And Welcome in everyone. I'm your host, Gabe Yoakham and this is Traitcraft.

On the podcast I talk to people who are incredibly good at what they do.

Together we take a deep dive into the distilled passion that makes successful people

successful. Equal parts, informative, interesting, and inspiring, we hope.

We want you to walk away having learned something and feeling duly entertained.

To that end, friends for nearly 20 years now, my guest today met at university and quickly bonded over a shared passion.

Not uncommon. Not uncommon, one might imagine.

When that shared passion is foe fighting,

imaginary athletics, fraudulent fisticuffs,

which is to say professional wrestling,

and that university is focused on the arts and communication.

You got a stew going.

Jack Encarnassios, well tenured combat sports analysts, professional researcher, not professional wrestler, professional

researcher, and journalists.

J.P. Sorrow is a seasoned television and theater actor, voice artist, and production pro.

Together, seven years ago, they created a wrestling-themed podcast that sought out to do better.

The Laps fan code chairman bring a unique chemistry and perspective to discussion of the pro wrestling of lore,

reviewing wrestling's past with a fresh set of eyes and driving home

week after week that it and maybe everything used to be better.

Jack, J.P. Welcome to Tradecraft.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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