Conrad is the absolute worst on Bischoff's show.
I'll say up front I'm no wrestling fan, but the industry and workings of it has fascinated me since I first saw World of Sport. The theatricality of American wrestling is intriguing to a man like me who loves theater and cinema. It's really no different, except for the athletics. And a guy like Eric Bischoff is a perfect example of a guy made for that industry.
He's a bit of a blowhard but he's charming, and also reflective at times. I also think he has a good eye for how wrestling should work in the modern era, which is a combo of old and new school ideas, and he's very much anti-comedy going overboard, and VERY much about being safe, which that AEW crew isn't from what I've seen. And that's where Conrad would run interference for them because Flair was signed to them during the Sting retirement.
I hope that Conrad pulls a Mama Cass with a ham sandwich (in AEW Fight Forever).
Bischoff admired wrestling for the business side, he wasn't a wrestling nerd mark. He took over WCW because he had a presentable outsider's perspective to Turner. The only man alive to successfully kick Vince in the balls. It only backfired when Turner got cold feet and pulled Bischoff from the company.
With Vince out of commission for now, Bischoff is essentially the patriarch of the wrestling business, if you go by success. Dude's innovation was unmatched. He did everything Vince was too afraid to do. Bischoff gets a bad rap because he was smart enough to delegate tasks to experts, so he's looked at (by marks) as "uninformed." He does say "I don't recall" a lot, but in The DOPINION, he tends to self-reflect a lot and admit his mistakes. He probably isn't lying, he just didn't care enough to commit to memory.
Triple H runs a company, but he got there from Vince's support. He never defeated Vince from the outside like Bischoff did. And Tony Kahn is just wishing. Bischoff will tell you when he had a dumbass idea. He will defend his dumbass ideas if he thinks they could have worked under different circumstances, but he will admit they failed. Try getting Jim Cornette to admit Smoky Mountain was boring af compared to ECW, and that nobody remembers who any SMW champions were. It ain't happening. The DMAN finds Cornette more entertaining, but he's more of a blowhard than Eric.
Did you hear the Starrcade 1997 episode from many years ago? Probably when they first started the podcast. Conrad starts shrieking like a fat banshee, thinking that he's making some kind of wild point, when he just sounds like a petulant overgrown child who isn't getting his way. Because the meanie promoter he's paying won't admit that his little fanboy opinion is "the truth."
Personally, The DMAN never understood the Starrcade 1997 controversy. Yeah, the referee slow counted. But the show still ended with Sting holding the title, the locker room celebrated, and the crowd seemed satisfied. Little things like that do not shutdown a subsidiary of a major corporation that gets funded regardless of how well or poor they perform.
Wrestling fans think they "get it." They love to pinpoint why WCW shutdown, as if it was based on their business performance or critical acclaim. That company never needed to make a dime to survive. It was fully funded regardless and it lived and died based on whether or not Turner wanted it to exist. In 2001 they decided for it to no longer exist. It had nothing to do with a storyline that Vince Russo ran 11 months earlier, for fuck sake.
