Eric Bischoff Finally Dropped His Guard, Started Having Fun Looking Back At His Past On ‘83 Weeks’

Eric Bischoff explains how he finally stopped getting defensive about the past and started poking fun at it in an entertaining way.

Bischoff recently spoke with WrestleZone’s Dominic DeAngelo and talked about the almost cathartic release he’s gotten from his platform on AdFreeShows and his 83 Weeks podcast. Bischoff explained that he finds both outlets to be extremely rewarding, but realizes he had an initial hurdle to jump when he first started the show with Conrad back in April 2018.

“The first couple of months I think, I was listening back to some of the early shows, I was defensive and I’m not making excuses for myself cause it was a flaw, a weakness in my character, but I looked back at it now and I was like, ‘Man, what a jagoff.’ And part of that was because I thought that’s what the audience wanted. I was in character. I was being that NWO, smarmy, smart-ass character, to a degree, not 100%, but part of that was because I thought that’s what the audience wanted, but the real core of that issue for me was that I’ve been just getting my ass kicked in peripheral media as I refer to it for so long, that I was just like ‘Ok you wanna fight? You wanna throw something up? Let’s fight.'”

However, Eric credits co-host Conrad Thompson for helping him put his dukes down and says he is finally in a place where he can poke fun at his successes and failures in an entertaining way.

“He got me to drop my guard and just start having conversations instead of answering questions like I was in a trial,” he said. “Once that started happening, now I can talk about mistakes I made, bad choices I made, positive choices I made. I can look at the good and the bad and not take either one of them personally, and once I got to that point where it no longer made me defensive,” Bischoff said, “it started becoming fun. 83 Weeks starting becoming the most fun thing I did every single week until AdFreeShows came along. Now that’s more for fun, ’cause you get to interact.”

“That change and the way I looked at my tenure in the wrestling business and accepted mistakes and accepted criticism and I was able to do it in an entertaining way, all of sudden made me go, ‘Okay, I don’t care.’ I can make more fun of myself than anybody else can. Nobody can have as much fun with my mistakes as me,” Bischoff explained, “and if I can make it entertaining and people can have fun listening to it, c’mon let’s go! And that’s how I feel every time I get ready fire up and do a podcast. I got up at 4:30 this morning! It was still dark out, the moon was up, [and I got up] so I could review the show that Conrad and I were gonna do at 7:30 in morning my time and I couldn’t wait. I went to bed last night excited.”