Hello, everybody. Welcome to Pollock and Thurston. I am John Pollock joined each and every week

with Brandon Thurston in this collaboration of Post Wrestling and Russell Nomics. It is G1 season.

We are going to be diving into that and Brandon, you have been

following through your your mobile device.

Navigate. I would show you on my phone. Yeah, but I don't I don't want to get killed by a

TV show. I have the the Tomatonga versus Tom Hireishi main events paused right now.

Okay, we're not going to ruin that main event for you. No, so that is that is still to come. But

later on the show, Brandon and I will be catching you up on all of the television viewership figures

from the last couple of days, including Isdama Draw. We're going to find that answer out by the

end of the show as well. We were both on the Tony Khan media call. So we will chat about that as

Brandon is that maybe we'll talk about the viability of a three hour block of AEW on Wednesday nights,

which was I think the a very loves that I asked that question. Well, it's it was a very good

question to ask. But the man that we are going to be joined with right off the top,

you know, you know him from all of the stats that bring the G1 to life through Kevin Kelly

on commentary. He is the Chris Sampsa on Twitter and today it is the Chris Sampsa on Paulic and

Thurston Chris. How are you? I'm awesome. I'm happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

It is great to have you on and for some out there putting a face to the name and you have

become I think for for the English audience out there, a vital component of the G1 climax experience

because this is one of the tournaments in pro wrestling that it is very much like you can get

into it just based on the numbers and stats and it just adds so much more like we don't have

outside of the Royal Rumble. I can't think of any other wrestling events that generate

pools among people and that is so much stat based and the G1 has certainly become that for

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