Friedberg

Why are you asking him, like, should I jump in the deep end first?

A few years ago at Hellmuth's birthday, we each chipped in, I think, three grand to buy him a new wardrobe.

We put in three grand.

He doesn't want a single thing.

Tarek, as you are building your infrastructure, there is supply chain and strategic partnerships and relationships that I'm sure emerge here in the United States, but also in China.

And Saudi Arabia seems to be in this really kind of interesting position as a large energy supplier, as a large partner in capital and now in building that could create tension between the rivalry, the global rivalry between the US and China.

How do you think about managing each of those two markets and how you establish relationships and where do you align yourself?

I mentioned this to you backstage, but similar to David, I had a.

growing up in Ottawa Ontario Canada yes there's really there wasn't any professional sports ultimately we got the NHL didn't get as big a pop as Memphis and my father and I the one of the few things that we were able to bond over was wrestling and you and then your whole progression where you started off as Hunter Hurst Helmsley which is really what David is like now and then he became more of a more of the Triple H heel

But I wanted to ask you a question about exactly what you just said.

And I want you to sort of walk us through the characteristics of these two individuals who have had a very vibrant career in wrestling.

Donald Trump, who's now in politics, and The Rock, who people say may actually go into politics later.

And what you just said is it's an incredible breeding ground for charisma and connecting with people.

Well, you did a very good job in the 80s and 90s where you would take the geopolitics, I don't know if this was by design, and you'd take a character and you'd say, well, we need to talk about the Middle East somehow, so okay, we have the Iron Sheik, right?

And you'd create these characters that would reflect the geopolitical tension of the time.

Did you find that that was harder to do in this generation, or is it harder to do now just because there's still so many potholes?

So then can you contrast and compare then maybe WWE and for a long time I had a really hard time because of my fascination with wrestling migrating to MMA but MMA has really taken over a lot of the zeitgeist especially amongst younger generations of men.

Do you feel pressure to make it more physical or more like it or how do you think these two things play?

What role do they play, I guess, maybe in American society?

Can you just bring us behind the scenes in this negotiation?