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But speaking of dirty business, to
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what we're going to uh, because
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in jeopardy now. Although I although
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I don't think so. Yeah,
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more yet. Oh I'm sorry,
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I meant I didn't want to go
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Meltzer actually yesterday talked about this on
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is done. There's an understanding that
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to come out. Really Yeah,
see I wonder about that because Slimjim just

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pulled their sponsorship overnight. Yeah and
yeah, but I assume they're going to

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unposit now. Well, I don't
know today's the event. I mean,

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we're talking about WrestleMania. No where
are we talking about Royal Rumble? Thank

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you? I have my name is
mixed up, So that's supposed to happen

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today's Slim Jim was the big sponsor. Now they're like, I don't know

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about this, so their logos off
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tonight to see whether or not they
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Netflix steal. I think the Netflix
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think, Uh, the positive part
of the Netflix deal is it's not set

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to start for another year, right
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try to be delicate here, but
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hold. Is this really shocking to
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he has done heinous things as far
as women are concerned, But how bad

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it is, how depraved it is. Yeah, I's that's pretty. As

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a woman, I'm I just feel
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let me just okay, So I
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anyone who doesn't know, it's what
is it? I think it's uh it's

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like uh a five billion dollars or
something. It's an outrageous some of them

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for ten years, which is unheard
of usually these kind of any year.

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Netflix. The way they took a
pay cut, they're making less money to

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be on Netflix. Are they doesn't
work out to less money up front?

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Yes? Oh okay. I don't
understand why they're doing these multiple platforms.

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I mean part of the special pay
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is on Hulu, Well you get
more and now Raw is on Well you

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get more money that way on all
these different us as. Somebody who supposed

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to fans of the show are having
to run in chase to find all the

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different iterations. This should be in
one place. Yeah, that'll never happen.

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It's particulars. It used to be
that way. It used to be

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one place. Now you don't know
where to go to watch anything. And

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then there's gonna be a couple of
months or so that Rod just has nowhere

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to live. When the Netflix goes
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Netflix, right I did read that. Yes, so all of the network

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content, including the premium live events
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is moving to USA, yeah,
and NXT is moving to the CW.

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Really there's another one. Yeah,
oh yeah. Well, Hans in the

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chat room says we are in the
biggest streaming wars ever before He's right.

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Everybody's he's scrambling for the same content, which is good for the content makers,

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that's for certain. Well, they've
they've been a very lucky company WWE,

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because they signed so when they signed
their last set of TV rights steals,

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it was right before it was shortly
before the pandemic, and of course

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no one foresaw what was coming,
but they signed what at that point were

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their biggest television rights deals ever.
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how that company would have survived the
pandemic because that was so those deals were

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worth so much money that that's what
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they probably would have survived anyway,
but it would have been a lot

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tougher, so they were very very
lucky. Well, it helped that DeSantis

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made them all special. They could
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then they did smart with all the
different cameras that they had where people could

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end up being one of the heads. Yeah. I thought that was actually

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a good idea. Yeah, they
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Really. Oh that's right, I
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that for the their playoff bubble and
wwe just kind of ripped it off.

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like, well, it isn't proprietary and

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right, you know, we're we're
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in Florida. This is somethings that
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you know. I mean, it
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flips somebody and there's nothing in the
background sharing it on. Yeah, same

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thing. The NBA didn't really really
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a rumor, is that ESPN didn't
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really kind of led to everyone's asked, well, why didn't ESPN jump in

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on the new rights deal? ESPN
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done and ESPN's just like, yeah, we're not doing it. Well,

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it's always a little awkward anyway for
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they've had different segments in WWE content, but it's always a little bit awkward,

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a segment of not only a segment
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the years. I know ESPN's had
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what I mean. I'm sure there's
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are resistant to doing anything with wrestling. So but well, and also keep

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in mind that one of their tough
personalities has been very, very outspoken against

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WWE. Jonathan Kachman. Yeah,
yeah, I saw I saw an interview

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that he did. Uh well,
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yeah, I so ESPN. I
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who may not care or too young
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cable company to have pro wrestling on
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any of the other territories that Vince
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ESPN deal. They had they had
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kept them afloat for the longest time. Wasn't wasn't come to think of it,

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wasn't world Class Championship Wrestling also on
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the eighties. No World Class was
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network because I saw it. I
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my family had when I was a
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World Class because the theme song is
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yeah, it's like it's stuck in
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they were a part of TSN.
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a national cable network. I mean
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ESPN took they needed content in their
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filmed programming. So what's the best
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you don't have to pay production calls
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for rights to broadcast, and that's
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that kept the AWA afloat for their
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three years that in vern constantly milking
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in Minnesota, verne Gania. One
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was reading too that I didn't know
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five year options worked into it.
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five year point, it's a ten
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mark, if Netflix isn't happy about
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kick WWE to the curb. And
at the end of the ten years they

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have a five year option where they
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to extend for another five years at
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smart about making it a fifteen year
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shocking about this and this wouldn't have
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much as I loath and detest that
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ninety seven, this deal wouldn't have
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is a very very friendly deal to
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but it's over theoretically a ten year
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and that's a very key part of
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production costs and what you said,
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it. Yeah, so it's a
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me to believe that WWE wasn't getting
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or that they felt were fair,
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of this Vince McMahon's stuff and once
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nature as a businessman, and I
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an ego and all of this other
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a difference between self ego and when
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what it's done for the last two
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product because of Vince is the ego, and then there's sadism. Seriously,

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yeah, I mean this is beyond
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me just say about that before we
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for anyone who hasn't been following,
obviously, because of the venue that we're

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in and the time of day and
several different factors, we're not going to

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go in any details here about what
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but you can certainly if you're not
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just google the name Vince McMahon,
it will come up. There's a there's

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a what's that? Or Janelle Grant
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very detailed article in the Wall Street
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if people want something really in depth
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Journal has a paywall? Oh that's
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if you just go into Google news
and sometimes it Google News has an

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entire page of nothing but articles about
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great detail. I think it's easy
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because we don't want anybody to say
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say that it's it's pretty sadistic and
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you do have younger ones who are
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their news feeds because this is pretty
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your young ones reading about the things
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but I do understand how how they
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man, it's disgusting to me and
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be a man, and then secondly
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if you haven't been paying attention,
you know, Vince wash He's been

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accused prior, you know, the
sexual harassment and paying hush money and and

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all kinds of things. But what
what has come to light in the past

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twenty four hours is is far beyond
it's it's far beyond that. I mean,

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I'll use a little bit of coded
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I if I say things like misconduct
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either criminal level or or even or
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Uh, go ahead and assume some
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and it and it's and it's all, it's all very shocking, and even

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assuming the worst, you're selling it
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stunned. I'm I'm truly stunned.
I want to I do want to add,

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though, there are some text messages
of evidence from McMahon to Janelle that

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are absolutely undeniable, just undeniable the
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about those messages. Jenny, and
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college days, I I you know, you get into the frat boy mentality.

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And I'm sorry to say, but
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lot more than people realize it does. I'm not excusing the behavior when I

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say frat boy mentality either, and
I hope no one thinks that I think

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that minimum don't get sucked into that. And I'm, like I've said some

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things that when after I've sent the
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I'm like, this is so bad
that I don't feel bad for the

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cringe stuff I've said. There.
There is this existence out there, and

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we've we've heard more stories over the
last probably six months of women being found

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chained to floors, women being found
in boxes hidden away. That element does

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exist in our society. And when
it's somebody like this who has so much

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power and so much public notoriety,
it's uncovering some of the darkest parts of

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our society that have existed since mankind, and unfortunately that has it's that's just

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men usurping women, telling your that
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was so powerful, he's and and
he's quoted as saying things to her in

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the very beginning, like I don't
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I want to I want you to
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we should point out because you mentioned
the very beginning, Yes, the way

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this all started was apparently this is
this is actually this is a yes,

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this is this is a very important
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there's a pattern with him too,
with this. Apparently she was down on

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her life. She's far from the
first woman to ever have a jugative.

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Yeah, she was down on her
luck. She was struggling financially. She

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had parents who had just died.
She was their full caregiver. Yep.

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So she was homeless. So she
was, uh, well, she was

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living. Apparently she was living in
an apartment building where Vince also rented an

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apartment, so she was Eventually he
moved her and gave her a place to

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live. She didn't have a place. He handed a luxury car. Yeah,

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so yeah, so he took advantage
of her. So he would do

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things like when he was going to
be around her, he would be,

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you know, coming out of the
shower and a towel. Oh, give

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me a hug, give me a
hug, Let me give you a kiss,

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doing things like this to slowly groomer
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you would all, you know,
and then go from there. And it

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happens in what they're talking about,
and what happens in situations of abuse like

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this is called trauma bonding, where
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way that they feel entrapped and caged
by the other individual that they can't get

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out, that there is no way
out, and it's it's devastating, and

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it takes what little self esteem you
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a puppet in that person's hands.
I read something in the Daily Mail articles

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and the Daily Mail probably was the
most in depth because they're in the United

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Kingdom and they don't fall under rules
of uh, what you can't print,

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what you can't print like we do. One of the one of the disturbing

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parts is that he paid for surgery, cosmetic surgery for her. Yeah.

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And it's not just that, it's
the it's the the leading up to that.

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It's, Oh, I want to
get this for you. Oh,

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this would make that better. You
know where they grew. He pushes her

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in, push her in, push
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I got everything. Oh, you're
going to be so beautiful with us,

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right. It's not like, hey, I'm gonna get this for you.

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She just jumps in. There's a
process to this where that control over

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and she loses control of her own
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while simultaneously purchasing her silence as well. Exactly exactly and He's done this numerous

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there's this past. He has a
history, a proven history. There's multiple

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instances incidents excuse me, of him
paying hush money to women. And you

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know, I mean, this is
it's not sadly is not a secret.

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And there have been other people implicated
in this. Oh yeah. And it

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reminds me of the story years ago
about the airplane the airplane story that the

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airplane ride from hell Yep, wasn't
that what it was called? The plane

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ride from hell y Yeah? And
that involved particular wrestler that's coming back up

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again too, Rock Lesner, Rock
Lesner. Well, also, let's look

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at the fact that, I mean, I just recently watched the Dark Side

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of the Ring episode on that and
interesting, I watched that one too.

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Rick Flair A let I mean borderline
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at the very least, it was
borderline sexual assault is what he's accused

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of. You look at the guys
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Rick Flair wasn't one of them.
Rick Flair wasn't even fined. This is

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god No, Lesar wasn't fine.
The big stars got to walk away with

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their little fun and games and suffer
no consequences, therefore being told there's nothing

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wrong with that behavior, right.
You know, what I'm saying is that

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the atmosphere that Vince perpetrates. I
mean, let's and it was acceptable,

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though. You gotta put this in
Put this in the context of the era.

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Okay, it was acceptable for men
to rule over women in the office

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space. That was normalized behavior.
I used to do agency work. Here's

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go, and I got sent to
a lawyer's office and I was supposed to

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answer his phone, you know,
type any letters he needed. And he

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called me into his office and had
me come over to his desk. He

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wanted to supposedly show me something,
and then he proceeded to put his hand

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on my leg and started to rise
it up, to which I jumped aside,

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left, never went back, and
got fired because I refused to go

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back. But it was normalized.
I mean, they were saying things to

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me like, oh, it's he's
just he's just he's just a little freshy,

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no big deal. You know.
Don't you want the job, don't

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you want money, don't you want
to eat? I mean, that's what's

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over your head, right control.
Yeah, Well, there's also more broadly

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too, there's there's the element of
if you are, the more powerful you

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are, the less likely you are
to face any accountability. Right, so

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again with you know, the more
the more powerful people on the plane ride,

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the more important they were, the
less likely they were to face any

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sort of punishment for their behavior.
I was disgusted to hear about that when

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I heard about that with brock Lesnar. Now that these new allegations are coming

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out with him, it's even worse
for me. And I'm wondering if that's

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why we really haven't seen him out
there as much as we were. You

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know, maybe they knew this was
coming, so to speak. He was

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supposed to return tonight. Well that
happens, I would assume it's not going

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to It's up in the air.
They want lem Gin back. They brought

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it, they better not bring him
in. I don't think that's going to

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help them with any of their sponsors, if they have any named individuals showing

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up on screen. I mean,
the the issue they run into there,

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unfortunately, and this is the evil
business side of this. Brock Leisner's contract

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is fully guaranteed. And what do
you mean, I mean there's no outclause.

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Wwe has you sure about that they
don't have a behavior clause like they

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did with You don't think there's some
kind of behavior clause in there after all

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the things they've gone through. I
mean no, I mean, if they've

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never had one before, I doubt
they had one when they re signed him.

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I mean, they were still under
Vince's control when they resigned him.

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And I will say this about brock
Lesnar As of right now, it's only

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allege. There isn't any proof that
Brock did anything. There isn't any text

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messages from Brock or anything that I've
seen. It's all second hand accounting from

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Vince. And I mean, I'm
sure there's evidence if he's named, but

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the evidence hasn't been put out there
against him, is what I will say.

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Yeah, I think he's referred to
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Evince was trying to resign, so
that that narrows it down pretty quickly.

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My prediction is we do not see
him again. I don't think we

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brock lesser again. I mean,
I would agree with that, but again,

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that's just another example of Vins hurting
the business. Because now, I

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mean, you're going to at the
very least because you're gonna owe him some

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money for doing absolutely nothing. But
what's really interesting about this is the victim

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Janelle Griant, sorry the alleged victim, because it's all allegations right now.

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Is she said she was promised three
million on this NDA. Yeah, but

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she only got one million of it
when all of this started. It was

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due to in the books this was
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My thing is, where's the other
two million? If you have three

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million listed as a payout, where's
the other two This is where Vince could

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be in some major legal issues if
the FTC wants to get involved, because

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that was information given to shareholders.
That's defrauding your shareholders. That is a

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white collar felony. H wasn't there
some kind of investigation going on anyway with

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the FDC or the SEC or somebody
launched an investigation headed by Stephanie McMahon Levac,

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which very interestingly enough, they never
contacted Janelle Graham. I know I

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read that. That was shocking to
me. Like Stephanie McMahon who got on

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her pedestal and they had the Allways
Women's pay per view and said things like

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women have been marginalized in our sport
for so long, mainly by your father,

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who had a woman get on all
fours in her undergarments and bark like

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a dog on national TV. But
that's in the past, and just put

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herself as a champion for women in
pro wrestling, and you know, and

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she was one of them that changed
the women's tournament from the fabulous Mullah Invitational

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to the May Young Invitational because of
the allegations against Mulah. And it's like,

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Wow, what a load of crap. If you cared so much about

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women's rights, Stephanie McMahon, if
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the first phone call you would have
made while you were in charge of

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that investigation would have been to Janelle
Grant or at the very least her legal

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representatives. You made none of the
above you investigated, But to be fair,

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she did question her father and John
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Honestly, I think the only recourse
for WWE and Endeavor is they gotta cut

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ties with anyone that with Vince and
anyone that was attached to Vince during this

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time or came back when Vince did
his hostile takeover to come back right before

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the sale of the company. Well, from what I've read, that's their

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plan, right, Ari Emmanuel says, we're gonna We're gonna get rid of

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anybody who knew. Anybody who knew
anything about this, anybody who was involved,

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you know at all, is out
of here, is gone, which

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I think is what they should do. You know, any anybody who knew

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about it and kept their mouth shut
and and you know, uh, they

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they should be gone. Get rid
of them, get them out of there.

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Absolutely agree this. This is disgusting
stuff. And this is if you

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look into the history of the wwe
WWF and I don't mean the company with

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the Panda bear, right, there's
there's a history of this stuff, not

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just with Vince, but with Vince's
underlings. Pat Patterson for many years has

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been accused of sexually harassing male wrestlers, male ring attendant, the Ring Boys

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scandal. Yep, nothing ever happened. Fabulous Moolah who Vince loved a death

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accused of heinous things. There's a
dark side to the ring about things she

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did to these women that were absolutely
horrible and detestable. This is not one

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man, This is a culture.
And when it's a culture, you gotta

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tear out the foundation, bulldoze the
house and rebuild it. And I'm sorry

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if you know. There's some big
name guys that are involved in WWE right

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now. Paul Leavec formerly known as
Triple H. If he knew of any

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of this, gone, Sean Michaels, hbk runs NXT. If he knew

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of this, he's gone. Undertaker, who's a brand ambassador. He knew

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about this? Kick Rocks dead Man. I hope, yeah, I hope

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none of those guys knew anything about
him. Nick Con, I think Nick

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CON's gone. Really, Nick Con, as Vince's right hand man for many,

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many, many many years, being
groomed to take over for Vince,

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didn't know any of this. There's
absolutely no way with knowing that. How

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close Vince McMahon keeps his inner circle, there is no way that this is

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Nick Con had no idea, right. I don't know how much he knew,

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But if he knew it was going
If you knew it was going on

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and you said nothing, you're complicit
in the act. I agree with you

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there. I agree with you there. This is awful. It's horrible,

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and it's reprehensible, and what sucks
to me the most is that this is

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the worst that's going to happen to
Vince because of this, if we go

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back in the annals of history,
the pain and suffering he has caused.

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And I said this in a private
chat to both you and Jenny and a

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couple others. You know, the
families of the family of Owen Hart,

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Nancy Argento, who Jimmy Superflies Snooka, murdered Invince allegedly more than likely bribe

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law enforcement in Allentown, Pennsylvania to
keep it under wraps. On down the

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line, Vern Gania, Sam Munchick, the lives he ruined, superstar Billy

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Graham, the bodies of the wrestlers
whose blood, broken bones, damaged joints

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that his billion dollar empire was built
on. They're sitting there and I can

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only imagine they're saying, it sucks
what he did. But what have we

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been telling you? Uh uh interesting? Yeah, what have been saying?

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Look at what this man did to
me, Look at what he did to

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my life. Look like this is
a pattern of abuse, not just on

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females. And I am not trivializing
what he did here, no, God,

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we're all horrified, But you look
at it, at the abuse of

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his employees that he put through.
You're hurt. Here, here's some pills.

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Go out and do your job right. Well, I oh sorry,

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go ahead, Eric. It's just
it's sad that it's took this woman to

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go through the absolute horrors she went
through for people to finally realize what a

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degenerate, ego, maniacal, scumbag, detestable human being Vincent Kennedy McMahon really

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is. Yeah. Absolutely, no, it is. It's it's quite shocking,

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and it's it's just awful. Well, Eric, we uh, we

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gotta start to wrap up. We're
gonna be crossing into the second hour.

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We've got a great band coming in
after the winter. But uh, but

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I appreciate you joining us this morning
to talk about this. You know,

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it really is uh And I I
really, Jenny, I want to thank

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you for adding, you know,
a personal element to it because you know,

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I don't know if you picked up
on this. I am a guy,

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really, yeah, I can't give
the female perspective on it, no,

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So yeah, I mean, I
I really think, I mean,

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I think it's a discussion that could
go any longer. And I really things

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that Anning Radio some of these details. I mean this isn't for Matt Connorton

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unsheathed. Oh yeah, like like
like I said earlier, if you you

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know, if you want to know
the details, or if you're or I

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should say this too. For anyone
who's hearing this and just and thinking that

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it's you know, just more sexual
and agree with whatever I mean. I

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mean, that's uh, that's I
will personally invite any of the listeners to

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direct message me and I can send
them the Daily Mail articles. Yeah,

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no, what what I what I
wanted to say is for anyone who's just

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kind of assuming that you know,
this is more just more of the same

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that that has already come out,
it's uh, which was bad enough,

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No, this is this is far
worse. To really understand the evil that

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Vince was involved in, you've gotta
you've you've got to see, uh,

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you've got to read these articles.
Like I said, you know this this

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would this is not the appropriate place
to get into the details of that.

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But but but if you're but for
anyone who's doubting or sort of downplaying it

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in your own mind, or or
even if you've got like an old school

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sort of you know, misogynistic,
Oh, boys will be boys, type

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of Yeah, this is not that. Look look look into this, and

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you'll you'll realize pretty quickly this is
this is really really bad. And all

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of this has come out within the
last like forty eight hours or so publicly,

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like I mean, it was,
it's beyond shocking. It's disgusting,

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it's evil, it's cool, it's
sadist, it really is. It's just

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shocking as heck that this is what's
been going on all these years. I

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just thought of this, and what
disturbs me the most is that this will

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eventually go away. Janelle Grant will
get money out of this, but no

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dollar amount that can redeem her mental
redeem her mental state, redeem her feeling

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of self, self worth, redeem
what Vince McMahon allegedly took away from her.

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They're just I mean, a lot
of credit goes out to her,

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have courage to to say exactly Jenny, to say, you know what,

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No, there's going to be good
that comes out of this, because what

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I'm gonna do is I'm going to
help people in the same position. She

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has said that that that's oh absolutely. There's a really great article about her

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saying that and trying to make a
space for other women to come forward.

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I mean she's given details and things
that people have suffered through similar types of

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things but never talked about it publicly. She's opening that door and starting those

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discussions. And that's where we've got
to begin to make things like this stop,

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right, And I mean where it
all starts is Matt, you hit

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it on the head. We got
to get rid of the old boy's mentality.

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Yep, in every aspect of society. Yes, very much. So,

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it's getting there. We're getting there. We can't. Boys will be

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boys is no more when it comes
to this. That's that's what got Janelle

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Grant there in the first place.
Is so many people say, no,

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what's Vince being Vince? Well yeah
again, tell that to Janelle Grant in

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his litany of other victims both of
us, uh, sexual misdeeds and other

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misdeeds. Right, all right,
we go, we gotta go. Eric.

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Thank you so much, my friend, and we look forward to your

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film review next week. Yes,
thank you, Yes, I look forward

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to doing it. And thank you
for having me, Matt. Nice discussing

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with you and Jenny as always.
Oh, thank you, We appreciate you,

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my friend. Have a good day, guys, all right, Eric,

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you gotta take care. Bye bye,