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Chronicling the pro wrestling industry since 1987. | Wade Keller editor & founder & Hall of Famer. pwtorch @gmail .com. Follow us on Threads too @pwtorch

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5 years
NOW AVAILABLE - FREE FOR ALL! Part 2 of the @JonMoxley interview with Wade Keller, a sequel to his Jericho interview with all new topics, nearly 2.5 hours! (with bonus 1992 Keller interview snippet w/Paul Heymam predicting Steve Austin greatness!)
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Scott Hall, former WWE and WCW star, on life support after health complication after hip surgery
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We're obtained a new key ratings detail on Friday: #AEW #Rampage beat #WWESmackdown in head-to-head 30 minutes in the most coveted 18-49 demo - 328,000 to 285,000. Rampage led with Punk match, Smackdown featured Becky-Sasha and Lesnar. More details here:
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Last Friday's #AEW Rampage drew 578,000 total viewers, above 502K prior week. Smackdown drew 866,000 on FS1. AEW and #WWE tied in 18-49 demo (0.24), 18-34 male demo (0.20). AEW *beat* WWE in 18-49 male demo 0.34 to 0.32
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BREAKING NEWS: Dean Ambrose leaving WWE shortly after WrestleMania when his contract expires in April:
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3 years
AEW Dynamite tops 1 million live and same night viewers last night (1.025M). Tops Raw's 18-49 male demo. Also 0.40 adult 18-49 demo. More at later. #AEWDynamite
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WWE just now: "Congratulations to AEW on a successful premiere. The real winners of last night's head-to-head telecasts of NXT on USA and AEW on TNT are the fans, who can expect Wednesday nights to be a competitive and wild ride as this is a marathon, not a one-night sprint.”
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AEW Dynamite last night averaged 902,000 viewers, up from 832,000 last week and in line with 903,000 two weeks ago. Demo was 0.33, up from 0.30. More at later #aew #AEWDynamite
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Kamala has died at age 70, a headlining gimmick heel act in multiple territories throughout the 1980s and in the WWF in early 1990s, feuded with Undertaker...
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AEW Dynamite drew 462,000 total viewers on Friday night 6/4, down from prior week.
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Hey @peacock , just unplug your main server, wait 30 seconds, and plug it back in. It should work again just fine. #WWEMITB
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10 years
Paul Heyman delivers the Perfect Promo - http://t.co/rq41Fzvj2C
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UPDATED: Editor’s Note concerning a published column regarding the death of Jon Huber; PWTorch parts ways with Bruce Mitchell after 30 years...
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5:05 ET, SEPT. 6, 2022
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The @peacockTV feed flaking out right now is not acceptable. A lot of anticipation for this very moment at the start of Men's MITB. This is not the reason you want to be trending on Twitter. #WWEMITB #peacock
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NXT wins the night with 795,000 vs. AEW Dynamite 683,000 live & same-night-DVR viewers. More details soon at . NXT also wins adult and young male demographics for first time across the board.
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3 years
Yikes! Maybe Raw's lowest rating ever Monday... 1.1 cable rating. Dropped to 1.168 million in third hour! 0.44 demo 18-49 rating. More at later.
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WEDNESDAY RATINGS: AEW down to 1.018 million from 1.409 million last week. NXT down to 790,000 from 845,000 last week.
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5 years
AEW Dynamite, billed as a special "extended encore with never-before-seen action" from Wednesday's premiere is replaying on TNT now, head to head with Smackdown on FS1.
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NXT crushes AEW Dynamite in viewership last night - 921K to 609K. In 18-49 demo, NXT draws 0.30 compared to Dynamite's 0.26. More at in a few minutes.
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AEW Rampage grew to 1.414 million after three days of DVR viewership. We'll have more at soon to put that in perspective. #AEW #AEWDynamite #AEWRampage
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6 years
Four U.S. senators now urging WWE to “pause” plans for the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia next month:
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6 years
Big Cass released by WWE just two days after his second clean loss to Daniel Bryan, had rep for maturity and attitude issues:
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3 years
NXT on SyFy drew 520,000 and a 0.12 in the 18-49 demo. #NXT
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4 years
AEW Dynamite outdraws WWE Raw among 18-34 males, doubles NXT in same demo, viewership up for both NXT and USA...
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3 months
Tony Khan says he books for “sickos” like him, draws a big mixed response on Twitter/X
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2 years
LOL. Michael Cole tossing some grenades into Helwani vs. Tony Khan. #WWEChamber
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5 years
778,000 viewership tie!!
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4 years
Another ratings note I just received: AEW was up 111,000 in total live+3 day viewership last week compared to the prior 10 week average. They were up 126,000 in live+same night viewership. So most viewers *were* "new", not just people shifting from delayed viewing to same-night.
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3 years
Some strange stuff going on with the @peacockTV feed for #MITB . Anyone else?
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3 years
AEW Dynamite grows to 552,000 live and same night viewers on last Friday's late night slot on @AEWonTNT , up from 487k and 462k prior to weeks. More at later. #AEW #AEWDynamite
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4 years
AEW last night drew 977,000 viewers (up 202K from 775K). NXT drew 586,000 (down 112K from 698K). 18-49 demo AEW outdrew NXT 0.40 to 0.12.
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1 year
Last night's AEW Dynamite drew 877,000, up from 776,000 last week. The 18-49 demo drew 0.32, up from 0.28. #aew #AEWDynamite
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2 years
Tony Khan reveals that Tony Schiavone had the idea for the "title stealing" story between Jade Cargill and Nyla Rose. #AEWFullGear
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3 years
AEW Dynamite draws 1.219 million viewers, huge increase over prior levels. Finished no. 2 overall among all cable shows in 18-49 demographic. More at later.
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2 years
Cody Rhodes wins and nods to his father right before he does with a Bionic Elbow. A helluva match start to finish. High, high end stuff. #WrestleMania
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8 years
Yes, Nakamura & Balor vs. Joe & Aries happened tonight on a main roster WWE house show in Orlando.
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6 years
"Last Week Tonight" on HBO just "buried WWE" for Saudi Arabia association, according to friends who watched it. Host John Oliver waved hand in front of his face and said "You can't see human rights violations." Details at later tonight.
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5 years
AEW drew 1.409 million viewers. NXT drew 891,000 viewers. AEW rating 0.84; NXT 0.66.
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6 years
Check out today's new Steve Austin Show on @PodcastOne w/ @steveaustinBSR & @thewadekeller talking #WWEBacklash for 90 minutes!
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2 years
Vince McMahon has taken some awful Stunners throughout his time, but that one clearly takes the cake. #WrestleMania
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3 years
This is where @wwe could score some goodwill points by acknowledging this on the broadcast and also on social media, apologizing for it and updating viewers on what's going on.
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8 years
WWE releases Santino Marella, Cameron, Hornswoggle, Alex Riley, El Torito, and Zeb Colter
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2 years
That's pop Cody and Vince McMahon were looking for. Awesome presentation too. #WrestleMania
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4 years
Viewership News: #NXT on USA drew 659K last night (up from 551K last week), highest since Dec. 23 ... #AEWDynamite drew 854K last night (up from 762K last week), highest since Dec. 30. More at soon.
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3 years
Wardlow turns on MJF. "Oops" is his thumbs down Batista moment. Great work by him throughout the entire story. #AEWRevolution
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7 years
Around midnight tonight, check out the Steve Austin Show as @thewadekeller from PWTorch joins @steveaustinBSR to talk WrestleMania 33!
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3 years
AEW has to do something about their PPV lengths. I get the idea you want to give fans their money's worth, but that strategy has diminishing returns. I enter Mox/Danielson into evidence. #AEWRevolution
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6 years
Check out the top pro wrestling podcast this week - PWTorch editor Wade Keller on the @steveaustinBSR podcast reviewing #Summerslam & #NXTTakeOver . Subscribe in Apple Podcasts here:
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3 years
NXT on USA drew 751,000 last night in live and same night viewers with an 0.19 demo rating among 18-49 age group. More at later. #WWENXT
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3 years
IF Vince McMahon ever watches AEW (he won't). IF he does though, he'll kick himself for missing on this character with Miro. It's intense, layered, and main event. #AEWFullGear
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5 years
NXT on USA drew 1.179 million viewers, nearly doubling the viewership for that time period one year ago. Suits that followed did 955,000, down 10K from the prior week (so NXT's lead-in didn't help). TNT's movie opposite NXT drew 671,000 viewers. More at .
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AEW back on top with 947,000 viewers live and same-night-DVR, NXT distant second with 712,000 viewers. Last week against an NXT Awards show, they gained sample viewers. This week those viewers returned. #AEW #NXT
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2 years
Cody Rhodes is All El- ... I mean WWE. #WrestleMania
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4 years
@KennyOmegamanX Another benefit of wearing a mask in public is you don't show up to work days later and give your colleagues a potentially deadly disease that they might spread to an especially vulnerable family member days later before you yourself have symptoms.
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2 years
Fite partners with returning 1PW and releases never before seen Pac vs. Styles match, details on October return:
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5 years
True TV simulcast of Dynamite drew 122,000, so live/same-night-DVR viewership was a smaller drop-off overall. 1.140 million in total viewers is more accurate comparison to 1.409, it appears.
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WEDNESDAY RATINGS: AEW down to 1.018 million from 1.409 million last week. NXT down to 790,000 from 845,000 last week.
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Last night's AEW Dynamite drew 1.003 million viewers. In the 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.32 rating. First episode to top 1 million live and same night viewers since October. More at later.
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5 years
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Now that we have Viking Raiders, what other two NFL team nicknames put together would make a great WWE tag team name? #Raw #RawDesMoines
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4 years
@davemeltzerWON They're getting frustrated with the lack of communication on this life and death issue.
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2 years
That was just loads and loads of fun. Fun to see Austin do it and Kevin Owens deserves a ton of credit for making it happen. #WrestleMania
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3 years
AEW Dynamite last night drew 871,000 live and same night viewers, down from 883,000 last week. The 18-49 demo drew 0.33, down from 0.35 last week. No "back on the road with fans" bump. Ominous for WWE's hopes of a surge? More at soon. #AEW #AEWDynamite
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3 years
First hour 1.536 and second hour 1.549 million viewers. I've asked if the third hour number is a typo because that is a huge dropoff.
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4 years
AEW drew 662,000 viewers and 0.25 in 18-49 last night, NXT drew 641,000 and 0.16. Looks like news channels pulled away a lot of viewers. More at later.
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3 years
I'd say that delivered, yes? Wow. Just an epic ending to an already top tier show. Plus, big business every direction you look with a loaded roster. #AEWAllOut
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2 years
Wardlow comments on current backstage environment in AEW:
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3 years
The May 28 Friday Night Dynamite had huge 3 day viewership jump to 817K , up from 526K live and same night viewership. That's only 181K below prior weeks 3 day total. That's indictive of viewers watching at more convenient time over the weekend on DVR.
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747K for AEW Dynamite last night, 713K for NXT on USA. 0.31 to 0.16 in adults 18-49, big lead as usual for AEW. #NXT #AEWDynamite
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3 years
If I'm Adam Cole, first bullet point in any new #WWE contract, after $$$ of course, is new entrance music. #NXTTakeOver
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2 years
New Japan sells out major upcoming event:
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5 years
The top two pro wrestling podcasts in iTunes episode charts today are both @jonmoxley interviews, first with Chris Jericho and then part one with @thewadekeller . Listen to Moxley (a/k/a Dean Ambrose) discuss, Lesnar, Austin, WWE schedule, Shield, more:
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AEW Dynamite drew 1.273 million, above last week's 1.175 million, below 1.319 million two weeks ago. Raw edges Dynamite in 18-49 demo (0.49 to 0.48). AEW edged Raw in 18-49 male demo (0.67 to 0.65). Raw edged AEW in 18-34 male demo (0.40 to 0.38). Close battle.
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8 years
PWTorch editor Wade Keller's nearly 2 hr analysis of Summerslam w/ @steveaustinBSR on the Steve Austin Show is here:
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3 years
AEW Dynamite last night drew 936,000 viewers (down from 1,090,000 last week) and 0.66 cable rating (down from 0.72 last week). More at later. #AEWDynamite #AEW
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Ratings: #AEWDynamite drew 874,000, up from 836,000 last week. 18-49 demo rating 0.32, up from 0.29. More details at PWTorch later.
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Part two of the blockbuster 2.5 hour JON MOXLEY INTERVIEW is now available exclusively for PWTorch VIP members w/no edits for R-rated content, plus zero ads/plugs. List of topics covered is attached. Go VIP now to listen exclusively to second part today:
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EDITORIAL: Ronda Rousey is bad for pro wrestling because she’s revealing her lack of respect for what it stands for:
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2 years
Max Dupri is finished with Maximum Male Models, being replaced by his storyline sister Maxine...
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7 years
Tomorrow's PWTorch Livecast features @thewadekeller interviewing @steveaustinBSR . Email questions/topics to pwtorchlivecast @gmail .com
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Steve Austin must be on the way. The only explanation. #WrestleMania
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2 years
Overall, a really great night at the office for #WWE . Matches, moments, logical booking, and a hot crowd the entire way. You're up night two ... #WrestleMania
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Holy smokes. Walter was of course great, but Dragunov really drove the ship with tremendous selling throughout and timely, believable fire ups. Really good stuff. #NXTTakeOver
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3 years
Smackdown on Fox on Friday drew 2.169 million viewers, up from 2.045 million last week. More at later.
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That's a strange way to end that match and the show. If Cody is going to pin Brock Lesnar, he needs to get the full benefit in doing so. Him running to the back with the camera lingering on Lesnar as the show fades to black tosses cold water on a signature win. #WWEBacklash
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3 years
JR's losing it out there ... "is this a new belt?" What now? #AEWRevolution
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Adam Cole standing in an AEW ring. #AEWAllOut
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The presentation of Roman Reigns is flat out tremendous. Whenever he appears, it matters. A lot. He acts like it and the crowd responds, too. #RoyalRumble
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PWTorch Announcement: PWTorch Columnist Zack Heydorn has been promoted to Assistant Editor of Details:
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3 years
I'm not sure this was the time for Corey Graves to use the term "technical masterpiece" about anything after this technology breakdown by @peacock & @wwe
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3 years
Big pop for a returning John Cena. #MITB
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7 years
ARTISTRY OF WRESTLING: Mustafa Ali proves he’s more than just the in-ring standout of the 205 Live cruiserweight championship tournament:
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3 years
Wait wait wait. They did the Nakamura entrance just to ... do it? I need another beer. #SummerSlam
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3 years
The right call. Big upside for Big E holding the briefcase. Glad his major spot at the end definitively and directly lead to his victory. #MITB
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A smart match between Punk and Darby. Well paced, not overly ambitious, but calculated. Punk looked crisp enough for having been out seven years. Overall, a definite success. #AEWAllOut
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This just in - Bayley is super over.
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1 year
EXCLUSIVE: Punk-Khan relationship might be on brink of being beyond repair after Punk blew up at TK before his match, sources say
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3 years
WWE SMACKDOWN drew 1.928 million last Friday night on Fox.
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2 years
Bianca Belair wins and is the new Raw Women's Championship. Just a great match. All the way around. Pace, presentation, execution. Excellent. #WrestleMania
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2 years
We are looking for someone who would like to help cover Impact Wrestling for PWTorch both in terms of written reports and possibly podcast co-hosting. Let Wade know if you're interested. Email rather than reply here on Twitter, please... kellerwade @gmail .com
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