Hey, John. Happy first week back. It's our first week back. It's been a breeze. The stuff is just flown by easiest week of my life.

Are you back into the groove? I am. I definitely am. Yeah, I'll tell you, like, you know, during the week off, I was really dreading coming back, like, especially with the schedule that we had. And I think with the way that the year ended and just it's hard to like separate yourself. And then the last thing once I did separate myself, what I wanted to do was the last thing I want to do was come back.

And but it really just kind of took a couple of days. And now that I'm like kind of back in the swing of things, I actually kind of like the routine. So maybe it's just a transition that gets a bit difficult. What about you?

I was dreading this week. And it has been that and then some that has been the week for me. But I knew it going in. This is it was a combination of like all like the work stuff. But then it's the personal stuff of, you know, my wife is back at work. This remote learning thing is a, it's a evolutionary process.

And a one year old who is just just thrown off by all of this. So that's been the balancing act this week. But we're getting there. We're getting there. Where are you feeling in terms of your illness?

I'm doing a bit better. I'm still like a little congested. I've got a cold. And maybe you can hear a bit my voice, but better than yesterday. So it's it's clearing up. I feel like I'm on the I'm on the mend now. I didn't sleep very well, but better, better.

Okay. Well, I'm glad. Hopefully the weekend. You'd be able to get a little bit of rest. I know it's a very busy weekend though. Well, it is, but it's also I'm kind of going to be low key that this weekend because we have a we have assigned a lot. So I will be back tonight with way. We are doing rewind to Smackdown. We will be live at 11 15 Eastern going through Smackdown and rampage. And then Saturday. It is a very extensive day.

We are going to have a review for Post Wrestling Cafe members of the New Japan Noah card that is going down early early Saturday morning. So WH and Mike will be reviewing that show for patrons Saturday night.

We will be doing a review with Kate from Montreal on the battle of the belt show. And Bruce Lord will have a review of that show, a written review on the site. And closing things off will be the hard to kill pay review, which is actually airing at the same time as battle of belts where David Portman and John Sino will have a review of that show. And Sino is also doing a report on the site. So the way things have worked out.

And it will not be as crazy for me, although I'm going to be catching bits and pieces of all of this while we're just on the subject of plugs of to just ignore what you see here because the hard to kill post show will be on Saturday on the next feed.

But then on Sunday will have the latest edition of the NWA podcast with Nate Milton, Chris Lee and Andrew Thompson. And then Sunday night closing us off with Russell nomics radio. So very busy weekend here at post.

Russell nomics is going to be going through the WWE cuts from the past week. They'll also talk about a W's debut numbers on TBS that we're about to get into and also in Japan returning to access. So look out for that from Brandon Thurston and Chris Gullo on Sunday on the main post wrestling feed.

We got a lot of items here away. So I think we should dive into them starting off with dynamite on Wednesday night their premiere on TBS doing one million 10,000 viewers finishing second for the night among all cable originals.

They were second only to the NBA, although they did beat the late NBA game. So they were their viewership was up three and a half percent from the last week on TNT the week prior.

A point for three in 18 to 49 up 15 and a half percent from last week, but they saw some big gains with its women's audience 18 to 49 up 23% the big one though was their 18 to 34 audience as a Brandon breaks it down in the viewership the viewership spread sheet a a must view each week for those that are following television numbers.

They did 132,000 in 18 to 34 last week this week 239,000 a gigantic increase in men in that demo and a big increase a 120% increase in women 18 to 34. So that was the demo that it was their fourth highest in the history of dynamite in that demo.

And we will probably get a clearer view probably after three to four weeks on TBS of what is going to be the new normal how much was week one with all the promotion a huge title match to deliver.

But Brandon has done great research on this the lead in factor they are getting a much stronger lead in with big bang theory that does a much a much higher 18 to 49 audience that is driving people into dynamite how much of a bumper they're going to get there as well as looking at the whole Pacific and mountain time zone how it affected them and conversely like they saw declines in the eastern time zone in those major markets to at a similar rate.

So how much of that was necessarily just the west coast versus you know as you can see in the chart up there you know the it was you know your central time zones that saw a much less of a decrease but the others including the eastern time zone they do not have that excuse of the time shift affecting things.

Yeah really interesting set of data here but I think if you're w a w and we marvel at that chart for a second look at look at the color coding it's look at this I mean I understand this in like three seconds flat I understand what that is the key of a chart I need to understand it in seconds.

Oh he he's brilliant absolutely Brandon thirst and we are talking about for people with just simply listening to this subscribe to the rest of nomics page for when you get a beautiful sheet of all of this information after every single significant TV broadcast but just follow him at the very least at Brandon thirst and for just all of this stuff that perfectly captures you know the entire past I would say year of these trends of what these numbers are so often we talk about okay like increase between this week and that week I mean.

It really I think is it deserves better perspective to see at large what these numbers mean and I think these these charts as you say very quickly convey a lot of great information so anyway yeah if you're if you're a w if you're TBS I think you're probably quite ecstatic about the way that they launch on this network and it's a terrific number to debut a young audience to like that like that 18 to 34 that's that's you know a great achievement for them and you know

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