Hello, everybody. Welcome to

Pollock and Thurston. We're not interviewing anybody today. We are just chatting

one-on-one as we break down the WWE's first quarter earnings report and we'll probably get into

some Wembley Stadium discussion and maybe if there is time, how much does it cost

for a city to get the Royal Rumble in 2024? Highest bids, get ready because your public dollars

are bringing the Royal Rumble potentially to Florida. Yes, are you ready to have a robust

conversation and give some incremental color to the WWE Q1 earnings report that happened yesterday?

To really harness the post-pressant fly we'll hear I'm ready to go. Well, I have the quote of

all quotes coming up later from Frank Riddick as he all but said some heads are going to roll once

this merger comes down but here is the most animated way I can discuss it in terms of

making it seem as less violent as it's going to be with a blood shedding after this merger

goes through but I've got to say, Brandon, that going into this earnings report with the merger

pending, I got to say, I thought this was a pretty ho-home Q&A. We got a little bit of, to me,

this is not one of the stellar calls when it came to a no-stradamus Nikon projecting where all

the sports rights were going to go and a lot of big news stories, although-

Breaking news, you didn't hope high about the media space and the landscape.

This was a very safe call. I have to say though, for me personally, the most feedback I got was

people stunned that WWE writers are not part of the writers guilt. Like did anybody think that

this was a thing that this was a unionized effort that the WWE writers have undergone that

Stephanie McMahon blazed the trail for unionized writers but it seemed to be a shock that WWE

will not be affected by this writer's guilt strike which I'm glad the question was asked but I

did not expect that kind of feedback from people. It's one of the disclosures I've seen it for

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