: these first. Okay, I don't know which one is. Which
Speaker 1: does that other name? Though? Oh wait, they are, Jack
Speaker 1: says mine. All right, good, look at that. I'll go first,
Speaker 1: all right for it? A look at this vader from
Speaker 1: the Elite Collection, a lot of Harley with listening. I said,
Speaker 1: Harley Race, like, what's that? Well, I guess they do
Speaker 1: that where you like take parts of it and you
Speaker 1: make it with somebody else, with the gloves that come
Speaker 1: on and off. What do you have? He's giving me
Speaker 1: the look of like complete staring into space. He's staring
Speaker 1: a hole in me. It's brother love. He tosses. He
Speaker 1: tossed it. He tossed the rather love figure across the room.
Speaker 1: Here in the unwrapping, He's Lapsed fan Wrestling podcast with
Speaker 1: Jack and S and jpisio.
Speaker 3: Lapsed fan Wrestling podcast for.
Speaker 4: JP and action figure of everyone's favorite w B Executive
Speaker 4: Mark mccool's Shill Bruce Fucking pictures himself for the love
Speaker 4: the under Settlers, O G. Managab for listening to Til
Speaker 4: for years. We all need a live of love and respect.
Speaker 4: The JP in particular has for Bruce and he was
Speaker 4: clearly overawed by his share presence in charisma when you
Speaker 4: went to Mark under Selam mccool's clearly dreadful live show,
Speaker 4: The Dreadmendman Dreadman Shure. Now he can recreate a special
Speaker 4: moment with his action figures figures. Jack had mentioned in
Speaker 4: the past that he laments the lack of a big
Speaker 4: Van Vader Hasbro. Fortunately I wasn't able to magic one up,
Speaker 4: but I was able to They do well. They have
Speaker 4: the new Hasbro now seen that one, and then someone
Speaker 4: gave us a custom to.
Speaker 1: I'm lamenting the lack of a real one, right why
Speaker 1: Hasbro contract at some point?
Speaker 4: Unfortunately I wasn't able to magic one up, but I
Speaker 4: was able to get to a regular Vada figure.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he can.
Speaker 4: Fight the regular Hasbros as Super Vader, owing to his
Speaker 4: largest size. Together, but the love in Vader can form
Speaker 4: a tag team in JP's toy feed called the fat
Speaker 4: pieces of Shit.
Speaker 1: Kill up the great work, Have a great Christmas and
Speaker 1: a happy New Year. All the best for twenty for
Speaker 1: twenty six, yours for the relapsed Philip Bane of my
Speaker 1: existence are mendous vill oh man. All right, where we
Speaker 1: start here? There we are. The caterpill is Colin Connie's caterpillar?
Speaker 1: Is Christmas time? Ah, Colin Connie? What is this? Are
Speaker 1: these like swizzles? I'll do the purse. You can do
Speaker 1: the the catapills. I'll do the pursy. Pig, Naughty and
Speaker 1: Nice piglets. Hello, like you just walked into the shop.
Speaker 1: All right, let's try these squishy red things blue the
Speaker 1: smell Connie hmm, nice sour apple made with real fruit juice. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure these are actually delicious. M hm Okay, Colin
Speaker 1: and Connie. The caterpillars Christmas time. They're called from em
Speaker 1: He's dotty shape flavor gums I made in Germany. Oh,
Speaker 1: not really British? Are the holiday? Not really British holiday?
Speaker 3: No pigments? Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: What do you say? It's the fucking wackiest thing. What
Speaker 1: else we got there? Swizzles, piggy Piggy tried the Percy pig,
Speaker 1: Naughty and Nice pig ones.
Speaker 2: Many nicks see the limited traditions share size m h
Speaker 2: m hmm, Sue if perhaps here?
Speaker 1: Yes, very good. I look at the air home for Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna spend it on stuff. It's gonna wrap my
Speaker 1: teeth in my mind. Harry boomerry mix m I want
Speaker 1: one would be like mince meat? Right? Would not that
Speaker 1: be delicious? Night hariboos the gummy bears, guys, it's very festive.
Speaker 1: How else surprises? I do love these Christmas gums. I
Speaker 1: like this tration. We should have these really have these squishy.
Speaker 4: We just have like we just have you know, it's
Speaker 4: like Reese's peanut butter cups that have like red and
Speaker 4: green fucking wrapping, wrapping in the shape like a tree, right.
Speaker 1: Sweet all sour well surprise not getting bods looks like
Speaker 1: go haribou elf surprise. What's it going to be? All
Speaker 1: to your nice kids and grown ups? Love it? So
Speaker 1: the happy world of feather as long as kids and
Speaker 1: grums can enjoy together. Did you get sweeter sour mur
Speaker 1: as well? Is it hitting your hide? Wow? I like
Speaker 1: these these quite a bit of surprises from it, not
Speaker 1: fucking at all. Oh my god. More shoeiesh oh my god,
Speaker 1: we can't yeah, I guess we can. Those are my favorite.
Speaker 1: I love the squashie squishes, tropical fizzors mm hmm, sour
Speaker 1: shooting stars. I'm gonna try the tropical. I love the
Speaker 1: one that was that was pink and blue. That was
Speaker 1: my favorite one last weeks. I want to be good,
Speaker 1: but it never is good. Mm hmm. No topic is
Speaker 1: no good. Tastes like a like a asshole, like a
Speaker 1: scratch and sniff like air freshener squashes fizzers, you know
Speaker 1: that sour. They're not that sour. It's not compared to them.
Speaker 1: The surprise elves makes sense. What's a fizzer? Think of that? Mean?
Speaker 1: This was it like a fucking I think it's like
Speaker 1: a It's like a soda physics. It doesn't actually fizz,
Speaker 1: but it has that that hint of carbonation in there
Speaker 1: almost right, yeah, M, And here we are Thurman's cheeky reindeer.
Speaker 1: Is that the last one? The last one? All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna close it off with the reindeer. I am
Speaker 1: wired right now, right Thermons Urman's sparky plugs, sparky reindeer.
Speaker 1: These are cool Thornton's not Thurmon's. Thornton's. When I says, oh,
Speaker 1: ship established chocolate and have a cheeky reindeer, you break
Speaker 1: off his legs. That's kind of kind of precious, actually
Speaker 1: it's cheeky. M Chocolate money, the Eastern chocolate. That's good,
Speaker 1: well made. Wow, So many fucking British delicacies. I think
Speaker 1: enough of the sweets Christmas sweets dangerous straight from the UK.
Speaker 1: What are you going back for? That's surprise Surprise brought
Speaker 1: it back all right, Phil, if you're wondering that chocolate too,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to hog it. Yeah, there you go, man.
Speaker 1: These are great, always great to hear from Phil across
Speaker 1: the pond, and always great for our European friends to
Speaker 1: be like, you know, this is this is Christmas to me.
Speaker 1: These are the kind of things that are presumably in
Speaker 1: the stockings or just you know, in the candy dishes
Speaker 1: at your relatives houses and in the stores and shops.
Speaker 1: And I love how they do Christmas timed ones. It's
Speaker 1: not just like generic stuff that it seems like you
Speaker 1: can buy all year. It seems like there's a great
Speaker 1: tradition of things only being available around this very special
Speaker 1: time of year. Whoa, I think Boston's got a sour one. Yep,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I must not have got a sour one then,
Speaker 1: because I wasn't feeling at that one. Oh really, Noah,
Speaker 1: that was more shower roll them. All right, We're going
Speaker 1: to work to clear our palettes again because there is
Speaker 1: probably gonna be sushi in the next one. And uh,
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