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You want to Smack Down, you want to Smack Down, And we're live, it's John Pollack, and joining me. I just spin the wheel, make the deal, and it's coming up our man. Neil Flanagan who is joining me to cap off the week of all weeks.

Hello Neil.

Hello, John.

I didn't quite know what I was signing up for when I was asked to do this. I was, I kind of, you know,

was hoping maybe we'd get a bit of a chat about Donna Reed's run as Miss Ellie or whatever happened to James Ewing, but overtaken by events, let's just say this week and

and right through today, including during Smacktown.

Yes, we have the latest news to get to. I was going to carve out some Dallas time.

That is not going to happen on this particular show. That will be the elusive show that

Neil and I will do one day. But news came down during tonight's edition of Smackdown, an internal email was sent out to staff.

Vince McMahon is resigning from W. W.E. And Neil, you quickly got a story up on the site. I guess as you were seeing

the Domino's fall and I will go backwards, but I think we should start with the most pressing news now with Vince McMahon's resignation.

Once you started to see the reaction, the coverage, and then today, when we're seeing this affecting sponsors, was this a logical conclusion that you saw this story moving toward or was the resignation something that you thought, and will this guy be able to escape with his position through all of this

and they're just going to dig their heels in?

I was on the fence somewhat about what might happen, just knowing his bloody mindedness and the fact that he thought it was a mistake to step down in 2022,

but he's in a vastly different set of circumstances now for all sorts of reasons.

First of all, when he stood down in July 22,

if I got that right, it was under was under a cloud but it was under this kind of

amorphous allegations of sexual misconduct that sort of thing and maybe some

stronger language but nothing

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