The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch & LightShed’s Brandon Ross | Pollock & Thurston

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock and Brandon Thurston discuss the latest filings in the ring boy lawsuit, and welcome Brandon Ross and Richard Deitsch.

Richard Deitsch from The Athletic joins the show to speak about WWE’s transition to Netflix, the impact of the first WrestleMania on the platform, and the brand's popularity while transferring its leadership away from Vince McMahon.

Brandon Ross of LightShed Partners discusses the economic impact on the media industry, specifically TKO, as it shops the UFC and WWE streaming rights.

00:00:00 Start

00:03:48 WWE, Vince & Linda McMahon respond to ring boy lawsuit

00:13:57 Brandon Ross of LightShed Ventures

00:41:12 Richard Deitsch from The Athletic

Music courtesy: “Panic Beat” by Ben Tramer

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0:00.0	This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a
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0:10.5	your questions and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door.
0:18.4	Brandon Thurston from WrestleMania is up next, and we're going to follow Brandon with John Pollack from post-wrestling.
0:26.5	Thank you, Lynn. Good afternoon, everyone.
0:29.9	But we can't ignore the math, okay?
0:32.9	We can't ignore the data.
0:35.4	Go on Google Trends, type in your name, then type in mine.
0:39.3	You're a straight line.
0:40.6	I'm a pyramid.
0:42.0	I like the very direct question on that.
0:44.3	Television ratings, downward spiral.
0:47.3	Fire rates, plummeting.
0:49.3	The time is now to turn the math around.
0:56.6	Welcome everybody to the show.
0:58.3	It is John Pollock and Brandon Thurston.
1:00.8	We're coming at you a little earlier on this Wednesday,
1:03.7	but we're going to make up for it.
1:04.9	We've got a double guest show planned for everyone today.
1:09.2	We are going to be joined by the returning Richard Deich from
1:12.9	the athletic and, and to break down tariffs. Brandon Ross from Lightshed Ventures. He will be
1:21.6	also returning to the show after a much celebrated appearance last time that we had him on with
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