Episode 424: Time For A Change
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff and Conrad Thompson dive headfirst into one of the most talked about topics in the industry WWE's latest round of talent releases. Eric shares his unfiltered thoughts on the cuts and offers practical, hard-earned advice for talents like Aleister Black on how to thrive outside the WWE system and reinvent themselves beyond the company bubble.
The conversation then shifts to one of wrestling's most unique breakout stars, Danhausen, as Eric analyzes the character's unlikely rise and what it says about today's audience and evolving tastes in sports entertainment.
Plus, Eric weighs in with a strong take on TKO Group Holdings re-signing Triple H as the head of WWE creative breaking down what it means for the company's future and whether it's the right call.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode comes to you from the Blue Chew Studio right now. |
| 0:03.3 | When you buy two months of Blue Chew Gold, you get the third for free and you're listening to 83 weeks with Eric Fischoff. What's going on, man? How are you? You're muted. I do that every time, right? No, I was just hearing you, you know, the mortgage guy, Conrad Johnson, the mortgage guy, Conrad Johnson, the mortgage, and I'm thinking, don't, don't we have a new Fed chair slipping in the back door here shortly? |
| 0:58.2 | Look at you. Yeah. I think it's going to be announced or made official on May 15th. |
| 1:02.8 | We'll be talking about that in the coming weeks. A lot of people have their fingers crossed for some positive change. I don't know what's possible right now with everything that's happening in |
| 1:06.4 | Iran, but I think we're all hoping for some better economic news in the coming months, to say the least. |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, I really do see a lot of these issues not to get political. |
| 1:16.1 | We're not going to do that here, but just observing, you know, what we're all faced with every day. |
| 1:21.2 | I really do hope and believe that the Iran situation is going to resolve within the next 45 days, |
| 1:30.5 | my guess. |
| 1:32.3 | And when that happens, there's going to be kind of a series of dominoes just falling one |
| 1:38.1 | right after another. |
| 1:39.3 | All of them good. |
| 1:41.1 | So to your point, probably not right away, but my gut, the patterns I've been seeing |
| 1:47.1 | suggest to me that right after the first of the year, there's going to be some fun to be had. |
| 1:53.4 | Well, we had some fun. That's for sure. Earlier this week, we were live on a Monday night, |
| 1:58.1 | just moments before Monday night, Raw, we were reviewing the Hulk Hogan |
| 2:01.3 | Real American documentary, a four-part series available now on Netflix. And Eric, you lined up one |
| 2:07.0 | heck of a special guest. He doesn't do a lot of interviews, but we heard from the one and only |
| 2:10.8 | son of the hawkster. Nick Balea joined us for Nick Hogan in wrestling parlance. I thought it was a |
| 2:16.7 | fantastic visit with Nick. And I don't know what I expected with |
| 2:20.7 | Nick, but man, he exceeded all expectations. |
| 2:22.8 | It was great to have him on the program. |
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