Cause thats why we're here...stupid voices. Conrad makes Bruce do that ignorant crap for his 'Dance monkey Dance' movement and you people eat it up. Sad.
The first time I got into wrestling was Smackdown from 2002-04! Then I got bored about the time JBL became champion. Interestingly enough, I found out years later that Paul Heyman was the writer in those years and when he left was when th quality of Smackdown went down. I was 25 years old in 2002, so I didn't grow up with wrestling. I started watching again in 2011. I was super excited when Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman came back!
Vince: I know it was you on the phone line. Paul: It was not me sir. Vince: We traced the call to your parent's home.. Paul: Sir, I must insist on my innocence. Vince: I know it was you dammit! Paul: Unfortunately sir, I must continue to emphasize my innocence in this matter. ROFL
Ahhh I dunno.. I think his Vince McMahon impression is his best one... he says some outrageous shit but no matter how ridiculous it is, you believe Vince would say that and you can picture him saying it. McMahon is one unique human being.
Great show Bruce and Conrad This was one of the best podcasts. I am happy to learn new things. I am also very happy some new information about one Mr. Paul Heyman. He was a troublemaker when he was in WCW
Actually I met Paul when he was 16yrs old...he was shooting pics at MSG.. Vince knew who Paul was from those days already.. Paul started out as teenager doing a news letter called WRESTLING TIMES..I was older already working for Wrestling magazine and gave him pics sometimes for his news letter...most of other photographers hated Paul because he was obnoxious and very forward I but I enjoyed being with him..lot of times he would jump in front of other guys to get photograhs at MSG...Even at young age he actually put together a night at studio 54 and managed to get Ric Flair to appear there...one thing is true and that's that Paul was crazy driver and one time when I was with him he jumped over a divider to get to other side of the road! hahaha...
DM87 ..No I never watched that but I'll check it out..some ppl in Wrestling question Paul's trutfullness about certain things so I guess if his life story matches what I recounted when I knew him then he's right on about things...thx for hitting me up here!
This turned out to be one of my favorite episode of STW. I've Always been fasinated with Heyman. If there was ever anyone that was born to be in the buisness it's Heyman. From the time he was taking pictures ringside as a teenager, all the way up to being paired up with Brock & everything inbetween he really has pretty much has done almost everything when it comes to the buisness. Love him or hate him things would have been alot different without him.
I was a fan of Paul's since Roller Ball. Back then, I thought: this guy should be a wrestling announcer! And I lived happily ever after . . . until the antidepressants went up in price.
Thank you so much for writing the time, I was looking for the clip because it brings me to tears it was cracking me up so much lmao! I keep repeating it and can't stop cracking up!!
Love the Paul Heyman impression! However, I wouldn't mind hearing Conrad do an impression of the old Brother Love character.....I loooooooooooove yoooooooouuuuuuu.
First time I saw Paul was when he was a manager in the NWA/WCW. Living in the south we didn’t get ECW so the next time we saw Paul was the first time I learned what ECW is when they came to RAW in The Manhattan center, same night Sabu fell off the RAW sign.
( in my Bruce Prichard-Paul Heyman voice ) it’s the only place in the world where you will find a bum pushing a baby grand piano in the middle of the street 💀
Bruce's impressions of Heyman and Cornette are spot on. Heyman is a first ballad hall of famer for his contributions to the business that is for sure. Happy Heyman is probably one of the best managers in the business. I would put him up there with Bobby Heenan and Sherri Martel. He might be an asshole backstage to the creative staff and to Vince during ECW but he left a mark in the business that is for damn sure.
Paul said the 'white rapper gimmick' would kill John Cena. I think in ECW it might have. It would have run its course and eventually run out of steam. But WWE's booking philosophy was different. Paul pushed who was most *over* and helped them to get and stay *over*. Vince pushed people *down the audience's throat* even after they became stale That being said Cena was so good at the gimmick that maybe it wouldn't have gotten stale at all. He was great at that gimmick. In my opinion he only got stale after he stopped rapping. He stopped doing the thing that got him *over*
I’m sure the “bum” pushing the piano wasn’t planned, I’m sure it was something that guy did everyday. Where I’m from originally, there’s a guy with a shopping cart full of instruments and he makes his rounds everyday. Everyone knows about him.
Bruce: we had zero plans to bring in any big time wcw names because they would ruin plans 5 minutes later- the wcw invasion sucked because we didn’t have any big wcw players The wwf-wcw invasion from a wwf creative mindset in a nutshell folks
Game of Thrones Character they mention is actually named, *Peter Baelish* aka, *Little Finger* (Or however you spell his last name lol) Not Kentucky whatever Conrad said lol. Unless he was joking? If so, my bad 😂😂😂
One of the main takeaways from these podcasts is what kind of personalities these behind the scene guys were and what they brought to the table. Some were like paul heyman and jim cornette, opinionated, belligerent and stand up for what they believe no matter the result, good or bad and some like bruce prichard and kevin dunn, relatively docile, always respecting authority, easy to work with. Everyone of them were excellent at what they did though. They had some similarities too as they all have huge egos and are big mark for themselves, lol. Vince McMahon is a genius in just dealing with these personalities and trying to get the best out of them. You can tell as much as McMahon likes team-players with him, he admires those who challenged, pushed and confronted him.
I've been listening to these episodes on RUclips for the past week & I REALLY enjoy them! However the one thing that I I haven't agreed with Bruce on is the Booker T & Triple H match Lol... Booker should have won :)
It's the Tommy dreamer statement about his best years being behind him is pretty messed up considering ECW would have easy gone under 2 years prior then it did if it wasn't for Tommy dreamer. You would have thought that Paul would have positioned dreamer to be in a great spot.
lol, everyone working for both brands. Thats why one was fucking horrendous and the other was amazing? Though I guess when the whole show is based around one guy cosplaying as 80s Ric Flair for 3 years, you can only do so much, so I might buy that...
I like how Conrad thinks that Tazz was so much better than what he actually was. When he made the comment about "Oh my God was just buried Tazz". He was nothing special.
Boy Conrad talking about pyro has aged piss-poor haha even before Vince step down they were doing record business. Even though people were saying it was bad and complaining constantly they were doing record numbers they were getting Fox and they were doing insane money. Ratings don't matter like they used to. Everyone focuses on ratings because during the Monday night wars that's what everyone cared about and in the 90s they mattered very much because they were going up against each but what people don't realize about today, is you are looking at overnight ratings. Well now people can record the show they want to watch and watch it later. They can use streaming services, they can use RUclips, they can use pirating, they can watch it live, they can watch a replay, the overnight numbers are nothing compared to the actual number of people that are watching. People were saying the same thing about walking dead and wondering how it was still on and while yes the numbers had gone down significantly the overnight numbers could have been five million but the delayed numbers were eight and a half million. one-and-a-half million people might watch raw but another million or two are going to watch on delayed or RUclips or some aspect. I agree that triple h is doing a fantastic job and I'm glad that he took over but when people were bitching about how bad wrestling was in WWE, again it was the vocal minority. People were still coming in in record numbers. They were still making record profits. People complain about the PG but the fact is, if a kid loves wrestling and the parents don't mind it because it's PG, now you have two or three or four people going to the shows whereas some people like myself weren't allowed to watch wrestling when I was a kid. And I know a lot of kids like that. Also the sponsorships that they are getting now are tenfold better than they used to be. Even if Vince took complete control again, WWE isn't going under. They print money. They weren't in danger they weren't even close. I'm definitely glad triple h's running things now it's much better. And Conrad just embarrasses himself he doesn't know shit. Oh they're only going to do 15 million in profits instead of 30. Dude wrestling was down when things are going great too. If you waited another year or two they were making insane profits and Vince was still in charge so your argument is a joke. Don't be butthurt because Paul Heyman went out of business and Vince made billions. No matter what you say Vince did a better job and Vince put out a better product. Also Conrad really needs to step away from these podcasts he is awful. His voice is obnoxious and he is a nobody couch-potato wannabe smartmark who sucks off Dave meltzer and only has the shows because they make the people that we actually want to listen to, money
I know this is 5 years old but Vince did not know what people wanted and did what he wanted and it was awful and I love it now that HHH is in charge now the product is so much better and finely worth watching again..... Finally long term story telling is back not boring or fucking stupid anymore so glad Mr. Macman is gone
Pritchard’s Heyman impersonation is so good it just might be the cure for clinical depression. If not; at the very least SADS. It will never not make me smile and laugh. “Please allow me this volley Sir or Madam!”
Starts at 14:29
Bruce’s impersonation of Paul Heyman sounds like Vizzini (Shawn Wallace) from The Princess Bride 😂
Inconceivable
Still get vibes of The Beagle Boys from DuckTales 😵💫
Smackdown was waaay better than Raw in 2002-2003.
and currently.
The HHH HBK fued was great but besides that and evolution I don't really remember to much of raw at that time
It wasnt
@@spacecadetzero960 it wasn't
Seemed more like Raw revolved around Triple H and HBK. Smackdown was way more well rounded around that time.
Paul Heyman is the real life Penguin from Batman!
😭
yeah he would fit so good.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol I definently see that
Bruce's impressions of Heyman and Cornette are spot on.
Reverend Smiley his Vince McMahon is the best
@@topshelfbullys7889 It's good but not the best.
Cause thats why we're here...stupid voices. Conrad makes Bruce do that ignorant crap for his 'Dance monkey Dance' movement and you people eat it up. Sad.
His Paul Heyman reminds me of Wallace Shawn from The Princess Bride. I love it.
His Heyman is spot on, an the cornette is funny, but doesn't sound like Jim
The first time I got into wrestling was Smackdown from 2002-04! Then I got bored about the time JBL became champion. Interestingly enough, I found out years later that Paul Heyman was the writer in those years and when he left was when th quality of Smackdown went down. I was 25 years old in 2002, so I didn't grow up with wrestling. I started watching again in 2011. I was super excited when Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman came back!
Vince: I know it was you on the phone line. Paul: It was not me sir. Vince: We traced the call to your parent's home.. Paul: Sir, I must insist on my innocence. Vince: I know it was you dammit! Paul: Unfortunately sir, I must continue to emphasize my innocence in this matter. ROFL
CT: "Hows 205 live doing?", Bruce: "I have no idea", CT: "Nobody else does either!!!" LMFAOOO!!!
I spit my juice out lol
His description of Paul at the beginning comparing it to Game of Thrones is golden😂😂😂😂
When Bruce said "Nah Man, they got nip covers" at 1:37:46 I literally couldn't breathe from laughing so hard.
Bruce's Paul Heyman impression is by far his funniest and best one
I agree. He (Bruce; pronouns, pal) manages to both capture and maintain Paul's image better than any other in his stable.
Ahhh I dunno.. I think his Vince McMahon impression is his best one... he says some outrageous shit but no matter how ridiculous it is, you believe Vince would say that and you can picture him saying it. McMahon is one unique human being.
His Dusty is great too
@@mrrickson3571 CHAAAHCLATE TIDDIES
You should hear pauls impersonation of stone cold. By far the most spot on ive ever heard
Great show Bruce and Conrad
This was one of the best podcasts.
I am happy to learn new things.
I am also very happy some new information about one Mr. Paul Heyman.
He was a troublemaker when he was in WCW
Actually I met Paul when he was 16yrs old...he was shooting pics at MSG.. Vince knew who Paul was from those days already.. Paul started out as teenager doing a news letter called WRESTLING TIMES..I was older already working for Wrestling magazine and gave him pics sometimes for his news letter...most of other photographers hated Paul because he was obnoxious and very forward I but I enjoyed being with him..lot of times he would jump in front of other guys to get photograhs at MSG...Even at young age he actually put together a night at studio 54 and managed to get Ric Flair to appear there...one thing is true and that's that Paul was crazy driver and one time when I was with him he jumped over a divider to get to other side of the road! hahaha...
Joseph Carrino have you watched Ladies & Gentleman my name is Paul Heyman. Cause ur word for word spot on with how Paul describes things from his life
DM87 ..No I never watched that but I'll check it out..some ppl in Wrestling question Paul's trutfullness about certain things so I guess if his life story matches what I recounted when I knew him then he's right on about things...thx for hitting me up here!
Lawl, Heyman has lied to so many people idk why you would believe anything he's done.
@@DeanMoxley87 liar
Yeah you took this word for word from Heyman's doc. You definitely have never met him
If there's no ECW there's no Attitude era.
Shawn Baker Heyman was the first to successfully blur the line between faces and heels with his guys.
Yep
Unfortunately...
Bruch Prichard's Paul Heyman borders on Gilbert Gottfried !!!
You hear the name Heyman in WRESTLING and ECW comes to mind great times and segway into the Attitude era good stuff again guys
This turned out to be one of my favorite episode of STW. I've Always been fasinated with Heyman. If there was ever anyone that was born to be in the buisness it's Heyman. From the time he was taking pictures ringside as a teenager, all the way up to being paired up with Brock & everything inbetween he really has pretty much has done almost everything when it comes to the buisness. Love him or hate him things would have been alot different without him.
I was a fan of Paul's since Roller Ball. Back then, I thought: this guy should be a wrestling announcer! And I lived happily ever after . . . until the antidepressants went up in price.
I Love Bruce's Patterson Impression. The funny thing is that Patterson really talks like that.
Love these stories, Michael Hayes telling on Paul around 1:40:00 cracked me up.
Thank you so much for writing the time, I was looking for the clip because it brings me to tears it was cracking me up so much lmao! I keep repeating it and can't stop cracking up!!
Fuck off.
The Dangerous Alliance. One of the best stables in Wrasslin’
Great podcast, thanks guys!
One of my favorite episodes
I think Heyman is a creative genius he might not be a good business man but as far as being creative I believe he is up there
Remember that time when "Bruce from Connecticut" called in on LiveWire and yelled at Vince? Prichard had a lot of balls to do that to his boss.
Travis Marshall probably was pre planned bro
"Bruce from Connecticut" was Paul Heyman not Bruce Prichard
Love the Paul Heyman impression! However, I wouldn't mind hearing Conrad do an impression of the old Brother Love character.....I loooooooooooove yoooooooouuuuuuu.
14:30
MVP of the comments
Thanks babe
thx
Thanks
Thank you 🙏🏻
The Paul Heyman and Jerry Jarrett impersonations are my favorites.
Well, you know......
Cornette has to be my favorite of his. But every time he says chocolate titties as Vince I lose it every time LOL.
Don't forget about the cornette impression
First time I saw Paul was when he was a manager in the NWA/WCW. Living in the south we didn’t get ECW so the next time we saw Paul was the first time I learned what ECW is when they came to RAW in The Manhattan center, same night Sabu fell off the RAW sign.
The 205 Live punchline towards the end was amazing 😂😂
Moral of the story: Kevin Dunn is the real problem with WWE for the last 30 years.
The Heyman impression is absolute gold.
I love the heyman impressions.
The ticket story that Jim Cornette tells is absolutely fantastic.
Bruce Prichard do you know that story Brother Love.
I LOVE the way Bruce describes Paul Heyman lol & yes the comparison to Little Finger(Peter Balish) is great!
Boy if I had a dollar for every time Conrad said “rumor and innuendo” 😂
He’s a prat
He will always be Paul E. Dangerously to me
LOL @ 3:50 Conrad giggling like a blushing school girl!
( in my Bruce Prichard-Paul Heyman voice ) it’s the only place in the world where you will find a bum pushing a baby grand piano in the middle of the street 💀
"Paul's" wedding speech 😂
Prichard bitter about the smackdown 6. Edge himself gas said how important heyman was
Rigsby 1 couldn’t agree more smack down was a much better show at the time. I think it’s because Paul actually based it around wrestling
Good show Conrad and Bruce but Bruce you have to admit smackdown was better than raw 2002 2003
Yes it was smackdown was much see TV everyone had a angle but as usual smackdown gets screwed
Raw was HHH show and buring everybody
Someone should talk to Bruce about how he is booking Raw and Smackdown in the shits!
If these guys actually sounded like Prichard’s impersonations every time they opened their mouths respectively, I wouldn’t be able to bare it
You have to wait 14 + minutes. For them to discuss about Heyman story.
The Heyman impersonation is so funny.
Dothan represent babay!
Bruce's impressions of Heyman and Cornette are spot on. Heyman is a first ballad hall of famer for his contributions to the business that is for sure. Happy Heyman is probably one of the best managers in the business. I would put him up there with Bobby Heenan and Sherri Martel. He might be an asshole backstage to the creative staff and to Vince during ECW but he left a mark in the business that is for damn sure.
It was not me sir!
Paul we had your number...
Not it!
Paul said the 'white rapper gimmick' would kill John Cena. I think in ECW it might have. It would have run its course and eventually run out of steam.
But WWE's booking philosophy was different. Paul pushed who was most *over* and helped them to get and stay *over*. Vince pushed people *down the audience's throat* even after they became stale
That being said Cena was so good at the gimmick that maybe it wouldn't have gotten stale at all. He was great at that gimmick. In my opinion he only got stale after he stopped rapping. He stopped doing the thing that got him *over*
Cena isn't a bad rapper either John wanted to turnnheel but Vince wouldn't allow it
@@stephensmith5724 always hated Cena. From his debut until 2021
Paul Heyman has reached God Like Status, I cannot wait for the wiseman to return 👆🔥
Paul seems like a decent conman.
I’m sure the “bum” pushing the piano wasn’t planned, I’m sure it was something that guy did everyday. Where I’m from originally, there’s a guy with a shopping cart full of instruments and he makes his rounds everyday. Everyone knows about him.
Bruce: we had zero plans to bring in any big time wcw names because they would ruin plans
5 minutes later- the wcw invasion sucked because we didn’t have any big wcw players
The wwf-wcw invasion from a wwf creative mindset in a nutshell folks
Calling Paul Heyman sleazy sounds like a compliment.
ECW was like the Ross Perot in wrassling, felt so dumb to make that "alliance" with WCW.
Paul’s manifestations #219... the bum pushing a piano :)
The Paul Heyman voice impersonation reminded of actor Gilbert Gottfried 😅
So when will Conrad have a podcast with Paul Heyman?
Paul Heyman greatest manager since Bobby Heenan .
Bruces hayman impression is funny as fuck Tommy Dreamer turnt the lights out funny guy 😂😂😂😂
Did he say "Palatial Estate?" LOL! Doesn't sound like "Mom and Dad's House..."
Game of Thrones Character they mention is actually named, *Peter Baelish* aka, *Little Finger* (Or however you spell his last name lol) Not Kentucky whatever Conrad said lol. Unless he was joking? If so, my bad 😂😂😂
One of the main takeaways from these podcasts is what kind of personalities these behind the scene guys were and what they brought to the table. Some were like paul heyman and jim cornette, opinionated, belligerent and stand up for what they believe no matter the result, good or bad and some like bruce prichard and kevin dunn, relatively docile, always respecting authority, easy to work with. Everyone of them were excellent at what they did though. They had some similarities too as they all have huge egos and are big mark for themselves, lol. Vince McMahon is a genius in just dealing with these personalities and trying to get the best out of them. You can tell as much as McMahon likes team-players with him, he admires those who challenged, pushed and confronted him.
another thing jim cornette and paul heyman have in common is that theyre both completely full of shit
Who did he say was “getting them guts” in relation to the Kat?
Howard Finkle.
Richard Cox no it was one of the Dupp brothers in developmental. Where did you get Howard finkel?
I went into the comments specifically to find this answer
Not sure if Bruce's Paul Heyman is more Curtis Armstrong or Wallace Shawn
Andy San Its not Heyman. My vote is Shawn.
Def Wallace Shawn.
Even with a bad neck I wouldn't fuck with Taz today much less 15-20 years ago.
That is so awsome I share a bday with the great Paul heyman. Let me offer a volley sir!!
I've been listening to these episodes on RUclips for the past week & I REALLY enjoy them! However the one thing that I I haven't agreed with Bruce on is the Booker T & Triple H match Lol...
Booker should have won :)
Paul Heyman part starts at 30:18
29:20 Conrad realizes Hey man is a joke and he is disgusted priceless...
jaroncreed - he was surprised not disgusted.
Paul Heyman has great skills behind the microphone…..
Can anyone give me the timestamp the when bruce (paul) said "sir. I will be kicking your ass. Sir"?
Working under Stephanie McMahon sounds pretty awful.
It's the Tommy dreamer statement about his best years being behind him is pretty messed up considering ECW would have easy gone under 2 years prior then it did if it wasn't for Tommy dreamer. You would have thought that Paul would have positioned dreamer to be in a great spot.
the story about working at Vince's house was best
lol, everyone working for both brands. Thats why one was fucking horrendous and the other was amazing? Though I guess when the whole show is based around one guy cosplaying as 80s Ric Flair for 3 years, you can only do so much, so I might buy that...
Raw was HHH show he had power to flip the script the raw mid card and women's division was good but the main event was horrible
@58.00.00 Conrad at his best - good man!!
And 5 years later and WWE and UFC are together .
That last story about 9/11 was interesting.
1:00:45 - 1:01:14 😂😂😂😂
The least surprising thing about Paul Heyman is that he has mob connections.
Conrad "what did Pat Patterson think" Thompson
That intro. Lol
Conspiracy theory: conrad won his fsther in law over by creating a series of podcasts where he gaslights his father in laws coworkers
I like how Conrad thinks that Tazz was so much better than what he actually was. When he made the comment about "Oh my God was just buried Tazz". He was nothing special.
Good job lads
Boy Conrad talking about pyro has aged piss-poor haha even before Vince step down they were doing record business. Even though people were saying it was bad and complaining constantly they were doing record numbers they were getting Fox and they were doing insane money. Ratings don't matter like they used to. Everyone focuses on ratings because during the Monday night wars that's what everyone cared about and in the 90s they mattered very much because they were going up against each but what people don't realize about today, is you are looking at overnight ratings. Well now people can record the show they want to watch and watch it later. They can use streaming services, they can use RUclips, they can use pirating, they can watch it live, they can watch a replay, the overnight numbers are nothing compared to the actual number of people that are watching. People were saying the same thing about walking dead and wondering how it was still on and while yes the numbers had gone down significantly the overnight numbers could have been five million but the delayed numbers were eight and a half million. one-and-a-half million people might watch raw but another million or two are going to watch on delayed or RUclips or some aspect. I agree that triple h is doing a fantastic job and I'm glad that he took over but when people were bitching about how bad wrestling was in WWE, again it was the vocal minority. People were still coming in in record numbers. They were still making record profits. People complain about the PG but the fact is, if a kid loves wrestling and the parents don't mind it because it's PG, now you have two or three or four people going to the shows whereas some people like myself weren't allowed to watch wrestling when I was a kid. And I know a lot of kids like that. Also the sponsorships that they are getting now are tenfold better than they used to be. Even if Vince took complete control again, WWE isn't going under. They print money. They weren't in danger they weren't even close. I'm definitely glad triple h's running things now it's much better. And Conrad just embarrasses himself he doesn't know shit. Oh they're only going to do 15 million in profits instead of 30. Dude wrestling was down when things are going great too. If you waited another year or two they were making insane profits and Vince was still in charge so your argument is a joke. Don't be butthurt because Paul Heyman went out of business and Vince made billions. No matter what you say Vince did a better job and Vince put out a better product. Also Conrad really needs to step away from these podcasts he is awful. His voice is obnoxious and he is a nobody couch-potato wannabe smartmark who sucks off Dave meltzer and only has the shows because they make the people that we actually want to listen to, money
Calling what Cena did "rapping" is a pretty liberal use of the word.
Paul Heyman is Beelzebub
Paul heymans legacy will be ecw then brock and then the tribal chief Roman reigns
I know this is 5 years old but Vince did not know what people wanted and did what he wanted and it was awful and I love it now that HHH is in charge now the product is so much better and finely worth watching again..... Finally long term story telling is back not boring or fucking stupid anymore so glad Mr. Macman is gone
33:35 who was getting them guts?
CamSTL Dupp Is what he said.There was a tag team called the dupps who were in ecw before wwf It’s said it was one of them who was with the cat
Pritchard’s Heyman impersonation is so good it just might be the cure for clinical depression. If not; at the very least SADS. It will never not make me smile and laugh.
“Please allow me this volley Sir or Madam!”
Good podcast
Lol. Fash forward 2 years. Heyman off creative and brucey got both shows.
Show start // 14:28
Thanks bro
Paul Heyman should be on Survivor
1:14 - the unamerican. Lance and Christian
If Bruce and Paul are friends, I'm glad I don't have any friends like Bruce.
Corny also will not get in a death tube without taking more Xanax than any doctor would prescribe