Response to Ring Boy Suit | Netflix Engagement Report | Pollock & Thurston
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss the defendants' responses to the ring boy lawsuit, Netflix’s engagement report, and TNA’s debut numbers on AMC.
Topics this week include:
- Defendants file Answers in the ring boy lawsuit
- Vince & Linda McMahon push to reveal identities
- Netflix engagement report for the second half of 2025
- Netflix’s earnings report
- TNA’s launch on AMC
- UFC kicks off on Paramount this weekend
- SmackDown airing on Syfy during the Olympics
- Netflix global viewership rankings, TV viewership figures
- Nielsen Gauge - Dec. 2025
Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer
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| 0:00.0 | Brandon Thurston from Ressalonomics is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-restle. |
| 0:07.1 | Delivering on the returns, increasing our margins. |
| 0:11.2 | Ratings go down the toilet if I'm not here. |
| 0:14.1 | All I do is simply put the math in my favor. |
| 0:18.1 | We agree that Brandon and John do good work. |
| 0:21.3 | The reason is simple wrestling economics. |
| 0:25.2 | I've been told the Netflix numbers. |
| 0:28.1 | I've been told the metrics a little bit, probably five different times. |
| 0:31.0 | I still don't get it. |
| 0:32.2 | There were respectable wrestling journalists who needed answers. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you very much, members of the media. |
| 0:38.6 | I hope you all go to hell. |
| 0:40.5 | How about we pop a number right here, right now? |
| 0:49.0 | A whole part of the show, ma'am. |
| 0:51.3 | And welcome everybody to Pollock and Thurston for January the 21st. On today's show, man. And welcome everybody to Pollock and Thurston for January the 21st. |
| 0:56.6 | On today's show, it's a couple weeks late, but the Christmas gift of the Netflix |
| 1:02.7 | engagement report has dropped here. |
| 1:05.0 | The most anticipated Excel spreadsheet of the year provided by the world's largest streamer. |
| 1:12.2 | What does this mean for WWE? |
| 1:13.0 | We will find out. What does it mean for WWE? |
| 1:13.9 | We don't have a stinger for that. |
| 1:15.7 | That's a question that often. |
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