This is strictly business with Eric Bischoff presented to you exclusively by podcast heat and ad free shows.com. This is supposed to be a weekly show dropping every single Thursday.

But at this point, we may as well just be a daily show. Hello everyone. I'm John Alba joined as I am every single week by Eric Bischoff.

Boy, howdy, Eric. I think you and I should just kind of leave our stream yard up perpetually and just hop on hop out whenever we can be like the jury. Louis telephone of wrestling news.

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Oh my goodness. Well, first off, everyone. Thank you for tuning into this live bonus edition of strictly business.

If you are an ad free show subscriber, you got the episode that Eric and I taped yesterday with Raj Geary from wrestling ink, which I thought was one of my favorites that we've done so far Eric and we had a great conversation.

We're feeling good about it. And then bam, everything happened in the last 24 hours after just.

Yeah, jokingly said to you, man, all we need to do if we need some like really big news to happen, because there's nothing really going on. All you and I have to do is drop an episode of strictly business with a 45 minutes.

It's going to happen.

Yeah, I said, damn, I couldn't have happened two hours before we could have included it in the show and timely, but no, we have to wait for a couple hours and do another show, which by the way, I'm joking. I'm happy to do.

I love to me too. I love doing the show as well. And the beauty is guys. This is a live free presentation of strictly business. We got a ton of you tuning in as the minutes go on. Here's how you can interact with the show.

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Otherwise, you can feel free just to comment, but you must be subscribed in order to do so to the 83 weeks channel. Eric so much has happened in the last 24 hours. And it's literally been almost 24 hours since the first major piece of news dropped, which of course was Stephanie McMahon's resignation from not just the WWE board of directors, but WWE in general.

I'm going to get into the semantics of it as we discuss here, but first off, your initial reaction when all of that went down.

I was surprised and after the surprise wore off because it's hard to surprise me anymore and it doesn't last long and today's environment. I disappointed. I was sincerely disappointed when I read that. I think this. Her resignation, look, for me personally, it falls into one of two categories.

We can take everything that Stephanie said at face value in her press release. And let's keep in mind that Stephanie resigned, although I think it was position is possibly temporary, but leave of absence, leave of absence. Correct.

It implied that it was temporary or that the door was still open. But her reason for doing so was basically to spend more time with their family. Now, as a dad.

And as a father who had two young kids that were in their pre teens and pre teens when I was the most active in the industry and working 16, 18 hours a day and traveling all the time and all that.

You do you come home from work one day and you look at your kids and go wait a minute, what happened 45 minutes ago, you're running around on your diapers. Now you want the keys to my car.

Where did all that time go and you, you know, you start really realizing you want to spend more time with your kids, particularly in their teens because that's a uniquely vulnerable time for kids.

So I and I took that a face value. But if that was the reason for her initial resignation, notice I say if it's what I want to believe.

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