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Welcome to The Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecca. On today's episode,

bully Ray and I have two special guests for our podcast. It's Joe Palazolo and Ted Mann,

both writers of both articles that came out on Vince McMahon from the Wall Street Journal.

They give their perspectives and also bully and I react to the Vince McMahon allegations right now

on The Busted Open Podcast.

Over the last few weeks, something that's been in the headlines and obviously a topic here

on Busted Open is Vince McMahon and of course the two articles that came out

from the Wall Street Journal and we're lucky enough this morning to have both writers that

were a part of both stories from the Wall Street Journal. We have Joe Palazolo and Ted Mann

who joined us here on Busted Open. Joe and Ted, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

Okay, and and Joe and Ted, obviously we're a pro wrestling show. We talk a lot about pro wrestling.

I don't know if that's in your wheelhouse, but obviously with the Vince McMahon story,

it doesn't really matter. And there is a lot of accusations that are going out there and going

around like for first off for you, Joe, how long did you know about this and how long did it take

for you to know about this through the research and then put pen to paper?

Yeah, so we, um, sources told us it was in April that WWE's board was investigating this $3

million agreement with a woman who worked for McMahon. And so it basically took from April until

we published our story to firm all that up and get additional sources and understand what it was

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