Hello, everybody. It is John Pollock here at Post Wrestling. We are live. It is a very, very

newsworthy day in the world of professional wrestling. And I thought the perfect person

to bring on today, the editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer is with us.

Dave, I'm not even going to ask you how you're doing today. It must just be a whirlwind

with the latest in the Vince McMahon saga. Oh, yeah, it's been, it's been a day without

sleep. That's for sure. And it's going to be a week without sleep. This whole week has

been incredible. Yeah. I mean, I think it's the biggest week for wrestling news in, I

don't know, 15 years. It's been one thing, you know, since the been one thing probably.

One with, I think like the ramifications, it's going to take a while to probably really

process like what this is ultimately going to mean. But this is the removal of the most

powerful figure in the industry. And I think what would differentiate today from Friday is

that the idea of a, of a comeback of the heat dying down. I, I think my optimism on

that is greatly, greatly lessened that Vince McMahon being in any kind of power position

again in WWE is, you would have to say it's almost extinguished after today. I would

agree with you. I mean, I think that this morning tells us, you know, I mean, there was

always that thought that, um, is he going to come back? Is this kind of going to be one

of those things where he's, you know, maneuvering behind the scenes? I mean, I, I have, you

know, been touched with a ton of people in WWE. And there is the thing of what is going

to be most interesting is when the day comes when Vince watches the TV and he sees something

that he doesn't like and how he reacts. He's still the majority shareholder. But he's,

he can't come back, you know, and he's, I guess he's off the board of directors. I mean,

I guess that's one of the things that I heard today as well. And so he, they have removed

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