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Going In Raw: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, friendo, Steve here.
0:08.5	Hello.
0:09.3	Welcome back to going in raw.
0:11.7	The only pro wrestling podcast you need to be listening to now two times a day,
0:17.7	Larsen.
0:18.5	Look at us getting up early on a Monday, cutting a show, coming back later on at night, cutting another one, 6 a.m. We'll do a third one. How about that? I mean, I'll probably be up. Probably be up. I will not. I will not be up. I got to sleep in a little bit today because the kid had a day out from school. But tomorrow. Yeah, I didn't really. I was up at four, six o'clock. Miserable. Absolutely miserable. Yeah, that would suck. Anyways. You know, it also suck, Lars. And if we got a 50% pay cut, I'd be saying, see you later. Whoever tried to ask me to do that. All right. All right, Bill and Bob Friendo, we see where you're coming from.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.0	Private equity or whatever.
0:58.4	I know, trying to take all the value.
1:01.2	What little value there is in this whole enterprise.
1:03.4	Just trying to suck it out like marrow from a bone.
1:07.8	And then just leave us.
1:09.5	A husk.
1:11.9	Evidently, that's what T.O is trying to do to their independent contractors, Larson.
1:15.8	What's the latest?
1:17.0	We got that we had the new day.
1:18.3	We talked about this earlier today.
1:19.4	We had the new day walking away after being asked to take a massive pay cut.
1:23.4	Now there's some unnamed mystery W.W who was Azteak 50% pay cut.
1:30.5	What's going on?
1:31.4	Apparently said yes.
1:32.5	So this is from PW Insiders, Mike Johnson.
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