Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

This is Dave Legreca.

On today's episode, myself, Bulleyray and Tommy Dreamer Breakdown Raw on Netflix.

How many people watch?

Well, Austin Carp of the Sports Business Journal is going to try to answer those questions.

Also, we speak to your new NXT champion, Obafemi, right here on the Busted Open podcast.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

Austin, thanks for the time this morning.

Happy 2025, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you, buddy.

Yeah, I appreciate you taking the time.

All right. So, Austin, right off the bat, you know, before you Yeah, I appreciate you taking the time. All right.

So, Austin, right off the bat, you know, before you came on, we talked about the numbers for Monday Night Raw in the U.S. globally.

So, Austin, let me ask you straight up for the WWE, now that they're on Netflix, the numbers that they got for Monday night, are they looking at looking at that as a good thing, a bad thing, or something that they were expecting?

I don't think there's any way to judge the numbers versus what they were getting on linear TV because the numbers that they're using aren't the same numbers.

If we think of this in terms of currency, these are not two currencies that you can really compare.

The stuff that they're using, you know, citing those global viewers, that's like an internal metric that Netflix has.

And the US only homes that they've used, that's not a Nielsen number.

When everyone hears viewers tossed around, like it should become so ubiquitous,

like it's a Kleenex sort of thing or a Xerox sort of thing. When you hear viewers, that's proprietary

Nielsen media data. That is not what Netflix put out here in terms of its U.S. data. They're

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