Wrestlenomics: What would a WBD-NBCU merger mean for wrestling?
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🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
What would a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal, major TV partners for AEW and WWE, mean for the wrestling business?
Plus, the state of wrestling popularity, WWE board changes, and more.
Brandon Thurston, Jesse Collings, and Chris Gullo talk about those stories and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Russellomics Radio. I'm Brandon Thurston Broadcasting live and on demand from Buffalo, New York where today is Sunday, September 18th, 2022. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm joined to my, this is my immediate south even though it's over here to the side and to my to my east by Chris Golo and Jesse Collins respectively. |
| 0:21.0 | Those directions were not, were not good. |
| 0:24.0 | They were the complete opposite. When you were pointing to your south, you were pointing to your east. |
| 0:31.0 | And then when you were pointing to your east, you were pointing to your south. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, we're broadcasting today from the metaverse. The normative universe is different from the metaverse. |
| 0:41.0 | But yes, Chris Golo, what are we, what are we going to be talking about today? |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, we're going to discuss what a Warner Brothers discovery NBC universal merger. What would that mean for wrestling? |
| 0:56.0 | Talk about the possibility of that. We're going to actually also discuss the popularity of pro wrestling currently. |
| 1:05.0 | Kind of a little of a data reaction to a tweet that was tweeted out this year. There's a new boom period. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, also going to discuss some changes to the WWE board directors and much more. |
| 1:17.0 | That's all we're talking about today. It sounds like you're bearing the lead to our YouTube viewers today that you are without facial hair today. |
| 1:26.0 | I am. Provided some update on that. |
| 1:28.0 | Sure. Yeah, I was trying to trim up my go to you and line it up a little bit different. |
| 1:32.0 | And I took too much off on the one side. |
| 1:35.0 | And I just shaved it all off and I'm rebooting. I looked I had a mustache for about a minute. |
| 1:41.0 | I heard about this. You denied our viewers the opportunity to see you in a mustache. |
| 1:47.0 | True false can confirm that. I can confirm it was way too creepy. |
| 1:52.0 | The peak of the the peak of the mask wearing phase of the pandemic was the optimal time to experiment with facial hair. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah, like you could have kept the mustache. You wouldn't have had to actually reveal it in public. |
| 2:03.0 | You could have had it like on the side for a long period of time. |
| 2:07.0 | Oh, yeah. So that's true. |
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