Studio audience

We do.

We have a live audience.

It's a live audience.

[laughs] Lots of fun today.

Congratulations, live podcast for us.

And so the show is kind of, it's being re-imagined.

Um, there will be no live audience, which is, it's its own heartbreaking thing that we'll talk about.

Um, And it's sort of like kind of being imagined as this podcast broadcast hybrid in a way.

Melissa Grello, one of the founding members, been there from the beginning.

Cause she was going across country to meet her ex and her daughter.

And so, but it was just one of those things where we had a conversation and she, there were all these countless stories of people who were coming because they'd watched us while, you know, they were going through cancer treatments or they watched us on their mat leave.

And I think that that connection between the live audience and us was so powerful.

And also you and I are still very, we're very connected to our audience and we're not with them.

But how did you guys feel? Talk about it.

You know, like I want to get into the warehouse, the studio audience, but I kind of want to set us up to see how you guys felt being there and just take it away, guys.

I'll start.

I just do want to say I first want to really say thank you.

So yeah, she's perfect.

Shout out to Simone.

I want to say, okay, so we're in the studio audience.

I will say this.

So we've never had a live audience before.

Yes.

This is the first time we have someone in the gym as a live audience.

Make your way over here, sir.

Come here, come here.

Um, Gabe, you wanna come say bye to-

Come through, come through [laughs]

... to the people, our live audience up in here.

Now everybody just gets, like, golf clap, you know, don't give anything away, whether you like the person or not.

So I have to think that the au- live audience will really get dressed down tonight.

It's hilarious, 'cause it's, it's like a, becomes like a wall yeller, where inside the house it gives, like, a completely-

Yeah

Angela was baking cookies.

Here's the Splenda.

Can you make cookies for the live audience tonight?"

I, I... [laughs] That'd be nice.

So I like that.

I think it works a lot better just as a spectator sport or entertainment to have the live audience aligned with who the promoter has positioned.

And the wrestlers themselves.

I mean, you cheer someone because you like them, not because a promoter pushes them.