Speaker 1: There are feuds, and there are feuds in the history
Speaker 1: of professional wrestling, and already and going through the round
Speaker 1: of sixteen of the TLFX Games Tournament, We've seen Dusty
Speaker 1: Rhodes and Rick Flair face off against each other. We've
Speaker 1: seen great families like the Funks and Von Erics and
Speaker 1: the Hearts have at it. We've seen great promoters face
Speaker 1: off against some of their greatest assets, when the likes
Speaker 1: of Rnngana faces Andre the Giant. But perhaps no great
Speaker 1: feud in the history of this business has been revisited
Speaker 1: quite like this encounter we'll put back upon the table.
Speaker 1: It's really the feud that in so many ways reverse
Speaker 1: the fortunes of the World Wrestling Federation in late nineteen
Speaker 1: nineties and now it represents a huge demarcation line and
Speaker 1: a King of the Cast tournament for the ages. It's
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Speaker 1: When the garage is always open and we're about to
Speaker 1: open up the floor to the great micro men in
Speaker 1: the history of the business. They feuded, they've hated each other,
Speaker 1: They've aligned and then feuded once again, and they've taken
Speaker 1: wrestling fans on a one of a kind ride, both
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and behind the camera. Now, when the
Speaker 1: TLFX Games King of the Cast tournament it's on, it's
Speaker 1: lapsed Vince McMahon and lapsed Stone Cold Steve Austin. Let's
Speaker 1: hear first from the Texas Rattlesnake, the multi time WWF
Speaker 1: champion Steve Austin. You know, I'm sitting here at the house.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a couple of pictures of some of
Speaker 1: the things we've done over the years, Vince, and in
Speaker 1: all those years, twenty plus years, thirty plus years, forty
Speaker 1: by forty plus years, six hundred years. Sign. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the math AD's up to, but I know
Speaker 1: that for way too long now you've been pissing me off.
Speaker 1: And that's about the last straw for Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: You know, this goddamn tlf X Games King of the
Speaker 1: Cast tournament opened up and I was hearing that maybe
Speaker 1: the lapsed fan doesn't really represent Steve Austin, that well,
Speaker 1: maybe they don't imitate the Texas Rattlesnake that well, Son, well,
Speaker 1: I just got done thrown a few hay bales in
Speaker 1: the back of the truck. I just got done riding
Speaker 1: atv around my multi acre property for no particular reason
Speaker 1: and flip flops. I just got done doing a damn
Speaker 1: TikTok of my cat's son. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: I'll take that pussy over any pussy within the sound
Speaker 1: of my voice, and that includes you, Vince. I beat
Speaker 1: your ass. I've thrown you off cages. I've busted your
Speaker 1: wide open, son, I've had you on my damn podcast.
Speaker 1: I've looked you in the eye. I saw that for
Speaker 1: some reason, your tie was two colors, and I wondered
Speaker 1: to myself, you know, well, I ever see this son
Speaker 1: of a bitch again? Here I am going through the
Speaker 1: Windy's drive through getting myself a flame brawl gimmick or
Speaker 1: was that burger king? I don't know. I was wearing
Speaker 1: a knee brace though, but I won't have to wear
Speaker 1: a knee brace, son to stomp a mud hole in
Speaker 1: your ass. In the TLFX games, you know, people talk
Speaker 1: about Vince McMahon. They talk about lapsed vans and how
Speaker 1: we some some sort of nostradamus or something. Son. Apparently,
Speaker 1: if you'll listen to what Lapsed Vince has said. Over
Speaker 1: ten years of the Lapsed Fan, You've been able to
Speaker 1: predict every major development in this industry in the past decade. Well, Vince,
Speaker 1: you know I believed it when I heard it, But
Speaker 1: when I heard some of the things you said in
Speaker 1: the first round, yeah, assure you. You once again dominated
Speaker 1: your lifelong fuck boy and Pat Patterson to get the
Speaker 1: stone Cold Steve Auston. But that don't impress me, not
Speaker 1: one damn bit. I'm standing here looking across at the
Speaker 1: beat the little eyes of a son of a bitch
Speaker 1: that's done nothing but lie to Stone Cold, that's done
Speaker 1: nothing but try to take money out of the pockets
Speaker 1: of Stone Cold, that's done nothing but try to defame
Speaker 1: Stone Cold. When I took my ball and went home,
Speaker 1: so called, Well, I'm about to take my boss, son
Speaker 1: and stick it up your ass and turn this whole
Speaker 1: x Games torn him in up on its head because
Speaker 1: stone Cold Steve Austin don't lay down for anybody, and
Speaker 1: that includes the most powerful man in the history of
Speaker 1: the business. I think I proved that over the years.
Speaker 1: Because I'm riding off into the sunset, Son, and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting on a nest Egg that likes so. But you
Speaker 1: never wanted to give anybody, let alone the black trunk's
Speaker 1: wearing former stunt in Steve Austin that you didn't even
Speaker 1: think was worth a damn when you had me fucking
Speaker 1: cut my hair like John Travolta or whatever the fucking
Speaker 1: pulp fiction I'm standing here, so Bruce willis sorry what
Speaker 1: I don't even care compare me to whoever.
Speaker 2: You want in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: But on this night, Stone Cold Steve Austin's putting the
Speaker 1: trunks back on, Son. I'm strapping on those knee braces,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing on that BMF leather vest and the t
Speaker 1: LFX game. Son, It's just gonna be another time when
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon thought he was gonna get one more over
Speaker 1: on Stone Cold Steve Austin and found out quite the opposite.
Speaker 1: Was in the cards you can kiss my ass, I
Speaker 1: get the hell out of here, starting to piss me off. Well,
Speaker 1: it's certainly still clearly the case that just the mere
Speaker 1: utterments of the name Vince McMahon brings out a certain
Speaker 1: unique fury, and the old stone called Steve Austin, he's
Speaker 1: bringing that vigor, he's bringing that fire. He's bringing that
Speaker 1: animus to this next round matchup against lapsed Vince. We've
Speaker 1: seen all sides of him over ten years of TLF podcasting.
Speaker 1: Let's see what he has to say to get past
Speaker 1: his great lifelong nemesis, Stone Cold Steve Austin to advance
Speaker 1: in the King of the Cast.
Speaker 2: You know, people in this world could never be happy
Speaker 2: with what they've got. You want more and more and more,
Speaker 2: and it's a vicious cycle that just goes on and
Speaker 2: on on. And we here in the Vince mcman headquarters
Speaker 2: of the universe, the Devil's Home. We know exactly what
Speaker 2: people want. We know exactly what greed is, and we
Speaker 2: me I like to emphasize greed in other people. I
Speaker 2: like to emphasize greed and want and desire and envy,
Speaker 2: because when it comes down to it, everybody in this
Speaker 2: world is envious of Vincitic Man. Everybody wants what Visitic
Speaker 2: Man has. Everybody needs what Vincic Man has. Nobody in
Speaker 2: the history of the professional entertainment business lasted as long
Speaker 2: as I did. I have been here and I will
Speaker 2: always be here. But you may think that I'm off
Speaker 2: in a way doing things of that nature keeping quiet,
Speaker 2: keeping low. Let me tell you something. My fingers are
Speaker 2: always in the pie. I know, I know what you
Speaker 2: all think, know what you all want, and maybe I'll
Speaker 2: feed you a little tidbits here and there. But when
Speaker 2: push comes to shove, Vince McMahon is the one in power,
Speaker 2: and so we've got Steve Austin here. He wants something
Speaker 2: to He wants to beat Vincenick Mahn. He wants to
Speaker 2: move on in this King of the Cast tournament. He
Speaker 2: wasn't there at the beginning. I was there at the beginning.
Speaker 2: I decided that a Steve Austin would exist. I decided
Speaker 2: that a Hulk Coogan would exist. I decided that a
Speaker 2: Rick Flair would exist. I decided that a John Cena
Speaker 2: would exist. Everybody has existed because of my desire to
Speaker 2: make it happen. And we can talk about all the
Speaker 2: qualities in the verticals and horizontals of corporate infrastructure, but
Speaker 2: what we have going on right now is an age
Speaker 2: old feud boss versus employee. We've been doing this stand
Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety seven, Steve, and maybe you've had the
Speaker 2: upper hand of certain times, or maybe that's what you thought,
Speaker 2: Because there is nobody better in this entire universe that
Speaker 2: is better at making you think that you've earned something,
Speaker 2: at making you think that you won something, at making
Speaker 2: you think that you were dominant, than Vince McMahon. Only
Speaker 2: one man has proven pure dominance. I've dominated the wrestling industry,
Speaker 2: I've dominated the entertain industry, I've dominated football, and I
Speaker 2: will dominate the presidency of the United States. No vote
Speaker 2: needs to happen, No election needs to happen. Vince McMahon
Speaker 2: is was and always will be Steve Austin. You were
Speaker 2: my puppet, and I'm the puppet master, and I am
Speaker 2: going to take my little puppet and I'm going to
Speaker 2: throw him in the fire, watch him burn, and feel
Speaker 2: good about myself because I know that you can't win,
Speaker 2: and I know that I always win.
Speaker 1: Chilling words, and you may be tempted to perhaps take
Speaker 1: them at less than face value. But if the first
Speaker 1: round of the tlfx G Sames Tournament is any indication,
Speaker 1: no one is more dominant than lapsed Vince. His opposition
Speaker 1: in the first round, Lapsed Pat Patterson, despite an impassioned
Speaker 1: plea to you and the TLF Solar System, only receiving
Speaker 1: a measly six point seven percent of the vote. No
Speaker 1: one else was defeated as strongly as Patterson was by
Speaker 1: Lapsed Vince, who came in with an astounding ninety three
Speaker 1: point three percent of your first round vote. As for
Speaker 1: Steve Austin, he was able to topple Lapsed Lord Alfred
Speaker 1: Hayes eighty point seven percent to nineteen point three percent,
Speaker 1: also a very impressive differential, but dwarfed in magnitude by
Speaker 1: that of the leader in terms of first round percentage.
Speaker 1: Get Lapsed Vince. It's going to be another collision for
Speaker 1: the Ages between the Texas Rattlesnake and the Chairman of
Speaker 1: the Board, and that will do it for the TLFX
Speaker 1: Games event center for this our round of sixteen in
Speaker 1: the King of the Cast. Who will make it to
Speaker 1: the eight, Who will make it to the quarterfinals? Who
Speaker 1: will make it all the way to being crowned the
Speaker 1: greatest character in the history of the Lapse Fan podcast
Speaker 1: ten years running of podcasting. The vote will soon be
Speaker 1: in your hands. Keep your eyes and ears on the
Speaker 1: Lapsed fans X account for your chance to pass judgment
Speaker 1: and to cast your vote to determine the King of
Speaker 1: the Cast. I'm Sean Mooney, and we'll see as soon
Speaker 1: as the tlf X games unfold.