Speaker 1: It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack and Carnasco
Speaker 1: and JP Sorrow. We've got an exciting Christmas program lined
Speaker 1: up for these folks.
Speaker 2: We've been to a Little Boys this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's an artificial tree, so I did
Speaker 1: artificial job at.
Speaker 2: Trimming timeess is only exceeded by our inability to adjust
Speaker 2: allow their wrangling. Here the Lapsed Fanboy got a price
Speaker 2: for the million Dollar Man, even Santa Claus and so
Speaker 2: no say, it's not so.
Speaker 1: Off.
Speaker 2: We're back and we're we're getting through it. Boss, We're
Speaker 2: getting through it. I mean, this is what we signed
Speaker 2: up for. This is what we asked the people to
Speaker 2: do to us, and they've done.
Speaker 1: It to us that they have. I'm gonna be getting
Speaker 1: some complain for my family for sure.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty four Left Christmas Show it is the
Speaker 2: Unwrappening and uh, we're here with both the Boss Man
Speaker 2: and Mama Sorrow taking in your generous gifts. And next
Speaker 2: up what comes to us by way of glen Carbon, Illinois.
Speaker 2: The homie Steve Grosheim has laced us with Well it's
Speaker 2: a poster sized gimmick. So that's always your your your thing. Great,
Speaker 2: let's see what wall hanging.
Speaker 1: Sure, let's see what wallhannging. I'm not gonna put on
Speaker 1: my wall.
Speaker 2: Wallhangings are JP's thing. I always like to leave them here,
Speaker 2: and I like.
Speaker 1: To put them in the trash.
Speaker 2: Have him figure out what to do with them.
Speaker 1: Give me the scissors.
Speaker 2: Oh we need the scissors. Ok.
Speaker 1: This is like, come and come on, got to earn
Speaker 1: it around here. What do you got fucking state secrets
Speaker 1: in here? Jesus Christ, we.
Speaker 2: Are just blown away, as we are every year by
Speaker 2: the outpouring, just looking out of all the packages open
Speaker 2: to date, in the diversity of presents, you know, only
Speaker 2: here will you find an original BT sport lanyard next
Speaker 2: to a Michael ps Hayes custom pillow, next to a
Speaker 2: newspaper from nineteen ninety eight, as well as a WSW
Speaker 2: hat from nineteen ninety two, and uh, and some kids
Speaker 2: steak of kidney pudding.
Speaker 1: And a do you say the Tommy Dreamer photo and a.
Speaker 2: Picture of Tommy Dreamer naked except for a ECW title
Speaker 2: across his crotch. I mean, what the hell you're still
Speaker 2: struggling to open that thing?
Speaker 1: It's good some kind of weird?
Speaker 2: Uh, in your in your home growing up, Mama sarrow,
Speaker 2: was the gift wrapping a very important thing? Were you
Speaker 2: very particular about how it was wrapped? Were you fretful
Speaker 2: when someone would just tear through the packaging? Would you
Speaker 2: want them to open carefully and delicately? I was not
Speaker 2: as specific as my oldest sister.
Speaker 1: Gone there you about Oh, Martha wasn't oh wow, So
Speaker 1: she was very.
Speaker 2: Particular that she should look at you were like, you
Speaker 2: don't open it? Save it?
Speaker 1: Yes, save it?
Speaker 2: Yes? Can you imagine? No? Now what we will not
Speaker 2: be saving this packaging?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what this is. Uh this is
Speaker 1: actually a good one.
Speaker 2: Oh look at that? What is that? Careful poster board?
Speaker 2: We unroll it and it is good. The Brawl to
Speaker 2: Settle It All poster that, of course is Hogan and
Speaker 2: t v's Piper and Ora Dworf. It was on MTV
Speaker 2: head of wrestle May this is uh no, this is
Speaker 2: a reference to WrestleMania one in Madison Square Garden, March
Speaker 2: thirty first, nineteen eighty five. I was thinking Brawl to
Speaker 2: Settle at All, cause that was the MTV special. But
Speaker 2: this is WrestleMania itself. It just doesn't say WrestleMania on it.
Speaker 2: Is this an original?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's find out, uh, dearest co chairs.
Speaker 1: First things, First, look at this m motherfucker with a
Speaker 1: handwritten letter in twenty twenty four. Oh, we love it,
Speaker 1: so many of them? Give us more hashtag blessed. Indeed, well,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, you jolly sons of bitches. And I hope
Speaker 1: you can read my chicken scratch?
Speaker 2: What that is? No chicken scratch?
Speaker 1: Hand?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you never taught them what chicken scratch means. No,
Speaker 2: you allow chicken scratch? I say so, why would you know? Right?
Speaker 1: I hope you read this before fully opening the package. Whoops.
Speaker 1: I thought sending a separate letter would be confusing. So
Speaker 1: it is what it is. There is a bit of
Speaker 1: a story behind this. I first saw this on eBay
Speaker 1: ages ago and wanted it for its historical relevance and
Speaker 1: let's be honest, it's a pretty bad ass, but it
Speaker 1: was always out of my reach. This past May, I
Speaker 1: happened to be on there searching for vintage wrestling posters
Speaker 1: because I'm a fucking dork, and lo and behold, there
Speaker 1: it is, and for a price I could tolerate I
Speaker 1: snapped it up. The week goes by ten days. I
Speaker 1: have a tracking number, but no post. Oh no I
Speaker 1: contact the seller. Have I been had? It? All did
Speaker 1: seem too good to be true? To my relief, he
Speaker 1: was a sweetheart of a guy named Alan from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, you know I have another one.
Speaker 1: I'll send it tomorrow. You're sorry for the trouble.
Speaker 2: I'm printing him off anyway, It's not even real.
Speaker 1: Another one turns out Old Allen was part of a
Speaker 1: street team responsible for placing posters in bars, restaurants, et
Speaker 1: cetera to promote closed circuit showings of Russell Mania.
Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: You may now open your gifts? Well we did, sorry.
Speaker 2: Pal, and it's a Hogan picture from you know, the
Speaker 2: Blassie days when we.
Speaker 1: Had a cap on. Old Alan went on to say
Speaker 1: that he had several more of these bad boys. I
Speaker 1: thanked him and my poster arrived a week later, and
Speaker 1: I didn't give much thought to any of it until
Speaker 1: I listened to some of the Philly WrestleMania con context,
Speaker 1: contest content content, and I believe the I from the
Speaker 1: Allentown bar had one of these hanging up.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know I've seen this before and that's where
Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, it's the Ringer's roost. I visited him
Speaker 2: before WrestleMania. It's a barn restaurant that was right next
Speaker 2: to where WWF would tape its television show for years
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. So we were talking about the old days.
Speaker 2: And he has a dining room full of frame pictures
Speaker 2: of him and the wrestlers over the years, and this
Speaker 2: was one of them.
Speaker 1: Yep, I do remember that based on a picture on
Speaker 1: the x account. Fast forward to three months later, a
Speaker 1: package arrived at my home, this very package. In fact,
Speaker 1: I had to rack my brain. Did I order something
Speaker 1: in a drunken stupor? Who sent this?
Speaker 2: Ah almasara like that?
Speaker 1: One sounds fake, vaguely familiar. Oh shit. I pulled eBay
Speaker 1: back up and sure enough, tracking from May is updated
Speaker 1: to delivered that day in August. I want you to
Speaker 1: know I did the right thing. Alan said I could
Speaker 1: keep it. I offered to send it back. This is
Speaker 1: something to just give away. This is not something to
Speaker 1: just give away. I pleaded, Hey, if you paid for
Speaker 1: with the that's good enough for me.
Speaker 2: Why what a Christmas story?
Speaker 1: This? Yes, indeed, Consider this my way, brother, Consider this
Speaker 1: my way to pay it forward from an OG wrestling
Speaker 1: fan to another and now on to you. If nothing else,
Speaker 1: you can look upon this poster in a corner of
Speaker 1: the house where you don't allow the good company to
Speaker 1: go and remember that despite all the bullshit, there are
Speaker 1: still good kind people in this world, even wrestling.
Speaker 2: Fans from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Yes, I seriously hope you, I hope point of you
Speaker 1: can enjoy this. Consider it a small token of my
Speaker 1: appreciation for all all the all the work you do
Speaker 1: week after week after damn week. Thank you for laps Jesse,
Speaker 1: thank you for hul comania, and thank you for tongue
Speaker 1: tongue fucking my gaping sewage spot spout, coating my loins
Speaker 1: with hot ropes of rassland knowledge, and leaving me spent
Speaker 1: just me and my slim gym until the next time
Speaker 1: you wish to violate my ears and ass Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: a tool belt for Daddy aka Stephen Saint Louis any
Speaker 1: chance of a slim jimswa sweaty beef teacher to sun
Speaker 1: out by the first one? What did he want, slim
Speaker 1: Jim teacher? Yeah, Slimjym sweaty beef. We made that one, right,
Speaker 1: we made big, big fucking beef. You uh no, I
Speaker 1: mean maybe I don't know. I mean, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not like in everyday contact with him.
Speaker 2: Well why do you ask? Well, I'm just curious. Now,
Speaker 2: did we have listeners? Did you meet them? And I
Speaker 2: know you went a couple of special live wrestling matches and.
Speaker 1: But for sure we're referring to the gaping sewage spouders
Speaker 1: up because you have any questions about the end.
Speaker 2: There kind of strange references there. So it Yah, it
Speaker 2: was interesting about the poster.
Speaker 1: Yes, but then his language why blackened? Its racist?
Speaker 2: In my face? Well, I can't. This is just going
Speaker 2: very well, there's more back just open folks. You know
Speaker 2: the score.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: TLF Christmas Show, The Unwrapping twenty twenty four continues to
Speaker 2: unfold before your very eyes this holiday season. We'll see
Speaker 2: you next time. There's a production of the LAPS Entertainment Group.
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Speaker 2: Truly sorry, sorry, we want