Q How do you recruit talent for TNA?

A How do we recruit talent? There is a finite group of wrestlers that are out there.

A majority of them work for the industry leader, obviously WWE. So you have two options when you're a company such as ours and that is to go over who is not currently under contract with them or to find new talent. And developing new talent does not obviously sell. You know, it is not real popular and it is not going to draw your ratings and it takes a while to develop. So now that we have hit our 5th year mark, we finally have a group of TNA talent that have started to gain in popularity. Most of them are in their late 20s, early 30s. We do have several other talent that have had especially early on in our days prior to me being president, just whoever was out there and available. And most eveiybody with a name has worked at a former organization whether it be WCW, which is no longer in business or WWF or WWE.

Q Do you -- just to clarify. You've got your stable of talent, the talent you mentioned that has been there for five years and it is starting to get its name. Those were that group came from --

A The new guys?

Q Yeah. Those were -- you hired those independently -- 18

A People that we heard about on the independent circuit, somebody who happened to see somebody on a small show. And When I say small, it could be anywhere from 150 to 500 people at a bingo hall, a K.C. hall, something along those lines. But they're standouts. I mean, our guy that we have now came from one of our top guys who will win the heavyweight belt, it will be one of our first big made -- our own talent. He -- you know, we heard about him up in the ring of honor circuit up in Philadelphia. And you know here is a guy and he is big, and I don't mean muscular big, I just mean big and he moves like lightning and he is really great and you should check him out. So we'd bring him in for a dark match, which means it is nontelevised put on before we go on to air just to see how he does in the ring in front of people. And then you give him a shot at losing on a show for a couple of times and then just see if they work. But the people who write the show and our director of talent relations, between them, they know every single wrestler personally that is out there. Because it is not that many people. So they've either worked with them in the past or have heard of them or know somebody who has.

Q Okay. And your second group of those that you have brought in that have worked for