Hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to 83 Winks with Eric Bischoff.

Eric, what's going on, man? How are you?

Well, this is John Smith. Eric Bischoff is in here today. He's unavailable.

So I agree to stand in form. And what are we doing today?

Well, I'm glad that you asked, Mr. Smith, because we're covering Fall Brawl 1998,

which is a flaming turd of a pay-per-view. And we're going to get to talk about the ultimate

order in WCW. So it makes sense that Eric wouldn't want to lay out this week.

Yeah, it doesn't make sense, because unfortunately I can't keep a straight face

from more than a couple seconds. You know, a flaming turd. You know, I just got to

watching it about an hour ago, kind of. And I got to tell you, this is going to be

this is going to be a tough couple of hours. You and I both know that. In fact, I

sitting out of the tweet, I don't know if you saw it or not just a little while ago,

you know, asking if anybody would be willing to sit in for me. And this is a podcast,

because I was surmising that you were probably sitting at home in a velvet robe,

sipping in a log in blue with scotch, and smoking a Cuban cigar, just waiting,

jumping at the bit to do this, this episode. I actually go the other way, man. I feel like you were

in a bad spot and I text you earlier this morning and reminded you what we were covering,

and I needed you to watch it. And then I apologized because I know that this,

wow, I mean, war games was, we'll get into it. I guess we should explain what the hill we're

talking about. It's fall brought in 1998. Believe it or not, it took place almost 20 years ago.

We're coming up on the 20 year anniversary of September 13th. And you guys were in Winston,

Salem, North Carolina. And of course, the Carolinas were famous for the birthplace of Jim

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