WEBVTT - ST. Patrick's AEW Preview/Jay Briscoe Apology 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.440 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.960 let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.320 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.759 Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sundays three Pacific, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:27.080 six Eastern. Hello. Top to your YouTube subscribers. I just 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.440 resubscribed to my own Twitch. Yes, I have to pay 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.880 for my own Twitch. That's the where life goes. We 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.479 got a lot to get into you today. It's Wednesday 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.960 year in this program, and you know what that means. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.200 Tonight a e W Dynamite. We got a big show 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.280 coming up tonight St. Patrick's Day. We got Britt Baker, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:51.280 thunder Rosen, a cage match, Hangman Page and Jurassic Express 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.480 versus Adam Cole and Red Dragon, Scorpio Sky versus Ward Low, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.080 Bryan Danielson, John Moxley versus Chuck Taylor and Wheeler Utah. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:04.120 The Heartys will be facing Private Party, Jericho Appreciation, Society 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.759 Commencement and more titles on the line in the Britt 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:12.040 Baker match as well as the Scorpio Sky match. Angles 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.920 will be happening. The whole nine yards should be a 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.360 lot of fun, so we'll talk about that, as well 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:22.520 as Jay Briscoe apologizing for a quite famous tweet now 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.160 from many many years ago that have in fact kept 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.880 the Brusco's out of w W E and A E W. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.960 I'll tell you about that. William Regal appeared on Talks 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:38.080 Jericho and went into a lot of detail about that 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.840 interview he did last week where he had that line 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.760 about how he wasn't long for this world and it 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.800 was all kind of worrisome. He does claim he's good now, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.760 but he was not good and it's pretty much pretty 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.840 much a miracle that he's alive. We can tell you 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.080 about that. The whole interview is on Talcas Jericho. We 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.360 got updates on Joey Janella w w E versus m 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:05.360 l W because Dave noted on Twitter w w E 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.919 provided evidence that they were not a monopoly and it 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.680 was an issue of an observer that noted when a 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.560 W and w w E went head to head, a 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.960 W one people on the internet said he doesn't really 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.720 account well. W W thought countered enough to put it 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.040 in a lawsuit to defend themselves against claims that they 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.120 are a monopoly. Anyway, I lost to get into back 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:42.280 in a moment Observer Live. Rip it off, taking that 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:48.240 time behind my back back in the show. Brian Elbert 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.359 is here Wrestling Observer a lot. Hey there, I am 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.440 like simple VP here also of Wrestling Observer dot com. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.919 See him punk morphed into me instantly, look at the split. Oh, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.560 we have so much to talk about here today. And 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.920 yes we missed the raw report yesterday, so fear not 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.280 I got raw in n x T today And Bro, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.000 I don't want to hear one person telling me not 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.160 do this n x T two point or report. How 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.240 in God's name could you not want to talk about 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:18.680 these these segments with with Cora Jade and and uh 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:25.480 toxic attraction. God, I could talk for years. Everyone who's 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.400 saying ug right now they didn't watch the show because 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.880 if they did, they would be salivating and the ability 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:40.080 to talk about these these segments and a now deleted podcast. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.240 J Brisco again apologized for past homophobic tweets that have 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.880 reportedly prevented he and his brother Mark from being hired 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.240 and either w w E in a w fightful first 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.200 had the transcription of the interview on the Battlegrounds podcast, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.400 but the episode was taken down shortly thereafter. Battle Grounds 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.280 is yet to respond to an inquiry as to why. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.640 I've reported last week a person of influence within Warner 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.120 Media did not want the reigning ring of Hunter Take 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.240 Team Champions signed to a W because of Jay's tweets. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.520 I asked about their poor Je didn't specifically address whether 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.280 a W joan interest, but did again apologized for his actions, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.560 saying he thought he quote was taking a stand for 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.720 the Lord back in the day. I put out a 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:28.400 stupid tweet nine years ago, the most dumbest, immature, obnoxious. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.159 I can't say the word I've ever done. I don't 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.640 want anybody from many walk of life to feel like 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.919 they can't care for the Briscos because I promise we 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.240 love everybody. We love everybody, and we just want to 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.000 go out there and be pro wrestlers and give the 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.920 best match that we can. I said some dumb stuff 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.240 a long time ago. I apologize for it. I'll apologize 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.080 for it again. It was stupid. I feel like now 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.120 there are people who look at this, we can't cheer 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.000 for them because they hate a certain group of people. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.160 We don't hate nobody. We love everybody. We're just some 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.080 country boys. He then said the comments were from immaturity. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.760 They were counterproductive to what God wants, which is to 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.640 be a human being and relate to others with love. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.360 Jay said, quote, We're not like that when it comes 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.360 to fans labeled, labeling them a certain way. So we'll 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.880 see if this leads to anything. Obviously, this did lead 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.599 to w W E not bringing in the Briscos, and 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.120 uh as noted, I had been told months ago actually 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.880 from and this from people that actually they are they 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.800 are big fans of the Briscos, but they just said 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.000 it's too bad about those tweets. This was months ago, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.599 so this is not a new thing that the reason 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.000 that the Briscos have not been on a double television 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.080 was because of these tweets. But we shall see if 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.440 this apology leads or does not lead to So there 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:53.080 you go. Yeah, I wonder why they took down the podcast. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.480 I wonder what the reason is exactly behind that they 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.320 pull the whole thing down altogether for whatever reason. You know, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.839 there's no defense of what Jay said and what he 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.840 tweeted nine years ago, that's for sure, you know. I 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.720 know him a little bit, a little tiny bit in 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.880 there western Sussex County, you know, the farm boys who 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.479 never went off the peninsula, you know. But I I 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.960 hopefully hopefully they have learned from it, and I think 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.000 that they have. You know. F He talked about it 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.280 on his podcast when he and A. J. Gray went 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.160 in there to face the Briscos after the Briscos came 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.599 into g c W and win the tag titles, and Jay, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.800 you know, said the same thing to FFI is he 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.120 has to a lot of people about how apologizing about 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.640 how dumb it was basically saying the same thing for 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.359 all intents and purposes that he said on this podcast. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.919 It was dumb. We were dumb to some dumb country 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.279 boys and screwed up. And they're going to because they 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.320 said it, because it was tweeted, because Jay tweeted it. Uh, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.159 they're just gonna have to ride with the consequences this 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.159 for a long long time. But you know, it's too 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.760 bad in some ways, you know, obviously from a wrestling 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.680 point of view, talent wise, but it all comes down 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.520 to what you believe about how they feel and how 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.440 you feel about their apology. Nui. You ross remember William 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.680 Regal open up on Jericho's podcast regarding serious health issues 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.920 he has had to deal with, including being told he 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.160 had twenty four hours to live in early twenty nineteen. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.480 I was in a hospital for eight weeks, he said. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.680 I was given a one point twenty four hours to live. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.000 I had sepsis in my leg. They were gonna cut 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:37.160 my leg off January four, nineteen, he said, since I've 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.280 had paraicarditis and inflammation with the sacker on your heart, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.080 and what it does is scar the sack so your 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.960 heart can beat with a sack and sort of lock down. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.200 He detailed a serious neck injury he believes he suffered 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.960 in nineteen ninety three during the manage with a Ricky Steamboat. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.040 Injury went untreated for many years, eventually required multiple surgeries, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.880 including one to fuse four discs in his neck together. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.960 He hasn't training as much, which led to further heart issues. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.440 He said, I wasn't training, I wasn't wrestling. Had slowed 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.160 down the sacra and my heart locked down, scarring lockdown. 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.200 It started to calcify inwards slowly and slowly. I was 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.200 having more and more things such as my heart going 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.880 out of rhythm. My legs swelling up. It was just 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.080 building up, going to doctor to doctor. All of these 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.040 different things started. First few months, I was having all 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.600 sorts of swelling in my legs. Going to scouting trip 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.880 to Costa Rica. Get off the plane. I'm feeling dizzy, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.480 not so bad. Just so anybody knows, no drinking, no anything. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.800 This is all things with my heart. He fell forward 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.800 down an escalator, shattering his left eye socket. Had three 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.240 weeks of amnesia after that, no idea what happened. I 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.120 was in a hospital for a week in Costa Rica. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.400 Had shattered my eye socket, three weeks amnesia, lost of 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.720 my vision in my left eye. Six weeks of treatment. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.040 Was getting better, but the legs kept swelling. Was having 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.880 trouble walking. Finally there's a cardiologist in the room. This 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.680 lady saved my life. She goes, hang on a second, 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.400 there's something about that that doesn't look right. They scanned 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.079 an area in his abdomen. Further scans were ordered. Called 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.280 from the cardiologist saying the sack had completely calcified. If 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.120 they did not remove the calcified area, he had less 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.920 than six months to live. Got a doctor in Atlanta 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.360 to do it. Eight weeks in the hospitals. Keep in 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.280 mind he was in charge of n x T during 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.280 all of this time. Remember every now and then he 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.560 wouldn't see him for a while. Oh, I know where 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.320 he was at. Then he's in the hospital. Uh he 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.360 was got he got into the ambulance after he fell 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.760 out of bed New Year's Day. Uh, sepsis in his leg. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.120 Doctor called the wife told her if they didn't cut 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.160 off his leg, he had twenty four hours left to live. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.120 I don't know if you've noticed, but he didn't get 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.960 his leg cut off. Uh. They he was injected with 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.040 this this this, he said, that's what the doctor told him. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.000 And somehow, because they weren't gonna do what, they worked 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.920 and they saved his leg. Two days before the X 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.600 the UK show from Blackpool where Walter debuties in the hospital, 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.480 something in his brain went click and he just thought, 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.240 I'm gonna be okay. And within a very quick time, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.240 he was walking three miles a day. Within two months 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.880 he was doing five squads. Again. If you want to 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.160 hear the whole thing, you can listen to uh to 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.360 Jericho's podcast, because he talks about a lot of other 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:28.400 stuff in addition to that, and UH, there you go, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.360 what what what do you say about that? It's just 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:38.160 absolutely unbelievable resilience from from Regal and his his d 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:43.719 n A and his internal drive. Just wow, when your 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.160 body turns on you like that, you know, and he's 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.480 not an old man, but in wrestling years, you know, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.520 a lot of a lot of trend came off that tire. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.320 You know. It's just it's amazing. It's amazing what he's 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.319 gone through, and it's amazing that he's still here and 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.560 just an incredible I got it now. I'm definitely gonna 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.680 listen to that. I was gonna listen to it anyway, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.760 but just just over his medical issues alone, I mean, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.480 that is extreme. And then you think about and again 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.560 I don't know what w E pays for and what 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.559 he didn't you know, with his his status there, everything 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.000 good can because you can you imagine being in a 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.720 foreign country suffering like that. And I know Costa, Rica 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.200 Belize are very you know are there's a lot of 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.760 money there, so if you travel, you know, you can 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.800 make out okay, but still you're in a foreign country 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.120 and you have this stuff happened to you. It's just 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.199 all of these things. It's just It's amazing, absolutely amazing 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.240 that he's alive and around and now you know, in 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.559 a W going to give back in the same way 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.360 he was in w W for such a long time. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.560 And I could see if he was salty by the end, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.320 as everybody talks about Brian about him being a little bit, 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.480 you know, tough to deal with and a a little bit 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.319 salty at the end. After going through all that stuff 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.640 and after seeing what happened with n x D boy, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.040 I'll tell you what I'd say, he probably had a 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.400 right to be pretty slid. The it's real man's man 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.199 right there. Damn right. Someone came up with that idea 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.560 for the new group. The real Man's men love it. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.480 Back in the moments were live mo Day, Come Monday Day, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:25.240 Come Monday, Dame co Cough Monday, pretty little Spring. And 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.520 I think it's me that he can give. My gosh, 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:35.440 it's something that I won't try, but I'm in the show. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.520 Bryan Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper Vide 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:46.000 also Wrestling MS dot Com. Here we Go. W w 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.600 E has filed a motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.559 from m l W l W filed suit against w 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.480 w E in January, alleging they put pressure on third 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.480 parties to abandon relationships with them. The suits specific mentions 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.520 a deal with the Fox owned streaming service to b 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.839 TV as MLW's lawsuits as a deal with them fell 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:12.080 apart after w w E interfered. WWW's motion to dismiss reads. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.880 mL w's claim for intentional interference with prospective economic advantage 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.800 fails because MLW does not allege that w w E 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.440 knew about mL w's negotiations to sell a third party 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:31.200 first run programming. W w E has been wrongfully well 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.679 hold on here, w w EH, The lawsuit claims in 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.760 early one w W executive contacted Vice TV and put 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.840 pressure on them to stop working with m l W. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.440 Vice did air one MLW special in October seven, featuring 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.400 Alexander Hammerstone defeating Jacob Fattoo to win the MLW Hovyweight 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.040 title Cardbauer said w W has been wrongfully depriving its 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.560 competitors of critical opportunities for many years. Its latest conduct 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.760 has been even more unconscionable. I think we speak for 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.760 the rest of the professional wrestling world when we say 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.599 that this anti competitive behavior has to stop. W W. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.520 A lawyer Jerry mcdivott, was quoted in The Observer regarding 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.920 the lawsuit. He said, quote, if to be breached, then 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.280 suit to be As to Vice, w W has no 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.840 commercial relationship with them, or, for that matter, any of 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.960 the other dozens of content distribution entities with whom mL 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.480 W could do a deal if they had a commercially 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.040 viable product. They put a show on Vice, if my 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.840 memory serves me correctly, after one of the dark Side 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.600 shows and lost most of the audience. I think I 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.080 read they got forty viewers. No wonder Vice did no 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:43.360 further deal. It's Jerry mcdivott. I love the petty. Oh 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.120 my god, that's lawyer Petty right there, because you know, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.120 Jerry mcdivot isn't just like you know, hanging out with 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.160 like knowledge of Vice ratings just at his side there 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.760 he is right there, like, Oh, I recall it happened 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.480 to come on after an episode of Dark Side of 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.400 the Ring. I believe I lost all the viewers. I 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.760 think it was forty thousand. Maybe I love it. I 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.880 just it. This kills me, this whole suit. I have 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.920 no dog in this fight. I don't care. It is interesting. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.440 Where is the lawsuit for Time Warner and whoever it 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.440 is that owns vice. Where is the lawsuit for to be? 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.040 I I don't on paper, I don't see what court is. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.680 UH is gonna battle here, but that's I'm not a 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.040 lawyer either, So they figure they have something there. But 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.360 they're going up against a monster who will use anything 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.840 at his disposal, including the words of Dave Meltzer, which uh, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.400 they usually always say, you know his his news is. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.520 I don't know if he saw it in my timeline. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.560 In the w w e's response to the m l 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:52.000 W lawsuit, besides the written response, they provided an exhibit. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.040 The exhibit Exhibit A was the October eighteen one issue 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.240 of The Observer that covered bit of vie losing the 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.440 thirty minutes head to head with a W as evidence 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:09.680 that they were not a dominant monopoly. They're not a monopoly, so, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:14.200 as I noted, MLW luckily has thousands of fans on 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.640 my timeline who can take the stand and say that 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:24.640 didn't count. Ah, that's what they'd be saying. It's not 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.840 a monopoly. It's not a monopoly because on October one, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:30.840 we lost thirty minutes head to head with a W 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.160 eighteen forty nine. But it's not monopoly. They're not a monopoly. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:42.160 They are dominant. They may use barbaric corporate practices. They 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.640 may use aggressive and maybe even underhanded business techniques. We 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.160 will find that out. But they're actually not a monopoly. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.320 They're not. And a W actually showed that. You want 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.000 to say that the business world is a monopoly for 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.320 rich people and only those of the tippy top to 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.880 be able to buy influence and to make enough friends 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.200 and have people that work at networks. I will listen 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.560 to your ideas. You want to say it's a monopoly 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.560 for the rich, for the wealthy, for the for those people, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.040 for a different class. Sure, but actually the wrestling world 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.640 is not a monopoly, and a W has proven that. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.920 Read more Mike, sure this is gonna I hesitate to 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.880 even read this all right. A W success further undercuts 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:33.720 mL w's unsupported assertion that substantial barriers to entry existence 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:39.720 from this is from w w E nerds. It goes 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.960 on to write, the complaint alleges the w w E 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.320 s popularity has quote declined over the last five years. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.080 It goes on to say that during the same period, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.879 a W enter the proposed market and successfully sold the 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.600 broadcast rights to Warner Media. Subsequently, a W managed to 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:03.119 capture an average rating of point three four four compared 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.760 to w W E Roz point five oh seven five 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:14.000 in the Key eighteen to forty nine demographic, successful entry 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:20.200 and expansion refutes the existence of substantial barriers to entry. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.680 Oh there's barriers to entry. You know. Had a guy 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.800 the other day on my mimeline that was talking about 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:30.879 how the key he actually wrote, the Key eighteen to 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.280 forty nine demo is not all that important. He actually 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.240 he actually said the words key while saying it was 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.119 not that important. Well, while putting a a picture of 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.480 the actual top fifty cable rankings, which are in fact 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.600 ranked by eighteen forty nine. Oh that was a fun day. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.719 Oh man. As somebody that studied pay per view by 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.280 rates for a long time, so I had to go 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.000 into a lot of old broadcasting cables and old Kagan 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.760 surveys and all that sort of stuff from back in 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.960 the day. The eighteen forty nine demo absolutely positively has 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:09.439 always one mattered at all times everywhere and has always 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.199 been a part of them marketing that show, selling it 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.520 to broadcasters. Nesh all those sorts of things. It has 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.520 always mattered and it probably always will. He might be 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.080 on the chat here he said key demos to mock you, Brian, 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.760 to mock me. It is the key demo. Yeah, he's 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.760 been mocking himself by acting stupid. That's like mocking the 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.160 fact that, like you know, drug manufacturers spent a lot 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.600 of money on those news shows where it's like people 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.720 were sixty and over. There's a reason they do that. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.520 That's their target. Since when it is eighteen to thirty 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.000 four not a target for everything, Get the hell out 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.600 of here. Stop it. Combination of NBA and daylight savings 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:53.280 time changed as always, daylight savings time changed the usual 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.480 viewing patterns for Raw one point seven zero million viewers 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.760 point four eight in the key eighteen to forty nine, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.200 moll I was second behind the Denver Nuggets versus Philadelphia 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.920 seven seventy six NBA game one point six two million 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.679 viewers and a point five three eighteen forty nine, barely 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.920 ahead of a late game with the Milwaukee Bucks versus 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:17.480 Utah Jazz average one point four million. Tucker Carlson against 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.920 the first hour of Raw. That sounds like an n 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.199 X team name did three point nine five million viewers. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.280 They actually had a tuck or another think about it. 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.040 A point three eight I was in sixteenth place for 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:34.200 the night the hours one point six seven million viewers. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.040 We're back to nine pm one point seven five million. 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.120 Hour two is now the most watched hour. And then 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.880 it fell to one point six eight million viewers for 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.199 the third hour. So there you go. But you know what, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.919 everyone it was number two on Cable USA is happy. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.040 I'm sure that they're happy. Second hour of the big hour. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.960 One week of that, I guess until everybody gets acclama. 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.360 It always kills me. Daylight saving this time throws such 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.000 a wrench in everybody. Uh when it comes to their 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.000 TV viewing the next day at night, it's just amazing. 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.760 No longer it's not dark at four thirty when you 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.600 pick your kid up from school anymore. Yeah, you guys, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.120 you guys live further south, don't have to experience that. 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.800 I walked to pick my kid up at school. It's dark. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.120 I walk a home in the dark. What with that? 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.399 What is why would being in the sun further The 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.600 further south you go, it gets dark a little bit later, 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.440 whereas the further north you go you don't knowhing about 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:35.040 the laughter. What do you what do you in like 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.320 if you're a marathon at the bottom of the floor 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.560 to keys. You're telling me it's like, you know, two 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.920 hours later they get like that much extra. Come on, 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.040 don't even tell me exaggerating. Don't even tell me. I 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.159 have to explain the sun and rather I live at 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.119 the beach. I watched you come up every morning, and 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.680 I know how this never ending is if that they're 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.320 you're adding like an hour onto those people's day that 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.879 they're getting and you're not getting because you're all the 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:00.919 way up north and you have to travel to go 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.760 get your kids up hill five miles in the snow. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.679 No matter what, don't die on this hill, you idiot. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.280 You go a little further south and it's actually like 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.520 dark for eighteen hours all day because you're further north. Dude, 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:18.400 the further south you go the day, I am Did 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:23.000 you just say that? If I go where is there 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:25.200 an eighteen hour day in the States at this time 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.240 of year? Is that also where the Aurora borealis is 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.399 right now? Can I take a look at that too, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.679 this guy? Yep, I agree with Brian. I lived in Boston. 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.720 It was dark at three thirty in January. How about that? 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.960 What are you doing? How do we talking about? Jeez? 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:54.400 Simp further three? I'm explained, I am explained. It's Boston 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.960 in the winter. That's why it's like that. Geek. Can 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.480 we go to goes down at four? Five or five? 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.840 Whatever it is? Mike doesn't like science confirmed. I could 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:10.600 have told you that. Jesus, Mike, go back to high 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:17.840 school science. This person says, oh, man, oh my god, 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.679 it still doesn't have any You have no proof that 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:25.560 the people what is the time? How much more by 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.640 in the deep parts of New Brunswick. Yea, because it's 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.880 north That's exactly what I said, and you ridiculed me. Oh, 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.439 you live in Washington State. You're trying to act like 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.440