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Speaker 2: I ask you why. Is it because they're the newcomer
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Speaker 3: It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack M.
Speaker 4: Carn S, e O and JP Sorrow.
Speaker 2: We've got an exciting Christmas program lined up for these folks.
Speaker 1: We've been to a Little Boys this year. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: It's an artificial tree, so I did artificial job at trimming.
Speaker 1: Timness is only exceeded by your inability to adjust.
Speaker 2: The wrangling deer.
Speaker 4: The Lapsed Fan's got a price for the million dollar man.
Speaker 1: Even Santa Claus in South say it's not so.
Speaker 3: Stop and welcome back to the twenty twenty four to
Speaker 3: You Left Christmas Show. It is one for the books
Speaker 3: already nuts and we've got so much to work through,
Speaker 3: boss Man, Mama sorrow here and uh it's the unwrapping three.
Speaker 3: And it's, like I said, one for the record books.
Speaker 3: We've got next the next gift of Christmas from uh
Speaker 3: normal Illinois. I doubt that John Hooker brother. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: gonna open this one, boss Man.
Speaker 1: Let me get situated here. Oh, I can do it,
Speaker 1: if it's all right, Oh no, it's fine, okay.
Speaker 3: From Illinois, one of my favorite states.
Speaker 2: Always we have it.
Speaker 1: We have a letter a start. See if I remember.
Speaker 1: I think this one is actually from last year, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. Deer Co Chairs. After a trip to
Speaker 1: New York this past fall where I toured the mecca
Speaker 1: that is Madison Square Garden, which I could have done
Speaker 1: that while the Boss was telling unsuspecting tour groups about
Speaker 1: being president for the Mains twenty where Crispin Wan won
Speaker 1: the main event and then subsequently killed his family and himself.
Speaker 3: Did you know that when he was doing tours of
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden he would tell tour guests that he.
Speaker 1: Will specific let me say this, So there was one
Speaker 1: tour guide who if I was not giving a tour
Speaker 1: and I was doing one of the other kind of
Speaker 1: stations and whatnot. He he knew I was a wrestling fan,
Speaker 1: and so he was a wrestling fan from way way back,
Speaker 1: and so he would come up and he'd talk about
Speaker 1: wrestling in Madison Square Garden. If he saw me, he'd say,
Speaker 1: and here's another wrestling fan, and he would want me
Speaker 1: to share a story. And it's funny. He'd ask me
Speaker 1: every single time he did this, maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: at least once a week while I was working there,
Speaker 1: and I would always share a story about going there,
Speaker 1: Jack and I went there for Wrestlmania twenty back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and that the winner was this
Speaker 1: wrestler called Cris ben Wah who And then I would
Speaker 1: continue the story and say who three years later in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven killed both his wife, his son,
Speaker 1: and then himself, which is a true story. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell this toy and he would just like, you're killing
Speaker 1: my crowd. Like he'd be so upset, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: why do you keep doing this? Like I'm gonna do it?
Speaker 1: Every single time you asked me.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine who doing that to a tour group
Speaker 3: at the garden?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh, I used to love. I used to always
Speaker 1: love just doing stuff like that. I was like kind
Speaker 1: of throwing really dark stuff in there. It was fun.
Speaker 3: His name was Cris ben Wah and went completely insane
Speaker 3: and murdered his family. It was a sad day for
Speaker 3: wrestling fans, and those of us who stuck around after
Speaker 3: that have a lot of introspection to do about why
Speaker 3: we need to stop watching Right down there.
Speaker 1: I got engaged later that night to a wonderful woman
Speaker 1: who enjoys wrestling almost as much as I do, despite
Speaker 1: it only being introduced to it in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: We plan to wed and buy a home together in
Speaker 1: the spring, which means that I have been slowly going
Speaker 1: through my possessions and deciding what will make the trip
Speaker 1: to the new house and what will not. Fortunately, your
Speaker 1: unwrappening has given me the opportunity to send some things
Speaker 1: your way that I think you might find amusing. It
Speaker 1: turns out that I was a big goldberg mark while
Speaker 1: I was in college during the Monday Night Wars and
Speaker 1: bought some merch that I inexplicably have to this day.
Speaker 1: There are three items here that give us an idea
Speaker 1: of WCW's marketing approached and its heyday one of them.
Speaker 1: One of these items makes total sense for wrestling, while
Speaker 1: the other two are a little more questionable. I'll let
Speaker 1: you decide to keep them or forward them on to
Speaker 1: Brett Hart to ruin his day. But either way, I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy a little bit of nineteen ninety eight nostalgia.
Speaker 1: Twenty five years on. Yes, last year, twenty five years on.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the laughs on the cast and in
Speaker 1: that ass as your mule log spreads cheeks and cheer
Speaker 1: this holiday season.
Speaker 3: You know, he makes an interesting point. Who's the letter
Speaker 3: writer again? It's John, is it John?
Speaker 1: John Hooker? Yes, you know we should bring.
Speaker 3: This up now because we've been talking about it and
Speaker 3: his letter made me think about it. As we get,
Speaker 3: you know, bombarded with these things that are designed in
Speaker 3: many cases to just get a pop from us on
Speaker 3: the air, which is wonderful reason to give a gift
Speaker 3: and sort. You know, people are becoming, as we do
Speaker 3: this three years, appreciative of the fact that we end
Speaker 3: up with a lot of stuff that we don't know
Speaker 3: what to do with. Yes, I mean, just stuff that
Speaker 3: just hoards our space and just that we hate to
Speaker 3: just like throw away unless it's the Jeff hardy thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, which yes, just doesn't feel like to burn that.
Speaker 3: If you're listening to this and you've sent us a
Speaker 3: gift before, how would you feel about a program where
Speaker 3: we regift some of the things that we've been given
Speaker 3: that we don't have immediate utility for, but we give
Speaker 3: it to a member of the Solar System who pledges
Speaker 3: to us on Patreon, particularly in the mote tier, where
Speaker 3: we're really always really mindful about making people feel extra
Speaker 3: appreciated for that incredibly generous support. If that's something that
Speaker 3: you out there and listener land that may have gifted
Speaker 3: us in the past, would take objection to please email
Speaker 3: us at the Lapsed fan at gmail dot com, because
Speaker 3: we don't want to regift things that people really wanted
Speaker 3: to sit with us. Yeah, but there's just so many things.
Speaker 3: After three years doing this and we want to do
Speaker 3: it every year, it's gonna be like.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff too. I mean there's there's
Speaker 1: there's stuff that I definitely want to keep and that
Speaker 1: I that I've enjoyed keeping, you know, like those those
Speaker 1: medallions and souvenir coins and stuff like that. I've liked
Speaker 1: those and the pins, you know, like the I had
Speaker 1: the Bobby Heena and Jesse Ventura pins still on my wall,
Speaker 1: so like I always keep that kind of stuff and
Speaker 1: the dolls, you know, I don't. I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: it jesse Ventura dolls and the Cereal box. You know,
Speaker 1: still questioning whether or I should eat that.
Speaker 3: But there will come a day when you want to
Speaker 3: get rid of it. Yeah, and what better way to
Speaker 3: to what better thing to do with it than to
Speaker 3: share it with a member of the Solar system who
Speaker 3: can say, not only is this a box of old
Speaker 3: to be of cereal, it's the one the chairman got
Speaker 3: for the Christmas show, and now I have that one.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great way to find a home
Speaker 3: for a lot of this stuff that well, otherwise, honestly,
Speaker 3: just sit in the closet. I'll just wonder until we
Speaker 3: move one day or something happens what to do with it.
Speaker 3: And I'd hate to get to that day where we
Speaker 3: just throw it away and you know, just kind of
Speaker 3: hold our nose and throw them all away. But you know,
Speaker 3: I also don't want to put the car before the
Speaker 3: horse and assume that people would be okay with us
Speaker 3: just redistributing some of this stuff. So yeah, objection, let
Speaker 3: us know, but I'll use that as the list. Well
Speaker 3: you had you said that it's hilarious in a way.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this stuff fits in a museum.
Speaker 3: I mean some of the stuff, but I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if you'd sell tickets to this museum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would probably cost us more than when then
Speaker 3: we'd make.
Speaker 1: I'm still going with it generosity.
Speaker 4: I don't know that. I don't know an I don't
Speaker 4: know the business.
Speaker 1: Not many people do, you know.
Speaker 4: Young people are still enjoying that, and as you guys
Speaker 4: started as kids and your kids may enjoy it, and
Speaker 4: some people just want.
Speaker 1: To see Yeah, well sure sure, so wouldn't be a moneymaker.
Speaker 3: Right library, Yes, yeah, it's a bad idea. You starting
Speaker 3: selling Dennis a cap a little bit, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: in terms of the value of some of the stuff.
Speaker 3: But I you know, it's it's an interesting idea. Maybe
Speaker 3: one day, maybe one day. But there's some of these
Speaker 3: things that they don't speak to us or our show
Speaker 3: or what we do. They just are funny wrestling things
Speaker 3: from years past that if they sat in a museum,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't it would be disemb it wouldn't be associated
Speaker 3: with us really at all. So no, you know, but
Speaker 3: I I think I think we should do it, And
Speaker 3: but I don't want to presume that it's okay with
Speaker 3: everybody who takes the time to send us gifts. So
Speaker 3: let let us know if you have an objection, we
Speaker 3: reserve the right to ignore it. But oh my god,
Speaker 3: there's one example. What the hell is that?
Speaker 1: It's a uh, it's a pennant of uh uh Goldberg.
Speaker 3: Bill Goldberg from the ninety eight Days.
Speaker 1: But they say Bill too, Bill Goldberg, which.
Speaker 3: Is why he wants us to pass it to Brett Hart,
Speaker 3: who always makes sure to say Bill Goldberg.
Speaker 1: Right, that's really funny. No, there's a toy here. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, look at that.
Speaker 3: It's one of those what what was that San Francisco
Speaker 3: toy makers. This is w Stubby Goldberg plastic figurine. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 3: that's when they brought back San Francisco toy makers after
Speaker 3: they had the the l j N style bag.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's after that. It's that weird. Yeah.
Speaker 1: These I don't even know what you call them, but
Speaker 1: they're weird.
Speaker 3: Did you have any No, No, I didn't have these,
Speaker 3: never tempted to take those off the shelves during the attitude.
Speaker 1: Of area looks. I mean I'd rather I liked I
Speaker 1: preferred the Jacks over them. That's wild. Oh we got
Speaker 1: a Goldberg baseball.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, they came out so much Goldberg stuff.
Speaker 3: A black Goldberg baseball's Mark McGuire on that picture. I
Speaker 3: remember the w stub magazine cover with Goldberg and Mark
Speaker 3: McGuire during the home run Goldberg and sting Olburg and
Speaker 3: Sting on the baseball. Yes, I used to sell w
Speaker 3: I still have the nitro cologne from a few years ago.
Speaker 3: That would be just a hilarious thing to send to
Speaker 3: somebody in exchange for I think so their support. I
Speaker 3: think that's that that's what we should do. But again,
Speaker 3: please let us know the lapsed fan at gmail dot
Speaker 3: com if you'd have an issue with that, and we
Speaker 3: won't share your gift. But this has to this has
Speaker 3: to be reflected in a further generosity from us. I think, yes,
Speaker 3: I think that's right. I agree, welling's starting to happen.
Speaker 1: We have to pay it forward. I think somebody needs
Speaker 1: to get that. Michael Hayes Pillow, I believe so too.
Speaker 1: I believe somebody who deserves that. Michael Hayes pillow someone
Speaker 1: who's caused me pain and I'll cause them pain and shame.
Speaker 3: Coming to a mailbox near you in exchange for your
Speaker 3: Patreon pledge. Michael Hayes, Love John, thank you for the
Speaker 3: onslaught of gold bro Any. Any Christmas wouldn't be complete
Speaker 3: without the Star of Santa.
Speaker 1: Sleighs Santa Claus himself.
Speaker 3: So thank thank you very much for the gift, and
Speaker 3: we wish you and yours and merry Christmas and we'll
Speaker 3: see you next time. As the Unwrapping, three rolls On
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