It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with jack encrn SEO and JP Sorrow and welcome back in, Ladies and gentlemen to the twenty twenty three TLF Christmas Show. It's the n Rapping two and Boss, I believe we have a triple threat coming your way from one elite member of the Solar System over three days. I mean, it's gonna take three days to open these stiffs. I mean, look he gave. I mean we're talking. What is this like easily
like a twelve inch by eighteen inch box? Yes, with and it's heavy, and there are two boxes, and then there are two fucking bags. And who would he be? I mean, Santa Claus himself, Tom atanasiother's the greatest lapsed fan of all time. Get on his level as day one as it gets, any podcast would be lucky to have them and each one. So the two boxes, there's one for you, one for me. So this is yours. So here we go. Oh, okay, so this is direct from me, This is direct for you. I'm pretty sure
I got direct. H What was that? Oh? I can't wait to fucking clean up my office. It is a fucking disaster because of all these Christmas presents. Yes, there's so many fucking crashing. Oh wow, gift bag yep, there's a gift bag here. And oh magazines, the WWF merchandise catalog from when says to the top eighty nine ninety Oh fucking hell, cell A Fane, I'm gonna say this one for last. Then we got oh, what year is this Deceummer ww magazine? Oh, a lovely holiday
edition of the w WA magazine with Mick Foley in full Santa regalia. I remember that one. I had that one official w CW Holiday catalog. What there was such a thing. Oh, and we're talking post ninety nine gray logo WCW. Yeah, and they're playing the playing video games Santa Santam a kid playing one of the THHT games it looks like. And then lastly lashly, Yeah, don't you know how to knock flem watt? If I'm not
mistaken, that is a sign portrait of Buzz from home alone. It is Devin No not now, I think he's okay now, but Devin rat Trey. Oh my god. That is a fucking hilarious gift. That's I mean, I well, don't don't deprive the people pop pop a couple of those merchandized catalogs open. Oh oh yeah, good call, good call. Oh see here are we gonna do separate installment spots for your gifts and for mine? Yeah? Plant, Yeah, that's the plant. So yeah, that's
definitely so yeah, totally. I'm not driving. So the w W, I presume this is uh. It doesn't give a date, but I presume it's probably nineteen ninety nine, maybe yes, almost, definitely. Uh. I don't remember them printing completely separate. I remember merchandise pages in the magazine, but separate catalogs like this. Look at the ornaments for the ornaments. Oh my god, with the scorpion Goldberg ornament, Goldberg's arm tattoo in the form of an ornament, you have fucking teddy bears. I mean, who
bought a single one of them? Nobody, Nobody bought this ship. Why are you even making them? Although I would take the I would take either of the hats. I prefer the old logo, but look at the yeah WCW and a nitro hat. Yeah, the nitro logo that just tells you it's depressing and no one cares anything. I mean again, I'd still take it. But by mayhem if you want, oh the video game. Yeah.
Like I said in one of the recent shows, I'm completely obsessed with the fact that by the time WCW's licensing machine kicked into gear, Yeah, everyone had stopped caring about nitro yep, And so they were like, it's so flooding the market with this merch, but nobody wants and they missed the boat bout like a year and a half. They old the foam title belt, which I love, is the ninety one to ninety three title belt, Yeah, the lex Luger one. Yeah, Like they don't fucking they haven't
changed it, Like, are you kidding me? Like, what's wrong with that? Is that a Goldberg wrestling? By that would be a Goldberg or a Goldberg bean brawler, a bean brawler bean brawler? Sure that wasn't a Nables packet. We got some Sting merch and some Brett merch. Sure these are great examples. You know, Wow, this is bereft with Brett merch and Goldberg merch. You could hardly find them on your television at Why is he number two? Part number two? Why is he number two with his
Brett hard hockey jersey? You mean the number in the jersey is number two. Yeah, maybe it's amount of concussions he'd had by that point. Oh they get Oh my god, I mean have NW two thousand, Brett, what's this nWo stuff? And rob a belt? Look at the the Hogan yellow and red shirt in the pendant with yellow red Hogan. I mean you did come back in the fall of ninety nine to red and yellow. That's true. You can buy the Kevin Nash the Outsider video, which I think
we have. Actually, I think we got that last year. We got to do that. At some point I hung my Kevin Nash ornament on the Yeah, all these videos, all these videos here, these are the one that we got last year from from such poor releases. The sid won, the flare of the Goldberg, the Hogan, the sting, what the macho man stuff? Look at that, like a look at the fucking logo. That's the logo just mm in a white box, no picture of his face, nothing like that. Just like idiot. He thought he was a brand.
He thought he was like the Apple logo. Stop what a sad state of affairs? Gorgeous George and Molly and Medusa. That's that's that's a that's the time capsule. Please. Oh and this you know what? Also too? This is good here too this. I just realized this. It's not just eighty nine ninety, it's Fall Winter eighty nine ninety. So for w W oh man, that's this is for good. This is definitely hitting those
loins. You twk about it felt good to be a wrestling fan. So just ten years prior, ten years prior and you just looked at it. I'll just soak this in just subject, man, that looks so perfect. Had that metallic odd they pull that off. Oh, there's a note in the back from you can see I'm gonna read it out loud, but there's a note in the back. Oh my god, this just fell out. What I would I mean, I'd give you fucking send in order to order. Oh they're po Box and Stanford sent in an order right now. Like
remember that you would like clip it out of the magazine. Yep. Dear WW fans, our new Fall Winter catalog offers you the latest collection of WW merchandise. Find great gift giving ideas for the holidays or any occasion. See our order form for details on gift certificates and how you can receive our free mystery gift. Sincerely, Shirley Adams, Vice President of Merchandising. Oh wow, surely making it happen the tower. Oh fuck, this is how you
open up a catalog. He's lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and and JPO. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. Jesus fuck me. There's the Warrior jacket, that nineties jacket, the Bomber jacket, the Hogan Hogan, the plain old Hulk rules like, but that's that's the one I wanted forever. These were the flipped through wide eyed as kids. It's just the aesthetic. It's just one of a kind. It's golden. It's the WrestleMania the DCR video game. Oh I've never heard of that before. Oh yeah, it's
got Andre Bear hugging Hogan on the cover. It's like a board game with a tape that comes with it. Right, I've never seen it in person, but I have heard of that. Because you're Hulkamania Teddy Bear t shirt. If you're ready to get fucking is that Stephanie? No, No, Stephanie, and this one the arro when she would have been posing for the catalog. Yeah, maybe we'll see her as we go along. Look at these fucking shirts. Oh, I'll take a demolition one. Are those the
ringer teas? Oh? Those are so perfect that that page where it was like twelve wrestlers on one, you know, even from Hercules to Hogan. You know, it's like they they made merch for wrestlers. You has his own fucking shirt, like anyone bought that? Exactly? I made a Hercules T shirt. Honestly, show me one soul who bought one of those posters. Oh man, those posters used to fucking drive me wild. I think I had that Hogan one. Yeah, I just had a flashback. I
used to love those huge ass posters yep of athletes as well. And if we want, you can get your brutus the barber beefcake towel, I'll pass. You get the bread Heart silver shades as well that it was. You know, place your order today and send it in with your paid envelope. That's great. Ship. Let's be right where I need to be. How many hours did I spend pouring over that stuff like exactly, and like dreaming of stuff that I could get, like just wanting shirts or belts or whatever.
Just all that ship that my mom kept telling me, no, we've talked about the coloring thing they had, right, which one was that they sent me? Like panels, like cardboard panels. Color? Yeah, yeah, God, my nurse came in. That was a sweet day. And deed right to the living room carpet. I bet this time to dig in. There's something. This is a this is a has Bro. I can feel it in my box and you're in the bag, in one of the bags in your box. Let's see what we got here. Holy shit,
what it comes. That looks incredible. It looks really good. That is a rip. The O holds barred Hulk Hogan has Broye Custom Custom has Bro. Which body does he have? The Hulk aplex one, my favorite one. I love this my favorite figure body, the hul Complex one, but
with the original head with a gorilla press Hogan. Yeah yeah, well no, no, no, no no. This was the first time because because the first two Hogans had the just a bandana, the headband, yeah, the headband, rather than then after that they started doing the bandana for all the other Hogans. That looks really incredible. That's a really good one. White boots and the sky blue gear. That's really funny. Looks like he's ready to throw a throw a pie across a diner and knock somebody out with
it. Something soft here, like another little bit, these little bags, yeah, little Christmas sacks. What we got here? Sacks Fifth Avenue. Oh shit, oh shit, he's fucking crazy. Oh my god, I feel like these are all going to be lifting them up to the camera, right into the frame. Yes, go ahead. Oh fucking you know, I can't. I can't. The motherfucker when we got together to watch you and King of the Jews with the moat tier, Yeah, he hands me
a book I've never even heard of. That's a complete history of Lenna McMahon's senatorial campaign against Chris Murphy. Who the fuck knew that was even written, let alone who people would be interested? Right? And then he presents this holiday season tom attt Nacio a Linda McMahon campaign button. That's right, a pin that you would have worn to one of her rallies, her rallies to show support. And she ran for Senate in twenty ten out of Connecticut.
That is I could even conceive of wanting. It's crazy, I know. That's that's that's the spirit of Christmas. The gift you didn't know you wanted? What is? Oh my god, there's more. Oh h we just began. There's at least six, maybe four more? Wow? What the fuck is? I don't even know? Well, I guess this is what's going on here. I don't even know how to begin with this, but we're gonna find out. I guess. So number one okay, what?
Oh my god? That's the Royal Rumble game for the superintend Nintendo and the last game to feature Hulk Cogan. We got and then he gave, no, this one doesn't feature Hulk Hogan. Then the Superintendent one didn't feature it is the Genesis one that featured it. Think you got that backwards? What game you sure he wasn't, Ye, because I bought the Genesis just to find a whole one. Yeah. I shouldn't have question you that one. Was that a super Nintendo remote? Yeah, it's like a wireless game pad.
I feel like I feel like somehow tell me it's in there. Here he goes, Here, he goes again, son of a bitch. For those who listened to last year's Christmas show, Tom's is saying that literally threw in a garbage bag of nineteen nineties television at N sixty four and no mercy and controllers. It's another it's another Super Nintendo controller. Well, you know, I mean, who am I gonna play with this holiday season? The w wf Ron and I must have talked about that. I used to that.
I never got the I never got the sixteen bit systems, really, but I wanted to play Monday Night Ross so badly that I literally rented a Super Nintendo. Oh yeah, I love that. That raw game is so good, so good, so good. So think of the stakes. Not only was it like, you know, do they have the game, it's do they have the system as well? Oh my god, he's fucking crazy.
He's fucking crazy. Yeah. Another, there's a superintendent in here because he gave there's a there's a fucking there's an extension chord, but a plug. What you know about it? Bitch, huh what you fucking know about it? You don't know anything about it. Bost Man's jaws on the floor. Oh we're in trouble, man, what's next? We are in it? How many more fucking journeys do we have to do until we've covered all
the territories? I guess it's a VHS Is that what it was? Or no, it's a I think it's like a DVD set and we would says Memphis Wrestling nineteen eighty two season surviving Moments coming off that fucking lapsed Funk the Funk Lawla episode. Is that not right in the heart of that Memphis fucking gold that we look at. I don't know if you're ready for this either. This is fascinating. Okay. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack
and Carno and JP Sorrow. It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast. Another book he managed to find that I've never heard of, which is saying something. Anybody who listens to the show knows that it's entitled Shooting or Working the History of the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. It looks like the most self published volume
I've ever seen in my life. Who wrote that? Ken Zimmerman Jr. Oh, I know Ken Zimmerman. He's the author of nineteen non fiction books, including gotch Versus Hackenschmidt right in like Evan Strangler Lewis book yep, Double Crossing the gold Dust Trio. Yep. Yeah. He did books about the thirties and twenties in the towns and wrestling. Yeah, Lewis, Burns,
Jenkins, and Gotch legendary wrestlers of a legitimate era. In January eighteen eighty one, Edwin Bibbie defeated Duncan c Ross to establish the first American based title, the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Still in the nixt forty two years, the best wrestlers in America competed for the prestigious title. However, the true
history of the American title is not nearly as clear. This books looks at the big title matches and champions to establish a clearer picture of the championship. Learned the true history of the first catch wrestling championship in the United States. You know what I'm doing, I'm catching feelings this Christmas prime things to Tom Attinasio regaling us with just and there's a holiday feast of gifted. Just what it is? It's absurd. There's appetizers, there's main courses, there's desserts,
there's finger foods and or dirves and there's more. The fuck is it? What is that? It's a figure but it's not a w W figure. No, it's not. It's a power town. I got I got the uh year, did you? Oh? And that's full sportatorium striped blue jacket, like you know, women making out with him on his way to the ring, carry on, Eric appropriate iron class season exactly. That's that is a thank you? That is a beauty. What title is that? The world class? The world class? Yeah? Yeah, when they when
they created their own world title. I've even heard of that line before. Yeah, I do remember the vern figure out that you say that still going? What is in here? You imagine the state of the sky's porch and like August thanks to us? In terms of deliveries, what is it? Well, I'll tell you what. If you have any mysteries happening at your house this holiday season, only one man can investigate. It's Fuji. Is that the Luji? Oh, of all the l j ns to lace me
with, mister Fuji will very much investigate the food god. That's a sweet one. Here's here's the problem. Obsessed with the non wrestler l jns like the Vince Yes, oh yes of course, Like why would you even bother? Here's the problem right here, this, this is the last one. This is why they get there. It's why you shouldn't get their own episode
because they're so fucking long. I mean, I hope Tom realizes this is recreating the most memorable Christmas gift I ever got, which was a big ass box the size of like a television box in nineteen ninety one to say last year. I know, yeah, filled with newspaper, and as I threw the paper away, it was like ten Hasbros. One effort after the other after the other, and it really it set the course. It's set the conditions for a lifelong wrestling fandom because I had no choice at that point but
to get further into pro wrestling. I had all the toys. Yep, when you have the whole I mean you didn't have the whole line, but when when you make that much of a quantum leap leap collection, you're almost obliged. I know what this is, Yeah, this is it. This is he got a fucking I don't I don't know why this is all tied up, but like this, but feel free to use the scissors. I
can't even find them. Someone should. I know you're surrounded right now by fucking my claustrophobia is at an all time The solar system turns us into fucking hoarders every Christmas. And it's not that we keep stuff, it's by the time we're done unwrapping, it looks like a holder's house. Come on, motherfucker again. What we don't ask for this? We never, ever, ever once said, give us like three times more gifts than we can handle.
One from every member of the Solar system who cares to contribute would be more than enough. Of course, Tomas I was like, fuck that. He fills the gun and unloads the fucking clip on us. Come on, this is the fucking worst. That's one part of the Christmas show. You don't account for the logistics. I know almost there. Everybody knows that around Christmas that one at one relative who wraps the gift in an impossible way, working on it here, carrying it some string, is right. That's what's
even more like aggravating. It's like, yeah, let's get the reveal over with. I already know what's waiting for me. Oh wait, there we go. This is a good wait. I can come through here. Why won't you go through? Mm hmm, Oh my god, this is so annoying. The hardest fucking ribbon still working on it, folks. Fucking christ Almighty and boss Man's no weakling, but he has taken some mighty tugs of this thing and he's not even close. I'm just gonna this is that book
while he does this? Yeah right, I love that it's called shooting or working. That's fucking tremendous. Let me guess I know where my money is? Almost there, like that scene is in Return of the Jedi or they like fucking almost get the door open, and it's like I got it, I got it. Nope, I don't got it. What the fuck? How is this thing? Tis came out two hard? I don't know anybody out there have any suggestions on how we can turn the Turn to the century
wrestling history into something castable. There's no footage. I guess we can just talk and read and read the book. Gotta be news stories about it, oh for sure. Yeah, that's the one thing about that's the one thing about pre fifty stuff, and like late eighteen hundred stuff. The newspaper for coverages everywhere because there was no other medium that the promoters could rely on. A spread word about who was winning, who was wrestling, who was talking
ship Now we got it heard that before? Here comes in a sound and it contains, Yeah, the next gift of Christmas a Super Nintendo game console. This is yep, yep, see this is this is the problem. We're gonna end up with a Sega c D by the time this thing's over because there's a plug here or a neo? Is that what is called the neo? There's more? Oh, come on, that's how come putting stuff
away? I really love those green flannel Christmas bags. They're great. So that's all you needed to send top, God's sake, send some, send some handsome wrapping h and here we go. This is more untel more magazine edge grass here. But it was on the bottom. So I wonder why, Yeah, maybe you strategic? Why and why was that just more number
one? Number one? Oh my god? What does that say? Oh god, I can't with this whole category of like Trump and wrestling, Like, oh my god, the Vince book that came out, The Ring Master Wadley, you talk about shoehorning Trump into it so that you can, like, you know, pretend you're writing a book that appeals to more than wrestling fans. And what's the title? Read that title? Please? M rhetoric Politics and Society presents Hell of the sorry, Donald Trump and the Cafe Presidency
Profession Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House by Shannon Bow O'Brien. Okay, that's great. Shout out to the homie Lavvy mar marginal An I think Spronaus's last name, because he wrote a book like that and that was inspired by us. So it's okay, what is is it? Oh my god, it's a game pro magazine from the Attitude era. With that with you're talking about
Attitude Review exclusive the Fighters Edge Strategy for the top WWE superstars. Wow, get all of your little game Pro since Clinton was in office because they probably don't have him. That's phenomenal. That's crazy. So that's it. That's that's your bag. And it's like talk about knowing me. Yeah, anybody in my life would have been as bull's eye as Tom Machinasio just was. You might have had better Christmas? What's that you might have had better Christmases?
Well, there's simply nothing I can say that will rise to the occasion. So another deep and abiding thank you to a listener that just take our word for folks, like it's like you fell from heaven. If you if you have one of him, you only need one fan. That's what I
was going to say, exactly. You took the words out of my mouth, like, as long as Tom Atanacio is breathing, it'll be worth doing a lapsed fan, even if he is the Oh, I swear to God the only person listening to So thank you, Tom, We'll see you next time. On that TLF Christmas Show plays a production of the LAPS Entertainment Group. It's content is intended for private use only. We want