3/28/2023 0 Comments The librarian pro wrestler![]() Like you said, obviously a lot of different roles in all of those years, but I think the main thing for your audience and for what you guys might be looking for is the latter stuff. ![]() I’ve always loved the product, grew up on it as a lot of us did in the Hogan years, and I signed on there in February 1998. So, WWE the headquarters being in Stanford as well as the television studio was right around the corner, more or less directly across the street from where our apartment was at the time, the pay was better and the benefits were all there and it was kind of a no-brainer, and I’ve always been a wrestling guy. At the time, my wife and I were not married, so I’m trying very hard to obviously make a good living and we lived in Stanford, so we were commuting to Bristol in Connecticut, and it was a haul and it was tough and and it wasn’t for a lot of pay and we didn’t have coverage, there was no insurance. Before WWE, I was at ESPN at the time in 1998, I was just a kid, 20 something, and ended up poking around a little bit, looking for jobs and WWE just happened to be one of them. Jesse Collings: So I guess for the listeners at home or the viewers at home can you just kind of describe briefly how you came to WWE, and what kind of your role was when you were working for the company, as like you said, you had a few different roles over 23 years, but kind of describe briefly what you did while working for the company. John: So, I’m ready to go whenever you guys are and hopefully I can help out and bring some great information and like you said, I was on year twenty three before I left WWE, and whatever you guys got, fire away. Does that sound about right?īrandon: Yeah, that sounds about right to me. John Carlan: Hello all, I’m doing great, I appreciate it Brandon very much, obviously you and I have been friendly, I guess, are we friends? I guess we are for the better part of the last year or so I would say, right. Thanks to Cory Gibson for producing this transcript.īrandon Thurston: Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Wrestlenomics, we are joined today not only by our occasional Brock Lesnar like co-host, Jesse Collings, but also we have a special guest today, John Carlin, who formerly worked with WWE, who has a lot of experience with WWE Network and with acquiring libraries, so we’re really excited to talk to John today. The audio version of this interview was published on the Wrestlenomics Radio podcast feed and the video version (embedded above) is on the Wrestlenomics YouTube channel. He was a key person involved with putting content on the WWE Network as well as in evaluating and acquiring many of the video libraries WWE purchased. John worked for WWE from 1998 to 2020 as Director of VOD and Supervising Producer, among other roles. The following is a transcript of our interview with John Carlan, recorded on July 12, 2022.
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