TLFX Testimonial: Dickie

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

There are moments in life where we're called upon to stand up and be counted. Moments where the silent but virtuous must shout. TLF is up for Best Wrestling Podcast in the Sports Podcast Awards. Voting opens today. It's #TLFX. We deserve it. So, cast your votes, and get everyone you know to vote as well. After 10 years, this still isn't a fucking game. Let's show em that craft, ingenuity, and #shelflife still matter.

Vote here: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/sports_category/best-wrestling-podcast/

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0:00.0	Jack, JP, Lapsed Fan Solar System.
0:04.2	This is Dickie Bird here from Australia.
0:07.9	The date today is the 24th of December, Christmas Eve, on 2024.
0:16.6	And it is exactly 10 years to the date that I first listened to an episode of the lapsed fan.
0:25.0	That episode was the WrestleMania X-7 episode.
0:32.9	I can't remember how long it was.
0:36.3	I want to say it was like seven hours long.
0:39.8	It was probably not even that long,
0:42.5	maybe just because it sounds like the short end of a 2024 episode of the lapsed fan.
0:53.2	Nevertheless, it is a day that I will remember forever,
0:59.8	and it is an episode that I will remember forever.
1:05.1	Funnily enough, I was actually put on to the lapsed fan on through Twitter by someone called Simon Miller and probably a
1:17.7	lot of people know who this is. He's a he's actually a wrestler now and for a long time was a contributor
1:27.3	on what culture but But at the time, he was none of these things.
1:33.6	At the time, I listened to a podcast where he was the editor of a video game website, and I listened to
1:43.6	their podcast, which he was frequently on
1:45.8	and I followed him on Twitter and on Twitter 10 years ago today he wrote if you've ever had any
1:56.4	interest in WWE slash F you need to listen to the latest The Lapsed fan on WrestleMania X7.
2:05.6	It's an audio documentary for your ears, and that piqued my interest a lot. I checked it out.
2:17.4	And the one thing that I was immediately taken by was the duration of,
2:24.6	or should I say the length and girth of the episode. Of course, you hear a lot from people saying, oh, it's too long and da-da-da-da and blah, blah.
2:40.7	But the truth is, I was actually looking for a lengthy podcast.
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