WEBVTT - Lance Storm Live from AEW Calgary 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:12.800 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, live. 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.599 From San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. You 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.120 are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts Brian 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.040 Alvarez and Mike semper vv Are you ready? 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.119 Are you ready? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:26.360 Let's get it off. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.280 How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.920 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.879 three Eastern Sunday three Pacific sixth Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.000 Jim Valley, Today Pacific one Eastern Sundays with andrews Arian. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.920 And it's Thursday here on the show. And you know 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.000 what that means. Actually, you don't know what that means. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.920 You know a little bit. You know, we got a 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.800 lot to talk about here today. But also last night 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:02.360 was aw Dynamite in Lovely Calgary, alb To, Canada, and 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.240 our own Lance Storm was there at the show live 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.640 and he had a good time. And so we're gonna 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.560 talk to Lance today about his thoughts on that show. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.360 He'll be joining us along with Mike simperviv all three 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.440 of us on the program today. We got a lot 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.440 to talk about regarding the Dynamite Show and where we 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.160 are going heading into Wembley and plenty more, and of course, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.560 in addition to that, a lot of updates on a 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.000 lot of different stories, including the aw media rights deal. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.800 Stephanie Vacure is headed to WWE and we've got more 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.520 details on what happened there. We've got all of the 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.959 ratings notes from the last couple of days, a lot 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.960 of news coming out of Mexico, not just the Stephanie story, 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.880 but Chris Jericho is working the CMLL ninety first anniversary 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.040 show against Mystico, who was one of the biggest stars 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.160 in all of Lucha Libre. Samoa Joe's going to be 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.040 out of action for a while. We have got a 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.840 lot of notes on the TA n XT deal, ratings 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.720 from the last couple of days and uh and of 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.280 course all of the news coming out of Dynamite, and 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.320 there was plenty of it, including the winners of the 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.520 men's and women's owen Hart Cup tournament. 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That's eight hundred 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.440 three five two seventy six eighteen. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.400 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:17.840 and Mike SIMPERVV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network in 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:18.200 the show. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.400 Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike scember VV also 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.080 Wrestling Observe dot Com. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:24.600 Ad A. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.320 Lance Storm is joining us here as well. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.640 Hello Lance, How you doing? 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:28.880 Brian? 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:29.200 Hello? 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:29.520 Mike? 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:30.800 Hi, Brian? 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.640 Okay, I ever him to be quiet now for a second. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.680 All right, all right, very quickly, I gotta make a 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.800 couple of in house notes. All right, First off, we 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.320 do have some changes with the website that I want 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.000 to tell people about because some of you like, today's 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.440 the day for you. So the video dot f for 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.680 w online dot Com, we used to have two tiers. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.599 There was a seven ninety nine tier and a nine 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.760 ninety nine tier. And actually there's another funny thing I'll 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.640 mention in a second, but so he had a seven 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.400 ninety nine n nine and the difference was for nine 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.800 ninety nine you could watch live and on demand. Seven 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.040 ninety nine you could only watch on demand. Okay, So 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.440 as of today, seven ninety nine is gonna be gone. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.560 We're trying to simplify everything. There is going to be 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.520 one tier. It is nine ninety nine. And if you're 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.600 on the seven ninety nine tier. You will get a 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.400 refund when that tier disappears, and then you will have 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.240 to sign up for nine ninety nine if you want 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.520 to continue to get video, and that's gonna be it. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:35.240 Like everything, we're trying to simplify video main site audio. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.160 We're gonna have three different options, so video will just 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.960 be nine ninety nine. If you're up, you can watch 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.600 the shows live, and if you're not up, you can 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.760 watch the shows on replay. So that's that's the video tier, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:54.480 the audio tier. We will be adding Apple Podcasts pretty 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.960 much at any time. I have been putting all the 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.440 shows on Apple Podcasts, getting them all ready. The full 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.040 archives will not be there because it's impossible. We would 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.520 have to manually upload about fifteen thousand shows, which just 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.360 is not gonna happen. But if you only want the podcast, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:15.320 you don't care about video, but you're on Apple iTunes 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.080 they used to call it, they will all be available 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.600 there and that is also nine. You will get Observer Radio, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.120 Observer Live, Bryan and Vinie Show, Figure four Daily, Filthy 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.600 four Daily, and at some point other shows will be 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.640 added as well. It will be you know, we got 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.079 to train everybody to also upload their shows to Apple Podcasts. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.880 But if you just want audio, you don't want the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.240 main site. You don't want to pay fourteen ninety nine 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.320 for everything. You just want to pay nine ninety nine 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.560 and get your podcasts every day. Apple Music is going 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.480 to be the option for you. And yes, we are 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.880 working on Spotify, but listen, I'm not the tech guy. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.760 I don't know when, I don't know how, I don't 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.440 know anything about it. I've just been told that's gonna 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.280 be next. We're gonna work on that next. After Apple Podcasts. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.280 That's it's also nine ninety nine, and yes, that includes 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.000 the Granny Show. So then the main site will be 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.880 fourteen ninety nine, and that's where you can get everything. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.599 You can get all of the podcasts, all of the archives, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.559 all of the newsletters, all of the archives, the board, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.480 subscriber exclusive articles, all of that. Maybe you just want everything. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.599 It's fourteen dollars and in ninety nine cents. Somehow we 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:30.360 we created a fourteen ninety nine tier for video. I 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.040 don't even know how, and I think we were considering 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.480 doing something or whatever, but anyway, we never announced it 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.040 or anything, but somehow people found it and they've all 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.200 signed up. I don't want to say all, but like 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.200 they just decided they wanted to pay fourteen ninety nine, 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.560 so I think we're gonna get rid of that one. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.680 So if you're on fourteen ninety nine, you'll get five 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.000 dollars off to the nine ninety nine. I got me 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.680 thinking maybe we should have like one hundred dollars tier, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.240 like if you really like it, just sign up for 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.280 fun and support the site. But anyway, so those will 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.480 be the three options main site fourteen ninety nine. If 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.760 you want the video only all the shows, it's nine 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.600 ninety nine. And if you want audio only on Apple Podcasts, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.319 it's nine ninety nine. It'll be simple, we'll be sending 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.960 out an email, we're gonna be doing things to to 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.080 do all of that. And apparently I've been told Apple 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.640 is ready furw online dot com slash Apple if you 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.679 want to pay nine ninety nine, if you're not a 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.160 subscriber right now, or if you you know, just decided 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.800 I can't pay, I can't pay fourteen Apple Podcasts is 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.960 now ready for you f fourw online dot com slash Apple. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.040 You can go up there and sign up right now 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.560 and start getting the shows on Apple podcasts immediately, So 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.920 head up there and check that out and one other thing, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.880 and Lance would know about this. I was on Twitter 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.319 the other day and I was like, what am I doing? 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.760 What am I doing? This place sucks, It's a cesspool, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.480 like it's horrible, And I have made the decision that 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.680 I am not completely done with Twitter. If you want 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.760 to go to my Twitter at Brian Alvarez, my ex, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.800 I will repost things from at one FW, the main site. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.280 That's all I'm doing on there. If you want anything 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.200 else with me, you're gonna have to subscribe. Now, if 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.520 you're hearing this and thinking why would ever do that, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.480 I don't know. You don't have to you don't ever 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:31.280 have to do this. But if you want my tweets, 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.440 my whatever, I'm gonna be putting all of the ratings, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.760 the ratings notes up. I put up a ton of 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.160 news over the last couple of days, and honestly, most importantly, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.040 and one of the main reasons I'm doing this is 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.079 because I used to like to actually respond to people 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.280 on Twitter. Oh you have a question, here's the answer. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.240 Oh you want to know about this? You want to 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.920 do a Q and a whatever. I can't do that. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.400 On normal Twitter, because I post anything and there's eighty 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:03.640 five thousand morons, bots, whatever, it's like impossible to sift through. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:09.120 So if you want to like ask me questions, subscribe 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.000 on my ex and my goal is to answer everybody's questions. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.200 If I post a ratio, go hey, why do you 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.240 think this, I'll try to answer it. I plan to 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.040 actually have a discourse with anybody who is a subscriber 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.360 on Twitter, and I'll put news up there. Yes, Mike 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.440 YouTube question. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.560 Yes, is there going to be pictures of shoot bonk houses? 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.720 I'll do all my pictures will go up there. I'll 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.120 do videos here and there like all of that. It's 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.640 like that's my Twitter now. And if you don't want 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.680 to subscribe, guess what, I probably don't want you on 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.640 there anyway, so get out of here. But for the 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.760 rest of you, like want to have a go oh 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.800 my god, that's part of it too. It's like, you know, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.679 Vinny tried to do a live show the other day 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.360 Talking Talking TNA and he couldn't figure out how to 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.280 get it members only, so he had to go free 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.160 and like he was like, I'm never doing this again. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.120 This free chat is just a disaster. And it's true. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.400 It's sad. But here's the fact, everybody, I don't care 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.760 if you subscribe to anything, but I am no longer 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.320 doing anything on the internet for free because everything free 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.520 on the internet sucks. The free YouTube, chat sucks, free 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:26.320 forum suck, free Twitter, it all sucks. So if I 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.520 have to charge four ninety nine to weed out all 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.480 the idiots, I'll do it. If you want to pay, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.000 If you want to interact and you know, have an 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.120 actual fun time on Twitter slash x with me, then 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.760 it's four ninety nine. If not, don't do it, because again, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.360 if you don't want to do it, I probably don't 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.959 want to interact with you on Twitter. So anyway, that's it. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.200 And actually, no, Lenny, most idiots won't pay. I have 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.320 found because I have a lot of subscription options and 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.720 there's almost no idiots on there at this point. It Listen, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.600 I'd rather have five idiots than fifty thousand idiots or whatever. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.079 I'm at one hundred and seventy thousand idiots. I'd rather 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.160 have like ten non idiots or ten idiots or whatever 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.520 than whatever. So anyway, Hey, Lance, how'd you like that 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:14.920 Calgary Dynamite? 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.520 It was a good time. I got to see a 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.400 lot of people I hadn't seen in a lot of years. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.880 You go backstage, Yeah, it was just backstage. I went 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.600 down at around one in the afternoon with Don Kallas 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.840 and Alex Marvez and chatted. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 With Anny Wright, death of WCW. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.760 Something like that. Yeah, okay, but yeah, So I got 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.840 to see Jerry Lynn. Actually Jerry Morrow of Stamfeed Stampede. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:43.760 Jerry was there. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.080 Yep. Wow, it was really cool. Jeff Jarrett came up 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.520 to say hi to him, and I guess they did 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.040 a Japan tour in the early to mid nineties for 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:58.360 SWS and Jerry remembered him and they talked about their 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.440 trip to Japan. So it was a really cool day 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.520 seeing a lot of good people. I watched the majority 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:08.440 of the show from the announcer's room backstage, but got 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.720 to see a lot of people. I met Tony very briefly. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.040 He's a busy man at TV, but he took thirty 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.600 seconds out of his day and I got to meet him. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.200 So did he run up and just give you the 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.000 biggest hug ever and mention something from like Smoky Mountain Wrestling. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.840 No, we didn't even have that much time he was 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.360 literally in a meeting I assume with Creative and he 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.360 literally just stuck his head out of the door real 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.600 quick and said hi and welcome and nice to meet you, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.080 and he went back to his meeting. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:35.920 Wow. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.720 Well, listen, I got a million questions for you. After 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.560 the break, we'll do a full review of Dynamite, and 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.440 I got more tonight on the Brain and Viny Show. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.080 But back in a moment Observer Live. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.720 You were listening to wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.480 and Mike simper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.280 Well, let's ask Lance anything here for a while. I mean, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:30.480 I get answers, Lance, but my first question. I know 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.600 you don't like to break k fabe or give any 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.560 scoops or anything like that, but can you at least 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:36.960 confirm that Old Luther is alive? 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:38.880 He is alive? 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.320 Okay, This dude took a flip bump off the stage 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.120 through tables like Luther. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.200 Wow, he doesn't take many bumps, No, he doesn't. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.280 He'll take a big one he took and it was 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.720 a great bump too. That dude ran and leaped and 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.480 flipped and crashed through those tables. I was like, man, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.800 look at this guy. That was great. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.920 It was a heavy angle to close the show. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.120 Yeah, So did you watch the actual whole show while 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.680 you were back there or were you just hob nobbin? 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:09.400 Well? 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.600 I hobnobbed throughout the day, just chatting with people, but 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.200 I missed the first I don't know, twenty minutes or 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.080 so because it starts at six o'clock local, so it 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.639 was sort of a oh crap, it's six twenty the 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.600 show's on. I wouldn't mind seeing it. And that's when 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.399 Don took me to the announcer's room, where they had 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.320 a monitor that was good and some comfortable chairs. So 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.080 I sat there with a few of the guys and 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.160 watched pretty much everything from halfway through the Danielson match 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.160 on until the first match of Collision was over. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.520 How can you hang out with these creeps und on. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.400 For thirty years? He just sort of grows on. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.160 You, I see, like a fungus exactly like. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.520 A chatted with Jerry Lynn quite a bit, which was great. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:18:00.119 Yeah, I hear that. What's his name, QTS Shredded? Is 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:00.520 that right? 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.280 He was taking photos and it was just like, oh 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.880 my god, he looks amazing. I don't know if he's 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.159 dieting for a competition or what, but he looked like 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.000 a billion dollars. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.040 Well, we're going to talk about the Dynamite Show here 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.720 in a little while we can get some of your thoughts. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.720 But mentioned a couple of news stories related to it. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.080 So they announced some big matches coming up, including MJF 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.320 and will Ospray for the international title for free on 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:32.040 television next week. And obviously you know there are a 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.920 couple of reasons for this. I mean, when they first 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.400 announced it, I mean I just figured, okay, well, mgf's 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:43.359 beating Ospray. Mgf's gonna go on a heel tear, beat 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.440 Pak and beat a bunch of other people, and then 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.320 will Ospray will challenge him at Wembley and that will 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.920 be will Ospray's big title win at Wembley this year, 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.720 is beating MGF for the international title. So obviously part 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.680 of this is setting up Wembley. But the other part 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:03.840 is the media rights deal is it's still unsigned, and 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.720 we talked about this last night with Dave. I mean, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.639 one of the things they're doing is they're trying to 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.760 load this show up as they reach the red zone 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:17.520 as Tony referred to it as the goal line because 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:22.439 you know, it's it's such an irony that you know, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.280 they're in a contract year and they're way down from 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.080 where they were last year at this time, and meanwhile, like, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.520 however many years ago it was it was like WWE. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:38.639 They were having double digit declines, double digit declines, double 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.680 digit declines. The thing was absolutely horrible. And then suddenly 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.640 they ended up in a contract year and like everything 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.080 went up that year, and so they signed this giant 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.679 deal as a result of that. You know, they were 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.280 going to make a giant they were gonna do a 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.200 giant deal anyway. But just the irony that of all 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.320 years for WWU to have a good year, it just 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.280 happened to be contract year, and of all the years 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.040 for aw you'd have a not good year, it also 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:04.679 happens to be a contract year. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.160 Especially because Tony Kahn is involved in all of the sports, 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.879 and sports you call that your contract year. You know, 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.600 the guy who you're not sure about re signing for 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.480 all that money ends up having a huge year and 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.400 then you sign them up and then the next year 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.680 they either kind of fall off or they get hurt 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.480 or something like that, and I think that's been the case, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.400 even though the losses were much bigger the last time around. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:28.960 That's kind of been the case with WWE, I think 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.440 a couple of times over the years where they were 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.360 kind of having some you know, down periods, you know, 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.280 some some malaise at times, and then amazingly they always 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.320 end up turning in around enough where they end up 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:43.640 with massive deals. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.639 And I think the important thing here is because you know, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.280 we've got the usual, well, the die hards, you know, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.080 who cares about ratings or whatever, they're going to get, 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.280 you know what, they are probably going to get a 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.159 good deal. I would expect that they'll probably get like 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.399 one point here's my official prediction, exactly one point four 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.520 times what they're getting now, just under one and a 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.880 half times. That's what I think they're going to do. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:07.600 Now. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.280 Is that bad? Of course not? Is that good? Yeah, 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.639 but you know what, it'd be cool to get double, 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.160 be cool to get you know, better than that. If 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.199 they were doing significantly better, they might do better than 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.600 one point four times. And to me, you know it's, yeah, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:27.840 one point four is great. That's nothing to complain about. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.280 That's not a failure. You know, the Internet will say 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:32.720 it's a failure, but it's not. It's very good, but 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:38.000 you can always try to do better. That's that's my thoughts. 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.800 The Internet will never know until Tony Kahn actually releases 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.960 any numbers that we can find out about and really 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.720 understand what the business is because the fact of the 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:50.680 matter is, with it being a private company, we don't 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.160 know what he's put into it. We don't know if 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:58.479 WBD is a monetary partner and has been a monetary partner, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.320 what have they put in Never really gonna know, So 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.800