Hello everyone and welcome to the Champions cast here on Zelda Dungeon.net. My name is Andy Spateri,

and as you can tell, this is not going to be a normal episode because I am away, and actually,

by the time that you were listening to this, I will have been married. So my wedding was this weekend, so we decided to

go into the vault and release an older show that we thought that everybody might enjoy listening

to again. But I actually, as great as this news is for myself, I wanted to take a quick moment here and actually talk about a friend of mine who you will hear me talk about in this Tinkles Rosie Roopeland episode, who unfortunately just passed away.

My pal had a tumor, unfortunately, and was not able to overcome it and passed away far too soon from this world.

So you're going to hear me tell the story about the time that I bought Tingles Rosie

Rupiland off of this guy who would later go on to become a good friend of mine.

And some parts of it have been embellished a little bit just for a little bit of fun.

He actually, we didn't quite meet at a Tim Horton's parking lot.

He lived just down the street from the Tim Hortons, but it was close enough.

So he was a great guy, and I was planning on releasing this Tingle episode when I got married

anyways, but as fate would happen, you know, this, it appeared a little bit more timely.

So I just wanted to dedicate this to my friend.

His name is Benson Simberski.

And wherever you are, my pal, we're thinking of you.

I know this is a little bit somber to get us started off, but I think that the best thing that we could do for my man, he loved Legend of Zelda and he loved Nintendo.

So the best thing we can do is have fun and appreciate the ridiculousness of Tingles Rosie Rupiland, which I would have never got to experience, if not for my pal Benson.

You know, it's kind of a running joke how much of a fan I am of the Tingle games.

Some of the crew has Zelda Dungeon have even started calling me Spittingle, which I wear

as a badge of honor.

So none of it would have been possible about my buddy.

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