Episode 391: How Much For Fun?
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric and Conrad welcome friend of the show Raj Giri to talk about the possible home for WrestleMania 48, the surge in WWE ticket sales, and the rumored interest Paramount may have in purchasing WBD. Eric also reacts to reports that Vince McMahon wasn’t fully sold on AJ Styles when he first arrived in WWE. Plus, Eric reveals his Top 5 favorite WCW Monday Night matches — and some of his picks might surprise you!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, it's Conrad, the mortgage guy, and you're listening to 83 weeks with Eric Fischoff. |
| 0:22.4 | Eric, what's going on, man? |
| 0:23.5 | How are you? |
| 0:24.7 | I am outstanding. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm currently in Philadelphia in this amazing hotel room. |
| 0:31.6 | It's called River Suites. |
| 0:33.4 | I think it's a Delaware River that's right out in front. |
| 0:36.2 | This place was built like in 1920. |
| 0:38.7 | It was a, originally it was a steam plant. |
| 0:42.5 | They brought coal in right across the river, shipped it across a conveyor belt, |
| 0:47.4 | and fed this basically electric factory. |
| 0:52.4 | They powered by steam that supplied about 80% of the electricity |
| 0:57.0 | in all of Philadelphia. And a building kind of went into disrepair, sat for a while, |
| 1:03.0 | and a group of people bought it, turned one half of it into apartments, condominiums, |
| 1:09.0 | and the other half are hotel rooms. It is the coolest building I've |
| 1:14.2 | ever been in, but it's huge and it's got concrete ceilings. So if it sounds like I'm in an echo |
| 1:19.1 | chamber, it's because I kind of am, but it's a cool room, horrible audio, but a cool room. |
| 1:25.1 | Well, we're excited that you were able to make room for us today. We are going to |
| 1:29.1 | have a great time chatting about all things professional wrestling. But before we get to that, |
| 1:34.1 | I got to ask, why are you in Philadelphia? Can you tell us that? Are you an official R.A.F business |
| 1:38.8 | today? Official R.A.F. business. We met with one of our big investors who's also very closely tied into Penn State. |
| 1:48.4 | Oh, I know this. |
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