Speaker 1: When you consider the many narratives woven throughout ten years
Speaker 1: of the Lapsed Fan podcast, it's no exaggeration to say
Speaker 1: it just doesn't get any more significant, any more replete
Speaker 1: with deep, deep meaning than a collision between lapsed Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon and lapsed Hulk Hogan. As unbelievable as it is,
Speaker 1: that is where we find ourselves in just the quarter
Speaker 1: final round of the TLFX Games King of the Cast tournament,
Speaker 1: the tournament to decide who, in fact is the greatest
Speaker 1: character in the history of this cast. The King of
Speaker 1: the Cast, of course, is brought to you by our
Speaker 1: good friends at Garage Beer, small Batch smooth Drinking. The
Speaker 1: garage is always open. There's no bitterness when it comes
Speaker 1: to Garage Beer. But when we talk about lapsed Vince
Speaker 1: and laps Hogan, there couldn't be more bitterness. From the
Speaker 1: trial of his life to the WrestleMania journey where they collided,
Speaker 1: of course at WrestleMania nineteen and in so many ways
Speaker 1: faced off behind the scenes, and the WrestleMania is proceeding,
Speaker 1: tore One went on the decision of Vince McMahon Hulk
Speaker 1: Hogan took center stage in Madison Square Garden and Hulkamania
Speaker 1: never really looked back. We've covered all of the flash
Speaker 1: points over ten years of tlf and the matchup and
Speaker 1: the dynamic and the history between Laps Hogan and Lapsed Vince,
Speaker 1: and in a time of great strife and scrutiny and
Speaker 1: question marks around Laps Vince, it's perhaps only fitting that
Speaker 1: he rises to the forefront and gets an opportunity to
Speaker 1: chop down somebody who once stood across from him in
Speaker 1: Federal Court with the power to put him behind bars.
Speaker 1: Of course, it didn't happen that way, as it never
Speaker 1: seems to happen for the Chairman, and here in the
Speaker 1: TLFX Games, Hulk Hogan perhaps finally has a chance to
Speaker 1: put what he would consider Vince McMahon in his appropriate place.
Speaker 1: We couldn't be more excited for this encounter, and we've
Speaker 1: got words to share with you from the principles in
Speaker 1: the final quarter final match in the TLFX Games. First up,
Speaker 1: we turn to Venice Beach and Lapsed Well, you know something,
Speaker 1: Hulka Maniacs. Here we are again. Man, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the classic battle. Dudes, We're talking about the chicken in
Speaker 1: the egg which came first man, which one could be
Speaker 1: could exist without the other dudes. And I'm looking Vin
Speaker 1: snick Man dead in the eyes, dudes, and we're talking
Speaker 1: a history that goes way back, brother, that goes back millennia, dude,
Speaker 1: a conflict, dude, that goes back all the ways to
Speaker 1: ancient Roman.
Speaker 2: Julius Caesar, dude versus Brutus, not the Barber brother. So
Speaker 2: I ask you, Vince Snickman, what's it going to be
Speaker 2: this time? Dude? I took him down wrestling in nineteen
Speaker 2: and you know what I did what I could, brother
Speaker 2: to bring this company to fruition, dude, because I am
Speaker 2: the WWE dude. I am Hulkamania brother, and you can't
Speaker 2: have hul Comenia Hulk Hogan. So I see Vincic Man
Speaker 2: over there, dude, and I know exactly what's up his sleeve.
Speaker 2: I know that he thinks in his mind, man, that
Speaker 2: we're gonna go right from behind and roll up Hulk Hogan. Well,
Speaker 2: you see, you know what, dude, I'm thinking way ahead
Speaker 2: of your brother, because I know that's my weak spot.
Speaker 2: That's where you want me to be, That's where you
Speaker 2: want me to think. So I'm gonna come at you
Speaker 2: from all sides. Man, Hulkamania knows no bounds.
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 2: We come from every which way, dude, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: come at you from the left, I'm gonna come at
Speaker 2: you from right, from the front, from the back, because
Speaker 2: I got my hulk of maniacs all over the world. Dude,
Speaker 2: who are gonna have my back. They're not gonna be
Speaker 2: looking at my back, brother, but they're gonna have it, dude,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna help me once again prove that Hulk
Speaker 2: Hogan Hulkamania does not need Vince McMahon brother to take
Speaker 2: you things to that next level, brother, to dial things
Speaker 2: back in to kind of not stop. We're gonna stop
Speaker 2: playing hide the ball, brother, Vince McMahon, You and I
Speaker 2: have been playing to hide the ball for years on end,
Speaker 2: and now it comes to an end. Dude. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a quick one, two three after I boot your face, brother,
Speaker 2: and leg drop your ass, because what you're gonna do
Speaker 2: when Hulk Hogan hal Comania and everybody coming from behind
Speaker 2: Vince McMahon fucks you up, dude.
Speaker 1: Strong words from the Holtster who finally hopes to make
Speaker 1: a stand against the boss that has so defined and
Speaker 1: own owned his sense of himself and wrestling fan sense
Speaker 1: of what his contributions to the wrestling business truly were. Well,
Speaker 1: perhaps just about anybody who's ever found himself in the
Speaker 1: spotlight in professional wrestling, or herself for that matter, can
Speaker 1: point to our next promo as responsible or somehow able
Speaker 1: to claim dominion over their ability to succeed under these
Speaker 1: bright lights, yours truly included. It was a fascinating meeting
Speaker 1: all those years ago when I came up to the
Speaker 1: Towers and sat down with the chairman for a job interview.
Speaker 1: Now Here I am in the TFX Games of Center,
Speaker 1: wondering if Vince McMahon, who you know from Netflix's documentary
Speaker 1: that is sweeping the nation right now, is going to
Speaker 1: be able to triumph one more time. He's faced off
Speaker 1: against some of the absolute most vital parts of his
Speaker 1: organization so far in the TLFX Games, defeating his right
Speaker 1: hand man Pat Patterson in our opening round, and then
Speaker 1: taking on, perhaps with all due respect to the Hulkster,
Speaker 1: the greatest box office attraction he's ever had, in Stone
Speaker 1: Cold Steve Austin, soundly dispatching Steve Austin by a margin
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody could have conceived of eighty seven
Speaker 1: point eight percent for lapsed Vince to lapse to Austin's
Speaker 1: only twelve point two percent. As for Laps Hull Kgan.
Speaker 1: He goes into our quarter finals having defeated Laps Jimmy
Speaker 1: Barnett by a margin of seventy seven point four percent
Speaker 1: for the Huckster to twenty two point six percent for
Speaker 1: Jim Barnett. It perhaps is only fitting that we turn
Speaker 1: to the man who, in so many ways both flattering
Speaker 1: and unflattering, has been the only spotlight week in of
Speaker 1: forward to care about and a lifetime of wrestling fandom,
Speaker 1: the man who has decided and dictated our every whim,
Speaker 1: our every emotion as wrestling fans, and who continues to
Speaker 1: thoroughly dominate our conscious, our psyche, and our sense of
Speaker 1: what's important in this business. Entering the quarterfile around against
Speaker 1: perhaps his greatest creation and ten years of marinating in
Speaker 1: the tlf OVEN, It's lapped Vince McMahon.
Speaker 3: You see, I've taken this tournament. I've already won, and
Speaker 3: I don't need to prove anything because what I did
Speaker 3: was in the first round beat the shit out of
Speaker 3: my best friend. I don't mind doing that if it
Speaker 3: means I get something, And even if I don't get something,
Speaker 3: per se, I still win. And then in the next
Speaker 3: round I face off with stone cold Steve Austin. Another
Speaker 3: walk in the park for me, because when it comes
Speaker 3: down to it, you can't defeat the creator. Now, you
Speaker 3: can be the biggest star this business has ever seen.
Speaker 3: You can sell so much merchandise that we've run out
Speaker 3: of materials to build clothing. But you know what, you
Speaker 3: still can't one up the man who created you, the
Speaker 3: man who made you succeed. I allowed it, and so
Speaker 3: I wiped the floor with Steve Austin. And there will
Speaker 3: be no different with Hulk Cogan. Holk Hogan was nothing
Speaker 3: before he met me. Holk Hogan was nothing before I
Speaker 3: gave him the opportunity to be the best. And if
Speaker 3: I am the one who holds the opportunity to be
Speaker 3: the best, if I created the opportunity to be the best,
Speaker 3: it means that I am better than the best because
Speaker 3: I created it. I created the best. The history of
Speaker 3: this business, the history of entertainment, flows through my veins,
Speaker 3: flows up and down. I am what was, I am
Speaker 3: what is and I am what will be. You can
Speaker 3: make all the threats in the world. You can take
Speaker 3: me to court. Hell, you know what, if you find reason,
Speaker 3: you can put me behind bars. But don't think for
Speaker 3: one moment that I'm not pulling the strings. The strings
Speaker 3: are always in my pocket. They've always been in my pocket.
Speaker 3: I determine the outcomes. I determine the future. I am everything.
Speaker 3: You have no chance, all Cogan, because you cannot take
Speaker 3: down the creator.
Speaker 1: Longfellow perhaps couldn't have said it better here in the
Speaker 1: TLFX Games. It cannot be more colossal when you think
Speaker 1: about the rich ten year history of the Lapsed Fan
Speaker 1: podcast and how these characters have just jumped out of
Speaker 1: your earbuds. Perhaps no two have resonated as deeply and
Speaker 1: as longingly with such has Lapsed Vince and Lapsed Hogan.
Speaker 1: Their story is real, their story is fake. Is the
Speaker 1: outcome predetermined? That's up to you to decide. Keep your
Speaker 1: eyes peeled to the Lapsed Fan's x account at the
Speaker 1: Lapsed Fan for your chance to vote on who advances
Speaker 1: in the TLFX Games King of the Cast Tournament quarter
Speaker 1: final round. As we march so very close to awarding
Speaker 1: the King of the cast the greatest character in the
Speaker 1: history of the lapsed fan. Who will it be lapsed
Speaker 1: Hogan or lapsed Vince. We'll see you next time in
Speaker 1: the TLFX Games event Center when we're at the semi
Speaker 1: final point in our long, decade long journey. We'll see
Speaker 1: you then