Episode 398: To Bleed, Or Not To Bleed

83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff

Podcast Heat

Sports, Wrestling

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric and Conrad head back 30 years to unpack the creative chaos in WCW following Halloween Havoc 1995! The Giant is the new World Champion, Jimmy Hart's turned heel, Lex Luger's gone bad — so what the heck is going on? Eric breaks down the thought process behind the wild character shifts and storylines that defined this era of WCW.

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0:00.0	Hey, just in time for the holidays, what if you didn't have to worry about any of that credit card debt?
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0:47.6	Well, there, fish off, Eric. What's going on, man? How are you?
0:50.9	I'm good. I'm good. It's good to be home.
0:56.7	About a week on the road and bouncing around. So it'm good. I'm good. It's good to be home. Uh, about a week on the road and bouncing around. Um, so it's good. It's good to be home. I'm feeling wonderful. Anxious to do this show.
1:03.1	I know I did one last week, but for whatever reason, it feels like it's been about a month
1:07.1	since we've done one of these. So I'm really excited to be here. I'm really excited
1:11.3	about today's topic. Of course, we're going to be talking some Halloween topics. We hope
1:15.2	everyone has a happy and safe Halloween. Eric, did you have a favorite Halloween costume as a kid?
1:22.0	No, I really didn't. I did, you know, Halloween, I never really got into it as a kid for whatever reason. When I got into it, I was like 12, 13 years old and it was just all about filling a bag. So didn't really dress up much. Whenever we did, it was like dressing up like a mommy or something that didn't cost money growing up where I grew up. So it was a fun time of the year, but I don't, I didn't really have a favorite costume.
1:46.8	I can't help but ask.
1:48.5	I feel like Montana and especially Garrett had to have the coolest Halloween costumes ever.
1:53.7	With the proximity to WCW,
1:55.5	we know we saw Garrett dress up as sting once on a Halloween havoc or a WCW commercial.
2:02.0	Was there ever any WCW fun with regard to Halloween for the Bischoff kids that you remember?
2:08.9	Well, yeah, Garrett loves Halloween.
2:10.6	In fact, I talked to him just a little while ago, and he's got a big event plan for for Whalen
2:15.5	tonight in the neighborhood kids. he went and rented a flat
2:19.4	bed that he could up haul on his uh he's got a little four-wheeler so they've got bales of hay on it
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