Episode 2: "Finger Poke of Doom"
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Hulk Hogan has said the "Finger Poke of Doom" was the "beginning of the end of WCW," and no one really disagreed with him... or did they? Find out what Eric Bischoff thinks of this angle with the benefit of nearly 20 years hindsight. We address the rumor that Goldberg shot down the first idea for his angle with Liz and how Eric thinks Goldberg and Liz did in their acting roles that night. Plus Conrad presses Eric to defend the silliness of a "Hogan running for President" angle, clarification on Kevin Nash's role behind the scenes, why Eric put him in that position, when the plan was in place to hand Hogan the title, who got Goldberg a 1000% raise from WCW, an incredible story you've probably never heard before about a huge mainstream deal Turner turned down, and a tidbit about a word you couldn't say on WCW TV that you just will not believe! Of all the things on this episode to discuss, only one decision made that night really mattered and it led to 600,000 folks changing the channel. Conrad breaks down "butts in the seats" in detail and makes Eric has to own it. Oh and Eric buries two legends in the business to the point it leaves Conrad speechless. Eric is fired up and ready to breakdown the FINGER POKE OF DOOM!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has not been sanctioned. |
| 0:03.4 | The battleground is Monday nights. |
| 0:06.2 | 80 for a campaign of 83 consecutive weeks. |
| 0:09.4 | 3 that was a clear winner this is store war. |
| 0:12.1 | Weeks. |
| 0:13.1 | This is the story of that campaign. |
| 0:14.4 | 83 weeks. |
| 0:16.2 | 20 years later the time has come to the whole true, |
| 0:19.2 | for the whole true. |
| 0:20.3 | This is 83 weeks with Eric Bishop and Cline Red Thompson. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey, it's Cline Red Thompson and you're listening |
| 0:28.0 | to 83 weeks with Eric Bishop. |
| 0:31.4 | Eric, what's going on, man? |
| 0:32.6 | How are you? |
| 0:34.4 | I am doing I'm outstanding. |
| 0:37.3 | I've had a really, really great week so far. |
| 0:40.4 | I couldn't ask for better. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah, and a lot of that is because of you guys, man. |
| 0:45.2 | We debuted at number one on iTunes and the Sports |
| 0:48.0 | and Recreation category and number two overall. |
| 0:51.5 | Beating Joe Rogan, Oprah and a lot of stuff. |
| 0:54.0 | One of the strongest wrestling debuts, |
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