Hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to grill and JR with the voice of wrestling.

Mr. Jim Ross. Jim, how are you, man?

I'm good. Conrad. Boy, this is the first for me. You got video.

Yeah. I've got a good rest this morning.

I am too. And so are we. Of course, you're getting your shows early and ad free of redadfree

shows.com. And of course, now we're doing a mod video. And this is our first video podcast

with Mr. Jim Ross. And man, I'm excited to talk about this one because it's the only

WWF or E pay per view in my home state of Alabama. It's Armageddon 2000. It sounds like a sci-fi

movie with Bruce Willis. But in fact, it is a one-mat show that went down at the Birmingham

Jefferson Civic Center on December 10, 2000. And I guess this is a pretty special show for me.

It's the only time I got to see a WWF pay per view in my old stomping grounds.

Alabama was a big territory, though. Why don't you think the WWE targeted the state more

often with big shows? Well, it's the same theory that they would run say Oklahoma.

In all my years there, we had one pay per view in Oklahoma. And they got an NBA arena and

all that good stuff. So it wasn't facility. But largely, it's just, McMahon was selective about

where he went and he perceived some markets as less than they underdelivered or whatever.

It's hard to say, but I think the regionality, facility, just routing in general.

You know, if you do pay per view in Birmingham, okay, then how can you draw, are you able from

that population base to draw a good raw and smackdown? It's not just one of the favorite views

apart of a three-show package. So some states are better equipped population-wise to

facilitate three events in a row, three days in a row, than others in the WWE way of thinking.

So I think that's part of just the regionality. Where do you go? I think I told you,

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