Hello, and welcome to Pollock and Thurston here on July the 13th. I am John Pollock and joining us from

Resilonomics HQ. It is Brandon Thurston who is here live from Buffalo. Hello, Brandon. Yes. Hi. How are you?

The home of raw this past week, which that's right. I didn't know I was not among the 9000 or so tickets distributed. Yes, that you know

the unofficial rule is once you hit 9000, you get something to pander to the city. And that is what Seth Rollins had to do coming up with Buffalo wings. Did see that to open up raw. I mean

How endearing to your city or would this have been a collective groan for most Buffalo natives? I don't know. I had it on mute. I imagine it got over though.

Chris Gullet was there in person. So he did go all about that on Sunday. I expect.

Okay. Well, we will look forward to a live report from a Chris Gullet talking about raw and you can find Resilonomics every Sunday. Patreon.com slash Resilonomics. So much like

the bloodline spiking quarter hours. Resilonomics spiking those Patreon numbers surpassing 500. Let's get them continuing to to soar. Brandon Thurston continuing to be a draw in the wrestling media space.

So every Sunday, check them out 11 a.m. That that that's still there. The business is on fire and so is Resilonomics business. Yes.

I also had several sources have indicated to me a real big guest coming to the gentleman's wrestling podcast in the coming weeks. Well, I can't I can't reveal who yet, but maybe Jessica will see who will break that news.

But we have a great guest joining us today. You can see all of her work up on YouTube. She has her own sub stack that we'll talk about and from digital spy. We're talking about the great Stephanie Chase who is joining us on a Wednesday evening UK time. Stephanie. Thanks so much for making some time to join us and welcome to the program.

Hey guys. Thanks so much. Yes. It PM here in Liverpool, which is a really perfect time for me. So thank you.

We have there was a lot of stuff I wanted to chat with you about. You wrote what I thought was just a tremendous article last week that seemed to get a ton of attention.

First of all, can you just talk a little bit about what went into writing this and was this something that had sort of been building for you talking about women in the in the wrestling media space that I think was probably eye opening to a lot of people that either are not in the media space or just have not experienced the same things you have.

Well, yeah, firstly, thank you. You know, for comments about my article, that really means a lot. I wrote it. It was it was based on a particular incident that happened, you know, that I mentioned in the article and that really that drove me to write it at that time. But as far as, you know, my actual reasons for writing it were a lot of things that had been building up, you know, I've been in.

They're not just the wrestling media space, but the wrestling space for a long time as like first as a fan and then as someone that tried for a little bit to wrestle and then as someone in the media.

And I did and have experienced a lot of things that I felt my meal counterparts haven't. And that just really aren't talked about the the differences have been a woman in the business compared to being a man.

So when the particular incident that I mentioned in the article happened to me, I started thinking about everything that I'd experienced. And at the same time, I've been thinking a lot about like, kind of why am I here? Like, why am I in in this business or something that had been playing on my mind for the past year or so, like, what am I here to do. And I kept coming back to.

Maybe I'm here to talk about things from a unique perspective, the perspective of a woman and stuff that I've been through. And I thought that I should start actually, you know, rather than just doing a few tweets, but a few things like actually write something that may resonate with a lot of people.

And, you know, help them or encourage them that they could relate to. And maybe, you know, people that it didn't resonate with, but like men can read it and maybe get a little bit of more of an understanding or get a conversation going. So that's really why I wrote it to put this kind of stuff out there and put it in the conversation more because it is it's it's very different. I think being a woman in the wrestling media space to be in a man. I think we encounter a lot of different things.

So I was looking up the the viewership data just to make sure it is still about one third, at least US TV viewership data about one one third of the audience are women.

Obviously, I mean, it's been apparent since I've been doing this regular since about 2015 or so. It's definitely not one third women in wrestling media. I have some some guesses why that might be the most one if you have.

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