Conrad ThompsonHost
And, and the thing that's not lost on me is, Eric, you know, we're talking and having a lot of conversations about television based on the way television used to be.

But with streaming becoming more and more prominent, it's really the Wild West right now, is it not?
You know, and n- now that I've been involved, you know, 'cause I had never really produced anything for a streaming platform before.
And Real American Freestyle obviously over at Fox Nation, who I just, by the way, shout out to Gavin, Lauren, thank you very much.
And, you know, everything's different, and, and you have to think differently streaming than you typically think when you're producing television.
When you're producing television, you're really thinking creatively about short segments in between commercial breaks.
It, it, it absolutely controls everything you do when you're producing for television.
You don't get to play with them and move them around and do twice as much over here and half as much over there because you want to run a full segment.
S- and that just really changes the way I've, I've had to think about producing the show because you want to sustain the, the audience's interest throughout the entire show.
So one thing -- so, I mean, there's a few things that I've learned producing wrestling and watching other people produce w- wrestling as well, um, that I've learned that I've really been able to transition over into Real American Freestyle in terms of its entertainment value without going too far into the, you know, sports entertainment realm.
So I've been able to find kind of a very comfortable zone that the traditional wrestling audience loves, which was my biggest concern, and now is attractive to newer viewers that didn't really -- wasn't really interested in watching wrestling on TV because it was always produced so poorly.
Um, and I learned that real- really through, again, watching other people produce, from Vern to Vince.

And, and the thing that's not lost on me is, Eric, you know, we're talking and having a lot of conversations about television based on the way television used to be.

But with streaming becoming more and more prominent, it's really the Wild West right now, is it not?
You know, and n- now that I've been involved, you know, 'cause I had never really produced anything for a streaming platform before.
And Real American Freestyle obviously over at Fox Nation, who I just, by the way, shout out to Gavin, Lauren, thank you very much.
And, you know, everything's different, and, and you have to think differently streaming than you typically think when you're producing television.
When you're producing television, you're really thinking creatively about short segments in between commercial breaks.
It, it, it absolutely controls everything you do when you're producing for television.
You don't get to play with them and move them around and do twice as much over here and half as much over there because you want to run a full segment.
S- and that just really changes the way I've, I've had to think about producing the show because you want to sustain the, the audience's interest throughout the entire show.
So one thing -- so, I mean, there's a few things that I've learned producing wrestling and watching other people produce w- wrestling as well, um, that I've learned that I've really been able to transition over into Real American Freestyle in terms of its entertainment value without going too far into the, you know, sports entertainment realm.
So I've been able to find kind of a very comfortable zone that the traditional wrestling audience loves, which was my biggest concern, and now is attractive to newer viewers that didn't really -- wasn't really interested in watching wrestling on TV because it was always produced so poorly.
Um, and I learned that real- really through, again, watching other people produce, from Vern to Vince.
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