Speaker 1: Hey, this is Lapse Jesse the Body Ventura. I understand
Speaker 1: that the Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast, despite being a United
Speaker 1: States based podcast not recording out of Mexico, is up
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Speaker 2: It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack mcarn seo
Speaker 2: and JP Sorrow.
Speaker 3: We've got an exciting Christmas program lined up for these folks.
Speaker 3: We've been to a Little Boys this year. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's an artificial tree, so I did artificial job at trimming.
Speaker 3: The kindness is only exceeded by our inability to adjust.
Speaker 2: All of the Here the Lapsed fant a price for
Speaker 2: the million dollar Man.
Speaker 3: Even Santa Claus in South say it's not so.
Speaker 2: And the twenty twenty four Left Christmas Show continues here
Speaker 2: as we continue working our way through just an absolute
Speaker 2: mortgage board and assault.
Speaker 3: Oh it's it's said, yes.
Speaker 2: Holiday generosity really testing our testing our endurance here.
Speaker 3: I mean this.
Speaker 2: We thought this was exhausting when we did this three
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 3: I know it's like you got still got like twelve
Speaker 3: packages to helping them.
Speaker 2: This is brought to us by way of Parcel Force worldwide.
Speaker 2: This must be an international package. We don't have any
Speaker 2: force external indication. Oh yes we do. This is from
Speaker 2: phil and this is in Chesterfield, UK.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So another gift from over the pond.
Speaker 3: Scissors, Yes I do.
Speaker 2: Do you have the scissors? The unwrapping continues. Mamasara holds
Speaker 2: her breath every time we throw the scissors at each other,
Speaker 2: which is I suppose.
Speaker 3: I suppose that's fine, and it's very much. You know,
Speaker 3: she doesn't want an arn innercent situation to come out.
Speaker 2: With these international packages or something else. Yeah, what am
Speaker 2: I supposed to do with this? Honestly?
Speaker 3: I mean there's no Yeah, there's no like entry point.
Speaker 2: You know, there's no there's no evidence. Yes, there's no
Speaker 2: evidence place that you should start right. And as you
Speaker 2: experiment you realize you don't necessarily have the right side.
Speaker 2: But we can't complain. We can only open and unwrap
Speaker 2: and share.
Speaker 3: We can.
Speaker 2: It's holiday joy Ooh, we just hit the jackpot.
Speaker 3: What the hell?
Speaker 2: We start with a note?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, lots of cardboard, lots of cardboard.
Speaker 2: This is a red envelope tucked thoughtfully into what I
Speaker 2: can tell you is going to be not just a
Speaker 2: virtual but a literal feast from jolly old England for
Speaker 2: your co chairs. Say on one Christmas, shew that you
Speaker 2: love the British candy and oh I know they Oh people,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to a special couple. The card says that's
Speaker 2: too much that's really fun. Okay to Jack and JP,
Speaker 2: congratulations on ten years. Hope you have a cozy Christmas.
Speaker 2: Here's to the next decade. All the best, Philip Bayne.
Speaker 2: That's a very familiar name and it's great to hear
Speaker 2: from Phil. Phil writes a letter this holiday season, Dear
Speaker 2: Jack and JP, season's greetings once again, Happy tenth TF
Speaker 2: Christmas and the third year of the tlf unwrappening. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four has been another eventful year in the TF
Speaker 2: solar system. The conclusion of the Lapsed Funk, the demise
Speaker 2: of Mike Jones aka Virgil, and the revelation that his
Speaker 2: misreported age was to cover up doing time for Heroin Trashada.
Speaker 2: That was this year, My God, the Wrestlmania Live Show,
Speaker 2: tf's collaboration with Dark Side of the Ring for the
Speaker 2: Unheard series and Who Killed WCW Companion series, amongst the
Speaker 2: general festivities of TLFX, and another excellent under the cinemat
Speaker 2: journey with carni'es r Forever, where we learned that lapsed
Speaker 2: Sean Connery actually shags the Bond Girls live during filming
Speaker 2: and that Roger Moore is probably the greatest person that
Speaker 2: ever lived. Yes, latterly we had the passing of sid
Speaker 2: and at the time of writing the ongoing tribute series
Speaker 2: to the Master and Ruler of the world. Keep up
Speaker 2: the great work, guy, and many others will be listening
Speaker 2: to every word of it. You may wish to unwrap
Speaker 2: the gifts before reading any further. Oh boy, here we
Speaker 2: have foam shrimps from the UK Ma Massaro's face. These
Speaker 2: are strawberry flavored foam candies in the shape of shrimps.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is like way too much. Look
Speaker 2: at all these candy wine gums, fruit flavored jelly sweets,
Speaker 2: foam bananas. You see the foam is in different in
Speaker 2: different peanuts. They look like peanuts.
Speaker 3: Yes, these are way harder.
Speaker 2: These are jelly babies and a sortpent of shaped fruit
Speaker 2: flavor jellies. This all the way from the UK squashies
Speaker 2: bubble gum flavor. Oh my god, I think what he
Speaker 2: wanted us to do is unwrapped the wrapped gifts so much.
Speaker 3: What do you think? What are you eating? Foam shrimp?
Speaker 3: What do you think it's okay?
Speaker 2: Sorry? Sorry, not away from me, Sorry Philip. We're gonna
Speaker 2: try foam banana. Would you like to try a foam banana,
Speaker 2: Mama sorrow. Let us know what you think. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: you sampling.
Speaker 3: Flavor. No, I feel the same way about the shrimp, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they say foam, it's hard. It smells like
Speaker 2: a banana. I don't know if it tastes like one.
Speaker 2: Let's get a verdict here, Foam bananas.
Speaker 3: Everything you imagine, everything you desire. I kind of like it,
Speaker 3: all right, Well, you know you're allowed to be wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. It almost tastes like like a like
Speaker 2: the sweeties you get in Valentine's Day was a little small.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think those have more flavored.
Speaker 2: Yes they are, but I'm getting strong canani vibe. Let's
Speaker 2: take a look. Oh my god, what is that WW
Speaker 2: Top Trump's Quiz with a Twist? What this must be
Speaker 2: a quiz game. Test your knowledge and twist your memory
Speaker 2: in this instant knockout battle game. Oh god, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to be if we'll be playing this one. Five
Speaker 2: hundred questions age eight plus also wrapped. It's the following.
Speaker 3: It's like an iPhone.
Speaker 2: This is a Top Trump's WW Legends card game. Oh no,
Speaker 2: this might just be a deck of cards. Top Trumps
Speaker 2: must be a UK.
Speaker 1: Say, I mean, we have a top Trump as well,
Speaker 1: But why.
Speaker 2: Do you try some wine gums all right? From the
Speaker 2: UK wine gums. No, that's not that Trump. I'm almost
Speaker 2: certain of its.
Speaker 3: Wine gums has to do.
Speaker 2: Well. You try the wine gum. Mama Sara and I
Speaker 2: are gonna try a bubble gum flavor squashies drumstick.
Speaker 3: Okay, bubbles delight.
Speaker 2: You think, boss delight. It doesn't very chilly, very chilly
Speaker 2: wine gums thoughts pretty good. You like that one better
Speaker 2: than the shrimp one.
Speaker 3: Like a multi flavored like Swedish fish.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a bubble gum drumstick for you, Mama Sorrow.
Speaker 2: Bubble gum flavored squashes drumstick. I hope tast No, I
Speaker 2: don't think so. I think it's an edible.
Speaker 3: It was as nasty, I hope. I hope that my
Speaker 3: sound is as nasty as I hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can, we can. We're getting a lot. Let's
Speaker 2: oh wow, this is quite a because it does take
Speaker 2: you do get the texture of chewing gum at first,
Speaker 2: then you realize it's wow. I love these, These are
Speaker 2: great squashies.
Speaker 3: Bus.
Speaker 2: I don't think you no, I think that's the idea.
Speaker 2: You see that the union jack right there, made in
Speaker 2: the UK. Sure, I'll try one. I love the squishies
Speaker 2: so far. Those are the best there. They all go
Speaker 2: wine gum.
Speaker 3: Do you think it has wine inside? Hmmm, very chewy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a wine gum.
Speaker 3: It's weird. There's like just like bubble gum.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like off putting it first, but it's
Speaker 2: actually pretty yummy, just like.
Speaker 3: A gummy bear.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what's wine about it.
Speaker 3: Is it shaped like wine? No? No, not really, I
Speaker 3: do like it.
Speaker 2: Just want to make sure before I finished the letters.
Speaker 2: There's nothing else wrapping here, all right, It's not you
Speaker 2: may wish to, Okay. Previously I have gifted you some
Speaker 2: obscure curos of British WCW merchandise from the early nineties
Speaker 2: in the form of the WCW SuperSlam board game. We
Speaker 2: remember that boss in the first unrapping in the ww
Speaker 2: SuperSlam card game and the second unrappening. This time I
Speaker 2: present something from the same lineage, but more modern. Okay.
Speaker 2: The gifts this time around are the Top Trump's card games.
Speaker 2: Want a retro WWFE pac of regular tops Trumps, where
Speaker 2: you conduct a battle based on wrestler stats to beat
Speaker 2: your opponent and collect all the cards. The second is
Speaker 2: a top Trump's WW quiz game to test the depth
Speaker 2: of your WW knowledge. Let's hope the information is more
Speaker 2: accurate than the folk given on the Super Slam cards.
Speaker 2: Though I always was curious why Sid SuperSlam card stated
Speaker 2: that sid vicious catchphrase was they sent a case of
Speaker 2: Vienna sausages to my church. Well we know, and I
Speaker 2: sent them a side picture of me. But TLF has
Speaker 2: finally been able to resolve this after all these years.
Speaker 2: As for the confectionery, we have Swizzles, drum Sticks, Squashies.
Speaker 3: Right here.
Speaker 2: These are manufactured locally here in Derbyshire and despite having
Speaker 2: one of their newer lines, are probably the most popular
Speaker 2: sweets that Swizzles produces. I got every flavor I could find,
Speaker 2: six in total. Wow, there's more in here.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Some of the flavor combos are very British, such as
Speaker 2: rhubarb and custard.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, Like is that one flavor rhubarb and custard?
Speaker 3: Or is this one sour cherry and apple? Okay, this
Speaker 3: one is.
Speaker 2: Banana and blueberry flavor. Weird squashies with pictures of minions
Speaker 2: on them. Brother, British candy is something else. British candy
Speaker 2: is like a.
Speaker 3: Whole We've gotten a lot of it. Category weird. It's
Speaker 3: so weird. I mean it's good, I mean weird and
Speaker 3: like that, it's so bad. It's just weird that.
Speaker 2: Here's the custard flavor.
Speaker 3: Yes, I did to yeah, yeah, yeah, so it is
Speaker 3: rubarb and custard, like that's so weird, Mama sorrow.
Speaker 2: And they don't have an extra wrapping, no, right, the
Speaker 2: silophane on top of it, what do you think? And
Speaker 2: custard like bubble gum really m hm hm no, don't
Speaker 2: taste custard. Mmm. I get what they're going for. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: I get that very subtle rhubarb, but rubarb is kind
Speaker 2: of tart, so you wouldn't expect it to taste anything
Speaker 2: but tart.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: I like the bubble gum ones better and look forward
Speaker 2: to trying the sour cherry and apple as well. We
Speaker 2: also have strawberry and cream flavored drumsticks.
Speaker 1: Original raspberry and milk. Raspberry and milk.
Speaker 3: I mean, jesus, you know what the funny thing is.
Speaker 3: It just seems British, you know, like the last thing
Speaker 3: I'd ever expect raspberries and milk, but.
Speaker 2: Marks and Spencer, Percy Pigs and Colin Caterpillar. These sweets
Speaker 2: are British favorites.
Speaker 3: Right here.
Speaker 2: Percy Pig Merry pursemisay, often imitated but never bettered, and
Speaker 2: sold by everyone's favorite posh food haul. This is posh.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Nancy Candy. Let's try Percy Pig Merry pursemus
Speaker 2: made with real fruit juice. It doesn't really tell you
Speaker 2: what it is on the package, but here you go,
Speaker 2: Merry Purse, Miss Mama Sorrow Percy, Miss Percy. Miss, oh no,
Speaker 2: this man dropped on the floor. He's gonna eat it anyway.
Speaker 3: Another one.
Speaker 2: What do you think you like these?
Speaker 3: Hmm?
Speaker 2: What are you getting? What's the flavor explained to people?
Speaker 2: It doesn't say, there's no indication what it's supposed to
Speaker 2: taste like. It just is made with real fruit juice
Speaker 2: and the flavor is apparently merry Percy Miss.
Speaker 3: So we'll go back.
Speaker 2: Do you say.
Speaker 3: It's just the fruit juice? Yeah? This is definitely healthy.
Speaker 2: Definitely not really, it doesn't really give you an indication.
Speaker 2: Let's take a taste.
Speaker 1: Hm hmm, it's like a very.
Speaker 3: Soft foamy like that.
Speaker 1: I like that texture over there, very weird.
Speaker 2: It's very It's like a bubble gum that you can swallow.
Speaker 3: Very makes you feel very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Wine gums. We tasted those jelly babies, foam shrimps, foam bananas,
Speaker 2: sweet shop favorites that are uniquely British, all very good
Speaker 2: while being a little different. And what gift for me
Speaker 2: would be complete without British pub snacks who gave us
Speaker 2: the here we go scampy chips. I present to you
Speaker 2: mini cheddars in cheddar?
Speaker 3: What many? What does that even mean?
Speaker 2: We read lester and barbecue flavors. These go particularly well
Speaker 2: with a pint of real cask ale, the barbecue with
Speaker 2: a hoppy pail ale in particular. And finally we have
Speaker 2: pork scratchings, a meaty delicacy. What the fuck that are
Speaker 2: ubiquitous staple and all good British pubs. Boss, would you
Speaker 2: like to try some original scratching scratching double cook pork crackling.
Speaker 3: Well as long as a double double cooked. Yep, you
Speaker 3: know this is My wife always makes fun of my
Speaker 3: my lack of softball skills, baseball skills, and then I'd
Speaker 3: love to It's like an open up the damn bage'.
Speaker 2: That's asking a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh, here we go. They are like the little packages here.
Speaker 2: Okay, would you like to try a pork crackling. That's
Speaker 2: a no double double cooked, a real. I get the
Speaker 2: feelings to be like beef jerky maybe or like a no.
Speaker 3: It's like crunching, Chris. It's it's like, yeah, that's a
Speaker 3: good noise.
Speaker 2: Boss made a face there. I don't know if that
Speaker 2: was good or bad.
Speaker 3: Weird like crunching and then soft really all right, what.
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 3: It's pretty good? Actually? Whoa right? What the hell was that?
Speaker 3: I know? It's like it it's crunching and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden it like the melt.
Speaker 2: Try one.
Speaker 3: It's like bacon. It's like it's like dried bacon.
Speaker 2: See, everyone makes a face because all of a sudden
Speaker 2: there's a soft inside to it. But then it disappears.
Speaker 3: Well, it's like it melts in your mouth, like side
Speaker 3: of American.
Speaker 2: Yes, flavor a flavor.
Speaker 3: It's porks. It's pork stuff, pork porks.
Speaker 2: The real pork crackling. Yeah, pork rhyme seasoning. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: pork rime with some soyer protein, rusk, calcium carbonate and
Speaker 2: other things you don't want to know about. They make
Speaker 2: it extremely hard to read this packaging.
Speaker 3: It's like black because they don't because they don't want
Speaker 3: you to know what it is.
Speaker 2: That's the only take a wow, the real port crackling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so weird. That's very British that that texture is bizarre.
Speaker 2: Yours and Lapstom, Philip Baine, while we're eating good in
Speaker 2: the neighborhood, absolutely from the colonies to you. We want
Speaker 2: to thank you very much Philip for your general and
Speaker 2: your thoughtful selection. These are things we otherwise would never
Speaker 2: taste and we get to have here of this Christmas
Speaker 2: thanks to folks like you.
Speaker 3: Safety.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much and we'll see you next time
Speaker 2: on the TLF Christmas showing.
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