It's the lapsed fan wrestling podcast.

Special report.

The lapsed fan presents the complete Hulk Cogan, a real American story.

Brought to you by Garage Beer. Boss, it's not working out for Terry Balea in the professional wrestling business. Can you believe it?

Brother.

He's concerned.

I mean...

How do you know?

What?

Matsuda betrayed his trust.

Brother.

Matsuda told him it was a shoot.

And here's Eddie Graham, who I grew up watching, brother, even though that wasn't born what he was wrestling.

I watch reruns. What's our brother? Watch reruns, brother. Shoutouts to whoever pointed out that when Dusty Rhodes is actually headlining at the Fort Hesterly, Hogan would have been 14, and he continues to say he was nine when he first laid eyes on Dusty Rhodes in Tampa. That's not there. What's wrong with that? Come on. Absolutely. It's five years.

But it's not working out.

This is yet another file. And under the, from the beginning of the show, the file that's probably thickest for

TLF is finding instances, be it in movies or be it in pro wrestling, where the biggest names,

the biggest draws, the biggest box office attractions,

the most memorable characters, films, concepts, matches, all almost didn't happen because

someone at the very, very beginning just didn't see it.

That's honestly, that's the, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's so common,

so, so, so common that if you, if, you know, you missed one little window, you know, it would have been a whole different story.

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