"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours"
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McMahon turns a mundane logistical complaint into a quiet power flex: the real problem isn’t what “that” is, but where it has to happen. The line is corporate-speak with jet fuel in its veins, a glimpse into a world where decisions, bodies, and storylines are expected to stay productive while crossing time zones. “Internally” is doing heavy lifting here. It’s the kind of euphemism executives use to keep the messy parts off the record: conflict resolution, talent management, even basic human needs get reframed as operational challenges.
The sentence also carries the signature WWE tension between spectacle and machinery. Fans see pyro and pageantry; McMahon is pointing at the infrastructure that keeps the show moving - travel, schedules, and the relentless demand for output. By foregrounding “five, six hours,” he’s normalizing the grind as an unarguable fact of life, not a choice made by a company. It’s a managerial trick: if the clock is the villain, nobody has to answer for the pressure.
Contextually, it reads like a backstage aside that accidentally reveals the ethos. In McMahon’s universe, the performance never stops; the road is both proving ground and control mechanism. The phrasing is plain, even clumsy, which makes it more revealing. No grandeur, no mythology - just the blunt admission that the system is built to run through people, even when they’re mid-flight.
The sentence also carries the signature WWE tension between spectacle and machinery. Fans see pyro and pageantry; McMahon is pointing at the infrastructure that keeps the show moving - travel, schedules, and the relentless demand for output. By foregrounding “five, six hours,” he’s normalizing the grind as an unarguable fact of life, not a choice made by a company. It’s a managerial trick: if the clock is the villain, nobody has to answer for the pressure.
Contextually, it reads like a backstage aside that accidentally reveals the ethos. In McMahon’s universe, the performance never stops; the road is both proving ground and control mechanism. The phrasing is plain, even clumsy, which makes it more revealing. No grandeur, no mythology - just the blunt admission that the system is built to run through people, even when they’re mid-flight.
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